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So excited about Sarah Palin selection too!
Y’know, you were beginning to win me over…..
awwwww!! you love me!
If you mean in a isn’t she cute but clueless kinda way, then yes…
I told you! I will win you over.
PALIN=MILF
But i still wouldn’t vote for her… what a freak.
In 8 years maybe … She is really a desperate move though and probably an attempt to make Biden go easy in the VP debate.
They were terrified to match him with some of the others but he would be a real bully to be mean to a nice lady like her?
She’s tough enough! Plus she is a huge CHANGE! A woman with real integrity and morals, I see why they chose her after reading more about her and who she is.
They chose her to win some Hilary supporters. Don’t fool yourself Ema. This has nothing to do with her it is all about McCain.
If they win I would be surprised if she ever does any apearances that aren’t “womanly” you are supporting an old school misogynist married to an ultr rich Barbie Doll.
They picked a “Hockey Mom” because she is supposed to appeal to the lower class (making less than 5 million a year) and because she is female.
You are under estimating them my friend, I don’t believe that at all… We will see at the convention. I am expecting to hear a lot from her. She kicked but in Alaska even on her own party! That’s real integrity.
I really don’t think that I am.
I honestly think that this is just a ploy to win some Hilary-ites over. I don’t know much more about her than the Bio I read but she is not VP ready yet. If McCain kicks it while in office is she ready to be our President?
She is just a gender to him. A way to sucker in some women.
Look, this just goes to show what I said earlier. McCain is known for ‘bucking the system’ and the fact that he chose Palin defines that perfectly. I don’t know anything about Palin, but you can bet I plan on finding out. I can believe McCain would reach outside the known’s in DC.
Ok, I’m not convinced Palin was the right choice. It sounds like she has her ideals firmly in place, but for the fact that she is one heartbeat away from the Presidency concerns me. Personally, I was hoping for Mit Romney, but oh well.
LOL @ MITT ROMNEY.
Opinions from here on? Officially unsubstantiated… even with
substantiation.
yeah, cause you say so? hahaha….
Your village called saying they miss their idiot and want you to come home.
Mormonism is a cult.
Well, so are Protestants if you are Roman Catholic. Then again, so sre R.C. if you are Orthodox. And all Christians are wrong if your Jewish, and the Muslims have moved past the Christian failings, tha Bhuddists don’t care, the Hindus think that we all are children…hmmm who else is wrong, scientologists are just plain nuts.
I’ve come to realize that people have the right to believe what they want. I wouldn’t classify the Mormons as a cult as you are free to leave if you want. However, the people that Jim Jones lured to South America WERE in a cult. Basically what you are saying is there is no religious freedom in the US?
Anthropologically, any group of people that worships a particular divinity is a cult.
Some religions are cultier than others. Scientology? Cult. Mormonism? Cult, though not as blatant as Scientology.
I would agree Scientology would be classified as a cult in that you are cut off from those who do not belong. As a mainstream Christian, I do not agree with the Mormons at all. But as Americans, they have the right to believe what they want.
Sorry, Christianity… CULT. No that pissed you off, didn’t it? Point is, in the USA anyone has the right to believe how they want and may choose to practice/not practice as they see fit, PROVIDED, they don not harm innocents in any way, shape or form. That becomes the disussion point.
They can be a cult all they want and I can call them a cult all I want. Win!
Actually, lose.. that makes you intolerant.
Tofu, I bet you have been saving that since middle school. Problem: Had used it then you would have seemed immature for the 7th grade.
It makes me intolerant for calling a cult a cult?
“Comments won’t next below this level…”
FAIL?
I know, its broken on Failblog too.
eddie, I heard this on the radio today – if McCain kicks off while he is in office and Palin steps in to the presidency and needs help with foreign affairs, she can always ask Biden to be her VP! HAHAHAHAH!!! (It’s a joke, of course I think McCain will live a long life)
It’s funny cause that’s what Obama needs him for and he is running for president.
You responded to yourself to clarify your own joke? Double fail.
But it’s funny, so that cancels out all fails.
No. No, it’s not funny.
McCain already has lived a long life.
The “problem” that alot of people have with Palin is that she is actually conservative. Not in a CINO Bush way, either. The only reason why I would vote for McCain is that he is one heartbeat away from the VP becoming president.
McCain is as liberal as a Democrat, and Obama is MORE liberal than a Socialist.
Um, not really. Don’t you have any ACTUAL liberals in your country. Obama’s to the right of Bill Clinton, at the very least. Both the noms are as snivellingly centrist as possible. Calling Obama a liberal because he’s a Democrat shows a disturbing lack of observation or analysis.
Win!
Seconding Portland!
McCain “bucks the system”? He’s voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time.
anyway, I thought this was about two female gymnasts kissing each other. Id rather have someone like this be VP.
Please, historically (which extends beyond the last year or so) he has generally voted against Bush in a number of key areas.
McCain stopped bucking the system when he became the Repub nominee.
Obama votes 100% with the old democrat party line – whenever he does vote that is… That’s nothing new, where’s all the change??? Oh, maybe it’s that he just votes “present”…
Interesting, since GW and McCain are members of the Executive branch, they don’t vote. GW was Governer before being elected, so he didn’t vote then either. Since when can you vote the same as someone of you don’t vote?
Also, wasn’t it 95%? Oh, no, that was 5 minutes earlier, they must have corrected themselves.
And, why haven’t there been any comments on the 2 chicks kissing?
95 was on economics. 90 is overall. and people aren’t commenting on the 2 chicks kissing because they’re both jailbait and most of us don’t go for that.
You’re so sexist.
Republicans don’t make token appointments. That’s a Democratic habit — and so we have Obama, the unqualified Affirmative Action candidate.
Sarah Palin has more relevant experience than Obama and Biden combined.
WHAT!?! You have GOT to be kidding! What do you call appointing Rice to the position of NSA that she was COMPLETELY unqualified for? You have you moments, but you really need to take off your right-wing blinders man. First you say Fox News is the least biased, now this? Open them up man.
No, no! Evil Pundit is only worth reading when he’s being funny! I was sorta worried tht the silly news coming out of Dayton would knock him off message but I am glad to see that his programming is running just fine!
You’re so stupid, if I was asked to give an example of a major group consisting of evil underhanded backwards manipulative people, it would be republicans.
I really wish you’d not comment ever again. You’ll keep doing it, but if you fell off a cliff or something, i’m sure quite a few people would celebrate it.
My friend, I think you just described “politicians”, not “Republicans”.
Win. Although I do think they’re all fairly underhanded, crafty, scarily manipulative people, I like the Democrats better (slightly less of those superlatives up top).
The village is still calling.. please go home..
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHaAA… very good, very good joke!
Oh wait you were serious… shit.
…ever heard of a place called NIMH? I suggest you visit there right away. Before the voices in your head get any louder.
If that is all he wanted was Hillary ites he would have chosen someone else, more like Hillary wouldn’t he? If McCain kicks it which I doubt in the next 4 years she would be way more ready than Obama is to take office right now.
Any of the supposed PUMAs the media’s been fixating on (I don’t buy into it myself) are women (supposedly) so pissed off that a woman was cheated out of her rightful nomination that they would take their vote elsewhere, into the loving arms of someone who stands for the opposite of what their candidate stood for.
What McCain is doing here is selecting someone in part because because she would appeal to this (phantom) demographic: those women that supported Hillary strictly because she’s a woman. He and his campaign know he’d be trounced if the GOP ticket was two old, rich, white guys.
