She's one of them, an upper class. She will destroy the democratic party from within. I'm sorry but our only loyalty should be to the principles for which we stand. As you can see, the uppers don't just know this, they live it. Loyal to the pack not the herd. They are not community builders folks but keepers of their own flame.

I think Senator Clinton was being gracious, and it is indeed an historic moment when the Republican party has a woman on the ticket for the first time. Also, Palin seems to be smart, articulate and tough. Completely wrong on the issues, too inexperienced, but not a dud like Quayle.

Americans also like Frank Capra story lines-- someone who was only mayor of a small town a short time ago but had good values and common sense and was picked by McCain (played by Lionel Barrymore) to be the #2 leader of the free world. Not my sentiments, but Reagan got most of his stuff from old scripts at Warner Brothers, and Americans eat that up like pop corn-- or "Capracorn".

As they say, damned if you will, damned if you don't.

First Panama-John McBush acquires a millionaire mistress for a trophy wife. Now, in his creepy, creeping dotage, he acquires a trophy travelling nurse to change his Depends diapers when he pisses all over himself trying to steal a few 24/7 news cycles over Labor Day weekend.

Yet, how incredible to observe Grandpa Simpson McBush making Deputy Dubya's pick of Harriet What's-Her-Name to the Supreme Court look like a genius move by comparison. And that Senator You-Know-Her -- the peerless glass ceiling cracker -- hears an "important new voice" in all this pathetic pandering simply compounds her own demonstrated credulity beyond measure.

If the recent mayor of Wasilla is "an important new voice," why would that be? Because what she says makes sense? Or because her creationism, radical anti-abortionism, drilling lust,etc.

Because that aligns Hillary with Obama's position.

And in his case it's simply common courtesy to welcome this new participant to the campaign.

Thereafter he will be free to attack her positions but under no circumstances should he attack her character. At the very least that would be considered sexist.

More likely it would be seen as his bullying this mother of a four month old Downs child. I can think of nothng more likely to cement the switch to McCain of that 20% of Hillary supporters who tell the pollsters that they don't intend to vote for Obama but who are probably still willing to come home.

That's the trap McCain set with this cynical selection of someone so unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.Or at least that's how it seems now. She has a favorablity rating of 80% in Alaska.Maybe they're all wrong.
Or maybe she earned it with her performance as Governor. If so, that will become clear during the next 60 days. And if so, Obama is in trouble.

And with the price of oil so low, governing Alaska must be a real challenge...

The problem remains paleofeminists - they stood by Hillary and Iraq, and they are now forced to octuple down on the "Sarah, who knows nothing about Iraq". It's so stupid that there must be some form of tenure involved.

Whether we like it or not, Palin does add an important new voice to the public debate, one that has never been visible before at such a high level and that's the "soccer mom".

For years she's been talked about, used as a litmus test, offered as an exemplar and said to hold the key to national elections. Now we have a real, live soccer mom on a national ticket and what she says is going to be taken seriously by quite a few people in this country. To pretend that this isn't important is foolish and dangerous - we have "every mom" here with a national platform.

Now you can paint her as dumb and naive and unimportant, but that's at your own peril - she seems fairly politically savvy to me - she took a small town mayoral's position and parlayed that into the number two spot on a national ticket. Palin does add an important new voice and we have a problem.

The real sadness of it all is how much of screw-up Obama and his team are for not having the courage to take Hillary as VP. Can anyone not imagine the bump...the ride to the top that that ticket would have? There would have been no possible answer from Republicans. None. Game over. Instead of re-engerizing the party and thinking that now with Biden on the ticket that they have a shot at Michigan and Ohio and Florida...Having Hillary on the ticket would have closed the door.

Biden does nothing to help Obama in any area that he needs help in. His comments of praise for McCain over the years is going to limit his ability to speak out. Sad.

Sometimes I wonder about Hillary. Aside from her incomprehensible remark on the choice of Palin, doesn't she realize that her so-called supporters - the rabid ones at least - have tossed all she stands for in the dump by now supporting Palin?

By their 'switch' it is blatantly evident that their support of Hillary had nothing to do with Hillary or where she stands on issues. It only had to do with her gender. To me, that's a huge right to Hillary's jaw.

Hillary just took a right to the jaw and doesn't seem to realize it. Her women supporters who now declare that they support Palin, were never supporting Hillary or her stands on issues. They were only supporting her gender.

Of course it's important, it's the voice of the uber-conservative woman. Do you know how many ultra-right women Palin is going to rein in? how many ultra-anti-choice? How many pro-oil, pro-military, pro-death penalty nut jobs she's appeal to???

What you are seeing is what is to come: don't fight too hard, don't use super harsh words, don't be mean... she's a girl.

This is a HUGE gamble for McCain but it shifts the rules of the debate no matter what you feel about her. If Biden is perceived as being "rough" on a woman, his anti-violence bill aside, his electability will evaporate. Palin is going to prove a much more formidable foe than any of us can imagine, Clinton is right, she just didn't say it with a baseball bat. Jeez, an Obama rep couldn't even say she was unfit to be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" This is going to go this good looking, walk-the-walk/talk-the-talk mom of five's way in a spades.

You mark my words.

palin is the voice of the wing nuts, and it is important to show America how these fools think

creationism was rejected in FOOKIN KANSAS. how you think it's gonna play in California ???

what about Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, and all of the other states where the wingnut agenda hasn't been seen much ???

if they tossed these fucking goofballs out of kansas, do you think the goofballs gonna get much respect in any state that doesn't have a large minority of wingnuts

sarah palin is an important voice in American politics

Americans need to know what these goofballs intend to do

and once the wingnut agenda goes mainstream, the wingnut agenda gets rejected SOUNDLY

let this stupid woman come to California and explain why we should teach christian superstitions alongside cartisian science

creationism is a losing platform in a nationwide campaig

let this fool sell her wares

the sooner Ameica sees how foolish those ideas are, the sooner these fools are tossed out on their asses

Ameica can't laugh these fools out of power until we know they are fools

sarah palin is all the explanation America needs

a lying assed fucking wingnut

NEXT ???

I think Hillary's response was more or less appropriate. The liberal wingding punditocracy has already insulted just about every swing vote Obama needs to get in PA and Ohio, twenty or thirty times over. I'm certainly willing to consider that Hillary's political instincts are better than yours.