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The 'Palin effect' gets twisted, from admiration to mockery
By Gonzalo Espariz Oct 2, 2008, 2:58 GMT
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While she is to be commended for her ability to skin and gut out a moose in thirty minutes.do we really need another Dan Quail albeit with nicer legs.
One can feel sorry for her,you can not blame her for lacking cognitive abilities,nature made her that way .It shows however how incredibly insufficient McCain is prepared for his task .An english newspaper hit the nail on the head when it printed that the GOP hates everything that is related to the state so much that they always select the most stupid to put at it's head .
i am sure shes as smart as a moose...but give the media 30 minutes and indeed she is a moose. never judge a book by its cover, while first impressions make us drool....the taste is in the pudding, and the pudding is grool.
Here in NYC I just saw a new bumpersticker:
Obama
One Nation
One People
Kinda creeped me out; I wondered why it seemed so familiar…
Poster from 1930’s — from you know where…
Deutschland
Ein Volk
Ein Reich
Ein Fuhrer
Axelrod is taking pages from Goebbles playbook…
(Incidentally, I don’t think Obama is Hitler. More like a ready-for-Celebrity-Jeopardy version of Hugo Chavez. Stiil, I must say that his campaign and its supporters seems fond of some of the propaganda techniques used by the Nazis. Or maybe Biden is claiming he came up with them all on his own and hasn’t told anybody he’s been “borrowing” again…)
Obama loves to say that 90% (or whatever the phony made-up figure is) of his donors contributed less than $200? Sounds good, right? Real, honest to goodness grass-roots support there. The little people, the poor people, really want this guy to be their president. Well it turns out that 35 or 40 of those “people” turn out to be one person contributing nearly $9,000 to Obama; a clear violation of campaign finance laws restricting donations to a maximum of $4600 per election cycle. And the kicker? The guy is named Good Will. Mr. Will is from Texas.
And we are just getting warmed up.
In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.
Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”
A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
Following this and subsequent FEC requests, campaign records show that 330 contributions from Mr. Good Will were credited back to a credit card. But the most recent report, filed on Sept. 20, showed a net cumulative balance of $8,950 — still well over the $4,600 limit.
There can be no doubt that the Obama campaign noticed these contributions, since Obama’s Sept. 20 report specified that Good Will’s cumulative contributions since the beginning of the campaign were $9,375.
Mr. Good Will has a partner in crime, Mr Doodad Pro from Nando, NY.
Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.
But in some of them, he didn’t even go this far, apparently picking letters at random to fill in the blanks on the credit card donation form. In these cases, he said he was employed by “VCX” and that his profession was “VCVC.”
Following FEC requests, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro in February 2008. In all, about $8,425 was charged back to a credit card. But that still left a net total of $11,165 as of Sept. 20, way over the individual limit of $4,600.
The Obama campaign is looking into it.
It seems that foreigners are getting in on the act.
The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.
More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address overseas. Their total contributions came to just $201,680.
But others came from places as far afield as Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing, Fallujah, Florence, Italy, and a wide selection of towns and cities in France.
Until recently, the Obama Web site allowed a contributor to select the country where he resided from the entire membership of the United Nations, including such friendly places as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
So the Citizen of the World, is apparently about to be elected President using money from fellow citizens of the world. Many of those are citizens of America’s enemies.
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What's going on here???? Not even the crypto-neocon-nuke-heads are rallying to the defense of Super-Sarah. Can it be that they actually read this article containing many of her incoherent babblings?
Not really much more to say....she has said it all for herself...
The republicans counting on it!
COURIC: 'Why should the government spend 700 billion dollars to bail out Wall Street instead of giving the funds to ordinary citizens?'
PALIN: 'Ultimately, what the bail-out does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the - it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans.'
WOW.... BAILOUT EQUALS HEALTHCARE?...WHAT A GRASP OF CURRENT EVENTS!!
She wont be nearly as bad as expected.Seen 'Wag the dog ?She is currently on McCain's farm undergoing a brainwash to prepare he for the dabate ,learning to use one liners applicable to most questions .Immediately after the debate the internet will be flooded with comments how well she performed,what kind af a no nonsense,straightforward refreshing person she is ,how different from the usual Whashington crows .'Wag the dog 'or in other words :how to turn a handicap into an advantage.
Spend time in a living hell.......5 1/2 years!
Spend your better years waiting for your turn to be President.....8 years!
Running for President......$400 Million Dollars!
Picking Caribou Barbi for your Vice President......priceless!
Spend time in the senate? 143 days.
