Put your goggles on. The claws are out and it ain’t pretty.
In an essay, she compares Palin to celeb mom Lynne Spears, saying Palin and her husband Todd are “being just as exploitative” of her teenage daughter, Bristol. “Actually, even more so.”
Here’s how Bonnie came to that conclusion:
“They took center stage with the full knowledge that their 17-year-old’s five-months-along pregnancy was about to become front page news around the world. Bristol Palin hasn’t been the star of a major kids TV show like Jamie Lynn or Miley Cyrus. She has not chosen a life of celebrity. But now, thanks to her mother’s decision to accept the Republican Vice Presidential candidacy, her private life — her sex life — is as exposed as if she had long been a cover regular on Star or US Weekly.
She has unwittingly and literally become the poster child for her mother’s anti-choice and abstinence-only education policies.”
Our thoughts? Is she just doing what’s right? Or should Palin have never taken the VP offer?
110 Comments
Frankly ? She never should have brought the spotlight on her daughter ! As a mother, she should have protected her, not exposed her !
I agree 100% with you Isa!!! This a true example of putting yourself ahead of your childern.
She had to get a passport before going to see the troops in kuwait a few months ago!!! That is just embarrassing! Also she has been governor of butt fuck Alaska and only for 19 months. I dont want anyone in a position of leadership who is in her 40’s and just left the country for the first time. Talk about being a gun tooting, uncultured, person! Really poor choice that is just going to blow up more. Also, new evidence has come up as of this morning in regards to Troopergate and miss use of power.
Palin’s experience is the republican experience:
AMERICA IS IN RECESSION!
Thanks experienced republicans! your old vices (what others call republican experience) are killing us LITERALLY!
The Media is gonna die trying to destroy Governor Palin because they fear her. She is competent smart and has executive experience, which Obama doesn’t have, he was though a “community organizer” LOL. this is so much fun to watch the media self destruct…
Nah–she did the right thing.
If she didnt come out with it, then the DEMS would have made it worse, and you all know this is true.
I think Bristol hasn’t been given much choice about anything. I do believe she wanted to keep her child but apart from that, she’s being told what her life will be about from here on out and in that way I feel she’s being exploited. I think the Palin’s may be falsely giving off an image that their daughter and future son-in-law are all in aggrement when maybe they feel they have no other option but to agree.
Obama gay sex drug and murder scandal involving larry sinclair.
It would have been exposed regardless. Fuller, stating that Palin should have refused the tap based solely on the fact that Palin’s daughter is pregnant is laughable. This is a family matter & shouldn’t influence the mother’s career move. Palin’s political career has to come to a grinding halt to protect her daughter?? Her daughter sounds pretty well cared for already. Fuller needs to put a sock in it.
Im luvin it!
Everyone is grasping at this and that…………………….LOL
While she tells whats up.
She is one to watch out for, I aplaude her for what she did, because she knows that if she didnt come out with this WHICH HAS NO BEARING ON HER VP…..the Dems would have had a hay day.
We don’t fear Palin! we DESPISE those that have destroyed the USA !
The republicans in 8 years have sunk AMERICA in the biggest shit-whole since the birth of this country!
That’s not fear! it is called LOGIC, use of reason when finding the causes that create the problems=REPUBLICAN POLICIES!
No “THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS EXPLOITING THE GIRL”
Post 4-
This RECESSION you talk about, isnt happening in my state.
Housing is booming, jobs are booming, New home to “Seatlle” and so forth.
I think you drink.
POST 11
Clinton fucked us honey..its called NAFTA.
And btw- he is a dem
I agree with Isa. It’s funny that Bonnie Fuller criticizes Palin for exploiting her daughter when Fuller is perpetuating that exploitation by writing about it.
Im so loving this hatred by the dems.
why?
they know they have been beaten
It is called smoke screens people, republicans are the masters of smoke screens!
LOL at the Media Hysteria.
Mccain hit it out of the park.
I’m so excited First Female Vice President.
Within a week Sarah Palin will remove herself from the race for VP at the insistance of the McCain people. He will then be forced to name another person for VP. And this mess will loose the election for the republicans. Obama will be elected, not because people really want him, but because of McCain’s gigantic blunder.
Dems are to post number 17….