I’m sure Palin has her conservative attributes that are appealing, but make no amends: she was mostly chosen for her sex.
[The Clinton delegate running McCain ads (her name escapes me) was asked why she made such a deplorable ad. She responded that she admired McCain's opposition to overturning Roe v Wade. When told he *supports* overturning it, she was stunned. *sigh*]
I am of the opinion that she was NOT chosen to grab hilliaryites but to take the wind out of the Obama campaign and it’s claim to change and all it’s hype. She is no Hillary but if she gets some Hillary fans that’s ok too. I believe it will pay off, we will see how things shift in the next few months…
That is bull… This is a cheap, thinly veiled attempt to get hillary supporters, who, btw see right through it.
This woman would like to teach creationism in public schools
She has a strict anti-abortion stance
She doesn’t believe global warming is man-made
She is under investigation for some quite fishy behavior
She is NOT Hillary…. in fact, she’s the Anti-Hillary
ahem… didn’t i just say that?
“If that is all he wanted was Hillary ites he would have chosen someone else
That’s what you said
I see that Courtney is displaying the GOP’s standard situational morality.
And what’s so wrong with an “Anti-Hillary”? There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to teach creationism in public schools, having a strict anti-abrotion stance, or not believing that global warming is man-made. And what politician HASN’T been under investigation for some “quite fishy behavior”?
“There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to teach creationism in public schools…”
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Except for that whole Church-State separation thing
And the fact that only science belongs in science class. So yes, there are things wrong with that. Also with the strict anti-abortion stance. The only thing that they think of is the fact that a child gets born, what happens next is apperantly unimportant. What would you want: to let a child slowly choke to death because of some lung malfunction, causing lots of suffering for everyone, or terminate the pregnancy with an abortion? Strict anti-abortion stances are short sighted. “Beleiving” that man did not take part in global-warming is stupid either. Science doesn’t work with “beleiving”.
Only idiots believe in creationism.
Go ahead and teach creationism, but teach the Flying Spaghetti Monster too.
Ramen!
Pastafarian WIN!
Can we teach Chthulhuism?
Yes, but only in Nevada..
I urge yu all to axcept Ceiling Cat into yur lives and receive teh Holy Head Butt.
Every deity should be cute and cuddly.
I thought you had to assept Ceiling Cat to be able to post here…
Wait, back the trolly up.. there are some who swear by basement cat. What then?
I was assuming it was one of the two? How can you have ceiling cat without basement cat?
I worship Celing cat, (Along with FSM, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and YgdrillithBOK, the world chicken) But I feed basement cat. Does that make me a bad Catlolic?
The only unicorn worth mentioning is Charlie. Let us all make pilgramage to Candy Mountain.
Charlie?
Youtube It.
He’s a legend
must…resist….can’t…
CHAAAAAARRRRRRLLIIIIIIEEEEEEEE…..
ugh, happens every time.
I has a dial-up. I can’t youtube nuffin.
Do you even read anything that isn’t liberal-biased?
I’m probably way too cynical about politics but I just thought she ticked a lot of boxes that the McCain campaign could use. She’s female, she’s younger than Obama, life member of the NRA, opposes same-sex marriage but extended benefit entitlement to same sex partners of state employees, married to a native american, oldest son about to be posted to Iraq, mother of a child with Downs.
Like I said, probably just cynical.
This is just from wikipedia:
“Highlights of Governor Palin’s tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. After federal funding for the Gravina Island Bridge project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending was lost, Palin decided against filling the over $200 million gap with state money. “Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on ‘federal dollars,’ as the state does today.”
Go find more than that please… we will wait.
You can do it too! I have to leave in a minute…
As a girl who has recently finished college, beware of wikipedia. Because users can edit, it’s not always the most accurate! It was never allowed as a reference on any papers we wrote.
Ooh, just recently finished college, eh? So you’re just the expert, huh? Sorry, but these days, Wiki is still an invaluable source of information on nearly anything. It’s never allowed as reference because college professors are stuck in their ways and don’t trust teh intarwebs. Only sites by PhD-holders and books, plzkthx, I’m sure they’ve said. Trust me, as a guy who’s going through college.
Don’t be an ass to her, she was just trying to be helpful. She’s also right. Wiki is my favorite place to get quick information but it is made of user submissions and ANYONE can post. That is why is is not accepted in colleges, because it is too easy for there to be misinformation on it and it is not a legitimate source. Use Wiki to find stuff out – great. Use Wiki as your only source of information – stupid.
plus, wiki political articles? if they contain anything not written by paid party staffers i’ll eat my pants.
The stuff I am finding isn’t as nice as yours Ema.
I meant go find more about her accomplishments, we are prepared to wait until November … good luck
Sarah Palin, on the issues.
On Abortion: Pro-Life.
On Budget & Economy: Aim to reduce general fund spending by $150 million. (Jan 2007)
On Civil Rights: Marriage only be between and man and a woman. (Nov 2006)
On Crime: If legislature passed death penalty law, I would sign it. (Nov 2006)
On Education: Fully fund K-12 and support early funding of education. (Jan 2007)
On Environment: Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007)
Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007)
On Gun Control: Supports Constitutional right to bear arms. (Nov 2006)
Seems to me that she’s a pretty good choice for those on the far right, as her views are typically republican views. If that’s how you are, then votte for McCain/Palin.
Source: http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm
Oh but wait … now look up corruption and abuse of power.
Do you wear an aluminum hat ? Enquiring minds want to know!
So… jellybeans is a conspiracy nutjob because she asks for a balanced portrayl of a political figure?
Stay classy, repubs.
Don’t you mean kkklassy?
If the media starts digging up dirt on Sarah, which I don’t believe there is anything of substance, they will *have* to do the same for Obama. It wont happen…
They have been trying Ema, when they didn’t succeed the made stuff up. When that didn’t succeed, they tried again, and again, and again… most people saw through it, some didn’t. which are you?
Well they will be equally successfull not finding anything on Sarah – they will look pretty stupid ignoring Obama’s Ayers connection and trying to make a big deal about some tool that got fired.
Ema, don’t start parroting that Ayers crap. I mostly respect you (save when you and Evil Pundit start that echo chamber routine.) Leave the insipidity to those less capable of forming a cohesive argument.
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For those in the back row: in his youth, Bill Ayers committed no worse an offense (blowing up a toilet) than my uncle. The difference is Ayers did so to make a political statement.
Ayers formed a terrorist group that murdered two people, and would have murdered more if they hadn’t been stopped.
Ayers is proud of his actions and has stated that he wished he had committed more acts of terrorism.
Obama knew this when he chose to launch his political career at Ayers’ house, and when he worked with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
These are all facts, and you have no answer — except to say “shut up”. This is the same as Obama’s answer.
Not true. Do you really want me to bring out facts as to which American Leaders supported terrorists at different points in time, when they supported them, how much damage those terrorists did, both before and after they were supported? The point is, you want to grab a single snapshot in time, paint your opponent with that, tenfold, yet you do not want to remember choices that someone you admire made that contradict your current outlook. General rule of thumb… before you make a grand statement about an opponent, apply it to someone that you support. Be just as aggressive in finding out the “facts” then make your point.
By all means. If you can find a Republican candidate for President who launched his first political campaign at the home of a terrorist who bombed America, go ahead and post about it.
