Palin meets with AIPAC

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:08 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger
MINNEAPOLIS -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today met with the board of directors of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, NBC/NJ has confirmed.

The meeting took place inside Palin's hotel, sources said.

A campaign official would not say who asked for the meeting, but said it was geared towards putting the American Jewish community at ease over her understanding of US-Middle East relations. 

"That's obviously going to be an issue," the aide said. "It's not like being the senator from New York, obviously. But these aren't issues that are off her radar."

Palin, joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, expressed her "heartfelt support for Israel" and spoke of the threats it faces from Iran and others, the campaign official said.

"We had a good productive discussion on the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and we were pleased that Gov. Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel," AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said. "Like Sen. McCain, the vice presidential nominee understands and believes in the special friendship between the two democracies and would work to expand and deepen the strategic partnership in a McCain/Palin Administration."
 

So, if you haven't been following the crazies at Kos, here's basically what they've been saying about Palin:

Palin faked that she was pregnant with Trig to cover up that her daughter Bristrol was actually pregnant. When the baby was born and they found out he was black, so she bleached his skin to further conceal the truth. When nosy reporters got close to her secret, she killed a hobo, put the corpse in a gorilla suit, and froze it to claim she had bigfoot and cause a big media distraction. The hobo had hobo friends, though, and they started asking questions, so Palin had to murder them too and bury them in the middle of nowhere. But then there was a proposal to build a bridge to nowhere so she had to oppose that to keep people away from her secret. Then she still wasn't able to conceal the truth, so she forced Bristol to get pregnant again and changed the medical records so that it looked like Bristol was pregnant when Trig was born so Trig couldn't be hers. Finally, she joined a radical Alaskan separatist group to prepare to secede Alaska from America to join with Russia and wipe out the U.S. to fully conceal the truth.

Anyway, a good deal of the Kos Kwazies believe all this, while other argue that it's good to put out these rumors even if they aren't true, not realizing there isn't anyone outside of the Daily Kos dumb to believe any of this. So, what should we do?

I say we make a fund raiser to buy them helmets.

The people at the Daily Kos are obviously so dumb they are in constant risk of head injury. You may say, "So what. I want those left-wing nuts to have head injuries." That's just putting politics above basic humanity, though. We shouldn't want anyone to hurt their heads. So it's incumbent upon us to buy the Kos Kids helmets. That way they can type away safely, diving under a table when they think they hear Rove with less risk of head trauma. Also, we'll be able to spot them at political rallies in their nice new helmets and can give them cookies and milk to help them calm down.

That's what compassionate conservatism is all about.

C. Smith, your statement above,  is a hope; that  you would like to be correct and you assume elected officials always equal our best, "our cream of the crop".  I say that cannot be automatically true, but only truly hoped for. History abounds in despots  and mad men, etc. to prove my point. This will be an interesting next couple of weeks.

The BS will fly from one court to the other. I just wonder, who has the stronger hand? Poker anyone? ....If McCain/Palin is the Straight, (what suit, is up for discussion) if so, what does that make Obama/Biden? 

Dear Mr Smith,

The onslaught by the mainstream media to find anything dirty on Sarah Palin is at once, revealing and laughable. They don't get it. Americans long for citizen governance - we are sick to death of career politicians. We dream of the lawmakers of the 18th century - our founders. Private citizens who put country above self - but for just a few years. They returned back into obscurity in the countryside and tended to their own lives. Journalists have for so long been drinking from the well of the Left at watering holes we call 'colleges', that they are completely baffled by this woman - all they can do is try and use the sad old tactics of 'personal destruction' - so well-honed over the last two decades. None of that will stick to an honest woman - or man.

   The media's flailing attempts to somehow 'reduce' her stature achieve exactly the opposite. Journalists, have become accustomed to dealing with rats, snakes, roaches and vipers - lowlifes and bottom dwellers all. The only way to bring any of them down further is to reveal the real nature of the beast they pretend to be. That is simply not possible with Sarah Palin - she has that one single rarest trait known to politics - she is genuine. The only people who do not realize or understand that fact are journalists, politicians and ideologues - mired in the muck of the bottom all. Life has suddenly become very difficult for bottom feeders. John McCain is an honest man. Sarah Palin is the genuine article.

RPK

Then she has nothing to worry about, does she?

"Then she has nothing to worry about, does she?"

