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  jeancolmar at 11:44 PM JST - 2nd September

  I have a funny feeling that McCain's Hilary Clinton substitute is going to dropout. It has only been a few days and already Palin is knee-deep in poo. It's going to get worse when she starts addressing issues.

  You don't hear anything about Biden. The guy's a refrigerator, the perfect pick for VP.

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  zurcronium at 11:51 PM JST - 2nd September

  wow . . .

  She is heavily experienced in what she has done,” said Cindy McCain on ABC News This Week.

  “The experience that she comes from is with what she’s done in the government,” she said of the former mayor and Alaska governor.

  “And, also, remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So it’s not as if she doesn’t understand what’s at stake here.”

  I didnt think anyone could make bush look eloquent. I hope for Cindy's sake these quotes are not accurate. Otherwise, Dizzland!! I think being born into a rich family makes people stupid. bush and cindy are good examples.

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  WhiteHawk at 12:15 AM JST - 3rd September

  jeancolmar:

  I have a funny feeling that McCain's Hilary Clinton substitute is going to dropout. It has only been a few days and already Palin is knee-deep in poo.

  "Knee-deep"? Really? In what, specifically?

  You don't hear anything about Biden.

  Actually, you don't hear anything about Biden's son, Hunter. After all of the Left's harping about McCain's lobbyists, Obama picks a VP nom whose son is a lobbyist. Oops.

  As for Palin, she's done something with her time in office. She's made good on campaign promises by going after corruption in her state, started balancing the state's budget, and has even returned some of the taxes to Alaskan citizens. Obama, by contrast, has squandered his time in office, voting "present" (if at all), proposing yet more spending and no cuts, and running for another office (after saying he wouldn't). If I were hiring, I'd pick the fast learner who makes the most of her opportuinities over the slacker who makes promises but just runs up his expense account.

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  DanManjt at 08:31 AM JST - 3rd September

  My goodness, the hypocracy of the Right never ceases to amaze.

  But it don't fool the American public. Nah, those dark days are long over.,

  Hello President Obama.

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  Nessie at 04:04 PM JST - 3rd September

  I'm surprised the GOP hasn't blamed the pregnancy on John Edwards.

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  ambrosia at 05:12 PM JST - 3rd September

  Whitehawk: Are you serious? Look I wouldn't defend a Democratic candidate just because they were Democratic so why defend her - just because she's Republican - unless of course you do agree with some of her finer achievements, such as leaving Wasill $20 million in debt largely by pushing through her pet projects and, in contrast to her portrayal as a "maverick" fully supporting the Bridge to Nowhere until she realized no one in the lower 48 was and that Alaska had become a laughing stock because of it. Do you seriously think she is not only the best option McCain had for a VP but that she is the best possible alternative that America has for a President?

  Lohttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/did-palin-really-fight-the-bridge-to-nowhere.aspx

  — Palin didn’t back McCain in the primary. She stayed neutral in Alaska’s January primary — perhaps on account of McCain’s opposition to drilling in ANWR. “A lot of us are sitting back and waiting to see if there will be new players in there," she said in 2007. "That’s probably why that box that says ‘none of the above’ is so popular right now."

  — Mayoral performance. Palin, who portrays herself as a fiscal conservative, racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla — that amounts to $3,000 per resident. She argues that the debt was needed to fund improvements.

  — Stevens and Young, redux. Palin has distanced herself from the state’s two most popular politicians, but both appeared at Palin fundraisers during her 2006 gubernatorial bid.

  — The environment. As governor, Palin vetoed wind power and clean coal projects, including a 50-megawatt wind farm on Fire Island and a clean coal facility in Healy that had been mired in a dispute between local and state governments.

  — And, maybe, censorship. According to the Frontiersman newspaper, Wasilla’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, said that Palin asked her outright if she "could live with censorship of library books.” Palin later dismissed the conversation as a “rhetorical” exercise.

