…and Obama is. Interesting. Really.

I think she will man handle Bidden in their debate. Don’t under estimate this lady.

Congratulations John McCain!
She just threw more than half of the American populous & every single community worker in the world, under the (straight talk) bus.

Now we all see you retreating…err returning… to your Republican base.

You don’t even know what’s going on anymore- Out. Of. Touch.
& it’s your own campaign

btw- wtg Mitt… you just lost the support of the entire eastern seaboard
btw- wtg Rudy… you just burned your credibility card

& Sarah, darling: You just lost the media. Good luck winning an election in 2008 without the media LOL

Did she write that speech? Um, no… it was a performance. Y’know, theater. We should quickly understand that she has ceded a lot of control over her own ideology. That big list of three-day-old flip flops seems to suggest a certain malleability. Other than an original anti-abortion position (along with gender, it’s her ticket to ride), she’s being instructed on matters of principle. Religious dogmatism sometimes softens you up for that sort of thing.

Are any of you lambs really innocent enough to think that Obamacles’ speeches aren’t scripted as well? Grow up.

I’m Alaskan and didn’t vote for her for goveror because I thought she was too inexperienced (sound familiar). I was wrong-she’s been great. A breath of fresh air. She sees a problem and takes action. Her appointees haven’t just been the same old tired businessmen/supporters. She’s taken on Big Oil, the leader of the Republican party in the state, and endorsed the opponent of Don Young. She may be a hocky mom, but she carries the stick!
I probably wouldn’t have voted for McCain, but am now excited about the election for the first time and will vote for Sarah.

more like…
The Dickinson Pendulum Swings

It doesn’t matter that Palin didn’t author her speech entirely on her own. Her credentials are hers, and she has more than Obama.

Seriously, what has Obama actually DONE? He talks about what he wants to do – in a big, nebulous way. But has he done anything?

Sarah Palin has a real list of concrete achievements and experience in the real world.

Efforts to dismiss her can’t dismiss that fact.

OOOOOOO-MMMMMMM-GGGGGGGG! !!!SA RAH PALIN KICKED ASS!!!SHE (FEMALE-DOG)- SLAPPED HER MEDIA CRITICS WITH THEIR OWN MICROPHONES!!!SHE CERTAINLY IS A BULLDOG WITH LIPSTICK!!!!WAY TO GO GIRL!!!

OOOOOOO-MMMMMMM-GGGG GGGG! !!!SA RAH PALIN KICKED ASS!!!SHE (FEMALE-DOG)- SLAPPED HER MEDIA CRITICS WITH THEIR OWN MICROPHONES!!!SHE CERTAINLY IS A BULLDOG WITH LIPSTICK!!!!WAY TO GO GIRL!!!

I think it was a great speech. Now I know why the liberals in the media have been trying so hard to destroy her. I have news for them, I think this gal is both smart and tough. Maureen Dowd called her a trophy VP selection…well she is but not for good looks (which she has also) but for her great political skills. I feel sorry for Joe Biden.

The speeches tonight were just more nails in the GOP coffin. Since when is helping your community a joke? Americans are sick of these bullies. Their hatred, ego, and total smugness are what resonated most tonight. One big f*cking box of tools. Oh, and not one word about the economy or what Americans are going through? (oh that’s right, it’s all in our heads)

pathetic.

Sarah Palin crushed it tonight under the hottest lights imaginable and did it without breaking a sweat. She just metaphorically flipped the bird to those who thought they were going to run the Alaskan country bumpkin out of town in tears. The woman has the soul of an assassin. Game on, Obama.

Mario, your TV’s polarity must be reversed.

I LOVE it when the ELITISTS EAT THEIR WORDS…This applies to both the Pro-obama-press and the upper eschelon republican “strategists” and “advisors” who belittled the Palin Pick…aka Mike Murphy and (of all people) peggy noonan- who I have had alot of respect for…well you were all dead wrong…at least about the viability of Sarah…she has brought much needed vitality to the party and I dare say…has provided us with the audacity to hope that we can beat the advocates of the “grow the Govt” crowd in November…I LIKE HER!!!!

I supported Obama for a long time because I thought he would represent the average person. But I realize looking back, he cannot say the things Sarah can. He hasn’t done anything for the average person yet. She has! Example – tax rebates from oil profits
What got me most was when she said he’s written two books about himself but not a single important piece of legislation!

Sarah Quayle

If Palin wasn’t a woman, would anyone even bother mentioning that she has a speechwriter?

Dumbarse hypocritical lefties.

