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1. David Thomson:

The MSM is worried sick about Sarah Palin. It legitimately recognizes that she will severely damage the election hopes of Barack Obama. The odds are that the McCain/Palin ticket will possess the minimum of a three point lead by this time next week. Obama has not so subtly employed the race card. Governor Palin, however, would become the first woman vice-president in our nation’s history. Does race trump gender? We will soon find out. Lastly, does anyone think that Joe Biden helps Obama as much as Sarah Palin helps McCain?

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:50 am 2. Ed Wallis:

Tom Blumer : “Assuming it [the Frontiersman’s archive] has been accessible for some time, he [HuffPo writer Sam Stein] then needs to tell us why he gullibly (or not?) let false information travel around the world unanswered for what will probably end up being almost 48 hours — false information that will remain planted in the minds of those who won’t see any retraction or correction.”

NO HE DOESN’T, MR. BLUMER. Though he most certainly should (but it’s HuffPo, so how seriously can one take it? I won’t even start in on the NYT…RIP).

You’re clever enough to have answered your own question, to whit – the…ahem…“story” will remain planted in the minds of those who won’t see any retraction or correction. Tell a lie often enough and some people will start to believe it.

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:56 am 3. Tom Lamb:

Thanks for the tip.

I will be writing about Hollis French and the witch hunt that is taking place here in Alaska along with Daily Kos biting another B.S. story.

Palin has had to get a private lawyer and her lawyer has asked French for a list of witnesses.

French stated no.

Sep 2, 2008 - 2:07 am 4. J.J. Sefton:

To quote General Patton (at least in the movie):

(Psalm 63: 1): O God, Thou art my God, early will I seek Thee. My soul thirsteth for Thee. My flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land.
(Psalm 63: 2): So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
(Psalm 63: 8): My soul followeth hard after Thee.
(Psalm 63: 9): But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
(Psalm 63: 10): They shall fall by the sword, they shall be apportion for foxes.
(Psalm 63: 11): But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone that sweareth by Him shall glory. But the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Sep 2, 2008 - 3:06 am 5. BizzyBlog » NYT and HuffPo Reporters Get Sloppy with ‘McCain Didn’t Vet’ Meme:

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Sep 2, 2008 - 3:12 am 6. Lance Brown:

Palin: The American Awakening

She exudes a sense of what America used to be and what it can return to: confident, proud, able, and firmly unapologetic. Yes compared to perfection, America may be lacking but compared to every other country on Earth, America’s benevolence has no equal. Our bad acts have been no worse than those of every other country but our positive acts have saved the lives of 100’s of millions of people through out the world.

Palin seems to stir this sense of American exceptionalism that for too long has been squelched by the radical Liberal agenda. We have been constantly told by educators, by the media, by politicians that we are a bad country in need of much deserved rebuke. Palin on the other hand casts such dispersions aside and stirs feelings deep inside all of us that we Americans should be proud and confident. We have the unparalleled ability to solve any challenge placed before us. Palin has awaked this long slumbering American spirit.

Must Read: http://minx.cc/?post=272151

Must Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvBbcFDPI0

Sep 2, 2008 - 3:36 am 7. Calanda-Technology.Com » Blog Archive » NYT and HuffPo Reporters Get Sloppy with ‘McCain Didn’t Vet’ Meme:

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Sep 2, 2008 - 3:59 am 8. TomJW:

NYT and HuffPo?

May as well get your information from tea leaves, better chances of it being right.

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:17 am 9. Bill in New York:

“not thoroughly vetted” compared to what??? geez, we are still waiting for the papers that show how Barry’s sweetheart deal on his house (which he admitted to be a ‘boneheaded move’) arranged by Rezko was paid for via the Iraqi billionaire… I can’t wait for the press to “properly vett” that story!

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:31 am 10. Dennis D:

We have a Dem Presidential Nominee that embraces known Domestic Terrorists and the MSM is more concerned with a preggers teen?

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:46 am 11. isaac:

This is the most malarkey I’ve ever come across.acknowledge McCain did a shoddy job.

Sep 2, 2008 - 5:44 am 12. MrTender:

A rediculous chioce fo VP. A desperate attempt to add gimmick to the campaign.

Seriously… ask yourself… is she ready to be POTUS? McCain is 72… and has had cancer before.

Dang… I was going to vote McCain too…. oh well now I am going to vote Obama…. he HAS to be better than her.

Sep 2, 2008 - 5:53 am 13. Ed Wallis:

Dennis D: “We have a Dem Presidential Nominee that embraces known Domestic Terrorists and the MSM is more concerned with a preggers teen?”

Maybe Dems and the MSM have other…ahem…priorities?! /sarc

Sep 2, 2008 - 5:53 am 14. Judy, NYC:

hufpo is a sewer infested with rabid anti-american haters, anti-semites, islamic fascists. it produces what one expects from a sewer. starting and spewing vicious rumors is its daily fare. the nytimes is now just the name of a once-respected news source that no longer exists. it occupies the same filthy space as hfpo. their messiah, chicago pol, barry, with his long list of friends of america, has withdrawn his hem from the dirty business. just sends his minions. like manson.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:15 am 15. Evil Pundit:

The only desperation I can see is in the smear campaign being run by Obamaniac trolls.

Palin scares them.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:17 am 16. Larry J:

Seriously… ask yourself… is she ready to be POTUS? McCain is 72… and has had cancer before.

The fact that she’s the VP nominee and is more qualified than Obama and Biden combined must mean nothing to you.

Dang… I was going to vote McCain too…. oh well now I am going to vote Obama…. he HAS to be better than her.

Yeah, right. Pull my other finger.

But we all know what would’ve happened had McCain rejected her because her daughter is pregnant, don’t we? The same sexists who’re saying Palin should stay at home with her Down’s child and pregnant daughter would be ridiculing McCain for rejecting her on those very grounds.

The hatred from the Left is disgusting. Palin isn’t a liberal feminist, so she must be destroyed.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:22 am 17. John:

Get real guys. This woman met McCain only twice and was subjected to only cursory vetting at best. He’s making the Republican party look like utter fools over this selection. Quite apart from destroying McCain’s most powerful claim on the public trust we now appear to be descending into Gerry Springer territory. Most of my staunchly Republican acquaintances who we had for lunch yesterday, admittedly mainly upper middle class business people, think this is a bad joke. This is a doozy.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:29 am 18. Rotwang:

NRA cheesecake and discount-store Hillary — John McCain knows what his party wants!

He also knew he couldn’t win with any of the conventional Veep choices. so he went for the “novelty” angle. I’m assuming Ted Nugent and Kinky Friedman turned him down before he settled for Sarah.

And there’s the campaign button: “I Settled for Sarah.”

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:31 am 19. Pope Linus:

“This woman met McCain only twice and was subjected to only cursory vetting at best.”

Based on what? Evidence please.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:35 am 20. Pope Linus:

MrTender, give us all a break. You’re an Obama troll. Just be honest about it and don’t try to convince us that you’re jumping ship for Obama.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:36 am 21. Rotwang:

Evil Pundit — Obviously, you haven’t Judy, NYC’s post right above yours.

Now THAT’s desperation.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:36 am 22. misanthropicus:

This devil Steve Schmidt! How cunningly did he manage this story to lure out from the liberals’ nature the ugliest and expose it, rank ugliness, nation-wide! And this done with almost no money!
Now 110 million voters sit on fences and watch this wild rodeo of baseness, hypocrisy and grossierty – if I were a Dem concerned by the November election, I wouldn’t be happy at all. At all.

Liberals are anyway a superstitious lot and generally assign as causes of their failures not their own foolishness, but mystery conspiracies – in this case, considering the self-destructive consequences of their idiotic Palin stampede, they’ll sure promote Schmidt ahead Carl Rove on their demons hierarchy after the November election (racism is already high on that list).

Oh, by the way! Did you hear that Sarah Palin’s hubby is a working-class guy? Ohmygod! Yuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk!!!!!!

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:37 am 23. PDS and a lot of BS from the left (Updated) « Republican Party of Jefferson County, TN:

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Sep 2, 2008 - 6:40 am 24. misanthropicus:

RE: MrTender: “Seriously… ask yourself… is she ready to be POTUS? [...]”

MrTender, seriously… ask y/self… is GLIBAMA ready to be POTUS?

