The McCain campaign can try to blame this on Palin all they want. If it werent for her about 3 million or more Republicans would have stayed in bed. I was contemplating voting for McCain coming home and barfing at having done so. I must admit, however, that during the campaign I gained much more respect for his character than I had had before even knowing his *narrative*. Whoever on the McCain campaign agreed to the katie Couric interview should be shot. And the story about her thinking Africa is a country is bogus bogus bogus. She is the child of schooteachers.
Yeah..I suspect she was pissed at being handled. *Your clothes are crappy so lets buy you new ones* *You are too stupid to talk so memorize the capital of all 50 states*. She did not handle the Couric interview well at all...but I think if she DID reject preparation its because the mccain people had served her so ill with the Gibson interview she was like...just let me handle this.
Unlike the governor of my state who has had her nose up Obama backside for 2 years..Palin didn’t ask for this. She wasn’t out there stumping for McCain and holding rallies for him in Alaska. He chose her for his own reasons. Obama didn’t choose my governor for his running mate and I’m going to hop hop hop with glee when he chooses her for nothing. He thinks women are beneath him. His csbinet will be composed of old leftist white men.
I think coming out of nowhere with no expectation of what was going to happen to her she did an admirable job.
In a Liberal country like America someone like Palin is simply unelectable.
And make no mistake, America is now a Liberal country.
Thanks to George!
Yep, all those independents and moderates that help make up O boy’s 51% are all liberals now. You keep on believing that scooter.
America is that place where even a closet Commie/Muslim had to run as a ‘tax-cutter’ in favor of ‘balanced budgets’. It’s a place where the irony is that the race-identity and racialist politics led to the defeat of the ‘gay-marrieds’. Pretty sweet. Consolation, sure. But still.
No, America is still America. It’s Obama-nation that was voted in. And Americans don’t have to like it. They don’t have to cooperate. They don’t have to do anything - but continue to fight for their freedom.
You will see it’s true.
As I’ve said, if a candidate is asked even by people having to go to court to ask the question for his birth certificate - just his . . birth certificate - and he fights with everything he has to seal it and avoid turning it over . . . that is not only a man with no ‘mandate’ - that is an illegimate elected official.
He’s not America’s President. He’s not my President. But, hey, you’re welcome to him.
Not the same as not knowing a continent from a country.
But maybe FOX got it wrong.
(Seems like they are supporting the Romney 2012 ticket)
You do know the campaign is over, right?
The man was tired?????
UUUMM, are you aware we have video tape of these two imbeciles?
You are referring to triple removed hearsay.
It seems like I just saw a post topic about how Obamunists are all about issues and Republicans are “Negative”.
Would it help Obama if we put Sarah Palin in a room just off the oval office so when things go wrong he can harken back to the old days and blame everything on her?
Are you that terrified of governing that you can’t let go of this character assassination?
Hello!!!
Helloo!!
Sarah Palin is at home in Alaska in the governors office. You do know that right?
What a wuss. Grow some Nads and prepare to do the job you claimed you were so prepared for. and stopping wetting your panties.
McCain is an honorable man during a time that honor seems to count for very little. His half-century of public service should be respected. His campaign staff should have picked up the same values, instead of looking for excuses.
McCain made a recent career of trashing the base of his party and then expected them to fully and unreservedly support him. His campaign was nothing more than the other Democrat slightly to the right of the other Democrat. In the end, a majority of the voters went with the younger guy.
McCain picked Palin as VP. She breathed a breath of fresh air into a tired, me too, campaign. She also displayed a level of independence that the country-club republican staff couldn’t stand. So out come the anecdotes about how unprepared she was and, of course, it was all her fault. Who was it that hid Palin before the NBC and CBS interviews? Who was it that set up the interviews? Palin not prepared? The responsibility belongs to the man at the top.
The Party of John McCain left the base, not the other way around. If the Republicans expect to be anything other than the Me too folks, they need to return to core principles and get folks like Palin, Jindal and Ryan in the forefront.
Palin was McCain’s best vote-getter. Trashing her was nothing more than self-serving excuse making. It’s time the staff “manned up” and took the hit for a failed strategy and failed campaign and stopped looking for a scapegoat.
Who knows what really happened. Maybe she misspoke. Whatever. Surely some of you know this stuff always happens when campaigns that weren’t successful, or at the end of presidencies. Kitty Dukaukis was supposed to be a drunk and rabid racist. Nancy Reagan talked to a psychic, so she got called a devil worshipper, trying to raise the dead.Got accused of porking Sinatra. Dan Quayle was supposed to be the dumbest human alive, when he really only made a few gaffes. Look at the people who supported Bush and when he becam unpopular they jumped ship. Gossiping about the boss, some to be able to brag, some to cover your ass, that’s what people working for politicians do. If they luck up and work for a successful one, they get a book deal.I don’t think anyone has ever thought Palin was a foreign policy expert, but she has time to learn whatever she needs, if she chooses to run for pres. Joe Biden has a long history of being wrong on issues, yet he is now the v.p. Crap happens
Barack Obama, educated, articulate king of the Lefties:
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In Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
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Typical example of stupid BS RNC talking points. The nitpick is simply wrong.
Al Qaeda is rooted in violent Wahabi fundamentalism, and their common language is Arabic. Al Qaeda means “the base”. In ARABIC. Their leadership is from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. They, their network, and every one of the 9/11 hijackers spoke ARABIC. Not one understood Pashto or Farsi.
