Posted by unregistered user at 9/12/08 10:54 p.m.

I knew there was a reason I liked her. How can you dislike a person who likes the Hawks! I'd vote for her just for this reason alone! Go Hawks!!

Posted by david puddy at 9/12/08 11:13 p.m.

Good for her. We now have one 1 thing in common out of a hundred. Still absolutely no chance that she'll have my vote OR win this state.

Posted by redhookchinook at 9/12/08 11:23 p.m.

Rudy Guliani loves the Yankees. I am a diehard Yankee fan. I don't want Rudy anywhere near the oval office.

Get the point?

Posted by sgt.hartman at 9/12/08 11:35 p.m.

Let me guess... check the fan club membership rolls of every NFL team and you will find that the Palins are members of each and every one. As if the Hawks don't have enough problems at the moment...

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 12:36 a.m.

Puh-leeze! Being a Seahawks fan does not equip her for leading our country. But it is one of her better qualities.

Posted by jafabian at 9/13/08 1:29 a.m.

We should get her to raise the 12th man flag! Picture that. A Republican doing that in predomiantly Demorcratic Seattle.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 1:47 a.m.

I live in Yakima, have season tickets to the Hawks, and I am a Seahawker. I'll also be voting Obama come November.

Posted by guymoons at 9/13/08 5:59 a.m.

What fool would want this bublehead running the free world? Duh!!

Posted by Bizirk at 9/13/08 7:09 a.m.

Let's see...Hawk fan, Dog sled fan. PTA mom, Hockey mom....Yep those are credentials to rule the free world

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 7:16 a.m.

She is still dumber than dumb. I can't figure out why McCain chose that stupid bimbo to be his running mate.

Posted by feathered fantasy at 9/13/08 8:00 a.m.

My God! You folks in seattle rival those of sodom and san francisco! No class! No class! No knowledge of who has guts and who doesnt! Obama is slipping and dying on the vine.I am goona laugh at your calamity when palin becomes president in a few years. Maybe the terrorists will come to seattle first the way you people talk!

Posted by lundtheconqueror at 9/13/08 8:07 a.m.

Socially Inept - we are not snobs, we just don't agree with your VP choice.

Now, if she could play WR, then maybe I would like her more...

Posted by Bizirk at 9/13/08 8:09 a.m.

Feathered Fantasy.... Your name says it all!!!!

Posted by nonstopjoe at 9/13/08 8:13 a.m.

Palin's gotta have something going for her. I guess being a Seaturkey fan is at the top of the list. No. 2 might be being a supporter of the John Daly trailer trash club.

Posted by gdsah at 9/13/08 8:24 a.m.

unregistered user..#180387.......... you need to clean up your act! And stay in Yakima!

Posted by dirty kuffar at 9/13/08 8:40 a.m.

She is an incredibly bright woman. Making her out to be a stump toothed hillbilly is only going to haunt you in the debates. Her non supporters really shouldnt keep trying to lower the bar for her.

Raising the 12th man flag is an excellent idea.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 8:49 a.m.

Gdsah, I did not make the fellatio remark. One unregistered user is not necessarily the same as another. Maybe you should stop jumping to conclusions. See you at Qwest.

Posted by writeronastorm at 9/13/08 8:54 a.m.

(Ahem, Monica, I think a little "editing" of your blog is in order; but then again, it really shows how "lewd rude and disgusting" a lot of the Obamaites really are).

Back to the subject at hand: I figured Sarah for a down to earth person all along. Dino Rossi should invite Sarah and Todd Palin to a Seahawk game.

How about all of us Hawk fans hold up signs at the home games before the election saying "Palin loves the Seahawks!"

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:01 a.m.

Oh wow, as a huge Sonics fan I would not give a s*** if she wanted to save them, who cares!

Posted by guymoons at 9/13/08 9:05 a.m.

dirty kuffar she's a bubbleheaded ex beauty contestant!
Who, with a brain, would want her leading the free world. I was a supporter of McCain until he showed patheticly poor judement and chose her.

Posted by tevis at 9/13/08 9:19 a.m.

