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1. Mike Kole
   September 9th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

   Just shows how damaged the Republican brand is, as per the Republicans.

2. KarenK
   September 10th, 2008 at 6:16 am

   She was actually FOR the bridge to no where until it was dead and THEN she was against it. Alaska did eventually get the money….As a matter of fact Alaska is more dependent on Federal tax dollars than any state in the union….In excess of $14,000 a year per capita as a matter of fact….where does all THAT money go? How much has she turned down since she has been governor?

3. Silent Bob
   September 10th, 2008 at 7:03 am

   Palin is the bridge to no where.

4. John Howard
   September 10th, 2008 at 9:11 am

   If politicians never adjusted their position on a matter after receiving more data about it, all politicians would be like Prez Bush. You HAVE to be willing to rethink and revise or you will be a failure.

5. Taxpayer 834512
   September 10th, 2008 at 10:15 am

   It appears she’s got a mixed record on the bridge. Perhaps she should frame queries about this similar to Senator Obama on “the surge”. It appears (from O’Reilly interview) Obama had misgivings about the surge support resolution being fiscally “open-ended” and this was a source of concern. Likewise, it appears Governor Palin withdrew bridge support when the price tag escalated. We’ll see. If major newpapers and investigators flooded into Chicago as into Alaska for investigating Presidential candiates, that would be helpful in getting history of both party’s candidates. However, that would require a sense of fairness in journalism. I’d like to hear a person knowledgable in American colonial or journalistic history deliniate if our recognition of freedom of the press, protection of sources, etc., was based upon an assumption that the press would cover stories of major concern, versus any shirking of major events. Probably way to subjective for any culpability, but makes you wonder. If your country’s “press” can’t or won’t research one of the Presidential candidates in one of the most important elections in your history, or won’t investigate where our education dollars go within a township as repossessions, unemployment, and inflation are at dire levels – what press am I suppossed to care about when they cry about access and protection issues? The theoretical one attempting to do it’s job with fairness, or the lesser one that seems to refuse?

6. RD
   September 10th, 2008 at 11:47 am

   Don’t forget that Obama voted in favor of funding the bridge.

7. good
   September 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

   I think they are running against both–and doing a decent job of it!

8. KarenK
   September 10th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   Taxpayer 834512, the media has had a couple of years to investigate Obama. He did not just appear on the National scene a week or two ago….Believe me, the media has been to Chicago and been to Chicago….They are just getting started on Palin and have to do in a few weeks what they have been doing to Obama for the last couple of years….She is not being singled out…they investigate everyone running. They have just had more time with the rest of them.

9. John Howard
   September 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

   Yeah, the media has done a whizbang job getting to the bottom of Obama’s citizenship and other questions. Sure, sure.

10. Taxpayer 834512
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    If they’ve been and been to Chicago in search of the Senator’s history, I’ve heard precious little of the results in the Indianapolis Star, Politico and Real Clear Politics, and the Economist. Perhaps the coverage was in the New York Times and I just missed it. Sincerely, if you can refer me to any major newspaper or television network investigative reporting on Senator Obama(akin to the rocks being overturned on Governor Palin) within the past couple of years, I would sincerely appreciate being corrected. Thank you.

11. Melyssa
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Sorry, but if they were truly Mavericks, as they claim, they would be addressing the debt and be in serious talks with the former comptroller, David Walker.

12. KarenK
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Taxpayer 834512, my guess is that beyond Rev. Wright, they just haven’t found much personal dirt to dish….if they had we would know it by now….The Republican party, who has no doubt conducted their own thorough investigation of Sen. Obama, would have have let us in on anything the media left out had there been much to find…..

