Palin drops puck in Philly

why is she still here? she has some serious charges to answer for back in alaska. was shee impeached from the governors job?

Polite applause? They just cranked the music up louder to drown out the booing.

BELFASTBOB wrote:

why is she still here? she has some serious charges to answer for back in alaska. was shee impeached from the governors job?

She will not be impeached. While they said she "abused Power" they said she did not outreach her authority.
She bent the rules but not quite broke them. Training Wheels offense.
Sounds like she is on the right path for her ilk: working up to be DickCheney.

State Penn wrote:

Polite applause? They just cranked the music up louder to drown out the booing.

It was terrible for her to put her girls through that.
All indications were that she would be booed and then she pulled those kids out there.
It probably did quiet down some- because when they joined her out there- not because anyone instantly changed their minds about her.
Shame on her again for using her children to politic.
With this turn, it appears that she has now officially used all of her offspring in this manner

go out and vote lets talk hockey. nitti played so well in the last game of regular season and now the first.

What do you expect in Philly !
No surprise
Go PENS !
Beat the Flyers !

Any trip to Philly is a "good trip" if you don't get SHOT or your car stolen.

If you can hitch hike back up the northeasr extention...alive...it's been a "good Day".

Philly is vintage PA...crime, corruption, murder and theft.
Forgot to sprinkle in...idiots.

WE ARE Penn State and WE ARE CRIME PROUD !

Philly would be a great place for the next GITMO !
Oh yes, the great Philly tax payer bailout could continue. Anything for Philly to get free $$.

Congrats to Penn State-Beat Michigan!

PS- Ineed a Philly type bailout, so I can go to the Penn State Bowl game and buy my Pens Hockey tickets!

She's so hot, I'm surprised the rink didn't melt!! GO SARAH! GO FLYERS! GO PHILLIES! GO EAGLES!

No Justice wrote:

What do you expect in Philly !
No surprise
Go PENS !
Beat the Flyers !
Any trip to Philly is a "good trip" if you don't get SHOT or your car stolen.
If you can hitch hike back up the northeasr extention...alive...it's been a "good Day".
Philly is vintage PA...crime, corruption, murder and theft.
Forgot to sprinkle in...idiots.
WE ARE Penn State and WE ARE CRIME PROUD !
Philly would be a great place for the next GITMO !
Oh yes, the great Philly tax payer bailout could continue. Anything for Philly to get free $$.
Congrats to Penn State-Beat Michigan!
PS- Ineed a Philly type bailout, so I can go to the Penn State Bowl game and buy my Pens Hockey tickets!

Wow, most Topix 'brains' dim-wittingly mix metaphors to try to support their myopic views. You've mixed sports and were just as unsuccessful.

All you really did was talk trash to say which teams you like.
Sounds like the 4th grade kids that hang out on my block.(apologies to the neighbor kids- you only do it because of your age..........

Say what wrote:

She's so hot, I'm surprised the rink didn't melt!! GO SARAH! GO FLYERS! GO PHILLIES! GO EAGLES!

Please, be consistent.
If we're talking team sports here,
Vote the team.

OHHHHH, unless you don't believe in your team and just like the player...


Go Dems, Go Phillies, Go Sixers....

Most of All:
GO HOCKEY!
The silver lining in this fiasco is that Hockey got some much-deserved national (international?) attention.

Drop the puck? I wish she would drop out of the campaign? Despite a 'bump' she has done nothing positive for the McCain campaign.

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have
brought down Wall Street:

Franklin Raines was a Chairman and CEO at Fannie Mae.
Raines was FORCED to retire from Fannie Mae
when auditing discovered severe IRREGULARITIES in Fannie Maes
accounting activities.

News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure
from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings
that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting
principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by
$9 BILLION!!

Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 MILLION in
benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of
the accounting scandal became clear.

http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-char... .

These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return
$50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated
Fannie Mae profits.

Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae.
Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting
strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at
Fannie In everyday English - he was cooking the books.

The Government Investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!

Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was
later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO.
A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's
May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae,
and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson.
Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount
of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was
between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million."

Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans
from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor

TIM HOWARD?
Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama

JIM JOHNSON?
Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was
selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee

What did Biden mean when he said Obama warned about this 2 years ago?
Well I guess that his buddies should get all they can while
the getting was good.

nice try, beth...

Obama's Connection to Raines

We addressed Raines' connection to Obama on the FactCheck Wire back in September after a McCain-Palin campaign ad claimed that Raines, the former Fannie Mae chairman and CEO, was advising Obama on economic matters. Both Raines and the Obama campaign denied that Raines was, or is currently, working for the campaign as an adviser. And the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs, who writes the Fact Checker column, found that the connection between the two was being exaggerated. This e-mail exaggerates the relationship even further, claiming that Raines is a "chief economic advisor," which is utterly false.

