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Well, at least, we now know how much it costs to put the lipstick on the pit bull.

That's just obscene.

You have a Presidential candidate that has ties to terrorists and convicted felons who has no experience to the president and you are making an issue of some broads clothes. You pansies are something else. Enjoy the next four years. I remember the last of the Carter administration when even demos wanted it to end.

Palin has Huckabuck Disease, all right. She's apparently accustomed to have the people of Alaska pay for her kids' junkets. Click bluename

BTW, Strangelove, having a president who doesn't know s**t about ANYTHING is what we have become accustomed to for the last eight years. I remember the last of the GW Bush administration, when even rethuglicans want it to end

Let's hear your evidence about Obama's "ties to terrorists and convicted felons," starngelove.
You are as bad as the McCain-Palin supporters who show up at their rallies and yell the same shit.
So what the heck are you talking about? WHO are are terrorists and convicted felons that have ties to Obama?

YES MAX IT DOES FAKE CHRISTAINS THESE DAYS IN THE GOP ........THIS PINCHED FACE PHONEY IS JUST LIKE HUCKEBEE HUH ???

YES MAX IT DOES FAKE CHRISTAINS THESE DAYS IN THE GOP ........THIS PINCHED FACE PHONEY IS JUST LIKE HUCKEBEE HUH ???

Yup...just like the Republican-financed makeover of Paula Jones. Proves, once again, Republicans are idiots and makeup/clothes can't change what flows from the mouth.

Makes Edward's haircut look cheap!

It will be interesting to watch Huckagimme and Palin eviscerate each other for the next four years in their battle for the tiny cinder that remains of the Republican Party's soul.

Ever heard of bill ayers and tony renko? You know but you choose to ignore hoping that someone else won't know. You knew what I was talking about. Your boy is hard to defend. He has dirt under his fingernails. I could have mentioned his minister of 20 years but that would be too obvious. He has no experience and he is untested. Well, you are going to get an opportunity to find out what experience counts for within a very short time. I think he will just do nothing or have a 'dialogue' with whoever challenges us. In the end the bad guys will test him, he will wimp out and they will move like gang busters all over us. Oh, well, I can wait and let you find out the hard way.

None of you ever mention the millions of dollars that hillary squandered and mismanaged due to her incompetency. How many clothes and hairdos do you think she had? Too hard for you to figure. Yea, I know she is a liberal so it doesn't count. Only counts if the female is a conservative.

Oh, strangelove, you don't get off that easy. You accused Obama of having ties to "terrorists and convicted felons." Then you ask if I've ever heard of Bill Ayers and Tony Renko. Is that the best you can do to defend your statement?
Yeah, I thought so.

Not that you need any encouragement, 'son of kubrick', but I think you meant Rezko not Renko. However, you did get Ayers spelled right.

Are you still not voting for McBush and Palin or has your frustration over-ridden your vow?

Yes, we have all heard of them as has a vast majority of the voting and non-voting public.

We have also heard of Keating, John Green (McCain's chief liaison to Congress and Ameriquest Mortgage Lobbyist $320,000 billed since 2005), Wayne Berman (McCain's national finance co-chairman and Ameriquest Mortgage Lobbyist $320,000 billed since 2005), Rick Davis (McCain campaign manager previously telecommunications lobbyist), Thomas Loeffler (McCain's national finance co-chairman and lobbyist for European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, known as EADS, the corporate parent of Airbus), Phil Gramm (McCain finacial advisor and UBS lobbyist),Susan Nelson (McCain's finance director and EADS lobbyist), Kirk Blalock (national chairman of Young Professionals for McCain and EADS lobbyist, billed for $320,000 in tanker replacement contract), Charlie Black ( John McCain's chief political adviser and a partner on leave from the lobbying firm he founded, BKSH & Associates, clients: military contractor Blackwater Worldwide; Phillip Morris;Angolan warlord Jonas Savimbi; former dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines; former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire now the Democratic Republic of Congo and 24 other clients including AT&T, Lockheed Martin, Occidental Petroleum, and JP Morgan Chase), John Timmons (McCain fundraiser and founding partner of the Cormac Group Lobbyists), Aquiles Suarez (McCain economic policy advisor and lobbyist), Carlos Bonilla (McCain economic policy advisor and lobbyist and senior vice president Washington Group Lobbyists) , David Crane (McCain senior domestic-policy adviser and president of Quadripoint Strategies lobbying firm), Christian Ferry (McCain deputy campaign manager and lobbyist partner with Rick Davis for telecom companies SBC and Verizon and registered as a lobbyist for Deutche Post, ImageSat International, a group called Preserve Luke Air Force Base, and DHL Holdings USA), Randy Scheunemann (McCain foreign policy adviser and a lobbyist with Orion Strategies and Scheunemann & Associates) . . . etc, etc, etc . . . Had you or were you just ignoring them?

