1. How many fetuses has she passed around for her children to fondle?

2. How many firearms does she keeps loaded and within reach of her children?

3. Now that the Chinese have secured Iraqi oil rights, should we invade Beijing or just nuke them from orbit?

If your daughter were raped by a black man, and became pregnant, would you encourage, allow, discourage or prevent her from having an abortion?

If a pretty, white teenage girl was “seduced” by her uncle and became pregnant, what rights should she have with respect to terminating her pregnancy?

What about a 44yo woman whose birth control fails and who is carrying a Down’s fetus?

Sarah Palin believes tat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taxpayer-funded.  They weren’t.

This is excellent news for John McCain!

1) Governor Palin, was the country better off in the year 2000, or now?

1. Did you ever cheat on your husband?

2. Biden will be able to advise Obama on getting bills through the Senate, on foreign policy, and on the judiciary. In what areas of politics are you expert enough to advise McCain?

3. By your actions regarding Wasilla’s librarian and chief of police, and your requesting your ex-brother-in-law’s personnel records, you seem to abuse whatever power granted to you, in the service of your meanness, pettiness, and vindictiveness. In your own mind, is there a line you wouldn’t cross in the service of your own interests? What is it?

She’s right, they have gotten too expensive for the American taxpayers.  They may cost us $100B.

1. What role should the federal govt play, if any, in assisting working parents manage the work-family balance?

2. A foreign policy question covering a topic that hasn’t been on everyone’s radar lately and probably won’t have been covered in her tutoring sessions with Holy Joe.

3. Follow-up questions to any generic or shallow answers she gives.

Do you believe Alaska should secede from the US?

To be fair, anyone who eats meat is endorsing animal cruelty on the same level as her shooting animals.  Just because one form is hidden does not mean it does not exist

Shooting animals for food isn’t immoral. Shooting them for fun and leaving the carcass to rot is.

I hate capitalism that we all have to support through corporate welfare.

How much interaction have you had with the Russians?
Why do you think teen marriages are a good idea?
Should science be science-based or religion-based?

Governor Palin!  Governor Palin!  Which of George W Bush’s policies do you support most strongly?  His economic platform of repeated government bailouts for private corporations that supported him with large campaign contributions or his seven year war against a country with no connections to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction that might threaten us or our allies?

Governor Palin?  Can you please stop hiding under your desk?  I don’t think that qualifies as “undisclosed”.

How about “Gov. Palin, why do you hate America?”

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.  America v2.0…

To be honest, it’s a step up from America v1.0 - Poor People, Five for a Dollar.

1. How did you get so Mavericky?

2. Have you and John created a moose BBQ recipe yet and if so, does David Broder like it?

3. Do you think the 1980 Winter Olympics ‘Miracle on Ice’ was really a miracle, or just one of Jesus’ daily interventions in favor of America?

4. What food is better evidence of creationism, the banana or peanut butter?

5. Which sin is Barack Obama most guilty of: elitism or effete snobbery?

Why did you give your kids weird names like Trig and Bristol instead of proper American names like Deondre or Shanequa?

Hairdo questions can’t come soon enough in this campaign. Products for black women are on a totally separate aisle, like they’re special or something (it should be on a separate aisle but for different reasons). Their hair is racist and elitist. Give me a hybrid Cone-Beehive anytime. Who needs a lapel flag pin when your hair is that patriotic. I’m voting McCain/Palin.

And I don’t care that McCain and Biden both have crappy comb-overs. I’m no fool. That was just a cynical political calculation on Obama’s part.

MoneyCon?  That’s new..I like that.

Not sure what skin in the game is?  Worked for companies that went under.  They never asked for nor got any public financing to stay afloat.  Getting my butt whipped in the stock market fall this year.  Haven’t asked for any public bailout.  Paid my way through college.  Live below my means.  I got skin in the game everyday sweetheart.  And I support letting companies, farmers, and individuals who have made really bad choices (not who have been victimized or are simply poor) deal with the consequences as outright fail.  Better choices, better behavior, and better economic models would emerge from more failure as capital sought the best ideas, because the worst ideas would go away, not keep chugging along, eating up previous capital that good ideas could use to grow the economy for everyone.

What were the books you wanted the Wasilla librarian to ban for you?

1.  Without discussing your religion—as not all Americans are Christian but all are potential voters—could you make a case for why Americans should support a conservative social agenda?

2.  Do you still maintain that climate change is not man-made, and—if so—does that mean Americans should expect a McCain/Palin administration to do nothing to protect the environment?

3.  How do you negotiate McCain’s stated desire to improve public education in this country (to the point that, he suggested in his convention speech, he would endorse a system to “punish” bad teachers)* with your own expressed conviction that creationism should be taught in science classrooms, as creationism has absolutely no foundation in science and is instead a waste of precious classroom time and resources?

*Just to be clear, I think McCain’s ideas about education are, well, moronic, and would hasten the decline of education in this country.  But I’m operating under the assumption that he thinks that vouchers and taking money away from public schools will encourage “competition,” which has the magical effect of making everything better.

2.) How much does your hair cost to do, and how often do you get it done?

What kind of question is that to ask a white woman?

1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is your favorite color?

What were the books you wanted the Wasilla librarian to ban for you?

