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Anti-McCain/Palin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:55:47 -0000

McCain on record criticizing Palin's earmarks.... PRICELESS

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Lori — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:25:14 -0000

Wow a true republican ... a way to tie a man to people without him actually being involved in any of their actions... Let's talk about the McCain's and their actions... Not from another man but from his own doings..

1) Please read about Keating 5 scandal, when McCain got a slap on the wrist for doing favors for a criminal.
2) Next let 's look at the fact that his wife STOLE drugs for her drug addiction.. from her charity for KIDS!
3) Let's look at the fact that Obama graduated in the top of his harvard class when McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his Navy league school.
4) Let's also take in account he admits to having several affairs on his first crippled wife (Mrs. McCain being
the last of his scarlets).

Please do not throw stones when you're living in a glass house.

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Mark — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:28:21 -0000

lol

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Nonpartay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:48:58 -0000

Sorry, I meant PTSD.... (post traumatic stress disorder), not PST.

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Nonpartay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:47:22 -0000

I have asked this over and over now on all kinds of blogs, and no one seems to have an answer: What about the last 8 years would make anyone want to have the slightest chance of repeating them for 4 more? Is it our loss of jobs to China and the consequent impoverishment of more and more middle class folks? Is it the lovely wars with over 4,000 deaths of Americans and countless deaths of Iraqis, not to mention all the mamings and PST of our precious soldiers? Oh and lets not forget 9/11.... Is it the way this administration handled Katrina? Now there is a profile in competence... What IS it? PLEASE!!!! I'm really dying to know, since I just seem to be cluless.

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Nonpartay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:41:06 -0000

Sorry, but most of your questions were irrelevant, and anyway, I couldn't see that you are actually interested in answers. You're certainly not interested in solutions. Just answer me one thing: What about the last 8 years makes you want to repeat them for 4 more?

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Nonpartay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:36:45 -0000

Actually, Obama has never based his campaign on not accepting earmarks. Everyone does, and it's a small part of the budget, miniscule in fact. But when you base your campaign on not accepting earmarks, you better make sure you're not the champion of earmarks before you do that. Palin has had earmarks of something like $35 per person while the rest of the US citizenry has gotten $2 per person from efforts of their lawmakers. She's the greatest! She'll stop at nothing to get elected, the truth be damned. My question is, why would anyone want to chance 4 more years like the last 8???

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Nonpartay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:32:37 -0000

Every one of those comments are patently false. You can number them as if they mean something, but that doesn't make them any better than the lies they are. If you're going to criticize Obama, critize him for what he is, not for made up stull like this. More information regarding the truth can be found at obamapolitics.com

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Mike Lillis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:59:24 -0000

The "SP" encircled near the top of the scribble is her signature stamp on all of these documents where she added comment.

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rationalpsychic — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:38:18 -0000

There's nothing worse than being confronted by the facts.

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Concerned citizen — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:28:48 -0000

Funny I do not see a signature on the comment. Also looks like two different hands wrote on this piece of paper. It is also not dated. So how do you actually attribute this to Sarah Palin?

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deshaun — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:54:37 -0000

Obama takes first hard hit at Palin
Carrie Budoff Brown
42 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080906/pl_po...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama took his first direct swipe at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, criticizing her for supporting congressional earmarks before opposing them.

“I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change,” Obama said at a town hall meeting here. “And that is great. She is a skillful politician. But when you [have] been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person.

“That is not change, come on,” Obama continued. “I mean, words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just make stuff up. We have a choice to make and the choice is clear.”

The comments were his harshest attack yet on Palin, who sought millions of dollars in earmarks as mayor of Wasilla but later began criticizing them as governor. The Obama campaign has been searching for an effective line of attack against Palin since she burst onto the national scene a week ago as John McCain’s running mate.

Obama also took on McCain’s inner circle Saturday, saying the presence of former lobbyists at the highest tier of his campaign makes him incapable of meeting his pledge to shut down special interest influence.

