darkdog

I applied my vast libraries of knowledge and all the power of my brain to figuring out what this all means and why she's doing it. Yeah, I got nothing. I have a few speculations, but they're no more likely to be right than anyone else's speculations. We'll just have to await new information to reduce uncertainty.

Obama has to commit a high crime or misdemeanor to get impeached. You can't impeach a guy for having bad policies.

The electors are sent by the people of the states to vote in the electoral college. Are you saying Bush's electors should have betrayed the voters by voting for the other guy? That sounds incredibly unfair.

The electoral college was set up to give the voters in the less populous states more of a voice than they would in a popular majority vote. That way, the candidates can't just focus on the concerns of the big cities while ignoring the less populous rural areas.

Why the hate-mongering?

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LuciaDisturbed

I can't believe the number of dumbasses that I see that are expecting miracles and big changes overnight from Obama. People, it takes TIME! You also have to factor in the bad economy which began BEFORE Obama took office.

Obama is the President, NOT the MESSIAH! He can't perform miracles like you would expect a messiah to do. There is a huge difference between a president and a messiah. He, however, can do things to improve things, and eventually things will be a lot better than it is right now, it just is going to take time and we need to be patient...and we, as American citizens, have to do our part too. We can't just sit on our asses and do nothing and expect one person to change EVERYTHING overnight. We gotta pitch in too.

And, as much as I would love to have a female president someday, I would never vote for Palin in a million years and even if I was offered a zillion dollars! She's nothing but a barbie doll with no brain...men want her so they can jack off to her in their living rooms while she's giving speeches on TV. Ick!

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Foxrac

Come on, you can whine whatever you want but it won't change and Obama has been in office for almost 7 month, you need get deal with it or go live in middle east.

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Foxrac

We don't bailout on GM since GM already filed for bankruptcy and it was part of congress that reject to bailout in last Jan.

Obama has nothing with health insurance, economy has went bad since last 2 years ago and it had been done under Bush admin, it will take few years to recover.

You won't remember about we had bad economy in 1980 but not recover until 1984.

Don't blame on Obama for cause any bad economy, you need get straight with fact.

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Foxrac

It's time for Palin to owe apology to Russia for made comment about war against Russia as needed, I think you remember that.

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Steel X

as I buy her a drink for such a very understanding post she made there.

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deafskeptic

Apparently, being caught with your pants down is an impeachable offense while lying to millions about evidence so one can start a war with some foreign country isn't impeachable. I guess only Democrats can be impeached.

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what happened few months ago it happened they jack our health insurance price so high that we struggle to afford it. Then we call insurance company to say why they raise price since we haven't went to hospital for 4 years now. Their answer was to raise price and use $ for uninsured people that Obama request.


quick question do you have Family? Then don't answer because you will find how much it cost for 4 members in family cost insurance. Lot family drop insurance after that result. they couldn't afford it.


You not answer my question
why Obama have power to fire Rick Wagner who was CEO for GM.

whatdidyousay!

Netrox, you're right ! If Sarah can't handle the pressure as being a governer how the HELL is she going handle being president!

darkage

Yes, I have answer, "Please visit at wikipedia - they have excellent info".
"GM lost $82 billion."
"Wagoner stated that the worst decision of his tenure at GM was "axing the EV1 electric-car program and not putting the right resources into hybrids"

So what... all presidents do that....

Do not blame any president of the USA. Obama or Bush did not control on price of food.
This year, Milk and egg are lower price better than last year. Most food goes higher cause by bad weather (heatwave or hurricane or pest control), workers wants raise salary

Good news...... This year - gas is much cheaper than last year.

Not do blame only one person. Hillary Clinton does that. Also, some Dem party, too

Have you see movie "Sicko"?

In Canada - higher tax - $$$ for health insurance?

In other countries - I have been in Colombia, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Europe. I noticed that drug and medical prescription... they showed lower price better than USA. Most drugs made in the USA. In USA cost me 10 times or more expensive.

In Tehran, Iran - transsexual (male to female)- cost only $4,500. Last week, I learned from HBO on TV.

In USA - Medical prescription are over price.
Some people do have job. They did not sign up for health insurance. Some people want to take big $$$ home without think about accident or serious sick or assault.


Cochlear implant - you know most doctor smell $$$$ from health insurance. Many hearing parents do not know much about deafness. They put CI on 5 or 6 years old deaf kids.

