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When You Miss Noah's Ark...
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.

After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

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James Fallows on Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Curic:

"After thirty years of meeting and interviewing politicians, I can think of exactly three people who sounded as uninformed and vacant as this. All are now out of office. One was a chronic drunk.

George W. Bush is in a completely different and superior league to what we've seen from Palin. When people made fun of his inexpressiveness in the 2000 campaign (and onwards), it was because he mispronounced words or used cliches. It was nothing like the total inability to express any coherent thought on any issue outside "values politics" that Palin has revealed."

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DAR
Two rightwinger's comment on Palin:

"My cringe reflex is exhausted. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood.
Cut the verbiage and there's not much content there. If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing.
But because she's a woman, we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What can McCain do? He can't repudiate Palin. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP's
unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. .

Only Palin can save McCain, her party and her country. She can bow out for personal reasons,
perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother
who puts her family first. Do it for your country."

Kathleen Parker

Palin Debacle
"Palin is mediocre, again, regurgitating talking points mechanically, not thinking.
Palin's just babbling. I am truly embarrassed for her. I can't watch this train wreck."
-- Rod Dreher

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COURIC: And when it comes to establishing, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and understand the world?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.

COURIC: Like what ones specifically?

PALIN: Umm… all of them. Any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news…

See the video here.

Doug wrote: COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news…
See the video here.

DAR
That''s hilarious.

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"McCain and Sarah Palin were in town all week
over at the U.N., and he was introducing her to
all of the world leaders. It was like Take Your
Daughter to Work Day."
-- Letterman,

Campaign tries to explain Palin's Putin comment
Associated Press 9/30/08

Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn't happened in her 21 months in office.

"When you consider even national security issues with Russia, as (Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where — where do they go? It's Alaska," the Republican vice presidential nominee said in an interview last week with CBS News' Katie Couric.

The spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, Maria Comella, clarified in an e-mail to The Associated Press that when "Russian incursions near Alaskan airspace and inside the air defense identification zone have occurred ... U.S. Air Force fighters have been scrambled repeatedly."

The air defense identification zone, almost completely over water, extends 12-mile past the perimeter of the United States. Most nations have similar areas.

However, no Russian military planes have been flying even into that zone, said Maj. Allen Herritage, a spokesman for the Alaska region of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, at Elmendorf Air Force Base.

"To be very clear, there has not been any incursion in U.S. airspace in recent years," Herritage said.

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For all the people who "feel sorry for" Sarah Palin because she's made such a fool of herself:

..."When you stage a train wreck of this magnitude -- trying to pass one underqualified chick off as another highly qualified chick with the lame hope that no one will notice -- well, then, I don't feel bad for you.

When you treat women as your toys, as gullible and insensate pawns in your Big Fat Presidential Bid -- or in Palin's case, in your Big Fat Chance to Be the First Woman Vice President Thanks to All the Cracks Hillary Put in the Ceiling -- I don't feel bad for you.

When you don't take your own career and reputation seriously enough to pause before striding onto a national stage and lying about your record of opposing a Bridge to Nowhere or using your special-needs child to garner the support of Americans in need of healthcare reform you don't support, I don't feel bad for you.

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When your project is reliant on gaining the support of women whose reproductive rights you would limit, whose access to birth control and sex education you would curtail, whose healthcare options you would decrease, whose civil liberties you would take away and whose children and husbands and brothers (and sisters and daughters and friends) you would send to war in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and wherever else you saw fit without actually understanding international relations, I don't feel bad for you.

I don't want to be played by the girl-strings anymore. Shaking our heads and wringing our hands in sympathy with Sarah Palin is a disservice to every woman who has ever been unfairly dismissed based on her gender, because this is an utterly fair dismissal, based on an utter lack of ability and readiness.

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In fact, the only people I feel sorry for are Americans who invested in a hopeful, progressive vision of female leadership, but who are now stuck watching, verbatim, a "Saturday Night Live" skit.

Palin is tough as nails. She will bite the head off a moose and move on. So, no, I don't feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for women who have to live with what she and her running mate have wrought."


salon.com

DAR
George Will is finally acknowledging what he should have said when she was first picked:

"Palin is "obviously not qualified to be President," he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a "disaster." Link

McCain was on NPR making a complete fool of himself gushing over Palin's foreign policy experience. When specifically asked if he would turn to her for advice on foreign policy matters he said he already has. There was no holding back. He lied and lied and lied and lied. What a sack of crap.

NPR doesn't have the transcript up but here is their little news summary of the interview:

"One day before the vice presidential debate, McCain extolled his faith in running mate Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, and her knowledge of foreign policy.

"I've turned to her for advice many times in the past," McCain told NPR's Steve Inskeep. "I can't imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Biden because they've been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq. They were wrong about Russia."

McCain specifically praised Palin's knowledge of energy issues, as well as her oversight of the natural resources of Alaska and her experience running that state's government."

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D.

Wow, what a perfect of example of "give him enough rope and he'll hang himself." The best thing McCain ever did for us was choose Palin as his running mate. For all those people who are reduced to voting for him SOLELY because they want a republican to appoint the next Supreme Court justice(s), he's demonstrated he can't even choose the right people for the right jobs. And, as Darrel has said, Palin is the gift that just keeps on giving. McCain will be ridiculed for saying he has "already gone to Palin for advice", especially after Thursday night.

