This is the best post I have seen so far in defense of Gov. Palin; keep up the great work.

We need to attack, attack, attack and stop bemoaning the Kossacks and go for the jugular, Nixon style.

We are dealing with cowards, the most vile elements of society.

Obama supporters such as Andrew Sullivan will accuse you of being a racist for even suggesting that anybody should look into Obama's background. On the other habd, Sullivan has no problem at all with posting a couple dozen stories with virtually no basis in fact and no source reporting that slander, in often gross and nasty ways, and belittle a woman and a teenage girl. His defense was that he was only "seeking the truth." What a load of crap, but that's all some of these asshats on the Left have in them.

I didn't think Sullivan made any secret of the fact that he doesn't like women.

Outstanding work. A link is on the way.

forgive the quibble...except i believe the word you really want is 'repudiate' not 'refute'...

it is the unwillingness - inability? refusal? - of sen. obama to repudiate ayers' bad behaviors and unrepentant celebration of his past that merits further scrutiny and concern...

By the way, if you read through the comments of Jeralyn's post, you'll see that the TalkLeft crowd is not convinced and, for the most part, has rallied to defend Sarah Palin. Let's not tar all Democrats with the same brush as Jeralyn. Some of them are standing up to this kind of garbage.

This is a truly bewildering talking point that the Obama campaign is promulgating: that Obama has been "vetted" because he won the Democrat nomination, and that therefore questions about his inexperience are unfounded. Tom Brokaw used this same slippery sophism when he interviewed Tim Pawlenty on Sunday. He grilled Pawlenty about Palin's alleged inexperience, and when Pawlenty responded by pointing out BO's complete lack of executive experience, Brokaw bristled, and said that Obama has been before a national audience for several years and has been "vetted". [Pawlenty was brilliant, BTW, and would make a great, albeit overqualified, press secretary.]

So, "won the nomination by the narrowest of margins, with the help of superdelegates" equals "vetted" equals "more experience than a governor and former mayor".

I can imagine leftists chortling with self-satisfaction at this wordplay, but are there really voters that believe this line of argument?

It's too late for the Democrats to vet Obama, and too late to repudiate him. They had their chance during the primary campaign and at the DNC. All they can do now is grit their teeth and accept defeat.

I am astonished my the MSM complete over-reach on this story. Don't they see that this as incredibly sexist and that it could backfire maginficantly? Appearantly not.

I am a moderate woman voter; registred indepenedent. And I while I have my issues with McCain, this crusade against Palin in the media have me reeling. Tdere is no doubt I more likely today than ever to vote for the GOP ticket.

Like someone else said; if all the women who were pregnant when they got married voted for McCain, he would win in a landslide.

I predict Obama will drop out on October 4th.

Jerlyn Merritt will regret her stupidity one day very soon.

Barack Obama will "drop out" on January 20, 2015, upon completing his second term.

Brad Wesley,
Check your math. Two presidential terms from now will end in January 2017 (twenty seventeen).
Of course, with the expansion of the union to 57 states, maybe the constitution has changed also.

I guess I'm not going to win "Confederate Yankee"'s pool if I can't even avoid typos.

Oh, well...

Sarah Palin is rapidly proving to be the figure who confounds the media/liberal establishment more than anyone since Ronald Reagan. I can't tell you how many liberal blogs are out there proclaiming that her hunting will turn off America, her family's fecundity will turn off America, her accent and hairdo will turn off America, her not coming up the approved establishment way (ie. Harvard Law Review and Chicago machine) will turn off America... well, Georgetown and Malibu ain't America, dumbsh*ts, and I think they are setting themselves up for the sucker punch of all time as their innate sexism and condescension puts votes in McCain's column every time they open their mouths (or press Post).

They were waiting for the perfect black man to come along. Turns out women were waiting for a real woman to come along-- and odds are more of the latter than the former will vote and get what they voted for.

In defense of the posters at Jeralynn's site, many of them have simply left the blog permanently because of her unprofessional venom towards Sarah Palin.

Even her co-blogger, Big Tent Democrat, posted he will be taking a short "leave of absence" due his inability to put up with Jeralynn's "new" style of blogging gossipy trash.

If anything, Jeralynn is pushing voters AWAY from the Democratic ticket now.

@carlos,

If this is the best post in favor of Palin, how come all it does is attack Obama? There may be some valid Obama criticisms in here, but I didn't see anything that even remotely suggests why Palin might be competent.

Palin: She studied business admin. at Hawaii Pacific University for one semester then transferred to North Idaho College and received a degree in communications-journalism.

Before being on city council and mayor of a town of less than 9000 people she was a sports broadcaster of the local TV station. She was then on the Alaska Ethics Commission for about two years before her term as governor which has been about an year and a half. The population of Alaska is 670,000.

Obama: Very briefly, he's a graduate of Columbia University (political science--international relations) and Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor magna cum laude) and it would take a full article to describe his accomplishments before entering into politics.

As State Senator of the 13th district in Illinois, Obama represented 750,000 people. As US Senator from Illinois he represents 13,000,000 people. He's been the head of a highly successful national campaign for longer than Sarah Palin has been governor of Alaska.

