Palin Debate Prep
Oct 1st 2008 7:38AM
Filed Under:eFeatured Stories, Joe Biden, Debates, 2008 President, Sarah Palin

NYTimes.com has a good article on the debate prep and her actual debates but still manages to help the McCain campaign by lowering expectations.
She staked out a populist stance against oil companies and projected a fresh, down-to-earth face at a time when voters wanted change. That helped her soundly defeat Frank H. Murkowski, the unpopular Republican governor, in the primary and former Gov. Tony Knowles in the general election.
Her debating style was rarely confrontational, and she appeared confident. In contrast to today, when she seems unversed on several important issues, she demonstrated fluency on certain subjects, particularly oil and gas development.
But just as she does now, Ms. Palin often spoke in generalities and showed scant aptitude for developing arguments beyond a talking point or two. Her sentences were distinguished by their repetition of words, by the use of the phrase "here in Alaska" and for gaps. On paper, her sentences would have been difficult to diagram...
...These tendencies could fuzz her meaning and lead her into linguistic cul-de-sacs. She often used less than her allotted time and ended her answers abruptly
But check the last paragraph
"It's been a year today that I've been on the campaign trail," Ms. Palin responded, "attending many, many more forums, more debates, than either one of you, Tony and Andrew, because I had a primary opponent. You know, you got to have the balls to take it on in the early part of a campaign, and not just go right to the big show."
I'm betting that her current coaches are probably telling her that saying "balls" in a debate, may be effective, but they'd rather avoid it. Heh. But yes, Sarah Palin: experienced debater. Welcome to the show.
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(Page 3 of 6)ANTHONY2:57PMOct 1st 2008
come on america russia is playing a game to any one that will help them good luck russia you wrong for what you did to georga. to i need to say any more, they have always been wanting to make all these big statements but they are nobody i say stop all relationships with a country that lies and makes excuses all the time, I know one thing they are into nukes and we think they are friends look what they did to a friendly neighbor ? what do you think they have planed for us as we are at a week point in military induce the draft asap
anthony2:57PMOct 1st 2008
America:
Do we need Russia? NO not at all they need us and I think that we should go back to the cold war they broke major war lay's and what are we doing about it nothing. WHY ? because we don't have enough of other countries that are willing to go to battle with us but yet they want freedon of trade (HELP)let's stop helping and start hurting them we do not need a COUNTRY THAT BREAKS RULES ABOUT NATO
ANTHONY2:57PMOct 1st 2008
wake up America before we are cought in a war that we will be unable to beat unless all these U.N. backs out of things that need to be done asap
ANTHONY2:57PMOct 1st 2008
America:
Get it together and wake up Russia is against us. they are not the most powerful country in the world. They are nothing but a threat to us and that is nothing we could beat them in a matter of months. I say drop the big bomb on them and then they will be nothing at all. I used to love Russia a lot before they seperated there country to countries and attack there own friends??? That show's how dependable they are NONE. I say go over there and take that country right away before they do some more things to this world and go with other countries to counter against us. We better do something soon before we regret what I have just stated
ANTHONY2:58PMOct 1st 2008
Dear Supporters of Mcain he is using a thing about what the econ. is in today as far as what can be done in the future as soon as he that wont happen be President. I see all these voted statments saying dem. for mcain. it is very simple for the first time they are using the Dem. of America to be together in this bail out ? Du antone that has a brain knows that they have to become together on this matter only because of the greed in the senate by the Rep. in the country good try but you will not prevail in this vote because Obama is over educated is there ever an over educated person in this world that does not do a positive thing in this country except rip off Americans
Wallstreet3:20PMOct 1st 2008
Pass It On: The Obama Bubble Agenda
Posted by Ashley Sanders on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 01:05:00 PM
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Pass It On: The Obama Bubble Agenda .
Many people tend to see the economic crisis as a problem from nowhere, divorcing it from the deliberate and systematic dismantling of regulation and oversight waged by the corporate sector in its fight for ever-greater profits. Many of these same people view Barack Obama's candidacy in similar but opposite terms, seeing him as the change candidate from nowhere who will save our economic and political our economic and political system--divorcing his hope message from his actual platforms and legislative history. In part two of her February analysis of Obama's campaign, Pam Martens makes the connection between our rootless critiques of the economy and our rootless support of Obama. When the same people causing a crisis are funding the man claiming to solve a crisis, we can expect more of the same.
