Hare-brained today, gone tomorrow.

Go figure.

/delete

Was it banned, too?

To make room for more filth, no doubt.

And Kos is Winston Smith.

That reminds me of a little kid who covers their eyes and thinks that YOU can't see THEM.
IGNORANT!

Kos, having a fit of sanity? Naaahh...

Oh, dont worry, they'll get something just as nasty up again soon

I'm curious:

1. Can the media and Left keep up this level of attack through to November?
(I sure hope so because it's rallying people I know to McCain that didn't give a whit just three days ago)

2. What are Nancy Pelosi's 5 children up to and are they all perfect; living perfect lives?

Hmm....

Doubleplus ungoodthink!

I can GUARANTEE you that this disappeared at the behest of Obama.

Media Template:

The skeletons in Palins closet: Fair Game.

The skeletons in Obama's closet: Off Limits.

Well, they have been forced to mention a 24 year old DUI her husband got, and her daughter being pregnant.....I sure hope Joe Biden's wife and daughter are checked out with a fine toothed comb! Find out if Mrs. Biden has had any abortions. Perhaps they can get them kicked out of the Catholic Church!

the reason for the KOS memory hole?

King Obama told his minions to back off.

Google cache here.

Kosling is afraid that Obama won't like him any more. Page got yanked for only that reason.

re: #14 FrogMarch

the reason for the KOS memory hole?

King Obama told his minions to back off.

"yes master"

re: #7 Fat Jolly Penguin

Kos, having a fit of sanity? Naaahh...

No. Obama told them to stop embarrassing him by posting this crap. There are still plenty more.

re: #12 FrogMarch

Media Template:

The skeletons in Palins closet: Fair Game.

The skeletons in Obama's closet: Off Limits.

Hangin' with Terrorists: Good Judgement

Supporting your Daughter Through Tough Times: Reckless Parenting

Four days to bury it? Oh, so this whole nonstory never happened now?

I mentioned it in the dead thread, but the Chicago Tribune's John Kass has some things to say about this dipstick of a Daily Kos blogger:

Have American presidential politics become so hateful that a pregnant 17-year-old girl has to have the intimate details of her life exposed to the nation by character assassins?

Ask the left-wing Internet haters, the anonymous propagandists who call themselves bloggers on the Daily Kos.

And ask Bristol Palin, who didn't deserve it, and was a victim of the rumor-mongers consumed with attacking her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican running mate of Sen. John McCain, because the mother is a conservative and opposes abortion.

The Internet rumors claimed that Sarah's baby, Trig, born four months ago with Down syndrome, wasn't really hers but her daughter's. They plucked some photos from the Internet, photos out of sequence, to make it appear as though Gov. Palin hadn't been pregnant, proving once again that on the Internet, the casualties are credibility and civility. Reading it, you could almost hear the saliva dripping from their teeth as they typed anonymously.

"Sarah Palin is NOT The Mother" cried one Daily Kos blogger who goes by a screen name ArcXIX. "Attention! Read The Follow-Up too! BabyGate: Explosive New Details.

"Now, I've known liars all my life," the blogger wrote. "Their single core problem is not with themselves, but those around them. If they're never called out on their twisting of truths and fabrications, they simply continue to make larger lies. Well Sarah, I'm calling you a liar and not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better."

I don't know if Komodo dragons can type, but their mouths are so full of bacteria that if they bite your leg you'll likely die. This anonymous Komodo was probably in mommy's basement, perhaps with a bowl of Chex Mix and a Diet Coke nearby.

Way to stay classy, Markos. First have this guy (ArcXIX) post this toilet nugget, and then delete it so you have plausible deniability.

Cowards.

re: #13 ziggyelman

Perhaps they can get them kicked out of the Catholic Church!

Catholic Church doesn't work that way ziggy...

"I Hate Sarah Palin" from NRO David Kahane.
Pretty much says it all...and worth a good laugh if it wasn't so true!

re: #13 ziggyelman

Well, they have been forced to mention a 24 year old DUI her husband got, and her daughter being pregnant.....I sure hope Joe Biden's wife and daughter are checked out with a fine toothed comb! Find out if Mrs. Biden has had any abortions. Perhaps they can get them kicked out of the Catholic Church!

NO! NO! NO!

re: #9 Noam Chumpski

I'm curious:

1. Can the media and Left keep up this level of attack through to November?
(I sure hope so because it's rallying people I know to McCain that didn't give a whit just three days ago)

2. What are Nancy Pelosi's 5 children up to and are they all perfect; living perfect lives?

Hmm....

1) With a bottomless supply of vitriol and seething, you bet they can

2) If you're a Dem, it means your family is off limits

re: #7 Fat Jolly Penguin

Kos, having a fit of sanity? Naaahh...

It's Markos Moulitsas's plausible deniability. First the toilet nugget is posted, then it is flushed down the drain. Very typical, very Daily Kos.

Sorry. I can't seem to find that story

Open the pod bay door, Hal.

Memory hole? That's the little wooden shack out back with the moon shaped window in the door, right?

I have always had fun skimming through DailyKos and posting comments just to annoy them. Not blatant enough so that they could discern that I was on the opposite side, but cutting nonetheless.

This attack really angers me, however. It is clear that they are trying to hit Palin as hard as they can as soon as they can - Kos version of whack-a-mole, I guess. I would guess that they are concerned that she will survive the onslaught and prove to be a formidable opponent. Go girl.

re: #15 victor_yugo

Google cache here.

How do you save that so it doesn't disappear?

I demand that Obama's pundit - Excitable Andy - continue to demand for the release of Palin's birthing records.

Meanwhile - Obama the smoker can still refuse to release his medical records.
It's all in the name of fairness - (just like Obama's tax plan: Tax certain groups out of "fairness".)

re: #3 MandyManners

Was it banned, too?

It's on Daily Kos. The only things that get banned there are Republicans, conservatives, and Hillary Clinton supporters.

The hamsters are starting to get annoyed....

Recall how unglued the left was over the "Swiftboating" of Lurch.

Yet watch them gleefully pick over Sarah Palin's entire existence like it's bloodsport.

Team McCain needs to start unloading the heavy artillery on Obama.

Nothing is off-limits now. Run those Jeremiah Wright and Ayers commercials 24/7 until election day.

Saw two broadcast news stations yesterday mention DailyKos as the source of the false nasty rumors. They mentioned "radical left-wing blogs".

Good job koslings - you're making the headlines.

The loons want more control over the asylum.....
Markos, It's Time to Let Us Clean Up DailyKos

As today's morning shows display screen caps of DailyKos while anchors chatter about "ruthless liberal bloggers," those of us in the majority who denounced the smear diarists are, to say the least, angry and outraged. After seeing our own nominee slandered by conspiracy theorists across the right-wing blogosphere, it is extremely frustrating that the many responsible and ethical users of DailyKos are being equated with the anonymous swift boaters who exploit the popularity of this site to spread scurrilous garbage.

The article served its purpose.

I strongly doubt Kos actually thought that Sarah's baby was actually her daughter. But by putting out that loathsome smear, they forced Sarah to make a statement about her daughter being 5 months pregnant, which was the real point.

The Kos people are scum. Now, all Obama's pious statements about leaving families out of this are "inoperative". It is now open season on EVERYTHING on Obama's side. The stepbrother living in poverty. His association with Ayers and other domestic terrorists. Rev Wrights dirty little church. Everything.

re: #31 Typicalwhitey

How do you save that so it doesn't disappear?

Right-click anywhere on the page, and there should be a menu option somewhere. Or, under the File menu at the top of the window, there might be a "Save As..." option there.

Oh, no! CBC journalists will no longer have access their sources! What are they going to do? ! Such an utter outrage! The Infamy!

