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Dimnos
Aug 29th, 2008, 11:13 AM
Thats right a woman.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970882/from/ET/

not that there is anything wrong with that.

El Blanco
Aug 29th, 2008, 01:07 PM
Ummm, isn't she under investigation?

Interesting pick Some claim its to get disenfranchised Hillary voters, but Palin is the philosophical opposite of her. Its like saying pissed off Obama voters would vote for Allan Keyes if Hillary got the nomination.

Dimnos
Aug 29th, 2008, 01:34 PM
I think a lot of the support for Hillary was people who just wanted to break the barrier and get a woman, any woman, in office. This would get there vote. I also think some voters, younger people in my mind, just want something other than another old white guy. They would go to Obama, but now McCain has a reason for them to come to him.

Colonel Flagg
Aug 29th, 2008, 03:14 PM
I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.

executioneer
Aug 29th, 2008, 04:47 PM
man that is one fine ass vp candidate *wolf whistles*

Tadao
Aug 29th, 2008, 05:22 PM
He did not pick a woman, he picked an AMERICAN!

Colonel Flagg
Aug 29th, 2008, 06:09 PM
man that is one fine ass vp candidate *wolf whistles*

She's a former finalist for Miss Alaska. She won Miss Congeniality.

Plus, she's hot.

A good choice all around.

El Blanco
Aug 29th, 2008, 06:55 PM
I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.


Why not question Obama's judgment. He is talking about Change and not being business as usual, then picks Biden.

Jeanette X
Aug 29th, 2008, 07:39 PM
I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.

He just wants to bring guilty white liberals over to his side by making a show of being "progressive" by picking a woman. Its all so transparent.

El Blanco
Aug 29th, 2008, 07:54 PM
The more I hear people saying what a ploy this is, the more I can see it working for Team McCain.

They can claim the detractors are being unfair and attacking her just because she is a woman. "Oh, you seem to think that she's a woman, we can't possibly see her as qualified. We picked her because we think she'll be a good VP. You're the ones making her gender the issue."

And the angrier you get and more vitrol you spit, the more it plays into their hands.

Tadao
Aug 29th, 2008, 08:02 PM
He did not pick a woman, he picked an AMERICAN!
:|

Colonel Flagg
Aug 29th, 2008, 09:13 PM
Why not question Obama's judgment. He is talking about Change and not being business as usual, then picks Biden.

You can say that about McCain too - he's all about experience and the "ability to lead" and then he picks a neophyte with no relevant political experience outside of 1.5 years as governor of Alaska.

So which panderer will be our next president? :(

Colonel Flagg
Aug 29th, 2008, 09:27 PM
They can claim the detractors are being unfair and attacking her just because she is a woman.

Actually, EB, I think it more plays into the folks who will make McCain's age an issue. If elected, he'll be the oldest 1st term president in history, and that may make people think more about who they have "a heartbeat away".

Let the games begin.

pac-man
Aug 30th, 2008, 11:41 AM
If the GOP can get her in a bikini, they've won this election.

MattJack
Aug 30th, 2008, 01:27 PM
yall jus h8n, pimpin ain't EZ and that's what McCain is doin

http://punchup.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/john_mccain.jpg

How yall luh dat? Holla atcha boi!

MattJack
Aug 30th, 2008, 01:29 PM
When Cindy McCain was asked how she felt about a former beauty queen being one heartbeat away from John:

:(

MetalMilitia
Aug 30th, 2008, 01:33 PM
Does Mc Cain really have a chance in this election?

It could just be that the liberal Jew-run media and websites such as Digg have tainted my opinion but as far as I've seen, Obama has been wiping the floor with McCain in terms of public perception.

MattJack
Aug 30th, 2008, 01:36 PM
McCain just but* fuc*ed himself imo.

All he's been doing is bitching about how inexperienced Obama is right now. It's like a staple for the McCain campaign. So naturally, the next logical choice is to have a VP who was is equally inexperienced.

Idk wtf John was thinking, but then again he's always had a case of the Dumbass imo

MetalMilitia
Aug 30th, 2008, 01:38 PM
Dude, he was a POW. What more experience do you need?

Jeanette X
Aug 30th, 2008, 02:47 PM
Does Mc Cain really have a chance in this election?

It could just be that the liberal Jew-run media and websites such as Digg have tainted my opinion but as far as I've seen, Obama has been wiping the floor with McCain in terms of public perception.

I hope so. I'll be suprised in Mccain wins.

I know I should feel excited about the historic possibilty of female VP even Obama loses, but I'm not. I want the first female VP to be someone qualified for the job, not just some idiot they picked to pander to female voters. It isn't progress to pick someone based solely on their being a woman, its progress to pick someone GOOD who happens to be a woman. Its just empty tokenism, and that's worse than the glass ceiling itself.

Tadao
Aug 30th, 2008, 03:24 PM
We have to vote McCain to keep you women in line. Just to let you know that we'll let you into the white house only as a woman and not as an equal. Know your place god damit.

Neen
Aug 30th, 2008, 03:26 PM
Dude, he was a POW. What more experience do you need?

I talked to my mother recently, and this is her whole basis for voting for McCain.

That is all. No other reason.