Too much information.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:23 a.m.

Well that certainly qualifies her to lead the country through the coming depression and a nuclear exchange with Russia.

Posted by gdsah at 9/13/08 9:27 a.m.

Sorry to the "good" unregistered user! I would change my name on the blog as not to be confused with the other one! We should all ask that he/she clean up the content!

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:44 a.m.

ABOUT THAT IRAQ TRIP.... Shortly after Sarah Palin was added to the Republican ticket, a reporter inquired about Palin's foreign travel. A Palin aide said the governor had visited Ireland. That turned out to be false; a plane she was on merely refueled there.

That was kind of embarrassing, but this is considerably worse.

Sarah Palin's visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate's campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.

Following her selection last month as John McCain's running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard. During that trip she was said to have visited a "military outpost" inside Iraq. The campaign has since repeated that Palin's foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone.

But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as "K-Crossing," on July 25, 2007.

First, the list of things Palin hasn't told the truth about seems to be growing at quite a clip.

Second, it wasn't too terribly long ago that McCain mocked Barack Obama's qualifications for national office by saying he hadn't spent enough time in Iraq. Indeed, McCain and his surrogates suggested, more than once, that if Obama really cared about the troops and U.S. national security, he would have spent even more time on the ground there.

8ISVG

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:51 a.m.

Gov. Palin's Worldview

NY TIMES EDITORIAL
Published: September 12, 2008

As we watched Sarah Palin on TV the last couple of days, we kept wondering what on earth John McCain was thinking.

If he seriously thought this first-term governor — with less than two years in office — was qualified to be president, if necessary, at such a dangerous time, it raises profound questions about his judgment. If the choice was, as we suspect, a tactical move, then it was shockingly irresponsible.

It was bad enough that Ms. Palin's performance in the first televised interviews she has done since she joined the Republican ticket was so visibly scripted and lacking in awareness.

What made it so much worse is the strategy for which the Republicans have made Ms. Palin the frontwoman: win the White House not on ideas, but by denigrating experience, judgment and qualifications.

The idea that Americans want leaders who have none of those things — who are so blindly certain of what Ms. Palin calls "the mission" that they won't even pause for reflection — shows a contempt for voters and raises frightening questions about how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin plan to run this country.

One of the many bizarre moments in the questioning by ABC News's Charles Gibson was when Ms. Palin, the governor of Alaska, excused her lack of international experience by sneering that Americans don't want "somebody's big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yes, they've had opportunities to meet heads of state."

We know we were all supposed to think of Joe Biden. But it sure sounded like a good description of Mr. McCain. Those decades of experience earned the Arizona senator the admiration of people in both parties. They are why he was our preferred candidate in the Republican primaries.

The interviews made clear why Americans should worry about Ms. Palin's thin résumé and lack of experience. Consider her befuddlement when Mr. Gibson referred to President Bush's "doctrine" and her remark about having insight into Russia because she can see it from her state.

But that is not what troubled us most about her remarks — and, remember, if they were scripted, that just means that they reflect Mr. McCain's views all the more closely. Rather, it was the sense that thoughtfulness, knowledge and experience are handicaps for a president in a world populated by Al Qaeda terrorists, a rising China, epidemics of AIDS, poverty and fratricidal war in the developing world and deep economic distress at home.

Ms. Palin talked repeatedly about never blinking. When Mr. McCain asked her to run for vice president? "You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission," she said, that "you can't blink."

Fighting terrorism? "We must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go and even who we target."

Her answers about why she had told her church that President Bush's failed policy in Iraq was "God's plan" did nothing to dispel our concerns about her confusion between faith and policy. Her claim that she was quoting a completely unrelated comment by Lincoln was absurd.

This nation has suffered through eight years of an ill-prepared and unblinkingly obstinate president. One who didn't pause to think before he started a disastrous war of choice in Iraq. One who blithely looked the other way as the Taliban and Al Qaeda regrouped in Afghanistan. One who obstinately cut taxes and undercut all efforts at regulation, unleashing today's profound economic crisis.