Dems shit stink also….dont forget
The Dems and the Media are losing their s.h.i.t. hahahahhahahahahahahhhahahhhahaahahhahahhahahahahahhh
Harley you live in butt-fuck Oklahoma! No one gives a shit about Oklahoma where homes cost $90K. The country is in the worst shape it has ever been open your eyes hillbilly!
#6, stop with blaming others for what they didn’t do. This is on Palin and McCain. A reporter at the convention today reported on air that McCain had hoped to keep it under wraps for a least another month! The girl is showing now! Don’t blame this on Dem’s or even the MSM because of McCain’s mishandling of it. In fact I’m starting to believe even Palin wanted to tell and McCain didn’t but it came out anyway. Come on, the girl was probably showing a month ago if she’s 5+ months!
Obama Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright,Rezko.
watch the Obama chronicles .
The Country IS in perfect booming! yeah! that’s why all europeans have a feast shopping with very low value of dollar! Foreclosure are a myth! Fanny Mae… another myth! The failed war a myth! The surplus in Iraq and the deficit in America a myth! All the analyst are gosths! and god is with us!
Republicans should not be called but morons in denial!
Jack-
\Grow up.
Maybe your just jealous because FORBES named us the number one RECESSION proof state.
And we are.
And people do care about us…..ask the New Orleans people, we took in over 2000 of them.
What has your state done, what about YOU?
All you are known for is shitting all over the place, your just a baby.
Only reason why forclosures are up - -NAFTA moved the damn jobs out of the country.
Go give your Clinton buddy a butt fuck for that one.
FUNNY HOW NONE OF YOU HAVE SHIT TO SAY ABOUT NAFTA
AND WHAT THAT DID TO AMERICA.
Yeah Nafta! WE SHOULD STOP GLOBALIZATION! PRAYING! AND NOT HAVING SEX TILL MARRIAGE!
Dude! Globalization IS A FACT! It is NOT an AMERICAN THING, it is the reality, and other countries are BOOMING for that!, So If you are falling behind is because you are not getting it!
Only those that understand politics as zero sum logic think NAFTA, OR GLOBALIZATION is the cause of failure!!! The lack of educational policies that give an economical advantage to the American economy, plus all other agricultural, and business strategies is what leaving america behind! Putting all the money in war and not in education for the ones that have to go to public school and universities, that has fucked up this country…that and being a bully to other countries! Republicans have made of america a bully with little brains!
Your an idoit post 29 & 30.
Im in the trucking biz - - FUCK YOU..you honestly do not have a clue what nafta has done to the WORKING CLASS americans.
companies that i pulled copper out of for years as soon as that was signed, they packed up and left the country along with many other manafacturing companies.
stake your bullshit logic and stick it up yout ass.
Thank Bill Clinton for NAFTA NAU AMERO …..
If by Fuck you… you mean that relocating the whole work force of america (what corporations call Global Workforce Mobility) is what has done I get it!
It was a republican policy! Why the whole “no more big government” policy has in mind only to prepare the terrain for the big corporations to take over public interest! That my friend is the republican party!
I do know what I’m talking about!
Do you know corporations where the lobbyist of Nafta?
THE HYSTERIA over Madam Vice President Palin is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo exciting I started donating money to the campaign. I’m so hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaappppppppyyyyy…
I’ve never been so excited about an election in my whole life.
This election is going o be awsome!
And guess whos gonna cry?!?!
NOT I!
nor Madam Vice President
No Nonsense , uncorruptable woman , bucks her own party and if she took on her wife beating brother in law which btw threatened her Dad and tazered her nephew and is fighting for custody , so be it.
she can take on Obambi with one hand tied behind her back, this is gonna be great.
I personally want to see her take on the “biased media”.
and watch her take on the b.i.t.c.h.e.s at “the view” too.
SARAH PALIN IS DUNZO ! ! !
NEXT!
I want to invite her and her family to my house for dinner!
This lady is freaking awesome!
“…Also she has been governor of butt fuck Alaska and only for 19 months. I dont want anyone in a position of leadership who is in her 40’s…”
Are you serious? Retarded? You do realize that Obama doesn’t have anymore experience than she does, right? And that Obama is in his forties, too?
LOL the Left Wing Loons and the Main Stream Media is HYPERVENTILATING.
