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Newt Gingrich Aggressively Defends Sarah Palin

     The mainstream media and the far-left are just plain nasty individuals. These corrupt liberals lack scruples and will stop at nothing to gain power. If they have to destroy innocent people in the process, even teens, so be it.
     This time the target of their attack is Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, McCain’s newly selected vice-presidential running mate, as well as her family. What they don’t seem to realize is that the American people see right through their assault on this strong Christian lady who has lived out her faith and been a strong leader eliminating corruption in Alaska. If she and her family can endure the constant barrage of accusations, this may very well backfire on the left. And I can’t wait for that to happen!
     Three cheers for Newt Gingrich who chewed out an MSNBC correspondent over the media‘s over-the-top battering of Sarah Palin. News Busters shares the encounter:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/0
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     “Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did what conservatives have been waiting for someone to do since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate: take on someone in the media claiming that she lacks the qualifications to be vice president.
     Such marvelously occurred Tuesday evening on the convention floor in St. Paul when MSNBC's Ron Allen said to the former Speaker,

     ‘But to be fair, her resume is not something we're familiar seeing with presidential candidates.’

     This didn't sit well with Gingrich who strongly replied:

     ‘It's stronger than Barack Obama's. I don't know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She's been a real mayor, he hasn't. She has been a real governor, he hasn't. She's been in charge of the Alaskan National Guard, he hasn't. She was a whistleblower who defeated an incumbent mayor. He has never once shown that kind of courage. She's a whistleblower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I've never seen Obama do one thing like that. She took on the incumbent governor of her own party and beat him, and then she beat a former Democratic governor in the general election. I don't know of a single thing Obama's done except talk and write.’

     Newt then challenged Allen:

     ‘I'd like you to tell me one thing Sen. Obama's done.’

     With that, Allen retreated, and said:

     ‘Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to leave it there. I'm not going to argue the case. Thanks very much.’

Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired

Governor says she's learned calls were made about Wooten's ouster

By SEAN COCKERHAM
cockerham@adn.com

Published: August 14th, 2008 01:34 AM
Last Modified: August 14th, 2008 12:34 PM

Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

 

Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper.

"I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist although I have only now become aware of it," Palin said.

But Palin said her decision to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan last month had nothing to do with his refusal to dump trooper Mike Wooten.

The governor said evidence of what she called a "smoking gun" conversation, and other calls made by her aides, only recently surfaced as the attorney general started an inquiry at her request into the circumstances surrounding her firing of Monegan. Palin wanted the review because a special investigator hired by the Legislature is about to investigate the firing and a legislator has been quoted in a newspaper story talking about impeachment.

The majority of the calls came from Palin's chief of staff at the time, Mike Tibbles, according to information gathered by the state attorney general's office. Attorney General Talis Colberg and Palin's husband, Todd, also contacted Monegan about the trooper.

Palin said she'd only known about some of the contacts and never asked anyone on her staff to get in touch with state public safety officials about Wooten.

"Many of these inquiries were completely appropriate. However, the serial nature of the contacts could be perceived as some kind of pressure, presumably at my direction," she said.

Palin said the "most disturbing" was a phone call Frank Bailey, the governor's director of boards and commissions, made to trooper Lt. Rodney Dial in February. The Public Safety Department recorded the call, as it does routinely.

Palin, who said she'd only just learned of the call, released a recorded copy of it to the press on Wednesday. In it, Bailey clearly pressures the lieutenant.

'HORRIBLE RECRUITING TOOL'

Bailey told him during the conversation that Palin and her husband want to know why Wooten still has a job.

"Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, 'Why on earth hasn't this, why is this guy still representing the department?' He's a horrible recruiting tool, you know," Bailey told the lieutenant.

Bailey made several accusations against Wooten in the call, including that he lied on his application. Dial asked Bailey how he knew about any issue with the application.

 

 

"I used to be a recruiter. I know a lot of times that information is extremely confidential," Dial told him.

 

Bailey replied he was reluctant to say but saw the application as part of Wooten's worker's compensation claim. Bailey, later in the call, then brought up Monegan again.

"I'm telling you honestly, you know, she really likes Walt a lot, but on this issue, she feels like it's, she doesn't know why there is absolutely no action for a year on this issue. It's very, very troubling to her and the family. I could definitely relay that," Bailey said.

Palin said Bailey wasn't speaking on her behalf and his comments were "just wrong."

