We all (except for McCain's camoaign) know she has a lot to learn. Soon enough she will trip - once she leaves her training wheels. Looks like she is already tripping.

It just kills you guys to have to admit that a Republican Senator is due as much credit for creating USASpending.gov as your pet, Obama, doesn't it?

Obama Already Created It...

...somebody's already done it. His name is Barack Obama.

Then you bury the fact that it was also Senator Tom Coburn's work way down in the last paragraph...

That's just a joke as far as journalism goes, unless you're talking about the 'yellow' variety.
Then it rates as pretty good work.

"Smart, Fearless Journalism" should read "Partisan Democrat Hacks".

Fearless Journalism,

You are such a joke for being equally biased. You only concern yourself with who got props, but fail to understand that the point of the article was that Caribou Barbie has no inkling of what she is doing.

She said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were costing the tax payers too much, not realizing they were private companies at the time. Then she flunked the Gibson interview, now she wants to create something that already exists.

Face it, your are blinded by your own bias that you fail to see what is around you.

McCain and Palin are not the solution. Maybe Obama isn't either, but thanks to American politics, we only have two choices. So I choose the lesser of two evils, Obama.

Fearless Journalism: since CNN is the one who wrote the article, you should consider lodging your complaint with them rather than snarling at MoJo.

Obama is calling for a $1,000. tax break for the middle class.

Obama is proposing another stimulus package to save over one million jobs.

Obama will STOP the deregulation of corporations, where the government let's big corporations do whatever they want, Obama will REGULATE big corporations, and close tax loop holes for big corporations and offer incentive for corporations to stay in the United States. Obama will make it more expensive to outsource jobs, so jobs will stay in the United States.

Obama will stop the Iraq War and bring our troops home.

McCain will continue deregulating and letting big corporations do whatever they want to.

Obama and Biden will follow their own star for the benefit of all the people of the USA, not the RIGHT WING'S illusive star that benefits only the RIGHT WING and their cronies and toadies.

McCain will continue the Iraq War for 100 years or more and the Afghanistan War as well and start a new war because it is good for the Military Industrial Complex to which he is beholden as a military man.

Actually neither McCain nor Palin are smart enough not to follow the RIGHT WING EXTREME into oblivion of the USA, as the Bush administration has done with the help of the Republican DLC that are now losing their power, strictly because Obama has taken control of the Democratic Party. Obama doesn't need the Republican's DLC to think for him, as Obama has a great mind, thinks for himself and chooses democratic minds to polish his thinking about the best ways to circumvent Republican dirty tricks.

Obama/Biden will be G R E A T for the nation at such a time as this.

Hey, people. Given that swing voters never visit this site, you should join this campaign to get a full-page ad in swing-state newspapers with some of the unpleasant facts about Palin and McCain-- you know, cut through the emotional appeal of all that hockey-mom business... http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/fight-back-broadcast-the-truth-about-sarah-palin/discussion/posts

McCain and Palin are not the solution. Maybe Obama isn't either, but thanks to American politics, we only have two choices. So I choose the lesser of two evils, Obama.

Fine. You've illustrated very nicely how the media blinds you to the fact that you really have other choices.

You didn't notice that I didn't actually promote the Repub candidates you immediately chimed in to dis.
I just illustrated media bias in a most glaring example.
You've fallen for the old "If he doesn't support my guy, he MUST be supporting that Other Guy."

You choose evil, and that's what you'll get. The responsibility for evil government will fall on you.

I intend to vote third party because
A: I refuse to vote for evil.
B: I probably dislike the Repubs as much as you do.
and
C: It's the only REAL statement a voter can make for change, as Dems & Repubs are all we've elected since the 1860's. Doing it again would be "change"??
I don't think so.

And I stand by my observation that MoJo writers are partisan Democrat hacks.
It's just downright laughable.

it just kills you that the republican vp elect has no idea what she's talking about...good luck with that, but then again, it seems that stupidity does go well with republican presidential election campaigns, look at Bush, your last R. Prez.

Obama is calling for a $1,000. tax break for the middle class.

Obama is proposing another stimulus package ...

Oh great..., he's offering candy. Typical politician if there ever was one.

Let's see..., the stimulus package was a stupid gimmick when Bush did it, but it's a GREAT IDEA if Obama does it?

Obama will stop the Iraq War and bring our troops home.

Really? Then why has he voted for every Iraq War funding bill that's come through the Senate since he gained the seat?? And after running on a promise to say "NO" to George Bush on such funding?

Why did he vote to extend the Bill-Of-Rights-Trashing "Patriot ACT"??

Listen to yourselves, people!

Is anybody proposing any spending cuts to pay for all this "candy"?
Anybody proposing bring the military home from the hundreds of foreign stationings where we've got them deployed (read: "Empire")?

