That's two big national appearances for Sarah, and two home runs. I think the campaign would be well served to let her loose in as many appearances as possible.

 She's the one who connects with the people.

 Good job, Sarah, we're proud of you.

It should be Palin/McCain! She is a rising star!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Sarah is an expert at the velvet punch.  And  you know it's effective when others try to copy it.

In the debate, Sarah remarked to Biden about ancient history and we had to look ahead.  In the post-debate wrap-up, Sean Hannity was asking Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz about something and she tried the same line about "that's history and we need to look ahead."

Libs claiming that the election is, of course, not going to turn on the vice-presidential debate.

Emails have been sent. 

JDW

DAILY WAVE

'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'

What they found was enough pork to feed a medium-sized nation.

This insanity must be stopped.

-And this is just the tax break portion of the bill.  

-Dave

Palin/Anybody other than McCain in '08

Clearly her performance exceeded what many people thought she could do.  As Mark Shields put it after the debate, a great many Republican strategists are breathing a whole lot easier now.  She wasn't able to shoehorn some of her approved answers to fit Ms. Ifill's questions - regarding nuclear weapons for example.

Personally, I was very excited that Ms. Ifill asked about Vice President Cheney's unique contention that his office is not part of the Executive Branch of the Federal government.  That was the question I hoped to hear.  Gov. Palin either didn't understand it or didn't have a prepared response - she clearly did not answer the question.  Sen. Biden took it on directly and gave an excellent answer.

To me the most important part of the 90 minutes was at the end when Sen. Biden said he learned during his first year in the United States Senate, never question another's motives.  Judgment yes - motives, no.  That is a very common failing here on NB.  People who don't toe the party line (yes, like myself) are un-American, Socialists, communist, etc.

This very unforunate trait - a gift from Newt, GOPAC, and Tom DeLay - is not going to help unite this nation behind the winners on November 4th.  This country and this world have more than enough problems and issues that need to be addressed.  And we're all going to have to work together to get the job done.

I know most everyone here is pleased with Sarah's performance in the debate with Obiden last night. She missed a couple opportunities to really nail Obiden, as well as Obama, but overall I think she did pretty well.

Sadly, I don't think it will help McCain's chances in next month's election. There are just too many factors working against him, and one of those factors is himself.

-Dave

Palin/Anybody other than McCain in '08

Most real American politician since "give hell" Harry Truman, who wasn't an elitist, DC insider or even a college graduate.  It's really up to McCain now and the issue really has become, whose policies can right the economy and what really happened with the melt down? Here's what I sent to McCain today:
You are getting slapped around by Obama's unrelently mantra of,"This financial crisis was caused by Republican and McCain policies of deregulation.  Really?  Why don't you ask Obama to cite SPECIFIC ACTS of deregulation that contributed to the credit crunch.  There is, to my knowledge, only 1, the repeal of the Glass-StegallAct, which removed the "firewall" between investment bank and commercial bank investments that was inforce since 1933.Biden voted for it, Clinton signed it, and Obama advisor, Wall Street mega insider Robert Rubin, was a huge supporter of it being passed.  The deregulation itself, though contributory, was not the full culprit.  Greed, on the part of Wall Street investment bankers was.  But how did it get this far?  Afterall, the ultimate problem were risky, subprime loans that were used as the basis to fund and create derivatives and other risk associated investments. Just where, exactly, did these loans come from? Since 60-70% of these loans passed through Fannie and Freddie the issue becomes one of malfeasance and mismanagement, not deregulation.Afterall, was it deregulation that caused Freddie to pay a $125 million fine,in2003; was it deregulation that forced it to pay $400 million to settle shareholder lawsuits?; was it deregulation that compelled the Federal Election Commission to fine it $3.8 million for improper political fundraising? No, it was the actions of its management. What about Fannie Mae? How was it permitted to misstate earnings by $10.6 BILLION between 1998-2004, deregulation?  Obama sholud have a great answer since 2 of the main perpetrators, Raines and Johnson are his advisors.  What happened was very simple: enough worthless "assets", crap as I like to call it ,was pushed through the system, on purpose, not because of deregulation but because of greed, malfeasance, mismanagement and the desire to socially engineer.  How did Fannie/Freddie get the supply of such toxic waste? Perhaps former ACORN field trainer Obama can tell you, but misuse of the Community Reinvestment Act, not an act of deregulation, had something to do with it.  It was another liberal feel good idea gone bad, not because the idea of housing is wrong, but the manipulation of that thought to achieve partisan political goals is.  ACORN and related community organizations, had tremendous influence on the loan application process which already was fundamentally unsound because of the added risk nature of the loans.  Add to it lloans that were illegally made or fraudulently made and the shaky foundation of the loan portfolio became even riskier. By the time they hit the investment bankers, who took GSE to mean government secured enterprise rather than government sponsored enterprise, the greed and lack of financial judgement overwhelmed prudence.  Is this the fault of deregulation? Now I'm only a citizen but if Obama is going to insist this problem is one of deregulation rather than deliberate actions of the people involved,YOU MUST CHALLENGE HIM ON THIS .  THE PUBLIC HAS AN IDEA WHAT HAPPENED, THAT THEY GOT SCREWED BY DC INSIDERS AND THEIR WALL STREET PALS. TRUE ENOUGH,BUT IT WASN'T DEREGULATION AND THE BUSH BOOGEYMAN THAT CAUSED IT. THIS WILL ESTABLISH OBAMA AS SOMEONE WHO REALLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED AND IS SATISFIED TO REPEAT LIBERAL/SOCIALIST SLOGANS

