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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Bill Mahar, "Palin is Bush in Drag".
That would make a great bumper stick
Sounds like Obama would approve of Ms. Palin, being Mr. "if you can win you should win" himself. I'm left wondering when I will read about Obama's questionable "rise" to power in uncontested elections and his poor judgement in choosing friends, mentors, and supporters. With all of his "change" rhetoric, I've yet to be convinced that he can back it up as he passed up multiple opportunities to support change and reform in the corrupt Chicago political system. Of course, supporting such reform may have cost him the support of the "good old boys" in Chicago...hmm, was he putting personal ambition above the need for reform? And Obama's no stranger to turning his back on former mentors; he rejected his close friend and pastor of 20 years to make "political hay" and had his former mentor, Alice Palmer, thrown off the ballot so that he could run uncontested in his first state senate primary. Seems to me that Obama may be (gasp!) an "opportunist"! Are you sure you didn't want to apply your immature "mean girl" thesis to Obama as well, Mr. Talbot?
(CNN) — Bill Clinton said Monday the Democratic ticket should steer clear of launching personal attacks on Sarah Palin over her relatively thin resume, and instead acknowledge she was a "good choice" for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket.
"Why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don't we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?" said Clinton, who faced repeated charges during the primary season he was overly negative toward Obama on the campaign trail.
Clinton's comments appear to echo advice Karl Rove gave to Barack Obama in his regular Wall Street Journal column last week, when the former Bush strategist noted attacking the VP candidate has rarely proven to be an effective strategy.
In one of the former president's few extended comments to date on Palin's surprise VP candidacy, Clinton also told reporters in New York Monday he knows why the Alaska governor is attracting massive crowds on the campaign trail.
"I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there," Clinton told reporters in New York, according to the Associated Press. "Why she's doing well."
"People look at her, and they say, 'All those kids. Something that happens in everybody's family I'm glad she loves her daughter and she's not ashamed of her. Glad that girl's going around with her boyfriend. Glad they're going to get married,'" he said.
Referencing Palin's 5-month old child who has Down Syndrome, Clinton also said voters will think, "I like that little Down syndrome kid — one of them lives down the street, they're wonderful children.”
Earlier Monday, Clinton suggested his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, would have been a better political choice for the Democratic VP spot than Joe Biden.
“She would have been the best politically, at least in the short run, because of her enormous support of the country,“ he said on the daytime talk show The View.
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Feel free to stick that where the sun don't shine, Dave.
Thsese types of articles are among the top ten reasons Obama is guaranteed to lose. Not making these kinds of personal attacks is precicely the change that Obama represented. You are watering down his message. And, personally, I think he stands by that message(though with much strain because of Palin's dominance). But Salon of late is like a deformed exageration of the old way of personal attack. Such an exageration has never worked. That's why you don't see it. I think this style is the result of a knee jerk, emotional wreck, panic reaction to a misperception of what Rush Limbaugh has been so successful doing-- exposing liberals for what they really believe in -- policy-wise. But if you expose Palin for what she really believes policy-wise, you would only hurt your own chances because that is what the majority of voters believe. Here's the only strategy that will work for you, become true conservatives.
Given how many RW loonies have posted letters on this article.
You all do know that the harder you hammer on Foxy Palin, who is undeniably unqualified to hold the office of President and who has more dirt sticking on her every day, the more likely it is that Lieberman will be President?
After all, McCain, who according to a "friend", has "serious but still undisclosed ailments", will probably not live, or at least stay well, long enough to complete his term.
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2008/09/kill_a_polar_be.php
I don't know what the October surprise is, but between that and intransigent racism, caging, a Vichy supreme court, a possible attack on Iran (we need a strong war president!) and "how many do you want to be?" Diebold machines, McSame is pretty much guaranteed to win one for the Gipper.
Vote Likud and vote often!
Gossip girls is more like it, the article sounds like the jealous kid who is desperate to dig up dirt on the popular new girl. You can find dirt on anyone if you dig in the right areas and only go to their enemies. Stick to the issues and skip the drama. All this Sarah bashing is making people like her more and hate the press.
Heh... Heh... Heh... You can put lipstick on a Pitbull, but in the end.. It's still a Pitbull!
Just like you can paint whitewash on a turd... but in the end it's still a turd!!
Sarah is a woman and she is just a down right meanie.
How come she can't be nice and sweet like a gal is supposed to be. I mean all politicians are regular sweetie pies. Look at Obama, he is as sweet a little boy as a little boy can be. He did not throw his preacher or his other friends or his grandma under the bus, he got them a taxi.
Give him a lollipop.
The premise of the article is so stupifying as to not merit anything other than sarcasm.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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