Sarah Palin's state newspaper - Anchorage Daily News - endorses Barack Obama

How do you explain the last 8 years? The Republicans have controlled all three branches of federal government for all but 2 of the last 8 years. How has that worked out for us?

I think you missed the last argument over newspaper endorsements specifically the many endorsements Obama received. Newpapers ALWAYS endorse candidates.

The level of ignorance in LozRiva's comment is amazing. Even in non-election years, every issue of most major newspapers includes something called an opinion page, with editorials (written, as the name suggests, by the paper's editors) and "op-ed" essays written by guest authors with views opposite those on the editorial page -- a fine tradition giving readers different perspectives on the issues of the day. Newspaper endorsements of political candidates date back at least to the founding era of this country.

Also, "objection" does not mean the same thing as "objectivity."

A news paper saying 'We back Obama' is not perspective! silly!

If Obama turns this country upside-down it will be right side up again because Bush has already turned it upside-down. How much evidence do you really need before you aknowledge the obvious?? No WMDs, lying us into Iraq, 4300 dead US soldiers, the Patriot Act, illegal spying, corruption of Habeus corpus, downgrading of environmental laws, Katrina, signing statements, politization of the Office of the Attorney General, financial catastrope etc. How can you possibly state that someone who isn't even president yet will do terrible things to this country while refusing to critically examine the Manchurian Candidate that currently sqauts in the Whitehouse???

My friend, you are a follower, someone who needs to be told what to think, how to act, what to believe in and who to vote for. I pity you because you are doomed to live in a maze of fear and paranoia that few of your ilk have the intellectual and emotional strength to fight their way out of.

bringthetruthtolight,

Could you please be just a little more hyperbolic and unstable please?

Some people here might get the impression you were pro-Obama.

you make the ignorant, redneck stereotype come to life.

thank you, this was too funny! i registered just because of you! you should be happy to know that these ridiculous accusations that you and your maverick-barracuda- lipsticking- loving bigot friends brought me to this website and reinforced my "love" for obama, thanks again for encouraging me to register. oh yea, i think u have had way too much cool aide.

Way to just copy and paste the same comment in a bunch of threads... the whole idea here is to read the article and reply to it or the other comments, not to lay out the same load of crap in as many places you think you can shoehorn it into. That makes you look even dumber than your retarded post, if that is somehow possible.

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=13888&can_id=9490

go to that link dumbass

The black value system? Are you black? How would you know what the black value system is? Are you saying all blacks have the same value system? Well if that's the case, does all whites have the same value system as the trailer trash whites? No, I didnt think so. Here's what's funny John McCain has never been to college, Sarah Palin took five years to get one undergrad degree, her 17 year old is pregnant, her 7 year old give another little boy the finger, and uses spit to slick down the baby's hair, and her other son is a drop out so he goes to the army, her husband didnt go to college and only registered to vote at ag 25...oh don't forget Sarah Palin got knocked up before getting married. Now, try this on for size. Barack and Michelle Obama both graduated head of their classes at Harvard and in grad and undergrad..Barack is #4 in the history of Harvard and hsi wife is #14 in Harvard history, they were married some 6 or so years before having a child, their children are little scholars, and they were members of the same christian based church for years. Let's not foget Obama and his wie have been a professors, lawyers and community organizers. His wife's last position that she is on leave of while she helps her husband in this campaign is a v.p at the university of Chicago, and Obama is currently a US Senator, after serving as a Illinois senator. Sounds to me like the Obamas have the Palins and McCain's beat hands down. Oh, thats right Cinty inherited money which probaly came from her ancestors running slaves many years ago just as McCain's ancestors did. lol

Why don't we ask ourselves, if Ayers is so dangerous, why is he NOW teaching students at a college. Don't you think there would be concern among the students, and they would be scared to go into his classroom? Don't you think that the college would be concerned and not pay him to teach? John McCain did not tell you that about his closeness with G. Liddy.

Obama has said repeatedly that Ayers' radical past (he was involved in a handful of bombings in the 1960s) occurred when Barack was just a child, and he repudiates those actions.

