Spin Out of Control

McCain is running a campaign of distract and attack because he represents more of the same Bush years. Good examples are the lipstick lie, his negative education ad regarding Senator Obama and Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin handlers or tutors seem to be doing a lousy job of preparing her to meet the press. They should have gone over the scripts with her more thoroughly before they left her on her own. The misinformation she read at the RNC, her sticking to the story about the bridge to nowhere, her lack of knowledge about the Bush doctrine, etc, proves that McCain is running a campaign of distract and attack.

Funny, but Palin still has more experience than obama.

A kudo for Sen. McCain. The volatility in the Middle East, the Civil War between members of OPEC, the largest oil producing nations of Iran and Venezuela rantings against the United States and Western Civilization is all because of oil, and oil profits.

As LeFeber and Lester Thurow both wrote - the need of Iran, Iraq, and Venezuala to control oil in order to control democracy and capitalism is number one on their agenda.

This is the basis of the fundamental Islamic argument with Western Culture. The control of oil and its political and capitalistic profits.

Indeed, Gov Palin is well versed in this topic, and it would behoove the nation to listen to what she has to say.

SPIN OUT OF CONTROL Why yes you are DK. Glad you finally have a headline that describes your blog perfectly. You should add it to your by-line.

What an idiotic liberal article. They are really grasping for straws now.

face it people, republicans have marketed themselves to attract the liars and the lazy. people even too lazy to believe in democracy cause they think its too much work.

Look around your house -- EVERYTHING you look at came to you by truck, train, plane, or car. They all use oil, so your DARN right that oil is THE underlying reason for much of our foreign policy. It has been for 50 years and will be for the next fifty until there is a VIABLE alternative

I'll agree with one thing, our energy crisis is a national security issue...but it's not the only issue. There is a lot more to know about foreign policy than where we get our oil.

DK, YOU AND OLBERMANN SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND SHARE YOUR NOTES ON OBAMA..I DOINT KNOW WHAT YOU DRANK BUT THE KOOLAID WAS SPIKED.
PALIN IS HERE TO STAY
YOU WAGED A VALIANT WAR AGAINST THE WOMAN AND SHE IS GETTING BIGGER..
YOU AND OLBERMANN, ARE THE TWO THAT SPIN 24/7 FOR A LOSER CALLED OBAMA. I HEAR THE GUY IS NOT RAISING MONEY ANYMORE
HIS COFFERS ARE AT BEST ' ANEMIC'
SO, SPIN THAT FOR TAODAY DK.

CBS IS A PRETTY GOOD ORGANIZATION THAT HAS DON GOOD JOB WITH THESES ELECTIONS..
HERE IS THEIR FACT CHECK ON PALIN RUMORS STARTED BY OBAMA CAMPAIGN....

(CBS) CBS News Investigative Producer Laura Strickler wrote this story for CBSNews.com.
SEPTEMBER 12TH
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Last week CBS News chased down rumors in Wasilla, Alaska. We’re listing a few of them here to set the record straight.

Rumor: Governor Sarah Palin cut funding for special needs children.

False: Palin did not cut special needs funding. In fact, special needs budgets obtained by CBS News show her administration increased funding for special education by $599,000 between 2007 and 2008 according to the Alaska Department of Education. And the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services told CBS News that Palin increased state investment for programs for emotionally disturbed children and those dealing with fetal alcohol syndrome from $3.6 million to $10.7 million between fiscal years 2006 and 2009.

Rumor: A list of books that Mayor Palin sought to ban is being circulated on the internet.

False: No books were ever banned from the Wasilla Library. A 1996 local newspaper article quotes the local librarian Mary Ellen Baker (former name Emmons) with saying Palin inquired twice about how the librarian would respond to banning books. Emmons is quoted saying she made it clear to Palin that if asked, she would refuse to do so. In the story, Palin characterizes her inquiries as “rhetorical” in nature. However, as of this writing, Emmons is not talking and wants to stay out of the fray, so no one can confirm the story independently. But one thing is for sure: the list circulating on the internet is fake, it includes books like the Harry Potter series that were not even published in 1996.

Rumor: When Palin was mayor she hired a lobbyist to get more federal earmarks.

True: CBS News has obtained the lobbying contracts (link to docs here) that Palin signed to get the lobbyist - a former Senator Ted Stevens’ staffer Steve Silvers. Documents show she sought money for the following:

$6.6 million for Wasilla water utility improvements
$3.2 million for urban storm water retention and lake water quality improvements
$90,000 for Wasilla Police Department safety equipment, communication needs and weapons

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Wasilla City Council Action Memorandum On Federal Lobbyist Services
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At the July 23, 2001 city council meeting, minutes obtained by CBS News indicate then Mayor Palin announced that the city would be getting federal grant funding for $1.5 million for water and sewer, $2.5 million for railroad relocation and $1.6 million for a police regional dispatch center.

