Outstanding Non-Sequiturs, Private Pyle. I think we finally found something that you do well.

These pretzels are making me thirdsty!

Sarah Palin is the GOP equivalent of the kind of veep selection that Obama would have made if he was true to the original premise of his campaign (fresh, new, outsider, reformer ect.).

Instead, Obama went with a 35 year Washington political hack.

See here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-biden28-2008aug28,0,7198358.story

Palin (allegedly) suggested that her abusive ex-brother-in-law be fired? Has a pregnant 17 year old daughter?

So what.

The hits are just beginning 4 - stay tuned.

#2: Amen. Good vetting joke.

Mystal to intern!

The selection of Palin reminds one of the joke about Notre Dame after it hired Jerry Faust to coach the football team - that when Father Hesburgh retired as university president the school would replace him with the best high school principal it could find. Palin is a sad, amateurish joke. What's not clear is who pulled it.

We are all screwed.

On one hand, we have an inexperienced liberal extremist who wants to raise everyone's taxes and give money to lazy people and enlarge the government and its socialist programs.

On the other hand, we have an old guy too old to be entering the White House who thinks the Iraq war is a good idea and who made a very poor decision in VP. If he passess away on the job (probably = 50/50), then the country will be led by an inexperienced social conservative, which will doubly screw us.

Either way, we are screwed.

- Fiscal conservative independent

How many days into the public vetting are we? 5 days? 2 business days and we already have a pregnant teenage child, an ethics investigation, a connection to a group of Alaskans wanting to secede from the US, "I was for it before I was against it" political positions, and connections to crooked politicians and lobbyists. This is a field day for journalists, gossip/rumor-mongers, and Dems.

And, it's just getting started.

Look, either you are going with outsider, change or insider, experience.

Obama by definition is not the former. And, of course, Palin is at the bottom--not the top--of the ticket.

Moreover, unless McCain drops dead within 12 months of January 1, Plain will have enough WH experience (more that BHO has now) to assume the job.

PS to #4:

Sarah Palin has been mentioned, however tangentially, as a possible McCain veep pick for months.

With Obama's budget, yo can bet there was a 5" thick file on Obma's desk on Palin weeks ago. In other words, the DNC has taken their best shots already.

Remind me, didn’t I read somewhere that Biden graduated 76th out of a TTT LS class of 86, and then lied in 1987 about the number of his undergraduate degrees as well has his LS standing?

"On one hand, we have an inexperienced liberal extremist who wants to raise everyone's taxes and give money to lazy people and enlarge the government and its socialist programs."

Link? Not one clause is true.

Show your true colors dude, and feel free to substitute "a ni&&er" after "we have."

Dear 12:

Obama will increase spending on social programs:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/14/obamas-trillion-dollar-spending-plan.html

Obama will tax the rich (those making $200K+ a year) to fund social programs:

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Obama-I39ll--tax-rich.4442646.jp

Need more links “dude”?

Sure would be nice (and quite unexpected) if the media vetted Obama the way they are going after Palin!

Republicans trying to pass the pregnancy scandal off as nothing are extremely disingenuous. You know damn well you would skewer the Obama ticket if this story came out against the Dems.

15, go ahead and do some research and see if you can find any time that a candidate's minor children were attacked during a Presidential campaign. It isn't right. Even Obama says it is off limits (at least in public).

16 - non-responsive

17, huh? 15 says republicans would have attacked Obama's kid. I (16) responded by pointing out that no party has ever gone after a Presidential candidate's minor children before. It was directly responsive.

Dear #9:

This so called "ethics" investigation of Palin is old news.

The Daily Kos reported it 30+ days ago, and the Aslaka papers extensively since day-one.

In addition, if you think that opining that an abusive brother-in-law be fired (yea, abusive husbands are SOOOOO politically popular) or having a 17 year old pregnant daughter are issues that the American people will hold against her, well, talk to me after the general election.

There is a reason that Governor Palin has held onto a 90 (at its high)-80% (at its low) approval rating in Alaska since taking office: She is liked and likable.

The only people who should be allowed to discuss the Bristol Palin pregnancy are people who have spent a winter in Alaska. The sun doesn't shine for 3 months. What do you think the kiddies are doing after hockey practice?

