Actual..... brutal personality and cultural attacks. And this is only the first three pages. -- shooter242

We tend to say what we feel and exercise our freedom of speech.

The next question you should ask yourself is: how many of these commentators speak for the Obama campaign? I'm willing to wager zero.

In contrast, you have GOP proxies and the candidates themsevles engaging in outright falsehoods and personal attacks in public. Granted they can't do or say much else, but still one would like to think they have some standards of decency.

Obama Nation's square in Palin's Bushnell crosshairs and the 30-06 is ready to fly. They're frozen stiff, haha. Another moose soon to be added to the collection, lol. 3D Loozers! :-)

As far as I know Obama hasn't accused McCain of treason. McCain has accused Obama of treason. If and when Obama ever does that, let us know, then maybe you'll have a legitimate complaint. Copy/pasting comments on a blog don't measure up. Different league. But you know that. You just can't help yourself.

"Ask any of your buddies (if you have any) with IT experience what that word means. noob. You're just another Obama Nation gen-y noob who got his hands on an internet bloggie and thinks he's hot shit. lol"

Seriously, that made you laugh out loud? Spell the word however you like, but your writing says it all.

As shooter242 documented, examples of cultural tribalism are rampant among the salonistas.

Bush is a uniter, not a divider. He'll fix everything good. Just look at the job he's done so far.

You're right about "Trollop" and "Dumbass", but the rest is perfectly valid criticism.

Also, this letters page is an informal gathering, not a national convention.

There is a difference.

I don't have anything cogent to add, except that this campaign has gone even deeper into the surreal.

We now have a vice-presidential candidate who is ready to lead the country because she knows how to fire people (police chief, librarian) who don't support her. This is no different than what George Bush and Dick Cheney have been doing for the past eight years. So a transition to a McCain-Palin administration would be seamless! Who cares about the issues? We would have a prez and veep who are fighters--and that's all that seems to count.

As for cj's question, "What do women think about Palin?", I will not be voting for her just because she's a woman. (The Green Party ticket is all-female, but the msm have not been paying much attention to them, nor to the other "outsider" campaigns of Ralph Nader, or Ron Paul.)

After a glance at the "Feminists for Life" site, I am even more pessimistic about this election.

The FFL is pleased to see the inclusion of its "trademarked message, "Women deserve better® than abortion,©" in the Republican Party platform."

Its trademarked message? Oh, great. Does this mean women (and men and children) deserve universal health care? Does it mean women and men and kids deserve access to birth control and information about birth control? Does it mean the Republican Party and FFL will work together to make abortions illegal in this country?

That Sarah Palin wants to ban books is all I need to know about her.

Obama Nation's square in Palin's Bushnell crosshairs and the 30-06 is ready to fly. They're frozen stiff, haha. Another moose soon to be added to the collection, lol. 3D Loozers! :-)

-- red_gti2000

I have no clue what you're trying to communicate here. Can you please translate it into english?

Here's a quick list of the fashion and its cost, of the first lady, and the pretender to the throne at the RNC:

Laura Bush

Oscar de la Renta suit: $2,500

Stuart Weitzman heels: $325

Pearl stud earrings: $600–$1,500

Total: Between $3,425 and $4,325

Cindy McCain

Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000

Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500

Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000

Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000

Shoes, designer unknown: $600

Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html

Hardly. I'd say that idea better suits Democrats. Higher taxes, abortion as birth control, surrender as foreign policy, deprivation as energy policy, and government as nanny? Oh yeah, that'll make people want to vote Democrat.

1) The tanking economy,
As you say Congress rendered no oversight, but do you really think they'd cut off the engine of growth? Not a chance.

2) The bloody and illegal war in Iraq
Sorry but surrender is not a popular option.

3) The atrocious state of the U.S. educational and public health care systems
Hmmmm. Unions and bureaucracy are surely a non-recommendation for Government sponsored health care.

4) The corrupt energy policy of the U.S
They're really going to worry about the left's program of making energy prohibitively expensive to force conservation in the face of global cooling?

Bring it on sport, bring it on.

This country needs to be put down like a rabid dog. Sometimes you really DO have to burn a village to save it.

wrote: Excuse me, what lies are those? Too lazy to list them out?

Yes, actually. Palin's lies are well-documented and you can find many lists. Really, there is no need to type them out. But I see that a couple of the more polite and helpful folks here at UT have taken the trouble to respond to your request. May I assume that you will carefully study these lists and present a well-reasoned rebuttal promptly?

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

I'm in complete agreement w/ the whole "largest state" argument, because, hell, if "size" mattered, I'd be KING of the F*CK!NG UNIVERSE!