In a dangerous world, Americans need a president who knows that real strength requires serious thought and preparation.

Posted by SeaDuck79 at 9/13/08 9:51 a.m.

guymoons, thanks for showing how enlightened and superior you are by showing your condescending sexism and cultural bigotry. You must be one of those enlightened people who feels so poorly about himself that he must drag others down.

The Democrats must be proud that fine people like you support them.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:54 a.m.

AK Judiciary Committee Votes to Authorize Subpoenas in Trooper-Gate, Including for Todd Palin
By Kate Klonick - September 12, 2008, 3:40PM

The Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to authorize Trooper-Gate projector director Hollis French (D) to issue subpoenas requested by investigator Stephen Branchflower. The subpoenas are part of the continuing investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, and include a subpoena for the testimony of the First Gentleman, Todd Palin.

Branchflower requested the power to issue thirteen subpoenas, including a request for the testimony of the governor's husband because he is "such a central figure" to the Trooper-Gate controversy, he thought "one should be issued for him."

The committee debated for over two hours, with Sen. Bill Wielechowski (D) pushing to keep politics out of the investigation and moved to pass the motion in the senate.

Exact wording of the motion from the Senate Records:

SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI moved:

Pursuant to AK 24.25.010(b), I move that you be authorized to issue subpoenas to the following individuals and for the following documents: Frank Bailey, Diane Kiesel, Annette Kreitzer, Nicki Neal, Brad Thompson, Michael Nizich, Don Bitney, Ivy Frye, Kris Perry, Janice Mason, Todd Palin, Randy Ruaro, Murlene Wilkes; cell phone records for Frank Bailey for the period of February 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. This authorization is contingent upon concurrence of the Senate President.

Passed 3 to 2.

Sen. Charlie Huggins (R) crossed the aisle, voting in favor of the motion, and joined Wielechowski in his plea to move the investigation forward.

"I see all this duck-foot action under the water," Sen. Charlie Huggins (R) said. "And I'm here, on a break from my moose-huntin' trip, to say let's just get the facts on the table. "

Sen. Lesil McGuire (R) attempted to amend the motion so that the subpoenas would not be issued until after the election. The amendment was voted down by Huggins, Wielechowski and French.

The House Judiciary Committee was present as well and voted unanimously in an advisory capacity in favor of allowing Branchflower to issue the subpoenas. The authorization of the motion is contingent on Senate President Lyda Green's (R) concurrence with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Posted by Liberal__Lion at 9/13/08 9:57 a.m.

another reason to not vote for Palin. Anybody who loves the team of the racist limo-liberals got serious issues. Go Pats!!!!

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 9:57 a.m.

SeaDuck79

I'd be interested in your opinion of the facts put forth in these other posts. Palin's lying, her attempts to stop the Troopergate investigation, which before she was nominated, sg=he said she would cooperate with.

Posted by tevis at 9/13/08 10:00 a.m.

Liberal_Lion,

As a New England native (now in Seattle), Pats fan (first), and Seahawks fan too, what the hell? How are the Hawks racist limo-liberals and the Pats not that? C'mon dude. Targeting idiots for derision is one thing; gratuitously trashing someone for no good reason is another. Save your venom for the deserving, buddy.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:02 a.m.

Fueled by oil taxes, Alaska spending soared under Palin
By Brian C. Mooney
Globe Staff / September 13, 2008


She may have fired the governor's chef and sold the state jet, but Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska has also presided over a dramatic increase in state spending in the last two years.

Still, she can accurately claim that her state is in good fiscal health, thanks to an explosion of revenues from state taxes on oil industry profits.

Indeed, in her 20 months in office, Palin's toughest financial decisions involved dickering with the Legislature on creative ways to spend and salt away the billions of dollars in oil revenues pouring into the state treasury.

At times, Palin has been more economic populist than small-government conservative, partly because of Alaska's unique government financing system.

