What the hell, this is actually real? This isn't a photoshop?

[FVZA_Colonel]

This is really how they're going to respond to this investigation? I mean, didn't this start WELL before Palin was thought to be a candidate for the VP slot?

Damn, these people are bloody desperate.

[Aqaba]

1. Whaddya expect from those soulless lying assholes?

[d_b]

2. heh

It's like the investigation began the moment she was picked!!

[progressivebydesign]

3. WTF? They are trying to blame OBAMA for her ethics scandal??

Seriously? WTF is wrong with those people... does that woman standing behind the podium really believe the shit they're shoveling?

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. They are trying to make it look like he's the secret mastermind of an elaborate plot to destroy her,

just because (and I admit I could be wrong about this) Hollis French, one of the men who has led the investigation, is reportedly an Obama supporter.

[anonymous171]

4. Obama needs to distance himself from the investigation now.

Forcefully too. Oh and work in "dishonest"

[Aqaba]

13. HE WAS NEVER CLOSE TO IT!

He had nothing to do with any of it, has never once mentioned it, period.

This is GOP fabrication. A fucking stunt, that the fucking cable networks will undoubtedly cover.

Maybe they are pissed enough at McCain to call it for what it is.

[anonymous171]

17. IF the cable networks give it shitloads of coverage,

Obama should come out and say that his campaign has nothing to do with what goes on all the way up in Alaska. He should call McCain "dishonest" and "dishonorable" as much as he possibly can in the press release. He should also mention that 8 of the committee members are republicans, so its a bi-partisan investigation.

[Starry Messenger]

6. I guess that's what they mean about "reforming"...

reforming reality to suit themselves.

[whistler162]

7. Of course they fail to note that the other EIGHT members

of the commission are Republicans.

[lutherj]

8. I'm starting to believe that the planet really was invaded by a race of shape-shifting

alien reptiles. So far it's the best hypothesis for all the available data. I don't know how else to explain it.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Occam's razor.

I'm with you.

[CampDem]

10. OMG

Where did you get this picture?

[FVZA_Colonel]

14. Right here, actually:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2956393&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=60

Perhaps not the most authoratative source, but I've seen nothing so far that would show this to be innacurate.

[CampDem]

19. thanks!

I found the same picture with a story at Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/palin-refuses-to-meet-wit_n_126689.html

[FVZA_Colonel]

21. Thanks.

I'm glad to have a more official source for it.

[lapfog_1]

11. Can someone point me to a thread that explains this.

I took my eyes off of DU for a few hours of TeeVee and I don't get this chart at all.

Thanks.

[FVZA_Colonel]

12. The McCain camp's new strategy regarding Troopergate is to claim the investigation has been

"hijacked" by Democrats, and can no longer be trusted; thus, they have to try and loop it back to Obama.

On Edit: I can only assume this came from a press conference they held to try and explain why Palin won't speak to the investigation.

[lapfog_1]

28. HA ha!

Really? TDS and SNL will have a field day. Nothing like stupidity on parade for all to see.

So my next conversation with a Wingnut is this :

WN: The Troopergate thing was all a plot by Obama to undermine our Sarah's credibility!

ME: Yeah, he's great isn't he? I mean he KNEW, long before McCain KNEW, that Sarah was going to be picked as the VP. Because the investigation started like a year ago. Really clever of him... I think I like that in a President... probably outwit those Ruskies and the Islamofascists without firing a shot, right?

[grantcart]

15. Christ if Obama is that smart to start an investigation on Alaska's Governor

having figured out that she is going to be the pick for Vice President then the entire country should just give it up and vote him in by acclamation. We have never had a President that is that fucking smart that they can see into the future.

[FVZA_Colonel]

16. I'd actually like to have a Precognitive as President.

That is what he'd have to be to truly be the mastermind, as this chart alledges.

[grantcart]

23. Yes and he wanted people to grasp this reality slowly in an obscure place

and let it grow so that by the time he was President everyone would feel a lot more comfortable about it, and that is why he in fact started this thread.