We invaded Afghanistan to root out and kill al Qaeda who attacked us, and only secondarily, to overthrow their vile Taliban hosts. Aside from the obvious separate need for Pashto-speakers in Afghanistan, dja think we might have wanted to keep a couple of the Army’s extremely limited supply of Arabic translators on the job there to interrogate al Qaeda? Maybe find and kill bin Laden? Instead of shunting the Arabic translators all off to an unnecessary war in Iraq? Along with intel units, special forces and 130,000 troops?
We invaded Afghanistan to root out and kill al Qaeda who attacked us, and only secondarily, to overthrow their vile Taliban hosts.
No, attacking the host nation which provided a NATIONAL base for terrorism WAS a mission objective - period. Wasn’t no ‘secondarily’ about it.
daddio - 06 November 2008 04:38 AM
Aside from the obvious separate need for Pashto-speakers in Afghanistan, dja think we might have wanted to keep a couple of the Army’s extremely limited supply of Arabic translators on the job there to interrogate al Qaeda?
They speak Pashtu, and some Farsi.
daddio - 06 November 2008 04:38 AM
Maybe find and kill bin Laden?
Don’t you recall the story? They picked the wrong warlord who, basically, did not really want to get bin Laden, then still a sort of folk hero - as his popularity seems to come and go, depending.
daddio - 06 November 2008 04:38 AM
Instead of shunting the Arabic translators all off to an unnecessary war in Iraq?
It’s where Arabic is spoken, and all Islamic terrorists had converged on Iraq. That was Bush’s - bring it on. Take it there. Keep in Iraq. For some reason - the terrorist’s complied. That’s where translators were needed. It’s supposedly the fourth most common language in the world (partly because all Muslims, even those in Persia, study the Koran in Arabic).
OK, here is my theory on what happened. This anonymous McCain staffer was POed after days of Palin’s people pushing them for a change in the tone of the campaign, because horror of horrors, they knew what winning campaign looked like and this wasn’t it. So in a fit of pique, this guy decides to kill two birds with one stone. Fisrt, he leaks that Palin thought Africa was a country rather than a continent, he makes this outlandish statement just to show that the media is so biased against them and were so willing to report anything negative, no matter how outlandish, that this would instantly get national attention.
Naturally, mouth breathers like Marko who have had every skeptical bone in their bodies surgically removed, gobbled this down as readily as they did their blue pills.
In a Liberal country like America someone like Palin is simply unelectable.
And make no mistake, America is now a Liberal country.
Thanks to George!
Even Democrats aren’t swallowing Markos’ bilge.
Doug Schoen, a thoughtful Democratic strategist, sets the record straight and examines who really put the president-elect in the White House:
The general consensus of Election Night commentators was that our center-right country has become a center-left country. I must offer what will be, for liberals, a buzz kill: Barack Obama owes his victory not to the left, but to the middle. As he sets out to govern, he forgets that at his peril.
First, and probably most important, the ideological composition of the electorate this year was virtually identical to that of 2004. This year, 22% of voters were liberals, 44% were moderates and 34% were conservatives. In 2004, 21% were liberals, 45% were moderates and 34% were conservatives.
Barack Obama, educated, articulate king of the Lefties:
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In Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
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Typical example of stupid BS RNC talking points. The nitpick is simply wrong.
Al Qaeda is rooted in violent Wahabi fundamentalism, and their common language is Arabic. Al Qaeda means “the base”. In ARABIC. Their leadership is from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. They, their network, and every one of the 9/11 hijackers spoke ARABIC. Not one understood Pashto or Farsi.
We invaded Afghanistan to root out and kill al Qaeda who attacked us, and only secondarily, to overthrow their vile Taliban hosts. Aside from the obvious separate need for Pashto-speakers in Afghanistan, dja think we might have wanted to keep a couple of the Army’s extremely limited supply of Arabic translators on the job there to interrogate al Qaeda? Maybe find and kill bin Laden? Instead of shunting the Arabic translators all off to an unnecessary war in Iraq? Along with intel units, special forces and 130,000 troops?
Spin , spin, spin. Obama gave no indication he knew that Arabic is not spoken in Afghanistan nor did his campaign explain the gaffe your way at the time.
In any event, Al Qaeda is no longer a factor as a military force in Afghanistan and hasn’t been for years. Our main opponent in Afghanistan is Taliban insurgents. I invite you to find a news story from the last three years where an al Qaeda fighter has been killed or captured in Afghanistan. Bin Laden put most of his eggs in the Iraq basket and was crushed there.
Why liberals can’t give George Bush credit for having driven al Qaeda to the brink of extinction is beyond me. Right after 9-11 everyone was sure we’d be hit again. I recall holding my breath watching college and pro football games, figuring all those people would be an irresistible target for a suicide bomber. It hasn’t happened. Instead, al Qaeda’s core of fighters has been decimated, it’s leadership scattered and killed and what’s left driven so far underground that it can’t communicate effectively.
Seven years Bush has kept this country safe. Liberals ought to have enough class to acknowledge that fact and give the man his due.
But I’m not holding my breath.
Get together with all the other gullible fools and clap, cheer and gloat while you can.
You have elected a smooth, Chicago machine politician with communist leanings, no experience and no character to be President.
His blunders and His Disciple’s publicly wetting themselves would be entertainment for a few years and be just fine if it were not so dangerous to everyone else.
That snake oil salesman is a time bomb waiting to go off. We are facing both domestic and foreign crises for which we are going to need historic leadership. What the Messiah has shown so far isn’t even mediocre.