“Suddenly, he’s the change agent,” Obama said of McCain. “He says, ‘I’m going to tell those lobbyists that their days in Washington are over.’ Who’s he going to tell? Is he going to tell his campaign chairman who’s one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?

“Who is it that he’s going to tell that change is coming?” Obama asked. “I mean, come on, they must think you’re stupid!”

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Blinded — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:32:01 -0000

Shame on Palin for getting 11 million in earmarks for several public projects during her years as mayor. Good thing we can count on Obama for some real change, like a 12 million dollar earmark for road construction in a town of similar size! The *real* change we need!

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Sam J — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:55:37 -0000

Obama will never get my vote!

He

1) was involved with a corrupt and convicted businessman and received tens of thousands from him for his political ambitions. (Tony Rezko)
2) was involved with a terrorist whose home was where Obama started his political career. (William Ayers)
3) was involved with a racist that hated whites and who also praised Hitler for wiping out the Jews. (Luis Farakhan)
4) was involved with a pastor who was also his mentor that hates America. (Jeremiah Wright)
5) was involved in a scheme with a bank that provided him a lower interest rate which saved him tens of thousands of dollars. (Northern Trust of Illinois)

He is for no drilling and refineries on our land. High taxes, bigger govt, weak on defense and terrorism. More entitlements to lazy Americans. No experience on foreign affairs.

He will always be known as Nobama after the election!

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Jane — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:05:29 -0000

I don't understand why people don't get that if Obama was basing half of his campaign on how he NEVER accepted earmarks and how he's TOTALLY against pork-barrel spending (and bridges to nowhere!) and that these things are VERY BAD...and we found out he was hiring lobbyists and getting earmarks and supporting the bridges and running his town millions of dollars into debt...

Well, you know, we would be calling him out on it. As it is, these are McCain's problems, not Obama's. if McCain would like to recant on these things (FLIP FLOP) then fine. But as it is, calling liberals hypocrites because McCain is is perpetuating fraud kind of misses the point completely.

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Mr BUmmer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:26:57 -0000

Wow, am not surprised, no answers to my questions.

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Pablo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:57 -0000

I kind of feel bad how they keep passing around the baby.

I heard today during McCain's acceptance speech they plan on passing the baby around the convention floor to all the delegates.

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todd — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:49:13 -0000

I don't want to have coffee with Sarah Palin. Spilling coffee on her, well that's another story altogether.

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elHombre — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:31 -0000

Wow! Do you suppose there is a difference, fiscally and morally, between giving earmarks and receiving them? Are you folks so partisan that you can't think?

Obama gave a $1 million earmark to the hospital that more than doubled his wife's salary immediately after he was elected to the US Senate. He made no effort to eliminate earmarks. He just went along as he has always done.

Local residents pay taxes. DC pols, excepting McCain and a few others, buy votes buy doling out taxes as largesse. Do you really believe it would be admirable for a local official to feign self-righteousness by failing to seek those funds for the benefit her constituents. Like I said, Wow!

Are you folks hypocrites, or what?

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Nancy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:43:38 -0000

Sarah sure loves suckling at the public teat. Just call her America's favorite welfare mother.

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MARTinnNJ — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:35:30 -0000

Leave Granpa and Ms. Sarah alone! She has many accomplisments. She was State Chapter President of Alaska's Unplanned Parenthood Association. She is the beautiful mother of 4 or 5 wonderful children, and come December, or February will be the caring grandmother of 1 or 2 beautiful grandchildren. She is NOT Brownie in Drag. She is competent. And besides vetting takes time and effort. We need a leader like Granpa who can make snap decisions, and stick with those decisions until the ship sinks.

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Dov King — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:23:52 -0000

To quote both Strother Martin and Paul Newman's characters "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."

I will add Gertrude Stein's comment "A Rose, is a Rose, is a Rose"

My Father often told me I'd never win an argument with a woman-- he was right!