Biden Tells 14 Lies During Debate 

JDW

DAILY WAVE

'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'

Review:

Palin: Connected well, knew her talking points, improvised well in a few spots.  Missed three big opportunities as follows (as did McCain in his first debate):

1) Taxes - Biden talked taxes on businesses (like windfall profits), need to hit back hard, calling out how corporations and businesses don't pay taxes, they pass them on through higher costs -- so everyone pays more.

2) Financial Mortgage mess - "It's clear that Democrats, Democrat policies, and Fannie Mae caused the problem, Democrats refused to let McCain and republicans fix the problem when it was called out."  Can expand if challenged.

3) McCain and regulation - "Regulation caused most of the problems today, oversight is not the same as regulation.  Democrats "regulated" the mortgage companies into giving bad loans, and refused to allow McCain and others to provide oversight of the Democrat run Fannie Mae."

Biden: Was smooth, hit all the Obama talking points, got called on a couple of lies, but "denied his way out" of them.

Ifill: Mostly asked questions that favored liberal talking points (assuming the McCain camp continues to avoid using the arguments above).  Generally fair.

Observation:  Near the end, Ifill asked a relatively unexpected question about doing something differently in a career.  It was directed at Biden first.... Maybe that was anticipated, but it struck me as interesting that, a Senator with 35 years in Washington, had an instantaneous answer available.  When you combine that with Biden always having the pat answer, except when challenged by Palin (such as with taxes), I have to ask again, did he have the questions in advance?

I wouldn't raise that question, which implies dubious ethics, except that Ifill compromised her own integrity by not declaring her financial interest in an Obama win to the debate committee. 

Has anybody checked on Charles Gibson & Katie Couric today? They have to be scratching their heads wondering what just hit them. After all their splicing and editing and cleaverly designed gotcha questions, after late night strategy sessions about how to caricature Sarah Palin, and after two weeks of cocktail party musings about just to rid this race of this illiterate, Christian extremist, one measling vice presidential debate blows all their plans out of the water.

Compare the ABC & CBS interviews to what you watched last night. If you don't feel like you need to take a shower from the two former viewings, you didn't watch them. I really feel violated in retrospect. 

I watched NBC's coverage last night and they all seemed to think it was Sarah's night. 

Please Newsbusters, do not get suckered into the MSM talking points about bleeding. The only bleeding being done is in Obama  / Biden and the dimwits like Letterman and Conan O'Brien.

O'Brien last night taped before the debate and made a "joke" about Palin thinking Supreme Court meant a court with more cheese.
O'Brien looks like a fool as Gov. Palin showed who she is as brilliant.

Letterman had an old guy dressed in drag as Gov. Palin singing like a southern hillbilly. Talk about hate speech.

