Hagel Questions Palin's Qualifications

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Mac-7 wrote:

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I have nothing against conservation.
But when Obama presented airing up our tires as a substitute for drilling offshore it was so dumb that I knew he must have stepped away from his teleprompter when he said it.
"What white students were passed over?"
Only one white student, though we will never know the person's name.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/128461.html
“Welch: Were you the exact same class?
Root: Class of '83 political science, pre-law Columbia University. You don't get more exact than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, 20th reunion, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who he was.
Welch: Wait, you're bragging on your GPA?
Root: No, no I'm not, because here's the moral to the story.... I had a B-plus, A-minus average at Columbia University, in four years. When I graduated, I took the LSATs and I did well. I didn't do great, I did well; B-plus, A-minus average.
My counselor at Columbia said don't even bother applying to Harvard Law School, because you can get into any law school in the country with your record, except Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton [Editor's Note: Princeton doesn't have a law school]. Except for the very top, you can get in anywhere, but don't even try those, because your grades don't cut it.
Well, everyone says how bright Barack is, but Barack won't release his transcripts from Columbia University.
Cavanaugh: Hmmmm.
Root: And I'd be willing to bet every dime I have in the world, a million dollars I'll put, I'll put a million dollars cash on the fact—
Welch: This is on the record—
Root:—that my GPA was better than Barack's—
Welch: Oooooh.
Root:...and he got in based on the color of his skin.
Does anyone doubt that possibly Barack could have gotten into Harvard with a C average because he's black, where as I, white, couldn't get into the same school with a B-plus, A-minus average? And yet his wife says that America is a terrible nation unfair to minorities! I say, Au contraire!”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_Barack_Oba... 's_GPA_in_college
What was Barack Obama's GPA in college?
In: Political Office Holders [Edit]
“Per the Wall Street Journal September 11, 2008, "Obama's Lost Years," Obama graduated from Columbia University (to which he transferred after his first two years at Occidental College in California), with a degree in Political Science without honors, so had a GPA less than a 3.3, and perhaps far, far lower, perhaps even in the 2.0, C range.
His roomate Sohale Siddiqi indicated Obama itially felt alienated, felt "very lost," and used drugs to get high, which could have led to very low grades initially. The roomate indicates that he then turned serious and "stopped getting high." Obama transferred to Columbia because "I was concerned with urban issues and I wanted to be around more black folks in big cities." Based on his less-than 3.3 GPA, it seems likely his admission to Harvard Law School was based not on his own merit, but rather on Affirmative Action.
Obama through September 11, 2008 has continued to refuse to release his Columbia transcript with the exact course details and GPA.”

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Aging Hippy wrote:

<quoted text>You just tipped your hand when you showed you do not know what voting present is. Of course to the propagandists it sounds really bad but it is actually the opposite of what you took it to mean. Care to know what it is? Do you dare investigate it? Careful now, you might learn something. ;-)

Derek wrote:

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Why does McCain give the same boring speech everyday.
Why does the McCain campaign shield his VP choice from the media and public. Specifically; why not let her speak randomly to expose her knowledge of the country, economy and world events.
Why won't Palin cooperate with investigators to clear her good name prior to the election.
Why does McCain want to ignore our Latin American enemy SPAIN.
Which one is it; is McCain gonna deregulate everything as he's been saying for the past few months or his he going to establish regulations as he stated yesterday.
Lets ask McCain what ever happened to his good buddy Charles Keating. Is Keating going to help steady our economy.

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Aging Hippy wrote:

<quoted text>What in the world does Roe V Wade have to do with equal pay? I can see plainly here you are trying to make some kind of a connection where there isn't one. LOL
It is not a fair comparison unless you can show that the lower paid women in Obama's office AREN'T doing lower skilled work making a pay scale about the work, not the gender doing the work. Forget about that part, did you? So did your buddy with the article and he is getting blasted now for it being spin. Read much?
The McCain campaign silenced Carly Fiorina from further comments for her statement that neither he nor Palin had the skills to run a large corporation. LOL
And the facts say McCain has trouble telling the truth about his support of equal pay:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker...

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mlc9852 wrote:

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The dems are all talk. They didn't want a woman on the ticket and made sure it didn't happen. Hillary will make them pay, mark my words.