Do you know who Liddy is?? And I quote, In 1998, McCain was at Liddy's home for a fundraiser. Liddy has made contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator's campaigns--including some this year.

November 2007 McCain went on Liddy's radio show. Liddy said McCain was "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one. As quoted McCain said to him, "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family," he gushed. "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."

If you didn't know, Liddy helped plan the Watergate break-in costing Nixon his presidency. Liddy was given a four-year sentence.

But Liddy's actions are what is damaging and scary, far beyond what he did in the Watergate scandal.

Liddy, said about Vietnam:

"He wanted to bomb the Red River dykes which would have drowned half the country and starved the other half. If that had happened, the Viet Cong could have operated if we had the will-power to do that."
Liddy, even during this recent radio show advised Branch Davidians how to defend themselves from ATF.

Liddy was a fan and supported Adolph Hitler, he said and I quote.

"If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head."
Liddy, on the impact Adolf Hitler had on him as a child:

When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body. Read the story for yourself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/g-gordon-liddy-john-mccai_n_100134.html

"Our enemies will test the new president early," Lieberman said the same thing , dont know what this has to do with a newspaper endorsing obama anyway

He clarified that statement to say that there will be some kind of international crisis to test whoever becomes president (like Kennedy and like Bush) to test the new President. And that he thinks Obama is better prepared than McCain is to handle it. He wasn't specific about where the threat would come from, it was more of a general statement of support for his guy. Does that clear things up for you?

Yawn. That's human dynamics 101. When you go into a new job, the people around you "test" you to find out what you're about and if they can screw you or use you as an ally.

Look up "Ameros"

Look up the Council on Foreign Relations, whose mission is to de-stabilize the U.S., despite using double-speak to say otherwise. Look up the Bilderberg Group. It makes sense that the mainstream media doesn't pick up the two points belwo on any wire service or print and broadcast because the very same players who want the two things below also own all mainstream media.

1. The powers that be want to create a new American Union to merge with Canada and Mexico. This will mirror the European Union, the African Union and the soon to come Asian Union.

2. They want to have one World currency and consolidate power into one world government. Even underground hip hop artists like Ill Bill and Ras Kass rhyme about it in their material.

This is no joke.

Good luck shedding light on these topics and on yourself.

Like what you say is rememberable!
Bush was tested, and failed the American people miserably, has cost this nation not only a meltdown, but worse yet, the loss of thousands of innocent lives.
Kennedy was tested, and passed it with flying colors during the Cubian Missil Crises.
This nation has allot of healing to be done before the eyes of the rest of the world, and needs to rebuild it's great name and what we stand for.
Obama is a very intelligent man, and has earned his chance to be the next president, he's been tested, for you tell us just how many other people would be able to stand up to the on slot of dirty tricks thrown at them, as he has, and still keep a cool head about himself!
Just pray nothing happens to this fine gentleman, he is the right person for the right time.

Does Sarah's alleged love of free speech include inquiring with a librarian how books might be removed from a library? Just wondering.

To the best of my knowledge Palin doesnt own the Anchorage Daily News and has no control over what they print. Therefore any percieved connection between what she "believes" and the paper prints is erroneous.

Um...Mark you missed the point. Someone who "believes in the freedom of speech" can't also want to ban books. Those two thing are in direct conflict.

And anyone who thinks that NOT getting the endorsement of your hometown newspaper is not important is simply kidding themselves. The McCain campaign has made a lot of hay about how beloved she is in her home state. Yet another thing they were wrong about.

all I hear is "wah wah wah." She believes in freedom of speech for people who think like her. "Real Americans" who like to ruffle feathers.

She is an idiot and makes it clear that not everyone in Alaska is a complete ass.

Kragg2212 I agree with you. My comment was to the OP whose comment seems to imply that Palin has some kind of control over what the paper prints. But I may have misinterpreted his comment. My bad.

i tot arnold was the most popular governor in the US?.. or was that the most popular governator? im confused ;)