Of course Obama has been vetted. He's been raked over the coals by the corporate-controlled media for many issues in his past, and yet he still obtained the nomination from the voters. The McCain campaign is only now sending a delegation to Alaska to vet Sarah Palin.

Just once, I'd like to see someone list Obama's accomplishments in a way that doesn't merely constitute "positions held."

Obama seems the ultimate apple-polisher, lifted upward by the needs of the establishment for well-spoken young minorities, but what has he ever DONE in any of those positions besides network his way to the next one? I fully expect to be called racist for raising this issue, but I'll withdraw it when someone can tell me something concrete his community organizing accomplished, some piece of legislation he championed, some innovative idea he's been an original thinker on.

Opposing the war in hyperliberal Hyde Park does NOT count.

The reaction from the Kos Kids and others of that ilk is easily explainable by the wise words of a fictional little green fellow who was a real bad ass with a light saber:

"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

The first question is then: What do they fear?

Actually, there's a pretty thorough run-down on the Sarah Palin hysteria here:

http://www.shieldofachilles.net/2008/08/go-go-boots-babe-dumb-child-is-genetic.html

Some of the comments across the web have to be seen to be believed.

Barry won the nomination but he will not be on the ballot in November.

@j and Dale - Might as well give it up. The neocons are grouchy this year because the best they can hope for is McCain. The best CY can do is say that Obama has bad friends. The radical black church thing is simply red meat for evangelicals. You can't hate him because he's black, that's racist. But if goes to a "radical" black church, then that's ok. Here is a kick in the shorts, historically all founders of churches are considered radicals or heritics! How does one vet their religious belief system? Has McCain? Would that be before or after he divorced his first wife? Its a trick question because religious beliefs can't be vetted.

Just remember, what's good for the goose will be good for the gander. The next Republican candidate for president better have sat next to the foot of God and took notes, otherwise this tactic will be fair play.

Palin was an obvious stab at getting the gender vote. Its pretty obvious that they didn't do much vetting on her, it almost feels like they were desperate to find someone who would agree to run with him. I mean all it takes is a google on youtube to find her addressing the 2008 AIG conference. A political party that believes Alaska should secede from the United States. It seems she was a member of that august group before she decided to become a Republican. Obviously she is a "true" American. Or how about all the earmarks she got from hiring a lobbyist while mayor? Or the millions of dollars that her state took while she is the govenor of Alaska for the bridge to no where but never gave back to the US? How often does she get personally involved in firing State Troopers or is only for those divorcing her sister(I don't care if he shot a moose drunk, naked and while on duty, does the govenor get involved in police personnel management or might there be a procedure or 2 that needs to be followed?)?

Seriously? The party that ran John Edwards in 2004 is going to complain about an inexperienced VP pick?

@ Mars

Very good point.

I don't care if he shot a moose drunk, naked and while on duty

And drove while drunk, and used a taser on his own stepson.

Man, if he were black, he could run for President.

Is this really how loopy liberals have gotten in their attempts to smear Palin? You have a cop shooting someone who brandishes a gun at them and liberals scream racist for three weeks -- but then leap to defend a state trooper who uses weapons on his own stepchildren.

We need to challenge BOs bona fides. He was a "community organizer" (for ACORN). Big whoop. What did he accomplish? Any "hope and change" of note, any brilliant breakthrough for the poor and downtrodden of the South Side? Apparently - at least as far as I can find out - the only person to really benefit from all his "organizing" was himself.

Ditto with his years in the Illinois Senate. It's one thing to propose legislation and a whole 'nuther' ball game to fight for it and shepherd it through committees to arrive largely intact at the other end. Obama didn't do ANYTHING like that - instead, he sat largely apart and voted with the mob/majority of his party or voted "present" or, when it was known he wanted to go national, got some real legislator to sign over all his work to him at the last minute.

He never did the heavy lifting on "ethics reform" - and if you actually READ THE REFORM it isn't much of a "reform" - full of loopholes for the same old corrupt politicians to use. No 'game changing' hope and change there either.

In the US Senate he did NOTHING of note. No major piece of legislation, no bi-partisan profile in courage, no brilliant unheard of insight in foreign policy, health care, domestic policy or wonkery.

He's handled a campaign with 2500 workers. OK, but has he had to deal with a budget that will be scrutinized, with opposition he'll need to cooperate with, etc.? No. That's part of the reason Senators don't typically become President. (And yes, McCain WASN'T MY FIRST CHOICE EITHER...)

Comparing the running of a campaign to the running of a state is a real stretch. But he's the wonderworker. The Messiah full of hope and change. Fine, whatever - but show me sign of him actually changing some zip code for the better.

Rhetoric and "policy positions" are one thing, cheap and don't matter much. Anyone can be "against the war", what was HIS brilliant alternative? Al Qaeda apparently was in 80 countries EXCEPT Iraq? Domestically, show me one LIBERAL program Barry was a leader on that has actually worked.

Not in crime prevention, not in poverty alleviation, not in improving education, not in infrastructure improvement. He's been "for" things but hasn't actually fought for much.