Spend time in the damn America church? 20 years.
Helping Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Penny Pritzker, Jamie Gorelick and Tony Rezko steal billions from the taxpayer in order to get a slice?
Priceless to whomever pays taxes.
and you are a liar!
'and you are a liar!'
What was a lie?
The pundits are saying sarah won, but it was because of popularity, they are painting americans as stupid again. I LOVED the Frank Luntz poll of “undecided” voters that gave the debate hands down to Sarah. And they LOVED her answer on personal responsibility. And if you listened carefully, you could hear a lot of anti-bailout comments in the audience. I am pumped! It’s back to the Palin-McCain ticket.
Kondracke: “She didn’t make a single mistake”. I concur.
You say; 'I am pumped.'
Please, this is a family oriented blog. Leave your sex life on Facebook.
...it seems the MCCain ranch really worked Tonny....
ppppriceless...
With the gutter politics consisting of labeling Obama as the friends of terrorists,building a n acusation built on thin air and logics as used by our resident neocon simpleton SP4, the limits of decency have been throdded.There used to be times when those that used these methods were covered i feathers and pitch,casted out the White House,Nixon found that.
Palin has managed to surpass him in gutter politic .Consequently the GOP has lost all respect from the outside world .90 percent of the dutch population would vote for Obama,75 percent of the germans,85 percent of the frencheverywhere in Europe the same rates are obtained .Palin has covered herself wih ridicule in front of the world opinion with these shameful gutter tactics .If ever she gets elected,the damage to the international reputation would be beyond repair.No decent world leader wants to associate with such figure.
I think the Republican vice-presidential candidate should pose nude for Hustler.
Maybe Palin is getting advice from Cindy McCain on dressing in $300,000 clothes and jewelry! Palin will be so caught up in that good life of wealth and privilege of the McCain's, she might not want to go back 'up there' in Alaska gutting animals when they lose the election!!!
Germans and the Dutch are not allowed to vote here...
..and Sarah palin was correct: Mr. Ayers is a card-carrying domestic terrorist, with whom Obama had a personal and professional relatioship with.
Palin wouldn't know which end is up unless she's been drilled constantly and completely. If she couldn't memorize, she'd be up the creek somewhere 'up there' in Alaska. She is so laughable, it's somewhat pathetic.
JenOct 6th, 2008 - 13:30:07
Maybe Palin is getting advice from Cindy McCain on dressing in $300,000 clothes and jewelry!
sp4 - nothing in her appearence, for those who think it's important, indicates that but the insinuation was not wasted
Palin will be so caught up in that good life of wealth and privilege of the McCain's, she might not want to go back 'up there' in Alaska gutting animals when they lose the election!!!
sp4 - if you bothered to study her record it shows she was willing to buck her own party. If anyone has to explain their financial situation here it is Obama and his Countrywide loans and the home Tonny 'the knife' Rezko sold him at a reeeeeeall gooooood price.
I never once intended to vote for her and McCain, but if I had, her recent debate would have turned me off for good. What a vacuous excuse for a politician. There's nothing of substance to her, and her attitude towards her fellow humans is so archaic it's frightening. The least she could've done was lie like the other politicians, and say she 'respects' other peoples' life choices, but instead kept saying 'tolerates'. I think McCain choosing her was simply a gimmick to try to win the election. And it's also an insult to all of the other Republicans out there who are clearly more qualified. I bet he regrets his choice now. But if I were her, I'd be most definitely embarassed by being chosen for reasons other than my qualifications. She's simply being used by desperate old man who wants to be president, and she doesn't seem to even know it. But I can't feel sorry for her, I dislike her too much on a personal level to feel sorry for her. I'm enjoying the humor of it too much!
i cant see mcain palin ripping off taxpayers like those wealthy bankers.mcain will lowertaxes for 100percent of workers more for social needs and families obama will raiser taxes nothing for the pooy under obama.
obama is so thick palin is ready for the president-she gave alaskans1200dollars how much will unclescrooge obama give you yeah rightgo back to community work-this job requires leadership notgiving the presidency away just because youre black and sympathy.
Fred,did Palin really gave all that money to the Alaskans ?Wowwww.Meanwhile Bush stole 35.000 dollars from every single US citizen,included the babies...and gave it to the bankers.Shhhh,don't tell everybody.
Fred, Alaskan citizens have been getting money every year for years from the pipeline - has nothing to do with 'Palin' Palin!
Palin is running around like a student on a band trip - or some kind of 'trip'!
Top Republican explains why McCain will lose election...
Former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd recently said of McCain:
'He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that.'
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