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From the Huffington Post: Sarah Palin's 17-year-old , unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, the campaign has announced. Hoping to quell internet rumors about about her youngest son, Palin released the news about her daughter Bristol earlier today. A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child's father. Bristol Palin is five months pregnant, and the baby is due in late December. Can you imagine the Rightwingers' outcry if this were Barack Obama's 17 year old unmarried daughter? For more on Kansas political news and views, read Kansas Watch at http://kswatch.squarespace.com
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1 September 2008
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
The story has broken and we now know which version of “Babygate” is true. Palin's unwed 17-year old daughter is pregnant. Palin, who arrived in St. Paul today to accept the Republican nomination for vice president, sent out a joint statement with her husband, Todd.”Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned,” they said. “We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palin family statement concluded.This confirms three very important things:Trig is Palin's baby, and the strange strange circumstances of his birth (delivering a speech in Texas while in labor, and taking the prolonged two-pronged commercial airline flight during a high-risk pregnancy without notifying the flight crew, then driving past two hospitals in Anchorage to deliver in a facility an hour drive away with no neonatal ICU) are apparently true. Todd Palin's reason for making those potentially life and death decisions about his wife and unborn son? “You can't have a fish-picker from Texas.” The fact that Palin had a 16-year old who got pregnant out of wedlock was presumably unknown by the McCain people. After all, he only met her twice, and probably never met any of her children. And it was obviously too much of a bother to vet the candidate and at the very least know in advance what kind of sensational and unwanted headlines might follow. AND, Palin didn't volunteer this information. Our Republican Vice Presidential candidate is a person of questionable judgment. I don't think there are many out there who would disagree with this statement at this point. So, in the first three days, she's lied about saying “Thanks but no thanks” on the bridge to nowhere, and withheld information from the campaign she's supposedly trying to help, that could be devastating to McCain. At the very least, it sure doesn't help. What's next?As I said before, this may be the tip of our Alaskan iceberg. There are 'gates' a-plenty out there that are just waiting for some pretty basic investigation to reveal their secrets.
1 September 2008
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
It also looks like the DNC members have no class and are turning into slim misters, that will pull no punches in matters of taste.You are a piece of **** Todd, and this post proves your opinions are iunbalanced to say the least.Do you really want the GOP to tear into Joe Biden's and Obama's family?It is either “hands off” in all cases, or it is game on.You liberals raised hell about Chealsea Clinton, and gave no quarter to the Bush girls, do you really want to go down this road?It shows the lowest denominator the Lefties have become.Like I stated before the “moral high ground” has been sceded byt the DNC.
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LiberalDude (Anonymous) says…
Sarah Palin- worst running mate selection ever.
1 September 2008
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
Asbestos wrote: “Do you really want the GOP to tear into Joe Biden's and Obama's family?It is either “hands off” in all cases, or it is game on.You liberals raised hell about Chealsea Clinton, and gave no quarter to the Bush girls, do you really want to go down this road?It shows the lowest denominator the Lefties have become.Like I stated before the “moral high ground” has been sceded byt the DNC.–––––––––––––––—Yeah, there you go again, you gunkie. You want to argue decency. Consider this: John McCain made this odious joke about Chelsea Clinton back in '98.Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.In one word, the joke is downright crude, and certainly not presidential. McCain's two-liner conveys some interesting insights into what he considers humorous (lesbianism, a young woman's physical appearance), particularly since it was delivered to a Republican crowd. Remember, this is the party that champions pro-family values. McCain's lapse in judgment is a significant clue into aspects of his “character,” and thus relevant to the voting public. You want to talk character, Asbestos. Bring it On.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
This is the most sexist thing I have ever seen.When are you guys going to come out and call her and all other women a slut because they have a vagina?This is low.And I Like it.It shows what a bunch of low lifes populate today's DNC.Yes siree, these are today's Democrats and they are not your “Father's oldsmobile”.I bet the NOW, and the other Feminist groups wihin the Democratic party are getting pretty pissed now, First Obama throws Rev. Wright under the bus, then Hillary, now women in general are politically being thrown under the bus to pillary a Successful Governor from Alaska, whom happens to be a woman with a down syndrome son, and a pregnant teenager daughter.Yeas, you guys are really on to something now.What is your message that you are trying to establish with this?
1 September 2008
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
So that means it is OK to attack the children of Politicians, just so I know the rules and we all play by them.Don't B&^%$ when it comes back to bite you!
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
Palin's husband has DWI arrestPosted: 02:30 PM ETMcCain and Sarah and Todd Palin campaigning in Washington, Pennsylvania.st. paul, Minnesota (CNN) - A senior adviser to the McCain campaign confirmed Monday that Todd Palin, husband to Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 1984.”Yes, 24 years ago he had a DWI,” senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt told reporters in St. Paul.Schmidt was asked if he was worried about the news, and replied, “I was not.”The story was first reported by David Brody, a CNN contributor and Christian Broadcasting Network News Senior National Correspondent_____________________________________________Once again, the duplicitous party of “family values” shots intself in the foot.Wow, its only been three days since Palin was revealed to the public. Looks like McCains abominable lapse in judgment is turning out to be the proverbial Democratic Wet Dream. This election ain't about reality, its about actuality. Wow oh wow. Were're having some fun now.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
I think the Obama macchine is falling apart.With the postings I have seen here and elsewhere, the posters are getting more and more militant, and very far from what the Messiah wants.More sexist responses to the Palin appointment, but any criticism of Obama is default racist.He has no experience, and she does. She is facing familial problems and he has yes to go through them, and “besides they are black” and we are afraid of them (in their words).I think the wheels are going to come off this thing, and the Press and MSM are going to have a fit. But the Obama supporters will turn full bore militant.
1 September 2008
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fuel_for_the_fire (Anonymous) says…
TheSynchophat - You are laughable.You claim that the Palin's statement “confirms three very important things”, then list “the fact that Palin had a 16-year old who got pregnant out of wedlock was presumably unknown by the McCain people” as one of the confirmed items. Laughable, truly laughable….I suggest you spend more time studying an English dictionary and less time spreading drivel.
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mommaeffortx2 (Anonymous) says…
meow, the claws are out on this one.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
“A former Democratic National Committee chairman apologized Sunday for remarks he made a day earlier that suggested he thought Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that God is on the Democrats' side in this year's presidential election.Don Fowler, who was DNC chairman from 1995-1996, said he was just mimicking Rev. Jerry Falwell when he was caught on tape during a flight from Denver to North Carolina Friday.”That just demonstrates that God is on our side,” Fowler said during the flight, of which a video was posted on YouTube under the headline: “Fowler Fouls: Hurricane is God's Favor To Democrats…….”http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/31/former-dnc-chief-apologizes-for-gustav-is-a-sign-from-god-comment/
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
The whole “experience” debate is silly. Under our system of government, there is only one job that gives you both executive and foreign policy experience, and that's the one McCain and Obama are running for. Nevertheless, it's a hardy perennial: If your opponent is a governor, you accuse him of lacking foreign policy experience. If he or she is a member of Congress, you say this person has never run anything. And if, by chance, your opponent has done both, you say that he or she is a “professional politician.” When Republicans aren't complaining about someone's lack of experience, they are calling for term limits. That's why the important point about Palin's lack of experience isn't about Palin. It's about McCain. And the question is not how his choice of Palin might complicate his ability to use the “experience” issue or whether he will have to drop experience as an issue. It's not about the proper role of experience as an issue. It's not about experience at all. It's about honesty. The question should be whether McCain — and all the other Republicans who have been going on for months about Obama's dangerous lack of foreign policy experience — ever meant a word of it. And the answer is apparently not. Many conservative pundits woke up this morning fully prepared to harp on Obama's alleged lack of experience for months more. Now they face the choice of either executing a Communist-style U-turn (“Experience? Feh! Who needs it?”) or trying to keep a straight face while touting the importance of having been mayor of a town of 9,000 if you later find yourself president of a nation of 300 million. We all know that modern political campaigns choose their issues from the cafeteria line, after market-testing them and then having them professionally framed. Rarely, though, are we offered such a clear and unarguable example. How could anyone truly believe that Barack Obama's background and job history are inadequate experience for a president and simultaneously believe that Sarah Palin's background and job history are adequate? It's possible to believe one or the other. But both? Simply not possible. John McCain has been — what's the word? — lying. And so have all the pundits who rushed to defend McCain's choice. This is especially damning to McCain because his case for himself (besides not being Obama, a standard under which many of us might qualify) has rested on his honor and integrity. The North Vietnamese couldn't break him, and neither could the Brahmins of his own party in the Senate. He was a maverick who always told it straight. So much for that.
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mike_blur (Mike Blur) says…
Bristol Palin's pregnancy is the result of absentee parenting. When Palin first ran for governor, she assured the media that her husband Todd would quit his job and watch the kids if she won the election. Sarah won the election, and Todd quit his job.However, Todd couldn't handle the job of being Mr. Mom and went back to work in the oil fields. Being a busy executive, Sarah had no time for her kids, so the little Palins were shipped out to live with relatives. Bristol fell in with “the wrong crowd” in Juneau, and ended up knocked up. So much for right-wing “family values.”
1 September 2008
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Puff_Dragon (Anonymous) says…
Another fine bit of information from the LJ Tabloid.
1 September 2008
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allateup (Anonymous) says…
Hey Todd…..don't worry about Barack's daughter. If she were to wind up pregnant she would have an abortion becase, and I quote, “he wouldn't want her punished with a baby”! Also, wasn't Barack's mother a teenager when she became pregnant?
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
I guess you guys aren't listening to the “Messiah”:”Obama condemns Palin rumors By charles babington, Associated Press Writer 39 minutes ago monroe, Mich. - Barack Obama is condemning campaign rumors involving the children of candidates, including Republican vice presidential contender Sarah Palin. ****He says he will fire any campaign worker that violates his rule.***(I guess it is OK for supporters to do this though) Obama, speaking Monday to reporters in Michigan, said he thinks *****”people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits.”****Palin, the Alaska governor, announced that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant. McCain's campaign said the announcement was made in order to knock down rumors that Bristol was actually the mother of Palin's fifth child, who was born in April.Obama adamantly denied anonymous claims that his campaign helped spread the rumors.”Well, how about it rubes? You won't listen to me daying it is not good, but you continue to do it, and now here it is in the “Chosen One's” own words.So there, I a mere GOP member am more in tune with the “messianic Obama” than you one of his supporters are.The irony!
1 September 2008
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
Obama: “I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.”On the other hand, we find the Palin family standing by a daughter who did not take the easy, quiet way out. They do not see this child as a “punishment”, but will welcome a grandchild with love. And, what can become of this baby… maybe he/she will be a great leader, the President of this country, a brave military soldier who fights on behalf of our country. This baby will have a future. And, what would be the future of Obama's girls' mistake? Perhaps, a soiled utility room until “it” breathes no more. Shame on the liberals who do not see the potential that lives in every child.
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JayCat_67 (Anonymous) says…
The saddest part is that at age 17 this girl is going to marry the baby's father. Maybe it will be a long happy marriage, but I wouldn't put money on it. Almost as sad is the fact that a personally trying time for the family is now on public display. This is the level to which the political process has degenerated; both sides pointing fingers then crying foul when the finger points at them, usually over crap that's really noone else's business. But it sells papers and boosts ratings, right? No wonder Colin Powell didn't want to run…
1 September 2008
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
POGO:According to most “liberals”, Bristol Palin is not carrying a baby but merely a lifeless lump of minerals, fluids and salt water and not a baby at all.Only when it suits the sick agendas of the “Liberals” are those things in womb referred to as “babies”.
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
John McCain: He was for experience before he was agaisnt it.
1 September 2008
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
You Are right on, Mike Blurr.
1 September 2008
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JayCat_67 (Anonymous) says…
Before assumptions are made, I'm not saying that the young lady should terminate the pregnancy, just that getting married that young because of a pregnancy usually turns out to be a bad idea. With the support of her family, keeping the baby will still be tough, but at least she'll have some more time go grow up.
