Palin, Biden: Obama turf-campaigning

This just in:

With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say.
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.

A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

Proving that republicans eat their dead!

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Is she in "real America" today?

Palin has borrrowed clothes, Biden steals words. You be the judge.

Her own jacket. How precious!

Interesting choice of photos Sarah Palin give the 'Victory" sign and Joe Biden the "I SURRENDER SIGN"

Maybe the Photo editor knows something the pollsters don't

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com

This just in:

Joe Biden walked out of an interview with W.F.T.V. Channel 9's Barbara West because of 3 tough questions.

Hey, every interview can't be like a Larry King one...so what do the dems do...walk off and pout. Just think if Sarah Palin did that? It would be on page one of every lib paper across the nation!

Paulo

The McCain campaign (with many advisors coming from the Bush campaign) spent $150K on a wardrobe for Sarah Palin - to make her look "pretty". It works out to an allowance of $2,000 per day for her clothes.

I personally find that to be very impractical spending, particularly because McCain has limited campaign funds. Does the McCain campaign think Palin is on par with the Lehman Brothers' executives?

Between that and Palin's decision to put her hometown of Wasilla in debt by over $12,000,000 when she was mayor, and that she abused her power in Alaska, and that Palin has been known to charge the state of Alaska for frivolous expenditures - I don't really think that is a pattern that shows fiscal responsibility. Sarah Palin seems like little more than a shopaholic to me.

"'Barack Obama has a backbone of steel,' Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president, said today at a rally in Virginia."
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Really? Is that backbone a recent purchase? I don't think he had it all those weeks he spent handwringing over what to do about James Wright. If he had a backbone of steel back then, it should have taken him 10 minutes to kick Wright to the curb. BO, in my opinion, is simply too indecisive to be a good leader.

Proof positive that Obama is headed for the White House:

The online forums are full of desperate, whining McCain supporters, venting their spleens with idiocy.

It's the only place left for them to go where truth really doesn't matter, so they can lie asmuch as they want.

Down with tyranny, down with traitors, down with Bush-McCain.

9 days and we make history. Obama-Biden '08.

Chicago Police & Fire Depts. have been ordered to have all of their emergency equipment and gear (oxygen masks, boots, helmets, riot helmets, etc) with them on Nov. 4th, "just in case" they might need to be deployed after an Obama loss.

THAT is how afaraid Chicago and the Obama camp are that they are going to lose.

Take cover & for your own safety, stay away from downtown Chicago.

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else."

Posted by: bill "Hussein" r. | October 25, 2008 4:38 PM

Nice post, bill "Hussein."

But the McCain spokesman could have stopped at, "She's a maverick."

I do take exception with your opening line, however. "Election Day" for me was last week.

Get out and vote EARLY. Don't let the long lines and Republican tom-foolery (Repubs taking their time at polling places and clogging lines) steal this one, too.

Hey Paulo, check your facts. Biden walked out of that interview because West was repeating all of the McCain talking points. She was asking him was he embarrassed by Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers. THAT is the reason he was upset. Same old stupid diversions by McCain and his Minions. Wake up and think for yourself. Don't let Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity decide who gets elected!

It is not true what Rey Flores wrote and besides, we don't have to worry about United States Senators Obama and Biden losing to an old out-of-touch multimillionaire and a bimbette!!

Such crap from the liberal left wing media. Obama has specially made $2,000 suits, ordering several at a time and NOTHING is said...NOTHING is questioned.

Please please please let this woman be the next GOP leader!!! Her ego and stupidity would spell the end of it. The GOP would become the new fringe political group.

Obama and Biden can't stand the heat they better get out of the kitchen as Harry Truman said.
Obama has a steel back all right a Joe Stalin steel back when he shut off the ads because Big Bad TV station was mean and asked a real question is Obama like Karl Marx absolutely like him. They both spread the wealth around but Obama shows he will use government records and agencies to get his enemies. He will stop at nothing. Sean Hannity hit Obama hard on his Chicago misfits William Ayers, jeremiah Wright et al on FOX News Channel Saturday night.
Obama is peaking too soon in all elections you need to peak on election day. Obama and Biden are hackneyed and wearisome Biden can't take it anymore.
The idea that there will be riots if Obama loses is a sick thought emanating from the Obam campaign.
Win or lose the One must go on he will have more books and TV deals and speeches galore in Germany and European venues.
Get a life Obamacons. The polls show 65 plus favor McCain and they vote dependably. The elitist Obama has written us off to be bitter clinging to our God and our guns and we are Obama. Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Interesting choice of photos Sarah Palin give the 'Victory" sign and Joe Biden the "I SURRENDER SIGN"
Maybe the Photo editor knows something the pollsters don't
VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com
Posted by: VJ Machiavelli | October 25, 2008 6:26 PM

Actually, Biden is illustrating the size of McCain and Palin's whopper lies. Palin was just asked how it feels to finally be Miss America.

Dear Mr. Obama,
It is August 30, 2008. My name is Mark Gregg. I am a 50 something conservative white male. I have followed your campaign closely, including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national convention. I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you. I believe my opinion is shared by many people. While there may not be quite enough to prevent you from becoming president of this nation, I do think there is an awakening to the fact that you are not a (the) messiah that the media and liberal Hollywood entertainers are trying to portray you.