With no statewide income or sales tax, Alaska funds about 90 percent of the state budget from royalties and taxes on oil produc-

Sarah Palin's 2007 Iraq visit was a brief stop at a border crossing, aides said. A10.

ers. Soaring oil prices and a higher windfall oil profits tax - an increase pushed through by Palin, now the Republican vice presidential nominee - have state coffers overflowing with petrodollars. The Alaska oil industry calculates that its annual payments to the state doubled in a single year to $10.2 billion.

Until a few years ago, the state government struggled financially for years because of low oil prices. But that's all changed. In the first two budget years under Palin, the state government has stashed almost $6 billion of surplus revenues in various reserve and savings accounts in anticipation of future drops in the price of oil. And the state has allocated another $4 billion over two years for a laundry list of new capital projects, mostly small grants initiated in budget requests by legislators for their districts.

And Alaska residents are getting their cut. Starting this week, every Alaskan who has lived in the state more than a year will receive $1,200 from the state, a total of about $756 million in rebates to offset high energy costs in the 49th state. That's on top of the perennial check each will receive from the state's oil revenue-endowed Permanent Fund, this year a record $2,069 per resident. The large Palin family is eligible to receive more than $19,000 from the combined payments.

Whether Palin is acting as a true fiscal conservative is moot in the state's current environment, said Gerald McBeath, a political science professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who monitors state finances and politics. "It's an irrelevant question," he said, because in Alaska's oil-driven boom-and-bust economic cycles, Palin's challenge is to manage the surpluses for long-term benefit. McBeath gives the popular governor high marks.

"She's used her popularity to get what she wants out of the Legislature," McBeath said. Along with the Legislature, she has used surplus funds to reduce the state's unfunded pension liability, increase education funding, establish a revenue-sharing fund for local governments, and help residents with home weatherization and energy costs. Alaska has also suspended for a year its 8-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline.Continued...

Palin "took a great deal of flak" for vetoing almost $500 million over two fiscal years in capital requests, McBeath said. That was roughly 10 percent of the amount sought by the Legislature, mostly for small projects and grants, and lawmakers complained that Palin gave them no guidance in advance and then blindsided them with her vetoes. Three legislative leaders did not return calls from the Globe seeking comment on the governor's performance.

Palin now trumpets those vetoes on the national campaign trail. Her running mate, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has equated the capital budget items to the federal budget earmarks he has long opposed. What Palin does not mention is that she later approved more than $60 million of those once-vetoed projects when they were resubmitted by the Legislature and she let stand hundreds of others.

By contrast, in two budget cycles, Palin has vetoed a total of only $2.6 million in spending requests for the state's now $8.1 billion annual operating budget, which, according to an analysis by the legislative finance office, has increased about 30 percent in two years. The increase figure includes the one-time energy rebate checks but no increases in reserve accounts or any capital expenditures. It also doesn't include a supplemental appropriation for additional expenditures, which is routine. Last year, the supplemental budget was more than $4 billion, mostly deposits in reserve accounts when revenues continued to pour in at high levels.

"There's huge pressure to do all these things because we have this revenue," said Karen J. Rehfeld, director of the governor's Office of Management and Budget. "But the governor is still trying to stick to her goals; she still wants to slow the growth of government and be efficient. . . . She's been very consistent about that."

A challenge, Rehfeld said, is to balance spending controls against "providing some of the significant infrastructure needed for this state. We're still a young state and a lot of work needs to be done."

In her vice presidential stump speech, Palin declares that she assumed the governor's office "promising to control spending. Today our state budget is under control and we have a surplus."

When she took office in mid-fiscal year, she actually inherited a surplus from her unpopular predecessor, Frank Murkowski, whom she easily ousted in a three-way 2006 Republican primary. For much of Murkowski's term, low oil prices stretched the state budget and resulted in budget cuts that angered constituents.

The revenue and spending boom is likely to continue this fiscal year. The state budget is built on revenue estimates of oil priced at $83 a barrel. While prices have dipped to around the $100-a-barrel mark, the state appears headed for another significant surplus, followed in all likelihood by another large supplemental budget.

The long-term effects of sharply increased taxes on oil remain unclear, and the major oil companies in Alaska have warned that increasing taxes on their product will lead to reduced investment and production.