13 said:

Obama will increase spending on social programs:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/14/obamas-trillion-dollar-spending-plan.html

(from your link: "$18 billion a year in education spending") IN UR WORLD PUBLIC SCHOOL = SOCIALISM? "$25 billion-a-year increase in foreign aid" = SOCIALISM? PLEASE TAKE POLISCI AGAIN.

Obama will tax the rich (those making $200K+ a year) to fund social programs:

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Obama-I39ll--tax-rich.4442646.jp

YOU REFERRED TO "wants to raise everyone's taxes." EVERYONE =/= RICH. HTMFH.

Need more links “dude”?

SO YEAH, SINCE YOU FAILED EPICALLY WITH THESE LINKS, I'LL NEED A COUPLE MORE (IF, THAT IS, YOU THINK THERE WAS A TRUE STATEMENT IN YOUR OP)

Love and Obama,
12

God, you people are going to be painful to be around when Obama loses. I might have to stop reading all comments and most blogs.

"She is liked and likable."

Excellent! Let's make her president! What could go wrong?

"The vetting of Sarah Palin continues. As mayor of Wasilla, she hired Steven Silver. Silver was a client of Jack Abramoff at Greenberg Traurig, then was chief-of-staff for Ted Stevens."

Who knows John Lithgow, who was in Footloose with...Kevin Bacon!!

And 21, unless you're the unibomber, stop with the ALL CAPS. It looks psycho.

18 - A few things. Any attacks focus on failures in abstinence-only sex ed and hypocrisy in running on a platform of "family values". The daughter has not (at least as far as I've read/heard) been directly attacked, and should be left out of this.

Second, whether or not minor children have been attacked in the past has no bearing on this story. A major part of social conservatives' agenda speaks to directly THIS PROBLEM. We both know that the Republicans would skewer the democrats if this came out on the other side.

Bill O'Reily on Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy:

"On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.

Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears."

I think everyone feels for the 17 year old girl. Bristol Palin's privacy has been sacrificed as the unfortunate collateral damage of her mom's political ambitions.

Also, didn't Newt Gingrich call a teenage Chelsea Clinton a dog?

Chip Carter was attacked for (allegedly) smoking pot on the WS roof with Willie Nelson.

Dear 23:

The point is that voters are not going to dislike Palin for speaking out for her abused sister or for having a pregnant 17 year old unmarried daughter, as gleefully suggested by #9.

And yes, liability matters in elections.

@12 Playing the race card as you did shows that you are a fucking moron.

12 = The true racist

Make that “likeability”.

Sorry to interrupt the Palin lovefest, but could someone explain why anyone would care that Marquette Law School has started a faculty blog?

"Could someone explain why anyone would care that Marquette Law School has started a faculty blog?"

Having clicked on the link and skimmed the blog, no one, beyond students, facility and alums of Marquette and ATL out of blogger courtesy.

That said, I heart Sarah Palin because she has been subjected to mean but futile attacks from Obamatrons in the media.

"With Obama's budget, yo can bet there was a 5" thick file on Obma's desk on Palin weeks ago. In other words, the DNC has taken their best shots already."

1. if Obama's organization functions as you say it does, then he runs a pretty damn effective and impressive ship. Sounds like somebody I'd like to run.. maybe a country?

2. if those were the best shots, they were pretty damn good shots. i look forward to hearing them repeated for the next several weeks.

Nice try 32, but if those "shots" are "effective" what say you about the payoffs by a certain law firm to Biden's sons and campaign ($2 m loan, hiring another Biden's son's law firm to associate on cases + $200K in contributions) following Biden votes solicited and received?

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-biden28-2008aug28,0,7198358.story

Hint: People don’t care if a candidate’s daughter gets pregnant. They do care about payoffs for Senate votes.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13084.html

“Democrat Tony Knowles, her opponent in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race, put together a detailed, 63-page research document — obtained by Politico — cataloging Palin’s strengths and weaknesses. And the Obama campaign, in particular, knows Palin well: A key Obama consultant, Anita Dunn, worked on Knowles’ campaign.”

”“We’re running against John McCain — the issues raised around his decision and the fact that he clearly bowed under to the right wing of his party and let them exercise veto power over his vice presidential pick,” Dunn said, suggesting the Obama campaign wouldn’t be recycling the 2006 Democratic criticism of Palin.”