The laughing liberal wrote:

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No doubt being President is a nice feather in one's college experience cap BUT when you lie about him being an Editor, the gig is up.
That's going too far.
Just like his & your lie about being a 'Law Professor' when the school was forced to make a retraction explaining that he was really just a "Part Time" teacher that never earned Professor status/title.
The Presidents role at the HLR is one of a PUBLISHER and rund raiser (he gets to appoint a treasurer). That means making paragraphs flow together and fixing Editor's 'dangling participles' but I only see one anonymous effort by Obama to author any legal opinions for which an Real 'Editor' is tasked.
Please find something Obama had Editorial Control over instead of just simple publishing duty and scheduling guest speakers.
LOL!
Can't wait for the abortion chronicle so I can expose once again that an opinion was 'Above His Pay Grade' at Saddle Back but nowhere else...

Derek wrote:

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Why does McCain give the same boring speech everyday.
Why does the McCain campaign shield his VP choice from the media and public. Specifically; why not let her speak randomly to expose her knowledge of the country, economy and world events.
Why won't Palin cooperate with investigators to clear her good name prior to the election.
Why does McCain want to ignore our Latin American enemy SPAIN.
Which one is it; is McCain gonna deregulate everything as he's been saying for the past few months or his he going to establish regulations as he stated yesterday.
Lets ask McCain what ever happened to his good buddy Charles Keating. Is Keating going to help steady our economy.

McCain Palin both UNFIT wrote:

“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,” Hagel said.
In a recent interview with ABC News, Palin explained her national security credentials by claiming,“You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.” Hagel said that such answers are “insulting to the American people”:
“I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about,‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,’” he said.“That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”
Hagel, who is retiring from the Senate, concluded that Palin “doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials.”“You get a passport for the first time in your life last year?” he asked.“I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/hagel-on-...

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x0x0x wrote:

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PALIN LESS THAN 3 WEEKS ON THE NATIONAL SCENE:
Bridge gate
Trooper gate
Lobby gate
Earmark gate
$20 million Crab gate
Illegitimate child gate
Secede from the US gate
Bill state for nites spent at home gate
Private jet gate (never sold on ebay)
Library gate
Hockey arena gate
Bush Doctrine gate
Good thing shes PURTY.
Purty scary.
McCain/Palin
Same/Lame

Paul Revere wrote:

Obama, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Campaign contributions, Mortgage crisis, Lobbyists, Truth about Obama, More Obama lies
September 16, 2008 ·
Barack Obama has claimed to be the candidate of change who steers
clear of lobbyists. Once again Obama is lying. One lobbyist
Obama has ties to is Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Now we learn
that Obama was the third highest recipient of campaign contributions
from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have just been bailed out
by the government. Here are the top recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 1989-2008:
Name
Office
Party/State
Total
1. Dodd, Christopher J
S
D-CT
$133,900
2. Kerry, John
S
D-MA
$111,000
3. Obama, Barack
S
D-IL
$105,849
4. Clinton, Hillary
S
D-NY
$75,550
5. Kanjorski, Paul E
H
D-PA
$65,500
6. Bennett, Robert F
S
R-UT
$61,499
7. Johnson, Tim
S
D-SD
$61,000
8. Conrad, Kent
S
D-ND
$58,991
9. Davis, Tom
H
R-VA
$55,499
10. Bond, Christopher S ‘Kit’
S
R-MO
$55,400
11. Bachus, Spencer
H
R-AL
$55,300
12. Shelby, Richard C
S
R-AL
$55,000
13. Emanuel, Rahm
H
D-IL
$51,750
14. Reed, Jack
S
D-RI
$50,750
15. Carper, Tom
S
D-DE
$44,389
16. Frank, Barney
H
D-MA
$40,100
17. Maloney, Carolyn B
H
D-NY
$38,750
18. Bean, Melissa
H
D-IL
$37,249
19. Blunt, Roy
H
R-MO
$36,500
20. Pryce, Deborah
H
R-OH
$34,750
21. Miller, Gary
H
R-CA
$33,000
22. Pelosi, Nancy
H
D-CA
$32,750
23. Reynolds, Tom
H
R-NY
$32,700
24. Hoyer, Steny H
H
D-MD
$30,500
25. Hooley, Darlene
H
D-OR
$28,750
“Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two embattled mortgage buyers that for years have pursued a lobbying strategy to get lawmakers on their side. Both companies have poured money into lobbying and campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties and committees as a general tactic, but they’ve also directed those contributions strategically.”
Read more here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-s...

mlc9852 wrote:

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The man cannot be trusted.

