Who Really Is Sarah Palin?

CBS Evening News: The Mother Of Five Now Catapulted To The National Stage

(CBS)  As she was being catapulted from national obscurity onto the national stage, Sarah Palin had something else to celebrate today - her 20th wedding anniversary, CBS News anchor Katie Couric reports.

She married her high school sweetheart, Todd, a commercial fisherman, oil field worker, and snowmobile racer on August 29, 1988.

The youngest of Palin's five children, four-month-old Trig, was born with Down Syndrome. It was discovered during pre-natal testing, but the fierce opponent of abortion says she sees only perfection when she looks at her son.

Her oldest son, 19-year-old Track, enlisted in the Army a year ago, and will be deployed to Iraq next month.

Palin herself has been there - she visited the Alaskan National Guard in Iraq and Kuwait last summer.

A lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, Palin seems utterly Alaskan - she hunts, she fishes, she eats moose-burgers.

Her parents, Sally and Chuck Heath, were out hunting caribou when they got the news.

Palin played basketball in high school, but she's also a former beauty queen - Miss Wasilla, her hometown. And she's had her own spread in Vogue.

[fragglerawk]

Who Really Is Sarah Palin? what a wonderful in depth article that tells everyone all they need to know about someone running for the office of vice president of the united states.

[stalkexpress]

McCain should have done a simple web search and he would have found this local news report on the Palin TrooperGate Scandle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UojMnCgqVA

[jana8881]

Obviously a lot of VERY uneducated voters. If you can read, you should look up Palin''s "experience". She doesn''t even have a law degree.

Even Michelle Obama has more experience than Palin!! All McCain has is 2 empty-headed Barbie dolls at his side and whole bunch of criminals for friends.

votesmart.org Look it up.

[willywonker2]

She holds a bachelor''s degree from the University of Idaho in journalism. She''s not even qualified for 99 percent of the executive jobs in the country far lass the second highest one.

A candidates education has never been an issue before. In the past all candidates were Ivy Leaguers. At least McCain didn''t pick a high school dropout- that won''t come until he''s looking for sec. of state.

[grandmax6]

Since when is the requirement to run for office been that you have to have a law degree? From what I''ve seen a law degree hasn''t made any of the current politicans such great leaders. When you talk about experience could you kindly remember what Obama''s is - less than 150 days as a senator..............

[vantormey]

Seriously! Is this a joke? I''m offended on so many levels about this decision I don''t even know where to start. McCain has sealed my vote for Obama.

[redqid]

Here''s the best profile I could find on Sarah Palin, by Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard in July 2007:

The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they''ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.

Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle--especially to transparency and accountability in government--can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state''s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, "may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history."

http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/027011.html

[willywonker2]

In a complicated world you want to be led by the most accomplished and dicisplined minds available. That usually means IVY league and Law degree. Not impressive for the degree but impressive for the grooming and work that that accomplishment marks. Otherwise why get an education at all? Why measure a person''s education? A B.A. from UofI is not the road to the White House.

If your child needed surgery and you had to choose the doctor-- would you consider education as one of the factors? America is in trouble. this is not a game. Economic collapse destroyed the Soviet Union overnight- we need someone at the helm who is qualified and educated. McCain''s VP is neither.

Obama is well educated but he is also surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the country. Look it up.

[lambor59]

She is so cute.

[lambor59]

hey McBush, keep your hands off her, I''m jealous.

[lambor59]

We are going to have a beauty queen at the top when McBush die of old age, hopefully very soon after taking office.

[jerry20008]

As a devoted Republican,(until they started using scare tactics) I am appalled by McCains choice of Palin. She''s not only a hockey mom, she sounds like one, not a presidential alternate.
I don''t like the Democrats but I will cross the isle or stay home on Nov 4th.
If either vice presidential nominee had to assume the role of president, I would rather it be Biden.

[jerry20008]

Women are the first ones to want equality but when you go after them or their record and experience, they are the first to whine, cry, and accuse.
She should be grilled and criticized just as hard as us guys are.

