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Wallace did not ask McCain about ethics investigation into "reformer" Palin
Summary: On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace did not ask Sen. John McCain about the current ethics investigation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, despite McCain's statement that Palin is "a reformer" and that his selection of her as his vice-presidential running mate "brings a spirit of reform and change that is vital now in our nation's capital."
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Posted by DAWUSS
WALLACE: ... (C)an you honestly say that Sarah Palin is the best person to put a heartbeat away from the presidency?
McCAIN: Oh, yeah. She's a partner and a soul mate.
Not necessarily what I would look for in a VP choice.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 7:21:53 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by pearlene_scott1602 in reply to
"Watched her for many, many years?!?!?!?!?" WTF ?!?!?!? She has been a Govenor for 20 MONTHS.
LOL
McCain only met Sarah Palin 1 time, last February.
He called her on Sunday to discuss the VP slot and invited Palin and her husband to formally make the VP offer on Thursday.
I truly believe that in the coming month, the world will find out exactly what McCain's VP pick was really about. First and foremost was pandering to the religious right. Secondly, getting a few still unhappy Hillary supporters. I think they've scratched that idea since Palin got booed when she mentioned Hillary's name.
McCain would have been better off with Lieberman, at least folks would believe he likes him.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 9:27:43 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by watershed in reply to pearlene_scott1602
Exactly. It's a double pander. They thought they could get the religious right AND some PO'ed Hillary voters simultaneously.
Quite literally the MOST cynical choice he could possibly have made, and this is the guy the call the "maverick". Astounding.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 9:54:14 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to pearlene_scott1602
She is dangerous and should be dealt with as a tough, cunning opponent. To underestimate her is to make exact same mistake we made with Bush II.
America has always been about moving onward and upward but Palin's vision for our future is not progress, it is not change.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 10:33:12 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by annes10 in reply to roundhouse
I agree. This choice of McCain's gives me the creeps. There's not an adjective to adequately describe the depth of McCain's calculated and cynical mental processes that led to his selection of Gov Palin for VP candidate.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 12:08:34 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to annes10
If he thinks Hillary supporters will cozy up to this religious zealot of a running mate then he truly, deeply, cynically believes Hillary and her supporters are stooges without conviction.
Hillary is a champion for women's rights and was ready to assume the responsibilities of the office of the president from jump. Palin, with her rapist bill of rights, would eliminate the rights of women to choose who the father of their children will be. Palin simply lacks the ability to do the job in the very real event that McCain's health will not sustain him through the stresses of the job.
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Posted by worrierking in reply to pearlene_scott1602
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Posted by roundhouse in reply to worrierking
You worrierkink.
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to worrierking
Whoa.
Yes, you are.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 11:06:23 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by my4cents1172 in reply to
" I've seen her take on her own party"
and which party would that unnamed party be? McCain and Palin's.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 10:07:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Brabantio in reply to
That is classic. McCain's staff must have done a choreographed face-palm when he said that.
I think I'm starting to get an idea of how the vetting process went:
"OK Lieberman's out, Obama didn't pick Clinton...Quick, someone find me a woman.,,No, I mean for a mate...I mean a running mate...someone Dobson will like...Sarah WHO?...OK, whatever...No, I don't want to see her bio, just give me a brief overview...mother, PTA, beauty contestant, reformer, religious nut...Got it, let's roll!"
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 11:30:00 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by armadillo in reply to
Carol McCain, former beauty queen, dumped by "family values" McSame after disfiguring car accident at 32
Cindy McCain, former beauty queen, 54
Sarah Palin, former beauty queen, 44
Advice to Cindy: Drive carefully!
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 2:36:41 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Graydogs in reply to DAWUSS
Good grief....can you IMAGINE what an uproar there would have been if Senator Kerry had said that about Senator Edwards????....or even Obama and Biden?
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Posted by thedailyphosdex in reply to DAWUSS
Meanwhile, something worth looking into would have to be Palin's associations with weird and unwholesome elements otherwise known as the Alaska Independence Party, itself having known and notorious connexions to anti-government "militia" and "patriot" types.
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Posted by whillenbrand
Hello President Obama, and don't let the door hit you in behind on your way out Senator Mc Cain! Is this the Harriet Myers selection process?
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Posted by Graydogs in reply to snoopy
Nope, butts apparently:
,,,,"Palin was glamorous enough to have entered beauty contests to earn money for college. She was crowned Miss Wasilla in her home town and was runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest. “They made us line up in bathing suits and turn our backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn’t believe it,” she told Vogue, more amused than outraged......"
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 8:19:49 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by snoopy in reply to Graydogs
Therin lies the greatest hipocracy yet. I can gaurantee you that right wing conservatives are all coveting her right now. Rush is leading the pack...
