<p>An inside source in Palin's administration in Alaska who has worked closely with her during her current term thinks of her as a wacko. Do we really want a woman like that to perhaps be President? (btw this is a first hand source from a relative of someone I know)</p>
<p>She also cannot understand what the Bush Doctrine is which is pathetic as its the main foreign policy of her own party for the last seven years. </p>
<p>She also cannot support her own mother in law as mayor because she is pro choice and we can't have that in a town of 9,000 where maybe one or two abortions happen each year if any....</p>
<p>At least Obama hasn't been accused of corruption charges...</p>
<p>All political views aside, is anyone else deeply concerned about the ethics of Governor Palin?</p>
<p>She continues to repeat lies in her stump speech that were disproven within a half hour of her nomination. In fact, every facet of her nomination is based on manipulations of fact - from lobbyists and earmarks to that bridge funding that still went to Alaska.</p>
<p>She seems to be a pathological liar. She said the teleprompter broke at the convention and she just started having a conversation with the people of Ohio (delegates). Journalists reading along with her said it got ahead a couple times, at which times she looked at her notes in front of her and stayed on script. That's far from winging it the way Bill Clinton used to.</p>
<p>She continues to refuse to answer any questions from anyone - suggesting to me the campaign knows she's just an image and not ready for this position. Any who question her religious or personal views (as they have done with all the candidates - especially Obama) are charged as sexists.</p>
<p>I guess opposing abortion is a free pass to negate all 10 of the Commandments now, but I find her lack of ethics to be increasingly disturbing.</p>
<p>If McCain and Palin will so blatantly lie to us now as candidates, why would they change as our employees?</p>
<p>"She also cannot understand what the Bush Doctrine is which is pathetic as its the main foreign policy of her own party for the last seven years. "</p>
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Coiner of the "Bush Doctrine" rips that old, condescending fart Gibson over Palin.</p>
<p>Just FYI: I have never once gone to look at your laundry list referrals to websites. You've got to have more art in your posts and rely less on multiple postings of website addresses. It's not just that we disagree -- though we of course do. It's just that you put too many out there.</p>
<p>Maybe it's just me, though.</p>
<p>Let's take a vote (if anybody's still reading this post):</p>
<p>How many go through all the myriad web links PugFug posts in so many of his posts?</p>
<p>I don't read them. Most of it's pretty old news. Pug's like our own personal Sean Hannity dredging up old material like Ayers and Wright every chance he gets. </p>
<p>Obama responded very well to O'Reilly about Ayers - just some guy with whom he worked on education policy like many others. </p>
<p>Isn't it interesting, though, that there was no rebuttle of the concerns about Palin, just an attempt to change the subject and say, "Look! Obama isn't perfect!". Hannity does that too. When someone's making a point that will negate or refute his entire worldview (or at least his argument), Hannity interrupts and changes the subject. Pay attention. He does it all the time.</p>
<p>The bottom line is - from teleprompters to bridges - Palin is turning out to be a pathological liar. </p>
<p>The Republicans know she is far more appealing as an image and mythology than as a real person full of hypocrisies. They're smart to keep this hockey mom at arm's length from the people for whom she is portrayed as being so much a part.</p>
<p>??? Just some guy ??? A man that bombed our nation is a disgrace and should absolutely be repudiated.</p>
<p>Teleprompter: Different sources say different things. How do you know? Because some reporter said "x"? Well, another said, "y". The one that would know said she did have some technical problems. If you don't believe that... bwah!</p>
<p>Bridge: Governors/mayors seek federal funds to put into their infrastructure projects. The money is already there, it's a matter of not wasting it or abusing it, like assisting Michelle Obama's hospital, where her salary soon skyrocketed, or Biden's lobbyist son. So??? The original project was not anticipated to be wasteful but Palin put the brakes on it once it was clear that it was a waste.</p>
<p>You go PugFug!!! I'm with you and it's going to be very exciting to watch where this all goes come November. Hope the dems can come up with a new rant though when they lose..."we were robbed of the vote!" (a la 2000)</p>
<p>There is a lot of middle America out there...don't underestimate their power.</p>
<p>I would like pugfug and OaksMom to take a look at this article that, while an opinion, sums up pretty well the modern republican mindset and how "middle america" is become more and more of a myth. Sarah</a> Palin's Myth of America - TIME</p>
<p>When I was a little boy, I worried about coal plants, running out of oil, polar bears, and that kind of stuff. I wanted every homeless person to be nurtured.</p>
<p>Okay, it'd be great if we had no coal plants, and people and polar bears could co-exist.</p>
<p>??? Why do people look up to Biden when Petraeus, McCain, wise in their support of the surge, denounced Biden's partitioning plan? ??? Why do people look up to Obama as some savior of the economy when Freddie and Fannie were on his side?</p>
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<p>Since when did "middle America" become one political view? I heard a Christian radio show host yesterday say, "So what should good Christians do if a liberal gets elected?" Was the radical who stood up against the corruption and greed of the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ, a conservative? Ha. I think that's what we call a progressive today, and he would be verbally crucified by the very people that invoke his name.</p>
<p>"Middle America" is a place. It is a place where I live. Even if a state leans one way, most elections are within 10 points. It is a place full of homosexuals and bisexuals and feminists and Pagans and loving people who don't want to be led into frivolous wars that murder hundreds of thousands of people and who want a government that doesn't let its poorest citizens drown (either literally after a hurricane or in tax burdens they cannot afford). They are people who want to use our ingenuity to evolve beyond oil and bigotry and hatred and division. </p>
<p>These are not bad people. One can argue the validity of liberal tax structure (I'm ultimately a flat tax proponent), but is it really "bad" that Obama wants to eliminate taxes for senior citizens that make less than $50,000 a year? Is it really "bad" that Obama wants to cut taxes for everyone that makes less than $250,000 a year? No. If it is, then Sarah Palin is "bad" because she taxed the excess profits of oil companies and gave the money back to Alaskans. Sound familiar? It was the idea McCain bashed as naive, yet the oil companies seem to have survived just fine.</p>
<p>Obama shows compassion and a desire to care for the least among us. This myth about "middle American" values and the "elitist" coasts is absurd. I'm tired of it. Protecting life from war, pollution, and poverty is not elitist, it is pro-life. Thinking your religion or political worldview is the only correct one is elitist. It's the very definition of the word. </p>
<p>"An inside source in Palin's administration in Alaska who has worked closely with her during her current term thinks of her as a wacko. Do we really want a woman like that to perhaps be President? (btw this is a first hand source from a relative of someone I know)"</p>
<p>You have got to be kidding. Are you still beating your wife? I spoke to a couple of Martians that I know and they tell me for sure that Obama is a Vulcan, look at the ears man it's obvious.</p>
<p>it's really funny how pugfug selectively ignores all the anti-McCain articles that he undoubtedly has encountered while dredging for anti-Obama ones. i mean seriously. you can gauge his intellectual honesty and disingenuity. let's see how much longer he can continue living in his determined denial.</p>