Infrastructure crumbling? That must Kevin’s take on Obama’s lavish praise for ports and airports built by his Chinese Communist idols. In point of fact, the last two transportation infrastructure bills passed by the congress and signed by president Bush were notable not for their parsimony, but for their lavishness.

The United States also spends more per student than almost any country in the world on education, and education spending at the Federal level is up more than 70% under Bush. With results that have been negligible at best. As for police and fire department spend, the Department of Homeland Security has been pretty generous with grants. Nevertheless, fire and police have traditionally been state and local, not national, issues.

So, the American of Kevin’s fantasy… basically, a third-world country where the rich are privileged and poverty prevails, where infrastructure is crumbling, where schools are failing, where public services are shoddy, where business is fleeing … seems to only be true in large American cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Newark… places run for generations by one-party Democrat rule.

The infrastructure of this country has begun to deteriorate at an alarming rate since 2001 – with less taxes being paid into the system, then there have been less basic services available. I’m not talking about the ones that Republicans like to attack like welfare. I’m talking about basic services like police, fire, schools, road maintenance, etc. I think people are finally getting to wise to the fact that tax-cutting can only go so far. It all starts with stopping the rich from getting the big break they’ve been used to under Bush. Obama (as well as other democrats who were running for prez) articulated these points quite clearly in their campaigns.

I’m not wanting or expecting the government to give handouts easily, but I’m expecting it’s going reverse the disastrous course undertaken in 2001. It started with the Democrat majority in congress elected 2 years ago and will contineu with the election of Obama.

11: Are you serious? This man is one of the most articulate and well-spoken people we’ve seen come along in a quite a while. Then again, that can be said of anyone in comparison to the current president, who is purely incapable of speaking a grammatically correct sentence when he goes off-script (well, to that matter, he talks pretty slow when he’s reading a script as well).

and 4 years as a US Senator working on anti-nuke proliferation legislation

Try 136 days. And where is that “anti-nuke” legislation? So he was in the the Daley Machine in Illinois for 8 years. What did he accomplish in that time? And by that I mean something meaningful other than, say, a commemorative postage stamp featuring Rosa Parks?

Let’s say you’re right that Palin isn’t fit to be VPOTUS/POTUS. If that’s true, why in the name of Christ would you want Comrade Obama to be POTUS?

good grief, corruption is the conservatives mantra

Well it’s a good thing the indicted William Jefferson lost his job as a representative, ain’t it Even more so, I sure am glad Senate Majority Failure Harry Reid, who makes millions overnight isn’t an issue. Not to mention all the liberals (like Reid) who made money from Abramoff’s pals.

The question, Adolf, is if you REALLY want to go down the “corruption” road. I can, and will, demonstrate to you how the liberals rule over the “culture of corruption” and how that angle was fabricated in the hopes that the ignorant would latch onto it and vote for the most corrupt like Reid and Pelosi. Do you feel lucky?

I can show that liberals are more corrupt than Republicans could ever dream of being. Wanna dance?

“The narrative” was supposed to be: Republicans are corrupt and out of touch; meanwhile, our inexperienced Marxist is black, so ignore his corruption and cast a ‘historic’ vote for him. The McCain campaign is changing it to: Your inexperienced Marxist is indeed corrupt and phony to boot; meanwhile, our talented gal is a true American reformer, so ignore her whiteness and cast a ‘historic’ vote for her.

And by the way. I love GP, but I really hate the filter.

F**king brilliant!

And the only conclusion anyone without spittle drooling from their lips as they talk can come to is that no, he isn’t.

LOL @ torrentprime: “Obama gave a speech, but hes been campaigning since then, and meeting people!” Meanwhile, Palin has only been running a state, balancing a state budget, negotiating oil contracts, routing out corruption, and everyone knows governors don’t talk to people.

This election is over. Obama just came out of his Nurmeburg rally, er, convention, and at best Rassmussen has him with a 3 point lead, while Zogby has him trailing McCain/Palin by 3.

The “perfect storm” for a Democrat president in a nation that hasnt elected a Democrat with a majority vote since the 1970′s (and what a disaster he turned out to be) — people are unhappy with the war, worried about the economy, and yet they still wont elect a lib.

Tell us, will you renounce your citizenship and flee to france when you lose torrent? Of course, that wont work, they elected an America-loving conservative there too. As did Germany, and Britain is about to. I spose there’s always Venezuela or Cuba!

Fucking brilliant!

And the only conclusion anyone without spittle drooling from their lips as they talk can come to is that no, he isn’t.

LOL @ torrentprime: “Obama gave a speech, but hes been campaigning since then, and meeting people!” Meanwhile, Palin has only been running a state, balancing a state budget, negotiating oil contracts, routing out corruption, and everyone knows governors don’t talk to people.