Alaskan oil production has been dropping steadily as older fields are depleted - down from about two billion barrels per day 20 years ago to well under 800,000 barrels per day now. Earlier this year, BP Alaska, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil disclosed they were reducing 2008 spending by $400 million and postponing a $1 billion expansion project.

The oil companies pay a royalty of 12.5 percent on oil as it is extracted, plus property and corporate income taxes, but the biggest bite is a tax on net profits of between 25 and 50 percent, escalating with the market price of oil. The Alaska Oil and Gas Association, a trade group, projected that the production tax increase resulted in a one-year spike in the taxes on profits from $2.2 billion to $6.1 billion. The association's executive director, Marilyn Crockett, did not return repeated calls from the Globe, and a spokesman for one of the oil companies, in declining to be interviewed, said: "We try to stay out of political campaign stories."
© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:19 a.m.

LA TIMES

NEW YORK -- John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directives lawmakers insert in spending bills that McCain has vowed to eliminate.

Palin, in fact, requested $198 million in federal earmarks in February, including such expenses as $487,000 to fight obesity in Alaska and $4 million to develop recreational trails.

By day's end, the McCain campaign backed down from the claim the GOP presidential candidate made on the ABC television show "The View."

Posted by SeaDuck79 at 9/13/08 10:19 a.m.

I only respond with facts to people I can identify - how else can I differentiate one "unregistered user" from another?

My generic response is that so many of these charges have been debunked - though the left doesn't stop to acknowledge that - that it's hardly worth the effort to convince the closed-minded of anything, and trying just feeds the trolls. If they were interested in facts, they'd do their own research.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:21 a.m.

SeaDuck-you are a true believer. Do you have any evidence to debunk the facts posted above? I mean it's the NY Times, Boston Globe and LA Times reporting this stuff. Three newspapers at least as highly regarded as the PI which you are reading and commenting in.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:23 a.m.

I thing the unregistered user (Post 180387)was just giving Palin the opportunity to show off her skills at something she excels in?

Just sayin...

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:23 a.m.

SeaDuck
The person using unregistered user is no less identifiable than the person using SeaDuck.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:30 a.m.

Seaduck79 at 180461

That's the nonsense people like you always respond with when you don't have an answer. You don't care if your next President?vice President is qualified to lead the country just as long as she goes to church. Well Ted Haggard goes to church and before he was caught patronizing a gay prostitute he lead the largest mega-church in the county, was the leader of the evangelical pastor association, spoke to President Bush by phone every Monday AND was the most prominent spokesman against gay people in the country. Don't trust religious people SeaDuck-some of them are liars.

Posted by SeaDuck79 at 9/13/08 10:39 a.m.

Except that there is only one person on these blogs posting as SeaDuck. You can look up my profile and see what else I've said on other posts. The same can't be said for you.

Regarding the debunking of the spurious claims against Palin, FactCheck.org is a good place to start.

Here's a link: latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008
/09/sarah-palin-m-2.html

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:44 a.m.

Seaduck

I don't see anything there debunking the evidence that she she is lying about opposing the bridge to nowhere or that she tried to get use her position as Governor to have her brother in law fired and then fired his boss because he wouldn't do it.

Posted by SeaDuck79 at 9/13/08 10:49 a.m.

And here's a more comprehensive one...

www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/09/07/s
arah-palin-rumors-debunked/

It needs also to be said that if the level of scrutiny that the PRESS is giving to Palin were given to Obama, he would have been drummed out of the race already.

Know that "community" Obama "organized"? It's called ACORN, and it has a long history of legal problems. Many of its members have serious criminal records, and 37 more of them just got arrested for voter fraud. On top of the ones who were arrested for the same thing right here in River City last year. See the Seattle Times archive for that story. Google "ACORN Voter Fraud" and you'll have lots of hits. Is this what Obama organized - an undermining of the system he wants to now use to elect him? Given Chicago's history of corrupt politics, which Obama did NOTHING to change, I think that's a possibility worth exploring. Why doesn't the media agree?