Oh well, guess it's back to relying on Al-Jazeera, HAMAS and Hezbollah for their "news" of the day...

Must be a lot of holes over there at the Kos

re: #33 Honorary Yooper

It's on Daily Kos. The only things that get banned there are Republicans, conservatives, and Hillary Clinton supporters.

What was I thinking?!

Obama post-convention poll "bounce" small by historic standards, and already shrinking.

I want to know about all of the financial gains to the Obama family and to the Biden family becasue of their political positions and their ties to lobbyists.

I demand the release of the documents in Chicago that show the relationship between William Ayres adn Barack Obama.

re: #31 Typicalwhitey

How do you save that so it doesn't disappear?

Well, it would take a long time, but via IE, send the page not as a link, but as a page to yourself....probably a better way, but only way I know of....

Kos is a CIA spook.

re: #25 MandyManners

NO! NO! NO!

I am half kidding...but I REALLY, REALLY get the feeling the dems are going to find a way to get her off the ticket, they are that scared of her. So, unfair or not, someone needs to dig into the crap and see what they can find on Biden's family....and perhaps stop this sh*t once and for all.

re: #39 SpringheelJack

The article served its purpose.

I strongly doubt Kos actually thought that Sarah's baby was actually her daughter. But by putting out that loathsome smear, they forced Sarah to make a statement about her daughter being 5 months pregnant, which was the real point.

The Kos people are scum. Now, all Obama's pious statements about leaving families out of this are "inoperative". It is now open season on EVERYTHING on Obama's side. The stepbrother living in poverty. His association with Ayers and other domestic terrorists. Rev Wrights dirty little church. Everything.

Perhaps, minors should be left out of the mud slinging. Adults are fair game.

They're not all deleted. This one has been up for several days.

Shameless self-promotion warning: I blogged about it here. :)

re: #44 Occasional Reader

Obama post-convention poll "bounce" small by historic standards, and already shrinking.

That's why Obama's media operatives are trying so hard to destroy the RNC.

/We must break from the RNC to bring you Breaking Gustav coverage - Up next some bore in a windbreaker.

Gone but not forgotten.

That post was the most immoral and ugly concoction I have ever seen surface during a political campaign. I cannot imagine the hurt that vile poster caused the Palin family.

It was ALL about Palin's daughter this morning on ALL the tvs in the gym.

Good thing she didn't do coke.

re: #48 Ben Hur

Does Larry Johnson know about that?

re: #49 ziggyelman

I am half kidding...but I REALLY, REALLY get the feeling the dems are going to find a way to get her off the ticket, they are that scared of her. So, unfair or not, someone needs to dig into the crap and see what they can find on Biden's family....and perhaps stop this sh*t once and for all.

The Democrats can try but, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are made of sterner stuff than the left can fathom.

This only happened because Obama told a reporter today that "family members are off limits" for his campaign.

So they get the shots in for a few days, then the Lightworker declares "we don't go there" after the "damage" is done.

I quote "damage" because the only damage done is to the Democrats themselves. While they smugly insist they always have the high ground, they have shown themselves to have the scruples of sewer rats. Meanwhile, McCain supporters show themselves to be the more open minded and accepting group.

re: #39 SpringheelJack

Remember, the Obama paid homage to KOS by speaking at their last convention.He can afford to offer high minded platitudes about family being off limits when he has the reprehensible KOS and Huff doing his hatchet jobs.

I want to see those elusive medical records for starters Barry O.

I find precious little comfort on the "yeah, but THEY started it" line of defense, but these crapheads on the leftern blogs are taking political discourse in this country places where it may never find its way back. Yes, historians can cite some of the truly ugly political attacks made by candidates in the 19th century and argue that it was more incendiary then, but that misses a very important point: Most of that bile was limited in its reach because of the crude forms of media in that era. Today, you can pump bilgewater onto the Internet at sunrise and reach millions by noon. Witness the NYT and its THREE stories on the front page about Palin today. They leftists reporters are drinking deep from that poisoned well, and we're all going to be the poorer for it when they get through.

re: #51 Anthony (Los Angeles)

They're not all deleted. This one has been up for several days.

Shameless self-promotion warning: I blogged about it here. :)

How many of these nameless bloggers are sock puppets for Markos Moulitsas?

Ah, the joys of the memory hole. Smear today, gone tomorrow.

re: #53 colin nelson

And that vile crap was repeated by a CBC "journalist" on last night's evening "news"...(the same one who supports Hezbollah, etc.)

re: #55 Ben Hur

It was ALL about Palin's daughter this morning on ALL the tvs in the gym.

Good thing she didn't do coke.

Any mention that Obama was conceived out of wedlock?

....the couple married on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii.[6][1]

On August 4, 1961, at age 18, she gave birth to her first child whom she named Barack Hussein Obama II.

One thing is that the Swiftboat folks had truth on their side. Half truths, innuendos, lies, damned lies, and statistics directed towards children of the candidates are disgusting. I wonder of kosling would do the same towards Chelsea Clinton if circumstances were the same.

re: #57 MandyManners

The Democrats can try but, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are made of sterner stuff than the left can fathom.

Yes, ma'am!

So now excitable Andy is diggin in the dirt on Bristol's boyfriend. What an asshole.

Maybe it's time for McCain to start speaking about his kids.

And since when did a Veep candidate become soooo important?

Didn't the guy that Barry bought COKE from also sell to teenagers?

This is going to backfire so bad on them.

I can't wait for her speech Wednesday!

The kicker is that there are folks who are taking screen caps of these idiot postings. Do they really think that if they delete these numbnuts posts that it makes it okay?

Where's Markos to post a stern denunciation of this crap? Is he too busy posting his musings on Newsweek to notice? Heck, Democrat leaders still associate with Daily Kos, even after vile posting after vile posting remains for all to see.

I guess he doesn't mind his site used as a cesspool, or should I say septic system, although it looks like the crap's truly backing up for the world to see.

Obama's people and the MSM -- but I repeat myself -- have managed to find something to define Palin. She has to come out of the gate with a real barn-burner of a speech and then campaign like hell in order to redefine herself. I'm afraid there isn't going to be much of a convention bounce for the GOP, and McCain is falling further behind (51 to 43 according to Rasmussen, the most dependable poll).

Good morning all.

All this talk about Sarah not being the mother is hysterical. It never ceases to amaze me the stuff people will pull out of their a$$.

re: #67 FrogMarch

So now excitable Andy is diggin in the dirt on Bristol's boyfriend. What an asshole.

Levi Johnston is a "self-proclaimed fucking redneck".

re: #19 Noam Chumpski

Hangin' with Terrorists: Good Judgement

Supporting your Daughter Through Tough Times: Reckless Parenting

Exactly.

The progressives are so classy. Keep at it folks. You're going to do the Democrats real proud.

re: #73 MandyManners

Levi Johnston is a "self-proclaimed fucking redneck".

[Link: www.nydailynews.com...]

re: #64 jcm

Nope, nor any mention that the marriage was bigamous. Obama's sole comment on Bristol was the only responsible thing to say -- kids are off limits, it's a non-issue -- so I'll give him credit for that. However, his supporters are showing their true colors. It's going to backfire on them big time.

re: #69 Typicalwhitey

This is going to backfire so bad on them.

I can't wait for her speech Wednesday!

Is there going to be a convention tomorrow? I mean, there's Hurricane Hanna to consider.
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re: #67 FrogMarch

So now excitable Andy is diggin in the dirt on Bristol's boyfriend. What an asshole.

Dirt on a 17 year old in Alaska, drinking beer behind the gym, shooting at the neighbors no trespassing sign, speeding on a snowmobile! Incorrigible!

re: #71 joncelli

and McCain is falling further behind (51 to 43 according to Rasmussen, the most dependable poll).

