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		<title>By: Gary</title>
		<link>http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/09/04/couple-of-things-on-gov-palins-brilliance/comment-page-1/#comment-96224</link>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All I can say is WOW!!!! Sarah Palin is the Real Thing. The real thing!!! I have waited for something like this ticket, all my life. This is the one. 

I think the GEEZZERS are Scared

For the first time I am voting Republican, and am going to stay that way.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All I can say is WOW!!!! Sarah Palin is the Real Thing. The real thing!!! I have waited for something like this ticket, all my life. This is the one. </p>
<p>I think the GEEZZERS are Scared</p>
<p>For the first time I am voting Republican, and am going to stay that way.<br />
Gary</p>
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		<title>By: Ken</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice to see so many people lap up this ridiculous elephant party drivel.  Do you ever open your eyes to reality and truth or just mindlessly accept the garbage spewed your way.  I can only hope enough people in this country are smart enough this time around to know the difference between right/wrong, good/evil and truth/lies or it&#039;s four more years of embarrassment for the USA to follow up the eight screwy years of bushies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice to see so many people lap up this ridiculous elephant party drivel.  Do you ever open your eyes to reality and truth or just mindlessly accept the garbage spewed your way.  I can only hope enough people in this country are smart enough this time around to know the difference between right/wrong, good/evil and truth/lies or it&#8217;s four more years of embarrassment for the USA to follow up the eight screwy years of bushies.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Leclair</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Leclair</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well Carol, you make several assumptions with no supporting facts to back it up. You obviously don&#039;t know who wrote the speech since you could not EVEN identify the writers gender. Several speechwriters have written speeches for both parties. This is a great illustration of media tactics to spin the outcome their direction. Good assist there, Carol.

Bush is not running, so everytime you bring up his name, it shows the bias in trying to tie these candidates to him. If one cannot attack the candidate, redirect the attention somewhere else. The media loves this approach.

On pointing out that you saw no diversity, there were several people there of different ethnic backgrounds. I don&#039;t know how many because I don&#039;t count them nor do I judge people on the basis of having a different skin color. Second, only a racist would sit there and count &quot;white&quot; people to see if there were too many. Third, Palin did not choose the people in attendance. 

In addition, you seem bitter over the fact that the democratic party lost the election twice. One cannot follow simple directions on filling out a ballot properly so the country should just accept it that the other guy won. Give me a break. This year showed again the ineptness of the democratic party when again Florida voters could not participate in the primary process. And while on the subject, it is the democratic party with the super delegates that is designed to control the outcome of the primary so that voters matter much less as to who the nominee is.

Lastly, Palin is not running as a hockey mom, but as a governor of our largest state with resources like no other state. She was letting the country know who she was as a person and as a leader and what her core values were, Family, Country, Service, and faith. That&#039;s my take anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Carol, you make several assumptions with no supporting facts to back it up. You obviously don&#8217;t know who wrote the speech since you could not EVEN identify the writers gender. Several speechwriters have written speeches for both parties. This is a great illustration of media tactics to spin the outcome their direction. Good assist there, Carol.</p>
<p>Bush is not running, so everytime you bring up his name, it shows the bias in trying to tie these candidates to him. If one cannot attack the candidate, redirect the attention somewhere else. The media loves this approach.</p>
<p>On pointing out that you saw no diversity, there were several people there of different ethnic backgrounds. I don&#8217;t know how many because I don&#8217;t count them nor do I judge people on the basis of having a different skin color. Second, only a racist would sit there and count &#8220;white&#8221; people to see if there were too many. Third, Palin did not choose the people in attendance. </p>
<p>In addition, you seem bitter over the fact that the democratic party lost the election twice. One cannot follow simple directions on filling out a ballot properly so the country should just accept it that the other guy won. Give me a break. This year showed again the ineptness of the democratic party when again Florida voters could not participate in the primary process. And while on the subject, it is the democratic party with the super delegates that is designed to control the outcome of the primary so that voters matter much less as to who the nominee is.</p>
<p>Lastly, Palin is not running as a hockey mom, but as a governor of our largest state with resources like no other state. She was letting the country know who she was as a person and as a leader and what her core values were, Family, Country, Service, and faith. That&#8217;s my take anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, not again Sunking. I&#039;ve found this same cut-and-paste talking points message from you yet again on at least 5 sites.

