How can there be so many people in this country who buy this crap?

Another morning cup of sadness.

Well, I guess this could be question for Charlie Gibson, but since it's Charlie (Does Rev. Wright love the country as much as you do?) Gibson, he'll be too afraid to ask it: Governor Palin, why did you take funding for the Bridge to Nowhere, and why do you claim that you didn't?

Palin is working off of the old political axiom:
If you repeat something enough times, then it becomes true.

If one is skeptical as to whether or not repetition works, think back to the mantras leading up to the Iraq War.

As Obama says --- ENOUGH already.

Most voters haven't a CLUE what Bridge to NoWhere means and most don't care.

Go after taxes or tax cuts or home mortgages or poverty or health care --- this bridge leads to nowhere.

She's a major league bullshit artist.

And the campaign is telling her full speed ahead. Cynics.

The most hilarious part is to hear McCain yammering on about how he never takes earmarks, Barack took $1 million a day, and when he gets there, he will expose the big earmark-askers. "You will know their names." We know one already. Psst. She's standing right next to you.

They've got a strategy going here.

Sarah, the Serial Liar - who Won't Talk to the Press!

she repeats the same speech because that's the extent of her skills as a campaigner. She's less a VP candidate than McCains inhouse emcee.

also why isn't the Obama camp unsing this time to actively brand her image. McCain gave them a blank slate to use.

Bridge to Nowhere = Campaign to Nowhere

Obama's team has got to stop making Palin the center of attention. If Palin is lying, then the story should be, "the McCain campaign is lying about taking earmarks." By everyone focusing on Palin, McCain cops a walk.

She's following the neocon formula: A lie is only a lie when you quit telling it. Just keep telling it until people accept it for the truth.

Sarah Palin: A Bush John McCain can hug in public.

Great line about Palin from Paul Begala this morning on CNN:

She carried so much pork home she got trichinosis.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0809/09/ltm.02.html

The mainstream media needs to cut the bullshit and start examining Palin's extreme record. I mean, its amazing who the MSM is glorifying Palin like she is the messiah. There is so much at stake in this election and media is fixated on Palin power.

The MSM is tank with GOP. MSM don't have any accountability. I think, the blogger need to find a way to communicate to ordinary people.

The MSM is tank with GOP. MSM don't have any accountability. I think, the blogger need to find a way to communicate to ordinary people.

During a debate of 2000 Al Gore/G. Bush: It seemed Mr Bush triumphed by parroting over and over (with a sarcastic tone/smile) “Fuzzy math…Fuzzy math”. Sadly a coherent-logical-sensible Al Gore was left appearing weak and flustered…Huffying, sighing, flustered, and put on the defense…Bush prevailed by Igniting emotion with simple one liner zingers.
I hope and pray this tactic (to utter one liner lies over and over) which is being employed by Palin/Mcain will not have a similar effect on the Democratic run…My question to all: How best to counter blatant deception and lies? Is countering with facts/truths adequate? It wasn’t enough for Al Gore!? Logic vs Emotion? I’m not so certain. Sadly, too often emotion reduces logic to an irrelevant heap.

The funny part about these rants against earmarks is that many earmarks are very useful to communities--they help build roads, hospitals, community centers, infrastructure. If there were no earmarks, there'd be a lot less cancer centers, research centers, and roads to drive on.

Michael Moore did a hilarious bit on earmarks in Newt Gingrich's district over a decade ago on TV Nation. He went down there to gather citizens to "fight" against earmarks...turns out the things he was asking them to fight against were traffic lights, improved sewer drainage, etc. The people weren't so keen on fighting them once they realized how they helped the community.

Newsflash: this shit is sticking.
It's time for Camp Obama to steal a page from Rove. Go after her strenght:
Someone needs to step up and out-folks her!
I say Schweitzer needs to call her out..NOW!

After a week it doesn't seem to matter. It's time to start getting worried. Many people really like her. They see her as "honest" -- not a politician. She's attractive and feisty.

The McCain camp announced their strategy. They are following their strategy. It's working. The media will be perceived as holding a grudge and not being fair.

It's both sad and scary.

Thanks but no thanks for that Bush 3rd term.

Guys, you're missing the point. Let's break it down:

"Thanks, but no thanks."

"Thanks," -- this is clearly an acknowledgment of Palin's initial reaction to the proposed Bridge to Nowhere. As in, "Thanks, this is something I have lobbied for and appreciate."

"but" -- suggests a reconsideration of the initial position, based on shifting circumstances.

"no thanks." -- is the summation of her courageous / politically expedient stand against the project she had supported. As in, "Thanks, but no thanks. That bridge has become politically radioactive. We'll try to find something else to do with the money."

