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昨天晚上，奧巴馬在丹佛市近8萬人的集會上，宣布自己接受民主黨提名，正式成為民主黨總統候選人。
在此以前，奧巴馬提麥肯的老友拜登做自己的副總統候選人。
拜登自己先後兩次競選總統，都是不戰而退。提名拜登是為了彌補奧巴馬在外交和國防上經驗不足的缺陷，更重要的是奧巴馬自己對付麥肯近來不斷的負麵進功有些招架不住。
毫不留情地有啥說啥是拜登最著名的商標。
今年初選時，拜登是第一個民主黨提名候選裏站出來說奧巴馬經驗不足背景不明不能當總統的。在最後的時刻讓他當副總統提名人，而根本就不提希拉莉，奧巴馬激怒了支持希拉莉的選民，特別是婦女選民。有幾個鐵杆分子在民主黨全國大會期間串聯要逼迫民主黨黨部提名擁有一千八百萬選民支持的希拉莉破格當副總統候選人。雖然計劃最後沒有實現，但有相當一部分希拉莉的支持者決定轉向投共和黨的麥肯。
麥肯在拜登當選民主黨副總統提名人後主動打電話跟老友祝賀。8月28日，當奧巴馬在接受提名的演講聚會對上麥肯進行不斷進攻和指責時，麥肯發廣告祝賀奧巴馬獲得提名，並表示在紀念馬丁路得金的日子裏，在黑人第一次當選美國大黨總統提名人的曆史時刻，歇戰一天，不對奧巴馬做任何進攻，明天再說。這一舉動不僅顯示了麥肯的大將風度，更讓人知道麥肯絕對是有備而來，會有大舉動。
果不其然，今天，令人跌破眼鏡的是麥肯出乎意料之外地提年僅44歲的共和黨新星阿斯加州美女州長葩玲做自己的副總統競選人。
媒體對這個每年州長幾乎是沒有任何了解。在奧巴馬演講的第二天，所有電視裏居然不再提奧巴馬的曆史性演講，而是不短八卦誰會是麥肯的競選夥伴，不能不說是麥肯的神來之筆。
老麥的這招太狠了，越琢磨越有滋味:
1。奧巴馬要說葩玲沒經驗，他自己也沒有。
2。奧巴馬要說麥肯是老油條，拜登也是。
3。奧巴馬當兩年的議員，葩玲當兩年的州長。議員每天就是扯蛋，州長可是要管理各個方麵。
4。奧巴馬本來是要拿拜登來攻擊麥肯。拜登和麥肯是老朋友，就讓老朋友之間打這件事可以看出奧巴馬之用心。
5。拜登和葩玲辯論時沒法象對其他人一樣人身攻擊，因為觀眾會看到他欺負婦女。
6。就這一點，可以看出麥肯的老謀深算。剩下就是麥肯 VS 奧巴馬。麥肯會毫不留情地對奧巴馬進行更猛烈的攻擊。
7。支持希拉莉的婦女們本來就不喜歡奧巴馬，選希拉莉是為婦女的地位爭口氣。現在，她們會轉向支持麥肯，因為葩玲給婦女帶來新的希望。
8。選民們可以覺得麥肯太老，但葩玲絕對搶眼。而奧巴馬那些CHANGE的老一套總說來說去的也不新鮮了。 為了收視率，媒體從此會倒向麥肯陣營。
今年44歲的葩玲是五個孩子的母親，堅定的保守派，反對墜胎，反對同性戀。她在很多方麵同麥肯一樣：兩人都是不守黨紀的獨立的共和黨，在很多問題上同本黨唱對台戲。麥肯經常同民主黨合作，同布什總統對著幹。葩玲上台就整治共和黨內部的腐敗，首先拿共和黨開刀。
更值得一提的是，兩人都把自己的兒子送上伊拉克前線。在假話大話空話滿天飛的今天，這一舉動足以證明兩人的愛國熱忱不是要求別人而是從我做起。
葩玲自己酷愛打獵釣魚，1984年獲阿拉斯加小姐選美第二名。
不能不說，葩玲的出現令麥肯的競選滿目生輝，讓人眼前一亮。
美國的大選正式進入最後的衝刺，誰主沉浮，拭目以待。
| • | 出奇製勝：麥肯提阿拉斯加州美女州長當副總統 | • | 民主黨不願意做的共和黨做了：年輕女VP！ |
| • | 到底是什麽美國夢?! | • | In his own words |
| • | 奧巴馬是怎麽想的？ (圖) | • | ［幽默］奧巴馬上台全球將有十大變化 (圖) |
a white trash.
