Daily Headlines, Saturday, 8/30/2008
Birmingham News - A judge errs, prosecutors balk at correction, so soldier faces prison
Birmingham News - Alabama Guard team settling into Afghanistan assignments
Birmingham News - Alcohol plays a huge role in traffic fatalities in Alabama - another reason lawmakers need to fix the state’s drunken-driving laws.
Press-Register - Coast readies for Gustav’s arrival
Press-Register - Gustav-related information
Press-Register - Report criticizes Navy shipbuilding
Huntsville Times - Local women pleased to see Palin on ticket
Huntsville Times - County reworks illegal alien rule
Huntsville Times - TVA: still a bargain
Montgomery Advertiser - Area Republicans think Palin right choice for ticket
Montgomery Advertiser - Radioactive gauge lost in Birmingham
Montgomery Advertiser - Students protest delayed checks
Montgomery Advertiser - Tenn. offered $577 million in incentives for VW plant
Montgomery Advertiser - Ga. bank fails; Regions steps in
Montgomery Advertiser - RANTS AND RAVES: DUI cases taking monstrous toll
Anniston Star - One group’s mangled logic: How to reform our schools
Opelika-Auburn News - Bond set at $250,000 for LaFayette councilman
Los Angeles Times - Ala. governor in talks over possible county bankruptcy that would …
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Birmingham News - Editorial about infant mortality
Birmingham News - George Bowman will not be on the Jefferson County ballot
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Comment by H — August 30, 2008 @ 7:08 am
Danny, no interest in the historic veep pick by McCain? You posted an announcement about the uninspiring, ho-hum Biden pick at 1 AM Saturday- week when word leaked his selection had been made, but all we have today are the standard headline leads.
I know you aren’t for the GOP ticket, and it is your blog to pick and choose what goes up, but the pick was A) a stunner and B) a headline that should generate a lot of back and forth (and traffic) for your blog.
I guess the Dem gameplan is to ignore this so as to minimize the damage McCain has done to Osama’s post-convention press coverage and meager poll-bounce.
Comment by Scorpius — August 30, 2008 @ 9:44 am
Dsnny..how about it? Rep VP pick kills the obama ticket?
Comment by Anonymous — August 30, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
Folks, you do realize Danny is probably decompressing from Denver and catching up on family business?
Politically, I believe Danny is still biased to the Briggs-Stratton ticket on the 4 cycle ticket. He still manfully resists the entreaties of Kohler, who is still looking for a running mate.
Comment by walt moffett — August 30, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
I agree about discussion of McCain’s choice for V-P. This has got to go down as one of the more goofy things ever done in Presidential politics.
The logic behind this totally escapes me. Elections are never about appealing to your own base, but to those in the middle. I just don’t see what she brings to this battle.
Had she run for President in her own right, she would’ve been considered a much darker horse than Ron Paul. Yet, here is a 72-year old candidate telling the American people that if something happens to me, I think my replacement should be a 44-year old governor of the least-populated state in the nation with ZERO experience in Washington and ZERO experience in foreign affairs,
I honestly think McCain is a good guy. In the past, he’s not been afraid to buck the establishment in Washington, he served his country in a way that defies comprehension for most of us and understands how Washington works.
I was seriously considering voting for him, but if this is his idea of good judgement, he totally dropped the ball.
Comment by LA — August 30, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
Dooming my daughter to carry a child full term even in the case of rape did it for me. Palin is a dreadful choice by McCain. No Hilary supporter would ever vote for Palin. It was going to be tough this year, but with Biden on board, I guess I can do it. He buried the ball, not dropped it.
Comment by War Eagle 34 — August 30, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
I’m sure that I’m not the only woman insulted by the Palin choice. McCain must think that all women are mindless dolts who care only about whether a candidate has boobs. What pandering! Even die-hard Hillary supporters will see through this gimmick, especially given Palin’s strident pro-life views.
Comment by Rachel Wynn — August 30, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
Okay, I’ll be your huckleberry…
To LA:
Just out of curiosity, what was your opinion of the Ferraro pick in ‘84? You may be a GOPer, and thought it was as laughable as I did. But my point here is that there are/will be many Dumbocrats who will villify this choice, but still, even today, laud what a wonderful, visionary slection Geraldine Ferraro was in 1984.