Bailey said in a Wednesday interview that no one asked him to make the call and he doesn't know why he indicated in the call that he was speaking on behalf of the Palins. He said he was calling lieutenant Dial, who was the state troopers liaison to the Legislature and had volunteered on Palin's campaign, in order to try to get information about the troopers union and then brought up Wooten.

Bailey said he'd heard at a security briefing right after Palin was elected that Wooten had made a threat against Palin's family. He said he also had casual conversations with Todd Palin about the trooper. Bailey said Todd had expressed "general frustration with the situation" but never asked him to do anything about it.

"My fear was (Wooten) could fly off the handle and do something that was irreversible," Bailey said. "That concern, that fear, has always been in the back of my mind."

Palin said it's under discussion whether Bailey is going to keep his job in the administration.

COLBERG'S PHONE CALL

Attorney General Colberg also disclosed Wednesday that he'd made a call about Wooten. Colberg said he called Monegan several months ago after Todd Palin asked him about "the process" for when state troopers make death threats against the first family.

"I made an inquiry and was told by commissioner Monegan that there was a process in place and that it was handled and it was over. And I reported back to the first gentleman that there was nothing more that could be done," Colberg said.

Palin said her husband also contacted Monegan about a threat made by Wooten but backed off when Monegan indicated he couldn't get into the matter.

The family had alleged the threat in 2005, before Palin became governor. They said Wooten had told Palin's sister he would shoot their father if he got the sister a lawyer.

Wooten denied saying anything like that. But a trooper investigation concluded he did, although it wasn't a crime because he didn't threaten the father directly. Wooten's actions did violate trooper policy, the investigator found.

Palin said she was meeting with the investigator hired by the Legislature, Steve Branchflower, on Wednesday and would turn over everything gathered as part of the attorney general's inquiry. The Bailey phone call was the only one that Palin singled out as being wrong. Assistant Attorney General Mike Barnhill said all the calls from then-chief of staff Tibbles, who is now running Sen. Ted Stevens' re-election campaign, regarding Wooten looked to be appropriate.

"It's absolutely appropriate that a chief of staff was checking on staff issues and personnel, policy and procedure," Palin said.

Palin said no one from the Department of Public Safety -- including Monegan before his firing -- had complained they felt pressured regarding Wooten.

KOPP'S SEVERANCE PACKAGE

Colberg also disclosed Wednesday that Chuck Kopp, who Palin had appointed to replace Monegan as public safety commissioner, received a $10,000 state severance package after he resigned following just two weeks on the job.

It was in light of the fact that he left a comfortable 19-year career on the Kenai Peninsula and took a job that lasted less than two weeks," Colberg said.

Kopp, the former Kenai chief of police, resigned July 25 following disclosure of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint and letter of reprimand against him.

Monegan said in a Wednesday interview that he didn't get any severance package from the state.

WHY PALIN FIRED MONEGAN

Monegan was a Palin appointee, and she had a right to fire him for any reason. She's previously refused to say exactly why she got rid of him, but laid out several reasons Wednesday, saying she's decided to talk about it because Monegan is.

Palin said he wasn't doing enough to fill state trooper vacancies and battle alcohol abuse issues. She said he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."

Palin said it's fine to have debates during cabinet meetings over the budget but Monegan went further and indicated to legislators she wasn't proposing enough spending. Palin's acting chief of staff, Mike Nizich, said Monegan asked legislators for spending that hadn't been authorized by the governor.

"The response he got was don't come to us and ask for more money when you cannot fill the 56 or 58 trooper positions that were vacant," Nizich said. "So he was making a pitch for additional funding when he couldn't even fill what he currently had available to him."

Monegan questioned that but declined to comment further, saying he's already started talking to the special investigator hired by the Legislature to look into his firing.

I'm at a loss for words on this!!! is this the best choice for McCains running mate, I read her bio and it's very short. We have been slaming Obama for lack of experience and McCain picks someone with even less experience then Obama has.

Will Palin be able to fill the shoes of any Former President, you have to look at all sides here I know anyone could be gone at anytime but is this the best he could come up with a "beauty Queen" do you know how many women are haters of this type of women, she is no Hillary, and have you seen the type of women that supported Hillary.

Palin holds a  bachelor's degree in  journalism from the  University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science.