Yes, deaf kid live on our street. Once, I met parents of deaf son. Hearing parents refuses learn sign language since born deaf kid. Two weeks ago, they asked me to join their party "Journal to surgery ear project on July 4th". The parents did not learn any sign language. They did not ask me any thing about deafness. I still refuse to attend their party because they refuse learn sign language.
This month, they will send deaf son (6 years old) to Calif for surgery ear project (Cochlear implant). The hearing parents believed in Doctor say....
You know how much cost of CI - approx $50,000 to $100,000. The insurance will pay for it. Doctor and CI business take $$$ home. Electronic cost you only $100.

Last weekend, we had party at Doctor's house. I guess they are worth something like $4 or $5 million dollars house. Hard to guess how big property maybe 100 area & probably property tax cost $25,000. The $$$ came from patient's insurance. This woman doctor for treat on woman's cancer.

This Doctor's property. They have small barn and other extra building for cars garage (not show any pic)



We work harder for better live. That's unfair.... many greed CEO and Doctors take lot of $$$$ home.

Foxrac

Speaking of health insurance, I have say bullshit, Obama has NOTHING with health insurance and it was both of workplace (who offers health insurance) and health insurance has increase of cost due alot of layoff, it wasn't from Obama's request and none of our president has power to control the health insurance. My parent has health insurance and it wasn't $600 for family, so much less and haven't change yet.

No, it wasn't Obama decision to fire Rick Wagoner, he's just resign from GM for many reason and Obama don't have any power to control it either but they maybe only urge it,

Only congresses has authority to change the regulation for health insurance and require the president to sign it, that's it.

Don't expect about president has too power to control anything, that's so dumb and you should go back to take government course , even some health insurance companies made misled.

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whatdidyousay!

If the is a photo of you dancing , I do not think you call people lazy! And I know people that voted for Obama they are not lazy! They all have jobs! Some were men working with jackhammers on my street!

Foxrac

I did vote Obama in last Nov and don't feel so regret because I prefer to have Obama/Biden in office over McCain/Palin, many of McCain's policies would be similar to Bush and wouldn't make economy so better in 2009, it's still bad because it take alot of time to recover, however McCain/Palin could make more worse than you thought.

I don't mind about moderate republicans in office, such as Colin Powell but crazy conservative republicans are really no way for me because I had done with Bush admin for 8 years and it wasn't so good. Bush admin is nowhere to similar as Reagan admin does.

I do have some disagree with Obama but I picked him as most one.

I never want Palin to be in white house.

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whatdidyousay!

Yeah , I heard she had great eyes sights, she can see Russia from her window! When a reporter ask Sarah about her foreign experience , she said she was in another country , her jet had to refuel and it was in air port for few hours! . She call sitting in a jet in another country air port a foreign experience ! I been to Mexico and I can see the moon from my deck , so I have qualities to be a president and an astronaut! And I thought of astronaut joke before I heard Jay Leno say it on TV!

Reba

She doesn't shoot wild animals from helicopters.

Reba

Well, that was certainly senseless and rude of them.

whatdidyousay!

She would rather spend her time making ducks, moose, wolves and polar bears lame so she can kill them in cold blood!

Reba

She doesn't hunt from a helicopter.

Foxrac

Just ask them for proof, I wasn't aware of it, however it's least of my concern because I'm pro-hunting.

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darkage

You can do google to find more information. Also, they do have made fun of of Palin in cartoon.

I just quick to pick for you. Not serious to search.
Did Sarah Palin's 'predator control' slaughter 14 wolf cubs? | The Dish Rag | Los Angeles Times

Sarah Palin Supported Aerial Hunting

What's aerial wolf gunning, and why does vice presidential Sarah Palin support the practice? - By Samantha Henig - Slate Magazine

TheWriteAlex

She's dumb as a stump.

'Nuff said.

darkdog

1. Clinton did not get impeached for being caught with his pants down. He got impeached for perjuring himself in a sexual harassment lawsuit. He lied about it under oath. If you or I did that, we would be charged with a felony and face prison time.

2.There's a difference between lying about something and being wrong. If Bush lied, that meant Clinton lied, many prominent Democrats lied, and all 15 nations on the UN security council lied.

By the way, did you notice I was defending a Democrat against crazy impeachment talk?

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True, she may kiss my feet.

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Reba

Do you have any proof that Palin herself shot any animals from a helicopter?

Nope, didn't happen.

