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Sun Nov 22, 2009 at 01:06:04 AM EST
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You have to be kidding me, is what I thought when I read the story and heard the interview. Sarah Palin would be lucky, oh my gosh, to even find it on a map and it would have to have the countries already colored in.
"Now is not the time for cold feet, second thoughts, or indecision," Palin wrote. "It is the time to act as commander-in-chief and approve the troops so clearly needed in Afghanistan....We can win in Afghanistan by helping the Afghans build a stable representative state able to defend itself."
Sarah believes we need to take everything McChrystal says as fact and give him everything he needs. Well let's break this down with some real thought. We Sarah, National Security Advisor General Jones told Der Spiegel, “Generals always ask for more troops. Take it from me. I believe we will not solve the problem with troops alone. The minimum number is important, of course. But there is no maximum number, however… You can keep on putting troops in, and you could have 200,000 troops there and Afghanistan will swallow them up as it has done in the past.”
Sarah, here is a bit of a current and past history lesson on Afghanistan:
We already out number the Taliban 12:1
1,449 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and ISAF) since the invasion in 2001.
As of September 19, 2009, 139 foreign private contractor deaths in Afghanistan as part of the War in Afghanistan.
The Soviet army lost 14,427, the KGB lost 576, with 28 people dead and missing between December 25, 1979 and February 15, 1989.
The Soviet had a total of 620,000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan and couldn't win.
The cost of the War in Afghanistan is around $232 billion.
The total cost of the War in Afghanistan for the Soviets is estimated at around $82 billion.
So rather than listening to what your radical war-monging right wing neo-cons say on Afghanistan, maybe some reality is needed. What we have wasted over in Afghanistan is public health care for everyone here!
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Fri Nov 20, 2009 at 10:42:37 AM EST
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 Media reports that Sarah Palin’s new book, a national bestseller which will no doubt gather dust unread in millions of right wing househood’s, lacks an index.
Image, Left, Opening of Chas. Co. Democratic HQ, which should have my copy of Jim DeMint's book handy for future reference if you could actually refer to it by uising an index. Slate article on lack of index in Palin Book. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-12/the-missing-pages-in-palins-book/ In most cases, there is now a handy way to get access to a keyword seach of such books. Sen. Jim DeMint’s book, published last summer to limited notice and sales, also lacked an index. When one went looking for his positions on healthcare, they were difficult to find. His plans referenced other parts of the book, but when you finally found the material he was apparently referencing it didn’t quite prove what was promised. The table of contents was weak. Logical and economic connections between his material and his arguments were apparently missing. HOW TO GET AT UNINDEXED DETAILS IN THE EXTENDED TEXT
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Fri May 08, 2009 at 16:34:16 PM EDT
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( - promoted by Jennifer Read)
Today, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod reacted to a news story by Politico.com reporting that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford will be the special guest for a dinner tonight in Virginia hosted by Republican fundraiser and former Nixon aide Fred Malek. The web site reports that the purpose of the dinner is to help wealthy GOP donors choose a candidate for President in 2012. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was invited to the dinner, but declined due to serious ice jam flooding in her state.
McLeod made the following statement:
"I strongly urge Governor Sanford to focus on the job he has until looking for his next one. Ice jam flooding may not be a problem here in South Carolina, but we have plenty of them. We are in the middle of a jobs crisis with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and we are being forced to fire teachers. Whether he likes it or not, Mark Sanford is our Governor. Instead of looking for a promotion, he needs to focus on fixing the problems we face right here," McLeod said.
McLeod has already pledged to return to private life after his time as Governor. "South Carolina needs a Governor who will focus like a laser beam on creating jobs and fixing our schools without distractions," he said.
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Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 22:20:10 PM EST
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Photo:AP 
From Politico:
Chambliss: Palin 'allowed us to peak'
By: Andy Barr
December 3, 2008
Fresh off his runoff victory Tuesday night, Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base.
“I can't overstate the impact she had down here,” Chambliss said during an interview Wednesday morning on Fox News.
“When she walks in a room, folks just explode,” he added. “And they really did pack the house everywhere we went. She's a dynamic lady, a great administrator, and I think she's got a great future in the Republican Party.” [more]
Hmmm...subtext
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 10:08:32 AM EDT
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I've known Tucker Eskew since he was press secretary to Gov. Carroll Campbell and I was a 22-year-old aide to the late, great Isadore Lourie. Tucker knows how to play political hardball, but he's one of the most personable and personally decent people I know in politics.
When the Rovian Warriors plucked Sarah Palin from obscurity and foisted her on the American people in late summer, Tucker was recruited to prep her for the GOP convention and the rest of the campaign.
And here's where that's left him now:
I'm sympathetic to Eskew and Wallace, and not just because they're decent people. They've held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me-namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: "Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing." It's a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus [emphasis mine - tk]. I was told that Palin chafed at being defined by her discomfiting performances in the Couric, Charlie Gibson, and Sean Hannity interviews. She wanted to get back out there and do more. Well, if you're Eskew and Wallace, what do you say to that? Your responsibility isn't the care and feeding of Sarah Palin's ego; it's the furtherance of John McCain's quest for the presidency.
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 at 09:51:13 AM EDT
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Blatant rip off from Talking Points Memo, but...
If Sarah Palin's wardrobe was Joe the Plumber, it would get a tax break from Barack Obama.
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 22:38:54 PM EDT
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I said all along that as long as Palin didn't burp out loud on stage, she'd be declared the winner by the pundits, and I actually thought she was doing okay at the beginning. But as the night went on, it became clear that she was running out of talking points.
Gwen Ifill, book or no book, was completely awful as a moderator. She had no control over the whole thing and just let the candidates say basically whatever the hell they wanted. I'll come up with more cogent analysis later.
UPDATE: CNN's insta-poll says Biden won by a margin of 51-39.
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 17:10:48 PM EDT
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 12:45:48 PM EDT
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All eyes will be focused tonight on the big VP debate between Joe "The Mouth" Biden and Sarah "Barracuda" Palin. The networks are predicting a ratings juggernaut as millions of American voters tune in to watch these two feisty would-be Veeps rip each other to shreds. With Biden's history of verbal gaffes and Palin's continuing struggle to portray a competent grasp of the issues, tonight's showdown in St. Louis should make for fantastic television.
So what are your predictions for tonight's VP debate?
Will Biden put the smack-down on Palin and further expose her naiveté on the issues? Will Palin be able to redirect the conversation and make this a contest of personalities rather than policies? There's a lot of ways this could go. Thoughts?
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