Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

[Suited Aces]

I'd like to announce that i'm suspending my job, so i can focus on the backlog of unbeaten video games crisis.

You do realize that it is Senator McCain's job to be in Washington helping to make these kind of decisions, right? Just like it is Senator Obama's duty. That is why they were elected.

[quannum]

You sir are a true maverick, folksy, American hero. Pls will you sign my first-born in permanent marker?

There's was a 5 year period of my life in vietnam, where i didn't have access to permanent marker.

[quannum]

You do realize that it is Senator McCain's job to be in Washington helping to make these kind of decisions, right? Just like it is Senator Obama's duty. That is why they were elected.

You do realize that Senator McCain is at the top of the "110th Congress / Senate / Members who missed votes" list, right?

There have been 643 votes taken in the current Senate session: McCain has missed 412 of them.

McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8th. Since March, he has missed 109 of the last 110 votes.

country first, right?

[aurik]

You do realize that it is Senator McCain's job to be in Washington helping to make these kind of decisions, right? Just like it is Senator Obama's duty. That is why they were elected.

Ha ha...you fell for it.

[aurik]

You do realize that Senator McCain is at the top of the "110th Congress / Senate / Members who missed votes" list, right?

There have been 643 votes taken in the current Senate session: McCain has missed 412 of them.

McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8th. Since March, he has missed 109 of the last 110 votes.

country first, right?

I'll have you know there was 5 years of his life he wasn't able to vote in the senate because he was in a prison camp in Hanoi!

[Aerin]

wowowowowowowowowow

CNN right now: McCain camp proposes delaying this friday's debate until Oct 2, where it would take place of the VP debate, which would be delayed.


HOW LONG CAN YOU HIDE THE PALIN!?!?!

Seriously, I want to know how she'll measure up in a debate. No... nevermind, I know it will be horrible. I really just want it for the lulz.

[Beckwin]

You do realize that it is Senator McCain's job to be in Washington helping to make these kind of decisions, right? Just like it is Senator Obama's duty. That is why they were elected.

...do you really think all 100 Senators and all the Congressmen negotiate the details of every bill? stop being a fool. Neither McCain or Obama are on the relevant committees.

[Alleya]

You do realize that Senator McCain is at the top of the "110th Congress / Senate / Members who missed votes" list, right?

There have been 643 votes taken in the current Senate session: McCain has missed 412 of them.

McCain has not voted in the Senate since April 8th. Since March, he has missed 109 of the last 110 votes.

country first, right?

He is not at the top for the 109th. He's actually 5th, below Joe Biden.

Votes: 58 votes missed (9.0%), 587 votes cast

But in comparison, Obama:

Votes: 11 votes missed (1.7%), 634 votes cast

Source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c.../vote-missers/

Edit: Oh, 110th. I dunno. Still you can't blame someone for missing votes during an election season. I'm sure all senators miss a lot of votes in that time. What are the numbers for Obama?

[Elvis]

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Representing: Georgia
Votes: 17 votes missed (2.6%), 628 votes cast

That's the only important thing on the list. SAXBY. CHAMBLISS.

Best name ever.

[aurik]

Still you can't blame someone for missing votes during an election season.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what Mr SuitedAces and the McCain campaign would have you do, but only when politically convenient for them.

[Suited Aces]

Ha ha...you fell for it.

I didn't fall for anything. My main point was that he made a shitty analogy. The minor point was that McCain is willing to help now, while Obama worries about campaigning.



oh and since we are bringing up old shit. The september they are talking about is Sept. 2007. Country first right?

Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.

The Illinois Democrat has missed nearly 80 percent of all votes since September.

The other Democrats in the Senate running for president have missed a high percentage of votes as well.

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware has missed 68 percent of the votes during the same period, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut 65 percent and Clinton of New York 63 percent.

Obama's campaign points out that Biden missed the most votes if the whole year is considered, followed by Dodd, then Obama.

Obama's campaign argues that looking at the last two months is arbitrary.

Obama missed a vote on a resolution that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite part of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization. He has criticized Clinton for voting for it, saying it would give President Bush a "blank check" to invade Iran.

[pohibaba]

This move by McCain is a horrible decision, it will fail, and this is going to cost him the election. McCain will have no choice but to show up to the debate on Friday night and then his entire "country first" bullshit will be blown out of the water. But, for all of you who are saying that McCain is doing this because he isn't ready to debate Obama, you're a fucking moron. McCain has been debating foreign policy since before Obama graduated from college. He has been preparing his entire life for this debate, and there is no doubt that he wants to do it.

[aurik]

I didn't fall for anything.

You totally fell for the political ploy that McCain's campaign is pulling. Admit it, you got punk'd by your own party.

[Demosthenes11]

When did Demosthenes11 turn into a pathetic Karl Rove wannabe?

that's odd. All of this information I'm saying comes straight out of a book authored by a liberal progressive that started a think tank.

It is NOBODY'S fault that our brains do the things you do. It's a PHYSICAL CHANGE which happens and it's IMPOSSIBLE to stop it - liberal, conservative, whatever

Few pages late but it needs to be said, because it is scientific FACT

[Aerin]

I didn't fall for anything. My main point was that he made a shitty analogy. The minor point was that McCain is willing to help now, while Obama worries about campaigning.



oh and since we are bringing up old shit. The september they are talking about is Sept. 2007. Country first right?

Sure McCain is willing to help now, after ignoring the problem, he decided to actually have a concrete opinion on the matter after the shit hit the fan. And when it would make him look best. Bravo.

[Elvis]

McCain waits til the right moment to put country first. The rest of the time he's busy contradicting himself on everything he's ever believed in.

[ZarakiKujata]

That's the only important thing on the list. SAXBY. CHAMBLISS.

Best name ever.

Isn't he the douchebag that ran ads saying Max Cleland would sell out our country to terrorists in '02?

[Suited Aces]

You totally fell for the political ploy that McCain's campaign is pulling.

I think it was a good move if that's what you mean by "fell" for it. I'll give you that.
I also think choosing Palin was a brilliant move. It took both McCain and Obama out from under the microscope for two weeks. Whether it works or not has yet to be seen.
Republicans are smarter than the Democrats and it's fun to watch the chess moves they make.

[Elvis]

Later that evening, Obama received a phone message from Sen. Tom Coburn, a conservative Oklahoma Republican he had worked with on previous bills. According to Obama, Coburn suggested that a joint statement outlining these shared principles might be helpful.

Obama raised the issue with a few of his aides, who concurred. At 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Obama placed a call to McCain to run the idea by him.

"There are times for politics, and then there are times to rise above politics and do what's right for the country. And this is one of those times," Obama explained.

At about 2:30 p.m., Obama was leaving a rally at a minor league baseball stadium in nearby Dunedin, Fla., when McCain returned his call. In a conversation that lasted about five minutes, Obama said the two men discussed the joint statement idea and exchanged contact information so their campaign aides could follow up.

Obama said McCain also raised the idea of suspending his campaign and delaying the debate. Obama said he didn't rule out either option, but told McCain he wanted to see how events unfolded and suggested the candidates first address the immediate priority of speaking with one voice before Bush's address.

But by the time Obama returned to his hotel, about 20 minutes later, McCain had made his announcement. "I thought this was something that he was mulling over," Obama said. "Apparently, this was something that, you know, he was more decisive about in his own mind."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the...l?hpid=topnews

[quannum]

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/2...23bailout.html