This may have been linked earlier. If so, I apologize. It's a column by David Brooks, one of the NYTimes' resident conservatives. He's tracked the devolution of the Republican Party. I know this won't be viewed well by some here, but Republicans weren't always stupid and evil. (Maybe you have to go all the way back to Lincoln... :-) )

I"m going to say this every day until I get to vote on Friday. Eight years of stupid is enough.

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Bill Ayers was a terrorist who bombed US buildings. He hates the US and has made no bones about it. He advocated that the US be defeated and parts of it given to Cuba, Russia and China. He has never renounced his hated for his country and the acts of violence. This is a really swell guy that you associate with. Not too surprising. Nothing new here.

By the way, McCain was totally exonerated for Keating. So what is the issue here. I don't like McCain and I'm not voting for him but he does not deserve lies nor does he deserve the scrutiny from a gang who exist only on daily kos.

Thanks, doc, but I doubt that strangelove, like so many of the people in Arkansas that I encounter every day, is going to admit that he/she is wrong. It's that "wired wrong" thing that DBI has pointed out so many times.
Luckily for the United States of America, we will soon be rid of Bush-Cheney, President Obama will take office, and the world will start to respect us again.
I predict Obama is going to win in a landslide unless the R's program the voting machines and steal another one.

Looks like money blown to the wind to me..........

she still looks and dresses like the hick she is......bet they are sorry to try to make a silk

purse out of a sows ear to me. At least Cindy cunt comes on stage, sooooo bored, in all her

zillion dollar outfits to wow the middle and poor that she and John are just *one of them.*

Suggest that you google William Ayers, strangelove. He is not a "terrorist." It's a miracle that some wingnut like you hasn't murdered him, thanks to the McCain-Palin hate directed toward him.
I'm still waiting to see you name some terrorists and convicted felons who have ties to Obama.
Come on, strangelove, produce those names.

Don't think of it as $150k. Think of it as roughly twelve times the
take home pay on single parent Joe the Plumber's last recorded salary.

You are not getting away with the Ayers whitewash so easily. He is a unrepentant terrorist. He bombed US Government buildings and advocated the overthrow of the government. He is to this day unrepentant of his acts. He is a traitor to his country. If he had lived in the 50s he would have been executed for his treason. Unfortunately, he lives in an era when we are too 'sophisticated' to execute our enemies. He let them off and give them jobs teaching our children. I would normally say 'nice try' but in your case just a pathetic attempt that failed.

Exactly, kizzy! I see strange is back to full blog treason mode.. can't find a fact or even a hint of honesty in that feller. I offered to contribute to a one way ticket to Israel for him...

Halloween is just around the corner... I still think the AR blog should put a few of these old liars on moot trial that night.

And maybe we should alter that old saying... just for Sarah?

silk purse out of a sows lipstick *s*

By 'facts' I suppose you mean what they print in the daily kos? I have read your idea of facts and I'll stick with mine any day.

You're right Kizzy!

Did you notice how he adopted the Governor Palin defense of the result of Troopergate investigation authorized by a bipartisan (3 Republican 2 Democrat) committee of the Alaskan legislature?

". . .I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) provides '. . . The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust. . .' was taken by Governor Palin to equate to this public statement:

" . . . Today's report shows that the Governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan. . . ." So ". . . violating Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act . . ." is acting ". . . within her proper and lawful authority . . ." to Governor Palin.

And then " . . . The Ethics Committee ruled that the involvement of McCain in the scheme was also minimal, and he too was cleared of all charges against him. McCain was criticized by the Committee for exercising "poor judgment" when he met with the federal regulators on Keating's behalf. The report also said that McCain's "actions were not improper nor attended with gross negligence and did not reach the level of requiring institutional action against him . . .

