Listen Kristi,

Before you slap a link into your post you should read it first. The Senate record starts with the sentence quoted below.

"Barack Obama sponsored 137 bills from 4 Jan 2005 until 16 November 2008. Two became law."

That gives him a succes ratio of 1.45% of his bills submitted -a shinning performance if you ask me!

Included in the list of sponsored bill are:

• The Rosa Parks Stamp Bill

• Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox

• Commemoration of Juneteenth Independence Day

With respect to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - I wonder who did the heavy lifting on this bill - McCain, Carper, Coburn, or Obama - the freshman Senator.

And yes, you are right, McCain, Palin, Kerry, Lieberman - they all kept their posts and wrongly so in my opinion. I believe if a politician wants to run, they should have to resign their current post so the people do not lose representation.

Edwards was the only one who did it right - except he then had too much time on his hands and as they say, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop."

And one other point about Gov Palin - if what she said is true about incurring $500,000 in legal bills to fight 15 spurious ethics accusations is correct - then the ethics police should have to cover her costs if the accusations are unfounded - a law should be written to this effect.

How odd that you would suspect Palin of "thinking." That's almost as funny as a remark I heard on Fox News (of course) that she was "articulate."

This prompted someone at the dinner table to say "Greed." That seemed ironic given the McCain campaign denounced "Wall Street bankers' greed" for the market meltdown last year. In that case, they never clarified when the healthy profit motive, which drives capitalism, morphs into greed.

The average American has come to see speculative investment, such as real estate, as the road to riches. Sarah Palin seems to have joined them, speculating on her value as a public figure. Someone may have told her she would be worth less if she waited until the end of her term. So she jumped ship, noting "only dead fish go with the flow."

That's not going to go over well with many. Commitment, responsiblity to finish what you start, etc., are still valued qualities. Those interviewed in Wasilla who supported her wanted her to serve out her term.

As I watched Wasilla's Fourth of July parade on TV, I recalled Rudy Guiliani chiding Obama at the Republican National Convention last year about Wasilla, "not flashy enough for you, Barack?" In fact, it seems it's most famous resident has come to feel that way. Good luck to her.

No, Sweetie, this is what fear looks like -- conservatives howling about how Obama was groomed by secret diabolical forces to destroy life and liberty as we know it in the United States of America.

See my new public service initiative:

http://bgladd.com/SkinGrafts4Sarah.org

I know we're all suffering from compassion fatigue these days, but this is vital to the nation.

Pay it forward.

When has Sarah Palin ever thought?

As I stated earlier. You're AFRAID of her. Very afraid. Thanks for illustrating my point.

...you can't make Sarah Palin look good by casting aaspersions on Obama. That assumes she's in Obama's league intellectually.

Have you slapped John McCain silly for accepting his senate paycheck during the campaign?

As for Obama's legislative accomplishments, go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bills_sponsored_by_Barack_Obama_in_the_United_States_Senate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Proliferation_Detection,_Interdiction_Assistance,_and_Conventional_Threat_Reduction_Act_of_2006

Usually, whenever anyone's pointed out the unintelligent things that Palin has spouted, Palin supporters have sprouted like mushrooms after a rain, piping up: "oh, she's ultra-smart!" "Intelligent!" "Amazingly intellectual!" "Yes sir! There is no-one on earth smarter than Sarah Palin. She is absolutely our day's Leonardo da Vinci. Look out, Academia! She's so smart that no professor can even grade her. Yes indeed! Smart, smart, smart."

It serves only to indicate the intelligence of those thus praising her.

Relatively speaking, of course.

@smithstar15

I'm just glad that we men don't hate each other as badly as women hate other women-The earth would be a bloody battlefield in every corner of it-

Yeah, there'd be like, wars and crime and and prisons and dictators and terrorists and ethnic cleansing and stuff.

Good thing we don't have any of that, right?

Way to go, men, for not hating each other like women do.

Touche!

She says that she has a "higher calling". That probably means a show on Fox which will bring her needed dollars and keep her in the political spotlight.

You libs love to bash Sarah because you're AFRAID of her.>>>>>

Uh, no honey. We bash her because it's fun and easy and gets conservatives collective panties in a bunch, as was noted upthread. If conservatives didn't wig out at the thought that liberals don't much care for their heroine we'd get tired of the whole fish-barrel-shooting scenario and go on to mocking other funny things.

elitist insults >>>>>

= all the words were spelled correctly.

Kristinp,

You are correct about BO resigning after elected - but that's nothing to brag about - he ran the longest presidential campaign in history and ignored much of the nation's and Illinois' business during that campaign;

What's the difference whether you are an absentee senator or a resigning governor except that he continued to accept his senate paycheck.

Secondly, surprise me if you can by documenting two (2) things that will stand as BO credentials (not withstanding elections) that have had any lasting good effects as a community organizer, or legislation in Ill. or as a senator. (Don't use legislation since Jan 20, 2009 because its too new and as yet unproven)

Remember, Palin pushed through the natural gas pipeline legislation which is the largest public works project in US history.

Whose angry??

As I read this article and all the posts from Salon.com fans I am once again reminded of the weird, distorted view from which the Left views life. It must be hard to see the world this way. While I found Sarah's announcement a shock, more shocking was the way she was belittled and denigrated by liberal women. I thought you were for women, but obviously only liberal women. You don't have a clue that most average, middle america admires her greatly. She's like them. Oh wait, you do have a clue...that's why you dispise her so. Indeed, she speaks for them. Just because Sarah chose to have her latest child, which in your mind should have been "terminated," and because she doesn't sound like haughty, depressing Mareen Dowd with a cocktail (#3) in her hand, you find her loathsome. What a sorry crowd you are. As life rolls along, your bitterness will surely only increase, and consume you. It's a kick to watch women like Joan get on the air and fake a smile...it's hard work indeed for you people. Ok, here's my jaw, start snarling...throw your usual leftess slime jabs. Foul language and nasty sarcasm and elitist insults will only reveal all the more how hard it is for you folks to get out of bed and face the world. Better, the moderator can bar my posts from this blog. Isn't that what liberals do in the name of free speach, silence conservatives?

-- philhooper

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And yet another conservative child that was left behind.

Thank you, Dr. Phil, for knowing everything about all of us that are called liberals, my wife included. Why, due to your insight, I now know that Sarah Palin, a person who in my opinion needs your help a hell of a lot more than I do, represents me and a whole bunch of my friends. Thank you so much, Ms. Palin! It's such a shame that my kids are grown up -two with masters' and it didn't take them 6 years to get a Bachelors, the other a Marine vet and cop - or I'd let you give them all of your wisdom, so that they too could be as successful as you and your brood.

On a serious note, do you think that this woman represents ALL women ? She represents a very small portion of the women in this country, Sparky, those that aren't very bright. She was never bright enough to be on the national stage as she demonstrated during several of her interviews and looked like a dunce when she was being lobbed softballs by that paragon of journalistic integrity, Sean Hannity. And that was AFTER she had been schooled by McCain's people. Even they knew what a disaster she was.