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2020hindsight said:
"I decided to check who uploaded it: Meghan McCain!
How gullible some people are!
...made by teenagers!"

Doris, I was wondering what a teacher would make of that claim lol ;)
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I'm not a music teacher but maybe someone here is and can assess the criteria of achievement?
A teenage prodigy? :headshake

... a coincidence how Meghan's best seller is aimed at the Tweenies' market too! :rolleyes:

She reminds me of Paris... making her own money from her heritage fame. :cool:
 
"the potential october surprise" - probably thwarted (by witnesses refusing to be subpoenaed) , if not altogether buried

Rachel Maddow on Sarah Palin & Troopergate Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...h+Palin+&+Troopergate+Part+&search_type=&aq=f

changing topic... "protectionism of Palin has to end" ...
"and you (McCain camp) claim she is ready to be one heart beat away from the presidency". :rolleyes:
Campbell Brown Rips McCain Camp's Sexist Treatment Of Palin
 
Buddy said:
Doris,
Soros might be "an interesting man" but sleepyDad is correct. To paraphrase him..... Soros is a turd!
If Soros is on Palin's side, we (everyone else) should be on the other side, whoever it is.
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Buddy, Soros is a BIG Democrat - He is heavily, heavily, backing Obama. I think you misread his political affiliations. He has contributed tens of millions of dollars for the Democrats. He is the man behind moveon.org. Support Palin? No way - totally the opposite - He wants to destroy Palin, McCain, and anybody that gets in his maniacal way.
 
WSJ/NBC Poll: Voters Doubt Palin’s Qualifications to Be President

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows nearly half of voters harbor doubts that Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin is qualified to be president.

Asked, “Do you feel that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president if the need arises, or is she not qualified to be president?” 49% of all respondents said she is not qualified while 40% said she is.

Almost two-thirds of respondents, 64%, said Biden, is qualified; just 21% said he is not.
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Some blogs on this article:

# If Caribou Barbie can’t even face a press conference (how many weeks has it been?) how can she be ready to be the Commander in Chief? Her track record is full of the abuse of power, and her speaking style looks like she’s running for student council. Can you say “Not. Ready.”

# Sarah Palin has extreme right wing views that are the right of even Bush/Cheney (abortion, climate change). She lacks experience and has no knowledge whatsoever about foreign affairs but is nevertheless decisive (witness her views on Iran and Russia and compare to those of someone intelligent like Jim Baker/Colin Powell). She has run a secretive administration. She is the scariest thing about this election. The question posed is whether she is qualified to be president. I guess if you think bush was qualified then the answer is yes. But god help us if it ever happens.

# Everyone’s response to the Palin quals question is to point to Obama.
Palin is an extremist. Obama is left of center but certainly not extreme left.
Palin is ill informed. Obama is intelligent (even Bill O’Reilly has agreed on that).
Despite Palin’s lack of knowledge she is decisive and has strong views (and doesn’t care if people disagree). Obama appears to be much more careful and wants to gain consensus. Palin is basically another Bush.
On the danger scale, she is far worse.

# Obama got 18 million+ votes. more than any candidate in history. More than all the votes of the top 5 republicans put together. That alone qualifies him. Vetted? I would think so. Barbie doll should go back to Alaska and worry about the polar bears and moose. And McSame should go back to his retirement home. Enough of this charade!

# Here is a question– Palin does not “believe” in evolution. Hmmm, it is not something you believe in, it is something that has been scientifically proven. THAT scares the sh* out of me. How do we put someone in this position that thinks Adam and Eve is literal.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/...-doubt-palins-qualifications-to-be-president/
 
Trooper probe now 'confidential,' Palin aides say

Hmmm... Seems to be covered up until after the election. Will voters care? :eek:

Republican campaign officials indicated Tuesday they are done answering questions about an investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, citing a request by a state investigator.

The Legislature's inquiry is scheduled to be completed by October 10. The state senator managing the probe, Anchorage Democrat Hollis French, has been under fire since a September 2 interview with ABC News in which he said the inquiry could lead to an "October surprise" for the GOP ticket.

No date has been set for completing the personnel board probe, which Palin's campaign argues is the proper legal venue for the investigation. Under state law, those investigations can take as long as two years.

Palin's lawyers have agreed to "general parameters of immediate cooperation" with the investigation she requested from the state Personnel Board, which has hired Anchorage lawyer Timothy Petumenos to conduct the inquiry.

Campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan said he believed Petumenos would act in "an expedited manner," but that results may not emerge before the November elections.

"If that is concluded before the election, so be it. If that is concluded after the election, so be it," he said.

Rep. Jay Ramras, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday that he still has confidence in the special counsel hired by the state Legislature and said there was "zero chance" that efforts to shut down the probe would succeed.

"There's no question the report is going to be produced," he said. "There is a question of which folks will participate in it and which ones won't."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/palin.investigation/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
 
ZzzzDad said:
Buddy, Soros is a BIG Democrat - He is heavily, heavily, backing Obama. I think you misread his political affiliations. He has contributed tens of millions of dollars for the Democrats. He is the man behind moveon.org. Support Palin? No way - totally the opposite - He wants to destroy Palin, McCain, and anybody that gets in his maniacal way.
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Is that right? I didn't know that. Dont really follow the detail of USA politics.
Nevertheless, Soros is still a turd! Can we agree on that?
 
i feel so cheap

can't help myself

damm that woman just oozes sex appeal, in a restrained way

i strongly suspect that the people who selected the candidate were so very much aware of this

the lowest common denominator, the male beast

she has other admirable characteristics, that would appeal to the female voter.

I personally hope the Democrats get elected, although I doubt it will make that much difference who it is.

i haven't been paying much attention to this, so i just checked a few websites to see if it was just me, but sure enough there was a proliferation of them, using a particular acronym, sometimes applied to attractive mothers.

no offence intended
 
awg said:
i feel so cheap

can't help myself

damm that woman just oozes sex appeal, in a restrained way

i strongly suspect that the people who selected the candidate were so very much aware of this

the lowest common denominator, the male beast

she has other admirable characteristics, that would appeal to the female voter.

I personally hope the Democrats get elected, although I doubt it will make that much difference who it is.

i haven't been paying much attention to this, so i just checked a few websites to see if it was just me, but sure enough there was a proliferation of them, using a particular acronym, sometimes applied to attractive mothers.

no offence intended
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Unsure of the acronym but I'd prefer to have a mother of 5 with no Washington experience being VP in the US than a has been hack like Biden.

The entrenched positions of the new rich with their passe left wing nods has brought us to this nadir in the financial markets.

Good hard working capitalists and patriots like McCain and Obama will rescue the west.

gg
 
ZzzzDad said:
Doris - You say Meghan downloaded it, but do you realize people send videos to both campaigns? Where do you get the info that Meghan made the video? I'll be happy to admit if proved wrong, but unless I'm missing something, I haven't seen the proof yet. I'm willing to "see" it if proven wrong.
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Sleepy - since you kept spouting it was teenagers that made the video how about you show the proof, instead of getting others to disprove your claims? Claims which you obviously don't have evidence at hand to make.

Garpal Gumnut said:
Unsure of the acronym but I'd prefer to have a mother of 5 with no Washington experience being VP in the US than a has been hack like Biden.

The entrenched positions of the new rich with their passe left wing nods has brought us to this nadir in the financial markets.

Good hard working capitalists and patriots like McCain and Obama will rescue the west.

gg
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GG, if Palin was a Democrat and Biden a Republican then you would like Biden and dislike Palin for opposite reasons - makes it pretty hard to take notice of any of your 'reasoning'.

I also bet that you loved GWB before he was elected and wrote on forums everywhere how great he would be for America....
 
Before McCain's disparagement in fronting Katie Couric on CBS News last night, Palin was 'done'.

What a bag of shrill wind she is. Painful Palin!

She's your typical pollie gg.
She's a lot like Joh was in having a rote agenda regardless of the questions asked so she can avoid answering one!

Half her answers for her opinion were: "John McCain says..." or "John McCain and I are discussing..."

"America is waiting to hear what John McCain has to say, not Obama."
Katie asked why she thought Obama had no answers to the financial crisis when the latest polls show most people had more confidence in Obama's ability to handle it.

She said she's not speaking about the polls, she's speaking about what the majority of people think! :confused:

"I'll try to find ya some an I'll bring em to ya," Palin said after an exasperated Katie reiterated her request for specific examples over McCain's 26 years, of his being involved with regulating Wall Street, as he's almost always sided with the less-regulation, not more.

What a blond she is! :eek:
No wonder the GOP is keeping her away from the media.
Oh how I hope we get to see a VPC debate! :p:

The looks on Katie's face to Palin's answers were priceless. As incredulous as Letterman was last night!

