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Palin brings aboard two Bush veterans

Posted: Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:16 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- The McCain campaign is bringing two Bush administration communication veterans on board to beef up the team that will travel with Palin.

Tucker Eskew has joined the Palin team as a senior advisor, and campaign officials said he will play a role akin to chief of staff. Eskew served as director of the White House Office of Global Communications and as director of media affairs.

The campaign also confirmed Friday that Tracey Schmitt is joining as deputy communications director and national spokesperson. She is a former Republican National Committee spokesperson.

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more gov. palin lies above..no Ebay jet sell..State of Alaska lost over a half a
million on that deal..
Not very good fiscal sense from a State dripping in oil profits money and borrowing
clout..
Gov. Palin has borrowed more more than the two previous gov.'s combined...


McCain votes against his own McCain-Feingold Senate Bill and below are the statements
why he changes his mind..on his Ethics Campaign
Bill he authored..to many loop holes that Democrats and Republicans used in the 1996
and 1998  and 2000 and elections...

http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=40836&keyword=&phrase=&contain=

Oh well, voting republican looks really remote...the mass media is about to unleash a
barrage of weird stuff about Gov. Palin..
and the right wing base can see John McCain condones premarital sex...

The oil story has now splashed on to the political just as Dr. Lindsey Williams
said...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147

We will not stand for lies from any one that calls them self a "Maverick"..
http://www.reason.com/news/show/34642.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090201922.html

John McCain mantra ..sounds good say it...avoid real answers because the American
people don't have the capability
to understand it..fill their bellies and their gas tanks and they'll vote for
you...the only problem with that is the American people
become a tool for the whimps of the rich and of the government...There's a man called
Barack Obama that want to change that.

John McCan says fight together..he really means fight and die for me..

Barack Obama says let's work together for the common good or we are all dead...
Oh Great!  She's being home-schooled by Bushies.  This entire Palin debacle is a train wreck.  Wake up America
Paranoid people should never own a guns and all  politician are border line paranoids..
If they know their limits they borrow some one else's ..It's called the military. ..
Obama/Biden = Country First
McCain/Palin = Me and those like MeFirst  
Paranoid people should never own a guns and all  politician are border line paranoids..
If they know their limits they borrow some one else's ..It's called the military. ..
as well as

It's funny how we live in a time when lipstick and Ebay is more important then our children's skill set to deal  with  life's important decisions......
Our “Country First” message should reflect family values and experience as well as fighting wars and evil...
Does this mean she will actually give intervews or is "identification" or "appeal" still the GOP's most important basis for VP approval.
Who would have thought that they would have brought in Bush peeps. That just proves that the Change the Republicans want is a 360 degree change.

They just want to prove the "More of the same" slogan is true, over and over again.
Happy to see this vivacious real person running with McCain. And the fact she has run a state, with an eleven Billion dollar budget. Not to be confused with the community organizer, who has been in the Senate, PRESENT for 143 days!! Never went to Irag prior to voting against the surge. And now admits the surge worked beyond anyones wildest dreams. Maybe like his hero. This Zero has no dreams!!

The should bring on some lawyers for Palin,she might need them.
Recycle of the last 8 years.  Doing the same but expecting a different result.  Insain.

No how, No way, No McPimp/Pay-in.
Yup...can ya smell the change in the air?  What better way to bring about new idea's than get the same people to work for you.  And what is it with repubs and the name 'Tucker'?
Here we go again.  If there was ever any doubt that they were going to give us more of the same this move pretty much proves that they are in bed with the Bush administration. They tried to divorce them on Thursday night, but crawled right back in bed with them today. Someone from the Bush adminstartion advising her on any kind of international or national policy would be like me telling a cardiologist how to perform open heart surgery.  God help us!
YEAH BRING ABROAD EXPERIENE COMMUNICATION VETERANS TO BEEF UP PALIN'S LIMITED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE I GUESS MCCAIN'S STAFF IS WORRIED ABOUT HER MAKING A MAJOR GAFFE, REPORTERS NEED ACCESS TO A POSSIBLE FUTURE VICE-PRESIDENT IF SHE CAN'T HANDLE AN INTERVIEW HOW IS GOING TO HANDLE PUTIN, AHMADINEJAD, ETC
Yep, more Rive tactics and Bush people. As Americans we are unresponsible if we let this lady into office. I can't believe the McCain camp acts like it is sexist that we want to know more. Are we just supoosed to take his word on her? The GOP must go down. They can come back when they want to be fair and honest and act like adults! This lady is inexperienced and unvetted. She is just Cheney in a skirt and we cannot afford to make that mistake again!
I am a bit confused? McCain and Palin say they are different than Bush yet they employ many that have worked or are working for him. How is this change you can believe in? The only true change is Obama/Biden!
Change, this is change.  More of the Bush team...are the Republicans so short of talent that they have to recycle the very same advisors that have been part of the Bush team...
JUST FOR YOU PEOPLE WHO KEEP SAYING OBAMA IS NOT READY TO LEAD. TAKE HEED OF THE BELOW:

The republican party have no ideals of their own. But yet they continue to bash Obama.

