Love this video, have fun ; )

This is just amazing, she is asked to name one magazine or newspaper that she reads, and she can't name one, it would seem that she could have at least named one of these papers from Alaska, maybe Time? Newsweek? How about the WSJ? Washington Post? New York Times? LA Times? San Jose Mercury News? US News and World Report? Bloomberg?

She couldn't, she wouldn't name one newspaper, not even her local paper.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

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McCain/Palin are having a really bad week, and now CNN is calling Palin a supporter of Obama, no kidding, really.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) – Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she "put the government checkbook online" in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

"We're going to do a few new things also," she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. "For instance, as Alaska’s governor, I put the government’s checkbook online so that people can see where their money’s going. We’ll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We’re going to bring that back to D.C."

There's just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

Ever see a campaign implode on themselves?

Man oh man, do these folks ever think? Fiorina thinks that Palin can run our country, but isn't qualified to run HP????????????

It isn't noon yet, but I think I need a drink.

Seems the red meat hate filled speech Palin gave last night is a big flop with independents and moderates:

George Lentz, 66, Southfield independent: "I was completely underwhelmed. She was a Republican novelty act with a sophomoric script. It was not even a speech I would expect for someone running for the local PTA, much less for vice president."

Update:

Here is another sampling of independents:

But then another woman added: "Once she started mudslinging, I thought, it's the same old crap as other politicians. McCain used her to get the women's vote. And she's using McCain."

"Thank you," another woman responded. "That really upset me; there was no need for that. It was snippy."

The unmarried group also voiced similar objections to the harsh, partisan edge of Palin's remarks. "I'm not impressed with her at all as a person," one said, citing her "finger pointing" and general sarcasm after the group had generally agreed that she was a talented public speaker.

When Palin decided to run for Governor 18 months ago, the DNC complied a backgrounder on her, here is a link to some of what they found. Including her use of her office as mayor to run her Lt. Governor bid. The GOP wants us to judge Palin on "character," what type of character does someone have when they abuse their public office to run a campaign?

USED PUBLIC FUNDS FOR POLITICAL GAIN

In her 2002 Lt. Governor bid, Mayor Palin used city employees, telephones, computers, fax machines for campaign fundraising and literature. On her candidate registration form, she used her City Hall fax number, and her mayoral e-mail address. Records show that Wasilla city property was used to contact supporters, donors, media contacts, and media purchasing. [Anchorage Daily News, 7/21/06]

Democrats did more of a job checking her background then McCain did, how anyone in their right mind can continue to allow Palin to run for VP is beyond me.

Listen carefully, at about 37 seconds, Peggy Noonan, off camera, says, "it is over." She goes a bit farther and calls the Palin pick "bullshit."

And truthfully, though the following is from a Republican blog, the sentiments are exactly right. Palin has flown in the father of her 17 year old's baby.

The media is not supposed to talk about this, but where, where is the sense in this woman? Here is what a Republican is saying:

Perhaps I'm focusing on an irrelevant issue, but the presence, or non-presence, of Johnston on the stage tonight strikes me as important. It's one thing for delegates to be understanding and compassionate about the fix these two teenagers have gotten themselves into. It's another to actually celebrate it. And, given what we've learned in the last few days, if Johnston is up on stage with his girlfriend and the Palin family, and Republicans are wildly cheering, it will certainly look like they are celebrating this situation.

I don't usually engage in these scenarios, but I'll do it here. If the Obamas had a 17 year-old daughter who was unmarried and pregnant by a tough-talking black kid, my guess is if that they all appeared onstage at a Democratic convention and the delegates were cheering wildly, a number of conservatives might be discussing the issue of dysfunctional black families.

Is Palin in her right mind? She, and McCain are USING her child and the situation they find themselves in for their own POLITICAL reasons, here is video of the young man arriving:



More from TPM:

Let's be clear about what's happening here. Overwhelmingly, reporters are pressing eminently reasonable questions -- her role in troopergate, her lack of experience, her connections to the AIP, her history of earmarking and lobbyists, etc. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is going absolutely non-stop about Palin's daughter. It is unmistakable.

Dear god, what exactly did McCain vet? Now the Washington Post is reporting:

In addition to being a mayor and raising four children, Sarah Palin found time for another venture in her Wasilla years -- she was part-owner of an Anchorage car wash.

And:

On April 3, 2007, the state went further and issued a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" because of the car wash's failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.

"Due to family obligations I must regretfully submit my resignation as Vice Presidential running mate." She does this no later then Friday, you read it here first.

Chris Kelly at the Huffington Post has a scathing article up, and his remarks are absolutely on point. What mother, in her right mind, would expose a child to the circus that was sure to evolve as news leaked out about the child's pregnancy?

From the article:

Here's where I get off board with Sarah Palin's privacy: The baby blanket.

Sarah Palin could have left the kids at home when John McCain called her to Dayton to be his vice president. (It can't be cheap to buy fifteen plane tickets on three minutes notice.) But she couldn't leave them at home, of course. Her family was the whole point.

So what to do about the pregnant, ashamed teenager?

Not John McCain's problem. Get her on the stage.

How do we cover her up? I've got it! We'll make her carry the Down syndrome baby! And a blanket! (Put on this black dress, it's slimming. And we'll have it taken in for the funeral.) Look:

Photo by Jim Wilson / New York Times



Photo by Jim Wilson



Mary Altaffer / Associated Press

And Kelly ends with:

You'd have to be the worst parent on earth to do that to your daughter to get a job.

