McCain names Sarah Palin as pick for vice president

McCain names Sarah Palin as pick for vice president

Funny that most Americans still link Iraq with 9/11.
repeat a lie over and over and it obviosly becomes truth.
If America picks the old path of oil instead of leading in inovation for new technologies.
Then you will not only allow other countries to ride on a profit wave as people of the world run to alternatives (e.g electric cars)
Your oil that has cost so much inocent blood and treasure will not be worth shit.

Funny how people think they pretend to know

Funny how people blame America for everything.. People that blame everyone exect for themselves for spreading hate. It was Hate that put those people in the plane to kill others. It is Hate that makes you blind.. It is Love that will set you free.. The Best thing America and the west can do is eliminate oil from society. Let 9/11 remind us why we should do everything we can to go green. Do everything to leave the oil and especially the middle east to eat their own sand and find someone else to blame.. Life is too short, focus on Love and freedom

Pull the other one.

I’m always amused and at the same time annoyed by the assumption that because someone has had experience in a position or job he or she is automatically considered to be good at that particular job, even at a higher level. In fact, experience is only valuable if one is capable of learning from it. Take for example George W. Bush. Before he was elected President of the USA in 2000 he was Governor of Texas. Thus he had administrative and leadership experience. Did this experience translate into success during his first term as President? I’ll let you be the judge of that.

When he was relected for a second term he had on his resume not only his previous experience as Governor but also four years in the White House. It is obvious that he did not learn anything from his extensive on-the-job experience because at the end of his second term he has earned the unenviable but well deserved reputation of being arguably the worst ever President of the USA.

Now the Republican Party has presented us with another Republican governor for election to the White House. This time it is the female Governor of Alaska, the smallest state in the country in terms of population. The argument is that she has two years administrative experience in that position and so is the most qualified of the four candidates running for the two White House positions. If you believe this argument you are as gullible as George W. Bush when he convinced himself that Putin would one day be his best mate just from the look in Putin’s eyes.

Flawed thinking

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Funny that most Americans still link Iraq with 9/11.
repeat a lie over and over and it obviosly becomes truth.
If America picks the old path of oil instead of leading in inovation for new technologies.
Then you will not only allow other countries to ride on a profit wave as people of the world run to alternatives (e.g electric cars)
Your oil that has cost so much inocent blood and treasure will not be worth shit.

Petroleum fuels far more then cars it fuels economies all over the world!
It’s in detergents, soaps, fertilizers, surfboards, rubber, fibers, plastics and an endless list!
Much of this can be created using soy, hemp, rapeseed oils but it will cost chemical companies money.
Until they make it from Turkey waste products for cheap it will be in high demand.

Sarah who?...
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McCain’s veep choice is historic and hardly known
29 Aug. `08 - In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor’s office and now — making history — to John McCain’s side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.

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She has more experience catching fish than dealing with foreign policy or national affairs. Talk about a rocketing ascent. In turning to her, McCain picked an independent figure in his own mold, one who has taken on Alaska’s powerful oil industry and, at age 44, is three years younger than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and a generation younger than McCain, 72.

Palin’s selection was a jaw-dropper, as McCain passed over many other better known prospects, some of whom had been the subject of intense speculation for weeks or months. “Holy cow," said her father, Chuck Heath, who got word something was up while driving to his remote hunting camp. Palin had been in the running-mate field but as a distinct long shot.

She brings a strong anti-abortion stance to the ticket and opposes gay marriage — constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time — but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners. “She stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down." McCain said in introducing her to an Ohio rally. “She’s exactly who I need." Said Palin: “I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is built."

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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Sarah Palin
Friday August 29, 2008 There’s a lot to know about Sarah Palin, who is John McCain’s surprise pick for his vice president.

She’s been governor of Alaska for 20 months and served two terms as mayor of her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, all while raising five children. PEOPLE sat down with Palin, 44, recently to discuss her life, career and family.

