After almost three months, poor Sarah still cannot define the job she is applying for.
The constitution of the United States clearly states the “limited” duties of a US Vice-President:
The Vice President of the United States is the first person in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the president, should he or she accept the position. Every presidential term ends on January 20 of the year immediately after a presidential election. As designated by the Constitution of the United States, the vice president also serves as the President of the Senate, and may break tie votes in that chamber. He or she may be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.
Sarah Palin apparently doesn’t know so.
Sarah Thinks The VP is a “Majority Leader” OR a “Prime Minister”
McCain’s Palin Problem
New polls indicate that McCain’s biggest negative is his selection of Sarah Palin. McCain’s gamble to lure Hillary Clinton women voters is backfiring badly. Palin is not only viewed by a majority as un-qualified, but also as an unlikeable, negative and divisive. (In a newNBC/WSJ poll, 55 percentsaid Gov. Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president.)
What seemed to be a clever and exciting choice by John McCain, now looks like a disastrous display of poor judgment — a quagmire from which McCain will not be able to extricate himself.
Sarah seems to be incapable of operating in un-scripted mode, and seems deluded and confused when not reading from her handler’s notes, and when she speaks on the campaign trail, she engages in vicious demagoguery, which apparently many voters do not like.
The “Drilla From Wasilla” is a hopeless disaster. She is a rude and “Power Hungry” intellectual midget, unfit to be a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. Palin is the biggest joke on America since Indiana’s Dan Quayle in 1988. Anyone supporting her is glorifying willful ignorance.
That she is governor of Alaska — a huge wilderness of less than 700,000 human beings (fewer people than each of the20 largest cities in America), is irrelevant, because it is clear that her two year tenure as chief executive of the state of Alaska, really didn’t prepare her for the simplest of things — like reading-up the description of her potential job!
2.The Real Scandal — The real threat to democracy is the nonstop campaign by the G.O.P. and its supporters to disenfranchise American citizens who have every right to cast a ballot.
3.The Real Plumbers of Ohio — John McCain’s strategy, in this final stretch, is based on the belief that Republicans can still pursue plutocratic policies while claiming to be the party of regular guys.
The press probably will give Palin credit for not falling down on stage. She couldn’t deal with many of the questions directly or most of the facts, so she bloviated according to plan. She winked at us; the voters won’t wink back at her. I think people still have a bullshit factor — and that means she survived even as she met the low expectations she’s created. McCain gained nothing; he was the loser — in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential one. Palin relied on topline phrases and had little command of facts. Why, she even memorized the name of the President of Iran. But it was mostly blah, blah, blah. At the end, the Obama-Biden ticket is far ahead on the big issues — and Palin’s a parrot repeating memorized phrases, not a plausible vice-president. Biden called her on it every time. — Robert Shrum, Political Consultant.
The “Killa From Wasilla” came to the debate armed to the teeth with Republican talking points. She wasn’t afraid, she had the confidence — that of a robot programmed to “Vomit Policy.”
“Sarah The Barracuda” was pesky, scripted, loud, shrill and incoherent, as she rattled whatever her coaches had crammed into her head, with abandon.
For the entire ninety minutes she shuffled her “cheat sheets,” as if she were taking an “Open Book-Open Notes” Exam or participating in a Spelling Bee contest. She scraped and fought hard, spewing “Gibberish” by the bucket.
Ms. Palin exhibited little spontaneity and looked thoroughly rehearsed — sometimes avoided answering questions directly, instead slid into irrelevant sound-bites about her tenure as mayor of “tiny-town” Wasilla, Alaska.
On foreign policy, Palin stalled — giving generic non-specific answers, and when she resorted to her juvenile chants — “Maverick!,” “We are mavericks!,” “We are a maverick team!,” Biden promptly shot her down: “McCain wasn’t a maverick on ‘the things that matter to people’s lives,‘ citing issues such as health care, education and the war.” “He’s not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table,” Biden said.
The debate format was not confrontational, and Joe Biden avoided engaging her, for fear of being labeled sexist. Had he forced her to deviate from her script, the results would have been disastrous. She would have forgotten her lines and gone off on some of her moronic, meaningless rambles.
CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider was critical: “Palin’s answers do not lack confidence, they lack coherence.”
Newsweek’s Harold Fineman: “Palin was like ‘A Wolverine’ Attacking The Pant Leg Of A Passerby.”
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Joe Biden on the other hand was remarkably restrained, awash with policy and his vast knowledge and experience clearly showed. He offered much more detail on a range of topics, from national security to domestic issues, and relentlessly lumped McCain with Bush.
