Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

[Deftscythe]

everyone is getting disinterested with her because she just keeps repeating the same full-of-lies stump material.

Can't happen fast enough. She's just one big distraction.

[Maxxthepenguin]

everyone is getting disinterested with her because she just keeps repeating the same full-of-lies stump material.

lol no they're not getting disinterested. Her lies are spreading as truth.

It turns out, blatantly lying, even when the truth is freely available from reputable sources. What the McCain campaign is insane: make everybody else considered liars who "attack too hard".

[Olo401]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsazrg1gbO0

Uhhh... wut?

[Correction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsazrg1gbO0

Uhhh... wut?

Ohhh those lucky duckies!

[Demosthenes11]

The republicans have had one hell of a turn-around in their campaign since only a few months ago. They have some serious momentum right now and if they can keep it up they will probably steal the election from the most electable democrat, besides clinton, in 3 decades

[Zilong]

The last straw, the McCain campaign said, was in July, when Monegan planned to travel to Washington to seek federal money for a plan to assign troopers, judges and prosecutors who could exclusively handle sexual assault cases — one of the state's most intractable crime problems.

Am I the only person that find this point particularly hillarious after that revelation where the bitch charges for rape kit?

[aurik]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/...omy/index.html

Found this article interesting.

[Kuya]

Also interesting:

In election news, the Michigan Messenger reports the chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of a Republican effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. The Republican plan to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. In Michigan, more than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans were made to African Americans. John McCain’s campaign stands to benefit in other ways, as well, from the burgeoning number of foreclosures in Michigan. McCain’s regional headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott. The firm’s founder, David Trott, has raised between $100,000 and $250,000 for the Republican nominee.

Sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/16/headlines#9

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michi...t=michigannews

http://www.michiganmessenger.com/407...lose-your-vote



If this is true, you just gotta love the GOP

http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2...oratorium.html

[Kuya]

Food for thought:

This week, THE JOURNAL examined the provocative and often hostile language used by some ‘shock jock’ talk radio hosts to criticize liberals and liberalism.

Unitarian pastor Chris Buice, whose congregation was attacked by a gunman with an expressed aversion to liberalism and Christianity, said:

“A man came in here [and] dehumanized us. Members of our church were not human to him. Where did he get that? Where did he get that sense that we’re not human? ... When you hear in talk radio that liberals are evil, that they are traitors, that they are godless, that they are on the side of the terrorists – that’s hate language.”

With Americans’ interest in – and feelings about – the Presidential election reaching a fever pitch, commentators have been parsing the nation’s political discourse to analyze how Americans view one another.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY editor Clive Crook wrote in a recent column that many liberals themselves have a basic disrespect for those with whom they disagree:

“[Democrats’] concern is real and admirable. The trouble is, they lack respect for the objects of their solicitude. Their sympathy comes mixed with disdain, and even contempt. Democrats regard their policies as self-evidently in the interests of the US working and middle classes. Yet those wide segments of US society keep helping to elect Republican presidents. How is one to account for this? Are those people idiots? Frankly, yes – or so many liberals are driven to conclude. Either that or bigots, clinging to guns, God, and white supremacy; or else pathetic dupes, ever at the disposal of Republican strategists... Voters in small towns and suburbs, forever mocked and condescended to by metropolitan liberals, are attuned to this disdain. Every four years, many take their revenge.”

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/

[Correction]

Sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/16/headlines#9

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michi...t=michigannews

http://www.michiganmessenger.com/407...lose-your-vote

Calling bullshit on this one. Three links != three sources since they all refer to the michingan messenger story.

Also, fuck that michigan messenger website. Fucking thing won't stay open for longer than 30 seconds before crashing Firefox 2 on my Mac.

[Kuya]

DN's information is from Michigan Messenger, so yea, that can be considered the same source, or same information, as for the Mlive, i didn't check their sources.

The Macomb County Republican Party chair who told Michigan Messenger earlier this week that Republicans planned to challenge voters at the polls using a list of foreclosed homes has changed his story.

James Carabelli now says the party has “no plans to do anything,” according to a story in the Macomb Daily.

Reports of the plan for foreclosure-based challenges have spurred outrage and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) planned a demonstration today at the Macomb County Republican headquarters

From MM.

[Senoska]

I live about 30 minutes away from Macomb.

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

So the Obama campaign send out a memo saying, "In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a 'Strategic Framework Agreement' governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office."

What did that guy accuse him of again lol?

[Kuya]

Oh that darn Obama.

[aurik]

So the Obama campaign send out a memo saying, "In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a 'Strategic Framework Agreement' governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office."

What did that guy accuse him of again lol?

Accused him of trying to influence the Status of Forces agreement, which is a totally different thing.

Obama spokesperson had this to say:

"Barack Obama has consistently called for any Strategic Framework Agreement to be submitted to the U.S. Congress so that the American people have the same opportunity for review as the Iraqi Parliament ... Barack Obama has never urged a delay in negotiations, nor has he urged a delay in immediately beginning a responsible drawdown of our combat brigades."

[Zosi]

Accused him of trying to influence the Status of Forces agreement, which is a totally different thing.

But the letters are kinda close, that's good enough for some journalists.

[aurik]

Also, another funny article:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...bama_poll.html

Push-polling at its finest. Very reminiscent of the Rove 2000 smear of McCain.

[Rivieras]

From the Keith Olberman program -

Apparently Sarah Palin has lost 10 points in the favorable poll; still waiting for the news to hit the net. So she's lost 10 points in 3 days, looks like the shine I said would dim has started.

I'm calling it. The election is going to be turbulent but Barack Obama is going to win the Presidency.

Heard it first folks.

[Correction]

People were swayed by Tina Fey, who is 10 times hotter.

[archibaldcrane]

From the Keith Olberman program -

Apparently Sarah Palin has lost 10 points

I read this as "10 pounds"

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