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Posted by Graydogs in reply to whillenbrand
Here's on answer
8-2908 Businessweek interview with Palin:
Bartiromo: What will your role be at the upcoming convention?
" I'm doing a pro-life speech. Four months ago, my fifth child was born with Down syndrome…so I value innocent life. It took many months for me to get my arms around the idea of, first, having a fifth child at my age, but also knowing that my child would have an extra chromosome. But I prayed the whole time, "God, just prepare me, prepare my heart and prepare my family." And talk about confirmation of that prayer, I mean, Trig is just—he is to me—absolutely perfect. And everybody's in love with him, and he's the sweetest little baby in the world."
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Posted by snoopy in reply to RABBITLUVR
They'll still draw a larger crowd! ;)
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Posted by pearlene_scott1602 in reply to snoopy
Speaking of wide world of sports, what kind of idiot schedules the last day of his convention on the opening day of football between the Giants and the Redskins?
Correction: DEFENDING SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS NEW YORK GIANTS!
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Posted by BottleBlonde in reply to whillenbrand
The reason McCain was pushing the "I am a maverick" theme so much was because he knew that the candidate who was seen as the best one to implement change in DC was going to win.
Obama has taken ownership of being the change candidate. McCain hasn't been a maverick, despite his campaign's desperate attempts to distort reality to prove that he is, and Obama's campaign has been able to knock McCain off that pedestal.
McCain thinks he can only win if he's put back up on that pedestal, so he had to choose someone far away from DC, far away from being conventional. That's why McCain was trying to say that for "years" she has a history of being an agent of change! He's got to paint her that way. That's why they're pushing the false meme that she was comfortable with not getting the earmark for that bridge to nowhere when the fact is she fully supported the porkbarrel spending that wasn't justifiable - they want her to look like someone who will buck traditional politician behavior. Problem is, she's got her own ethics problem! She's got her own words that show her to be a hypocrite. Like all Republicans.
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to djasper2761
DJ,
After GW steps down, Laura will run for the Senate from NY and winning office, make a run for the White House.
Just kidding. Nobody would go for it. ;-)
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:11:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by annes10 in reply to right-winger
Did you see THIS ONE?
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Posted by jeter2
If the Republican party were smart they would use McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for VP as grounds to have the Maverick committed to a mental institution & nominate another candidate ;-)
If this idiotic choice isn't enough to convince voters that McCain is whack job, maybe even dangerously deranged, I don't know what will.
Posted Sunday August 31, 2008 11:46:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to jeter2
Jeter,
... And Obama is not a crazy choice by the Democrats?
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 10:56:13 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to anotheramerican
Obama is an outstanding choice. He makes Republicans look small and petty by comparison.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 11:20:50 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking in reply to roundhouse
You're correct. There's no comparison because Obama is the nominee of the Democratic Party. He's spent the last nineteen months touring the country, introducing himself to the electorate and winning primaries.
Sarah Palin was appointed by a fearul man who has his parties nomination but not the support of it's base.
He feels that with this choice, he'll appease his base and pull disatisfied Clinton supporters away from the Democratic Party.
Just another case for how out of touch Senator McCain is.
Most of the women I know who were Hilary supporters, were with her because of her positions and life's work, not her genitalia.
Most women will be insulted by his choice of a woman whose views are so profoundly opposite Senator Clinton's.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 11:35:29 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to worrierking
The right have been framing Obama is inexperienced yet they pick someone who hasn't even been governor as long as my 2yr old daughter has been alive. That's small.
They attack Obama's appeal, call him an empty celebrity, yet they pick a beauty pageant contestant. It expose they're attacks as petty.
The GOP. Small and petty.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 11:49:30 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to roundhouse
Round,
Any claim of inexperience toward Palin is negated by the inexperience of Obama.
Both are inexperienced. It is simply that what little experience Obama has, has been on the legislative side while Palin's has been on the executive side.
Since they are both running for an executive office, Palin has more experience than any of the other three candidates.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 1:07:20 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to
Loonz,
No doubt your wish will come true in the next few months.
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Posted by open_mind in reply to anotheramerican
"Since they are both running for an executive office, Palin has more experience than any of the other three candidates." --AA
Wow. I thought you weren't a Kool Aide drinker. I even defended you the other day. I see I was wrong. This "executive experience" stuff is pretty much pointless when you have only been running the 47th largest (by population) state in the country. I would understand if her state had any power or people in it. This person is not ready. I am actually frightened at the prospect of someone who has this little major experience will be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. What's-her-name just made Obama look much more attractive. It actually was a bad enough pick, I am now changing my vote and support to Obama.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 1:30:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to open_mind
Open,
Thanks for the defense. You are correct, I enjoy a wide range of beverages. :-)
The size in population of Alaska has nothing to do with the argument about executive experience. By your logic iIt would be equally valid to argue that Palin is most qualified because has governed the largest State in terms of square miles. No matter the number of people in Alaska, Palin has been the executive. None of the other candidates can make a claim to any executive branch experience.
