Dropping bombs on vietnamese people fighting for their independence from US imperialism should not qualify McCain for war hero status.  More appropriately, he should be tried for war crimes.
A few years after the creation, Cain killed Abel, and his namesake continued killing in his footsteps. Now McCain has coupled with Sarah whose rejection of evolution is representative of the devolution of the republican party.

Well, Gloria, was it Kennedy’s statement “ask not what your country can do for you” that Mayor Palin had on her office wall as she got $6 million a year for her little berg?  That’s roughly $1,000 per resident.  Palin is a fraud because the things she asserts as strengths are based on lies.  McCain is a fraud because he touts his honor while he has been consistently dishonorable, abandoning his wife amid womanizing, involvement in the “Keating Five” scandal, changing his positions from the “maverick” versions to the “go along to get elected” ones.

There’s no denying that McCain nobly put up with a lot in the service of his country.  If that were his principal qualification for becoming president, there are a lot of others who meet that, however.  Unfortunately, he has disavowed the very decisions and efforts that made him an interesting candidate in 2000 while still wanting to trade on them.  Still, you may very well be right, close as this race is, about him and his devious running mate being elected.

Obama has been falsely accused as being a Muslim, but if you follow the reasoning,  the real Muslim is Palin.  She is quoted as saying that our presence in Iraq is a task given to us by “God”, but she doesn’t say whose God.  Note that our occupation of Iraq as far as religion goes has resulted in the replacement of a secular government by a Shiite government.  Allah must be very pleased with the way we have performed that task, and it logically follows that when Palin refers to God she really means Allah.

The media cannot bring themselves to say that republicans are liars even when there is no doubt that they are lying as McCain is lying about Obama.  Yet, they never had a problem calling Gore a liar in 2000 when, according to them, he said he invented the internet, and that the characters in the novel, “Love Story” were based on him and his wife.
McCain is “misleading”, “distorting”, and “deceiving”, but never lying.

Gloria,

A woman after the hearts of the ignorant and another war.
Crash McCain had 20 hours in combat, and was a pow for 5 years, yep make him president because he is a hero.

Go for it Gloria,  find your name amusing, reminds me of another non war, Vietnam. What war.

Another joke is how Sarah “took on the oil companies”

Yup….to put $3000 in the pockets of every family in Alaska….(Good for her)

and then she yelled drill baby drill!

(Huh?)

Right….you pay us, then we let you do what you please…..

I think there are at least a few works that describe that kind of activity and one of them isn’t “ethical.”

Sarah Palin just made a profound statement, she stated we may have to invade Russia.  What a spunky gal, I can see her leading the attack with the Alaska national guard.  Isn’t Russia still a bunch of Commies who do not fit into the new scheme of things and predestined world order?  Hell, she can kill off more of the Polar bears on the way and when she gets to Russia, she can shoot wolves from helicopters in between killing commies.  Cut off those front legs for collecting the bounty.  I mean the wolves legs not the commies.

CBS, News “oooh the last paragraph” TD wouldnt report this part..
The only people ‘lying’ about spending are the Obama campaign,” McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers shot back. “The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they’re afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama’s nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks,” he added, referring to the 330 federally funded projects worth $931.3 million that Obama has requested since joining the Senate in January 2005.

As Amy Goldstein and Michael D. Shear observed in the August 30 Washington Post, Palin “has angered two of Alaska’s leading Republicans - Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young - by refusing to support their decades-long practice of securing federal money for the state, including Young’s effort to obtain $233 million for a structure dubbed the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ by critics because it would have connected a small town with an island populated with 50 people. In her short time in state office, she has repeatedly thwarted Stevens’s and Young’s interests and, at times, challenged their candidates - including their children.”

While it may be unfair to say that Sarah Palin always treated the Bridge as Milton Friedman might have, she quickly grasped the project’s folly and ultimately put it out of the nation’s misery. In a country where politicians endlessly make demands until weary taxpayers capitulate, Palin scrapped the bridge soon after she was empowered to do so.

Obama and Biden’s moaning about all of this would be far easier to stomach if they, too, opposed the Bridge to Nowhere. Not so.

Obama and Biden had an excellent opportunity to do the right thing. Just seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Senator Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) proposed to transfer $125 million from the notorious Bridge’s budget and instead devote it to rebuilding the Interstate 10 Twin Spans Bridge between New Orleans and St. Tammany’s Parish. The storm chopped up the bridge.

“We have the largest natural catastrophe we have ever seen in our history,” Coburn said on the Senate floor on October 20, 2005. “It is time we reassess the priorities we utilize in this body as we think about our obligations at home.”

Coburn’s amendment failed 15-82. Obama and Biden were among the “nays.” They and 80 other senators preferred to protect the earmarking tradition than to assist Katrina’s tempest-tossed citizens.

Fahrenheit and Cran Berry -

You’re unfortunately right.  Politician’s lies, obfuscations, matter not a whit to the voting public - haven’t really since Nixon.

It could be said that it’s because we’ve become a proper fascist state - among other characteristics a state with an anti-intellectual view and a pronounced admiration for strong and aggressive leaders.  All a politician today has to do is play to those existing facts.

A cursory study of Nazi Germany will provide further proof, if any is needed.

But don’t forget McCains Campaign to nowhere.

Because he hasn’t moved one inch away from Bush’s policy’s, he’s allready made a big move to the right and he’s not going anywhere else.

No Republican I know of would ever be reelected if he told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, never mind that none can GET elected unless they lie in their teeth about nearly every issue.

I don’t know why pundits, particularly one-time investigative reporters haven’t ever noted this strange factoid anent congressional elections, but surely these worthies recognize the lies even if they keep mum about it.

I mean this: NONE. A truth telling Republican would be UNelectable. And yes, there are a number of Dimocraps who streeeeeeeetch the truth so as to make voters think they will take positions that they too have no intention of taking once elected or reelected, but I guess that’s politics . . . my point is that Repubs HAVE to lie or keep silent, because they have no other option.

Of COURSE Palin is lying, but so is McCain and so are about 250 members of congress. What else can they do?

Hey, it’s Rove driven lies, fraud, fabrication, cheating, swiftboating and smoke and mirrors.  It’s Rove; what did you expect.  It’s like watching a really bad horror movie for the third time in a row.  The real crime here is the American people still fall for this bullshit!  Hopeless!

You’ve got to be joking, Joe.  No I didn’t know there were two bridges. 

So where does the “road to nowhere” go? It was discussed during the 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial Debate recently posted on TruthDig.

Halcro stated he felt it was “poor public policy to build a road to a bridge that will never be built, in the foreseeable future.”  The money could be put to better use elsewhere.

Candidate Palin on the other hand stated, “she would not stand in the way of progress.”  She supported building the road and efforts to build up infrastructure.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080908_palin_the_debater/