Onward!
http://www.votenader.org/blog/pass-it-on/2008/10/01/pass-it-on-the-obama-bubble-agenda/
Jim Zac3:22PMOct 1st 2008
Children USED to promote Obama in a “We are the world” type song?
The moderator of the VP debate, Gwen Ifill writes a Book and a magazine article favorable to Obama?
Palin vilified for inexperience while B.O. gets a pass?
Sarah Palin may not be ready for the Presidency, but apparently many Democrats think she is a lot more ready than Joe Biden.
Palin has been Governor of Alaska for two years, yet she enjoys a 75% Republican, Independent and Democrat approval in her state. Palin is required to make executive decisions as Governor, every day.
Biden has been in the US Senate for more than thirty years, and he received less than 1% of the vote for President, from his own party, during the Democratic primary. Biden makes important decisions too, whether to watch films of FDR talking to the public on TV in 1929, or to ask a man in a wheelchair to stand and be recognized.
Palin received SIXTY times more votes for chief executive of one, sparsely populated, state than Biden received from the entire country! Who is more likely to get people to pull together to solve this country’s problems?
On November 4, we can choose inexperience from the most liberal member of the US Senate at the top of the ticket, or from a young conservative Governor at the bottom of the ticket? The American Presidency is not the place to appease guilt ridden liberals, and it is no place for an inexperienced celebrity rookie. Our very existence could ride on our decision.
patriciacarr3:28PMOct 1st 2008
Wow,
The McCain-Palin people on this site are a little testy. I think thou dost protest too much...Palin has not proven that she can sting together coherent sentences. She clearly has great gaps and hasn't kept up with current events outside of Alaska (which has a population less than one single congressional district. Unlike many of the responders on this site, I am willing to acknowledge bright individuals in both parties and there are many on each side. Sarah Palin is not one of them. Sorry.
laurie3:54PMOct 1st 2008
Palin took five years and six colleges to get a 4 year degree in journalism, to prepare for the challenging job of part-time sports reporter. McCain finished military school at the bottom of his class, and after 18 years in the service, only managed to rise to the rank of captain. These are the two geniuses we should put in charge of running the country?
She is also so stupid that they hide her from reporters,including trying to ban them from her little U.N meeting.They also know that she is so stupid and can't form a sentence, that they made special debate rules of only 90 seconds speaking time, so she supposedly doesn't have enough time to screw up.She doesn't know her azz ffom her elbow,as my mom used to say.McCain is 1/2 dead, leaving this total bimbo in charge.No one else has ever had special debate rules to keep them quiet! Open your eyes people.She claims to have foreign experience cuz Russia is right next door.I have a doctor next door.Does that mean I have medical experience? She is going to sound like a brainwashed trained parrot at this debate and I can't wait.I need another good laugh from her.To train and prompt and cut speaking time for this debate,shows that even McNugget doesn't think she's qualified.He picked her based on one meeting,as a slap in the face to Hillary and to try to get her supporters.A few morons saw her and oohed and ahhed til they heard her speak.The majority of posts I read say they are embarrassed as a woman when she opens her mouth.McShame was a loser in 2000,and a bigger one now.The only way she can win this debate is if Biden drops his pants on stage and craps.Who knows-she might run out of gas on her bridge to nowhere and not show up.McShame tried to get out of his own debate by faking concern in the economy.Who knows what they will say to try and get HER out of it.We don't need this Arizona raisin and half-baked Alaska running the country.They will finish us off!
laurie4:04PMOct 1st 2008
Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin Cancels the Debate
10. Suspicious Russian tourists spotted across the Bering strait in Dezhnevo
9. Wrasslin' a bear
8. Learns Tina Fey will be watching
7. When taken on tour of White House by McCain handlers, is "inadvertently" locked in Cheney's man-sized safe
6. Schedule for memorizing state capitals thrown off by need for new schedule to memorize states
5. Speechless after finally looking up what "MILF" stands for
4. On deadline to finish her book, Namin' Your Baby the Alaskan Way
3. Needs more time to really nail those hilarious hair-plug zingers
2. No matter how hard she scrubs, she can't get Kissinger's moral stank off of her
1. Stuck in traffic on the Bridge to Nowhere
McCain and Palin are losers!
libsrscary4:28PMOct 1st 2008
Obama's Top Ten Flip Flops
Don’t let the fact that this man is a gifted speaker blind us to who he really is. Who is he? He has always voted far left. His past comments have always reflected that he’s far left. Now that he’s the nominee, he portrays himself to be moderate. He was voted the #1 most liberal senator based on his voting record. You don’t get that title by being moderate.
