David Corn

DC,

"Is it too much to expect her to understand that document and its history?"

That is obviously a "gotcha journalism" question.

"A federal right is not dependent on the "will ushered" in the 50 different states. Otherwise, what good are any of the rights outlined in the Bill of Rights?"

It is nice to see you point to the contradiction - I don't think she has been coached as well as the GOP hopes.

Thanks for all of your work!

(33 days and counting)

I don't know where to rate someone that can't name Time Magazine or Newsweek.

Gov. Palin's performances are getting to the point at which one has to question both her depth of knowledge of American government and history and her ability to think things through, especially on the fly. I mean, why couldn't she say, "I can't cite lots of Supreme Court decisions by name -- I'm not a lawyer -- but Roe v. Wade continues in the sad tradition of Dred Scott, which denied the humanity of another class of Americans. So, though I think Americans have a right to privacy, that includes the unborn. And abortion violates not only their right to privacy, but their very right to life, which I think trumps privacy when one weighs legal rights." I mean, that's a coherent defense of the anti-abortion position, and anyone who's anti-abortion ought to be able to spin that out at the drop of a hat. Then, if Ms. Couric pushed further, Gov. Palin would have had time to regroup and say she didn't like the decisions giving local governments the right to use imminent domain to seize private property for commercial purposes, and the recent decisions giving terror suspects or enemy combatants who aren't U.S. citizens rights that are similar to those of U.S. citizens. Now, I don't agree with those stances, but they seem to be fairly easy to articulate and in line with her views. She wouldn't have had to name the cases to at least appear intelligent. And why in heaven's name couldn't she just say she read the Anchorage daily and also kept up on the 'Net with the national, world and business news from the WSJ, NY Times, Washington Post and (to cover her with conservatives) the Washington Times? I mean, how hard is that?

Palin says "I'm a Federalist" and that "states should have more say in the laws of their lands"- but doesn't a Federalist advocate for centralizing power in the US (federal) government?

Can a rock imagine a mountain?

PALIN IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS

ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.

http://tinyurl.com/4s3kc6

Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.

Let's ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.

When you're with the Flintstones
you'll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
You'll have a gay old time.

RNC promotes great Obama initiatives

The GOP has an "Obama Spendometer" page that has listed a lot of fantastic Obama priorities.

http://tinyurl.com/3lq2fm

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I guess the claims that Barack doesn't have a detailed plan is bogus as the GOP can calculate the details to the dollar?

lololololo

Daily Show: Gams & Gammer

http://www.indecision2008.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186764

Katie Couric is a tough-talking big city reporter, and Sarah Palin is a moose-hunting maverick governor with real specs appeal.

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Jon is at his best in this clip

Early Signs Of Sarah Palin's Radical Agenda?

http://tinyurl.com/4uonp7

TV Ad: Keating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oE9_nUtB4Q

McCain pulling out of Michigan

John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.

McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more competitive states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. Wisconsin went for Kerry in 2004, Ohio and Florida for Bush.

McCain's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://tinyurl.com/3jw9n3

Sarah Palin Doesn't Meet British Ambassador!

The Mail Online is reporting that:

Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador - talks that never actually took place.

In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight's make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials - including Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.

It seems that Sir Nigel was suppose to have been at a US Govenors meeting last July, but had to pull out at the last minute. He did not attend the meeting!

And yet, today Sarah's aids claimed she not only attended the meeting with him but actually met Sir Nigel and claimed it as foreign policy experience.

Incredible, they are just making this stuff up and hoping no one calls them on it.

But it didn't work out in this case.

However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy.

A British Embassy spokesman said the error arose after Sir Nigel's name was listed among those who had attended a US Governor's meeting in July.

http://tinyurl.com/4mu8eb

McCain to Politico: "Excuse me, you're bothering me"

We just followed McCain down the steps following the vote to ask him about the reaction of House Republicans to the vote.

He didn't appreciate the company.

McCain: "Excuse me, you're bothering me."

Politico: "I'm bothering you?"

