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Today, Barack Obama has been campaigning in York, Pennsylvania. When asked whether, as Republicans charge, the Democrats or media has been sexist with its treatment of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Obama said (video below):
Listen, if they want to work the refs, they are free to do so. I think the public can make their judgments about this. The notion that any questions about her work in Alaska is somehow not relevant to her potentially being vice president of the United States doesn't make too much sense to me. I think she has got a compelling story, but I assume that she wants to be treated the same way that guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutiny. I have been through this for 19 months. She has been through it, what, four days so far.And he said of her speech, "John McCain is running for president. I am running against John McCain. As far as I can tell I don't get a sense that Gov. Palin has ideas that are different from John McCain. And that speech she delivered was on behalf of John McCain." He added that he's used to the GOP's attacks, "I've been called worse on the basketball court."
ABC News (and the AP) takes apart Palin's speech to offer more information about her claims (her "vetoing wasteful spending" is related to hiring a lobbyist to bring her hometown of Wasilia "around $27 million in federal money, about as much as Boise, Idaho. Boise has a population of 200,000 people, compared to Wasilla's 10,000.") ANd Politico's Roger Simon faux-apologizes on behalf of the media, "On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry...We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?"
Tonight, Fox News will air Bill O'Reilly's interview with Obama. That airs at 8 p.m., two hours ahead of when McCain will accept the Republican nomination.
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I wonder if John McCain is going to talk about drilling tonite in his acceptance speech?
Rudy cleaned your clock Obama. So did Sarah.
The fact is you have NO executive experience. If you want to count running your own campaign as qualification, then perhaps your campaign manager should be on the ticket instead of you.
'Present' 130 times --- too hard to make a decision.
Above your pay grade.
I agree.
Rudy cleaned your clock Obama. So did Sarah.
The fact is you have NO executive experience. If you want to count running your own campaign as qualification, then perhaps your campaign manager should be on the ticket instead of you.
I'm thoroughly opposed to Obama, the Democratic party, and Keysian economics, but what is experience, exactly?
Should Senators and Congressmen really serve their umpteenth terms like Biden and McCain? Is that really representative of the people? Isn't that the purpose behind term limits?
So if tenure inside the Beltway is what's considered experience, I think that's flawed logic.
"So if tenure inside the Beltway is what's considered experience, I think that's flawed logic."
I agree, and Alaska is as far from the Beltway as you can get.
The fact is senators are talkers, that's their job, they talk. It's a glorified debating society. There is a need for what they do but the job of governor or mayor is far more analogous to the presidency.
#2: McCain has no "executive experience" either. Is he unqualified to lead?
I'm not sure what I'm more appalled by. The fact that commentor No. 2 and commentor No. 3 are obviously McCain trolls charged with "keeping up" with the blogs to insert pro-McCain comments whenever a story about Obama is posted; or that the trolls charged with this duty are so lazy that they can't even change the first two lines of the "canned comments" that they were given by the McCain campaign to glean their "comments" off of. Transparent and desperate, indeed.
ides of march-
I guess 'cleaning clocks' is more important then policies on reform for this country. Way to go supporting the negative.
More war, more drilling, more oil, more tax breaks for the rich...yes this is exactly what this country needs more of.
GET WITH IT!
This women gave a speech to high school student's and said it is GOD'S WILL that we go to war with Iraq - are you kidding me?!
If the republicans win, our situation will only get worse.
Vote Responsibly.
Obama 08'
Great comeback from Barry. Yes, women DO want to be treated the same! At least, women who are serious and good at their jobs.. (cough cough)
Anyone who thinks the democrats only tax "the rich" are delusional.
Oil is a fact of modern economic life. The rest of the world knows it and are securing their supplies. Only the US gets villified for doing what makes perfect sense.
"The fact that commentor No. 2 and commentor No. 3 are obviously McCain trolls..."
Uhm, this may be hard for your mind to wrap around but there are people in this city who simply aren't in ideological lockstep with you or your leftist fellow travellers.
I keep hearing people extoll the virtues of 'diversity', except of course, when it comes to diversity of opinion.
@2 -- Putting aside the trolling, copy and paste partisanship, I just have a quick question:
Ides, you DO know that Barack Obama doesn't read this blog...right? So, when you're talking to him, he's...he's not going to read it, man. Cause he's, you know, not here. You...do know that...don't you?
Cause, if you do, well, umm...then who are ya' talking to there, dude?
[NB -- Maybe after all the Republicans making fun of Obama as the "Messiah," they've started to believe he's omnipresent. If so, dude, you're thinking of JESUS. Not Obama. Jesus. I know, both tall, skinny black guys, both community organizers, both hated by Sarah Palin -- I know it gets really confusing. But they're, like, TOTALLY different dudes.]
