Posted by helmut  on  08/29  at  11:05 AM

This is awesome for the Democrats.  The primary criticism from the right is Obama’s ‘lack’ of experience.  McCain picks someone even less experienced than Obama.  Amazing

Posted by Jordan  on  08/29  at  11:21 AM

Helmut, I think that’s a fine idea.  Let’s keep talking about experience and see how it goes.

Posted by helmut  on  08/29  at  11:54 AM

Where shall we begin.  Runner up for Miss Alaska?  Yes, neither Biden nor Obama have placed in a beauty contest.  Gee I guess you are right McCain made a brilliant move.

Posted by Jabo  on  08/29  at  12:01 PM

She takes the piss out of the Obamaniacs!
1. Her son serves the flag!
2.Her son is not in th epocket of lobby financiers.
3. She opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere”
4. She is the quintesential American woman
who can relate to most women in the country.
5. She can talk and give Gaffe Machine Bin Biden a run for his ill begotten money.
6. She is a woman of real faith, none of this Church of Racists Liberationists.
7. She understands energy and the walth that comes with oil revenues.
8. She was tested as a governor in the harshest environment of the nation.
9. She is no windbag like BinBiden, a candidate of the credit card industry.

Posted by helmut  on  08/29  at  01:09 PM

I am not sure what taking the urine out of Obamaniacs means but lets look at the points.
1- Her son serves the flag.  Meaning she is qualified to be president?  Obama covered this last night.  We all love the country, none more so than the other. 
2- Her son is not in the epocket of lobby financiers.  Again something about a son? 
3. Opposed the bridge - After she supported it.  Seriously google her remarks to a ketchican audience.
4. Quintessential-I think not, most women I know can’t stand the sight of guns, much less enjoy firing them.
5. She can talk.  She is only qualified if she can chew gum, rub her tummy and walk too..
6.  Real Faith- you sound like a muslim fanatic-she is a believer of the true religion!
7. How does she understand energy?  Because her husband works for BP?
8. Governor- she has been doing it for only a year and besides she is likely to be impeached for improper use of her power.
9. Windbag?  It remains to be seen if she likes to extemporize.

Posted by Jabo  on  08/29  at  02:55 PM

The son serves the flag, Obama serves the Communist party.
Biden’s son serves the credit cards industry, her son, serves the USA.
These aspects do not qualify her to be anything but shows some integrity and loyalty to this country.
Sadly, I am not a Muslim, nor do I worship at all.
Her understanding of energy is based on the fact that her state produces huge amount of petrol, much of it shared with the citizens, unlike in most other states of the Union, but she gets the premise that for a healthy economy there is a need to maintain energy independence.
What I know about Obama is that he spent 20 years listening to sermons of hatred and worked for years on aboard approving budgets to a U.S terrorist who launched his career. Perhaps, the writer of the reply assumes that by being a neighbor of a terrorist Obama is a man of good judgement, a thougthful man, a man who know about defense, etc..he could be right, and I will have to apologize for showing my boorish understanding of world affairs.  Ms. Palin may not be the best choice but she certainly takes the wind out of the phony Obama Bin Biden ticket.

Posted by helmut  on  08/29  at  07:08 PM

Obama serves the communist party?  Is that a tongue in cheek dig at democrats?  Did you know that one of Bidens sons is a member of the Deleware National Guard and is scheduled to go to Iraq in October.  Does this not mean that Biden is at least now as loyal as Governor Palin?  If Obama sent his pre teen daughters to war would he qualify?
Have you checked out MS Palins statements supporting the bridge before she didn’t support it?  Do you not think that this is a flip flop?
Regarding the terrorist stuff.  Are you referring to William Ayers?  What do you think of this answer from Obama at a Debate:

This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.
The fact is, is that I’m also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who during his campaign once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.
Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn’s statements? Because I certainly don’t agree with those either.
So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow—somehow their ideas could be attributed to me—I think the American people are smarter than that. They’re not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn’t. 
Do you refute this reasoning?
When you suggest Obama lacks judgement because of his neighbors your argument falls flat.
I think Senator Obama, having taught constitutional law for 10 plus years might be a little more thoughtful about our country than a man who can’t remember how many houses he owns, or more importantly has been quoted as saying he doesn’t understand economics.  Is Obama phony because he is smart?  Because he went to Harvard?  Give me a real critique of Obama.  Give me some real analysis of what he would do that could be worse than the current state of affairs.  All you do is throw out complaints.  He knows a terrorist, his preacher doesn’t like whites.  He got a house from a sleazy dude.  You guys blew your wad 6 months ago and sound like a broken record.

Posted by PITTSBURGH DEMOCRAT  on  08/31  at  03:21 AM

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