Posted on 09/07/2008 5:09:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Obama chief strategist David Axelrod and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va.; Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs; McCain economic adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer.
Mr. Nutter is the Nutter who is the Mayor of Philadelphia. :-)
I have seen numerous interviews with Sarah Palin. She is articulate and well-versed in energy policy and budget items. Most of the interviews I have seen with her were about energy and the “Bridge to Nowhere.” She also testified before Congress.
I have no worries about her in a debate or in an interview. I imagine they are getting her up to speed on campaign positions and strategy.
Quit letting the media shape your feelings about this. The longer they let their expectations on her performance get lowered, the better it will be when she does do a press conference or interview.
Did anyone else happen to notice the rather insightful Freudian slip Obama made on ABC’s This Week with G. Steffy?
The Chosen One actually said quote “my Muslim faith” and then was politely reminded by George that the candidate is Christian.
It may not be anymore than just a point of fact, but the edited clip would make great web fodder if anyone happens to have the interview.
the Deets
most Moms and Grandmoms are pro life ....... DUH!
I don’t think that’s correct. That would be good news, but can you point to something that proves that?
Think it might be 50/50 at best.
So, let me see if I understand.
McCain resuscitated his moribund campaign by choosing Governor Palin, an unconventional pick, and now you want him to insist that she immediately act conventionally, right?
“Just think how the Brits and Europe must be laughing at the media too.”
There have been several threads on articles in the UK - most are very pro-Sarah:
I liked this one in particular:
A pistol-packin’ Looby Loo: the Left’s worst nightmare
Daily Mail ^ | 05th September 2008 | Richard Littlejohn
Posted on 09/06/2008 11:23:47 AM PDT by Lorianne
Frank Sinatra would have got the joke. In the words of the great political philosopher, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.
They’re all laughing, too, at John McCain for choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The usual suspects took one look at this pistol-packin’ momma and reacted like John McEnroe to a disputed line call: you cannot be serious!
Certainly, the pick came, as the Americans say, out of left field. But Sarah Palin is centre stage now, and suddenly it’s game on.
At the very least, McCain has got a wonderful sense of mischief - a quality sadly lacking in most politicians.
The way the Left, both here and in America, are contorting themselves is a joy to behold. Sarah Palin is every Guardianista’s worst nightmare.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076183/posts
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Another especially good one:
Sarah Palin: It’s Go West, Towards The Future Of Conservatism
London Times ^ | 09/05/08 | Gerard Baker
Posted on 09/05/2008 6:27:03 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075749/posts
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An ordinary, extraordinary woman......(Sarah, I so wish her well)
Globe & Mail ^ | September 6, 2008 | Christie Blatchford
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:09:22 AM by IrishMike
I hope Sarah Palin got a few minutes to savour her splendid performance at the Republican convention the other night.
God knows, she wouldn’t have had much longer. In the all-blogs-all-the-time-world in which we live, the spontaneous reaction (”She hit it out of the park,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer burbled immediately afterward, before he could collect himself) is about as common as spontaneous combustion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076049/posts
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Palin Is Catapulted Into Starring Role (A Star Is Born Alert)
Financial Times ^ | 9/05/2008 | Edward Luce And Andrew Ward
Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 11:27:44 PM by goldstategop
It was the loudest and most prolonged cheer since Barack Obama appeared on the podium last week in Denver. Very few people had heard of Sarah Palin when Mr Obama delivered his acceptance speech eight days ago. One vice-presidential announcement, several news cycles and countless debates about sexism later, Ms Palin had been catapulted into starring role at a rejuvenated Republican Convention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075884/posts
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When Barack’s berserkers lost the plot
Gaurdian (UK) ^ | Sunday September 7 2008 (in UK) | Nick Cohen
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:26:50 PM by Vision Thing
(snip) Hatred is the most powerful emotion in politics. At present, American liberals are not fighting for an Obama presidency. I suspect that most have only the haziest idea of what it would mean for their country. The slogans that move their hearts and stir their souls are directed against their enemies: Bush, the neo-cons, the religious right.
(snip)
When a hate campaign goes wrong, however, disaster follows. And everything that could go wrong with the campaign against Palin did. American liberals forgot that the public did not know her. By the time she spoke at the Republican convention, journalists had so lowered expectations that a run-of-the-mill speech would have been enough to win the evening.
As it was, her family appeared on stage without a goitre or a club foot between them, and Palin made a fighting speech that appealed over the heads of reporters to the public we claim to represent. ‘I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion,’ she said as she deftly detached journalists from their readers and viewers. ‘I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.’