Here are five things you may not know about her:

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• Her youngest son has Down syndrome. When Palin announced to friends after 4-month-old Trig’s birth in April that he had been diagnosed with Down syndrome, she wrote them a private e-mail she shares with PEOPLE: “This new person in your life can help everyone put things in perspective and bind us together, and get everyone focused on what really matters ... Those who love him will think less about self and focus less on what the world tells [us:
is 'normal' or 'perfect.' "

• She has a son serving in the Army. Palin’s son Track, 19, is expected to be deployed to Iraq this fall. “He’s looking forward to it and we’re proud of him," Palin’s husband, Todd, tells PEOPLE. “He’s grown up a lot in the past year." Says Palin: “I’m proud of him but I worry."

• Her husband Todd is part Eskimo. Together 20 years, Todd, also 44, and Sarah “always wanted enough [kids] for a basketball team," she says. Todd is part Yupik Eskimo and helps run a family commercial fishing operation in addition to a full-time job as an oil company production operator. As a hobby, he races snowmobiles. He caught Sarah’s eye in high school and they married in 1988. “He was the best basketball player I’d ever seen," she says.

• She’s a former beauty queen. The 1987 University of Idaho graduate tells PEOPLE: “I did the beauty pageants to earn money for college." Adding in a Vogue interview, “They made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn’t believe it." The former Miss Wasilla, however, prefers basketball and hunting and fishing to bathing suit and evening gown contests. “I love the outdoors," she tells PEOPLE.

• She has her own style. Palin may be comfortable in a fisherman’s vest or hunting fatigues, but on the job as governor she wears Kazuo Kawasaki designer glasses and black Franco Sarto boots!

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Last Ride

First off I’d like to apologizes to the world on behalf of my country for continued poor judgment and stupidity that our elected officials have shown and citizens that have supported them. McCain is an idiot we are at war right are wrong and he picks as VP Palin. 18months a Governor of Alaska and Mayor of a town of 9000 people has no business near the Oval office except as a cabinet member. It is a political move to win votes dig for oil in Alaska and leaves the US open to incompetence. Don’t argue to me about Obama’s inexperience the man is highly intelligent and the world respects him and Biden is a damn good VP choice. I lower my head at the carnival like atmosphere of our society and know that we are looked at like fools. Yes people will continue to come to our shores and live only to sap us dry of our remaining fortune and leave back to their homelands with goods in tow (like China’s doing now) while we’re left with cents nonsense. We will prove that democracy doesn’t work because it leaves it’s self victim to stupidity. No one even knew Palin existed or Alaska had a Governor for that matter and they praise that she is a women and a conservative Christian. Barack Obama was never intended to be the nominee (we all know Hillary was anointed) he earned it from Clinton and the world respected him for it. Now they laugh at us for being shallow and stupid and await another four years of cronyism; and the wolves Russia, China, Iran,and Korea lick their teeth because they smell blood. Rome fell from the inside, so goes the way of the USA.

These are humorous posts...

I’m wondering how many of you are actually American and how many are actually from another country looking for another handout and trying to influence the American people’s votes for your own benefit. Barack Obama is an idiot. Someone mentioned that he graduated from Harvard Law School. He’s a lawyer. That in itself makes him a piece of garbage. Sara Palin has done more, managed multi billion dollar budgets, oversaw 29,000 government employees, created a 40 billion dollar pipeline project to help America become dependent on itself for fuel so that we don’t have to throw away our money on a bunch of foreign, coward, losers anymore.

Granny says, “Mebbe she grows on ya if ya gets to know her...
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10 Things to Know About Sarah Palin
29 Aug.`08 - The first woman to run on a Republican Presidential ticket (and the second woman, after 1984 Democratic candidate Geraldine Ferraro, to run for Vice President for a major party), John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin was also the first-ever female governor of Alaska — and its youngest when she was sworn in at age 42 in 2006.

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Born in Idaho, Palin’s family moved her to Alaska as an infant, where she grew up in Wasilla, a small town of fewer than 9,000, located 45 miles north of Anchorage. She first entered politics in 1992, winning a seat on the Wasilla City Council, before going on to become the town’s mayor four years later at age 32. After two terms in office, she earned statewide recognition by pursuing the nomination for lieutenant governor — which she lost by only 2,000 votes. Palin has no national experience and less than two years experience as governor, but she is unabashed about that. “That’s a healthy thing," she told TIME. “That means my perspective is fresher."

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last ride

"Yes people will continue to come to our shores and live only to sap us dry of our remaining fortune and leave back to their homelands with goods in tow .


