I have nails if someone has a hammer.

By the by, I would venture to guess that aside from using it as a cover for one's degenerate fixation on the family you agree that McCain's piss-poor judgment in not vetting the person he picked to become President should something happen to him is fair game? 'Cause I am not "concerned" about that, I am "outraged."

Period and amen.

Period and amen.

Co-freaking-signed. Thanks.

I don't know. If I remember correctly, the more my parents bitched at me to NOT do something, the more I wanted to do it. Does it carry any weight that even when adults bitch at adults to NOT do something and those on the receiving end of the bitch continue to do that something mean that maybe, just maybe bitching doesn't work at any developmental phase in life?
One thing I don't like Obama (but love him all the same) is that he has a tendency to come off as "scolding" people. But that's just me.

"...whatever else he is, above all else he is sincere. Honest. Without guile."

Harharharhar!!!

And the Obamabots actually bought it, and recommended your blog!

Harharharhar!!!

What I like about Obama is that he can levitate by wiggling his nose!

Harharharhar!!!

What I like about Obama is that when he chopped down the cherry tree, he blamed it on Jeremiah Wright!

I cannot tell a lie!

Let's just call him "Honest Obe!"

Harharharhar!!!

Oh my. So sorry Billy. I do agree with you though lol.

I support Barack Obama because, watching his acceptance speech, I decided finally that whatever else he is, above all else he is sincere. Honest. Without guile.

I knew you weren't going to campaign for McCain in IN/OH, Billy. When will we ever be able to take you at your word? ;-)

Billy Glad mad. Billy Glad smash.

Palin should be attacked on issues of the policies she advocates, not her daughter's pregnancy.

Teen pregnancy, low education levels for women and high divorce rates are highest in America precisely in areas where Palin-like policies are part of the social fabric. Fundamentalist religion, lack of practical sex education, inbred male chauvinism are more prevalent in the American South, as are the social ills conservative politicians rail against. I would argue that it is precisely the policies that Palin advocates and want to instutute for the rest of the country are creating a generation of American children who are not fully capable to resist social and sexual pressures of modern American society. While her daughter's pregnancy is not germaine to the larger argument, it is symptomatic of the trend right wing policies have been creating in parts of America where they have been implemented.

Democratic criticism of Palin should be centered on the policies she advocates. But her daughter's pregnancy by no means should server as some kind of "politically correct" shield to silence that criticism.

Palin should be attacked on issues of the policies she advocates, not her daughter's pregnancy.

Teen pregnancy, low education levels for women and high divorce rates are highest in America precisely in areas where Palin-like policies are part of the social fabric. Fundamentalist religion, lack of practical sex education, inbred male chauvinism are more prevalent in the American South, as are the social ills conservative politicians rail against. I would argue that it is precisely the policies that Palin advocates and wants to instutute for the rest of the country are creating a generation of American children who are not fully capable to resist social and sexual pressures of modern American society. While her daughter's pregnancy is not germaine to the larger argument, it is symptomatic of the trend right wing policies have been creating in parts of America where they have been implemented.

Democratic criticism of Palin should be centered on the policies she advocates. But her daughter's pregnancy by no means should server as some kind of "politically correct" shield to silence that criticism.

When do you have that walk across water scheduled, Billy?'

I just can't wait.

Man that halo does shine!

Duh, "server error" message doesn't mean it will not post...

Sorry.

How many 17 year-old unmarried girls have their mother announce to the entire United Staes that they are pregnant? Palin knew she would have to do this when she accepted.

I consider it child abuse!

Who is going to take care of the Down Syndrome child?

OK, McCain had terrible judgement when he chose her, but she also has terrible judgement in terms of parenting. How about Willow? She will really be alone I guess.

The children are the victims here.

Well call it mud folks, but it worked.

According to Reuters, the McLame campaign was forced to announce the pregnancy way before they were ready to.

Millions of American mothers said: O snap - she has really weird priorities.

Y'all are pretending outrage over exactly nothing. But carry on - I know it feeds your egos.

Here's the Reuters link -

http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN0243503220080902?virtualBrandChannel=10112

Keep telling yourselves about how righteous y'all are.

Don't you all see what Palin and McCain did?

They didn't answer the rumor only play 3 card Monty and move everyone's attention from her behavior and poor judgment in travelling from Dallas and endangering Trig to throwing her daughter under the bus.

If all Palin wanted to do was shut the entire controversy up was show some pics of the family around mom and baby in the hospital bed like we all take or release a copy of the birth certificate.

Boom! its over.

What does she do? Expose her daughter and her fiancee. Please.

This is not an answer to all the questions people were asking - not about Bristol - but about Palin and her behavior and judgment.

Palin threw her daughter and her own new son into the limelight for personal ambition.