Can you at least be original and try to think for yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, not again Sunking. I&#8217;ve found this same cut-and-paste talking points message from you yet again on at least 5 sites.</p>
<p>Can you at least be original and try to think for yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Sunking278</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sunking278</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THOUGHTS ON SARAH PALIN&#039;S RNC SPEECH - In a word, nauseating. Gov. Sarah Palin, who we are being led to believe is a &#039;conservative&#039;s conservative,&#039; had the opportunity to outline her policies in a clear and coherent fashion. She had the opportunity to share her vision of America, and how starkly it contrasts to the socialist vision of Barack Obama. Instead, we got sarcasm, whining, and just plain old nastiness. The partisan hacks in attendance ate it up with a spoon, of course; but I can&#039;t help but feel that 75% of America was watching and thinking &#039;this is Dick Cheney in a skirt,&#039; only nowhere near as shrewd. We got the tired neo-con lines about terrorism, Islam, protecting poor little ole&#039; Israel, so on and so forth. Absent a 9-11 type disaster sometime in the next 63 days (always a possibility, I suppose), that is not going to sell in the year 2008. Not a chance, as most Americans have woken up to the GOP fear mongering, which is why Obama&#039;s pie-in-the-sky rhetoric of &#039;change&#039; and &#039;hope&#039; is working as well as it is with the still-quite-ignorant masses.

Very little was said by Mrs. Palin about our flat-lining economy, only the standard GOP line about cutting taxes. Worse, however, were the unfunny and grossly excessive one-liners, solely focused on Obama&#039;s lack of executive experience and the fact he will raise taxes. First off, Barracuda, you are running for vice president, not performing stand-up at a comedy club. Secondly, and more importantly, she failed to truly present just how dangerous Obama and his ideology really is for America. Par for the course for the entire McCain Campaign to date; they won&#039;t dare touch the really juicy stuff, such as Obama&#039;s communist and terrorist connections, or his sordid affair with the homosexual Larry Sinclair. If Sarah Palin really wanted to jab Obama, she would have called Obama out, in front of millions, for what he really is ... a Marxist! Mrs. Palin, to her credit, has been a very strong pro-life voice. Yet, did we hear the word &#039;abortion&#039; mentioned even once in her spiel? She had the opportunity, in front of the whole world, to bring attention to Obama&#039;s enthusiastic - and documented - support for the cruel practice of partial-birth abortion, otherwise known as infanticide. No, instead we got lame jokes about him being a &#039;community organizer.&#039; Yeah, you really came out swinging, Governor. Finally, the whining about the media was just plain pathetic. However bad the MSM is, it&#039;s not their fault that Mrs. Palin&#039;s 17 year-old daughter was stupid enough to get herself knocked up.

I was prepared to perhaps put aside my eternal cynicism and give you a chance, Sarah Palin. Although skeptical, I thought maybe - just maybe - a true American and true Christian had somehow managed to sneak herself onto the top of a major party ticket. On the surface, Palin&#039;s record looked pretty damn good. What&#039;s beneath the surface, however, is truly scary. One of only two conclusions can be drawn: Either Gov. Palin is a typical politician knowingly masquerading as a &#039;maverick&#039; (like McCain himself) and laughing all the way to the bank; or, she is an ignorant, airhead dupe who is being used by McCain and the GOP in the most disgusting way possible. Either way, I feel a deep sense of sorrow for the Palin children - even the stupid one who got knocked up by her loser boyfriend - much in the same way as I do for Obama&#039;s little girls. The one thing I could always respect about George W. Bush, if nothing else, was that he refused to use his young daughters (now grown) to grab votes. Perhaps the same can be said for McCain today, as we never see much of anything about his children. Palin and Obama, on the other hand, only seem too happy to parade their families before the camera. Palin is actually showing herself to be worse than Obama in this regard, if that&#039;s possible, but that may be only because Obama&#039;s girls are too young to get pregnant, and were fortunate to be born healthy. Perhaps, Mrs. Palin, if you really have conservative family values, you should quit the campaign trail, resign the Governorship, and stay at home and be a mother to your infant, special needs son. Sarah Palin is so typical of women these days: They want their cake and want to eat it, too.