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:41 am 25. thedailymccain:

John McCain mad a disastrous choice – he says so on his daily video blog found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIt7N63XhLY

Hilarious some of the justification for his choice.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:44 am 26. craig:

What evidence is there of a lack of vetting. There has been two specific issues that have come up and both were well known to the McCain administration. McCain’s camp also immediately realeased the last six years of Palin’s tax records as well as Palin and her husband’s legal records.

I am not an expert on vetting, but it seems to me that you do an interview with a long questionnaire and.

The only issue the dems have is that McCain picked a choice with some baggage. Since the baggage could blow up on their face they have tried to make it a vetting issue. This being politics it makes a certain sense, but is still quite dangerous, unless other issues come out. The Troopegate thing has been all over the papers and McCain interviewed Palin’s lawyer, and of course her daughter’s prgnnancy was kind’ve visibly obvious. (I had to admit when I first saw the picture I did a little doubletake.)

I guess the McCain has too many houses campaign is losing steam.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:46 am 27. dvd:

funny chappaquidick didnt keep kenedey out of the senate now did it, he was a principle in that case.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:46 am 28. jimmy 451:

I can not believe the republican party. This woman is running for VP and her family values are off the table!! It’s easy to be pro=life after you have fornicated. But, a true Christian conservative household would not of had children having unprotected sex!!! This is the issue, just one of many that call into question this womans’ vetting (which tell you how McCain will govern). Now I find that she was a member of A.I.P. and they are calling for the succession of Alaska from the US!!! And this is OK with the I LOVE AMERICA, flag pin wearing, two faced republicans!! The truth is the light and the more you try to hide the light. The more it wants to shine!

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:52 am 29. Spartan 117:

To date, there is not one single GOP official in Alaska that can recall being asked about Governor Palin.

Google searches and one interview by Culverhouse is a “thorough vetting”? Especially for a woman McCain met with exactly once before offering the job? You don’t actually go and talk to the people she worked with during the course of her political career?

Then again, if you did that, someone might figure out what’s going on, alert the media, and then you don’t get the “shock the world” moment you think you need to upstage Obama’s speech. Secrecy took precedence over actually getting the job done right.

This isn’t about Palin. It’s about the judgement used in her selection.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:52 am 30. Herb:

Sorry, guys, this isn’t about the media. This is about McCain going with a risky pick that no one really knows. And you can’t defend the incompetence of the pick by pointing out the incompetence of their PR campaign. The McCain campaign should be introducing Palin to America, not the media. It seems the McCain campaign, as they said in Black Hawk Down, has lost the initiative.

Now it’s back to complaining about the NY Times and the Huffington Post. That’s just not going to cut it, folks.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:56 am 31. ralph skelley:

My first reaction to Palin as the VP nominee was that Mccain was using her to steal votes from Hillary supporters. I could not have been less interested in the woman. But last night in front of the TV, my wife stated, “She looks like a porn star”! I began to look at Sarah with renewed interest.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:08 am 32. jay:

In our church if a young lady was pregnant out of wedlock we would tell her that sex outside of marriage is a sin and she should repent. After she asked for forgiveness, from GOD not us, she would be accepted in the church as though nothing had happened as the Apostle Paul instructed. Of course there would be hypocrites but there is everywhere, just look to the left. She would have been praised for keeping the child and helped during the birth. We would talk about marriage if it was a good option, sometimes it wouldn’t be, and we would talk of adoption as well as keeping the child. Either way we have learned that being pro-life is more than being pro-life. We must help the mother and of course the father must keep his responsibilities. Most Christian religions have learned from the past mistakes. We learned that chastisement of the young mother does no one any good. You hypocrites out there that want to beat us over the head with our Bible should instead practice what YOU preach. Tolerance is a two way street. People aren’t perfect neither is the way we practice our religions but true people of faith try to learn from the past.
Now Senator Obama did and said the right thing to his credit but I still will not be voting for him because I think socialism does not work especially for a country this size. As far as Governor Palin’s daughter goes I will not throw stones. While we’re at just because someone is pro-life and believes in abstinence before marriage does not mean we or our children don’t make mistakes. God knows that and by his Grace he has given us forgiveness. Was Governor Palin a good choice? History will tell. As far as some of the digesting things I’ve read on the blogs GET A JOB. Now my work is getting ready to start and I consider this subject closed.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:25 am 33. ex-democrat:

keep it up, obama trolls. the large, silent section of the american electorate that will decide the election is watching and observing your disgusting mendacity and will reward it with their scorn on November 4.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:35 am 34. Jvarden:

Sarah Palin is an awesome person! The left is worried, very worried – they have every reason to be.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:37 am 35. BC:

Well, according to an AP interview of Arthur Culvahouse, one of the “vetters” involved:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrhFOsVwX9jtDyUhy3zKCBVms8tgD92UI8D81

“For Palin specifically, the team studied online archives of the state’s largest newspapers, including the Anchorage Daily News, but didn’t request paper archives for Palin’s hometown newspaper. ‘I made the decision that we could not get it done and maintain secrecy,’ Culvahouse said.”

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:39 am 36. Saltherring:

The left was obviously not prepared for this, as their MSM dupes and lunatic bloggers unleash a flurry of misinformation and hate-filled releases.

Think for a moment what we’d know of Obama the Almighty’s criminal associations and questionable claims to U.S. citizenship had the media expended a fraction of the effort they have used to destroy Sarah Palin.

The leftists and their media are obviously running scared…and the NY Times stock, advertising revenue and credibility decline by yet another 20%.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:42 am 37. ic:

No one in the MSM knows.

She has been kicking butts in Alaska for over a decade. She makes enemies. She is researched to death by her enemies. Most of her enemies are in the GOP establishment. She was also investigated by independent counsels. Yes, she has been vetted, thoroughly, by Culvahouse’s GOP connections. The GOP up there may be so desperate to get rid of her, to destroy her, they would sacrfice the presidency to Obama. But, one never knows, they may just do that to preserve their own turf. Afterall, what good is sending politicians to Washington for if one can’t pocket a few dimes of earmarks. GOP establishment never likes McCain, they can kill two birds with one carfefully aimed stone.

It’s mostly true, politicians work for themselves. Republicans would rather feather their own nests with Dem’s spillover earmarks than no earmarks. Obama is one of them, Palin and McCain are not.

Sep 2, 2008 - 7:55 am 38. Joe C.:

Wasn’t properly vetted? Yet these same morons are outraged that Hillary Clinton – whose 16-year vetting has found her to be the most corrupt and hated female in the country – wasn’t chosen for VP! But Palin has a new baby and becoming a grandmother, but SHE is disqualified.

There wouldn’t be a Democrat Party if it weren’t for teen pregnancy – 70% of the Black vote. Here is a man and a woman doing the right thing – marriage – instead of killing the baby or the father abandoning them, which is the usual Democrat response. Yet in some paranoid caricature of Christians they are aghast that she isn’t burned at the stake.

To try and paint Sarah Palin as an unfit mother will backfire spectacularly! After all, it not like she raised their children in an anti-American, racist church or surrounded them with terrorists. Now that would be child abuse, punishable by the worst kind of social sanction, and certainly would disqualify one from the privilege of holding public office. But, that scenario is just too crazy. No one would be stupid enough to vote for a parent like that.

John Edwards is right, there is 2 Americas. The “America sucks, holier-than-thou” one that Dhimmis live in, and the there’s the other – Reality. The leftists have one defining characteristic: the absolute inability to recognize irony and hypocrisy in themselves, yet have the delusional talent of finding it where none exists.

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:01 am 39. Michael:

All this hystaria is hilarious!

If Obama had picked someone very like Palin as his running mate the Democrates would be peeing themselves with excitment.

The main point is that Gov. Palin is already more qualified to be president than Senator Obama. Man that has got to sting.

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:02 am 40. Fallon:

Governor Palin is a great choice for VP. She is no riskier than having Biden, McCain or Obama on the presidential tickets. None of them are umblemished and scandal-free. It is just crazy talk to discount her. Nothing that has come out about her that is any worse than what we know about the other three already.

She has more executive experience than anyone else on either ticket. She is tough, intelligent and human. No one is perfect. I’m not. I don’t agree with Governor Palin on everything but I do relate to her family issues and feel she understands better what it is like to be part of 51-52% of the population than the others.

The MSM is just in a snit because she is such a unique and wonderful choice for VP. I wouldn’t be voting for McCain if he had picked Romney or one of the also-rans.