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In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks. Their judgment is rarely favourable when it does. Barack Obama knows it. All last week, he was warning American liberals to stay away from the Palin family. He understands better than his supporters that it is not a politician’s enemies who lose elections, but his friends.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076349/posts
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Sarah Palin: John McCain’s secret weapon to win over the Reagan Democrats
Telegraph, UK ^ | September 6, 2008 | Tim Shipman
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:16:27 PM by Clairity
John McCain has launched an audacious bid to rebuild the political coalition that Ronald Reagan rode to the White House, tapping the mania accompanying his running mate Sarah Palin to win over small town America, and with it the White House.
The Republican presidential candidate signalled his intentions by using his first weekend of campaigning since his party’s convention to launch a political raid into the heart of Reagan-Democrat country, home of the fabled blue collar voters who Mr Reagan captured from the Democrats in the 1980s.
Mr McCain, and particularly Mrs Palin, met with a rapturous reception as they held a rally in Macomb County, Michigan, where pollsters first identified the breed of patriotic conservative, blue collar workers who the McCain camp now believes hold the key to victory in November.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076318/posts
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Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign
Times of London ^ | 09/07/08 | Sarah Baxter
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:54:33 PM by TigerLikesRooster
Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign
An extraordinary display of raw political talent could trump Obama’s ‘pretty speeches’ and rally the religious right
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076300/posts
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Sarah Palin brings the Hillary Clinton era to an end
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 6 Sept 2008 | Anne Applebaum
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:36:51 PM by CaraM
Whether or not Sarah Palin wins, for American women, politics will never be the same again, says Anne Applebaum.
.....The interest in her (Palin) and her life story is no fluke, either. Following the failure of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Palin is suddenly, and flamboyantly, the most prominent female politician in the country. At age 44, she is also the most prominent representative of her generation of women – a generation which already looks set to be different, in important ways, from its predecessors.
Unlike Hillary and her contemporaries, the women of Palin’s generation are not feminists, but rather post-feminist. Born at the very tail end of the baby boom or after it had ended, the post-feminists grew up in a world in which the revolutions of the Sixties – sexual as well as political – were already taken for granted....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076227/posts
I think you can get the video at
just got home from church and watched my tivo of Fox News Sunday.
I was very disappointed in Chris Wallace. he was far more confrontive and argumentative with Rick than with the bloviating Axelrod. He was just plain whiney and nasty with Rick about Sarah.
I got disgusted and deleted the whole thing. I’m sick of these people.
Sally Quinn is a special needs adult.
Sorry, I missed the point of your post. Guess I’ll go outside and work in the yard as punishment.
I get so sick of that. What are people thinking. There are victims who deserve our sympathy and some who even deserve RESCUE. Victim hood is NOT a qualification for leadership.
She’s articulate and has a better camera presence than anyone else in the race. The game that modern TV journalists play is to steer all interviews either towards personal attacks or their political causes. Even politicians who have the most TV time (McCain) fall into that trap. Palin doesn’t come off as that sort of person. She’s illustrated that if you keep your composure, stick to your guns, and fight back when you’re being attacked by people who think entirely too highly of themselves in the first place, you’ll mop the floor with them. So she should be showing up on tv news shows even if they’re going to attack her. In the end, she’ll win.
Taking credit for someone else’s efforts
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usobam025598601mar02,1,6933215,full.story
A few critics claim Obama, now 46,
exaggerates his accomplishments, particularly in spearheading asbestos cleanup at a low-income housing project.
He omits from his account of that fight a longtime community activist who
many people say played a significant role.
If you cannot defend your record or positions in a public forum then you will not convince people you can think on your feet. Obama is a walking gaffe machine. We criticize him because he makes one mistake after another in public forums. If Sarah is confident with her positions then get her out there and let her defend herself and her positions. Doing the talk show circuit and campaigning on the stump is part of the process.
You should point out that "we" is the internet and blogs only.
The MSM hardly ever points out the "gaffe machine" and will continue to hide the gaffes.
The MSM have an agenda and it is to elect a Democrat to the Presidency. Count on it.
“Palin’s acceptance speech was and is a historic event. It will go down in history as a defining moment in Republican Party history where all of those searching for leadership and guidance in the party found it.”
I totally agree! It was a wonderful speech, given by a wonderful, confident, well-qualified woman.
Someone posted a link on FR the other day to a Hillary Clinton forum (they’re PUMAs, too, though some posting there are Pubbies - but all try to be respectful). I ventured over there out of curiosity and have been reading some of their threads. While I, and I think I can safely say most of those that post on FR are not big fans of Hillary, they are very much so and also feel she was totally cheated in the primaries and selection of the Dim candidate. Most of them are now McCain supporters, especially after hearing Gov Palin’s speech - - they all thought she was terrific.
Many have changed or are changing to I or R, call it the unDemocratic party, and have given and may continue to give money to the McC-P campaign (they were even worried about getting their $s in by 8-31).
One of the things they’ve discussed and has been discussed on FR is voter fraud. They are contacting the McCain campaign and/or their local RNC, FNC, and/or their Sec of State when they’re seeing it and are urging members to volunteer as Poll watchers.
