"Joe - Since you've been so nice to Obama/Biden this week, here is a pic referencing the massive amount of experience that Palin acquired in Alaska!"
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1/3 the size of Salisbury. And Palin's executive style in that office was very similar to that of Barrie Tilghman. God help us if Palin actually ends up running the country. You folks really need to stop and think about this one a little more.
I luv it!! plain ole down home people experience, low profile, low up-keep, no waste, no congressional crook experience or ties!! A REAL people person!!!
Palin for President!!!
Ok now where is the picture of the Governors office ?
Seems the talking point is that she was the mayor of this little town-how about some respect for her current position of Gov. of Alaska. When someone (liberals especially) refer to Gov. O'Malley it is not "ex-mayor" O'Malley.
The difference between Sarah Palin and Barrie Tilghman is humongous -- Palin made things much better and cut waste -- Tilghman has ruined Salisbury and nearly made it bankrupt.
And Palin's experience as governor trumps whatever Obama and Biden, put together, have ever done.
We don't need a "community organizer" in the White House backed up by a blowhard know-it-all with a penchant for plagiarism. And we don't need more of Barrie or her sidekick Bubba in Salisbury.
10:21,
Where's the money from the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she return it? The answer is no.
Why not just vote for Barney Fife? What a joke.
O'Malley ran a city that had more people than her entire state.
I LOVE IT!
Look how pissed off the Democrats are at Palin.
The only thging they want is bigger Government. Big Offices, more Staff, 250 watt light bulbs. It reminds me of the Salisbury Fire Department Administration and the City Government.
Smaller is better, Palin is the answer.
Where the pic of Obama organizing the local basketball league? That's one hellava community organizer.
Oh and while your at it why don’t you show the picture of him as a state Senator; you know the one where he only works 1/2 a year.
Then give me a shot of the US Senate floor where he voted PRESENT more times than for or against any piece of legislation that forms the back bone of our country. I guess being there is good enough.
The Presidents office doesn't have a snooze button.
joe, how in the world did all of these whack job libs find your site. But while we have their attention how about the job another one of their favorites are doing. Obama O Malley is taking a state that he inherited with a budget surplus and running it so deep in the red that it will takr decades to recover. I guess they want Obama to do for our country what O Malley has done for our state.
11:03 - Inheriting a budget surplus and running it so deep in the red it will take decades to recover? Sorry, Bush has already done that for us.
Joe, you make mention of the democrats wanting a bigger government and you tie it into SFD. It seems that every fire department loves the idea of a big "government" It always seems to me; too many chiefs, not enough indians.
I would take for example; Pittsville Fire Department. Cheif, Deputy, Assistant Chief 1, Assistant Chief 2, Captain, Lt., Rescue Lt., Truck Lt., Safety Officer, Fire Police Captain, Ambulance Captain, THREE Ambulance Lts., Chief Engineer, Asst. Chief Engineer. Then you have 11 executive officers.
So 14 fire officers, and 11 executive officers and 25 people in the general membership.
Overkill?
A little off topic.
It's funny how the Democrats/Socialists, can't argue issues so they resort to old school personal attacks. You guys are becoming so predicatble. Your arguement that Mrs. Palin isn't "cosmopolitan" enough will surely resignate well in middle America. There is life, and a lot of registered voters, outside of the upper east side of NYC, Washington DC, and San Fransisco. Mrs. Palin has caused an excitement within the Republican party that's been missing for years. Se please, keep up with the mudslinging and personal attacks, I'm sure this strategy will work well for you.
People seem to forget that we are fighting 2 wars and still don't have food lines, gas lines, a shortage of steel. Our automakers don't have to build tanks and airplanes instead of cars. Hundreds of thousands of people didn't die. I think the total for seven years has been around 4000. That many people died in one day during WWII. Bush has done a masterful job of keeping our economy strong while the same time managing two wars. This has never been done in the history of any nation. Our ability to buy so many luxories may be slightly down but we are nowhere near starving!
