Comments on Advance Indiana™: Vetting A Veep

Come on AI, with all that history, Biden obviously...

2008-09-03T04:07:00.000-05:00

Come on AI, with all that history, Biden obviously equals Change! If this doesn't prove the media is biased towards Obama, I don't know what does.

"Ah, but I just have - just as you have repeatedly...

2008-09-02T22:45:00.000-05:00

"Ah, but I just have - just as you have repeatedly with Rezko/Obama. You try to play guilt by association, but as you will see two can now play that game."

Not guilt by association. Guilt by fact. Obama took Rezko to look at the house he couldn't afford. Rezko lined up the bank financing and purchased the adjoining lot, improved it and deeded part of it over to Obama for a cool savings of at least $300,000. Obama used his state job to lobby for hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants for a private business, which in turn paid Obama $120,000 for a "no show/no work" corporate counsel job, which he failed to disclose on his statement of economic interest. Obama steered millions of housing grants to Rezko. Rezko helped Obama get a job at a law firm and hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions.

"Nobody has suggested Palin did anything wrong and...

2008-09-02T22:32:00.000-05:00

"Nobody has suggested Palin did anything wrong and that work had nothing to do with Stevens corruption charges" - Ah, but I just have - just as you have repeatedly with Rezko/Obama. You try to play guilt by association, but as you will see two can now play that game.

I guess Palin's experience in attempting to champion $196 million in earmarks for Alaska this year must be the so-called "maverick" the purported fiscally "conservative" base needs. Fiscal conservative my butt. She lied to the American people on the first day she took the stage the McCain's Vice Presidential nominee. The fact remains she said she will take on pork-barrel spending while she is heading the state who requests and receives the most of it.

While I have no doubt that she is a very smart women. A Maverick? A fiscal conservative? I think not. Its just more of the same line of crap McCain has been trying to sell to the American public since he began to change his positions from Senator the Presidential nominee. I used to like Senator McCain, before he ran for President this year. Anyone can see how completely right he has went this year, and, having just heard his speech, Joe Lieberman is not going to help that image any.

"Well if Biden has no experience, then what does t...

2008-09-02T21:08:00.000-05:00

"Well if Biden has no experience, then what does that say about McCain?"

AMEN!

That means that John McCain and Barack Obama have the exact same amount of executive experience under your original definition.

I just can't believe you McCainiacs. McCain chose the Mayor of a town of 7,000 people. 25,000 people live in Decatur Township! Indianapolis is bigger population-wise than Alaska! GREG BALLARD FOR VEEP! Ballard had REAL military experience.

Quit this bull and call it like it is. Palin was a MISERABLE pick. My grandmother had an old saying, "You can't shine s*#%." That's exactly what this pick was. Even your talking points can't hide it.

You cannot deny the fact that federal money did no...

2008-09-02T21:01:00.000-05:00

You cannot deny the fact that federal money did not get spent on the Bridge To Nowhere because she turned down the federal appropriation. Slice it and dice it all you want, you cannot deny that. The connection between the NFP you raise and Stevens is quite laughable. Nobody has suggested Palin did anything wrong and that work had nothing to do with Stevens corruption charges. People are trying to find out about Obama's relationship with terrorist bomber Bill Ayers and the foundation he helped run with Ayers, helping him hand out over $100 million before the organization mysteriously shuttered its doors. Despite Obama's hinchmen's efforts to block access to those files, reporters are no reviewing them. We'll see what we learn. People have also suggested there was something untoward between Obama assisting Rezko in obtaining $100 million in federal housing money, only to run the housing projects in Obama's district as only a slumlord could. In consideration, Obama received $250,000 in campaign contributions and a gift of $300,000 on the purchase of his million dollar South Side home courtesy of Rezko. Yes, Rezko has been convicted. Yes, he's scheduled for sentencing before this November's election. And yes, he is reportedly cooperating with federal investigator. Got anything better, Josh?

Yes, I have a question for you. Not taking into a...

2008-09-02T20:46:00.000-05:00

Yes, I have a question for you. Not taking into account that: (1) she was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago; (2) her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town of approximately 6,700 people outside Anchorage; (3) she is clearly anti-choice by opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest; (4) wants creationism taught in public schools; (5) doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change; (6) she is solidly in line with "Big Oil first" energy policy; and (7)who sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as a threatened species.

If the fully vetted her. Why did John McCain not stop her from lying in her opening speech with him in Ohio? Specifically, she burnished her purported reformer image by repudiating wasteful spending which she has engaged in, and said she was against the so-called "bridge to nowhere" when she was for it. We subsequently learn that everything she said was a farce. Palin helped secure over $8 million in earmarks for projects in Wasilla, Alaska when she was Mayor. Then in the lest than 2 years she has been governor, requested another 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year's federal budget. Of course, I would be remiss not to point out also that Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), was the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption. Stevens sponsored a total of 1,452 pork barrel projects worth $3.4 billion between 1995 and 2008, making Alaska the No. 1 state in pork per capita every year since 1999.

Palin's name is also apparently listed on the 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group. Palin and Stevens, joined at the hip everywhere. This stinks worse than the Rezko-Obama story you keep trying to pump. Think about it, at least Obama did not champion and run a corporation to sponsor the corrupt Rezko, like Palin did for the indicted Stevens. I don't know, but this could get pretty interesting come October - The indicted Ted Stevens is set for trial on September 24.

I just don't get how this was not foreseen and how she is supposed to be some form of a reformer. I think you are trying to do damage control on a last minute knee jerk reaction and poor decision by your preferred Presidential nominee.

Sorry for the long post. I just wanted your view on how this was addressed during the great vetting process that you purport she went through.

McCain was a commanding officer of a Naval trainin...

2008-09-02T20:09:00.000-05:00

McCain was a commanding officer of a Naval training squadron. Still more experience than the two career legislators. Laugh at the Commander in Chief of her national guard, John, you still can't hide from the fact that Obama has zero executive experience like Biden.

Well if Biden has no experience, then what does th...

2008-09-02T19:57:00.000-05:00

Well if Biden has no experience, then what does that say about McCain?

LOL, Gary, man I respected you before.Palin has mi...

2008-09-02T19:55:00.000-05:00

LOL, Gary, man I respected you before.
Palin has military experience? That is an insult to those of us who served!
Commander of National Guard, come on, quit posting the talking points.
When units deploy, Gov's have no control once the Pentagon has them in deployment rotation and training.
Really, seriously get something better.