McCain: "Excuse me, I have to go."

http://tinyurl.com/4olzwm

As Palin Sinks, Obama Surges

Public Policy Polling surveyed four states immediately after the Republican convention and then again three weeks later. In those states, Gov. Sarah Palin's favorability has dropped by a net average of 12 points, and Sen. Barack Obama's standing in the horse race has improved by an average of seven points.

http://tinyurl.com/4zpt3a

On NPR, McCain Exaggerates Past Relationship with Palin

Then came a dramatic statement. Inskeep asked, "Is there an occasion when you can imagine turning to Gov. Palin for advice on a foreign policy crisis." McCain replied, I've turned to her advice many times in the past. Many times in the past? According to the McCain campaign, McCain first met Palin in February at a Washington meeting of the National Governors Association.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10028_npr_mccain_palin_exxagerates_advice.html

Many times? Now that's really scary!

McCain mansion for sale

The McCain family's 13-bedroom estate will be auctioned in October. KTVK got an exclusive tour of the desert compound.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2bd_1222895901

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This is how the guy lives. The same guy that had to APPLY for social security six years ago to receive $1,900.00 a month on top of his full salary as a senator ($173,000.00 a year) and his $5000.00 a month disability.

Social security is a safety net for those in need not a bonus windfall becuase you attain the magic age.

David Corn --- Come on, she's an Alaskan born and bred!

Of course it is too much!

Homer Simpson Tries To Vote For Obama (VIDEO)

Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama, but runs into a few problems.

Posted on YouTube by user "deebold08."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ

It's a good reminder -- get out and vote everyone!

http://voteforchange.com/

(via huffpo)

I suppose everybody but me is watching the debate.

What a waste of time.

Well, its yours to waste. :-)

I'm watching, but her voice is so grating that it's difficult. She's not doing to badly though, I have to say that. She doesn't have the correct position on the issues, but she isn't falling flat on her face so the pundits will declare her a big winner.

She uses "Also" a lot.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH McCAIN'S FACE?

http://rense.com/general83/sdk.htm

I won't be holding my breath that all the pundits who openly doubted Governor Palin's ability to debate will now give credit where credit is rightfully due!

I give her an "A" for her performance. It was really, really good. I don't know if it will be enough, but she delivered. What a breath of fresh air compared to the stifling hot air we have been subjected to from Democrats in Washington in recent days!

I have to say also that I have more respect for Senator Biden. He is not a hyperactive "spin machine" like Obama.

Capt,

Your statement, "Social security is a safety net for those in need not a bonus windfall becuase you attain the magic age." shows your true colors.

You are just plain wrong about this (like so many other things) and besides that, you are just revealing your envy of another person's success.

Senator McCain EARNED his Social Security benefits just like anyone else. So why don't you take a hike?

If it's one thing you can always count on from many on the the left in this country, it's the utterly contemptable attitude they display towards anyone who doesn't agree with them.

I'm talking about the IN-tolerant, ugly-talking, condescending, judgmental, "I'm-smarter-than-you" crap they constantly spew.

Barack Obama is just a more refined and genteel version , nothing more.

I view him as a "conveyor belt", a Trojan Horse that. if elected, will finally give the worn out 60's radicals their last hurrah. But what a party they will have.

It's not so much him I'm truly concerned about. It's his mentors, advisors, and confidants.

I am willing to bet money that at least 50% of his supporters do not have any idea whatsoever about the character or track record of the man nor do they even care. Hell, a lot of them don't even know or care what he intends to do if elected!

David,

Please report on this. General McKeirnan statement proves that is was the Sunni Awakening that paved the way for reduced violence, not the "surge".

Don't you agree?

Palin Gets Afghanistan Commander's Name, Strategy Wrong

Palin thinks our commander in Afghanistan is someone named "McClellan." It is, I believe, McKiernan. And Palin is DEAD WRONG. He absolutely said that tribal involvement in Afghanistan COIN strategy would not work.