With the exception of this year, unemployment has been at record lows. Much lower than any Democrat ever had us. Interest rates are down. Stock are still up. People made record profits in the market under Bush. How quickly we forget.
Before you throw him under the bus for anything, take of your party affiliation face and look at him from an American stand point. Our military is strong. We are going to have a strong democratic government in the Middle East. We are promoting freedom around the world. We are showing that we aren't quitters and we will support all democracies, even to death! We have the best military, we have the best government and way of life. I have been all over the world, nowhere woiuld I rather live than right here. Before you put down our leader, go spend some time in another country. Your perspective will change immediately.
You are right--Republicans would never resort to personal attacks! Give me a break. Which party does Karl Rove belong to?
Read the newspaper--Bush's own officers have just announced that the war in Afghanistan is being mishandled. Not some left-wing wacko, his own guys! So you tell me how he has done such a masterful job in Iraq and Afghanistan. Didn't he and Cheney predict it would be over in a matter of months? Still waiting.
bush is a joke buddy, america is crumbling.
Obama organizing the local basketball league is no different than supporting and helping The Main Street Gym. Both are worth while causes.
To make fun of something like the basketball league is to discount exactly what The Main Street Gym does.
To anonymous 10:16 A.M.
Please accept our apologies that Sarah Palin is not an Ivy League educated elitist snob like the majority of our politicians.
Before she was nominated my wife and I were discussing how the Presidency has gotten out of the reach of the normal hard working middle class American. Apparently I was wrong since this is just who Mrs. Palin is.
Get over it, you are looking at your first female president but you are getting to see her eight years before she takes office.
As mayor of Wasila, Palin raised the sales tax to help build a hockey rink. So how does that match up with her fiscal conservative stance?
You Redubyacans are dripping with envy. Joe, please change this blog to The Angry White Man Blog.
xploded, anon 1021, 1043, etc...
Thank you all. You saved me the effort of wasting a few keystrokes. Isn't it funny how these lefty losers are running scared now and grasping for straws. They are drowning in the sea of democracy and they can't stand it.
Well I guess it's better they drown then die from drinking the Kool Aid.
LMFAO
Wow Mardela...I know my dollar isn't going as far as it did 8 years ago. My paychecks haven't increased as rapidly as the cost of living. Food and gas prices have skyrocketed.
Strong military? My understanding is that enlistment standards have been lowered to allow more folks with possibly compromised intelligence/legal records to enlist. Active duty troops have donated more to Obama than McCain.
And we've "only" lost 4000 troops. Wowzers.
Friend, I think your logic is flawed. You might want to look a little farther than Fox and your own closed mind for information.
Mardela, Very well said. I have been all over the world and this country is in far better shape then any other place I have been, Even Europe. I want these liberal cry babies to go live in a place like Bosnia during the mid 1990's and then come back to America. Americans REALLY don't know how good they trully have it. I thought the left were suppose to be the "enlightened" ones?
12:00 - Are you on the same planet as the rest of us?
Forget the "experience" debate (the Democratic side must cede that to you, since you have made the toughness of governing Alaska tantamount to parting the Red Sea.)
I have stated this before, and no one from the right has responded.
Why don't you hold Sarah Palin to the same standard that you would hold someone applying for a job at McDonald's? We are her EMPLOYERS people. She is asking us to hire her, and won't tel us anything about her. When we ask her, we are called sexist.
(And before you whine "well, what about Obama," we have had -at very least - a year for him to flesh these things out. He has subjected himself to contless interviews from all sides. He even appeared on Bill O'Rielly becuase he loves comedy shows so much.)
It just amazes me that you are giving this woman such a wide berth and not even questioning one thing about her, when you would crucify any Democrat who tried to skirt the public and insult the intelligence of the American electorate like she has.
