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Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party

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Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party

Palin Represents ‘Fatal Cancer’ to GOP, Top Conservative Pundit Says

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/08/palin-represents-%e2%80%98fatal-cancer%e2%80%99-to-gop-conservative-says/
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FrankenbarbieConservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, who has expressed doubts about Sarah Palin's readiness to serve as vice president, said this week the Alaska governor represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party

From CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand

(CNN) – Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, who has expressed doubts about Sarah Palin’s readiness to serve as vice president, said this week the Alaska governor “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party.”

Brooks praised Palin’s debate performance and called her a natural political talent, but told a New York audience Monday that “experience matters”: “Do I think she’s ready to be president or vice president? No, she’s not even close to that,” he said.

“…Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas,” he also said, in remarks first reported by the Huffington Post. “But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas, but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices."

 

Other prominent conservatives, including George Will and David Frum, have publicly questioned Palin's readiness to be vice president. Prominent conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, an early supporter, said late last month that recent interviews have shown the Alaska governor is "out of her league" and should leave the GOP presidential ticket for the good of the party.

Brooks himself has also written skeptically about Palin. "Sarah Palin has many virtues," he wrote in a recent column. "If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she'd be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party

If there's truth to this, then she'll certainly fit right in just fine with the rest of the crooks!

Question:  How many Republicans does it take to screw in one lightbulb?

Answer:  Manual labor, are you kidding?   I went to Harvard!  Get a Democrat!

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

carguy, you can't be serious! obama isn't patriotic and mccain is? some on! mccain is more patriotic how? because he graduated 5th from the bottom at annapolis? he was in annapolis only because his dad and grandpa were admirals. he's more patriotic because he was a pow? he got preferential treatment for part of his time as a pow after telling his captors he was an admiral's son. being a former pow makes him a beter patriot and more qualified to be pres? you can't be real!

i don't give a rat's ass about a militant from the 60's who is now a college professor. the man was in prison, people! he's paid his dues to society. i don't condone what he did 40 years ago but it was 40 years ago. it has NOTHING to do with today! we should be voting based on the candidate's policies concerning today! mccain is bringing up this ayres guy because he's desperate. his campaign people admit it as such. they're telling you they can't win if the election is based on policies concerning the war in iraq and the economy.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry Starkers, but you are basing your choices are things that are the least likely important things one should be looking for in a Presidential Candidate.

So a bad temper, losing the plot under pressure, lack of integrity and hair-brained ideas/ideals are things one should look for in a President and VP????  Would you work for an employer who exhibited all these traits??  Would you marry a woman who also exhibited all these traits???  I don't think so, and while the relationship may be different, if you vote that pair in it's something you'd have to live with until the possibility of divorce came up in 4 years... yes, 4 loooooong years.  Not something I wanna get wrong!

OK, so I reckon McCain sounds like a squeaky voice pimp and speaks like he has a stick shoved up his butt, but that is not the reason I do not like or respect him... though I would imagine that, combined with temperamental issues (with an emphasis on the mental), his squeaky pimp-like voice would command little respect from foreign leaders/diplomats who expect to be dealing with a rational and reasonable man of strength and character.... and in this ever shrinking world of internationalism, that IS an imporatant issue, don't you think!  It's not like it was back in the Dark Ages when National leaders rarely, if ever, met the leaders of other States or Principalities... so yes, since the advent of international flight and instant communications, it is important that other world leaders do not judge you on the character of a plot losing bad tempered old bastard with a squeaky voice.

Of course domestic policies are important to you, but in the much bigger picture a President is responsible for dealing with both domestic policies and foreign policy /affairs... and to date McCain has failed to show that he is the right man for the job, on both counts. On the other hand, however, given his public approval rate, Barack Obama has proven that his policies have widespread support, as does his character, both in the US and overseas.  A recent poll in Australia had Barack Obama at 87% as preferred US President... with John McCain on a paltry 13%  Apparently, the UK and New Zealand registered similar figures...

 

... and it doesn't matter how the World views John McCain, so long as a handful Stateside happen to like him?????

 

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

To me, one of the most interesting question in the last debate was "What don't you know and how will you learn it?" (or something like that).

Yes, the last question and Obama DID NOT answer the question. He rambled something about being in the White House but never addressed the question.  He was pretty good at that thru the whole debate.   McCain said "I do not know what's going to happen here and abroad"  He then commented on about the new and different problems he'll encounter and that he was ready for the unexpected. 

Steve- You forgot to add, known terrorist ties and lack of patriotism.

One thing to concider, McCain would never intentionally harm America where as Obama would sell us to the highest bidder.

Yes, and I'm wondering why this isn't brought out more.  Who you associate yourself with is important especially if they are funneling money into your campaign.  I think Obama is out for Obama, not for the US.  He's not running for President so much as he's running for world leader. 