Nope. At least not Obama or McCain.
Just more of the same old "Let somebody in the future figure out how to pay for it all" B.S. from d!ckheads desperate to run the country and the world.
That's the thinking that's got us in the sh!thole we're in now, and No!, it didn't all pile up in a 7 year period!!

MarthaA, you're a prime example of someone seeing everything you WANT TO See in a political candidate, but what you believe you're seeing isn't what's really there!
You believe Obama is running on Ralph Nader's platform, and he's NOT!

You know, it would be really funny if third party voting caused a candidate of one of the two main parties to get into the White House solely through spoiler voting taking out the other guy, and then the new president turns out to be utter, unadulterated Evil. Then all those spoilers did end up getting Dictator Evil elected. I mean, really, it would be funny, wouldn't it? We'd all be LOAO.

since CNN is the one who wrote the article, you should consider lodging your complaint with them rather than snarling at MoJo.

Oh..., so MoJo isn't responsible for what they choose to cut & paste and link to??

Do you tell your kids it's ok to go around and say "Johnny is a fag" if some other kid said it first, and they preface the "Johnny is a fag" statement with "Larry said..."??
That makes it OK?

It's funny how stupid people (who try to look like they are different) support people like Ralph Nader (whos ideas range from reasonable to extremely irrational) and Ron Paul (who uses fear tactics in his videos like the rest of them).

It never fails that the people who want to be deviants and rag on popular candidates (and call other people out for it) don't look at the ones they support.

smitisan, the people that vote FOR a candidate they consider to be "evil", thinking him to be the lesser of the two evils the media pushes on them, are the people who are responsible for him being in office.

Not those who had the guts to vote for someone who represents real change in governance.

Hopefully people realize that Lincoln's upstart, anti-slavery Republican party came to power because the voters in the 1860's DID have the guts to vote for a substantial change, and not just keep on with Whigs & Democrats, because they were too fearful to do otherwise.

We'll need to find the courage that those Americans demonstrated if we're ever going to see a change in this country's direction.

Yeah, well, most evil usually comes from people who think they're above it. Kinda like a con man who knows he can keep you in the game because you keep thinking you can outsmart him. See, here you are already going on about how you got the real guts and everybody who doesn't vote your way is voting for evil. You can vote any way you want, but when it makes you more moral than the rest of us, like me, who really believe our candidate is a choice for good, well, I guess one of us must be the lesser of two evils, huh?

go read coburns report Obama showed up one time to get his name on the bill wouldnt return calls or any thing til it was passed A real glory grabber I guess he is like al gore creating the internet I still laugh about that one

Palin's a liar. That's a fact.

I tried googling "google for government" and found a neat headline at The Inquirer for today: Google beats off the government, That's a keeper.

"I guess he is like al gore creating the internet..."

or John McCain creating the Blackberry

Fearless, you are a tool. This blurb is taken from a 240-word story is taken CNN.com. In the original story, Barack Obama's name comes in after 108 words, Tom Coburn's at 120 words. The link to the original story is at the top of the page, and even in the short part that is pasted here, it's a stretch (huuuuge stretch) to call Coburn's contribution buried.

But please, your Laziness, continue with your point about whatever (Lincoln?!) is bothering you about this blog post, facts be damned.

Fearless,

Yes, go vote third-party. Feel brave, strong, intrepid, Daniel-Boone-going-where-no-man-has-gone. Throw a brick while you're at it.

Then, please, come back to reality. The Democrats and Republicans are rife with problems. True. Nothing can be done. False. Slavery ended. Women voted. FDIC created. Voting and civil rights pass. It's hard, actually having to be a part of the solution, rather than complaining on MoJo. But worth it. Try is sometime. Go work for a congressman you don't agree with, so that in helping write his or her policy statements, you can have influence. Do voter outreach to communities with low-information due to lack of internet access.

I wish we had a parlimentary system. I really do. But the fact that we don't is not going to paralyze me into morally self-satisfied actions like voting for a third party in a presidential election.

By the way, feel free to vote third-party in local elections. Depending on where you live, they actually win.

Best,
Aaron

OMG! It just keeps getting worse for Palin and I find it too painful to watch her fall on her face any longer.

Shame on McCain for choosing a novice to be his running mate for the 2nd highest office in the land. This poor woman is clueless about the world outside of Alaska and contrary to what some experts are saying, she knows little if anything about politics.

McCain has done this woman a disservice along with his party. Palin is making gaff after gaff and is becoming a laughing stock to many. Her most recent gaff being when she introduced McCain as her running mate--then making reference to the "Palin/McCain" ticket-not once, but several times in as many days.

