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John McCain's stupidity proves once again that there is a GOD!!!!

Please, let's lay off the sexist comments. That sort of crude bs is exactly what pisses off women voters, with good reason.

McCain was desperate and rolled the dice. He wants voters to overlook that his VP pick is not qualified to be the commander in chief.

It's not about sexist comments IT'S ABOUT OUR LIVES, WE ARE IN TWO WARS!

Whoops -- sorry, I deleted a comment that focused on Gov. Palin's appearance. I think the comment from Peter V about "no sexist comments" referred to that deleted comment.

It would appear that McCain just bought himself an October surprise. You would think that someone in his campaign would know how to Google. I think the republican hopefuls are going to be pretty disappointed to know that he gave away the election to Obama on a silver plater with the Palin selection. Obama should be celebrating. Wow what a blunder---

Sims -- agreed, but there may well be a similar October Surprise coming from the Biden family.

I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Palin's transgressions with ethics violations and at least two pending investigations by Alaska state officials are a little more damaging than Biden's son and brother being sued in civil court.

Maybe I misinterpreted her financial disclosure, but Ms. Palin's net worth seems to be over $10 million. Amazing what a daughter of the soil can do if she puts her mind to it and works hard as city member of the PTS, city councillor, mayor and governor. I suspect that our responsible American journalists won't mention this fact in their reports and analyses.

That lawsuit has NOTHING to do with Senator Biden, unlike the abuse of powers investigation directly tied to Palin.

I did a quick and dirty on her mutual fund assets--not bothering with single digit asset allocations--and I'd say it's a safe bet that she owns less than $200, 000 in mutual funds. Simply multiply the number of shares (listed on the disclosure as units) times the current price, which you will have to dig up on the web.

It is very touching what the liberals are doing here. They are claiming she doesn't have any experiences for the job of vice-president, while in the same breath they have installed a presidential candidate who has even less experience than their own candidate Barack "I'm Black" Obama. But assume for a moment that John McCain will drop dead the next day after he swore for the office. Palin would then do what Barack Obama did. She will pick a vice president with long years of experiences. Who knows... Maybe that person will be Joe Biden. As for McCain's pandering to the voters... All political candidates are pandering to the voters... You can be sure that 99.9% Afro-Americans in USA are voting for Obama because he is black. He survived the Jeremiah Wright controversy because he is black. We all know that, so let's cut the crap talk about her inexperience. Unlike for Obama I was at least able to find a couple of legislation acts which her administration passed during the last two years when she was a governor of Alaska. For Obama I cannot find anything he passed in the last four years in US Senate. He is for me, for my German friends would say, a common "hoch-stapler".So pleeeeazzzee... let's get back to the issues... I think her choice is exciting one and we shall see what she has to tell us and then we shall decide how, how many, where, what, who, which etc.

a lawsuit involving a business dispute between partners...now that is truly a scandal of epic proportions !

Regardless of Palin's ethics investigations, the fact that she's an avid supporter of ANWR drilling (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/427xjuoj.asp) is in itself enough to disqualify her. Anyone who has no qualms sacrificing one of our nation's last remaining pristine wildlife sanctuary to big oil has no right being a heartbeat away from the presidency!!

The more I hear the punditry expound on Sara Palin as VP nominee, the more I'm reminded of the baseball umpire who insisted the pitches weren't balls or strikes until he called 'em.Palin is a manifestly weak choice for a position that puts her a "heartbeat away". Of, course, if enough pundits say otherwise...McCain went pretty far down the list. And, that was because he had to pick from a short list of Repub office holders that were not pissed off with him, or visa-versa.

October Surprises are tricks one campaign springs on another at the last minute. Not self-inflicted stupidity like naming someone who two years ago was the Mayor of a town to 7000 people to the second-most important post in the world. A craven power-driven gamble someone has foisted on 300 million US citizens. The Republican Party should nominate someone else because McCain isn't thinking clearly.

The far right has looked into the history of Sara Palin and found nothing to stop the nominating proceedure. Let's look into where she stands on the topics we wrestle with every day. We know where she stands on aborotion, stem cells, guns, and education. Where does she stand on the economy, the two WARS, and our standing as a world leader. We cannot allow the far right to continue to usurp the power of (GOD bless) the USA.

>>Maybe I misinterpreted her financial disclosure, but Ms. Palins net worth seems to be over $10 millionGood work!You multiplied the number of shares by the percentage of her total IRA in each fund and got a number that means nothing.Multiply your IQ by -0- and then add the current room temperature; it'll be close!

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Give me a break! Everybody and his brother is thoroughly dissecting Sarah Palin's background. I am sure if there is anything to be found - they will find it. And, if they don't find anything of significance, they will insinuate that there is.I don't know about the rest of you, but I am tired of the Washington culture club. It does not take someone of long tenure in the government to be leveheaded and be able to select qualified people to advise her. It took Obama three tries to give a somewhat acceptable response to Russia's invasion of Georgia - evidently his foreign policy advisors did not know that going to the UN would be useless - since Russia could VETO that action. And, Joe Biden has yet to get a foreign policy issue right! We know Sarah can handle the domestic issues and I have confidence in her ability to take on anything else neccesary for her to do the job.

I agree with Condomimi. It is unbelievable how Democrats can be so full of themselves. They believe that if you don't agree with them then you have to be a complete idiot, a fundamentalist, or a red neck. The United States is a very large country and there are a lot of people between the East and West Coasts that are not liberal; they are also not idiots, fundamentalists, or red necks. It seems that sometimes people forget that these people exist. Frankly, the uneducated, fundamentalist, and red necks have a right to their beliefs, opinions and votes...it still is the United States of America, right? I personally believe it would be safer to have Palin be president than Obama. Even if I was a Democrat I wouldn't think that Obama was an acceptable candidate...in fact I would be horrified! I am horrified! At least if Obama does win I won't be whining the whole time he is in office like many of the Democrats over the last 8 years. Gee...grow up why don't you. People can have different opinions from you without you having to put them down. That usually means that you have issues with your own self-esteem. It is Democrats like some of these past posts that make people want to vote Republican just to distance themselves from you.

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