Obama continues to be given a pass by the MSM on *his* vetting or lack thereof. He has huge glossed-over holes in his resume and no one questions how many times he has lied about his relationships with questionable characters. He simply denies the relationship and the MSM moves on. It is unbelievably transparent that they back Obama.

Those of you who dismis Governor Palin for being attractive, a mom or a woman are really selling her short. Look up the Alaskan gubernatorial debates. You will be impressed. She will be a knowledgeable and dynamic VP. I can’t wait to see her sworn in!

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:06 am 41. Neo:

On the other side of the isle …

“lunch-bucket Democrat.”

It’s true that when members of Congress release their assets and incomes, Mr. Biden famously ranks near the bottom of the pile. But let’s remember that we’re talking about a pretty privileged pile. Only in a place as removed from reality as the Beltway could a man who has spent more than three decades in the United States Senate be hailed as a working-class stiff.

Shades of Eagleton ? …

The spokesman, Peter Esker, said Senator Biden was awake, resting comfortably and talking with his family after the [May 4, 1988] operation, his second this year to correct an aneurysm. An aneurysm is a ballooning of an artery.
The 4 1/2-hour procedure was similar to that performed Feb. 12 on the left side of Mr. Biden’s brain. Under the procedure, a surgeon using a microscope pinches the aneurysm with a clip, bringing the walls of the artery together. The clip remains in the patient.

A continuation of the Cheney Vice-Presidency ? …

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.

Chip off the old block …

A son and a brother of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, court records show.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate’s son Hunter, 38, and brother James, 59, assert instead that their former partner defrauded them by misrepresenting his experience in the hedge fund industry and recommending that they hire a lawyer with felony convictions.

This last one may explain why Obama is against going after the kids/family members.

But I have to ask did anybody vet this guy ?

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:31 am 42. M Payne:

I have no problem with a woman being Vice President, I have no problem with a woman being President. God knows the men have surely screwed up things.

In reality, we have no choice for President. It doesn’t matter who’s elected things will remain the same for the most part. The only change we can expect is for things to get worse.

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:32 am 43. mbabbitt:

Don’t you love the poseurs who claim they were going to vote for McCain before he chose Palin but now they have to vote for Obama. Now that is having deep convictions!

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:47 am 44. BackwardsBoy:

We’re starting to see a concerted effort from The Vapid One’s camp to dig up any and all dirt against a wonderful woman and her family. This includes a $5K bounty from MoveOn (see Michelle Malkin’s site) and all the trolls that suddenly showed up here and elsewhere on conservative sites.
These are acts of desperation and contempt from those who cannot win on the issues. Y’all keep it up. We’ll still win.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:01 am 45. iconoclast:

Get real guys. This woman met McCain only twice and was subjected to only cursory vetting at best. He’s making the Republican party look like utter fools over this selection. Quite apart from destroying McCain’s most powerful claim on the public trust we now appear to be descending into Gerry Springer territory. Most of my staunchly Republican acquaintances who we had for lunch yesterday, admittedly mainly upper middle class business people, think this is a bad joke. This is a doozy.

“staunchly Republican” indee. Just hate the idea of an actual reformer and two candidates able to work across the aisle….

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:05 am 46. CR:

Hahaha – I can see the Dems saying, “We can’t deal with Palin so let’s deflect by saying McCain didn’t vet her!”. Really, that’s the best they can come up with? AND they have to lie about it too!

Dems need something in their diet besides sour grapes.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:13 am 47. ic:

MSM Beltway: A polished Harvard educated elit vs a big hair “porn queen” Idaho bible thumping pregnant teenage daughter “trailer trash”.

The disdain is palpable.

The only problem is we have many more “trailer trash” than Harvard elits in the country. Voters are more concerned with their own problems than the problems expounded by the Citizen-of-the-World.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:13 am 48. tanstaafl:

Vote For This Girl !

(this is an unpaid political announcement )

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:16 am 49. Sandy Salt:

Palin is a wonderful choice from the standpoint that the left hates her. If the left didn’t hate her then I would be worried. My grandfather will be voting for a republican for the first time in his life because he does not trust Obama. I am not happy with the available choices, but McCain has had my vote for some time and his VP choice was inspired. The Democrats can keep their anti=American empty suit because for me and my family we are voting for two American Heroes.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:31 am 50. Joe C.:

Ahh… the new Obamaniac’s meme arises: “They only met once (or twice)!” And like all the other wild haymakers thrown by the leftists, America will say, “So what?”

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:34 am 51. Chris Reid:

It seems ludicrous at best to think that McCain’s team did an adequate job vetting Palin for VP at any level – background, experience, qualifications, etc. This appears to be a train wreck in the making.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:37 am 52. Foul & Vile & Ignorant on Palin | The Anchoress:

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Sep 2, 2008 - 9:38 am 53. tanstaafl:

That link doesn’t appear to be working.

Try this one Sarah Holding Shrimp

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:44 am 54. Pajamas Media: ‘McCain Didn’t Vet Palin’ Meme Has Serious Holes | The GOPNation Blog:

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Sep 2, 2008 - 9:47 am 55. goy:

- Mr. Stein has a bit of explaining to do.

Right. But the fact is that he won’t.

Ever.

Neither will people like Bumiller, Liz Sidoti (AP) or any of the other professional prevaricators and leftist water-carriers who hide behind the “absent malice” façade.

And the proof of this is that half the country still thinks “Bush Lied”, when Joe Wilson IV is actually the documented liar and fraud. Half the country – likely more – think Libby was convicted of “outing” Valerie Plame. Half the country (at least) still thinks the only reason for ousting Saddam was WMDs. Most of the country think the President was chuckling over a mint julep while people were drowning in the N.O. Superdome.

And the reason for all this is that the Republican leadership has ceased to lead. As fine a job as he’s done in most (certainly not all) other areas, this problem starts with the President, who’s been a complete no-show when it comes to public relations.

Although it was from the limited forum of the White House Press Conference, only Tony Snow ever came close to publicly calling the self-righteous, narcissistic media on their outright lies. And if we’re honest – despite the weasel-worded, plausible deniability mechanism used by these blatant propagandists – this “didn’t vet” meme is nothing less than an unsubstantiated lie, not just an otherwise harmless news item with “serious holes”.

So can we please quit kidding ourselves with all this feigned indignity over some useful idiot’s cleverly chosen, poison prose?? Because that’s part of the problem here. Outside people like Tony Snow, this administration and the RNC has done nothing but roll its eyes at each new iteration of the “Bush=Evil” mantra – of which Stein’s deceit is just an extension – instead of actively responding both publicly (loudly) and legally (through litigation).

This problem is precisely analogous to how the Clinton administration allowed Islamist Terrorism to grow into a force capable of 9/11: through the willful blindness of pretending that Islamist Terrorists were “international criminals” instead of the enemy combatants we know them to be and pretending their murderous acts were tantamount to “hate crimes” instead of the acts of war we have since endured.

Only now it’s the Right doing the pretending.

We want to think of them as simple “shills”, but it’s now a plain, undeniable fact that the MSM is no longer simply a quaintly biased but otherwise objective watchdog in this process that is determining the future of our country. Collectively, the MSM’s overwhelmingly Democrat-registered ownership, management and staff are now an integral, active element of the Democrat Party, caught up in the same narcissistic, revenge-seeking holy war they’ve been waging since Al Gore failed to carry his own home state in the 2000 Election. And in this war the end (e.g., rationalized lies) justifies any means. They are now the Fifth Column and need to be dealt with as such.

But we haven’t, and we won’t. And that’s how we’ll get sucked into the same 70 year nightmare the Russian people endured, and others are now enduring.

So yeah, let’s all just sit around waiting for schmucks like Stein and ilk to do their ‘explaining’ and offer their ‘apologies’. Which – as history has proved – few will ever hear if/when they’re forthcoming.

And while we’re waiting, if someone wouldn’t mind passing the marshmallows…

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:01 am 56. surf66:

the ship of state has sailed….Obama’s trolls are fastidiously sweeping the dock…on each broom handle is the name of those who, in the name of ‘change’ can niether move forward; nor devine the source of the storm in their port.
Never underestimate a woman.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:05 am 57. cedarford:

Spartan 117:

To date, there is not one single GOP official in Alaska that can recall being asked about Governor Palin.

Google searches and one interview by Culverhouse is a “thorough vetting”? Especially for a woman McCain met with exactly once before offering the job? You don’t actually go and talk to the people she worked with during the course of her political career?