Well since you asked, NO...........it seems the media and the liberals do though.

RPK

Ratpack: “We dream of the lawmakers of the 18th century - our founders. Private citizens who put country above self - but for just a few years.”

Stop buying the myths. The politicians were no different then than they are now. In fact, due to the shorter life span, they spent more of their lives as politicians than politicians do now. The average politician in congress today spends about 12 years in service. Tomas Jefferson spent 34 years in public service and John Adams spent 27 years.

I believe we can all agree that these men founded a great country but they were not saints and had faults running from illegitimate children and alcoholism to suspending the constitution and manipulating for personal gain. And don’t forget the slaveholders. Great men, but they were as flawed as any today.

As things are today, we are setting up a system that is damn if they do and damn if they don’t. If a guy has been in public service for a while they damn him for his length of service. If he is new to public service they damn him for a lack of experience. I have no problem with a person that has committed his life to public service. Why would I want an amateur in such an important place? Would you have an amateur surgeon perform on your loved one? We all love a career military leader, don’t we? Committing your life to something tends to make you good at it. And in this case if the people don’t think he’s good we get to vote the bastard out. It’s a great country!

I agree with Hodie.  Americans have long since lost our capacity to think clearly and honestly.  Our media and our political process are episodic, unprincipled, sensationalistic, and horribly dishonest.  Politicians have learned that if they say it, some of us just believe it, no matter how contemptible and blatant the lie.

Our current administration has broken the law repeatedly, led us into a horrible war duplicitously, rebuffed and punished all reasonable dissent in government, TORTURED people around the world in both military camps ("Camp Justice" -- how 1984!) and black sites, nearly bankrupted us financially, destroyed our reputation around the world, and more.  Yet the Democrats have not shown the courage (beyond a few words by Richardson) to condemn the illegality and immorality.  And, of course, the Republicans play the same old same old game: scare the idiots with security threats, then make a deal: you give our megarich corporate interests a pile of your money and we will "protect" you.  And now, there are people stupid enough to believe that drilling for Oil in Alaska can solve their gas pump misery???  I am a Ph.D. economist, so I can tell you professionally that if we drill all the oil we can get our hands on, prices at the pump will probably drop 1-3 cents per gallon, and perhaps less!  There is not one single econometric estimate of Alaskan oil drillinng impact on gas pump prices that estimate anything higher than 3 cents per gallon in the next five years!

Have Americans been bamboozled?  Not innocently.  Why in the face of such moral outrages over the last 8 years should ANYONE say to pollsters that the most important issue is their pocketbook?  What kind of people have we become?  We deserve what we get, no matter who wins.

The most important issue should be to clean up our illegal militarism before the world has to put a stop to us using our own medicine.  Then again, the Europeans, Russians and Chinese are apparently too cowardly and selfish to stand up to us.

Christopher...Nonsense

The Re election rate for our whores in DC is 94%. Thats higher than in Communist USSR, with fixed elections, at 92%
Ours is the best system that money can buy.

Yes, Jefferson, Hamilton & others were involved in public life, AS THEY HAD JUST CREATED A NEW NATION-fought for it,  & created a NEW Governing document.  They were elected & there wasnt a 2 party fixed monopoly with lobbyists & Foreign Nations ie Israel, dictating US Policy.

Few favored slavery.  Their statements reflected that.  Slavery was in fact legal, AND STILL IS,  in parts of Africa today & Exists.  

"As Congress is now to legislate for our extensive territory lately acquired, I pray to Heaven that they ...[c]urse not the inhabitants of those regions, and of the United States in general, with a permission to introduce bondage [slavery]."
-John Dickinson, Signer of the Constitution and Governor of Pennsylvania. Charles J. Stille, The Life and Times of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898) p. 324.

Uglydog, Ratpack asked about the 18th century and that is what I was addressing. I also never said all were in favor of slavery. But some where and those some were wrong. Do you disagree?

But I love your slavery rant. Is funny how one 100% truthful line can get such a rise out of you. Thanks for the giggle! If you want people to take this stuff seriously you should go to stormfront.org where your rhetoric is commonplace.

Although some people in many parts of the world are still in VERTUAL slavery there is no country in the world that has slavery as a legal statute. Your statement that slavery is legal in some parts of Africa is complete bullshit. Prove your statement and show the exact statute. (Folks get you hip waders on and prepare for a flood of bullshit)