I post below my blog which explains all of this completely in what Gov. Palin accomplished as it appears everyone has missed what she was entrusted to do and she did it perfectly.

McCain / Palin know exactly what they are doing, they are exactly where they want to be and are taking both campaigns exactly where they want them.
Get that point people, John McCain and Sarah Palin are now running the Obama campaign. That ain't bleedin baby, that is drill baby drill and Palin hit the Obama jugglar last night.

God bless

http://lamecherry.bl...

As the only lame blogger, below room temperature, who was inspired
enough to note Gov. Sarah Palin's brilliant operation and predict it
before the debate, I suppose it is time to educate those on the fringe
and the left exactly what was occurring when Sarahcuda took the stage
and trounced Joe Biden in a debate.

In none of this in God's
plan, do I want to leave the impression that Joe Biden did anything but
a fine job in the debate. That mark of Biden as Chris Wallace noted in
not self destructing make what Gov. Palin accomplished even more
remarkable as she defeated as fine of debater as America has produced
in the past 50 years.

Confirmation of what I noted last
night in this blog was unleashed by the McCain camp today. While the
liberal and fringe press were attempting to term Gov. Palin as just
getting through the debate or terming her less than intelligent names,
the McCain campaign had marshalled a telling task to set up the final
stage of the campaign.
I will repeat that to those who are airheads
and ignorant the fact that John McCain placed on Sarah Palin the
cornerstone and foundation of the entire campaign to defeat Obama
/Biden.
This was not some low bar she had to clear. This was the
impossible task in a debate to maneuver and dominate Joe Biden who is
one of the most adept "stretchers of the Truth" in politics.

Repeatedly
Sarah Palin last night cut Joe Biden out from the Obama camp noting Mr.
Biden's votes which were not agreeing with Barack Obama. Repeatedly Mr.
Biden feinted at returning to the Biden herd and once again Gov. Palin
would cut him out with the facts of his voting and the statements which
Joe Biden had made in Obama is not ready to be President and was
playing politics with the lives of US Soldiers serving in war zones.
In
the end, Joe Biden agreed with Gov. Palin and remained outside the
Obama camp and chose to attack Dick Cheney, in which Joe Biden actually
got it wrong what the job of Vice President is.

The fact of the
above which I spoke of immediately noting the Palin operation appeared
this morning in new campaign ads appeared across America featuring
Barack Obama being castigated by Joe Biden in exposing Obama as a
political hack playing with US Soldier's lives in denying funding and
not ready for the White House.

These commercials did not just
appear by accident or chance. This was an absolute marked out brilliant
strategy sitting on the shelf for weeks. While Katie Couric was bashing
the Gov., while David Letterman was smearing both John McCain and Sarah
Palin, while the fringe media like Jeff Rense were suckered into
posting things degrading a fine American woman, McCain / Palin had a
definite strategy for a campaign as this juncture mapped out and they
put it all on Gov. Palin to complete.

If the PUMA women in the
Democratic circles want to know how much value the McCain camp puts on
Sarah Palin, just note exactly the task set before her. She was hemmed
in by the Nazi press in a Battle of the Bulge and Gov. Palin told the
attackers, "NUTS!" and pressed on alone just like she did at the
Republican Convention.
She did this by God's Grace for all
Americans, but especially for the women of the Democratic Party. I want
all women to note this that it has been Barack Obama who has been
destroying women. He hides his Grandmother in an apartment like dog in
Hawaii. Mya his sister gets to walk Gram after dark and gets to come
out to Denver to draw in minority Pacific votes and then is ushered
back into the cave. Hillary Clinton is ravaged and savaged by Barack
Obama and who is Obama, Matthews, Olbermann, Rense, Couric and the host
of people who have claimed to be for women now trashing, but an
American woman who is daring to prove for all women that they belong in
thee seat of power in America.

Gov. Palin is a last hope for
this generation of women as Ferraro was saddled to looser Mondale,
Hillary has been trashed and will be too old to run in 8 years and Gov.
Palin is it, because the old boy network and the cutie Couric network
do not want any more women competing for the power jobs, so American
women either get this with Sarah Palin or the big boys and girls are
going to make sure a woman does not get on the ticket again for 50
years.

