Sarah Palin Quotes

Ah, the Internet. Thank goodness for the Internet and awesome, on-the-spot moments of political candidates.

Everyone knows that Sarah Palin's number one attraction is her appeal to the common man and woman. In fact, she has made her stump speeches a referendum on the everyday Joe and Jane, saying recently that she reaches out to those in small town America.

It’s true, she does seem to strike a chord with us where the Washington elite seldom dwell. Moms love her feisty approach; hunters adore her direct, ambitious and strong words; everyday people connect with her appeal to a more gentle time. Only these people have the perchance to read real news, know geography and do not take the law into their own hands.

How many people find it appropriate to take their boss' money and spend it until the courts stop them? Or implore God, taking the Lord's name in vain, to justify a war hell bent on losing to win a few meager votes? The answer is, not many. These are but a few of the many quotes the GOP Vice Presidential candidate has uttered in her few weeks. Surely, the great John McCain could have found a candidate with a better ability to speak for herself. No wonder she has been hidden away by his campaign, as we already know.

Palin has effectively shot herself in the foot with such quotes as:
"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008

or:
"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

and:
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

or these choice words:
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

Sarah Palin is the Achilles heel of the McCain Campaign, especially in light of her recent ethics violations, and it seems all the "Straight Talk Express" can do is to focus on Obama's supposed weaknesses to cover their own. Unfortunately, for the GOP, the American public is tired of the constant intrusion of crap sandwiches and Cheney-like statements.

With McCain moving away every day from his once middle stance as a reformer to nothing less than another George Bush, the attacks on Obama will get worse. Luckily, this will only further ensure true change in the form of a new direction.

Please vote Obama and we can rid our country of the Cheney politics that have dominated the last eight years.

"Joe the Plumber", Not Your Everyday Guy

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Many are worried, especially after the last debate that our taxes may increase, our wealth will be spread around, the sky will fall and the world as we know it will end. This is the GOP strategy at its best (minus Karl Rove and the 2004 swift boat campaign that took out John Kerry).

Fear not, my friends (to steal a line from the Maverick himself), this is not the end of days. What it is, though, is an opportunity to set the record straight. First, Joe the Plumber turns out to be an unlicensed worker that will have to now (thanks to John McCain) attend certification classes to actually become a plumber and will have to pay the $1,200 in back taxes, which he owes to the state of Ohio. He is also a man thrust into an unwanted spotlight, mocked by many on Youtube.com and hounded by the McCain campaign to appear at rallies - until it became increasingly apparent that he was nothing more than another GOP opportunist. We are not saying that we relish in his undoing, despite the fact that he soared from obscurity in his attempt to catch Obama off guard and to ask him a truly disingenuous question about a business he never had any intention to assume. Now we know he was nothing more than a mere man from a segment of society that appears to be upset with the idea that one man can make a difference.

Fear not my friends, this archetype is far and few between. As we move closer to the eventual day when history is made, such pronouncements become lost in our collective past of bad campaigning. Soon the day will come when we can wake up and not see the stock market wildly swing 1,000 points. Actually, this is a time of great opportunity. Let us take advantage of the moment and "buy low". Allow me to implore my fellow American to to reinvest in America by not only buying stock in Wall Street but by voting Obama as POTUS; despite your party status, we all have a right to be prosperous.

Anxious people are difficult to be around. They do not learn well, they’re not adaptable, and they’re obsessed with the worst possible scenario. They’re not good at seeing any point of view beyond their own distress and fear, and they become experts at raining on parades. That is what John McCain, and the GOP party have been selling for eight years.

There are options. One especially, starts on November 4th.