Wow, as a democrat I didn’t think I would be saying this….I was throughly impressed by the speech.

Putting things into perspective, what decisions has Obama really made?? I don’t recall a single issue he has made a stance for now that I think about it…

After tonight’s even, I think I’m leaning towards the Palin/McCain ticket.

She spoke well. So does Obama. Big deal- neither is qualified for the job (he less than she).

Gore spoke terribly. He was qualified. So was Hillary Clinton.

A campaign is a lousy process for picking someone to fill this job, and please someone tell Obama (and Palin) that the ability to give a good speech does not equate with the ability to be a thoughtful leader.

Respectfully I submit that US magazine sort of Screwed the Pooch why they attacked Sarah Palin.
I hope those folks at US will be alright after they are laid off because a lot of people are about to tell US magazine to go Screw Itself.
You Don’t Attack A Candidates 17 year old Daughter and you don’t bring a 4 month old downs baby into a mud slinging political campaign.
For some reason some of the liberal elitists are now believing that a woman’s place is at home, bare foot and pregnant and standing in the middle of the kitchen, waiting for hubby to get home so they can start making a new kid..

Tell me something, it started with Hillary Clinton then it went to Sarah Palin, the attacks that have been thrown at both of them, have one very important thing in common,, both are very sexist.
Now I know Senator Obama was not behind them, he’s condemned them, but I remember past elections, and I remember past problems that caused the conservative candidate problems, but I also remember Cindy Sheehan being on the John Kerry Payroll.

This sexist attack on Sarah Palin, It might not be Senator Obama’s fault, Might not be the Democrats fault, Might not be no one’s fault, But I know who’s going to pay a dear price on election day if it does not stop soon.

That is the only word that comes to mind. Let’s see if America is ready for a woman who is this smart, this tough and this competent. I know I am.

Devastating. That is the only word that comes to mind. Let’s see if America is ready for a woman who is this smart, this tough and this competent. I know I am.

I was very immpressed with Palin’s plans to help the middle class, the economy, health care, & education.
Oh wait, my bad, no I didn’t cuz SHE DIDN’T BRING ANY ISSUES UP AT ALL

“Sarah Palin is clearly not ready to be Commander in Chief.”

-Yet Barack Obama, who’s spent only 105 or so days in the senate in his WHOLE career is ready to lead as President? She has more experience then him! How ironic that the media is questioning the Republican’s VICE President’s leadership experience and not the Democratic PRESIDENTIAL candidate…

“Sarah Palin is clearly not ready to be Commander in Chief.”

-Yet Barack Obama, who’s spent only 105 or so days in the senate in his WHOLE career is ready to lead as President? She has more experience then him! How ironic that the media is questioning the Republican’s VICE President’s leadership experience and not the Democratic PRESIDENTIAL candidate… and not to mock your “Reporting” but you shouldn’t state she is not ready to lead without some support for this reasoning and I find that statement still HIGHLY biased and opinionated.

Yep, Amerika is so happy to have a Fundy control freak at the helm. Why, she’d be firing people left and right for not “supporting” her while she institutes Creationism in the schools, mandatory school prayer, elimination of all sex education, and on and on with the Right Wing Fundy agenda. She’s so appealing to Amerikans who are sure they will be raptured in just a few years. All this hype over this woman is sickening. She won’t do diddly for the middle class and as president, we might as well have Bush stay for a third term. This woman is TRULY SCARY.

Troll on, trolls!!!!

I wish the AIP had been successful in their attempts to recede Alaska from the United States. Considering Palin lives in a world that is completely different than most of the country, that lacks religious and ethnic diversity, that is dominated by Big Oil, it would have been best to just give her her own little fairy-tale land to fill with babies and oil rigs. To mold and shape in preparation for the Rapture

ps. Obama has been running a huge, successful, efficient, well-run campaign for as long as Palin has been governor. And he’s done it ALL under the watchful eye of the MSM and the GOP. How come no one mentions that executive experience? The GOP’s pick of Palin is no different that the Playboy bunnies they have reporting on Faux News. They assume that as long as there is a hot chick telling you something, whatever it is, you’ll believe it. See what happens when you think with you dick. (Yes I’m talking to the guys. Women are far to intelligent to fall for this ploy).

Mariok Kart | 9/4/2008, 10:37 am EST

I was very immpressed with Palin’s plans to help the middle class, the economy, health care, & education.
Oh wait, my bad, no I didn’t cuz SHE DIDN’T BRING ANY ISSUES UP AT ALL

You just don’t get it! Sarah Palin IS middle class.

