Weasel language all around.

The spinning around her is almost desperate. Like "she knows how to deal with Big Oil". Uhm, yes, the most critical thing she's done with Big Oil is asking them to drill more and quicker. That's some ridiculous spin.

Here's the bottom line: she's more conservative than McCain. McCain is wrong on the issues. She's even more wrong on the issues.

Just because she sounds nice, please, doesn't mean a thing.  Like with the marijuana question, does she think she should go back and serve retroactive jail time or that she should've served time in jail?  Of course not.  Jail is only for other people who engage in things she used to like to do.  Because, sorry, I get the feeling she toked more than once, and I'm going to say she did like it.  Just don't buy it, don't buy it, don't buy it.

At least she thinks we have enough faith-based funding now.

The candidates were pressed on their stances on abortion and were even asked what they would do if their own daughters were raped and became pregnant.

Palin said she would support abortion only if the mother's life was in danger. When it came to her daughter, she said, "I would choose life."

Whenever I am bullied, I tend to fight back against it.  This means that I took the time to investigate Senator Obama, his many admonitions about what a different candidate he was and found him to be no more than exactly the same kind of politician I have seen for many many years.  This made my view of him that he is a charlatan, and now every word he says I am suspect of.  This is not just his fault, but that of his early supporters - they should have been realistic and honest about him and his positions and past history instead of threatening and bullying all those who disagreed into submission.

This is why I come here, to be challenged by both sides to an intelligent dialogue - even if I don't  respond or agree, I can participate in the dialogue just by reading.

Governor Palin is no Hillary Clinton.

And the sweeping political power she vested in herself to fire Public Safety Commissioner, Walter Monegan, because he wouldn't fire her brother-in-law? Do you accept this unethical behavior in a nation that was built on the Rule of Law?

The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain's running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin's reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.

Monegan, 57, a respected former chief of the Anchorage Police Department, said in an interview with The Washington Post's James V. Grimaldi on Friday that the governor repeatedly brought up the topic of her ex-brother-in-law, Michael Wooten, after Monegan became the state's commissioner of public safety in December 2006. Palin's husband, Todd, met with Monegan and presented a dossier of information about Wooten, who was going through a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly. Monegan also said Sarah Palin sent him e-mails on the subject, but Monegan declined to disclose them, saying he planned to give them to a legislative investigator looking into the matter.

Palin initially denied that she or anyone in her administration had ever pressured Monegan to fire the trooper, but this summer acknowledged more than a half a dozen contacts over the matter, including one phone call from a Palin administration official to a state police lieutenant. The call was recorded and was released by Palin's office this month. Todd Palin told a television reporter in Alaska that he did meet with Monegan, but said he was just "informing" Monegan about the issue, not exerting pressure.

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