No wonder our country continues down its quick decline - it's entirely filled with retards.

SC.....I noticed lately you're just filled with the one liners but not alot of substance.  Please feel free to show us WHY you believe the way you believe instead of just resorting to this sort of comment which serves absolutely no purpose other than to make you look like you don't know what you're talking about. 

 

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My most important issue to consider is science, and it seems to me that McCain just doesn't like science. He made an offhand comment about "projector" as pork project.

Basically, he slammed Obama about "$3 million overhead projector".

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/08/mccains-planetariophobia/

Well the issue is that those "projectors" teaches millions of children, and are one of most important educators of science. Not some kind of pork project. The more I read about him the more anti-science he seems to be. As left-leaning person, voting for him was already very low, but even if I was a hard-line right, I won't vote for anti-science president.

Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

However, Barack Obama has not displayed any of the temperamental issues exhibited by John McCain...

Tire gauges?  Bill Ayers? Me finks he doth protest too much.

I think you and Xiandi are missing a key point. Brooks is a columnist; that means he is paid to express his opinions in written form. This is very different from a reporter or regular newspaperman (or -woman), whose job is to write articles about the news that should have a neutral tone.

You miss the point.  Why is the media reporting on itself?  Kind of like a corporation doing its own auditing.

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I think you and Xiandi are missing a key point. Brooks is a columnist; that means he is paid to express his opinions in written form. This is very different from a reporter or regular newspaperman (or -woman), whose job is to write articles about the news that should have a neutral tone.

You miss the point. Why is the media reporting on itself? Kind of like a corporation doing its own auditing.

 

Really? The media are a single entity now? Should I spell that with a capital "m"?

I'm pretty sure the item was posted on CNN's site because it referenced a column in a major metropolitan newspaper which was itself a sign of fracturing and schism within the ranks of Republicans; this is the kind of story that is always highlighted.

 

 

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

which was itself a sign of fracturing and schism within the ranks of Republicans; this is the kind of story that is always highlighted.

When Liebernman defects, that is news.  He is a politician.  When I defect, that is not.  I am joe schmoe.  The only reason you think it is news and they are making it news (or attempting to) is that they have lost their idea of what their job is.  And think it is now time to make it instead of reporting it.  That is the problem here, and what you are missing.  Little em or big em.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Dr, reply 8

which was itself a sign of fracturing and schism within the ranks of Republicans; this is the kind of story that is always highlighted.
When Liebernman defects, that is news.  He is a politician.  When I defect, that is not.  I am joe schmoe.  The only reason you think it is news and they are making it news (or attempting to) is that they have lost their idea of what their job is.  And think it is now time to make it instead of reporting it.  That is the problem here, and what you are missing.  Little em or big em.

I don't remember saying anything about what I think is or is not news. Here's what I said: this is the kind of story that is always highlighted. It is. Watch any newscast or pick up any newspaper. What are the lead stories about? Conflict. That's not really the fault of the media. They're giving people what they want. It makes ratings. If they lead with stories about people rescuing kittens in Smalltown, USA, who would watch?

I don't entirely understand the point of the first bit of your response. No one was saying anything about you or Joe Lieberman. Sarah Palin is an important name in the Republican Party right now for obvious reaons. The fact that many major conservative pundits have vocally called for McCain to replace her on the ticket is news, because it points to the fact that there are a lot of conservatives within the Republican Party who view Palin as unqualified. That's not Katie Couric's opinion or Tom Brokaw's opinion or Brian Williams's opinion--if the OP had said that one of those three or some CNN anchor or Joe Reuters had said that Palin is unqualified, then I agree that that would represent the idea that the opinion of a newscaster/journalist is something inherently newsworthy, but that's not what this story is about.

Your notion that the media are collectively incompetent and incapable of performing the job that they are employed for is really just your opinion and it's not particularly relevant to this thread.

 

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A couple of hours ago I heard John McCain (live) answer a question about government intervention in the US health care system. He stated that you should move to Canada or Britain and see what a failure it is.... I'm just so sick of these type of ignorant comments. I am Canadian! I have ALWAYS been able to choose my own doctor, hospital etc. I raised 6 (six) children using the Canadian health care system and 4 of my kids were chronic asthmatics who needed considerable medical care when they were young. Now, because of serious heart conditions, my husband and I are extensively benefiting from our system with free "name brand" prescriptions, etc. Tomorrow AM my husband is scheduled for surgery - he had to wait 3 1/2 weeks for a non-emergency procedure. He is receiving the best of care and an excellent medical team. Waiting times are the one complaint Canadians have about our health care. I have NEVER had to worry about losing my home because of medical expenses, or sub-prime mortgages (we don't have them) or banks going bust. Even in the great depression not one Canadian bank went under. We have a good health care system that is available to every man, woman and child in Canada, but like everything else there is always room for improvement. National heath care is a “right” not a luxury! Canadians pay for this system via taxation. 2/3 of all Canadian tax dollars go to Education & Health. Sure we would like to lower our taxes like anyone else, but lower taxes w/o health care is not an option! Addendum: Under a Democratic Parliamentary System we can get rid of any Prime Minister who goes against the “will of the people” by a simple vote of “non-confidence”.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It is a failure though, taxes get raised to pay for it (NOTHING IS FREE!) and the quality is lowered. It's a well known fact. :|