1 September 2008
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“So there, I a mere GOP member am more in tune with the “messianic Obama” than you one of his supporters are.”No you are not, you just hope the damaging information will stop leaking out. It won't.There are perfectly legitimate conclusions about Sarah Palin that can be drawn from the information that has been revealed in the last 24 hours:1. she lusts after the VP job, to the detriment of her children2. McCain did a horrible, horrible, horrible job of vetting her as a candidate3. Palin is a hypocrite who wishes to dictate whether someone else may have an abortion, yet relies upon taxpayer resources to afford the consequences of her decision. 4. She is a liar who is claiming she told Congress to keep the Bridge to Nowhere money, but clearly sought the funds while campaigning for her job. There are many more, I am sure, but these are what immediately spring to mind.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
“Obama, speaking Monday to reporters in Michigan, said he thinks *****”people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits.”****”
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
Marion Lynn says: According to most “liberal”, Bristol Palin is not carrying a baby but merely a lifeless lump of minerals, fluids, salt water and not a baby at all.” Excellent point Marion Lynn. Again… shame on liberals. As the proud aunt of two fabulous adopted children, I have watched them grow into productive citizens much loved by parents who could not have children of their own. One is a degreed nurse and the other a successful business person. Their lives have enriched our family and will enrich our country and the lives of others.I never cease to thank their unwed teenage mothers who believed their lives were precious and gave them life instead of destroying their existence. Their biological mothers were brave and did not take the easy out offered by our liberal lawmakers and favored by Obama.Bristol Palin is brave and has a strong family standing beside her.
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Katara (Anonymous) says…
“McCain's campaign said the announcement was made in order to knock down rumors that Bristol was actually the mother of Palin's fifth child, who was born in April.”I find this more disturbing more than anything. Throw the 17 year old out to the wolves to dispel a rumor??? They deliberately put this pregnant teen into the national spotlight to disprove a rumor? WTF were they thinking? Do they want to win so much that they are willing to sacrifice her daughter's well-being?:
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
Do they want to win so much that they are willing to sacrifice her daughter's well-being?:The answer appears to be yes. I posed the question earlier today, how many mothers out there would go ahead and allow themselves to be nominated for the VP job knowing this would be coming for your minor daughter. Incredible.
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
Isn't it better to be pro-active and make an up-front announcement supporting your child… even though she has made a serious mistake? The fact that her daughter is pregnant would have come out by way of “a leak” and then Sarah Palin would have been accused of a cover-up by the liberals. Sarah Palin made sure that McCain knew about the issue before she accepted his nomination invitation. She now has informed the world and assured everyone that they will stand beside their daughter.
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ebyrdstarr (Anonymous) says…
scott, why limit that question to mothers? This constant reference to a mother doing this to her child is bugging me. I would be just as unimpressed with a father who accepted the vp nomination at this time knowing this was going to come out about his daughter.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
” She now has informed the world and assured everyone that they will stand beside their daughter.”“They” and the Alaska taxpayers, an option most who Ms. Palin seeks to dictate her religious beliefs to do not enjoy. And yes, the father bears as much blame as the VP candidate, but, believe it or not, I am trying to limit my criticism to those who actually allowed themselves to be thrust in to the media spotlight.
1 September 2008
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ForThePeople (Anonymous) says…
I'm not buying it. I still think the baby is Bristol's and that this whole “she's five months preggers now” business is just a smokescreen. I'd bet good money that she has a “miscarriage” before the “child” is carried to term. It's all too fishy and as was mentioned, the child has now become the focus, rather than Sarah. Just look at some of the photos of Bristol and Trig together…or at least the ones that haven't been disappeared yet…they speak for themselves. Personally I couldn't give a rats ass about the whole scenerio, except to say that if Palin will lie about this…what else will she lie about?
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
John Edwards, running as a Presidential candidate, certainly thrust himself and his family in front of the spotlight. He did not come forward with a public announcement regarding his “mistake”. Instead, he lied multiple times and embarrassed his cancer-stricken wife and his innocent children. So, as far as the liberals are concerned.. Edwards is OK and Palin “allowed her family to thrust in the media spotlight”. Super logic. I hope the liberals will listen to their candidate and leave Sarah Palin's family alone.
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Kookamooka (Anonymous) says…
Mom's career always comes first kids. That is just the way it is. Teen pregancy is really “in” right now so I don't think there will be much said about this little blip. If people reallly cared about things like spousal DWI's George W would have been in big trouble. He's had a few and Laura Bush actually killed someone while driving drunk as a young woman so….just goes to show. No one really cares about this sort of stuff.
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beatrice (Anonymous) says…
Poco, did you notice that John Edwards was removed from his spot to speak at the Democratic National Convention? Now, if he is removed, how exactly does that translate as his being “okay” with liberals? It doesn't, which means you were stretching the truth just to make a bogus point. Stick to the facts.I wish mother and child and family well. No teen should be going through this in a national spotlight — unless her last name is “Spears.” I just wonder, how can Palin continue to support abstinence only sex ed when she can't even teach it effectively under her own roof? That is the only point I care to make on this personal issue, because that is the issue that actually effects the lives of people outside the Palin family.
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
Beatrice… I believe that Edwards started his series of lies long before he was actually “caught”. Questions were asked about his reported affair a long time ago… long before the DNC, long before he ran as a candidate. He confessed to his wife long before both political events. So, I stand behind my post.
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tangential_reasoners_anonymous (Anonymous) says…
The center word in the article title, above, is “Fails.”I keep looking, but I have yet to discern a *failure*.So many critical voices surrounding the addition of but another voice tothe chorus. Mystifying.
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beatrice (Anonymous) says…
Poco, you are talking about the lies told by Edwards. Once people learned the truth, then the support was withdrawn. However, you claimed, “So, as far as the liberals are concerned.. Edwards is OK…” If we thought he was OK, why was he removed from speaking at the convention?Perhaps it was a typo, and you really meant “was” rather than “is.” Of course, we know about McCain's cheating past, and we know that conservatives think he is OK, now don't we. Care to explain that one? However, I agree with your hope that the media leaves the Palin's daughter alone, although questions to the mother about her abstinence only stance is perfectly legit since it effects the lives of others.
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ScottyMac (Anonymous) says…
Kookamooka (Anonymous) says: “Laura Bush actually killed someone while driving drunk as a young woman.”Actually, the police report says that neither driver had been drinking. http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/l…
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Luxor (Anonymous) says…
Palin's kid is fair game. Palin has pushed the abstinence agenda onto other people's children so her failure to manage her own family makes the stupid, knocked up teenager who is screwing up her whole life by popping this poor child fair game in this case.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
“”They” and the Alaska taxpayers, an option most who Ms. Palin seeks to dictate her religious beliefs to do not enjoy.”So the “Public dole” is only for liberals to have illegitimate babies?”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”“”Snotty also play's the sexist card again:”There are perfectly legitimate conclusions about Sarah Palin that can be drawn from the information that has been revealed in the last 24 hours:1. she lusts after the VP job, to the detriment of her children”So in your little world the women “seed pods” cannot aspire to higher office, only males, the ones that have a penis? The ones with a phallus are the only one to “lust afiter office”?Why such a narrow mind, and from a lefty?The Feminists need to stand up now, and that means NOW, to shut up people like Snotty and Katara with their anti woman tirades in the name of partisianship!What a bunch of loseres.See just what and why “Character matters.”
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allateup (Anonymous) says…
For those who say look at all of the pictures of Bristol with Baby Trig……I have many pictures of my 15 year old daughter holding MY baby so your point is????
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lawrencemom (Anonymous) says…
Things happen. Kids get preganant. The only question I see as fair is the judgement to hurl this young girl into the center of a national debate. Her mother knew when she chose to enter this race that her daughter would be subjected to this conversation. She must be thinking “Thanks alot,Mom”.
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ndmoderate (Anonymous) says…
I wonder if young Bristol Palin knew anything about birth control?When young Bristol gets married to the father of her baby (did you see how the Palin campaign announced the impending wedding…wonder how the father feels about this), can we call it a Shotgun Wedding, or would Harpoon Gun Wedding be more appropriate?
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“So the “Public dole” is only for liberals to have illegitimate babies?”Of course not, Asbestos, I am simply noting the hypocrisy of Ms. Palin. She thinks it perfectly OK to impose her religious beliefs on the citizenry that may, or may not, share the same religious convictions, but she expects the taxpayers to provide her the financial support needed as a direct result of her “choice.” Were she a private citizen, footing the bill for her personal choice, I would agree that she is to be praised. As it stands, she is simply transferring the cost of her choice to the taxpayers - an option she allows herself, but does not afford others.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
“….or would Harpoon Gun Wedding be more appropriate?”With all the testiness in this little “Blog” I like the humor in this post and enjoyed a laugh. I bet the “young man” got more than a bit of an earful from Bristol's Mom and Dad. Would you really want to get a girl pregnant if mom and dad were both fast on a snowmobile and a good shot with a rifle?
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
I will give H.Obama credit for this one though:”Sen. Barack Obama said firmly that families are off-limits in the campaign for president, reacting to news that GOP running mate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Monroe, Michigan, on Monday. “Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.”How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off-limits.” http://www.cnn.com/2008/politics/09/0… I suspect the real reason is that he doesn't want his own extended family subjected to much scrutiny.
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POCO (Anonymous) says…
How critical the liberals seem to be with regard to Bristol Palin who chose to keep her child alive. I guess if she had a liberal-condoned abortion, she would have been lauded. It's also interesting that the liberals have selective hearing when their leader has asked them to leave the children and families of the candidates alone.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“It's also interesting that the liberals have selective hearing when their leader has asked them to leave the children and families of the candidates alone.”Most of the posts here have concerned pointing out the failings of Ms. Palin & the hypocrisy of her policy positions, all of which are fair game.
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KSWatch (Todd Epp) says…
If Bristol Palin were just another 17 year old, she would be off limits.If Bristol's mom hadn't made such a big deal out of being anti-choice and pro-abstinence education, Bristol would be off limits.But this is the intersection of personal life and policy. Teenagers make all sorts of stupid mistakes. That's part of growing up. But mom—and now the Right—wants it both ways. Apparently out of wedlock kids are ok if Republicans have them. That seems to be the message, not that it is our duty as parents to try to keep our unmarried kids from getting pregnant (or impregnating others) before they are ready to take on the responsibility.Again, if this were the Obamas, we'd hear about how bad they are as parents. Instead, we hear about how good Mama Palin is. The truth is somewhere inbetween.Todd EppKansas Watch http://kswatch.squarespace.com
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
No Snotty, most perople were not “pointing out the failings of Ms. Palin”, you were sticking your nose into an issue that has nothing to do with the publicicy, and the blog author's first statment is:”Sarah Palin's 17-year-old , unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, the campaign has announced. “Of sourse this is a hatchet job on a 17 year old that happens to be pregnant, and transferring that to “shame ofn the parents”. Your Ideas of “fair game” are pretty warped, and your judgement is even worse.ONE more time for the slow Obama supporters:”Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Monroe, Michigan, on Monday.”Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.”How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off-limits.”“That was your leader,..now ***knock it off***!!!
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Absolutely! This is much worse news and puts the nation in infinitely more peril than Obama's sitting on a committee with Ayers, a self-confessed US terrrorists and bomber who killed at least two Americans on US soil and the fact that Obama was installed in the Illinois senate unchallenged, with the aid of the Democratic Socialist Party, and that Obama and his wife marinated in the hateful, racist and divisive Black Liberation Theology for 20 years and that Obama acquired his house as a favor from a convicted felon and that Obama was mentored in Hawaii by Frank Davis, a Communist.Yes, Palins' pregnant daughter is a serious threat to America.
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Katara (Anonymous) says…
asbestos (Anonymous) says: The Feminists need to stand up now, and that means NOW, to shut up people like Snotty and Katara with their anti woman tirades in the name of partisianship!What a bunch of loseres.See just what and why “Character matters.”WTF? I question her claim about the bridge to nowhere and now I'm anti-woman? I question the wisdom of promoting an abstinence only education and I'm anti-woman?I'll just have to request you to put your money where your mouth is, Asbestos, and find any post of mine that is anti-woman.