See my post #44 above. Some "bounce" was inevitable; and this one ain't much.

re: #68 Ben Hur

Maybe it's time for McCain to start speaking about his kids.

And since when did a Veep candidate become soooo important?

Didn't the guy that Barry bought COKE from also sell to teenagers?

Jis triyin 2 mak it reel akordin 2 Diddy.

re: #64 jcm

That is going to be my stock answer.

"Oh, I thought you were talking about Obama's mother."

I would love to be a fly on the Wall during a Kos and Obama conference call. Thanks goodness for caching. I can just see the people at Google going through thier 25TB of cached web pages in order to rip those Kos pages from History.

re: #70 lawhawk

The kicker is that there are folks who are taking screen caps of these idiot postings. Do they really think that if they delete these numbnuts posts that it makes it okay?

Where's Markos to post a stern denunciation of this crap? Is he too busy posting his musings on Newsweek to notice? Heck, Democrat leaders still associate with Daily Kos, even after vile posting after vile posting remains for all to see.

I guess he doesn't mind his site used as a cesspool, or should I say septic system, although it looks like the crap's truly backing up for the world to see.

I think he revels in his site being used as a huge political cesspool. In factm I'll go so far as to say it may even be Markos himself making these postings under the names of sock puppets. I would not put it past him to use a sock puppet to smear a political opponent. Use the sock, and then delete the post later for plausible deniability.

Markos is beyond reprehensible, IMHO.

re: #79 jcm

speeding on a snowmobile!

Liberals hate snowmobiles. They're even scarier than SUVs.

re: #77 doppelganglander

Nope, nor any mention that the marriage was bigamous. Obama's sole comment on Bristol was the only responsible thing to say -- kids are off limits, it's a non-issue -- so I'll give him credit for that. However, his supporters are showing their true colors. It's going to backfire on them big time.

I'll give credit to BHO for his statement, but what else could he say? His supporters will keep digging the hole anyway.

re: #64 jcm

If so it would be twisted to make him look like a conquering hero to have come from such a troubled background.

re: #73 MandyManners

Levi Johnston is a "self-proclaimed fucking redneck".

and that is somehow worse than being good buddies with William Ayers.

re: #84 Honorary Yooper

Yes he is and he shouldn't be working for Newsweek

WHile channel surfering, I heard Juan Williams RIPPING into Daily Kos and the people that post/comment there.

Like it or not, the Dems are now tied to the Daily Kos. With the exception of Joe Biden, credit where due, ALL the Dem contenders went to the Kos Konvention to kiss the ring of anti-pope Markos Moulitsas....

Obama's protests to the contrary, the fact is, the Kos, and the Underground, and other assorted moonbat publications will continue this line of attack that will seal Obama's fate. Fact: the states the Latte Liberals of the Coasts contemptuously dismiss as "fly-over America" tends toward traditional values, and will rally to Palin and McCain.

I have posted Election predictions that will be updated as needed before the election.

re: #49 ziggyelman

I am half kidding...but I REALLY, REALLY get the feeling the dems are going to find a way to get her off the ticket, they are that scared of her. So, unfair or not, someone needs to dig into the crap and see what they can find on Biden's family....and perhaps stop this sh*t once and for all.

It's Obama's style. It's how he won his US Senate seat, by threatening to unseal Rep opponent Ryan's divorce records, and splatter Ryan's personal sex life all over. Rather than allow that, and have his son see those records all over the Internet, Ryan bowed out and let Obama win by default.

In Obama's 1996 state senate race, he won by invalidating the ballot status of all the other challengers.

Obama's attitude is "Why win by being the better candidate, if you can eliminate your opponents by playing dirty?

re: #82 Ben Hur

That is going to be my stock answer.

"Oh, I thought you were talking about Obama's mother."

Being the well know "right winger" I got asked this morning about, "What do you think about Palin's daughter?" I said "'bout the same as I think about Obama's mother." The look I got was priceless.

Hm. And the allegations that the baby was an illegitimate child of the FATHER or BROTHER of Bristol have also disappeared down the memory hole, along with nearly 2000 comments about white trash, trailer trash, hypocritical Christians, Bible thumpers, stupid rural people, yadda yadda.

We have seen the face of the enemy, and they are one nasty bunch of sewer mouthed lying rats.

Palin is SO getting my vote.

A friend of mine, a professional woman, just had a Down's Syndrome baby as well. She's a Democrat.

This round of smears did not go over well.

I'm not saying she's voting for Palin, but this episode has hurt the Dems. A lot.

This is gonna hurt the Obama campaign. They have let this monster go unchecked for too long, and I don't think it can be reigned in. They can talk values and "middle class" all day long, but when their biggest supporters are spewing this filth, we see what the Democrat party is really made up of.

#63 JS. Thanks for the heads-up. I tend to try and avoid CBC news since it is not in any real sense 'news' - rather it is a tarted up spin machine for the left and increasingly the hard left.

Since the CBC got rid of Mr. Berman (spelling) who was the network news chief for years, do you know who has taken his place? I think the net has moved even further left since his departure.

Time for lunch - BBL

re: #93 jcm

Being the well know "right winger" I got asked this morning about, "What do you think about Palin's daughter?" I said "'bout the same as I think about Obama's mother." The look I got was priceless.

You forgot to add; "only Bristol Palin won't give birth to hell-spawn."

re: #52 FrogMarch

That's why Obama's media operatives are trying so hard to destroy the RNC.

/We must break from the RNC to bring you Breaking Gustav coverage - Up next some bore in a windbreaker.

Meanwhile, they ignored Gov Jindel's news conference on measures being taken to deal with Gustav, in favor of bores in windbreakers

re: #88 FrogMarch

and that is somehow worse than being good buddies with William Ayers.

Only for those without a clue.

re: #90 Ben Hur

WHile channel surfering, I heard Juan Williams RIPPING into Daily Kos and the people that post/comment there.

Why is no one ripping into Colmes?

I think, the allegations that Daily Kos and the Obama camp was real... They are going to expunge that account I bet. Shame, probably trace back to Axelrod or Obama...

re: #101 MandyManners

Why is no one ripping into Colmes?

No meat on Skeletor to rip into.......

The cause of Joe's ire was this email statement Bubriski released to the Miami Herald [emphasis added]:

Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer.

WTF?

re: #100 MandyManners

Only for those without a clue.

Which doesn't exactly narrow it down.

re: #71 joncelli

Obama's people and the MSM -- but I repeat myself -- have managed to find something to define Palin. She has to come out of the gate with a real barn-burner of a speech and then campaign like hell in order to redefine herself. I'm afraid there isn't going to be much of a convention bounce for the GOP, and McCain is falling further behind (51 to 43 according to Rasmussen, the most dependable poll).

An 8 point bounce? Even that snoozer Dukakis got an 18 point bounce n 1988. And Slick Willie got a 15 point bounce in 1992. Kerry managed 10 points in 2004. The highlight of the Denver Convention was Slick Willie, not Obama. Buyer's Remorse is beginning to set in.

Obama should be leading McCain by 20 points, not 8. Like 2000, this is suppose to be a Democratic Year. Call it want you want, but my guess is that the Obama Staff is worried.

And they list the miscreants and their alleged crimes, many not even from Minnesota.

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re: #104 Typicalwhitey

WTF?

Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski

'King Of Voiceovers' Don LaFontaine Dies

This sux.

re: #88 FrogMarch

and that is somehow worse than being good buddies with William Ayers.