Their is a GOD.
Obama has done nothing. He has no experience. His whole time in the senate has been running for president. Palin has way more experience. As for Alaska being insignificant? They provide about 20 percent of our energy resources. They ARE important.
Well, I have shit to say about NAFTA. Harley and Anonymous need to check their facts. Yes, it was signed by Clinton, but it was crafted by Bush Sr. and got far more support from Republicans than Democrats:
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“In the United States, NAFTA was able to secure passage after Bill Clinton made its passage a major legislative priority in 1993. Since the agreement had been signed by Bush under his fast-track prerogative, Clinton did not alter the original agreement….the U.S. House of Representatives passed NAFTA on November 17, 1993, by 234-200 vote (132 Republicans and 102 Democrats voting in favor; 43 Republicans, 156 Democrats, and 1 independent against),[6] and the U.S. Senate passed it on the last day of its 1993 session, November 20, 1993, by 61-38 vote (34 Republicans and 27 Democrats voting in favor; 10 Republicans and 28 Democrats against, with 1 Democrat opponent not voting.” - Wikipedia
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This isn’t arcane information, ppl. And, really, it’d be pretty goddamn surprising if NAFTA *hadn’t* received conservative support. Republicans LIKE smaller government, remember? Free-trade = Less government interference in business affairs.
STRONG>read a little:
“Does George W. Bush understand what he is proposing for the Americas? Did Bill Clinton and Bush the elder understand the fundamental shift in legal foundations buried in NAFTA’s fine print? They knew this is what business and finance wanted. As the public learns more, the smoking gun should become a focal point in this year’s trade debate, confronting politicians with embarrassing questions about global governance. Who voted to shoot down national sovereignty? Who crowned the corporate investors the new monarchs of public values?” IF YOU CAN!!
So if it was her father accepting the nomination, would this even be a question? I think not.
Instead of calling each other names here, maybe we should debate the real issues. First, why did McCain pick her? Surely he had to know that women were not going to vote for him just because he picked a woman? I want a woman in office who has foreign policy experience and who has not been involved in ethics investigations.I want a woman who might not support abortion but who does support a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body. I also want a woman who supports her children and does not put them on public display. What is wrong with educating young people not only about abstinence but also about sex education and pregnancy prevention? All this aside, Biden is going to eat her up for lunch in the debates. In my opinion, he is the one who should be running for president with Obama as his VP, but that is just my opinion. Biden is one of the most intelligent people in public service. McCain is an adulterer with a known anger management issues. Palin is an unknown who has zero foreign policy experience. She was a mayor of a small town in Alaska before being elected as governor a year and half ago.
The Feminazis are out in full force too. Palin will still win cause she has more experience then Obama.
I LOVE the clintons….do not care what anyone of you fucktards say…love, love , love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I am Black, so do not go there!!!!!!!!!
sarah, the question is not why did she pick her! - I could not care who does he pick!-
the issues in not the Republican Person nominated to be McCain Vice. The issue is how and why are the republicans in the white house have not been impeached ONE BY ONE for ravaging the state of the country!
Palin or not Republicans are not been able to guide the country into the new world economy as a winner…perhaps a lame dying bull.
It is pathetic that you are blaming the economic downturn in this country on Clinton when your guy has been in office for the past eight years. When Clinton left office there was a budget surplus now we have record budget and trade deficits. We’re wasting 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, while the Iraqis have an 80 billion dollar surplus. And no one has protected corporate America more than the Republican party as they are the ones with the tax breaks while middle America suffers. Rank and file Republicans vote for these rich guys like Bush and McCain and then try to blame the Dems for the economic failures of this country. The group that has continued to get rich under Bush are the top 1%, but poor and middle class Republicans vote because of abortion and guns and get screwed in the process. Unfortunately for them they always fail to realize that the Republicans don’t give a rat’s ass about you or your families because you are just votes to get every four years. And typically you come out and make ridiculous arguments about the NRA, abortion, and family values, while the country goes down the tubes. And if your guy wins you will blame the Dems in the House and Senate when he screws it up.
snipe, they hadn’t one problem with it at all. I worked with a woman whose hubby was a VP of purchasing for a company that although serious Clinton haters, they were quite happy with NAFTA to the point of actually verbalizing that lol. (”If you knew how much they hated Clinton you’d understand”). People don’t read or research for themselves and sadly allow half truths and straight out lies to rule over them. Just like with what your supplied, this and other info is out there and available in a non partisan “simply the facts” way IF you want it straight no chaser.