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…
Don't worry Todd; we will start on H.Obama.
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Anonymous userasbestos (Anonymous) says:No Snotty, most perople were not “pointing out the failings of Ms. Palin”, you were sticking your nose into an issue that has nothing to do with the publicicy, and the blog author's first statment is:”Sarah Palin's 17-year-old , unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, the campaign has announced. “Of sourse this is a hatchet job on a 17 year old that happens to be pregnant, and transferring that to “shame ofn the parents”. Your Ideas of “fair game” are pretty warped, and your judgement is even worse.~~~~~~~~No, Asbestos. The hatchet job here is by McCain's campaign who is the one that gave the sole reason for Palin having to announce her daughter's pregnancy was to dispel a RUMOR that Trig was Bristol's kid. Has it occurred to you that there were many ways to dispel that RUMOR that did not involve throwing her daughter out to the wolves?This was not a supportive parent decision. Both Palin and McCain should be completely ashamed as to how they handled this. They have put a ton of unnecessary stress on this girl at a time in her life where she needs as little as possible. How can this announcement be even remotely in her daughter's best interest? As a parent, you just don't do that.
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Start? So then what was all this “hussein,” “he's a Muslim,” “his wife hates whitey,” “he hates women,” “he's a socialist,” stuff if not a start?Tom, have you ever been on a committee? Did you make sure to do a background check on each person before taking part? After the meetings, did you make sure and hang out and do intimate things with each member that informed who you are as a person? Please, if you aren't talking about Obama but just about people who may have spent some time around Obama, then give it a rest. Remember, if you are doing that, then be sure to point out that McCain still is a friend of George W. Bush. Regarding Palin and the VP position, here is what she had to say about the position back in Aug. 1, 2008: “But as for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”http://www.cnbc.com/id/25970197McCain was for experience before he was against it. Obama / Biden ! Leadership, intelligence, and experience.
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“No, Asbestos. The hatchet job here is by McCain's campaign who is the one that gave the sole reason for Palin having to announce her daughter's pregnancy was to dispel a RUMOR that Trig was Bristol's kid.”That was a smear from a far left bolg, and untrue.So there was nothing to dispel.You know about “Rumors” like the one Obama haters repeat about his “muslim” faith? I don't buy that nor do I care about that rumor.The real question is why would you respond to that ugly “rumor” that was not true?That is what I mean here, you liberals have lost your way. If there are any “feminists” left in the DNC, I bet they are just PO'ed at people like you and Bea, whom should know better, you are women.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
ome more time for the rabid bomb throwing Obama supporters. This is from your leader, the chosen one, the Messiah, Obama:”ONE more time for the slow Obama supporters:”Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Monroe, Michigan, on Monday.”Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.”
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
If Obama doesn't command you, what good is he as President?
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RR: “Okay, we now have permission to discuss the Messiah's family. Should we begin with his Muslim upbringing?”Are we kidding? Like you haven't been trying to pin the bogus Muslim claim on Obama for months. McCain has chastized his followers not to use the “Hussein” garbage, yet so many have continued to do so. Guess McCain is a poor leader, too.
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BrianR (Anonymous) says…
Abstinence Education Fails. That is the real story. I can happen to anyone, get over it.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“scott3460:”1. she lusts after the VP job, to the detriment of her children”This is blatantly sexist.”I disagree, but that is beside the point. You McCain apologists claim that I, and others, have gone too far in criticizing the family and child of Ms. Palin. I ask for evidence & all you can show is that I claimed that she, Gov. Sarah Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, lusted after the VP position to the detriment of her family. That is ridiculous. If you put 100 women (and men - don't want to be sexist) in a room and said, you can have the VP nomination, but it means putting your teenaged daughter through an emotionally damaging public trauma, 99 of the 100 people would decline the job. Gov. Palin chose, that's right chose!, not to do so. And this hypocrite wants to impose her religious beliefs on the country!
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
todd's been a busy lad this long weekend. You should have taken a moment to check in with Obama before posting this tripe.http://www.cnn.com/2008/politics/09/01/obama.palin/index.html
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“You're a pathetic, little “man.”“Took the intellectual route, I see. Your opinion matters not at all to me, although I do take some comfort in seeing folks like you reduced to name calling because you cannot marshall an argument in response. Ms. Palin better think up something better than that, however.
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RestoreReason (Anonymous) says:Where have I said that I am a McCain follower? Just because I oppose the Messiah does not mean I support McCain.~~~~~~~You mind passing along that reasoning to Asbestos? Apparently he's under the incorrect impression that because one questions one candidate, that makes one a rabid supporter of the other candidate.I'd appreciate it greatly. ;)
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
And now the close your eyes, hold your breath and pretend it's not true route. Very nice. It's been a real tour d'force from the McCain apologists today. Oh well, direct your anger at Gramps and his advisors, their the ones who picked this dud. Guess the Hail Mary's falling a little short. Bummer.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
Snotty either is ageist with McCain calling him derogatorially “gramps”:”Oh well, direct your anger at Gramps and his advisors, their the ones who picked this dud. Guess the Hail Mary's falling a little short. Bummer.”Or Snotty is being “sexist” calling Palin a “Five tiome baby popper”.I would watch what and how you say it. Voters femals and older of both genders vote quite consistently, and do not like a party hassling “one of their own”.So Keep up the work, it has been fun getting you guys to foam at the mouth full throttle, for the entire internet to see. You have given insight to the electorate and America at large into your political positions and your character. It appears as if winning is more important to you than character or truth.Thank you and your help in electing McCain in 2008.Good job, and keep alienating women and older voters, we will welcome and defend them.
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:”No, Asbestos. The hatchet job here is by McCain's campaign who is the one that gave the sole reason for Palin having to announce her daughter's pregnancy was to dispel a RUMOR that Trig was Bristol's kid.”That was a smear from a far left bolg, and untrue.So there was nothing to dispel.~~~Really?”McCain aides said the announcement about the pregnancy of Palin's daughter, Bristol, was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin's own youngest son, born in April, was actually the daughter's.”http://cbs3.com/topstories/mccain.palin.daughter.2.807594.htmlIf there was nothing to dispel, then why announce the pregnancy and force a teen mother into the national spotlight? This cannot be healthy for her daughter. Why put the girl under even more stress? She is already a high risk pregnancy due to her age and now with the added extra stress, this just adds to the chance of a pregnancy with complications. I don't think anyone wishes that upon this girl. I say decisions like this one made by Palin and McCain (just to dispel a rumor) show poor judgment and a lack of long-term thinking. There is no sense that they understand how their actions affect others, including the ones most dear to them. The whole McCain-Palin campaign reeks of act first, think about & deal with the consequences afterward. There are so many ways that they could have dispelled of the rumor without putting her daughter into the spotlight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~asbestos (Anonymous) says:You know about “Rumors” like the one Obama haters repeat about his “muslim” faith? I don't buy that nor do I care about that rumor.~~~I'm having difficulty telling if this is your own opinion or if you are quoting someone else here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~asbestos (Anonymous) says: That is what I mean here, you liberals have lost your way. If there are any “feminists” left in the DNC, I bet they are just PO'ed at people like you and Bea, whom should know better, you are women.~~~So all women are supposed to have the same opinions on how things are handled simply because we are women? That seems like a pretty sexist statement to make coming from a man who is lecturing women about sexism. I'm not getting where you would even begin to have the impression that I have said anything sexist or “anti-woman”. Perhaps you could actual supply the post and the link to the article? Also I'm not getting where you think I'm a Democrat a supporter of Obama. Perhaps a post and the link to the thread would help there.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
Polls show the age question isn't going away, despite the Arizona senator's efforts to deflect it with self-deprecating humor, or disprove it by keeping a grueling schedule.”Sure, people live to be 90, but you are not as sharp,” said Virginia Bailey, 73, a retired administrative assistant who lives near Schenectady, N.Y., and is a Republican. “I'm not as sharp as I was ten years ago, and I'm sure (McCain) isn't either - even though he wouldn't admit it.”Tangling with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate will wear on McCain, as well the normal rigors of the job. Too bad he didn't pick someone as VP that Americans can feel confident is ready for the Presidency.
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asbestos (Anonymous) says: Katara you “rabid” issue driven lies from the DailyKos and MoveON and the rest says all I need to hear, you are a committed leftists and Obama supporter, i.e. a full fledged koolaide drinker, like the entire MSM.~~~Again, please provide some proof. I've posted several times today that I have not thrown my hat to Obama. How about even a link where I've linked to either DailyKos or MoveOn?I kindly suggest put up or shut up, Asbestos. BTW, how do you feel about Governor Palin's position on teaching creationism in the classroom?
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“I kindly suggest put up or shut up, Asbestos.”He never does, Katara, he's about as intellectually dishonest in his posting and argument as they come.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“I assume these same people are the ones that were perfectly fine with some commentators making fun of Clinton's daughter?”By the way it wasn't “some commentators,” it was good old John McCain. And did you hear what he called his wife one day at a campaign rally? It's not repeatable in polite company. And all this talk about how I'm the sexist one??!!
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“I predict that by the time Palin is done with him, he will have pulled out his last remaining plugs out of frustration.”At the rate she's going, I doubt she'll ever get the chance. Did McCain check anything on this woman before naming her?
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FlintHawk (Anonymous) says…
Dear Gov. Palin:This hubbub is not about your daughter. It is about your values - those same values you want to legislate on all Americans (including “outlawing” [regulating] any and all abortion, even in cases of incest, rape or life-threatening danger to the pregnant woman).Since you are anti-abortion, preach abstinence-only and refuse to recognize that adolescents might (!) engage in sexual behavior that could result in pregnancy, then you have failed to leave your adolescent any wiggle room. It's sadly ironic that your values may well prevent your daughter from notable achievements in an arena of her choice - such as you have achieved in the political arena.But most important to me, Gov. Palin, you are free, in this country, to live with the consequences of your values - those values you imposed so effectively on your adolescent daughter. Do not, however, legislate those views onto my adolescent children. I will parent them myself, thank you.Sincerely,Not a Palin Supporter
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glock: “When a president has sex with an intern in the oval office, it is no big deal.”Really? No big deal? Then why do we all know every single nasty detail?Also, nobody that I have seen here is making fun of the daughter. I feel bad for her. However, if her mom wishes to push abstinence only onto the rest of the nation when we have proof that it doesn't even work in her own house, then that is something worth discussing. Restore, who is this Messiah you keep speaking of? Have you found religion? Also, just because I don't like McCain, where have I said I support Obama? (okay, that last one was a joke. I proudly support Obama.)
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Anonymous userasbestos (Anonymous) whines like a little schoolgirl:”It also looks like the DNC members have no class and are turning into slim misters, that will pull no punches in matters of taste.”Karma's a bee-yotch, ain't she?”You are a piece of **** Todd, and this post proves your opinions are iunbalanced to say the least.”Cries the whiner…”Do you really want the GOP to tear into Joe Biden's and Obama's family?Where have you been the past 10 years? Not only Biden and Obama, but also McCain (2000 and 2008), our current president, Gore, Clinton, Kerry…Hypocrite, much?”It is either 'hands off' in all cases, or it is game on.”Somehow I doubt you were thinking of this four years or ago. Or even two years ago.Now that it's your favorite candidate's keister over the fire, you suddenly find the “high ground?”Typical hypocrite.”You liberals raised hell about Chealsea Clinton, and gave no quarter to the Bush girls, do you really want to go down this road?”Extremists on both sides have been playing this game. That's why both political parties need to be flushed.And that includes you…Agnostickagnostick@excite.comhttp://www.independentvoting.org
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
gl0ck0wnr the coward strikes again.Looking to get canned from two message boards?I think it's gonna happen sooner than you think, “Mullah!”
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
Flinthawk:Great letter. By the way, Gov. Palin intends to see to it that your children are also taught creationism in public school, alongside science. Just another gift from John Sidney McCain, regular guy, war hero and tool of the theocratic right wing of the Republican Party.