. . . Senator McCain has violated no law of the United States or specific Rule of the United States Senate. . . The Senate Ethics Committee did not pursue, for lack of jurisdiction, any possible ethics breaches in McCain's delayed reimbursements to Keating for trips at the latter's expense, because they occurred while McCain was in the House. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said that it too lacked jurisdiction, because McCain was no longer in the House . . ."

McCain would later write, "The hearings were a public humiliation."

Funny how exoneration and vindication, according to 'son of kubrick' was public humiliation to Senator McCain . . . back then.

By the way, I remember the 60s well. I was there. I am very intimately aware of who the weathermen were and also the SDS. So I don't need kids who weren't there telling me about the terrorists of the 60s.

doc, you accused McCain of being 'guilty' of the keating 5 activities. Now that you have been called on that lie and misinformation you are backpeddling. Who is guilty of getting things wrong? Pathetic try, pal.

Most of you have to 'google' to find out about the 60s. I don't have to. I remember it vividly and for reasons that most of you would be quite surprised at. Don't try and 'get' me on those days. Stay away from what you don't know. Ayers was and is a punk and criminal.

Docholliday--Don't forget G. Gordon Liddy. If strangedude thinks the limited association Obama had with Ayers is a cause for concern, Liddy and McCain have been close pals for a long time and he still spouts terrorist ideas today. Even McCain said he didn't care about a "washed up terrorist". That's because he has even closer ties to Liddy than Obama was to Ayers. If he wants to play the "guilt by association" game, he's bound to lose.

More at blue name

Is Minneapolis a real American city?

"Most of you have to 'google' to find out about the 60s. I don't have to. I remember it vividly and for reasons that most of you would be quite surprised at."

Vividly, 60's, hmmmm.....Obviously lost some brain cells using LSD, etc. during the 60's.

Tell me who the convicted felons are, strangelove.
Ayers is now a respected educator in Chicago. It's a miracle that he has not been murdered by some crazy, like you, who gets stirred up at McCain Palin rallies.
But, other than Ayers, who are the terrorists and convicted felons that Obama has "ties to?"

McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."

McCain was not convicted of any crimes, though the Senate concluded that he exercised "poor judgment." (Furthermore, he got off on some charges by a technicality -- that he was still in the House when he took those vacation trips, and so the Senate couldn't prosecute him. The House concluded that THEY couldn't prosecute him because he had moved to the Senate.)

"Ever heard of bill ayers and tony renko? "

Ever heard of Mr. Palin and his membership in the secession party who hates America enough to try to get Alaska out from under the Stars and Stripes? Talk about association with traitors.

We're leaving the 60's now - soon you'll see REALITY coming into focus...

TODAY McThuselah agreed with Rep Murtha (that many/most W PA voters are "rednecks") BEFORE he disagreed with his audience (who were totally flummoxed by that point), before ALMOST getting it right that he AGREED with them......er, DISagreed with Murtha, which he was TRYING to say, but never did!! He is a doddering and DANGEROUS person sliding into the muck/abyss. AND if we're "executing" anyone, how about we START w/Darth & PMbSfBBL??!!!

Did you check out Keith's rant on Caribou Barbie Moosejaw STILL not being able to get the VP Job Description right, and by a WIDE margin of made-up drivel. ANYONE who takes her seriously, even as Wasilla Mayor, is a first-class, gold plated, double edged, bonafide Moron.
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You guys sound like junior high school: X is not longer friends with Y, A's new friend is C. Who cares? I don't care whether either of these guys is acquainted with anyone. Ayers, Wright, Keating, & Liddy aren't running for president. What I want to know is whether Bush or Obamma and the administration they will likely assemble are best qualified to get us out of the incredible messes the Bush administration has created plus the ones that happened on their own? All the rest of this is just silliness. Whoever becomes our next president will have incredible challenges.

And, yes, I was around in the 60's. It was the last time an out of touch government got us involved in an immoral war overseas.