How about a publican President who bowed down to terrorist demands and gave them weapons in exchange for hostages? How about a publican president who aided terrorists in order to prop up his own ideals, despite the fact that it was against the law? How about a publican President who gave a terrorist the go ahead to invade another country, then decided “wait, not so fast” I’ll attack you now. How about a publican president who helped kill a democratically elected president so his generals could stage a coup d’ etat.
The first three I think I know which one’s your referring to. The last one escapes me.
He’s referring to the coup in Chile in 1973 orchestrated by Nixon. He disapproved of the socialist government and its ties to Cuba, so he had the president, Salvador Allende, murdered. A military junta took control, and appointed Augusto Pinochet their leader. He ruled as dictator for about a year, then was appointed president [by the junta, not the people] and held the country in his grip until the return of democracy in 1990. He was well known for his human rights violations and his suppression of opposition. Admittedly, the junta did manage to improve the economy over these 16 or so years, but the costs higly outweighed the benefits.
Sorry, was off net for a few days, mostly. You got it, Nixon, Things were different then and that has changed, but my point remains, don’t just sling mud, because ther are tons of it out there and it means squat. If you want to disagree with a candidate’s policys then do so, but the nastimess and personal attacks have got to stop or the country will never solve any issues.
By issue-stance, I’m moderate, but when it comes to what really counts, I see more of my views in the Republican party these days. Sure, I can agree with a few things the Dems stand for, but those issues are hardly going to matter during a presidency anyway, so why the hell do I care if one or two of my views don’t match up? Majority rules, and McCain/Palin is still looking like the way to go.
I have to agree with Phaelin. Allot of things that are fought over
are not going to change.
Though I am sick of this two party deal
and am searching elsewhere.
Thank you for respectful arguments. I love this kind of discussion, even if there’s no way I’m voting McCain/Palin…
This is shocking.
Someone who differs in views…
but is respectful to the other persons choices.
How about finding any significant achievements for Obama?
The one major project he was involved with — the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, together with terrorist Bill Ayers — was judged a failure by its own sponsors.
McCain’s VP outshines the Democrats’ presidential nominee by every important measure.
Seriously, man STFU with regards to Bill Ayers. I’m sick to death of posting the facts regarding this issue.
I fully support your right to your own opinion. I do not support you wanting your own facts. That is called “lying”.
If it were McCain hanging out with a bomber terrorist, you would sure be mentioning it!
Get Real.
1 – The Weathermen/Weather Underground *never* committed murder.
2 – The Weathermen/Weather Underground *never set out* to commit murder.
3 – Bill Ayers himself blew up a toilet in the Pentagon and oversaw the plans to blow up empty warehouses.
McCain never had to answer for the religious leaders supporting his campaign, though he said their sermons deeply inspired him.
Actually, the weather underground did commit murder. However to link Barak Obama to the weather underground is the same as linking President Bush to Adolf Hitler.
No. The Weathermen *never*murdered*anyone*. There were two fatalities when a bomb detonated early, killing the two Weathermen building it.
The Weathermen were as “Evil Terrorist” as the Earth F!rst organization.
not that they didn’t want to…
Oh yes, ema, it was the secret goal of the Weathermen to kill as many people as they could, which was why prior to each bombing they would send a communique to the press announcing their intent, apparently hoping and praying that people would take the statement as a challenge and amass into a building shortly before it blew up.
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Reality check fail, and I’m beginning to lose respect for you.
So they were kinder, gentler terrorists — and that makes them acceptable?
It isn’t even true. The weathermen murdered two guards when they robbed a money van.
These are the people who Obama regards as “respectable” and “mainstream”. No wonder he’s desperately trying to shut up anyone who tells the truth about Ayers.
Provide me a credible news source about this money van robbery.
Provide me a credible news source where Obama lauds the Weathermen.
From the Washington Post (link under my name)
Dohrn once was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers were killed.
This summer, her husband, William Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, published “Fugitive Days.” Ayers has been unrepentant about the Weathermen’s antiwar bombings. He was never convicted in the bombings.
Weathermen/Weather Underground had nothing to do with that truck robbery. They wanted to see if Dohrn would roll on anyone who may who did the bombing.
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Now, since Ayers turned himself in and he was never charged nor convicted, shouldn’t that say something about the impotence of his “terrorist attack”? The courts had bigger fish to fry than some dumb college students blowing up toilets and empty warehouses.
Oh, and themselves.
Well, yes they were murders and terrorists. They were committed to fighting the US Government violently, had traveled to cuba to meet with cuban and N. Vietnamese officials and either believed or were duped by communists, as were many western radicals during this time frame. The Soviets pit a lot of money and effort into this tactic during the cold war. However, again I say, to link Barak Obama with these individuals as evidence of his supporting terrorism is misinformation, and an act of desperation.
It’s evidence of Barack Obama hating America, just as his association with Jeremiah “God Damn Amerikkka” Wright is.
The attempt by the Obama campaign to shut down anyone who mentions his links to Ayers is an act of desperation, as well as an attack on freedom of speech.
… And yet it’s fine for McCain to censure anyone who dares ask what secrets he traded to the VC for his posh digs during his POW interment?
The child with Downs thing bothers me …
Disabled kids need a LOT of love and attention. Even more so than non disabled kids. I would be asking how she plans to be an effective VP while caring for her youngest child but given the fact that she returned to work 3 days after his birth I don’t think it is a concern for her.
Pro-Life groups are all ecstatic that she had the child even after the prenatal scans showed he was a downs baby but shouldn’t they also be concerned with what happens after the birth?
That is my problem with pro-life fanatics, they don’t care what happens to the kid once it pops out just as long it does in fact pop out.
They don’t want to spend a dime on social programs to help struggling parents but MILLIONS will be spent to make sure there are no abortions.
Help people avoid getting pregnant and you will help stop abortions. Help people raise healthy kids.
That really bothered me a lot too. I heard a commenter say, after the speech, how the fact that she went back to work three days later spoke to the mother in her. I was like, really? I think it is more important that a mother spend more than three days with her newborn child, ESPECIALLY since it was a child with Downs Syndrome. This is exactly why women fought so hard to get maternity leaves in the first place. That kind of behavior just makes me think she cares more about her career than her family and thinks nothing of shoving the kid off to someone else to watch while she goes to pursue it.
He is still only 5 months old I think … I am sure her being on the campaign trail won’t be a terrifying ordeal for him though … right?
So you’re saying that women shouldn’t have careers? They should stay in the kitchen and raise kids?
Of course! “Who told you to think!? Get back in there and raise my football player!”
No, kids need attention from there parents, disabled kids need even móre.
Why do I get the feeling that this would be a non issue if she were a man?
Cause a man doesn’t need to breast feed his child?
WIN!
Lose!
TIe!!
Well, that about covers that one.
She has a devoted husband who is supportive of her and is taking care of the baby. I imagine if she is breat feeding, which I’m not sure about, things could be arranged. How cool to have a breast feeding vice president!
Her husband is a commercial fisherman. They are usually gone months at a time.
I am sure he will man up and take care of the kids to look good for the press though.
STILL shows a real sense of character to go to work 3 days after giving birth. I mean who cares about nurturing the baby? Not her.
He is now a stay at home dad because of her career!! She is the governor of Alaska for crying out loud, already elected before she got pregnant. I’m sure it was unplanned but they didn’t abort.
I hope you aren’t implying that most married couples would choose to abort an unplanned pregnancy in order to make her look better… I hope you are refering to the Down Syndrome issue instead, though neither would surprise me.
Did I say anything about *most* married couples? They chose to take the hard road, that’s all I’m saying.