How many news stories will contain Levi's name compared to Ayers in the next 2 months? I think we know what the answer will be. We also know what the answer should be. One has a far greater bearing on the candidates' character and fitness than the other. Palin's daughter is going through a difficult and exciting time with the support of her family. Obama had a longstanding relationship with Ayers - an unreformed and unrepentant terrorist who plotted multiple bombings and terror attacks that would have resulted in murdering Americans (including soldiers at Fort Dix, but that plot was thwarted when that particular bomb blew up in the faces of those making the bomb, including Ayers' then girlfriend).

re: #91 canadianconservative

Do you have an analysis of the US House of Representatives elections? (And your analysis of Electoral College/US Senate looks right.)

re: #64 jcm

Any mention that Obama was conceived out of wedlock?

....the couple married on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii.[6][1]

On August 4, 1961, at age 18, she gave birth to her first child whom she named Barack Hussein Obama II.

Obama was born out of wedlock as well. Obama Sr was already married in Kenya (to a woman to whom he went back to after leaving Ann Dunham), so the US marriage to Obama's mom was invalid from the beginning

re: #31 Typicalwhitey

How do you save that so it doesn't disappear?

FightThePalinSmears is on the job. Going where Kossacks dare not go.

re: #107 jpkoch

Obama should be leading McCain by 20 points, not 8. Like 2000, this is suppose to be a Democratic Year. Call it want you want, but my guess is that the Obama Staff is worried.

I'd say the Obama camp is shitting bricks this morning.

I have mentioned this before, I am not an attorney (and don't play one on tv) but through happenstance, a wad of corporate lawyers work in the department I manage. One is a expert on libel and slander. She was most interested in watching all of this because apparently there is a move afoot to find some particularly odious Blog postings and do a first amendment challenge. The issue is for the Blog owner. For something to be libel it has to be known to be false when published. This is the hard part to prove. So when the Kos blogs first starting this up there is plausablility by Markos that he did not know what the truth was. However clearly by Monday the truth was out there and since it does involve a minor and someone who is not a public figure, Markos may have a legal requirement to remove it when he is certain it is false.

It doesn't look as if the accusation that Palin supports Buchanan is especially plausible: [Link: www.haaretz.com...]

The answer is increasingly that to avoid the rooting around in the garbage of a candidates youth or their relatives parties will turn to people like Obama. He has almost no past, only a story. The problem with Obama is that he is not a complete fake, if he was a real Manchurian Candidate, with a cover lifted from the name of a child that died 30 years ago and ID cards manufactured in the Lubyanka, he would be better at this and there would be no hesitation in bring out reams of good looking paper, birth certificate, work records, medical, etc. for the public to admire.

re: #70 lawhawk

The kicker is that there are folks who are taking screen caps of these idiot postings. Do they really think that if they delete these numbnuts posts that it makes it okay?

I don't even bother taking screenshots any more. What's the point? They can't possibly deny it.

re: #90 Ben Hur

WHile channel surfering, I heard Juan Williams RIPPING into Daily Kos and the people that post/comment there.

he was doing the same thing on Fox last night. very cool of him I thought.

re: #110 Ben Hur

'King Of Voiceovers' Don LaFontaine Dies

This sux.

Grab your joy-stick!

I can top the Down-The-Memory-Hole angle.

I just did a search to find the age of Piper and Willow, the two younger daughters, and came across a website that said Daily Kos is to be credited for debunking the rumor.

Previous to this announcement, Internet rumors had suggested that the Palin family's youngest son, Trig Palin, was in fact Bristol's baby and not Sarah's. Photographic evidence posted at Daily Kos showing a visibly pregnant Sarah Palin seemed to discredit these rumors.

Rush is LIVID!

re: #101 MandyManners

Why is no one ripping into Colmes?

I think Rush is just getting ready to. LOL

Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer.

Actually, Buchanan doesn't have much good to say about Palin, but does about Obama. Obama, btw is very close friends to a home grown terrorist (Ayers). The Weather Underground actually did murder people. If association with Buchanan is all they can come up with, well photos of Ayers and Obama together looking deep into each others eyes with affection will get the point across.

And the Fun is just beginning.

re: #110 Ben Hur

'King Of Voiceovers' Don LaFontaine Dies

This sux.

re: #92 SpringheelJack

And, of course, one must not forget that The One then runs about crowing how he's engaged in a "new" type of politics -- "None of those dirty tricks now!" (while he's a master of dirty politics -- Chicago style) and then the MSM repeatedly asserts how "clean" Obama is...

re: #104 Typicalwhitey

WTF?

She wore the button once while mayor when Buchanan visited.

She promptly responded to the story in a letter to the editor, saying that "the article may have left your readers with the perception that I am endorsing this candidate, as opposed to welcoming his visit to Wasilla. As mayor, I will welcome all the candidates in Wasilla."

Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin sports an Israeli flag in her lapel and displays an Israel flag in her office window despite the tiny Jewish population in her state. Republicans say "that says it all" concerning what they charge is Democratic propaganda that she once backed Pat Buchanan, whose name is anathema to most Jews.

re: #123 Typicalwhitey

Rush is LIVID!

Palin is the new Clarence Thomas!

re: #113 SpringheelJack

Obama was born out of wedlock as well. Obama Sr was already married in Kenya (to a woman to whom he went back to after leaving Ann Dunham), so the US marriage to Obama's mom was invalid from the beginning

Yes, but did Ann Dunham know that?

re: #111 lawhawk

How many news stories will contain Levi's name compared to Ayers in the next 2 months? I think we know what the answer will be. We also know what the answer should be. One has a far greater bearing on the candidates' character and fitness than the other. Palin's daughter is going through a difficult and exciting time with the support of her family. Obama had a longstanding relationship with Ayers - an unreformed and unrepentant terrorist who plotted multiple bombings and terror attacks that would have resulted in murdering Americans (including soldiers at Fort Dix, but that plot was thwarted when that particular bomb blew up in the faces of those making the bomb, including Ayers' then girlfriend).

How soon before the unhinged start screeching that Palin's FSIL's family are a bunch of Neocon Jews and that her choice was determined by little men in Tel Aviv?

re: #71 joncelli

Obama's people and the MSM -- but I repeat myself -- have managed to find something to define Palin. She has to come out of the gate with a real barn-burner of a speech and then campaign like hell in order to redefine herself. I'm afraid there isn't going to be much of a convention bounce for the GOP, and McCain is falling further behind (51 to 43 according to Rasmussen, the most dependable poll).

Only one poll counts with this group and it's in November. Nice try though.

And, at this point, it looks as if Pat is more of an Obama supporter than he is for McCain, and Palin:

Rush is playing the "punished with a baby clip"!

re: #123 Typicalwhitey

Rush is LIVID!

Thanks. Just tuned him in. And, yes, he is majorly peeved. I seriously hope he rips the left a new one over this.

The Ottoman Turks solved the problem of getting honest government workers without embarrasing family connections by kidnapping Christian children and castrating them.

Something that doesn't exist got 1,960 comments!

re: #110 Ben Hur

OT---I am sorry to hear that, Ben.

Alas, poor Arcxix, we knew you well...

And good riddance to bad rubbish. In other news, Marxos has decided in the interests of consistency to deleted everything else ever posted on Kos.

re: #136 taxfreekiller

that's actually very funny!

re: #130 Dianna

Yes, but did Ann Dunham know that?

Probably not. But if they're going after Bristol to get to Palin. It's just fair to point out the circumstances of their candidates conception and birth. Not making any moral judgments, just, "fine Bristol made a mistake, what about Ann?"

DUmmies holding a Sarah Palin nickname contest.

re: #99 SpringheelJack

Meanwhile, they ignored Gov Jindel's news conference on measures being taken to deal with Gustav, in favor of bores in windbreakers

I was buying lunch meat at the deli counter yesterday, and the topic of Gustav vs. Katrina came up. One of the workers mentioned Jindal's speech (she didn't know his name), saying "He really knows what he's doing there. They've learned their lesson from last time." I expect Jindal made a positive impression on a lot of people who are only vaguely aware of politics.

re: #131 MandyManners

I'm afraid the unhinged are working on something along those lines, even as we speak. . .

re: #132 Noam Chumpski

Heh? I'm just trying to alert people to the situation. I've been here long enough and posted often enough that people should know I'm not a moby.

re: #122 Silhouette

What about the fact they got the photos from Free Republic?