Then again, if you did that, someone might figure out what’s going on, alert the media, and then you don’t get the “shock the world” moment you think you need to upstage Obama’s speech. Secrecy took precedence over actually getting the job done right.

This isn’t about Palin. It’s about the judgement used in her selection.

Great post. It avoids the partisan hackery of the Left and Right which goes between Palin as an immoral, inexperienced cretin to the ones that say she is a female Goddess of near-omnipotent Presidential capacity.

Both Parties sometimes vet so badly that you wonder if they have ever had an executive search consultant ever included on their teams of hack lawyers doing the “investigating”. Republicans also have a bad tendency to blow off trouble spots if they get all enthusatic about a “brilluant tactical move”. As when they parachuted the deranged Alan Keyes into Illinois from Maryland to run against Obama because he was black, conservative, square with Jesus and a surefire winner…Or Harriet Miers.

1. Spartans observation that no top Alaskan GOP Party leader was consulted that is saying so, is troubling.

2. One sign the vetting wasn’t thorough was how McCain came out and said on what his people told him about Palin, she was the courageous hunter-momma that was the maverick in opposing the “Bridge to Nowhere” – when it turns out she WANTED that bridge and fought for it and only when it became a national stink did she change to “no bridge, but we demand to keep the money anyways”.
And it turns out she travelled to DC as mayor of Wasilia and was trotted around by Young and Ted Stevens to use her photogenic self to pitch for other Alaskan earmarks.

3. McCain appeared to make his selection based on what his “inner circle” advisors said and a 15-minute conversation back in February, the only one he had with Palin before basically selecting her and flying her into Arizona for a staffer “finish-up interview” then the McCain “job offer interview”.

4. Revelation that Cindy McCain was a principal in the VP selection “inner circle” is a bit worrying. If she is going to be a traditional Laura Bush type and uninvolved, then she doesn’t get herself into heavy scrutiny. If she wants to be Hillary-like or be like “Senior Policy Advisor” Michelle Obama with a position, staff, and reporting staff – then she has to be ready for her life to be opened up.

5. It does sound like “security for keeping the Grand Surprise intact” did seriously affect the depth of research the McCain VP vetting team did, and possibly set up a situation where they didn’t do the job right. Afraid to find out anything Palin did or said as mayor or city council member from her local newspaper records because looking would alert reporters and “people would then know we were looking at her”????????
But her name was already floating about as certain Republicans eager to play identity politics were screaming for their favorite black or female Republican.
Not afraid to be known to be looking at Pawlentey’s high school days, but too wary of the “briliance of the Palin surprise” that they didn’t check her days as mayor??

6. I don’t want Obama, but in his life, McCain has done many stupid things. Or reckless and impulsive things. Always pulling out his “I suffered as a POW and I’m a patriot!” card – which generally works in the Republican ranks led to think that all military and uniformed government security workers are all to be worshipped unquestioningly as “heroes”.

Or backstabbed other Republicans who thought they had a committment from McCain only to see him and amigo Lindsay Graham hugging Schumer or Teddy or Joe Lieberman announcing a “bold bipartisan 3rd way”. And when confronted, McCain has very often had no logical explaination to justify getting in bed with Democrats on an issue other than “it was a gut call”.

Well, Palin is his call, his judgment. And while I don’t think Palin is damaged goods, if there are 4-5 more items of undisclosed (or unknown to McCain) Palin baggage that come out – it is all on McCain’s judgment and executive management abilities.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:24 am 58. goy:

edit: sorry, the ‘rationalized lies’ above should have referenced the means, not the end.

I think we’re all painfully aware of what end these people are seeking.

carry on.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:44 am 59. Red Blooded American:

Here we go again. The Sarah Palin sideshow attracting more attention than substantive issues. The main question here being, is this part of a plan? You can’t expect the opposition not to attack, that’s their job.

At a more nuanced strategic level the commander makes moves fully anticipating the opposition’s response. Surely John McCain as a wily military veteran is no exception to this. The MSM has called the choice of Palin “high risk, high reward.” That seems about right. There is the perception out there however that McCain shoots from the hip, which endears him to many, but raises some warning signs for others.

Boring discussions of policy rarely motivate the mass of voters. Impassioned shouting about emotionally charged issues does. “Terrorism!” “Gay Marriage!” “Scandal!” “Sex!!!”

The American People in their infinite wisdom face a decision. All the sex, scandal and pregnancy hoopla aside, I hope there are more reasonable Americans out there than there are nut jobs on the extremes of the left and the right. regardless of which candidate ultimately wins, we the American People need a good clean outcome to this election, and emphatically not some scandal and sex-laden divisive razor-thin and controversial outcome that will drive further polarization.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:48 am 60. mta:

As a somewhat insider in the Alaska GOP. I say somewhat because I would like to get the head of the Alaska Party ousted, I will tell you that Palin does not have a good relationship with many of the GOP establishment. It’s no wonder none of them were consulted.

These people are holdovers from the CBC/VECO, (I won’t explain it), days and Palin would like them to go.

So any of them would have given her a bad rap. This is part of the reform she is in the process of achieving up here.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:57 am 61. nobozons:

who vetted bo? Certainly the press hasn’t, there are now accusations that he is or was a communist. BO didn’t tell us that he is a bastard, denies that he had significant interactions with Ayers, etc. BO lies constantly and the press says nothing. As for vetting Palin, they attack her children. Talk about a double standard.

Sep 2, 2008 - 10:57 am 62. Joshua:

To all the delusional liberal socialists: Nice job vetting Obambi! Your dogma has been run over by your karma! LOL!!!!

Here is the only question that needs to be asked to all candidates: How does a city or state government do business, specifically, from A-Z?

Barack – Well, uhmm ahh ahh, I’m glad you asked that, uhmm…….. since uhmmm…. ahhh my answer has been very consistent on this point, uhmm uhmm…. ahh I’ll gladly take you through the uhmmm ahh….. constitutional uhhm ahhh since I am a constitutional scholar ahhhh…. the President of the United States is the most important job in the ahhh ummm….

Gov. Palin – Well let me tell you how I ran my city and state!

Maybe I should wait for the vetting to be completed on all candidates, but it seems to me that of Barack, Joe, John & Sarah, only Sarah has run a city and state. Can someone correct me on this if I’m wrong? Am I just a mindless conservative blinded by my own delusions of grandeur or am I right. I’m so confused right now about who has been an executive and who hasn’t. Maybe I should turn on CNN or MSNBC for the real truth.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:05 am 63. Ike:

Vetted “properly” – whatever that is supposed to mean – or not, Governor Palin will bring more votes to Senator McCain. “Experienced enough to to President” or not, she will bring in the votes in large and significant numbers. Why? She seems – never met her, don’t know enough to say if she is or not – but she appears to be a regular person, not a professional politico nor a shrieking feminist. This by itself will get everyday, ordinary, regular people of every race, ethnicity, sex, and home state voting for her. There are a lot more of us than there are of professional politicians and their flunkies — erm — professional staffers, from either party. A lot more of us than there are of academics enamoured of socialism and various other radicial idiocies. A lot more of us than there are of Democrats and sundry other “progressives”. Remember the “Dewey Beats Truman” headline? Produced by calling up folks who were just like the newspaper’s owners and editors, not by calling up the folks who went out and voted for Truman. Same song, different verse, this time. She isn’t a lifelong professional politician and she isn’t going to become one until after the election, if ever. So, we might expect her to do or attempt to do sensible decent things that we might do if we were in office. My, what a nice change that would be, wouldn’t it? That’s why regular folks will vote for her, despite all of the carping and nitpicking. She’s like us and like our spouses. Regular Americans who like living here and who love, among other things, our country. Suck it up, ’cause that’s how it is.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:09 am 64. goy:

- There is the perception out there however that McCain shoots from the hip…

I think that’s exactly the perception McCain wants to convey.

Just like the mistakes one makes when one thinks one’s opponent is “stupid”, an opponent’s appearance of random shooting from the hip can cause the same sort of carelessness.

And it’s a believable maneuver because it seems to have been his way in the past. But this McCain is different from, say, the 2000 vintage.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:12 am 65. Donna:

Look, we political junkies can (and will) continue to scream at each other on blogs. The people who will decide this election are not political junkies and are not sitting around thinking about the wonderfulness of either Obama or Palin all day.