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gl0ck0wnr (Anonymous) says:Fascinating: When a president has sex with an intern in the oval office, it is no big deal. When a candidate for VP's daughter is pregnant, it's a major moral crisis? I assume these same people are the ones that were perfectly fine with some commentators making fun of Clinton's daughter?~~~ I suspect you are trolling for a bit of fun tonight but I'll bite.Can you point to any post that has said anything derogatory about Palin's daughter? Other than it is a poor decision but teens make those?I know you smart enough to understand that it puts one a bit in a bind if one consistently pushes a public agenda to make abstinence only education available and then a member of your family (one that you are legally responsible for BTW) proves your public agenda as not being as effective as you claim it to be.It seems to me that people made this same type of charge when Clinton's brother was under drug charges.
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davidnta (Anonymous) says…
Actually my post is not meant to tie into Palin's pregnent daughter but her position on abstinence-only education.It is clear that this could have happened to any American, but there have been studies that have been conducted that shows people who come from more conservative families tend to use more unprotected sex than people from liberal families.We need comprehensive sex education in this country, and we need to teach our children what contraceptives are, what they are used for, and what they can protect against. We need to be sex-positive, and I rather be a sex-positive person than someone who advocates leading unnecessary wars.
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Katara (Anonymous) says…
Why did gl0ck's comment disappear? There wasn't anything in that violated the ToS.
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
That's the point, Katara…I don't believe this shows anything bad about Mr. & Mrs. Palin's overall childrearing strategy.I *do* think it illustrates the inherent weakness of “Abstinence Only” policy.—Ag
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
Katara: Liability.Think about it. Think about the “What if…?”
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Nice. It only took LJW 88 comments to remove ” Vice Presidential Candidate vs Desperate Alaskan Housewife”.Disgusting.I'll bet if I started some vile weblog on some unfounded smears on Obama, if it made it to 4 posts, it would be an oversight.Clean up your act LJW.
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
“Fictional assassination plot?” No such thing has been posted.Coward.
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1. she lusts after the VP job, to the detriment of her children Can you write fiction, Scott, or are you just a practicing fabricator? And have a kid before judging what you and your silly brethren thinks is detrimental to others. But, please, wait a good while, you still got some growin' up to do.2. McCain did a horrible, horrible, horrible job of vetting her as a candidateAnother fabrication. Pallin had been on the McCain campaign's radar since February. They've been doing background for more than 6 months, pal.3. Palin is a hypocrite who wishes to dictate whether someone else may have an abortion, yet relies upon taxpayer resources to afford the consequences of her decision. First, how does the above make her a hypocrite? And for the love of all that's good and holy, enough with the 'taxpayer' hogwash. So the Pallin's got into politics to alleviate the cost of having a family? You're barreling down that conspiracy theory road. Not to mention, by your ridiculous assertion, pro-life politician's shouldn't have kids since it's what….a conflict of interest? Can you be any dumber today?4. She is a liar who is claiming she told Congress to keep the Bridge to Nowhere money, but clearly sought the funds while campaigning for her job.Another canard. Beautiful. Your own 'claim' is wholly ludicrous. How the freak does she “clearly 'seek' the funds while campaigning' for governor? Ya gotta have the job FIRST to do any seeking, brother. Besides, her predecessor had already secured the earmark, she only voiced support for it. Then when she won office, found out the actual costs, many spiraling upward, and wisely scrapped it. Wise move or a lie? Guess it depends on whether you're desperate to paint an unimpeachable woman with something, anything that seems 'wrong'.
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Agnostick is too giddy from the barrage of anti-Palin blogs and stories to pay attention, glock. Agnostick will side with the left 99% of the time and offer up a salutory middle or slightly right leaning comment occasionally to gain full acceptance from the LJW on-line community.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
How does Todd copy/pasting something from huffpost & plugging his own website enhance the LJW?LJW did the right thing with the “desperate Alaskan housewives” piece. Do it again.
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Puff_Dragon (Anonymous) says…
At least she didn't have to say her daughter is gay.That wouldn't have mattered ……would it?
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
McCain is absolutely right. American woman we will be tripping over themselves on their way to the voting booth, now that he's chosen Miss Sarah as running mate. Let's face it, she's a great role model. Miss Walisa, Miss Alaska second runner- up, Miss Congeniality and the mother of a pregnant, single teenager who defied god and fornicated. Isn't that special. If Barbie Doll can't even teach her own kids, is she really qualified to be a heart beat away from leader of the free world.
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jaywalker (Anonymous) says: Another canard. Beautiful. Your own 'claim' is wholly ludicrous. How the freak does she “clearly 'seek' the funds while campaigning' for governor? Ya gotta have the job FIRST to do any seeking, brother. Besides, her predecessor had already secured the earmark, she only voiced support for it. Then when she won office, found out the actual costs, many spiraling upward, and wisely scrapped it. Wise move or a lie? Guess it depends on whether you're desperate to paint an unimpeachable woman with something, anything that seems 'wrong'.~~~Well, that is simply incorrect. She didn't scrap the program. Congress removed the earmarked funding for that program. Interestingly enough, AK still got the monies to use as they see fit (She didn't return any of the monies granted to AK for the bridge project nor any of the monies sent after that) and she chose to build an access road to there the bridge was to be built.Feel free to check out the cites & their sources on the other LJW thread about that topic.http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/sep/01/palin_changed_her_position_bridge_nowhere_critics_/#comments
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
Just read that Palin now has an attorney to represent her in the “Troopergate” investigation. Funny, but isn't there an old adage that only the guilty need attorneys. Palinagate is getting funner by the minute. .
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“3. Palin is a hypocrite who wishes to dictate whether someone else may have an abortion, yet relies upon taxpayer resources to afford the consequences of her decision.First, how does the above make her a hypocrite?”Sigh….one more time.Palin seeks to impose her religious views on the American citizens by outlawing abortions. Ms. Palin is able to decide to keep her Downs syndrome baby due to the generosity of the Alaska taxpayers providing her and her family free housing and medical care. Not all women who chose between abortion and giving birth have the advantage of that luxury. Ms. Palin is a hypocrite because she seeks to impose her conclusions on others, but does not afford them the same luxury of State housing and care of the resulting child. If Ms. Palin will not afford those benefits to every woman struggling with an unwanted pregnancy, she should leave the decision to the woman involved and keep her religious dictates to herself. Same goes for the creationist crap too.
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gl0ck0wnr (Anonymous) says:”You = complete tool. Perhaps you should pay more attention to Epp's posts. In particular, I direct you to his 'blog' (using the term loosely) in which he outlines a fictional account of a possible Palin presidency.”____________________________________________________Death by an EID =/= “assassination,” coward.I agree the scenario is a bit of a stretch, but the point is well-taken: How prepared *is* Palin to step in?You and others have asked the same thing about Obama. Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen.Don't like the blog? Start your own. Anyone can start their own blog. Even right_thinker has one:http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/right_thinker/
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right_thinkingfool…I'm more of a moderate than you could ever imagine. Your only excuse for existence here is to post one hate-filled copy/paste after another… more than 6,000 posts under your various usernames.Laughing at you, Nancy_Boy… as I always have, and always will.Agnostickagnostick@excite.comhttp://www.uscentrist.orghttp://www.independentvoting.org
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gl0ck0wnr (Anonymous) says:”Fascinating: When a president has sex with an intern in the oval office, it is no big deal.”Wait, when did that happen? Or are you referring to Clinton, the time that happened and it was a Huge deal, with things like impeachment, trials, non-stop media coverage, slavering pundits, apologist-Clintonistas, rabid anti-Clinton hypocrites, etc. If you had another time in mind, where it happened and it wasn't a big deal, you're free to own up to it. Didn't you call someone Else a complete tool earlier on?
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
Book: McCain temper boiled over in '92 tirade, called wife a 'c#nt' Nick JulianoPublished: Monday April 7, 2008John McCain's temper is well documented. He's called opponents and colleagues “sh#theads,” “a$$holes” and in at least one case “a f&&Kng jerk.” But a new book on the presumptive Republican nominee will air perhaps the most shocking angry exchange to date.The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, which will arrive in bookstores next month, reports an angry exchange between McCain and his wife that happened in full view of aides and reporters during a 1992 campaign stop. An advance copy of the book was obtained by raw story.Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, “You're getting a little thin up there.” McCain's face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cu%t.” McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.(CON'T)The man who was known as “McNasty” in high school has erupted in foul-languaged tirades at political foes and congressional colleagues more-or-less throughout his career, and his quickness to anger has been an issue on the presidential campaign trail as evidence of his fury has surfaced.As Schecter notes, McCain's rage is not limited to the political spectrum, and even his family cannot be spared the brute force of his anger.
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Schecter, who also blogs at The Agonist, said in an interview the anecdote is “an early example of his uncontrollable temper.” In the book he outlines several other examples of McCain losing his cool and raises the question of how that would affect a McCain presidency.The exchange between McCain and his wife was not reported anywhere when it happened, Schecter said (a LexisNexis database search confirms this). In 1992, McCain's mention in the national media revolved mostly around his involvement in the Keating Five scandal, and only local reporters closely followed his re-election bid.McCain is well known for his rapport with the national media covering his presidential bid (he's jokingly referred to the press as “my base”), but Schecter said this incident was buried not out of fealty to the Arizona senator. Rather, it was uneasiness about how to get such a coarse exchange into a family newspaper, and he didn't fault the local press for not covering the incident.”Members of the media are squeamish covering stuff like this so they let it go,” Schecter told raw story in an interview Monday. “Back in '92, when people use naughty words, [reporters] don't know as much what to do with it.” Much has changed since then. President Bush's reference to a New York Times reporter as a “major league a$$hole” was reported in at least 47 newspapers during the 2000 campaign, when the off-color remark was overheard, according to a database search. And more than a dozen newspapers have reported Dick Cheney's recommendation that Sen. Patrick Leahy “f%%k yourself.”McCain and his aides have brushed off suggestions that his temper could impede his ability to perform the sometimes-delicate tasks asked of a president. The candidate was asked about his legendary temper last week on “Fox News Sunday,” where he cited his ability to work “across the aisle” while in the Senate.”You can't scare people or intimidate them if you're going to reach agreement with your colleagues and your contemporaries And I've worked hard at that, and that's what the American people want,” McCain said. ” The second thing is if I lose my capacity for anger, then I shouldn't be president of the United States. … When I see the waste and corruption in Washington, I get angry.”McCain's campaign did not return a call from raw story seeking comment Monday morning. Schecter says McCain's anger is much more than a passion for the issues. One can only imagine what would happen if McCain were to try to squeeze that temper into the tight confines of diplomacy.”The public certainly has to know what this guy might do as president,” Schecter says. Examples like the ones in his book “should worry people, quite frankly.”
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1. Flip flop on BTN2. Active support of earmarks while Governor.3. Support of pet projects in her home town:3a. Matanuska maid3b. Funneling 8% of the state budget to a place with 2% of the population.4. Troopergate5. Long involvement with a separatist movement, AIP. 6. Was director of Ted Steven's 527 group. Stevens is facing 7 felony corruption counts:http://www.adn.com/polarbears/story/413710.htmlThis candidate is done. Drop 'em and try for two.For added “chuckles” toss in the following:7. Anti-environment: 7a. Palin hates polar bears.http://www.adn.com/polarbears/story/413710.html7b. Palin is pro ANWR drilling.7c. The AIP, to whom Palin used to belong, and continues to view favorably (see her address at their 2008 convention, on YouTube and on the AIP homepage) is against all federal regulations and protections regarding the environment. She's anti- Clean Air, Clean Water, etc.
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BigPrune (Anonymous) says…
The “she wants creationism in the classroom” is a bogus flat out lie being preached by “The Family” of the Messiah. I understand now why Obama set up his internet “war room.” He can always deny the internet rumors, of course. Nice try guys, but thankfully, the American people aren't stupid enough to buy it, no matter how much you pray -if you pray.