"Thanks, but no thanks," might just be a gimmick so carefully formulated that it can't be a "lie."

The mocking e-bay reference is a nice touch.

Mocking and scorn is always a good tactic, I think. Once Palin and McCain are *ridiculed* for lying, it will stick.

Anyone remember the Indiana Jones themed Bosnia adventure with Hillary? Just adding the theme music really made it effective.

Obama needs to continue to call them "liars" and say they are "lying", but mocking references are key.

Mockery, mockery, mockery.

Nickname: "The Palindrone"

Everything she says is backwards!

Ha!!

McFthetruth and Palin the previcator on the bridge to nowhere via mendacity, vacuous rants, deceit and corruption.

Someone needs to ask her if her views on abortion are a lie, too.
It might be her "I am not a crook" moment.

Pride, arrogance, fibbing, outright lying, misdirection, are all considered sins ib Christian religions.

I suspect Palin is a closet Muslim...

Give her the bridge - saving 2% on the Alaska State Budget is not real reform.

Dems need to focus on how small thinking going after pork and earmarks, when earmarks are an insignificant part of the big picture.

Small Minded Reform does not equal a game changer.

Pound it into the populous that symbolic reforms are not going to affect their tax bills - only the Democrats are going to bring game-changing reform, not just talk.

I think we need to quit blaming Sarah Palin and quit blaming the media. Obama had a golden opportunity today to seize the offensive and he blew it. During the press conference criticizing Bush's weak pullout plan of Iraq and McCain's endorsement of this failure, Obama was lobbed a softball by the press - McCain and Palin say they are the agents of Change, they've co-opted your message, how can you let them get away with that (I'm paraphrasing.)

Obama SHOULD HAVE SAID: Their message is fraudulent, we are the agents of change. How can you vote with Bush 95% of the time and call yourselves change agents? It's a LIE. The media needs to quit being stenographers and do your homework. McCain is a Republican and he supports a Republican president that has lost jobs, hurt the economy, stuck us in a war for 6 years with no end in sight, watched the price of gas double and put thousands of people out of their homes. Of course American needs change, the change from the Republicans to the Obama-Biden presidency.

Instead he said: Well, uh, you know, they were talking a few months ago, uh, about experience, and uh, now that message hasn't resonated and uh, we were always talking about change. So uh, that's a debate we're willing to have. I think the American people, uh, will get it and they uh, know the difference.

WHAT THE FUCK!!?? These weak-kneed responses won't work. This is an electorate with a 2-second attention span. Obama has the microphone. Obama has the stage. Obama has the message. Obama has the right message. If he can't deliver the winning message running against a weak candidate tied to the weakest President in history, he deserves to lose.

FIGHT BACK! The Kerry-Gore prayer that "Americans will get it" and choose the candidate that best represents them rather than the Republicans who represent the 2% wealthiest Americans and big business won't work.

FIGHT BACK or lose. That's the only choice.

The Republicans appealed to their base with the selection of Palin- she's a guns, God ,government is no-good, ice hockey mom..

The Democrats? Do they ever think of their base? Anti-war, pro labor, pro Medicare-for-all--these folks are left out of the Obama march to the White House. That mistake tripped up Kerry and ruined Gore-they never went to the base and got energized by it. They lost.

Could be Sayonara for the Dems...

We're down now, yes. We know that we are fighting powerful corporate interests that have made BILLIONS, while American families owe about $30,000 of federal debt, from wars and tax cuts for the rich. Can your family afford *ANOTHER* $30,000 worth of failure? Can your country afford years more of neglect?

*WE* cannot afford failure.... and we can't afford to lose hope. THESE are the times that try men's souls. Yes. We are being bombarded with lies. Yes, we're down. But we're underdogs. We stand up for Americans, and don't shrink from a fight.

Whether you supported Barack or Hillary, Joe or John, Bill or Dennis or Chris, we, as Democrats, have always stood up to defend Americans, and when we're knocked down, there's one thing we do.

WE RISE.

So, what are you all waiting for? Rise up! Get on your feet! FIGHT!

Throughout this race, when Democrats seem on their last legs, they stand up! We do *BETTER* as underdogs, because its in our nature to stand up for the unemployed steel worker, or the mother with cancer who worries about her kids!

Our message triumphs when we stand for Americans, throw off doubt and fear, and start saying YES, WE CAN. We've come too far to stop before the mountaintop. YES WE CAN and YES WE WILL!!

Go to http://www.barackobama.com and donate today. And be sure to let all your friends know you're taking a stand, what you're fighting for, and ask them to join us!