No, my dear: they chose the *harder* road. The truly hard road is deciding if your child who is biologically slated to die of slow asphyxiation upon birth due to underdeveloped lungs would be better off spending 72 hours slowly losing oxygen saturation until her brain begins to necrode and her body shuts down, or if a simple medical procedure could finish this quickly, without suffering.
And besides, doesn’t Micheal Savage believe that whole thing is a fraud, ascam for parents that don’t want to tell their kids to cut the crap?
I hate Michael Savage. I like Michael Medved.
Elsewhere you mentioned living on minimum wage just fine (although you weren’t, as student loans constitute additional financial subsidy) because in part you were lucky enough to not have children. As one who opposes safe and legal abortion (because outlawing it won’t make it go away, mind) how do you suppose a woman such as yourself could survive in a situation like that if she were to accidentally become pregnant?
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Bonus points if you can explain how she can survive without the use of social programs,such as your candidates suggest.
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Oh, I forgot to mention, said baby will have Downs Syndrome.
Wow, you read everything! I am not against all social programs, my cousin had a child when she was young and unmarried and she did just fine, he had asthma pretty bad. She had to take some assistance, no one wants to take everything away we just don’t want tons of new stuff which is what Obama is proposing. Big big government taking more and more money and distributing it as it sees fit… Government is not going to be able to make everything nice and equal for everyone, there is always someone going to have more, richer, taller, better looking what ever. We all have to suck it up, be grateful for what we have, try to help our neighbor the best we can and live our lives.
More government social spending – Iraq war = less gov’t spending.
Iraq war is over…
So, why is my son still there?
I wonder: how does the McCain camp justify America “flying the white flag of surrender” and “cutting and running” just like those “Surrendercrats” have been pushing for years?
FYI: a timetable (or “time-horizon” or what ever you want to call the yellow, quaking waterfowl) for withdrawal has been set for 2011.
Obama never recognized the surge which was successful in bringing the war to a close… He even says he would not vote for it given the chance to do it again, and wanted to cut funding to our soldiers…
Bullshit. Seriously, that whole last post was bullshit and you should know better.
Okay I’m confused. The Iraq war is over? What about Afghanistan? Did I miss that too??
Ema, as long as young men and women continue to be posted there and lose their lives, the war is not over.
And this doesn’t just apply to young AMERICAN men and women.
I’m sorry, but how are you are qualified to make assumptions about her personal life?
I am not voting for Her & McCain, but do not make assumptions about that
unless you have the answers. Do you know the conditions on which she went back to
work in? Work could be back at home, on the phone, or in the office.
If you do know, then please share.
Her husband is not a commercial fisherman. he works for bp.
A union job I heard. I’ve also read that as governor she tried to fire one of the top ranking police officers because he wouldn’t fire the soon to be ex-husband of her sister.
Personally I think that abortion is morally wrong. However I cannot condone forcing my religious beliefs on another person.
I also have a sister who works tirelessly with an organization to Promote the rights of the GL&T communities. I hope that she will have the right to marry the person she loves someday.
You mean to say that Dick hasn’t been breast feeding George for the past 7 years?
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
WIN
Actually, Sarah Palin opposed benefits to partners of state employees. She only extended those benefits once she was told that they were unconstitutional (that she didn’t have a chance with them) She never changed her opinion, and is actually very anti-gay.
“She told the Daily News that she would support a ballot question that would deny benefits to the domestic partners of public employees, which were ordered by an October 2005 decision of the Alaska Supreme Court, because, she said “honoring the family structure is that important.”"
http://www.hrc.org/news/11140.htm
Wow, suddenly experience doesn’t matter and CHANGE is not something which is evil. Fancy that. Some things never change however, she’s currently under legislative investigation – should fit in well with the “8 more years of Bush administration” platform that McCain is running on.
Yea, and lets investigate Obama too…
They are. There is a group of people eager to expose ever nose-pick Obama has performed in the last 35 years.
They call themselves “The Media”.
You may have heard of them.
The media? Yes, they’re the ones who tried to cover up the John Edwards scandal.
Right now they’re covering up Obama’s relationship with the terrorist, Bill Ayers.
By “covering it up” you must mean “putting it on the front page”, which is a very clever place to hide unseelie bits of information.
And by Christ you’re a one-trick pony. I’d ignore you, but I don’t want the populous to fall for this Ayers-terrorist bullshit.
Typical repub tactics: repeat a lie until people think it’s true.
It’s been covered. It turns out, people are allowed to grow up and move past
the mistakes they made when they are young (Ayers), and other people are allowed to associate with those who did stupid things when they were young.
I think that once you turn yourself in and face the music, you’re allowed to pay your debt to society and move on. Please quit repeating this scurrilous guilt by association tactic and try to argue the merits of the candidates, say, by comparing their policy statements.
Ayers never “grew up and moved along”. He has no regrets and recently said he’d wished he’d committed more terrorist acts.
That’s the difference. Obama knowingly associated with Ayers who was STILL in his heart a terrorist who hated America. In fact it seems that Obama’s closest friends, like Jeremiah Wright, also hate America.
That tells us something about Obama.
Actually, he did grow up and move along. He’s not publicly flagellating over o himself over the actions he did when he was younger, but when his students — yes, he’s a college professor folks! He’s not hiding in some spider-hole out there — ask about what things he did in the 60s, he sighs and mentions he was a member of a radical group that wanted to overthrow the government. He won’t repent for these actions because he felt strongly for them at the time; he acknowledges that his actions were puerile, but he’s not going to beat his chest over them.
After all, if the government didn’t give two shits about his past indiscretions, why should he?
gosh people here are either far left or far right
if you focus on those directions no one ever moves forwards
That would be John Edwards who ISN’T running for President, unlike the scumbag who left his disabled wife for a 25 year old millionaire.
Hey! When McCain was in Vietnam he didn’t *have* a 25 y/o millionaire mistress-cum-second wife. What’s so bad about him living the American Dream? What, do you hate Mom and apple pie too?
Pinko.
LOL! For the record, no one hates apple pie, we just have different ideas of how we get apple pie. There is no red apple pie or blue apple pie, just delicious apple pie.
And it’s ok to appreciate different variations of said apple pie (i.e. ala mode, with cheese, etc.)
CHANGE doesn’t just mean tits in the White House Ema. Change means actually doing what is best for the people of this country not the companies that feed the politics.
God … can’t you see it? Do you really think Bush is doing well? Honestly think the working families can survive another 4 years of this? HONESTLY? I help in a soup kitchen on weekends and I see so many new faces every week. Nice families that work 2 jobs or more so that they can pay for a house and pay for child care that they never needed before having to take another job to pay the ARM. I see newly homeless families living in their cars. When school starts next week what is going to happen to those kids?
I see America bleeding itself dry to fatten Big Oil while the normal families are scraping through life by eating for free on weekends. And I know they aren’t eating healthy food during the week. Healthy costs too much.
$4.00 a gallon for milk … My brother used to drink 2 gallons a week by himself growing up. Nearly $4.00 a dozen for eggs. A loaf of wheat bread is $2.00 now and produce prices have nearly doubled. The cost of Meat, Dairy, Eggs and Cereals are expected to rise by another 10-25% next year.
How many families that are just managing to hold on are going to be cut loose so that we can keep pumping our money into Iraq when they have an $80BILLION surplus? How many more failed projects that were given to friends of the current administration are we going to have to eat the costs of? How high can the oil companies go before the government stops giving them subsidies? How many American Jobs are going to get shipped over seas so that the companies can get a tax break from our government?
