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I give this balloon about two weeks to pop.

McCain has shown he is just a pandering pol after all and the goofy lady will begin to wear thin. They can't keep her hidden for too long.

i suspect that 2008 is the first time a major party's nominee had a lead in the national polls that increased during his opponent's convention (not to mention, more than doubled)

I'd asked a friend living in Alaska to give me some insight into Sarah Palin. She sent me a link to a piece titled "I've known Sarah Palin since 1992", written by a citizen of Wasilla, Alaska. It's an interesting read if you've not seen it. http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130537

How utterly disgusting to hear talking heads speak of McCain's reluctance to speak of his POW days when that is all McCain has offered as a qualification since he announced for the 2008 nomination. He has milked that time in Hanoi to the point that it offends me to see Vets still supporting him.

I don't know how Obama and Biden will do in the next few weeks (I still believe we nominated the only candidate that could lose), but with a little care in handling the hockey mom, surely they can pull this off.

Loved Bill Maher's comment - "I think this is pertinent because McCain has been running this campaign based on 'we're at war, it's a dangerous world out there. The democrats don't get that. I John McCain am the only one standing between the blood-thirsty Al Qaedas and you. But if I die, this stewardess can handle it.'" Bill Maher

I just hope the media doesn't belittle her so much that she becomes a victim and that Obama doesn't step in something that McCain can exploit, because this has to be a Democratic win.

and then............please, please, once McCain has lost once and for all, may we NEVER, EVER have to hear the story of his 'bravery as a POW' again..........please, please!

LMAO -- and you will too! You just Gotta listen to this video if you don't do another thing today --
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on Stewart Hits Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris On Sarah Palin Hypocrisy
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It's comforting to note that AR Repugs are dumber than the average - fitting and proper!! You have to give them their due - they stay ON message, especially when it is "loaded" and bullshit - "redistribute wealth," "socialized medicine" (good GRIEF!!) and the all-time fave: "maverick!!" Where is James Garner when we really need him, and it's fitting that www.maverick.com is Madonna's record label... ;>)
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Interesting that no one has mentioned Palin's Religion yet.

Palion was clearly selected to woo the Religious Right to the GOP at the polls. Her strong affiliation with the Assembly of God Church in conjunction with a strong Pro-Choice will help those voters make the swing over to McShrub.

Her psitions on many controversial views are downright embarassing - and when McShrub checks out and leaves the keys to the Nuclear Trigger - she will be in charge. Her viewpoint of God put Shrub in charge to lead us through War should be eye-opening to say the very least.

A nice Youtube video of the Saracuda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9tJX-e24iQ

McCain is going to be bi-partisan eh. Now where did we hear that about 8 years ago?

They trot out their Dick Cheney, attack dog version of Sara Palin then promise to be nice to the other side.

If you can swallow that your gag reflex is in bad shape.

McCain is going to be bi-partisan eh. Now where did we hear that about 8 years ago?

They trot out their Dick Cheney, attack dog version of Sara Palin then promise to be nice to the other side.

If you can swallow that your gag reflex is in bad shape.

Thank doG that Sarah (even in cases of rape or incest) and John is a POW show is over.

Was like a Jim Jones convention, but the old man forgot to pass out the Kool Aid at the end.

Clearly that audience would have consumed the entire glass without question.

Seems like this entire election season has come down to a vote for whether on not mankind should go back to walking on all fours. If that's the case I have one question for the fundies out there. How are you going to carry your Bible around without getting it dirty?

Anybody check out the latest on the confusing manchine image that made a background for McCain's speech? It is Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood. Oops. That was probably supposed to be Walter Reed Medical Center but nobody behind the scenes really knows what that veterans' hospital looks like. So when they found a stock photo of this building named Walter Reed they thought it was what they wanted. Naturally incompetent at everything! Wait - they are really good at pulling the wool over people's eyes and profiting from war.

Wasn't that Walter Reed story all about the Bush administration's disgraceful neglect of their elective war's veterans ? Why would they want that? Wait - More of the ol' up-is-down from the thugs. Nothing surprises me anymore from these awful people.

When the well-heeled in a poor state such as ours believe in such pattently insane positions of a political party, we know they are all about maintaining their economic status. That is fundamentally what it has always been about for Republicans. I get to keep and expand mine; you pull yourselves up by your bootstraps. [Try that sometime - it is an insane illusion to the continually closing upward mobility of this society. In Arkansas it is more closed than other parts of the country which is why our best and brightest are going elsewhere to make their living and have an impact.] Keeping the educational level in this state low protects the Republicans in their greed. They attempt to immunize themselves through religious symbolism all the while exploiting those symbols for political purposes. That process in turn prostitutes the U.S.Constitution, but, as Barry Goldwater once noted: "Extremism in the defence of liberty is not vice." But even Goldwater, to his credit, was not referring to the liberty of only the wealthy class and their syncophants. The Republicans have destroyed the social contract upon which this country was founded and in so doing we have lost what the Chinese would call, "the mandate of heaven."