We're down now, yes. We know that we are fighting powerful corporate interests that have made BILLIONS, while American families owe about $30,000 of federal debt, from wars and tax cuts for the rich. Can your family afford *ANOTHER* $30,000 worth of failure? Can your country afford years more of neglect?

*WE* cannot afford failure.... and we can't afford to lose hope. THESE are the times that try men's souls. Yes. We are being bombarded with lies. Yes, we're down. But we're underdogs. We stand up for Americans, and don't shrink from a fight.

Whether you supported Barack or Hillary, Joe or John, Bill or Dennis or Chris, we, as Democrats, have always stood up to defend Americans, and when we're knocked down, there's one thing we do.

WE RISE.

So, what are you all waiting for? Rise up! Get on your feet! FIGHT!

Throughout this race, when Democrats seem on their last legs, they stand up! We do *BETTER* as underdogs, because its in our nature to stand up for the unemployed steel worker, or the mother with cancer who worries about her kids!

Our message triumphs when we stand for Americans, throw off doubt and fear, and start saying YES, WE CAN. We've come too far to stop before the mountaintop. YES WE CAN and YES WE WILL!!

Go to http://www.barackobama.com and donate today. And be sure to let all your friends know you're taking a stand, what you're fighting for, and ask them to join us!

The debate. There will be only one.

Why do the corporations want President Palin? They will be screwed if we start another war too.

Someone please explain why the mainstream is pushing this disaster so hard?

The debate. There will be only one.

Why do the corporations want President Palin? They will be screwed if we start another war too.

Someone please explain why the mainstream is pushing this disaster so hard?

I think that the Obama campaign is handling Palin correctly on this one. If they go after her too hard, the media won't pounce on her you know the way they will after her first inevitable gaffe.

Also, I saw this on the blog of Craig’s List founder, Craig Newmark, yesterday and thought it was a great concept and worth sharing:

"Hey, this is a good example of genuine grassroots democracy:

ObamaTravel.org is a platform that connects volunteers who want to travel to a swing state with financial sponsors and swing state host families. It’s sort of a political hybrid of craigslist and Team-in-Training - volunteers post profiles and solicit sponsorship from their family and friends. Sponsors can see their donations in action by following the activities of their volunteers.

... and let's remember that "community organizing" is pure grassroots democracy."

I think that the Obama campaign is handling Palin correctly on this one. If they go after her too hard, the media won't pounce on her you know the way they will after her first inevitable gaffe.

Also, I saw this on the blog of Craig’s List founder, Craig Newmark, yesterday and thought it was a great concept and worth sharing:

"Hey, this is a good example of genuine grassroots democracy:

ObamaTravel.org is a platform that connects volunteers who want to travel to a swing state with financial sponsors and swing state host families. It’s sort of a political hybrid of craigslist and Team-in-Training - volunteers post profiles and solicit sponsorship from their family and friends. Sponsors can see their donations in action by following the activities of their volunteers.

... and let's remember that "community organizing" is pure grassroots democracy."

From the Wall Street Journal:

Allies of Republican presidential nominee John McCain like to point out that his running mate is the governor of the largest state in the union. But at times, Alaska seems more like a small town, run by folks with overlapping professional, political and personal ties that can be difficult to untangle.

Now that's an understatement!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122092043531812813.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox

More from WSJ:

At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.

More from WSJ:

At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.

I was actually considering voting for Nader but now that this Sarah Palin and the christian right getting excited for her...I'm am voting for Obama. As a woman, I am insulted about McCain's effort to frame any opposing to Palin as sexist. To try and push a narrative over real political and economic change is not putting country first. McCain will do anything to win election. He is not right for this country. We need real progress. Not someone who goes about saying he's a reformer when he hasn't done nothing for any of us for 26 years. McCain voted against the new GI Bill and funding for better equipment for the troops in Iraq then leans on his prisoner of war status. That clearly show us the he has no respect for our troops who are fighting a war he wants to continue AND not help them when they come home. That is the ultimate slap in the face if you ask me. Sarah isn't any better. They both are deceitful people. If they are lying now...guess what? They'll be lying just like Bush/Cheney has for the past 8 years! We clearly cannot afford it as a country.