Colonel Flagg
Aug 30th, 2008, 06:02 PM
I realize no one wants to remember the losers, but, oh about 24 YEARS ago a major political party nominated a woman as the vice-presidential candidate on a ticket. Again, she and her running mate lost the general election (they were hammered) but exactly what "glass ceiling" did Sarah Palin break, anyway?

Geraldine Ferraro, incidentally.

Tadao
Aug 30th, 2008, 06:09 PM
She hasn't broken it yet, becoming VP apparently would do that.

Colonel Flagg
Aug 30th, 2008, 06:42 PM
I stand corrected. :\

Tadao
Aug 30th, 2008, 06:50 PM
I'm sure that no matter what, blacks or women (depending on who wins) will reap the rewards that white men have been hording.

Jeanette X
Aug 30th, 2008, 08:18 PM
I realize no one wants to remember the losers, but, oh about 24 YEARS ago a major political party nominated a woman as the vice-presidential candidate on a ticket. Again, she and her running mate lost the general election (they were hammered) but exactly what "glass ceiling" did Sarah Palin break, anyway?

Geraldine Ferraro, incidentally.

Oh shit, you're right, I forgot about Ferraro. :x

AChimp
Aug 31st, 2008, 10:33 AM
Ferraro was actually a man.

MattJack
Aug 31st, 2008, 12:16 PM
McCain cheated on his 1st wife while she was critically injured from a car crash, finished near last in his class, was a raging alcoholic, and got shot down in Vietnam because he sucked.

Sounds like the kind of man I want running the country.

I love how people are c*mming their pants because he was a POW. Big fuc*ing deal. Just because you got captured by the enemy doesn't mean you automatically get some presidential bonus points. That's just fuc*ed logic rly.

Dimnos
Sep 2nd, 2008, 02:48 PM
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/graphics/palingun1.jpg

mburbank
Sep 2nd, 2008, 04:23 PM
In case any of you were wondering, I am the father of Palin's Daughter's baby. And I am not marrying her, I am already married. No strings I said, no strings I meant.

Dr. Boogie
Sep 2nd, 2008, 04:26 PM
No wonder you were asking to do your first photo piece in Juneau.

pac-man
Sep 2nd, 2008, 05:56 PM
In case any of you were wondering, I am the father of Palin's Daughter's baby. And I am not marrying her, I am already married. No strings I said, no strings I meant.

Nice.

El Blanco
Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:06 AM
No wonder you were asking to do your first photo piece in Juneau.

No, he said he wanted his first piece in Juneau.

Colonel Flagg
Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:24 PM
In case any of you were wondering, I am the father of Palin's Daughter's baby. And I am not marrying her, I am already married. No strings I said, no strings I meant.

I knew "Levi" had to be a pseudonym.

Madonna
Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:52 PM
I think a lot of the support for Hillary was people who just wanted to break the barrier and get a woman, any woman, in office. This would get there vote. I also think some voters, younger people in my mind, just want something other than another old white guy. They would go to Obama, but now McCain has a reason for them to come to him.
I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man. >:

Dimnos
Sep 4th, 2008, 10:34 AM
I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man. >:


Wtf does that have to do with anything? Are you the new rondom shit bot?

Miss Modular
Sep 4th, 2008, 02:43 PM
Sharing a vagina in common wasn't enough for me to vote for Hilary in the Primaries (and I live in NY!), and it won't be enough for me to vote for McCain because a woman is on his ticket. It is historic, though, I will say.

I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals (http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086) on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

Dixie
Sep 4th, 2008, 03:02 PM
Sharing a vagina in common wasn't enough for me to vote for Hilary in the Primaries (and I live in NY!), and it won't be enough for me to vote for McCain because a woman is on his ticket. It is historic, though, I will say.

I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals (http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086) on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

Ditto.

Madonna
Sep 4th, 2008, 05:04 PM
Wtf does that have to do with anything? Are you the new rondom shit bot?
Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

pac-man
Sep 4th, 2008, 08:28 PM
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I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals (http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086) on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

That was the funniest god damned episode of The Daily Show in months.

Colonel Flagg
Sep 4th, 2008, 09:20 PM
I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals (http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086) on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

The talking heads and the "oafs in office" need to be reminded that the cameras are always rolling: you MUST BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR OPINIONS. Because if you're not, you run the risk of appearing on the Daily Show, to the delight of voters everywhere.

Hat's off to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show for making the silly season that much sillier, and that much more watchable.

Ploxtrot
Sep 6th, 2008, 11:39 PM
Some Alaskans are saying Palin is "racist, sexist, vindictive and mean." (http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/)

Jeanette X
Sep 7th, 2008, 12:43 AM
Some Alaskans are saying Palin is "racist, sexist, vindictive and mean." (http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/)

Big fucking suprise there.

DevilWearsPrada
Sep 7th, 2008, 01:42 PM
McCain picks woman. McCain mate with woman

Dixie
Sep 7th, 2008, 06:47 PM
Not too big on her love of hunting animals from planes. Hunting is ok and all but that kinda takes the sport out of it. Besides there needs to be more wolves and bears up there, I don't hear enough stories about animal attacks on humans other than that Grizzly Man thing. Come on you lazy fucking bears, eat more people!!!!