Hey Dumbasses!
It's not the Ark Repubs that will put McCain and Palin in office. It's the two faced Ark Dems that will do it. Obama and his plagerist/lier running mate don't have a prayer in Arkansas and we all know why!!!!!!!!!!! Admit it Dems, the majoriety of you Dem buddies are all two faced!

The poor Repubs are losing it. They hate McCain and they know in their hearts he made a real bonehead move on GoofyGirl. They are going down like the Titannic. After eight years of running the country into the ground for personal gain the denial is as thick as concrete. It can't be easy to be a 23 percenter these days but, it will be over soon.

I stopped by my neanderthal, working class, church going, gun loving, animal hating buddy's shop on the way home yesterday where he and another buddy normally end their day with a beer or two while watching the Nascar reports on the upcoming weekend race. When I walked in they were glued to the news about Sarah Palin. Neither had watched the night before but both had heard about it all day at work and were kicking themselves. Reminded me a little of the Beatles appearance on Sullivan.

For those of you, condemning John McCain for speaking of his time as a POW, He has earned this right. If it wasn't for all veterans who paid the ultimate price & sacrifice, you would not have the freedom to sit behind your computers and voice your opinion without fear of having your eyes plucked out and your hands cut off. Your freedom is not free. All the veterans have paid the cost. I am not a veteran. How can anyone vote for a person who voted to cut the funding off while our military men & women where fighting for their lives and our freedom. Think about it!

How can anyone vote for a party that perpetrated a war based on false information, a war that never should have happened, a war that has taken the lives of nearly 4,000 brave American soldiers, maimed thousands more, and brought unneeded grief to millions?

I've thought about it.

He didn't vote to leave them standed in the desert silly. They would have been withdrawn and their service saved for an effort necessary to public policy.

EVERYONE SUPPORTS THE TROOPS. Sorry.

First, no one has condemned McCain for being a POW. For using it as a card to get votes, he deserves to be condemned because he demeans all the other POWs who didn't feel the need to shout about their experiences from the rooftops so they could get power and money.

Second, I don't feel more free after Iraq. I didn't feel more free after Vietnam. Don't be throwing freedom around.

high on "mccainapalin"?

is that the new name for oxycontin ?

Nate at fivethirtyeight.com used to work for Baseball Prospectus. He's a statistics whiz who applied past histories to predict how the pennant races would turn out, and he was usually right. He's now working on politics. He has McCain's chances of carrying Arkansas at 92%. Actually, he's built a computer simulation model for the election, and McCain carries Arkansas in 92% of the simulations. Bad news. However, he has Obama winning the election over 70 percent of the time so there's that.

Click on blue name to get to the site.

The war is about oil! You see what the price of oil has done to our economy now. What do you think if Hussein would have gotten control of the middle east oil supplies. Oil is out life blood and it is going to be for several more years regardless of what anyone says. We can change our needs for oil but it is going to take a longtime, 20 years or so. What is going to happen during this time?

By Jonathan Weisman
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative Republican from Georgia, let slip today what critics have been saying is the subtext of many of the attacks on Barack Obama: He's "uppity."

According to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, Westmoreland was discussing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech outside the House chamber today when he veered into his thoughts on Michelle and Barack Obama.

"Just from what little I've seen of her and Mister Obama, Senator Obama, they're a member of an elitist class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

When a reporter sought clarification on the racially loaded word, Westmoreland replied, "Uppity, yeah."

For weeks, commentators and critics have asserted that the McCain campaign's efforts to portray Obama as a vacuous celebrity smacked of historical efforts to describe African Americans seeking equality as "uppity" or not knowing "their place." The McCain campaign has heatedly denied any such thing, and has accused Obama of having "played the race card" for saying that Republicans would mock him as an outsider. Westmoreland's comments could rekindle the debate.

Westmoreland briefly gained some national attention when he sponsored legislation to post the Ten Commandments in the House and Senate chambers. Asked by Stephen Colbert in 2006 to name all ten, Westmoreland stumbled. "Um, don't murder, don't lie, don't steal," he offered, before confessing, "I can't name them."

The war in Iraq may be about oil, edmcc, but that's not how it was sold to the American people, and that is still not the official position of the Bush administration. The Bushies lied to get us into this war and they should all be tried as traitors. The kindest thing I can say about people who supported Bush is that the were misguided dupes. Those who still support Bush are idiots at best

Palin is a religious extremist (ignorant nut)...and evidently that's what gets the Republicans all wet...well, that and Pages/bathrooms.

Religious nuts, such as Monica Goodling/Palin, can be entertaining and serve a purpose...up until they invade our government and start remaking it in their nut image.

Palin fits in well with the MILF phenomenon and the leg show on Fox News. She proves that a woman can be feminine AND assertive. I already have bets out that SNL will be bringing Tina Fey back to play Palin. There's just something sexy about a woman in glasses!