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jonas (Anonymous) says…
No one brought up Clinton and his intern but you, near as I can tell without specifically reading all of these posts, and I doubt you have any concrete idea what most of these people thought about Clinton's escapade in the first place, though naturally you assume what you need to in order to make your assertion stand. As for the Chelsea issue, that's undoubtedly true, but we weren't discussing that, were we? Undoubtedly true both directions, as well. Hypocrisy often seems to be the first fruits of partisanship, at least to me.
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Shame on the Journal World staff for printing this drivel as news and even more shame for assigning the headline. It appears the editor is a devout reader of the Daily Kos.
2 September 2008
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mike_blur (Mike Blur) says…
Actually, from what I've been reading in the Bible (yes! left-wing non-christians read the bible too!) sex before marriage is okay, or at least not condemned. Premarital sex is not at all addressed in Leviticus (one of the most explicit books of the Bible.) And here's what Deuteronomy says about the subject: (28)If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; (29)Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.So the teenage father owes Todd Palin 14 bucks, and can never divorce or otherwise “put away” Bristol the rest of his life. The matter is closed.
2 September 2008
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toe (Anonymous) says…
The religious right basically took away McCain's picks for VP, so I suppose in a fit, he picked this loser of a woman. McCain has lost the election. The far right has crippled the Republican Party and their time in office is almost over.
2 September 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Listen to your dude.” “Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.”How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off-limits.”“http://www.cnn.com/2008/politics/09/01/obama.palin/index.html
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Palin's family off-limits? Maybe for Barack Obama, but not for me.Democrats shoot themselves in both feet every time they try to take the high road, because the Republicans never do. For example, if I were Al Gore, I would still be contesting the 2000 election instead of all that “concede and heal” nonsense.So… I'll say what nobody else will. If Sarah Palin can't keep tabs on her own daughter, arming her with abstinence education and Christian piety, how, someone tell me, how, in God's name, is she supposed to run a country?If baby Trig, known to have Down Syndrome, came prematurely by a month to a 44-year-old mother, and that mother, Governor Palin, finished a speech and then flew for 12 hours with her water broken only to pass up two hospitals with NICUs only to give birth in some backwater medical clinic, how, in God's name, are we to trust her to handle a time-is-of-the-essence international crisis?If son Track can't be mentioned in public without noting that he enlisted last year, and, coincidentally is headed to Iraq this year on the same date— September 11th— then I'll be damned if I'll keep the kids out of it.Governor Palin is, plainly and simply, whoring her kids out for political purposes. She's turning Track into a modern doughboy, Bristol into an anti-choice poster child, and using Trig as testament to her pioneer toughness, bragging that she returned to work just three days after birthing him… like that's something to be proud of.She's a disgrace— a political animal of the first order that could only be the creation of ambition, blind fervency, and Karl Rove.
2 September 2008
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
IM wrote: “Governor Palin is, plainly and simply, whoring her kids out for political purposes.” Exactly. By making the call to Palin, McCain has proven to be just another “John.” He was for experience before he was against it.
2 September 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
You folks are saying much more about your own worldview than you are about Palin.Have fun pooping in your hands and throwing it around.
2 September 2008
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topdocjim (Anonymous) says…
As a former Republican (not because I left the party - because the party left me) I just nod my head: of course abstinence education is silly. It was silly when I was in college, scouring the countryside for sex, and it was silly for the 2.5 million years of humanity before that, but for the credulous congregations that believe the earth is six thousand years old, I guess anything is possible.It's too bad they don't practice abstinence AFTER marriage; that's when it would do all of us the most good.Jim
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“You folks are saying much more about your own worldview than you are about Palin.”No, what says a lot about McCain and Palin is that they decided they trot out all this bad news on a Labor Day and try to bury it and sneak it past the American public:1. unwed teenaged daughter pregnant2. Palin hires attorney for Troopergate probe (as I recall lawyers are unnecessary for innocent people according to the right wing view) 3. Pappa Paplin is a convicted drunk driver.
2 September 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
What big hate you have, scott.
2 September 2008
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Surely most of you have read Epps fantastical scenarios on his KS website— well, explore Epps SD Watch “South Dakotas most trusted blog”.http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sd-watch-photo-of-the-day/author/thunewatchI can't even c/p the blogs/links on this site, LJW surely would remove my post. If you could, can you explain, Todd, why you claim Buddhism but your site is splattered with athiesm references and I thought Buddism was a very peaceful religion.Why do you bash Jesus so much? Do all Buddhists do this?
2 September 2008
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autie (Anonymous) says…
OK, she isn't qualified to be VP, period. But they are definitely qualified to join the rest of us as people..teen pregancy, DWI..sounds like real people now.
2 September 2008
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Seems Epps “scrubbed” his SD site…..was a blog entry using the “B” word in the title of a blog referencing Palin.
2 September 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
“The fact is, the left is all about privacy in the matters of the womb. Were they to stay true to their colors, this mantra of theirs would seem to preclude them from judging Bristol's pregnancy and her choice to keep her child, right? It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The Kos kids and their blog followers have already made one attempt to ruin this girl's life. Now that they have a story with actual truth behind it, we'll have to sit back and see how far they run with a teenager's identity.Let me make it clear: there are many things I don't like about Sarah Palin. We are ideologically opposed on numerous issues. Her stance on creationism and her pro-life zealousness are just two examples. Two big ones. There's the fact that McCain chose Palin for VP after meeting her only once; I'd like to think that more thought goes into the process than the need to find a conservative woman for your ticket. I'm naive like that. But the last two days of mudslinging against Palin have been so extreme, they have transformed her into an almost sympathetic figure in my eyes. More important, the barbs thrown at her have made me look upon liberals with a level of contempt I have not felt since, well, 2004.If I'm rushing to the defense of a woman whose core ideologies I oppose, then something pretty bad must be going on. And that something smells like a pungent mixture of hypocrisy and desperation.”Read the rest at:http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sarah-palin-her-daughter-and-the-smear-machine/
2 September 2008
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Here is evidence of some of the “change” the far left Dems hope to bring about: they will erase 40 years of progress for women's rights. Hello, Obama, bye-bye feminism.
2 September 2008
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
This morning's headline: McCain Turns Sour on His Onetime Media `Base' as Election Nears And now to all the other legitimate criticism of McCain's handling of this VP decision we can add: crybaby. Unbelievable. This guy thinks he's ready to lead the country. He cannot even run a campaign.
2 September 2008
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
right_thinker…I can't speak for all Buddhists, but as a general rule, there's not much bashing of Jesus at all. Examples:http://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Jesus-Buddha-Brothers/dp/1573228303/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220364747&sr=8-3http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Buddha-Parallel-Marcus-Borg/dp/1569754616/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220364747&sr=8-6http://www.amazon.com/Living-Buddha-Christ-10th-Anniversary/dp/159448239X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220364747&sr=8-1To paraphrase one of the better bumper stickers I've seen in my life:I have no problem with Jesus Christ—but the more fanatical members of his fan are rather dangerous.Largely because of hypocrites like you, right_thinker…Agnostickagnostick@excite.comhttp://www.uscentrist.orghttp://www.americanplan.org
2 September 2008
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coolmom (Anonymous) says…
i think it is amazing and sad that we are talking about a 17yo kid or about the parents or about their down syndrome son. that stuff should all be private. hope some of you people dont live in glass houses.
2 September 2008
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chet_larock (Anonymous) says…
Enough with the analyses and assumptions of “electoral tactics” playing a role in John McCain's vice-presidential pick.John McCain said he would pick the most qualified candidate for the job of vice-president.John McCain picked Sarah Palin.Why?Because John McCain believes Sarah Palin is the most qualified person in America for the job of vice-president.Stop overanalyzing it.The End.-David Rees, Huff Post
2 September 2008
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UFC_FAN (Anonymous) says…
if the ljworld.com website ever has technical difficulties and you cannot seem to get thru, just go to dailykos.com and you can read what will be the headlines of ljworld.com there
2 September 2008
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davidnta (Anonymous) says…
Q: What do you call conservative parents who teach their children abstinence as the only form of birth control?A: Grandparents
2 September 2008
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craigers (Anonymous) says…
It's humorous that since Palin believes in her morals and teaches them to her children and her child made a choice that is contrary to those morals, that people crucify Palin because of her obvious moral failures. You can't control your children's choices all the time, which is a known to most parents. You can teach them all you can, but they will make decisions that you don't like. The best thing you can do is guide the next decisions they make which is why her daughter is keeping the baby and why Palin herself kept her son even though he has DS. Some would have aborted in both situations because of the inconvenience. I like Palin for the fact that she didn't back done from these challenges and her daughter is accepting the outcome for her choice to have sex. Obviously those aren't the only reasons why I like this choice for McCain's VP, but they are a couple…
2 September 2008
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XEPCT (Anonymous) says…
Regardless of the bickering, the headline is true because abstinence didn't work in her daughter's case. Abstinence education in schools sends mixed messages to teens because of how sex is portrayed in our society.
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Taurus (Anonymous) says…
Anyone who would choose to further her career, when she knew that her 17 year old daughter would be picked apart by the media, is a bad mother and clearly a horrible choice for Vice President. She never should have accepted to position knowing that her child would suffer as a result. I feel sorry for Bristol and if I were her I would resent my mother to no end.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
From democraticunderground:”Today, I am ashamed to be a DU member I've been here a long time. Not a prolific poster, but a prolific reader. And from what I've read today, I don't belong here anymore.Women being bashed for their right to choose having a family and a career with the support of their spouse.Women being called sluts, bimbos and brood mares.Women having their appearance dissected and witchhunts for compromising photos.Innocent young girls being slandered with rumors & innuendos.Enough. I want to win. But I don't want to win this way. And if you do, then I don't want any part of it.”http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6817602
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
xepct, apparently you have intimate knowledge of the hygiene and birth control methods used by Bristol Palin.Do you know what brand of toilet paper she uses, too?You rabid libs act as though a child who was schooled in the practice of birth control (as in the Lawrence school district), has never,ever become pregnant. You actually believe that a child has the discipline and judgment to always take a birth control pill and always insist upon the use of a condom. If that is the case, how do you explain the fact that teen pregnancies and STD's have not been eradicated since the implementation of explicit sex instruction in the public schools?Don't answer. I know what you will say. You will say that the only girls who get pregnant or contract std's are the ones who say they will practice abstinence. You will say that they are the only ones who fall in love and foolishly think that they only way they can keep a guy is to have unprotected sex, or to get pregnant. Girls who practice birth control and safe sex would never, ever do such a thing.Right.
2 September 2008
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Bossa_Nova (Anonymous) says…
this is another stupid unimportant in-the-grand-scheme-of-things wedge-issue
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“If that is the case, how do you explain the fact that teen pregnancies and STD's have not been eradicated since the implementation of explicit sex instruction in the public schools?”Narrow-minded zealots who prefer ignorance and no birth control certainly have not helped, at all.
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JohnBrown (Anonymous) says…
Let's take the kids off the table and talk about Palin. I take it all back, Palin does have experience. But saying she fought against the BTN - and the 'good 'ol boys' is at best extremely misleading. Seems like she's ripe for becoming an 'agent for change” (in Republican-speak this means more of the same).Excerpts from the WashingtonPost.com (today)Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group. :In fiscal 2000, Wasilla received a $1 million earmark, tucked into a transportation appropriations bill, for a rail and bus project in the town. And in the winter of 2000, Palin appeared before congressional appropriations committees to seek earmarks, according to a report in the Anchorage Daily News.Palin and the Wasilla City Council increased Silver's fee from $24,000 to $36,000 a year by 2001, Senate records show.Soon after, the city benefited from additional earmarks: $500,000 for a mental health center, $500,000 for the purchase of federal land and $450,000 to rehabilitate an agricultural processing facility. Then there was the $15 million rail project, intended to connect Wasilla with the town of Girdwood, where Stevens has a house.The Washington trip is now an annual event for Wasilla officials.In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks - about $1,000 in federal money for every resident. By contrast, Boise, Idaho - which has more than 190,000 residents - received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal 2008.
