i believe and stand on the attacks of the catholic bishop against barack...its not only true and factual but to compare the intergity between the two persons the bishop is more credible than him and the bishop stands for the truth for the good of the people...lets not be misled by this barack man...

barack must run the homeowners association presidency....

What a bunch of losers. You set women's rights back 100 years when you turn your back on another woman making good. You are a jealous bunch of do nothings and probably lesbians or man-haters to boot. Have a great time alone in your miserable little dark lonely childless/manless worlds.

To Ronk;
You're really confused old boy. 24 past presidents have had law degrees and have been admitted to the Bar. Most recently, as all of our troubles have been mounting up since the depression when FDR (a lawyer) got us back on our feet, our country has been doing worse and worse with non-lawyer presidents. The Reagan years were the worst when we had an actor in the White house. He acted smart. A president MUST know the law, period. Get a clue.

And to support their claim that abortion is murder do any of that view demand that a Certificate of Conception be issued when pregnancy is determined and from that point on if anything happens to that person whoever caused the harm would be brought before the courts to answer for their actions...including if a live healthy birth is not also reported in a normal time frame?

IS SHE BRAIN DEAD?
The second installment of Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin aired last night. The topic was the great wide world. One exchange deserves special study. From the transcript provided by CBS:

COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

PALIN: Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to…I don’t know, you know…reporters.

COURIC: Mocked?

PALIN: Mocked, yeah I guess that’s the word, mocked.

COURIC: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

COURIC: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth, 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 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 next to, they are right next to our state.

This seems to be a case of incoherence of thought leading to incoherence of syntax. Pronouns wander in search of antecedents like Arctic explorers in a blinding snowstorm. Homophones confuse the transcriber. For example, one of the Governor’s answers could as sensibly, or insensibly, be rendered as

PALIN: 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 they’re…

In the “Putin rears his head” answer, jagged shards of the hasty briefings lately stuffed into Palin’s pretty head clang tinnily against one another. “We send those”—those? those what?—”out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this powerful nation, Russia.” Those what? We send what? My hunch is that this alarming jumble must have something to do with the path that Russian intercontinental missiles would take on their way to the lower Forty-eight and/or the air-defense installations that NORAD maintains in the state Palin is executive of. But who knows? The whole thing reads like something rendered from the Finnish by Google Translate.

For a seventy-two-year-old cancer survivor to have placed this person directly behind himself in line for the Presidency was an act of almost incomprehensible cynicism and irresponsibility. It makes a cruel—what’s the word?—mockery of his slogan. “Country First” indeed.

P.S. In the Seattle Times, Hal Bernton reports that Governor Palin has “balked” at opportunities to visit Russia on any of those “trade missions” she boasted of. Bernton writes:

Opportunities abound for Alaska governors to engage in Russian diplomacy, with the state host to several organizations focusing on Arctic issues. Anchorage is the seat of the Northern Forum, an 18-year-old organization that represents the leaders of regional governments in Russia, as well as Finland, Iceland and Canada, Japan, China and South Korea.

Yet under Palin, the state government—without consultation—reduced its annual financial support to the Northern Forum to $15,000 from $75,000, according to Priscilla Wohl, the group’s executive director. That forced the Forum’s Anchorage office to go without pay for two months.

On the other hand, she has met Henry Kissinger and the president of Afghanistan.

It is an insult to women's intelligence (Republicans and Democrats) to assume that just because Palin happens to be a woman we are going to follow her blindly. Palin is so unprepared to be in the position she is now, and in the position she may, God forbid, be in the future, that is totally scary and absurd.
Also, to be the mother of both a new born son with Down Syndrome and of a pregnant teenager and to accept to run for VicePresident, which means she won't be there taking care of her children, really doesn't put her in my list of role models to follow. I don't share those family values! I have put my career on the side and found ways to work from home to be able to be with my two kids who don't have special needs.
If she was some fantastic leader, who could contribute greatly to the future of this Country with her expertise, wisdom, knowledge and intelligence, it wouldn't be as bad. But instead she has proven to be a joke and an embarrassment. Her recent TV appearances have revealed a very sad reality. She is totally ridiculous! I wish I could laugh, but the reality is too frightening to do so. She is doing so much damage to the campaign of John McCain, it is painful! I was going to vote for McCain, but I am so disappointed by his choice for VP, that I can't vote for him anymore.

The man that will become the 44th President of the United States is a man that has run the gauntlet through the American political system and has survived in the face of extreme adversity. He has shown courage under fire; has stayed calm through crisis, as a leader should; has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous lies and slurs by his opponents; and carries the slingshot of David against the Goliath of the good old boy Republican white male bastion. That man is someone I will be proud to have as my president, representing my country to the world. That man will help me to be proud to be an American once again. That man is Barack Obama. Thank you.

Liberals have been in panic mode since the time Palin was picked. she is such a successful women and a great role model for women but the biggest problem for the liberals is that she is a republican.

Not only the liberal bias media and hollywood, but also the comedy shows such as Letterman, SNL, Jon Stewart are now in full Palin attack mode.

Another thing that drives liberals crazy: Palin is still graciously keeping a cool attitude through the whole thing making these liberals looking even more foolish.

So it seems, that Republicans in this discussion have now resorted to just making blatantly stupid remarks.

“she was able to do with the pipeline that no one else was able to get going speaks volumes”-- Posted by: Ivan | September 25, 2008 at 07:05 PM

“The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin’s relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs.”—NY Times, 09/11/2008

In case there are any literate Republican’s out there, and they stumbled across this Discussion.

THERE’S NO PIPELINE.

I know that Sarah Palin is not Hillary Clinton. But that doesn't make her any less a role model for women. And I'm not talking about issues. Hillary is a go-getter. She wanted to be President long before Bill did. That's great. A strong role model of what a lot of personal drive can get you. But I think Sarah's story is more along the lines of most the women I know. We are just going along, trying to do what is best for our family. You join the PTA to help your kids. You end up the head of the PTA, not because you wanted it, but because there is not one man who wants the job. Or the man that is doing the job, is doing a crappy one. You make a difference in the school. People start asking if you will help the city, then the state. Sarah is not the "anti-feminist" because she didn't ask for any of this. She is the "pro-woman" because she stepped up to the plate when no one else would. She is a role model for every single mom out there who's husband bailed on her- the mom who stepped up and played the role of both parents, when no man wanted to be the dad. She is a role model for every woman who doesn't think she can have a role outside the home- you can have both. She is a role model for every woman who just wants to help out- one woman can make a difference. And despite the differences we may have in what ideas Sarah supports, every woman should support Sarah herself.

A working mom?

From the sound of it, Palin doesn't work much. She's known for having little interest in the details of government (shades of Bush, in the short attention-span department, and look where that got us). And she was absent so often that legislators started wearing "Where's Sarah?" buttons.

From what I've read, her assistant takes care of the children (what taking care of there is) while Todd is either out ravaging the wild life in his snowmobile, working in the oil fields, or being the unelected co-governor sitting in on important meetings and decisions.

And from what I see, I don't find her a loving mother. In fact, she doesn't seem to have an ounce of warmth in her. Maybe that's why Bristol got pregnant -- so someone would love her.

Little Piper was bewilderedly looking to hold momma's hand on the stage at the convention, reaching up only to quickly tuck her arms back down, seeing that she wasn't even on momma's radar screen.

Mother? I don't think so. Baby-spitting machine? Yeah, that's more like it. Especially if it suits her political goals.