McCain's VP is...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Theben


Hey, if you go all the way up the Great Lakes from Chicago, you'll reach Canada! So Obama has furrin policy experience too!!

Canadians aren't foreigners

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
Latest developments in the Cluster F*** that this is rapidly turning into.

She's confirmed that her 17 year old unwed daughter is pregnant. The father's identity is still secret and he might technically be a child rapist depending on his age, how long she's been pregnant and complex Alaskan age of consent laws.

MSM has confirmed she was a member of an Alaskan 3rd party which is formed around the goal of having Alaska succeed from the US by referendum, needless to say the rest of the parties platform is ultra right wing as well.

I'm going to put my money on her bowing out in the next 2 weeks "for family reasons" of course.

Eh, what? Palin names the father in her statement:

"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."

As far as the rest, I'm looking forward to reading links.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Thats all we have, a first name, I know Alaska's got a small population but thats for all practical purposes keeping the guys identity a secret.

[Kidlicious]

He must be a real bad guy.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Elok
Plato, that sarcasm is overwrought and wasn't too funny the first time.

Who is being sarcastic? That is what the man said. If he can do it, then we will all be better off won't we?

Your not doubting Obama's word are you? Or are you doubting his ability?

Some people will never understand what can be accomplished in a country called "Hope". Geez.

[Asher]

Palin's Embrace of Earmarks

Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, selected by Sen. John McCain as his running mate, has largely burnished her reformer image by repudiating wasteful spending.

But as a small-town mayor and a governor Palin did not hesitate to embrace the federal earmark process, according to a Washington Post report by Paul Kane that shows Palin helped secure almost $27 million in projects for her tiny hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

Among the spending projects Palin helped obtain through the earmark process: $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, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense.

Palin, who was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, directed the town (which then had a population under 7,000) to hire the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh (The New York Times notes that earmarks are "close to sacrosanct" in Alaska).

(Note: The Times put a number for Palin's earmarks for Wasilla at "more than $8 million.")

And during Palin's tenure as governor, Alaska requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year's federal budget, The Los Angeles Times reports, citing the Web site of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

A McCain campaign spokeswoman, referring only to Palin's record as governor, told The Times that "she took the lead in slashing wasteful spending." According to The Anchorage Daily News, Palin said she routinely met with Washington officials to discuss the budget and earmarks process.

"It was about being face-to-face with those who were actually writing the budget," she told the newspaper in 2006.

But, as the Republican National Convention began this week, the McCain campaign appeared to dismiss many of the reports of Palin's earmark prowess.

"When she got more involved in what these programs were, she has taken a strong and consistent stand against them and she's actually exercised what they estimate to be the largest line-item veto in Alaska state history," McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer told CNN. "I think what all that shows is that when you get in the governor's seat, where you have to do trade-offs."

[Zkribbler]

$27 million in projects for her tiny hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.

Whoops! $27 million for a town of what, 8,000 people or so? Somebody's got to be embarrassed.

[David Floyd]

Biden's going to eat Palin alive at the VP debate.

You know, I thought this at first too. However, Biden would also probably destroy any Republican VP candidate - he is just too good, IMO.

So, anything positive Palin does at the debate comes across as a huge victory. Expectations are so low for Palin, and so high for Biden, that I just don't think Biden can "win", even if/when he wins.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

$15 million for a rail project

For a town of 8,000? What were they building, a maglev from the bar to the jail?

Ok, all reservations have vanished: she's clearly ready to be a federal executive. And she's the greatest part-time mayor in history.

[DanS]

The debates are unpredictable. Bush beat Gore, for example. Don't think anybody expected that.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by DanS
The debates are unpredictable. Bush beat Gore, for example. Don't think anybody expected that.

I don't think most pundits or viewers thought that Bush beat Gore. What they did think is that Gore was going to mop the floor with Bush, and when that didn't happen it became a victory in the Bush column (kind of like when my effete Ivy league alma mater drew Penn State in an out-of-league football game, and then actually managed to score; we lost by about a 50-point spread, but we partied like we'd won the Rose Bowl).

The Bush team brilliantly worked to suppress expectations of their candidate, so that he came off looking good simply by not being a drooling ******. Watch McCain's similarly work to similarly dampen expectations of Palin, so that they can declare victory when she pronounces "Ahmadinejad" correctly.

[David Floyd]

Exactly, Rufus.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
The Bush team brilliantly worked to suppress expectations of their candidate, so that he came off looking good simply by not being a drooling ******.

If only he'd been able to maintain such high standards throughout his term in office.

[Kuciwalker]

[DanS]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I don't think most pundits or viewers thought that Bush beat Gore.

The first debate went to Gore marginally. The second debate went to Bush in a landslide, and the third was a tie. Advantage Bush.

http://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/835a1ThirdPresDebate.pdf