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#79 Nov 07 2008 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent

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What's most disturbing to me is that she became a Governor before ever being asked into McCain's campaign.

I'd ask how that happened, but then I remember a wrestler once......

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#80 Nov 07 2008 at 9:31 AM Rating: Good

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Elinda wrote:

What's most disturbing to me is that she became a Governor before ever being asked into McCain's campaign.

I'd ask how that happened, but then I remember a wrestler once......

And a foreign bodybuilder. Smiley: nod

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#81 Nov 07 2008 at 9:31 AM Rating: Good

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Elinda wrote:

What's most disturbing to me is that she became a Governor before ever being asked into McCain's campaign.

I'd ask how that happened, but then I remember a wrestler once......

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#82 Nov 07 2008 at 9:36 AM Rating: Decent

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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:

shadomen wrote:

Palin was an absolutely horrible choice for a VP pick. This is coming from someone who campaigned quite heavily for McCain. She was NOT the reason why he lost the election though.

I don't think Republicans are eating their young here either. They are just calling her out for being an idiot. There's nothing wrong with that.

They put her there. If anyone's to blame, its them.

Absolutely, I do not disagree. McCain's campaign obviously did not do their homework on her. I think they moved to quickly to try to snatch up the pissed off Hillary supporters...and it backfired, big time.

As I look back, McCain had zero chance at winning. Obama's rockstar image as well as McCain's mistakes were just too much to overcome. This election was also the inditement of all Republicans due to 8 years of failed Bush policy.

#83 Nov 07 2008 at 9:45 AM Rating: Excellent

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Bush was certainly a factor. I have no question at all about that.

However, the party has some serious internal schisms (schismata?) that y'all are going to need to resolve somehow.

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#84 Nov 07 2008 at 9:52 AM Rating: Good

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But I'm not going to deny that Palin looks good, and has great legs.

She's kept herself fit.

#85 Nov 07 2008 at 10:12 AM Rating: Good

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According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello."

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#86 Nov 07 2008 at 10:14 AM Rating: Good

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Aripyanfar wrote:

But I'm not going to deny that Palin looks good, and has great legs.

She's kept herself fit.

Her face, though, does nothing for me.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, on the other hand... Smiley: inlove

#87 Nov 07 2008 at 10:27 AM Rating: Decent

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My main question on the Palin issue as a non American is: Would Condi Rice not VP for McCain or did he not want her?

#88 Nov 07 2008 at 10:29 AM Rating: Excellent

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Baron von tarv wrote:

My main question on the Palin issue as a non American is: Would Condi Rice not VP for McCain or did he not want her?

I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that she was not interested.

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#89 Nov 07 2008 at 11:13 AM Rating: Good

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Condi wants to run the 49ers. She says it's her life long dream.

Edited, Nov 7th 2008 12:14pm by baelnic

#90 Nov 07 2008 at 11:26 AM Rating: Good

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"In response to the allegations that she was ill-prepared for interviews and debate, Randy Scheunemann, an aide assigned to Palin, called her "brilliant" and said she has a "photographic memory."

Smiley: dubious

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#91 Nov 07 2008 at 11:30 AM Rating: Good

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Maybe she needs to clean that camera lens if she can't seem to remember the newspapers she reads.

Edited, Nov 7th 2008 12:30pm by baelnic

#92 Nov 07 2008 at 3:42 PM Rating: Good

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For everything that is good and admirable about Condi that would make her a terrific candidate, she had one inescapable albatross hanging around her neck: Dubya. Her connection to the Bush adminstration was an anchor which could not have been severed.

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#93 Nov 07 2008 at 4:48 PM Rating: Decent

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Lady Tare wrote:

"In response to the allegations that she was ill-prepared for interviews and debate, Randy Scheunemann, an aide assigned to Palin, called her "brilliant" and said she has a "photographic memory."

Smiley: dubious

I think Palin's problem was a little too much of this bRandy and not enough research.

#94 Nov 07 2008 at 5:06 PM Rating: Good

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Too much brandy?

Nevah!

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#95 Nov 07 2008 at 6:34 PM Rating: Excellent

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Newsweek has a teaser from their upcoming "How He Did It" special edition. From it...

Newsweek wrote:

Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.
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The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Classy move, *****.

Edit: I flipped the bulletpoints from the original article. The linked article's second page is a collection of points regarding all the candidates.

Edit II: The whole article is now up. Seven chapters worth.

Edited, Nov 7th 2008 9:07pm by Jophiel

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#96 Nov 07 2008 at 7:14 PM Rating: Decent

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A guy I work with (very right, very religious) told me today that Palin was a "highly intelligent woman".

I haven't yet asked him how old he believes the Earth is... but I think I know the answer.

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