I was actually considering voting for Nader but now that this Sarah Palin and the christian right getting excited for her...I'm am voting for Obama. As a woman, I am insulted about McCain's effort to frame any opposing to Palin as sexist. To try and push a narrative over real political and economic change is not putting country first. McCain will do anything to win election. He is not right for this country. We need real progress. Not someone who goes about saying he's a reformer when he hasn't done nothing for any of us for 26 years. McCain voted against the new GI Bill and funding for better equipment for the troops in Iraq then leans on his prisoner of war status. That clearly show us the he has no respect for our troops who are fighting a war he wants to continue AND not help them when they come home. That is the ultimate slap in the face if you ask me. Sarah isn't any better. They both are deceitful people. If they are lying now...guess what? They'll be lying just like Bush/Cheney has for the past 8 years! We clearly cannot afford it as a country.

I was actually considering voting for Nader but now that this Sarah Palin and the christian right getting excited for her...I'm am voting for Obama. As a woman, I am insulted about McCain's effort to frame any opposing to Palin as sexist. To try and push a narrative over real political and economic change is not putting country first. McCain will do anything to win election. He is not right for this country. We need real progress. Not someone who goes about saying he's a reformer when he hasn't done nothing for any of us for 26 years. McCain voted against the new GI Bill and funding for better equipment for the troops in Iraq then leans on his prisoner of war status. That clearly show us the he has no respect for our troops who are fighting a war he wants to continue AND not help them when they come home. That is the ultimate slap in the face if you ask me. Sarah isn't any better. They both are deceitful people. If they are lying now...guess what? They'll be lying just like Bush/Cheney has for the past 8 years! We clearly cannot afford it as a country.

I was actually considering voting for Nader but now that this Sarah Palin and the christian right getting excited for her...I'm am voting for Obama. As a woman, I am insulted about McCain's effort to frame any opposing to Palin as sexist. To try and push a narrative over real political and economic change is not putting country first. McCain will do anything to win election. He is not right for this country. We need real progress. Not someone who goes about saying he's a reformer when he hasn't done nothing for any of us for 26 years. McCain voted against the new GI Bill and funding for better equipment for the troops in Iraq then leans on his prisoner of war status. That clearly show us the he has no respect for our troops who are fighting a war he wants to continue AND not help them when they come home. That is the ultimate slap in the face if you ask me. Sarah isn't any better. They both are deceitful people. If they are lying now...guess what? They'll be lying just like Bush/Cheney has for the past 8 years! We clearly cannot afford it as a country.

Memo to the oh-so-smart media: Every Hillary supporter I know, whether white, black, Asian, Hispanic, etc., is now firmly in the McCain-Palin camp (no matter how much dirt they “dig up” on her). Many journalists are, to use the cliché, out of touch with ordinary women, and women who do not march in lockstep with their party. They also think that most voters think EXACTLY like they do (wrong!). They keep saying we won't switch allegiances to McCain-Palin because of abortion rights and other issues. But we are not all “issue voters.” We also care about experience, character, and leadership. McCain-Palin beats Obama on all these points.

The female factor will be hard to measure, because some women will be afraid to say it out loud (that they are pro-McCain) to the media, and others won’t admit it to their liberal, Obama-loving friends. But once they step into that voting booth, all bets will be off and they will punch McCain-Palin.
As a liberal Democrat, I’d just like to say that the Dems brought this on themselves. They made a mockery of the primaries, and they nominated the wrong candidate. Obama is neither qualified nor electable. Hillary should be the nominee, or at least on the ticket. As prez, Hillary could win this election in a walk. As veep, Hillary would have Obama leading the polls big-time by now. I wonder why it is that Obama, despite the disastrous eight years of Dubya, has not been able to have a commanding lead in the polls? With the state of the economy and the deplorable war in Iraq, Obama should be pummeling the GOP. Could it be that he is in fact THE WRONG CHOICE?
To those (especially female) pundits who say it’s “offensive” to think that Palin might garner the Hillary vote: I think it’s “offensive” that you are so sequestered in your elite ivory tower that you make stupid assumptions about women you don’t have a clue about!
To those who say we are idiots, morons, stupid or ignorant (pick your insult) for choosing to vote McCain-Palin: Keep it up. The more you come off as smug and elitist, the more votes McCain will get. Because nothing motivates the Republicans more than pompous liberals.
Come this November, for me and many others, it’s country first, party second.
PS: I think it speaks volumes about the mood of women voters in this country that HRC herself has refused to bash Palin.
MCCAIN-PALIN IN 2008!

These people know no shame. It's unbelievable. Hit them hard. Everyday until election night. We need to get in the dirt. NOW.

Memo to the oh-so-smart media: Every Hillary supporter I know, whether white, black, Asian, Hispanic, etc., is now firmly in the McCain-Palin camp (no matter how much dirt they “dig up” on her). Many journalists are, to use the cliché, out of touch with ordinary women, and women who do not march in lockstep with their party. They also think that most voters think EXACTLY like they do (wrong!). They keep saying we won't switch allegiances to McCain-Palin because of abortion rights and other issues. But we are not all “issue voters.” We also care about experience, character, and leadership. McCain-Palin beats Obama on all these points.

