Comments on: The Experience Paradox

Jeff Greenfield: Common Campaign Debate Over Experience Takes On A Bizarre Twist This Year

[gun_tower]

Much is made of McCain''s political stunt-craft in picking Palin as his "soul mate."

Of course, the elephant in the room is McCain''s slavish devotion to the Bush/GOP agenda. Every tax loophole. Every failed economic policy. Every war death. Every oil and war lobbyist. Every one.

McCain is not an agent of change.

He''s a quick-change artist who has admitted that he is in love with the power and prestige of DC.

[mr2258]

In an interview,I think it was yesterday.Obama messed up and said he was a Muslim.He corrected himself.This is 100% true.I only post facts.

[gun_tower]

In short, can we say Anchorage Pork Queen?

Well I hear that train a%u2019 comin
It%u2019s a comin%u2019 up my street
An I know when it gets here
There%u2019s gonna be fresh meat

%u2018Cause you know I love them earmarks
Chew on them all the time
It%u2019s that Porkchop Express, Ya%u2019ll
Won%u2019t cost you one thin dime

(Apologies to J. Cash)

[gun_tower]

Perils of Palin (cont)

Gubernatorial spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said Monday that Palin%u2019s expenses are not unusual and that, under state policy, the first family could have claimed per diem expenses for each child taken on official business but has not done so.


However, in the past, per diem claims by Alaska state officials have carried political risks. In 1988, the head of the state Commerce Department was pilloried for collecting a per diem charge of $50 while staying in his Anchorage home, according to local news accounts. The commissioner, the late Tony Smith, resigned amid a series of controversies.

%u201CIt was quite the little scandal,%u201D said Tony Knowles, the Democratic governor from 1994 to 2000. %u201CI gave a direction to all my commissioners if they were ever in their house, whether it was Juneau or elsewhere, they were not to get a per diem because, clearly, it is and it looks like a scam - you pay yourself to live at home,%u201D he said.

Knowles, whose children were school-age at the start of his first term, said that his wife sometimes accompanied him to conferences overseas but that he could %u201Ccount on one hand%u201D the number of times his children accompanied him.

[gun_tower]

Why did Obama say he was a Muslim yesterday.Is he a Muslim or did he just mess up?
-- Posted by mr2258

Did you know that when you consistently tell untruths, no one will take what you say seriously?

So, if you really want to help your candidate, start posting factual statements.

Works wonders for one''s credibility.

[samthetvcat]

---"His less-than-one-Senate-term experience would not have been disabling the aide said, because the very fact of securing a major-party nomination gave that nominee credibility."---

Shoot, I think my computer has a virus or something because I can''t see everybody else''s comments :(

I totally disagree that if 50% of Democrats believe a candidate is qualified to be President, then therefore everybody else ought to think so too.

You could argue that the experience of running of a campaign organization provides a candidate with experience, but in this case Sarah Palin has been in charge with a budget maybe 10 to 15 times greater, more far-reaching, and more accountable to the public.

I''m sure team Barack likes to believe that they''re somehow superior to Palin, but Palin will get the chance to ''be qualified because she''s run and gotten votes'' in November.

[gun_tower]

Palin also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.

Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official %u201Cduty station%u201D is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.

The governor%u2019s daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel and many of the trips were to and from their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.

[mr2258]

Why did Obama say he was a Muslim yesterday.Is he a Muslim or did he just mess up?

[gun_tower]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a %u201Cper diem%u201D allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state
business.

Charging the state to stay at home? Three hundred twelve times? Let%u2019s see%u2026That%u2019s approximately (click click click) 570 days total..into 312..round up the 7%u2026. That%u2019s 55% of her time as governor that she%u2019s been getting paid by the state to stay atthe %u2019Home Sweet Home%u2019 hotel, and eat at the %u2019My Own Kitchen%u2019 bistro.

I know what state New Orleans is in.I should not let these people pisss me off.

Posted by mr2258
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A little newsflash - it ain''t us pissin'' you off. You will find the source of your anger in the mirror.

[mr2258]

You asked what I do for a living.I''m a farmer.Have been all my life.

[taxguydave]

mr2258--If you know what state New Orleans is in, then why did you refer to the city of New Orleans as the STATE of New Orleans?

[gun_tower]

Hmmmm.

Palin tried to use taxpayers'' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn''t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., Palin doesn''t just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself.

She doesn''t just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town.

I guess the GOP didn''t think it would matter what they trotted up there. As long as it had lipstick on.

Maybe they were right!

[mr2258]

I know what state New Orleans is in.I should not let these people pisss me off.

[mr2258]

What should have Bush done that he did not do.Like you said.The place was unred water.It makes no difference what state it was.I have no problem with New Orleans.

[gun_tower]

LASKA LAND


Oh, I wish I was in the land of oil
Coats of fur and hats of foil
Look away! Look away! Look away
Laska Land


To Laska Land I will be sailin%u2019
To find a beauty queen named Palin
Look away! Look away! Look away
Laska Land


Oh I wish I was in Laska
Awaaaaaay! Awaaaaaaay!
In Laska Land de ole white man
Can tell the Feds to %u201CBite me.%u201D

Away! Away!
Away up north in Laska!


In Laska Land you can be free
Thanks to the good ole A.I.P.
Look away! Look away! Look away
Laska Land

Our pastor says we can find shelter
From the coming %u201CHelter Skelter%u201D
Look away! Look away! Look away
Laska Land



Oh I wish I was in Laska
Awaaaaaay! Awaaaaaaay!
In Laska Land we%u2019ll live so grand
on earmarks, pork and gravy


Away! Away!
Away up north in Laska!


(Apologies to that guy from Ohio who wrote %u201CDixie.%u201D)

[taxguydave]

The STATE of New Orleans? How about the state of Louisiana, which was prohibited from rebuilding the levees since the were an Army Corps of Engineers project, which states cannot have any control over?

I live in Denver, we have an ACOE dam that is in bad shape. My house would be washed away if it ever breaks. But the Federal government won''t even let the State of Colorado spend its own money to fix it.

The ACOE won''t get the money to fix it, either, since that would be "pork barrel spending" in a Democratic Reps district.

[gun_tower]

Think about it.All Obama has done is tear this country apart.
-- Posted by mr2258

Like...what?

Posted by smart4peace
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Nothing says it more clearly than a republican ostentation. Just look at the crowd at the RNC. Everyone of ''em is saying: "I got mine and screw you."

But they have a different term: "Enlightened self interest".

[samthetvcat]

---"His less-than-one-Senate-term experience would not have been disabling the aide said, because the very fact of securing a major-party nomination gave that nominee credibility."---

Shoot, I think my computer has a virus or something because I can''t see everybody else''s comments :(

I totally disagree that if 50% of Democrats believe a candidate is qualified to be President, then therefore everybody else ought to think so too.

You could argue that the experience of running of a campaign organization provides a candidate with experience, but in this case Sarah Palin has been in charge with a budget maybe 10 to 15 times greater, more far-reaching, and more accountable to the public.

I''m sure team Barack likes to believe that they''re somehow superior to Palin, but Palin will get the chance to ''be qualified because she''s run and gotten votes'' in November.