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I very rarely start threads and never have started a “VANITY” thread before but I just couldn’t resist. So please forgive me this once. My lament is simply: Why do people like Bill O Reilly and Shawn Hannity and many supposed Conservatives boast about how THEY would like a shot at interviewing the Liberal royalty like Hillary, Obama et. al. – and then given the chance, treat them with kid gloves and allow them to spin the conversation away from specific, pointed answers? OReilly’s interview with Hillary was a joke and this latest with Obama is an absolute embarrassment. From...

Not long after the Obama campaign signaled it wouldn't go directly after Sarah Palin, the candidate goes right at her.Well, how about Gov. Palin? She's you know, an up and comer from Alaska. She - they're starting to run an ad now saying she opposed the bridge to nowhere. Well now, let's get the facts clear here. When she was mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist to get earmarks - pork barrel spending - all the things that John McCain says is bad, she lobbied to get! And got a whole lot of it. When it came to the bridge...

DEMOCRAT Barack Obama yesterday accused Sarah Palin of "making stuff up" and ridiculed Republicans for trying to co-opt his message of change. Senator Obama, in saying he expected Govenor Palin wanted to be "treated like one of the guys", accused her of a backflip on "earmarks" (pork-barrelling). "When you've been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient, and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person, that is not change. "Words mean something. You can't just make stuff up," he said.

Sen. Barbara Boxer says Sarah Palin's acceptance speech for the Republican vice presidential nomination was "laced with ridicule" and calls the Alaska governor an extremist. At a Thursday meeting with transportation officials in Los Angeles, the Democratic senator told reporters that Palin's views are "way out of the mainstream." Boxer said Palin doesn't believe global warming is caused by human activities, is against abortion and opposed to stem cell research. Palin's speech Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn., combined some of her beliefs, jokes about being a hockey mom, and attacks against Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Now on... Obama has no word about the Dems' vomitous personal attacks against Palin, of course... reporter asks, "How is being a community organizer relevant to being President?" Obama... "They never mention my time in the state legislature (LOL!) or my time in the Senate (what time? He's never been there)"... reporter: "Why is your campaign going after Palin personally?" ... Obama: "She's only been in this for four days... we've been in this for 18 months... I don't think her ideas are any different than the failed McCain ideas... I'm the best person to bring the change we want...

The mainstream Leftist media has been attacking Sarah Palin for her inexperience today. I would like to point out that she has more executive experience than Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama combined. Take a look at this video that lines up Sarah Palin and Barack Obama's resume. She blows him out of the water.... Sarah Palin's Resume vs. Barack Obama's Resume

The talking points are out there. You've heard the stock responses to the pick of Gov. Palin as McCain's running mate. The first and foremost stab is.....""She's got no foreign policy experience."This is BY FAR the easiest one to knock out of the park.Three of our past five presidents have been governors (Bush, Clinton, Carter). Each of them came to the job with as much 'foreign policy' experience as Palin has. Each governorship brings its own set of working conditions. As governor of Texas, Bush had extensive dealing with Mexico which provided some level of exposure to foreign policy. Palin...

McCain has more time in the men's room in congress than Obama has in the senate. McCain has more time in the chow line in the Navy than Obama has in public service. McCain has more time as a POW than Obama has in the sentate. So experience, if it matters, shows McCain is very far beyond Obama. Yet team Obama says a real reformer who has worked in a bi-partisan way, who has been a chief executive, who has actually solved problems...well, she doesn't have enough experience to be vice president.

I have several family members who are Republicans and always vote Republican expressing some reservations and having questions on Sarah Palin's experience. So I thought we should start a thread to counter those concerns and be able to tell people why Sarah is right for VP.

PITTSBURGH, PA -- Obama reacted to his rival's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate and walked back a statement put out by his campaign that called the governor inexperienced. "I haven't met her before. She seems like a compelling person, obviously a terrific story, personal story. And you know, I'm sure that she will help make the case for the Republicans," "I congratulate her and look forward to a vigorous debate," he said. Obama and Biden released a joint written statement earlier congratulating Palin, saying she was "an admirable person and will add a compelling new...

