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Loreli
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September 29, 2008
Today, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported on potentially embarrassing clips of Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric that haven't yet been aired. The Politico has more information on one in particular:
Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.
The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.
There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.
Looks like it will be aired tonight? Will be interesting to see.
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| Sep 30 @ 11:19 AM |
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Gman762
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At least she has class...
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| Sep 30 @ 11:34 AM |
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Loreli
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time to stop the pity for her
If having class is defined in spending $2500.00 on her jacket for her acceptance speech....then sure 
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| Sep 30 @ 11:44 AM |
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eastham
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Class...I think that pit bull lipstick comment disqualifies her in the class department.
David Frum, GWB's former speech writer, has gone on the record saying that Mrs. Palin was an irresponsible choice for vice president.
Ms. Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She served two terms on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000. She served two terms as mayor. In November, 2006, she was elected governor of the state, a job she has held for a little more than 18 months. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues.
All this would matter less, but for this fact: The day that John McCain announced his selection of Sarah Palin was his birthday. His 72nd birthday. Seventy-two is not as old as it used to be, but Mr. McCain had a bout with melanoma seven years ago, and his experience in prison camp has uncertain implications for his future health.
If anything were to happen to a President McCain, the destiny of the free world would be placed in the hands of a woman who until the day before Friday was a small-town mayor.
Frum is not the only conservative who is waiving red flags about Palin's fitness for national office. In the National Review, the conservative paper started by William F. Buckley, Kathleen Parker has asked Sarah Palin to give up her run for vice president. Parker writes about her re-action to Palin's interview with Katie Couric:
My cringe reflex is exhausted. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there.
And then there is George Will.
Sen. John McCain's opponent is by far the least experienced person to receive a presidential nomination in the 75 years since the federal government became a comprehensively intrusive regulatory state and modern weaponry annihilated the protection the nation derived from time and distance. Which is why McCain's case for his candidacy could, until last Friday, be distilled into two words: Experience matters.
And finally David Brooks, conservative columnist for the New York Times. From his September 15th column:
Experienced leaders can certainly blunder if their minds have rigidified (see: Rumsfeld, Donald), but the records of leaders without long experience and prudence is not good. As George Will pointed out, the founders used the word “experience” 91 times in the Federalist Papers. Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared.
Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.
The idea that “the people” will take on and destroy “the establishment” is a utopian fantasy that corrupted the left before it corrupted the right. Surely the response to the current crisis of authority is not to throw away standards of experience and prudence, but to select leaders who have those qualities but not the smug condescension that has so marked the reaction to the Palin nomination in the first place.
I could keep going.
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| Sep 30 @ 11:56 AM |
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Loreli
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And, right now, if something happened to McCain (heaven forbid), the RNC would get to appoint a new Presidential candidate. But if it happened after a successful vote for them, before inauguration, she would start out as head of this country. 
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| Sep 30 @ 11:59 AM |
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Gman762
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If having class is defined in spending $2500.00 on her jacket for her acceptance speech....then sure
I wasn't sure that you had any concept of what "class" really is. Now I am certain 
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| Sep 30 @ 11:59 AM |
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eastham
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A very frightening thought.
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| Sep 30 @ 12:10 PM |
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Loreli
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The one article I read said she hasn't been speaking for 4 weeks, and it was feared she couldn't do it without a teleprompter.
Must be why she is JUST NOW in training.
Back-a##ward proceeding, IMO. You would think McCain would have looked at this prior to appointment. 
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| Sep 30 @ 12:12 PM |
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Gman762
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He did.
Smart, educated and professional women love her.
It's the trailer-trash wannabe's that seem to delight in dragging this wonderful lady through the mud.
80-90% of Alaska think she's absolutely the greatest That's why she's the most popular governor in the country.
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| Sep 30 @ 12:17 PM |
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theblessedone
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14. Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior: He may be a slob, but his brother has real class.
Class, definition #14, from Dictionary.com. My guess is that is the variant of 'class' that has been attributed to Ms. Palin (and I'll further guess that the poster was referring to behavior, rather than dress).
Dignity? Grace? Elegance?
Don't get me wrong...I love Pit Bulls. But I don't think I would ever categorize them as having dignity, grace, or elegance.
Same with Ms. Palin.
(p.s. - edited to state that I'm perfectly comfortable knowing that my comment will further seal my 'fate' as a trailer-trash wannabe in the 'minds' of people unable to accept that a dissenting opinion is not a logical justification for name-calling)
[Edited on 9/30/2008 12:20 PM]
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| Sep 30 @ 12:18 PM |
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Nightowl001
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Smart, educated and professional women love her. Funny you should say that, pup. Wonder what your definition of "smart, educated and professional women" is.
Obama has a huge lead among white women under 30 who have been to college, leading by 19 points in the most recent Gallup Poll. Among non-college white women, McCain has a five- point lead. Among women over 50, the candidates are playing to their strengths, with those who have been to college favoring Obama by an average of 13 percentage points, while those who have not been to college are going to McCain by the same margin.