Make no mistake, Gov. Palin in the debate proved she is
intelligent, brilliant, gifted and savvy. Gov. Palin proved she is not
only qualified to be Vice President, but to be the President of the
United States.
I predicted that Gwen Ifill would come up with the
code words of "experience" and "heartbeat away" to smear Gov. Palin,
but the Governor just slapped them aside proving how inept Gwen Ifill
is and how fitting she belongs to the Obama campaign of loosers.

Gov.
Palin proved she is a Field General as adept as Patton, MacArthur,
Bradley and Patraeus. She was given an overwhelming assignment which
the McCain camp trusted her to complete and she overwhelmed the
opposition of Joe Biden and Gwen Ifill for the Obama camp.

In
American military terms, Joe Biden was the Stonewall Jackson of this
battle, but Sarah Palin was the William Tecumseh Sherman and she out
generaled the best the Democrats had.

For all her lame antagonists who missed the above, they owe her an apology if they are ladies and gentlemen.

For
all her supporters, Gov. Palin proved what we have known from the
beginning of her greener days we witnessed her in amazement, we now
treasure her in these days she masters in God's Grace, because she
measures not only the sands of time, but measured Joe Biden out in the
balance and it is time Gov. Palin measures out Barack Obama in the
balance to expose him as empty.

agtG

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Media Promote a Socialist America (MarketWatch)
More financial rescues, taxes and socialism. What happened to common sense in America? (Laurie Roth, Ph.D.)
Senator Bunning Blasts "Financial Socialism" (Canada Free Press)
Socialist “Bailout” Could Spark Collapse (Accuracy in Media)
Socialism Is Coming to America (Canada Free Press)
Socialism: The Senate Bailout Bill (Rush Limbaugh)
U.S. on reverse socialism path (Ronald Solberg, Ph.D. Economics)
Wall Street Socialism (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, M.A. Economics)

Ron Paul explains why the bailout is a bad idea on Fox Business News (Video) (10min)
Peter Schiff - We're Broke! (Video) (4min) (Peter Schiff, B.S. Finance and Accounting, President Euro Pacific Capital)
Peter Schiff laughed at on Fox News in 2006 (Video) (4min)

The Housing Bubble (Case-Shiller index)
- California Home Prices Drop Record 41% Amid Defaults (Bloomberg)
- Home Prices Drop Record 16.3 Percent (MoneyNews)
- Record 1.2 Million Homes Hit by Foreclosure (MoneyNews)

231 Economists Sign a Letter Against Paulson's Plan

A Bailout We Don't Need (James K. Galbraith, Ph.D. Economics)
An Open Letter to Congress on the $700B Paulson Bailout Plan (Michael Shedlock, Investment Advisor)
Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride (Ron Paul, Economics Scholar)
Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer (Jeffrey Miron, Ph.D. Economics, MIT)
Can Congress Fix A Problem It Caused? (Thomas Sowell, Ph.D. Economics)
Can the Rescue Plan Fix the US Economy? (Frank Shostak, Ph.D. Economics)
Conservatives Should Oppose Corporate Welfare (Robert Murphy, Ph.D. Economics)
Credit Is Flowing, Sky Is Not Falling, Don’t Panic (Robert Higgs, Ph.D. Economics)
Doing Something? (John Berlau, B.S. Economics)
Don't Bail Them Out (Lew Rockwell, Economist)
How to Avoid Another Depression (Mark Thornton, Ph.D. Economics)
In Financial Food Chains, Little Guys Can’t Win (Ben Stein, B.S. Economics)
Let Risk-Taking Financial Institutions Fail (Ari J. Officer, M.S. Financial Mathematics, Lawrence H. Officer, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
No bailout necessary (Earl Thompson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
No Bailouts: Let the Hammer Fall (Johnnie B. Byrd, B.S. Business Administration)
Not Buying It (Steven Landsburg, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Republicans on the Left and Democrats on the Right (Ivan Eland, M.B.A. Applied Economics)
Scaring Us to Death (Walter E. Williams, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
The Great Bank Robbery of 2008 (Robert Murphy, Ph.D. Economics)
The Idiocy of Wall Street: Applauding Its Own Demise (Don A Rich, Professor of Economics)
The Rescue Package Will Delay Recovery (Frank Shostak Ph.D. Economics)
The Wall Street Bulls Are Lying to You (David Frazier, B.S. Finance and Economics)
U.S. government should bail out of bailouts (Craig R. Smith, CEO Swiss America Trading Corporation)
Why Paulson is wrong (Luigi Zingales, Ph.D. Economics)

