Match for match you will find this in the Palin attacks. And the net result is, more popularity for Palin, less for Obama. More anger stirred in seeing yet another woman raked over the coals while Obama's identical sins remain buried…

You're just not getting it…

Though admittedly there just might be GOP moles on websites like this wholly dedicated to keeping the fires lit under dead-end issues and wet blankets on the areas that the GOP are most vulnerable..

Ya think?

To set the Obama campaign apart dems need to quickly shift the tabloid focus to substantive ones.

It is the area where the GOP is weakest. Playing into the tabloid game is a strategy the GOP is hoping for..and part of the reason they picked this candidate…to divert attention from issues they are weakest on. The more you attack Palin, the more you popularize her. The more you attack her, the more you risk alienating significant numbers of angry women who know their candidate Hillary was passed over for a less-qualified man. The GOP is tapping that anger, tapping that popularity boost. And in the end, in the Fall, behind the curtains, that anger will be expressed. That popularity will sway just enough voters to tip the scales pro-GOP.

Quit it already!

Palin will be protected, she is teflon. You'd best invest your time attacking an illegal war in Iraq, specifics in economic reform, job-creation, alternative energy, healthcare etc. The GOP has no tangible remedies for any of these major concerns of voters. In fact, several of them they are pitching to exacerbate, instead of remedy, with typical republican nonsensical “trickle-down” policies.

Again, the weakness, the spot of blood, the achilles heel of the GOP is NOT SARAH PALIN. It is the issues, any of them. Just pick one. Their 8-year track record and their lack of concrete plans that the voters will buy is the rice paper shack that they live in while diverting you to continually ram your head against the reinforced concrete bunker that is Sarah Palin..

I offered to focus on BigOil because it is the root of the foul dandelion that chokes our American vitality. Eliminate that monopoly and institute alternatives, then watch the jobs bloom, the economy follow suit, our money stay home instead of going to the Middle East or more fat cats in Texas…then with the new stimulus, implement affordable government regulated health care.

They stepped in for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The GOP cannot whine when subsidized health care is proposed. Call them on their hypocrisy. Call them on their slop. Call them on their corporate pandering. Tell them to shove their cries of “socialist-liberal-left” up their kiesters.

But you choose to use the word 'boondoggle' in your title, which means “a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation.”

As I said, I objected to the use of the word 'boondoggle', because I don't think it fits that definition. Words have meanings.

The problem is that they screwed it up and failed to secure title to the property before going ahead with road construction. As a result she put the city in more debt. It was just incompetence.

Again, this is small town stuff, and foolish administrators make these kinds of mistakes all the time. But not very often do these foolish administrators get plucked for the VP. That's why these decisions deserve attention.

The only point I would quibble with is whether it was a 'boondoggle'. An indoor sports complex in Alaska seems like the ONLY type I would think would be worth building up there, given the weather.

BTW anyone seen what Grove Parc is like these days after Obama's was their representative for 8 years?

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMVHwmPQSM

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008...

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But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies – including several hundred in Obama's former district – deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.

Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.

Some of the residents of Grove Parc say they are angry that Obama did not notice their plight. The development straddles the boundary of Obama's state Senate district. Many of the tenants have been his constituents for more than a decade.

“No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.

Heart condemns McCain-Palin use of 'Barracuda'
Posted: 08:41 AM ET
Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.
Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) — Blasting through the Republican convention hall is the 1977 hit “Barracuda” by rock band Heart.

It's a shout-out to Sarah Palin. When she played basketball in high school, the soon-to-be Republican vice presidential nominee earned the nickname “Sarah barracuda” for her fierce competitiveness.
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UPDATE: Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart said Thursday night that Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG have sent a cease and desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign over their use of 'Barracuda.'

“We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We
hope our wishes will be honored,” the group said in a statement that said they “condemn” the use of the song at the Republican convention.

A KOSsak diarist has a more damning statement from the Wilsons.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/8102...

Ann and Nancy have released the following statement:

“Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there.”

What would happen if Obama used a Nuggent or Big and Rich…