Thursday, October 16, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Mc Cain : The Double-Talk Express
Bush Tax Cuts
THEN
2001: "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans."
NOW
2007: "I will not let the Democrats roll back the Bush tax cuts."
2008: "I think that what we need is more tax cuts."
Border Policy
THEN
2006: Wrote McCain-Kennedy bill, which would have given 11 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
NOW
Jan. 2008: In GOP primary debate, was asked whether he would still vote for his own bill: "No, I would not."
Financial Regulation
THEN
March 2008: Told The Wall Street Journal, "I'm always for less regulation." Called for "removing regulatory, accounting and tax impediments" to financial markets.
NOW
Sept. 2008: As Wall Street melted down, declared, "We're going to enact and enforce reforms to make sure that these outrages never happen in the first place."
Waterboarding
THEN
2007: "It was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today....It is torture."
NOW
2008: Voted against bill that would prevent waterboarding by requiring all U.S. interrogators to comply with legal standards imposed by the Army Field Manual.
Talking to Our Enemies
THEN
2000: Favored "normalization of relations" with Cuba.
2003: Called U.S. talks with Syria "appropriate."
2006: Approved of U.S. talking to the Palestinian Authority.
NOW
2008: Said Obama's willingness to meet with enemy regimes shows his "naiveté and inexperience and lack of judgement."
Lobbyists
THEN
1997: Wrote legislation to ban lobbyists from political campaigns. Said lobbyist fundraisers "clearly represent a conflict of interest."
NOW
2008: Campaign relies on more than 170 lobbyists to raise money and serve as aides and advisers.
Pursuing Al Qaeda in Pakistan
THEN
February 2008: Called Obama's insistence that America can track down and kill Al Qaeda in Pakistan the "confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate."
NOW
September 2008: Voiced no objections when Bush ordered U.S. special forces to invade Pakistani territory in pursuit of Al Qaeda militants.
AIG Bailout
THEN
Sept. 16th, 2008: "I do not believe that the American taxpayer should be on the hook for AIG."
NOW
Next day: Backed bailout: "There were literally millions of people whose retirement, whose investments, whose insurance were at risk here."
Gay Marriage
THEN
October 2006: Tells Chris Matthews of Hardball, "I think gay marriage should be allowed."
NOW
Minutes later: "I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal."
THEN
2001: "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans."
NOW
2007: "I will not let the Democrats roll back the Bush tax cuts."
2008: "I think that what we need is more tax cuts."
Border Policy
THEN
2006: Wrote McCain-Kennedy bill, which would have given 11 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
NOW
Jan. 2008: In GOP primary debate, was asked whether he would still vote for his own bill: "No, I would not."
Financial Regulation
THEN
March 2008: Told The Wall Street Journal, "I'm always for less regulation." Called for "removing regulatory, accounting and tax impediments" to financial markets.
NOW
Sept. 2008: As Wall Street melted down, declared, "We're going to enact and enforce reforms to make sure that these outrages never happen in the first place."
Waterboarding
THEN
2007: "It was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today....It is torture."
NOW
2008: Voted against bill that would prevent waterboarding by requiring all U.S. interrogators to comply with legal standards imposed by the Army Field Manual.
Talking to Our Enemies
THEN
2000: Favored "normalization of relations" with Cuba.
2003: Called U.S. talks with Syria "appropriate."
2006: Approved of U.S. talking to the Palestinian Authority.
NOW
2008: Said Obama's willingness to meet with enemy regimes shows his "naiveté and inexperience and lack of judgement."
Lobbyists
THEN
1997: Wrote legislation to ban lobbyists from political campaigns. Said lobbyist fundraisers "clearly represent a conflict of interest."
NOW
2008: Campaign relies on more than 170 lobbyists to raise money and serve as aides and advisers.
Pursuing Al Qaeda in Pakistan
THEN
February 2008: Called Obama's insistence that America can track down and kill Al Qaeda in Pakistan the "confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate."
NOW
September 2008: Voiced no objections when Bush ordered U.S. special forces to invade Pakistani territory in pursuit of Al Qaeda militants.
AIG Bailout
THEN
Sept. 16th, 2008: "I do not believe that the American taxpayer should be on the hook for AIG."
NOW
Next day: Backed bailout: "There were literally millions of people whose retirement, whose investments, whose insurance were at risk here."
Gay Marriage
THEN
October 2006: Tells Chris Matthews of Hardball, "I think gay marriage should be allowed."
NOW
Minutes later: "I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal."
Monday, October 6, 2008
Palin - Post Turtle
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin: what did the old rancher think about this woman running for Vice-President of the US of A?
“Well, ya know, Palin is a post-turtle.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.
“When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post-turtle.”
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain: “You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with!”
Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin: what did the old rancher think about this woman running for Vice-President of the US of A?
“Well, ya know, Palin is a post-turtle.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.
“When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post-turtle.”
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain: “You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with!”
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Palin About Obama
He "is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country."
at a fundraiser last night in Costa Mesa, California.
at a fundraiser last night in Costa Mesa, California.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Palin about oil
“In Alaska I had to take on those oil companies,” she says. “I had to break up a monopoly and say the people had to come first.”
another debate quote
"Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You [prefaced] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now, doggone it, let's look ahead."
Debate quotes
"Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq and that is not what our troops need to hear today that's for sure,'' Palin said.
“It's not what our nation needs to be able to count on. You opposed the surge. The surge worked."
“It's not what our nation needs to be able to count on. You opposed the surge. The surge worked."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Jack Cafferty: Palin Is 'Pathetic'
After showing a particularly weak answer from Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric regarding the bailout, CNN's Jack Cafferty said, "If John McCain wins this woman will be one 72-year-old's heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, it should." Wolf Blitzer tries to play devil's advocate and suggests that Palin's incoherence might be the result of too much cramming. "Don't make excuses for her," counters a clearly upset Cafferty, who sums up Palin's performance in one word--pathetic."
It’s the Economy, Stupid:
“Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy – Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too […] So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions,” said Sarah Palin, responding to why it isn’t better “to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries” instead of bailing out the big financial institutions.
"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity." --Sarah Palin, in her speech at the Republican Convention, quoting the fascist right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist and anti-Semite who once expressed his hope that Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated
"Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that's with the energy independence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." --Sarah Palin, misstating the actual amount of energy produced by Alaska, which is only 3.5 percent, Sept. 11, 2008
"I have not, and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you." --Sarah Palin, after being asked if she had never met a foreign head of state, despite the fact that every vice president in the last 32 years had met a foreign head of state prior to taking office, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008
"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first." --Sarah Palin, billed by John McCain as the nation's foremost expert on energy, clumsily answering a question while speaking off the cuff at a town hall meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2008
"Well, it certainly does because our -- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia ... We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric how Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008
AC360: Palin a problem?
Anderson talks about whether Gov. Sarah Palin is a liability in light of recent gaffes on the campaign trail.
From the latest Katie Couric interview:
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