And by the way, Bonnie Fuller was absolutely right. Palin isn’t a bad mother because her daughter is pregnant, she’s a questionable mother because she didn’t put her daughter first.
George Bush has ruined not only our country’s reputation and been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in his little war, he has also allowed our debts to be bought by other countries. We owe China freaking zillions of dollars. We will not recover from Bush’s incompetency for a hundred years. I personally think that he and Cheney need to tried for war crimes at the Hague.
War crimes In the Hague and then FKN HELL!
Clearly, abstinence-only is a policy that does not work in her household.
Well I loved Hillary too but can’t get myself to vote for Obama because of inexperience and mostly all the unanswered questions about his radical associations. Maybe if he was more accessible to the media and explained himself then maybe just maybe but not until. He is more scripted than hillary and doesn’t answer questions period.
Yeah! you say that if you can truly understand the depth of the abyss the current republican admon. has sunk this country in!
Don’t let a woman picked as a card in a hand of pokers take attention from the liability the republicans in WASHINGTON have to this country, and all others involved.
“People don’t read or research for themselves and sadly allow half truths and straight out lies to rule over them.”
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QFT. The issues are complex and it’s hard enough to establish common ground as it is. So it’s absolutely jaw-dropping to me that there are ppl out there (ppl engaged in political debate no less) who don’t even know the most basic facts.
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That being said, I have no problem with Palin accepting the VP offer.
all the hoopla is a sign that palin was the right choice.
Yeah Madam: OR YOU ARE JUST IN DENIAL
Give it to us republican! what is the so call truth you have: one of those third rate blogs with “facts” about obama’s past in hell? MORONS!
5 Myths of NAFTA
Here is an excellent article about some demagoguery of NAFTA.
Let me sum up…with the truth…
1)NAFTA has NOT had the transformational effect on our economy that its proponents claimed. This is true and frankly anyone that claimed this prior to the agreement was being overly optimistic. Even the internet’s effect on our economy is still an open question. The U.S. economy is 14 trillion dollars yearly, and it is unlikely anyone thing will on its own have a “transformational” effect. That does NOT mean it hasn’t been a benefit to the economy.
2)NAFTA has NOT crushed the American worker. This is of course pure fantasy and nonsense coming from the Democrats…
Obama claims that NAFTA has destroyed a million American jobs. Suppose he’s right. Total employment still rose by 27 million jobs between 1993 and 2007, to 137.6 million, and the unemployment rate has fallen. At worst, then, NAFTA has cost only a tiny minority of American workers their jobs. And even that is a one-sided view. As Mexico opened its economy to U.S. trade and investment, NAFTA created new American jobs, too.
3) Trying to renogiate NAFTA would come with all sorts of unintended consequences. The Democrats show the height of political hubris when they threaten to renegotiate long standing trade agreements. There is quite a bit of chutzpah when that is said simultaneously to becrying our standing in the world. Trying to renegotiate long standing trade pacts is a great way to lose allies all around the world, and any threats thereof are at best counter productive. Here is how Canadian Premier put it…
“Of course, if any American government ever chose to make the mistake of opening [NAFTA], we would have some things we would want to talk about as well.
4)Making labor and environmental standards stricter will NOT help the American worker in any meaningful way. This has always been a red herring to me. No free trade pact is perfect, and frankly very few things are anywhere. Of course, there could be more emphasis on working conditions and the environment, however in the big picture, opening up our market improves the quality of life of all in the third world which eventually leads to better working conditions and environmental standards. Trying to negotiate such things through a trade pact is dicey at best.
5)Renegotiating NAFTA should NOT be a priority for the next President. Instead, what should be a priority is signing new trade pacts. The most important trade pact on the table is the one with Colombia. Our best ally in the region and a country that has transformed itself remarkably is looking for more economic partnership. If we do not provide it, that will make Colombia’s job tougher in acting as a counter balance to Hugo Chavez in the region.