Mariok Kart | 9/4/2008, 10:37 am EST
I was very immpressed with Palin’s plans to help the middle class, the economy, health care, & education.
Oh wait, my bad, no I didn’t cuz SHE DIDN’T BRING ANY ISSUES UP AT ALL

You just don’t get it! Sarah Palin IS middle class. That’s her power.

In two different focus groups of Clinton-supporting Nevada women — married and unmarried — conducted immediately after Gov. Sarah Palin’s Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention, a few common reactions quickly took shape.

First, women in both groups were impressed with Palin’s speaking ability and poise. But they were hardly convinced that she was qualified to be vice president, or that she truly represented the “change” they were looking for, especially in light of what was deemed an overly harsh “sarcasm” pervading her address.

The (mostly) anonymous proceedings were webcast live to reporters, who were told in a press release that the Nevada focus groups would include “some former Hillary Clinton supporters who are now undecided or are weak supporters of Barack Obama or John McCain.” No party identification was made available, though the approximately two dozen women were reportedly between 30 and 60 years old.

In the “married” group, when one attendee kicked off the discussion by saying “she’s a good speaker, and a crowd pleaser,” the rest of the room articulated their agreement. “I didn’t expect to be as impressed as I was,” said another respondent. But then another woman added: “Once she started mudslinging, I thought, it’s the same old crap as other politicians. McCain used her to get the women’s vote. And she’s using McCain.”
“Thank you,” another woman responded. “That really upset me; there was no need for that. It was snippy.”

The unmarried group also voiced similar objections to the harsh, partisan edge of Palin’s remarks. “I’m not impressed with her at all as a person,” one said, citing her “finger pointing” and general sarcasm after the group had generally agreed that she was a talented public speaker.

Still not all focus group members thought Palin came off too harsh. “She didn’t seem very aggressive to me at all,” said one unmarried participant.

But in both groups, narrow majorities said they held a more negative view of Palin after her speech. “She comes off pretty cutthroat,” said one.

what i saw in mrs. palin was a girl i’d met in a bar and bought a few drinks and when she split she left a false phone number. what a great condom ad this convention has turned out to be.

Time will tell which of you blowhards guesses the best.

For once, I agree with Tim. She doesn’t have what it would take to be either VP or Pres. When you stand back and look closely, it’s like the Beverly Hillbilles come to Washington …

I also agree with the person on the convention floor who said that she’s a lot prettier than her Dem. opponent. I don’t think that’s a qualification to be a VP, though. LOL!!

All of you lower 48 liberals will appreciate her getting the Alaska pipeline going in years to come. And all you lefty female commentators you are jealous that a 44 year old mother of five can look so great without plastic surgery and ten pounds of pancake makeup on her face

Too bad her perverted ideology takes dominance over her beauty. Many don’t see a pretty woman, just a scary glimpse at what 4 more years of republican rule will bring.

thank you church singer. and i’m sure the sheep of alaska thank you. do you use a sarah mask or just the lipstick? huh? wha? duh?

Delta Wild Man, I think US weekly fulfills its job as a worthless tabloid better when it reports on inconsequential topics like who is dating who in Hollywood or what clothes celebritard are wearing. You won’t have to worry about anyone getting fired from the ragmag though, since its another fine magazine under the heavy hand of Jann Wenner. As a die hard liberal, I don’t see him getting upset about showing any bias toward Obama.

Why is this neocon’s 17 yr old pregnant daughter “off-limits” when the woman doesn’t believe in sex-ed? The results of that policy are living in her house. As for her comment that it was her
“daughter’s decision” to keep the baby, does anyone think that poor girl had a choice, with a mother who’s running for VEEP and opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest. I was raped and tortured by a serial killer and if a pregnancy had resulted I’d have resorted to a back-allay Tijuana abortion rather than bear a child to that freak. And if I gave it up for adoption and prospective parents were told that he or she was the child of a sociopath who tortured and killed AT LEAST 16 women, who would have wanted it? Ms. Palin has a fondness for raising defective children, perhaps she would have taken it, putting her whole family at risk if the sociopathy was inherited. Most likely, the kid would have been raised by the state, the surest way of all of setting it on Daddy’s path. I’m pro-choice/others are not. I can respect this differance of opinion as long as the pro-lifers refraining from TAKING lives during their demonstrations, and as long as they don’t get ridiculous with the rape & incest crap.
Ms. Palin, I’m a woman and am more qualified to be VEEP than you are, mainly because besides very high intelligence and a good education, I actually believe in women’s rights and wouldn’t take us back to the beginning of the 20th century, when you would not only be unable to run, you’d be unable to vote. Your husband could beat you with impunity ( kids too ).Your Down’s baby would be thrown into a state institution, and I’m sure you can imagine the life he’d lead. You’d be a chattel, my dear. So apparently women are only entitled to the rights which you approve of, i.e. the Christian far-right. But then if you go back to your bible, St Paul also regards women as chattels. So you only use those parts of the book which suit you. What incredible hypocrisy. You are inexperenced in all the ways that matter for a Vice President, but you’d fit right in in DC, You’ve got hypocrisy down to a fine art.