Palin does have a few pluses in her favor, she goes against the grain, she cut government spending, she gives the money back to the people, she is pro life, and from what I can see she holds true to the promesses she makes. BTW she will know how to walk the stage

Time will only tell.  VOTE McCain........

 

 

 

 

                                                    
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"In the two-hour forum, Obama said it was above his "pay grade" when asked to define when a baby gets human rights. But McCain quickly answered, "At the moment of conception."

I would like to know what kind of answer this is, Obama was not asked to do a job, he was asked for his view.

McCain had a view.

The Republican senator from Arizona drew frequent applause from the nearly 2,800 members of the evangelical church in Orange County with crisp answers intended to reinforce his conservative credentials.

Obama, who spoke for the first hour, offered more nuanced and analytical answers on some of the issues important to conservative voters: abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research.

Both Obama, an Illinois senator, and McCain said marriage is between a man and a woman, while supporting gay unions and leaving it up to the states to decide gay marriage.

The Arizona senator's focus was also evident in Warren's first question about which three people each candidate would rely on most during his administration.

McCain named Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq; John Lewis, the Democratic congressman and civil rights leader; and his economic advisor, Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of eBay. That allowed him to remind the audience of three campaign themes: his foreign policy credentials, serving a cause greater than one's self-interest and his pledge to use the advice of people like Whitman to turn the economy around.

Obama named his wife and grandmother before moving to a bipartisan list of past and current senators.
 

Again McCain answers are sharp and to the point, and Obama is left in the dust when he doesn't have cards to read

 

A certain blogger(HYBRIDTALK) mentioned that Mommiegrandma and Dprin are having a battle of the cut and paste blogs, so I did a study and researched the past month, what I found is dprin was way ahead the first week and a half then MG started catching up mid way through the month, they are now tied running neck and neck (and I don't mean whiteneckburned).

This is going to be great to watch and see who will win the cut and paste award at the end of August, we all need to sit back and watch because they are not leaving any room for anyone else.

                                        FIRST PRIZE

 

                                                    
          RUNNER UP PRIZE

 

MAY THE BEST LADY WIN???????????  LMAO

European Union (2006):
-8 million illegal aliens
-1 million apprehended
-500,000 caught inside EU
-200,000 deported mostly from Spain, Italy, Greece

Philippines:
-124,000 undocumented Filipinos in EU
-40,000 in France, 20,000 in Italy

USA:
-11 million illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico
-273,000 deported in 2007
-Workplace raids permitted

Hundreds of illegal immigrants from Russia are sneaking into the United States in style, on sailboats launched from the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Panama.

U.S. officials have identified a well-organized human smuggling ring run out of Moscow that charges $15,000 a head, including airfare from Russia.

Given the connection between al Qaeda and Chechnyan rebels, U.S. authorities fear the route could provide another way for terrorists to get into the country.

Officials have indicted the ring leader in Moscow, nicknamed "Pasha," but say he remains in business, beyond the reach of American law.

 

Illegal aliens seem to be a problem all over the world, But I don't see any Illegal Americans in other countries.

Illegal aliens murder
12 Americans daily
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53
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I've got a Country she's oh so fine
Someday I'd like to make her mine oh mine
She's fine, but she won't give me a chance
When I want to sweettalk
All They wants to do is Boo

Let me tell you
She don’t likes the Flippin and a floppin
Man, she don’t likes the Flippin and a Floppin
Flippin the night out and the day in
She don’t likes the switching and the Changing
Oh, she don’t like the Flippin and a Floppin
Watch Me Flip Flip Flip Flip

Ask them to vote for me the other day
Try to make them think in a different way
It didn't pay, I didn't even stand a chance
they said go back home
We don’t need your Change

I've got the situation well in hand
I found out that if I'm going to be man
I've gotta be a man
If I'm gonna stand a chance
If I'm gonna make her my Country
I ve just got to Flip and flop

Now you wanna see me
I'm doing the Flippin' and a floppin'
I'm doing the Flippin' and a floppin'
We're Changing the night out and the day in
We're doing the swwitching and the Changing
I'm doing the flippin' and a floppin'
Watch me move I'm Flippin floppin

I found some cartoons I thought were funny

Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that's what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources.

He flipped so hard on this one he had to go back to the doctors because he injured his hip again.

Whats up with Nancy sourpus p-u-low-see turning off the lights and kicking out the reporters in the lobby, I guess she doesn't want anyone to see how childish she is. wasn't she the one that said she would bring everyone together in congress.

