Yep. No more excuses. It will be on the far left wing of the political spectrum to solve this country's problems.
The crisis hasn't been resolved and I wonder if that is McCain's last grasp attempt to pull off this election. I don't know how or pretend to understand how all of politics work, but if McCain's name is somehow wrapped around the bill passing, that could be huge. There is another chance for McCain I see here, what if Palin somehow eats up the debate. If she comes across well spoken, erases concerns about her interivews and convinces the American pulic she is Ms. Maverick and just what the people want. Unlikely, but her second biggest stage is coming and I thought she hit a homerun on her biggest stage (the convention). Personally, if I could be convinced the Palin choice has some rationale behind it besides politics, I would be giving McCain more thought. I know polls say he lost the debate, but my respect for McCain rose after the debate. I don't think he is a Bush clone and he doesn't care who he will piss off to clean up what he sees as problems in Washington. I still think he is all about big business . . . but maybe us small business owners can ride the tails of those tax loopholes.
Politics won't allow McCain's name to be attached on this bill to anything but failure. The Democrats control the Congress. It doesn't matter. She'll be skewered in the mainstream media regardless of what she does. The press has made their decision on her, and it's all over for her this election. If she's ever interested in national politics again, she'll have to rehabilitate her image, but chances are she'll go down as another Dan Quayle. Any objective analysis of that debate indicates that McCain won the foreign policy aspect of that debate on substance. However, it just doesn't matter. The country wants a change, and it's going to get it. The country is fed up and disgusted and Obama has marketed himself well to this aspect. Be careful what you wish for. The next four years are going to make the late 70s look like the mid-90s. He's going to spend his entire presidency complaining that he's shackled by the policies and the deficits of the previous administration. It will be an administration of excuses, even though the Congress will be in his back pocket. I plan to hold him to the vague goals of his Blueprint for Change and see how he does.
I saw a good idea for the debate posted somewhere online. Give each candidate a blank map of the Middle East, and ask them to fill in the names of the countries.
That is true, but he might have meant it in a more generic sense (for example, if McCain made a major novel proposal that in fact turned out to be an important part of the final solution, then he could potentially get a lot of mileage out of it even if the bill was named for someone else. Of course, the problem with that is the extreme unlikelihood of McCain making such a proposal. Actually, she has a good shot at exceeding expectations for this debate and thus getting some positive press. The bar is mighty low. Indeed, we should all do that. barfo
two response came to mind. 1. And if my aunt had a beard, she'd be my uncle. and 2. Let's have Palin be in the senate for 36 years and find out.
Why does Sarah Palin keep doing interviews with Katie Couric? Now she is in an interview with Couric, and can't name any supreme court cases.
The videos coming out tomorrow I believe. http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/23083/sarah-palin-20/ Basically, Couric was asking Biden/Palin the same questions as part of her candidates voice segment or whatever it's called. She first asked about abortion and Roe v. Wade, and then she asked, What is one supreme court case (other than Roe v. Wade) that you disagree with and why.
Hilarious. You can't teach intelligence, and Palin is devoid of intelligence. She actually appears to be getting dumber each time she opens her mouth to speak. In my lifetime I have met only a handful of people I would trust less than her in any important capacity where decisions were involved. The fact that McCain feels it necessary to babysit her and protect her from interviewers "tough" questions only drives home the point that he blew it when he chose her.
This one is even more hilarious. I guess if she couldn't name a newspaper, she had no hope for naming a Supreme Court case. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRkWebP2Q0Y&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRkWebP2Q0Y&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
McCain also with Couric, simply because she is the softest interviewer available to them. Can you imagine what would happen to what's left of their campaign if someone actually put either of them on the spot?
Thanks for the video clip. It reminds me of the 2nd SNL skit where "couric" keeps asking and "specifically can you name one" . . . I think Palin could use a couple of life lineswhen dealing with Couric. But even when flustered, Palin is kind of cute with that whole Alaskan thing she has going.
Not only is she evading the question, but her answer is bullshit. Alaska is not a microcosm of the US. Alaska is one of the most differentiated states. I'd say only Hawaii is less like the other 49 than Alaska. barfo
Wow. That was such a softball question and she still managed to sound brainless. Short of, "If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" it doesn't get any softer.
Most of them . . . all of them . . . any of them . . . a vast variety of them . . . we aren't a wasteland in Alaska . . . we got all kinds of trees.
In the Katie Couric part 11 interview coming out two weeks from now. Katie Couric: Governor Palin, what is your favorite animal? Sarah Palin: Well, all of them. Katie Couric: Yes, but specifically, what is your favorite animal? Sarah Palin: Well you know I've got lots of animals, I see so many animals daily, they're always running around outside and all, and the zoos. Katie Couric: But can you name one animal? Sarah Palin: Well people like to act like Alaska is so different and cut of from the rest of America. In reality, it is more of a small menagerie of America.