13. Taxpayer 834512
    September 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am

    I’d be shocked if anybody this side of Barr would embrace Walker and the debt issue if they want to get elected. I don’t want McCain if he’s actually of mind to leave tax cuts intact. But, I believe even less in the economics of deeper socialiam without a more homogeneously productive and responsible society – and that ain’t where we live. A vote for Barr gets us Obama. I think it will take the tax rates Obama promises, less spending than anybody wants to talk about, and lots of prayer. My last hope is a guy that wouldn’t buckle in prison also won’t get weak when presented with the real economic facts. Slender reed, but you got a better one? I don’t care if Obama is dirty or a choirboy as much as hearing both sides of the story. As pompous as Chicago traditionally is, they seem mighty modest about the background of their Senator. Would like to find those articles. An interesting election, Ladies.

14. KC
    September 11th, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Obama’s VP Pick is a Stick in the Eye of Blacks
    By Frances Rice
    Again, Sen. Barack Obama displayed his disdain for black Americans by choosing Sen. Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. While running for president himself, Biden boasted proudly on FOX News that his qualification to be president was enhanced because his home state of Delaware held blacks in human bondage. “You don’t know my state,” Biden crowed. “My state was a slave state”. Imagine the media firestorm that would have ensued if a Republican candidate had uttered such an outrageously racist comment.
    Imagine the media feeding frenzy that would have been created if a Republican and uttered the racially-charged remarks made by Biden about Obama on the day he formally announced his candidacy. A story in the New York Observer quoted Biden as calling Obama “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
    Biden was given a pass also when he set off a controversy in 2006 after making racially-tinged comments Indian Americans. ”I’ve had a great relationship [with Indian Americans],” Biden said. “In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
    Obama himself–the son of a white woman whose ancestors owned slaves—also showed his lack of sensitivity to black civil rights history when he wrote a letter supporting the re-election of Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. History shows that the relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats during the 1960′s led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King’s leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Sen. Byrd called Dr. King a “trouble-maker” who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
    Obama claims to care about poor blacks, but he has a dismal record. Obama opposes school choice scholarships, putting the special interest of the teachers’ unions above the interest of poor black children trapped in failing schools. Obama voted against the minimum wage bill that was finally passed in Congress. Obama obtained funding for slum lord projects in Chicago and was condemned by the poor black people living in the rat and roach infested public housing.
    Further showing his lack of concern about the well-being of the least among us, Obama is the most radical, pro-abortion candidate in our nation’s history. Obama is so pro-abortion that, as an Illinois state senator, he refused to support legislation to provide health care to babies who survived late-term abortions. In a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor, Obama said that he did not want to recognize as “persons” babies born fully outside their mothers’ wombs, even with their hearts beating and lungs heaving. This is chilling.
    Frances Rice is Chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: http://www.NBRA.info

15. KarenK
    September 11th, 2008 at 5:52 am

    I am not sure, with the severe economic problems the country has now (and for the foreseeable future) the US can afford to elect a guy who admits that he really does NOT understand the economy…been in congress for years and does NOT understand the economy……Scary as hell….

16. Taxpayer 834512
    September 11th, 2008 at 6:32 am

    Agreed. Right up there with believing throwing more money at it will fix anything. As challenging a group of choices to me as Nixon-McGovern-Wallace.

17. Taxpayer 834512
    September 11th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Thanks, KC. Would love to hear a lead on major newspaper or network coverage (FOX an obvious singular exception).

18. Sean Shepard
    September 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am

    KarenK … 95% of congress doesn’t understand the economy. Heck, they get elected all of the time without even being to tell people the difference between Keynesian (disproven but popular) and Austrian economics. Not knowing really what M1, M2 or M3 (now unpublished just prior to our big financial mess unravelling – curious timing).

    As a candidate, it is difficult to run on these sorts of issues and it always goes back to emotional things not facts.

    Ultimately, quirks asside, Ron Paul had the economic stuff down cold but got ridiculed by the media (it’s tough being 72 years old with a whiney voice I guess) and couldn’t get the R nod. He predicted the housing market crash and bailouts of Fannie and Freddie 6 years ago this month.

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