Palin Vetted; Obama Remains Unvetted
By Bud White

The Media is pushing the narrative that Sarah Palin was not vetted. Any close observer of Republican campaigns knows this is false. Republicans are a minority party who continue to win elections because they are professionals; vetting a candidate is a no-brainer for the political veterans running McCain’s operation. Indeed, it was reported in May that McCain’s people were interviewing Palin for the number two job. Tom Blumer, in today’s Pajamasmedia, writes:

Two major elements of the developing meme that John McCain did not sufficiently vet presumptive vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin are highly suspect. Each contention is not provable, and there is strong reason to believe that each is almost completely, if not totally, untrue.

The first assertion is that McCain’s people did little if any vetting of Palin until a few days ago. The second is that McCain’s team has never looked at years of archived articles at Palin’s hometown paper.


Wizbang Blog reported on May 29 that a McCain advance man named Arthur Culvahouse was in Juneau, Alaska. Even three months ago, Wizbang Blog’s Kevin
already sensed the power of Palin being on McCain’s ticket:

Governor Palin would (in my estimation) make an excellent VP candidate for McCain. Thomas Cheplick at The American Spectator makes the case that she’s probably the only VP candidate who can balance the ticket against Obama. She’s also a potential magnet for disaffected Hillary Clinton voters, many of whom are just looking for a reason not to vote for Obama.

If conservative blogs were weighing the benefits of Palin months ago, one can be fairly certain that McCain’s lieutenants were vetting Alaska’s governor and conducting focus groups and polls on every conceivable angle of her selection.

On the Democratic side, however, any criticism of Obama was quickly shut down by the media. For example, David Sirota defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racial sermons and implied that Hillary was engaged in racial politics by bringing up Wright. Sirota wrote during the primaries: “Does the very reaction to Wright show he’s right about racism? Clinton seems to think so,” sniffed an indignant Sirota on the notion that Hillary would use Wright against Obama.

The hysterical reaction during the primaries to any criticism of Obama with accusations of racism has created a situation where an unvetted Obama faces the Republican Blitzkreig.

Below is a limited list of areas where the media has failed to investigate Obama. This list does not include Obama’s many policy reversals or outright fabrications, like the statement that the Kennedy family facilitated his father coming to the United States. It does not include Obama’s habit of voting ‘present’ as a member of the Illinois State Senate nor his strange maneuverings regarding a born alive bill. Instead, the list below concerns Obama’s associates and business dealings. It is a sordid group, comprised of the America-hating, anti-Israel, and explicitly racial Left. There is big money involved, as with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and bizarre organizations to which money was funneled. Obama’s milieu is the intersection of Chicago politics and the fringe Left; there is much to be explored and explained about Obama. Below is a partial list where Obama remains unvetted:

1. Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama’s 20-year membership in an explicitly racist church, a church with rhetoric too hot for Oprah.
2. Rezko. Obama’s ties to Tony Rezko and the 2005 purchase of the Obamas’ home. Obama funnelling money to Rezko’s sleazy businesses.
3. Ayers. Obama’s extensive ties to unrepentant terroist Bill Ayers.
4. Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama and Ayers together dispensing tens of millions of dollars supposedly for educational organizations. Although now just being investigated, it’s known that money was funnelled to Ayers’ friend, radical Mike Klonsky, a founding member of the Maoist Party of the United States.
5. Minister Louis Farrakhan. Obama is surrounded by people like Rev. Willie Barrow, a friend and admirer of the anti-white, anti-Semitic Farrakhan.

If the media doesn’t do their job, we can rest assured that the Republicans will happily do it for them.

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Why has the media focused more time in the last two days on a potential V.P.'s seventeen year old pregnant daughter, than a relationship between a potential President and an admitted terrorist in the last six months?

