Clinton vs. Palin

The names at the top of the ballot on Nov. 4 will be McCain and Obama, but the juicier battle this fall for an important group of swing voters -- white working women with children -- may be fought between the other two stars of the Republican and Democratic conventions, Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Ms. Palin, the governor of Alaska and Mr. McCain's running mate, gave the best speech of her party's convention on Wednesday night, drawing 37 million television viewers. And she made it clear that she aimed to win over undecided women voters with her own version of the history-making, "I'm one of you" message that Mrs. Clinton employed to great effect in her fight for the Democratic nomination.

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Comments

[vonnegut lives]

They should have just chosen Hillary instead of making up lie after lie about Palin.

http://myrealitytelevision.com/special-coverage-us-elections-2008/

Upper Left Corner.

[HTN]

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You have read a few extra articles about this woman whom NO ONE knew until ten days ago instead of BUYING INTO ***lie after lie about Palin.***

[StandUpAmerica08]

Anyone knows where Sarah Bush will be reading her teleprompter tomorrow?

[Lu4PUMA]

Her teleprompter will probably be helping poor old Jeb Obama http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2008/07/jeb-obama.html

[in4success]

come on hillary! show us how to field-dress a barracuda!

[Lu4PUMA]

Maybe she will show you haw to maintain your integrity, instead. Hillary is a barracuda.

[undecidee]

I can't believe that she is like that because she looks so beautiful. Oh, well, another d chen@@

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/#comment-5376

[Lu4PUMA]

You do not know what she is like. And you will not find out reading Laprogressive.

[BlueBoomer]

I was not a supporter of Hillary OR Obama (I am a die-hard BIDEN fan), but Hillary is JUST what we need to counter Palin, who gives me the creeps... And speaking of creepy women, has anyone heard from Ann Coulter lately... I would have thought she would be creaming her jeans over Palin.

Go JObama '08!

[Belleweathered]

I can't help but wonder, if McCain wanted a woman on the ticket, why not Chirsite Todd-Whitman?
I saw her last night on Now and remember her well as 2 term Gov. of NJ. Living in a Philly suburb, our news market is very closely tied to the goings-on in NJ.
She was also, albeit briefly, the head of the EPA, until she realized that Cheney/Bush would counter-act everything she believed in accomplishing there.
I am a Democrat, and can clearly see how this woman would have been a much better "governing" choice for Mc Cain and her record is much more in keeping with his to be able to distance themselves from neo-conservativism.
I still would not have voted for that ticket, but could have respected it as a sincere attempt to return civility to our policital discourse.

[renatam]

Christy gave you her answer on "Now." The Republican Party has left Moderate Republicans behind and John McCain chose the far right wing of his Party for political reasons.

She and other Moderates -- typically from the Rockefeller Wing that has been marginalized -- are working in the trenches to re-position their Party when this bloodbath they know is coming, is through. Arnold S., Governor of CA -- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of NYC and 11 Republican Senators didn't show up in St. Paul this week -- for survival. Chris Shays of CT has Barack Obama in HIS Campaign commercials.

They know, if others are in DENIAL.

[flydoghead]

Todd-Whitman wasn't looked at because she had the nerve to challenge the Bush WH.

She is too mavericky .

While I don't agree with her often, she is an intelligent articulate woman.

Not exactly what they were look for......

[naschkatze]

And Kay Bailey Hutchison was passed over for a combination of sexism and ageism. I am not a Republican, but I think she would have been a much better pick than Palin. And no one could accuse her of not having ties to the oil industry! But they wanted a younger woman than her and foolishly (but to my joy) they axed her. The Christian right has a lot to do with it too. The Repug Party has become ruled by the theocrats who will destroy it.

[Lu4PUMA]

Just like Hillary Clinton was.

[GOVSUX]

OH MAN!!!! I bought a pair of those "perfect push-ups" I went from doing 100 PU's to 25...real buttkickers!

[GOVSUX]

There is one thing the right and left CAN agree on, we HATE each other. It is no longer a matter of mutual respect with differing opinions, it's HATE. Since the country is for all intents and purposes divided in half, let's just finish the job and actually divide the country. Why should one half of the country force the other half into it's hell? Does anyone second this motion. Geography isn't important if the people are industrious and work hard.

[Aywaller]

You couldn't be more wrong. Reasonable people can disagree without being disagreeable. Just because you aren't smart enough to know how to be reasonable doesn't mean the rest of us don't.

[GOVSUX]

Thank you for making my point.

[GOVSUX]

Since you don't agree, what do you do? Call people names like a 5yr old, (sigh)

[GOVSUX]

Reasonable and liberal don't quite go together.

[renatam]

As Sarah and Todd Palin are about to find out, secessionist movements are against the law and treasonist. Our greatest President fought a WAR to make this case.

Ironically, it is always the States who need the most economic support, bailouts, pork, etc. -- such as ALASKA -- who rant about secession. ALASKA is the pork Capitol of the US, courtesy of the lower 48 taxpayers. Sarah Palin not only knows this, she is deeply involved in soliciting it -- yet, she/her husband disengenously and divisively play the secessionist game w/our tax dollars.

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/visualizingearmarks/

Amoral.

[GOVSUX]

You need to read history chief...many states would not ratify the constitution unless they had the option of opting out of the fed system.

[Lu4PUMA]

Most of the country is not Left or Right. They are in the MIDDLE ! Ever see a Bell Curve? The candidate that will win is the one closest to the middle. It is too late for BO to convince the public that, that is him.

[CitizenInformed]

So much hatred expressed in many of these blogs....not to mention, ignorance. So sad.