1. SPECIAL INTERESTS. In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.
2. THE CUBA EMBARGO. In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."
3. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."
4. DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARAJUANA. While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.
5. NAFTA. During the primary season, Obama hammered Hillary Clinton for her support of NAFTA as First Lady, calling the free trade agreement "devastating" and "a big mistake." Now, in an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee said that NAFTA has indeed been positive for the US in some ways, and that his earlier criticism - while trying to convince white blue collar voters in some states to vote for him - was 'overheated and amplified.'
6. THE DEATH PENALTY. Ten years ago, when Obama was running for statewide office in an ultra-liberal Chicago district, he opposed the death penalty. As Obama announced this week, he now supports the ultimate penalty.
7. HANDGUN BAN. For 8 years--before becoming a US Senator--Obama sat on the board of a non-profit which contributed $2.7 million to efforts advocating for a complete ban on handguns. (Before that, Obama filled out a questionnaire in 1996 stating that he supported a ban on the manufacture, sale AND POSSESSION of handguns.) But starting with his primary campaign in the gun popular Midwest, Obama now opposes such legislation, and claims to support gun owner's rights.
8. PROPOSED FISA LAW IMMUNITY FOR TELECOMS. In October, 2007, Obama pledged that if the FISA bill contained an immunity provision for telecoms, he would not only oppose the bill, he would help block it through a filibuster. This week, he voted for the bill, telecom immunity provisions and all.
9. PUBLIC FINANCING FOR OBAMA'S GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN. In November, 2007, Obama issued a written pledge to opt into the public campaign finance system for the general presidential election, if the Republican nominee also did so. John McCain immediately accepted the pledge, which acceptance Obama acknowledged in writing in November 2007. After he became the Republican nominee, McCain opted into the public finance system (as he pledged to do), but Obama broke his pledge and opted out.
10. THE WAR IN IRAQ. In 2004--when Obama was running for the United States Senate-- Barack Obama not only said that he was open to a U.S. troop increase in Iraq, but warned against a premature troop withdrawal as a "slap in the face to the troops fighting there" which could make Iraq "an extraordinary hotbed of terrorist activity." Fast forward to Obama's presidential campaign premised in large part on an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. To recently saying 16 month time table of possible.
LET’S ADD A FEW MORE:
TOLD PLANNED PARENTHOOD THAT HE WOULD LIFT THE BAN ON PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION IF PRESIDENT----------------NOW SAY’S HE’S AGAINST PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION. WHICH IS IT OBAMA?
HAS REPEATEDLY VOTED FOR LATE TERM ABORTIONS AS LATE AS THE NINTH MONTH.-----------------------------------------NOW, HAS RECENTLY SAID HE OPPOSES LATE TERM ABORTION.
AGAINS’T MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR BABY’S THAT SURVIVE ABORTION-------------------AFTER MUCH BACKLASH, IS FOR TREATMENT FOR BABY’S.
THE SURGE DID NOT WORK, IT WILL NEVER WORK, IT’S HOPELESS, THIS WAR IS LOST-----------HE HAS JUST RECENTLY BEEN FORCED TO ADMIT THAT IT DID WORK BEYOND EXPECTATIONS.
WON’T WEAR FLAG PIN BECAUSE IT MIGHT OFFEND SOMEONE -----NOW HE WEARS IT.
WON’T PLACE HAND ON HEART. HIS EXCUSE, SOMETIMES I DO, SOMETIMES I DON’T-----NOW HE DOES.
NO DRILLING, NO NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, NO COAL-------------NOW HE’S FOR ALL THREE.
IRAN IS A TINY COUNTRY, THEY POSE NO THREAT TO US.-----2 DAY’S LATER HE SAID, IRAN IS A GRAVE THREAT TO US. This one is more a lack of knowledge than a flip flop.