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Why has the media focused more time in the last two days on a potential V.P.'s seventeen year old pregnant daughter, than a relationship between a potential President and an admitted terrorist in the last six months?

wow it's crickets chirpin' in here.


but the funny thing is he has been vetted enough, no thanks to the lamestream media, and yet he still remains viable in the polls.

what does that tell you?

that the left thinks that a VP candidate having a 17 year old daughter who is no longer a virgin, pregnant, and marrying her boyfriend the father, overshadows every decision and every deficit on the part of their presidential candidate.

suddenly now they think that obama is running against palin's 17 year old daughter. or that now, after these "progressives" and "feminists" are still frothing at the mouths over the gutter rumours about who birthed Trig, they cannot but help carry on as if Bristol's real pregnancy carries with it all the same feminine scandal that it somehow elicited from these "feminists" and "progressives".

and what was obama doing at 17?


i think that what it really shows is just how desperate they must have become over the last year having to absorb all the criticisms of obama's lack of judgment, and of his associations, lies, and broken promises.

that moonbat insanity is on its face.
and lately in the forum it is in full confessional display like a big coming out party.

Thanks for explaning it all to Accujack, Hiin.


So... how much did Jerry Lewis riase this year?

DiminutiveRocker said:

sorry but i do not get it.

HiinEnkelte said:

Of course you don't I'll amend my post for you.

HiinEnkelte said:

Feels funny to have everything your candidate does under a microscope, don't it David?

Feels funny to have everything your candidate does under a microscope, don't it David?

HiinEnkelte said:

Of course you don't I'll amend my post for you.

Stymie said:

and what did my VP candidate do?

i don't see that you amended it yet.

Why has the media focused more time in the last two days on a potential V.P.'s seventeen year old pregnant daughter, than a relationship between a potential President and an admitted terrorist in the last six months?

Accujack said:

Because it's a conspiracy, that's why. Don't look now but there are black helicopters hovering over your house, and soldiers with blue helmets are on the way.

Stymie said:

i thought obama wasn't your candidate? everytime with you, post after post it was like, who cares about all that, nobody's perfect! just tell me about where they stand on the issues!"

A gutter story breaks out, on par with the larry sinclair story, and its gets mad and hysterical attention by supposedly respectable buffoons all throughtout the lamestream media,

and as far as i can tell so far, you jump in here with all the jokes and glee.

i say, how unfortunate for bristol, but regarding the media libs, the NYT, olbermann, etc, i don't mind at all that they are showing ever more fully their true colors.

HiinEnkelte said:

Nothing that qualifies her to step in and run the nation should McCain drop dead.

wow it's crickets chirpin' in here.


but the funny thing is he has been vetted enough, no thanks to the lamestream media, and yet he still remains viable in the polls.

what does that tell you?

that the left thinks that a VP candidate having a 17 year old daughter who is no longer a virgin, pregnant, and marrying her boyfriend the father, overshadows every decision and every deficit on the part of their presidential candidate.

suddenly now they think that obama is running against palin's 17 year old daughter. or that now, after these "progressives" and "feminists" are still frothing at the mouths over the gutter rumours about who birthed Trig, they cannot but help carry on as if Bristol's real pregnancy carries with it all the same feminine scandal that it somehow elicited from these "feminists" and "progressives".

and what was obama doing at 17?


i think that what it really shows is just how desperate they must have become over the last year having to absorb all the criticisms of obama's lack of judgment, and of his associations, lies, and broken promises.

that moonbat insanity is on its face.
and lately in the forum it is in full confessional display like a big coming out party.

DiminutiveRocker said:

yet obama, (because of campaign experience! ) is qualified to step right in, right off, no heartbeats away.



u have to know we cannot take the criticisms of palin's qualifications seriously, right? i mean seriously, u have to know that.
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DiminutiveRocker said:

yet obama, (because of campaign experience! ) is qualified to step right in, right off, no heartbeats away.



u have to know we cannot take the criticisms of palin's qualifications seriously, right? i mean seriously, u have to know that.
[Edited 9/2/08 20:38pm]

HiinEnkelte said:

I'm sorry, you asked about Palin and I answered. I do not believe she is qualified to run the country if something should happen to McCain. Period. What does the rest of you're Obama rant got to do with that question? Not a lot of confidence in Palin, eh?