Let's start calling Palin "Quitter"

[AzNick]

Simple: each time someone refers to Palin, reply: "Oh, Quitter?"

Quitter Palin.

Hammer it down.

They have NOTHING to say about it.

If they insist, call her: "Cut And Run Palin".

On and on...

[janedum]

1. She's always been "The Quitter" to me . ... qualified for NOTHING!

[laughingliberal]

2. I like that

the same way I like it that Ed Schultz calls Cheney "Shooter."

[omega minimo]

3. Sarah Bailin'

AGAIN!!!!!!

[donheld]

10. failin Bailin Palin

[bridgit]

4. Twitter Quitter

[HughMoran]

5. Palin = Quitter, Lieberman = Traitor, Bachman = Psycho n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

6. Obama only served about 100 days in the Senate before

starting his presidential campaign, although he had promised his constituents he would not run for president until after his first term (six years) in the Senate. So he's a quitter who also went back on a promise.

Are you going to start calling Obama Quitter, too? Fair is fair.

[tabatha]

8. Obama hardly quit -

he worked his tail off for a promotion.

Palin just could not get any work done after the race and quit to stop working.

[DemBones DemBones]

14. Obama quit doing the job he was supposed to do: be a

Senator from Illinois. He was chair of a subcommitte dealing with Afghanistan and never called one meeting of it. If he had, maybe he wouldn't still be dithering about what to do in Afghanistan.

Don't be surprised if Obama starts campaigning to be president of the UN. He likes applying for jobs but not doing them.

Palin gave up her governorship because frivolous lawsuits were taking time from her work and costing her and the state money. Too bad Obama didn't quit his job in the Senate when he was spending all his time on the campaign trail. He wasn't doing what he was elected to do but he was taking the paychecks.

[tabatha]

20. sorry, you are spouting BS

Q: Does Obama chair a Senate subcommittee that oversees the war in Afghanistan?
John McCain claims that Barack Obama chairs a Senate subcommittee that oversees the war in Afghanistan. Is McCain correct?

A: He chairs the Senate's Subcommittee on European Affairs, which has some oversight in Afghanistan through NATO.
At a town hall meeting in late May in Reno, Nev., Sen. John McCain accused Sen. Barack Obama of not doing more for Afghanistan through his position on a Senate subcommittee:

John McCain, May 28: Senator Obama is the chairman of an important subcommittee that has the oversight of what's going on in Afghanistan. He has not held one single hearing on Afghanistan, where young Americans are in harm's way as we speak.

Obama is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee's 11-member Subcommittee on European Affairs. That subcommittee doesn't have direct oversight of Afghanistan, as the McCain statement suggests. But the committee's jurisdiction includes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has been providing military support to Afghanistan since it assumed authority for the International Security Assistance Force mission in 2003. According to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' membership and jurisdiction guide, Afghanistan would fall under the authority of another committee:

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_obama_chair_a_senate_subcommittee_that.html

and

Afghanistan Hearings

The ad starts by saying Obama "never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan," which is literally true. Obama, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on European Affairs, hasn't held any Afghanistan hearings. The full Senate Foreign Relations Committee, however, has held three hearings on Afghanistan during the past two years, and Obama attended one of them.

McCain's ad fails to mention that his own record is no better. Although he's the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, he missed all seven of the hearings that his panel held on Afghanistan during the same two years, according to ABCNews.com. (We looked through the transcripts of the hearings from Federal News Service to confirm ABC's report, and we found statements that showed McCain was not present at two of the hearings, statements from other senators speaking on McCain's behalf at two more hearings, and no mention of McCain whatsoever at the other three.)

It's a sad reality that candidates running for president in our political system generally have to neglect their day jobs to a huge degree, and that's no less true of McCain than it is of Obama. For example, McCain was absent from the Senate on the day Obama was voting for the war-funding bill that contained exit language that McCain opposed. McCain was in South Carolina on day two of a four-day presidential campaign "announcement tour" that also took him to New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada and home to Arizona.

