Posted By: John Handforth on Friday, September 05, 2008
Ms. Brazile --I enjoyed reading your column this evening. You were fair, but made your beliefs known. You were far better than a couple of other left-leaning columnists that still say things like Sarah Palin supported the "Bridge to Nowhere" until last week.That was quite an exageration since she is the one who cancelled the project last year. Another one still claimed that Barack Obama voted against the war in Iraq, when the vote was taken on March 20, 2003. That seemed strange when Senator Obama wasn't sworn into the Senate until January 4, 2005.Thank you for being honest and truthful. It is refreshing.In reference to Global Warming, they have taken ice core samples in both the Arctic and Antarctic that pre-date the Industrial Revolution. Those samples show that the mean (average, not vicious) temperature varies in cycles and has remained constant for over 1,000 years. It is not caused by manmade activity. You haven't heard very much about it lately because the cycle has been cooling down a bit for the last three years.The best single reference that I can give you is Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" which is a novel, but has multiple refernces throughout the book. I have to warn you, though, that the story is far from his best.Thank you...
Posted By: obama4osama on Friday, September 05, 2008
Ms. Dummba Bralize Nuts,You want to call the future VP "Sarah Barracuda"? Well, consider "Michelle Frankenbama" (She does look like Herman Munster. Doesn't she?), or "Michelle Barrackuda".Show your objectiveness by using the above monickers for both ladies.
Posted By: jack sprat on Saturday, September 06, 2008
DonnaI almost liked the begrudging “tribute”, that is from one woman to another, kinda, absence of venom is a good subsitute. After you turned on Hill, it must be tough to congratulate “the other woman” in any fashion. The increasingly room temperature enthusiasm for the “new” old kind of politician the “high styling” Chi-town hustler, with his “no lobbyist for me (except in my own family)” side kick and the mortifyingly stupid Greek temple to the gods of government, mess your anointed “chosen” in the pantheon of perversity the Democrat party has become. Truly, the RNC didn’t quite bring us a “good ole” KKK of A revival of the wrong Rev Wright, BO’s “spiritual Uncle”, but then McCain/Palin both truly believe that America is basically good and we can work together to fix the “broken parts”, where an Abama Nation sees through the lenses that America is broken and to be thrown away so we should shove the failing programs of the EU and Canada and tax to death the prosperity we have had in most of the last 8 years, down the throat of the gullible and foolish.Frankly, Palin is “out of touch” with only the “culture of death” Americans, as are anyone with a shred of humanity. Out of touch are those potential first ladies who sat in a racist church for 20 years, and bought into the sermons that taught “America is a down right mean country”, we don’t need that from our first lady, that is what we have France for. What we need is someone who goes to see Mother Teresa, takes one of the children to have surgery, and ends up adopting her without fan fair. America needs someone who doesn’t go to the View with a list of “do not touch” topics, like the “born again, I’m not really that angry” wanna be, we need the type of open honesty that goes with no area not open for discussion.
Posted By: Picabo Lee on Saturday, September 06, 2008
obama4osama is really NUTS! and also ignorant of the facts. so much so he doesn't even know that the "Sarah Baracuda" description was given to Sarah Palin by her own basketball teammates; it wasn't a term/description created by donna brazile. message for obama4osama: get rid of your computer, because you obviously don't use it to check facts!!! if you're going to keep your computer, try using google or any other search engine to check facts.to paraphrase an old saying: it's better to remain silent and make people think you're ignorant, than to send the message you did and prove your ignorance!
Posted By: VAlentino on Saturday, September 06, 2008
"... when McCain and Bush created the mess..." I love the left. What are we, a monarchy? Two person rule? No Democrats in Washington the last eight years? (Certainly no politicians of either party who gave any thought to anything besides their own re-election).John Edwards not invited to the convention to speak. Apparently cheating on your wife and lying about it doesn't count if you've already been elected. Somebody explain the difference, please.And 9/11. What Clinton didn't do from 1993 (the first attack to 2001 inaguration, he blames Bush for not getting done in 8 1/2 months. But, like the military, you go into office with the national security components you've been given, not the ones you need.
Posted By: Dave Carr on Sunday, September 07, 2008
So far, I find myself discouraged by the absence of governance issues being explored by the press in favor of tabloid-type issues surrounding Palin's pregnant daughter, Palin's motherhood commitment and the like. For example, the whole troopergate issue overshadows the attempt to fire a librarian over the school's selection of books. This same thing happened under born-again fundamentalist George Allen's watch here in Virginia and I know because my wife had to defend every book used in Hanover County's gifted program. Troopergate's allegation is far more understandable if true, however it may suggest an abuse of power. Anyone who cared for their family's safety might do the same thing given the power to do so.It all comes down to the probability of abuses which damage the country and its children. My sister and younger brother are evangelical and their beliefs would scare me to death if they were given the power to translate their Neanderthal "convictions" into policy and law. Any person who believes the world to be 6000 years old in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary, and who believes censorship and childhood education to be the paths to "save" the children (like from independent thought and reason) should scare every American who believes differently. It's the Bush with me or against me mentality. Can a democracy survive that?
Posted By: Dave Livingston on Monday, September 08, 2008
I agree with John Handforth that this essay is a fair and honest treatment of Sarah Palin.Although I'm not a Republican, Sarah's stolen my heart. No doubt about it, John & Sarah will receive my vote in November.
Posted By: Mary Sawyers on Monday, September 08, 2008
I am a Christian woman; evangelical you would say; this is what I think with all that is within me. Mrs. Palin has a 4-month old child with a severe ailment; she should not be running for VP at this time; she should at least care for her child for his first year.She knew that her daughter was pregnant and for political reasons she didn't love her child enough to keep her safe from public redicule after preaching family values. She now says the young man wants to marry her daughter, if you look at the video from the RNC you will see plainly that the young man wants out of this. Let her keep her baby, I do not believe in abortion, but do not compound her future which will lead to a divorce further down the road.Did you notice how they were passing that child (Trig) around at the convention; this is outrageous; she has had her child in the spotlight since she accepted the nomination for VP; if she had been in Hollywood, they would fine her for child abuse; he was at the RNC for the solid week 2 - 3 hours at a time; being passed around like a ball. Where is Nancy Grace, she should be outraged at the treatment of this child. I have been trying to contact her but to no avail.She also called herself a "pit bull in lipstick" and began to attack the Democratic Party; she and the Republican Party now want to presend she is a poodle being picked on by the press. Anyone who knows anything about a pit bull when they attack the only way to protect yourself is to kill them.