 The New York Times article is a must read to understand why Obama changed his stand and why Nancy turned out the lights.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obam
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Democrats are trying to pass a bill for our Military, I'm not sure what it was for because most of the arguring was that the Republicans wanted to add a energy package to it and the Democrats don't want to add anything, I heard something about building a new VA Hospital and something about the vets getting a break on traveling expenses.

Why is it that both parties need to tie things up with hidden agendas,

This is one time I would have to agree with the Democrats

I understand some people are going into foreclosure because they lost their jobs or they have a flexable percentage rate and their mortgage went up, and with high fuel prices and increases in food prices.

What I don't understand is the thinking of some home owners, there was an article in the paper yesterday on people just walking away from their homes and they are not even in forecloser, one man says he walked away because the value of his home is droping in price and he's just  throwing good money away. at least sell it and cut your loses.

What the heck are people thinking, are they stupid, what logic is this??? don't they even care about their own credit.

Would you be willing to walk away from your home, I'm sure renting would be a waste, would someone rent to you after leaving your home, some home renters do credit checks.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday and urged Congress to follow suit.

If President Bush can persuade Congress, more oil rigs like this one off Canada could appear off U.S. shores.

Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden that allowing offshore oil drilling is "one of the most important steps we can take" to reduce that burden.

However, the move is largely symbolic as there is also a federal law banning offshore drilling.

"This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil reserves is action from the U.S. Congress," Bush said.

 

Do you think this is a coinsadince after President Bush lifted this ban on drilling, the Oil prices started droping in price, but it will not last long if the Democrats keep acting like children, all they need to do is lift the ban on federal law and oil prices will drop even more.

I now know why Obama is getting more media coverage going to Iraq then McCain.

McCain goes to Iraq and Afghanistan to see what  progress is being made and Obama is campaigning for world leader, at least thats the way it looks, but when confronted with a simple question and after seeing the progress in Iraq he is left stuttering words and dodging questions.

Terry Moran asks, If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge? Obama  first says no, then stutters and says hindsight is 20/20, this is a common answer when you are backed into a corner, Obama also said that at the time of the surge he didn't like President Bush and that they needed to take a political stand, this war and the choices that are made should be made by evaluating what is going on, on the ground and not because you don't like your leader.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos say's Obama is droping in the polls among young voters, maybe they are waking up from the dream world they were put in and are now seeing the true Obama and that he is still the same type of Democratic politician thay have always seen, I guess he should stick to the staged setting and written speeches and never come underfire.

OBAMA:........what I consider two false choices, which is either I have a rigid time line of such and such a date, come hell or high water, we've gotten our combat troops out, and I am blind to anything that happens in the intervening six months or 16 months. Or, alternatively, I am completely deferring to whatever the commanders on the ground says, which is what George Bush says he's doing, in which case I'm not doing my job as Commander-in-Chief.

   Who says there's no comedy in the obama campaign.  The poor guy has himself in a bind.  He either sticks with his long time stated position of "I will end this war and bring the troops home in 16 months" which is now shown to be a bad decision because we and the Iraqi's are winning or he has to do the same thing that George Bush is doing , let the military make military decisions on when to remove troops.  The reason he has a dilema is because he is no longer running as a far lefty and as he moves to the right he's finding George Bush and John McCain already working that street corner.

 This was Obama's first ever trip to Afghanistan and is Obama's second trip to Iraq. His first was in January 2006 when the country was plunged into horrific violence. But the surge of U.S. troops, combined with ordinary Iraqis' rejection of both al-Qaeda and Shiite extremists, has transformed the country. Attacks are down by more than 80 percent nationwide. U.S. combat casualties have plummeted -- five this month so far, compared with 78 last July. And Baghdad has a pulse again.

The way I see it If Obama wins the election we will have the same type of Government we have now, Democrats and Republicans fighting for power.

McCain would pull both parties together, he has crossed the line on some issues and voted with Dems.

As for Katie Courics interview, she may as well been changing diapers on babies, she didn't ask hard questions and it looked staged, like Obama knew what she was going to ask.

Terry stumped Obama and left him with the "Deer in the headlight" look

BTW, Obama did make enemies with the Palestinians, he made a comment that he now has to live with and can't back out of, but it doesn't really matter other Countries don't vote for the American President