Now it does make it hard to understand why he went through all of that 'crazy Pastor' shit since a blind man could have seen that one 5 miles away, lol.

[Starry Messenger]

26. Wright was a smokescreen for the Secret Project.

[anonymous171]

20. You don't even need to vote.

He's already president.

[CampDem]

22. Unbelievable how far they are reaching

Obama has a crystal ball...

:rofl:

They seem so desperate and panicked to do this IMO

[jillan]

25. Well, they don't call him the messiah for nothing!

:)

[1corona4u]

39. OMG!!!1!!!!1!!

Obama's PSYCHIC!!11!!! That's their next move...

[curious one]

18. Say what?

[NYC_SKP]

24. What is suspect to me is that every pic has the name on a red banner...

...except for Obama.

That, and the fact that I can't see how they can make a connection like that directly from Obama to:

Bill Wielechowski
Hollis French
Steve Branchflower
Walt Monegan
Trooper Mike Wooten

Without including some Obama operatives.

I don't care if it was posted on HuffPost, I think it's a photoshop, and Sarah or Todd's face was originally there.

I look forward to a final resolution, we need another pic of the same event.

:shrug:

[CampDem]

29. here is another link with another picture

The associated press

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOTk11gvqDAgD0cY3i4WjI_2YOxwD937JQSO1

[NYC_SKP]

37. Wow, they've really become the "Party of the Absurd".... nt

[TheKentuckian]

27. It almost makes you want to run with it and take the wrap.

"Even the Republicans know that Barack Obama has the foresight to lead the country around any pitfalls that we may face".

"He knew going into Iraq was a debacle"

"He knew trouble would boil over in Afghanistan, if left unattended"

"He foresaw the need for timelines in Iraq"

"He forecasted the current economic situations, well ahead of the curve"

"Now the GOP claims he knew Governor Palin would be the nominee for Vice-President and set up a witch hunt to bring her down before 95% of the nation knew she existed"

[CampDem]

30. lol

Yeah, that's the ticket!

He was the one calling the commissioner pressuring them to fire Wooten way back in February before he was the nominee, pretending to be Todd Palin!

:dilemma:

[snowbear]

31. That is Meg Stapleton (former local TV newscaster in Anchorage) with that dirtball..

And boy did she ever turn into a viscious little pitbull the past couple of weeks.

You can tell every time you see her on local tv.. she's auditioning for another job with Palin..

She used to be her press secretary, but quit after she had a baby so she could live in Anchorage with her Anchorage firefighter hubby... (The job she had was positioned out of Juneau)

She wants back in on the action though.

You can tell by her big MOUTH every time she's in the spotlight lately..

[Raschel]

32. This is despicable

These people have no conscience whatsoever.

[WePurrsevere]

33. Yes, America, they really are that desparate & really DO think we are that stupid. Let's...

prove them WRONG and vote for the REAL deal and REAL change... Obama/Biden!

[chitty]

34. Last night on Larry King

Ralph :puke: Reed was spewing this crap about the trooper investigation.

"It's all because of an Obama supporter"

This is the new talking point. Be prepared to hear this one a bunch in the next few days.

Ed Schultz's head was ready to blow last night because he couldn't get a word in to respond.

[tomg]

35. Actually, it's the newest Republican Board Game:

Six Degrees of Barack Obama.

[annabanana]

36. "Six Degrees of Barack Obama" - I like it... . . . . .

Everybody will know what it means and it SO points up the flaws in the feeble attempt...

[tannybogus]

38. Must really be something to it the way they are working to cover it up.

Either that or it is a head fake to get everybody to look only at Palin again and not the issues.

[texasleo]

40. unreal

[MadrasT]

41. Repuke's Official Campaign Strategy

"Throw shit frantically in every direction like crazed monkeys and hope some of it sticks."

:rofl:

[tanyev]

42. OMG, has Obama already attained the omnipotence of the Clintons?

And he's not even in the White House yet. Impressive.