Palin Options

[Robert]

Just wanted to point out I called Palin as VP over 4 months ago, for all the same reasons the decision was made now.
If McCain wins, I honestly believe this will be what puts him over the top.

Also you couldn't ask for better timing to make this announcement.
The DNC convention ended last night with a huge bang an there's not a single leading news story about it.
The news is 100% about Palin as VP.
Talk about stealing someones thunder.

I hope they win an McCain dies the next day.

[Robert]

Personally I would like to see a mix of classic moderated debates an open town hall style. I've gotten a lot of laughs from Dems over the last two days who have tried to push the idea McCain did this because he was afraid to debate Obama. That's plain laughable, Obama is the one who wanted to limit the debates, not McCain. Not to mention how the main stream news has conveniently overlooked Obama's current stance about how important it is the candidates answer the questions America is asking. Wouldn't that be the perfect description of town hall debates that he refused to do?

The current news machine when it comes to Palin goes far beyond typical liberal bias.
For example, the near constant rehashing of the Bridge to nowhere an how that stories plays out against her. I've only seen a single story pointing out the fact both Biden an Obama voted for the bridge to nowhere. Not once, but even the 2nd time when it was already starting to become a joke. Then to make it worse they voted against a Rep amendment to diverted the money to Louisiana.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/bid...arks/index.html

Then we have the ever popular, it's the Republican deregulation which caused the current financial crisis.
The fact McCain sponsored a bill to stop Fannie an Freddie from helping enable the subprime mess in 2005 an 2007 wasn't considered newsworthy. I guarantee you if Obama or Biden or any other leading Democrat had predicted the problem with F&F an tried to do something years ago, it would me the leading news story for days. Even poor dumbass Bush tried to call attention for the need of more oversight an regulation of F&F back in 2003
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...agewanted=print

Something else that drives me nuts about this whole notion Republican deregulation was the sole or even main cause for the current financial meltdown. Several economist also point to CRA ( Community Reinvestment Act ). This is a program dating back to 1977 which forces banks to take on a certain percentage of bad mortgage loans and was made even bigger by Clinton in 95. Then there is finally the consumers who turned to ARM loans to allow them to buy more of a house then they could afford. There is plenty of blame to go around but all you hear in the news is how it's a result of Republican deregulation.
I normally hate stuff like this but it sums up the problem very well.
Government has their hands all over this mess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY

Speaking of government regulation, the latest news about how bad it failed when it comes to health care
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26860289/

If someone wants to vote for Obama, thats fine.
What was he running on.....
* Smaller government? No, A large increase in Government
* Cheaper government? No, The biggest list of entitlements since FDR
* Immediate or quick pull out in Iraq? has increasingly backed away from his initial time lime, plus has always given himself several outs to allow him to change his stance on Iraq if needed.
* Experience? Nope
* Energy plan? Total BS 10 year plan with no specific on how he will achieve his goal.
* Fair Taxes? Nope, classic class warfare here. Going to raise the Corp taxes because those evil companies don't pay enough. One small problem, the US has one of the highest corporate taxes on the planet.
Obama will kill US competitiveness by raising corp taxes while ever other country is lowering theirs to become more competitive.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/23561.html
BTW he is still using the line "lower taxes for 95% of Americans" when the best independent review puts that number closer to 80%. Which would still be a lie because it includes people who don't pay taxes. If they don't pay taxes, how can he lower them?
Also, the increased corp tax problem will only aggravate the already weakening dollar.


Hamma
Your question intrigued me so much, I had to do a quick search. Looks like the search may have to employ Lexis/Nexis as there is so much noise in the system thanks to Gramm's infamous "nation of whiners" remark. I did find an interesting article published by Texas Observer last May that does a great job of shedding light on the McCain-Gramm connection. It really is no wonder why Gramm is the one who continues to be mentioned.
Gramm continues to be mentioned for the same reason the Keating 5 are, both are bogus.
BTW I couldn't find a single legitimate source say McCain planned on making Gramm sec. of the Treasury.

Something else of interest which I just read about. So much positive press has been given to the fact Obama was an editor of the Harvard Law review. There was a time when it use to be based solely on grades, not anymore.
"seven to nine are selected by a discretionary committee, either to fulfill the reviews race-based affirmative action program, to select students who just missed the cut by either of the other two processes, or by some other criteria as the committee sees fit."
Linkage
This would go a long way to explain why Obama has never released his grades from Colombia or Harvard.
BTW he wasn't on the honor roll at Colombia, so it's pretty much a given he didn't get accepted to Harvard based on his grades.

Concerning Palin's poor performance with reporters which Hamma linked to.
You previously said everyone should be open to harder press scrutiny.
There is the problem, they are not. Go back an look at the comparison between the Gibson/Obama interviews and the Gibson/Palin interview I previously pointed out in this topic. The exact same could be said for almost every single interview given over the last few weeks. Hell even O'reily tossed Obama softballs.


I'll be very curious to see where the polls and news heads after the debate tonight.