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2008-09-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-03 03:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

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I went to bed furious about the Dem/press treatment of Palin's children, aged 6 months to 17 years, which now has extended to Levi Johnston aged 18. Usually I sleep that sort of anger off. This morning, though, I woke up with a white hot fury. If we do not do everything possible to defeat Obama and his far left supporters, we deserve every degradation and erosion of our country and its freedoms we will surely experience.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-03 06:50|| 2008-09-03 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-03 07:09|| 2008-09-03 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Re lotp's remarks. The Dems/media are in grave danger of killing the Dem party as we know it with all the BS 'reporting' surrounding Gov. Palin.

They've pissed off lotp, and by extension, I would assume many, many other gracious, intelligent, normally quiet women voters - Reps, Dems and Independents alike. Many Dem women voters will not stand for personal attacks - especially when you attack a (minor) child of a candidate.

Piss off the girls at your own risk.

Posted by GORT 2008-09-03 07:59|| 2008-09-03 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The amount of partisanship in the press has grown untenable.

Democracy needs a fair, open and complete reporting of news and information to survive.

We are nto getting that -the press is failing and is actively acting and an unbalanced, frequently unhinged partisan in politics.

This must be stopped or our democracy will collapse in a wave of ignorance aided and abetted by the mainstream media who continues to actively MIS-inform the populace.

They are creating McVeighs with this sort of thing. And if things do fall apart, the first up against the wall will be the press who started this collapse.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-03 09:09|| 2008-09-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Corollary #1
All systems are only as good as their sensory Organs.
A System is no Better than its sensory organs
Corollary #2
To those within a system, outside reality tends to pale and disappear;

In an effort to introduce quantitative methodology into this important area of research a group of dedicated systemologists has paid particular attention to the amount of information that reaches, or fails to reach the relevant systems administrators also classified as Control Units (CU) of any particular system.

The crucial variable they have found is the fraction Ro/Rs where Ro equals the amount of reality which fails to reach the control unit. And Rs equals the total amount of reality presented to the system.

The fraction Ro/Rs varies from 0 (full awareness of outside reality) to unity ( no reality getting through) The result is known naturally enough, as the COEFFICIENT OF FICTION (CF)
Ro/Rs=CF

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2008-09-03 09:15|| 2008-09-03 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Lotp, NS, Amen squared.

I did like the fact that Newt pushed the question back at Allen to say exactly what Zero has accomplished and Allen ran like the scared rabbit he (and all the MSM) is.

Note: Palin shot her first rabbit at 10.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-03 09:21|| 2008-09-03 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 From 2:30 on should be a independently placed Ad on MSNBC.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-03 10:23|| 2008-09-03 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Democrats who are attacking Palin's family need to remember what a boomerang looks like and to duck at the appropriate time. Their attacks go way past what people have as a limit to fair play. It will hurt them, badly. Think Clinton. We got carried away in our venemous attacks on that sordid man and the public rejected us and supported the scumbag.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-03 11:09|| 2008-09-03 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 All of the above comments.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-03 12:14|| 2008-09-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Must have been a live interview. No way MSNBC would allow that on the air if it were taped.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-03 12:20|| 2008-09-03 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 The scumbag deserved it. But, shameless as they are, the donks rallied around him. If he'd been a Republican then other Republicans would have abandoned him. I know I would have. Newt had his own problems in that regard which just might have a lot to do with the fact that he never ran for president.

Newt brings up another interesting point before 2:30 though. McCain, he said, has picked a candidate who is young enough that she can be in a position of leadership for decades to come. Think about it: Eight years of McCain/Palin and then eight years of Palin with whomever she chooses (Sorry, all you Jindal supporters. I'm not familiar with him.)

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-03 12:26|| 2008-09-03 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Bobby Jindal is the brand new governor of Louisiana, Ebbang Uluque6305. His parents are Hindu Indian immigrants. He converted to Catholicism, if I recall correctly, while late in high school or in college. He ran as an outsider against the traditional Louisiana corruption, and from what I've heard he's made a good start. Happily married to his first wife, a couple of adorable children, as far as I know even fewer scandals than Governor Palin. Not a pit bull wearing lipstick, though. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-03 12:51|| 2008-09-03 12:51|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the reporter did a good job, he asked the question and kept silent while Newt answered and didn't try to debate afterwards which is not the job of a reporter.

Newt didn't dodge or parse his words which is why the clip is outstanding. More politicians should be ready like that. Damn I wish our President was ready with a few short bites like that from time to time.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-03 14:23|| 2008-09-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Trivial Pursuit in the year 2020:

"Name the former US Senator who gave a nationally televised speech the night before President McCain announced his choice of Sarah Palin as his Vice-President."

Posted by Matt 2008-09-03 17:55|| 2008-09-03 17:55|| Front Page Top

#15 An even better trivial pursuit question is that while Gov. Palin is married to a "native american", of sorts, she's following the first "native american" Veep by 80 years.

Posted by Halliburton - Asymmetrical Reply Division 2008-09-03 20:23|| 2008-09-03 20:23|| Front Page Top

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