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You have said everything I wanted to say to this Dr. DePaulo.

Hey Doc: As soon as I see your analysis of obama's book (secretly written by his TERRORIST / MURDERER pal bill ayers) then I will decide if you can be taken seriously or if you are just a partisan hack with a PhD.

Disclaimer: I do not know if Sarah is ready for national office or not. She has not been honestly and fully vetted yet. "Honestly", I said.

Sarah did not go on a $150,000 shopping spree. A McCain staffer did on her behalf, and unbeknownst to Sarah. And most of that was different sizes, because they never asked her about it and therefore didn't have her exact size with which to shop. In fact, Sarah actually made McCain's staffers apoplectic when she told a crowd that she got her clothes at a consignment store. That's actually where "going rogue" came from, it was McCains's team describing her speaking from her heart, and off-script.

And her comments about "death panels" was a clear reference (if the entirety of her comments were reported) to rationing of care, which is inevitable if you introduce 30 to 40 million new customers to the healthcare market without increasing providers. It's INEVITABLE, and when healthcare is rationed, SOMEONE has to make the decision on how and whom to restrict...i.e.; panels of people deciding who is worthy of this or that procedure.

If you have any doubt that the media is trying to tear her down, look at yesterday's disclosure by the AP that they assigned ELEVEN people to fact check her book. How many did they assign to Obama, Kennedy, Biden, Clinton, etc? NONE. And what did they come up with? Parsing words; she states in the bookk that she "usually" stays at cheap hotels. AHA!!! They found that ONCE, she stayed at a $500/night hotel in NY, (ONCE!), therefore, SHE LIES!!! That's the best they came up with, with eleven people fact-checking her book.

But no bias against her, right?

Do you honestly believe that the elected president of the USA is trying to get a publicly funded program approved, which as one of it's tasks has "to decide wether or not old people should live or die"?

Yes, and not just the President, but it would appear that you and many others feel that way, too. I suppose you think that if the government run health insurance refused to pay for breast exams until age 50 vice 40, that is not deciding that some people should live or die? By everyone's own admission, some women would lose their lives due to the late discovery of breast cancer, but it is an 'acceptable' trade-off. If that is NOT a bureaucrat making life and death determinations, I don't know what you might define it as. In your mind, would they have to drive to your house and shoot you in the head?

And to take your hypocrisy over the top, your last paragraph decries demonizing people while in the very paragraph before, you do EXACTLY that, decreasing your credibility to zero.

Thanks Martin!
I would also like to respond to Chris' comment that women should appreciate that Sarah Palin is beating men at their own game (or however he put it): Whether or not she is poking holes in the glass ceiling (and I don't think she is), it's still wrong to say that women should respect Palin for being a woman, which is what Chris comes perilously close to saying. To say that liberal, progressive women should respect Palin at all for her gender, despite her horrifically regressive politics, is to say that women are easily won over by the superficiality of gender. This is insulting to the entire feminist movement, and misses the whole point of that movement.

Also, let's not forget that she couldn't give Katie Couric a single example of a magazine or newspaper that she reads regularly. Whether or not she's a liar (which I think she is), she's definitely an idiot.

Christina at Onely

Yes, Martin, Sarah Palin is setting a fine example of empowerment to women. I know many women like Sarah Palin in my rural area. Our children's grade school teacher ran a trap line all winter so she could make a fur coat, for example. Unlike liberal icon Hillary Clinton who married into politics, Palin worked her way up the ladder.

As far as I'm concerned, liberal feminists showed what they are during the Clinton sex scandal. Only their price remains in doubt.

Sarah Palin lives in a rural area, and until the campaign she occupied the middle class. She had neither the means or the need for a spiffy wardrobe. The McCain campaign knew people would criticize her if she campaigned in jeans.

I read the House bill, and it most assuredly included "death panels." They were implied, not explicate, as Palin said. The provisions were accounting methods to maximize cost effectiveness. The bill would take almost $500 billion from Medicare as more old people join the system. States economies would be harmed too. The net effect would be less money to treat old and very sick people. It is happening now in many countries with socialized insurance and medical care.

A reporter asked President Obama if the plan would pay for her mother's treatment. She said her mother is 105 and doing fine after she received a hip replacement or pace maker (I don't remember which) when she was about 100. Obama replied bureaucrats cannot spent money based on spirit and will to live. Sometimes it is better to give old people pain killers and let them cope. Private insurance companies ration care, and the government program will do it even more efficiently.

I wouldn't vote for Palin, but the left's hostility and fear of her is striking. If she, now a private citizen with a book seems so dangerous to the left, maybe they are the ones who need their heads examined.

Why don't you watch the PBS special on so called "death panels". You have no idea of what you speak of.

Touche Bella. Your work here is done.

First of all, do your research or this disscusion is pointless. A real example of a lie that Pailin told is about Healthcare in Britan. Such as giving a false truth that Stephen Hawking would be dead if he was from Britan. Although, he is from Britan and claims they have a lot better healthcare then America. Somone, that is a physist/cosmologist and native, (Stephen Hawking),calls out on her.

Second, are you familiar with how the goverment works? Do you know who has the most power in politics? The answer is that Congress has the most power. This is a demcrocy! Obama is only a public figure that could send out that public health care reform or thar stumilus package or veto bills if he wants too.

First of all, do your research or this disscusion is pointless. A real example of a lie that Pailin told is about Healthcare in Britan. Such as giving a false truth that Stephen Hawking would be dead if he was from Britan. Although, he is from Britan and claims they have a lot better healthcare then America. Somone, that is a physist/cosmologist and native, (Stephen Hawking),calls out on her.

Second, are you familiar with how the goverment works? Do you know who has the most power in politics? The answer is that Congress has the most power. This is a demcrocy! Obama is only a public figure that could send out that public health care reform or thar stumilus package or veto bills if he wants too.

Well, there we have it, Palin is hot...shows where your intellect lies. Perhaps you can run with her...away, that is!

Calling Palin a liar sounds like so much partisanship to me, because if you had asked me about Obama and terrorists (Ayers) or about death panels, I would have answered yes. And I am being as fully truthful as I can.

I think we need to distinguish between having a different view, and saying something the sayer believes to be false.

Case in point, (let's not argue about politics here, but use this as an example) - those death panels. I have looked at the issues, and the details, and I still do not see how there will be no "death panel", without holding costs down at all. Now, perhaps you believe the govt. can do this. But if you believe that, neither you or I are liars. One of us is just wrong. And even the best of us can be wrong. There is nothing particularly amazing about being wrong.

There are countless far more attractive than Palin women out there who I don't resent. As a matter of fact, I'm very fond of many of them-- famous, gorgeous actresses and models and even personal friends of mine. I don't have a bad word to say about these women. And I can guarantee you that its the same for 99% of those who can't stand Palin, including Ms. DePaulo, I'd bet big money.

So, drop that.

Same deal with the power. There are plenty of powerful women, far more powerful than I am, who I have great affection and respect for. it's simply not a thing which turns me against other women. So, another of your ridiculous RW talking points is discredited.

Now, if you have any brains at all, you can see that the next two of your lame "guesses" will be discredited in exactly the same way.

And as for that last bit of fiction--you don't know what Ms. DePaulo faces and deals with in her life, and you've overestimated Palin's abilities, competencies. and popularity.

We don't like Palin because she's a witch hunting, vindictive, nasty, narcissistic, uninformed, nails-on-a-chalkboard-voiced lying bitch. Nothing to do with those other things which we're fine with in most women.

So, to sum it up, you're wrong on all counts. Typical RW nonsense talking points. Typical Palin supporter. Delusional.