What a wonderful term that is. Great article. Good thinking. I love it when people speak unvarnished truth.

And don't forget that McCain lied to David Letterman when McCain ducked out of his appearance on the the Late Show. (He said he had to fly to Washington, D.C. when in fact he was doing an interview with Katie Couric.)

Haven't you guys ever seen Gov Palin's favorite show, The Flintstones?

I can think of 2 reasons why the GOP would put someone with Palin's qualifications on the ballot:

1) After having a Nazi like Chenney, it would be refreshing to have a Cupie Doll for a Vice President.

2) Dan Quaile won!

3) Cheep Life Insurance for John McCain

I know, that's three, but we are talking about Sarah Palin!

re Palin having more experience than Obama:

From wikipedia

In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest (playing the flute),[7][8] then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant,[9] at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.[6] Palin attended Hawaii Pacific College — now known as Hawaii Pacific University — in Honolulu for a semester in 1982, majoring in Business Administration. She transferred in 1983 to North Idaho College.[10] In 1987,[11] Palin received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science.[12][13]

In 1988, she worked briefly as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska.[14] Sarah Palin also helped out in her husband’s family commercial fishing business.[15]

Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996, then won two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 while also serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission [11 years]

On December 2006, Palin was sworn in as the governor of Alaska,

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From wikipedia

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition.[18] In his second year he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.[19] Obama's election in February 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles.[19] He graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 and returned to Chicago where he had worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[18][20]

The publicity from his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.[21] In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book.[21]

Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[22][23]

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004).[24]

In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[12][25]

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.[12][26] He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama's DCP, from 1993–2002, and served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002.[12] Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.[12] He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.[12]

The most chilling statement that Mrs. Palin made during Thursday night's debate was the fact that she would seek an expansion of her powers as the elected Vice President. Hasn't anyone else noticed that Sarah Palin is the front runner for the GOP and that John McCain has been relegated to the background, albeit giddy and a bit titillated about his running mate? Why doesn't the GOP just come out and say :"Sarah Pain for President?" It's clear that to be president is her intention and apparently her handlers have no problem with her perspective. This from a woman who has already decided that she is above the law and doesn't have to comply with a court subpoena. And the first dude, he too has miraculously risen to a state of sanctity as well and he too can ignore a court ordered subpoena. Since when did it become okay for American citizens to spit in the face of our laws?

has lost his mind. The people who used the Community Reinvestment Act had the highest let me say again the HIGHEST rate of loan payback in the country.

The reason that the democrats pushed for the Community Reinvestment Act was because their was rampant discrimination against people of color who not only had good credit but better credit then whites.

It was people like John McCain and the Keating Five who gamed the system that cost the tax payer billions of dolars because of their scams. Those same people are robbing the country blind by not paying taxes with their overseas addresses.

If you go back check real history and not the crap you have be told. YOu will find that most of the wealth in this country was created with government help. Quit believing the lie of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

From railroads to briges to nowhere those who had connections got contracts from the government. The middle class was created through the G.I bill. That bill helped poor whites go to school and buy their first homes. Incidently, the G.I Bill benefits were many times denied to blacks who served heroically in the military.

Blacks were not allowed the no bid contracts or the tax abatements that whites have been priviledge to for hundreds of years. Blacks were kept from going to schools and when they did get on campus the were met with extreme hostilities by hateful whites.

Laws like Plessy vs. Ferguson and Dred Scott were part of the government enforcing racist behavior and attitudes. Housing laws and public access were not only denied to blacks but even when overturned (Brown Vs. The Board of Education the law was not enforce so their was still a separate but unequal society.

So the government finally with the PUSH of black community organizers and the help of good white Democrats and Republicans,laws to oppen up opportunities for qualified blacks were passed. One of those laws was the Commumnity Reinvestment Act.