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| Sep 30 @ 12:20 PM |
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hammertime
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How smart could Palin be? She actually believes the world is 6000 years old.  or is that less than 10,000 years old.
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| Sep 30 @ 12:29 PM |
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Loreli
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Didn't your family have Dinos as pets, Hammer?
FTR-I am buying my own home, and raised my 3 children.....but I would never have left my medically needy child with nannies to pursue my career-I had my kids...I'm responsible for them)
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| Sep 30 @ 12:43 PM |
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hammertime
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Didn't your family have Dinos as pets, Hammer? Yeah we did. My dad is a friend of Fred Flintstone and I get high agitated how people treat mistreat us especially those folks at Geico.
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| Sep 30 @ 1:03 PM |
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Novalite
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She actually believes the world is 6000 years old. or is that less than 10,000 years old.
Obama thinks there's 57 states and Biden thinks that there were tv broadcasts in 1929.
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| Sep 30 @ 1:12 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being "shot at" in Iraq.
"Let's start telling the truth," Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. "Number one, you take all the troops out - you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die."
But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being "shot at" and instead allowed: "I was near where a shot landed."
FOX News has been asking the Obama campaign for details of the alleged shooting in Iraq ever since Biden was tapped to be vice president. Biden campaign spokesman David Wade promised an answer last week, but failed to provide one.
Meanwhile, the gaffe-prone Biden has again raised eyebrows with another story about his exploits in war zones - this time in Afghanistan. Biden said he will grill Republican rival Sarah Palin in Thursday's vice presidential debate about "the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down."
"If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me," Biden bragged to the National Guard Association. "Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are."
But it turns out that inclement weather, not terrorists, prompted the chopper to land in an open field during Biden's visit to Afghanistan in February. Fighter jets kept watch overhead while a convoy of security vehicles was dispatched to retrieve Biden and fellow Senators Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.
"We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to," joked Kerry, a Democrat, to the AP. "Other than getting a little cold, it was fine."
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/30/unlike-clinton-biden-gets-pass-saying-shot-iraq/
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| Sep 30 @ 1:25 PM |
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hammertime
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Obama thinks there's 57 states and Biden thinks that there were tv broadcasts in 1929.
Errr, TV broadcasts? The first TV broadcasts began in 1928. Biden was right. I'm guessing you mean color TV then you are right. Obama did misstate 57 states. Could he have meant 47? Now if he said something like 6000 states or 600 states or even 60 states, I'd say thats on the same order of magnitude of intelligence to say the world is about 6000 years old. Then again, Sarah Palin speaks in tongues. Can you imagine the gibberish that comes out of her mouth?
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| Sep 30 @ 1:34 PM |
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lefthandedluckie
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In my opinion. this country will elect the first African American in November to the highest office we have. Several reasons come to mind for this. One, is this financial debacle that is bigger than the Crash of '29! Second, will be the age factor of McCain and his cancer. And third will be Sara Palin. She absolutely has no clue as to where she used the bathroom last!
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| Sep 30 @ 1:45 PM |
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Novalite
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Biden was right. I'm guessing you mean color TV then you are right.
No, he meant that the president (whom he misnamed in another historical moment of idiocy) would have gone on television to address the nation. So, you take that to mean that he would have gone on tv to address what, one or two people who had television sets?
I'd say thats on the same order of magnitude of intelligence to say the world is about 6000 years old. Then again, Sarah Palin speaks in tongues. Can you imagine the gibberish that comes out of her mouth?
So, got a quote of her carbon testing the earth at 6000 years?
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| Sep 30 @ 1:53 PM |
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Silver1961
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80-90% of Alaska think she's absolutely the greatest That's why she's the most popular governor in the country.
Not so fast Gman 
Palin's popularity drops statewide, nationally
In just a two-week span, Palin’s approval ratings in Alaska took a change for the worse never before seen in her term as governor. (KTUU-TV) The latest Ivan Moore poll shows a 14 point drop from Sept. 2 to Sept. 20. (Kyle Stalder/KTUU-TV)
The Craciun Research Group says since Palin joined the McCain campaign, many Alaskans feel there's been a change in her transparency. (Kyle Stalder/KTUU-TV) The latest Washington Post poll shows a 10 percent increase in the governor's unfavorable rating. (KTUU-TV) by Leyla Santiago
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-- Gov. Sarah Palin's popularity may be waning as abuse of power allegations against her drag on.
Palin has been referred to as one of the most popular governors in the nation. Many still call her that, but the numbers show her approval rating is changing.
In just a two-week span, Palin's approval ratings in Alaska took a change for the worse never before seen in her term as governor.
"I think they're still on their way down. I suspect the damage isn't over yet," said Ivan Moore of Ivan Moore research.
The latest Ivan Moore poll shows a 14-point drop from Sept. 2 to Sept. 20. And while those numbers are going down, the number of people with negative feelings towards Alaska's governor is going up
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