FWIW, I got an email forward today which supposedly lists the books she wanted banned.  I’m pretty sure it’s false, though, because it looks to me like that list of “100 Most Banned Books” that get circulated every so often in anti-censorship outreach.  All the usual suspects are on it—Huck Finn, Brave New World, To Kill A Mockingbird,  Harry Potter, the entire Judy Blume oeuvre.

MikeEss, I’m on your team here.  Do remember that instutional investor = pension fund manager so lots of little guys would get hit pretty hard (ala Enron) when a big company fails.  However, I still think that it should happen far more often than it does.  Industry winners would pounce on the corpse, take a bunch of the talent and resources and productivity nationwide would increase.  Short term losers - long term prosperity for the system.

The Opoponax, CNN just covered that (one minute ago).  You are correct; CNN says that Snopes is reporting it as false, that the town library says no books were ever banned, and that several of the books on the list weren’t out at the time the controversy between Palin and the librarian took place.

the town library says no books were ever banned

The forward I got doesn’t specify that these books were actually banned, but that they were books Palin wanted banned.  And the reason she didn’t get her way is that her demands caused a local outcry.

The fact that the forward is spurious doesn’t mean Palin is blameless, just that it’s, like most email forwards, rather misguided.

I think the “What’s for dinner?” is obnoxious—it smacks of asking her to do the ironing / laundry.

And comments on her hair are inappropriate, as well.  If she were an African-American woman who had been tapped for VP, we wouldn’t be remarking on the texture of her hair. 

Sorry, guys - there’s enough on the issues to rake her over the coals with.

No books were ever banned; the librarian wouldn’t have it.  But Palin still requested the bannings.

Hey Governor:

What’s another word for pirate treasure?

Wow, some pretty sexist stuff here.  Interesting.  Just thinking what an outcry questions like this about Hillary on a conservative blog would bring.

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*reads Salon article*

*loves Wolves*

And here I thought I couldn’t hate the woman any more than I already did. Turns out I was wrong.

I thought the haircut questions were a la the Edwards bruhaha. You know, the infamous $400 haircut.

um, i think the questions were meant to be a parody of the kinds of loaded question-attacks that republicans throw at democrats…

Sarah Palin a’int behind the bounce. I’m convinced it’s McCain’s POW speech at the convention—because there’s zero movement in states with large amounts of evangelicals like there should be if Palin was the reason.

1. Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

2. Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?

3. When did you stop beating your children?

“Gov. Palin, Vice President Cheney maintains that the Vice Presidency is a fourth branch of the US government.  Do you share his views of the expansive powers vested in that office?”

The advantage of this question, IMHO, is that it makes a Republican say—or at least consider saying—that she is content with less power.  That has to be like ashes in a Republican mouth, or like Fonzie saying he was wrong.  I suppose she could say that she sees the VP as a trusted advisor with those powers enumerated in the Constitution, but even then the question (which is totally legitimate) reminds viewers about the mania of Cheney.

At some point the Chinese are going to come and take our credit cards away…

They can’t. That’s the beauty of it. If they do anything drastic, their half-trillion or more in US investments becomes some really unique wallpaper, AND their export markets collapse. With a demographic tsunami just over the horizon because of population control, they need at least the illusion of value in that nest egg.

I thought of some more:

1. When did you and your sister decide you were going to try to get her ex-husband fired?

2. Was it so he wouldn’t get custody, or just in retaliation?

3. Was he the only bad State Trooper out there? How do you explain the coincidence the only bad State Trooper was your ex-brother-in-law?

4. Well, then, how do you explain the coincidence that you and your family were the only citizens ever to complain about him?

5. Why weren’t you satisfied with the results of the almost one-year investigation, the ten-day suspension? Why did you continue to try to get him fired?

6. Well, why did you order up his personnel files for your review?

I’m convinced it’s McCain’s POW speech

Nah, it’s just low-information voters impressed by McCain’s lovely house, the one behind him on the screen when he was speaking.

Doesn’t matter what WE’D like to ask her.  She’s going to get asked the softest, most cuddly of softball questions, by gruff old uncle Charlie.  For example:

1) What is your favorite color?

2) Do you like hockey?

3) A final question: kittens or puppies?

3) A final question: kittens or puppies?

Oh, I can’t decide…  They both make fine target practice!

Will you guys stop using Muslim as a slur? It’s bad enough when the right wingers do it, but do the liberals have to join in?!!

Will you guys stop using Muslim as a slur?

Sara’s biological father was Muslim. Later, her stepfather simply wrote “Muslim” down when he enrolled little Sara in the kampung school.

Given her place of birth, Mormon is a more likely birth religion.  Something like a 75% chance.

Dr T:

Wow, some pretty sexist stuff here. Interesting. Just thinking what an outcry questions like this about Hillary on a conservative blog would bring.

This would have been a much more credible accusation if someone else hadn’t brought it up a full five minutes before you did (or, for that matter, if the rest of us were as ignorant of the form and function of irony as you appear to be). So just do us all a favor and stop trying to pretend that you’ve ever had an original thought in your life.

1) What parts of Cheney’s eight years as VP would you want to continue?
2) Do you agree with Cheney’s lawyers that the VP’s office is neither part of the executive or legislative branch?
3) Would you hire any of Cheney’s staff?

1.  Why did you charge rape victims for the cost of the rape kits used by law enforcement investigating the assault?

2.  Regardless of your response to #1 above, are you insane?