Pawlenty/Palin ticket would result in a landslide win for 2012.

[L.K.Eder]

The average 10 year old has more executive expereince than Obama did.

how would you know, blastocyst?

"Organizing" riff-raff to agitate doesn't count as an "executive" position.

neither does bomb-throwing on a message board. but i was not talking to you anyway, in case there was a misunderstanding.

 

[Truthmatters]

The republican field will tear each other limb from limb to get the nod.

By the time you have a candidate they will be crippled by the fight.

 

[Shogun]

John McCain didn't even know anything about her and publically disagreed that Obama was a scary terrorist. She just kept right on with it tho. The silly bitch.

I'm almost tempted to read her book but I really don't think there's any threat of her running again.

Sarah, I think that you would find her book educational, it has been fact checked by 11 different associated press journalists. They did not fact check the Clinton's books or Obama's two books. She is quite the expert on energy issues and has much more exectutive experience than Obama did.

The average 10 year old has more executive expereince than Obama did.

this is the kind of logic of a Sarah Palin fan.

 

[Oscar Wao]

how would you know, blastocyst?

"Organizing" riff-raff to agitate doesn't count as an "executive" position.

neither does bomb-throwing on a message board. but i was not talking to you anyway, in case there was a misunderstanding.

True, but I felt like throwing my $0.02 in anyway.

 

[Maple]

And some more facts, pay special attention to the fact that the Japanese invaded Alaska during World War 11.

Oh, there is no left wing media bias. LOLOLOLOLOL Remember Rathergate and did he not work for CBS? You would think they would learn but they never do.LOLOLOL


From Palin's book, Going Rogue, page 272-275 this has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different Associated Press Journalists.

I couldn't have known it then, but what transpired during the series of interviews and what CBS actually aired were two different breeds of cat. Camera crews shot hours of footage across the U.S; Katie and her producers decided on which fraction America would see-- and let's just say the emphasis was on my worst moments. Editing footage is nothing new, of course,' I created video packages when I worked as a sports reporter. But reponsible editing means you keep substance and context, and trim out fat. When I saw the final cut, it was clear that CBS had sought out the bad moments, and systematically sliced out material that would accurately convey my message. The sin of ommission was glaring.

For example, when John and I sat down with Katie for a segment in Columbus, Ohio, she started with an energy-related question. " Governor Palin, it will take about ten years for domestic drilling to have an impact on consumers, " the anchor said. " so isn't the notion of " drill, baby, drill" a little misleading to people who think this will automatically lower their gas prices and quickly?"

I said, " And it's why we should have started ten years ago tapping into domestic supplies that America is so rich in. Alaska has billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas onshore and offshore. Should have started it ten years ago, but better late than never."

That's the part CBS left in. They edited out a discussion of the need to wean ourselves off hydrocarbons and a call for America to stop spending billions of dollars on foreign oil when we could be investing it at home. Did Katie think Americans wouldn't be interested to know that I was in favor of alternative energy sources and reducing our carbon footprint? Or that I might be a conservative who was both pro-development and pro-environment? Perhaps my answer did not fit her agenda.

Katie then moved on to ANWR. " Experts say it will take almost twenty years.... to achieve peak production," she said. " And it would still only cut foreign oil dependency by about two percent and only for a little while...so is it really worth... the risk?'

I replied that I didn't know which experts those were. But I explained that as the chair of the AOGCC and IOGCC, I knew from the geologists and petroleum engineers with whom I had worked that it could be done a lot quicker. I also pointed out that ANWR is a 2,000-acre plot that's in the midst of 21 million acres. Americans needed to know how unconscionable it is that anti-development radicals use ANWR as their fund-raising poster child. They use bogus Photoshopped pictures showing moutains and waterfalls and lush forests with Bambi prancing to and fro. That's all fake and these fund-raisers know it. It is an absolutely barren, permanently frozen, remote sliver of land that requires a minimal drilling footprint, and its development parameters are equivalent to the size of L.A's airport. But neither Katie's question nor my answer wound up on the air.

I knew the media would distort my responses on social issues. But I thought surely they couldn't distort my economic and energy-related responses, because they would have to stick with the facts. I was mistaken.

Though Katie edited out substantive answers, she dutifully kept in the moments where I wore my annoyance on my sleeve. For instance, when she asked me how living in Alaska informed my foreign policy experience, I began by trying to frame the geo-graphical context. Lower 48ers grow up seeing our state tucked with Hawaii in a litte square off the coast of Mexico on the nightly news weather map. So I began by trying to squeeze a geographical primer into a ten-second sound bite, explaning that only a narrow maritime border separates Alaska from Russia, that we're very near the Pacific Rim countries, and that we're bordered by Canada.

But Katie interrupted and I did not complete my answer. I wish now I had stopped her and said, " here's the geographical context. Now may I answer your question?"