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/myindex.php?blogID=37937
If you believe that after the past 8 years, Repubicans still deserve another term, it is your choice. Once again, McCain bowed to the republican base -- the evangelicals. This Palin, who does not believe evolution, who is pro-life to a point that she knowingly gave birth to a retarded child. McCain himself is a war freak.
You may argue that republicans will cut tax, shrink governement.... But, just examine what they are having been DOING, not just listen to what they are SAYING. Tax cut come with war, who pays the bill? Do we really want a small government who tells you what to do in your bedroom, what to do with your body? This is exact the direction the republican party is heading towards, more and more controled by those crazy evangelicals. It is no use to pretend that McCain will be different from Bush. Even if he wants to be different, he can't. It is a joke to pick a pretty Alaska government and claim the label of "change". However, it is a smart political move. That is what republicans are really good at.
The fact is this: We all know more or less the same thing, and we choose differently. My 2008 vote will be a anti-republican vote.
Obama is a "University of Chicago democrate", meaning: he is a democrate whom is accepted by prof. in the University of Chigao Deapartment of Economy. I assume that you know the reputation of that department.
"美國如今是內憂外患，國力衰竭，old McCain是無法勝任的，在布什8年共和黨的領導下，將克林頓留下時的一片大好河山折騰得如此沒落，也真是佩服他了"
Anyone who has a little bit common sense in economics knows that business and economics are always developing in cycles, down follwing up, up following down. The economic boom during the Clinton government benefit directly from Ronald Regon's tax cut policies. Only short-sighted people sees it as a static reflection of Clinton's "capability".
Bush's administration faced severe mideast terrorism attach and challenge almost from day one, which was directly herited from the loose control of Clinton administration on national security.
選年輕的VP，也許耳目一新，但又思想的人不由得需要多考慮一層，72歲的麥肯萬一出狀況，一個名義上市州長的人，實際那個州比絕大多數市都小，能否出任總統？令人憂慮的說
I have to say Palin's lack of experience in foreign policy and international affairs is a big setback for the Republican ticket. But where is Obama's experience? a tour visit to Europe and Mideast for 2 month! and he even refused to visit the wounded American solders in Iraq because that day there were no TV crew! Would you rather trust your tax money and kids' lives to some talker like him, or like Palin who might not has the "adequate experience now" but sent her 18-year-old son to Iraq, if we were to compare the "inexperience" of Palin and Obama. Plus, Obama is running for the chief-in-commander, and Palin is only for VP. I don't believe McCain would have any accident from Day 1 of his presidency, Palin is a very intelligent person and very quick learner, as shown from her past experience as major and governor (the only one with real executive experience among the 4!), she will pick it up very quickly, better than Obama's 2-month oversea coating!
這次，隻能支持民主黨了
Give it a second thought please! Just google and read more about Obama, you will be as scared and worried as me!
If you were to vote for Rockfeller Republican, you'd better stick with your libral Democratic vote. That makes no big difference. That's why they always lost in the primaries, even though McCain is close in some ways.
As for you comment "fiscally big spenders and socially conservative", I don't know who exactly you mean. McCain and Obama, who is likely to be a fiscally big spender??
