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Palin packs Cape Girardeau's Show Me CenterFriday, October 31, 2008
Palin speech audio part 1 Palin speech audio part 2 With fewer than 120 hours before Missourians begin voting, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin put on a crowd-pleasing performance Thursday at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, hit on all the major themes, save one, that she and her presidential running mate, U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, have used in recent weeks as they seek to dig into Democratic nominee Barack Obama's lead in national polls. She told the crowd of more than 7,000 packed into the arena that Obama is wrong on taxes, the economy, energy independence, the Iraq war and leadership skills. Palin took the stage just after 9:30 a.m. as the song "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton played. The crowd at the Southeast Missouri State University arena cheered a series of top state Republicans but saved their most enthusiastic reception for Palin. In the speech interrupted by chants of "Sarah, Sarah" and "USA, USA", Palin promised that under four years of a McCain administration, federal spending would be restrained and taxes would be cut. Palin was introduced by U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Cape Girardeau following a 20-minute break in the speeches as the hall filled. Emerson took aim at the skepticism about Palin's experience. Palin became governor of Alaska in January 2007. John McCain "picked a woman who is ready to serve as vice president," Emerson said. "What makes her ready? It is the only question the national news media cannot look her straight in the eye and ask." The rally was designed to fire up the faithful, identify volunteers and attempt to counter the get-out-the-vote effort of Obama and his supporters. Missouri is a key state for McCain, a state that President George Bush carried in each of his two elections and a state that has sided with every presidential winner since 1956. After the rally was over, Josh Haynes, a political adviser to Emerson, said the impact will be felt Tuesday. "With the event, we have a lot more volunteers than we would have had without it," he said. "It puts John McCain and Sarah Palin a lot closer to carrying Missouri." When Palin attacked Obama on taxes, she said: "Senator Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes and though, granted he's changing his tax plan pronouncements almost every day now, flip-floppin' around on the details now but his commitment to higher taxes, though, never changes and you just have to be able to look at his record to be able to prove this." She promised lower taxes on wages, investment income and corporations. She also invoked the famous Ohio plumber who has come to represent average Americans for the McCain campaign. "But remember good ole Joe the Plumber there in Toledo, Ohio," she said. "Joe the Plumber said to him that plan sounded like socialism. Now is no time to experiment with that, and Joe the Plumber, here, good hard-workin' American who just asked a simple, straightforward question and ever since then because he finally got a candid answer, not a scripted answer from Barack Obama, ever since then the guy has been investigated and attacked just for asking a good question." As she turned to foreign policy, she zeroed in on the Iraq war and Obama's support for a timetable to withdraw troops within 16 months. That, she said, means admitting defeat. "John McCain served our country in uniform for 22 years, five and a half years as a POW," Palin noted. "Those years as a POW, meeting adversity, great adversity in the service to his country, in his own life, he knows how tough challenges are overcome. He will not wave the white flag of surrender to the terrorists." On economics, Palin attacked "greed and corruption" on Wall Street. "We're gonna help our retirees keep their savings and their investments. These are our esteemed elders in this nation who have built up our families and our communities, and then they trusted other people to manage their savings for them, and because of that corruption and greed, they're forced now to worry about their investments. That's not right, that's not fair, it won't happen on our watch." The one area Palin didn't mention were charges that Obama has attempted to hide his associations with former Weather Underground member and current college professor William Ayers or that the Los Angeles Times was suppressing a video of Obama with another professor, Rashid Khalidi, who has strongly supported Palestinian rights. The enthusiastic crowd included Republican activists from the Cape Girardeau area, people eager to see the latest star on the national political stage and people who feel they have a special connection to Palin. Tamilla House brought her 11-year-old daughter Carley, who has Down syndrome, as does Palin's youngest son, Trig. House also brought two other children, daughter Calli and son Cody, as well as her family friend and baby sitter, Becky Christian. Wedged up against the railing, House said she will vote for Palin but came to the rally because of her daughter, who cried as she was held in her mother's arms. "We here to show Gov. Palin that 11 years later, everything is still great, that we are just a family with a little extra special needs," House said. During the speech, Palin addressed the need for better funding for programs for special-needs children. "Our vision is of an America where everyone has a chance to contribute and every child is cherished, and that's the spirit that we want to bring to Washington." After the speech wrapped up at 10 a.m., Palin and her husband, surrounded by Secret Service officers, waded into the crowd to shake hands. She touched Carlie's hand. Once she was finished greeting audience members inside the arena, Palin was led to a nearby overflow area where she shook hands with more people. rkeller@semissourian.com 388-3642
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Where was the fire marshal during this "packed house"?
You are dillusional if you think any candidate is "one of us".
I think Rudi should interview the Republicans who contributed to the RNC for this year's election. I would be interested to know how they feel about their hard earned money being used to "dress" Palin and her children. Just think....a $100 contribution could buy ONE HALF of a Louis Vitton purse for Piper. But don't feel bad about it, it will be donated to charity after the election. Now another question, who get's the tax write off...the RNC or Palin?????
The selection of Palin as McCain's running mate is an insult to our intelligence. If he needed a woman there were numerous other choices he could have made. This woman cannot even complete a sentence unless it is scripted. I can just imagine a conversation between Palin and Putin. She'd be winking and saying "you betcha!" at every comment he made. She is no role model, she is an opportunist and a disgrace. She proclaimed to be one of us. Well "WE" don't shop at Neiman or Saks and buy our little girls Louis Vitton purses. I don't know if I even spelled it correctly. I can't wait to see Obama in the White House.
Kinda seems like a waste of time coming to Cape, they are going to vote Republican.