And how many meetings has Obama had since being President on Afhganistan. More meetings than there were in the entire eight years of Bush.

McCain did not quit his job either while running for President. In fact give me the name of ONE republican senator running for President who quit his/her job before campaigning. You won't find one.

My head hurts trying to reason with such nonsense as yours.

[DemBones DemBones]

28. McCain spent enough time in the Senate to know

his job. He also commanded men in the Navy. Obama had held no leadership position, now he's interning in the White House.

Obama did chair the Annenberg Project but he couldn't talk about that because Bill Ayers gave him the job and he wanted to pretend he barely knew Ayers. What he actually did as chair of the Annenberg Project we may never know.

From your source:

"He chairs the Senate's Subcommittee on European Affairs, which has some oversight in Afghanistan through NATO."

"The ad starts by saying Obama "never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan," which is literally true. Obama, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on European Affairs, hasn't held any Afghanistan hearings. The full Senate Foreign Relations Committee, however, has held three hearings on Afghanistan during the past two years, and Obama attended one of them."

Like I said, he never called a subcommittee meeting and, by your own source, he attended only one of three Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan.

What McCain did and didn't do is a separate issue and we know he won't run again. The OP was attacking Palin as a "quitter" and I'm arguing that Obama has been a quitter, too, and since Obama happens to be in the White House now, his faults are more important than McCain's or Palin's.

Palin will probably not get the GOP nomination because she's a woman. Recall how the liberal Democrats savaged Hillary Clinton and tell me you really believe that conservatives will unite behind Sarah Palin.
Most men are determined to keep women down and a disappointing number of women will do the same.

[struggle4progress]

21. Does Obama chair a Senate subcommittee that oversees the war in Afghanistan? (Factcheck 08)

... Obama is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee's 11-member Subcommittee on European Affairs. That subcommittee doesn't have direct oversight of Afghanistan, as the McCain statement suggests. But the committee's jurisdiction includes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has been providing military support to Afghanistan since it assumed authority for the International Security Assistance Force mission in 2003 ... Obama has presided over subcommittee hearings to consider the nominations of ambassadors to several nations and the U.S. permanent representative to the NATO council ... http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_obama_chair_a_senate_subcommittee_that.html

So your claim "He was chair of a subcommittee dealing with Afghanistan and never called one meeting of it" is BS

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[tabasco]

30. Obama stepped up when America needed a leader.

Politicians who run for higher offices are not quitters.

Only a dunce would say that.

[Leftist Agitator]

37. Why in the FUCK are you attacking Obama and defending Palin on DU??!!

In what bizzaro dimension did I wake up?

[johnnie]

9. Obama was sworn in as a senator on January 4, 2005

Obama announced on November 13, 2008 that he would resign his senate seat on November 16, 2008.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Yes, but he was not exactly devoting his energy

to what he was elected to do in the Senate. He could have quit the Senate before starting his presidential campaign. He really has very little experience in the Senate, he wasn't there long enough.

[AzNick]

13. He stepped up, she stepped down

That's all you've got? You need to pitch harder.

[DemBones DemBones]

16. He neglected his work in the Senate. If you

can't see that, I can't help you. He was given the chairmanship of a subcommittee that deals with Afghanistan and never called even one meeting of it. Not one meeting!

The honest thing to do would have been to resign his Senate seat and let Blago appoint a replacement.

Palin decided she could no longer be productive as governor due to the opposition she faced in lawsuits so she resigned and let her lieutenant governor take over.

As far as I know, Palin never held an office where she simply voted "Present" most of the time, as Obama did in the Illinois Senate.

[struggle4progress]

19. Obama's Illinois constituents liked him enough to re-elect him twice. He left the Illinois Senate

five years ago. It seems a bit late to complain you didn't like him in the Illinois Senate

[DemBones DemBones]

24. Incumbents generally are re-elected unless

caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. Bush was re-elected.