There was so much I could and should have said, and I later kicked myself for not doing so. There was much Katie appeared not to know, or care to hear about. For instance, that Alaska's geographic position makes our relations with Pacific Rim countries of great strategic import, and that we're the air crossroads of the world. That Russian bombers often play cat-and mouse with our Air Force near Alaska's airspace. That I dealt with Canadian officials on a weekly basis and have signed agreements concerning everything from security to salmon fishing and that NAFTA has significantly affected our economy. That melting polar sea ice has created trade routes but has also created security threats to North America. That Alaska takes on Japanese and Russian fishing trawlers that want to ravage the ocean floor. That Chinese and Russian energy companies had both sought access to ( and possible control of) our natural gas resources. That these and other countries were staking their own resource claims in Artic waters while the U.S sat on its hands. And that, yes, you can indeed see Russia from Alaska.

And those were just the foreign policy issues ( though issues certainly foreign to most governors). How much more I would have liked to say about Alaska's contribution to the U.S economy, its potential to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign energy sources, and the delicate balancing act required to manage and responsibly develop our abundant wildlife resources.

But Katie wasn't interested in discussing these issues. And when I did, she didn't air them. Instead, when I tried to describe frequent Russian incursions by figuratively referring to Vladimir Putin entering our airspace, CBS researched the Russian leader's actual flight plan over the United States and called my statement inaccurate. And when I referenced Alaska's narrow maritime border to describe our close proximity to other nations, CBS reported that the Coast Guard monitored the border and not the governor.

But Katie's purpose--shared by most media types--seemed to be to frame a "gotcha" moment. And it worked. Instead of my scoring points for John McCain, I knew that I had let the team down.


For all of you historically challenged liberals, you do know that during World War 11, the Japanese entered Alaska attempting to get a foot hold there. Thankfully they were beaten back.

Alaska is not an important state to you libs but the Japanese certainly thought it was.
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[VaYank5150]

Here's some FACTS Palin, this is a good e-mail that has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different associated press journalists. It's a good summary of what she did in Alaska.

A View From Alaska: By Dewey Whetsell

" The last forty-five of my sixty-six years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here."

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans' Corrupt Bastards Club. (CBC) and sent it packing. Many of it's members are now residing in state housing and wearing orange jumpsuits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti, and singing " La la la la" ( well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country who has ever done anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue."

2. Now, with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaska politicians to protect the giant oil companies here. So Palin constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." ExxonMobil ( the biggest corporation in the world) protested, and Sarah told it, " Don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." It stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies fell meekly into line. Again, give the name of any other governor in the country who has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is that she got the list of state requests for federal funding for projects known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85 percent of them out, and placed them in the " when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook ( remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the state vehicle issued to her ( maintaining that she already had a car) and dismissing her state-provided security force ( never mentioning--I imagine--that she was packing heat herself.) I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Even with her much-ridiculed " gosh and golly" manerisms, she managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built that will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it even if they tried. If that doesn't impress you, you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5. For thirty years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thomson. It made excuses the entire time for why it couldn't start drilling. In truth it was holding it as an investment. No governor for thirty years could make it get started. This summer, she told Exxon she was revoking it's lease and kicking it out. It protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the courthouse. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25 percent renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50 percent renewable by 2025. We are already at 25 percent. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everbody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up.


I am still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath."

Was this done before or after she QUIT the people who put her in office?

 

[Dr.Traveler]

Is he still pandering for stimulus money? That HAS to make Republicans cringe.

He's really underhanded about stimulus funds, but yeah, a lot of stimulus money has found its way to Louisiana. You wouldn't know it publically, but a lot of Federal Money comes here thanks to Bobby, Vitter, and Landrieu.

He's really got a tough choice ahead of him. Fundraisers in Iowa and other places have started to erode his support at home because people know he's just trying to use the Governorship as a stepping stone up. I think that he'll have to back off or risk losing in 2011, which would kill his chances on the national stage. If he does back off his Presidential ambitions to focus on a win at home, then he'd be too far behind the rest of the GOP to have a shot in 2012.

You'll see him again though. Probably in 2016. Secretly he has to be hoping Obama wins in 2012 so he has a shot in 2016.

 

[Truthmatters]

Palin will NEVER be president

 

[Oscar Wao]

Here's some FACTS Palin, this is a good e-mail that has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different associated press journalists. It's a good summary of what she did in Alaska.

A View From Alaska: By Dewey Whetsell

" The last forty-five of my sixty-six years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here."

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans' Corrupt Bastards Club. (CBC) and sent it packing. Many of it's members are now residing in state housing and wearing orange jumpsuits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti, and singing " La la la la" ( well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country who has ever done anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue."

2. Now, with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaska politicians to protect the giant oil companies here. So Palin constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." ExxonMobil ( the biggest corporation in the world) protested, and Sarah told it, " Don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." It stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies fell meekly into line. Again, give the name of any other governor in the country who has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is that she got the list of state requests for federal funding for projects known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85 percent of them out, and placed them in the " when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook ( remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the state vehicle issued to her ( maintaining that she already had a car) and dismissing her state-provided security force ( never mentioning--I imagine--that she was packing heat herself.) I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Even with her much-ridiculed " gosh and golly" manerisms, she managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built that will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it even if they tried. If that doesn't impress you, you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5. For thirty years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thomson. It made excuses the entire time for why it couldn't start drilling. In truth it was holding it as an investment. No governor for thirty years could make it get started. This summer, she told Exxon she was revoking it's lease and kicking it out. It protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the courthouse. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25 percent renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50 percent renewable by 2025. We are already at 25 percent. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everbody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up.