Thank you newamerica for clearing up that mystery. When wifey and I saw that unknown building up on the big screen, at the same time we both said what the hell is that? Typical lazy Republican. The only time they put out any effort is if there's money to be stolen. The rest of the time they're all Heck of a Job Brownies. McCain knew Walter Reed. Walter Reed was a friend of his. That building ain't the right Walter Reed!

If McCain carries Arkansas it will be for one reason only....our sheep ain't gonna put no uppity N word in the White House. I hear that right and left from old people around me. Lots of them start off by saying their in a pickle. They don't like McCain, but they aren't gonna vote for no N word! You'd think it was black people with those box cutters on 9-11 from the talk going around our uneducated state.

If and when we cut off funding for the troops...which isn't a truthful way to put it....if and when we quit funding the war in Iraq, the war for oil will end and our troops will come home. That's exactly what happened in 1975 when Congress finally got the balls to stop funding the Vietnam War. No US solder went hungry or ran out of bullets or was left behind. It's like your family....when you go to the State Fair and you run out of money....your family doesn't die....they just pile in the car and go home. We like to think wars end when the flag is planted on Iwo Jima, but the truth is, wars end when the funding is cut off. Everyone comes back home and the war goes into the history books.

Notice we haven't won a war since August of 1945. I don't know what happened to America, but I suspect the big problem was getting into wars we couldn't win...mostly because no one ever figured out what we'd win if we won. This isn't the soldier's fault...they do their job every single time. It's old rich white men that send them to war whose to blame for win-less wars. Those are the people we should roast over the fire each and every time. If not Obama...someone on down the line will grow tired of war and cut off the funding. Between now and then thousands of good American kids will die. In the end only the nation's cemeteries win. How FK'ing smart is that?

And someone go check McCain's figures....there hasn't been a vote where it came down to just 2 votes...not in a long time...thanks to the Mark W. Pryors of the Senate. You can bet if Joe LIEberman voted for it or against it, Mark W. Pryor was there to back him up.

This is a great reason to NOT take the high road. Obama isn't facing a tough team of fighters...he's facing a tough team of liars. In the short run, lies win over truth every time. It's our job on the thousands of blogs to call McCain a liar every time he lies. According to Hoyle, Obama can't punch the revered POW every time he tells a lie. But WE CAN!

We're smarter than them....now we got to get meaner than them or next January we'll be treated to seeing old man McCain trying to wave from the back of a limo as the rolls down P Ave towards his swearing in. That will mark the end of America-AT&T.

OH DBI BAYBEE. SMARTER, AND WELL MEANER... YOU WILL HAVE TO BACK PEDAL A LONNNNNNNNNNB WAY TO EVEN GET CLOSE TO BEING GENTLER. YOU ARE MEAN TO BEING WITH.
YOU ARE NOT CONCEITED, JUST DUMBASS CONVINCED. CROSS YOUR LEGS. YOU WITH YOUR PEANUT BUTTER LEGS. CREAMY SMOOTH AND EASY TO SPREAD. JUST LIKE YOUR FLAPPIN TRAP. LORD YOU REEK.... CANT GET ANY MEANER DUBI DUBI

AND I SUPPOSE YOU WILL GET CHANGE WITH JOE HOE BIDEN.. HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN PEDDLIN BACKWARDS IN THE SENATE. ONLY 130 PRESENTS .. NOT THE BRASS ONES TO VOTE.. HE OUGHT TO BE SHAPED LIKE AN "A" STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN.. FROM RIDING THAT FENCE.. HE CALLS EXPERIENCE., I AM TALKIN OBAMESSIA HIS ROYAL WORSHIP AT HIS THRONE OF JACKASSES.

PERFECT ANIMAL ICON FOR THAT PARTY. PERFECT. GIVE ME A GREAT ELEPHANT. MEMORY, NURTURING. AND A WISE WISE COUNSEL.

YOU ARE IN THE WRONG BOAT SCUBI DUBI.. ROCK ON OLD FT BAPTISIMMO. MOVE IF YOU DONT LIKE IT. GO BACK TO MASS. WHERE THE POWER IS STILL ON .

Thank you, DBI, for that fine essay! I have heard the same message you have heard--"afraid of McCain but just can't vote for a black man. OUr country just isn't ready for a black president."I am so afraid that latent racism will give this election to McCain. If rational white Americans would stand up and do the right thing we could finally overcome the religious fanatics who have kept the likes of Bush in office for too long. I have never gotten too involved in presidential politics before, but this time I am sending money to Obama and making a mission of convincing my friends and family to vote for him. We have been through a horrendous 8 years, and the very survival of our nation depends upon keeping John McCain out of office.

If you believe what I said, go out and convince 10 undecided voters to vote for Obama. We will win this at the grassroots or not at all.

Excellent DBI.
Perhaps our resident war mongers can tell me/us just what it is that we would have "won" had U.S. troop remained in So. Viet Nam and prevailed over No.Viet Nam troops??

We're still in W. Germany and have had troops in Korea for 50 years. What did we win in Korea?

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