BB&T CEO John Allison slams bailout plan (Baltimore Business Journal)
Ben Stein: Stop the Wall Street Looting (MoneyNews)
Bert Ely Banking industry expert: Bailout Not Necessary (MoneyNews)
Jim Rogers: Bailout Idea a Disaster (MoneyNews)
Newt Gingrich: Kill the Paulson Plan. Hard. (U.S. News and World Report)
Robert Shiller: Bailout Plan a Blank Check (MoneyNews)

$700 Billion Won't Buy What Pro-Market Solutions Can (Deroy Murdock, Human Events)
A Bailout Is Not the Answer (Michael Reagan, NewsMax)
Bailout Boondoggle (Craig Shirley, Townhall)
Bailout Could Deepen Crisis, CBO Chief Says (Washington Post)
Bailout: Far Worse than a Recession (Mac Johnson, Human Events)
Bailout marks Karl Marx's comeback (Financial Post, Canada)
Bailout: The Sucker Punch (The Motley Fool)
Dangers in the Bailout (Jed Babbin, Human Events)
Dems Bailout Proposal Redirects ‘Paulson’s Profits’ To Left-Wing Groups (Warner Todd Huston, Canada Free Press)
I Won't Give Goldman My $200 Million Lottery Win (Bloomberg)
Liberals Try to Bail Out ACORN and Other Radical Community Organizer Groups (Canada Free Press)
Let Them Go Bankrupt; Save a Trillion Dollars (The Heartland Institute)
No Bailout, Some Conservatives Insist (CNSNews)
Social Security for bankers who fail and are frauds. Isn’t that precious? (Laurie Roth, Ph.D.)
Taxpayer Bailout: Just Say No (MoneyNews)
The Case Against the Bailout (Steve Chapman, RealClearPolitics)
They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority (Ann Coulter, Human Events)
U.S. Intel Experts: Bailout Weakens U.S. Power (NewsMax)
Venture Capitalist: Bailouts Are Communist (MoneyNews)
What Happened to Market Discipline? (John Stossel, RealClearPolitics)
Why the Rush for the Bailout? (Paul M. Weyrich, NewsMax)

Henry Paulson, CEO Goldman Sachs (1999-2006)

Bank of America: 'Paulson Plan Benefits Mostly Goldman, Morgan' (Seeking Alpha)
Paulson & Bernanke: Financial Dictators (Ludwig Von Mises Institute)
Why Henry Paulson must be "contained" (Michelle Malkin)

The Real Cost of a Full Bailout (Ludwig Von Mises Institute)
- Bill Gross: Total Bailout At Least $1.2 Trillion (MoneyNews)
- FDIC May Need $150 Billion Bailout as More Banks Fail (Bloomberg)
- Ritholz: Bailout Will Cost At Least $1.5 Trillion (MoneyNews)

263-171

We lost big time, last I saw there were over 98 or something like that of 'R's' that voted for this...

I'm done.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

See how your Congresscriter voted on the bailout here.

Hope to see you in 2012. Please leave the pig in Arizona.

HOWDY Mr. Barr!!! Do ya want a little help?

News Flash...

To all my fellow North Carolinians: I just heard on the radio that Obama will be holding a rally in my neck of the woods tomorrow (Saturday) at Asheville High Stadium. Maybe we could all get together and wave Che banners or something similar.

Insane Results From Palin/Biden Debate

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Not sure how many of his fans are on NB, but my favorite radio personality of all time tied the knot today. Congratulations Howard and Beth. 

Real life video games are cool

Lamey,

I was reading your comment and I thought, "this seems like Lame Cherry"

It's good to see you back throwin' down.