Why is Joe Scarbourough so surprised that someone would call Pukanan a Nazi sympathizer.

He is.

The Kos Kids are afraid of this woman, bigtime.

re: #116 big steve

I also wonder about the International "news" reporting -- the "reporting" that is done here in Canada -- last night on the evening "news" with this report about Bristol, etc, it definitely struck me as being libelous (it stank big time)...but the "reporter" who filed the "report" has been sued for slander in the past (it's the Canadian tax payers who pick up the tab, btw...and I've also heard that when Canadians try to uncover just how much this libelous shit-bag of a "reporter" has cost the Canadian taxpayer, it's covered up -- the Corporation, the CBC, doesn't tell us. What a corrupt organization. The sooner the CBC is privatized, the better.)

re: #123 Typicalwhitey

Rush is LIVID!

Thanks for mentioning. I forgot to turn him on. I knew he'd be amazing today.

re: #110 Ben Hur

'King Of Voiceovers' Don LaFontaine Dies

This sux.

Yep, too bad. And only 68 years old.

LaFontaine's agent confirms to Entertainment Tonight that he passed away from Pneumothorax, the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity which house the lungs. The official cause of death has not been released.

June was telling me recently that lots of people still die these days pneumonia and pneumothorax. It should always be taken seriously.

re: #149 maddogg

The Kos Kids are afraid of this woman, bigtime.

She stands for so much that they are against.

re: #146 joncelli

Heh? I'm just trying to alert people to the situation. I've been here long enough and posted often enough that people should know I'm not a moby.

Apologies. Wasn't intending to harass you. :) Just not a fan of polls - they're rarely accurate.

The point to make is we will never hear of young daughters of the Dems getting pregnant, cause they would be to an abortion clinic faster than the bats of Pelosi's eyes.

re: #148 Ben Hur

Why is Joe Scarbourough so surprised that someone would call Pukanan a Nazi sympathizer.

He is.

Because, like most liberal media hacks, Joe Scarborough figured Pat Buchanan was a mainstream Republican, and Fred Phelps is a regular Christian conservative.

re: #108 Killian Bundy

And they list the miscreants and their alleged crimes, many not even from Minnesota.

/and counting . . .

Thats a keeper.

Commander Rove will be interested.

re: #142 jcm

Well, Ann's dead, which means she can't respond.

It's a point, but it's not one I'd use, much.

re: #143 Fat Jolly Penguin

DUmmies holding a Sarah Palin nickname contest.

Stay classy, DUmmies.

re: #151 kynna

Thanks for mentioning. I forgot to turn him on. I knew he'd be amazing today.

I have rarely seen him as angry as he is today!

KOS is covering his ass, trying to protect himself from a libel suit over these spurious allegations. What KOS does not know is that some enterprising Lizard waded into the swamp and took an entire collection of screen shots. Sorry KOS, way too little, way too late. How do you say Goose ------------> Cooked

re: #154 Noam Chumpski

Yeah, they should be taken with a handful of salt at all times. That said, reasonably accurate polls like Rasmussen should at least be paid attention to. And thanks for the apology. ;-)

That diary isn’t the only one deleted; everything posted by “arcxix” has disappeared: Daily Kos :: Diaries :: arcxix.

What's the odds that arcxix is a Markos sock puppet?

re: #79 jcm

Dirt on a 17 year old in Alaska, drinking beer behind the gym, shooting at the neighbors no trespassing sign, speeding on a snowmobile! Incorrigible!

the audacity of blind faith.

So now a 16 year old's my space page is more important that an presidential candidates ties to a home grown terrorist.

re: #157 Racer X

Thats a keeper.

Commander Rove will be interested.

And if those felonies go through to conviction that means "no vote for you!"

I love that they voluntarily take themselves out of the election process.

What was Barry on when he was 17?

re: #150 J.S.

This is also why the MSM is very careful in this case to report on the "rumors" as apposed to the substance of the rumor. That way they can claim it was clear they were not reporting something as fact.

And by the way, I will wager a billion dollars that Markos has been in touch with his attorney over the weekend regarding this.

In the Hot Air headlines section, there's a DU post which I recommend to everyone. It's amazing.

re: #143 Fat Jolly Penguin

DUmmies holding a Sarah Palin nickname contest.

I don't know, but Madam Vice President works for me! Just saying.

I love how the Moonbats are so eager to accept dirt on Republicans at face value (Sarah Palin is not the mother!) but distrust all inquiries into, say, Obama's shady political alliances...

Brace yourself, Effie. While going through my morning ritual of visiting other conservative sites, I noticed a lot of lefty trolls whom I didn't recognize in the comments, even Ace noticed this, and Michelle Malkin notes that the MoveOnMorons have a $5K reward out for any dirt that can be dug up against Sarah Palin's family. I see a concerted effort to smear this fine woman from the leftist moonbats, be on guard. I mean, we all knew this was coming, but it still disgusts me. I can only hope that there are some lawyers for the GOP that will start suing for defamation when there is evidence that the smears aren't true. These idiots must be stopped and draggin' their dumb asses into court should only be the start. I also hope that the smears can be somehow traced back to the Vapid One so we can all see just how the Chicago political machine will work on a nationwide level. Conservative action alert anyone?

re: #147 Dianna

What about the fact they got the photos from Free Republic?

Figures.

It is the sheer gaul. Not only do they not shame Kos for spreading the rumor, the congratulate them on debunking it.

I'd be livid but it is so typical. Like the Dems claiming credit for helping Iraqis.

re: #149 maddogg

The Kos Kids are afraid of this woman, bigtime.

They were afraid of Hillary! too. Maybe they're afraid of all women. Thing is, they need to see what happens when you poke a stick at a baby bear. Mama bears gets meeeeeeeean.

re: #145 TalkinKamel

I'm afraid the unhinged are working on something along those lines, even as we speak. . .

I'd be disappointed if they weren't.

re: #155 Beach Lover

The point to make is we will never hear of young daughters of the Dems getting pregnant, cause they would be to an abortion clinic faster than the bats of Pelosi's eyes.

You know I was going to go down the attractiveness road of Dem daughters versus Rep Daughters but you know what, just don't want be like them so I won't.

Silky Pony's baby mama was off limits.

re: #156 Kenneth

Because, like most liberal media hacks, Joe Scarborough figured Pat Buchanan was a mainstream Republican, and Fred Phelps is a regular Christian conservative.

Scarborough was a GOP House member from Florida, and I think he's nuts to take up for Buchanan.

re: #112 joncelli

I'm looking at the House as a complete wildcard now. I want to see how the drilling issue plays out, and whether the GOP can ride on McCain/Palin's anti corruption and pro-drilling coattails. With approval at 9% by some estimates, I'm of the view that anything can happen, ranging from the conventional view that the generic ballot will guatantee that the GOP loses an additional 7-9 seats, to the unrealistic, but remotely possible at this point, that the GOP could either narrow the Gap, or even send San Fran Nan back to Minority leader status...

Since the Obama was proud to give a blood sample for a publicity stunt AIDS test, why not do the same by agreeing to a drug screen? I sure as hell want to know if an admitted coke user who wants the job of POTUS remains drug free.

re: #161 galloping granny

And he can't get away from it, because the diaries are moderated.

I wonder what the hell Kos is thinking, sometimes, given what gets put up there in the diaries. The comments section I understand, but the diaries?

re: #162 joncelli

Yeah, they should be taken with a handful of salt at all times. That said, reasonably accurate polls like Rasmussen should at least be paid attention to. And thanks for the apology. ;-)

Yeah, I'm nothing if not apologetic. heh... I'll go further and admit that Rasmussen does a decent job.