Whether Palin is ready or not will be debated. My feeling is she is more ready than Obama. If you disagree, please state what 'experience' Obama has that makes him ready on "day one"?
I find it rather amusing that you are worried about #2 being a heartbeat away when Obama has never run anything nor done anything except get himself elected to the U.S. Senate.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:27:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
By your logic iIt would be equally valid to argue that Palin is most qualified because has governed the largest State in terms of square miles.
So your argument is that she governed land.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:33:04 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to loonz
loonz,
Apparently you misunderstood.
The argument that just because Alaska is 47th in terms of population experience governing it doesn't count is about as logical as saying it is #1 in terms of size does make it count.
I hope that cleared it up for you.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:58:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
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Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
If you disagree, please state what 'experience' Obama has that makes him ready on "day one"?
His education and in depth knowledge of the Constitution; showing aggrieved citizens how to petition their government - community organizing; state legislator and senator of a state that is 23000 times the size of Wasilla and 18 times the size of Alaska; and he was able to hang with the best of them and win a grueling primary. He is also someone who can articulate his vision for America and knows the issues and challenges facing Americans today, domestically and internationally.
Palin, from what I've seen, knows nothing about government and McCain has experience but his erratic judgement, unstable temperament and the fact that he is on the wrong side of every issue negate it. Both are less qualified than Obama.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:30:38 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to loonz
Loonz,
In the resumes I've read, "Experience" and "Education" are in two different categories. Thanks for proving my point.
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Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to loonz
Loonz, I'm sure you've been around here long enough to know that when Anotheramerican says "Thanks for proving my point", it almost always translates as " I'm going to ignore you proving my point wrong, and self-hypnotize myself to a state where you reinforce my point."
But you're nice to humor him.
Posted Tuesday September 2, 2008 1:59:14 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
Since they are both running for an executive office, Palin has more experience than any of the other three candidates.
What are the challenges in Alaska that would require the leadership of a governor?
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Posted by roundhouse in reply to anotheramerican
And vice versa, homey.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 1:48:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to roundhouse
I mean really, given McCain's age and health, he had an obligation to pick someone with more gravits. Obama recognized that he'll need help from his veep and picked a solid, proven leader in the event that Biden shouild need to step up. What did McCain do? He picked up some religious zealot eye candy to pander to the right-wing authoritarian base.
Pathetic that you would even make comparisons.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 2:03:25 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to roundhouse
Palin supports criminalizing abortion. What's next? Death sentences for women and the doctors involved in abortions? Death penalties for fertility doctors who wantonly dispose of the extra fertilized eggs that accompany in vitro fertilization.
Palin is an extremist.
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Posted by roundhouse in reply to roundhouse
Answer the call, boy. Or are you simply too accustomed to liberals who lack the courage of their convictions to defend against my very real, bone deep assessment?
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Posted by roundhouse in reply to mescal
Hi, Mescal.
You're up late.
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Posted by BottleBlonde in reply to anotheramerican
Round,
Any claim of inexperience toward Palin is negated by the inexperience of Obama.
Both are inexperienced. It is simply that what little experience Obama has, has been on the legislative side while Palin's has been on the executive side.
Since they are both running for an executive office, Palin has more experience than any of the other three candidates.
How you can claim that her executive experience (a couple of years as a mayor of a town that had 5-7000 residents when she was there, and a community left in desperate financial straits by the decisions she made, and 20 months as the governor of a very lightly populated, homogeneous state) somehow qualifies her to claim any experience that's relevant to being President of the United States is baffling!!!
On the other hand, Obama has 7 years of service in the Illinois Senate, and 3 1/2 in the US Senate. 10 years of legislative service trumps the time Palin has had 'executive' experience.
This is just another example of a rightie falsely claiming that both left and right are equivalent so it gives the right a pass! We've seen that countless times, and the voters are really tired of the false equivalency claims by those on the right. They are really tired of the hypocrisy, but our resident rightie trolls just can't help themselves.
I for one appreciate it. I want the Republicans to crash and burn for at least one more election cycle, to ruin the reputations of the existing power brokers on the right, so that they will run off with their tails between their legs and stop ruining our country.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:22:02 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to BottleBlonde
BB,
You are entitled to your opinion.