This false claim rests on misinterpretation of a Washington Post profile of Raines by reporter Anita Huslin. In the article, Huslin – apparently quoting Raines – said he had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” When Dobbs questioned Huslin about what Raines had told her, she said that Raines said "he had gotten a couple of calls from the Obama campaign." Huslin added, "I asked him about what, and he said ‘oh, general housing, economy issues.’(’Not mortgage/foreclosure meltdown or Fannie-specific,’ I asked, and he said ‘no.’)”

After the McCain campaign released the ad linking the two, Raines issued a statement through the Obama campaign saying,“I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters.” Raines told McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina the same thing even before the ad was released. He sent Fiorina an e-mail after he heard that she had called him an adviser to Obama. The e-mail read:“Carly: Is this true? I am not an adviser to the Obama campaign. Frank." But the McCain ad ran anyway. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said he was unaware of the e-mail.

Obama's Connection to Jim Johnson

We addressed Jim Johnson's connection to Obama in another wire post also in September. Johnson, who was CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991 until 1998 (he left the company in 1999), was picked to join a selection committee (along with Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder) to help choose Obama's vice presidential running mate. However, Johnson resigned from the position just one week later amid allegations that he received special treatment in obtaining loans from Countrywide Financial Corp. The e-mail claims that he was "hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee." It isn't apparent if Johnson was selected to "run" the committee, and he clearly didn't have much of a chance to do so. We found no reports of Johnson ever having been a "senior finance advisor" to the campaign, and Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor says he never was.

Obama's Connection to Tim Howard

The e-mail's claim about Howard is pure fantasy. We found no press reports or other evidence indicating that Howard has, or ever had, any relationship with the Obama campaign, let alone being "a Chief Economic adviser." Normally, chief advisers to the campaigns do interviews with reporters and are widely quoted. When we asked the Obama campaign if Howard had ever been an adviser, spokesman Vietor said, "Timothy Howard is not a policy advisor and has not been one." Howard served as the chief financial officer for Fannie Mae until 2004, when, along with Raines, he was dismissed from the company under speculation of mismanaging Fannie's financial records.

In 25 more days, pathetic Palin can go back to what she's absolutley qualified for- presiding over iditarod races.

Beth wrote:

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have
brought down Wall Street:
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and CEO at Fannie Mae.
Raines was FORCED to retire from Fannie Mae
when auditing discovered severe IRREGULARITIES in Fannie Maes
accounting activities.
News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure
from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings
that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting
principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by
$9 BILLION!!
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 MILLION in
benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of
the accounting scandal became clear.
http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-char... .
These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return
$50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated
Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae.
Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting
strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at
Fannie In everyday English - he was cooking the books.
The Government Investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was
later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO.
A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's
May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae,
and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson.
Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount
of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was
between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million."
Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans
from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD?
Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON?
Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was
selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
What did Biden mean when he said Obama warned about this 2 years ago?
Well I guess that his buddies should get all they can while
the getting was good.

Beth....get a life and go to confession. Your lies are getting boring!

Beth wrote:

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have
brought down Wall Street:
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and CEO at Fannie Mae.
Raines was FORCED to retire from Fannie Mae
when auditing discovered severe IRREGULARITIES in Fannie Maes
accounting activities.
News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure
from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings
that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting
principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by
$9 BILLION!!
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 MILLION in
benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of
the accounting scandal became clear.
http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-char... .
These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return
$50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated
Fannie Mae profits.
Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae.
Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting
strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at
Fannie In everyday English - he was cooking the books.
The Government Investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was
later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO.
A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's
May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae,
and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson.
Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount
of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was
between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million."
Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans
from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRANKLIN RAINES?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD?
Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON?
Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was
selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
What did Biden mean when he said Obama warned about this 2 years ago?
Well I guess that his buddies should get all they can while
the getting was good.

Yeah right. McCain and Palin are so above all the corruption.

Who cares about pucks....it's the danm ball that EVERY GREEDY SMUCK POLITICIAN DROPS REPEATEDLY that we have to worry about!

As for "I wonder", you do yourself and your candidate a disservice by posting like that...I may be independent, I may be undecided, but I have decided that you are disgusting! That goes for you too "Rape kit". Shame on you, I guess you like the fact that politics has given way to name calling. It's kind of gross, why promote it?

She dropped one on the ice alright

Tim wrote:

<quoted text>Yeah right. McCain and Palin are so above all the corruption.

Well you may have doubt....but there's no Doubt with Obama....Chest deep in it in just three years!

Rape Kit Palin wrote:

<quoted text>
Doubtful, that's why she has all them kids

When is Bristol's wedding going to take place. She must be at least 6 months pregnant. Didn't the daddy say on My Space that he doesn't want kids????