Do you so doubt the power of the President to improve the nation that you think it's good when our political discourse is reduced to a highschool prom king and queen election? Or do you just want your side to win. There's nothing "fun" when such a hugely important decision as who should be President is decided on these silly personal questions.

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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008

You're not one to talk about irrelevent attacks. Now that it's backfiring on your side you want to call foul.

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

What were the irrelevant attacks "my side" was doing?

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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008

yes it is fun.

I can see why the right likes it so much.

However, corp is correct and neednt worry. Things will calm down soon and people will get used to her pretty soon. Plus i think a few investigations are due to come out soon..

So you don't want change.


You want things to keep going the way they always have.



I think this should change, but as you said Obama ain't the guy to do it.......


Thanks for the admission.............that Obama's change slogan is just the usual Bullshit.

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It's hard to stay mad at someone who makes you laugh - Jay Leno

By and large most of the criticisms of Palin have been about her record. Her abuse of power, record amount of pork projects, her ignorance on every major issue, her misleading and lying about her record as governor and her surrogates whining about treatment from the press are all legit avenues to pursue.

Nevertheless, the McCain/Palin campaign and surrogates have absolutely no right to complain about personal attacks when that's all they've assaulted the Obama camp with.

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Cultural insecurities are the foundation of American conservatism.

I never said big promises couldnt be acheived. I beleive that all one requires in political will, especially in regard to US health care, global warming and peace.

Too true.

Gimme a break. As we speak reporters are all over divorce records of her husbands business partner, trying to dig up dirt.
Politico

It's the Politics of Personal Destruction, and it's backfiring. Obama knows it and CMS knows it.

Sell it to the Air Force. I ain't buying.

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

It is hardly politics of personal destrcution to point out:

A. She's under investigation for abuse of power and has hired defense council.
B. She has a record of putting the town she was mayor of heavily into long-term debt.
C. She has publically stated that she thinks it's god's work being done in Iraq.
D. She has offered friendly greetings to a political party who wishes to break away from the US.

Etc.....

Nothing personal whatsoever about her past ever needs to be brought up. Her historical record and actions while in office will more than suffice.

Who Am I?

I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office.

Did you guess?




I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900

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Andy
Cynical Optimist

Obama campaign spreading lies about book banning.

The moral of the story......don't believe anything that press says about Sarah Palin. And especially don't believe anything that is on an Obama site concerning Sarah Palin.

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It's hard to stay mad at someone who makes you laugh - Jay Leno

Nobody cares about right-wing sources that are based in ideology first and objectivity rarely if at all.

Please explain to me how the Obama campaign controls the newspaper just down the block from Palin's hometown.

Anchorage Daily News

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Cultural insecurities are the foundation of American conservatism.

Well, that's not going to work, or at least shouldn't, and it would be disappointing if American voters fall for that cop-out. Moreover, she'll lose out on defining for herself what's true and what's not and what's somewhere in between as to her, never mind not defining what she stands for and proving she's fit for the job--and rightly so for being a chicken.

It does seem to me that she tried to set herself up prophylatically by accusing the press of 'bias' against her in her RNC speech and now is largely avoiding press. My guess is that she is doing this to avoid press scrutiny of her and/or try to discredit any negative press on her by strawmanning it as 'biased.' Members of the McCain camp are already playing the 'biased press will pick on her' claim. But that's phooey.

She's in the big leagues now. She must prove she has a spine, and not merely claim to have one but lacks one. That means she has to get used to all the sensational press diggings plus all the legitimate criticising and diggings into her life and her record. The public has a right to a full investigation of anyone seeking any office, never mind the highest office. Moreover, it just comes with the turf. Everyone gets it, and a person has to handle and deal with it. And she must engage the press for all the good and bad that comes with it.

Male or female, a person seeking the highest offices must be a pitbull, and not a snappy poodle who barks and runs. The latter is a coward.

A real pitbull--and the proven real deal on the merits--is her:



A British citizen, a woman, a conservative, a bulldog. And she was damn effective too.

Look how much different Thatcher proves and argues her case in Parliament. She jousts at the liberals, is able to take their jousts, and explains a masterful knowledge of her positions on the issues and how to combat the liberals by equally knowing theirs:

Thatcher: "No! No! No!"

Palin getting on stage for 12 minutes, painting herself self-servingly as a nice average jane with family (irrelevant, given many have nice families), taking a few non-issue gratuitous potshots at Obama, criticising the press as 'being against her' and whinging from surrugates about 'how sexist' certain rootings are, etc, and now going into hiding from the 'evil press' is going to be taken as cowardly and telling that she isn't fit for the job.

Maybe she's hoping for the 'impulse purchase' that people will vote for her after 10 minutes of non-issue talk and she can within the 60 days get away with not being properly scrutinised.

Maybe that's the gamble. But, 60 days is a long time in politics for the opposition and the press to knock her down. And people are going to assume she's hiding from the press because there is indeed much to hide insofar as her character and fitness. That's the penalty she will pay. If she claims to be the 'pitbull' she better be more like a Thatcher and not a chicken.

And given how piddle and weak the American press is compared to other presses in the British Commonwealth, Ireland, France, Germany, etc, where the press is informed and relentless and where politicians like Thatcher are expected to be fully prepared as well as take shots like cross-examination, it's not much of a burden here in the US to deal with the soft stuff they serve.

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Welcome to Disneyland.

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It's hard to stay mad at someone who makes you laugh - Jay Leno