Palins speach

[archdlx]

We have all 'abused' our authority at one time or another.
I know if my sister(any one of the three), were being abused by someone in my 'employ', I am pretty sure they would not have to worry about me hiding the fact that I wanted them gone.
As for her pregnant daughter, WTF? $h!t happens! Just goes to show that even some politicians are human/with faults.
Yeah, I know I am a Canadian, and have no dog in this fight....well yes I do-if obama/biden are elected, you will lose beyond imagination-and that affects us!
I dislike chillary more than I have a right to, but at least you know where she is coming from, and what her plans are. With obama, he just doesn't feel right. He votes for gun control, yet today he says at a town hall meeting "We're not going to mess with Americans guns". Here is the link....
Obama: "We're Not Going To Mess With" Americans' Guns - From The Road

Please vote carefully!
LeRoys' 0.02 cents

[pstimac]

Originally Posted by phorwath

Don't get me wrong. I didn't say I preferred Obama and Biden. I just hope Sarah learned something about the proper exercise of power and uses it when it needs used, but properly. Not something as improper and petty-anty as going after an ex-brother-in-law.

There's no denying McCain knows when a fights worth fighting, which is pretty darn comforting. I agree there's little track record to know what Obama would do.

Maybe she did or didn't abuse her power. Maybe her x-brother in law did some horrible things that only the family knows about. Maybe he beat the @#$@ out of her sister. Maybe he deserves to be fired. Maybe not. Unless you or I know all the story, it's hard to say. We are definatly NOT getting all the story by our very biased news outlets.

This is simply a press smear campaing against her. Do you ever wonder why we don't hear anything about Biden's daughter who was arrested for drugs or about his son who's a lobbyiest????? The democrats and the press (really the same entity) are doing everything they can to smear her image and make Obama/Biden look good so that you don't vote for McCain/Palin. OPEN your eyes and don't fall for it.

Obama WILL go after your guns if he's elected, that's the only track recored he has, and he'll have democratic controlled congress to back him.

[phorwath]

Well did we already forget why Bush went to war in Iraq, and went directly after Saddam? Do you remember that Saddam attempted to have the senior Bush president killed. Was that a good reason to go to war?

You can excuse and dismiss the Sarah scandle as a press attack if you want, but the Alaska State Legislature isn't the press, and they're the ones that authorized the formal investigation on "abuse of power" against a member or their own party. They wouldn't do that for a petty-anty reason. I want the power exercised properly. Not over a family feud. I agree we shouldn't be led astray by the press. But we shouldn't use the press as an example to ignore improper head-hunting by an elected official. Keep this analogy in mind when you remember why we're still bogged down in Iraq, and asking yourself if the bang was worth the buck in dollars expended, and International relations.

That's the funny thing about politics. People will ignore literally anything if it serves their purpose. Democrats can ignore Clinton's sexual relations with his intern in the Oval Office. Republicans will ignore the misleading and deceipt by the Bush administration to go after Saddam in Iraq, while Osama Bin Laden continues to camp out comfortably on the border of Pakistan.

If we had put the resources to work in Afganistan and on Osama rather than Iraq, you can bet that Osama would have been history long ago.

If McCain and Palin don't get elected this November, you can thank our current President. He's the reason "Change" is the theme of both of the campaigns for this Presidential election.

I bet the fireworks will auto-ignite after this post. Let the fun begin...

[AJ Peacock]

Originally Posted by phorwath

... Republicans will ignore the misleading and deceipt by the Bush administration to go after Saddam in Iraq, ...

I bet the fireworks will auto-ignite after this post. Let the fun begin...

I may be wrong, but the very first day we started into Iraq, I've been saying this was a strategy to prepare to contain Iran. I've been saying this for better than 6 years and still believe it's true. We can't very well say it, but pull out a map and figure out how you will deal with the REAL threat in the region.

Just my 'country boy opinion'.

AJ

[elkguys]

most people have for gotten how many mass graves we uncoverd!!! SAdom was the mass bomb we had to take that sick and Evil villian out!!how many more buildings did we need to come down in this country before we wake up!!!I truly belive that if OBAMA get in we will have more towers and death on our soil agin!!!! we cannt let this happen GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS!!!!!!!

[archdlx]

Originally Posted by phorwath

the Alaska State Legislature isn't the press, and they're the ones that authorized the formal investigation on "abuse of power" against a member or their own party. They wouldn't do that for a petty-anty reason....

Does 'the old boys club' mean anything? Seems to me the Future VP, Mrs. Palin disrupted that in big way. That, to me would be enough, how about you?

archdlx

[phorwath]

Originally Posted by archdlx

Does 'the old boys club' mean anything? Seems to me the Future VP, Mrs. Palin disrupted that in big way. That, to me would be enough, how about you?

archdlx

Well there's a hundred excuses to suit your purpose when the facts don't. But these facts can't be excused away by any objective minded person. Sarah herself recanted on her original position and admitted that her top Aide did pressure the Troopers to fire her ex-brother-in-law; but only after a recorded phone conversation was released, 3 weeks after she stated that neither she nor her administration brought pressure to bear on the Troopers to fire her ex-brother-in-law. Was she lying the first time, or the second?

As far as disrupting the old boys club, she did win the Governor's election from former Gov. Frank Murkowski. So you're correct with that statement, but she hasn't done anything to disrupt the State Legislature, which voted for the formal investigation. In fact she's been a tremendously popular Governor and the Legislature has been mostly hands off and let her have her way.

The FBI's been the one disrupting the good old boys in the State Legislature. The more crooks they catch that were taking bribes for votes the better.

You all know this could go on and on and on and on because the member's posting here are so dead set that Sarah's an angle sent to help your candidate get into office. You'd ignore a semi-tracktor trailing coming at you head on in your lane - not passing anyone. The good is blissful and the bad is excused away in the effort to pursuade others to vote with you for your choice.

As far as Bush's war being a good thing in any way... there's a reason McCain came to Alaska to select his running mate. The farther he can distance himself from Bush and the current Republicans in Washington, the better his chances. Disagree with this if you want, but both political parties disagree with you if you do. Both the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign are preaching Change from the Bush Administration.

As far as Iraq being a ploy to hold Iran in check, it's done just the opposite. We've spent ourselves and any support the country once had for battle in Iraq. Iran knows this and is now flexing it's mouth and muscle. Same with Russia invading Georgia. We've spent ourselves in Iraq and gotten very little to show for it, other than the spite of world for starting a war on false pretenses.

Go Sarah!