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i think they ment Olberman was a muslim - ROFLMAO
do you remember what you did in college?
palin said she read the economist - that was after she said she reads nothing.
you mean no one can find even one person who knew obama in columbia?
maybe he is a space alien???
GIVE IT UP
he owes us 15 minutes for taking up our time with his silly life.
get a cert joe
when mcpalin loses that contract will most likely be voided out - back to the pipes joe
damn nobel prize winners - who do they thing they are - :)
all our money is out of the country either fighting the war or being held in debt by foreign countries.
very powerful commercial - i wonder how they did all that??
on a news show a few weeks back they asked a man if things were better in iraq when saddam was in power or now - the man said things were better under saddam.
the man went on to say that they had electricity and clean water - now they have neither.
so we have lowered their standard of living as well as ours.
good bye
joe used mccain and palin and now he is going to cut an record and write a book and of all other things is thinking about running for congress.
i will not be supporting joe fwiw :)
feel free to shut the F up as well
McCain camp trying to scapegoat Palin
John McCain's campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?
Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”
Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?
And if you are a 72-year-old presidential candidate, wouldn’t you expect that your running mate’s fitness for high office would come under a little extra scrutiny? And, therefore, wouldn’t you make your selection with care? (To say nothing about caring about the future of the nation?)
McCain didn’t seem to care that much. McCain admitted recently on national TV that he “didn’t know her well at all” before he chose Palin.
But why not? Why didn’t he get to know her better before he made his choice?
It’s not like he was rushed. McCain wrapped up the Republican nomination in early March. He didn’t announce his choice for a running mate until late August.
Wasn’t that enough time for McCain to get to know Palin? Wasn’t that enough time for his crackerjack “vetters” to investigate Palin’s strengths and weaknesses, check through records and published accounts, talk to a few people, and learn that she was not only a diva but a whack job diva?
But McCain picked her anyway. He wanted to close the “enthusiasm gap” between himself and Barack Obama. He wanted to inject a little adrenaline into the Republican National Convention. He wanted to goose up the Republican base.
And so he chose Palin. Is she really a diva and a whack job? Could be. There are quite a few in politics. (And a few in journalism, too, though in journalism they are called “columnists.”)
As proof that she is, McCain aides now say Palin is “going rogue” and straying from their script. Wow. What a condemnation. McCain sticks to the script. How well is he doing?
In truth, Palin’s real problem is not her personality or whether she takes orders well. Her real problem is that neither she nor McCain can make a credible case that Palin is ready to assume the presidency should she need to.
And that undercuts McCain’s entire campaign.
This was the deal McCain made with the devil. In exchange for energizing his base by picking Palin, he surrendered his chief selling point: that he was better prepared to run the nation in time of crisis, whether it be economic, an attack by terrorists or, as he has been talking about in recent days, fending off a nuclear war.
“The next president won’t have time to get used to the office,” McCain told a crowd in Miami on Wednesday. “I’ve been tested, my friends, I’ve been tested.”
But has Sarah Palin?
I don’t believe running mates win or lose elections, though some believe they can be a drag on the ticket. Lee Atwater, who was George H.W. Bush’s campaign manager in 1988, told me that Dan Quayle cost the ticket 2 to 3 percentage points. But Bush won the election by 7.8 percentage points.
So, in Atwater’s opinion, Bush survived his bad choice by winning the election on his own.
McCain could do the same thing. But his campaign’s bad decisions have not stopped with Sarah Palin. It has made a series of questionable calls, including making Joe the Plumber the embodiment of the campaign.
Are voters really expected to warmly embrace an (unlicensed) plumber who owes back taxes and complains about the possibility of making a quarter million dollars a year?
And did McCain’s aides really believe so little in John McCain’s own likability that they thought Joe the Plumber would be more likable?
Apparently so. Which is sad.
We in the press make too much of running mates and staff and talking points and all the rest of the hubbub that accompanies a campaign.
In the end, it comes down to two candidates slugging it out.
Either McCain pulls off a victory in the last round or he doesn’t.