Now go and have a look at the faces in the US navy in the photo that goes with this story.philipinos ?korean ?
And what about the faces in manufacturing or fruit picking.
Stop whining like an old Anglo .
Who is taking advantage of whom?

Yes this is the last ride

Revere
08-30-08, 01:09 AM

It is the last ride for liars, and people that have sold America short for speculative profits at the expense of the American people as well as all the honest working people of this planet which still stand for the traditional values of truth, justice, and equality for all mankind.

I believe it is the turning point where human justice will prevail, truth and equality will finally come afloat, and there will be a less distance between the “Have” and the “Have Not” of this planet, there will be more communication, dialogue, and diplomacy to settle international disputes rather than using the brutal force that evil men are promoting at the present time, killing innocent people to satisfy their hunger for financial gains.

These are only dreams, but sometimes if we repeat something often enough it might become truth.

And at the present the free people of this planet want truthful leaders, and not liars, or incomptent boobs.


Sammy

Skeleton inna closet comin' out...
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Palin Could Be Deposed in Probe
Aug. 29, 2008 - Former State Official Claims He Was Pressured to Fire Gov.'s Former Brother-in-Law

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s surprise vice-presidential pick, is the subject of a legislative probe into claims that she abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper. Palin is likely to be deposed soon in the case, according to State Sen. Hollis French, who leads the state Senate’s Legislative Counsel Committee. French’s committee unanimously authorized an investigation into the dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, who claims he balked at pressure to remove Trooper Mike Wooten, who had an acrimonious divorce from Palin’s sister.

“I saw e-mails from [independent investigator Stephen:
Branchflower two days ago to the Department of Law saying it’s time to schedule a deposition of the governor, her chief of staff and the attorney general who had some contact with the case," French tells ABCNews.com. While Palin was being introduced to the world at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, today, thousands of miles away in an Anchorage office, Branchflower was preparing to interview principals in the case, French said. Branchflower did not return calls for comment.

Palin’s press secretary Bill McAlister says that the governor denies that she pressured Monegan, attributing his dismissal to “other issues with the public safety commission as to how he was doing his job." McAlister says that Palin only discussed Wooten once with Monegan, at a routine security briefing shortly after she won election in 2006 when she cited her former brother-in-law as someone she was concerned about as a security threat. As for Wooten, McAlister maintains that her concern was justified, alleging, “He Tasered his 11-year-old stepson. He was observed drinking and getting into a squad car. And he illegally shot a moose, which doesn’t sound like much — but in Alaska, state troopers have wildlife authority." Wooten was suspended over the allegations for five days in 2006, but is still on the job.

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Republican are now PROVEN RACIST

I could not believe watching CNN for the last 24 hours and this is the outrageous claim by McCain people:

Former small town mayor of 9,000 population, beauty queen and 18 months GOVERNOR of Alaska is MORE QUALIFIED than OBAMA!!!

This is a big insult to the American public if you really try to understand that this statement not only an insult to OBAMA but to the black people in AMERICA. Just to qualify, a black person really has to work 3-4 times better to be accepted as equal to an ordinary white person. This is the ULTIMATE hypocrisy!

How can they compare OBAMA to this woman where this is what OBAMA did after graduating with honors as a lawyer in HARVARD:

Went to work in SOUTH SIDE in CHICAGO feared by most white people. Instead of taking a good job in WALL STREET, he helped the poor people instead until he became the leader of Chicago’s political elite. Remember, he started poor but used his brains to excel in his life.

If the American people still do not see what the Republican Party is doing then GOD help all of us!

McCAIN makes history with choice of female running mate Gov. SARAH PALIN.

