How Will Obama Attack Palin?
Her oldest child is in the military, her youngest child has Down Syndrome and Mr. Palin takes care of the kids.
How can Obama and his wonderful wife who makes $300,000 working at a hospital that received mucho dinero from Mr. Obama’s pork projects compete with that?
Attack?!? Why should anyone attack her? It’s up to her to convince voters they should vote for her. How is she going to convince voters they should put her within a heartbeat of the presidency?
Comment by David Barrett | August 29, 2008
Why would “anyone attack her”?
Ask Obama, because this was what his campaign put out when it was announced Palin was McCain’s choice for VP:
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of 9000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency”.
But when he realized how lame that was and how offended those bitter, clinging gun-toting, bible thumping small town voters would be, he backtracked, saying his campaign was on a “hair trigger”.
Well, yeah, and his elitism was on a “hair trigger” too!
How dare McCain pick a person who is not from New York or Chicago or Los Angeles or some other liberal enclave—the nerve!
Do you, Obama, or other Obama worshippers really think attacking a mom with 4 kids, one in the military and another with Downs Syndrome, who belonged to a union, whose husband belongs to a union will win votes for Obama?
PS: Joe Biden’s son is a lobbyist.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 29, 2008
You right wing fools had no problem smearing legitimate war heroes McCain and keery with swift baot crap. But you act outraged that Governor Palin might be subjected to any attacks at all. Hypocrites of the highest order. That’s what the right wing has become. And what was so nasty about the truth of Governor Palin being a mayor and having zero foreign policy experience. How much economic experience does she have? The simple fact is Mccain knows he’s going to lose and picked a female for his running mate to make the Republicans look like they care about women’s issues.
Comment by the oracle | August 30, 2008
Gee O, I’m surprised by your anger toward Gov. Palin—she seems like your kind of woman: she is a member of the NRA, hunts, fishes, shoots, is a former union member and is married to a hunky union guy—what’s not to like?
Nobody said she shouldn’t be criticized at all—that’s not even rational or reasonable, but the point is that just as everyone must be careful about criticizing the “historic” Obama, they must also be careful in their criticism of the “historic” Palin.
In fact, I think McCain chose Palin in order to expose Democrat men and the press as raging sexist pigs, and Democrat women as mindless morons. From what I’ve been reading, most of the leftwing women don’t believe Palin is “woman” enough, just as some blacks thought Obama wasn’t “black” enough—until he won Iowa!
Comment by qcexaminer | August 30, 2008
thought this was an interesting tidbit:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/30/palin-booed-for-mentioning-hillary-clinton/
Comment by Robbie | August 31, 2008
The local male left bloggers already showing their colors. The Dope already bashed her because she is not some ugly hag.
Comment by Larry Fine | August 31, 2008
So true Larry—the reaction from Dope and the other leftwing Obama worshippers is so low class and unhinged as to be beyond belief—and parody!
There is already a rumor on Kos circulating that Palin faked her last pregnancy and that her last child is really her grandchild. Also a rumor she is gay, and a rumor there are nude photos—which is probably what Dope is wishing for
The leftwing female bloggers call Palin an “insult to women” who has “not paid her dues” (and Obama has?), that she is “no Hillary” (like that’s a bad thing) and that Palin will take away a woman’s right to self-determination (huh?). The stuff is totally off the wall and frankly an embarrassment to women of any political persuasion.
Obama worshippers and the press are so fretful that “racism” might hinder Obama’s glorious (presumed) victory—but it looks like sexism will be an even bigger problem than racism.
It pains me to say this but Hillary was right about the misogyny in politics. No one would dare say the things about Obama’s race that they are now saying about Palin and did about Hillary.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
robbie, thanks for the link.
I’m not sure what to make of it though. I doubt CNN knows why Palin was booed when she mentioned Hillary since CNN panders to Democrats and the reporter was more than likely projecting his own ideology on an event. There’s no way CNN could “know” why the crowd booed—so they just made stuff up, like they do in the MSM.
Although I don’t know either, my guess is that this was a partisan gesture—let’s face it, Hillary has incredibly high negatives even among the general public, lord knows what her negatives are with the GOP.
If it was motivated by partisanship, that would be unfortunate because Hillary gave a gracious statement about Palin upon learning she had been chosen for VP—which is more than could be said about the initial reaction by the Obama campaign—which Barry ultimately had to disown and was forced to throw his own staff under the bus!
“These were not the staffers I knew—these staffer were on hair-trigger alert and the staffers I knew were a calm, cool and collected staff”, etc.
OK, that’s a paraphrase that’s fake but accurate!