While Sarah acted like a “frisky” freshman debater, Joe was polished and presidential in his delivery.
Per Bob Shrum, Palin did not fall down on the stage — she survived.
Her performance was much better than I expected, because of one and only one reason — the debate format allowed her to stick to her rehearsed script. There were barely any follow-ups by the moderator, unlike in the first Obama-McCain debate, when vigorous follow-ups revealed the stark differences, weaknesses and strengths of the two candidates.
In this debate, Palin was allowed to verbally diarrhea “crammed policy,” like an express train without brakes, spewing useless garbage, winking and giving a “shout-out” to some high school in Alaska!
Give me a break! How stupid does one have to be not to read through this nonsense?
She is a total embarrassment — an affront to intellectualism, a trait I insist must be part of the package of a serious contender for the presidency of this great land.
“Hockey Moms” stay home and manage their families, they do not run for an office where they might be required to manage the largest stockpile of nuclear and biological weapons on earth.
My assessment is that Sarah Palin is not ready. She still knows nothing. Go Home Sarah!
“This is going to help stop the bleeding,” said Todd Harris, a Republican consultant who worked for Mr. McCain in his first presidential campaign. “But this alone won’t change the trend line, particularly in some of the battleground states.”
Partisan right-wing THUGS had other ideas:
“Sarah Palin was sensational tonight,” roared White Nationalist Bigot Pat Buchanan, in a post-debate comment on the MSNBC cable network. “She regained that magic she had at the convention.”
Joining the maniacal squealing, were the SYPHILITIC NATIVIST NAZIS at Fox News. Festooned around their racist brains is the falsehood that Sarah Palin won the debate hands down.
Sarah’s “Spelling-Bee Performance” must have injected a shot of liquid cannabis into their soiled veins.
Morons!
Well, ALLpost-debate polls indicate that Biden thrashed her decisively, while holding back his fire considerably.
But then what’s to be expected of the “FIX” News Channel?
1.Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin — “Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don’t just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe — deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.” — Belinda Luscombe
2.Palin Delivers, but Doubt Not Erased — One debate will not erase doubts that have been building about Palin’s capacity to serve as vice president, but the effect of the encounter may shift the focus away from the sideshow that Palin has become and put it back on the two presidential nominees and what they would do for the country. Thursday’s debate adds to the importance of the two remaining presidential debates, the first of which will be held Tuesday.
3.McCain Lost the VP Debate Too — Today McCain pulled out of Michigan; the economic news worsened. The electoral map is smaller; the economy is smaller; and the odds on McCain are longer and longer. The press probably will give Palin credit for not falling down on stage. She couldn’t deal with many of the questions directly or most of the facts, so she bloviated according to plan. She winked at us; the voters won’t wink back at her. Pat Buchanan thinks she won. I think people still have a bullshit factor– and that means she survived even as she met the low expectations she’s created. McCain gained nothing; he was the loser — in the first presidential debate, and the vice-presidential one.
4.She Still Knows Nothing — Palin proved that she can speak in complete sentences, but not that she understands anything about foreign policy.
5.No debate, Biden won — True, the governor of Alaska did better than many people expected. But Joe Biden showed why he’s in a different class
Debates between vice presidential candidates can be ho-hum affairs, about as important as the office itself. But with one remark, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen scored a direct hit on Republican Dan Quayle and fashioned a debate highlight for the ages.
DAN QUAYLE: I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Bentsen.
LLOYD BENTSEN: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy. (Prolonged shouts and applause).
….and here is Dan Quayle mis-spelling “Potato.” — Mr. Quayle’s most famous blunder occurred when he corrected a student’s correct spelling of “potato” to “potatoe” at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992. According to his memoirs, Quayle was uncomfortable with the version he gave, but did so because he decided to trust what he described as incorrect written materials provided by the school.
He informed student William Figueroa that he had misspelled the word “potato,” when in fact Figueroa had spelled it correctly. Quayle then had Figueroa add an “e,” not only making it incorrect, but once again making himself a target with this misspelling. Quayle was widely lambasted for his apparent inability to spell the word “potato.”
As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white. To a large extent, the Republican Party still is — The White-Bigot Party.
Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black. One week after Democrats nominated the nation’s first black presidential candidate on the eve of the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Republicans have only one African American — Fox News’ resident Uncle Tom Michael S. Steele — scheduled to speak last night during prime time at their convention.