[jerry20008]

Republican Christian Family values???
Can Palin really give her kids the attention they need in their formative years by taking a job as vice-president? at least Chelsea was older when Hilary attempted her run. Republicans are losing me.

[meritocrat]

Wow,
Senator Obama''s great political fortunes return as once again during this election his opponent turns out to be a nincompoop. Senator McCain shows his political prowess is equivalent to that of Allan Keys -remember him, the non-Illinois token minority freak show the Republican Party sent to prevent Obama%u2019s election to the Senate. And now McCain picks a token female to woo disgruntled Clinton supporters, revealing just how stupid and superficial he and other Republicans think those supporters are -somewhere George Carlin is begging to be brought back to life to tell just a few more jokes. Yes, she%u2019s been a governor and mayor of the least-populated state -smaller than most US cities- and a tiny town, -I think they now have a stoplight though -and she%u2019s a moose hunter, a sports reporter and a beauty queen. A lifetime member of the NRA and chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission -Cheney approves. A BS in journalism-communication from Idaho -very prestigious; clearly no other education is required. Fully qualified, you betcha; to ruin Republican chances to keep the Presidency. She makes me yearn for Dan Quayle! Senator Joe Biden vs. Governor Sarah Palin, there%u2019s a wartime VP debate for the century. President-Elect Obama might as well start selecting his Cabinet%u2026Ding-dong, hello Mrs. Bush, I%u2019m Michelle Obama, would you mind if I came in to measure the drapes, thanks.

[akroses-2009]

America needs someone as uncrooked and honest as Palin. She has a devoted husband at home to help raise her family, how dare you pull that card. Is he less qualified to raise children because he''s a man??

[jeffrey_schf]

Supermommy a possible heartbeat away from the White House? Obama & Biden are looking better & better all the time,and I''m a Republican!

[engymass2]

She loves guns, constantly pregnant, governor of the wilderness (Alaska), eats buffalo sandwiches.... She is
the most famous "RED NECK" in the world now !!!

[Stratmaster7]

This woman has been the governor of a state with a population of what? 650k? I am in a tier "B" city and our metro area alone has twice that. she has done that for what? under 2 years? McCain is out of his mind. This just proves what have suspected all along. He is losing it quickly. Imagine what he will be like in a year or two.

[Stratmaster7]

Two senior Republican officials close to Mitt Romney and Tim
Pawlenty said they had both been rudely strung along and now "feel manipulated."

"They now know that they were used as decoys, well after McCain had decided not to pick them," one Republican involved in the process said.

[Stratmaster7]

Palin on crime:

"I support adequate funding for a strong public safety presence in Alaska. Feeling safe in our communities is something we cannot accept any compromise on. This includes policing in all its forms, the court system, prosecutors and corrections."

Wow, what a deep approach. you''re going to fight crime with... policemen? What a novel idea.

[Stratmaster7]

Sarah Palin on drugs: Oh wait I can''t find any stance from her on drugs. Looks like she hasn;t been in office long enough to have stated one.

[dnsallday]

What a lovely and talented lady. It is good to know that it is not all old, rich, white men in the party of RepubliCON artists. She surely is a rising star that will be on the scene for many years.
Right now, I question the self proclaimed ''family values'' party, that believes it is okay to use a woman with a 4 month old special needs infant that is still being breast fed.
It seems they believe the Presidency and Vice Presidency is a part time gig and maybe it is if Karl Rove is still making all the decisions for the country like he did for George Bush.

Selecting her to a position where the utmost criteria is a readiness to step into the roll of the President of the United States of America in a moments notice is reckless on the part of John McCain, who claims to put his country first and tells us that Terrorism is the most severe problem facing American and then selects a token small town mayor with zero national security or foreign policy experience, as a VP for the sole purpose of shoring up votes from the evangelicals and hoping to get a higher percentage of female votes.
That is not putting country first, that once again demonstrates that MCCain is willing to put his lust for power ahead of what would be in the best interest of America. Yes, she is a Governor now, but has had less time to get her on the job experience than John McCain has been running for President. (this time)

[patriot_tx1]

Republican Christian Family values???
Can Palin really give her kids the attention they need in their formative years by taking a job as vice-president? at least Chelsea was older when Hilary attempted her run. Republicans are losing me.