They're already attacking Palin, saying she's too inexperienced, that she is not prepared to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Of course, the media NEVER delves into Obama's stunning lack of depth, experience or knowledge. So, how do we counter the inexperience meme for Governor Palin? Please add your arguments on this thread.

Since when did Barack Obama value experience so highly? Barack Obama’s campaign is blasting John McCain for putting “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, comes as Democrats scramble to gather a response to a selection that nobody in the political world expected. “Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday congratulated Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on her selection as John McCain's running-mate, while a campaign spokesman highlighted her "zero" foreign policy experience. "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Burton said in a statement. Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States. "Governor Palin shares John McCain's...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her "zero" foreign policy experience. "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States. "Governor Palin shares John...

James Carville isn't happy with the pace of his party's convention and questions why his party isn't fighting harder. Carville, a CNN contributor and political adviser for former President Bill Clinton, appeared on CNN's August 26 "American Morning" and called the first night of the Democratic Party "wasted." CARVILLE: "[The Ted Kennedy speech] was a great moment, absolutely. But other stuff was wasted. There was no message that came out of here. Look, this is the fifth night in a row that we've had a Democratic convention since George W. Bush, the most disastrous, incompetent and corrupt administration we've had...

Russian military have claimed Georgia was defying its commitments under the ceasefire accord and was undertaking measures aimed at “restoring combat capabilities” of its armed forces. “Although Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a six-point accord, undertaking commitment on return of Georgian troops back to their the places of their permanent location, we are today convinced that this commitment is not being fulfilled,” Interfax news agency quoted Anatoly Nogovitsin, deputy chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, as saying at a news conference in Moscow on August 19. “The Georgian armed forces continue measures aimed at restoring their combat...

Investigating Voter Registration Fraud By Dean Gray, August 13, 2008 Desert Hot Springs, CA, August 13, 2008 – Riverside County Democrats are calling for an investigation of what they are calling voter registration fraud. A local democrat club says that fraud extends to Desert Hot Springs. In a press release issued today by the Riverside County Democratic Party, the organization says it has discovered unexpected and suspicious increases in Republican voter registration numbers. An August 11, 2008 Registrar of Voters registration report revealed what Democrats say is an inexplicable gain in new registrations for Republicans in eastern areas of the...

A leading Anglican bishop has condemned conservatives as "demonic" for using his church as a punch bag. The Bishop of Washington, the Right Rev John Chane, a leading liberal in the Episcopal Church in the United States, accused conservatives of leading the church in a "dangerous" direction. *** "I think it's really very, very dangerous and I think it's demonic ... the Episcopal Church has been demonised. It has been a punching bag and I'm sick of being a punching bag as a Bishop and I'm sick of my church, my province being a punching bag.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today pointed to President Bush’s unpopularity as an explanation for Congress’s single-digit approval rating. "Any time you have a president that is down so, so far in poll numbers, it drags down a city councilmember. It drags down any elected official, including us, and we recognize that," Reid said when asked about Congress’s rating. Rasmussen reported today that Congress’s approval rating has slipped to 9 percent—down two percentage points from last month, and the first-ever single-digit rating for Congress in Rasmussen’s history. Polls this month show Bush’s approval between 29 and 30 percent. But...

The Supreme Court's invalidation of the District of Columbia's handgun ban powerfully shows that the conservative rhetoric about judicial restraint is a lie. In striking down the law, Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion, joined by the court's four other most conservative justices, is quite activist in pursuing the conservative political agenda of protecting gun owners. If the terms "judicial activism" and "judicial restraint" have any meaning, it is that a court is activist when it is invalidating laws and overruling precedent, and restrained when deferring to popularly elected legislatures and following prior decisions. Never before had the Supreme Court found...