Here's a rundown of the organization Obama "organized", from someone who did think it worth looking into. townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2
008/06/25/the_acorn_obama_knows

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:50 a.m.

eminist Icon

by digby

Sarah Palin was a high school basketball star back in the 1980s and when asked about the gender issues in this campaign by Charlie Gibson, she said this:

PALIN: I'm lucky to have been brought up in a family where gender has never been an issue. I'm a product of Title 9, also, where we had equality in schools that was just being ushered in with sports and with equal opportunity for education, all of my life.

I'm part of that generation, where that question is kind of irrelevant, because it's accepted

How nice for her. Many women (and men) had to fight right wing conservatives like her tooth and nail to achieve that acceptance. If it hadn't been for them she never would have had all those opportunities and she wouldn't now be in a position to tell other women that they shouldn't have them. Like so many conservatives before her, she is more than willing to accept the freedoms and rights that liberals fight for and then turn around and deny them to others.

Still, she does seem to admit that women were allowed equal educational opportunities through governmental action so maybe she could have a chat with her running mate who has a zero rating with the American Association of University Women.

Ok, they're obviously a bunch of commie symps who "promote equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change," so who cares what they think, right? But since McCain is the man who chose the first female to be on a national Republican ticket, McCain must be someone who receives a high rating on women's issues generally, right?

2007 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Federally Employed Women 10 percent in 2007.

2007 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to League of Women Voters's position, Senator McCain received a rating of 17.

2005-2006 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Business and Professional Women USA 33 percent in 2005-2006.

2005-2006 Senator McCain supported the interests of the National Organization for Women 13 percent in 2005-2006.

He's quite the champion of women's rights.

This is one of the things that is making liberal women crazy about Palin. They recognize that her achievement to become governor of a conservative state represents the fruits of a couple of generations of feminists who fought for her right to be there. And yet her political principles would have ensured the opposite. I guess when you open doors you can't guarantee that everyone who walks through them deserves to, but it's galling nonetheless.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:53 a.m.

SeaDuck

You are quoting Michelle Malki? Stick to the LATimes and fcatchecker. Malkin gas ZERO credibility with anyone who follows the news. the woman is a sideshow- Aknown liar. that's why she lost her job as a columinst with the Seattle Times. that's why Fox news won't have her on anymore. When you are so big a liar as to be banned fromn Fox News you are a member of the liuars elite club.

Posted by SeaDuck79 at 9/13/08 10:54 a.m.

Some people who go to church are liars? Gee, thanks for the news flash. I've been going to church for 30 years, and people are people, though people who go to church in the NW are generally committed to actually living what they believe, which includes NOT lying and such.

Here's a news flash for you: If someone disagrees with you, that doesn't make them a liar. If someone changes their mind, that doesn't either. If someone makes a decision based on the best info they had, and then that info gets updated, changing their conclusions to fit the data also doesn't make one a liar.

I'm done talking to unregistered users on this blog - as far as I'm concerned, you're trolls. You have access to the truth if you have access to the internet. It's up to you if you really want the truth.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:58 a.m.

The only way McCain and Palin will win enough votes from the non-wacko rightwing crowd will be to hide and disguise their records and beliefs and ideology.

Even their supporters can't come up with good reasons to support them or answer criticism of their records and beliefs. all they can do is point at Obama and ly or point at websites they have set up to propagate lies.

Geez, one of the ladies on the TV show "The View actually used the word lies to McCain's face yesterday when describing the ads he is running.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 11:01 a.m.

Wow SeaDuck you go to church? What a surprise. I mean the only reason to support Palin is because she claims to be a Christian. Let me ask you this before you go: who would Jesus bomb? Who would Jesus torture? Does Jesus support the Republican party who enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor?

Posted by Michael Shea at 9/13/08 11:07 a.m.

It's good to know that she's used to never winning the big one. This year her heart will be broken in November and January.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 11:11 a.m.

How many games has this fan been to? How many pictures of her wearing Seahawks gear have you seen? Does she mention the Seahawks on her blog? Do we really want a vice president who'll be taking Sundays off to go to the game?

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 11:14 a.m.

