No Responses to “Rockstar: Palin Draws 60,000”

1. Pfleger

   PALIN DRAWS CROWD OF 60,000 IN FLORIDA !!!
   Barack is cryin. He always thought this is mine!
   I’m Michelle’s husband, I’m black, and this is mine!
   I just got to step up into the plate … and, then out of
   nowhere, came ‘Hey, I’m Sarah Palin … and he said
   damn, where did you come from? I’m black, I’m
   entitled … there’s a white woman stealing my show!

   1:36 AM on 9/22/08
2. America Lover

   I love the sign:
   “I’ll take a McPalin hold the taxes”
   Well said….

   7:43 AM on 9/22/08
3. Mag

   May the blessings of the Almighty one be with those who served and died for their country.
   “A FOOL NEVER LEARNS” So McCain wore the uniform, SPILLED THE BEANS, spent the rest of the time in captivity becoming
   a “prison-of -war hero”!! Great resume ! much better than that of John Kerry and all the other fallen heroes !! GREAT!!
   Now he is capable of leading the people to prosperity when he
   spent twenty six years (out of Captivity) working with and
   singing the praises of George the Great 95% of the time, trying to put us exactly where we are today, what success, what prosperity!! and we love it!! We are now swollowed and sitting in the dark belly of the twins Fan and Fred. Is’nt it a lovely scenery from there? Now comes Pa-Lin who wants to help him give us more. He needs her help you see, because he will have the opportunity to be another hero like dear Dick. He will have oil abundantly, and then guess what? he will not remember dear Pa-Lin who helped him to get there. Already he can’t even remember how many homes he has, let alone how many Pa-Lins he owns. Her husband will refuse to comment! So my dears, good luck! Enjoy the McLin ride!!

   1:12 PM on 9/22/08
4. Bitsygirl

   If those are actually the numbers! McCain has been LYING about the number of people who come to see him. Last week he said there were 10,000 people, however, the venue only held 3,000. HOW PATHETIC can you get

   3:09 PM on 9/22/08
5. RacerX

   It’s not clear whether or how long the Republicans can
   maintain this pretense. Stretching this stage-managed
   ABC-TV ‘interview’ over four episodes will not hide the
   fact that the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is
   best kept away from microphones and tough questions
   about government policy. Still, one never knows – the
   way the major U.S. mass media seems to go along so
   willing with the charade takes one’s breath away. As one
   British correspondent put it ‘the format was more akin
   to a celebrity interview than a forensic analysis of a
   vice-presidential candidate 55 days before an election.’
   But, never mind that. The Charles Gibson interview with
   Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, on the seventh anniversary
   of the Sept. 11th, had a lot of substance. And it was
   scary.

   ‘Sarah Palin shows hawkish streak in first interview,’
   ran the headline in the British newspaper The Guardian.

   Palin didn’t just threaten Russia with war in her first
   interview; she echoed her running mate’s call for
   ‘victory in the war’ in Iraq. She linked the war in Iraq
   with the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, something the
   Bush administration no longer does. Palin backs military
   action in Pakistan even without the support of that
   country’s government. And, she’s come close to endorsing
   an Israeli bombing attack on Iran.

   Palin spoke strongly in favor of talking Georgia into
   the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and
   indicated that the U.S. would have to become involved
   should that county become embroiled in a military
   conflict with Russia. ‘There are numerous problems with
   this statement,’ wrote Ilan Goldenberg in The Guardian,
   ‘the most important element is that it sends a very
   dangerous and extreme signal to the world – especially
   other nuclear powers. This type of dangerous talk
   reinforces the militaristic saber-rattling of the McCain
   campaign. From joking about bombing Iran, to talking
   about invading Iraq, Iran and Syria weeks after 9/11 to
   the misguided ‘we are all Georgians now,’ the McCain
   campaign is sending all kinds of horrifying signals to
   the world about the types of wars it would fight.
   Leaders in other capitals are paying attention and words
   matter.’

   The consequence of Governor Palin’s woeful lack of
   knowledge and experience is that her pronouncements are
   not nuanced as Senator McCain’s but they do represent
   the tenor of the ticket. As a clearer picture emerges of
   what the foreign policies of a McCain-Palin
   Administration would look like, it has prompted
   nervousness and concern elsewhere on the planet. One of
   the reasons for Obama’s popular support over much of the
   rest of world is that the substance of the McCain- Palin
   campaign is scaring the bejesus of out of people.

   Much has been made of Palin’s apparent lack of knowledge
   about the ‘Bush Doctrine,’ but that might not carry the
   weight with the public some observers think it might.
   Most people don’t actually know what the term means and
   pliant Big Media can hardly be said to have spelled it
   out clearly when it mattered, before the invasion of
   Iraq.

   After she arrived in St. Paul and before she was
   nominated, she met behind closed doors with officials of
   the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
   the powerful lobby group tied to the Israeli rightwing
   and supporters of the occupation. Big Media didn’t tell
   us much about that huddle although there is not a chance
   in the world that it was not highly significant. In her
   interview, Palin said she would not second guess how
   Israel should respond to a nuclear Iran and that the
   U.S. doesn’t ‘have to stand for that.’