Posted by jerry20008 at 09:14 PM : Aug 29, 2008

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What about Obama''s kids? What kind of idiot thinks that children only need a mother around?????

[homespunlady]

Palin reminds me of the Homeschooling MOMS I got to know.

GREAT people toward the people they APPROVE OF and the MOST RELIGIOUS Churchgoers I can think of. Some of them kept popping out kids into their 50''s despite the risks because it was "God''s Will" and then went on to encouraging their kids to do so as well -starting in their early teens.

The worry I had with them was they saw the world in SUCH a CLOSED MINDED WAY.

They would SMILE politely at you, make idle chit chat and as SOON as your back was turned they were the proverbial Hillbilly Woman at the back fence with "DID YOU HEAR" and "I HAVE NEVER!" over "HOW SINFUL that woman" is concerning EVERYTHING from NOT ATTENDING THEIR CHURCH to TEACHING MY KID EVOLUTION.

I finally found that IF I wanted the FREEDOM that they FALSELY TOUTED I needed to break from their INDOCTRINATION and CONDEMNATION over my having a real not Bob Jones University set of degrees and teach REAL SCIENCE.

At that point they employed all sorts of petty tricks that reminded me of Palin''s "brother-in-law" situation.

Having someone IN POWER CONTROLLING our NATION with such attitudes is what got us into the ECONOMIC, INTERNATIONAL and ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER that''s DESTROYING the U.S.

Do we REALLY need another CLOSED MINDED "DECIDER" Dictator?

[homespunlady]

Speaking of the Eating one of your own CLOSED MINDED GOP - here''s an interesting tidbit on how they TREAT one of their own if they DISAGREE with CORPORATE NEOCON WORSHIP: (GO RON PAUL -SO RIGHT about HIS party that the NEO-CONartists that JERK AROUND the REDNECKS and laugh about it to boot HAD to "shun" him)

Paul, a Texas congressman who failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, considers the rally a celebration of traditional Republican values of limited government - and a poke in the eye of the GOP. They don''t plan to crash the Republican party, but to show they and their Campaign for Liberty are not going away.


"No matter how much our message is ignored or ridiculed, as was done in the campaign, no matter how much they did to us, it only energized our grass roots," Paul said.

The rally builds on Paul''s presidential bid, in which he set a record for single-day fundraising on the Web and touched a nerve with some disaffected voters, largely in the Republican Party.

In a few Western states, Paul was a serious contender for votes, placing second ahead of Republican John McCain in Nevada and Montana. He drew 14 percent from McCain in New Mexico, a battleground state.

But Paul has NO speaking role at the GOP convention. He said his staff made overtures to the party, but nothing came of its efforts.

[wolverinemi1]

It''s funny that many who criticize the Palin pick cite her lack of experience; funnier still that some commenting here say that they will cross over now to vote for Obama because of her lack of qualifications or experience. To those of you who are bothered by her experience or you so-called Republicans saying you will now vote for Obama, are you not concerned about Obama''s lack of experience? And to those who say Palin is now a heartbeat away from being president, Obama if elected would be a heartbeat away from a 3a.m. call. Palin has executive experience with accomplishments; Obama has no executive experience and no noteworthy legislative accomplishments. And to those women who say they are insulted that McCain thinks he will get massive support from women because of this pick? McCain did not make this pick with the idea he would get votes from most women. Face it, many Hillary voters are single issue pro abortion voters. But not all of Hillary voters are in that category. Obama/Biden is a liberal ticket and McCain/Palin a conservative one. We now have a clear philosophical choice

[praiseallah1]