The initial response to Palin was positive – but people don’t know who she is and are wary of entrusting the VP slot to an unknown. She will have to make the sale over the next 2 months.

If she does a good job on Weds. and in the debates, and convinces people she’s worthy of the slot, McCain’s gamble will look like genius. If she stumbles, then Obama is a shoo-in.

But we just don’t know at this point. Either way. I’m rooting for her.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:22 am 66. tanstaafl:

We want to think of them as simple “shills”, but it’s now a plain, undeniable fact that the MSM is no longer simply a quaintly biased but otherwise objective watchdog in this process that is determining the future of our country.

Barack’s Unbelievably dumb remarks from last night

Obama blithely pretends that she’s still the mayor of “Wasilly” in order to boost himself.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:28 am 67. judithod:

Why aren’t the Democrats and the MSM vetting Obama as thoroughly as they’re vetting Palin and her daughter? Are they afraid to discover that their candidate may have “clay feet” in regard to his relationships with Rezko and Ayers? Or is it more politically correct to investigate a white woman than a biracial man? As I recall, Hillary was given the same kind of treatment to which Palin is now being submitted.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:36 am 68. barrybarryquitecontrary.com:

Joe C – “There wouldn’t be a Democrat Party if it weren’t for teen pregnancy,”

That my friend is the most profound truth I’ve heard in all the discussions on PJM in the past 12 months!

That needs to be a McCain/Palin print and broadcast ad tomorrow!

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:37 am 69. AlaskanVoice:

Re: Palin “popularity” in AK

It’s easy to be a popular governor in Alaska.

Let me cut $1200 checks for each constituent from budget surplus, and you bet I would be popular, regardless of anything else I accomplish (or not).

McCain
Palin’
(in comparison)

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:42 am 70. tanstaafl:

“There wouldn’t be a Democrat Party if it weren’t for teen pregnancy.”

Gulp

There wouldn’t be a Barry Obama either.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:43 am 71. Jim,MtnViewCA,USA:

On vetting:
http://obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/9-lawsuit-questions-obamas-eligibility-for-office-citenship-claim-at-issue

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:47 am 72. HRPKathy:

The WSJ has this quote of Mark Swanson:

I think we can all agree that Palin’s pick of an experienced statesman like John McCain to head her ticket shows that she is much better prepared to be VP than Biden who is trying to thrust an unqualified youngster who was a do-nothing state legislator before being elected to the Senate where he put in a few months of attendance before going AWOL to run for president.

Hilarious, and oh so true. Vetting – is that the new term for mudslinging with irrelevancies while ignoring the Ayers/Alinsky/Wright/Rezko/Annenberg elephants in the room? The media is ‘vetting’ Palin. Uh huh.

The latest is that Obama is saying that managing the budget and running his presidential campaign for the last two years is more executive experience than running a puny state like Alaska. BWAHAHAHA. Wow, just wow. This man wants to be president? He needs to go somewhere and write another autobiography so he can call himself a ‘researcher’.

Sep 2, 2008 - 11:59 am 73. Donna632:

McCain was never a Mayor or Governor either. George Bush was and see how well it’s helped him. Only in via republicans would a man with a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Columbia University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, 10 years as a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, 12 years in politics, four years on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and manager of one of the most impressively flawless and forward thinking presidential campaigns ever not be ready for the presidency while an evangelical with 19 months in politics and a bachelors in journalism is considered “ready on day one”. Turns out she has LOVED earmarks too. She delivered a speech a few months a go to an Alaskan successionist group – motto ”damn America”. Oh – and her pastor is a nut too. The ‘reformer’ spin is nonsense. Lieverman or Ridge would have been awesome – but they were nor pro-choice.

Sep 2, 2008 - 12:56 pm 74. barrybarryquitecontrary.com:

jay – “Either way we have learned that being pro-life is more than being pro-life. We must help the mother and of course the father must keep his responsibilities. Most Christian religions have learned from the past mistakes.”

Your attempt at Christian-eze is pathetic. The only people buying your troll post are your liberal socialist troll friends. I’ll bet you thought you were real clever, since your parents took you to church on Easter & Christmas, you could pose as a compassionate person of faith. The joke is on you and all the angels in heaven are laughing their ascensions off.

Nice try! Your post is just proof how intellectully handicapped the left really is. Your minimally disguised hate is another pathetic illustration that the truth plays no role in what liberal socialists say. You’ll say anything you want, any time you want and with complete disregard for truth, logic and reason. The 1st Amendment has enabled a segment of American society to scale the mountain of stupidity and leap from the cliffs of insanity into the depths circular reasoning and logical fallacy while dragging their half-wit friends and family with them.

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:00 pm 75. Morgo:

Tomorrow night Sarah Palin speaks. After that the people in SF and NY will cry and wonder why. So predictable.

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:05 pm 76. avoidswork:

While I believe that Palin will be seen as a less than stellar choice by McCain, the responsibility of the decision lies solely in his hands. His judgement is in questions.

It is even worse when you consider that another one of those involved in the 2000 Bush Smears McCain saga has now been hired by the McCain campaign. Tucker Eskew.

Here is a 2004 interview with McCain (http://www.dadmag.com/archive/060400jmccain.php)

Dadmag: During your campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination Bridget became something of an issue in South Carolina didn’t she?

McCain: Yeah. There were some pretty vile and hurtful things said during the South Carolina primary. It’s a really nasty side of politics. We tried to ignore it and I think we shielded her from it. It’s just unfortunate that that sort of thing still exists As you know she’s Bengali, and very dark skinned. A lot of phone calls were made by people who said we should be very ashamed about her, about the color of her skin. Thousands and thousands of calls from people to voters saying “You know the McCains have a black baby” I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those.

I guess in 2008, “hell” is now a place on McCain’s campaign…

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:28 pm 77. Rubicon:

I am astonished that so many have ventured here to disparage Governor Palin, yet they defend the associations of Barack Obama & terrorist Bill Ayers, who “didn’t do enough” bombing according to his own words.
A pregnant daughter has happened to millions of American families. They dealt with it as the Palin’s will. Those same families need to know the opposition want us to discard another over this, so they can think how they too would have been discarded by these same people. Do you really want to vote for a party led by people who discard others? Doing so over a relationship with a terrorist, a radical religious who screams “G D America,” & whose home was acquired by a deal with a convict, now that makes sense, but not over a pregnancy.
As for New Orleans… think about it folks. How many minorities who work for FEMA do you think were willing to to stand by & say, “lets stick it to the blacks in New Orleans?” The cities population was majority black. Of course they were most affected, they were there & they gambled the hurricane would not be as bad as it was. They lost, they cried, & everyone tried to lay blame on all but themselves for not leaving when they had the chances. The infamous “Brownie” has been vindicated by the multitude of memo’s, phone call records, & other communications w/ the LA Governor, who failed to allow the feds to step in & take over to solve the problems. She actually had Fed equipment wait until she told them they could/should go in. Those stalls, cost the time needed to render real help. It was not Brownie, it was the former Democrat Governor who failed & the existing Democrat Mayor. This time around, Mayor Nagin was told by Republican Gov. Jindal, cooperate or we will issue a state order to take over!
The facts are, Palin has more executive experience than Obama & she is “HOT”!

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:44 pm 78. Charlie (Colorado):

1. Spartans observation that no top Alaskan GOP Party leader was consulted that is saying so, is troubling.

Uh, wouldn’t those be the same guys Palin kicked out of the statehouse and sent to jail?

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:45 pm 79. Robert Hurley:

No matter how you spin it, she is not the most qualified candidate he could have picked. Wouldn’t you want to have him pick the most qualified. Actually it is great to see the right wing on the grill about this pick. You have no one to blame but your candidate

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:47 pm 80. Bullfrog:

AlaskanVoice: That didn’t work so well with Bush, did it? I don’t think her popularity can be attributed to giving people checks.

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:55 pm 81. Bullfrog:

I find it a bit disingenuous that the Left are getting all righteously indignant about McCain doing what was partly politically expedient.

Not to mention, it is working…

Sep 2, 2008 - 1:56 pm 82. avoidswork:

Bullfrog — this is not just about winning a “contest”…this is about being the next leader (and team) of the United States…

At present, how can we say that we have seen McCain bring “good people” to the table? Lobbyists? Karl Rove? Tucker Eskew? KR Protege Steve Schmidt? Turnover within his campaign? And now a VP pick who has the punditry spinning that living in Alaska = foreign policy experience b/c it borders Russia… Or that she has leading the National Guard experience (except governors usually don’t, just ask Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard)? Troopergate?