Dan Savage -brave warrior Oct. 2002

War may be bad for children and other living things, but there are times when peace is worse for children and other living things, and this is one of those times. Saying no to war in Iraq means saying yes to the continued oppression of the Iraqi people.

In the meantime, invading and rebuilding Iraq will not only free the Iraqi people, it will also make the Saudis aware of the consequences they face if they continue to oppress their own people while exporting terrorism and terrorists. The War on Iraq will make it clear to our friends and enemies in the Middle East (and elsewhere) that we mean business: Free your people, reform your societies, liberalize, and democratize... or we're going to come over there, remove you from power, free your people, and reform your societies for ourselves.

Posted by mmbb at 9/13/08 11:20 a.m.

This sort of reminds me of when big rock stars get on stage and yell out, "Hello, Seattle!" and the fans all think that the rock star both knows and cares about what city he's in.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 11:22 a.m.

mmbb

Good one!

Posted by mmbb at 9/13/08 11:28 a.m.

Oh, wait--there's a twist to this story. She's also a Steelers fan!!

She adopted the Pittsburgh Steelers because of the team's success in the 1970s and because there are no major professional teams in her state.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (second paragraph)

Posted by dirty kuffar at 9/13/08 11:43 a.m.

The lefties on this blog remind me of the same mistakes Presidents Kerry & Gore made.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 11:58 a.m.

Good for her. Still doesnt qualify her for the SECOND most important job in the United States.

OBAMA 08!!!!

Posted by SeattleAl at 9/13/08 12:48 p.m.

After the negative reaction to Matt Hasselbeck and Mack Strong giving President Bush a Seahawks jersey, I think the Seahawks are just going to stay away from anything appearing to endorse any presidential candidate.

Unfortunately for McCain/Palin, their campaign in Washington State is doomed to fail because of what he attempted to do to the Boeing Corporation. Obama will carry the state just so McCain can screw up the redo.

Posted by cb70 at 9/13/08 12:49 p.m.

WHO CARES?

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 1:05 p.m.

cb70

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 1:05 p.m.

mmbb The "rock star" analogy is right on.

It was inevitable. Obama, as a "rock star" had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever. . . One star fades, another is born. The very next morning after Obama's star mode convention acceptance, McCain picks Sarah Palin and a new celebrity is launched. And in the celebrity game, novelty is trump. With her narrative, her persona, her charisma carrying the McCain campaign to places it has never been and by all logic has no right to be, she's pulling an Obama. But her job is easier. She only has to remain airborne for seven more weeks. Obama maintained altitude for an astonishing four years. In politics, as in all games, however, it's the finish that counts.

Posted by gdsah at 9/13/08 1:51 p.m.

#180463 unregistered user.........Someone should wrap something around your foul mouth! Better still put soap in it! The question on this blog was "Local Seahawks fans....feel a kinship?" Anyone that says their opinion you attack, we should all feel free to give our opinion and......leave it at that.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 3:53 p.m.

I live in Ketchikan, Alaska and was born and raised in Seattle. I love the geography in Seattle but the government down there is totally out of control - just look at the sales tax, that waste of money 'light rail' that was voted down how many times? and countless others wasteful government projects. We don't have near the amount of waste in Alaska that happens in Washington state. So I find it funny that people are saying she is such an outrageous spender - look who's talking! Everyone in our state just got a check for $3,269 on Friday that was a direct result of oil revenue income, that would never happen in Washington.

I know Washington is insanely liberal but, to any one on the brink, take it from an Alaskan and former Washingtonian that this woman is the real deal - like nothing this country has ever seen - and that a good thing.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 3:54 p.m.

Seahawk fan and she's hot. She has my vote. McCain/Palin will crush you libs! Your candidate is a real loser, 4 more years!!!!!

Posted by seattlemike at 9/13/08 4:24 p.m.

I don't care WHO she likes, I don't like HER !!

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 5:05 p.m.

New York Times report on Palin's style of governing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.

Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.

State legislators are investigating accusations that Ms. Palin and her husband pressured officials to fire a state trooper who had gone through a messy divorce with her sister, charges that she denies. But interviews make clear that the Palins draw few distinctions between the personal and the political.