The word is spelt in “C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y”. Alaska Governor SARAH PALIN has all her chemistry to complement each other with the Independents and Democrats. Woman-to-women, Gov. Palin can get along very well with the ordinary all ages women from small towns to big cities nationwide. Why Sen. JOHN McCAIN picks Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (, a University of Idaho graduate, majoring in Journalism and Political Science) to be his presidential running-mate ? If American people have some political intelligence, because Sen. JOHN McCAIN’s “experience” with Gov. Sarah Palin’s “judgement”, you can realize Palin is a dynamic locomotive to lead our 2009 US Congress & Senate. In the previous years, the majority Democratic Party’s Grandma Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada led Congress & Senate are performing very poor jobs and only less than 20% approval rating from American taxpayers nationwide. The 2009 JOHN McCAIN presidency wants the real change to reform Capital Hill, McCAIN wants a VERY potential Vice President SARAH PALIN to sit right next to the leisure Grandma Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the Congress & Senate floor, in order to push for the “real change”, the “real reform”; at least our American taxpayers will get some Legislation done. American people can observe Sen. JOHN McCAIN does NOT like war that much and McCAIN does NOT want war more than our America’s domestic affairs to recover our America’s interior economy other than the global economy. The next 4 years of McCAIN-PALIN administration in White House, American people will hear a lot of Self-Salvation of American Energy Indepentent beginning from offshore oil drilling, even more continental shelf drilling; Alaska’s oil and natural gas development to the construction plan to build 45 clean-air light-water nuclear reactors across the United States to create hundreds thousands of new jobs for American people who really want to work. American people will feel much more “Confidence” to the 2008 Presidential Hopeful Sen. JOHN McCAIN’s “experience”, Vice Presidential Hopeful Gov. SARAH PALIN’s “judgement”. Appointed “white” Conservative US Secretary of State DAN QUAYLE’s “experience” in foreign policy, strategy, and diplomacy (to Russia, Middle East and Asia); also his teaching MBA background to negotiate Non-Aggression Treaty. Appointed “white” Conservative US Secretary of Commerce JACK KEMP (a Southern California’s Pepperdine University graduate) to reform our weak US trading policy to increase large US-made exports volume and shakeup the overseas American Chamber of Commerce to win more American contracts from overseas.

Mebbe she got chased by a polar bear when she was a kid?...
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Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections
Aug. 31, 2008 - Governor discounted the findings of nine recent USGS studies.

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McCain’s vice-presidential pick, Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, sued the Bush Administration in federal court recently, charging it was too accepting of climate change studies which overstated the phenomenon’s impact on polar bears. The result, she argued, would be a negative impact on her state’s businesses, including oil and gas extraction. Even as the White House has finessed its position on polar bears in the face of legal challenges and public pressure, Palin has led her state’s efforts to block protections for the world’s estimated 25,000 polar bears, of which roughly a fifth are believed to reside in Alaska.

“Listing the polar bear as a threatened species [under the Endangered Species Act:
will have a significant adverse impact on Alaska because. . . [it] will deter activities such as commercial fisheries, oil and gas exploration and development, transportation, and tourism," Palin’s administration argued in its complaint against the Interior Department, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Aug. 4. In defending her position, Palin has discounted the findings of nine recent U.S. Geological Survey studies which concluded that the polar bear’s habitat is threatened by global warming, and the animals could be extinct before this century ends.

Three of Palin’s own state scientists reviewed the USGS studies and found them sound, according to internal documents released to an Alaska professor earlier this year under the state’s open records law. But she has argued, in a New York Times editorial and elsewhere, that “there is insufficient evidence that polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct in the foreseeable future." Palin’s position, she wrote, is based on “a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts."

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Hippity-hoppity, flippity-floppity...
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Palin relied on earmark system she now opposes
September 1, 2008 - The governor’s past practice on earmarks stands in contrast to the views of her running mate, a researcher at a watchdog group says.

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin presents herself as an ally of presidential candidate John McCain when it comes to curbing wasteful government spending. On Friday, when McCain introduced her as his running mate, she said she “championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending," the legislative technique used to slip projects into appropriations bills without rigorous congressional review.

But under her leadership, the state of Alaska has requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year’s federal budget, according to the website of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Palin has recently been publicly critical of requests made in past years by Stevens and others for $223 million in federal funds for a bridge from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Gravina Island, calling it “the Bridge to Nowhere," a derogatory label critics attached to the project. As a candidate for governor in 2006, she backed funding for the bridge.

After her election, however, she killed the project, saying she would use the federal funds for other purposes. As mayor of the small city of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin appears to have made use of the system she now decries, hiring a Washington lobbyist, Steven Silver, to represent the town. Years ago, Silver worked as an aide to Stevens. After he was hired, the city obtained funding for several projects, including a city bus facility that received an earmark valued at $600,000 in 2002. That year a local water and sewer project received $1.5 million in federal earmarks, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog organization.