All of this has only served to cement my conclusion that McCain is the designated loser, and thus is throwing the election. The fix is in, Obama will be president, and the country will go to hell once and for all. Sarah Palin will go back to Alaska, and the dopey people up there will think of her as some sort of folk hero for trying to stand up to the big bad wolf (Obama), when in reality she played a great role in handing him the presidency on a silver platter! McCain himself, like his friend John Kerry before him, will spend the rest of his days in the Senate, fat, rich, and happy while the country crumbles. The cycle of deception and death goes on and on. I hate to sound like Michelle Obama, but on this evening I am most definitely NOT proud of my country! At least not the shell of a country it has become.

Merriam-Webster definition of &#039;Barracuda&#039;: One that uses aggressive, selfish, and sometimes unethical methods to obtain a goal especially in business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THOUGHTS ON SARAH PALIN&#8217;S RNC SPEECH &#8211; In a word, nauseating. Gov. Sarah Palin, who we are being led to believe is a &#8216;conservative&#8217;s conservative,&#8217; had the opportunity to outline her policies in a clear and coherent fashion. She had the opportunity to share her vision of America, and how starkly it contrasts to the socialist vision of Barack Obama. Instead, we got sarcasm, whining, and just plain old nastiness. The partisan hacks in attendance ate it up with a spoon, of course; but I can&#8217;t help but feel that 75% of America was watching and thinking &#8216;this is Dick Cheney in a skirt,&#8217; only nowhere near as shrewd. We got the tired neo-con lines about terrorism, Islam, protecting poor little ole&#8217; Israel, so on and so forth. Absent a 9-11 type disaster sometime in the next 63 days (always a possibility, I suppose), that is not going to sell in the year 2008. Not a chance, as most Americans have woken up to the GOP fear mongering, which is why Obama&#8217;s pie-in-the-sky rhetoric of &#8216;change&#8217; and &#8216;hope&#8217; is working as well as it is with the still-quite-ignorant masses.</p>
<p>Very little was said by Mrs. Palin about our flat-lining economy, only the standard GOP line about cutting taxes. Worse, however, were the unfunny and grossly excessive one-liners, solely focused on Obama&#8217;s lack of executive experience and the fact he will raise taxes. First off, Barracuda, you are running for vice president, not performing stand-up at a comedy club. Secondly, and more importantly, she failed to truly present just how dangerous Obama and his ideology really is for America. Par for the course for the entire McCain Campaign to date; they won&#8217;t dare touch the really juicy stuff, such as Obama&#8217;s communist and terrorist connections, or his sordid affair with the homosexual Larry Sinclair. If Sarah Palin really wanted to jab Obama, she would have called Obama out, in front of millions, for what he really is &#8230; a Marxist! Mrs. Palin, to her credit, has been a very strong pro-life voice. Yet, did we hear the word &#8216;abortion&#8217; mentioned even once in her spiel? She had the opportunity, in front of the whole world, to bring attention to Obama&#8217;s enthusiastic &#8211; and documented &#8211; support for the cruel practice of partial-birth abortion, otherwise known as infanticide. No, instead we got lame jokes about him being a &#8216;community organizer.&#8217; Yeah, you really came out swinging, Governor. Finally, the whining about the media was just plain pathetic. However bad the MSM is, it&#8217;s not their fault that Mrs. Palin&#8217;s 17 year-old daughter was stupid enough to get herself knocked up.</p>
<p>I was prepared to perhaps put aside my eternal cynicism and give you a chance, Sarah Palin. Although skeptical, I thought maybe &#8211; just maybe &#8211; a true American and true Christian had somehow managed to sneak herself onto the top of a major party ticket. On the surface, Palin&#8217;s record looked pretty damn good. What&#8217;s beneath the surface, however, is truly scary. One of only two conclusions can be drawn: Either Gov. Palin is a typical politician knowingly masquerading as a &#8216;maverick&#8217; (like McCain himself) and laughing all the way to the bank; or, she is an ignorant, airhead dupe who is being used by McCain and the GOP in the most disgusting way possible. Either way, I feel a deep sense of sorrow for the Palin children &#8211; even the stupid one who got knocked up by her loser boyfriend &#8211; much in the same way as I do for Obama&#8217;s little girls. The one thing I could always respect about George W. Bush, if nothing else, was that he refused to use his young daughters (now grown) to grab votes. Perhaps the same can be said for McCain today, as we never see much of anything about his children. Palin and Obama, on the other hand, only seem too happy to parade their families before the camera. Palin is actually showing herself to be worse than Obama in this regard, if that&#8217;s possible, but that may be only because Obama&#8217;s girls are too young to get pregnant, and were fortunate to be born healthy. Perhaps, Mrs. Palin, if you really have conservative family values, you should quit the campaign trail, resign the Governorship, and stay at home and be a mother to your infant, special needs son. Sarah Palin is so typical of women these days: They want their cake and want to eat it, too.</p>
<p>All of this has only served to cement my conclusion that McCain is the designated loser, and thus is throwing the election. The fix is in, Obama will be president, and the country will go to hell once and for all. Sarah Palin will go back to Alaska, and the dopey people up there will think of her as some sort of folk hero for trying to stand up to the big bad wolf (Obama), when in reality she played a great role in handing him the presidency on a silver platter! McCain himself, like his friend John Kerry before him, will spend the rest of his days in the Senate, fat, rich, and happy while the country crumbles. The cycle of deception and death goes on and on. I hate to sound like Michelle Obama, but on this evening I am most definitely NOT proud of my country! At least not the shell of a country it has become.</p>
<p>Merriam-Webster definition of &#8216;Barracuda&#8217;: One that uses aggressive, selfish, and sometimes unethical methods to obtain a goal especially in business.</p>
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		<title>By: SpideyTerry</title>
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		<dc:creator>SpideyTerry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The emphasis Obama and his supporters put on Palin&#039;s speech being written by a Bush speechwriter is ridiculous and desperate. Oh, yeah - typical, too. It also boils down to a simple admission - &quot;Sarah Palin scares us.&quot; And why shouldn&#039;t she? Joe Biden would be wise to be on guard for their debate. Palin can obviously dish it out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The emphasis Obama and his supporters put on Palin&#8217;s speech being written by a Bush speechwriter is ridiculous and desperate. Oh, yeah &#8211; typical, too. It also boils down to a simple admission &#8211; &#8220;Sarah Palin scares us.&#8221; And why shouldn&#8217;t she? Joe Biden would be wise to be on guard for their debate. Palin can obviously dish it out.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Sorry for this, but on a more personal note, they were all white people. No diversity whatsoever in that audience, so much for “unity”. But once again that’s a personal qualm.&quot;