Now, while I was caught wayyyyyy off guard by yesterday’s announcement, the more I have read about Palin, the more I am impressed with her. Unlike Ferraro, this woman has executive experience. She has qualifications for battling real problems and real bureaucratic adversity. I think she’s authentic, and judicious, not a knee-jerk type which would cause you to question her judgement and demeanor. She appears to have all the right values we need, not the phony junk that Osama Obama preaches. She has MORE experience for the presidency than EITHER Osama or Hair Plugs for Men.
Why, with all the stuff that is evil and wrong about the DC culture, is a lack of experience with mixers on that cocktail circuit or daily engagement in that bungled, bloated monstrocity a perceived disadvantage??? That makes NO sense. Are Dennis Kucinich or Sheila Jackson Lee REALLY more qualified to be POTUS than Governor Palin by way of that criteria? According to your logic they would be. I say, “Hell NO!”
The Foreign Affairs argument is a total wash, except as it pertains to the TOP of the ticket. If you’re being intellectually honest—and most Dems aren’t so they get disqualified on this— but if you are REALLY intellectually honest about the foreign affairs question being a make-or-break qualification, then the Dems LOSE. Game set match. You can’t hold fast as a single issue voter on that issue and then, in any sane, serious way, try to convince folks that Osama Obama is more seasoned and qualified than John McCain.
To suggest so, as the party of all things Leftist has so arduously, yet failingly done is completely laughable.
To War Eagle 34 and Rachel Wynn:
Your depravity over the issue of Life is your problem, not Governor Palin’s. There will be many women who will rally around her and celebrate the historical opportunity she has before her. Her acceptance by you and other whacko, feminist murderers be damned.
Sour grapes by the Dumbocrats is most of what all this shrieking is. They flicked the big middle digit at Hitlary and are left going to bed every night with a blow-hard, arrogant, lying Northeastern Liberal who adds no help to their drowning, pathetic ticket.
Masterful moves by McCain over the last month, absolutely masterful.
Comment by Scorpius — August 30, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
The foreign affairs issue is critical, not just abortion for rape. You obviously do not know crap about the number of girls who are given a drug in a drink and then raped by God knows how many men. Just because Palin can hold a gun, fish with hubbie, and have a son going to Iraq does not make her qualified to be one step away from the Oval Office. McCain blew this one big time. McCain is too old for this position anyway. I use to respect him.
Comment by War Eagle 34 — August 30, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
McCain Wina by 20points after this selection no doubt.
Comment by Anonymous — August 30, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Scorpius is sounding a tad bit defensive in trying to rationalize Mr. McGoo’s VP pick. Keep the faith, though Scorpius, I’m sure you’ll get used to President Obama after a while.
Comment by Roy — August 30, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Ummm… Scorp, the delay in mentioning the Palin pick has zilch to do with any blog bias perceived on your part and everything to do with being 15 hours in lines, airports, and airplanes trying to get home.
I was even more behind on lots of other matters more directly related to the blog’s focus on Alabama politics, but that wasn’t a matter of bias either. As the old bumper sticker said, I’m pedaling as fast as I can.
Comment by Danny — August 31, 2008 @ 5:31 am
# 8. I thought Ferraro was pretty much a joke of a pick as well. And look what happened to that ticket. Why didn’t McCain look back and learn?
But what does something that happened 24 years ago have to do with now? Do you also wear a hounds tooth hat and sing about going to the Rose Bowl?
Claiming that because Phalin has “executive” experience she is more qualified to be President than Obama or Biden is absurd. Why not then put her at the head of the GOP ticket since she also has more executive experience than McCain? But then, so does the manager of the local Winn Dixie, so maybe he should be on the ballot.
Oh wait, executive experience must be important because George Bush had eight years as Governor of Texas and look at the wonderful job he has done.
Phalin may be a wonderful lady with lots of wonderful, heart felt convictions. But we ain’t talking about Miss Congeniality here. We’re talking about someone who could end up by default being leader of the United States.
And to claim that she is qualified for this position just doesn’t wash.
I’ve yet to talk to a female who thinks this makes sense. Most feel offended that in a moment when McCain could have made a statement on behalf of women by selecting someone actually qualified to be President, he trivalizes it all.
A wonderful female friend in Opelika who is definitely a Republican called me and said, “I’m more qualified than she is because she was runner up for Miss Alaska but I was the Houston County Maid of Cotton, not runner up.”
