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I doubt Sarah Palin would have made the same mistake, that being probably the first time she'd ever even heard of Hezbollah.
Really?
What do you think of Joe Bidens words below:
I hope you didn't pay attention to the above because it is flat out WRONG!
The United States and France NEVER kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon! Biden never introduced a resolution to deploy NATO forces to Lebanon. Hezbollah was already apart of the government in Lebanon long before Bush was elected President.
Barack Obama picked Joe Biden because of his "knowledge and experience". Ironic that if Sarah Palin had made the same mistake, people in here would be foaming at the mouth, but Joe Biden makes an out of this world mistake like this, and he gets a free pass, despite the fact that he has been in the Senate for 35 years to Sarah Palin's 35 days on the campaign trail.
We cannot play the same "Fact vs. Fiction" game with Palin because she didn't say anything of substance.
I'd prefer the guy who says a lot and is occasionally wrong to the person who says nothing and still hasn't shown America she has any knowledge or viewpoints.
She wants to control spending
She doesn't want a timeline for Iraq so insurgents can plan an attack somewhere. She wants the counter-insurgency tactics in Iraq to be applied in Afghanistan. She wants updated regulation for the latest derivatives and to prevent companies hiding debt off of the balance sheet...
To liberals the above is not substance because they don't agree with it.
Spending $14.7 million on a rec center for a town with an annual budget of $20 million doesn't seem like controlled spending to me
It's funny, but you'd think that in her years in politics prior to joining the McCain campaign she would've had the opportunity to share her opinion on these matters. She didn't. Given her relative ineptitude at actually answering direct questions in relation to those, and her reliance on tried and true McCain campaign talking points to get her through, I sincerely doubt those are her own stances and not the stances the McCain campaign has asked her to voice. You'd think if these were really her own stances she'd be able to comfortably discuss and elaborate on them beyond the talking point that's in lock step with the McCain campaign. She hasn't shown that capability yet, and so she demonstrates a lack of substance to many here and elsewhere.
And finally...
You really need to stop making statements about what liberals think and or believe. You're hardly an expert on the matter.
Considering that most of the United States has a horrible record of spending she would be a good place to start. Looking at her Alaskan record as governor is not of note to you I suppose. She has to have a perfect budget and she can't change her mind over the years. She wanted the Bridge to nowhere at first but changed her mind and moved on since then. Her recent accomplishments are the reason for her as a VP pick.
She understands the American public need to personally control their spending
She stays on McCain talking points because she's the VP. She's supporting the presidential candidate. Even Biden has to follow talking points despite disagreeing with Obama in the past.
Biden showed he is comfortably actually relating real world issues to the talking points and expanding on them. Palin did not.
They have to do a lot with personal responsibility and not waiting around for the government to solve problems through social welfare programs.
Yeah that's right Hamas=Hezballoh
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Living in a swing state is insanity. I'm not used to this kind of attention!
Funny. I seem to remember a big deal being made when she first joined the campaign about he she was against earmarks, despite the fact that as governor of Alaska she held the largest per capita earmark spending out of any other governor. That certainly doesn't seem like a change of heart. And then even she herself used the bridge to nowhere as an example of her stance against earmarks. Oh, expect she neglected to mention that she was initially in favor of it, and very vocal about her support, too.
Is this supposed to be some unique, especially insightful view of hers? It's common sense.
When it comes to balancing the budget, I find it extremely funny to hear anyone who has supported the current Republican party & the party of the past 8 years trying to paint the Democrats as the ones we should worry about when it comes to spending. If I recall correctly, Bill Clinton, a Democrat and one of those nasty liberals, didn't do too shabby when it came to balancing the budget. The Republican Party hasn't been the party of small government in a long, long time.
She stays on the McCain talking points because she isn't knowledgeable enough to expand on them. Biden showed he is comfortably actually relating real world issues to the talking points and expanding on them. Palin did not.
Tell me how Obama is going to balance the budget. I'd like to hear this. There must be an explanation.
I think Jacoby Ellsbury winked at me last night too-or maybe he just had dirt in his eye
The Corner on National Review Online
A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.
How is McCain going to "cut spending" if he's spending so much money in Iraq? That's the biggest money problem we have. I wish Obama and Biden would note that more.
Has either one of the canidates even mentioned balancing the budget? I know for sure McCain hasn't, you can't promise years in Iraq, tax cuts, and balanced budget; even with conservative fuzzy math, that doesn't work.
I'd prefer the guy who says a lot and is occasionally wrong to the person who says nothing and still hasn't shown America she has any knowledge or viewpoints.
When the business cycle comes back there will be more government revenue collected. He will probably freeze spending.
Oh an Keith is a lot funnier and doesn't take himself as serious. He knows he's there for entertainment and that's it.
I was supposed to see Biden tomorrow but he has cancelled all campaign events as his mother-in-law is gravely ill. Best wishes to the Biden family...seeing Beau shipped off to Iraq and now Jill Biden's mother is very sick.
I would say it's tossed around towards people who are condescending like the only way someone might be conservative is if they're some uneducated hick. (which your comments about "rural values" does seem a bit condescending.) Being that this site is extremely liberal, I doubt many on here see how condescending they can be towards people in little town America. A recent example is all the sudden bashing of anything "folksy.
The "betcha" and that sort of thing is in the common language where I live. Are we all too uneducated to be elected to high office because of the way we talk?