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Barack Obama has done nothing as a Senator. He only ended up as the Democratic nominee for Illinois because the two other Democratic candidates were exposed in adulterous affairs and had to resign. So, he ran against a Republican (who is not going to win in Chicago because it is run by the Daley family who are all Democrats) and won by default. And before that he was nothing but a hack 'community organizer'. What the hell is that? So, stop the Obamagasms... he’s an empty suit. A paper tiger. He’s been doing nothing but campaigning since he became and Senator and has never authored a piece of legislation since he’s been in office. That’s the facts.

Palin’s hubby to get subpoena...
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'Troopergate' Inquiry Reaches Palin Husband
September 12, 2008 - State legislators approve subpoena of Todd Palin.

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Alaska state legislators approved subpoenas for the husband of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and 12 others, as part of an ongoing investigation into whether Palin abused her power as state governor. In a nondescript conference room filled to capacity, a Republican-dominated panel of lawmakers voted to issue subpoenas to force testimony by Alaska “First Gentleman” Todd Palin and a dozen current and former state officials, including aides to Gov. Palin, to determine whether she had misused her authority in firing one of her commissioners in July. A lawyer for Palin and her aides, Thomas V. Van Flein, said the subpoenas were “a legal issue that will have to be evaluated and discussed with clients."

Special counsel Stephen Branchflower, who is conducting the probe, said Palin was a “central figure” in the events he is investigating. He said the subpoenas were necessary because individuals declined to answer questions voluntarily. Several had previously agreed to interviews with Branchflower, he said, but later cancelled them. The subpoenas mark the latest chapter in a scandal that began as a local flap but rocketed to the nation’s front pages when McCain picked Palin as his running mate nearly two weeks ago.

The probe was prompted by Palin’s July 11 firing of her former public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, after he refused to dismiss Mike Wooten, a state trooper who was Palin’s ex-brother-in-law. Wooten and Palin’s sister had gone through a lengthy and bitter divorce and custody battle in 2005, during which Palin herself had accused Wooten of threatening her and her father. Wooten has denied that.

In his remarks before lawmakers this morning, Branchflower characterized Todd Palin as one of Wooten’s chief critics, and said he was involved in a meeting with Monegan and other public officials, in the governor’s office, on the topic of Wooten, shortly after his wife was sworn in as governor. Palin has said she fired Monegan because she wanted to move his department in a “new direction," and he was not being “a team player on budgeting issues."

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Wonder if Miss Sarah gonna get caught up in this?...
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Oil, Money, Politics: Stevens Trial to Begin
Sept. 21, 2008 - Alaska Senator’s Trial, Starting Monday, Part of a Wider Probe of Alaska Officials

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The government’s case against Sen. Ted Stevens, scheduled to begin with jury selection Monday in Washington D.C., could reveal details about politics in Alaska and connections between an oil company and Alaska’s senior senator. Stevens, who is in the middle of a re-election campaign, was hit with a seven-count indictment on July 29 that accused him of lying on financial disclosure forms he was required to file with the U.S. Senate and concealing things of value he received from the oil services firm Veco and company CEO Bill Allen, who was personal friends with the 84-year-old Stevens.

Allen and former Veco vice president of community affairs and government relations Richard L. Smith pleaded guilty in May 2007 to providing more than $400,000 in corrupt payments to public officials from the state of Alaska. Among other items, Stevens is accused of concealing $250,000 worth of gifts and renovations to his Girdwood, Alaska, home that were allegedly paid for by Veco. The government alleges that Veco sought assistance from Stevens to obtain funding for oil projects including international projects in Pakistan and Russia and the establishment of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope. Veco was acquired by global engineering firm CH2M Hill in September 2007.

Stevens' lawyers asked for a speedy trial so the senator could potentially clear his name before the November elections. The trial is expected to last three to four weeks. At the time of his indictment, Stevens said in a statement, “I have never knowingly submitted a false disclosure form required by law as a U.S. senator. ... I am innocent of these charges and intend to prove that." Stevens' defense team is expected to assert that Stevens did nothing wrong and seek to question the reliability of Allen’s memory after he suffered a major head injury in a 2001 motorcycle accident when he was not wearing a helmet.

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