   If any more indication were needed that the neo-
   conservative hawks have embraced the Republican
   Presidential ticket, one only had to watch the neocons
   go into rapture after Palin’s nomination. They have not
   been happy campers in the post-Cold War world. The ‘war
   on terror’ is a bit nebulous and its execution can cause
   the kind of conflict the chieftains of the oil industry
   don’t want to have with the autocratic governments of
   the Middle East. Better a real international enemy:
   Russia.

   ‘And we’ve got to keep an eye on Russia,’ Palin told
   Gibson. ‘For Russia to have exerted such pressure in
   terms of invading a smaller democratic country,
   unprovoked, is unacceptable,’ she told Gibson. Of
   course, Russia invaded Georgia after the latter attacked
   South Ossetia.

   Palin was evidently unmoved by the ridicule already
   visited on the notion that she somehow knows how to deal
   with Russia because she lives so close to it. She has
   insights into U.S. relations with Moscow, she said,
   because ‘they’re our next-door neighbors, and you can
   actually see Russia from land here in Alaska … from an
   island in Alaska.’

   About Palin’s discussion of going to war, the British
   commentator Goldenberg noted that ‘there is a nominee
   for the vice presidency of the United States who may one
   day have her hand on the button and she is casually
   talking about potential catastrophic nuclear war.’

   ‘Saber rattling matters,’ wrote Goldenberg. ‘Words
   matter. We’ve learned that from the past eight years.
   When George Bush said `With us or against us,’ it
   mattered. When he referred to a `crusade’ it mattered.
   When McCain jokes about war with Iran, calls our allies
   `vacuous and posturing’, says that Iraq is building a
   weapons assembly line for al Qaeda, it matters.

   ‘And when Sarah Palin, a first term governor with no
   national security experience or expertise, talks about
   hypothetical nuclear war it really matters. It reflects
   badly on her and her readiness. It reflects even worse
   on John McCain who thought that she was qualified to be
   Commander in Chief.’

   Qualification aside, what has many observers outside the
   U.S. greatly disturbed is the content of the recent
   pronouncements coming from both spots on the Republican
   ticket. Speaking in Hamburg last week, Michael Schaefer,
   Germany’s ambassador to China, drew attention to the
   increasingly bellicose rhetoric emerging in the US
   presidential campaign. According to the Financial Times,
   he cited the McCain’s candidate’s proposal to line up
   the US with other governments in a quasi- institutional
   framework to oppose countries like China and Russia.
   ‘That would be … a very dangerous course within the
   transatlantic alliance,’ he told a Europe- China
   conference.

   Referring to ‘the muck being hurled by the McCain
   campaign is preventing a debate on real issues – on
   whether the country really wants, for example, to
   continue the economic policies of the last eight years,’
   wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman last week.
   He went on to suggest ‘the Obama campaign is wrong to
   suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be
   a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain
   and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it
   would be much, much worse.’ It sounds like a lot of
   people abroad are concluding this might also be true in
   the area of foreign affairs.

   ‘Americans have been warned,’ wrote Jacob Heilbrunn on
   the Huffington Post the day the Palin interview aired.
   ‘If John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected, they will
   make the Bush administration look like a dress rehearsal
   for what’s coming. McCain and Palin aren’t as bad as
   Bush. They’re worse. By treating Russia like an enemy,
   they will turn it into one. An American attack on Iran,
   which McCain is thirsting for, could lead to a wider
   conflict with Russia that has incalculable
   consequences.’

   The U.S. has had eight years of a government that has
   held views similar to those expressed by Palin, wrote
   Goldenberg. ‘The result has been to put ideological and
   emotional distance between it and large parts of Europe,
   Asia and Latin America. Apart from isolationist
   Republicans, this is bad news both for America and the
   rest of us. America needs a friendlier world to do
   economic and political business. The world needs an
   America more in tune with its natural friends and
   allies.’ _____________

   BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Carl Bloice

   3:58 PM on 9/22/08
6. America Lover

   Racer X:
   good job, same cut and paste for two threads.
   Bitsygal:
   It was the fire chief who did the estimate. I am sure all campaigns fudge the numbers, just like when BHO was drawing large numbers, then we find out he spoke in between two bands at a free concert.
   This is going to be a close election, just like 2000. I don’t know why either one would want tho job. The thing that really gets me is why do we have to make a choice between the lesser of two evils. Why can’t America come up with two candidates that really has the people’s best interests at heart. Why can’t America come up with a candidate that appeals to both sides. Is there no one, who is a middle of the road candidate? The conservatives are stuck voting for a person who would have made a good Democratic candidate (McCain). McCain has gone farther right since he won the nomination to stimulate the base. And the left is voting for the socialist, far left candidate (BHO). BHO votes farther left than the proclaimed socialist in the Senate. So does Biden.
   Socialism is on the way folks. Goodbye constitution!!!
   GOD help us!!!

   9:46 AM on 9/23/08