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September 2, 2008 11:30 AM

McCain: Palin "Vetting Process Was Thorough"

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John Bentley
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John McCain
(CBS)
From CBS News' John Bentley:

(PHILADELPHIA) – John McCain responded to questions about the vetting of his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, for the first time today during a visit to a fire station here. When asked if his vetting process was thorough enough, McCain said that is was.

"The vetting process was thorough and I am grateful for the results," McCain said.

McCain's campaign has admitted that he only met with Palin a handful of times before she was placed on the ticket. Revelations about her membership in the Alaska Independence Party, her husband's DUI arrest 20 years ago, and her daughter's pregnancy at 17 have become distractions during the week of the Republican convention.

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by missglo September 3, 2008 3:03 AM EDT
If this was thorough, this is Frighting.
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by shoboski September 3, 2008 12:27 AM EDT
Sara;
You are going to catch a lot of Flack form the Mainstream Media including this Network.

Please don''t give up. You are right and they are wrong. Never Give up.
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by allurfears September 2, 2008 9:11 PM EDT

PALIN GETTING NEW McCAIN CAMPAIGN VETTING- AFTER THE FACT

"La, la, la" (sound made by McCain supporters as they plug their ears so as not to hear the truth about his botched V.P. vetting job)

YESTERDAY McCAIN FINALLY SENT a team of eight "VETTERS" to Alaska. They will be investigating Palin to find out what they should have discovered about Palin BEFORE McCain decided to make her his V.P. candidate.

McCain made a last minute "seat of the pants" decision to pick Palin. This came after Karl Rove vetoed Joe Lieberman, and the Evangelicals vetoed Tom Ridge. McCain "liked" Paliin, so he picked her without doing the background work.

Reports indicate that McCain campaign vetters arrived in Alaska ONLY ONE DAY before the decision to pick Palin was announced Friday. McCain met with her the FIRST TIME on Thursday, and OFFERED HER THE JOB ON-THE-SPOT.

McCain "vetters" never researched the archives of Palin''s hometown newspaper.

McCain''s decision on Palin was driven by IMPULSE and WITHOUT CARE for the details or issues.

This HIGHLIGHTS THE FEARS that McCain is no where near ready to make critical decisions for this country. He failed to properly do the HOMEWORK before making his most CRITICAL decision to date. We do not need him deciding which war to start next.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/america/02vetting.php

http://strategy08.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/john-mccain-ready-to-vet-on-day-three/
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by flreason September 2, 2008 7:40 PM EDT
Partisan investigations, four days of smearing of children and vitriolic sexist attacks by the Obots, and it''''s all McCain''''s and Palin''''s fault. Hypocrisy anyone?
Posted by neelynzus

Actually, it was the Christian Broadcasting Network that was responsible for revealing her husband''s 1986 DUI conviction. And Palin herself issued the press release about her daughter''s pregnancy. As for the rumors that Palin''s Down''s Syndrome son was her daughter''s...

(AP): "Obama adamantly denied anonymous claims that his campaign helped spread the rumors."

"I am offended by that statement," Obama said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I ever thought that there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they''d be fired."

Considering the lies and smears against Obama and his wife, it seems as if neither party''s zealots has a monopoly on virtue...or hypocrisy.
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by memekiller September 2, 2008 7:21 PM EDT
What does it say about McCain''s judgment if he knew Palin was a secessionist, and chose her anyway?
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by flreason September 2, 2008 7:11 PM EDT
Thorough-ly mishandled.
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by warmonger247 September 2, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
Thorough? YEAH I HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE
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by memekiller September 2, 2008 6:36 PM EDT
So... McCain knew he was appointing a secessionist to the ticket. What does this say about HIS patriotism?

Maybe this is the difference between how the two parties view patriotism. Democrats see it as... well, loving the country enough not to want to secede.
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by misha128-2009 September 2, 2008 6:24 PM EDT
IT IS McCAIN''''S FAULT ......

Posted by mrtutto at 03:09 PM

I''m not so sure she can not be considered complicit in painting herself as a non-earmark reformist or as having been against the bridge to nowhere. She made the statements and has an association with earmarks back to her days as a mayor, calling for them in her re-election and issuing requests from her office while governor. Even if it was just on the bridge to nowhere she knew the claims in her introduction were not accurate.
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by mrtutto September 2, 2008 6:09 PM EDT
IT IS McCAIN''S FAULT ......
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