Last summer State Representative John Harris, the Republican speaker of the House, picked up his phone and heard Mr. Palin's voice. The governor's husband sounded edgy. He said he was unhappy that Mr. Harris had hired John Bitney as his chief of staff, the speaker recalled. Mr. Bitney was a high school classmate of the Palins and had worked for Ms. Palin. But she fired Mr. Bitney after learning that he had fallen in love with another longtime friend.

"I understood from the call that Todd wasn't happy with me hiring John and he'd like to see him not there," Mr. Harris said.

Read the article folks. This is not some off the wall liberal blog. This is in the New York Times, the most prominent newspaper in the country. A newspaper that helped Bush go to war on Iraq.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 7:15 p.m.

A nice video about Palin and her Juneau church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_CkZWTvKBc

Posted by wutitiz at 9/13/08 7:40 p.m.

I trust snopes.com over the New York Times. Does Jayson Blair ring a bell?

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 8:04 p.m.

One more thing to like about Governor Palin. Go Hawks, and Go Palin!

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 10:26 p.m.

wutitiz

You are a fool. Or maybe you are an end times wacko, which will explain your support for Palin who would like nothing more than to bring on the destruction of the planet so all you good Christians can experience the rapture. You are an American version of the Taliban.

http://tinyurl.com/65wx7f

Posted by plmrguy at 9/13/08 10:55 p.m.

well matt hasselback runs our offense and he is republican...so all you democrats wearing hass jerseys can have comfort in that...lol,..makes you feel kinda silly doesnt it

Posted by tevis at 9/13/08 11:59 p.m.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/13/08 3:53 p.m.

I live in Ketchikan, Alaska and was born and raised in Seattle. I love the geography in Seattle but the government down there is totally out of control - just look at the sales tax, that waste of money 'light rail' that was voted down how many times? and countless others wasteful government projects. We don't have near the amount of waste in Alaska that happens in Washington state. So I find it funny that people are saying she is such an outrageous spender - look who's talking! Everyone in our state just got a check for $3,269 on Friday that was a direct result of oil revenue income, that would never happen in Washington.

I know Washington is insanely liberal but, to any one on the brink, take it from an Alaskan and former Washingtonian that this woman is the real deal - like nothing this country has ever seen - and that a good thing.

Kind of a laughable and pitiful comment coming from someone who is a resident of what is undoubtedly the most corrupt state in the union. If you're so concerned about good government, look a little closer to home, my friend.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/14/08 1:02 p.m.

Tevis, I can see why you are pleased.

You conservatives do love your welfare! And you don't mind lying by you Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates either. Yes Palin is certainly the "real deal" when it comes to being a mendacious hypocritical Republican.

Check this out:

As ThinkProgress has documented, Palin has aggressively pursued earmark funding for her state as governor, requesting nearly $750 million in federal funds, "by far the largest per-capita request in the nation." Just last March, Palin wrote an op-ed in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, explaining that her "role at the federal level is simply to submit the most well-conceived earmark requests we can."

Fiorina's assertion that it is a "fact" that Palin "rejected the money for the Bridge to Nowhere" is wrong. Once Congress removed the designation for the bridge from the earmark, Palin took the money and redirected it to other projects.

As Keith Ashdown, chief investigator for the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, pointed out, Palin's constant claim to have said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge earmark is simply a lie: "To say ‘thanks but no thanks' would imply that they didn't take the money. And they got every dime of it."

Posted by unregistered user at 9/15/08 10:20 a.m.

Don't all South Alaskans love the Seahawks?

Posted by unregistered user at 9/15/08 12:07 p.m.

I'm waiting for the GOP press release that tells us the Seahawks actually won on Sunday.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/15/08 12:08 p.m.

Or that it's the media's fault they lost by commenting on their faults.

Posted by unregistered user at 9/16/08 10:00 p.m.

For some reason that's a strange vibe of having Palin tied to our Seahawks. There's always some weird fact (either horrific or terrific) that links Seattle to something in the news.