1. I hear your mantra of change, change, change. Yet, you picked a long term, liberal, Washington insider (Joe Biden) to be your running mate. This is NOT change. It is a move that hypocritically refutes the very thing you supposedly stand for. Your campaign then slammed McCain for picking Sarah Palin, apparently, because she is NOT a Washington insider. She is a maverick who cleaned-up Alaska's quagmire of political scandals. Which way is it, Barack? Is it okay for you to pick a Washington insider under the mantra of 'change', but not okay for John McCain to pick a smart, aggressive, reformer?

2. You have the single most liberal voting record in the senate. This indicates to me and others like me that you may very well be an angry black man seeking to punish our country for sins of a different generation. I am not racist. I have some biases just like you and every other human alive. Unlike the democratic party who claims to be for the minority (but their record heavily refutes this), I will give any person who truly needs help, help. I married a 'minority' girl 35 years ago (she is Hispanic) and have seen the evils of prejudice first hand.
However, I have also seen my wife and my children and others in her family throw off the veil of self imposed prejudicial bondage and move ahead. They love our country and do not view themselves any different than I view myself as a citizen of this country. Your lovely wife so disappointed people like me during this campaign when she stated it was the first time she had ever been proud of this country.
She apparently never noticed the massive aid we give dozens of other countries.
She apparently never noticed the sacrifice of literally millions of veterans who helped make this country a free nation and helped liberate other nations from brutal dictators such as Adolf Hitler.
She apparently does not remember that she attended ivy league universities with scholarship money that ultimately (at least some of it) was paid for by our taxes. This troubles me more than you know. She is an angry black woman who appears to not like her country very much. I don't want her representing me to the rest of the world.

3. You claim Christianity but apparently do not realize that the Bible teaches that he who does not work, does not eat. The Bible does not say or even suggest that he who CANNOT work, should not eat. Yet, your liberal policies reward people who are capable of working, but choose to not do so. This bothers me. I know that if you are elected our taxes will spiral upwards. You should heed the words of Winston Churchill: 'We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle..' If I like anything about you, it is your campaign promise to balance the federal budget. Unfortunately, we have heard this a huge number of times from a number of different politicians and we realize that when you energize the very liberal Nancy Pelosi, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, etc, etc, and the many other democrats like them, a balanced budget will never, ever happen on your watch.

4. During your question and answer session with Rick Warren of Saddleback Church your answer concerning the question of where does life begin, stunned me: 'Above your pay grade?' Does this mean when something bad happens as President of this nation that you are going to look at your salary to determine if you can respond? I am sorry, but this was the most serious gaffe I have seen you make. Frankly, it shows me that you are pandering in the most obvious manner. You will choose your words not from your heart, but from an agenda that I believe is still hidden from the American people.

5. If anything stands out about you it is probably your appeasement mentality. In this era of rampant, radical Islamic extremism and with the latest stunt pulled by the re-energized Russian government, I am not sure appeasement is healthy. I again revert to the words of Winston Churchill: 'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.'

6. You and your party tacitly believe that a 13 or 14 year old girl must have the parents' approval to have the school nurse provide them with a Tylenol when they have a headache at school. Yet, this same girl can become pregnant and the school can skirt her off to a clinic and abort the child in her body without the parents knowing or being notified. This scares the hell out of me. You have two little girls. Would you be upset if this happened to them and you were not informed? Then why do you stand for this? It makes no sense to me.

7. My seventh and final point (for now) is your supporters. I have watched the Hollywood entertainers who support you, systematically embrace Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and others like him. I see the continuous smut and garbage produced by Hollywood, the very people who promote you the most vigorously. It is not a positive point to me and others like me to see these over-paid, bizarre, poor examples of human existence fawn over you and push you and your liberal agenda as hard as they do. The way I see it; When the devil is for you, we should question whether or not we should be against you.

In closing, I just want you to know that you scare me. I cannot vote for you. It is not because of your skin color. It is because these items I've listed and many, many others like them. Do not claim that my dislike for you is race based. It is because I do not feel you have the best interests of this nation at heart.

Mark Gregg..really pathetic rant. Appeasement isn't healthy? Wow, you must love to take on the world just like your buddy, Booosh. Easy to say when you're in your 50's and not the one going over to the Middle East. America has no money..America has moved on. Hopefully, with a new Democratic administration, our country will conduct talks with our enemies and friends before rushing in like fools. What would Christ say about appeasement and "your biases"? I think you know the answer, my friend.

Please- do not quote the bible if all you are going to do is cherry pick your favorite quotes to make you sound right. That is the worst sin you can commit, equivalent to pretending to be God. The relig. right can talk itself into circles all it wants, and stick collective fingers in ears when anyone but the most far right people try to talk about facts, but that does not make any of it real or true. If we do not act as a nation, in unity, and recall the preamble and constitution as directives for our governmental work, we will continue to fail and decay. There are good reasons church and state are separate- read all the founding fathers explicit notes regarding this. The GOP is only becoming a loony mess, and any old school GOP fiscal conservative will tell you that.

to anyone who identifies with the cut-and-pasted "mark gregg" letter that's been circulating around the net for awhile, i have one humble request.

do yourselves a favor and read about how nixon's "southern strategy" in 1968, and how the republican party created virtually all of the myths that the gregg letter are based upon in an effort to manipulate mostly white voters. you will realize how your worldview has been shaped by this misinformation campaign designed entirely to alienate people like you from the rest of the country. you've behaved exactly as they have expected, and have fallen prey to their propaganda campaign. just read about it.

She's wearing her own clothes now? And making speeches about her wardrobe? This really is turning out to be a positive Republican Campaign. I bet ol McCain is just thrilled with the new down home Sarah. This women has more persona makeovers than Madonna.