September 2008
21 posts
McCain fudges circumstances of Palin's Pakistan...
SEDONA, Arizona (CNN) – In a Tuesday interview on CNN’s American Morning, John McCain dismissed news reports about Sarah Palin’s pronouncement that the United States should “absolutely” attack terrorists within Pakistan as nothing more than “sound bite politics.”
But McCain refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden’s recent criticisms of clean coal — comments used by the McCain campaign in a radio ad...
Congress details legislation to enact historic... →
“…the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”
– Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) on John McCain’s call to postpone the first presidential debate.
John McCain on CEO compensation
“The senior executives of any firm that is bailed out by Treasury should not be making more than the highest paid government official.”
The president is the highest paid federal official, with a salary of $400,000 a year, a $50,000 expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment. Yet “help me put my foot in my mouth” Carly Fiorina,...
“Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition,...”
– John McCain Contingencies magazine September/October 2008 issue
http://www.contingencies.org
Fury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus - Times Online →
Wall Street Journal blasts John McCain
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty
When you graduate 894th out of a class of 899, eventually it will show up.
And John McCain’s mediocre performance at the Naval Academy is showing up big time this week in his total lack of understanding of the nation’s financial crisis.
He told us he didn’t know much about the economy… now he’s proving it.
So much so that the Wall Street Journal, perhaps America’s...
Hope from Alaska →
Let me see if I have this straight...
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend five different small...
Fiorina: McCain can't run company either
(CNN) — Hours after top McCain aide Carly Fiorina said Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin isn’t qualified to run a major corporation, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO said she doesn’t think John McCain is either.
In comments that are strikingly off message as the Arizona senator attempts to position himself as the candidate best positioned to fix the country’s economic woes,...
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
September 14, 2008 By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL This article is by Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell.
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the...
Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home
Taxpayers Also Funded Family’s Travel
By James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, September 9, 2008; A01
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on...
Palin touts stance on 'Bridge to Nowhere,' doesn't...
By TOM KIZZIA tkizzia@adn.com (08/31/08 02:29:08)
When John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center.
“I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere,” Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan’s Gravina Island bridge.
But Palin was for the...
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More facts (and sources) about Sarah Palin
Thanks to moveon.org for this.
Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is “God’s task.” She’s even admitted she hasn’t thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted saying, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.” 1, 2
Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe...