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Friday, September 5, 2008 12:13 PM
Original article: Sarah Palin's choice

@clif1959

No, no one here is advocating killing an infant. No one.

But you have a healthy, married woman who has government insurance who can take care of her special needs child. She's in a decent position to be able to care for her child.

A woman who preaches abstinence, who doesn't believe in abortion (I believe she is sincere) but is not only the type that isn't advocating MORE help for unwed teens, MORE help for special needs children, but in fact is casual with her veto power for the same.

I get that many people are pro-life and see it as murder. What amazes me is that these same people are (many times) less likely to want to have the "government" help people in bad predicaments.

Paying for KBR or Halliburton projects is okay...but helping teenage mothers? That's welfare and should be frowned on. It "promotes" bad behavoir.

I see the hypocrisy.

Friday, September 5, 2008 07:21 AM

@skylark

Don't be naive.

Palin (who once called Hillary "whiny" for claiming sexism) is now crying sexism over ANY questions sent her way, even questions about political firings. Hillary is the perfect one to respond.

Also the RW is screaming that Hillary voters are flocking to Palin, and Hillary (rightly) wants to debunk that, too.

BTW, Obama and Biden have responded. It is a concerted effort and Hillary is being a class act.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:39 PM

@knows

And if you ADD all the cities (Godless heathens and tax dollar providers) in the Red States they become Blue.

Your point?

Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:31 PM

@knows

But you can't have any of the food or other agricultural products we produce in the red states.

Yeah, because BLUE states like California are good for nothing except for subsidizing red states with tax dollars.

Puhleeze.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:01 PM
Original article: The Sarah Palin money bomb

My first dollars donated directly to Obama

were donated tonight.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 09:02 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

LOL

Okay, expect more of the same as McCain tries to demonize the media, his "base", even further.

I would love to see Pallin scrutinized with half the effort that went into the Clinton's lives and now the Obama's lives.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 09:01 PM
Original article: How did Sarah Palin do?

Relief

I am now even happier that Biden is the VP choice on the Dem side.

He's just snarky and clever enough to go up against Palin's style.

Palin isn't the pit bull she thinks she is.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 07:42 PM

Palin's worse

Her husband has ALWAYS been proud of America...except for when he was advocating Alaska seceed.

F'in hypocrites.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 06:38 PM

Hmmm

Wow, in the same day I find my self agreeing with both Brighstar and Byron York. (g) Seriously, I do agree with you Brightstar, the more I learn, the more I'm appalled.

It's kind of like the Justice Dept. When you thought Ashcroft was the worst they could do, they prove you wrong.

The only one worse for VP would have been Huckabee, because he comes off funny and clever when he's being nasty. We'll see if Palin has the same "charm".

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 05:11 PM

Liberal Elite

Even Brokaw is scoffing at the "liberal media elite" theme.

McCain even managed to piss him off.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 05:06 PM

Media Bias

@NotOrbitBoy, so according to your link, Fox News and Fox is overwhelmingly liberal (not a conservative dollar spent, in fact it's $41,000 to $0 liberal) and MSNBC is one of the few that leans more to the right (about 60% conservative).

I would love to have seen the date of the "survey".

Many Repubs weren't enthused so were hedging and would have wanted to wait and see who the Repub frontrunner was, then donate. McCain was near broke during the primaries, it's not an issue for him now. The Hillary-Obama race was a nail biter and inspired lots of donations.

I also love that your source says that it's the lefties that support Paul. If you read any financial blogs, you'll see tons of support for him from the hard core free marketeers.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 03:33 PM
Original article: Today in Palin

Interviews

I think the weird stories would be reduced if Palin actually made herself available for interviews.

Her staying away from the microphone is helping build up the hysteria, which may be the point.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 02:17 PM

Tiberius must be tired

...wouldn't understand a woman from a small American town.

My sister lives in a small town in SC, my grandmothers are from small towns in Iowa and Mass., my mother is from a small town in Maryland. (I sound like a John Mellencamp song here)

Somehow I can't imagine these typical small town women of faith(all are conservative, most had/have guns) running for mayor and then firing all the top officials for not being loyal to them, let alone the librarian. I can't imagine them killing for sport, though they have on occasion shot rattlesnakes and coyotes and have butchered and cleaned their own chickens, etc. Bragging about "splatter shot" is something else.

Being vindictive, loyalty obsessed, saying that God wants all their pet projects approved and that you should pray for the gas pipeline, lieing about their associations, or using any of my family as a prop/excuse for their behavoir.

Those aren't typical small town values in my world, thank God.

BTW, what in the hell is wrong with living in a city? Does living in Houston, Seattle, Boston, Salt Lake City, etc. all of a sudden make one completely devoid of all that is decent?

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:30 PM

@doctorscience

GG didn't do a "People" story. He showed that Halperin is pushing the idea that's it's not fair to look too hard at Palin, that it's the liberal media being mean, etc.

I could care less that some posters at Kos are a twitter over gossipy items.

I do give a damn that an authoritarian like Palin seems to be (firing librarians, loyalty tests, vindictive, special oil deals, etc) wants to be one heart beat away from being my President.

She's friggig scary and the more I hear about her, the more I'm appalled. The poster that compared her to Dolores Umbridge may hve nailed it.

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