The female factor will be hard to measure, because some women will be afraid to say it out loud (that they are pro-McCain) to the media, and others won’t admit it to their liberal, Obama-loving friends. But once they step into that voting booth, all bets will be off and they will punch McCain-Palin.
As a liberal Democrat, I’d just like to say that the Dems brought this on themselves. They made a mockery of the primaries, and they nominated the wrong candidate. Obama is neither qualified nor electable. Hillary should be the nominee, or at least on the ticket. As prez, Hillary could win this election in a walk. As veep, Hillary would have Obama leading the polls big-time by now. I wonder why it is that Obama, despite the disastrous eight years of Dubya, has not been able to have a commanding lead in the polls? With the state of the economy and the deplorable war in Iraq, Obama should be pummeling the GOP. Could it be that he is in fact THE WRONG CHOICE?
To those (especially female) pundits who say it’s “offensive” to think that Palin might garner the Hillary vote: I think it’s “offensive” that you are so sequestered in your elite ivory tower that you make stupid assumptions about women you don’t have a clue about!
To those who say we are idiots, morons, stupid or ignorant (pick your insult) for choosing to vote McCain-Palin: Keep it up. The more you come off as smug and elitist, the more votes McCain will get. Because nothing motivates the Republicans more than pompous liberals.
Come this November, for me and many others, it’s country first, party second.
PS: I think it speaks volumes about the mood of women voters in this country that HRC herself has refused to bash Palin.
MCCAIN-PALIN IN 2008!

The media needs to step it up. After all, they are Americans, too. They aren't immune to economic downfall.

Seriously, it's time for the Obama campaign to run A SERIES OF ADS targeting the Palin problem.

One could be on the amounts of earmarks that she obtained when she was a mayor and governor, playing up how ridiculous they were/are by contrasting them to earmarks other places obtained, including Illinois and a city and a town.

Another could be on both McCain's and Palin's lies (about the earmarks for the bridge saga, about her responsibilities with the Alaskan national guard, about the jet that was sold for a loss and was never sold on eBay, etc. I am sure there are more.) and link them to Bush and Cheney's lies about the Iraq War so as to link these politicians together (something like "McCain and Palin, the next Bush and Cheney) and to play up the disastrous consequences of dishonest leadership.

A third could be on her criticizing Hillary Clinton for whining and yet trying to avoid talking to the press --- this hopefully will puncture her heroine, straight talker image among white woman voters as well as hurt her appeal among disgruntled Hillary supporters.

I don't know how much money the Obama campaign can afford to spend but they have to play smart --- come up with ads that will be instant hits so the networks can help play the ads over and over again.

The Left not only needs to engage the culture war head on rather than denying it exists if they want to defuse the Palin-effect but also needs to present an alternative type of populism.
Why doesn't the Obama campaign focus on how investing in green technologies and green jobs can make our country a nation of PRODUCERS again, like in the time of the greatest generation. Why doesn't Obama use a type of nationalist-populist rhetoric that is based on domestic production ("made in America") and call out McCain for being a PRO-EXPORTATION politician? Republican's do not only oppose greater energy independence but also greater industrial independence. America has a long populist history based around the producer ethic, i.e. the dignity in production and the producer classes, speak to it or let this b.s. culture war populism of the Right win the day AGAIN!

$3269 is the magic number... google it and see how it grows...

According to the Alaska Daily News , next week every Alaskan gets $3269 in their bank account from the State of Alaska.

The resulting shopping spree will be on display in front of all the press... and to think, Alaska gets way more than its fair share of federal dollars. Oink Oink Oink. Think any of us in the lower 48 are going to be pissed off when this hits. This is when McCain campaign will jump the pig like fonz jumped the shark.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/516967.html

$3269 is the magic number... google it and see how it grows...

According to the Alaska Daily News , next week every Alaskan gets $3269 in their bank account from the State of Alaska.

The resulting shopping spree will be on display in front of all the press... and to think, Alaska gets way more than its fair share of federal dollars. Oink Oink Oink. Think any of us in the lower 48 are going to be pissed off when this hits. This is when McCain campaign will jump the pig like fonz jumped the shark.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/516967.html

If America falls for this bologna...the Extreme right could never possibly ever chant the battlecry Country first ever again!

If America falls for this bologna...the Extreme right could never chant the battlecry Country first ever again!