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
As a woman yourself Mrs. QCE, why are you outraged that Mrs. Obam is a successful and highly paid executive? I would think you would be proud of Mrs. Obama and Governor Palin. As a father of two daughters and husband to a wife that is far better than I deserve, I am proud of them.
Comment by the oracle | August 31, 2008
If I’m outraged about Mrs. Obama (which I’m not) it would be because she is so embedded in the Chicago Way, as is her husband, that just after Barry was elected to the Senate, her salary was raised more than double at the hospital where she worked—plus in return said hospital got some juicy earmarks courtesy of Mr. Obama.
But on the other hand, it seems you owe your current position and salary to the Quincy Way, so maybe you DO have more in common with Mrs. Obama than I originally thought.
I don’t know where you got the idea I’m not proud of Gov. Palin because I am—I just haven’t written much about her yet. But while both Hillary Clinton and Mrs. Obama got their positions by riding their husband’s coattails, Gov. Palin has done what she did on her own. She is a true reformer—she took on her own party over corruption, something Obama NEVER did here in Illinois or Chicago, even when he had a chance. At every turn, while Barry preached “reform” he always sided with the corrupt Daley machine or the Stoger regime so he could further his political ambitions. Palin is a proven reformer and Obama is just a poseur—all talk, no action.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
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You are if nothing else, predictable Mrs. QCE. You have done an admirable job of patterning yourself after Lou Dobbs. You like someone until he/she has gained a measure of fame and success, then you hate them, You liked Obama. You even voted for him. Now you hate him and take every opportunity to bash him. What does Governor Palin actually bring to the ticket other than being able to respond to every question that she is pro life? A year and a half experience as governor is good enough for you? McCain did nothing but bend over to the extreme right wing of the Republican party. Surely McCain has achieved enough fame for you to start hating and bashing him.
Comment by the oracle | August 31, 2008
Well jeez O, don’t you read your own Quincy blogs?
If you did, you’d see how Obama (POTUS candidate) stacks up against Palin (VPOTUS candidate).
Quincy Dave lays down the smack on the head-to-head comparison of Obama and Palin.
When compared directly, your god Obama looks pathetic—he does a lot of talking, but mostly votes “present” when the hard questions come up.
POTUS is a “buck stops here” position and Obama has spent most of his short political career passing the buck.
But what you say is true; I might turn on Palin later if what I learn about her disgusts me (i.e. pastor who damns America like Wright, thinks babies who survive botched abortions should be killed anyway, plays footsie with corrupt politicians like Stoger and Daley, etc.) the way I became disgusted with Obama. But until then, Sarah’s my girl.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
Oh yeah QCBaby! The comparison that gave an advantage to Governor Palin over Senator Obama because she looked “sexy, like a naughty librarian.”? You’re right QCBaby. Putin doesn’t have a chance. And neither do them Frenchies in charge of Canada!
Comment by the oracle | August 31, 2008
I guess you didn’t read the whole thing. Either that or you’re just a partisan hack—and really, why shouldn’t you be?
Your livelihood depends on it.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
Governor Palin boasted she and her husband were Union members QCBaby. I thought you loathed Unions. When is the Palin hatin going to begin? C’mon Baby. Unleash some o dat venom on a fellow woman.
Comment by the oracle | August 31, 2008
Why are you dissing fellow union members O?
I <3 Palin because she is the reformer that Obama will never be—being a union member is a side issue for me. Palin is no tool of unions or special interests, she fought her own party and the fat-cat oil industry—that’s the difference.
Comment by qcexaminer | August 31, 2008
If Palin was at the top of the Democrat ticket, he would be all for her as is evident with his support of Obama. Spin it as you like, Obama just doesn’t have the experience and nothing you can say can give him any. If you put hope and change on a resume, it doesn’t enhance it. Just how is it that a community organizer that did nothing in IL has all the answers for all the problems?
Comment by Tspud | August 31, 2008
If Mrs. Palin were at the top of the Democratic ticket I would have the same reaction as most Republicans. Who? What? Why?
Comment by the oracle | August 31, 2008
O, you mean the same reaction as most Republican elites.
If nothing else, Palin has fired up the GOP base, which was less than enthused about McCain.
Comment by qcexaminer | September 1, 2008
Amend the rules – George W. Bush for a third term.
Comment by Larry Fine | September 1, 2008
I love the selection – and the (likely) unintended benefit…
The Dem’s say, “why would he put someone with so little experience a heartbeat from the Presidency?”
Which, at first blush (which is all liberals ever give any issue), seems like a reasonable question, but the unintended next thought becomes,
“Well, Palin, may be a heartbeat from the Presidency, but Obama, with less experience, why would we put him in the Presidency???”
Comment by tiger woods | September 1, 2008