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Sarah Palin is making quips about Joe Biden’s age? That’s rich.
She’s incredibly sarcastic at times and I don’t recall Obama or Biden being so condescending towards her, unless I missed it. And yes, supporters on both sides can be harsh and down-right nasty at times, but how the candidates characterize their [...]

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Perhaps, but certainly not the kind one thinks of immediately prior to an election.
Apparently, the McCain camp may possibly be trying to encourage an early wedding for Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter, Bristol Palin, in order to distract attention from substance (or lack thereof if we are referring to Sarah Palin) and instead focus [...]

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As our economic house of cards was clearly tumbling down, McCain proclaimed approx. 2-3 weeks ago that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” But they really weren’t. Now he admits that the situation is quite dire and is backing away from his statement in early September that “Americans want less regulation” of [...]

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CNN program host, Campbell Brown, has finally realized that McCain’s continued refusal to allow VP candidate, Sarah Palin, to stand on her own two feet in front of the American people and the media, is a double standard which would not be applied if she were a man. I pointed this obvious contradiction out [...]

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You have to admit, there is something strange about the “fat cats” on Wall Street and their “free-market” cheerleaders taking such risks and reaping the huge financial rewards and then when it all goes south, transferring that burden on the government and the taxpayers. I realize that the government ultimately has to step in [...]

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My name is John McCain, and I don’t know my head from my ass because my advisers forgot to tell me which was which:

In a speech on the economy today in Scranton, PA, John McCain spat populist fire as he railed at the high executive compensation and golden parachutes enjoyed by top Wall Street executives.
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If it walks like a Bush and talks like a Bush, it’s a Bush.

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You gotta love Palin’s talking point on Russia. It’s so laughable you’d almost think it was a Saturday Night Live skit.

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Ok, now John McCain just isn’t making sense- which is it, regulate or deregulate Wall Street? He can’t even keep his own talking points straight, nor can he rationalize his past statements with current ones regarding the economic crisis.
Who is this guy mumbling incoherently and where is the ’straight talk’ John McCain? [...]

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Would someone explain to me how Barack Obama, whose working class roots and achievements in law school and beyond are the epitome of the American dream, is being labeled “uppity” and “elitist” by supporters of John McCain, a man who married a beer heiress and who owns 8 houses and 13 cars, and who wears [...]

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