I am in a generous mood.

Let's assume against all indications that Palin is the next real political talent and can handle the awesome powers of the presidency if the ticket wins and McCain dies.

Assume that.

McCain is still a real jerk and possibly nuts for thrusting her upon us.

1. There is no way he could have known she was all that when he selected her a day after his first full conversation with her.
2. His campaign never fully vetted her as has been confirmed repeatedly.
3. He selected her as a gimmick to try to win over Hillary voters-- a reason that is downright ridiculous. Her only other known qualification is her magnetic personality.
4. He refuses to answer questions about her even though he left only 60 days for public vetting by the press. Instead of cooperating, he attacks the press for asking questions.
5. He has her in an undisclosed bunker and will not allow interviews or open forums. Total crap.
6. He doesn't care about 1-5 above. He's just tickled she has brought attention to his campaign.

Country first? I don't thinks so. What happened to this man?

Well, for one thing, he started taking advice from Karl Rove and James Dobson.

If he really was a maverick he would have stuck to his guns and selected Lieberman or Ridge for his running mate.

This man is a self centered individual who will use anything or anyone to get what he wants...even to the extent of lying about his age when he was courting Cindy just to make her believe that he is not a cradle snatcher nor a dirty old man.

He is clearly using Sarah Palin to get him to the White House at all cost.

When I first heard of McCain's choice I was also thinking it was only geared towards Hillary's spporters. The more learned about Palin the more I think this is not true. Whether McCain was completely intellectually aware of all the positives she would bring, having completely reasoned them out in his mind, or whether this was an intuitive choice as in a gut reaction, this was a brilliant move! She hit so many marks and fulfilled so many strategic objectives it is hard to believe he forsaw it all in advance. i do think that he has an innate strategic mind and this balls to wall move shows he is not afraid to make a risky move when events demand it. Again brilliant strategy that the Obama campaign only wishes it had nerve to pull off.

Dear Fred,

You made me laugh on this one, how did Mr Obama when his first seat, and what did he say after he won it?

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It seems that Mr Obama does not even believe we should let the people choose, very 'brown shirtish" if you ask me.

God Bless You

Dear Lubbesuh,

Mr Obama has yet to being to fight, in every major election he has done something right at the end to remove his threats.

Look at his first election he won:

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and when he won the Senate seat his the other guy just happened to get outed about having an affair, just a couple of months before the election, lucky break, huh?

God Bless You

Dear SheldahlGal,

He selected the one person that is able to change the game, she is honest.

I like Lieberman, but Ridge he is just old school, just like Biden.

God Bless You

Why did Palin seek to ban the following books? Faulkner? Chaucer? Heller? Vonnegut? Huxley? Miller? Twain? Dahl? Steinbeck?

You don't believe me? Go research this.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C.Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S.by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

Lucky break?

So what are you suggesting?

That Ryan did NOT frequent sex clubs? That his divorce was amicable? That Obama orchestrated the affairs?

Notice how invariably it is conservative leaders who end up in these sex scandals?

How is that Obama's doing?

May you learn the hollowness of your beliefs.

Um the brown shirts beat people up, killed them and burned their stores

Since when is catching a lazy candidate relying on paid signature gatherers to fudge the signatures the same as killing, looting and burning?

The fact that you have now TWICE invoked the term "brown shirtish" in the same post as invoking god's blessing, is about as revolting as I've seen in these political discussions in quite a while.

You falsely accuse Obama of murder, arson, and assault based on nothing, and then you try and invoke the name of a god who's primary tenets are honesty, forthrightness, and peace.

You really really are desperate as well as desperately sad.

If "God's Blessing" brings you to act this way, then I'm quite sure most people would be better of without such a blessing.

Dear Desgme,

Just answer the question and stop changing the subject.

Did Mr Obama pay a team of people including a very good lawyer to have every single one of the people running against him chucked off the ballot in the Democratic party.

This is really a yes or no type question, I would put a ballot with a hole for you, but I know how democrats have such a hard time with making a simple choice.

I am glad we are agreeing on God now, it shows that you do have faith in God, but once again the question is begging for an answer.

God Bless You

Dear Degsme,

Well, at least it was not under age boys, or does Barney Franks mean anything to you.

It used to be that when a Republican got caught he at least left public office, but no longer it seems at the Republicans are just as bad as the democrats now, that must be something we all can be proud of I guess.

Yes, I am sure it was just luck, that the all the information came out so close to the election, Mr Obama would never resort to dirty tricks right at the right moment to gain an advantage, would he?

God Bless You

YOU brought up the brown shirts.

YOU are the one who is changing the subject from your vile behavior

YOU are the one who accused Obama by association of beating, klilling and burning out his political opponents.

And you did so in the name of your God.

You are a miserable excuse for a human being if you are unwilling to retract your accusations of Brown Shirtedness. You then are EXACTLY the creature of the Great Lie that you claim to be protecting us from.

You are "bearing false witness" - and do tell us what your holy book says the proper punishment for that is?

Please enlighten us.

Or at least show us how Obama killed his opponents

How he had is minions beat his opponents to a pulp

How he burned their shops.

That's right please show us your "honesty".

And don't change the subject

Dear Desgme,

Even on the liberal website that posts this they say their is not truth to this.

Please Sir, if you are going to keep changing the subject, how do you expect to move forward.

Maybe you are a software engnieer, and had something to do with the Windows operating system, as you do see a little unstable at times.

God Bless You