Good for you! And her.
I’ve got a huge amount of respect for anyone who invests the time and energy in doing a good job of homeschooling.
People need to chill out about Palin. She’s just a VP pick, and all of these personal attacks are counterproductive. The stuff that’s really going to hurt Palin are Troopergate and her record for eagerly chasing after earmarks, which is counter to her “reformer” image, and that stuff is going to come out in its own time.
I think Obama took exactly the right dismissive stance about the Republican attacks in his press conference, where he just shrugged and said he’d “been called worse things on the basketball court”.
That’s Obama’s greatest weakness and greatest strength in a nutshell - he can portray himself as above those kinds of crappy, partisan attacks, and thanks to the kind of campaign he’s running, he can pull it off. The downside is that it leaves him susceptible to charges that he’s above people’s everyday problems as well, but I think he can manage that.
With time zones and all (it’s 3 AM over here when the speeches are on), I’m somewhat late to the party. But I just realized that Fooeys initial post was spot-on. Picking Palin was a very smart move (as opposed to Lieberman or Ridge) as it fired up the religious conservative base. At least in the short term.
What did strike me was that she reminds me a lot of George W on most issues. Could this reinforce the notion of “4 more years of Bush” to middle-voters?
Respectfully
krise madsen
Mordrak
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Ya, Jr. College to 4 year isn’t a terrible track. It’s a great way to get a second start. I’m not sure where you’re at, but in California it’s really easy for both State and UCs from an administrative perspective. There’s a specific outline of classes a person needs to take if he or she is transferring, with slight deviations depending on if the transfer is to a State or UC school. If the person meets the GPA requirements and follows that map, they are basically guaranteed to be accepted*.
*excluding math/science transfers.
Gov. Palin was mocking Sen. Obama’s experience as a community organizer…
But wasn’t Jesus a community organizer and Pontius Pilate a governor?
Instead of being clever, they ought to just say, “Jesus wasn’t a warmonger.”
That would get you a lot of angry looks though from the evangelicals or Christians supporting the GOP.
It looks like Palin is going to need some new theme music.
mystery
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What the hell…first Jackson Browne and now Heart? Does the campaign have any sense whatsoever?
(BTW, the pic in that article of Heart is fan-freaking-tastic. Too bad neither of them look like that much any more. I guess 5 mile lines of coke is …slimming).
Yes, she also slammed Joe Biden and Democrats in general
She talked about her time as mayor and governor of Alaska, her efforts to shrink government and lower taxes, her fight against corruption and spending bloat,
Is that the fight against corruption that happened while she fired her ex brother in-law? Was it also the fight against spending bloat while taking 27 million in pork and leaving her town in debt?
and quite a bit about her family.
Is that the family that’s off limits for the opposition to even mention?
It was an introductory speech from someone everyone was complaining they didn’t know enough about. Now they’re complaining she didn’t tell them the right things.
I don’t know that everyone was complaining that they didin’t know her, the complaints sounded more like she wasn’t qualified.
I may be biased (certainly I am when it comes to certain issues, show me someone who isn’t), but I am an independent. At least I make the effort to hear the other side. I may not agree with the Republicans as much as the Democrats but at least I’m able to make my choices having listened.
Go back and listen to the speech. She really didn’t offer any clear agenda other than flat opposition to the Democrats. I don’t for a second think that everything the Republicans ever think is wrong, why is it acceptable for them to say every single stance Democrats ever have is wrong? I’ve seen enough juvenile tactics in politics, this was more of the same.
edit: also read Ben Sones post #1607.
magnet
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On behalf of the media, Roger Simon apologizes:
[The media] should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)
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Winner. That’s a perfect example.
MSNBC is not talking about how Palin will not be giving interviews. Disgraceful.
Are you sure your’re taking into account how many of those viewers were Obama supporters just checking to see what she’d say.
What a bizarre article. Some great points underneath the hate, but he’s been hearing that narrative from Republicans for 20 years and it still sounds like uhh… (sorry sensitive people) his pussy hurts about it. However, I checked his bio and this might have something to do with it:
At the Chicago Sun-Times, where he wrote a column four times per week, Simon was taught that the only way for a journalist to look upon a politician was down. He now fights against that impulse daily.
I know I’m going to get slammed on this, but the thing on the kids is reaching. Republicans always whine that the media doesn’t report “the positive things” in addition to the muckraking. And there’s a slight chance that she just thinks if the media wants to involve the kids, they’d better stick to those positives or else they’re going to come across looking like dicks. Yes, she probably wants it that way because it will help her campaign, but just report on the pregnancy in the context of Palin’s social policy beliefs and move on. No need for Simon to publicize his inferiority complex.
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Talk about missing the fucking point. The belief that everything a politician says must be questioned and either backed or disputed by facts is the only correct opinion to have. At best, they exaggerate, at worst, they outright lie. The press USED to be responsible for telling us which was which. Now we have to rely on the Daily Show to do it for us. THAT is disgraceful.
How any of you can support Palin when she’s refusing to answer any questions by the press just stuns me, especially those of you who are Republicans. I thought your stance was “if you have nothing to hide, you won’t mind being searched”? She doesn’t want to talk about her family? Fine. How about the other dozen or so things in her political past easily uncovered by a Google search? Personally, I think it’s important to find out why a separatist, evangelical who thinks God wants us in Iraq who also thought being a VP was a worthless endeavor a couple of months ago wants to be VP.
I put my thoughts in the convention thread about why they’re hiding her. It has to be some sort of meta game they’re playing to fire up the anti-media-bias crowd.
Bob’s a smart guy.
I tuned in to see Palin and now I plan on voting for McCain because the TV ratings say I should! In fact, Entertainment Weekly is going to be my new political guideline. I can’t wait for the fall season to get into high gear so I can vote for the Scott/Schrute ticket!
Bob is interpreting “curious enough about Palin to tune into her speech” as “ignoring the last 8 years and voting Republican once again”.
Honestly, I can’t blame the guy for trying to be optimistic, as considering the alternative (massive landslide in favor of the Democrats for the next 4 years) would leave him sobbing in his parent’s basement.
Fooey
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