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Palin’s performance reminiscent of Bush’s
Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.
The similarities between George W. Bush and Sarah Palin are uncanny. He’s the guy you want to have a beer with and she refers to herself as one of the Joe Six-Packs of the country.
Neither George Bush nor Sarah Palin can construe or formulate a complete sentence correctly. Both George Bush and Sarah Palin depend on their advisers to provide them with information regarding our nation’s economy and events transpiring throughout the world. This almost seems like deja vu.
For all her cramming in Arizona, and for all her well-rehearsed/well-versed performance during the debate, it lacked the most important ingredient of all: substance.
The people who think this country can be run on gotchas, betchas, aw-shucks and being folksy are the people who are totally unaware of what is happening not only in our country, but also around the world.
It will take more than a Joe Six-Pack to solve the problems confronting us. I wonder how this must look to the nations around the world.
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We know what this looks like to the nations around the world because we've been living it since December 12, 2000.
And NEVER underestimate the power of stupid people in groups. In 2000, 51 million of them thought the dry-drunk was "a good idea".
Four years later, slightly fewer than that did it again DESPITE having had four years to see the disasters that were already upon us.
I'll say it again ... I don't WANT to have a beer with my president. And I damn sure expect my president to be at least slightly more intelligent than I am.
Once again, though, that's apparently utopia and we certainly can't have any of that.
You cannot see russia from george w. bush's house. and, as Patricia stated George does not drink, therefore no way is he a Joe six pack dude. Plus Sarah is running for v.p.
and George ran for president. She is a girl he is a boy. Want me to continue? I see no similarity.
If nations around the world saw this comment site, I wonder what they would think.
tokaloshe,
We already know what the rest of the world thinks. Did you see how they turned out for Obama?
Hamas just loves Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great argument jfnance32. Full of non facts and fury. Silly man. You're getting desperate now just like the GOP. Your sad attempts to smear the opponent just show how you and the GOP are running scared. How about some defense of your own party instead of random attacks on the Dems? Explain why Palin can't hold her own in an unscripted interview. Explain how McCain will help the economy.
Wait let me predice your response. Based on your past, you won't answer the question, you'll just repeat your invectives.
JERUSALEM -- The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.
The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
OBAMA LIES ABOUT RELATIONSHIP WITH TERRORISTS
In spite of Sen. Barack Obama's claims to the contrary, the Democratic presidential nominee had a close working relationship with former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers when the two served alongside each other on a hundred-million-dollar education foundation, according to the group's own archived records.
The records also show Obama's and Ayers' foundation granted money to radical leftist activist causes.
News reports, archived records, interviews and Ayers' own curriculum vitae document that Ayers was the founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, which bills itself as a school reform organization. Ayers also served as co-chairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one of the two operational arms of the CAC, from its formation in 1995 until 2000.
In 1995, Obama was appointed as the CAC's first chairman.
In response to a query by National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz, the Obama campaign issued a statement claiming Ayers was not involved with Obama's "recruitment" to the CAC board. The statement said Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham, who served as presidents of other foundations, recruited Obama.
Last April, Obama dismissed Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis."
But Kurtz reviewed the CAC archives at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which houses CAC board meeting minutes and other documentation from the education foundation. He found that along with Leff and Graham, Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board of the CAC, which hired Obama.
Hey tokaloshe; do you even know what a dry-drunk is?
Typical fear and smear campaign by the GOP.
Why are we losing lives and money in Iraq? Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
I love this country and we need to straighten out the mess we're in.
We need to put party politics aside and help those struggling in this country before offering a hand to oil-rich Iraq.
OBAMA CONTINUES TO LIE ABOUT HIS INOLVEMENT WITH TERRORISTS AND EXTREME LEFT
Did Sen. Barack Obama's campaign attempt to hide a paid working relationship with a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous major voter fraud scandals?
That question is being openly asked by the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed Obama's campaign paid more than $800,000 in services to Citizen Services Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit organization that is an offshoot of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families. It has held violent, disruptive protests, seeks to regulate banks, supports left-leaning education policies, is accused of working on urging partisan voter turnout for elections, and seems to promote driving businesses from cities.
CSI is headquartered in New Orleans in the same building as ACORN. The three directors of CSI are also top leaders of ACORN. The two groups have close financial ties.
The Obama campaign's payments to CSI -- first reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -- raise questions about the nature of Obama's current relationship with ACORN. Obama has been closely linked with the radical group and may have even helped drive large amount of money to the organization.
According to FEC records reviewed by the Tribune-Review, the Obama campaign paid CSI $832,598.29, from Feb. 25 to May 17, including $564,342.21 for "stage, lighting and sound."
That payment immediately stood out after a pro-Hillary Clinton blogger contacted CSI Director Sunday Alabi, who also serves as an ACORN leader. Alabi said CSI doesn't perform stage, lighting or sound services.