Well, North Dallas Thirty, what do you expect from the Left? They view children as "punishment".

I live in Illinois, so I'm going to be stuck with him for four years no matter what. *sigh*
Better the state than the entire nation.

Let's not kid ourselves here. The real candidate is the Chicago Democratic machine. Obama's just the front man.

"What makes it all the more fascinating is that Barack Obama will not refute his 21-year relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernie Dohrn."

"But Barack Obama won't refute his relationship with American terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernie Dorhn. He refutes what they did, but makes a point of not assailing who they are or what they believe."

CY, I think you mean "renounce". The word "refute" means "disprove". Obama cannot refute any of these things because they are facts.

you say he was a junior senator and you say he didnt shepherd any legislation.

His draw is his message not accomplishments.

This has got to be the lamest dodge on record, "The true, full Obama record would take a full article to describe, so I won't do it." Genius. As circular as Barry's claim that his campaign IS his experience. And the notion that winning the Dem nom means he is vetted is a joke. He managed to get millions of Leftwingers to, barely, give it up while a supine press declined to send one onehundreth of the resources to Chicago than they have aimed at Wassilla. For two years. We know the Obies are on the run because, from top to bottom, they all say the same nonesensical thing, "This is the mayor of a town of less than 9,000...." Okay, Barry was a state senator. Once. Is that what he is now? The Dems demonstrate their stupidity here. Do they really want Barry running against Palin? Even if he wins, which is doubtful, guess what? BARRY IS THE TOP OF YOUR TICKET! He doesn't want to engage McCain because he can't. What can Barry offer a real American, as opposed to an anti-American electorate, compared to McCain's record, bio and character? The answer to this question is so obvious the Obies cannot have it asked, therefore, this.

Talk about having a different view of things, but this stood out ...

I sat in on a session with three leaders of Veterans for Obama, a group of retired young officers who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of the New Republic's writer on the scene, David Samuels. With passion and enthusiasm, these young people spoke of their hopes for nation-building in Iraq. The George W Bush administration should have pute twice the resources into the beleaguered country, they harangued me - not just soldiers, but agronomists, traffic cops, lawyers, judges, and physicians. The Department of Agriculture should have mobilized, along with the Department of Justice.
Nation-building? Doubling down on the US commitment to Iraq? Isn't that trying to out-Bush the Bush administration, while Obama campaigned on getting out of Iraq and spending the money on programs at home? Unblinking, one of the soldiers said, "That's what we think Barack will do." They believed in a more expensive version of the administration's program, and faulted Bush for half measures - and somehow they believed that Obama really agreed with them, all the public evidence to the contrary. And they believed in Barack with perfect faith.

The Democrats are racist pigs. All of America knows it now.

I do not "hate" Obama, nor do I hate him because he is black. I do however question his judgment when he attends a "church" that calls for the deaths of those of another race. Whites would be assailed for this, so why not assail a black for the same thing?
Obama was NOT vetted. Obama's connections & the abysmal failure of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge have not been vetted. The documents have been blocked from full access. Sarah Palin's have not.
The Ayers connection is one that truly goes to judgment. Not that he "knew him. Not that Ayers may have launched Obama's political career. BUT, that Obama still stands by him still does not acknowledge that Ayers is still an unrepentant terrorist, & they worked on a failed program few have been told all about, indicates he cannot be trusted to judge the character of those he associates with. Would Obama put Ayers in an official position? Would Obama use Ayers as a consultant or advisor? A terrorist! A man who is sorry he did not do enough with bombs! Comeon!!!
Palin's term as Governor so far, far outweighs all of Obama's supposed experience & leftists know it!
Republicans might lose this election, but it will not be because Obama is more qualified. It will have lots to do with the indoctrination tactics of the media to sell America this socialist. Just what we need to do, emulate Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez & their oppressive regimes.
What leftists have done to Palin already should turn all women against the Democrat ticket this time around. If those attacks had been launched at Jeralynn, she would be apoplectic, & rightfully so.
Obama's campaign experience does not equate to Palin's running a state, even if for only two years. She's balanced budgets, dealt with human resources issues, dealt with energy industry issues, dealt with climate issues, etc., etc. Obama has none of this & less.
Palin has managed. Obama has attended!

1 calling him Barry shows the world your racist stripes.

2 Vetting refers to performing a background check on someone before offering them employment.

Obama nor Mccain dont have to VET themselfes!

"Man, if he were black, he could run for President."

Can't get more racist than that...

Can't get more racist than that...

Of course you can, matta. Merely look to Obama's faith, a cult created by James Cone, modeled on the racial supremacy of the Black Panthers, which says whites cannot be forgiven, and that God himself must be murdered if he isn't black.

Direct quote from the founder of Barack's race-based religion, James Cone:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

These beliefs are the core of Barack Obama's faith. Frankly, it's racist. To sit in the pews and willingly subject themselves to this faith for 20 years shows that Barack and Michelle Obama are racists as well.

Wonderful Article! Keep up the good work! McCain/Palin 2008!

it is NOT his founder.

This article is so totally unfair.

You didn't even mention Tony Rezko.

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