 

Sure it sounds nice, but when it comes down to it the cons outweigh the positives in my opinion.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

steve, it's a known fact that health care in much less expensive in canada and england and has been for years. sure, it sounds nice......and it is. healthcare in the us sucks. i have great insurance. i ralrey have to pay much of a medical bill but i'm far luckier than most people in the country.

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just make it simple.  Vote for the person who isn't supported by radical terrorists, Hamas, islamic front groups, socialist, and marxists.

 

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Lets face it....who ever wins will be president & vice president of a broken country and we're pretty much screwed either way...they can stand at the bread lines and hand out loaves of bread and blocks of cheese...since none of us are getting any kind of bail out...we just get thrown out...repossessed...go bankrupt...live in cardboard boxes or shelters...and told how irresponsible "we" are.

I've been saying it for a long time that its circling the bowl...and now your hearing the giant sucking sound as it all goes down the drain. This country has the most absolute worst gene pool when it comes to the idiots running this asylum. I wouldn't invite a single one of them into my home! Liars...thieves and con artists all of them! And the people of this country have the minds of a plant when it comes to voting...as if voting "really matters"...the vote of the people really doesn't mean anything anymore. Oh! She's pretty! Let's vote for her. Oh! She's a woman! Let's vote for her! Or...He's was a POW...Lets vote or him!

The only real chance this country has is if "we all" (remember...there are more of us than there are of them...poor or not...and they are "suppose" to be working for us...not against us) finally agree on the fact we need to take this country back and that they don't give a rats ass about anyone or anything in this country except filling their own pockets before they get kicked out or serve they're term...and this government...and I use that word very loosely...needs to be completely and utterly gutted and rebuilt....with younger people that actually have a stake in the future....not sitting around in a wheelchair pissing in a bag (there also needs to be a cap on your age and be in "good health" to even run...and most importantly ARE NOT lawyers...common people who are actually in touch with the real world...who knows what its like to eat rice and live in the dark to survive...or actually budget money!

There is no training needed to be the president...there never was...that's what the advisors are for...to advise...its always been on the job training! Simply being in the military or any other vocation for that matter does not qualify you to be president...and that is not a dig against our service men and women...who this government treats like shit!

I seriously don't care how smart you think you are politically...all you know is what they want you to know...nothing more...and its all lies anyway. In this coming election you'd do just as well flipping a coin. None of them are worthy of running this country.

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ID, please say you haven't been convinced by the negative ads that one candidate is supported by radical terrorists, Hamas, islamic front groups, socialist, and marxists. please say you haven't! does the other candidate saying a woman who shot a doctor twice "is a good woman" and was called a "terrorist" by the presiding judge at her trial make said candidate aligned with terrorists? no, it doesn't. base your vote on the policies of the candidate, not the negative ads and commercials!

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

steve, it's a known fact that health care in much less expensive in canada and england and has been for years. sure, it sounds nice......and it is. healthcare in the us sucks. i have great insurance. i ralrey have to pay much of a medical bill but i'm far luckier than most people in the country.

You do know that the quality of health care is a lot lower though, right? Not to mention it will be ran by the government. I'm sure we all know what happens when the government is in control of something.

 

And Snidely, come on now. You can't actually think that Obama isn't a bigot after all the proven facts that have sufaced over the past year. Are you really that bias? It has nothing to do with pathetic commercials that are aired on TV, it's proven that the guy is racist and has been endorsed in the past by well known terrorists.

 

I'd still rather have a guy with a temper than a guy who not only dislikes the middle class but has also been known to be racist. Don't get me wrong here, both of them are awful. Lesser of two evils kicking in yet again.

Reply #42 from JoeUser Forums Top

Your notion that the media are collectively incompetent and incapable of performing the job that they are employed for is really just your opinion and it's not particularly relevant to this thread.

Born out by your own example and their own behavior.  It is quacking and looking like a duck.  You dont have to be a zoologist to call it a duck. 

My reference to Joe Lieberman was an example of what is news - and the other just an example of delusions of self importance on the part of the media.