Though sometimes the lead is within the margin of error. :)

Ho ho.

Now Obama is saying he has more experience than Palin.

The only thing Obama has more experience with than Palin is direct personal experience with the plight of the unwed teen mother.

That being the case, he should have moved a lot more quickly to shut down those ugly rumors about Palin.

But he sure waiting a long time to do it. Sure did.

re: #164 FrogMarch

the audacity of blind faith.

So now a 16 year old's my space page is more important that an presidential candidates ties to a home grown terrorist.

I really don't know what is on my 2 daughter's facebook pages. They are both now in College and well behaved good students. I am sure my wife might know. I have to start trusting them sometime.

re: #163 Honorary Yooper

Non-existent. Seriously.

Right. And thank G-d she's not smoking cigarettes....

re: #169 Dianna

In the Hot Air headlines section, there's a DU post which I recommend to everyone. It's amazing.

There's a hilarious comment on that link:

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This place is chaos. It always has been. People post shit, think better of it, sometimes retract it, sometimes don't. It's a lunatic asylum where, every so often, something useful and good floats to the top of a sea of nonsense.

re: #173 Silhouette

It is the sheer gaul.

You mean him?

re: #158 Dianna

Well, Ann's dead, which means she can't respond.

It's a point, but it's not one I'd use, much.

If folks would stay on issues, I wouldn't. Because frankly I don't give a fig. What matters about Ann is she is the first of a long line of influential progressive radical Marxists in Obama's life.

But if someone brings up Bristol against Gov. Palin, I will smack 'em with the chronology of Obama birth and the parents marital circumstances.

I refuse to play their game, let them determine the ground we fight on. Defending, excusing or explaining Bristol we let them determine the ground.

re: #181 Dianna

And he can't get away from it, because the diaries are moderated.

I wonder what the hell Kos is thinking, sometimes, given what gets put up there in the diaries. The comments section I understand, but the diaries?

I wonder how much he really monitors things, and how much he leaves up to others while he's schmoozing with the Dems and the MSM. It just looks like the lunatics run the asylum.

Rush on it.

re: #178 Ward Cleaver

Scarborough was a GOP House member from Florida, and I think he's nuts to take up for Buchanan.

Maybe he needs him as an Allie against Mathews and Olberman? Might just be news room politics?

re: #164 FrogMarch

the audacity of blind faith.

So now a 16 year old's my space page is more important than a presidential candidates ties to a home grown terrorist.

fixed.

re: #180 vagabond trader

Since the Obama was proud to give a blood sample for a publicity stunt AIDS test, why not do the same by agreeing to a drug screen? I sure as hell want to know if an admitted coke user who wants the job of POTUS remains drug free.

The Rove is strong with this one.

I like the way you think!

re: #183 armytramp

Ho ho.

Now Obama is saying he has more experience than Palin.

The only thing Obama has more experience with than Palin is direct personal experience with the plight of the unwed teen mother.

That being the case, he should have moved a lot more quickly to shut down those ugly rumors about Palin.

But he sure waiting a long time to do it. Sure did.

And did you see he is saying this because his campaign has more budget and people working for it than the town in Alaska Palin was mayor of.....conveniently forgetting the size of the budget and number of state employees of the state of Alaska itself.

He sold COKE?

I thought he just took it.

WOW.

Poisoning children.

re: #143 Fat Jolly Penguin

DUmmies holding a Sarah Palin nickname contest.

She's got one.......
Barracuda!

re: #180 vagabond trader

Since the Obama was proud to give a blood sample for a publicity stunt AIDS test, why not do the same by agreeing to a drug screen? I sure as hell want to know if an admitted coke user who wants the job of POTUS remains drug free.

That's about on the level of Dems who insist GWB is still drinking and using coke.

re: #172 BackwardsBoy

MoveOnMorons have a $5K reward out for any dirt that can be dug up against Sarah Palin's family.

As always, the hate comes first, and they'll find something to be outraged about.

re: #172 BackwardsBoy

Brace yourself, Effie. While going through my morning ritual of visiting other conservative sites, I noticed a lot of lefty trolls whom I didn't recognize in the comments, even Ace noticed this, and Michelle Malkin notes that the MoveOnMorons have a $5K reward out for any dirt that can be dug up against Sarah Palin's family. I see a concerted effort to smear this fine woman from the leftist moonbats, be on guard. I mean, we all knew this was coming, but it still disgusts me. I can only hope that there are some lawyers for the GOP that will start suing for defamation when there is evidence that the smears aren't true. These idiots must be stopped and draggin' their dumb asses into court should only be the start. I also hope that the smears can be somehow traced back to the Vapid One so we can all see just how the Chicago political machine will work on a nationwide level. Conservative action alert anyone?

Soros is directly behind this.

re: #194 Occasional Reader

The Rove is strong with this one.

LOL....

re: #177 Ben Hur

Silky Pony's baby mama was off limits.

Yep. When holy and precious democrats slip up - they quietly go away.
Nice soft landing for the pony.

What ever happened to Spitzer? We don' t hear mention of him anymore either.

re: #196 Ben Hur

He sold COKE?

I thought he just took it.

WOW.

Poisoning children.

Obama sold coke? link?

re: #183 armytramp

Ho ho.

Now Obama is saying he has more experience than Palin.

The only thing Obama has more experience with than Palin is direct personal experience with the plight of the unwed teen mother.

That being the case, he should have moved a lot more quickly to shut down those ugly rumors about Palin.

But he sure waiting a long time to do it. Sure did.

Why is he comparing himself with her? Biden is her counter-part.

re: #172 BackwardsBoy

the MoveOnMorons have a $5K reward out for any dirt that can be dug up against Sarah Palin's family.

is there a direct link on this?

re: #168 big steve

I'm not a lawyer (although I've read about libel laws -- editors, etc., need to know the basics..), and I don't think that claims that "Why, I'm just reporting a rumor! a rumor, I tell you!" will save you from a libel suit (the laws in Canada are also different here -- it's much easier to win a libel suit in Canada than in the U.S.) (otherwise one could imagine that I could go around and state: "Individual X is a unrepentant criminal, he's committed untold number of crimes, according to the local rumors..." -- that should never make it into a MSM piece without thoughts about lawsuits, malicious slander, etc.

re: #182 Noam Chumpski

True enough, and it depends on who's leaning which way, and whether they're registered voters as opposed to likely voters...it's a hash sometimes. That's why I try to stay focussed and not put TOO much credence in polls.

re: #194 Occasional Reader

Thanks. I have been referred to as a magnificent b^tch. bwhhahahahahahahaha!

re: #203 FrogMarch

Obama sold coke? link?

I thought Rush just said that.

re: #189 jcm

I'm just going to say, "What does Bristol have to do with any issue? Nothing. So. What about drilling?"

The left is playing a very wise game in this election: their candidate speaks about decency, while his surrogates in the press and on the web trash conservatives with no shame.

We MUST answer fire with fire. Let us not be on the defensive, but let us post and publish our attacks: from Biden's plagiarism, his real estate, his family's corrupt links, and Congressional earmarks to Obama's links with the Chicago political mafia and Marxist-terrorist underground.

All we already know, as well as all that may be unearthed, has to be repeated over and over again: THEY must be on the defensive.

re: #206 J.S.