Man oh man is the GOP in a bad position, basically a lose, lose no matter how you look at it. First of all it is painfully clear that McCain made his decision on Palin with little to no background vetting.



And then the LA Times gives us:

One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate's closest supporters as "keeping their fingers crossed" in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin's potential pitfalls. Just over a week ago, Palin was not on McCain's short list of potential running mates, the Republican said.

This really isn't about Palin at all, it is about McCain's ability, or lack thereof, to make an informed decision. Whether it is McCain's attempt to get into the middle of an international crisis (Georgia), or his VP pick, it is becoming increasingly clear that McCain's temperament is ill suited to commander in chief.

My god, who in the hell VETS a person for the second most important job in our nation based almost entirely on a Google search??????????????????????????

The lose lose? Getting rid of Palin shows that they made a huge mistake, keeping Palin on the ticket, shows they made a huge mistake.

Palin is a former member and supporter of the "AIP," (Alaskan Independence Party). This political party seeks to break Alaska away from the union, they do not believe in environmental law, they do not believe that there should be any public land (like parks and protected wildlife refuges) and they do not consider themselves Americans. Let me repeat that: They do not consider themselves Americans.

Today we learn more about John McCain's VP pick Palin, and I am wondering why John McCain didn't care enough about our country to vet Palin properly.

First of all MSNBC has an article by Paul Kane of the Washington Post that derails McCain's assertions that Palin is someone who is against earmarks:

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.

There was $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 -- all intended to benefit Palin's town, Wasilla, located about 45 miles north of Anchorage.

In introducing Palin as his running mate on Friday, Sen. John McCain cast her as a compatriot in his battle against wasteful federal spending. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, hailed Palin as a politician "with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies -- someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past, someone who's stopped government from wasting taxpayers' money."

And then we have Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, who tells us:

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Has anyone noticed that Sarah Palin's central claim to political fame is a fraud? She represents herself as a fiscal conservative who abhors pork-barrel projects and said no thanks to the "Bridge to Nowhere" -- a $398 million span that would have linked Ketchikan, Alaska, to its airport across the Tongass Narrows. But as mayor of Wasilla (pop. 9,780), she hired a Washington lobbyist to bring home the bacon. And as a candidate for governor just two years ago, she supported both the Ketchikan bridge and the congressional earmark that would have paid most of its cost.

I know, we're not supposed to pay attention to such inconvenient details. We're supposed to be dazzled by how unaffected she is, how plain-spoken, how "genuine."

And this is the best quote from Robinson's article:

The other thing we learned about McCain is that he is willing to take an enormous gamble based on limited information. He only met Palin once before summoning her for a final interview. He realized he needed to shake up the presidential race, and that's what he did. But we are reminded, if we did not realize it before, that the three things not to expect from a McCain presidency are caution, prudence and a willingness to always put the nation's interests above his own.

The bottom line is simple: McCain had an opportunity to show our nation what type of a decision maker he is, and he showed us alright, he showed us that he shoots from the hip and asks questions later. Can we really afford McCain's "maverick" leadership? I think not.

The NYT has a breaking story on the vetting of Sarah Palin, and quite frankly there are more questions then answers at this point.

From the NYT:

With time running out — and as Mr. McCain discarded two safer choices, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, as too predictable — he turned to Ms. Palin. He had his first face-to-face interview with her on Thursday and offered her the job moments later. Advisers to Mr. Pawlenty and another of the finalists on Mr. McCain's list described an intensive vetting process for those candidates that lasted one to two months.

“They didn't seriously consider her until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before,” said a Republican close to the campaign. "This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe or Ridge."

And this:

People familiar with the process said Ms. Palin had responded to a standard form with more than 70 questions. Although The Washington Post quoted advisers to Mr. McCain on Sunday as saying Ms. Palin had been subjected to an F.B.I. background check, an F.B.I. official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.

The President of the United States appoints hundreds of people who end up running our country, who represent our nation to the world, who run our military, and it is alarming to see McCain demonstrate for us how he would "vet" those he could appoint.

The one way McCain can show his ability to lead this country is by his actions, and his judgment in picking his Vice Presidential running mate shows some of the worst judgment ever seen by a candidate for president. Can we really afford to elect a man who has shown so little regard for the process of picking his running mate?

And, though this is an official Democratic Blog, I have to tell you that as an American I am now convinced that a McCain presidency would make George Bush look like George Washington.

Compare this mess of McCain's to our Vice Presidential pick, Joe Biden. Need I say more?

On Friday we learned that John McCain had picked Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Though he had only met her once in person, McCain has determined through watching her from afar that Palin is qualified to be second in command of our nation.

Who is this woman? The governor of one of the least populated states in our nation, she has been in office 18 months, and before that she was mayor of a town that had less then 10,000 people. She has never been to Iraq, as a matter of fact she had never traveled outside our country until 2007.

Here is a link for you to save as your "Sarah Palin" primer, it has an initial 45 plus points on her, from her stand against birth control (yes, that is not a typo, she is against birth control), to her current scandal called "Troopergate," to her not knowing what the Vice President does.

Sarah Palin is a dream come true for the hard core fundamentalists in our country, and her views are a nightmare for the rest of our nation.