Drew Dowdell

Oh how I wish we could embed YouTube vids into the thread.

I follow politics constantly and I wouldn't even want to see 10 debates.

Nothing but gouging. Oil is at $101/bbl and RBOB wholesale gasoline is $2.77. Wholesale gas has been in the 2.65 - 2.79 range all week.

Again, worst case scenario and still be right.... all she had to do was pick one of those. Edit: This is the same woman who two month ago said "well first I need someone to tell me exactly what it is the Vice President does!"... No benefit of the doubt for you.

The full version of the quote Satty is referencing. You can't make this $h! up.

She demonstrated no knowledge of it's very existence. She pulled a high school, BS, "I didn't study for the exam last night" answer out of her ass. For a VP Candidate, a question regarding the current foreign policy of the United States can NOT be considered a "trap". edit: If she really was going to try and wiggle out of the question, she could have replied "Well which aspect of Bush Doctrine are you referring to?". She didn't. So much for "thinking on her feet" right?

5th one down edit: fixed for the retarded. :AH-HA_wink: edit to the edit: I have to admit I'm curious about Palin's boner.

Some help for Ms. Palin in the event of another interview. I think I still have my freshman year U.S. History book around somewhere if she wants to borrow it.... but given her previous relations with libraries, I expect some collateral to hold in the event she reads something too offensive for her "pitt bull" senses. Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt Corollary Truman Doctrine Carter Doctrine Reagan Doctrine

Bush Doctrine - It was published in 2002. It is a major pillar of foreign policy of this administration. This is high school history/current event and she flunked the oral quiz. The duty of the President is to protect Constitution. Protecting the U.S. is part of that duty. Bush has done plenty to protect the U.S. while simultaneously trashing the Constitution. Yes, I see a distinction.

Not in effect yet:

McCain did get a bump in national polls, but mostly in states he was going to win anyway. The electoral college hasn't changed much and it's now more likely that a scenario where Obama wins the electoral college but loses the popular vote could occur.

This is starting already?!? About one-third of the absentee ballot applications received at the Hamilton County Board of Elections have been ruled invalid because Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign printed a version of the form with an extra, unneeded box on it. In a narrow interpretation of Ohio law, Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says many of the McCain forms have not been completed properly. If the box stating the person is an eligible elector -- or qualified voter – is not checked, Brunner said, the application is no good. Even though the box is unneeded, by not checking it voters are essentially admitting they’re not eligible, Brunner said.

Palin on Gibson: Actually, the first priority is to defend the constitution of the United States. Palin doesn't even know the oath she is supposed to swear. And any serious person who has followed the debates about US foreign policy knows what the Bush doctrine is. But we do not have a serious pick for the vice-presidency in the GOP, do we? We have an absurdity. And a joke.

McCain was for community organizing before he was against it.

wouldn't look half good either.

There is almost always a jump after the conventions. Obama didn't get much of a jump because the conventions were so close together this year and McCain essentially steamrolled over the DNC bounce with his own convention. Things will level out again in a week after swinegate has run its course. Polls right now are going to be volatile until the debates.

"Well if you were going to take it that way, Palin is the lipstick.... McCain is the pig." The End.

yup, and that's wrong

Again, I'm not saying permanent subsidies. I'm saying that government help the technology reach critical mass. Farming isn't a new technology and is well past critical mass. I'm not asking you to agree with me, just to understand the logic behind my reasoning.

Speaking of easily refutable......

Forget about Obama, I don't think McCain saw her coming. Her biggest problem is that she tells easily refutable lies. All politicians lie, but at least be smart about it. I'm curious why the media hasn't called her out on the "I was always against the Bridge to Nowhere" lie the way they did with Clinton's "Ducking under sniper fire" lie.

Remember when the whole country was a free speech zone? The real kicker? The RNC took out insurance to cover any police brutality or improper arrest lawsuits.

This is beyond karma at this point. Here's John McCain with one of his endlessly repeated, grandpa-at-Thanksgiving, punchline provided, anecdotes: "We're not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana," McCain said earlier this year, referring to a request from Montana for federal money to study the endangered grizzly bear. "I don't know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money." Here's what Sarah Palin brought home to Alaska in pork: According to a “summary of requests for federal appropriations” posted to her budget office’s website earlier this year, Palin requested millions of federal dollars for everything from improving recreational halibut fishing to studying the mating habits of crabs and the DNA of harbor seals. Sure, he vetted her. But all this is only really instructive when you listen to Palin on the stump: “In just three years our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks. That’s nearly a million dollars for every working day,” Palin told a crowd in Lebanon, Ohio, Tuesday. “So as we reform the abusive earmarks in our state our opponent was requesting nearly a billion dollars in earmarks as a senatorial privilege as I was vetoing half a billion as an executive responsibility.” The DNA of seals?

Look back to where I feel that energy is a national security issue and you may understand my position better. I feel it is a far better investment to spend money on new wind power than it is to spend money to lob a bunch of cruise missiles at middle eastern wedding parties.

Just for Europe. We won't get it here.