Eight years of stupid is enough.

kizzy,
strange is totally FACT-FREE. He's an echo chamber of FIXED News and the Rush DopeHead Limbaugh Letter.
Just remember, don't feed the monkeys at the zoo. It makes them screech and throw their own
poo.
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Now back to Palin:

There's no debate: Palins owe thousands in back taxes
On Friday afternoon, just at the time of the week when people unveil unhappy news releases in order to minimize media coverage, the McCain-Palin campaign released Sarah and Todd Palin's federal income tax returns for 2006 and 2007. The returns do not include as taxable income any of the per diem allowances or travel expense reimbursements that the State of Alaska paid for travel by Sarah or Todd Palin, or by three of their children (Bristol, Willow, and Piper Palin), in 2007. At roughly the same time as it released the returns, the campaign also handed out an opinion from a Washington, D.C. tax lawyer that purports to address at least some aspects of the propriety of the omission of the travel money from the 2007 tax return.

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Via firedoglake.. an excellent rant on McCain with links (imagine that!) and everything. (Clicky, warning strong language)

"....Who cares? I don't care whether either of these guys is acquainted with anyone. Ayers, Wright, Keating, & Liddy aren't running for president. What I want to know is whether Bush or Obamma and the administration they will likely assemble are best qualified to get us out of the incredible messes the Bush administration has created plus the ones that happened on their own?..."

Thank you "perplexed," this is the best condensation of the real campaign issue. Unfortunately, political campaigns don't address the relevant, they just aim to titillate or infuriate.

After checking out "10 facts about Bill Ayers" from the Chicago press, I am having a hard time figuring out why anyone is skeered of him. http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1215925,CST-NWS-ayers12.article.

After checking out "10 facts about Bill Ayers" from the Chicago press, I am having a hard time figuring out why anyone is skeered of him. http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1215925,CST-NWS-ayers12.article.

I love this little issue with both hands..

Many Republicans in the 90's thought the Clintons were just trashy hicks, interlopers, who didn't belong in DC society. So what do they have on their hands today but the penultimate hockey-mom, Walmart-shopper, grabbing all she can with both hands. I love it!

It makes my heart glad to see the curtains drawn back to reveal the true soul of the Republican gluttony - lots of tax-cutting hangers on, who just KNOW their pot of gold will be at the foot of the next rainbow, so better grease the skids that lead to the fanciest stores and houses, 'cause they are gonna have them some!

Aw-Shucks-Huck, Flailing-Palin, Let-them-eat-cake-Barbara Bush, Lend-me-a-smoke-Laura, and I-Never-Met-A-Situation-I-Couldn't-Make-Worse-Junior are all of the same cloth.

Well Stash it's a lot easier to bring up irrelevant matters than address the very difficult, can't be fixed with a soundbite problems we have today. Healthcare for all? Hard to tackle, will be expensive, let's bring up a opinionated preacher. Mounting debt that will crush the economy for the next 50-100 years? Let's raise a ruckus about a former radical that the City of Chicago recently declared "Citizen of the Year". Energy sources running out? Hey the opponent has a funny name and one drop too much.

I could care less about Ayers or Keating. I care greatly about the plans each party has for the US.

LOVIN' it too, Ci.Ci!!! Rich, sweet, unadulterated Schadenfreude...I confess.
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You people must be joking. Are you saying you don't know about Barak Hussein Obama's ties to terrorists and felons?

I guess we shouldn't get into ACORN then or his ties to the guy who ran Fannie Mae in the ground and made out with $90 million, or the fact that Hussein Obama still hangs out with his college cocain dealer, or tony renko. I guess talking about those things would not be talking about the substantive things people want to discuss...like Sarah Palin's hairdo or shoes....

"...I-Never-Met-A-Situation-I-Couldn't-Make-Worse-Junior..."

I honestly didn't know, CiCi, that one human being could be this bad at everything. Most of us, including politicians, have a few things we do well mixed in with our failings. Not Monkeyboy. You can't even say that getting elected president was an accomplishment...his family name, Rove and the Supreme Court get the 'credit' for that feat. Maybe I'll give him credit for helping to raise two healthy/happy daughters...maybe.

Catfish, here's the real ties to terrorists and criminals. Click on Cato

McCain reportedly paid more than $5,500 to Tifanie White, the makeup artist who works on "American Idol," for cosmetic services during the month of August and $8700 during September. Mccain's requiring ever increasing makeup expenses suggests he's not aging well.
Tifanie also does Cindi's makeup. I suppose it's a blessing the Mccain's have $100 million to spend.

By Strange definition, the patriots who started the American Revolution would have been terrorists.

When, in the course of human events.,,,