In 2001, Palin personally appears to have reduced the size of the annual lobbying contract from $45,000 to $38,000 but no explanation is given. By 2002, the contract went back up to $42,000.

Rumor: Sarah and Todd Palin’s business partner Scott Richter sought to have his divorce records sealed because he had something to hide.

False: Richter did appeal to a judge in Palmer, Alaska to seal his records citing concern for his own privacy since his phone number appeared in the documents and he wanted to avoid unnecessary phone calls from reporters. His request was denied but the rumor sent at least a dozen national reporters, including CBS News, to the courthouse. What did we turn up? Nothing.

I really need more information on her stance on the issues:

http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A08300170099226F/

The Republicans see her as an action figure doll. She's pretty so she will "conquer the world". People, obviously from the way they are shielding her and her interview last night, she is no where near ready...it is petrifying and John Mccain was so irresponsible to pick her. I used to respect him.

No, if you have a double digit IQ, you can't get much done in 143 days or probably not much more in 14,300 days.

Ten year's experience is often one year ten times.

If you find a management position at McDonalds challenging, yes, you're a dummy and you'll be placed in the human resources mill.

Barack Obama is far more intelligent and capable than the academic and personal underachievers like the vice presidential spokesmodel and the McCain face on the failing bush administration.

Very simply, if the babymama fist jab rev. Hussein antichrist idiocy makes sense to you, it's doubtful you give this any more thought than a soap opera or a wrestling match, and this is just more melodrama and bluster.

However there are consequences in the world you live in.

You know someone who lost a home to an unregulated lending industry, or who lost a loved one to maiming or death from a war we were lied into, you know someone whose job went to communist china, or whose credit card debt eventually cost them their house. You may know someone with cancer, who was fired and couldn't maintain cobra payments, or brilliant children who will never go to college, or who did and now owe ten years of their lives, or vets who are sick and dying and can't get care. You may be told how to apply for food stamps by an employer that showed an 11 billion dollar profit last quarter who 'couldn't afford' to pay you a living wage.

You may have an employer who didn't give you a raise because their profits plummeted, but had a CEO who was voted 400 million dollars by other CEO's that owed him favors because he voted the same way on their salaries regardless of stock performance and profits.

Maybe it's coming to your attention that when we had federal regulation of imports, we weren't getting poisonous and unsafe products from the communist chinese. Maybe you don't want a tax break for the oil company that lets speculators run the pump price up to four bucks a gallon when you're making the same or less than when it was $1.65.

Maybe you'll look at McCain and see that these issues are not on his radar. Whatever 'change' he says he wants, it's not going to be that. It will be tax breaks for corporations and more deficits like this year's bush monstrosity - 450 billion?

Maybe you don't like the idea that your home is being foreclosed on but the investor that bought your now worthless mortgage is being fully reimbursed from the money you pay as taxes, and the the remaining budgetary balance is borrowed from Arabs or communists and billed to your kids.

This is way too much for the babymama fistjab Hussein antichrist or whatever voter to take in. They apparently don't get the connect between who they vote for and what happens when they govern.

They blame Clinton, but what part of the Clinton admin didn't you like - the peace or the prosperity?

They have promised you more for the wealthy and less than you have now, and call you a whiner and a terrorist and/or a communist and now a sexist or racist if you disagree with them.

And many of you have swallowed it hook line, sinker, rod and reel.

What change has McCain offered you? You know better than that. You get a change of face and nothing more.

We used to have the best educated and possibly the smartest citizenry on earth, but under libertarianism and Bush defunding it's slid to below 20th. That could explain the babymama fistjab voters, maybe.

I'd say there's not a lot of difference if any between babymama Hussein fistjab hysteria and a mess of pottage.

Speaking of out of control spin..Palin hates women.... Obama is running a backfiring campaign.... which only hurts his cause...Same ones who mock Palin as a religious nut are saying that Jesus was a community organizer!!! HA!!!! Women in the workplace - YES!!! Balancing work and family life!!! YES! Advancement of women...YES!!!! Uh..except for the conservative women...haha.. Your mockery of people of Faith - as nut jobs ... continue showing your level of credibility by going on rants how you're absolutely sure there are no absolutes -- Keep up the good work guys!!! We need more of this talk to get McCain elected!!! Whatever your opinion on the controversial subjects of religion and politics - would you at least agree that Jesus did quite well without a TelePromTer??? (SMILE)---Greg-- http://us.imdb.com/name/nm/2734923

I continually read this BS about people crying that we are taking a hard stand and crying that we are fighting for oil. Yet they are the same idiots that cried that some caribou would lose, what, less than 10% of there enormous refuge would be used for oil. This just goes to show that the people with the loudest voices have huge mouths and extremely minuscule brains.

This just goes to show that the people with the loudest voices have huge mouths and extremely minuscule brains.


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