Too bad for McCain. I understand Jo Ann Emerson may introduce Palin. It should be Palin introducing Vice Presidential candidate Emerson. At least then McCain would have picked a beautiful woman of substance and a true maverick as his running mate.

Imagine that: a gigantic turnout in Cape Girardeau for a Republican VP candidate — and an uneducated, misinformed one at that.

EJ, you are showing your ignorance. Rather than critize someone you don’t even know, post something of substance.

I’m feel sorry for both Bud an EJ. Sarah Palin is a very brilliant and accomplished woman and will be a wonderful VP. I’m proud to be voting for both John McCain AND Sarah Palin.

Wink, if you want energy independence for this country. Go Sarah!
Wink, if you want a fighter for the WORKING man and woman in the Whitehouse. Go Sarah!

Blink, if you see danger with a Dog that lays down with flees like
Khalidi, Ayers and Wright. How can this man have the temperment to
be the most powerful man(woman) on Earth?
HE DOESN’T!

How ironic that Palin is speaking at the SHOW ME Center. Why doesn’t she show us that she’s prepared for the job she’s campaigning for?

Chris - WOW. Just wow.

I’m a Democrat, but I’ve got to agree with Bud on this one. If McCain wanted to pick a pretty woman out of obscurity and put her on the national stage, he would’ve done better with Emerson. She’s maybe still a little inexperienced, but no less than Palin, and Emerson is far more maverick-y.

WP… I have been reading the press’ full-court press on Palin and watching her interviews. What about you?

Also, WP… I might note that I lived in Cape Girardeau (where I worked as a journalist) for five years. I do know the political climate.

The real reason Sarah Palin is in Cape Girardeau is because she heard there are some great consignment clothing stores there.

Funny, Frank. I like it.

As a kid, I used to wonder why the vice presidency wasn’t more celebrated and was told that it was because it wasn’t a position of power with any real duties. What changed? What is all the clamor over just window dressing?

EJ and Frank, petty.

EJ, you mention that she is uneducated and have followed the “full court press” (thanks for admitting that she is being heavily scrutinized). What is her education background that leads you to believe she is uneducated. I find it interesting that you’re probably giving Biden a pass on his gaffes…which are far more numerous that Palin’s. I agree that Palin interviewed weakly with Gibson and Couric (although her question back to Gibson was right on target..which your liberal media tends to skim over) but has come into her own lately. So give me some facts, EJ..not the usual diatribe that comes from your side.

MadMac..because it’s the only thing the left has.

That is because here in Cape Girardeau, we know a true leader and American when we see one. Obama is clearly either one of those, he is just a smooth talking, anti-American who is a socialist and a marxist. Funny how he wants to take money from others to give to others, when he himself doesn’t even give or donate money. He is a liar, and he talks about change, but fails to ever say what that change is. Give me a break.

It is funny when people’s biggest knock on the woman is her clothes and makeover, which has been explained already what that money was for, but Liberals are clearly deaf and blind and missed that information. That also explains why they are voting for Obama, cause if they could Hear and See what he says and does they wouldn’t want to vote for him.

I like Palin because she challenges the establishment in a way that Obama doesn’t. She has had a rough start and has a lot to learn, but when she is talking about energy she sounds as smart as Obama. I think she is a rising star.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYPxIJSDg0

Palin, A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing » Palin has stated she has taken a hardline approach on the oil companies; if our own media had any reporters left you would find a much different story. She repealled the tax or levy called Ballot Measure 2 ID 663071079 which created a windafall proffit for Cheveron, BP Alaska, Exxon and others. This windfall is not only worth billions in the future but oil companies will be paid back for any tax already paid.(Billions Again). In addition to this Palin continues to allow Cheveron to dump Billions of Gallons of Toxic Waste per year into the icefields and fisheries of Cook Inlet Alaska.
It is amazing to me is the news media has not done its own homework reporting the facts and making this information public.

As if the Mortgage Crises wasnt enough for America to vote out this administration we now have Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG and Merrill Lynch all down the tubes under the policies and watchfull eye of McCain and Bush! Enough! Open your eyes America! Make History! Make A Diference! Vote Obama! How many more jobs and lives do we have to lose?

The Sarah Palin love fest is almost over. After the 4th she can go back to Alaska and get impeached as governor.

Supporting Palin, and calling Obama a liar is ludicrous. She lies about EVERYTHING. Just yesterday she said Joe the “I’m not really a plumber, and my name isn’t Joe” Plummer was a veteran. Her nomination is an absolute farce.

I don’t see any of you Palin knockers anywhere close to her accomplishments. I don’t see you as a Governor or even as a V.P. Talk talk talk. Petty jealous babble. It’s gonna feel really good when I know you’re going to walk around the next 4 years with a sour attitude ‘cos your opinion is of the minority, and then the next 8 years as you witness your fallable votes go against the first female President.

this time next year pall’in will be a sad memory for the gop…
impeached in alaska…
disgraced by revelations of her travel improprieties…
her ted stevens like manipulations of tax abuse on her and the first dudes recently built mansion…
her abuses of power…
her consistent case of foot in mouth disease…
she’ll be just like bush…
someone this great country of ours will soon forget.