Now let's just hope Biden can keep his foot out of his mouth and patiently give Palin enough rope to hang herself.

"An AP-Gfk poll released Wednesday found that just 25 percent of likely voters believe Palin has the right experience to be president. That's down from 41 percent just after the GOP convention, when the Alaska governor made her well-received debut on the national stage.

snip...

"We let Sarah be Sarah. She's smart, she's tough, she's been in debates before," McCain told "Fox & Friends" on Fox News Channel. "The American people ... the more they see of her, the more they love her, and I'm confident of that at the end."

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DAR
Cafferty continues to twist the knife.

previously unreleased portion of Palin's interview with Katie Couric where she can't name a single Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade (that she disagrees with). Come on. Can't you think of even just ONE - whether you agree with it or not, just drop a case name, any name. Hell, how about The People v. Larry Flynt?! Something, anything! hahahaha.

here ya go

DAR
Oh my god, the juicy quote is much worse than you suggest. Instead of just being honest, her eyes glaze over and the mouth just keeps on going. Why can't she just be honest?

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Asked which decisions, other than Roe, she disagreed with, her responses went as follows:

PALIN: Well, let's see. There's --of course --in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings, there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are -- those issues, again, like Roe v Wade where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know -- going through the history of America, there would be others but--"

COURIC: Can you think of any?

PALIN: Well, I could think of -- of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a Vice President, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today."

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Well, well. there was OTHER NEWS FROM ALASKA yesterday:

"Judge refuses to block state investigation of Gov. Palin"

Liberty Legal Institute (FROM TEXAS) is up in Alaska defending
the right of Palin not to be investigated by the Alaskan Legislature.

video report on Alaska'sChannel Two website.

click on video on R side. Very telling. Full story.

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DAR
Debate result:

"A CNN poll of 611 adult Americans who watched the encounter found 51 percent thought Biden did the better job in the debate, while 36 percent said Palin did. But an overwhelming 84 percent said Palin did better than expected."

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FIXED NEWS CLEANS UP MOOSE-WOMAN'S READING LIST.

CAMERON: OK. So, at the risk of annoying you, when you are asked, what do you read? Which papers and magazines? You didn't answer it.
Or, you said, I have all kinds of resources.

PALIN: Right, right, right.

CAMERON: Well, what do you read?

PALIN: I read the same things that other people across the country read, including the "New York Times" and the "Wall Street Journal" and the "Economist" and some of these publications that we've recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska.

Because, of everything that we're doing with oil and gas, a lot of the investment publications especially are interviewing us, asking us how are being so successful up there in contributing to our nation's step towards energy independence.

From Raw Data

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Just quote from a comment thread:

"I am more concerned about Sarah Pay-Line. If she is installed into the White House through (obvious) GOP rigging of the election, then the first thing she’ll do is hand the launch codes to her pastor so he can get Jesus here faster.
My wife is related to people that actually do think that way: that God gave the US nuclear weapons to deliberately nuke the world so Jesus can return, since he’s taking way too long to come back on his own time…"

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............Sarah Pay-Line's Most Recent Whopper



Record Refutes Palin's Sudan Claim
Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show

By JUSTIN ROOD ABC NEWS

October 3, 2008—

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country's brutal regime from the state's multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday's vice presidential debate.

Not quite, according to a review of the public record and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a measure to divest Alaskan holdings in Sudan-linked investments.

"The [Palin] administration killed our bill," said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, co-sponsored a resolution early this year to force the Alaska Permanent Fund a $40 billion investment fund, a portion of whose dividends are distributed annually to state residents to divest millions of dollars in holdings tied to the Sudanese government.

In Thursday's debate, Palin said she had advocated the state divest from Sudan. "When I and others in the legislature found out that we had some millions of dollars [of Permanent Fund investments] in Sudan, we called for divestment through legislation of those dollars," Palin said.

But a search of news clips and transcripts from the time do not turn up an instance in which Palin mentioned the Sudanese crisis or concerns about Alaska's investments tied to the ruling regime. Moreover, Palin's administration openly opposed the bill, and stated its opposition in a public hearing on the measure.

"The legislation is well-intended, and the desire to make a difference is noble, but mixing moral and political agendas at the expense of our citizens' financial security is not a good combination," testified Brian Andrews, Palin's deputy revenue commissioner, before a hearing on the Gara-Lynn Sudan divestment bill in February. Minutes from the meeting are posted online by the legislature.

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"VOTE FOR THE MILF" WEBSITE--OWNED BY THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN?

A little digging by Govgap.com reveals that http://www.votefortheMILF.com links directly back to JohnMcCain.com, then on to Sarah Palin’s page and a video message.

HERE.

There seems to be some evidence that the McCain campaign has redirected from govegap.com to keep people from seeing the expose.

DAR
Passed along from Larry W.

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Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing debate remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan:

It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

When did he say this? It was on a recording he made for Operation Coffeecup — a campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare. Doctors’ wives were supposed to organize coffee klatches for patients, where they would play the Reagan recording, which declared that Medicare would lead us to totalitarianism.

NY Times