The RNC's constant parroting of the experience buzzword is ridiculous. Al Gore had more experience than George Bush in 2000, but that didn't seem to be so important then. Hell, John McCain had more experience too. Now all of a sudden experience is the most important thing? Gotta love hypocrisy.
In any case, prior executive experience has almost no correlation with how effective a President will be. Bush II had been a governor and he was shitty. Carter had been a governor and he was shitty. Truman had almost no executive experience and he was pretty good. Lincoln had no prior executive experience and he was one of the best Presidents we've had. It's all a red herring intended to distract voters from how similar McCain's policy views are to Bush's.
i totally agree with ides of march
@ides: Anyone who thinks the democrats only tax "the rich" are delusional.
Of course not, the Democrats and Republicans will both tax the rich and the middle class. Taxes are not going away. Now, when you look at each candidate's tax plans, you see that both promise to cut taxes for the middle class, Obama just promises to do it more.
Where they differ is in how much tax you will be paying if you make north of $300K. If you are making $2.8 million dollars, you can expect your tax bill to go up by $700K under Obama, as he will allow the Bush tax vacation for the rich to expire. If you vote for McCain, those with a multi-million-dollar annual income will lose out. This is according to the plans put forward by both campaigns. As the non-partisan FactCheck.org notes, McCain's ads regarding Obama's tax plan are, simply, misrepresentations. (That's their word; I would say "lies.")
I'm lucky enough to make an amount--well above that of the average American family--that means that I will pay more in taxes when Obama is elected, and I'm OK with that. I can afford it, and frankly, I can't afford what Bush's economic and foreign policy decisions have done to the US. I'd rather be paying a little more in taxes and have a healthy economy and a federal budget under control--as it was with Clinton--than deal with four more years of borrow and spend from McCain.
Halavais, well-stated. I'm in a similar situation and I have to say that I'll be embarrassed of my country if we elect such anti-intellectual, divisive candidates like those offered on this year's GOP ticket.
If it wasn't for the USA oil would still be stuck under the earth you moron. We are the innovators of this world and we can find a new form on fuel to rid ourselves of having to depend on our enemies - if only someone would step up and fund quality research.
Ides of March - will you be one of the hundreds of thousands that run "...to Alaska for refuge during the end of days..." This is the mindset of Palin. She and the lunatics in her church, as well as every other nut job evangelical. These people are absolutely no different then the Islamic fundamentalists and the further away from the button they are the better.
You agree with church being the divine rule-maker of this country? Do you too "talk" to God himself? He likes you more than others? He likes the USA more than other countries? Are you retarded? Honestly? That is exactly where we are headed.
I'm not going to say anything of her experience b/c I understand Obama doesn't have years and years of Washington experience himself - but much like JFK, RFK, MLK - all having zero experience - inspired. Hokey as it may sound it is what this country needs right now. The individuals of this country make the different not the talking head in the White House. Inspire people and change will indeed happen.
Instead of the rich(assuming you are not) you are okay with being taxed to death so we can build a fucking missile defense system in Poland? That's a good thing? Fucking idiot.
I guess you are of the ilk that do not believe in global warming? Every other country in the world has accepted it but us.
The world is securing their supplies of oil. Holy shit, man, you sound like this is a fucking XBOX game. Us against the world. Your brain is warped beyond repair.
I'd rather be paying a little more in taxes and have a healthy economy and a federal budget under control--as it was with Clinton--than deal with four more years of borrow and spend from McCain.
Except with all of the spending Obama is proposing the deficit won't be under control. If you can show a good analysis from a third party I would like to see it. The best I have seen is that McCain's plans would add $4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years and Obama's proposals would add $3 trillion. Better but hardly worth getting too excited about.
As for the Clinton years, well, Clinton benefitted from reduced military spending after the cold war, an overheated economy in his second term that boosted tax receipts, and a Congress controlled by the opposing party. I don't mean that to praise the GOP Congress of the 1990s but the reality is they passed no major new entitlements. And the Baby Boomers were still years from retirement age. Just don't expect a complete replay. It's 2008, not 1992.
And I'm sure now the usual suspects will brand me as a Republican simply because I am not on my knees worshipping at the altar of Obama.
Republicans are dickheads. Democrats are dickheads. Shut the fuck up all o Youse. The republicans fucked it up with BUSH. You can't argue that. Fuck all you dicks who voted for Bush. I recall dickhead democrats like zell miller voting for bush in 04 and now Joe Lieberman will vote for bush policies in 08. I don't give a shit about Obama's policies. When the Republicans have a black guy lording over them it's gonna be sweet revenge. My campaign is one of REVENGE. Pitchforks and torches worked for the republicans in the last 2 elections and now it's gonna unite the dems.
"And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?"
With an old fart like McCain, she would ALWAYS be literally one heartbeat away from the presidency.
I am very confused by the current spectacle; exactly who was Marsha Blackburn addressing with her country girl "move-over-good-ol'-boys-'cause-women-can-do-whatever-you-can!" speech? Republicans?! Is she ignorant of the fact they INVENTED good ol' boys?