I just looked at "Politifact" site to read up on Governor Palin and she has more experience in public office than Obama does and she has accomplished more while in public service. As a life-long Democratic woman I am pleased to see her enter the race. Millions of us "Disgruntled Democrate women" are already on board to vote for McCain in protest to our Party and Palin is icing on the cake. This is the most historic moment this year in this election and for all women in our countrys history. Obama must be trembling because he knows Palin is a "Game Changer"! We are just waiting for Obama and Biden to start making their sexist remarks again her. I have already heard people from the Obama camp say things like, "she should be home taking care of her kids", making fun of her shoes she wore during her speech with McCain, etc. This upset me when I was supporting Hillary so when the Obama drones start making their comments about Palin, it will just make me commit to voting for McCain and Palin even more! The Obama Pundits on TV keep saying that the Democratic Party is now "Unified" after the DNC Convention and that Palin entering the race will not make women decide to vote for McCain? Being one of these women and talking with thousands more of us around the country I can tell you that we WANT to see Palin in the Whitehouse as our VP!!

[allurfears]

McCain''s choice puts POLITICS over COUNTRY. He had a multitude of more qualified people to select (including Republican women like Hutchinson, Rice, Collins, Snowe, etc.), but chose someone just to to "stick it to Obama", look "feminist", and balance his age.

McCain has NO INTEGRITY. His "Country First" slogan is nothing more than that. "Winning First" should be his slogan. It is more accurate.

How sad. This woman has only 19 months experience. Before that she was part-time mayor of a 9000 person town.

She has NO foreign policy experience- she hasn''t even been out of her state to deal with foreign leaders. America''s enemies would eat her alive when McCain dies in office.

Don''t forget- she used her power to try and get an ex-husband of her relative fired from a state job, then fired the State agency Director who would not fire the "ex" as she demanded. She''s under investigation for misusing her power in this case. Quite an accomplishment- corruption before being in office even a year.

This is a weak pick. It looks all shiny on the surface, but once people take a little closer look at her she will be seen as the corrupt empty suit she is.

[harrist5]

The church she belongs to is called a cult by some fundamentalist Christian groups.

It is highly disciplined group, you must follow the 16 rules or you are out. Then anything other that full immersion baptism is not baptism, most other Christian faiths are heretic; the bible is inerrant and literal so evolution is fake. They strongly believe in speaking in tongues, induce trances of a sort, deal in the expulsion of demons, and believe in a coming apocalypse tied into modern Israel.

They also believe all women who had abortions are guilty of murder and should be treated as such. Global warming is not manmade. Etc.

Is this person the one you want to protect your very life by making wise 3:00 am decisions?

[vechible]

'' .. there are good people in the world, most pay them excessively to play nuclear biological chemical stealth ray prisonet of dare camp shock and awe armagedon holy holocaust extravaganza apocolypse on all the front pages in front of little war babys and everyone .. ''

'' .. she''s one of mine and she got busted at some trail crossing, but it was one of my trail crossings and one of my bustets, so that makes it all well then, mine don''t use their trillions to war morally upon every lazy naked dopey lusty baby *** *** ho on earth, mine don''t even have trillions, mine don''t even want trillions, they just feed everyone and feed them free .. ''

'' .. their county fed all the people free, ours made them pay: now every baby here is a raped baked starved slaved tortured mangled dead war baby .. ''

[harrist5]

Mrs Palin%u2019s lifelong church affiliation is widely consiered a cult -- even by some fundamentalist Christian groups.

It is highly disciplined group, you must follow 16 rules or you are out.
It is very fundamentalist. Anything other that full immersion baptism is not baptism. Most other Christian faiths are heretic. The bible is inerrant and literal so evolution is fake.
In their services, people "speak in tongues," some faint during siances of a sort, there is the expulsion of demons. Furthermore they believe in an inevitable apocalypse -- one tied into modern Israel.

They also believe all women who had abortions are guilty of murder and should be treated as such. Global warming is not man-made. During the First and Second World Wars they were conscientious objectors, but have changed their tune somewhat now to fit the conservative movement.

Do you want such a "believer" making those 3:00 am decisions? About things that may involve your very life?