As McCain’s 96 year old mother gazed listlessly into the rafters of the convention hall and with ReTHUGlicans and a sprinkling of ReTHUGliTOMS salivating like hungry, poisonous black mambas,…. and howling like a pack of hyenas, Sarah ‘Barracuda‘ Palin delivered a heavily choreographed speech, designed to rally the THUG/BIGOT base of the Republican party.
The speech was delivered right after MAFIA GOON — the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani had finished mocking, insulting and mis-representing Obama’s positions…. and topping it up with a dose of 9/11 fear-mongering.
Rudy Giuliani “The Goon” Rips Into Obama
[Note:During his two "Iron Fist" terms as Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani in concert with his police force THUG-HANDLED minorities with "Mafia Viciousness." -- the most notorious events of Giuliani's tenure, included the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima -- by Giuliani's police force.] — see more info below.
At the beginning of her speech I sensed some tension in her, but the “Killer From Wasilla” unwinded and got more comfortable as the speech progressed.
She spoke of her family, including her eldest son, who is about to be deployed to Iraq in the US Army, and her younger son, who has Down’s Syndrome.
In the speech, she assailed Obama, Biden and the “Liberal” media: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.” “We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
Read…..working people — how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns ……is a direct appeal to the White BIGOT VOTE.
The Barracuda (reading a speech prepared by McCain’sTHUGS) went on to mis-represent and mock Obama’s record, lying about her own at the same time, and smothering everything with heavy doses of recycled Republican Fear-Mongering.
“And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.” But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.”
This could be America’s next Vice-President
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign.”
“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”
“What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?” The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.”
“America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it….,” said Sarah.
Towards the end of the speech, when she got more comfortable, “Dame Sarah” changed gears, dishing out “time-tested” Republican insults: “Taxes are too high!” . . . “Obama will raise your taxes!” . . . “Tax increases!” . . . “He will raise income taxes!” … “He will raise payroll taxes!” … “He will raise investment income taxes!” … “He will raise the death tax!” . . . “He will raise business taxes!” . . . ["Big Government!"] . . . ["Obama will KILL YOU!"] . . . ["Obama is a MUSLIM"] . . . ["Obama is a Kenyan Communist!"] . . . ["The Terrorists are here .. in this hall!"] . . . ["I'll create more jobs!"] . . . ["I'll cut the deficit!"] . . . ["I'll start the war!"] . . . ["I'll keep those Negroes in their place!"]……LOL!, pure PoliTRICKS!
Meanwhile — Overheard: Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden’s comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats’ strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years. “If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued,” Biden said during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, according to ABC.
“[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution,” he added, “out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.” …..[ MORE ]
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1.Rudy Giuliani — “America’s THUG”
They call him “America’s Mayor.” But to blacks that title sugarcoats Rudy Giuliani’s real reputation as one of the most racially divisive leaders in the nation. Peter Noel’s book puts Giuliani’s often-ignored record of oppressing the “other New York” front and center in the 2008 presidential race.
Noel was a witness to “Giuliani time” in New York. As the race beat journalist for “The Village Voice,” he reported exclusively on the police brutality that rained down on blacks, and the denigration of black leadership by Giuliani. In this collection of his exposs, Noel provides stunning insights into the most notorious events of Giuliani’s tenure, including the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima. Both men-like many black victims of Giuliani’s stop-and-frisk policing-were innocent of any wrongdoing.
This brutality sparked a new black activist movement. Scores, including Jesse Jackson, were arrested-and Peter Noel was there to cover it. No journalist was more insightful about the rise of Al Sharpton,Khallid Muhammad’s “Million Youth March,” and Giuliani’s demonization of David Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor. There are interviews with major political players, inside accounts of the shifting alliances and violent conflicts between ethnic groups, and a stinging critique of the white-dominated media. And then there is Peter Noel’s interview with Giuliani, which took the form of a street fight in Harlem.
In these eloquent, often searing pieces, written in an outraged and authentic voice, Peter Noel spoke truth to the power of an “Afriphobic” mayor. In this revealing book, he still does.
•• Fox News on Sarah Palin: She has more foreign-policy experience than Barack Obama — “because Alaska is nearer to Russia than Illinois.“ •• Comedian Jay Leno: “McCain chose Palin over Romney because she is “Pro-Life” and McCain is ‘Clinging To Life,’” and McCain would not accept CPR from Romney. •• Hate Monger, Right-Wing Religious NUT — Dr. James Dobson: “This is one of the most exciting moments in this political season.”
That McCain never chose Mitt Romney, a seasoned politician/businessman, raises a big red-flag.
Consider this: Joe Biden other than Hillary Clinton was perhaps most sharply critical of Obama during the long and arduous Democratic primary.