If you watched the RNC convention. You should have notice, they took (STOLE) all of Baracks ideals and
talking points. They implemented (STOLE) everything from the DNC convention with a twist and turn, but still could not top the DNC. American, please DO NOT be fooled by the RNC Karl Rove tactic. This race is about our children's future and American.

McCain offer up no real solutions to the American people, yet riding on the coat-tail of Barack Obama. They say Barack can't lead, but McCain is study following Barracks lead. Q: WHO IS THE LEADER? McCain played on the sympathy vote. Though McCain's service is commendable. We were flooded with the POW story every single night.

McCain even went so far as to say in his speech. It doesn't matter who
came up with the ideal (CHANGE).

What he was say in this statement was I STOLE your message of change, and you can't do anything about it.

Here we have the out and out right lying republicans. That introduce the american people to an unknown Gov. Palin, which is under all kinds of investigation. They don't want the media to interview her. Why? Because they are running out of campaign funds and want to use the media as free advertisement. How the media is fallen for this garbage is beyond me.

The media should vet Gov. Palin, just as they did with every other candidate. As she had the nerve to challage the media. Who do she thing she is? We need to know what make her so different. They hound the heck out of Barack Obama for over 18 mos. She is running for the 2nd highest office in the nation and the American people have every right to know who she is and want make her tick and her views on all the issue.

With that said, I don't know how so many people who claim to be so educationed can buy into this garbage that the republicans are trying to sale.

The media should dig into her back ground hard and heavy and should not drag their feet. They owe it to the American people. I do agree her children have nothing to do with the issue.

My question to you the American people. When you have a chance to choose an original. Are you going to pick the copy? I don't think SO. NOT THIS TIME.


NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN/MCPALIN
For someone who is trying to get away from the bush administration he sure is bringing the lot of them on b oard.  Hypocrites!

Here is an off-hand analogy for you:

this election is like Monsters, Inc.  They get energy by scaring kids but realize they get more by happiness and laughter.

The GOP energizes america by scaring them.  The Democrats realize you can energize america more by lifting them up with hope.

Pass it around...its simple and easy to understand.  Its a moral of a story but more importantly, its the moral for america to follow.
BUSH, BUSH AND MORE BUSH OR SHOULD I SAY ROVE?

DO MCBUSH/PALIN ACTUALLY THINK THIS IS CHANGE!! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

THEY MUST REALLY THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID.

Wow, so much for change, so much for being mavericks, so much lying.
Not four more years of Bush? Part of the new guard? Then why are they hiring the old guard?

No to four more years.

Obama '08
Didn't Bush-men write her VP acceptance speech too? Obama-Biden are correct. If you support McCain-Palin, you support 4 more years of Bush! I sure hope small- town, working-class America is paying attention.
Didn't Bush-men write her VP acceptance speech too? Obama-Biden are correct. If you support McCain-Palin, you support 4 more years of Bush! I sure hope small- town, working-class America is paying attention.
So this is like putting a dress and lipstick on Bush

Speaking of narrative (aren't we always, you know, creating one?)...

The great Henry Miller was once commissioned by a publisher to create (perhaps autobiographically) an "Horatio Alger" story.

The kind of Hallmark card the folks in the cheap seats get teary-eyed over. Perhaps a heartrending Guideposts cover story like the saccharine-rich Sarah Palin rags-to-riches epic.

Henry got a little upset about that.  Couldn't live with creating such tripe, even though he needed the money.  

Apparently, though, there is still enough gold in them hills to inspire the dreams of a whole army of MSM/PR "burlesque" queens...

Henry wrote this back to the editors:

"I'll give you an Horatio Alger book .. . just you wait! My head was in a whirl leaving his office. I saw the army of men, women and children that had passed through my hands, saw them weeping, begging, beseeching, imploring, cursing, spitting, fuming, threatening. I saw the tracks they left on the highways, the freight trains lying on the floor, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy, the mouth twitching, the saliva pouring from the lips, the limbs writhing; I saw the walls giving way and the pest pouring out like a winged fluid, and the men higher up with their ironclad logic, waiting for it to blow over, waiting for everything to be patched up, waiting, waiting contentedly, smugly, with big cigars in their mouths and their feet on the desk, saying things were temporarily out of order. I saw the Horatio Alger hero, the dream of a sick American, mounting higher and--higher, first messenger, then operator, then manager, then chief, then superintendent, then vice-president, then president, then trust magnate, then beer baron, then Lord of all the Americas, the money god, the god of gods, the clay of clay, nullity on high, zero with ninety-seven thousand decimals fore and aft. You shits, I said to myself, I will give you the picture of twelve little men, zeros without decimals, ciphers, digits, the twelve uncrushable worms who are hollowing out the base of your rotten edifice. I will give you Horatio Alger as he looks the day after the Apocalypse, when all the stink has cleared away."