[vechible]

'' .. the price of sponsoring stricken slaves is enormous while self sufficient paid labor is relatively cheap; however, more inexpensive still are charitarian transient lazy naked dopey lusty kid subsistence farmets partying and rallying round sick beds with free food and medicine and *** toys and gravity driven sponge buses for each and all forever and ever more, and shifting shapes and togglinge virtual and realtime and traveling eternitys at sppeds of thought and dancing get well feed world get sick tax world hike naked dance dressed porn songs and tinkingering with all the infinite lines of resolution with infinite fast refresh as if they''ve been doing so forever and ever and ever already .. though they haven''t of course .. ''

[vechible]

'' .. the neighborhood streets were littered with cute passed out and dead dopes young and old fat and small as adorable drunken degenerates stumbled and swooned among the mounds of collecting bodys, then a boy and girl scout club moved into the factory garden and things began to turn around, before long everyone had the message: any folk caught being all immoral like would be arrested and made to pay .. ''

'' .. i wasn''t normal at all, most are normal, i was not, i needed unsual people in my life, so i joined a jail, a rehab, and a quality control panel .. ''

[im4honesty]

I just learned that Palin is a ''Holy Roller''. She speaks in tongues, faints in church etc. Just what this country needs, another moron in the White House.

[wfbdem]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

I know it is a leftwing blog, but he makes one think. COuld this be a coverup? Is her 5th child actually her daughters?

[meritocrat]

McCainiacs - you get an "A" for blind optimism and an "F" for substance. You%u2019ve been watching Hannity again, who is an idiot, and his audience has proven to be among TV''''s most ignorant. This woman - a governor of a state with a whopping 600K citizens that is floating on oil has - in her barely 2 years in office - had to deal with only one crisis...Getting an honest state employee to fire a state trooper because he happened to be divorcing the Governors sister - now that%u2019s great Republican experience - worthy of Monica Goodling - though at least she had a phony law degree! Do you really think McCain would have picked her if she was a man? All the Republican hypocrisy over affirmative action and McCain passes over many more imminently qualified men and women to pick a NRA-loving pro-life, nobody. That%u2019s judgment we can trust (to ruin our country)!
McCainiacs - your knowledge of history - Zilch. Obama has equivalent experience to Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, shall I continue? I guess this token, unqualified, uneducated, affirmative-action-for-political-expediency McCain-pick does have Biden and Obama on one bit of experience; they%u2019ve never won a swimsuit competition...

[meritocrat]

Wow,
Senator Obama''s great political fortunes return as once again during this election his opponent turns out to be a nincompoop. Senator McCain shows his political prowess is equivalent to that of Allan Keys -remember him, the non-Illinois token minority freak show the Republican Party sent to prevent Obama%u2019s election to the Senate. And now McCain picks a token female to woo disgruntled Clinton supporters, revealing just how stupid and superficial he and other Republicans think those supporters are -somewhere George Carlin is begging to be brought back to life to tell just a few more jokes. Yes, she%u2019s been a governor and mayor of the least-populated state -smaller than most US cities- and a tiny town, -I think they now have a stoplight though -and she%u2019s a moose hunter, a sports reporter and a beauty queen. A lifetime member of the NRA and chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission -Cheney approves. A BS in journalism-communication from Idaho -very prestigious; clearly no other education is required. Fully qualified, you betcha; to ruin Republican chances to keep the Presidency. She makes me yearn for Dan Quayle! Senator Joe Biden vs. Governor Sarah Palin, there%u2019s a wartime VP debate for the century. President-Elect Obama might as well start selecting his Cabinet%u2026Ding-dong, hello Mrs. Bush, I%u2019m Michelle Obama, would you mind if I came in to measure the drapes, thanks.

[dnsallday]

Religious extremism is a mental illness and should be treated as such.

[sjw1253]

The first and most important thing that has irritated me about all of the talk about Ms. Palin is that Biden must step very carefully when interacting with her as he may turn voters off by appearing "to be bullying her"...

My response to this ridiculous spiel that many republican analysts are saying on many of the interviews is that if she can''t take "bullying" she should not be in this type of politics.

I have not seen anyone take the gloves off for Hillary ever... Even when she was the First Lady they were constantly attacking Hillary. No one changed their tone toward her...

