Socialization is kind of the antithesis of the republican agenda.

And, despite Palin increasing taxes on oil companies in her state, Alaska doesn't have income tax, sales tax, or property tax, so I would hardly characterize her policies as socialist.

Um... Yeah... Actually that's a part of the Democrats plan. Maxine Waters called for nationalizing the US Oil industry several months ago...

Here he is in Pittsburgh:

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Here's a picture of Rachel Ray. Why? Why not!

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Keep it up.

Attacking her for being a mother didn't work; attacking her for lack of experience didn't work once everyone remembered Obama said for 19 months that experience doesn't count; attacking her as a nazi didn't work; attacking her for being pro life didn't work (she's a fucking GOP what do you expect?) and now folks are truly desperate.

Clearly she's hit a nerve.

The nerve is change, reform, outside the beltway outsider.

Here's how you get back change.

You have to get back on the economic message that Obama will make a real tangible immediate difference in people's lives, esp. those swing voters.

Talk to *them.*

They don't even fucking know who Chavez is and they don't get your double reverse super intellectual ironic critique, OK?

Obama needs to set the message, we all have to be explaining it to our friends and relatives in OH IN MI PA FL NH CO NM.

Telling ourselves Palin = Chavez just makes the whole blogosphere of the left look totally stupid.

And the Democrats wonder why middle America won't buy their brand.

PC nails it!

Palin twisted arms at big oil and in return forced more royalties for the State of Alaska. The, rebatted the windfll to all Alaskans to pay for heating bill this winter.

Oh she sure is fucking stupid when it comes to the political winds. As VP she might chair energy policy and make it work.

She is the most popular gov. in America for some very good reasons. 80 per cent plus from the governed.

Obama does not seem to know what to do, he is debating her not Mc Cain which moves the action to the most capable of speaking back.

Plus it is demeaning. Presidential does have implications.

I get the feeling Obama is speaking to rigged audiences too.

But, boy is this great political theater. The Clintons will save Obama's ass, not the dreary hacks he hired for the big one. and thank god the cash is gushing.

Maybe they are just all tired.

Is my point now painfully clear?

She's the most popular governor because she bought off her constituency -- something that's not quite going to work on a national level. And your writing style is showing again. Do you really think by posting under all these different names you're actually fooling people into thinking that Palin has wide spread support? You are a joke.

The entire Alaska government, both local and statewide, has been funded entirely by pork and largesse from the Alaska oil fields for more than a half century. By comparison, Chavez has only tried to run his government by oil profits for about a decade. Palin has no more clue how to manage a national economy than Chavez does.

Friend of Fidel Castro and sells him oil at huge discounts ... un-check.

Stays in power via rigged elections which feature goon squads ... un-check.

Shuts down independent media ... un-check.

Hobnobs with Iranian ayatollahs ... un-check.

Is a colonel (and a bloke) ... un-check twice.

Can't stand George W. Bush ... un-check.

I'd say the weight of the evidence is against this one mate. Though I have to agree on the charisma bit.

Asserting that Sarah Palin is experienced because she ran a state that has 32 billion dollars in oil profits a year is like asserting that a child is good with money, because after getting his $10,000 weekly allowance, he's able to put a few dollars away and save for his future.

Also, in a state where citizens receive money directly back from the government because of the sheer volume of oil profits, I don't think popularity is hard to come by.

I'm still having a hard time stretching the definition of "state-owned oil fields". They're "state-owned" in the sense that the government "owns" the land, but not at all in the sense that the government owns the "fields", if that makes sense. Also, just because the government allows the usage of that land for a specific purpose and then taxes the usage in NO WAY implies or infers that the state is owns or actually runs that operation. The "fields" are still privately owned and operated (under license by the state), but that's still a far cry from "state-owned".

Did you and Charles get drunk at work today or something? The logical connections here are exceedingly tenuous.

WHAT A TERRIBLE MODEL FOR THE LOWER FORTY EIGHT

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