Forget NAFTA for a sec…………I just read something that makes it harder to believe that this isn’t being exploited. I just read that the father of the baby is on his way to the convention to join the Palin’s. Ok, that’s nothing and even maybe expected since he is her childs father and fiance which, speaking of the fiance part, what I just read (MSNBC) his mother states that “the couple had planned to marry even before she found out about the pregancy.” Ok, that also may have been true, but does it seem like they would allow their 17yr old daughter to marry a 18yrld boy who according to his MySpace entries, his favorite pass time is shooting crap, playing hockey, hanging with the guys, fishing, and he doesn’t want kids?
People aren’t being giving an opportunity to let the story die because they keep adding more questions to it! Something IS starting to feel exploitive, and if you read my posts you know I’m fair so don’t anyone get in attack mode on this.
I’m sorry but I for the life of me can’t understand how anyone can support a man who wants to continue with this war that has killed thousands! These are our americans dying over there and mccain supports this bullshit! What are these americans dying for or coming back home disabled! Wifes without husbands children without fathers for what!? Yet you heartless republicans want vote another war supporter into office so he can murder another couple of thousand american troops. This country is in despair because you dummies elected a REPUBLICAN! TIME FOR CHANGE. LET’S BRING OUR AMERICANS TROOPS HOME NO MORE DEATHS.
Palin is wrong for exploiting her pregnant child for political gain. Her child is 17 years old, not 27. Bristol needs all the nurturing and support possible from her mother (especially now - more than ever). This is not the time for Palin to go gallivanting around the country campaigning. Let’s not forget the special needs child, either. A real mother puts her child and family needs 1st. Palin has a pregnant adolescent and a baby with Down’s Syndrome and is choosing politics over her them. What a role model and a great mom. Give me a break, people.
This is not about politics, but it is about being responsible for her (Palin) family’s extenuating circumstances .
Did Bonnie ponder this same basic question when John Edwards announced his run for the presidency despite his wife having been diagnosed with cancer?
wait, ira
q has a 80billion dollar surplus?
so the war worked?
we didn’t steal all their oil?
we didn’t destroy their whole country?
liberalism is a mental disorder.
I support whoever plans to stop this stupid pointless war.
If god had practiced abstinence I wouldn’t be here and all you blind republican moron sheep would have no saviour to cry yourselves to sleep to every night. Obama should be president, but the sad truth is that racist sheep will elect a prone phony hypocrite and his pulpit-yelling babygmama. America is still home to the white myth. all youse with a brain, move to canada or europe. we’re in for a rocky next 4 years, i fears.
Harley, I had such a thing for you, but lately that’s fading, baby…a lot of what you are spewing lately is crap.
Sorry.
The fact that her daughter happen to get pregnant shows that, her daughter has a life and she thinks for herself. It has been said that she is keeping the baby, and will probably get married. They are walking the talk in my opinion. But this should not even be brought up at all. This has nothing to do with the one running. She is her own person. Leave her out of it. It was just bad timing. There are more important things people should be investigating right now………not this…This is ridiculous. I think that probably when the offer came along from McCain, she probably thought they might be able to keep it a secret somehow. I don’t know. But I was absolutely blown away by the RNC tonight when Fred Thompson gave his speech. It was riveting and awesome.
She cant control what her 17 year old daughter does, and her daughter lives under her roof…yea what the hell is she going to do with our country? She’ s a joke, and the fact that McCain even picked her mean he just handed the win to Obama.
Yes, a republican has put this country into the shithole yet some morons are running to vote another republican back into office for another 4 shitty years go figure?
That home skoolin’ really worked out for palin huh? I guess sex education wasn’t in the curriculum
LOL I’ve been to your state, I wouldn’t brag…
God forbid McCain (who looks as if he’s on his final leg of life) passes and we are left with this woman? I understand she inexperienced and the Republican’s could pull her strings easily but I really didn’t expect them to be this transparent.
I guess all of you talking shit about her daughter dont have any children.
If you have kids then you know, and if you dont, shut the fuck up. You are honestly talking about something you have no clue about then.
Im sure you were fucking angels for your parents and kept yourself PURE, huh?
Unless, your just the perfect family named the Cleavers.
You people are about stupid as shit.
You people are scared of this woman!
And it shows in all of your post!
Are you scared about the fact that she can out shoot and dress her own dinner?