Foreign policy issues, just recently on Jerusalem. He tried to outdo John McCain at AIPAC by insisting that Jerusalem remain the undivided capital of Israel. The Palestinians erupted in anger at that statement, and by the end of the day they had Obama backpedaling...he retracted that statement. He’s not experienced enough to know that Jerusalem is an ongoing disputed territory. This one is more a lack of knowledge than a flip flop.
ON THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL THAT OBAMA MODIFIED AND PUT ON HIS PODIUM. HE REMOVED ALL OF THE STARS AND REPLACED THE FLAG ON THE EAGLES BREAST SHIELD WITH HIS OWN SYMBOL. YOU CAN FIND IT ON GOOGLE. NOT A FLIP FLOP, JUST APPALLING.
FOR MORE FLIP FLOPS:
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/07/obamas-favorite-flip-flops-000825.php
Linda4:32PMOct 1st 2008
What is the difference between Sarah Palin and a box of rocks?
LIPSTICK
GAS4:43PMOct 1st 2008
A 1992 video featuring a Republican senator, Republican congressman and top Capitol Hill staffers who worked on Vietnam prisoner of war and missing in action issues say John McCain collaborated with North Vietnamese while a POW, and then covered up that involvement to the detriment of POW/MIA families seeking access to classified Pentagon records about their own family members.
All, I have to say is if this is the man that the American voting public wants to put into office, then your open minds aren't so open to the truth...so what does that say about you??
Most important, they also believe, as expressed so well in the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs final report, that "the single most basic principle of personal honor in America's armed forces is NEVER WILLINGLY TO LEAVE A FELLOW SERVICEMAN BEHIND.
So there it is. John McCain is yet another Republican former Military Veteran who likes to talk a big game when it comes to having the support of the military. Yet, time and time again, he has gone out of his way to vote against the needs of those who are serving in our military. If he can’t even see his way to actually doing what the troops want, or what the veterans need, and he doesn’t have the support of veterans, then how can he be a credible commander in chief?
http://www.alternet.org/story/99663/
http://aiipowmia.com/testimony/hrdlicka1.html
http://aiipowmia.com/testimony/benge910tst.html
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain_vets.cfm
libsrscary5:47PMOct 1st 2008
THIS IS VERY DISTURBING. AS A PARENT, OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING STRIPPED AWAY WHERE OUR CHILDREN ARE CONCERNED.
DID YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA VOTED TO ALLOW A MINOR TO BE TRANSPORTED ACROSS STATE LINES BY A NON FAMILY MEMBER TO RECEIVE AN ABORTION? HE ALSO VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE PERSON DOING THE TRANSPORTING ACROSS STATE LINES AND THE ABORTIONIST BE EXEMPT FROM PROSECUTION. 2 THINGS WRONG WITH THIS.
(1) A TEENAGER CAN’T EVEN GO TO THE MALL AND GET THEIR EARS PIERCED WITHOUT A PARENTS CONSENT. A MINOR CAN’T EVEN GO TO THE DOCTOR FOR TREATMENT OF A COLD WITHOUT THE PARENT BEING PRESENT. A PERSON CAN’T GET A TATTOO UNTIL 18, EVEN IF THEY HAVE A PARENT PRESENT. SO WHY IS IT OK FOR AN ABORTIONIST TO PERFORM A SURGICAL PROCEDURE UNDER ANETHESIA ON OUR KIDS WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE?
(2) IF AN ADULT TRANSPORTED MY CHILD ACROSS STATE LINES WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE, I WOULD CONSIDER THAT KIDNAPPING. I WOULD WANT TO PRESS CHARGES. OBAMA’S VOTE MAKES IT LEGAL FOR THE ABORTIONIST AND TRANSPORTER TO GO AGAINST THE PARENTS RIGHTS.
Jim6:14PMOct 1st 2008
Sarah Palin needs to go after Biden because of this..
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/biden-bill-to-blame-for-foreclosure-crisis
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/08/bidens-iran-pro.html
Another Biden fanasty land dream..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42730
Biden plastered on duty..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBNeNHHXEY&feature=related
Biden and coal use..
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/biden-clean-coal-for-china-but-not-for-us
Biden and terrorism..
