McCain chooses Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:15 pm

We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080/page/1

Jason Rees · Post by **Jason Rees** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:21 pm

No sympathy, here

I heard many women back in the day voted for Clinton because he was the cute one.

Yeah, some people are idiots.

Jason Rees · Post by **Jason Rees** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:02 am

Bill Clinton on Sarah Palin:

"What a great govenor. She had a lot of courage going up against her party like that. You see the deal she wrangled out of the oil companies? I was in washington for 8 years. And I can tell you, that type of thing isn't easy. She's more then qualified to be president.... yeah I like her a lot."
- Bill Clinton to George Stephanopoulos last week in a tv interview

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:08 am

Bill Clinton would ... uh ... vote for Sarah because she was the cute one. More like a VPILF vote of confidence.

Obviously Hillary wasn't around when Bill gushed about Governor Palin like that.

Ya think I have a promising career at the Inquirer?

- Bill

Jason Rees · Post by **Jason Rees** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:26 pm

It's gotta pay better than this gig

mhosea · Post by **mhosea** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:44 pm

Well, Clinton is widely regarded as one of the shrewdest politicians of modern times. If you look beyond the face of it, and I think you find political motivations. Assuming Clinton is being a team player (although he might have overdone it), I wouldn't be surprised if it signaled a broader shift in tactics.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:10 pm

Speaking of Bill Clinton... Let's hear what Chris Rock has to say.

Chris Rock on Bill, Alaska and Moose

Jason Rees · Post by **Jason Rees** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:17 pm

Can't wait till I get away from these filters!

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:44 am

Bill O Reilly just got his e-mail hacked after talking down to ANON on the internet.

Wow, Anon is freaking powerful.

I used to think bullshido was truly powerful in how they do Forum raids and ruin someones reputation on the internet(IE just do a search on Sifu Rudy Abel)

But Anon, TRULY is powerful, they can get into e-mails and other crap.

I hope they keep going after pedophiles.

AAAhmed46 · Post by **AAAhmed46** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:47 am

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1958

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:45 pm

I wouldn't pump up "their" reputation too much. It's just the collective internet doing whatever anyone feels like and then posting the results. Some of the "members" are going to be professional criminals and some are going to be 9 years old.

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:58 pm

Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.

Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?

Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.

Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

cxt · Post by **cxt** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:30 pm

AAA

That is another thing that just makes no sense to me----people are freaked about the "government" invading their privacy........the "government" intercepting their cell phone calls......the "government" reading their e-mails.
When the real dangers to my privacy are my fellow citizens---or individual people in general.

I used to date a reporter-----and some of the stuff she could and did do to dig up information on a person honestly used to scare me.......and much of it was actually legal---or at the very least not illegal---as long at it was her and not some pencil pusher from the "government" doing it.
And what she could do with it----jesus--absent malice and all that.

People get so focused on things that often forget that the real problems we face are often elsewhere.

Plus people often have no clue what are doing----I was watching a guy bitterly bellyaching about the "brutal" treatment he got from the cops at an "anarchy" event. How the cops broke the laws and needed to be punished etc.
Sure, nobody should be pushed around by the cops for their poltical views-----but does the dude understand what "anarchy" means?

If your advocating a postion that there should be no laws----then how can you be upset when someone breaks them?
And if you do pull off your goal of "anarchy" then whom is going to be around to protect you?
Violent street gangs are feared as much for their oganiztion as their violence-----you want to guess whom is going to win should the anarchy crowd goes head to head with MS 13?

People take all sorts of weird positions that they spend zero time actually thinking thu.

Take cybercrime----anyone playing Cyberpunk 20 years ago could tell you that as computers become more and more important to the smooth running of the world---the harsher the penalties get for messing with it------so the folks hacking now---protected in part because of the perception that its not that serious are actually part of the process to make such things really serious crimes.

Tell you a true story----at one time the most secure "secret files" in the world were the ones the KGB had----it was not because the had such sophisticated system---it was because it was not sophisticated at all.
To read a file---you actually had to physically break into KGB headquaters in Moscow, physically break into the actual file room itself then physically break into the actual filing drawer.

The more people become convienced that their computor stuff is not safe the more they will move to things that can't be hurt as easily.

If you don't already know about stuff like the tradtional Arab methods of moving money around----you should take a real look.
We all may be doing something it in the future and we might just have people like ANON to thank.

Jason Rees · Post by **Jason Rees** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:50 pm

So Couric couldn't resist her own gotchya question. Why would Sarah Palin know every one of McCain's initiatives and co-sponsorships? It was an unfair question to ask Sarah Palin. If Couric wanted to interview McCain, I'm sure he'd be happy to sit with her. Instead, she used the Palin interview to score Obama campaign talking points.

TSDguy · Post by **TSDguy** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:53 pm

Because criminals do it does not mean you should not freak out when the government does it, or various companies do it. In all cases, it's does NOT belong in America.

In many ways the government spying is the worst offense. They're setting a supposedly legal precedent.