From all the whining and cursing going on, I think I hit some nerves. Sorry. Judging by your comments, I thought you were completely anesthesized by now.

Well, I'm certainly learnin' lots here - got a regular School Of Life happenin'. Mud is what works... AND we got 101 things we can take that idiot Palin down with. It's self-righteous to say don't hit the kids... AND Obama's a stand-up guy for saying "Don't hit the kids." Yesterday the "hatred of women" was running like a "tide" that we all should try & stop... AND it's the taking her seriously that adds to the hysteria. It makes women feel bad to try to imagine whether the GOP intended to rebrand itself as Teddy Roosevelt... AND tonight the GOP's speakers & Chris Matthews agreed that they're gonna try to run as "Two Teddy Roosevelts."

And to not buy any of this makes us egotistical AND chauvinist.

Sounds serious. Tough. Funny though. Smells like horseshit.

Again, I cannot even begin to count the number of times that the Clinton campaign (and their supporters) mocked Barack Obamba -- or "Obambi," as Maureen Dowd likes to call him -- for not having the balls to attack and discredit the republicans before their expected and patented character-assassination attacks "defined" him (among the majority of low-information voters) as as an unacceptable foreign muslim traitor who had fathered two black children.

I agree that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have to keep to the high road while -- and only as long as -- the republicans continue shooting themselves in the feet, face, ass, and groin. But the press and people of America who feel betrayed by the republicans and their heroes Deputy Dubya and Sheriff Dick have every right and intention to keep providing the repugnant ones with even more of their own discredited ammunition.

The republicans wanted to steal a few 24/7 news cycles from Barack Obam over the Labor Day weekend. Panama-John McBush somehow thought that springing the completely unknown and unvetted Governor Palin on the American people would do the trick and guarantee him the news spotlight. Unfortunately for Panama-John and Mrs. What's-Her-Name, his reckless gamble has guaranteed him BAD-NEWS, 24/7, during his own nominating convention. Pure, poetic justice.

No Democrat has to attack the cynical republican baby blanket directly or obviously, much less as offical party policy. Yet the preyed-upon wolves, moose, and polar bears of Alaska -- not to mention the betrayed American people -- deserve their moment of simple schadenfreude. And we Democrats can surely think of creative ways to -- sorrowfully and with great reluctance, of course -- keep this Keystone Cops farce going for as long as possible. If pursuing legitimate unanswered questions (professionally called "raising doubts") will keep the republicans disorganized and on the defensive, then we'll just have to hold our noses and win.

We Democrats didn't start this republican mess; the republicans did it themselves. Besides, we Democrats don't normally have either the stomach or the ruthless flair for such domestic realpolitik. Republicans always tauntingly say this about us when another of our intelligent, forthright candidates loses another presidential election. All things considered, then, I don't suppose we should look this particular gift horse in the mouth, so to speak. "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride," goes the old saying. We beggars just got our wish. So if we ride this broken-down, swayback republican opportunity as far and as humanely as possible, then I don't see why we shouldn't.

Sarah Palin cut money out of the Alaska state budget for unwed mothers. She's been a huge advocate for abstinence only education which doesn't even work in her own household where of all places you'd think they are pretty strict about it.

Republicans love that Sarah "chose" to have her baby with downs syndrome and her daughter "chose" to have her baby daddy's kid. If Sarah Palin had her way there'd be no choice about it. John McCain and Sarah Palin would make it illegal to choose any other course. Absolute government control over the reproductive organs of every women and girl in the country.

That's not change we can believe in.

Interesting that you think Eagleton's "psychiatric problems" affected the national interest. Should the public be entitled to psychiatric evaluations of all the candidates?

I agree in principle with Billy, but let's not forget how this news came to light. It was put forth by the McCain campaign with the rationale that they needed to tamp down Internet rumors about Bristol being the mother of the Down's baby. The assumption that everybody seems to have swallowed without question is that this is the only way that the rumor could have been quashed was by exposing this bit of tragic family business The truth is that they could have found some other way. Ask yourself how they would have handled it n the absence of Bristol's pregnancy.

I heartily agree that Bristol is off limits, but the circumstances of how this information was shared is fair game, as is the topic of Palin's apparent willingness, nay eagerness, to put her children in harm's way.

(I originally and mistakenly posted this under "Obama Who?" My apologies.)

Why wouldn't someone take her candidacy seriously? Because she's an ill-prepared, underqualified rube who has very little experience and a limited world view outside of her isolated life in Alaska, that's why. That's certiainly why I am having trouble taking her seriously.

All the rubbish about her family is fallout from that fact, as is her small-minded, small-town behavior as governor trying to settle a family vendetta. She's a rube.

It's actually more rational to NOT take her seriously. Afterall she could remain on the ticket and potentially BE the next in line after McCain. That is something to be seriously afraid of.