2 September 2008
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livingstone (Anonymous) says…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwKWwu… is a stance Obama has taken again and again. He said that his family is off limits, so now he also says that Palin's family is off limits. GOP is just trying to make news out of the lack of news for themselves. The reason why Mccain choses Palin is that simple: He knows she can generate news and interests, and then use that to attack Obama and the Democrats. Those underhand tactics all over again. Shame on you GOP!
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jonas (Anonymous) says…
RT: “Why do you bash Jesus so much? Do all Buddhists do this?”One of these days, maybe, you're going to stop taking the opinions of the yahoos who flock to this site (and most internet forums) as representative of whatever larger demographic that they happen to be a member of, and you'll be happier for it. Or at least less consistently angry and disgusted at huge masses of people for supposedly having revolting viewpoints. Some people are just jerks, and nothing in their political ideology or whatever has any effect on that.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
“GOP is just trying to make news out of the lack of news for themselves.”Think again, skippy. It's the folks on the other side of the aisle making a huge case over this.If you have a strong stomach, scan democraticunderground or dailykos.
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RobbinStPaul (Anonymous) says…
Bristol and Sarah Pelin are striking a huge positive image to girls in high schools everywhere who want to have a baby out of wedlock. These girls should do as they wish and their family should wholeheartedly welcome a new born as happy grandparents. Bristol has to become an adult sometime and being pro-life it is better she get started right away and learn the difficulties of being an adult and raising a child.God must have wanted this because he makes “Life Happen” In fact, the GOP is going to start selling campaign buttons here in Saint Paul that say, “Life Happens”When Johh McCain was told this he cried and said it is so beautiful that someone so young and innocent can make such a strong affirmation of life by getting pregnant and having a baby out of wedlock. “That is so so pro-ilfe, it makes me weep” he said. And McCain reminds girls everywhere that they don't need to be married to prove how pro-life they are and how willing they are to give themselves to pregnancy.
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janeyb (Anonymous) says…
JohnBrown: Are you pointing out what a capable administrator Sarah Palin is? Look what she did for a city of 6700 people. Why can't the Lawrence government do this? Unfortunately for Bristol Palin a Pro-life decision is much easier for the press to follow. Pregnacy is visual, a human is born, where the byproduct of abortion is destroyed. Is there a pregnant unmarried Democrat daughter out there who will let the press attend her pre-abortion counseling and her abortion procedure in the name of Pro-Choice advocacy? I'm Pro-choice, although I do think a woman should be able to figure out she is pregnant in the first three months, but it is sure easier to hide an abortion than a pregnancy (except maybe when Phill Kline is on the job).
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
The libs on this forum are beginning to sound like the Taliban.What would you have Sarah Palin do? Would you have her force her daughter to have an abortion? Or would you rather the community stone her to death for the sin of not taking the pill?
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“What would you have Sarah Palin do? Would you have her force her daughter to have an abortion? Or would you rather the community stone her to death for the sin of not taking the pill?”Of course not. What she should do is respect the law of the land and accept that each family and each individual must decide for themselves. How very easy of Ms. Palin to advocate the pro-life position when she has the taxpayers of Alaska to pay housing, food and medical benefits in support of her decision. Unless and until she advocates the same for all women, then she should keep her religious beliefs to herself and quit trying to impose them as the law of the land.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
And just who is paying for the housing, food and medical care of the child Ms. Palin has decided to “courageously” bear?
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
scott3460, Sarah Palin said that she and her husband will provide love and support for Bristol and her husband to be and the baby. Are you suggesting that, because Palin is a government employee, she does not have the right to spend her money as she chooses?
2 September 2008
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Todd Epp and the Journal World have published an out and out lie. The JW has reached new lows in its downward spiral to tabloid status.Alaska has a very strong, comprehensive sex education policy in its public schools, and it ranks with the District of Columbia as one of the two most highly ranked states in the support for and availability of contraceptives and family planning services.In Alaska, children are able to obtain contracepties without parental consent and without parental notification. Emergency contraceptives are easily obtained through pharmacists.http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/state_dat:Palin supports abstinence based sex education, but that policy has not been implemented so far during her term as governor, and it certainly was not in effect during the past 11 years of Bristol's public education.Unless the Journal World can prove otherwise, with copies of the school superintendants' signatures approving Bristol Palin's “opt out” of sex ed throughout her entire school career, the JW should retract this so-called news item.
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KSWatch (Todd Epp) says…
Godot:So, the Palin household was waiting for the State of Alaska to teach her child abstinence education? No “birds and the bees” talk at the Palins to young Bristol by mom?Hmmmm.Todd
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75x55 (Anonymous) says…
“Regardless of the bickering, the headline is true because abstinence didn't work in her daughter's case. “LOL! [yah, I know what you were trying to say… but craigers said it better than any of the rest of us]
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Wow, so now the libs, a la Todd Epp, go so far as to condemn parents for even discussing abstinence with their children. Mandatory sex education in school, from grade 1 through grade 12, is not enough control, now the Epps of the world would blame parents for the failure of their precious sex education progrom if parents so much as discuss “the bird and the bees” with their children. You are a shameless rumor monger, Todd Epp.
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i think any public figure is in the sad position of having their lives and their private lives and their families picked apart which is sad commentary on our little world. we want something different, we want something better but there is no map on how thats done and after reading all this it doesnt look like we can get there from here.
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“These people are afraid; and their fear is making them mad and reckless. They sound like wild, rabid creatures, out of their heads, and they're starting to worry me. I begin to think they have surpassed the madness of the right at its Clinton-hating worst. Hell, I think they're surpassing the left at its Bush-hating worst. And I didn't think that could be surpassed!And there is a difference, too. Clinton and Bush “hate” grew over time to the insane levels. These people admit they knew nothing about Palin before John McCain announced her, yet their hate for her was immediate and electric. It is not sane. It is disturbingly unnatural. It is almost supernatural.”http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/09/01/sarah-bristol-meltdown-the-haters/
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
The lefties scream about GWB's trampling the Constitution, of which Roe v. Wade is not of origin, but would just jump for joy to see gun rights, a constitutional right, jerked out from underneath Americans. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26460555/… whine about their fear of the judiciary acting as the exectuve branch unless it favors them, like the 9th Circuit and gay marriage.Hypocrites and whiners.
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janeyb asked: JohnBrown: Are you pointing out what a capable administrator Sarah Palin is? Look what she did for a city of 6700 people. Why can't the Lawrence government do this?Yep, she administered alright, she capably administered in her first public statement after being named the veep choice for McCain a deception as to who, and what, she really is (a person for earmarks, not against them).The rest of her record is also beginning to smack of more deception (e.g being against the 'good 'ol boy” network, etc.). For example, Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group with unlimited fundraising limits. it;'s obvious palin knows how to work the system, which makes her part of the problem, not the solution. She's also aginst abortion for any reason, including for rape victims. the other side of this coin is that it means she's FOR the rights of would-be rapists to select the mother of their offspring.For McCain, this was his first Presidential Decision, which may explain why O'Bama is now at or above 50% in the polls for the first time this cycle.
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Craigers wrote:It's humorous that since Palin believes in her morals and teaches them to her children and her child made a choice that is contrary to those morals, that people crucify Palin because of her obvious moral failures. You can't control your children's choices all the time, which is a known to most parents. You can teach them all you can, but they will make decisions that you don't like.Yes, Craigers, it is humorous. It just goes to show you that if your children won't follow your moral preaching, then how do you expect us to legislate it. As the old saying goes, “you can't legislate morality.” But that is precisely what Palin seeks to do, i.e., transform her narrow-minded and obviously ineffectual and incompetent beliefs into the law of the land. This is America, And she is entitled to her beliefs. If she doesn't believe in abortion. Fine. Then she shoul't have one. If she believes in abstience only sex educastion, fine. Then she should home school her kids. If she doesn't believe in birth control. Then fine. She can let her kids fornicate at will without protection against disease and/or pregnancy. But if she wants to shove her minority, antiquated and medieval beliefs upon the reset of us, thats not fine. That is wrong, wrong, wrong. And anti-American. No way. No how. No McCain.
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Exceprt from Yahoo news: Obama advisers and surrogates have linked Palin to conservative former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. An Associated Press story from Alaska, dated July 17, 1999, stated that Palin, then the mayor of the small town of Wasilla, was wearing a Buchanan button during a Buchanan visit to Alaska.But in a letter to the Anchorage Daily News a week later, Palin wrote: “When presidential candidates visit our community, I am always happy to meet them. I'll even put on their button when handed one as a polite gesture of respect. … The article may have left your readers with the perception that I am endorsing this candidate, as opposed to welcoming his visit to Wasilla.”A week after that, the Associated Press reported that Palin would serve as a co-chair of Forbes' campaign.Still, the Miami Herald this week quoted an e-mail from Obama Florida spokesman Mark Bubriski that stated: “Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer.”______________________________________________I gotcha, Sarah. If Hitler visited Alaska, you'd wear a swastica.
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
Coolmom wrote: I think any public figure is in the sad position of having their lives and their private lives and their families picked apart which is sad commentary on our little world. we want something different, we want something better but there is no map on how thats done and after reading all this it doesnt look like we can get there from here.––––––––––––––—Nonsense. I think it is sad when a politician whores her family to garner a few votes, and then yells foul when the predictable backlash causes harm and embarrassment to children she is morally obligated to protect.
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George_Braziller (Anonymous) says…
I'm not a fan of McCain but I don't give a rat's ass if both presidential candidates, their spouses, their running mates, and all of their children were impregnated by komodo dragons. What the hell does it have to do with the election?
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“Nonsense. I think it is sad when a politician whores her family to garner a few votes, and then yells foul when the predictable backlash causes harm and embarrassment to children she is morally obligated to protect.”You mean like BO when he had his whole family on TV at the end of the DNC primaries? You mean “whoring like that?Besides Palin did not go on any TV shows with her family “whoring them out” as you say.You are a liar!
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craigers (Anonymous) says…
Sychophant, your little twist could be used to say why even parent, why legislate against crimes or anything for that matter because people won't listen to the moral preaching! What we should do is teach our kids good morals and if they make bad decisions, then teach them to manage the outcome.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
NOW the vagina owner's society is letting a woman get pillaried for nothing other thatn having a vagina, and why? Because she supports Pro-life position, never mind the fact she is a fellow vagina owner.This election has shown the Democrats and Liberals as the Hypocrites that they truley are. You have no rights in their mind and no intellectual ability, …. unless you agree and accept their brand of politics.That is facism ladies and gentlemen. Thatnks for the DNC for leting us know you are a bunch of little Facists.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
“I gotcha, Sarah. If Hitler visited Alaska, you'd wear a swastica.”Godwin flag!
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“Are you suggesting that, because Palin is a government employee, she does not have the right to spend her money as she chooses?”No, I am stating that as long as she receives free housing, food and medical care, she has no business dictating that everyone else in society, who do not share in those benefits, follow her religious beliefs. She may do whatever she wishes, including shamelessly making her newborn son a political prop to rev up the right wing of the Republican Party. However, she has no right to dictate the choice for others when she, thanks to Alaska's taxpayers, is not in a position to fully bear the consequence of that decision.
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:NOW the vagina owner's society is letting a woman get pillaried for nothing other thatn having a vagina, and why? Because she supports Pro-life position, never mind the fact she is a fellow vagina owner.~~~Please show a post that states she unqualified to be VP simply because she's a woman. Are you saying that the only reason women should vote for her is because she is a woman? Not vote on her policy positions? Because your post definitely leads one to that impression that you are saying women who disagree with her policy positions are traitors to their sex simply because they disagree with them rather than voting because she has a vagina.And you accused ME of being anti-woman! Sheesh!
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“No, I am stating that as long as she receives free housing, food and medical care, she has no business dictating that everyone else in society, who do not share in those benefits, follow her religious beliefs.”Then I guess all those ACORN voters and welfare recipients and HUD assistance and FEMA assistance have no right to dictate what everyone else in society should do either.Do you guys actually read the crap yu are posting?The above would include all the “Bought and paid for voters” that belong to the DNC.