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/biden-fructose-more-deadly-than-terrorism
The democrats were aware of the mess we were going to be in some time ago..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSDnGMzIdo
Who caused 911
http://www.w3f.com/article.html
Well you feel safe after reading these????
Democrat stupidity at it's best..
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/3/190315.shtml
http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/russia/russianuclearlabs.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20472
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E1D9153FF937A15757C0A96E958260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Now lets see what Russia has to say about Obama.. You must read the whole article..
http://www.rense.com/general80/obb.htm
WHAT OBAMA THINKS OF WHITES..
http://msunderestimated.com/2008/07/24/what-obama-really-thinks-about-white-people-video/
The hiden prize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57H_7i3GLE&feature=related
OBAMA THE LAIR..
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=31599a83-8831-450f-8e8c-b3723daf58f9
Obama doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground..
OBAMA FLIP FLOPS..
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/rnc-obama--foreign-policy-flip-flops/
Jim6:21PMOct 1st 2008
Obama wants NRA ads banned from TV..
The Obama camp has been threatening television and radio stations to keep them from airing anti-Obama ads.
The latest target is the NRA and stations in Pennsylvania.
Seems like Obama doesn't believe in FREE SPEECH after-all.. He pull a stunt like it in Germany also... Here's what the buckwheat parade pull their.. The media seemed to have let this matter go by without
reporting it..PUT HEY I'M GOING TO TELL THE FACTS: This is how his germany speech went off..
TALK ABOUT RUNNING A CON GAME ON AMERICANS.. "EVEN BUSH WOULDN'T STOOP THIS LOW"..
THE OBAMA CON GAME HE PULLED ON AMERICANS..
TALK ABOUT OBAMA AND FREE SPEECH...LOL HE DISALLOWED THE GERMANS TO HAVE THEIR FREE SPEECH.
SOMETHING MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT OBAMA AND HIS GERMANY SPEECH... THIS IS WHAT HIS CAMPAIGN DIDN'T TELL AMERICANS.
Obama's campaign reportedly had banned signs and posters from a scheduled outdoor Berlin speech the German media is reporting may draw a crowd of 1 million but in reality only 200 thousand had actually shown up.....
The move effectively bans protesters from brandishing anti-Obama material at the speech, which is expected to garner widespread international media attention.
"Barack Obama forbids protest posters," reads a headline in the German daily Bild.
The article states: "Obama's organization is leaving nothing to chance. As of Monday, flyers are being passed out near [the site of Obama's speech] that read 'Posters & banners not allowed.' For
security reasons visitors should not take purses or backpacks.
Berliner Morgenpost, another German newspaper, reports the move to ban posters came from Obama's "supervisors," even though German security forces are tasked with providing the presidential candidate's security.
So tell me..Since the Obama campaign had planned for 1 million people to attend this circus event and only 200 thousand showed up... Doesn't that mean that 800 thousand people that were going to protest against Obama were turned away.. Wondering minds want to know..lol
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/berlin_event/
WHAT A PHONY....Obama tied to con Americans into thinking he was something he's not..lol
Here's where Obama also goes after your second admendment rights..
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/rnc-ad-obama-and-the-2nd-amendment
Hillary Clinton is right..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQadAAlK9c4
A patrotic American he is not..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0ycYEGtqU
Obama cuts it off...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MU8OKaUvkU
Obama bashes christians..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PQjhz3bhSM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoMlGudEq8&feature=related
Obama twist the bible..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFc61fb-ZaU&feature=related
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/biden-clean-coal-for-china-but-not-for-us
Ella T.6:56PMOct 1st 2008
I wonder if the moderator of the debate Gwen Ifil is going to make some announcement before it starts about how she's writing a book on Obama and is an avid supporter? Talk about biased moderators! Maybe the Republican Party should insist that Rush Limbaugh be the "non-partisan moderator" of the next presidential debate?
Crystal8:42PMOct 1st 2008
Catalina Cruz8:03AMOct 1st 2008
I hope Sarah Palin tells Joe Biden "Hey I don't need any rules" then Sarah kicks him so hard in the nuts his eyes bug clear out of his moussed hair head.
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LOL
Crystal8:57PMOct 1st 2008
This was one of the craziest board I've seen in a while.
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ProudDemocrat2:38PMOct 1st 2008
She is not a woman she is a republican.