Palin has six years experience as Mayor, (Obama, Biden, McCain, none,) and two as Governor, (Obama, Biden, McCain none). Palin defeated the incumbent Republican Governor in the Primary and the former Democratic Governor in the general to win that office. Before that she swept Republican cronies out of her town government after defeating a three term incumbent. After two terms she went on to challenge her party at the State level, uncovering corruption while on the oil and gas commission.
What did Obama do? Lets see... Rose through the Chicago party machine to vote "present" over a hundred times in the Illinois legislature. Did he ever buck his party? That's a real leader for you! He has since voted party-line almost 100% everytime since joining the Senate. Yeah, that's bringing people together.
For all Obama's so called "experience", I'd like for someone to tell me exactly what is a "Community Organizer" and what specifically did Obama accomplish as one of these organizers?
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:53:05 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
Palin has six years experience as Mayor
As I said before, that town has slightly more residents than my high school. So according to you, the class president of my high school is ready to lead this nation.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:02:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to loonz
What I don't understand is why you don't see your own argument works against Obama just the same.
If you can argue Obama's inexperience qualifies him to be President, you can just as well argue Palin's inexperience qualifies her.
We simply disagree that Palin has more inexperience than Obama. :-)
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:08:33 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Brabantio in reply to anotheramerican
What amuses me is that Obama doesn't have to attack her experience. Her positions are vulnerable enough as they are.
Meanwhile, McCain just took away his ability to question Obama's experience, which is particularly damaging to him since he's overplayed his POW card. What does he have left for two months? Nice trade-off there.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:30:55 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
What I don't understand is why you don't see your own argument works against Obama just the same.
It doesn't work against Obama because he has in-depth knowledge on any issue and can articulate a position and he's on the right side of the issues. On the other hand, Palin seems clueless about anything outside of Alaska. I'm sure Palin is a nice person but she's in way over her head. Obama's first important task was to choose a person that could help him lead or, if need be it, lead and he choose Biden. McCain's erratic judgment led him to Palin.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:50:23 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to loonz
Loonz,
Wow. You found all that out already? How many interviews have you seen? How many speeches? How many debates.
I think you've decided to give Palin a decent trial then hang her.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 5:17:55 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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Posted by loonz in reply to anotheramerican
Wow. You found all that out already? How many interviews have you seen? How many speeches? How many debates.
I've read news stories and a questionnaire and seen interviews. She doesn't know anything.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 5:56:45 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by armadillo in reply to anotheramerican
And no fair using months flash card drills on foreign policy Rove used on Chimpy in 1999. (That worked, he speaks of Kosovonians and Grecians and wingers still consider him qualified.)
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 3:25:48 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by anotheramerican in reply to armadillo
You're condescension aside, there is no need for me to decree it, no doubt the candidates will debate foreign policy.
It'll be very interesting to see how Obama fares against McCain and Palin does against Biden in those debates.
Posted Monday September 1, 2008 4:03:08 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by armadillo in reply to anotheramerican
Hmmm... usually you don't see the presidential candidate debating the vice-presidential candidate, which is what I asked about. But you are wiser than I, maybe I missed one.
So again, would you decree, or at least welcome, an Obama-Pander debate?
Comedy Central could host it.
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Posted by jbraskin4786
Why would Chris Wallace question McCain on this? He's already gotten his talking points from Roger Ailes.
Mike Wallace would have though.
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Posted by right-winger
HEY AS A EX DEM WHO KNOW OBAMA IS NOT GOING TO WIN BECAUSE YOU SO CALLED DEMOCRATES AND INDEPENDENTS WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. I DON'T MINE WATCHING THE DEMS PUT THERE FOOTS IN THERE MOUTH AGAIN AND AGAIN. FIRST IT WAS GOD LIKE DEMS SO THAT'S WHY THE REPUBLICANS ARE HAVING A HURRICANE AND NOW BIDEN STATEMENT PALIN IS PRETTY. HEY DEMS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
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Posted by ukobserver in reply to right-winger
HEY AS A EX DEM WHO KNOW OBAMA IS NOT GOING TO WIN BECAUSE YOU SO CALLED DEMOCRATES
Who the f*** is Democrates? Is he the little brother of Socrates? As well as taking off the cap locks it my be a good idea not to post while on meths. Oh, and by the way, use the f'ing SPELLCHECKER!!!
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to snoopy
Hahahah..
I'm thinkin Diogenes. :-)
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Posted by snoopy in reply to anotheramerican
For republicans? And, which one?
I'm thinking you meant one of the last two. ;)
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to snoopy
Snoop,
I guess we'll have to let this one remain over your head. :-)
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Posted by anotheramerican in reply to snoopy
Snoop,
You need to work on counting. Looks like your provided more than two. :-)
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Posted by ukobserver
Most republicans think that "Ethics" is a mis-pronounced county in the south of England!!!
www.essex.gov.uk/
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