Biden said of Obama:
On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counter terrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a sarcastic email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.
“We find it a little disingenuous that Sen. Obama is hailing this as a new bold initiative when he has neglected to join his colleagues in the Senate when the opportunities have been there to redirect our forces into Afghanistan” Biden campaign manager Luis Navarro said at the time. “It’s good to see Sen. Obama has finally arrived at the right position, but this can hardly be considered bold leadership.”
Biden’s contradiction caused the Republican National Committee to issue this statement: “Thank you, Sen. Biden, for proving the point that Barack Obama has no credibility on Afghanistan.”
In January, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) said Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Biden’s “insensitive remarks” were roundly criticized, and he apologized.
The Chicago Tribune explained:
Note to Biden. Well-spoken black people hate it when white people call them “articulate.” It’s the modern-day version of what white people used to say back in the day when they thought that by saying “He’s a credit to his race” they were saying something that a black person would welcome hearing.
Those dated words, like Biden’s comments, were patronizing at the very least. And they also appeared to carry some pretty negative assumptions about the majority of the race.
In an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, Bush stupidly echoed Biden’s remarks when asked about Obama. “He’s an attractive guy. He’s articulate. I’ve been impressed with him when I’ve seen him in person,” Bush said.
…but guess what, this did not prevent Obama from choosing him as his partner. Obama has “correctly judged” that he needs Biden’s expertise to run America — an indicator that he will surround himself with the best minds to run the country, unlike Bush who looks as dumb as his decisions — engineered by “daddy’s designated chaperone,” the heartless “darth vader” Dick Cheney.
In the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, Obama has demonstrated that he will never stop trying to reach out to his political enemies. By selecting Biden, he has shown how he will govern — Even when faced with bitter opposition from members of his own party he will always try to reach a compromise, and he will seek consensus in governing.
Biden will not be a “yes-man” to Obama, instead he will be a forceful and “loyal” advocate for the Obama administration, unlike the temperamental, “erratic egotist” McCain, who cannot stand a younger more polished, taller man (Romney) as his vice-presidential choice. Romney, by far, would have been the better choice for McCain — to help him work the American economy, which McCain has said he knows very little about.
Even the “Barracuda” who looks more like McCain’s daughter, will not be able to twist McSAME’s made-up mind when it is dead-set….in the same mode as the STUPID Lying BUSH.
Right-wing SNAKEPat Buchanan sums it up eloquently:
McCain is a rigid old-school gambler, and that’s why he chose a “harmless and easily controlled” 44 year old far-right conservative, who supported Pat Buchanan over George W. Bush in 2000.
• She backs the teaching of creationism (Intelligent Design) in public schools — in opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution, which is accepted universally by the scientific community.
• Palin opposes abortion even in the case of rape and incest. — Unless it is her own daughter(Typical Republican Hypocrisy). Like McCain she wants to overturn Roe V. Wade. She is also a member of the radical anti-choice organization Feminists for Life.
• She opposes Gay Marriage, Domestic Partnerships and all benefits attached — Unless her own daughter/son is gay(Another typical Republican Hypocrisy)
• Palin is pro-guns and is a life-time member of the “gun-running” NRA(National Rifle Association)
• She wants ALL IMMIGRANTS kicked out of the Unites States. (McCain has been a bumbling yo-yo on immigration lately — he has one foot in the “Latino Vote Pot,” and the other in thefar-right Nativist ‘Snake-Pit’)
The fear is that McCain unlike Obama may not lead with CONSENSUS, and will not tolerate criticism just like George Bush. He will lead with a tight-knit JUNTA just like George Bush, the latest in a long list of “RIGHT-WING AMERICAN DICTATORS.”
Like Bush, McCain seemingly follows his GUT and not his HEAD, therefore his decision making process is likely to be as flawed, straight-jacketed and as dangerous as Bush’s.
Using the words of Robert Kennedy, “past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation,” Obama correctly said that McCain has refused “to learn from the failures of the Bush years.”
America beware — A McCain presidency would definitely be a third term for Bush.
A McCain Presidency Would Be A Third Term For Bush
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1.6 things the Palin pick says about McCain — He’s desperate. Let’s stop pretending this race is as close as national polling suggests. The truth is McCain is essentially tied or trailing in every swing state that matters — and too close for comfort in several states like Indiana and Montana the GOP usually wins pretty easily in presidential races. On top of that, voters seem very inclined to elect Democrats in general this election — and very sick of the Bush years.McCain could easily lose in an electoral landslide.That is the private view of Democrats and Republicans alike.