TB - I agree that it would be funny if her clothes and makeup were the biggest “knock” on Palin. Trust me, I don’t knock her at all for her clothes or her makeover. While I diagree with the $150K spent (and would also disagree if the DNC had spent similar money on Obama or Biden–but that wouldn’t change my vote), I have much bigger knocks than those.

It’s scares me to death when I see posts that say this woman could actually be president some day. No, I am not qualified to be VP, and neither is she. Some women claim they can “relate” to her as a working mom and “she’s like me”. Do you really think YOU belong in the White House? MISSOURI - GET OUT AND VOTE. It is time the Democrats take back not only the country, but our state.

That’s because she’s running for VP STEVE! I don’t want anyone like me running this country… I would rather have someone who graduated 1st in their class at Harvard (Obama) than someone who graduated 894th out of 899 students at West Point (McCain) or someone who took 6 years to get a freaking communications degree from Idaho (Palin). Hell even I did way better than her in that department. She is not intelligent (which is quite evident whenever she speaks in a non-rehearsed setting), and simply not fit to replace the oldest candidate ever on the American presidential ticket. The republican party needs a major overhaul after this election…

“Vote Obama, how many more lives and jobs do we have to lose?”
We will lose a lot more lives and jobs and businesses and etc… if Obama is elected. Except we will be losing lives on the US soil, because we will be housing terrorists in the White House as well as the rest of the country. We won’t be able to protect ourselves either because we will lose gun priviledges and much more. Obama wants to turn America into a country like that of our neighbors in this world. That has worked out well for them huh? Vote McCain and truly make a difference.

Obama and Biden don’t need the DNC to give them 150k for anything…they are too busy accepting funds under the table and unidentified credit cards and such. Not to mention money from the Middle East, yea I am sure they would love to see him get elected so they can move into America.

John McCain went to Annapolis (Navy Academy) not West Point. Gov Palin had to actually work her way through college. Then rose to be Gov of one of our 50 states. Pretty good for someone “not intelligent”. McCain is qulified to be president. How is BHO more qualified to be president than Gov Palin is to be VP? 35 and a citizen is the qualification last I checked.

This is the problem with the Rovian style campaign that McCain has run. His lies have drubbed up so much hatred and fear that reasonable people are acting like complete fools. TB I assume you are a smart person, but you have obviously been misinformed. I am a registerd Republican, but this is not my party. They have given in to the religous right, and forgot their conservative values.

Imagine that, people come to hear Sarah Palin speak and she didn’t even have to spend $$million$$ in foreign contributions to get somebody to listen to her

I have lived in both Cape Girardeau and New York City for extended periods of time. Cape is as EXTREME conservative as NYC is as EXTREME libral.
Neither are good.
Jo Ann Emerson is a Republican politician to be admired. Check out her voting record. She’s more centerist (and in my book, more mavericky) than McCain or Palin put together. Too bad we don’t have people like that in a more prominent role on the national level.

I can only shake my head in disbelief. Brilliant? Palin? Really? I’m sorry, but that simply is not a legitimate adjective. Even most of the Republicans I know are shaking their own heads in dismay that she didn’t, several weeks ago, step down and let a more accomplished person take the candidacy. She may be intelligent enough to absorb the knowledge necessary to lead the free world over the next eight years and THEN run for national office (altho’ personally, I have my doubts), but she is not ready, no-how, no-way, now. And apparently, according to Steve, only other elected officials, governors or higher, are allowed to judge her abilities without it being based in “jealousy.” Well, then, I suppose you haven’t said a negative thing about Obama or Biden or any other Democrat, right? Because if you had, obviously you be betraying your jealousy as well.

And Todd, before you label someone a socialist or a Marxist, you might want to grasp a general understanding of what those terms mean, because nothing Obama has said speaks to those positions. Of course, Republicans once decried the FDIC as socialism, Medicare as socialism, and so forth. Are you willing to give those government programs up? Just wondering.

As an Independent who once thought John McCain was the best of the Rs, I am saddened to see how far the party elders have twisted and turned the poor guy. I’d have voted for him in years gone by. I have tried very hard to be open-minded, to really examine the leadership qualities of the R ticket and to investigate, with a critical eye, all the supposed negatives about Obama - - and I simply can’t get to the other side. I realize that as much as I viscerally despise Palin, others feel the same of Obama, but I can’t figure it out. I can look at almost every non-Republican candidate over my adult lifetime and see how the “other side” could despise them, even as I did not. But I can’t see how anyone with reasonable intelligence and research abilities can denigrate Obama and the possibilities for earning our position as world leader back, which he represents. None of the Muslim, anti-American rumors are true, none of them. None can be substantiated. Not a single one. He spent 30 minutes last night describing how he will lead this country - with grace and with class. And he didn’t mention the McCain campaign once. Not once - because he didn’t need to. Slamming the other guy isn’t necessary when you have something of real substance to say.