If your side wants to make fun of people who try to help others in their communities, and belittle the work of civic workers and community leaders, then fine. it fits you well and is not a surprise at all. However, if things do go south in our relationship with Russia, and you have Putin and China and thier missles sitting across the table from Mrs. Palin and her executive experience and lipstick, do you feel confident, or just maybe the teensiet bit uneasy?
Seriously. Your gut response. As if the RNC was not listening. I won't tell on you.
anon 10:47
O'Malley ran a city "INTO THE GROUND" that had more people than her entire state.
Please explain to me when the office of president was not reserved for the elite? Even Andrew Jackson, hero of the "common guy," was not your average American. Even Abe lincoln's humble origins are largely a myth. Why shouldn't it be elite? I just don't understand when it became a bad idea to be smart in this country. We should want our best and brightest to be president, but we have all these critics that say it should just be an average person. Other countries are not using average people to lead, and we shouldn't either. Statistically the average American is not a college graduate, has never traveled outside the country, has never been elected to anything, cannot read a financial report, has a significant credit card debt, will get a divorce, has never actually read the U.S Constitution. Our very best, the cream of the crop, should be elected.
11:03 said: "joe, how in the world did all of these whack job libs find your site."
Well, friend, the site is called "Salisbury News," and until recnetly it acurally focsed on other issues besides partisanship, petty political name-calling, and the breakdown in civil discourse.
Also, which may come as a shock to you, Salisbury is the home to people from several different policial parties, not just Republicans. Although, if that became the case, it would be more of a reason than the ones usually offered in this blog to move the hell away from this god-forsaken peninsula.
Furthermore, nice to see a welcoming, friendly, Country-First phrase such as "whack job libs" thrown out there on a day such as this. It is good to see that all the "we are closer to each other now, and a different country since the attacks of 9/11" stuff is really working out well.
None of you Palin lovers has ever addressed the fact that she raised sales tax in Wasila to build a hockey rink. She raised the taxes!!!! The money from the Bridge to Nowhere was not returned to us, the taxpayers, it sits right now (the part that wasn't spent) in Alaska! I'm being serious when I say I would love to hear how fiscal conservatives back Palin on both of those issues. Seriously, what is the possible explanation, other than hypocrisy?
12:54: AMEN! I have been dumfounded by that sentiment for some time. When did, "he seems like a guy I'd lke to have a beer with" be the bar we judge our leaders by? We are the greatest nation in the world, and we really want Jed Clampett to run the show?
For whatever reason the educated, and the educators, have become a lightning rod for the screams of the right wing noise machine. If the Bush family goes to Yale, then its OK. If any democrat goes to Harvard, then they are out of touch.
"Elitist" is a new code word among the right, and has become their go-t0 word to describe anyone they disagree with. By "elitist" they mean educated and smart. Their side does not like that, because the more educated you are, the easier it is to see through their noise.
1:18, No, "Elitist" means smug, haughty, highfalutin, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, or uppity...You take your pick. Like it or not, that is how Obama comes off to a "very large" portion of the US population. A fact that will become painfully obvious to you and others that think like you on 4 November 2008. Best of luck to you!;)
just a couple points I'd like to make: unless the State Police have lowered their standards in the last few years Obama could not even be a trooper because anyone that has used cocaine in the past is automatically disqualified and he admitted to using "blow" in his book. O K to be president though. Second: the main difference between the left and right in this country. The left thinks the government is responsible for all our needs and the right feels we are responsible for ourselves.
"By "elitist" they mean educated and smart. Their side does not like that, because the more educated you are, the easier it is to see through their noise." - Why is it then, that Republicans are, on average, more educated than the average Democrat? It is true that the more educated one is, the more likely the person is to support a Republican candidate. Please explain.
1:46: And your proof for these ideas is.......?
Bill Clinton: Rhodes Scholar and Democrat
Barack Obama: Harvard Law and Democrat
George W Bush: "C" student at Yale (a school he got into because his dad went there,) and Republican
John McCain: next to next to last in his class at the Naval Academy (a school he got into because his dad went there,) and Republican
Sarah Palin????
