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Chamber of Commerce President: Debating Palin Will Be a Challenge for Biden

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Good Day. Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I am from France and learning to speak English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "Doj indicts accused of medicare fraud."
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Destiny of ME 11:04AM July 03, 2009

how come you dont make up a fiction story about it or at least throw in a comic article

stephen gangsta g of 2:52PM October 23, 2008

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter. Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.
She says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce. ‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
McCain was then earning little more than $40,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUY9S6iCvk
Lets see what his vet buddies confirm about McCain the hero.
And Sarah Palin how is she going to defend the country if she can't defend her children against pedophiles?

basementfrog of CA 7:06PM September 05, 2008

Sarah Palin and the Environment
Governor Sarah Palin has an extreme anti-conservation record on issues ranging from global warming, energy and drilling to wildlife and habitat protection.
Aerial hunting of wolves and bearsGovernor Palin is an active promoter of Alaska's aerial hunting program whereby wolves and bears are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animals point blank.
Palin offered a $150 bounty for wolves to entice hunters to kill more wolves in certain parts of the state, with hunters having to present a wolf's foreleg to collect the bounty.
She actively opposed a ballot measure campaign seeking to end the aerial hunting of wolves by private hunters and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign aimed at swaying people's votes on the issue.
She also introduced legislation to make it easier to kill wolves and bears and which would have also removed the aerial hunting initiative from the ballot and block the ability of citizens to vote on the issue.
The Board of Game, which she appoints, has approved the killing of black bear sows with cubs as part of the program and expanded the aerial control programs.
The media is currently looking into reports that state officials implementing one of the aerial wolf killing programs illegally killed five-week old wolf pups just outside their dens.
Global WarmingAs recently as August 2008, Governor Palin questioned whether man-made fossil fuel emissions are responsible for global warming, defying worldwide scientific consensus (Newsmax 8/29/08). And her drill-drill-drill approach to energy issues will do nothing to ease the causes of global warming, promote the use of clean, renewable energy sources, or break our addiction to foreign oil.
Endangered SpeciesPalin has repeatedly opposed the listing of endangered animals under the Endangered Species List despite overwhelming scientific evidence that such listings are warranted.
Polar BearThe U.S. Geological Survey predicts that loss of summer sea ice - crucial habitat for polar bears - could lead to the demise of two-thirds of the world's polar bears by mid-century, including all of Alaska's polar bears. The Bush administration has proposed listing the polar bears as threatened under the ESA to help protect polar bear habitat from threats such as oil and gas development.
Governor Palin has actively opposed the listing of the polar bear despite the fact that Alaska's top marine mammal biologists agreed with the federal scientists who believed the bear should be listed. She wrote the Secretary of Interior urging him not to list the bear on the ground it might hurt the state's oil- and gas-dependent economy. After the bear was listed, she recently filed suit seeking to overturn the listing of polar bears.
Beluga WhalesAlaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales are a unique group of white whales whose numbers have dramatically declined in the past two decades due to pressures ranging from pollution to increased ship traffic. Governor Palin opposes the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whales, citing the listing as a threat to oil and gas development, despite their genetic uniqueness and the fact that their numbers have decreased from 1,300 in the 1980s to about 350 today.
DrillingPalin is a strong supporter of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a vital wilderness area. It is home to hundreds of thousands of caribou who use the refuge as a calving ground, more than one million migratory birds, and countless other wildlife. It's the most important onshore denning habitat for female polar bears. Senator McCain himself has repeatedly voted to protect this pristine wilderness area. Palin is also a supporter of drilling in Bristol Bay and other offshore sites despite the risks to sensitive marine wildlife in the area, including the endangered polar bear and Beluga whale.
Clean Water and Pebble MineGovernor Palin actively campaigned against a state ballot measure this summer aimed at protecting Alaska's Bristol Bay. The mining industry seeks to develop a gold and copper mine in the area that would pollute the Bay's headwaters and threaten the spawning grounds for the largest remaining wild salmon run. The initiative would have prevented large-scale mining operations from dumping waste materials into salmon watersheds.

Michael of FL 6:54PM September 04, 2008

90% of Alaska is like a Chicago Suburb...give me a break.

Joe in MN of MN 4:45PM September 04, 2008

I was just floored by the rousing speech given by Gov. Sarah Palin (AK). It proved that anyone can give a speech. The Dem's failed to realize that this election will be decided by women. I am proud that I am an American and was able to hear her speech live. This was a great day for us working stiffs, and all Republican's will support Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin in electing the next President and FIRST WOMAN V.P. of the United States of America!

Keith Wilkop of MI 4:38PM September 04, 2008

As Ken Donohue is quoted as saying in this piece, "She looks to me like somebody who looked the gorilla in the eye and didn't blink." Biden is just another gorilla and I think she'll stare him down in any debate. Sarah Palin is a quick study and the McCain campaign will make sure she's prepared. No one expects Governor Palin to suddenly acquired the same level of knowledge of foreign affairs that Biden has. He has had his butt blued to that committee chair for a long time...perhaps too long. He was certainly wrong when he voted against the surge in Iraq, a move that has been a success by any measure. So much for his experience and judgment.
Anyone familiar with the presidency knows that presidents are not omniscient; they surround themselves with advisors who are experts on, defense, the economy, foreign relations, etc. They seek the counsel of their advisors, consider their advice and then use their judgment to make a decision. McCain, Obama, Biden, and yes, Palin would all do the same. That puts them on a pretty even playing field in my mind.
It will all play out over the next 60 days and it's going to be exciting to watch. Stay tuned!

Phil of OK 3:57PM September 04, 2008

Sarah Palin really connected with me as a middle class voter. I personally compared Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Of course I feel asleep when Joe Biden was giving his VP speech. On the other hand, Sarah Palin's speech was so fantastic and I actually stayed up and watch her. As a democratic voter, I have made up my mind now that I am going to vote for McCain/Palin ticket.. I hope Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazil and Harry Reid wake up and realize that they had the same opportunity. But they want to continue the same path of destruction of my old democratic party

David of OH 3:19PM September 04, 2008

and a near 90% approval rating by the people of Alaska. In an era where so many are cynical about government, this is very impressive!!

Ryan of PA 2:58PM September 04, 2008

For those of us who watch financial news networks, Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin, is no stranger. She's the most articulate government speaker on energy solutions I've heard during the last several months of this campaign season. Having watched the Democratic Convention wire to wire, the only reference to "energy plan" from Obama's acceptance speech was his 10 Year forecast to try and remedy this enormous problem for our economy. Plus in a previous interview on finance news channel, Palin referenced fact that Senator Biden, (now Obama's VP choice) was one of only 5 Democrats to vote AGAINST the Trans Alaska Pipeline bill signed in 1973. Where would we be today without that resource?? We need enlightened NEW leadership with sense of urgency to deliver a multi-faceted approach, harnessing our natural resources and developing alternative resources to solve our mega energy problem and insure a stronger America. At this juncture, the only candidates I've heard who have shown the fortitude and gumption to make America energy independent is the McCain/Palin ticket.

Eliz of CA 2:25PM September 04, 2008