If they want this mother of 5 (who she is not an active participant in parenting as she is too busy and will be even more busy to get to know her infant son who needs more attention than less and who she "chose" to have anyway)to run for the V.P. position she better be able to take any type of what may appear to be bullying by anyone who is inclined to do so.

If she should become the vice President she will have to be strong enough to stand up to much worse via our adversarial leaders of many countries who do not like the U.S.

I am a woman and think I am about as qualified as she but I am Pro Choice which would not bode well with the evangelical republicans...

At first I laughed and now I just shake my head in disbelief...

[sjw1253]

I must comment on this article. I keep thinking back at the movie I believe was titled "Dave"... Where a look-a-like nobody played the President of the U.S.

Who Really is Sarah Palin? Equals 7 paragraphs - none longer than 2 sentences and five of the paragraphs only contain one sentence descriptions.

We have a lot of information about her personal life and a puffed up resume'' about her experience as an "administrator"...

What makes her able to be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military? She has been the Commander of Chief of the Alaska National Guard for ?2 years (not even - as she started her "leadership" of Alaska in Jauary of 2007).

What major decisions has she been required to make in order to demonstrate that she knows what to do with that National Guard if there were a need for her to do so? I see a lot of puffed up resume'' material but I don''t see any real accomplishments.

She may be a good talker and she may have taken on a couple of causes but so have I... Why didn''t he pick me or any number of other "Hockey Mom''s" with administrative experience???

[sjw1253]

continued-

And please don''t tell me she has "done it all" and expect me to believe it. She is not a "single" mom because she is an "evangelical"... It worries me that she would not have any understanding or concerns for single moms with her holier than thou attitude as she "chose" to have a baby that has Down''s Syndrome.

I can''t see other mothers who deal with their Down''s babies every day believing she would have their best interests at heart as she will not have a clue what it is to be a hands on mom - whether she becomes the V.P. or if she stays in a job as Governor...

Everyone says that the democrats are underestimating her... Well then enlighten us... Find more information and more qualifications for her to become President.

As everyone says we are not voting for the V.P. we are voting for the President (and that is what it was supposed to be) but with McCain''s senile decision to use an inexperienced young woman the issue has been clouded over with the wrong type of discussions.

The concern is real with McCain and his potential health. In this case it is a real concern about the V.P. choice and now I am truly concerned about his mental capacity as he demonstrates his lack of memory.

I might mention that his inability to recall the number of houses he and his wife own may not actually be a sign that he is out-of-touch but having problems with his memory...

[liberty_1776]

McCain will be president, and Palin will be Vice President. You Obama supporters (anti-Americans) will be crying like babies the day after the election. But don''t get too upset - you can always move to Canada!

[sjw1253]

liberty_1776 - you are the type of person who discriminates against others as you try to call us "anti-americans".

The reason America was born was to provide Freedom of Religion and Speech. If we disagree we are allowed to... If you want a world where everyone must believe what you believe - you do not want to be in America as there is nothing more anti-American (understand that the country is capitalized) than for someone to call a person anti-American if they do not believe the same as you.

Now if you have something to say that does not impugn others'' patriotism because they like a black man or that the black man''s name is different - for president - then we may take you seriously.

If you can''t learn to live in a world without discrimination - you have a harder road to travel than if you would understand the Golden Rule... EVERYONE is EQUAL... Do unto others and treat others - as if you were them - yourself...

[meritocrat]

McCainiacs- Yes running a REAL state is a challenge, especially if you''ve done it at least two years (she hasn%u2019t yet). Alaska has only 600K citizens, and that%u2019s only during the summer. This right-wing-nut has neither the education nor the experience to be competitive for selection as a Whitehouse Intern, much less a senior and permanent member of the National Security Council. She%u2019s a great lady, but barely qualified to be a 2nd Lieutenant in our military much less one heartbeat away from being Commander-In-Chief. You keep smiling and push this clown and his gimmick sidekick, I am going to do my upmost to make sure my children are protected by leadership that was picked democratically (IE Obama%u2019s primary win) or by undeniable qualifications (IE Joe Biden%u2019s preeminent national security resume). As for Mrs. %u201CMainstream,%u201D I%u2019ll pass, this isn%u2019t a contest for %u201CMs Congeniality,%u201D though she%u2019s actually won that prestige, this is about the security of our nation during a time of WAR! Which would you pick to do your open-heart surgery, a well-educated doctor; or Mr. %u201Cmost-like-me-an-you?%u201D Duh.