非常同意你的每一條對奧巴馬的總結！我也覺得奧巴馬如果上台，對國家和經濟的危害先不提，在個人操守上，一定是第二個陳水扁。他的多年好友，芝加哥地產商，Tony Rezko 在06年因操縱地方選舉和信用欺詐入獄。而奧巴馬夫婦在案發之前不久從他手裏低價買入了他現在的百萬豪宅！Rezko 同時還為奧巴馬的競選多次募捐，是他在芝加哥的重要籌款人之一！作為回報，Rezko 控製了當時芝加哥和公共醫療事業相關的地產開發。而當時奧巴馬是州議會公共健康和人道服務委員會的主席！對了，Rezko 的資金中還有很大的中東背景。和他同時被捕的就有一個是伊拉克的商人。這樣奧巴馬何以在短短兩年內從岌岌無聞的州議員變成全國政治明星，他的背景和資金來源就相當可疑。
Obama the idealist? what a joke! He was cultivated from the deep Chicago style corruption. Given more power, he would tear off his idealist paint quickly and be more greedy and corrupted than the Clintons! Suffered from childhood abandonment by his parents, especially the never-seen African father, twisted with his ambigiout identification, norished by his pastor's hate-America-liberate-blacks instruction for 20 years, are you expecting an innocent idealist growing from this strange fruit?
Wake up people! Voting for Obama this time is like drinking coolant together with the intoxicated crowd and participating a national suicide!!
Have you ever heard of Rockefeller Republican?
If you bring a candidate of that kind, I would vote for that person. But not the crazy ones we are offered: fiscally big spenders and socially conservative.
為了拉選票，置國家利益於不顧，達到了爐火純青的境界。
有兒女的家長們都想一想，是否準備好讓你們的子女替麥老兒當炮灰。
咱們走著瞧，這亞姐能替老麥風光幾天！
I want some of the stuff you are smoking!
你我的分歧在於奧八馬是什麽人，他的政策是什麽東東。
大白話簡單說幾句：
1。奧巴馬是蒯大複。當年文革紅衛兵頭頭。他的背後是肯尼迪家族和索羅斯財團。
2。他的自下而上的所謂變革，是煽動經濟上目前處於劣勢的低收入階層對中上層收入階層和大公司不滿，要經行財富再分配。這對於鼓勵競爭致富美國立國之本的資本主義體係是背道而馳的。
3。奧巴馬贏希拉莉在最後階段得到DNC的力挺，希拉莉的退出是被逼下去的。一個當才兩年的年輕參議員信口雌黃到處許願言行不一玩弄民意，跟台灣的陳水扁利用台獨為自己上台是同出一轍。
4。假設奧巴馬真不是上述之小人，那用克林頓說的話，他最多是一個天真的理想主義者。他的方針政策是烏托邦，麵麵俱到，充滿了社會主義的思想。他把他自己看得太高太正確太了不起了。這種人當美國總統將是美國的災難。
5。美國的立國之本不是你好我好大家好的自由主義和勞動人民當家作主的社會主義，而是勤勞致富，自由競爭，保護私人財產和自由的資本主義。奧巴馬上台，一他不可能實現他的理想，二他的所謂變革將對美國的國力和社會大動脈造成嚴重的破壞。
6。從中國文革運動和台灣台獨運動來看，群眾性的政治運動都是禍國殃民，而搞群眾運動的人沒有一個是好東西。到頭來，老百姓的日子該怎麽樣還怎麽樣，倒是那些既得利益者把自己給養肥了。
所以，下一屆美國總統不能讓奧巴馬當。無論好萊塢和媒體有多麽喜歡他，無論他的演講有多麽動聽，無論選他會有多酷。他說的不是謊言就是天方夜譚。他將製造更多的赤字和混亂。
華盛頓要改革，美國的政體要改革，但立國之本不能變革。
政治不能代替經濟，政治家不是企業家，政府不是萬能的，工作機會不能靠政府來提供！
納稅人才是老板，保護好企業才能搞好經濟，搞好國防才能保障國民的安全，才能提高國力。
希望美國完蛋的歐洲中東和其他國家當然希望奧巴馬上台。好在這是選美國總統，美國公民才有說話的權力。
SAT YES TO MCCAIN!