Seems to me that Hillary would have a vested interest in ensuring that Palin does not make it to the White House. Seems like Hillary ran 25 miles in the marathon race to the White House, only to have Palin, a right-wing conservative with no qualifications whatsoever, swoop in in the 26th mile. Gender politics really backfired for Hillary, and worse yet, left the country with someone like Palin as potentially the first female president...as McCain's senility increases. What a disaster for women and the country at large.

[flydoghead]

true

[renatam]

Yes. Hillary Clinton laid the foundation for Sarah Palin in every way -- for her "friend" John McCain, who she validated and provided ad spots for -- during the final month of her unaffordable and toxic Campaign.

Hillary Clinton long ago validated John McCain (as her fellow DLC traitor friend, Joe Lieberman did and does) -- against the Democratic Party, Democratic votes, wishes of New York RESIDENTS/voters (not commuters, etc.). Period.

Her choice what she does not. She will do what is best for HERSELF and Bill's $1BILLION NYC-based empire, Clinton Inc. She should expect to be accountable to NY voters for her actions/decisions just like any other sitting Senator who does the opposite of what their voting and tax paying constituency wants...without whinning. Her choice.

[dajay]

renatam: So let me get this straight. Basically you're saying Hillary is responsible for McCain choosing Palin as a running mate.

Yeah , you are a brain surgeon.

[elcojonu]

Liberals ROCK !
Conservatives JUST EXIST !

[renatam]

And, one would have to wonder WHY Republicans/Conservatives are so ANGRY? They have had power over the rest of us for a quarter of a century, deregulated virtually every industry we are now bailing out and -- had an 8 year party they are now leaving to others to clean up.

What's with all the ANGER, FURY, ANGST?

It was interesting watching McCain/Palin rant against ....the invisible Republican President/VP and Congress (until 2006) that drove us into this ditch...as if McCain (who me???) had nothing to do with this nightmare. Then, disengenously pretend it was somehow Democratis fault.

Cunning. Clever. Disgraceful.

The party and the LIES are over.

[srtjsrtj]

Many of us are excited about Hillary's campaging. Women issues are so important.

Palin Cut the Budget For Special Needs Children by 62% yet she stood at the convention and said those mothers would have a friend. Women need truth tellers

Palin has also voided funds for two other similar programs during her tenure as governor. One, the WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Program, would have provided breast pumps and nutrition support to low-income rural women, for a total cost of $15,480. Another, the Cook Inlet Housing Authority's student housing and daycare facility project, would have built a childcare facility and family-style housing units for students pursuing vocational education in Anchorage, most of whom come from rural areas.

Women need advocates that say what they mean and mean what they say. We don't need windo dressing

Hillary is a champion for Women's rights and will stand tall and we women surely appreciate her doing so.

[partyofone]

I cannot imagine that women who are concerned about the nation and its future would even consider voting for McCain. There is of course the Hillary diehards, the aging, bitter women who will vote for any female to strike a blow against evil men. Hillary helped create them, but you can't unring a bell.

[luckyinnc]

just shows you how naive chicagobama is if he thinks the clintons are going to resuce him. don't think the clintons hold a grudge? wait and see.

[dajay]

I HOPE BILL AND HILLARY DO HOLD A GRUDGE. FOR A LONG TIME TOO!

[renatam]

They are only now beginning to learn about the GRUDGE New York City residents/voters can hold -- for that hole in lower Manhattan -- and HRC voting to take attention away from it, for Clinton Inc.'s business/political agendas.

Charlie Rangel, her mentor and patron is finding out too...w/more to come re his subsidized apartments, etc. We all knew this for 30 years. Ask yourselves WHY is he being INVESTIGATED NOW?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09012008/news/nationalnews/sick_it_to_charlie_126982.htm

[partyofone]

Bill and Hillary are history. They stepped into the spotlight at the Democratic Convention thinking it was their comeback, but it was a swan song. The era of mean, dishonest, disvisive, corporate-condtrolled, Bush-Rove-Clinton-McCain politics will soon be over.

[dajay]

Love watching the crazy Obama supporters go at it with the crazy Palin Republicans.

Hillary must be getting a good laugh at you fools!

[Obama4Life]

Get out of here you right wing wackos.

How long did Rove and Limbaugh blow you losers to get you to come here and troll?

Fools look at the evidence, the republican party is a total failure. They have nothing to run on, so all they can do is throw negative false attacks. They are milking this country dry, we need CHANGE!

Don't be fooled for a 3rd TIME!

[JR49]

Seems like many people especially Republicans have such a short memory...so do you remember Bosnia trip? How long it stayed on the media radar and everybody was outrages about it. So now we have new pathetic Barracuda Palin in the pool who says lies whenever open her mouth and what happens? Republican pigs are screaming stop vetting her for unimportant things....stop to be sexist, let her be and on and on...so it is that equality? It is that Democracy and change you are talking about?
Now they even are trying to persuade us that these guys who were ruling here last 8 years are not Republicans...want all us to have amnesia so they can finish the job Bush/Cheney started and destroy our country forever.
No my friend Palin has nothing to tell to us. She is just little screaming mouse from Alaska whom Republicans are using as their Puppet. Nothing more nothing less. I hope HRC will not bother with her and directly attack McDrill for his stupidity to bring someone like Palin so near to the Presidency.

[nomobull]

lets see which is worse lying about something bad that didn't happen {not smart agree}or lying about stuff you actually did that was wrong{even dumber}

[Agent420]

They have really lost it if they think that Booosh is a democrat. But then they would not know the truth if it hit them in the face. How stupid and they be and how stupid that they think we will forget the party that brought America down to the same level as the people we call enemy's.

It is time for the second crusades to an end.

Obama/Biden 08