Is Obama Complaining Because of Sarah Palin Pointing Out His Mistakes?

Question

He says that she didn't deal with issues even though she said this:

"...But he fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more nuclear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers..."

Energy is an issue, and being in control of 20% of America's energy, it's an issue she knows best. Get real Obama, she spoke about the issues more than your attack dog Joe Biden.

So that's my question, does Obama have a real reason to complain about her not talking about the issues, or was what I just said a lie?

Answer 1

She covered the issues.

Obama complains because that's all he can do.

Answer 2

Obama just lost these elections. Period!!!!

Answer 3

Obama is history....

Answer 4

Sarah Palin is just a bad mother who is trying to play vice president. she and McCain need to just drop out. Sarah Palin has lied on just about everything she has said. she never gives the whole truth she always leaves out how she lets her w***e of a daughter get pregnant and drink underage.  

Answer 5

Read the FRONT PAGE of yahoo and then tell me about mistakes....or lies...

Answer 6

uhm, you guys can fight as hard you want....McCain just isn't going to win... keep laughing....

Obama is stepping up to the plate i hear on O'Riley Republican Rhetoric TONIGHT>.....cya there whiners!

Answer 7

Sarah (what's her name?) is a great TALKER, you must admit that, but it's all talk!

We all know she's only here as a token female, to try and suck in the HIllary Democrats.  The intelligent ones will not be fooled by the GOP rhetoric.

Answer 8

How can obama complain when he is unconscious from the stomach blow last night. He is going to look really bad tonight. He will sound like Porky Pig.

Answer 9

Remember Chernobyl Russia ? Nuclear Power plants have the potential of being very dangerous . Not eve one mistake can happen . Do you like the pollution in the City from dirty toxic Oil ? What kind of mutant Human can thrive on pollution ?

Sara Palin is in bed with Big Alaska Oil. This is just self serving Republican demagogue.

Answer 10

Obama says that she didn't deal with issues because she addressed the energy issues he loves so dearly.  He has to make the easily-influenced young people believe that he is the only one who cares about energy.  

Answer 11

I believe he had mentioned health care as something not discussed...which was true.

But h**l, if every speaker had to touch upon every issue...

Answer 12

Oh wow she spoke about one issue.  Gee she gets my vote.

Answer 13

And George Bush was "in control" of the Texas oil production when he was governor, it didn't make him an energy policy expert!

Answer 14

No, he is complaining because of the lies.  Are all Republicans such cowards?  Check the source!

Answer 15

Sarah Palin was out to establish herself last night, and she was most successful.  It is John McCain's job to address the issues tonight.  Her job was to defend the democratic accusations as to her talents and experience.  She pointed out that she got more votes as Mayor then Biden got for presidency, she also pointed out that her experience in leading a town, and the state of Alaska as Governor, is more experience than Obama and Biden have combined.  Amazing how this young women has both candidates on the defense, and has taken them off the offense.

Answer 16

He had to say something, didn't he. You can't blame Obama that Palin didn't give him anything substantial to complain about. **snicker**

Poor Obama. LOL

Answer 17

Obamas a fraud He cant handle the truth why do you think they are attacking her daughter

Answer 18

THATS FROM THE FRONT PAGE ON YAHOO READ IT THAN TELL ME  WHOS LIEING!

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer

Wed Sep 3, 11:48 PM ET



ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

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Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla,  

Answer 19

He's not complaining, but he should be, cause she's a parrot, and a liar.

Answer 20

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_o...

anything less than the full truth is a lie.  a distortion is a lie.

Palin is a liar.

Answer 21

It wasn't quite a lie, just a mistruth. Palin doesn't have any control over that 20% of America's energy production other than to tax it, and it's only a small fraction of America's energy consumption. And she only wants to drill and build pipelines because it will pump federal money into her home state. Obama supports all of those forms of energy, even some increased drilling, and has a better plan to create a stronger infrastructure to support those new energy sources as well as create more new jobs.

Answer 22

Energy is ONE issue. But McCain seems to think our economy is doing just fine !

Yeah right, open your eyes. If all she can do is bash Obama... where did her "country first" mentality go?

Answer 23

This is what every party has said.

For the past few elections.

She did not mention how we're going to use geothermal energy; she did not mention that we've already blocked the "pipelines" thing because it's ecologically a bad move. Basically, she piled words together with no plan at all behind them.

Also, clean coal is a dead end. Creating clean coal is terribly expensive, probably more expensive than the cost of choosing coal energy in the first place. We're going to run out of US coal soon; West Virginia's economy has depended on coal and has been going downward. Clean coal will just mean more mountaintop removal to get more coal, since it's mined out of the big veins, and jobs spent trying to offset the price of using that coal--probably still with a deficit.

Not impressive.