I guess you blinked a lot John.  I actually remarked to my wife that there seems to be a lot of different flavors on the floor.  Anyway, the Dems are pretty white bread themselves...and have you forgotten, W has appointed more &quot;diversity&quot; in his admin than any other Dem regime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Sorry for this, but on a more personal note, they were all white people. No diversity whatsoever in that audience, so much for “unity”. But once again that’s a personal qualm.&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess you blinked a lot John.  I actually remarked to my wife that there seems to be a lot of different flavors on the floor.  Anyway, the Dems are pretty white bread themselves&#8230;and have you forgotten, W has appointed more &#8220;diversity&#8221; in his admin than any other Dem regime.</p>
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		<title>By: Carol</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GOP has leveled the playing field tonight.  Let the fight begin.</description>
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		<title>By: Suitably Flip</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suitably Flip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;GOP Convention: Sarah Palin&#039;s Speech, By the Numbers...&lt;/strong&gt;

Opening Ovation:  3 minutes, 45 seconds 
Total Standing Ovations:  26
Longest Non-Obama-Related Boo:  &quot;I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a c...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>GOP Convention: Sarah Palin&#8217;s Speech, By the Numbers&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Opening Ovation:  3 minutes, 45 seconds<br />
Total Standing Ovations:  26<br />
Longest Non-Obama-Related Boo:  &#8220;I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a c&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gail</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All speeches are done with the help of a speech writer why do they have to point it out ONLY in her case.
Is it because she is a woman?...can anyone help me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All speeches are done with the help of a speech writer why do they have to point it out ONLY in her case.<br />
Is it because she is a woman?&#8230;can anyone help me.</p>
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