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  ambrosia at 05:21 PM JST - 3rd September

  Oh! And shall we get into her "Alaska First" ideas? This is fun! Any other great achievements of hers we can talk about?

  "Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.

  And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."

  Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.

  'We are a state's rights party," Clark -- a self-employed goldminer -- tells ABC News. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law.'"

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  jwills79 at 10:57 PM JST - 3rd September

  I have question! Has anyone seen the cover of People magazine with picture of the McCain and Palin families. Palin's son is busy with the military. Where was McCain's dark-skinned Bangladeshi daughter? Any takers on why she hasn't been in the media? Wholesome family values except for the secrets you keep under the stairs. I hope she isn't being treated like the family's servant.

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  jwills79 at 11:09 PM JST - 3rd September

  Ambrosia,

  Don't forget she was also a supporter of Pat Buchanan, the right winger and Nazi sympathizer.

  Buchanan himself told MSNBC's Chris Matthews last week that Palin "was a brigadeer in 1996 as was her husband ... They were at a fundraiser for me, she's a terrific gal, she's a rebel reformer."

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  jwills79 at 11:17 PM JST - 3rd September

  Recent polls have Obama 51% and McCain 45%.

  Bookmakers in Britain and Ireland were offering 20-1 odds or higher on a bet that she would be forced off the ticket, meaning a 1 pound ($1.78) bet would pay 20 pounds. Now that same bet will pay no more than 8 pounds.

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  jwills79 at 11:20 PM JST - 3rd September

  Actually, Palin was for the infamous $398 million bridge — to connect the town of Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport on it — before she was against it, speaking in favor of it during her 2006 race for governor.

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  Sarge at 11:33 PM JST - 3rd September

  "Recent polls have Obama 51% and McCain 45%."

  I've seen others that have them in a virtual dead heat. But at this point, with Obama officially annointed and Palin and McCain yet to make their acceptance speeches, and with U.S. troops still n Iraq and with the economy, though picking up in some areas, is still in a slow-down, Obama should be 20 points ahead. But he ain't! Don't forget - Palin is 80%!

  "Palin...was for the infamous $398 million bridge... before she was against it"

  Yeah, when the costs began to spiral, she decided to use the money for other projects. This is not flip-flopping like John "I was actually for the $87 billon before I was against it" Kerry, this is using good judgement and changing course when circumstances and common sense require it.

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  jwills79 at 06:59 AM JST - 4th September

  Sarge,

  Yeah, I saw other polls 48% and 43% later. What do you think about her and her husband supporting a party (AIP) that has interest in succession from the US. Is that change we can believe? Or is that qualities of leader who will put the country first?

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  MarieDevine at 05:21 AM JST - 5th September

  I think Governor Palin is a good choice for John McCain. She settled some good differences between Obama and McCain and at the same time showed that she could defeat Obama now (if they used the argument that she is a heartbeat away from being president herself.)

  We need to show the candidates that there is a better way to prosper America and bring security. We are going the wrong way and destroying ourselves from off the earth as the word of God says. The goal in life is not employment; it is retirement in a garden paradise that solves all world problems at the same time. So why should we create more jobs and give higher wages? Why should we create better fuel to continue destructive, polluting lifestyles that continue world problems when a garden paradise would solve problems? We will still have the same worries unless we turn around to true freedom and independence.

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  frontandcentre at 01:44 PM JST - 5th September

  Sarge, sorry - I wasn't aware that John Kerry was involved in this election. And pro-independence is the new patriotism now? very interesting. You can all return to British rule if you like - we'll sort you out!

  Kerry fought in Vietnam (while Bush was going AWOL from the National Air Guard back in the safety of the States), but at least he didn't get caught, tortured and psychologically broken like McCain did.

  You have to worry about a 72-year-old man who's been through all that and then takes on more than he can handle. No - safe hands means Obama, to anyone with any sense, at least

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