Or, are you scared that she (HAS A PROVEN RECORD!) to get the crooked people out, STOP useless spending, sell shit that isnt needed and so forth.
You scaredy cats - - need to go hide! RUN RUN RUN!
ROFLOL!
…………………MeMyself…………
I have to change my name as so many people want to be me
I only posted ONCE (two times counting this post)
I wish Arasto would make us have to use ONE name only on this blog, that would cut down on alot of this IDENTITY THEFT!
.Im Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring at the fact that I am so damn loved!
But yet in the same breath, I am sick of it.
I have finally grown up.
-Ruby
…she is not exploiting…she is just coming right out and admitting it….no fodder for the blog shit sites or the media…..so she has a family….a family with problems….WHO DOESN’T????? I bet EVERYONE on this site can name someone in their family who got knocked up, on drugs, in jail, homeless, fucked a dozen men/ woman, or had same sex……she is just being smart. and not afraid of anyone…and that is what we need in the White House!!
Ruby/Harley! (LOVE your name, was on the shortlist for my second daughter!)
So glad to read your post!
Now I can heart you again!
Yay!
LOL!
I was named after my grandmother…………….Ruby.
I love it. Its an old fashioned name and it matches my hair!
Imma Redhead - El Naturale
–But, I wish Arasto woud make it where we can only use one login name with one email addy.
YAY!
AMEN POST NUMBER 87!
I would love to be a fly on the wall in all of these PERFECT families for sure.
Well now we know why Bristol is always holding Trig…….to cover that belly. Palin shouldn’t have taken the VP offer because she’s not qualified. It has nothing to do with her daughter. I agree 100% with Crying Shame; this is really going to blow up in their faces. Of ALL the qualified women in this country I can’t believe she got picked. McCain’s campaign advisor should be fired…yesterday.
HOTBITCH-
Please tell us why Palin isnt qualified for VP?
ANSWERS on why she isnt, then I will show you VIA WIKI that she is.
-Ruby
SHE IS:
1) As mayor, Palin reduced the mayoral salary, reduced property taxes by 40 percent, and increased the city sales tax to pay for a new indoor ice rink and sports complex.
2) During her second three-year term as mayor, Palin hired the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for federal money for Wasilla. The effort was led by Steven Silver, a former chief of staff for Sen. Ted Stevens,[31] and it secured nearly $27 million in earmarked funds. The earmarks included $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a rail project linking Wasilla and the ski resort community of Girdwood, Stevens’ hometown
3) THATS JUST A START ON WHAT SHE HAS DONE……she is diff qualified
-Ruby
Waiting……………..and laughing.
Obama is the one that isnt qualified people.
Hell, he hasnt even been a Mayor, and she has!
Alaska, with an area of one-fifth the size of the conterminous U.S., ranked 47th in population in 2002 with a total estimated at 643786, representing an increase of 2.7% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, Alaska population increased from 550043 to 626932, or 14%.
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I think it is honestly higher, due to just the Army base has about 15,000 people, then not even counting the AF base either with another 25K+. Then I havent even thrown in the Coast Guard either!
-Ruby
See, even the Census has shown that since she was Mayor then Govener, the population has risen.
Hum, I wonder why?
-Ruby
I think she has done amazing things for Alaska, and you know, I don’t even mind that she’s been picked for V.P.- but she’s V.P. for a man who just turned 72, and will be the oldest first term president we’ve ever had. If anything happens to McCain, she’s the commander in chief. I think the experience argument against Obama has been lost to their campaign- if Obama isn’t ready to be president, how is Palin?
She was mayor of Wasilla, which has a population of 9,780 residents (high end), and that is approximately one twentieth the size of Barack Obama’s Illinois state senate district, and of course much smaller in comparison to his U.S. Senate district. However, I will not dispute that you can look at both of their records, and, depending on how you define certain things, or how much importance you place on others, say one is more qualified than the other- for example, much is made of her having executive experience vs Obama’s legistlative experience.
What is interesting is that, when one of Obama’s V.P. picks (I think Tim Caine?) was being tossed around as a possibility Karl Rove himself reamed Obama, saying that being governor for THREE terms was NOT sufficient experience for a V.P., and to choose him would be a a blatant political move. Yet now they are going on and on about Palin’s executive experience because she’s been gov for 18 months- do you realize that the ENTIRE population of Alaska is roughly equal to the population of Fort Worth, Texas?