Again, I think this is more about McCain’s judgment and lack of respect for the American people than what Sarah Palin brings to the table. Seriously, just ask her own mother-in-law about what she brings to the table.

A “maverick” would have given a one-finger salute to his talking heads and chosen the person he thinks is best qualified to be his PotUS co-pilot.

Instead, he elected a person that speaks to the party base and that he barely interacted with.

Sep 2, 2008 - 2:13 pm 83. Donna:

Donna626:

Where does it say in the Constitution that one must be an Ivy school grad or a lawyer to become president? What prestigious school did the creator of the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson, go to? What about Lincoln? LBJ? Harry Truman, a haberdasher from Missouri, took over the reins of government at a very critical moment and did a very good job of it. Liberals sneered at another candidate who attended a no-name school – Ronald Reagan. (Of course, Dems don’t like Reagan, but we on the right have a slightly higher opinion of the man:-)

It was Robert MacNamara and Harvard’s “Best and Brightest” who fouled up the Vietnam War so badly.

Sorry, I’ve known too many highly educated fools with no common sense whatsoever. That liberals don’t recognize that is just one sign of how yuppified and elitist the Party of Jackson has become. Truman wouldn’t recognize it these days.

Sep 2, 2008 - 2:22 pm 84. Palin Vetted; Obama Remains Unvetted : NO QUARTER:

[...] it was reported in May that McCain’s people were interviewing Palin for the number two job. Tom Blumer, in today’s Pajamasmedia, writes: Two major elements of the developing meme that John McCain [...]

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:04 pm 85. a friend:

john mccain is a raciest and all the people that support him
from the start of this campaign john mccain has label barack obama not experience enough to be president
this is his evaluation of barack obama because of the number of years of his service for the country
this is well within his rights to evaluate barack obama for a very important job

this same job should still have the same evaluation for anyone that will hold this position

yet john mccain wants the world to know that it is ok for a white woman that’s a hockey mom to be president of the USA
with no service to the country and only serving about 6,000 people of wasilla, alaska before becoming governor of alaska

is it a problem because she is white? answer —- NO
is it a problem because she is a woman? answer —- NO

what i have a problem with——–, there is this great black leader that most of the rich have stated is ready to lead this nation
most of the educated have stated that he is ready to lead this country and john mccain himself can’t find
anything negative about barack obama but the fact that this black man has no experience to lead with
(now we do know that he never uses the word black——— he would get in trouble for that)

and john mccain says that a white woman who is a heck of a hockey mom is ready to lead this nation
(now we do know that he never uses the word white——— he would get in trouble for that)
everything about that is racial

he would have been better off going to hillary clinton and begging her to join his team
hillary clinton has laid down a foundation that gives her every right to seek the job of the presidency
hillary clinton has held the job of mrs. president for 8 years and has done work in the white house

now a soccer or hockey mom is suppose to come in and break through the glass ceiling with hockey
mom of the year award
women of this great nation should be ashamed that someone would jump on hillary clinton ban wagon
after all the work that she put into getting to that position to apply for the job
i have never heard hillary clinton say i am a woman so give me the presidency because i am a woman
she wanted to be president to further her work that she was doing for the whole nation
now we have a hockey mom that says she can start work tomorrow in congress with no warm up exercise

as nation we have to pick our president through a process called an election
we look at many things to make this decision —– experience, how the world will see this leader; how this leader sees his fellow man, his temper, can he or she talk to others and get a job done, what plan does this leader have to make the country better-stronger-safer, can this person talk to other nation and give the presence of a strong nation to be reckon with

the president then picks a president in case of a problem that occurs while in office

barack obama picked joe biden who should have been president a few times already and to talk about his experience is more than i care to write

john mccain picked sarah palin from what i have heard of her she is a great hockey or soccer mom
how does this make her ready for the biggest job in the world

hockey or soccer mom talks to prime minister castro ruz of cuba for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to prime minister vladimir putin of russia for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to president Dmitry medvedev of russia for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to president hu jintao of china for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to president lee myung-bak of south korea for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to president hamid karzai of afghanistan for world piece

hockey or soccer mom talks to queen elizabeth II of great britain for world piece

no one wish john mccain any bad news but let us be honest about his health he is one step away from being put in a home for the elderly

and a hockey or soccer mom will be leading this country and trying to restore what president bush has done to our country for the last eight years

if you do not like barack obama because of the color of his skin please have the guts to say that
do not continue to mislead people with bad information about him to discredit him or his work or the
work that he plans to do with the help of joe biden and the people of this nation
people should have true information so that they can make the best decision
a lot of you will not be voting for him because of his skin and that is your choice to make
others are not voting for him because of the bad information that you are circulating about him

let the truth be told and the best man win

MAY GOD BLES YOU

AND MAY GOD AND TRUTH BLESS AMERICA

not a writer so forgive me of all the mistakes
do not like switching between caps and lower case either

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:17 pm 86. Palin Vetted; Obama Remains Unvetted « Bud White’s World:

[...] it was reported in May that McCain’s people were interviewing Palin for the number two job. Tom Blumer, in today’s Pajamasmedia, writes: Two major elements of the developing meme that John McCain [...]

Sep 2, 2008 - 4:56 pm 87. tanstaafl:

…john mccain is a raciest and all the people that support him…

An idiotlogue who can’t even spell “racist”…?

world piece

We’re working with an Islamist dumbfork here ?

Beam me up, Scottie.

Sep 2, 2008 - 6:50 pm 88. Judy, NYC:

tanstaffl: i thought raciest meant the poster thinks mccain is a sexy guy. who knew? the spelling error is likely to come from repeating the word racist incessantly and typing it into posts a thousand million times about everyone on the planet.

Sep 2, 2008 - 8:36 pm 89. CalDem:

a friend – I appreciate your passion. Even though you confess you’re not a writer, keep writing anyway.

The color of Barack Obama’s skin matters the most to black people. Barack Obama’s nomination is indeed historical. Therefore the color of his skin should matter and does matter to blacks. The problem I have with Barack Obama has nothing to do with his skin color. My parents were Reagan Democrats and I’m a moderate Democrat.

There is an old saying, “behavior predicts” past behavior predicts future behavior. Barack Obama’s past behavior shows that there is nothing moderate about him. I believe that my vote for President of the United States should go to the person who will be President for all the people. Based on the little information we have on Barack he is the most liberal, the most partisan politician in the Senate.

Maybe I can vote for Barack Obama in 4 years but it won’t be because he is black or white (he happens to be both). I’ll be voting for John McCain in November even though I don’t agree with everything he stands for either. I think McCain is the smart choice for America. It’s not a black and white issue. It’s an American issue.

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:34 pm 90. a friend:

sorry for words that are wrong racist and peace there could be more
but i know you get what i am saying

why do i have to be an islamist because i do not like what is going on in my country

yes my country i was born here i am an american

Sep 2, 2008 - 9:34 pm 91. Radtop:

Palin was vetted by McCain far more than Obama has been vetted by the Democrat Party. Obama is a pig in a poke compared to Palin.

Sep 3, 2008 - 12:30 am 92. LoanneinTX:

Ok…so their kidding, right? I mean, I HAVE to be dreaming this whole thing with Sarah Palin because it’s just to over-the-top crazy to be real. I mean, really, can you believe the hypocritical nonsense that’s going on? What about the GOP family values they always tout? What about their whole abstinence thing? And what about the fact that her daughter is pregnant…AND A MINOR! And if you ask me, the GOP women are being sexist when they ask, can she be a mom and run the country. Hello…she has a HUSBAND. He can darn well pitch in and take over the mommy duties while she does her political responsibilities, whether that’s in Alaska or D.C. So hey! NON-ISSUE. And what about Rush Limbaugh’s statement, “We’re the one with the BABE on the ticket!” What, that’s not sexist? BABE? So hey, GOP better knock it off with the sexist remarks.

So what is the issue? OMG, there are so many! How about if the shoe was on the other foot and it was a DEM who was trying to pull this political stunt, it’d be completely shot down. But, you know, that’s the way it always goes with the GOP. I mean, they get away with murder! Literally. Their president can out and out lie to the US people about a war in Iraq…which is still costing the taxpayers billions to try to clean up, but they can impeach a DEM prez for lying about an extramarital affair. Last time I checked, the only thing that cost the taxpayers on that one WAS THE ACTUAL IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS THEMSELVES!