Aging Hippy wrote:

<quoted text>I am not playing gotcha. LOL You are rejecting one thing and failing to offer a replacement. And then want me to take it as all good based on your OPINION, the very basis you rejected the first thing on. That is some serious circular logic you got going there.
And now I am suddenly a parrot? Ummm, I think the parrot here is who we all just saw admit to it: Mic9852.
"You aren't taking my word for it because those aren't my words. You can think what you want. I just post what I see as relevant information/opinion."
Like athy, Laughing Liberal, Florida, Ichow, JohninLA who provide an endless stream of repeated, off topic, unoriginal, cutandpaste crapola, all their stuff ends up not worth the reading, let alone the responding to, since they are just propoganda bots. LOL
When you see me spamming the thread like that crowd, then you might make calling me a parrot make sense.

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Plain Jane wrote:

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Editors don't author, they edit. But I wouldn't expect someone who repeatedly spams the same crap over and over with blatant misrepresentations of what credible sources say about them after being informed several times that they were lying is someone whose opinion can be trusted.:P RIGHT!

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The laughing liberal wrote:

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Bwahahaha! All BS when you actually read the stories.
Why didn't you stick up for hippie lying about Obama being an Editor at the HLR instead of just the publisher guy raising money & fixing dangling participles?

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Paul Revere wrote:

Obama, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Campaign contributions, Mortgage crisis, Lobbyists, Truth about Obama, More Obama lies
September 16, 2008 ·
Barack Obama has claimed to be the candidate of change who steers
clear of lobbyists. Once again Obama is lying. One lobbyist
Obama has ties to is Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Now we learn
that Obama was the third highest recipient of campaign contributions
from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have just been bailed out
by the government. Here are the top recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 1989-2008:
Name
Office
Party/State
Total
1. Dodd, Christopher J
S
D-CT
$133,900
2. Kerry, John
S
D-MA
$111,000
3. Obama, Barack
S
D-IL
$105,849
4. Clinton, Hillary
S
D-NY
$75,550
5. Kanjorski, Paul E
H
D-PA
$65,500
6. Bennett, Robert F
S
R-UT
$61,499
7. Johnson, Tim
S
D-SD
$61,000
8. Conrad, Kent
S
D-ND
$58,991
9. Davis, Tom
H
R-VA
$55,499
10. Bond, Christopher S ‘Kit’
S
R-MO
$55,400
11. Bachus, Spencer
H
R-AL
$55,300
12. Shelby, Richard C
S
R-AL
$55,000
13. Emanuel, Rahm
H
D-IL
$51,750
14. Reed, Jack
S
D-RI
$50,750
15. Carper, Tom
S
D-DE
$44,389
16. Frank, Barney
H
D-MA
$40,100
17. Maloney, Carolyn B
H
D-NY
$38,750
18. Bean, Melissa
H
D-IL
$37,249
19. Blunt, Roy
H
R-MO
$36,500
20. Pryce, Deborah
H
R-OH
$34,750
21. Miller, Gary
H
R-CA
$33,000
22. Pelosi, Nancy
H
D-CA
$32,750
23. Reynolds, Tom
H
R-NY
$32,700
24. Hoyer, Steny H
H
D-MD
$30,500
25. Hooley, Darlene
H
D-OR
$28,750
“Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two embattled mortgage buyers that for years have pursued a lobbying strategy to get lawmakers on their side. Both companies have poured money into lobbying and campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties and committees as a general tactic, but they’ve also directed those contributions strategically.”
Read more here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-s...

Cvvl wrote:

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"The total listed for Obama is $126,349 — a tiny fraction of the approximately $390 million his campaign has raised, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The list shows McCain has received a total of $21,550 from Fannie and Freddie employees. The list includes donations of at least $200 from those who receive paychecks from Fannie and Freddie. It also includes donations from political action committees — pooled contributions from employees. Obama decided early in his presidential run not to accept PAC contributions, but the Center for Responsive Politics' list includes all contributions for members of Congress dating back to 1989 — including Obama and McCain's Senate campaigns.
The New York Times has published a separate list looking at contributions from "directors, officers, and lobbyists for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" for the 2008 campaign cycle. That list — using figures from the Federal Election Commission — shows McCain receiving $169,000, while Obama received only $16,000.
VERDICT
Partially true, but misleading. Donations don't come from companies. A list of employee contributions puts Obama second, but a different list including lobbyists and directors shows McCain getting more."
- http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/...

parlo wrote:

Give 'em hell Chuck!!!