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dreama

I feel sad that Sarah Palin quit as good polititions are very rare. The press made her into a monster. A lot of lies were told about her. I'm a strict vegan. While it would be great if Sarah Palin was vegan, no other polition is either except Denis Kether (sp?)
From what I read people in Alaska do hunt and catch meat themselves more often then mainland USA but people need to remember where they get their meat from. The worst is from factory farming not hunting.

I may not like all her policies but I really aproved of her views on pro life issues and the disabled. She said that everyone had something to contribute. I love how positive she is about her son Trig. She also supported her pregnant daughter in times of need. So she's definately not just your average curupt polition.

I wish there were more like her.

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Oceanbreeze

And, you know this .... from where? Or, is that just your opinion?

The United States nor the world knew her before she was tapped to become McCain's running mate during the '08 election, and now, she's the new "darling" of the Republican party. They some how magically think she has a good chance against Obama in '12. They're dreaming.

As I jokingly told a friend of mine last night, my dog has more qualifications to be the President then she does!

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inspirabull

She got elected because our last governor was so bad she looked great. She did not take down the old boys, that is totally false, that was an FBI investigation that started before she got in. She does not hunt from helicopters that is absurd and totally untrue. She did get in office with only the experience of a small town mayor of a town of 7-8,000 people. Her tour as governor has been half taken up by being called upon by McCain for VP. She is completely and totally unqualified to run our country. Other than that she is okay just another bossy charismatic hard as nails Alaskan female, there is a whole bunch of em' up here.

whatdidyousay!

The wolf is an intelligent, handsome creature and, for many visitors to Alaska, an integral part of the state’s wild appeal. Wolves live in complex social structures, mate for life and don’t attack humans — it’s easy to see in them the family resemblance to mankind’s best friend.

That’s what makes it so painful to look at the video of an aerial wolfhunt in Alaska that has been circulating since Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated as Sen. John McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket.

In a program begun by ex-Gov. Frank Murkowski, and intensified by Palin, Alaska has sponsored the aerial hunting of more than 800 wolves since 2002 — out of a state population of perhaps 9,000. Pilots chase the wolves through the deep snow, sometimes for miles, until the exhausted animals have slowed enough to be blown away with shotguns. Then the plane lands and finishes the job, unless the wounded wolf has managed to crawl into the deep woods to bleed to death in solitude.

Palin, who won office with the support of powerful hunting groups, has intensified the “cull.” She pushed to offer a bounty to hunters who brought in a left wolf paw (lopped off with a chain saw) and extended the kill order to grizzly and black bears — including sows and their cubs. Before a state court ruled the practice illegal, she offered a bounty of $150 for every slain wolf.

Hunting groups support the program, arguing that it increases the availability of game for poor Alaskans, and the sporting chances of hunters like Sarah and Todd Palin themselves, who have their sights set on moose. But wildlife viewing brings far more tourist dollars to the state, where only 14 percent of the population hunts.


Grey wolf (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services)
As John Toppenberg of the Alaskan Wildlife Alliance puts it, the 60,000 square miles where the cull takes place are mainly used by “fat-ass trophy hunters on all-terrain vehicles, not Native peoples who need them for subsistence, with rare exceptions.”

Critics say Palin has shown a strong bias for hunters. Her staff recently wrote a statute that would permit her hand-picked Board of Game, whose seven members all favor killing predators, to operate without written guidelines. Another bill, currently undergoing legal review, would prohibit Alaskans from putting pro-wildlife propositions on the ballot, by declaring wildlife a “state asset” whose fate can be determined only by the state .

To fight a ballot measure against the hunt, Palin’s government spent $400,000 to produce a report countering arguments that the hunt is inhumane and scientifically dubious. Meanwhile, 174 members of the American Society of Mammalogists wrote to Palin, unsuccessfully, to ask her to reevaluate the science.

In 1996 and 2000, Alaskans voted in favor of ballot initiatives to end the aerial hunt. This time, Lt. Governor Sean Parnell put the measure on the primary ballot, ensuring that Republicans — who were turning out in larger-then-usual numbers to vote on their scandal-ridden congressman and senator — would make up the bulk of the voters.

In the Aug. 26 primary, the measure to end aerial predator hunting failed winning only 44 percent of the vote. Parnell’s special assistant, Jason Hooley, said the state was obliged by new statutory language to put the measure on the primary ballot.

Many hunters oppose the aerial kills as cruel and unfair. Interestingly, the stomach-churning film that is circulating on YouTube (it was produced by Defenders of Wildlife), in fact depicts government hunters shooting wolves with tranquilizer darts, in order to study them. “The reality is much more gruesome,” says Toppenberg. “They get hit with buckshot, it goes right through and their blood splatters all over the snow.”