My sister in North Carolina (who has much different political views than I do) told me, “McCain pushed me over the top with this, I will now volunteer for Obama.”
So you can sit around making up your nicknames for Obama and Biden all you want (which I suppose is what the intellectually honest do when they can’t do anything else) and I will continue seeing McCain’s selection of Phalin as exactly what it is–goofy.
Comment by LA — August 31, 2008 @ 8:25 am
war eagle, yes, foreign affairs is critical. wouldn’t you say even more critical for the freaking PRESIDENT? that’s where you’re argument is lost, barack obama is not qualified to be president. Palin is certainly inexperienced, but i think i like my chances with mccain’s experience to lead. weak argument that would be strong only if biden was your president and obama vp, but 3 years in the senate, a year and a half spent running for president just doesn’t cut it. he may be qualified for ryan secrest’s job on american idol, but not president.
Comment by Anonymous — August 31, 2008 @ 10:36 am
More qualified than our Alaskan governor. These are strange times. Strange candidates and even stranger people on Doc’s Parlor. No one here sees things quite clearly. People attack about abortion after rape. I think people post to hear themselves. Except for a few, most of you appear to be a waste of my time and energy. Doesn’t anyone think of the Supreme Court and what the world will look like with another Alito or Roberts. Most of you seem to be like my neighbors, a waste of time, too conservative to even bother with.
Comment by War Eagle 34 — August 31, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
No prob, Danny. Can understand the delays and logjams, just thought you were high-tech enough to zip something out through a wi-fi connection on your laptop.
Comment by Scorpius — August 31, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
LA, you are retreating into Looneyville.
1. That ticket (1984) was not defeated on the basis of the Veep selection. That Veep selection was made from a position of weakness, and the Reagan juggernaut could not be stopped. Your suggestion that McCain should have learned from that is specious. The opposite is true today. He made a pick from strength with someone who is vastly more qualified than Gerry Ferraro was and Osama Biden are.
2. McCain has executive leadership. He was a Navy Officer/Commander in the Pacific during Viet Nam. He made life and death decisions. He was responsible for organizing and leading subordinates under the toughest conditions. His mettle has been proven through trial by fire, not bogus community activism and congressional committee participation (if you can even claim Osama has participated, such as his attendance has been). McCain beats your #1 guy head to head in nearly every measure of leadership and experience that you can conjure. Palin doesn’t have to be at the top of our ticket, but her experience and record (pooh-poohed by your ilk) are definitely more substantive and legitimate than either loser on your ticket.
As for W, yes, he’s done a helluva lot better than what Al Screwloose or John Blood and Guts could have done.
3. For every female you’ve talked with who feigns outrage, shock and indignation of the pick, I can introduce you to equally as many (most likely more) that I have talked with over the weekend who are excited and enthused to vote for McCain now. Unlike the Dumbos, he didn’t simply make a pick based on identity politics. He’s found someone who is a damn fine pick male, female, white, black, young, old, etc.
Why don’t y’all renominate your picks using your ridiculous logic by placing Robert Grand Wizard Byrd and Ted “I swear I thought she could escape through the car by osmosis” Kennedy on your ticket, or else shut up and stop embarrassing yourselves as the hypocrites you are.
To War Eagle, try and ram baby-murder justifications in some one else’s direction. They’re heinous. They’re evil. They’re indefensible.
Your party is awash in a sea of innocent blood and ultimately responsible to a just God who will not be be mocked nor convinced by such selfish and callous disregard for what He created. He has heard their piercing cries and, one day, so will you.
Comment by Scorpius — August 31, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
I hope we have more Alitos, Thomas’s etc..
Comment by Anonymous — August 31, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
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Comment by Danny — August 31, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Scorpius and Anonymous, you are obviously men who think they can make decisions for pregnant women regardless of the circumstances. If you had a daughter who was pregnant as a result of a date rape, you would not sound as righteous and sanctimonious. If you were a female versus having to talk to women, you might carry more weight. Methink the weight you carry is beer weight from watching the football games last night. Or is it just hot air? When you become a woman, let us all know your views on abortion as a result of rape or incest.
Comment by War Eagle 34 — August 31, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Murder isn’t a gender issue, Honey.
Comment by Scorpius — August 31, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
Darling, we will always disagree on rape. Keep your opinions to yourself in this area. Okay, dear?
Comment by War Eagle 34 — August 31, 2008 @ 10:27 pm