I'm not a lawyer (although I've read about libel laws -- editors, etc., need to know the basics..), and I don't think that claims that "Why, I'm just reporting a rumor! a rumor, I tell you!" will save you from a libel suit (the laws in Canada are also different here -- it's much easier to win a libel suit in Canada than in the U.S.) (otherwise one could imagine that I could go around and state: "Individual X is a unrepentant criminal, he's committed untold number of crimes, according to the local rumors..." -- that should never make it into a MSM piece without thoughts about lawsuits, malicious slander, etc.

winning a slander or libel lawsuit in the US has only occured about 5% of the time, or so I am being told at this very minute. It is extremely hard to prove.

re: #204 MandyManners

Why is he comparing himself with her? Biden is her counter-part.

Just one of the many curious things about the last few days!

re: #209 Ben Hur

I thought Rush just said that.

If he did, I sure hope he can back that up. It's a hell of an allegation.

IIRC a Hillary staffer dropped the "maybe Obama sold coke" line, and was fired for it.

Rush...

Sarah, a non-domesticated women, just what the liberals say a women should be.... but they hate her.

It's funny reading the comments at the left/liberal fever swamps. The things that get them hating Sarah Palin, are the same things I love about her.

Including this picture of the next Vice-President of the United States.

What's not to like?

re: #189 jcm

If folks would stay on issues, I wouldn't. Because frankly I don't give a fig. What matters about Ann is she is the first of a long line of influential progressive radical Marxists in Obama's life.
But if someone brings up Bristol against Gov. Palin, I will smack 'em with the chronology of Obama birth and the parents marital circumstances.

I refuse to play their game, let them determine the ground we fight on. Defending, excusing or explaining Bristol we let them determine the ground.

I wonder if his immersion in Marxism and friends with Marxists was an unconscious attempt to get his mother to pay attention to him.

re: #198 doppelganglander

Not really, I would ask politely.

re: #214 Occasional Reader

If he did, I sure hope he can back that up. It's a hell of an allegation.

IIRC a Hillary staffer dropped the "maybe Obama sold coke" line, and was fired for it.

I hadn't heard it before.

He does write about it in his book - that he used to use.

I may of mis-heard him.

Rush is great today! I was trying to take down a few choice quotes but the came at me so fast I just had to stop and listen. LOL.

re: #185 Dianna

Non-existent. Seriously.

Thought I'd ask anyway. I know there are those who do use sock puppets on their own blogs (Glen Greenwald comes to mind).

OT - yahoo. headline watch

New Orleans mayor: Please don't come home
Bush to address convention tonight via satellite
Thai prime minister declares emergency in capital
Hanna lashes Bahamas, threatens US East Coast
Stocks jump as oil tumbles on relief over Gustav
Study says smoking may hurt women more than men

Compare to Tuesday of the Dem convention, all six headlines

Former Gov. Warner: Party must seize opportunity
Dems rip into McCain at Obama's convention (AP)
Edgy Democrats await Clinton's convention speech (AP)
AT&T has high profile presence at Dem convention (AP)
Obama camp mulls shortened roll call (Politico)
A convention comeuppance for Bill Clinton (AP)

My comment on Tuesday of last week was "I can't wait to see the headlines during the GOP convention." I was guessing it would be half-Mccain, and half-Obama. Boy was I wrong.

Is McCain mentioned once?!

re: #204 MandyManners

Why is he comparing himself with her? Biden is her counter-part.

Rovian isn't it......because Obama has been all about style over substance and now he has someone out style pointing him. As mentioned, Rove said this six month's ago, it is really easy to knock this guy off message.

So the KosKidz are doing the Bristol Stomp, eh.

Very classy.

Big story now, doesn't mean spit in 2 weeks. If this is the best they can do, they are up to their necks in their own dung. Leftys are notoriously low an character, and Mrs. Palin will rub their noses in their own poop before this is over. This is an opportunity for her. She had to know this would be coming, yet she did not choose to hide from the storm. She must have been confident she could prevail. We will see.

It is time for the McCain camp or the RNC to bring back Obama's greatest hits: Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, etc. REMIND the general public about this guy.

re: #213 scottishbuzzsaw

Just one of the many curious things about the last few days!

Poor bastards couldn't find their asses with a GPS.

re: #195 big steve

And did you see he is saying this because his campaign has more budget and people working for it than the town in Alaska Palin was mayor of.....conveniently forgetting the size of the budget and number of state employees of the state of Alaska itself.

OK fair is fair.

All I can recall is that he hangs with a terrorist from the Weather Underground.

Selective memory's a bitch.

If he can forget Palin is a governor, I can forget he's barely spent any time in the Senate.

re: #204 MandyManners

Why is he comparing himself with her? Biden is her counter-part.

Obama always shows what he's thinking or is afraid of and does it accidentally (it's almost subconscious).

It's like when Bush (in a speech) inferred that there are people whose love of country isn't very strong and Obama comes out immediately and says, "I'm offended by that!"

It's like - we weren't talking about you, but now that you mention it...

Same thing here: He comes out and is all, "I'm more ready than Palin!" Well... you should be as you are the Democrat Pres Candidate, but now that you mention it, let me have a look.

His instincts are worse than an opossum talking a nightly walk in the road.

If I were Sarah Palin, I'd come out swinging when she gives her convention speech. From all appearances she has a very happy family. We ALL have some family problems. It is how you deal with it that counts. And she and her husband has dealt with all the various issues, including her eldest son going off to war, while holding down the State of Alaska. Put that in your pipe liberal hypocrites.

Connecticut delegation physically attacked after being dropped off at the convention. Nice

re: #217 MandyManners

I wonder if his immersion in Marxism and friends with Marxists was an unconscious attempt to get his mother to pay attention to him.

Or his dad, he met his dad once, but wrote his first book about him.

Someone gimme color on Rush today...at work and cannot listen

re: #223 big steve

Rovian isn't it......because Obama has been all about style over substance and now he has someone out style pointing him. As mentioned, Rove said this six month's ago, it is really easy to knock this guy off message.

Palin not only out-styles BHO. She out-substances him. (I know. It's not a word.)

re: #219 Ben Hur

I hadn't heard it before.

He does write about it in his book - that he used to use.

I may of mis-heard him.

I think you misheard him. He was 'reporting a rumor' as they say.

Feels good, don't it, Obambi?

But he read straight from Obama's book about his rampant drug/alcohol abuse and that, compared with Bristol Palin's incredible sin(/sarc), is pretty damning.

re: #230 Nevergiveup

I'd come out swinging when she gives her convention speech. From all appearances she has a very happy family.

COUNT ON HER getting a standing ovation when she says just that.

Rush is on it. Rarely listen to him but this is interesting.

Asked on the dead thread if anyone knew what the AP was refering to in the hit piece about the convention getting into Pallin seeing a lawyer?
Please forgive my reposting.

What is this about?
Twice in an AP snark piece about the RNC convention they mentioned "Revelations that the surprise female running mate had retained an attorney to deal with a scandal."
GOP convention script goes straight to re-write. Note the URL title is the even snarkier "measure of a nation ad libbing it." Time for AP to fire people, again?

Check this out at Publishers Weekly:

John McCain surprised most when he chose Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska to be his running mate—and the only book available on Palin is, unsurprisingly, from an equally dark horse publisher: Epicenter Press, which has its primary office in Kenmore, Wash., and publishes books about Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Epicenter published Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson in April as a $19.95 hardcover featuring 50 photographs.

Publisher Kent Sturgis said the book had been doing well before the announcement; Epicenter went through its 7,000-copy first printing in less than a month, and then reprinted 3,000 more copies, which were all shipped by early Friday. "I walked in the door [Friday] morning and the first call was from Barnes & Noble; they wanted 15,000 copies," Sturgis said. "I’ve got an e-mail queue here that’s longer than I can see."

More at link.

NPR's news this morning concentrated solely on the hurricane and the protesters at the GOP convention. I don't remember them talking much about the protesters at the DNC convention last week; they were barely mentioned.

