something about this pic bothers me..biting the obviously half sticking out tounge.

cant put my finger on why.

any help?

she was vetted.

they knew all about her earmarks and her support for the bridge to nowhere and her abuse of office scandal.

that's why they led with the phony narrative about her being an anti-earmark anti-bridge to nowhere ethics crusader. they wouldn't have done all of that down-is-up bullshit and wouldn't be pushing it so hard down everyone's throats if all of that stuff wasn't a liability for her and mccain.

She looks a lot like my 6th grage teacher, who use to make the girls cry in class, because of the way their mother may have "promiscuously" dressed them. The same married teacher who was later caught in the teacher's lounge with a married assistant principle.

I just read a Bloomberg article (see link below) about Palin's ethics problem. Sounds like 1) she loves kicking everyone else's butt except her own; and 2) she has real difficulty distinguishing the private and the public.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080911/pl_bloomberg/alulrclkxig4;_ylt=AveSRbgFolMImPLCUSYv3apsnwcF

People have mentioned count down clocks for various things. The first time she holds a real press conference, the first time she does a speaking engagement without teleprompters, etc.

I would like to see a count down clock to the first truth that spills out of her lips.

I wonder how many years that one would have to be up?

GOP winning plan: Attack attack and more attack

Personal ethics issues? Scream how uncorrupt you are.

Queen of pork? Goad your opponent with lies about not accepting earmarks and be offended by swine remarks.

Traded in your first loyal spouse for a trophy wife 17 years younger than you? Say your opponent wants to teach kiddie sex.

News flash: This is dishonest and it has worked perfectly in US politics for going on decades for the GOP.

Why can't we get this?

Notice the press treatment of McCain? Quotes like "Win or lose, will he be able to look back on this one with pride?"

This type of coverage is nothing if not showing deference to what must be percieved by the writer as people who have no problem with lying and sleaze as long as their candidate wins.

If this writer thought McCain was lying and scoring cheap political points with scurrilous, ugly and superficial attacks why does his end analysis involve only what personal regret McCain might feel? Yes you will have a President who lied, personally debased an honorable opponent and disregarded the good of the country to get elected. The burning question for us is will HE be comfortable with it, right?

I know, Obama remains deeply confused and disheartened why the "honorable" John McCain would by some technical difficulties and momentary lapses in judgement in running his campaign say almost daily that Obama is unfit to lead in ever more trivial, personal and dishonest attacks.

I have news for you Obama, I don't care about your pride. I want the economic and foreign policies of my country to become things we can all be proud of. To hell with being proud of your civilities during the campaign.

If you don't start doing what's been proven to work soon, it'll be lost for another 4 years at least.

Start from the gutter up:

OK McCain, you say I'm unfit? You cheated on and left your first wife who'd waited faithfully for you while you were that prisoner of war you keep bragging about. Then you dumped her for a woman who hadn't suffered through a life altering car wreck like your first wife had, your new muse was in line to inherit millions in beer selling profits and was young enough to be your daughter - in my family we call that mean, cold and just plain creepy. That's not just me talking, that's what Nancy Reagan and just about every other female who sees these tawdry old wife/trophy wife trade ins happen thinks about your horny, selfish little "mid-life crisis."

That's what I'm talkin' about, Barack. Lose after unleashing stuff like that and for one I'd be very surprised, secondly the nation would beam with pride at you swinging the big bat. While your pride in your sense of civility may be just a little damaged, you'd get over it.

That Bloomberg article mentioned above is well worth the read.

Palin is a pit bull, all right, a vindictive, dishonest one.

This article is a prime example of just how far we have wavered from the definitions we espouse regularly.

Notice that now, ethics advisors are not concerned about internal morals or values, which ethics is--- used to be--- concerned with. Rather, it is the external consequences (wolves) which are now important. Ethics and behavior involving ethics is totally dependent upon whether or not you will get caught!

Accordingly, theft, murder, fraud, lying (you might want to look up the definition of lying) which is seen several time a day now is perfectly okay if it helps further your goal.

.... and "We the People" have fallen so far down the slope we are considering and promoting putting these folks in charge of our democracy, finances, and children's futures!

What a travesty and waste of a couple million lives of our relatives who have given their lives to get us this far just so we can flip them the bird and throw it all away... IMHO

Should she become VP or maybe even President, who is going to be with her newborn special needs infant from 6AM in the morning until at least 6PM at night? Will her baby be awake when she gets home? How many hours a day will she be nurturing her child? Is her husband going to quit his job? Will he be traveling with his wife or is he going to become a full-time stay-at-home parent? Will her pregnant 18-year-old daughter and her "fiancee" move to Washington, D.C. and become full-time babysitters? Will nannies spend more time with her baby than she will? Which role will be her priority? VP or mother? Will she take her baby with her everywhere she goes? How is her special needs child going to get the special attention she'll need? Perhaps my idea of what the emotional needs of children are is an old-fashioned one, but it is my belief, based on raising three children myself, that there will be many, many instances when her "job" as VP or President will have to take precedence over being a mother. In this day and age, it may not seem fair to imply that a woman can't have a job and still be a good mother, but the reality is that any man or woman who has a newborn special needs child will confront the unfair but real choice of being at work or being there for their child. And anyone who believes in that "quality time" rationalization is full of crap! I don't care what anyone believes, the time you don't spend with your child is time that you and your child can never get back. You lose it and your child loses it. And that is undeniably the choice a working parent makes no matter how unfair it might seem. Parents and children only have one life, and the most valuable gift caring parents can give to their children is their time, which is a preciously and fleetingly finite commodity.

Her governing style is pure Bush/Cheney/Rove,complete with paybacks,dirty tricks,lying,and cover-ups.She will never apologize.