[meritocrat]

McCainiacs - Wasn''t it your God people who were praying for it to rain in Denver last week...and now they have their answer - Katrina''s big brother Gustav is bearing down the same way during your Republican sham convention? How is it that the religious in Europe seek greater social services to protect the children that ARE born and the "religious" in your party only seek to protect them to birth and could give a crud beyond the womb? How many of those %u201Cright-to-lifers%u201D have taken in minority foster children from our ghettos? How many of them would vote for a tax hike to pay for pre-and post natal care for all those aborted fetuses?
McCainiacs- remember, guns don%u2019t kill people, people with guns kill people and children with guns kill people, and children (over 100,000 kids killed since 1979, now that%u2019s pro-life!), and children with guns kill each other, and children with guns kill themselves, and people with guns in their homes are far more likely to die from gun violence than those who don%u2019t...

[meritocrat]

McCainiacs- your posts are very Hannity, very Limbaugh%u2026an EMPTY brain is easy to fill with crud, and the divide and conquer right wing media has filled yours well. My Lincoln to Obama comparison stands%u2026without any substantive rebuttal from you or anyone else%u2026because it is valid%u2026What makes Obama more qualified you ask? How about winning a democratic Primary, over a well-healed and supported Clinton, and earning about 10 million more votes than your feeble candidate%u2026

[praiseallah1]

I am one out of the 18 million of us so called "Disgruntled Hillary supporters" who will be voting for McCain and especially Palen now that McCain has shown the courage to chose a woman and his VP. The Obama campaign had been sexist towards Hillary and we women are not going to tolerate it anymore. I am asking other Democratic women to join us in sending a message to our Democratic Party Leadership that THEY do not chose our Nominee by intimidating elected Delegates into voting for THEIR choice.

[bratz21-2009]

The Democrat party & democrat bloggers wasted no time in attacking Sarah as soon as they announced her as the running mate of McCain.

Sarah has it all...her qualification scared the Democrats so much. She got the media attention all day long yesterday & today.


1. She is a mother of 5, married to a loyal husband of 20 yrs.
2. Her Son is in the Military service, just like the two sons of John McCain.
3. She is educated
4. She is against Abortion
5. A Christian
6. She is a fighter, a maverick in her own party
7. She is all around, a hunter, in to sports
8. She has experience in governing a City & a State, it does not matter if Alaska has 9,000 or a million population, you get the same amount experience in governing, making decision, balancing the budget, etc.etc.
9. She is a beauty queen.....first time USA will have a good looking Vice President. In fact, she is much much better looking than Hilary & MICHELLE OBAMA. Michelle will be the "UGLIEST" FIRST black Lady in the history of USA if BARRY will be elected....or they could be the "First Ugliest black Couple " in the white house....he,he,he.

[bratz21-2009]

to praiseallah1 --- I am one out of the 18 million of us so called "Disgruntled Hillary supporters" who will be voting for McCain and especially Palen now that McCain has shown the courage to chose a woman and his VP "


FYI----even before McCain announced his VP pick , my three sisters who are Hillary''s supporters already vowed to vote for McCain after she lost the primary. Even Hillary tries to convince her followers to vote for Obama, my sisters were defiant & very firm in their final decision to turn Republican & vote for John as a sign of Protest.
My sisters were cheering with joy as soon as Sarah''s name was announced last night to be John''s running mate.
So dont believed what the democrat spinners were saying in the convention that the Clinton supporters are now on Obama''s camp. Not true at all. Example here are my sisters, friends at work & some of my neighbors who are voting against Obama come election day.