SAY NO TO OBAMA!
選年輕的VP，也許耳目一新，但又思想的人不由得需要多考慮一層，72歲的麥肯萬一出狀況，一個名義上市州長的人，實際那個州比絕大多數市都小，能否出任總統？令人憂慮的說
這次，隻能支持民主黨了
and I am going to make sure that one count does not go to McCain.
right, I am glad your vote only counts once too.
Good thing is that it is not up to you.
It is sad, just look at Obama's fan, do they really understand this election is very serious matter? not really.
If people like Obama can be the President, I rather have a young conservative female President who can carry out common sense policies.
good point, thanks.
but i have to agree that democrats' chance is slim this time. too bad america might fall as all other powerful empires in history.
葩玲是五個孩子的媽媽， 不是四個. the youngest is only five months.
yeah, it could be an interesting even funny game show, unfortunately, it is our own money on the table.
Yes, I had the same thoughts. Finally, McCain's pick on Palin makes Obama/Binden look like pretenders, which are really who they are.
Talk is cheap, action takes courage! Obama is very good at talking and imaging. He is dangerous since he flip-flops to get elected.
Well, if that happens, then finally we have a female President in US!
"For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's." -- The Wall Street Journal
"A Reform Ticket"
Editorial
The Wall Street Journal
August 30, 2008
If any doubt remained that former fighter pilot John McCain loves to take unconventional risks, he put them to bed Friday by picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Introduced in Dayton by Mr. McCain, Governor Palin swung the bat pretty well. We'll now see if she can hit curve balls.
It's a daring pick because Mrs. Palin has never faced national scrutiny and hasn't had to deal with foreign policy. Most VP choices are designed to do no harm, and we tend to agree with the maxim. Democrats are already saying they can't wait for Mrs. Palin's debate against "statesman" Joe Biden. On the other hand, the record shows that Sarah Palin's political career is a case study in taking on the big boys. We suspect her record of fighting the status quo was uppermost in John McCain's decision.
Barack Obama aside, Senator McCain's biggest problem is a Republican brand that has suffered -- both among independents and the GOP base -- from the party's business-as-usual mentality in Washington. The public wants change. This pick could prove Mr. McCain is serious about changing his party.
Sarah Palin's reform resume would be remarkable in any political career. She entered politics at 28, winning a seat on the Wasilla city council as an opponent of tax increases. After she defeated Wasilla's three-term incumbent mayor four years later, she swept the mayor's cronies out of the bureaucracy.
In 2003, Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski appointed her to the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Bear in mind that Mr. Murkowski had already served as junior U.S. Senator from Alaska for 22 years. Mr. Murkowski was junior senator for so long because Senator Ted Stevens (who was recently indicted for corruption) had lifetime tenure in the senior post.
Shortly after joining the oil and gas commission, Mrs. Palin commenced an ethics probe of the state's Republican party chairman, Randy Ruedrich, involving conflicts of interest with oil companies. The probe resulted in a $12,000 fine for the party chair.
She crossed party lines in 2004 to join a Democratic representative's ethics complaint over an international trade deal against the Republican Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who had ties to the Murkowski machine. Mr. Renkes resigned.
In late 2005, Mrs. Palin announced her run for Governor before then-Governor Murkowski had announced his intention to stand for re-election. In a three-way primary, Mrs. Palin got 51% to Mr. Murkowski's 19%. At the center of this campaign was a debate over competing proposals to build a natural gas pipeline across Alaska.
These columns wrote about Gov. Murkowski's smashing defeat by Mrs. Palin, noting that his pipeline proposal had been tainted by reports of sweetheart deals with energy companies. The editorial ended: "If Republicans are run out of Congress in November, one big reason will be that, like Mr. Murkowski, they have become far more comfortable running the government than reforming it." That is what happened, as disgusted GOP voters turned away from their own party and ceded control of Congress to the Democrats.
