Comments on: McCain-Palin: Sloppy To No Vetting? How Can Anyone Trust McCain?

By: CitizenE

CitizenE — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:22:27 +0000

Personally, these things strike me as small potatoes. My goodness, McCain was one of the Keating 5. Americans, by and large don’t care about these things, especially if it turns out her brother in law was in truth a violent thug. It’s inappropriate, but geez, the current Vice President, part of a twice elected ticket, lied straight faced to the entire nation over and over and over leading the nation to war.
What was suprisingly unvetted given McCain’s well documented interest in Iraq and global climate change was Palin’s abject absence of understanding, seemingly complete lack of curiosity, and uninformed and ambiguous at best position about the first and her anachronistic ignorance about the latter.

By: SuburbanGrrrl

SuburbanGrrrl — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:42:00 +0000

Sheesh, Plunger. I mean time for you to refer this “case” to the Nat’l Enquirer and let them take over. Seriously, they have the resources to investigate this and the progressive blogospher can move on to issues we can actually prove.

I have used my powers of deduction and the pictures you cite in your earlier thread prove nothing. I mean if the Palin’s wanted to cover up Bristol’s alleged pregnancy what the hell are they having an official family photo with Bristol in a tight sweater showing her “pregnancy.” And comparison’s of Palin’s 1st pregnancy and 5th pregnancy proves nothing. Not all pregnancies are equal, esp if Trig was a preemie.

Finally, the choice of doctors is also meaningless.First, what evidence do you provide that Baldwin Johnson was Palin’s attending physician for the birth? Please provide link. And what is the significance of the “coincidence” of Dr. Baldwin-Johnson being Palin’s family physician and the fact that she’s the head of the local sexual assault response team. Huh? In Baldin-Johnson’s bio she was named Family Physician of the Year. Perhaps she was chosen because of her reputation. Yes, I agree that it is unusual that a family physician would not refer a pregnant patient to an OB/GYN but you have not provided evidence that Baldwin Johnson was the attending physician for the birth. The fact that she is no longer at Mat Su Hospital as you cite in your linked thread alos means nothing. So she left? Perhaps her practice is now affiliated with a different hospital network. Happens all the time.

By: mracine

mracine — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:30:33 +0000

Josh Marshall had a really good round up of Palin’s Troopergate.

Basically, the real problem was that these incidents were not reported in real time, but after the marriage fell apart. Which means they may or may not have happened, but they also were inevitably reinterpreted by all parties involved. Start looking into the actual reliability of memory and it’s scary.

He was investigated on 14 claims, 5 were found to be founded and he received a suspension. The real trouble came after Palin was elected and she started trying to have the previous investigation overruled and the ex-in-law fired. When she was rebuffed, she fired the head of the agency.

Even if the guy was a loser, not the way to handle it.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Is there a law if you see/think you see a crime/know of a crime you are supposed to report it?

By: TheShadowKnows

TheShadowKnows — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:11:48 +0000

It’s time to shrink the Republican Party down to a size where it can be flushed down the toilet.

And no demise could be more fitting for the immoral clump the Republican Party has become.

By: GregB

GregB — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:06:44 +0000

You brute, you brute, you brute.

-G

By: sunshine

sunshine — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:06:28 +0000

But if it truely is the dau’s baby, then it could be used as a blackmail issue over Palin. That would be diastrous for the country.

By: joelmael

joelmael — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:01:54 +0000

“she’s cute and seems to dig old farts.”

Palin does not appear to dig old fart McSame in the butt vetting video. Towards the end as he is (repeatedly) moving in on her, she backs away and turns her head away until she finally gives in to the cheek rub.

He is obviously the kind of man who cannot sense or doesn’t care when a woman is evading physical closeness with him.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:00:02 +0000

Overtopped, not broken.

By: demi

demi — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:54:24 +0000

So, we need to roto-rooter our arteries?
You’re cracking me up this am. I [heart] Raven.
I may be thin skinned sometimes, but I do love people with brains.