How can you not see this?
How can you miss what is in front of you?
She is for drilling in Anwar too. Should bring the price of oil down tremendously.
I think people are putting too much stock in ANWR. We use a TON of oil, and this will barely eek up supply… and won’t be ready to use for a few years.
sarcasm recognition FAIL
ummm … I don’t think Ema was aiming for sarcasm there.
That would be agwqrtgjkwkjegh’s sarcasm recognition fail, I guess…
How about we test the theory?
Tres amusant agwqrtgjkwkjegh!!!
6 to 16 billion barrels in the 1002 area. Plus likely many times that elsewhere. Lessee, the recoverable value of that at $120 a barrel is …. oh about 1 to 2 TRILLION dollars. And there’s likely more outside the 1002 area. And that is not much to put stock in ?
Moron.
The Russians are drilling for oil, AND FINDING IT, in strata that could not be formed by fossils. Our …paradigm is wrong. That’s why the Russians could soon be out-producing the Saudis.
The manufacturings jobs have virtually all gone overseas, the banks are going bust, the ones that aren’t are now owned by the Chinese and Saudi’s
“Lets destroy the last piece of pristine wilderness we have!”
Moron ! What’s to destroy up there ? There’s no trees and hardly any grass.
I suppose you’re against developing the 1.5 trillion barrel Green River shale field, too.
The tundra is just as viable of an ecosystem just because it doesn’t have much in the way of trees doesn’t mean that a great deal of life depends on it’s survival.
Regarding the oil shale: where will the water come from? Colorado is having a difficult enough time providing water for its citizens, only to have a bunch of pundits and bigwigs talk about doubling the demand.
Great! Lets destroy the last piece of pristine wilderness we have!
Ema, do you remember learning about tundra in school? Do you recall what damage a single footprint does to that ecosystem?
Lets parade trucks and drilling equipment around up there looking for oil!
Who cares how many species become extinct … the only Tundra I give a shit about is the one I drive!
Short sighted and you drank the oil company kool-aid. It will not drive prices down for about 10 years. in that time Obama would have shored up the economy by creating jobs which developed eco friendly alternatives. McCain would be dead of old age and we would be Dependant on China and Saudi but at least gas went from $4.00 a gallon to $3.75 which made it easier to fill up the SUV’s and trample some local wilderness while we all drank our bottled water!
Trying again …
I’ve just been reading about ANWR (because my interest was piqued now …) and it’s interesting to say the least. The energy lobby argue that less than 5% of the area set aside as a nature reserve would be opened up for gas and oil exploration and that the area in question already has infra-structure and inhabitants who are very ‘pro’ drilling, mostly for economic reasons. It should be noted that the local residents in question apparently number fewer than 300 but they ARE mostly subsidised by taxes on oil exploration so their support is not surprising.
However no-one seems too certain exactly how much gas and oil would be extracted from the site. And the divergence in figures is immense. And it also depends how the figures are presented. In terms of total US energy demand, the BEST estimate of supplies available from the site would meet demand for … about six months. In terms of total Alaskan energy output … it’s estimated that the site may provide a further 20-40 years output.
The issue here would not seem to be necessarily what is available or the anticipated rate of extraction etc, but more to do with the astronomical demand for energy and our reliance on fossil and non-renewable sources for that energy.
Aaaanyway … I’m rambling here. I’m not convinced ANWR is either necessary or desirable and I have serious issues with the fact that I believe the money should be invested in investigating renewable sources.
My 2 cents.
Thank you for reading, hope it made some sense, etc etc etc …
Great post. I think it made sense to anyone interested in learning about an issue not just steamrolling it like it was a national park.
The only reason the ANWAR debate is coming up now is so the oil companies can try and claim the land before Bush leaves office. The idea that it’s all about new oil supplies or independence from the middle east is laughable.
No you are laughable. There’s literally TRILLIONS of barrels of oil within the United States, but President / Congress is too idiotic to get at it.
You fail, here’s why: it’s about economic rendability. If it costs 2 barrels of oil to get 1 of those “TRILLIONS of barrels of oil within the United States” out of the ground, it’s not really usefull hmm?
I like how all you got out of that post was a cry about gas prices…
Screw the homeless and hungry, You wanna drive your Humvee!
Right, I think I mentioned before I drive an old beat up 1998 Nissan Sentra, with fully inflated tires I might mention. Worried about pristine wilderness?? It’s not a given it will be destroyed at all by drilling, but you were just complaining about high gas prices and people not being able to afford food or housing now. So which is more important to you? The people or the wilderness? I think we can have both.
Note the below-posted five points.
Drilling tomorrow in ANWR won’t do squat ’till my girl’s enrolling in college.
The sooner we get started, the better.
prices of oil already down with just the mention of drilling locally.
Very good point. Oil prices started dropping a day or two after Bush announced support for drilling, and have been down since.
The policy is already working.
It’s not about the oil prices EP, it’s about the GAS prices. Afterall, do you buy raw oil? No, you buy gas for your car. The oil prices dropped tremendously indeed, but how did the GAS prices fair?
And also, do not forget about the fact that Alaska is a unique piece of American nature.
Everywhere is a unique piece of nature.
Gas prices rose when oil prices rose. If oil prices fall far enough, gas prices will fall too.
Either you are seriously ignorant of the oil business or you are seriously deluded by by the lullaby tactics of FoxNews. I can’t deal with this level of ignorance*.
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*ignorance > the act of ignoring the truth.
I’d be more impressed if she put as much effort into renewable energy sources.
that’s what I’m talking about!
That is definitely part of the McCain plan.
What plan is that? Hire a governor who is in the midst of an investigation about interfering in a legal proceding that is checking into a possible abuse of her power. Move over Dick Cheney, someone finally over came your slight gall in which you shot you friend. Republican Moral/Family Values are at least as interesting as a soap opera… well, even Hollywood couldn’t make this up.
we were talking about investing in renewable energy sources… ^
1) We use 25% of the oil resources but only possess 3% of the reserves.
2) Neither ANWAR nor off-shore drilling is immediately possible, due to a shortage of supplies.
3) Republicans filibustered a “Drill Here/Sell Here” plan that would require oil companies granted these special drilling rights to only sell that oil to Americans, rather than putting it on the open market at maxed out prices.
4) Repubs staging a demonstration in the House want a simple up or down vote on an energy plan because it’s *that* much of an emergency, but when the Dems offered a plan that included the “Drill Here/Sell Here”, Repubs denied.
5) The *official* report on opening up additional drilling sites states that such oil *would*not*be*available* for nearly TWENTY YEARS.
1) All the more reason to increase reserves by drilling in more areas. It’s not proven reserves until the field is producing.
2) That’s what Ice Road Truckers are for…. or some one like them.
3-4) I don’t know about these specific items, but there can be so much CRAP attached to a specific bill or resolution that sometimes a person or party can oppose the bill they originally supported. But neither party represents the interests of the United States of America anymore.
5) It won’t take nearly that long. There’s alot of “if we can’t have oil now, it’s not worth it” attitude…. or at least that’s an excuse to oppose drilling.
Would you rather pay the Jihadists in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, or the Communists in Russia or Venezuela, or the crooks in Mexico every time you fill up the tank ? Or would it be better to keep cash within this country so that it won’t be used to fund activities against us.
you’d think that would be a no-brainer!
1) Or maybe we should try to use less oil….? I mean, nothing too scary, just try.
2) Because who doesn’t want that job?