From earlier: "However, if things do go south in our relationship with Russia, and you have Putin and China and thier missles sitting across the table from Mrs. Palin and her executive experience and lipstick, do you feel confident, or just maybe the teensiet bit uneasy?"
Anyone gonna even try to take a whack at that one?
Lance Carroll - "uppity" Obama? racist much? Can't have a black man not know his place, can we?
anon 1:45 - I don't know the rules - would George W's DUI have excluded him from being a trooper, also?
I thought this might make the anti-Palin folks think a little. Be sure to scroll to the end.
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Who Am I?
I am under 45 years old,
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I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office.
Did you guess?
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I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900
10:16,
You're right, I should reconsider. I am happy to tell you that I have reconsidered Sarah Palin. And, I'll still vote for McCain/Palin
Palin admitted she smoked pot. Get over it.
10:52,
He never voted 'present' in the US Senate, because you can't vote that way.
Once again: You people vote for Republicans because you don't know the issues or facts. Everyone I know who has an education and knows the facts doesn't vote Republican.
No links.
10:43...you sure are a die-hard.
Sarah Palin left her little town $22 million in debt. It was $0 in debt when she became mayor.
How did they grow? With big box stores and sprawl. Still a little town, but nothing shining.
That sports center? Illegally done deal, then eminent domain to correct it.
Joe...that's a typical Republican defense. I'm not pissed. What I just put up was plain old facts.
The only differences I can see between Palin and Barrie Tilghman are: 1) Palin's prettier (but Barrie was pretty when she was young), 2) Palin appears to be a better mother, but that could be debatable and really shouldn't be debated, and 3) Palin went on to become governor, running against a governor with such a low approval rating, even Bush could've beaten him.
Palin is savage with those who disagree with her (same with Barrie). She wants everyone to think she's so fiscally conservative, but her performance in Wasilla shows she is not.
And now the capper...
You just put up a response from Barrie about her parking while shopping, whining that she doesn't get paid enough, that she doesn't get as much with travel as say, certain city council members get with health insurance...
And Palin is crying the same about her travel expenses where she gets to be paid per diem for staying home in Wasilla rather than stay at the governor's place near her job. And she's noting how it's not as much as "those other people" spent on travel...
The parallels are unmistakable.
So I'm not trying to change your mind. But stop saying the Democrats are angry that she's such a success. I consider her to be accomplished, yet quite mediocre in many ways, certainly the ones I deem important for leading this country.
For example, anyone in her position who won't talk to the media and calls a preacher (Rick Warren) to say, how do I cope with all the mean things people say, isn't up to talking to heads of state on the brink of war.
The bottom line is, if she were a Democrat, you'd be trashing her as you do Barrie Tilghman. But she's pretty and Republican, so you'll find any way to excuse her from the facts, responsibility and being accountable for her record.
Oh, and btw, it's documented that Palin was FOR the Bridge to Nowhere (Barrie's was the Road to Nowhere, remember?) before she was against it. The Feds had already pulled the plug on the project, and then she was against it. Put the money into a road adjacent to it, if I recall correctly.
She is trying to make herself out to be something she's not, Joe. And I can't respect that. I have heard both Obama and Biden admit past mistakes, what was wrong and how they've done better. I haven't heard Palin be anything other than self-absorbed and insulting.
Sign me,
Average Joe, but thinking with my big head.
2:47,
To paraphrase a moment in a famous vice presidential debate: I Know Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt is a friend of mine. Sarah Palin isn't a Teddy Roosevelt.
For 400 years politicians with EXPERIENCE ran this this country into the shape its in. Lets try somebody with little experience. It cant be no worst than it is now.
12:26 p.m. said:
"Please accept our apologies that Sarah Palin is not an Ivy League educated elitist snob like the majority of our politicians."
I believe Terry Cohen is an Ivy League graduate. I can't wait to tell her you all think she's an elitist snob for having had the brains to get into a great school (and I'm sure she must have worked her a$$ off to pay for it since her parents weren't rich -- and neither was Obama's).