It is bad enough that Palin comes across as being uninformed and clueless about major issues, but it is odd the way her husband, Todd, seems to be involved with her duties as Governor of Alaska. Todd, a member of the Independence party in Alaska until 2002, is copied in on Palin's official emails. One complaint from an Alaskan politician was that Todd was present at a meeting that was supposed to be between her and Palin. I wonder if Palin feels she is not up to the job as governor and needs the help of her husband. It makes me wonder if Palin is VP or President, will Todd be by her side helping make major policy decisions.

The Republicans keep lowering the bar for candidates they choose for VP and President. As if 8 years of Bush taught them nothing. I only hope that Americans see that the Palin/McCain ticket will be sure disaster for all of us.

...it is odd the way her husband, Todd, seems to be involved with her duties as Governor of Alaska.

I assume you were outraged when Slick Willie allowed his wife to be so involved in Whitehouse politics. Asking her to draft major, sweeping changes to gov't policies regarding health care??

I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

odd, you say? said:

"I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

You may need to start worrying now since Palin has decided she is at the top of the "Palin/McCain" ticket. She said that on several occasions and referred to McCain as "her running mate". Maybe I am wrong and she isn't clueless about politics. Perhaps, she really thinks she has been so popular that she should be the Presidential candidate and has decided to take the role away from McCain. One would think she would know that the term "running mate" refers to Vice President and never used by the VP candidate in reference to the Presidential candidate.
I do "say it is odd" that she made those gaffs--or maybe they weren't gaffs and she meant to say them.

odd, you say? said:

"I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

You may need to start worrying now since Palin has decided she is at the top of the "Palin/McCain" ticket. She said that on several occasions and referred to McCain as "her running mate". Maybe I am wrong and she isn't clueless about politics. Perhaps, she really thinks she has been so popular that she should be the Presidential candidate and has decided to take the role away from McCain. One would think she would know that the term "running mate" refers to Vice President and never used by the VP candidate in reference to the Presidential candidate.
I do "say it is odd" that she made those gaffs--or maybe they weren't gaffs and she meant to say them.

odd, you say? said:

"I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

You may need to start worrying now since Palin has decided she is at the top of the "Palin/McCain" ticket. She said that on several occasions and referred to McCain as "her running mate". Maybe I am wrong and she isn't clueless about politics. Perhaps, she really thinks she has been so popular that she should be the Presidential candidate and has decided to take the role away from McCain. One would think she would know that the term "running mate" refers to Vice President and never used by the VP candidate in reference to the Presidential candidate.
I do "say it is odd" that she made those gaffs--or maybe they weren't gaffs and she meant to say them.

odd, you say? said:

"I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

You may need to start worrying now since Palin has decided she is at the top of the "Palin/McCain" ticket. She said that on several occasions and referred to McCain as "her running mate". Maybe I am wrong and she isn't clueless about politics. Perhaps, she really thinks she has been so popular that she should be the Presidential candidate and has decided to take the role away from McCain. One would think she would know that the term "running mate" refers to Vice President and never used by the VP candidate in reference to the Presidential candidate.
I do "say it is odd" that she made those gaffs--or maybe they weren't gaffs and she meant to say them.

Thanks for the quadruple reply.

Palin as V.P. doesn't scare me any more than "Liberal Military Interventionist" Joe Biden.
www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/08/9370_bidens_worldvie.html

Neither ticket will be seeing my vote.

I plan on voting for a ticket that thinks we should NOT be intervening, militarily, in the affairs of other nations.

Odd, you say:

I'll say to you what I said to fearless: feel proud. Feel proud for being a single issue voter, for having unswayable morals when the rest of us are relativist push-overs.

You are absolutely right about Biden. And yes, Kennedy/Johnson got us into Vietnam, Truman dropped the bomb. But Carter sought to promote human rights abroad, and Reagan mined the Nicaraguan harbors while the School of the Americans taught Contras how to slit throats and torture peasants.

So no, the parties aren't event the same, but if they were, you still have to decide. Or you can not decide, and let others do so for you. And as someone who likely shares many of your views, at least on international issues, I will hold you responsible, as much I hold Reagan and Bush responsible.

Your abdication of responsibility will not absolve of your guilt.

Please, please, please: vote Obama/Biden.

Aaron, you condescension is unconvincing.

Where did you get the idea I was a single issue voter?
Simply from the fact that I only commented on one issue in one discussion?
Quite a stretch there... even if it IS a rather important issue. Life & Death you might even say.

I don't care who you intend to hold responsible for always getting the "lowest common denominator" president, because you let the two parties scare you into staying with the sh!t they feed you, election after election.

If the Dems & Repubs both want to run sh!t candidates, and you're OK with that, such that you'll do nothing that will make them change, then fine.
YOU deserve the candidates YOU support.

I intend to vote according to my conscience, and your pleading will not sway me to vote for the ticket of your choice.

MARTHAA..Right on.