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McCain: No, really, we vetted her! As revelations about Sarah Palin mount, the McCain team scrambles to dispel reports that they didn't know what they were getting into.
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  • SHE'S AN EXTREMIST !!!!!

    Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

    "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

  • Nancianne

    Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

    As usual, progressives are just being jealous because The Voices only speak to religious radical right-wing Republicans, usually as a result of having ignored the prescription warnings.

  • I found a picture of Sarah Palin pregnant!!!!!

    It is, however, from a previous pregnancy..

    http://i37.tinypic.com/2wmqb8j.jpg

    Well, I think that puts to rest the theory that Mrs Palin is someone who just doesn't "show" when they are pregnant.

    Still looking for a picture of Mrs Palin obviously pregnant when she was a governor, it's just that governors get photographed so seldom these days..

  • Nancianne

    Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right.

    The usual caption for an Abu Ghraib photo.

  • By the way.

    'Governor' Palin is said to 'hunt' elk from helicopters, which is little different from taking potshots at the zebra in a petting zoo. That's not 'hunting'. It's just murder.

  • Godot -

    "Aren't you glad McCain didn't pick Pat Robertson?"

    At least he would just put us to sleep (minus the Kool-Aid) with his voice, instead of listening to Palin's grating voice!

  • 8 More Shocking Revelations About Sarah Palin

    http://www.alternet.org/election08/97350/8_more_shocking_revelations_about_sarah_palin/?page=entire

    Yep, they vetted Palin all right:

    1: Palin Tried to Ban Books From Local Library

    2: Palin Apparently Doesn't Put "Country First"

    3: Palin's Love Affair With Earmarks

    4: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

    5: Crazy Reverend, Crazy Church

    6: McCain Picking Palin Reeks of Sexism

    7: Palin Can't Even Run a Car Wash

    8: Lied About Foreign Travel

  • Godot

    11. and she supports an organization that wants to secede from the US!

  • Ode to Sarah Palin

    The Media's assailin'

    of poor Sarah Palin

    has J-Mac a'wailin'

    and Republicans ailin'

    Will she be bailin'

    'cause the ticket's a'failin'?

    Will a cab she be hailin'

    If Alaska's a'jailin'

    their Gov for a'nailin'

    that guy who is railin'

    'gainst her act that set sailin'

    his career downward tailin'?

    My bet is she's mailin'

    her withdrawl letter veilin'

    her real motives, yellin',

    "It's the damn libs, y'all I'm tellin'!"

  • Godot..

    The Voices only speak to religious radical right-wing Republicans, usually as a result of having ignored the prescription warnings.

    In defense of Cindy McCain, it is hard to read the prescription warnings when you have stolen the drugs. Stolen drugs usually don't come with the warnings.

  • "Sahara" Palin doesn't believe in global warming.....

    19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

    By CHARMAINE NORONHA – 1 hour ago

    TORONTO (AP) — A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

    Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

    "The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared. We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf. It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Muller.

    Muller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles — or 60 percent — and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.

    Muller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.

    This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.

  • Scorpio69er

    The pubs aren't out of the election yet.

    If worse comes to worse and Palin has to withdraw, Nancy Pelosi is still available.

  • aycharaych

    It's interesting that Alaska is by far the most "socialist" state in the Union...

    Alaska has no income tax, every Alaskan gets a check from the government every year.

    $1654 last year.

    And Sarah Palin was working as governor to maximize the size of that check.

    Howzat for socialism, eh?

    Interesting post there. Makes Alaska seem like Saudi Arabia with snow. Could it possibly be that the neo cons have plans to encourage Alaskan secession? That way it would save the Fed money in subsidies and at the same time make Alaskans totally dependent on whatever they can get for their oil. And if it was tied up like an Iraqi Security pact that might suit Cheney down to the ground.

    Just a thought. Maybe Palin is the new Chalabi. As I say - just a thought.

  • Pastafarians Unite!

    "Sahara" Palin doesn't believe in global warming.....

    19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

    The prospect of catastrophic global climate change, ultimately devastating hundreds of millions of people, is of no concern to Republicans aiming to nuke the planet into the End Times anyway.

  • Godot: Palin is a worse animal killer than you think.

    "'Governor' Palin is said to 'hunt' elk from helicopters, which is little different from taking potshots at the zebra in a petting zoo. That's not 'hunting'. It's just murder."

    This creature called Sarah Palin actually hunts wolves/i> from planes, which involves chasing the pack to exhaustion and then shooting them as they lay panting. This creature also has put a state-funded bounty on wolves, and even supports the killing of wolf puppies in their dens.

    Why? One, because she's a sadistic bitch, but also because Alaska's hunters view wolves as competitors for their favorite victims, elk and caribou. Never believe these so-called "Sportsmen" when they say they care about conservation. The only thing they really care about is having an ample supply of living targets.

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