YOu forgot that she also had a child out of wedlock. (like her daughter)

Oops I have to correct my last post....she got pregnant out of wedlock. She got married before the child was born...according ot Wikipedia.

Rudy Giuliani looks like he's doing stand-up comedy....oh so impressive!

As gov., she also showed her fiscal responibility by cutting 20% of the budget to an organization that provided support - housing, medical etc. - to unwed teenage mothers for up to 18 months while they dealt with a new bady.

Let's see when is her first interview with the media?

I doubt it will ever happen.

Mocking Obama is sure a losing strategy...

I hope American see the McWar-McPalin duo a gimmick, a scam...

Please wake up America...

What happened? Did someone get to Olbermann? I know Chris Matthews can be bought and David Gregory sways like a palm tree.

Olbermann's a whore. He likes to bark and pretend to be a man, but at the end of the day he just whimpers, "Please, sir - may I have another?" whenever his corporate masters frown. The corporate heads let him play at liberal politics for the same reason Limbaugh's corporate heads let him play Nazi: Ratings.

As for this Palin witch: You Obama followers had better hope your guy does better against the repub haters than Gore or Kerry did. Complacency kills, folks. And those a**holes are still better at setting the agenda than the Dems.

You guys are full of it.

Palin delivered a good speech. She's not going away. Olbermann and Matthews told the truth. Don't tell me you can't handle it.

No, now the Obama campaign has to figure out how to trump the Republican's play. Not for a second do I believe they're unable to do so, that they require validation from Olbermann and Matthews.

They need to hit - HARD - on what you heard not a word about tonight - health care, job loss, corruption in Washington by the people who ACTUALLY control it.

And they'll win.

Quit whining about the media here. Often it's justified. Not tonight.

The Palins also have a number of real estate holdings in Big Lake, AK co-owned by Debbie and Scott Richter. The properties are organied as "Richter Investments LLC." The Richters also own a portion of the Palins residence in Wasila... (Assuming the Palins live rent free right now in the Governors' Mansion in Juneau).

Interestingly, Debbie Richter was Palin's campaign treasurer. Richter was awarded a job as the Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Division for her service. For those who don't know, the State of Alaska gives its citizens "free money" checks every year out of this fund. This "free money" comes from oil royalties collected and investments. The Fund is currently worth $35 billion.

Would you choose the Governor's campaign treasurer - and property co-owner - to honestly hand out oil royalties? Under her leadership in 2006, all Permanent Fund claims from residents (you have to make a claim for your check) were lost in a computer data entry failure...

I still can't get over the utter ridiculousness of Republicans branding themselves as reformers, Palin, McCain whoever they may be.

What are they going to reform? The mess their party created over the last 28 years and topped off in the last 8?

Elect us to save yourself from us?

I can only hope that sufficient numbers of Americans won't be so gullible and fall all those rabid lies.

They cannot talk about issues, about substance or about details of the plans they hope to accomplish. Their whole plan and their whole response is to attack Obama and talk about what good experienced people they are. There is nothing there but a continuation of the Bush disaster...absolutely nothing but generalized rhetoric equivalent to ..."I would just sit the Sunnis and Shiites down and say stop the bullshit".

They are all caught up with the "splurge" but no one has ever really taken that apart for them and put it into perspective that is realistic. Being wrong for 39 yrs is not experience...it's a reputation. McCain has never made any decisions, only suggestions which generally were wrong and ignored.

Rather than just admit Palin has no national security experience or C in C exp and talk about what she does have the repubs remain deceitful, trying to make up stuff to justify trying to make it seem Palin has no weaknesses...bullshit.

No matter how they spin it it was a decision based on Political needs and not the good of the country.

Once again...judgment and leadership skills TRUMP experience. Wanting to continue the failed policies of the Bush administration is not change.
Having a law degree, a doctorate and Being a Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago gives more executive ability than trying to get creationism taught in schools and denying global warming. Give me someone who has studied and taught constitutional law over someone who believes the Flintstones are actual history any day.
McCain would rather start a war than lose an election no matter what you think of Palin she is just another stooge, pulled from out of nowhere to do stooge work...Yup, yup, yup. We are talking about leading a nation not starring in a soap opera. The reality is that McCain and company will only prosper the wealthy and get us all killed trying to prove how tough he thinks he is. He has clearly shown on several occasions that he is unfit to be president and so is his Palin puppet. Hypocrisy knows no bounds with these two.

Can we expect these great reformers to go after the unlawful acts of the Bush/Cheney regime?

Should we expect to see them ride their high horses and go after Gonzales and maybe Rove?

My guess is reform only goes skin deep with these two.

Let's face it, the McCain campaign is going to be about attack, attack, attack because they have absolutely nothing to run on except "drill, drill, drill".

For all the late vetting of Palin she delivered that speech because she has been holed up in seclusion being prepared ever since McCain decided to pick her at the last minute. But, after seeing that speech and the McCain camp crying "sexism and biased reporting by the media" all bets are off that anyone has to tip toe around her. Now she has a perfect excuse to head back to Alaska as her son leaves for Iraq on 9/11. Just watch how the McCain camp will make her unavailable to the media after (thank God) someone revealed directly after her speech that she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, she hired a lobbyist to lobby for earmarks, she was almost recalled as the mayor of Wasilla, she has used her power to fire people even the librarian when she refused to ban books that Palin deemed inappropriate. And her personal life has barely been touched on, with the exception of her daughter when she was forced to reveal that before the story broke. There is much more yet to come and she can't hide from the media forever. But let's not forget this all boils down to McCain's judgement and what kind of decisions he would make as President.

What we have here is a george bush republican. Someone who loves to spend taxpayer money, loves the tall tale, and pretends to be the down to earth red-blooded american. Someone who lives in a state next to a foreign country to get that international experience. Someone who claims to want to change washington by having those around them toe the line of undying, ever-illegal support at all costs. You get the idea, and feel free to add your ideas of what a bush/palin republican is made of.

So, McCain's strategy is to declare war on the media for daring to ask questions. He's pretty much gotten softball handling up to this point. Now the public vetting of him and his VP decision REALLY begins.

And Palin insulted community organizers everywhere. Somehow the crowd that roared at that line (twice!) overlooked that many delegates are community organizers. Forget that many USAmerican heroes (e.g. MLK) are community organizers. And what's with the RNC derision of community service?

But so, her bold statements and snide sarcasm (however sweetly delivered) will ultimately highlight the contradictions with the facts. Her "no thank you" line to the Bridge to Nowhere will come back to haunt her -- she still said thank-you and accepted the money. And the McCain camp's refusal to let her be interviewed will similarly read as what it is.

Her speech worked well for THAT audience -- but it will have a harder time playing outside of the convention hall.

If you haven't read this email/comment (link below) from Anne Kilkenny regarding her 16-year experience with Sarah Palin, DO IT!! Ms. Kilkenny has a lot to say, for example, that reformer image? Not so much. According to Ms. Kilkenny (a homemaker with no ax to grind and nothing to lose), word is that Palin outed GOP chair Ruedrich's shenanigans as an excuse to get out of a job she hated. She'd been appointed a plum job (by then-governor Murkowski) as Chair of the Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. Palin had absolutely no oil and gas experience and soon learned that she hated the work. When she got wind of Ruedrich's misdeeds, she saw a way to get out of the job and look good doing it!!

Anyhooo, the whole Kilkenny email is quite revealing; and if even half of it is true, Palin could be worse than anyone imagines.
http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html

(Originally posted 9/1/08 as a comment to a Washington Independent article: http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate)

Sarah Palin did an outstanding speech last Wednesday. She is very good. Hope she is true with her speech.