I am still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath."

Was this done before or after she QUIT the people who put her in office?

That's irrelevant to Palin-Aphrodites, apparently.

 

[xotoxi]

Maple, Palin is not the right candidate for POTUS or VP. Let it go.

Just because blacks voted for Obama based on his color doesn't mean that women will do likewise.

Hey California girl, you do know that you elected a president with NO, ZERO, ZIP executive experience, who was a former community organizor, spent some time as a state legislator, and ONLY spent 150 days in the U.S senate. Both of these people have more experience in the tip of their little finger than your guy does. Next time you vote, check the resume.

Hey Maple, maybe if you stopped obsessing over Palin and took your head out of her ass, you'd know that I'm a conservative. I didn't vote for Obama... BECAUSE I checked his fucking resume.

Maple has been drinking her used douche juice again.

 

[Oscar Wao]

Palin will NEVER be president

Well, thanks for wasting bandwith to state the obvious...Captain Obvious.

 

[VaYank5150]

Is he still pandering for stimulus money? That HAS to make Republicans cringe.

He's really underhanded about stimulus funds, but yeah, a lot of stimulus money has found its way to Louisiana. You wouldn't know it publically, but a lot of Federal Money comes here thanks to Bobby, Vitter, and Landrieu.

He's really got a tough choice ahead of him. Fundraisers in Iowa and other places have started to erode his support at home because people know he's just trying to use the Governorship as a stepping stone up. I think that he'll have to back off or risk losing in 2011, which would kill his chances on the national stage. If he does back off his Presidential ambitions to focus on a win at home, then he'd be too far behind the rest of the GOP to have a shot in 2012.

You'll see him again though. Probably in 2016. Secretly he has to be hoping Obama wins in 2012 so he has a shot in 2016.

After the way the GOP attempted to destroy Obama by tying his name to terrorism, Islam, etc., I see no way Piyush Jindal has ANY chance at being the GOP nominee, ever. Just my .02.

 

[California Girl]

Hey California girl, you do know that you elected a president with NO, ZERO, ZIP executive experience, who was a former community organizor, spent some time as a state legislator, and ONLY spent 150 days in the U.S senate. Both of these people have more experience in the tip of their little finger than your guy does. Next time you vote, check the resume.

Hey Maple, maybe if you stopped obsessing over Palin and took your head out of her ass, you'd know that I'm a conservative. I didn't vote for Obama... BECAUSE I checked his fucking resume.

Maple has been drinking her used douche juice again.

I'm getting kind of bored with this.... I get called an Obama fan by Palinites and a Palinite from the Obamanation.

This place is becoming a fucking playground. Or maybe both sides are just too fucking stupid to get that some of us support neither.

 

[Oscar Wao]

Hey Maple, maybe if you stopped obsessing over Palin and took your head out of her ass, you'd know that I'm a conservative. I didn't vote for Obama... BECAUSE I checked his fucking resume.

Maple has been drinking her used douche juice again.

I'm getting kind of bored with this.... I get called an Obama fan by Palinites and a Palinite from the Obamanation.

This place is becoming a fucking playground. Or maybe both sides are just too fucking stupid to get that some of us support neither.

Heh.

If you think THAT is bad, take a look at what the Ron Paul supporters deal with...

 

[Big Fitz]

T-Paw is not POTUS material. He definitely won't win conservatives over. You'd have to flip the ticket to get that good of a reaction. He's a better VPOTUS at best.

Trust me. As an inmate here in the People's Republic of MN in the Minneapolis commune, he does certain things very well that drive libs crazy (mostly fiscal conservatism) but he's whole sucked in to all things green and most things socially liberal.

 

[Oscar Wao]

Socially liberal I can tolerate. The "Green" I can't. Nor his milquetoastness.

 

[uscitizen]

Maple has been drinking her used douche juice again.

I'm getting kind of bored with this.... I get called an Obama fan by Palinites and a Palinite from the Obamanation.

This place is becoming a fucking playground. Or maybe both sides are just too fucking stupid to get that some of us support neither.

Heh.

If you think THAT is bad, take a look at what the Ron Paul supporters deal with...

Yeah Ron Paul

 

[Truthmatters]

the republican field will rip each ohter to shreds before the real election even starts

 

[random3434]

I just can't wait until Sinatra and Crude Frank get here to post their zombie pics for the millionth time.


Seriously, ANYONE that thinks a talk show hostess should be running our country is



Now let's sit back and wait for the Obama comments from the peanut gallery, shall we?

 

[Oscar Wao]

I just can't wait until Sinatra and Crude Frank get here to post their zombie pics for the millionth time.


Seriously, ANYONE that thinks a talk show hostess should be running our country is



Now let's sit back and wait for the Obama comments from the peanut gallery, shall we?

She and Huckabee have the "Buchanan Curse."

They won't even make it past the exploratory committee.