Watch here... but grab your 'plane plugs' first:

"We talked about the financial crisis at length." Oh Katie... :(

 
Doris what about Palin stumbling over her foregin policy creditials basing it on Russia just across the ocean. At one point Palin was so confused she said "....you know what i mean, oh I don't know..."
 
Green08 said:
Doris what about Palin stumbling over her foregin policy creditials basing it on Russia just across the ocean. At one point Palin was so confused she said "....you know what i mean, oh I don't know..."
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Did you watch the Saturday Night Live excerpt I put on # 169

Tina Fey (brilliant in Baby Mama movie...) did so well telling "Hillary"!

What the heck. It's so good:

Ooops... McCain mob have had it removed from youtube?! "No longer available"!

But here's an edited version that is available:



The longer versions are baits. I could not find any footage other than the content of this! WHY? :confused:
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Doris said:
Before McCain's disparagement in fronting Katie Couric on CBS News last night, Palin was 'done'.

What a bag of shrill wind she is. Painful Palin!

She's your typical pollie gg.
She's a lot like Joh was in having a rote agenda regardless of the questions asked so she can avoid answering one!

Half her answers for her opinion were: "John McCain says..." or "John McCain and I are discussing..."

What a blond she is! :eek:
No wonder the GOP is keeping her away from the media.
Oh how I hope we get to see a VPC debate! :p:

The looks on Katie's face to Palin's answers were priceless. As incredulous as Letterman was last night!
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Sarah Palin - still not ready for prime time

Sarah Palin’s outing with CBS anchor Katie Couric has not been well-received. And with less than 40 days before Americans head to the voting booth, there’s not much time to get Palin used to dealing with the national press.

It appears that she needs more time, but unfortunately for the McCain campaign, they don’t have the luxury of putting her into an incubator to slowly ramp up to deal with the national press.

The interview with Couric had GOP strategist Rob Stutzman telling The Vote yesterday that McCain needs to participate in tonight’s debate simply “to bury the Palin CBS interview!”


Poised and confident is not how she looked with Couric. On Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Couric asked Palin for an example of where McCain has led the charge for more oversight. Says Couric, “[McCain’s] been in Congress for 26 years. He’s been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation – not more.”

Palin: “He’s also known as a maverick though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party.”

Couric: “I’m just going to ask one more time, not to belabor the point – specific example in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.”

Palin: “I’ll try to find you some, and I’ll bring ‘em to ya.”

As those last words fumbled from her mouth, you know she was saying, “Get me out of here.”

What?

On whether the $700 billion bailout of the U.S. financial sector is a good idea.

That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity.

If you didn’t quite catch the meaning of the above, don’t bother re-reading it. It doesn’t get any clearer.

U.S. News and World Report columnist Robert Schlesinger called the statement a “talking points machine gone out of control.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/09/26/sarah-palin-still-not-ready-for-prime-time/
 
Fair enough on the Palin situation. At least we know who she is. Who is Barack Obama's running mate again?
 
noirua said:
Fair enough on the Palin situation. At least we know who she is. Who is Barack Obama's running mate again?
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Who cares. It's all just fun and games for us non-Yanks... spectator sport.

The US is screwed anyway.
 
I bet the McCain campaign are putting more rules in place for her debate with Biden.

Perhaps when they ask her questions someone in front will jump up with a Q card for her, so she is sure of the subject and and yes or no answer.

Biden's 30 years of hands on experience well known and acknowledged.

Palin's 30 hours of fame - I don't think you can seriously count Bono's interview with her at the UN so lets knock it down to 24 hours. Will amount to nothing on foreign policy. How many times do you have to mention Russia?

One good thing might be that those in the USA who don't think there is life outside of it may find an atlas (do they have those over there?) and Find Russia and then realise how insignificant they are to the enitre globe.
 
wayneL said:
Who cares. It's all just fun and games for us non-Yanks... spectator sport.

The US is screwed anyway.
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Exactly. Makes no difference whatsoever.

Even the circus over the $700b. Last week the Fed injected over $1t!! In one week alone! Makes the huha over $700b a bit of a joke. Biggest bank ever went bust yesterday - 9 times bigger than the previous one, media balckout on it all. Who are the counterparties on the Credit Default Swaps for WaMu?? All swept under the carpet by the media.
 
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