Someone mentioned a drinking game in which you do a shot every time you see a minority in the convention crowd footage...not a very fun drinking game I suppose.
Well said B-Hitler
Right on the money Halavais
Obama and the dems were bitch slapped all over last night and I loved it.
In your wet dreams moron. They made fools of themselves. Palin is barely qualified to be the principal at an Evangelical high school. McCain is a senile crook. And I'm being charitable because I'm still at work and don't have time for more.
This just in: after Palin's Speech, Obama has raised a record 10 million dollars in one day, the republicans raised a paltry 1 million dollars. Obama leads by 8-10 percentage points. See that writing on the wall? It says fuck Bush! Anyway, politics is all cyclical. I'm pretty sure in a decade there will be a republican president, and in the next a democrat. It's all part of a conspiratorial 2 party system that lets sheep feel like they can change the world when all they are doing is going in circles.
The Hypocrisy is astounding. Watch this then shut up:
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/jon-stewart-ann.html
Haha. It's quite laughable that I could ever support McCain, a man who may be more clueless on free-market economics than any recent presidential candidate. The man even admitted as much.
someone opened up a "mccain votes against vets" banner.
I'm sick of the system myself... but the rnc name calling and insulting is just getting boring. but it's sad that boring somehow gets the idiots to say that they gave a great speech... they have no issues to run on and they think women are all replaceable.
We seriously need progress, health care, education that allows the teachers to do what they do best...
I'm tired of warriors. Go pick up a stinking gun, or swing a sword, the tough talk on fear is so overplayed.
But yeas I've felt the same as baby h, I so want a black man to rule over those name slinging farts.
Dear Stupid Fucking Republican,
George W. Bush had four years of "executive experience" as Governor of Texas. That makes him much more "qualified" than any of these hopefuls, doesn't it? Too bad he turned out to be the singularly worst, most feckless and disasterous president in american history.
P.S. go fuck yourselves.
poor john - he's kind of a cracked vessel at this point, trying to be classy (and it's possible he can be - when he's not trying to pork the waitress and the chambermaid) but having to dumb it down for a stadium full of loonies moaning "brains... brains....brains"
cue palin: "send more cops"
Decent measured response, Oh Chosen One.
Did anybody else have the urge to smack Rudy's obnoxious peevish incestuous short-man insulting face? What an total jerk. It's one thing to be insightful and incisive. It's another thing to be a smirking, lying undeservedly-inflated-ego pr-ck.
And c'mon, we all know Palin was picked to grab the pissed-off Hillary supporters. But we also know why McCain agreed to pick her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s
But yeah, I'd hit that.
Make her wear her wear a pair of antlers with some pond plants hanging out of her mouth.
Gotta love "Moosey-style" with the Alaskan librarian MILF.
"Pitchforks and torches worked for the republicans in the last 2 elections and now it's gonna unite the dems."
I think you're on to something, babyhitler.
barracuda! holy shit....
"ANd Politico's Roger Simon faux-apologizes on behalf of the media..."
Caps stuck on?
They still didn't say his name, George W Bush, that is. The Dems have to keep saying his name in conjunction with McCain's and the ice lady. They have to keep repeating it over and over to remind the country what this guy did to us, our army, our economy, our environment, our allies and our children and grandchildren.
It wasn't just "this guy" who raped us, our economy, our constitution, et al. It was also all his pals, and all those clapping, USA-chanting idiots. They are all to blame. And we are too for letting it happen for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS.
Obama will win in a landslide if Oprah stomps the trail for him and get the Hillary supporters' and progressive women's votes. Then the obvious choice for the GOP to counter in 2012 is Judith Nathan Giuliani!
Vote out every incumbent, whatever the party.
"I'm lucky enough to make an amount--well above that of the average American family--that means that I will pay more in taxes when Obama is elected, and I'm OK with that. I can afford it, and frankly, I can't afford what Bush's economic and foreign policy decisions have done to the US. I'd rather be paying a little more in taxes and have a healthy economy and a federal budget under control--as it was with Clinton--than deal with four more years of borrow and spend from McCain."
Hear, hear! Well said halavais. I think many well-to-do Americans carry the same sentiment.
Ron Paul!
funny how he uses the same complaint that hilary used against him.
Obama belongs to elite group of young politicians who has impressed the nation and world over with his brilliant speeches. One can only sympathize with John McCain' for running in to this brilliant and charming speaker who can sell ice to Eskimo. But as we all know John McCain's life is an open book, here forgive me if I am being pro-McCain. Seriously who exactly is Mr. Barrack Hussein Obama?
A brilliant young reformer or a man with ulterior motive to help the Islamic forces ( I agree, I may be far fetched but certainly worth a thought when this man in question is just 50 days away from being most powerful man on Planet Earth).