Patricia,
A dry drunk from my understanding is an alcoholic that does not drink but still has same behaviors or something but, what is your point?
I was merely stating that since he does not drink beer you cannot call him a "joe six pack"
A dry-drunk is the most dangerous kind because s/he never admitted s/he had a problem, never went through the 12 steps, never had a sponsor, never made a pledge or promise, etc.
I never called him a "joe six pack". His whole "appeal" during the 2000 campaign was that flyover country felt they could sit down & have a beer with him.
Again, I don't WANT to sit down with my President and have a beer. I want my President to be a damn sight more intelligent than I am.
But flyover country (courtesy of the so-called "liberal media") considers a presidential candidate with an IQ that's actually measurable to be "elitist".
As I've said before, the dumbing down of America is complete. Sadly, the disaster the right wing has made of this country has to be felt by those of us who WARNED that this would happen.
We don't deserve this. You (who voted for this idiot) do.
And PLEASE stop spamming that nonsense on every thread. Are you Jim's alter-ego or something?
Plus,
i do not believe in such a thing as a dry drunk, i think when someone quits drinking, people who are naive will accuse them of still acting like a drunk. They do that for a lot of reasons, mainly because their behavior has changed and it confuses the people around them.
I personally champion "george w" for being able to quit drinking others who do not understand the disease will make childish little remarks about it, i think ism's and addictions are very similar to things like cancer and people who can beat it, defeat it, cure it or whatever i would compare to the likes of gold medal champions like michael phelps for instance.
Yes,
George "michael phelps" bush
You're right; you DON'T know what a dry-drunk is. I gave you the definition. It has nothing to do with mannerisms. It has EVERYTHING to do with HOW they stopped drinking.
Yes, there are some people who can simply stop without any ramifications. But most people cannot; especially those with highly addictive tendencies.
To be honest, I'm not sure he's NOT still drinking; no one knows because the so-called liberal media doesn't think it's important.
They didn't think it was important in 2000 (not enough air time; they had to devote that air time to what [expletive deleted] colors Al Gore was wearing) and they certainly haven't thought about it since then.
Do not assume I know nothing about the disease. I've had friends and family suffer from alcoholism and other addictions. I've seen the hell they go through and I've seen how hard it is to make it. They were fortunate & made it. I've known a few in my time who haven't.
As to "childish little remarks", Bush deserves NO respect; he has earned NO respect; and he will get NO respect from me.
And trust me, whomever we elect will be a damn sight smarter than you'll realize.
If you, Patricia say he, "george w" is an idiot how can anyone dis-prove or prove?
Go ahead vote for "Barack 1000.00 a vote Barack"
where you gonna spend your next stimulus check
hussein? he uses gangster like tactics to get votes, thats what he was taught on the streets of chicago, he uses the thug like tactics of capone or jesse jackson and i am giving the american people more credit than you......
I predict he'll mis-judge by a larger than you can imagine margin, aqnd when i see you on these boards in november i will remind you.
i never printed the word "mannerism"
read before commenting.
i said "ism" as in alcoholism
Ha Ha Ha, shows you how much you know about the disease, If George is truly an alcoholic (which I believe he is) and he were drinking, everyone would know it i guarantee you.
I will tell you a distinct difference between me and people like you.
Once a president is elected, I respect them,
I respect what they are doing in office and I support them, even clinton when he messed around and took advantage of a young impressionable intern, even nixon, when he lied to the american people, even carter with his mis-guided attempts to help this country i respect.
I respect them because they are public servants, I believe they are doing the best they can.
Plus, if that is what the american people vote for, i respect it.
I think it is unpatriotic to trrash talk the commander in chief, he is not the enemy patricia,
he is on our side, i would never want you in my platoon i will tell you that.
patricia should be reported to the webmaster, she is being un-american bordering on threatening statements about our president.
To tell you how times have changed, my parents taught me when i was little to never say bad remarks about the president of the united states. I thought it was good advice, it taught me patriotism, it taught me obamas favorite saying "love of country". It reminded me what team i was on. Wonder why we have all of the social problems we have today, its called selfishness, if i did'nt get the president i wanted i am going to trash talk him for the next four years, thats not american thats serves an anti-american purpose, and this newspaper should take big notes of this fact. That means you ralston you big left wingnut. I have never seen you anywhere close to center on anythng.
There are other countries out there, this is not the only one, and i am sure they'll find room.
It took you four posts to say ..... what?
You are truly delusional if you think for a minute that one always knows when someone is an alcoholic. **I** said mannerisms; you said "acting like". Would you like a dictionary?
And then there's the "SO AND SO SHOULD BE REPORTED" nazi-like tactics of the right wing.
You are no longer worthy of a reply. Stew in your ignorance, meme.