I’m seriously thinking about volunteering as a poll watcher this year (if I can work it in to my very busy work schedule). There have already been many claims and some charges (particularly against ACORN), looking at allowing students in VA to register there, etc., etc. I think this year more than ever, the Dims are going to try to steal the election. W Sarah comming on-board, that’s probably the only way they can win it!
Here are a couple of recent examples of attempt or outright fraud:
The Vote Fraud Continues
Self
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:51:50 AM by darth
In yesterday’s mail at my house I recieved a summons for jury duty addressed to some guy I never heard of. THAT MEANS THE GUY IS REGISTERED TO VOTE AT MY ADDRESS. Checked with the condo manager who has lived here forever. No one by that name EVER LIVED HERE. I intend to find out which precinct this phantom is supposed to be voting in and lay the trap for the perp who comes in to cast a ballot for said phantom. Last November when I was an Election Judge I recognized one of the voters because he had voted in another precinct that I worked in the previous election. Fellow Freepers, this is one of the new vote scams. They register multiple phantoms and then cast a ballot for each in the election. I think the key is to catch the perp while voting and arrest him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076037/posts
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A NEW MEANING TO GET OUT THE VOTE: Voter registration mailing misguided
The Plain Dealer ^ | September 04, 2008 | Brian Albrecht
Posted on 09/06/2008 7:13:25 AM PDT by Daffynition
Dipped Jewitt has the purrfect opportunity to make sure the interests of pets are represented in the upcoming election.
She recently was given the chance to vote via mailed registration materials sent by the USAction Education Fund, which describes itself as a national nonprofit, nonpartisan group that has organized voter-registration drives since 2004.
But there’s one problem - Dipped Jewitt is a cat.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076014/posts
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More Milwaukee Voter Fraud... Name that Party?
News Busters ^ | Sept 1 2008 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 09/01/2008 5:27:57 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Milwaukee has discovered some more voter fraud with 10 more voter registration workers are being investigated by Wisconsin authorities. Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story in its paper on August 29. Unfittingly, the Journal Sentinel forgot one, tiny aspect of the story... that the voter fraud was perpetrated by Democrats. In fact, one of the organizations, ACORN, is intimately linked with Barack Obama.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072299/posts
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Cuyahoga board probes ACORN voter registration drive
Cleveland .com ^ | August 27, 2008 | Joe Guillen
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 6:54:07 AM by Abathar
CLEVELAND — A national organization that conducts voter registration drives for low-income people has curtailed its push in Cuyahoga County after the Board of Elections accused its workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards.
The board is investigating the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Results of the inquiry could be turned over to the county prosecutor.
Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign of possible fraud showed a number of people living at an address that turned out to be a restaurant.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070517/posts
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Obama disguising ties to radical leftist group? (CSI/ACORN)
WorldNetDaily ^ | August 24, 2008 | Aaron Klein
Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 4:23:01 AM by Presbyterian Reporter
JAFFA, Israel – Did Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign attempt to hide a paid working relationship with a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous major voter fraud scandals?
That question is being openly asked by the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed Obama’s campaign paid more than $800,000 in services to Citizen Services Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit organization that is an offshoot of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
ACORN is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families. It has held violent, disruptive protests, seeks to regulate banks, supports left-leaning education policies, is accused of working on urging partisan voter turnout for elections, and seems to promote driving businesses from cities.
CSI is headquartered in New Orleans in the same building as ACORN. The three directors of CSI are also top leaders of ACORN. The two groups have close financial ties.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067432/posts
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Editorial: Soros Poised for Payback on His Political Investment
DC Examiner ^ | Aug. 28, ‘08 | staff
Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:21:52 AM by T.L.Sink
It’s bad enough that American taxpayers have to bail out the privately owned, tax-exempt Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac. But it’s truly outrageous that tax dollars will also go to groups involved in voter fraud and illegal immigration. The small print in the $42 billion bailout passed by Congress and signed by Bush requires those two government-sponsored mortgage giants to deposit 4.2 percent of all new mortgages they underwrite into the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Here’s the catch. The Trust Fund - the largest expansion of federal housing assistance since LBJ’s Great Society - is required to make grants to organizations that have “demonstrated the experience and capacity to carry out the proposed Trust Fund activity.” Which means that money can easily be siphoned off to groups such as La Raza and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN is heavily funded by George Soros. La Raza, which opposes all efforts to stop illegal immigration, and ACORN, members of which have been convicted of voter registration fraud in several states, are each eligible for $234 million under Section 134: Grants for Housing Counseling Assistance. These morsels are just a taste of what’s to come if Obama wins and Democrats gain veto-proof majorities in Congress. Obama will give billions more tax dollars to radical non-profits like Soros’ ACORN and La Raza. Soros - a long-time Obama donor - will expect a return on his investment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071872/posts
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