May the best candidate win.

To say that Obama should be elected because he graduated from harvard is moronic. Haven’t you heard of the saying that “the world is run by ‘C’ students?” Most of the most successful people in the world did not graduate at the top of their class, let alone harvard. Also for you liberals who want to try and blast me on this…George Bush went to Harvard…he did a good job right?

Main Entry: in·tel·li·gent
Pronunciation: in-ˈte-lə-jənt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin intelligent-, intelligens, present participle of intelligere, intellegere to understand, from inter- + legere to gather, select — more at legend
Date: 1509
1 a: having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity b: revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought : skillful
2 a: possessing intelligence b: guided or directed by intellect : rational
3 a: guided or controlled by a computer ; especially : using a built-in microprocessor for automatic operation, for processing of data, or for achieving greater versatility — compare dumb 7 b: able to produce printed material from digital signals

Does Palin fit this definition??

Bush went to Yale.

And he was not number 1 in his class.

Kevin:

Nice try… Bush was a C average student who had to re-take two classes at Yale (I also wonder if his vast family connections with the school had anything to do with him getting in). Obama graduated #1 in his class and was the first minority head of the Harvard Law Review. He had no family connections, he simply made his way. And, that “the world is run by C students” saying is simply not true. Look at the top officials, judges, CEO’s and policy makers, and I think you’ll find for the vast majority that they have top drawer educations from very prestigious schools. Next time do a little homework before you make those kind of statements. Look it up

MC Obama has said plenty to be considered a Socialist and a Marxist, I do know what those words mean, and Obama’s name is all over it. Thanks though.

dwcity, you called me out…nice…I didn’t do the research necessary to make such a bold statement.

Anyways let me tone it down. It seems that ”A” students do not relate to people as well as ”C” students. When I look at Obama, espcially last night, I think he is more scripted than he is real. He would make a good scripted president seeing as he is well educated. When it came down to real world expierence I would chose mccain over him, because he seems to have more ”street” knowledge than obama.

I think when Obama was thrown a curve ball by ”joe” the plumber, he slipped and said something he should have never said. (spread the wealth) He then went on the next day, and almost seemed to laugh at ”joe.” I didn’t like that. He just doesn’t seem to be a people person. However, I do think that he is a good speaker, but that does not make him a people person.

JMO.

Sarah Quaylin has the intelligence of a mongoloid, the substance of cotton candy, and the shelf-life of ice cream at poolside in Barbados.

Those here who are touting and defending this choice as potential leader of the free world could not be tasked with changing out an empty paper towel dispenser.

By his standards, old EJ Rotert must have been a pretty crappy journalist if he worked in Cape. Just another elitist snob who thinks people who live in Southeast Missouri are all uneducated rednecks. My guess is that he got fired. I hope Obama doesn’t make a sharp right turn because EJ’s nose will get broken.

Logicprevails… The press should put a full-court press on Palin. McCain picked someone unknown on the national stage as his VP candidate two months before the election. The press is doing exactly what it should be doing to give the people what they need to know about Palin. And don’t say the press hasn’t done it with Obama. Obama has been in the national spotlight for four years now, ever since he gave his speech at the Democratic National Convention four years ago.

Sorry, WP… But my career went further than Cape.

As for the people of Cape Girardeau, I said nothing at all about them being rednecks. Those are your words; don’t attribute them to me. Some of the nicest people I know I met in Cape Girardeau. I only made the statement I initially made because it is a Republican stronghold. I said Palin was the one who was uneducated and misinformed — not the residents of Southeast Missouri.

Kevin… Bush went to Yale, then went to Harvard Business School after he graduated as an underclassman. And guess what? He had the surname to get into both schools. Happen to remember where his father graduated from?Obama didn’t have the benefit of a powerful surname. Neithe did CLinton. If it hadn’t been for George Bush’s father, W. probably would had to attend something like Rio Grande Technical School.

Steve… You do know about politics, right? Positions don’t always go to the intelligent or best (exception: ex-U.S. Senator Paul Simon of Illinois). They go many times to the mean-spirited and the exploiters of human nature. Palin is a case in point. She’s been characterized by people who know her as having the tendency to bite the hand that feeds her. Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is a case in point too. Just look at how he exploited people’s feelings today on the abortion issue. The man is a demagogue. Also, I might note, Whirled Peas, I wasn’t fired as a journalist in Cape. I quit on my own and came to St. Louis without a job to search for another job, because I felt after five years I was getting into a rut. Would you have the courage to take a similar gamble? Doubt it.