3-4) “I don’t know about these specific items, but I’m going to act like I know everything that’s going on, anyway.”
5)
Let me get this straight…
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya =Terrorists
Russia, Venezuela = Communists
Mexico = Crooks
Wow, I sure am glad there aren’t any human beings to worry about.
Your world view is very enlightened.
But, USA = ?
You left that part out.
Ok his brush was a bit broad, so let see if I can qualify his statement. The fact is countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Libya do harbor those who want to see and end to Israel. Sounds like terrorism to me. Venezuela isn’t Communist, but rather a Republic much like USA. And Russia may not have lapsed back into full fledged Communism, but Putin IS an ex-Communist KGB Colonel. So that’s not a huge stretch, is it? And Mexico? Basically yeah, it’s a country full of crooks in Government positions, but obviously you have never heard that. And lastly, the USA is The Defender of Democracy (even though there are those in this country who want to stop it). With the ACLU all but stripped personal responsibility out of the laws, this may become a moot point and Democracy laid waste.
According to US Government sources, during the Cold War, no-one in the Soviet Union was *allowed* to express any opinion opposing Communism.. Not entirely fair, then, retrospectively to brand Mr Putin a Communist..?
Furthermore, whereas your description of the USA as “The Defender of Democracy” is certainly accurate, it doesn’t tell the whole story. More apposite, perhaps, would be “The Defender of US-Style Representative Democracy, as approved by Washington”.
Does the idiotic term “defender of democracy” become more valid to you when you capitalize it like that?
Why do you hate democracy and its defenders?
Why is “Why do you hate *fill in the blank* your standard go to response for so many comments?
Why do you hate parroted, intellectually void responses?
I have to admit, I’m bigoted against jackasses.
I personally hate pickles.. can’t stand them!
Why do you hate pickles for, you some kind of homophobe?
Dammit, quit making me think there are thoughtful conservatives! Between you and Richard Vigory I’m beginning to wonder if GWB is really a Republican!
Have another glass of Kool-aid, the first one didn’t take.
American voters are heavily in favour of local drilling.
And?
And the lot of them don’t know the 5 points I posted above.
I didn’t. Thanks herb.
I did, and the govern by slogan GOP doesn’t want to tell the whole story, after all, reality doesn’t play in Crawfordsville.
Govern by slogan? Like “Hope” and “Change”?
Wow, I never thought I would agree with EP, but I do here. As a foreigner, I’m suprised when I watch American politics and see something wich is more like pep rally. I’m suprised that the American voters do not demand more evidence from the politicians, evidence why there plans would work the best. Where are the economists and all the other experts on the subjects discussing about them.
Americans have become fat and lazy, complacent with their bread and circuses.
Obama wants to give them more and more so they can get fatter and lazier…
Kinda like “stay the course” or “cut and run” or “compassionate conservative” or “Haliburton.”
Hey! “FavoUr”???
Are you an American?
What kind of morals would those be? How do you know that she has any integrity? No one outside of Alaska, all 500,000 of them, has even heard of her.
But she lost.
You’re kidding. You know Palin is under investigation for corruption, right? She got a state trooper fired for divorcing her sister. So total lack of experience and blatant corruption gets you excited, huh? Well, to each their own, I suppose.
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Check out the Anchorage Daily News for coverage of the story. You’ll have to look it up yourself, as I have no luck in getting links posted here.
I’m sure there is more to it than that, don’t have time now so I will leave that up to another…
When it’s your party, make the best case assumption. When its our party, make the worst case assumption. You didn’t even know about this, did you? Yet, without ANY information, you are willing to give this back stabbing little slitch the benefit of the doubt. Nice, that really illustrates the level of moral and intellectual development of the average conservative.
Y’know, I would guess you’re an Obama supporter (correct me if I’m wrong). One of the things I like about Obama is his general avoidance of personal attacks…such as, for instance, semi-obscene and offense name-calling. You aren’t helping your (presumed) candidate’s case by acting like such an immature and unlettered oaf.
At least he didn’t call her kids brats!
Sorry, anyone who would use their political position to carry out a family vendetta deserves to be called a slitch, which is a made up word anyway.
I’ll vote for Obama because he’s the least awful candidate, but I’m not really a supporter.
So, you would tie your candidate to anyone who belittles his opponent with any type of personal attack, true or untrue? Did you vote for George Bush in 04, despite the slandorous attacks by the swiftboat traitors?
Are you calling veterans ‘traitors’ now, just because they didn’t support Kerry?
What happened to your principles?
That one needs some work, Funny Pundit. It wasn’t the knee slapper I know you are capable of producing. I need to give this one a “C”.
Principles? Here is my principle regarding accusations against decorated heros that focus on their awards. It is a position that I have remained consistent on. The US military takes great pains to safeguard its valor awards, in fact some servicemembers are denied awards because of those safeguards. Secondly, anyone who disparages a service members award in the manner the swiftboaters did casts doubt upon the entire system, up to and including the highest award, the Congressional Medal of Honor, because if the system is broken, then all awards are suspect. The swiftboaters did not like Kerry because of personal-political disagreements that went back to their war. They were quite willing to trash the entire sysstem to satisify their personal vendeta, therefore in my mind they are traitors, because they give aid and comfort to non-state terrorists who seek to destroy this country by having us destroy ourselves.
With a mother like you, I think it’s obvious why your son is staying in Iraq!
Wow, making fun of soldiers serving in Iraq, you’re classy.
have another cigar, Freud, and shut your dirty mouth.
Well said CF!
Shit, what about voting for Bush in the ‘99 primaries after the malicious and slanderous lies he spread about McCain? (That’s all water under the bridge now that that campaign group is working for McCain, though
)
Funny, I thought all politicians did that. I guess I missed the part where Obama was the beacon of light in politics.
He’s not the beacon of light. No-one is claiming that. He is trying to run a fairly clean campaign, however. There may be a lot of slogan and sign about focusing the attention onto the country rather than resort to a plethora of negative ads.
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Yep, today McCain is sucking off Rove for money after Rove led a campaign insinuating that his daughter was illegitimate back in 2000. KKKlassy!
I thought the investigation was into the fact that she fired the H&S exec who WOULDN’T fire the ex-brother in law?
Sorry, yeah. That is in fact the case.
There must be 2 cases. I read about the calls to get the ex BIL fired. I guess when it failed she took vengeance?
Sounds like it. Or at least that’s the crux of the investigation from what I can gather.
The bit that shocked me though, was the brother in law WAS actually suspended from his job as a state trooper at one point, and one of the reasons given was that he tasered his 10 year old step-son. And he defended himself by saying that the child ASKED TO BE TASERED. I don’t know about you but I’d have a few questions about a state trooper who’d even CONSIDER doing this. Regardless the reason.
I would have fired his ass … BUT it doesn’t excuse abuse of office.
When you have her staff and husband calling to get the guy fired how can we expect no one said “Sara would really like you to do this”
I was going to ask maybe it is a case of there actually being something wrong with the ex. (Perhaps abusive, I don’t know it’s an example) So she was doing something right in that way, showing people that she will not deal with people who do thing and the people who let it happen. I don’t have all the info or anything, just saying is that a possibility?
But then she fired the guy who wouldn’t fire the brother in law. THAT is the problem area.
Go look it up and read the story. I think the corruption claims come from her firing an official who would not fire her brother in law. And the fact that he got no severance while another official who served less than a month got 10,000 severance when he was fired around the same time.