The hunts often take out alpha males, leaving younger animals that don’t know where to make dens or find ungulates at certain times of the year. “Then you have them going into rural villages and eating dogs,” Toppenberg said. “You’re creating wolf problems rather than solving them.”

The program was disturbing enough to have provoked Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) last year to introduce legislation designed to curtail predator-control programs, except as a last resort. Palin denounced the bill, applauding her own programs as “widely recognized for their excellence and effectiveness.”

But Steve Stringham, a wildlife biologist and author of six books about bears, says Alaska has never established what numbers of moose and caribou can be sustained by the environment. If they shoot too many wolves and bears, he noted, “the potential for overgrazing may be high.”

Stringham has lived closely with Alaskan wildlife. He spent the winter of 1972 in the Wrangell Mountains, 100 miles from the nearest grocer. Bagging a moose for eating was a matter of life and death. “In those situations you don’t have a great appreciation for wolves, until you bag your moose. Then you don’t mind the wolves so much.”

He has raised orphaned wolf pups, and had friendly wild wolves sit a few feet away from him. He’s also been out snowshoeing when packs of wolves surrounded him, a harrowing experience. “Part of you is saying to yourself, ‘There’s never been a reported case of wolves attacking and killing a human in North America.’ The other part of you is going, ‘Of course, this wouldn’t be a reported case either.’”

“But trophy hunters were a bigger problem. Before I got my moose I felt like shooting the damn trophy hunters out of the air. “

I reached wildlife biologist Vic Van Ballenberghe on his cellphone in vast Denali National Park, where he’s spent parts of the past 28 years observing moose. Van Ballenberghe is sickened by the atavistic hunting of predators from airplanes, but he’s also worried that willy-nilly wolf slaughter will hurt the moose and caribou.

When moose and caribou get too numerous and overbrowse, the plants don’t grow as well and the resulting food shortage can weaken the animals, leading to disease outbreaks. In the 1970s and ’80s, the slaughter of wolves in the Tanana Flats area, south of Fairbanks, led the moose population to explode from about 2,800 to the current level of 17,000. The moose in that area are sick, Van Ballenberghe said. “We’re waiting for a bad winter and that population will crash.”

The current predator-control program reminds Van Ballenberghe of the 1930s, when Alaskans shot, poisoned and ran down as many wolves and bears as they could. “Blasting wolves from an airplane is not something most people think is a good practice,” he says. “ You can call it anything you want but it’s a pretty ugly business.”

And there’s no convincing evidence that moose or caribou populations are particularly low in most of the area where the hunt is taking place. “Hunters always say there’s not enough game,” said Van Ballenberghe. “No matter how much there is, they always want more.”

In the recent campaign, hunting groups sent fliers to every voter in the state — warning that wolves would kill their dogs, threaten their kids and take food off the table. Some voters found the wording of the initiative confusing.

“We got more than a hundred calls from people who said they’d mistakenly voted the wrong way,” says Toppenberg. Hooley, Parnell’s spokesman, said the wording of the measure had been in place since 2005 and was well-reviewed by its proponents.

Palin’s dismal environmental record makes environmentalists cringe. She’s not convinced that global warming is man-made, sued to stop the listing of polar bears as an endangered species, and moved forward a mining plan that some believe threatens wildlife in Bristol Bay—her daughter’s namesake.

None of this seems to bug Alaskans overmuch. “We’ve got a lot of, ‘Kill them all, let God sort ‘em out’ mentality up here,” says Toppenberg, who was a cop in Colorado before moving to Alaska in the 1990s. “Hopefully, the lower 48 will become aware of the extremeness of Sara Palin’s positions. She’s for cut, kill and drill. Frankly, that’s not even good for tourism.”

Sarah Support aerial wolfhunt and in my book that just as bad Sarah doing it herself! And Sarah did say she aerial wolfhunt ! She is threat to all wildlife! She made me sick!

Oceanbreeze

Thank you for speaking as someone who has experienced her leadership.

This also just illustrates for me just how impulsive McCain was for nominating her. Nobody knew this woman beforehand and nobody did they homework too see what her qualifications were.

Now, they want her to run for President?

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whatdidyousay!

McCain wanted to run with Mitt Romney , but the GOP Party thought it was a bad idea as Mitt is a Mormon. McCain may had win if pick Mitt, so I am glad McCain pick Palin!