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“I'm not a fan of McCain but I don't give a rat's ass if both presidential candidates, their spouses, their running mates, and all of their children were impregnated by komodo dragons. What the hell does it have to do with the election?”Well, for starters Sarah Palin would be against aborting any monster resulting from that horrible union.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“NOW the vagina owner's society is letting a woman get pillaried for nothing other thatn having a vagina, and why? Because she supports Pro-life position, never mind the fact she is a fellow vagina owner.This election has shown the Democrats and Liberals as the Hypocrites that they truley are. You have no rights in their mind and no intellectual ability, :. unless you agree and accept their brand of politics.That is facism ladies and gentlemen. Thatnks for the DNC for leting us know you are a bunch of little Facists.”Produce one post in which a woman gets pillaried for nothing other that having a vagina. Otherwise, quit lying.
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“Then I guess all those ACORN voters and welfare recipients and HUD assistance and FEMA assistance have no right to dictate what everyone else in society should do either.Do you guys actually read the crap yu are posting?The above would include all the “Bought and paid for voters” that belong to the DNC.”It's sad, Asbestos, when you cannot address the argument.
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Katara (Anonymous) says…
Can you believe this?This guy is writing that Gov. Palin's baby with Down's Syndrome will help save McCain's campaign! Shameless! Do you think Gov. Palin is going to go after this guy for using her child for campaigning purposes? http://www.newsmax.com/john_perry/sar…
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:Then I guess all those ACORN voters and welfare recipients and HUD assistance and FEMA assistance have no right to dictate what everyone else in society should do either.Do you guys actually read the crap yu are posting?The above would include all the “Bought and paid for voters” that belong to the DNC.~~~You make me chuckle! When on earth have any of the above been in any position of power to dictate anything to anyone?
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jonas_opines (Anonymous) says…
Wow, Katara, that link was shameless.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
Jonas, it is newsmax, it is not real journalism, it is liberal propaganda, and the nation now knows the liars in the press are the same bomb throwers on the lefty blogs.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
“Are you saying that the only reason women should vote for her is because she is a woman? Not vote on her policy positions? Because your post definitely leads one to that impression that you are saying women who disagree with her policy positions are traitors to their sex simply because they disagree with them rather than voting because she has a vagina.”No but most vagina owners are interested in their offspring. Clearly you are not one of those vagina owners. And NO, McCain appointed her for lots of reasons, and her vagina was not the reason, her maverick spirit was, YOU may not accept that, but that is the reason.As for other outraged vagina owners, I suggest you left Howeird Dean and the Obama idiots know just how freaking stupid they are. Nice try at spn, but with that much spin, you mad an idiot out of syourself.Maybe you are pissed because Palin actually used her vagina, and yours is empty and dry, I do not know.But the Media, and left wingers and the blogs are simply sexist.You guys ought to be ashamed, but you have no character, so you aren't.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
Snotty the moron wrote:”Produce one post in which a woman gets pillaried for nothing other that having a vagina.”why just about everything from the left concerning Palin and her daughter.That is the difference, it is because these repubican women have a Vagina, and USE IT.
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ljworld tos:”But if you use inappropriate language (even when typographically obfuscated), or make potentially slanderous or libelous comments when using this site and its features, or engage in ad hominem attacks on fellow commenters, people mentioned in stories, contributors or any employee of The Lawrence Journal-World or The World Company, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to remove any and/or all of your contributions.”IO guess calling me a liar is a violation of TOS.So why don't you idiots at the ljworld remove Snotty's posts and Katara's posts? Because you are liberal puke Obama supporters with no accountability.You do not want a “free flow of ideas” from conservatives.You guys suck, and have no clue of “First Amendment issues”!!!
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“why just about everything from the left concerning Palin and her daughter.That is the difference, it is because these repubican women have a Vagina, and USE IT.”So you cannot even find one example of the outrage you claim. Aren't you embarrassed? If Palin is not a hypocrite and a right wing zealot bent on imposing her religious beliefs on the country, why can't you marshall an argument in her defense? All you do is call names, like an unschooled child. Sad.
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“You guys suck, and have no clue of “First Amendment issues”!!!”The First Amendment, of course, applies to governmental action. Perhaps that noted legal scholar, Asbestos, will explain the relevance of his assertion to what the LJW decides to publish.
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
“All you do is call names, like an unschooled child. Sad.”Yeah I am sad, but not a sad POS like you, Wasn't it you that called her a “five time baby popper”?Talk about an unschooled child (spolied lefty brat).
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
Yes I know Snotty, here is the quote:”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”But it includes right to expression outside the “governmental action” hence the issues of not being able to yell “Fire” in a theater, so it does affect the public and private institutions, as stated by multiple case history, especially LOts of cases brought forward for an “individual's fright to free expression” in multiple setting outside governmental activities.Don't go into constitutional issues with me, you are woefully clueless on it, as eveidenced on your posts that have violated the slander and libel laws/.
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“Yeah I am sad, but not a sad POS like you, Wasn't it you that called her a “five time baby popper”?Talk about an unschooled child (spolied lefty brat).”Did I get the number wrong or something?
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“But it includes right to expression outside the “governmental action” hence the issues of not being able to yell “Fire” in a theater, so it does affect the public and private institutions, as stated by multiple case history, especially LOts of cases brought forward for an “individual's fright to free expression” in multiple setting outside governmental activities.Don't go into constitutional issues with me, you are woefully clueless on it, as eveidenced on your posts that have violated the slander and libel laws/.”You are wrong and I'd suggest you quit before you humiliate yourself further. If you choose to go on perhaps you'll humor us with some evidence in support of your novel legal theory.
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:Jonas, it is newsmax, it is not real journalism, it is liberal propaganda, and the nation now knows the liars in the press are the same bomb throwers on the lefty blogs.~~~You realize that Newsmax is very much a right-leaning blog, don't you?And, yes, Jonas, posting a link to newsmax can be shameless. >;)
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asbestos (Anonymous) says: Maybe you are pissed because Palin actually used her vagina, and yours is empty and dry, I do not know.~~~And this is not sexist, how?You sure like to use the word “vagina” a lot. Envy much?
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:ljworld tos:”But if you use inappropriate language (even when typographically obfuscated), or make potentially slanderous or libelous comments when using this site and its features, or engage in ad hominem attacks on fellow commenters, people mentioned in stories, contributors or any employee of The Lawrence Journal-World or The World Company, we reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to remove any and/or all of your contributions.”IO guess calling me a liar is a violation of TOS.So why don't you idiots at the ljworld remove Snotty's posts and Katara's posts? Because you are liberal puke Obama supporters with no accountability.You do not want a “free flow of ideas” from conservatives.You guys suck, and have no clue of “First Amendment issues”!!!~~~Find one post that has me calling you a liar. Find one post that has me slinging names at you. In fact, find one post that I have done anything you have accused me of.I will kindly suggest again to put up or shut up.
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Bea, Snotty, and Bozo continuously do.
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This just in from Yahoo News: wasilla, Alaska - The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family at the convention where Sen. John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president. The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant.”This is just a bonus,” Johnston said.The young man's presence could set off a media frenzy around the young couple as photographers and cameramen scramble for pictures of the two teenagers. On Monday, Palin and her husband, Todd, said their 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, planned to have the baby and wed a young man identified only as Levi. The family asked the media to respect the young couple's privacy as has been the tradition with children of candidates.Sarah Palin is scheduled to address the convention Wednesday night and traditionally her family would join her at the conclusion of her speech.Levi Johnston, a high school hockey player for Wasilla High School, is not listed on the team roster for 2008-2009, and his mother wouldn't say if he graduated. She said simply he's no longer a student and any further information would have to come from him.Many social conservatives have rallied behind Gov. Palin and her family's troubles. The McCain campaign has said the Palins are like any other American family and that “life happens.”Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that Palin's family and her daughter's pregnancy were not relevant to her potential performance as vice president. “I think people's families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics.”Just days after she was picked as McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin has become a lightening rod for attention. Aside from her daughter's pregnancy, it was disclosed that a private attorney has been retained for her in a legislative ethics investigation for her dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner. It also was disclosed that Palin's husband had been arrested on a drunken-driving charge two decades ago.____________________________________________OMG, the RNC is regressing from political theatre to three ring circus. This charade adds further credence to the exception to the rule: a politician's family should normally be off limits, but when you parade them like tin soldiers in front of an international audience, you reap what you sow, baby.
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“You sure like to use the word “vagina” a lot. Envy much?”NO that would be in a celebratory in action. You would see it as a negative wouldn't you, glass half empty?”You realize that Newsmax is very much a right-leaning blog, don't you?”Not a blog dear, it is a “newssite”. I was thinking of “newsday”, which very much a left winger site.So sorry for the mixup. It is called a mistake, and I own up to mine.You guys however, are perfect and never make a mistake.
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asbestos (Anonymous) says:”You sure like to use the word “vagina” a lot. Envy much?”NO that would be in a celebratory in action. You would see it as a negative wouldn't you, glass half empty?~~~So telling a woman her vagina is dry and empty is celebratory? I must have missed out on the positive connotation of that at the local feminist society.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~asbestos (Anonymous) says:Not a blog dear, it is a “newssite”. I was thinking of “newsday”, which very much a left winger site.~~~Right-o. Which just means you didn't even bother to read the link. How do you feel about Newsmax touting Palin's baby with Down's Syndrome as a campaign tool? Surely you are just as appalled by that behavior, right?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~asbestos (Anonymous) says:So sorry for the mixup. It is called a mistake, and I own up to mine.You guys however, are perfect and never make a mistake.~~~ Well, considering I posted a correcting post on the other thread and noted I made an error in stating that Gov. Palin was Governor at the time she was quoted for her support for the BTN when she was just campaigning for Governor, I think that points out that I can own up to my mistakes too.So are you going to own up to your other mistakes? See my 9/2 post @ 8:36pm. An apology would be nice as well for slandering my good name ;)
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jonas_opines (Anonymous) says…
Man, asbestos, we've barely had to say anything and you've quite thoroughly made an @$$ out of yourself, haven't you. katara: The topic, not you're selection in referencing it, just in case that be not clear.
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TomShewmon (Tom Shewmon) says…
Newsmax is liberal propaganda? I need get on Cymbalta or Lexapro or something I guess.
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Jonas_opines, I guess I'm not clear then. Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain has requested that her family's privacy be respected but here is an article by the people who support their campaign blatantly using her infant with Down's Syndrome as a political tool. She should be just as outraged for her infant being used in such a way as she is about the media scrutiny of her daughter's pregnancy.Otherwise it does leave a fairly large impression that she is using her children for political gain.
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Tom Shewmon (Tom Shewmon) says:Newsmax is liberal propaganda? I need get on Cymbalta or Lexapro or something I guess.~~~Came as a big surprise to me too! :D
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
This Palin woman is just a gift that keeps on giving. And proof of a God with a supreme sense of humor and irony. After all the supposed anti-Americanism of Obama's Rev. Wright, a few interesting words from Ms. Palin's church. Wonder if she renounced them? “Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war “contending for your faith;” and said that Jesus “operated from that position of war mode.”“During the 2004 election season, he praised President Bush's performance during a debate with Sen. John Kerry, then offered a not-so-subtle message about his personal candidate preferences. “I'm not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I'm sorry.”
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
Palin did not mention her daughter's pregnancy until the DailyKos posted a lie, a defamation, an attack on her character and her family, that required defense.Kos brought what both Obama and McCain agree should be private, into the public realm by fostering this slanderous assault on a child on his blog.Shame on Kos, and even more shame on the Journal World, for continuing to feed the frenzy of hate and lies that they nurture on their forums.
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Bears posting here too…st. paul - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation - “SP” - Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.htmlThat isn't very consistent with a pro-life point of view, is it? Why are these teens who choose to keep their baby undeserving of the necessary support to help them raise their baby and become productive citizens?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Godot, there are many ways Palin could have dispelled the rumor without mentioning her daughter's pregnancy.