You know what? If John McCain gets away with this? There’s nothing redeemable left in the Republican Party. This is self-righteous hypocracy of the first order. I’m a Hillary Dem who’ll vote for Barack just because he’s the nominee. Any leaning I may have had towards voting for McCain just went out the window when he pulled this craziness. The nomination of Sarah Palin is a POLITICAL STUNT, not a viable equal to Hillary, and yes, she is riding on her coat-tails.

So. come on. You’re kidding, right?

Sep 3, 2008 - 1:18 am 93. Broadsword:

“They only met once (or twice)!” Maybe if the McCain campaign had said they spoke with her weekly in the pews for over twenty years…?

Of what value are the gripes about ‘vetting’ from someone who is opposed to McCain-Palin? Isn’t that like griping about the other side’s poor pitching and fielding?

Last this: ” Let me cut $1200 checks for each constituent from budget surplus…” This is also called giving people back their own money. Taking the people’s money and not giving back any surplus is called thievery.

Sep 3, 2008 - 4:14 am 94. cwm:

First there could be no announcement until after the DNC convention, that would be terrible. Are the baby haters on the left trying to establish a rule that the Republican VP should be vetted by the left before they are allowed on the ticket. It is time for the republican to start using the lefts hypocracy to their advantage. I want to know, I want medical exams as to how many time the Obama daughters have aborted children. How many time did Obama do Cocaine and crack. When was the last ime he did it? How can we verify that? How many abortions di dMichelle have and when? How long did Obama practice the Muslin faith? When did he quit?

Sep 3, 2008 - 5:54 am 95. Dan:

According to the NYT 7/1/08:

“…an F.B.I. official said Monday the bureau did not vet potential candidates and had not known of her selection until it was made public.”

Why not use the FBI for such an important choice?

Sep 3, 2008 - 6:02 am 96. Deborah:

Every time another person in Alaska (the Republican politicians, the people involved in various scandals like the fired Commissioner, the clerks in charge of paper only records) repeat “Gosh, this is such a surprise. No one asked us anything about her. No, you’re the first person to request these newspapers/minutes,” this attempt at “It was a full vetting–a full super secret vetting!” falls flatter.

Sep 3, 2008 - 6:23 am 97. Anonymous:

Dan:
“According to the NYT 7/1/08:”

That’s all that needs to be said.

Sep 3, 2008 - 6:58 am 98. jay:

Dan:
“According to the NYT 7/1/08:”

That’s all that needs to be said.

Sep 3, 2008 - 7:03 am 99. jay:

Sorry, I posted earlier without putting my name down. Some people need to remember that some of the republicans they didn’t question were her enemies, the corrupt ones she was fighting. As far as the so-call firing scandal goes he deserved to get fired this trooper was unfit to wear the uniform and the commissioner should have moved on him without any orders from Governor Palin to do so. As far as the clerks at the paper go, alls they hd to do was go online to research like I did. Now talk to us about vetting after someone, anyone, properly vets (and gets the missing records)Obama.

Sep 3, 2008 - 7:12 am 100. HRPKathy:

Give it up, trolls, nobody believes that she was not properly vetted. You can keep saying it but it doesn’t hold water.

This is one prong of a multi-faceted attack on Sarah Palin in order to punish a woman, a conservative woman, for stepping out of the kitchen. Her compelling story, her successes have been disrespected, and in the process many working mothers have been disrespected.

Going after Sarah Palin is going to be the first time in history a political party swiftboated itself. Americans are going to see character deficits alright, in those who choose to spread scurrilous rumors and lies, attack her motherhood, attack her children, make light of rural states and rural state governors, and ridiculing middle American values. The result will be a landslide victory for McCain.

Sep 3, 2008 - 7:38 am 101. raymond:

bla bla bla…say what you will…but she is not qualified and it is indignant on the part of the McCain campaign to suggest that by cramming it down on throats…”Alaska is the largest state in the union” (Fred Thompson) Are you kidding me?
Canada is larger than the U.S. according to the same standard…so they should lead the world more so no?

bla bla bla…spin and control…sounds like Bush is running.

Sep 3, 2008 - 8:17 am 102. raymond:

by the way…to the people above who attack others writing in this blog, instead of sticking with the points to be challenged, only weakens the impression that those who followed Bush (who, I believe only about 38% knew his platform, compared to something like 71% for Kerry) and follow McCain, are not reasonable, fair and looking for the truth, but are insulting, narrow-minded individuals. It is my intention the state that Obama is the most oportune candidate, as evidenced by the impression he left with world leaders…and by the way…IMPRESSIONS are everything (even those left by John McCain repeatedly having memory lapses.)

And I do not attack people…but like to warn America…do you really think The “CURRENT” republican party in power (you know the one taht 28% of people follow via Bush) is different than the “CURRENT” republican party attempting to provide impetus to McCain? For a party in shambles to rebuild it must first accept defeat, and accountability for its errors, then rebuild with a new group…they are not doing this America…but desparately trying to hold onto power. The only real way for John McCain to remain a maverick would be to state that, and then lose the election, as he would lose their backing (and the great debt he would owe them).

Thinks about it…these are the issues, not the irresponsible name calling of others attempting to make their points. We really do not need such minds voting do we? In light of the personal attacks on see above, it brings, to my mind, the need to have a voting system weighted on accurate political awareness of the candidates…and your % vote is based on your score, which is based on how “collective” you information really is!

Sep 3, 2008 - 8:32 am 103. bear:

It’s sad how quick yee posters are to jump to conclusions. Not my choice but let the lady speak. The critique from women tends to be the harshest, and the most baseless. Half the things I read in the papers these days are too poorly written (and ambiguous at best)to give them much credence.

Sep 3, 2008 - 8:56 am 104. bear:

Raymond…you say you don’t attack but in essence you are in attack mode. The most effective leaders are generally the most self effacing, and humble ‘put your people before yourself’ personalities.

Generally they don’t care about image just action. First impressions are a double edged sword. Those that relie on them tend to get cut.

Sep 3, 2008 - 9:21 am 105. marvin Magarian:

It’s obvious that the news media is in the tank for Obama. With the Sara Palin pick for VP, seems to have them worried so they are trying to discredit her in any way they can. Incidently, she has more executive experience than Obama.

Sep 3, 2008 - 10:11 am 106. Curt Johnson:

Why do so many of the comments by the pro-Obama/anti-Palin trolls read like those Nigerian scam emails? Is there some school of thought out there that bad spelling and weird grammar actually enhance one’s message?

Also, I’ve been reading dozens of blogs for the past day, and the troll’s comments all sound very similar in tone, wording, and typos; they all emphasize the same talking points and fall into the same few categories. Either a relatively few partisans are being awfully busy leaving comments or this is a rather astounding example of group think. I’ve noticed that Obama partisans do tend to sound like mindless drones, but this recent behavior seems a bit odd, even for them.

Sep 3, 2008 - 11:17 am 107. BizzyBlog:

[...] wanted to call extra attention to an open item at my Pajamas Media column yesterday (BizzyBlog tease is here) that has been confirmed, and for the sake of accuracy should be retracted [...]

Sep 3, 2008 - 11:56 am 108. Bubba Man:

Something most of you are overlooking is the “Bubba Factor”.

There are a whole lot more of us out here than you seem to realize.

And we like her.

We like her hunting and shooting.
We like her stance on the polar bears.
We like that she kept the baby despite the down’s syndrome (which is what my wife vowed she would do if the test had come back that way).
We like the way her daughter (and her man) is living up to the responsibility of their actions.
Do you realize there are some places around where young people don’t get married until they are sure they can make babies together?

In any case, this all indicates to the Bubbas something called character.
And that is something we have a regard for.

And those of us who bother to keep an eye on what you fine, educated people here in cyberspace say are rather enjoying watching you liberal types who gloat over how dumb us poor country boys are, are doing a fine job of shooting your own feet off.

Keep it up.

I’ve said my piece, I’ll shut it now.

Sep 3, 2008 - 12:03 pm 109. Herb:

“We like her hunting and shooting.
We like her stance on the polar bears.
We like that she kept the baby despite the down’s syndrome (which is what my wife vowed she would do if the test had come back that way).
We like the way her daughter (and her man) is living up to the responsibility of their actions.
Do you realize there are some places around where young people don’t get married until they are sure they can make babies together?”