Henry Miller, from The Tropic of Capricorn

Well, he was a just a weird novelist, never had a Maserati... Tom Broken Record looks down his $2000 reading glasses and sniffs his aperitif.


I am confused. How does the Governor present herself self as the outsider/change agent/rebel when the Bush writers will be putting words in her mouth?
Just when will the campaign allow us to hear from her?
If she is ready to lead on day 1 she should be ready to be interviewed on day 1.

I guess since she's not talking to the press or even taking questions from voters, the new team has her sequestered while they give her her opinions.
Yeah, here's some real change: two cronies from the Bush administration join the Palin/McCain ticket.  Oops, I got that the wrong way around. Who else are they going to drag out as a harbinger of change in their administration? Barbara Bush, perhaps?
Yep, same ole same ole...Bush to the rescue of Palin and Mccain
Tucker Eskew was the person who smeared John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 with the illegitimate daughter push-polling and worse.

John McCain has abandoned everything he used to hold dear.
And they all think we believe they will not be Bush's third term. ha ha!!
The campaigns top officials have all been involved in the deceptions and secret hiding of information we all need to make an informed decision.
No more up with politicians and down on citizens.
Owl
Yes, this is change you can believe in.
HERE WE GO AGAIN.  I SEE IT COMING.  IF McCAIN GETS IN OFFICE YOU CAN BET YOU WILL SEE THE SAME FACES AND FEEL THE SAME HARDSHIPS ONLY THIS TIME WE'LL PROBABLY GO DOWN FOR SURE NEVER TO GET BACK.  WELL IT'S BEEN PREDICTED THAT THE USA WILL BECOME A 3RD WORLD NATION. GET READY  
Oh boy here we go again the bush era live on. mccain say he's his own man but your team hires the bush admin. for help what can anyone from the bush admin. help with beside messing something up.  
Nice... they're writing her speeches, they might as well hand hold her through the whole thing.

Need anymore evidence this is more of the same?

Wonder if they'll tell her to stick with the "God wants a pipeline through Alaska" line.

Seriously? God wants a pipeline through Alaska? Seriously?

http://www.rodneyhopper.com
Hey Palin! NO access NO coverage!
How many Bush veterans does McCain plan to bring aboard if he wins.  How many cabinet members?  So much for either one of these two representing change.  he represents Bush policy.  She represents the lunatic social conservative right fringe.  They both represent lies, spin and more lies followed by, if we are stupid enough to elect them, more of the worst of the same.
so not only was her speech written by Bush people, her entourage is Bush people too?

I'd have more respect for the Republican party if they just admitted they were gonna follow the Bush agenda. Surprisingly enough, that may get them a win easier than all the lies they are telling people now.
They are already cloning the Bush administration
Sarah Palin was brought on board as a puppet for the neocons like Bush and Cheney,  She is on the scene to put a 'fresh', 'new', 'pretty' face on the same 'tired', 'old', 'ugly' politics.

I am not buying their lying, righteous, malicious garbage.

Enough!!

Obama/Biden '08
Of course.  With Bush's speech writer bringing the beer! Same republicans different day.  My only hope is we won't buy into the change message they keep pushing.  Like Keith says "Bushed".
Obama/;Biden 08'
Oh yeah, they are agents of change.  The McCain/Palin administration promises 4 more years of the same.  Have you heard one promise, one policy, one program that is not a continuation of last 8 years of Bush.  Palin actually will take us back to refight the culture wars (shades of Tom Delay and Rick Santorn).  Don't be fooled.  
Ah - now that's change - Bush admin people working for McCain and Palin
Tucker Eskew could not name one instance where Palin 'commanded' the Alaskan National Guard.

She's smoke and mirrors.  The opposite of her claims.

For the 'Bridge to Nowhere'.  Left her city $20,000,000 in debt, raised sales taxes.
I wrote Palin’s convention speech.  Do you really think McCain/Palin will offer anything different than Bush/Cheney?  With more of my Bush buiddies by her side, you can bet you'll get the same old crap.
Bush.  LOL.  More of the same, even the same crew.  Banks failing, unemployment up 6.1%, and they bring more Bush.  Anyone foolish enough to vote for that gets what they deserve.
John McCain must be reading his Bible.. Proverbs 21:23.
"He who guards his,'(in this case HER)',mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity"
I thought I heard the sound of bushshit in her mouth.


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