Michael, the trooper didn’t just taser an 11 year old boy. That’s a smear. Learn what actually happened.

The allegation of abuse of power is actually false in the major points. Buried in the report, which was written by her political enemies, is the admission that she did nothing wrong. What was she supposed to do about a police officer who tasers an 11 year old boy and makes death threats to people? Say “Oh, I can’t do anything because he’s involved in a divorce with my sister.” That’s your abuse of power.

Palin has been the target of a scurrilous and vicious slander campaign intended to destroy her political career. She is the actual victim of the kind of slandering Obama kept saying the McCain campaign would do to him, but never did. Anytime the Democrats want the “politics of personal destruction” to stop all they have to do is stop practicing it, and it will stop.

Please remind me exactly when it was that we began believing the statements of Palestinian Arab spokesliars? When did we learn to hate a U.S. presidential candidate enough that we became willing to cite Abunimah as though he represents a credible source of information? “Read it all,” you say? Well, here are some other Abunimah quotations:

“Zionist leaders, academics, and propagandists are actually professional, malicious liars as much as they are violent, merciless murderers.”

“[I]f lying is Israel’s best policy, … shouldn’t the world … doubt the Zionists’ official stories about … the holocaust, for example? … Indeed, if Zionists could lie about their present and ongoing torment of my [Palestinian] people, usurpation of my homeland and arrogation of my rights, and they do it rather obscenely, couldn’t they likewise lie, equally obscenely, about the holocaust, an event that took place over half a century ago?”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426

Meanwhile, you failed to mention that al-Qaeda endorsed McCain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102477.html

Shyeah, now I am convinced.

The NY Times did a major Sunday story on Palin as governor a few weeks ago. Curiously, in a state where she has an eighty percent approval rating, they could find hardly anyone who liked her. The conclusion of the article was–gasp–that Sarah Palin is a politician who rewards her supporters and excludes her enemies. Gosh, how appalling.

It’s not a good idea to believe much campaign rhetoric from anyone. The better question is the candidate’s history and bckground as signifiers. Obama’s viewpoint on Israel and US foreign and defense policy generally were pretty consistent until he ran for president.

So are McCain’s. Note tht Biden didn’t suggest the jihadists would test McCain to find out his mettle. They already know it.

Remember that pathetic salute and “Reporting for duty” line?

It makes me roll my eyes even today.

That said, I’m not focusing on “Not Obama.” I’m focusing on “I’d have voted for McCain eight years ago if he’d run then, too.”

“cronyism” – one word – Rezko

“contempt for others that don’t have the ‘correct’ point of view” – Palin was savaged in the media, “vetted” in a way that Obama has not been until recently, precisely because McCain/Palin have been trying to bring up everything in Obama’s past (and present) that the media has studiously ignored.