He also taught me to let those spoiling for an argument to have the last word.since it spoiled their sado-masochistic enjoyment.

or better Karl Marx (of all people is quoted), as "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! " Nuff (and no more) sed

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Ed — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:17:25 -0000

Who is Sarah Palin really really. The TPM Muckraker gives us a idea. This
may be a scary woman. The excerpts below are from that article. "Palin As Reformer? Not Quite..."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...
Here's a sampling of reports that complicate Palin's reformist credentials:
• Last year, Palin requested more earmarks per person than any other state -- including some that were criticized by McCain himself.
• Even as mayor of Wasilla, Palin's pursuit of earmarks was aggressive. She oversaw the hiring of a Washington lobbyist -- who, as we reported yesterday, had ties to Jack Abramoff -- to go after federal pork.
• And though Palin touted her opposition to the "Bridge to Nowhere" just last week in her debut speech, she initially supported the project during her run for governor. It was only after the bridge became notorious as an example of pork barrel spending that she changed her position.
• In her run for governor, Palin was endorsed by now-indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. Video of the endorsement has been removed from her government website, but the two appeared together just two months ago at a press conference on energy. The friendly relationship between the embattled senator, who is accused of lying about gifts he recieved from an oil contractor, and the supposedly maverick governor is at odds with Palin's claim to dismantling the "old boys club" of Alaska government.
• As Wasilla mayor, Palin reportedly fired the police chief and attempted to fire the librarian, because she did not feel that she had their "full support in [her] efforts to govern the city of Wasilla." Former city officials allege that the attempts to remove the librarian were a result of her her refusal to censor books at Palin's request.
• Palin has been at the center of the Trooper-Gate scandal that alleges misuse of her gubernatorial power. The affair erupted in July when Palin fired the Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Monegan later claimed his firing was a result of his refusal to fire Palin's former brother-in-law and trooper Mike Wooten. Palin denied that she, her husband or her staff ever pressured Monegan, a statement she later had to retract when recorded phone calls revealed one of her aides, Frank Bailey, had called a troopers office pushing for Wooten's removal.
• Tonight, the Washington Post published emails from Palin to Monegan in which she appeared to complain that Wooten was still employed, apparently undercutting her claim that she discussed Wooten with Monegan only in the context of the security of her family.
• As a result of the Trooper-Gate allegations, an independent investigator has been appointed by the state legislature. In recent days, Palin has appeared to stonewall the probe. Her lawyer argued in a complaint filed last night that she wold not be made available for her deposition unless the probe were handed over to the state personnel board, whose members are appointed by the governor. Bailey, who had been suspended by Palin with pay for his actions, today backed out of his deposition.
• In a separate civil suit related to Wooten, Palin has claimed executive privilege on over a thousand emails between her and her staff, including Bailey

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Mr BUmmer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:17:12 -0000

Bill Clinton called himself commander-inchief, yet hunderds if not thousands of GI's who he was commander of, have lost their benefits for less than what he did, why didn't he?

You call Palin a hypocrite, yet the Clinton's build a new house and since they have secret guards, the government build a house on their property for the agents to stay, the Clinton's charge, what their mortgage just happens to be!

Bidden is only worth 150k! I don't want a VP running my country who is too stupid to only be worth only 150K, Chelsey is worth more, OH wait, how did she get her job?

How is Obama gonna pay for the 150 Billion he promised to invest in 10 years?

Why do Democrats only want to hear people who agree with them? did any Republicans protest during the Democratic convention,no, so why is there demonstrations by democrats during the republican convention? what are you scared of?

Don Riccardo, McCain WAS tortured, don't believe it, ask the hundreds who were there?

Democrat morals? let me see, JFK and his brother tag teamed, Marlyn Monroe, What did Bill do? oh that's right, cant prove what "is" is,his religious advisor, Jessie Jackson, find out he has a child from a mistress, OH yeah, we cant say squat because his 'Rainbow Coalition" will threaten to boycott you, then there this other guy not too long ago, what's his name? the one standing by his wife with cancer?

Obama said he did NOT take money from corporations, yet, 50 million was raised for the parties HE attended, how ironic.

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hen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:13:36 -0000

No no no...you guys got it all wrong..Wasilla was supposed to get an additional $1m more than they received...and she led the fight to get that amount reduced. and she succeeded! She did REALLY well.