It's McCain Palin

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Is Palin ready to assume commander in chief responsibilities?

Probably as qualified as former community organizer with 140 days of senate experience with no concrete examples of legislative accomplishments.

"Probably" covers a lot of ground. So you'd follow this woman into a fox hole? You think she's good to cover our country's back in global crisis? Get real. She isn't ready to be even considered for the post. Its a political shenanigan designed to distract from a great speech and get him more votes.

Again, how is she any less prepared than the community organizer?  What makes you want to follow Obama into the fox hole?  What makes you think Obama's ready to deal with a global crisis?  Was it when he told Russia and Georgia to "simmer down?"  How profound.  I could easily call the same shenanigans on the democrats for picking a candidate because he's a minority.

[guido911]

Here is Ms. Palin's bio:

Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of the Republican Party. She is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska. Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election. On August 29, the Associated Press reported that "speculation [has] moved to [Palin as a] darkhorse" pick for the vice president running mate slot by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.[2] The CNBC news service is now reporting that Palin will in fact be the GOP vice-presidential nominee.[3]

She is reported to be a possible choice for the Republican Party's nomination as Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. Formal announcement of the presumptive nominee will be made in Dayton, Ohio on August 29, 2008, by Presidential candidate John McCain.
Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[4] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[5] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[5] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[5]

Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[5] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[5] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[5]

In 1984, Palin was second-place in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[8]

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[5] One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[5] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[5] Todd is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[5] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10]

On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[11] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[12] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[13] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[13]

Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[5] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[5] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[5] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[5][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[11]

In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[5]

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission[15], where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[5] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[16] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[5]

In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[5] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.[5] Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[8]

When elected, Palin became the first woman to be Alaska's governor, and the youngest governor in Alaskan history at 42 years old upon taking office. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood. She was also the first Alaskan governor not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.

Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[13][17] "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[6]

She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[18] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[13] Palin supports holding occasional legislative sessions outside the state capital, and municipal revenue sharing to help local governments.[citation needed]

Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development.[6][13] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska. [19]

Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded an appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, one of thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration that she reversed. [20][21] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign. [22]

In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[23] Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[24] and in June Palin signed it into law.[25][26] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[27][28]

In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[29] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.[30][31]

SOCIAL ISSUES
Palin is strongly pro-life and belongs to Feminists for Life.[8] She opposes same-sex marriage(we will have to work on this one, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.[8] While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law. [32]

She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[33] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[34]

Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[35]

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

Just worth posting again.

As is this:





And this:

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[Hoss]

And while we're at it:

[jiminy]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

Here is Ms. Palin's bio:

Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of

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attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[35]

Wow.  News for the Dems:  you are doomed.  DOOMED, I tell you!  Palin looks to be almost as likable as Carrie Underwood.  In today's shallow world, that spells W-I-N.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:flipping on so many issues he's embraced in the past.

Have you listened to your candidate over the last 18 months?  I've never seen a candidate flop more in one year, other than Admiral Longface.

What? You haven't been watching 'ol Pappy then.

Are you trying to tell us that Lord Barry hasn't been a gold medalist flip floper over the last 18 months?  

Oh that's right, he doesn't flip flop he "refines" his positions. []

Either you're not as good at this as you used to be or you aren't keeping up. McCain is this election's flipper. Try defending your candidate instead of attacking mine. Much harder, because McCain isn't really anyone's candidate. He is simply the survivor.

I really heard nothing new out of Obama last night.  I finally managed to digest some of his speech this afternoon when I went home for lunch (actually, it's more like regurgitating, not digesting).  Obama spent a lot of time attacking Bush and McCain and did little to justify his own candidacy.  

Something which smacks of smug arrogance is that Obama can't seem to find it in him to say "President" Bush.  My father always taught me even if you cannot stand the person who is in the office, the title still deserves respect and they are still every citizen's President.  

Let's see, on to the highlights:

Attack McCain- check

Talk about his fortunate education and upbringing- check

Promise more money for education- check

Promise to lower taxes on "working families"- check

Promise more healthcare- check

Promise to get us out of Iraq- check

Spew forth metaphors and cliches- check

Tell us something substantive about specific policies he proposes -

Tell us how he's going to balance the budget after cutting taxes and where the spending cuts will come from-

That all sounds familiar, not like change to me.  Speaking of education, why does our education system supposedly still lagging after the promises of every President dating back the last 150 years or so???  Throwing more money at it is obviously not the right solution.  I thought Obama praised the Clinton White House last night.  If they were so great, why do we need to reform healthcare and overhaul education still?  How is he planning to restore the Clinton "surplus"?

All important things we need to know so we aren't duped, yes?

I fail to see how any of this adds up to substantial change, just more chump change.

[Gaspar]

Now they're criticizing her for taking maternity leave when she had her son.  They are really going make some bonus points.

[jne]

Don't forget to add the current ethics investigation to her resume.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/mccains_vp_pick_palin_facing_e.html

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by jiminy

quote:Originally posted by guido911

Here is Ms. Palin's bio:

Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of

............

attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[35]

Wow.  News for the Dems:  you are doomed.  DOOMED, I tell you!  Palin looks to be almost as likable as Carrie Underwood.  In today's shallow world, that spells W-I-N.

Doomed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ

[FOTD]

Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired

http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492964.html

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Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper.

"I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist although I have only now become aware of it," Palin said. "

Indeed, another Repuke who will manipulate the Justice Department to further their own agenda. Just what we don't need.


McCain's just using women.

[RecycleMichael]

That trooper story is pretty bad. Her sister gets a divorce from the guy so Palin gets him fired.

She ain't afraid, I give her that.

She is a moose hunter. I like moose, especially the chocolate kind.

[USRufnex]

Uh, listen up, repub-tard koolaid drinker.... your party and its chattering classes are consistently LYING by perpetuating propaganda that McCain's version of Geraldine Ferraro has more experience than Obama... then you'll throw in fine-print about her "executive experience" as a governor, much like the end of a viagra commercial... side effects include: we are gonna be soooooo screwed if McCain has to resign for health reasons...

Obama has degrees from Columbia and Harvard-- your VP's experience is the equivalent of being Mayor of Owasso  [}:)]... I understand you have no clue what a "community activist" does.... YOU CLEARLY DON'T... I saw what he did in Chicago... all you know how to do, Ippy, is use the term "community activist" in as insulting a way as you possibly can... because you're a jerk.  And you have no respect for those who choose community service over $$$...

Barack worked with WORKING PEOPLE on the southside... he worked with churches on the southside, when he could have been on Wall Street making tons of money.......

You have no respect for him; I understand that.  That doesn't make you a racist.  It just makes you a traitor.  [xx(]

Have a nice day.

[RecycleMichael]

But does she have the stuff it takes...I mean, can she be the next Dick Cheney?

[Townsend]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

But does she have the stuff it takes...I mean, can she be the next Dick Cheney?

I believe that the caliber of weapon she uses to hunt moose means if she shoots you in the face...you know you've been shot in the face.

[guido911]

Conan, I will take this a step further. The dems, particularly some of those in this thread, are scared sh*tless about this pick. They know that if they attack Palin as "inexperienced" generally and on "foreign policy" matters specifically that such will blow up in Obama's face. Indeed, an attack on her is an attack on him. Furthermore, if the dems press the foreign policy issue, Obama will wind up pitching right into McCain's wheel house instead of focusing on tax policy and healthcare.

What I find interesting is that the dems are running two lawyers for Nos. 1 & 2. We need more lawyers in our government, don't we?