TRANSLATION: No deal killers here.

33: really? if you've turned on a tv or read a newspaper it's pretty clear nobody gives a shit about payoffs for senate votes and care very deeply about daughters getting pregnant.

Dear 33:

Really.

I am a political news junkie and have yet to perceive any public opinion holding Palin's daughter's pregnancy against the candidate. Frankly, to suggest otherwise is absurd.

Last, people are fed up with politics as usual. That is why Palin's insurgent anti-corruption resume has so much appeal, ditto McCain. But for this, Obama would be 20 points ahead in the polls, given the economy, the war, and the incumbent president's negatives.

I sure wish you were running Obama’s campaign....
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The sure sign of a liberal hypocrite-sycophant: The willingness to feign social conservatives attitudes about a family pregnancy if it helps get his/her candidate elected.

Going on about this is a sign of desperation and sure to result in voter backlash--which is why the Obama campaign is staying well away from such nonsense.

16 & 25: You have to be the stupidest fu*king iditot ever to forget that McCain himself used to take jab's at Chelsea's ugliness back in the day. What is this, liberals working with the conservatives day?

See, e.g., http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

180 for "Palin's insurgent anti-corruption resume"

Huh? Read the news, not the talking points. When she mayored that tiny town, she vetoed the library expansion but built a hockey rink with city funds so her kids and son-in-law-to-be could have a cool place to play.

It's a hell of a rink, but what corruption has she vanquished in building this insurgent resume?

37: nobody is feigning moral outrage, we're relishing in the irony and pointing out the hypocrisy (though in this case it's more a failure to implement her own abstinence policies in her household). larry craig was more about hypocrisy.

The Palin pick is an absolute joke, It was a hail mary pass without any receivers.

I have to say, this Palin thing is hillarious. Not that a guy who could have his finger on the button would pick her out of nowhere - that's scary. What's hillarious is how much the Republicans' reaction reminds me of "The Emperor's New Clothes." It's so idiotic, that the Rs just assume there must be some grand genius behind it. Surely it couldn't be as idiotic as it sounds. They's so thirsty to believe this is not a quack pick, that they're spouting lines like "she was the Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard" with a totally straight face.

If you turn on C-Span right now, and close your eyes, you can hear the soft "baa, BAAAA" coming from the crowd.

I mean secession? Secession? Really? Secession? You can't make that up.

None of this stuff about Palin changes the fact that Obama is still a nigger.

"voters are not going to dislike Palin... for having a pregnant 17 year old unmarried daughter "

I'm a voter, my friends and family are voters and we dislike Palin for having a pregnant 17 year old (among other reasons). If my kids ever show up pregnant at 17 or having gotten someone pregnant, I will feel like a failure as a parent, so that's how I view Sarah Palin.

She knew this would happen, too. I hope a failed vice presidential bid was worth exposing her teenage daughter to the scorn and judgment of millions of people.

Obama Supporters: "You know what's really important? Palins Daughter! She's a whore! Palins a bitch for letting her be a whore! She's a small town mayor! My guy is God incarnate! Never mind he has friends who relish the death of Americans.... and never mind he worships at the altar of Marx and Stalin! Never mind his work camps he wants to force everyone into! Obama, Our Lord and Master, versus the Whore from Up North!"

That's an Obama supporter right now.

John McCain attacked a teenage Chelsea Clinton for being ugly. Does that count?

Congratulations everyone! According to Grand Pa McCain - you are all now qualified to be the Vice President! Actually with law degrees (even TTT law degrees) you might be over qualified! Palin makes Dan Quail look like JKF!

Err . . . . JFK (if anyone gets the Benson reference)

Hey ah 43: From one white guy (I'm going out on a limb here and assuming your a guy) to another, GO FUCK YOURSELF, IN THE ASS, HARD!

Politico, the "highly respected" website, hailed for its "thorough" investigation, has a piece putting Sarah Palin in the pews of her church two weeks ago while the leader of JEWS FOR JESUS, as a guest speaker, presented his f@#%ked up beliefs to the congregation. If true, why didn't Palin stand up and object to what many believe is hate speech? Now scurry along and read the juicy article. The right wing nuts certainly opened this door.....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html