That’s all good and great, but why does she deserve to be vice president again?

Sep 3, 2008 - 12:21 pm 110. Calanda-Technology.Com » Blog Archive » NYT and HuffPo Reporters Get Sloppy with ‘McCain Didn’t Vet’ Meme (See Update):

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Sep 3, 2008 - 12:26 pm 111. LoanneinTX:

Ha! Way to put it in perspective, Herb. Deserve it? Indeed. And it’s a shame really. One one hand I really like Palin. If I met her at a party, I’d think “Wow, she’s a hoot!” Sarah’s the kind of person I’d like to have at a barbeque or a camp out, not a nuclear arms summit with a world leader.

Say whatever you want to about how great Sarah Palin is as a mother, wife, Christian, conservative, etc, etc, etc. My problem isn’t anything about her personally, but PROFESSIONALLY, she’s NOT READY to lead A COUNTRY, ok, maybe a small country that’s mostly frozen wasteland that the only way you get to most of it’s cities is to fly there. She might actually work quite well in that environment!

Sep 3, 2008 - 2:55 pm 112. BC:

Yeah, well:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/02/ST2008090203591.html

Sep 3, 2008 - 9:56 pm 113. el gordo:

There are those who raise a stink about her alleged lack of vetting or the way Bristol Palin´s preganancy was released to the media. Apparently this proves that McCain is unfit to be president or something.

Barack Obama had over a year in which to prepare for the Rev. Wright disaster and he still needed weeks and about five different lines of response before he figured something out. And that something wasn´t all that much. The same thing happened several times since then (Georgia, Ayers, walking unprepared into the Saddleback forum).

Summing up: On the one side you have a campaign that was perhaps surprised by the eagerness of the established media to create a pseudo-scandal around a young preganant woman. On the other side you have a campaign that was surprised that a racist, hate-crazed mentor is a big deal.

What would an intellectually honest person conclude?

Sep 4, 2008 - 4:42 am 114. el gordo:

LoanneinTX, leaving aside the tone of your comment:

There are people with more experience than Sarah Palin, but Barack Obama is not one of them, as you know. Frankly, I´m not so sure Joe Biden is one of them.

McCain picked Palin because she had done hard things and done them on her own.

He is the guy who tells Iowans that ethanol subsidies are wrong – and in the middle of a primary! She is the gal who told Alaskans that they won´t spend the money they got for the bridge to nowhere.

That takes guts and integrity. Experience in the workings of the Senate, well, it can be acquired with time. Big deal. But it is not an achievement. Palin has real achievements.

She never voted “present” a hundred times or wrote two autobiographical tomes, so that counts against her.

Sep 4, 2008 - 4:56 am 115. seguin:

jimmy451 – something tells me that you don’t know anything about Christians or Christianity.

She isn’t as experienced as I would like. I would’ve preferred a longer term governer – not Rick “Good Hair” Perry, but someone with about 4 years in the governors seat. However, she still has more practical experience than Barack, seeing as how his times in both the Illinois and U.S. Senate have been devoid of pretty much any activity.

This whole vetting thing is crap. This is exactly how they slandered the Swift Boat vets, they just repeated a lie until it become commonly accepted as the truth.

Sep 4, 2008 - 8:44 am 116. Palin’s Fans In Alaska « Tai-Chi Policy:

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Sep 4, 2008 - 10:38 am 117. JL:

IIt is now the mornign after Governor Palin’s acceptance speech at the Republican Convetnion.

It would be instructive, but hardly likely to happen, for the incredulous anti-Palin-pick posters above to go back and read their screeds.

Senator McCain is neither an idiot nor insane. He is a very shrewd cookie.

Gvernor Palin rocked the Republicans.

Sep 4, 2008 - 2:42 pm 118. rspar:

I thought McCain had totally blown it when I heard who his vp pick was. Then I starting hearing a little about her and wasn’t quite so concerned. Then she spoke at the convention…McCain’s a freaking genius. And I’m sooo tired of hearing that McCain is just like Bush and then they start blabbing about the war. Until he decided to run for president most Dem’s liked him because he crossed party lines so often. Now suddenly he’s a Bush mirror image. Why do you think all those Dem Senators call him a good friend? It’s because he’s not a conservative republican he’s a true moderate. But the only way to beat him is to cast him as the devil. Politics as usual. But where’s all the hope and change?

Sep 4, 2008 - 4:56 pm 119. MedTyper:

I am so thankful that some of you libs are so concerned about McCain’s age and impending risk of demise…..I guess if you go by the genes, he has at least another 20 years. Isn’t his mother over 90 years old?

To think that the RNC would allow an unvetted person to share the platform with their candidate is truly something I am finding very hard to believe…quite disingenuous of the MSM and these joker journalists who base news cycles on the flimsy word of a blogosphere neophyte…. of course, you got good old Joe, with his 36 years in the Senate to worry about!

Sep 4, 2008 - 8:05 pm 120. BizzyBlog » ‘McCain Didn’t Vet Palin’ Meme Has Serious Holes, Including a Likely Serious HuffPo Reporter’s Error (Updated):

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Sep 5, 2008 - 6:19 am 121. Calanda-Technology.Com » Blog Archive » ‘McCain Didn’t Vet Palin’ Meme Has Serious Holes, Including a Likely Serious HuffPo Reporter’s Error (Updated):

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Sep 5, 2008 - 6:51 am 122. LoanneinTX:

You know, I’m neither left nor right. I’m Middle. I’m not blue nor red, I’m flesh colored. But more than any of that, I’m just a survivor of an economy that wants to have me for breakfast lunch and dinner.

So! I’m going to vote for the party who’s dialog sounds like they’re speaking about my life. Me, the middle class average American who’s already been laid off once this year by a company who said, “Nothing personal, this is a business decision” and who, like so many others in this country, works their next job for less money just so it pays the bills until something better comes along…she hopes…and is on the verge of losing my house, which was guarenteed to me by Realtor and mortgage broker alike as “the deal of the century” 2 years ago and then there’s my retirement savings I’ve contributed to for the past 25 years which are slowly dwindling to what it was 15 years ago.

And you know what got me is that Barack Obama talked not only TO me but ABOUT me. He said in his acceptance speech that my government was ultimately telling me, “Sorry, you’re on your own.” Then the Republican’s act as if it’s ME who has the problem because I just don’t work hard enough, or I’m not patriotic enough, or don’t have family values or personal honor.

But that’s just not true. I’ve been a hard working, tax paying, law abiding citizen all my life. I’m 53. I followed all the rules, did all the best things my parents raised me to do. And still I find myself in the position I’m in.

Now you tell me, how can this happen to me in a nation such as ours? If I recall correctly, up until recently the conservative Karl Rove Republicans have been in office. WHAT LIBS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???

Anyway, I only heard my story being talked about during the DNC. I’m voting for the party who understands my daily struggles just to get by.

Sep 5, 2008 - 11:20 pm 123. Calanda-Technology.Com » Blog Archive » ‘McCain Didn’t Vet Palin’ Meme Has Serious Holes, Including a Likely Serious HuffPo Reporter’s Error (Update: A DEFINITE Error):

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Sep 6, 2008 - 8:44 am 124. a friend:

Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

Some examples:

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

Sep 6, 2008 - 6:13 pm 125. Palin Rumors | Explorations:

[...] she was vetted extensively, not just in three days — I’ve got links to press reports about people coming to Wassila on [...]

Sep 6, 2008 - 8:21 pm 126. LoanneinTX:

THANK you…now that’s what I call VETTING!

Sep 7, 2008 - 12:32 am 127. BizzyBlog » Note to Huffington Post ‘Reporter’ Sam Stein:

[...] readers: Mr. Stein’s article and the errors it contained have been covered at Pajamas Media here, and at BizzyBlog here and [...]

Sep 8, 2008 - 5:18 am 128. BizzyBlog » HuffPo’s Sam Stein Has Not Changed Falsehoods in ‘No Archive’ Story:

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Sep 8, 2008 - 2:53 pm 129. Calanda-Technology.Com » Blog Archive » HuffPo’s Sam Stein Has Not Changed Falsehoods in ‘No Archive’ Story:

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Sep 8, 2008 - 4:51 pm 130. Eric:

Nice writeup, appreciate all the time you put into this.

Sep 9, 2008 - 5:06 am 131. Debunking the Palin Rumors « You Got to Be Kidding Me!:

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