Against the odds, Mrs. Palin won that 2006 election against the state's former Democratic governor Tony Knowles. Most recently, she promoted the effort of her GOP lieutenant governor to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young, who with Senator Stevens created the earmark that sank the GOP, the notorious "bridge to nowhere."
Experience?
For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska's politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection -- despite its campaign risks -- seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders.
Don't expect this remarkable personal Palin narrative to get an Obama-like break from the national media. Their main focus will be her lack of experience, claiming it undercuts Mr. McCain's criticism of Barack Obama. One mispronounced foreign leader's name, and she's going to be hammered.
If she can survive this gantlet, Governor Palin could help Mr. McCain with some liabilities of his own. The alternative would have been a ticket of two familiar GOP names in a political cycle where the Democrats have seemed to be the party of energy and freshness. A self-described "hockey mom" with a commercial-fisherman husband, Governor Palin will have more credibility with families than a Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee. With energy supplies and prices one of the top issues, Alaska's Governor also should bring some first-hand realism to the debate over drilling and the environment.
* * *
Senator Obama's acceptance speech made it clear that his campaign strategy is pegged to linking Mr. McCain to the Beltway Republicans and the struggling economy. It's a powerful argument, and John McCain needs an answer to Mr. Obama's list of Democratic bromides. The vulnerability in the Obama plan is there's little in it that is new. He'd mostly replace one status quo with an earlier status quo of government spending schemes. Joe Biden is no help on that.
Mr. McCain's instinct clearly is to offer himself to voters as a reformer. With Sarah Palin, a genuine reformer, Mr. McCain may have found the right idea and the right person to make his run.
haha. 5. one just came this year, not in the picture :)
After listening to/ watching her interviews/speeches, I'm definitely impressed. Now the question is, is two monthes enough for American people to get to know her well enough and accept her as an electable VP and potential chief-in-commander? Obama did it from a nobody to a national popstar in a year, she is more charming, very intelligent, strongly conservative, and definitely healthy and positive, I don't see why she can't!
Now she is talking about oil drilling process and technology like a real expert on TV, the CNBC woman report looks really slow and dull compared to her. Oh I really like her now.
And when she talks about her husband and his job, you can't ignore the big smile from heart.
曾經非常擔心奧巴馬的上台，你看看他身邊那個麵目猙獰的夫人形象，就知道奧巴馬是一個很善於偽裝的人。再看看他對希拉裏的瘋狂攻擊，希拉裏敗了以後為了大局利益她還這麽有風度地支持他，他反過來卻拋棄了希拉裏，選自己對手的朋友作助手，讓老朋友們之間相互鬥！看見此人之陰險。再看看他一會說自己是穆斯林（去非洲老家認祖宗），還去阿富汗（是不是和本拉登搞聯絡？）一會說自己是基督徒的，可是你看看他的黑人牧師也是他的主婚牧師那個囂張的氣焰，恨不得把白人和富人都消滅了。
現在，我不用擔心了，奧巴馬已是窮途末路了。美國大選的好戲就要開始了。
哈哈， 葩玲是四個孩子的媽媽， 不是五個.
Most Hillary's supporters believe DNC forced her out, very angry.
well said indeed.
本來也覺得老麥危險了，現在看真是有勇有謀。
Thanks.
薑還是老的辣，美國交給老麥比較穩妥。
--------------其實支持希拉裏不僅僅因為她是女性，很多人認為她的大氣不亞於一個偉大的男人。
聽聽她支持奧巴馬的演講，為她喝彩。
到底是軍人出身，老麥這一仗打得不是一般的漂亮。
看電視很替小奧鬱悶——他的風頭全被老麥佩林這一對給搶走了。
佩林看起來不是個空殼美眉，挺tough的，太好了，如此大選的看頭將不遜色於初選了。
謝好文。
You will see, McCain is not Bush, no matter what Obama said.
This John McCain will have new stuff for Obama.
Now let the show begin~~~
Finally John McCain forced Obama into corner and gave Hillary's supporters a chance to make the history: A female VP (President if anything happens to John McCain.)