OBAMA 08
If Obama wins, change is all you will have! POCKET CHANGE!
If Obama wins, change is all you will have! POCKET CHANGE!
To paraphrase Pappy O'Daniel (Oh Brother...) How can the Republican nominee run on reform when they are the incumbent?
As for the gentleman from Illinois raising taxes...if he wants to take 3 more cents off of dollar $250,001 per year and every dollar thereafter made by citizens that doesn't seem that awful. Would you want to stop earning those dollars?
BEFORE YOU VOTE FOR JO ANN EMERSON... PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS...
Jo Ann Emerson, who sold out southern Missourians by bailing out Wall Street, and sticking us with paying off their gambling debts...is on stage with Sarah Palin... that took a lot of nerve on Emerson's part.
After she voted the first time to bailout the Wall Street greedy, gambling bankers, she didn't have the nerve to come back here and explain her vote to us, she, and Ike Skelton, left the country for a few days.
Then, Jo Ann Emerson decided to go back to friendly territory, the Rotary and Kiwanis type clubs and lie to them that she had no choice but to vote for the bailout. We know that is a lie, she just flat out lied to them, because we can check the words of REAL Republicans, like John Culbertson-R of the 7th district of Texas. http://www.culberson.house.gov/...
"The White House and the Treasury both tell us that nothing in this bill will prevent this crisis from happening again, or bring those responsible to justice and that $700 billion may not even be enough. The bill grants the Treasury Secretary unprecedented authority - he can bail out any financial institution operating in the United States by paying any price he wants for any financial instrument, for any reason, and no one can stop him or restrain him in any way as long he makes a phone call or writes a letter to Congress telling us what he has done."
Of course, Jo Ann Emerson didn't listen to Republican John Culbertson, nor, did she listen to us, when 90% of our calls from southern Missouri told her to vote AGAINST the Bailout. Emerson thumbed her nose at us and gave us a collective finger and voted with the globalists and FOR the BAILOUT.
Now, come to find out, Emerson was persuaded by Republcian Roy Blunt to vote for the bailout because her congressional seat in the 8th District was considered safe, so, it didn't matter if she scru-ed us over the bailout, they thought that we would vote for her anyway. I believe that they were wrong. I believe that we are going to see a very close election, as more and more Real Republicans in the 8th District become fed up with Jo Ann Emerson and vote for a social and fiscal Conservative Democrat, a pro-life, pro-property rights, pro-gun, with an ("A") from the NRA, Conservative Democrat... JOE ALLEN. www.allen4congress.com
Allen has had over 360 NEW visitors to his website in the past week. He has been getting this kind of NEW visitors to his website, ever since Jo Ann Emerson voted TWICE for the bailout of Wall Street.
Was the bailout necessary, as Jo Ann has lied to us that it was? Not according to over 200 of America's most prestigious Economists from MIT, YALE, HARVARD, UCLA, the London School of Business, and many more great universities. http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/...
They sent a letter to Jo Ann Emerson and Congress, BEFORE the FIRST vote and told the congressmen that it would not work. Jo Ann did not listen, Bush Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson ,was the only one to testify before Congress. No economists were allowed. Paulson, a former exec at GOLDMAN SACHS demanded complete authority to do as he pleased with our $900 Billion dollars taken from working Americans and given at his full authority to any Wall Street Bank, to be used in any manner that they chose. Now, we were led to believe by Jo Ann Emerson, when she lied to us, that the money would be used to help get the economy started again. Do you feel the start? Has it happened for you yet?
The reason that it hasn't is because Jo Ann Emerson left a big, big hole in the legislation to bail out Wall Street. The banks can use our money, our wages given to them, as they wish.
With Jo Ann Emerson's help, PNC Bank got $8 BILLION from us. Are they loaning it out to jump start the economy? NO... they took $5.6 BILLION of our money, and BOUGHT ANOTHER BANK FOR THEMSELVES. They, also, entered into an agreement with FOOD GIANT to put 41 bank branches in FOOD GIANT stores in Deleware, Maryland, and the Washington, D.C. area... we, the lowly paid, and some of our better paid workers in southern Missouri have just become a slush fund to allow these gambing bankers to make themselves bigger, while we,in the 12th poorest district, out of 435 in the US, just get ripped off and a little more poor.
There is an alternative to Jo Ann Emerson... his name is JOE ALLEN.. meet JOE here www.allen4congress.com
Come visit JOE ALLEN.. and see why over 360 NEW visitors did the same in just the past week. www.allen4congress.com
When you got lay off's taking place in the boot heel as well as right here in Cape County and even the rail road, is laying off give me one reason why would you want to repeat four more years of the last eight also, the largest financial crisis since the great depression. It is time for a change
We have less than a week until the most hotly contested and seemingly critical election in living memory. The candidate chosen will represent us for the next four years. However, don’t leap to any conclusions that are posted by “political” or “opinion polls” – you can never know just what they mean exactly. The thing is that opinion polls are conducted by a method called “sampling.” (This comes to us from statistics.) Opinion polls are the opinion of a certain “sample,” or a selection of the population, that is asked questions about a particular subject. The thing is that when you hear things on the major news outlets about the opinion polls about a particular, say, presidential candidates, you never know just where and how they got that sample. It might be that they are only asking wealthy registered democrats, or students who are republicans or whoever else. The point here is that when you hear that Obama has 2/3 of people thinking they will vote for him, what you are really hearing is that only 2/3 of the people asked in one particular study of the people that actually responded to the survey said they were going to vote for him. So, when it comes down to your vote, don’t let these supposedly scientific “polls” do the thinking for you.
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