This election is over. Obama just came out of his Nurmeburg rally, er, convention, and at best Rassmussen has him with a 3 point lead, while Zogby has him trailing McCain/Palin by 3.

The “perfect storm” for a Democrat president in a nation that hasnt elected a Democrat with a majority vote since the 1970′s (and what a disaster he turned out to be) — people are unhappy with the war, worried about the economy, and yet they still wont elect a lib.

Tell us, will you renounce your citizenship and flee to france when you lose torrent? Of course, that wont work, they elected an America-loving conservative there too. As did Germany, and Britain is about to. I spose there’s always Venezuela or Cuba!

The reason torrentprime is beside himself is simple; in a year where the Democrat Party’s primary whine is about “Republican corruption”, Palin has fought that and won — and Obama has bathed in and fully supports the even more-corrupt Chicago machine politics. The fact that she’s a woman is a nice touch, but it’s probably the least of the things she has going for her — unlike Obama, where his skin color is pretty much everything he has to offer.

No objective observer can say that Obama has much of a resume. Come to think of it, Hillary Clinton’s resume is fairly thin (although I think she’s more qualified for the Oval Office than is Barry).

But I still like her and may be warming a little to McCain.

Engineer that I am, here’s how I see it:

McCain + Palin > Obama + Biden

McCain & Palin also possess political philosophies far more in line with mine (not in lock step, mind you). I also think McCain will appoint better people to his administration and better judges. I think McCain’s foreign policy will be more realistic. I have to vote for the better of the two based on my judgement. That’s what we do in elections.

No, we don’t have a Reagan, Kennedy (John F), Eisenhower, or Truman on the ballot so we have to deal with what we have. Hubert Humphrey is probably the best candidate that the Dems have put up in my lifetime (and that was 40 years ago).

The Democrat Party has allowed itself to be taken over by the Kos Kids, George Soros, the teachers’ unions, and socialists. That’s why better candidates for the Democrat nomination are nowhere to be seen. Sorry.

“Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years,” Rove told Bob Schieffer. “He’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done.” Rove even dragged Richmond into his sights. “[Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America,” Rove said. “And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town.”

Richmond’s population is 200,123. Wasilla’s is about, what? 8 – 9,000? And doesn’t have a garbage service? Yet Palin’s “executive experience” there and while fighting off the Russian threat (thanks, Fox News, again, for writing the Daily Show for us) clearly outweigh Obama’s experience?

What you’re all missing is not whether or not Obama or the Democrats are contradicting what they’ve been saying for they past year. It’s that you’re contradicting yourselves. You are the ones who claimed experience in wartime was paramount, you are the ones who claimed allegiance to a skin color and identity politics was driving Obama’s nomination, you are the one who claimed that judgment was key: and then when a woman is chosen simply to pander, when Hillary is named as an inspiration in a GOP speech, when experience no longer matters, when on-the-job training is now listed as a plus, when evangelical life stories matter more than policies or records or platforms, when the fate and future of our country is placed in the hands of a total stranger: you all cheer a “risky” decision. Again: you contradicted everything you claimed to stand for. All the left (and people like me, and the American Conservative, and others) are doing, simply, are calling you on it.

Problem for you guys is the Repubs outsmarted you, they realize that the game has change, so they change along with it.

Here’s what I don’t get, you all have decided that Black trumps all. So now that the VP choice on the Republican is a talented young woman, they are pulling out all the ugly stereotypes women have been fighting forever. And all you can do is suddenly scream experience – it was irrelevant with OBH. Guess what Margaret Thatcher didn’t have much foreign experience before she took over Great Britain. You may not think so, but I think she did a hell of a job.

Since Palin is only running for VP, I’m sure she’ll learn a lot on the job as well. Meanwhile, I notice how everyone on your side is wishing McCain an early death – how kind of you.

You’ve claimed for years now, “Oh, Obama gave a speech once and you want him to be President,” ignoring all else that he did before and has done since then.

On a break… OK TP, I’ll bite. WHAT has Obama done before or since then?

Please don’t say, “He ran for President and some voters voted for him.” Applying for medical school is not medical experience. Running for Sheriff is not police experience. Running for President is self-promotion; not Presidential experience.

Palin has the most executive experience of the bunch. 20 months as Governor of a major State (borders Russia, produces 20% of U.S. energy) is more than any of them. She adds that experience to McCain’s. Neither Obama nor Biden has done squat.

Palin has negotiated one significant international deal, which admittedly isn’t much; while Biden, in all his 3x years, has *NO* formal diplomatic experience. Thin as her resume is, he manages to get beat by her!