Sarah Palin is a snob, too. Apparently, only people from SMALL TOWNS are good. Anyone from a town bigger than Wasilla must be bad, especially if they worked for jobs and justice in a big city.
Unlike Sarah Palin, I don't judge HER badly for where she lives or how she grew up. I just don't think she's got what it takes to run the country without Karl Rove or his pupil.
Listen to yourselves. You are so partisan that when your side does all the things you loathe, you cheer it with hatred in your hearts for anyone with a different opinion.
This is one independent going for Obama, and your hatred, while not the tipping point, certainly confirms my decision.
W also did cocaine. Got in trouble for it in Maine. The State Trooper that arrested him and his record conveniently disappeared prior to him becoming President. How convenient, but the people who live there remember W the party guy.
Laurel
Since, you seem to need the definition of a racist I will help you out. Rascist: "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences". This definition comes from the Webster’s dictionary and there is not one word that resembles uppidy. It seems you need just as much help with the definition of uppidy, so I will help you out again…uppidy: “having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude” There is no mention of race anywhere in this definition so I fail to see the correlation between race and the word uppidy? There are many words in the dictionary that could define me but “racist” is not one of them. So just remember Laurel when you start pointing your finger that you have 3 fingers pointing back at you!
Palin raised taxes(for the hockey rink) before she lowered 'em. She kept the "bridge" money in Ak for other, more important programs. For it before against it. She concedes a bridge is needed, but it will be built by Alaskans at a later time. Some of the appropriation money went to Ak citizens, the rest(not in other projects) is in an interest bearing account.
Just like M'OM, you say, only worse? You say. Gimmee a break...NO comparison!
5:31...couldn't agree more.
Let's talk about BHO's experience(or lack of it) as opposed to SHP, shall we?
Lance Carroll- unfortunately, I am *well* aware of the meaning of racist.
Google "uppity". With the exception of the very first result, every single one (on the first page, anyway) relates the word to racism.
If you are not a racist, my apologies. I just found the choice of that word as a bit of a red flag.
And unfortunately, I still believe that many, many people will not consider Obama strictly on the basis of the color of his skin.
Notice that none of the Palin lovers here tried to explain the contradictions (reformist image, yet she took the tax money from us for the Bridge to Nowhere, raised the sales tax in Wasila, and left the town in greater debt than when she started). Seriously, doesn't that give you guys pause? You are being used--they are dramatically distorting her record, and when confronted with the facts, you guys just passivley move on and continue your support! Doesn't it tick you off that Palin says one thing but really did another? It should! Where I come from, we call that lying.
Luarel, I did the google search that you suggested and three “news” articles did come up connecting the word “uppity” and race. But the “news” articles were all about your lefty friends crying foul about the word “uppity” being used as a racial slur against Obama. There still was no dictionary that defined this word as having any racial connotation. So I guess it is only considered a racist slur when used to describe the highfalutin Barrack Hussein Obama or any of the Kennedy family (I guess that would not be racial because they are "Whittes"). So try and hijack a simple word to make a political issue if you want or get a real problem; I don’t care either way. Anyway I don’t want to seem “uppity” but you are becoming boring to me so our conversation is over.
The "un-uppity" McCain/Palin 08
"And unfortunately, I still believe that many, many people will not consider Obama strictly on the basis of the color of his skin."
Laurel: The people who will vote for him strictly on that same basis (and we know they're out there) are no more or less racist. No one race or philosophy has a monopoly on racism. How politically incorrect of me to point this out.
Sooooooooooooo, the VEEP nominee doesn't have experience.....What, pray, experience does the nominee for POTUS have. My God, he's never had a job. And, he's been on the campaign trail since he was elected (don't know why).
My opinion and My vote:
PRESENT!!!!!!
Don't forget Ted Kennedy was against Osama, Omam..O bama "however you say that name" before he was for him.
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