Of course, the GOP convention was shortened because of the hurricane...maybe I'm seeing bias where it doesn't exist? Phhht, it's NPR.

re: #222 Silhouette

OT - yahoo. headline watch

My comment on Tuesday of last week was "I can't wait to see the headlines during the GOP convention." I was guessing it would be half-Mccain, and half-Obama. Boy was I wrong.

Is McCain mentioned once?!

Another diary down the memory hole:

McCain/Vagina08

I don't understand how Bristol's situation is a political downer for Palin.

Doesn't it prove that she isn't a hypocrite, but practices what she preaches in being pro-life, even in the face of the main two abortion causes: a child with a medical problem and a young, unwed mother?

How many times have we heard them say, "Sure, easy for you to say. But what if you were in our dilemma?"

re: #85 Occasional Reader

Wonder what they think of motorcycles? They probably like those little scooters. What're they called? Vespas?

That's a very liberal mode of transportation. Now if they were only electric and could go about 25 MPH.

One thing that has made me laugh is how the left, the MSM, and some blogs are all haughtily saying that Sarah Palin wasn't vetted and they are doing the vetting now and oh what an idiot McCain is he didn't vet her.

Yet....she was Rove's choice and he worked this. The same groups think that Karl is evil incarnate and the world's master chessman.

Does anyone out there not think that Karl Rove is about five steps ahead on this. I will bet that her convention speech was written three weeks ago.

re: #219 Ben Hur

I hadn't heard it before.

He does write about it in his book - that he used to use.

I may of mis-heard him.

Anyway, this is all just smokescreen to distract us from Alaska's embarassing crackhead deficit.

Deletion: The last refuge of a scoundrel

re: #241 Silhouette

I don't understand how Bristol's situation is a political downer for Palin.

Doesn't it prove that she isn't a hypocrite, but practices what she preaches in being pro-life, even in the face of the main two abortion causes: a child with a medical problem and a young, unwed mother?

How many times have we heard them say, "Sure, easy for you to say. But what if you were in our dilemma?"

Exactly!

#150 JS. If a libel and/or slander charge cannot be filed against that offensive (and now vanished) post, then why bother to have these remedies in the first place.

BTW, can you tell me (us) the name of the intrepid CBC 'reporter' who did the story? Taking the hint from Big Steve, it should be quite easy to prove that the reporter 'knew' the "Sarah is the mother" story was bogus by the time he(she) went to air with it.

re: #229 Noam Chumpski

Obama always shows what he's thinking or is afraid of and does it accidentally (it's almost subconscious).

It's like when Bush (in a speech) inferred that there are people whose love of country isn't very strong and Obama comes out immediately and says, "I'm offended by that!"

It's like - we weren't talking about you, but now that you mention it...

Same thing here: He comes out and is all, "I'm more ready than Palin!" Well... you should be as you are the Democrat Pres Candidate, but now that you mention it, let me have a look.

His instincts are worse than an opossum talking a nightly walk in the road.

What was it Dennis Miller saying about the color of skin not being as important as the thinness of BHO's skin?

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

I wonder how much he really monitors things, and how much he leaves up to others while he's schmoozing with the Dems and the MSM. It just looks like the lunatics run the asylum.

Exactly.
And this time it's going to cost him, big time.

He can't bury that shit fast enough.

re: #232 jcm

Or his dad, he met his dad once, but wrote his first book about him.

I hadn't thought about that angle!

I would be surprised if Palin would even mention one word about this.

re: #242 Iron Fist

Wonder what they think of motorcycles? They probably like those little scooters. What're they called? Vespas?

That's a very liberal mode of transportation. Now if they were only electric and could go about 25 MPH.

There's a scooter "gang" that hangs around the UW in Seattle, this mob on scooters in goth dress. They try to pull off a "tough" attitude.... it doesn't work.

re: #184 Nevergiveup

I really don't know what is on my 2 daughter's facebook pages. They are both now in College and well behaved good students. I am sure my wife might know. I have to start trusting them sometime.

Ask them to help you create your own. They will invariably link you as a friend. My daughters did and I have lots of fun with them. The response from their less circumspect friends is priceless when they realize I'm part of their friends group!

re: #249 MandyManners

What was it Dennis Miller saying about the color of skin not being as important as the thinness of BHO's skin?

Miller's great...

So at age 17 what was Obama doing with his life? Drinking, skipping school, taking drugs, hanging out. Hypocrite your name is Osama.

re: #211 SouthAmericanWay

The left is playing a very wise game in this election: their candidate speaks about decency, while his surrogates in the press and on the web trash conservatives with no shame.

We MUST answer fire with fire. Let us not be on the defensive, but let us post and publish our attacks: from Biden's plagiarism, his real estate, his family's corrupt links, and Congressional earmarks to Obama's links with the Chicago political mafia and Marxist-terrorist underground.

All we already know, as well as all that may be unearthed, has to be repeated over and over again: THEY must be on the defensive.

The new Batman movie "The Dark Knight".
Great movie.
Same philosophical message as this.
Speaking for myself, I'm not ready to "publish any attacks".
On a public, published message, it's too easy to come off like a Kossack.
Posting, yes. Lizards will let me (or anybody) know when I went over the top. Publicly (independently) doing that would result in the fatal two words: "Too Late".

A man has to know his limits.

re: #248 buzzsawmonkey
Great insight, as usual...

re: #253 jcm

There's a scooter "gang" that hangs around the UW in Seattle, this mob on scooters in goth dress. They try to pull off a "tough" attitude

I'd be worried that if I happened on this "gang", I might get hurt.

You know... a hernia from laughing, that sort of thing.

re: #254 DaddyG

Ask them to help you create your own. They will invariably link you as a friend. My daughters did and I have lots of fun with them. The response from their less circumspect friends is priceless when they realize I'm part of their friends group!

You know that's really positive and clever parenting. Instead of being invasive and overbearing, you're now in the loop. Good thinking.

re: #247 colin nelson

I watched NBC over the weekend, the were extremely careful in saying that this was an internet story and even flashed the KOS homepage. I am telling you everyone is lawyering up of this big time. The lawyers down the hall are all claiming they are working on a case, but there are some insider law blogs around and I'll see if I can find out what the jungle tom tom's are saying.

OT

I watched part of NBC's coverage of Gustav from NOLA last night.
The entire part I watched was about the failures of Katrina, with continual references to the ongoing RNCC.

Nope, no media bias detected.
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re: #248 buzzsawmonkey

Because in a very real way it is a fight between the narratives of Obama and Palin.

Obama is the Disadvantaged Black Kid Who Made Good, going to elite schools and becoming the first serious black contender for the highest office in the land.

Palin is the "log cabin" candidate; the person of relatively ordinary background who grew up in the closest thing we still have to a wilderness, made good, and did so without the assistance of the elite school power structure and network.

Both are relatively new to politics, compared to old warhorses McCain and Biden. So the question is, will America embrace the "log cabin" narrative, or the affirmative-action elite-anointment narrative?

There are a lot more people, probably--black or white--who identify with the "log cabin" narrative. That is what scares the Obama campaign, and the media that support him, since both belong to the elite-anointment narrative.

And that is why this campaign will stay ugly.

Brilliant analysis. (Fess up. You're really Carl Rove.)

Best quote from Rush so far...McCain campaign told Sarah they would be coming at her from all directions and said "are you ready for this?"

she replied..."Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
lipstick!"

love her!

re: #248 buzzsawmonkey

Driving home from dropping my eldest daughter at school yesterday, my wife asked me what I thought the reaction would be to Bristol Palin's pregnancy. And since I was kinda out of contact, you can file me under last to know! I think the Democrat Elite better be real careful. Most voters are ordinary Americans like you and me and live in fly over country. They have families just like Sarah Palin. They get it and understand. They are much more likely to have an unwed pregnant daughter than a house partially financed by a Chicago racketeer.