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Totally irrelevant, Katara. Who knows if this home was well run, or if it accomplished its mission to rehabilitate these young mothers or if its support was a good use of taxpayer money? I have worked with homes for unwed mothers as a board member and volunteer, and, as a result, I can tell you that the ones that are well managed and deserving of continuing support are few and far between.
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“Godot, there are many ways Palin could have dispelled the rumor without mentioning her daughter's pregnancy.”How, Katara, when the DailyKos had already reported sources in Alaska who said that Bristol was pregnant?Katara, if this were your daughter who was being brutalized in the press, how would you have handled it?
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Godot (Anonymous) says:”Godot, there are many ways Palin could have dispelled the rumor without mentioning her daughter's pregnancy.”How, Katara, when the DailyKos had already reported sources in Alaska who said that Bristol was pregnant?Katara, if this were your daughter who was being brutalized in the press, how would you have handled it?~~~McCain's campaign stated that the sole reason Palin announced her daughter's pregnancy was to dispel rumors about Palin's son being her grandson. I posted the links to this on this or the other thread about the same topic.That is a separate issue from DailyKos reporting any sources about Bristol being pregnant and I haven't any idea if that “report” was before or after Palin's announcement. Contrary to Abestos beliefs, I don't go to the DailyKos site. I think I have clicked on links that have been posted to read the articles but that is it. If rumors that my child was actually my daughter's child, you get my medical records of the birth. It is pretty simple. I sure as hell wouldn't use the defense of “My daughter can't be the mother of my child because she is already knocked up.” How on earth would that help your daughter? In my mind, you are throwing her to the wolves with that defense.
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Godot (Anonymous) says:Totally irrelevant, Katara. Who knows if this home was well run, or if it accomplished its mission to rehabilitate these young mothers or if its support was a good use of taxpayer money?I have worked with homes for unwed mothers as a board member and volunteer, and, as a result, I can tell you that the ones that are well managed and deserving of continuing support are few and far between.~~~Hardly irrelevant when ones runs on a pro-life platform. If the program doesn't accomplish its mission, slashing its funds isn't going to improve the situation. In most cases, it is a lack of funds that is the problem. Not enough money to truly support and educate the teen mothers. When you combine that with Palin's refusal to increase the threshold for welfare benefits in the state (AK is below many other states when it comes to this), it is a double whammy for the teen mothers. Many of whom have no other means of support and probably don't have familial support ( a key component, I believe, in the success of these teen mothers). Daycare subsidies fall under these social services so now you have teen mothers who can't afford to support themselves or their child with a job because daycare is a financial impossibility. It is a no-win situation for those who chose life - something Palin very much promotes. You deserve respect for putting your money where your mouth is in regards for working with homes for unwed mothers. That is a lot more than what many do.
3 September 2008
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“Totally irrelevant, Katara. Who knows if this home was well run, or if it accomplished its mission to rehabilitate these young mothers or if its support was a good use of taxpayer money?I have worked with homes for unwed mothers as a board member and volunteer, and, as a result, I can tell you that the ones that are well managed and deserving of continuing support are few and far between.”Did Palin take the money she cut and spend it on similar services? Your argument may make sense if she did, otherwise, she reamins a hypocrite who takes public food, housing and medical to support and make possible her pro-life decision, but slashes funding for others. That does, however, seem to be the Republican way.
3 September 2008
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“Katara, if this were your daughter who was being brutalized in the press, how would you have handled it?”And that's the point. Most decent people would never put their children in such a position to pursue a job.
3 September 2008
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…
No dear morons, the point of my “obnoxious speech and offensive references” was to illustrate that your condemnations on whaqt and how I used the word, was just as sexist as the way Palin was treated, and now you lable me the same as a sexist, when using the very same tactic and wording you idiots used.Just who was “played here”?You lefties were, and mortgaged all of your so called “principals” of equality.What is really the news is that only “liberals” have a right to equality in you twisted little minds.Which is why America will reject you idiots.Just look at the “Bash McCain” hour after the debates with Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper, and Wolf Blitzer. These bit**ing primadonas showed just how non objective there were, and McCain pulled his interview with Larry king. These so called professinal journalists threw a temper tantrum right on prime time TV. They need to take off their press passes and put on the Obama buttons, they are not fooling anybody.
3 September 2008
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consumer1 (Anonymous) says…
Apparently Palin must be the right choice for Republican VP. According to all the self important liberals who want to tell everyone else how they should live their lives. Using the family of this woman to try and smear her political future.
3 September 2008
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MyName (Anonymous) says…
consumer1:> According to all the self important liberals who want to tell everyone else how they should live their lives.I'm sorry to have to point this out, but conservative America is just as bad if not worse about telling people what they can't do with their bodies or their lives (which is pretty anything that offends their religious mores). Perhaps you should actually try examining what your candidates support (and what the rest of America believes) before you go around trying to attack another set of political views.
3 September 2008
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scott3460 (Anonymous) says…
“Apparently Palin must be the right choice for Republican VP. According to all the self important liberals who want to tell everyone else how they should live their lives. Using the family of this woman to try and smear her political future.”Liberals = pro choice. Ms. Palin pro-life & seeks to outlaw choiceLiberals = support of science. Ms. Palin - creationists who believes religious dogma should be taught in public school alonside science.Liberals = belief in competent and honest government. Ms. Palin used her position as governor to pursue a private vendetta against a brother-in-lawSince Palin's announcement 5 days ago, Obama has risen to his largest lead to date in head to head national polling. Apparently the American public does not share the hardcore Republican view that Ms. Palin is the right choice. This in spite of the fact that Ms. Palin has been locked away in seclusion and has not been subjected to any press scrutiny or questioning. When she is asked to explain her extreme views, hypcoricy and overall lack of preparation, this anchor around McCain's neck will grow very heavy indeed. And in the electoral collect calculation Obama remains very secure with polls showing him ahead by 5% or more in enough states to gather 260 of the 270 needed votes. He needs only 10 votes from the remaining undecided states. McCain's task is to win in each and every one of the toss up states and steal away some of the States where Obama is leading by 5% or more. His only remaining chance to shake up the race is the debates, but it is not expected that either he, or Ms. Palin, will have much of a chance against the superior intellect of Obama and Biden.
3 September 2008
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jonas_opines (Anonymous) says…
katara: For clarity, yes I agree. Newsmax's article, which you linked, was shameless. As shameless as Epp's multitude of articles, certainly.
3 September 2008
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jaywalker (Anonymous) says…
“Katara, if this were your daughter who was being brutalized in the press, how would you have handled it?”Scott: “And that's the point. Most decent people would never put their children in such a position to pursue a job.”Nope. The point is that decent people wouldn't be carving up a woman and her daughter like political lambs. Despicable behavior by so many in the media and on these strings. The epitomy of hypocrisy from 'open-minded, accepting liberals' who scream and whine about 'Rovain politics', but never hesitate to jump down in the gutter when the opportunity presents itself. Congrats, you're just as disgusting as those you oppose.
3 September 2008
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temperance (Anonymous) says…
“…decent people wouldn't be carving up a woman and her daughter like political lambs.”Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what you said when the conservative movement went after Hillary and Chelsea in the '90s. Anyway, if part of one's political platform rests on rhetoric about family values and strengthening America's families, one's family & its choices certainly become fair game.
3 September 2008
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
“Anyway, if part of one's political platform rests on rhetoric about family values and strengthening America's families, one's family & its choices certainly become fair game.”Did you miss the Democratic convention? It was all about religion and values and families.Okay guys, looks like it is okay to take the gloves off when it comes to the Obama and Biden families! Have at it!!
3 September 2008
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revshackleford (Anonymous) says…
r.e. Mike Blur's statement:When Palin first ran for governor, she assured the media that her husband Todd would quit his job and watch the kids if she won the election. Sarah won the election, and Todd quit his job.However, Todd couldn't handle the job of being Mr. Mom and went back to work in the oil fields. Being a busy executive, Sarah had no time for her kids, so the little Palins were shipped out to live with relativesMike, what's your source for this information? Thanks.
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Godot (Anonymous) says…
invictus, how wrong of you to say that. However, I'm trying real hard to see a resemblance between Obama and his daughters, but I just don't.
3 September 2008
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jaywalker (Anonymous) says…
“Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what you said when the conservative movement went after Hillary and Chelsea in the '90s.”As a matter of fact, temperance, yes it was. Feel free to blow your blanket generalizations out your back door if you don't mind. Now, criticism of Hillary and her involvement w/ Whitewater was fair game, but personal attacks on family never should be. And as far as your spiel on a family values platform, cop a clue. Outside of Ward and June Cleaver, who has blanket control of teen-agers? Pallin has a strong family with 5 kids, married for 20 years, and is standing behind her daughter and the unplanned pregnancy, her boyfriend and their decison to get married. Sorry if somehow you're one of the morons I've alluded to that finds those facts to be a strike against her. Would it have satisfied your 'idea' of family values if Pallin had aborted her son when she learned he had Downs, disowned her daughter and kicked her out of the house when she found she was pregnant, and quit her life's work and huddled into the kitchen like a good little wife? Brilliant.
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
the republican party's own peggy noonan says “its over” Who is Peggy Noonan? She is one of a handful of the nationally known conservative pundits who has brain, brawn experience, stature and respect.She is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. She is considered a political conservative.Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan is a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Miami University, St. John Fisher College, her alma mater Fairleigh Dickinson University, Adelphi College, and Saint Francis College. She was nominated for Emmy Awards for her work on The West Wing and America: A Tribute to Heroes.Anyway, she was on an NBC segment with Mike Todd today, and after she was finished speaking, her microphone remained “hot” and she continued to speak with the other guest, Republican consultant Mike Murphy. As some of you may know, satellite feeds remain live, and since the microphone remained on, and was apparently recorded by someone, you can clearly hear the continued conversation. She trashes both McCain and Palin. Calls it “political bullsh*it.” and laments that “its over.” Very telling, as it is a very candid and intellectually honest, and it comes from a well respected conservative. The fact that it is her private thoughts, and not public spin makes it even more credible.Here is the link to the Yahoo story which contains a video of the broadcast and Noonan's after-broadcast comments. incredible. priceless You have to hear and see it to believe it. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200809 … tico/20576So, to you conservative posters who insist that Palin is perfect and that you're gonna “whup us” in November, I suggest that you reconsider your mindless, camp follower ways, and start thinking for yourselves like you leaders are doing (at least privately). Fascists and communists are known as mindless camp followers. Americans, on the other hand, have a noble tradition of venerating the highest ideals of independent thought and Constitutional Democracy. So, to you posters who continue to brag how “perfect” Palin is, and how you're gonna “whup us,” think again, and please, take some advice: Shut up (you're only embarrassing yourself), cowboy up, and get over it. According to one of your trusted leaders. “its over”!!
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marcdeveraux (Anonymous) says…
Bottom line is Palin supports abstinence only sex ed. This is what this is all about ,not her horny daughter.This is proof that palin has no clue about life.Bad judgement. Plain and simple.Also ,Sycho early on claims that the N. viet cong could not break mcbush,so sorry sycho, mcbush himself says he made it 4 days befor he broke down and wrote a confession.Called the u.s. all kinds of bad things. Get the facts sycho, before you post.Sorry to ruin your dream.
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
marcdeveraux, I agree with what you say. but I think in referring to sycho, presumably, me (TheSychophant), just a friendly note that you are confusing me with another poster. No biggie, just need to protect my reputation and self-respect.
4 September 2008
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TheSychophant (Anonymous) says…
This gentleman attended the U.S. Naval Academy with John McCain. He graduated in the top 25% of his class. (unlike McCain, who was fifth from the bottom). He was awarded Two Silver Stars, Two Bronze Stars, Two Legions of Merit, Two Purple hearts, and like John McCain, he flew in Viet Nam, was shot down and captured, and was a fellow prisoner of war. This is what he feels about McCain's candidacy for POUSA: (video)http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/fellow-navy-pow-speaks-about
4 September 2008
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Probably the best thing to come out of this dustup is the exposure of the sexism and hatred at the heart of the far left.