People are saying she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is “close to Russia” and she is commander of the Alaskan National Guard, but when questioned none of McCain’s aides can provide one single decision she made to mobilize them. They are good at saying things like “in the event of an emergency… if something were to happen” etc, but that’s simply the definition of what she may have to do- no instances in which anything happened and she responded to it by mobilizing the National Guard. When Kay Bailey Hutchinson was asked how Palin would perform in a V.P. debate with Biden, Hutchinson said that Paline would “overcome” Biden’s foreign policy experience because she is so relatable, average Americans will like her- and I thought, yes, Sen. Hutchinson, that’s true, I like her too, but the question wasn’t about likeability.
Lastly, however, all of the talk about her daughter is a pointless distraction from the real issues. I don’t think Palin should have turned down the historic chance to be the first female V.P. for the Reps (Dems in ‘84, I believe, had Geraldine Ferraro) simply because her daughter made a mistake.
I can’t stop laughing at the fear in the media, and the nutroots.
They are desperate.
Governor Palin has more executive experience than all three senators running together and Obama has no foreign relations experience at all.
GO SARAH BARRACUDA ………………………………………………
So which post was yours, Harley?
94,95,96.
And this one
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What I cant seem to understand is that people think that Obama is going to give us all FREE health care, like Germany does.
My husband is German people. He lived with that for many of years. He made it simple to understand that FREE health care just wont happen EVER in America.
The doctors in Germany are basically Governement owned. They are on a slide scale.
ie: An operation for CANCER. Doctors get paid ONLY X amount of dollars.
American doctors will and do charge THOUSANDS of dollars.
Then, another thing….He OBAMA would have to take on ALL OF THE PHARMACITUCAL companies, and ALL OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE companies…….this just will not happen.
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IMHO, this man has promised American people something that JUST cant happen.
-Ruby
You said posted once before post 86. Which one was that?
Good point post number 97.
Though, Obama (to me and many others) he honestly doesnt have more experience than Palin. Being a Senator is different than being Mayor, let alone a Governer.
Be it 5 or 5M people.
Am I right or wrong?
-Ruby
The media is mean and cruel, they could have easily given the daughter privacy, but chose to exploit her. It was NOT her mother who released this information. Why did Chelsea Clinton get so much protection and privacy from the media? Was Chelsea pregnant as a teen? We will never know because her privacy was respected. Now back off you cruel, mean scumbags.
Geez Snipe - post number 10.
BTW - Heard from the boy thats vacationing in the sand pit.
He be doing good, and misses mommas cookin!
-Ruby
One more thing…
I think it is kinda funny that Democrates and even Independents are backing up old man McCain & Palin.
Your thoughts?
-Ruby
Sarah’s new place in American history is a liberating event for all women. If she can play and coach sports, if she can keep a family of five together and happy, if she can enjoy nature and hunting, if she can walk the line between union and management, if she has been persistent and durable in executive positions, if she can see the problems and define the solutions (all of which she has done), we know we will like her as our next Vice-President of the United States of America.
how much she will be hated if they win. She will start digging ( reformer ) and we will hear screaming. We must stand with her if we want reform ( real change ). They will squirm, they will lie. They will screech and preach. Evil prefers the darkness. She will be vilified as a McCarthy. The filth in DC seems endless and bi-partisan.
I wonder if the smears are a product of her gender as much as fear of the light she may shine on DC. To do this we have to put country first,get rid of the criminals of any party. Stealing from 300 million Americans in oh so many ways. ENOUGH
I believe these two will try. I believe these two put country before party ( as do I ).
Let us pray God does bless America and shines the light of truth on the cockroaches in DC ALL of them
Anything to get elected…contradicting conservative values drive me crazy..they say no to a woman’s right choose claiming the sanctity of life, and have no qualms about waterboarding and abandoning habeas corpus. Humans rights are afforded to all of God’s creatures equally, even if one of God’s creatures happens to be linked to terrorism.
If I’m off here, please set me straight!!
Power and money run the world, anything to get elected is right, she is a bitch in sheeps clothing.
I would not done that - to exploit your daughter and the rest of her family is just thought of herself.