I guess we had better get Erin Brockovich up and at it for our side.

am deeply offended by the suggestion that pulling American troops out of Iraq now would diminish their honor or remove it completely. The Republicans say “they must stay and fight and finish the job and then they can come home in honor.” This implies that if they are pulled out now they are dishonorable, contemptible. A soldier is honorable because he or she is a soldier. Honor is packed and front-loaded into being a soldier. A person who leaves their family, home, friends to fight for his or her country for 5 minutes or 5 years is ALREADY HONORABLE. To be pulled out of a war does not diminish the honor a soldier posesses. I can’t believe the Republicans are suggesting that honor only comes from victory or when the Presidents says it does. Sickening. Disgusting. And I will make it my mission for the next 3 months to ensure McCain/Palin are not voted for. I’m so offended.
And drilling for oil in Alaska and on the Shelf will not produce usable gasoline for 7 to 10 years. And there is an environmental impact. But considering that Reagan once said something like: how many redwoods do you need to see to see redwoods? One is enough.

her speech was very well done. she has demonstrated that she is intelligent. i still cannot fathom how this would sway any votes. her views are even more staunchly opposed to obama’s than mccain’s. i am not trying to defend either candidate, but if her speech changed your opinion rather than the issues at hand, you should not be voting. please don’t.

Jann Wenner allowed his Us magazine to slam Sarah Palin because a Christian woman bothers him and reminds him that the bible disagrees with his being gay.

Palin gets so far up the nose of the Demoelite that Jann Wenner will have to have his septum replaced.

Again.

Joanne Boatright, will you marry me?! What a well-written and thoughtful letter! We both come to the same conclusion but from completely different paths.

I decry her lip-service to Republican self-reliant rehtoric, while at the same time, every man, woman, and child in Alaska is a welfare recipient. Not just from the state’s appropriation of oil revenues, but also from their outsized proportion of federal monies. Alaska takes $1.84 of federal funding for ever dollar paid by it citizens in taxes. Hardly sounds like self-reliance, does it? No, as Ms. Boatright so adroitly points out, sounds much more like hypocrisy.

Jed Clampett

the reason she was selected was purely political, you know, what they accuse democrats of doing.
She is a woman and has proven she will do anything the oligarchs tell her to do, regardless of how contrary to common sense it is.

$12 billion budget /
700 thousand population =
about $17 thousand per person

Where are the $17k per person for the enuit who are starving and freezing and have to take handouts from Chavez in Venezuela? Did Mrs. Palin ignore them because of the color of their skin or because they don’t have any money to contribute to the GOP?

Peace

Anonymous, thanks for the compliment. I was not aware until you made it clear that Alaska is essentially a welfare state. Another great display of the hypocrisy of Sarah Palin, and the Republican party.

Sarah Palin is a traitor to the United States of America. She produces propaganda for the Alaskan Independence Party of which her husband is a longtime member. This terrorist group wants to secede from the nation and thereby deprive the U.S. of its natural resources in the region. This is an act of war for which Palin should be held accountable. A TERRORIST SHOULD NOT BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

As I listened to Ms. Palin’s speech I could not help but wonder…just
what kind of snippy character bashing comments is she going to make during the debates? As a child her nick name was Sarah Barracuda …it fits… I think she will be very easy to bait into behaving like
the vicious fish the kids named her for a long time ago. Although her delivery was polished it’s a veneer …under it is the fishy smell of her hypocrisy

Sarah Palin is the worst example of republican politics as usual imaginable. She is currently under investigation for abusing her power as governor and was a longtime and loyal fundraiser for one of the most corrupt congressman in recent memory: Ted Stevens.

She even urged the congregants at her extremist evangelical church to pray for a $30 million natural gas pipeline she wants to enrich herself with. This is the same exact crap we’ve been dealing with from these psychopaths for the last 8 years. (Remember how Cheney’s pockets got fat after the Iraq war?)