And if he doesn’t, he has nobody to blame but himself.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/15073
the irony - obama from hawaii and lieberman's replacement from hawaii - alohaaaa
Auditors: Private security in Iraq costs over $6B
WASHINGTON – No one knows for sure, but auditors think the U.S. has paid well over $6 billion to private security companies who've been guarding diplomats, troops, Iraqi officials and reconstruction workers in Iraq.
The money amounts to about 12 percent of the $50 billion Americans are paying for reconstruction in the country, said Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen.
The figure, included in a report being released by Bowen's office Thursday, is likely to be taken as the most authoritative accounting so far of what it has cost taxpayers to provide private security since 2003 in the violence-plagued nation.
It included bodyguards for diplomats and top commanders and guards for U.S. military bases, as well as for military supply convoys, contractors, subcontractors and others supporting the U.S. mission and military.
Also included were personal security details for high-ranking Iraqi officials, as well as security advice and planning costs.
Government agencies in Iraq were not required to keep track in one place of how much money was going to security. So Bowen's office spent three months going through records from the State Department, Defense Department U.S. Agency for International Development and other government sources to try to pull together the figure.
There are likely more contractors he has yet to count and so the $6 billion is almost certainly not the full picture, he said in an interview Wednesday.
The report accompanies Bowen's quarterly reconstruction report to Congress, which included the following other findings:
_More than $125.7 billion has now been committed to rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure and government since U.S.-led forces toppled the government of Saddam Hussein five years ago.
Though all of that has not been spent, it includes $50.77 billion in money appropriated by the U.S., $57.96 billion in Iraqi funds and $17 billion pledged by other international donor, the bulk of it in the latter in loans and under $5.3 billion in grants.
• Iraq's rule-of-law system remains broken, most evidenced by the fact that Iraqi judges continue to be assassinated across the country. In 2008, terrorists killed seven judges, compared to 11 killed in 2007 and bringing the number to more than 40 judges and family members since 2003.
• A serious problem remains with corruption — which Bowen has long called a "second insurgency" in Iraq for the challenge it poses. For instance, auditors noted that a local contractor asked to be released from his work on three schools in Baghdad's Sadr City this quarter because he and his family were threatened when he refused repeated requests from government officials that he pay them bribes.
• The United States has allocated nearly $25 billion to support training and equipping new Iraqi security forces and the justice system and spent more than $10 billion on Iraq infrastructure.
WE SPENT ALL THAT MONEY IN IRAQ AND THINGS ARE AS BAD AS THEY WERE BEFORE WE INVADED>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rebuilding_iraq
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that is what this board is about - discussing politics - maybe crawl up some other boards butt. :)
i feel safer with Oj on watch that i do cheney and or palin - yikes
actually i like oj for head of homeland security - thoughts?
well mccain does not even know how to send an email and palin uses yahoo for official govt business so i would not put to much stock in that source where palin and mac are concerned
i enjoy our rare agreements. :)
yes she is still in highschool
pee wee herman for sec of state - go gop in 2012
illegal? no actually all the ethics violations on palin are illegal - the keating 5 scandal was illegal.
obama is legal and he has the backers to prove it.
joe the plumber for vp in 2012 - yipeeeeeeeeeee
going to enjoy the obama speech - bye yalllll
what newspapers and magaizines do you read?
that is a trick question??????
hispanic vote could push obama way up this year
i have been working hard to get the peaches to turn to blueberries. :)
have you listened to any of her interviews - palin could not even give a decent response to the most simple question.
she could not even give a list of the newspapers and or magazines that she reads.
the woman is an idiot
not sure to be honest
she is very unethical
you mean the right people. the ones that knew what was coming and the ones that were not surprised when it happend???
those people???
there were plans found after the first WTC bombing that showed planes flying into buildings. we had years to get on top of it and we also know that the fbi and cia knew we had terrorists in the country.
the govt dropped the ball
the rich gained and the rest of us are in pain
clinton had monica go down instead - much better outcome with monica and billy than with bush if you ask me :)
EVIL IS AS EVIL DOES
OBAMA - CLINTON TAKING THE STAGE IN FLORIDA RIGHT NOW
mccain is having flashbacks
i tend to agree
we did not design everything my friend.