BUT don’t look it up on Wiki. Someone went in yesterday morning and made some massive edits to spruce up her image. I’d go for Reuters stories, myself.
KAHNSPEERACY!!!!
we has it
Tighten up that aluminum hat, girlie!
Swing away!
Just for the record (according to ADN) Monagan didn’t get fired, he quit because he was offered another position and wouldn’t take it.
She claims she wasn’t involved with the firing of the man who divorced her sister but one of her aides admits that inappropriate calls were made to get him fired.
Troopers found four instances in which Wooten violated policy, broke the law, or both:
- Wooten used a Taser on his stepson
- He shot a moose without a permit, which is illegal. At the time he was married to McCann, who has a permit but never intended to shoot it herself.
- He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
- He told others that his father-in-law – Palin’s father, Chuck Heath – would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.
Definitely sounds like a guy you would like as a state trooper… I can see why him getting fired is a bad thing….
The stepson asked to be tasered because he was curious what it felt like. The moose thing sounds like exactly the kind of thing that gets pinned on someone when you can’t find any real dirt. He was off duty when drinking the beer, and nobody says he drove anywhere afterwords, and finally, the only people claiming he made a threat are Palin’s family. Interesting side-note, I posted the same thing on another site and got this exact reply, word for word. You guys already have your talking points ready, don’t you?
As a parent can I just say that my first response to the stepson asking to be tasered thing was that his curiousity didn’t actually constitute enough of a reason to do it.
Right, sounds like a tool.
If I concede your points vis-a-vis the disreputable brother-in-law, can we agree that it’s still wrong to abuse one’s authority?
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I don’t know, ema. I consider myself a staunch Republican but I don’t know if this is a good thing. As others have said, the choice seems a bit blatant, but I will read up and find out more. It won’t make me jump ship, but it give me pause for thought. Not that I’m opposed to a woman VP, I just think there were other choices that would have made more sense if that is what McCain is going for. We’ll just have to wait and see how this pans out.
Kay Bailey whatsername comes to mind. At least she has SOME credibility
Or even Christine Todd Whitman.
Yeah, that would have been a MUCH better selection if McCain wanted ladybits on the ticket. Except for that whole breathing noxious air at Ground Zero thing….
Condi?
Read about her eddie, listen to what people are saying. But most of all there is a huge amount of excitement about her which is just what the mccain campaign needed. It was a bold move I hope works out, looks like we have Ohio though!!
They are saying she is a hypocrite and a liar and that the baby is a cover-up. Read about her yourself … try to branch out from the right wing blogs though
More aluminum!
There are people excited about VP selections? Seriously? VP selection comes in dead last on a list of what voters look for when selecting a presidential candidate.
yeah.. nothin like watching flat chested no-ass woman kissing.
They are not women, they are girls, moron.
Here’s where you, E.P., and a couple others really get my goat: not that we disagree, not that you guys forget that we’re all Americans together and deserve a little mutual respect, not that you assume anyone who disagrees with you is anti-American- no, where you really lose my respect is the trolling comments. This pic had nothing to do with politics, why go dropping this particular reference here?
EP didn’t do it, I did… There would probably have been all of 10 comments in here if I hadn’t done it. So what? Those girls looked happy and I was too!
Not to mention there aren’t really any Sarah lols up yet.
I’ve submitted two, I really hope they make front page, because I know there’s a good chance of there being a massive discussion, with much douchenozzlery and crotchwafflery by both sides, and EP will rant, and accuse me of being sexist, and Jane St Clair will dash into a phone booth, change into Logic Woman(tm) and come to fight for rational thinking, and CF (whose got one of my favorite names btw) will jump in on it as well. Wikipedia will be quoted, along with about 50 different news sources.
So basically, yeah, it’ll be just like any other attacks against repugs on PK
Kurt, why not put the URL up in your name? We can then all take a look (feel free to browse mine as well by clicking on my name).
um, cause I’m kind of computer-ly challenged and don’t know how lol.
It’s easy! If you can cut and paste, then paste the url in the empty space that says URI above it. It’s below the email section that is below your name.
Yay!!! I did it!!! I’m slightly less computer stupid now. Thanks Ema.
I liked both of your Palin lols, very nice!
Thank you. I don’t look at my own profile very often. Once a while back I went a week or two without looking at it, and then when I log in I see I’ve been favorited by like 30 people. I’m suddenly like “Holy crap, a fan club!!!” Then my second thought was “Now, how can I use them for evil.”
I mean good. totally meant good. Don’t know why I typed evil. I don’t do evil things. I’m a good person. Really. Not evil at all. Nope, not one bit. (Time to go feed basement cat)
can’t wait! lol!
Check again ema… my post is in reponse to yours…
Well I’m sorry I ruined everything for you, but nobody had to respond, I’m not the only one who posted in here about Palin. I wonder if you would have been upset if an anti-Palin poster started this thread? Think about it. And why do you say I don’t think everyone deserves mutual respect? I never said anyone was anti-American or anything like that. I’m sorry if you think I make trolling comments, I was actually in and out of the house that day and probably shouldn’t have started anything…
I actually loved this whole Palin thread, it’s waaaaaaaay more interesting than the crude sexual innuendo in the picture. I thank you for starting it!
Political comments on a political blog? The outrage!
Hey look, two girls are kissing.
Yeah. Mmmmmmmm. Can’t we have someone like this as VP, or even Prez? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Lolicon… yaaaaaay~
…kinda CBF this picture. I’m all for crude humor, but I duno. I guess it’s pretty cool if you’re a pedophile or something…
Is the girl in the back, wearing pink, watching them? I kinda wonder what she’s thinking.
I was just going to say, Nastia Liukin looks pretty entertained.
Dude, they are little girls! It ain’t funny.
not so little, by olympic rules they have to be 16. the hard training & no eating makes them look like they’re 9, but really, adults. which is scary enough, really.
Oh FCOL! They kissed on the cheek, the stupid camera just caught them as they were leaning in. Grow up.
you just have envy
^^^^^
get a life and stop over reacting
it was televised they only cheek kissed
i know you all got hard from this to
ass wipes
Chill out. O_o
The one in blue is Shawn Johnson; the one in pink in the background is Nastia Liukin. Not sure who the one in red is, but if you can make out the crest on her arm, that will make the job easier.
that’s not shawn johnson :]
the only one i know in this picture is yes, nastia.
their teams must be proud.
I imagine so. Shawn and Nastia both won gold medals and as a team they won silver.
OH WAIT… you mean two girls kissing each other on the cheek, right? Silly me. Gymnasts showing a high minded competitive spirit and congratulating one another in a European manner must be a cause for shame. SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!
Is that what you meant?
Take a chill pill, really. It’s a funny picture. Aren’t most lols just that? Pictures taken at inopportune times? Let the comments roll, and don’t get so PC.
the one on the rights wrist looks really swollen
Looks like an ace bandage wrapped around it.
yeah your right but still her muscles make her arm look real deformed
Maaaaaaake oooooouuuu – - thank you.
Wow..no comments about the pic. I love the internet ^.^
And I love you guys. Platonically, of course.
they’re thinking – “nom nom nom nom…..”
girl in pink thinking – “that should have been me….”
camera person – “thinking go ahead…you can go kiss them too…”
and i’m thinking – “how in the fk did a comment about Sarah Palin start and dominate this post…”
tell you what….i’m kinda ‘cited about Sarah Palin too. Where are her pictures kissing other girls?
Oooo that’d be nice. But she’s anti-gay marriage, so I have a feeling no. Here’s to hoping, though.