Reply #43 from JoeUser Forums Top

This is a shop-worn tactic when the goal is to pile on - pretend a columnist's opinion is a 'news' story to give it more column inches & maybe get it featured on Drudge.

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

three shout outs I feel I must make in regard to this thread that I am pleased is garnering the response & participation it is, leading up to the most critical election in, I am sure, all of our collective lifetimes and was the reason I posted it in the 1rst place....1. Snidely, you have more patience than I when it comes to the uneducated & willfully ignorant  2. Giz...man, I am a Canadian, but your earnest, forceful, heartbreaking response brought a tear to my eye...yes, if everyone gets a focus, works together + gets the other half deprogrammed, yes, the US can rise from the ashes of what is happening now..and finally 3. Warren..man, you are my new hero...

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

HOW THE FUCK CAN ANYONE CALL OBAMA A RACIST? THE MAN IS BI-RACIAL! HIS MOTHER IS WHITE, HIS DAD IS AFRICAN. THE MAN IS NOT A RACIST. if he had married a white woman instead of a black woman, would anyone call him a racist? it's doubtful. you'd all be bitching that a man with dark skin married a white woman.

steve, your rhetoric is based on nonsense and pure bullshit. it seems there are too many ignorant people believing everything the republican campaign is spewing forth. haven't you people learned the republicans' campaign tactics have always been to attempt to vilify the opponents' character instead of campaigning on the issues since reagan won the office? until 5 1/2 years ago, i thought mccain was a respectable person. not now. even he said back in may or june this election should be based on the issues. now that he's desperate, he decides he can't win by running a clean campaign based on the issues. you'd think he'd be against a dirty campaign after what was said about him and his family in south carolina during the 2000 campaign. both sides have run misleading commercials but at least obama's campaign hasn't flat-out lied about mccacin. you can expect the republican 527's to start their swift-boat attack/lie commercials to begin in the next few days now. they're desperate! let's not talk about the issues, let's vilify obama! let's say he's a terrorist, is supported by terrorists, is moslem, a socialistic elitist, or he's named after a hated dictator and hopefully enough idiots will believe us!

country first, my ass! the man is lieing to save his ass. he's more worried about himself than he is about the country. and let's not allow anyone other than hannity on foxnews interview palin! heaven forbid she get a question aslked of her that she hasn't already been told how to answer. hell, she can't get even get mccain and her policies right. she'll say one thing in one city and he'll say something different which totally disputes her in another city the next day.

which is it you like less, the color of his skin or his african name?

i highly doubt the quality of medical care in canada or england is any worse than what we have here in the us. i'm sure their care is on par with ours. their doctors are educated just as ours are.

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

whoa Snidely . . .Bravo!...TELL IT!...yours are the political facts & histories that the informed and reasoned electorate are basing their decision on Nov.4;add another Hero to my list...

Reply #47 from JoeUser Forums Top

HOW THE FUCK CAN ANYONE CALL OBAMA A RACIST?

Because he's the one who keeps bringing it up.

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

HE brings it up? it's mccain's cronies who keep mentioning his african name to implicate he's not 100% caucasion, not obama. the man is proud of heritage, i'm sure. he mentions his african father's path to american as much as he speaks of his caucasion mother's trials and tribulations raising obama as a single mother. there's nothing wrong with speaking of your heritage! look at mccain. he's the one who keeps bringing up his 4 star admiral father and grandfather along with his pow tenure. does that make him qualified to be pres? hardly!

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ID, please say you haven't been convinced by the negative ads that one candidate is supported by radical terrorists, Hamas, islamic front groups, socialist, and marxists.

The ads don't influence me, my own research does. 

  • Hamas has openly said in public that they support Obama for President. 
  • Obama was a former member of the Socialist Party, even though the "fair and balanced" media have been keeping quiet about it.
  • Obama launched his political career with the help of William Ayers, who to this day, has no remorse for what he did.  Why would someone who openly hates America, who actually tried to bomb it, back Obama?  The big issue is Obama continues to lie about their relationship, when it's been proven they are closer than he has said.

  • You should also look into the relationship between Obama and Khalid Al-Mansour.
  • I would also recommend looking into the illegal foreign donations that have been coming in for Obama, especially from Kenya.
  • Don't forget to look into the fact that Obama tried to get law enforcement officials to threaten people who oppose him.

I could really go on and on, but people keep thinking that Obama is some kind of messiah that can do no wrong. Look at Obama past, at least the part that you can find something about because he has a bunch of missing time that he won't account for.  He is a scumbag Chicago politician, nothing more.

 

Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No need to personally attack what I said, I was simply stating a fact Snidely. :hrmph:

 

ID pretty much went into some of the details. Keep in mind that nothing he stated is of an opinion, it's well known as long as your main source for information isn't a televised news program.