This idiot doesn’t even think global warming has anything to do with pollution. She is the same kind of anti-science religious freak responsible for wreaking this country for the past 8 years.

cathy | 9/4/2008, 12:40 am EST

I’m Alaskan and didn’t vote for her for goveror because I thought she was too inexperienced (sound familiar). I was wrong-she’s been great. A breath of fresh air. She sees a problem and takes action. Her appointees haven’t just been the same old tired businessmen/supporters. She’s taken on Big Oil, the leader of the Republican party in the state, and endorsed the opponent of Don Young. She may be a hocky mom, but she carries the stick!
I probably wouldn’t have voted for McCain, but am now excited about the election for the first time and will vote for Sarah.

I think you may have forgotten that ‘Sarah’ is not running for president. McCain is. So you aren’t voting for her, you’d be voting for him.

I think Americans are dumb and dumber if they think this celebrity is going to do anything for the average person. Palin’s all about herself, you just can’t see it because she’s well packaged and good looking. Amazing. Next we’ll be seeing Carla Sarkozy as the President of France!

Well, we already saw the rest of Carla Sarkozy plastered all over the internet…why not in office?

Mario K darling she never had the media, they are in the bag for Obama.
But you guys need all the help you can get.

Burn Daddy Burn,
Just were do you apply for the job of community organizer? I keep looking in the help wanted and can`t seem to find it. Are they like the welcome wagon or something? Do they like organize block parties? Or maybe softball games? It sounds like such a wonderful thing to do for a nice you man like Obama, who just got out of law school studying constitutional law.

Or is it a group known as ACORN that Obama got involved with. A group that are a bunch of agitators that go into poor neighborhoods and stir up trouble.
The same ACORN that by their own literature are Marxist. The same ACORN who are being investigated for voter fraud, for things like registering Illegals to vote and casting multible votes by the same person. In other words, perverting the election process and stealing the votes of legal Americans.

Yeah maybe young Barrack was like organizing neighborhood hot dog roasts for them. Oh how niceeee!

jeffery mcnary

You sound like a condom add. Because you sound like a Dick Head.

Joanne Boatright,
Wow what a cynical cold posting. If you are serious about the serial killer incident. Then you may have survived but you sound like you`re dead inside. I`m sorry for you.

Great comments, Part Crasher, no wonder the Republic Party is falling apart and the rest of us swing voters can’t stand you anymore.

I caught the highlights of her speech. It played well with the Republicans. I think it will have an opposite effect when it comes to the undecided voters. She and John McCain told me nothing about how they were going to do anything different than what’s been done before. You know the definition of insanity. It’s doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I’m not crazy enough to vote for McCain/Palin. I don’t know who I’m voting for yet or if I’m going vote at all. I just know it won’t be for any Republicans at the federal level.

Sarah’s fine, there’s no problem. McCain has sured up his fundamentalist base with his pick. If this is what was intended, then it appears to have worked. If he was trying to pick up Hillary supporters, I don’t see that happening. It really makes little difference, they are still going to loose in November. Mark my words, the Republicans are TOAST!

McCain’s military experience is a total joke. He was too busy snorting c_oke to even figure out how to use the eject button in his plane. Later he was so stupid he got shot down and taken prisoner. He’s not a war hero he’s a war failure.

These days he’s cynically exploiting his military “record” for political votes. Yet his military record shows him to be an idiot who is irresponsible and impulsive. His record is actually a bad thing for him, not a good thing.

McCain has shown how little honor he has by flip flopping on every issue he once took a stand on. Not only is he spineless, he is representing the military that way. In fact, the only argument the idiot even uses anymore for why he should be president is his failed war record. John McCain is a disgrace to soldiers and veterans everywhere.

So… if this woman is going to make reproductive rights an issue why can’t we talk about her pregnant teenage daughter?

It shows very clearly how failed an “abstinence only” education is when the politician who supports it’s daughter gets knocked up. Abstinence only education is evidence of being an unfit mother whose child should be taken by the state due to her negligence. It is horrible parenting that reflects badly on Sarah Palin’s management skills in general.

If the right to choose is an issue then we need to open Sarah Palin and her children’s medical records to find out exactly how many abortions they’ve had. We need to do the same with her family, friends and pastor’s family and friends as well.

“they are in the bag for Obama”
PartCrasher,
Yeah, is that why they keep finding stupid reasons to justify not voting for Obama, but consider McCain untouchable no matter what stupid stuff he does or says? Sorry man, the MSM are almost entirely rooting for McCain. They know that he’s their best bet for further consolidation which stands to make them millions of dollars. The myth of “liberal media” is now just a tired old lie to most of us. Only Republicans still believe that stuff.