McKiernan: "I do think there's a role for traditional tribal authorities and tribal structure in Afghanistan, in the rural areas especially, to play in a community-based sense of security, of connection with the government, and of environmental considerations. But I think that has to be led, that tribal engagement, it has to be led by the Afghan government. I specifically tell my chain of command in ISAF [International Security Assistance Force, the name for NATO's mission in Afghanistan] that I don't want the military to be engaging the tribes to do that. It has to be through the Afghan government to do that. But of course, there's danger in that. There's always, "Is this particular tribe, is it being reached out to for all the right reasons?" That has to be watched very closely."
McKiernan: "First of all, please don't think that I'm saying there's no room for tribal engagement in Afghanistan, because I think it's very necessary. But I think it's much more complex environment of tribal linkages, and intertribal complexity than there is in Iraq. It's not as simple as taking the Sunni Awakening and doing the Pashtun Awakening in Afghanistan. It's much more complex than that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/palin-gets-afghanistan-fa_n_131446.html

Specifically, this comment:

"It's not as simple as taking the Sunni Awakening and doing the Pashtun Awakening in Afghanistan. It's much more complex than that."

Palin really impressed me during the debates. Winkin instead of Blinkin. She knew Lincoln's General McClellan. Near the end she described the change we need in leadership explicitly.

But we're in trouble if McLellan is the General in Afghanistan, and McCain is for the change she described.

She did better and had the talking points down hard. But take off the $3,000 hair and makeup, the $10,000 wardrobe and the $2,000 glasses and she's just another hockey mom in a state without a franchise. Take off the lipstick and you haven't got a pitpull or a pig, just a folksy Alaskan spin meister.

geof01,

Interesting comment, yours. Quiet a large number of Americans identify with her PRECISELY because she's not a "spinmeister" like so many politicians. She's the real deal, my friend.

Funny you didn't comment on Senator Biden's wardrobe... pretty telling I think.

geof01,

I won't paint you with the same brush I used above, but your comments are a good example of just what I was referring to.

Your comments, particularly at the end, belittle her accomplishments and appear condescending - perhaps even sexist.

Tim, et al...

MEET the FLINTSTONES...

A modern STONE AGE family....

Which side are YOU on, boy?

After 12 of the most horrendouse hours I've spent in the ER I wanna know....

Which side are YOU on boy?

I know the McPalin crowd aren't on the side of patients, of families in anguist I knew today.

I wanna know...which side are YOU on, boy?

I know the families of soldiers, of sailors of airmen are NOT on the McPalin side of things...

Which side are YOU on, boy?

I know the poor, the downtrodden the "others" are NOT on the side of McPalin...

so I wanna know..."Which side are YOU on?"///

She's "the real deal"?? lol A 'real deal' woud've answered the questions instead of keeping hitting the rote talking points no matter what the question was. She continued the lie about Obama's tax plan and lied about mcsame's record. That's not real (my friends... haha).
Now Tim, reread what I've typed again. Notice that one can point out her failings just like we would for anybody else, WITHOUT being condescending or sexist. Those are two talking points they've plugged in as a defense mechanism.

...and I want to know who among the "Progressives" who post here are planning on heading out of the safety of their homes...who are voting early...who are going to join me in Virginia...who will go to OHIO, ot MISSOURI, to North CAROLINA...to Florida...

Hell, even to ANYWHERE it is close...to go door to door...

To make phone calls....

To drive people to the polls...

To make the difference...

Who? Who here? Who anywhere?

Historic...game changing...

Which SIDE ARE YOU ON?!!!

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C'mon....

Which side are you on?

Ahhhwww....C'mon!

Y'all know where me and my family stands...

C'mon? Which side are you on?

We'll all cross the street, cross the town, cross the fuckin' country to help YOUR sorry ass...

Which side are YOU on?

C'mon! Which side are YOU on?

I'm sexist? I'm not the one dressing up and coming across as super mom. My point is, take off her $10,000 paint job and do the interview on the radio without the Fargo accent and she's just a cobweb of spin.

Put her on the radio and see how far the "wink" gets her.

Don't accuse me of being sexist when sexism is on the center stage.

"McClellan" - a republican general who nearly lost the civil war.