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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:04 schreef pberends het volgende:

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"Evangelicals rally behind Palin after pregnancy news"

Evangelicals stemmen toch al Republikeins. Who cares dat ze haar supporten.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:33 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Jaja maar die evangelicals zeggen dat mensen geen seks voor het huwelijk mogen hebben. En nu heeft de dochter van Palin wel seks voor het huwelijk gehad en dat proberen zij nu neer te zetten als iets positiefs. Erg hypocriet allemaal.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:33 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Jaja maar die evangelicals zeggen dat mensen geen seks voor het huwelijk mogen hebben. En nu heeft de dochter van Palin wel seks voor het huwelijk gehad en dat proberen zij nu neer te zetten als iets positiefs. Erg hypocriet allemaal.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:47 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Iedereen maakt fouten, en conservatieve Christenen ook.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:47 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Iedereen maakt fouten, en conservatieve Christenen ook.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 14:07 schreef pberends het volgende:

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Zie de inval van Irak door Bush.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 14:29 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Het is maar vanuit welk oogpunt je het bekijkt. De oorlogsindustrie draait biljoenen en andere aandelen doen het ook niet slecht.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:33 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Jaja maar die evangelicals zeggen dat mensen geen seks voor het huwelijk mogen hebben. En nu heeft de dochter van Palin wel seks voor het huwelijk gehad en dat proberen zij nu neer te zetten als iets positiefs. Erg hypocriet allemaal.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 15:55 schreef henkway het volgende:
dan hebben ze tenminste een lekkere geile vrouwelijke president

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 13:42 schreef pberends het volgende:
Baas NOS haalt uit naar Obama 08

Terechte kritiek van Laroes en Spruyt. Ik heb zelden zulke schaamteloze partijdige domme tv gezien .

Obama kennen we onderhand wel. McCain is veel interessanter, zeker omdat hij vaak domme fouten maakt.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 14:29 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:

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Het is maar vanuit welk oogpunt je het bekijkt. De oorlogsindustrie draait biljoenen en andere aandelen doen het ook niet slecht.

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 15:55 schreef henkway het volgende:

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Kan dat die conservatieve republikeinen nou schelen, dat de dochter van Senator Palin er op los neukt, zwanger is geworden en moet trouwen, of dat haar moeder een lekker wijf is dat vroeger aan missverkiezingen meedeed, als die ouwe McCain een hartaanval krijgt, dan hebben ze tenminste een lekkere geile vrouwelijke President Paal in

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McCain Turns Sour on His Onetime Media `Base' as Election Nears
Heidi Przybyla


Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The longtime love affair between John McCain and what he once called his ``base'' -- the national news media -- is on the rocks.

McCain's campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, yesterday lashed out at what he deemed ``offensive'' and ``demeaning'' coverage and questions from reporters after McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, confirmed her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

``It used to be that a lot of those smears and the crap on the Internet stayed out of the newsrooms of serious journalists,'' Schmidt said at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schmidt's criticism is the latest example in the unraveling of what was once a fond relationship between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the media. Starting in the 2000 Republican primaries, the Arizona senator became a media sensation by chatting up the press in the back of his ``Straight Talk Express'' campaign bus. The national press corps freely mingled with McCain for hours on the bus, with no topic off limits.

More recently, though, McCain, 72, has accused news organizations such as the New York Times, Time magazine and the NBC network of being unfair to him. The campaign even considered pulling out of one of the three presidential debates because it would be moderated by Tom Brokaw, a former NBC News anchorman.

``McCain's both been close to and now, to some extent, the object of media scrutiny that he's never had before,'' said Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican.

In one way, the more strained relationship may be an asset for McCain by broadening his appeal to conservative Republicans who believe the media has a liberal bias.

``There are a lot of people who don't like the press anymore and think they're out of control; attacking the messenger isn't a terrible political strategy,'' said Darrell West, a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington who has written several books on the mass media.

Yet, it may also have pitfalls. ``You still need the press to get your message out and if you have an antagonistic relationship it can blow up in your face,'' West said.

As the relationship has deteriorated, McCain has stopped hosting his once-famous ``straight talk'' get-togethers on his campaign plane. He also has abandoned regular press conferences.

Instead, he stops occasionally to read short written statements in front of cameras, like he did Aug. 31 in Jackson, Mississippi; then walks away from questions shouted by reporters.

His campaign plane is custom configured with a lounge area designed for hosting question-and-answer sessions with the press. McCain inaugurated the lounge on one of the plane's first flights and hasn't used it since.

Invitations for the press to visit the Straight Talk Express also have grown scarce. Local reporters are allowed the occasional visit, though journalists traveling with McCain no longer are invited to drop in. He hasn't held a news conference since Aug. 13.

Some of the campaign's new approach may coincide with the bigger role taken by Schmidt, who was close to Karl Rove, a former campaign manager and White House aide to President George W. Bush, known for keeping a tight grip on press access to his boss.


There have also been a series of public rifts between the campaign and the media. On July 31, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sparred with MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell in an exchange about a McCain campaign ad portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a celebrity.

``I'm happy to talk about more substantive issues the next time I come on your program,'' Davis said, capping the testy interview.

On July 22, the McCain camp assailed the media in an Internet advertisement and an e-mail to supporters.

``It's pretty obvious the media has a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama, some may even say it's a love affair,'' McCain's campaign said in the e-mail. ``The media is in love with Barack Obama. If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny.''

On Aug. 17, Davis sent a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus saying the network was ``abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race.'' Davis said New York-based NBC had made ``unsubstantiated, partisan claims'' designed ``to undercut John McCain.''

Capus said he spoke with the McCain campaign after he received the letter and ``there is no issue in terms of a broader problem.'' NBC is owned by Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co.

McCain also took a combative stance in an Aug. 27 interview with Time reporters James Carney and Michael Scherer, refusing to answer a question about his definition of honor.

``Read it in my books,'' McCain said. ``I'm not going to define it.'' That exchange set the tone for the rest of the interview: McCain answered a question about his opinion on premarital sex by saying, ``I don't have any response to that type of question.''

He added, ``Write what you want.''

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COOPER: And, Senator Obama, my final question -- your -- some of your Republican critics have said you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this. They in fact have said that Governor Palin has more executive experience, as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state of Alaska.

What's your response?

OBAMA: Well, you know, my understanding is, is that Governor Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We have got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year.
You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month.

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“For Barack Obama to argue that he’s experienced enough to be president because he’s running for president is desperate circular logic and it’s laughable. It is a testament to Barack Obama’s inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin’s executive experience managing a budget of over 10 billion dollar dollars, and more than 24,000 employees.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008

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The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin says the McCain campaign is using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.


"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation of claims that Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired.

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Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html

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Op dinsdag 2 september 2008 18:44 schreef Montov het volgende:
Het houdt maar niet op:
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