Well, most “phobes” just don’t want to admit they secretly are, so…
We just need to get her real drunk, which face it, most of us want to do that anyways. giggity giggity goooo!!!
The gymnast in this picture is Russia’s Ekaterina Semyonova (although there seem to be a thousand ways to spell that) and her coach who’s name escaped me.
The NBC Olympics site has her listed as Ksenia Semenova.
lol, yes. For some reason I mixed her name up with her teammate Ekaterina Kramarenko.
Her name is transliterated as Semenova. It’s pronounced Semyonova.
The one on the left is Ksenia Semenova, kissing her coach. In the back, in the pink leotard, is Nastia Liukin.
Note, in Russia is common to kiss on the mouth. Nastia (who was born in Russia) always kisses her dad Valery on the mouth as well.
Culterally speaking, your absolutely correct. Where I live I see it all the time, not just two women, but guys as well, doing the cheek kissing thing. It’s not like they’re in a liplock or anything.
Oh come on they’re kissing their cheeks. People make such a fuss about omg that looks weird!
To the Captioner: One word. Tasteless.
I’m aware.
Um, this picture shows two Olympics gynmasts kissing each other… So, why the hell is the entire comment board about McCain’s VP nominee?
… you mean you don’t see the relationship?!!
Underage feminine curiosity…
… McCain/Palin???
You don’t see it?!!
I was just thinking the same thing. I reckon that politics makes strange “bedfellows” after all.
News Break:
Either the kid isn’t Palin’s (covering for teen daughter who apparently failed abstinence class) OR Palin was so reckless as to risk the baby’s life before birth perhaps in a passive aggressive hope the baby would die.
THEORY:
Palin was not at ALL visibly pregnant for child #5 at 7 months.
Daughter out of school for “mono”
Palin flew to TX at 8 months where her water broke but refused to fly back for 12 hours so she could give a speech.
Palin knew she was having a DS baby – high risk of congenital defects and still flew 11 hours after water broke – high risk of infection to deliver a premature child in a hospital with NO facilities to care for premature births or special needs births.
Last picture in press of Palin with family shows a daughter looking about 6 months along and very sad.
And your sources for this tripe? I Googled this and couldn’t find anything I would call credible. On the other hand, Biden’s plagiarism is well documented.
look at her birth timeline in her own interviews.
water broke at 4am … lunchtime keynote speech … fly commercial Texas to Alaska to have downs baby in hospital without NCIU … she is damn lucky the baby lived if it is hers.
You’re right. Women should stay out of politics because they might have babies.
women should not fly at 8 months pregnant.
older women who know they are having DS babies should seek hospitals with NCIU capabilities.
do we agree so far?
That depends alot on the advise her doctor gave her. If her doctor felt there wasn’t a danger, then she obviously followed his advise. I know it’s not recommended, but I doubt that she would have made that decision without consultation.
She’s 44 years old and pregnant. Any obstetrician worth his/her salt would NEVER let her fly much less all teh way across the country. Malpractice lawsuit insurance would have a fit.
Good Point. Babies should not be exposed to politics. Is there a vaccine? Maybe that’s the problem with conservatives, they think that vaccines cause liberalism.
Chelsea’s an excellent reason politicians should not have babies- especially Democrats. It makes for way ugly daughters(and Amy Carter too!). The Bush twins are an exception to the rule! Giggity goo!
Are you really this stupid?
Actually Chelsea turned out rather attractive. And MegaBob, please never breed.
Chelsea! Attractive ! What the hell have you been drinking! She is one UGLY skank!
Her teeth are a bit big perhaps, but I stand by my previous statement of not half bad. Your attitude towards women however does make me not worry about you breeding. Ever.
Too late! I’ve impregnated thousands of Democratic bimbos! Why, just to relieve the colossal pressure on my zipper, if anything else!
Boooohahahahaaaaa!!!
I didn’t know 12 year olds could impregnate anybody. And that colossal pressure on your zipper? Use a smaller sock.
Jealous!
Usually people who brag about their sexual experiences and ‘endowments’ are doing so to make up for their shortcomings in those areas. Now, seeing as you are an unrepentant sexist who laughs at their own assinine comments, probably because nobody else will, I am officially finished with this conversation.
Sorry, that just doesn’t make sense. Especially since she already had four kids previously. I think the timeline is a bit skewed if you ask me.
the timeline is her own interviews. I did not alter it
As I mentioned previously, I’m not convinced that McCain made the right choice. But given the fact that it was HIS decision, so be it, he still has my vote. The fact remains that the MSM is going to do all that they can to drag this woman through the muck and mire (even to the point of fabricating ‘facts’). It happened to Ferraro when she ran for VP, and it’s going to happen with Palin. I have a strong suspicion though, that at the end of the day she’ll be vindicated, not villified as the MSM is trying to.
And how well did that all work out for Geraldine?
Obviously not well. But her real problem was Mondale.. he had baggage with Carter. Not that I cared for Ferraro, but I’ll give her credit for being the first woman VP nominee.
News break: (copied from the web)
“The likelihood that a woman under 30 who becomes pregnant will have a baby with Down syndrome is less than 1 in 1,000, but the chance of having a baby with Down syndrome increases to 1 in 400 for women who become pregnant at age 35. The likelihood of Down syndrome continues to increase as a woman ages, so that by age 42, the chance is 1 in 60 that a pregnant woman will have a baby with Down syndrome, and by age 49, the chance is 1 in 12.”
Sounds pretty unlikely that a teenager would have a Down’s baby…
Hot lesbian kiss FTW!
Dude they are little girls. You on the other hand, are an idiot.
..who can’t find his villiage..GPS would help..
True… too bad we can’t preload their routs over the nearest cliff.
We have ways.. muwahaaaa
Little girls? Those two are legal age almost everywhere around the world. I don’t know exactly how old they are, but they are at least 16.
I find the comments about congratulatory kisses being turned into something dirty offensive, regardless of the age.
If you get offended you’re on the wrong site.
Fair enough
Wonderful mr. brillant. thats a dude and a chick. realy people. thats very smart of you.
They are children. Justify it anyway that you want, the fact remains.
I know this is pundit kitchen, but let’s focus on the important issues..two gymnasts making out!
See above comments. If you are too stupid to figure out how, you and Grant should ask for a cell together.
You mean they aren’t actually making out??! Shock! I think we know that, Captain Oblivious. (Intentional)
Ya think? It is because you already knew they wern’t that my above comments apply. Some things just aren’t funny, and making sex comments about minor children fall into that category, unless of course you are a fu$%&ng idiot.
Besides, to call him Captain Oblivious is an insult. It’s LtC Oblivious.
j/k CF, I’m agreeing with you on this one.
Thanks. I may be old, but some things just aren’t funny.
They’re over 18. FYI
it’s a girl and her gymnastic coach
they are celebrating her performance
I think they were from russia, were I think it’s normal, but in that moment I was very surprised too.
Gymnastics: Paedophilia for cowards.
That’s a BS comment if I ever saw one. Pedophilia is in the eye of the creep.
that’s hot
Girls kissing each other is so sexy, your site is great, i love it.
Isn’t that Shawn Johnson in the blue and Nastia Liukin in the pink?
dog shit > this
Great idea this – happens all the time.
girls together+ Tight suits=this
can sum1 pleeez tell me who that is cuz i am just wondering, and why iz evry1 talking about Palin, i mean i know people talk about her a lot but i mean of all places y here?
O_O erm is anyone seeing them kissing????