Govenor Sarah Palin, Mormonism, Post-Mormonism, Politics

[_Ray A]

Palin's dissembling is of the worst kind. Gibson provided the opportunity for revision, but Palin opted for obfuscation—her 2008 "Thanks, but no thanks!" view is clearly the antithesis of her 2006 position.

How do you tell when a politician is lying?

His/her lips move.

[_Ray A]

We can breast-beat and flatulate all we want, but the only poll that counts is the final one. You know what they say - a week in politics is a long time.

Comment of the day has to go to Noel:

Some people on FOX have pics of Obama looking darker than he really is.

I think there is a subtext here, you don't want someone in the Whitehouse who has a bigger one than you.

It was worth reading the whole thread just to see that. LOL.

[_antishock8]

An interesting bit from the NY Post's Amir Taheri:

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

I'm not a big fan of reporters, much less reporting second-hand quotes, but if this reporter isn't a political hack or isn't lying then this would provide an interesting insight to Senator Obama's "anti-war" stance, ie, politically expedient position.

[_Ray A]

This was posted on Main Street Plaza:

McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare

[_Some Schmo]

This was posted on Main Street Plaza:

McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare

That was pretty funny Ray. Thanks for posting.

So what can we gather from that video? I'd say we have two options:

A) McCain is too senile to be running for President
B) McCain is completely full of sh*t

Tough choice, so I think I'll go with C) Both A and B.

[_Ray A]

So what can we gather from that video? I'd say we have two options:

A) McCain is too senile to be running for President
B) McCain is completely full of sh*t

Personally, I'd be a bit worried about Mc Cain if I was an American voter.

[_antishock8]

For the Aussies: Why Americans like Governor Palin:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/15/ ... mechanger/

[_antishock8]

More open-minded, tolerant, and diverse behavior from the Left. Jeffrey Goldberg, whose cover story was contracted by the Atlantic Magazine to provide a photoshoot writes: “Greenberg doctored photographs of McCain she took during her Atlantic-arranged shoot, which took place last month in Las Vegas. She has posted these doctored photographs on her website, which you can go find yourself, if you must. Suffice it to say that her ‘art’ is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.”
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Well. The contracted photographer for the Atlantic Magazine sure has a way of... Ahm... Expressing her political sentiments.

Way to go Democrats.

[_JustMe]

Ray A

How do you tell when a politician is lying?

Every time they flippin open their mouths........

[_Droopy]

Hi harmony,

What I am referring to is...

... this:

5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?

Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.

... now, Sarah Palin today:

Sarah Palin on Congressional Spending and the ''Bridge to Nowhere":

GIBSON: One of John McCain's central campaign arguments, tenets of his campaign, is eliminating earmarks, getting rid of them. Are you with John McCain on that?

PALIN: I certainly am. And of course the poster child for the earmarks was Alaska's, what people in the lower 48 refer to as the bridge to nowhere. First it was a bridge to community with an airport in southeast Alaska. But that was excessive. And an earmark—an earmark like that, not even supported necessarily by the majority of Alaskans. We killed that earmark. We killed that project...

GIBSON: You have said continually, since he chose you as his vice presidential nominee, that I said to Congress, thanks but not thanks. If we're going to build that bridge, we'll build it ourselves.

PALIN: Right.

GIBSON: But it's now pretty clearly documented. You supported that bridge before you opposed it. You were wearing a T-shirt in the 2006 campaign, showed your support for the bidge to nowhere.

PALIN: I was wearing a T-shirt with the Zip code of the community that was asking for that bridge. Not all the people in that community even were asking for a $400 million or $300 million bridge.

GIBSON: But you turned against it after Congress had basically pulled the plug on it; after it became apparent that the state was going to have to pay for it, not the Congress; and after it became a national embarrassment to the state of Alaska. So do you want to revise and extend your remarks?

PALIN: It has always been an embarrassment that abuse of the ear form—earmark process has been accepted in Congress. And that's what John McCain has fought. And that's what I joined him in fighting. It's been an embarrassment, not just Alaska's projects. But McCain gives example after example after example. I mean, every state has their embarrassment. And, as I've said over and over, if Alaska wants that bridge, $300 million, $400 million dollars, over to that island with an airport, we'll find a way to build it ourselves. The rest of the country doesn't have to build that for us.

GIBSON: But you were for it before you were against it. You were solidly for it for quite some period of time...

PALIN: I was...

GIBSON:... until Congress pulled the plug.

PALIN: I was for infrastructure being built in the state. And it's not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget along with every other state a share of the federal budget for infrastructure.

GIBSON: Right.

PALIN: What I supported was the link between a community and its airport. And we have found that link now.

GIBSON: But you didn't say no to Congress, well build it ourselves until after they pulled the plug. Correct?

PALIN: No, because Congress still allowed those dollars to come into Alaska. They did.

GIBSON: Well, but...

PALIN: Transportation fund dollars still came into Alaska. It was our choice, Charlie, whether we were going to spend it on a bridge or not. And I said, thanks, but no thanks. We're not going to spend it on the bridge.

Palin's dissembling is of the worst kind. Gibson provided the opportunity for revision, but Palin opted for obfuscation—her 2008 "Thanks, but no thanks!" view is clearly the antithesis of her 2006 position.

My best,

</brent>


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So we have a cookie cutter Northeastern left wing media talking head dissembling. And so?

Interesting what happens to one when one leaves the Church.

Isn't it?