[tabatha]

22. See #20.

McCain NEGLECTED HIS WORK IN THE SENATE AS WELL!!!!!

[tabatha]

23. Not most of the time - THAT IS A LIE !!!!!

Check your DAMN facts before spouting BS.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/how_many_times_did_obama_vote_present.html

[struggle4progress]

35. ... He voted “present” .. nearly 130 times ... Obama cast 4,000 votes in the Illinois Senate ...

... He voted “present” .. nearly 130 times ... Obama cast 4,000 votes in the Illinois Senate ...
It’s Not Just ‘Ayes’ and ‘Nays’: Obama’s Votes in Illinois Echo
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: December 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1259406229-OVhxzWBlvDfubn9U9BCMTA

Obama's Record in the Illinois Senate
... Here are a few of the more than 800 bills he sponsoreed ...
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/us/politics/20070730_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html

130 in 4000 does not seem to be "most of the time"

[itsrobert]

7. Start?

You're a little late on that one.

[Politicalboi]

11. Didn't she quit in college too?

She went to 5 colleges, and I doubt she graduated in all of them. But hey who needs to be smart to be President?

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=t8nu6

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Lots of people change colleges; Obama did.

He started out at Occidental, then switched to Columbia. Then he went to Harvard Law. And he's never released any of his grades or papers from college or any papers he may have written when he was teaching law in Chicago. For all we know, he graduated last in his class at Columbia and/or Harvard Law.

We don't have any real evidence that Obama is particularly smart, only that he reads well off a teleprompter. He uses teleprompters for news conferences as well as for speeches and when he couldn't use a teleprompter during the debates, he did poorly.

Obama did especially poorly when he had to answer a question first. Prior to the ABC debate, he always piggybacked his answers off Hillary Clinton's answers, but when he had to answer without hearing her answer first he did a lot of hemming and hawing, showed that he didn't know the answers he should have had down cold by then, it being the last of many debates.

[tabatha]

26. If he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review

he would hardly have been a poor student.

He also attended just two colleges in getting his first degree.

Palin attended twice as many at least.

[Leftist Agitator]

38. Look, I get it. You're a disaffected Hillarite that "just doesn't trust" Obama...

After he beat your preferred candidate and won the primary last year.

But just so you know, your posts in this thread sound more like those of a Freeper than a Democrat.

You're embarrassing yourself. Please consider that.

[treestar]

41. Holy right wing talking points, Batman!

the two educations are not comparable. And you don't have the go to the same law school as your college has; most people don't.

A little hemming and hawing is nothing compared to word salad!

[tallahasseedem]

43. LOL!

That was the same exact thing I was thinking!

[treestar]

40. palinforpresident.com was funny

They had five diplomas on the wall and a comment if you clicked each one, the last said, "learnin's hard."

[RB TexLa]

12. A quiter as a leader and a failure as a mother.

[Generic Other]

17. Cuckoo Palin has a nice rightring sound

goes good with Tripp and Track and WD40 and God and Todd

[tabatha]

27. and moose meat and you betcha, also, too.

[greennina]

31. Balin Palin!

[eridani]

32. And Vitter could be her running mate in 2012

Don't tell me I just went there? I did, didn't I.

[Swamp Rat]

33. Falin' Palin/Vitter Quitter 2012

Bling it on! ;)

[eridani]

34. You left out the diaper

It's Vitter the Shitter, right?

[Swamp Rat]

39. ok

:D

[eridani]

42. Great! Palin the Quitter and Vitter the Shitter in 2012! n/t

[FarLeftFist]

36. OR when someone quits something, call it....

Pullin' a Palin.

Dude 1: Man, my controller is messed up, no wonder you keep beating me. I quit !!!

Dude 2: It's a brand new controller, don't tell me your 'Pullin a Palin' bro.

Dude 1: If I was 'Pullin a Palin', I would have quit a long time ago.