<p>Pugfug - in the interest of transparency, I would like to ask you to perceive Palin from outside the defensive perspective.</p>
<p>The McCain camp did pick her in large part because she is a woman and in large part because she is a radical conservative. It was a strategic decision to solidify the base and pick off Clinton voters. It is working. If you think there was some objective decision from which she emerged and only happened to be a woman, then I’ve got a bridge to nowhere to sell you.</p>
<p>I find it fascinating how easily the American public is being duped.</p>
<p>Despite being supported largely by those who invoke the name of Christ and abide by the 10 Commandments, these supporters of McCain/Palin are sitting idly by while their campaign churns forward on absolute, total and utter lies or mockery.</p>
<p>To mock community organizing - the very work Christ himself would have done?</p>
<p>To repeatedly build her campaign on lies about ethics reform, earmarks, and federal funding for a bridge, even though all have been soundly debunked?</p>
<p>To hide behind a shield of sexist charges and charges of “attack” everytime anyone points out Palin’s hypocritical stances and lies?</p>
<p>To claim Obama supports comprehensive sex ed for 5 year olds or that Obama was insulting Palin with his lipstick comment? </p>
<p>These are all lies designed to force Obama to prove them to be lies. This is dispicable campaigning. Just imagine the lies to which we will be subject if they dupe the voters in November. We’ve been lied to for 8 years. </p>
<p>Any who claim to be Christian or just decent human beings should be appalled by McCain / Palin. </p>
<p>There is enough of the appalling on both sides. No one on here should overly high and mighty about their candidates. This will be the slimiest POTUS season ever. It started in earnest with Hillary and Obama’s attacks on each other.</p>
<p>No. Obama is actually trying to focus on the issues.</p>
<p>Obama is not spreading fundamental lies.</p>
<p>Obama is not hiding behind the facade of sexism whenever anything not positive is said about him (or racism for that matter).</p>
<p>I am not saying the Obama campaign is clean, but stop defending borderline criminal behavior. It has crossed the line. Please. The McCain campaign is playing smoke and mirrors. It is indefensible and you would not defend it if you did not support the candidate.</p>
<p>Stop drinking the kool aid and open your eyes. I would like to know where you think I defended it? I don’t like it at all…and it comes from both sides. At least I’m willing to admit my candidate is as bad as the rest.</p>
<p>Well, I honestly don’t think he is as bad - and I base that not because I really want my candidate to be the good guy (I wasn’t even for him before), but because I’ve watched both closely.</p>
<p>Of course his hands are dirty. That’s a given in any political race, but he has not taken to mocking military service in the way Republicans mocked community service and he has not taken to promoting outright lies in the face of contrary evidence.</p>
<p>I don’t recall them mocking community service. They were talking about Obama’s turn as a communtiy organizer…a paid position. On the whole republicans give a great deal of their time to community service, as do the dems.</p>
<p>At least you admit that you just think there is a difference. That’s all that really matters. I don’t see the need for incessant badgering as to why someone thinks one way or another unless it is purely for intellectual reasons.</p>
<p>I don’t understand your argument. I mean there is a significant difference between the unethical behavior of the McCain camnp and the more ethical behavior of the Obama camp. </p>
<p>“Communiity service” is not relegated to those who are unpaid. That’s volunteerism. Paid community organizers I’ve worked with have had guns held to their heads, their lives threatened for trying to shut down open air drug markets, fighting huge bureaucracies to simply stop toxic dust from flying through the air killing their children.</p>
<p>If military people can be lauded for their service to the country and be paid, then community organizers are no different.</p>
<p>Yeah, all $12 000 of it. What a sellout. He should be noble like Phil Gramm and go work for UBS.</p>
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<p>He should’ve picked someone consistent with what he proclaimed was most important: experience. For him to repeatedly hammer Obama on it, and then turn around and pick someone who is about the equivalent of the mayor of Baltimore is sheer hypocrisy.</p>
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<p>Amazing. So what’s good for McCain is automatically what’s good for America? And you say that Obama is perceived as the messiah.</p>
<p>Unfortunately since my banishment I have to hold my tongue. Needless to say you jump to the absurd about every statement. He picked someone to help him win. If he had picked someone who wouldn’t do that it woulnd’t matter now, would it? How well will it suit Obama be if he loses and the difference was not picking Hillary for his running mate. How much change can he affect then?</p>
<p>Palin was a condescending choice to women. If she ever becomes President the stock market would crash overnight. Moscow/Korea/China/Iran/Bin Laden would be thrilled. ENOUGH!</p>
<p>“Palin was a condescending choice to women. If she ever becomes President the stock market would crash overnight. Moscow/Korea/China/Iran/Bin Laden would be thrilled. ENOUGH!”</p>