The 'Power' of Palin
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There were a lot of curious Americans!
According to preliminary estimates, Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night scored a higher rating than Hillary Clinton and 'in some cases' higher than Barack Obama.
Yup, more peeps watched the governor from Alaska than Hills!
The preliminary numbers show about 37 million households were tuned in to see the GOP's VP candidate speak.
If you missed her address, though, CLICK HERE to check it out!
Be warned: her speech is filled with many many factual inaccuracies.
Update: Wow!!
The final numbers are in and….
Over 40 million people tuned in to watch Sarah Palin - that's almost 2 million more than watched Barack Obama!!!
[Photo via Getty Images.]
Posted: September 4, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Re: Ms. Sugar Walls –
Um Miss Sugar get Your Facts Straight, her Speech brought in 37.2 Million Viewers..maybe you should listen to her speech!
Re: Andy27 –
If you find out the brand of her glasses let me know!
Re: LULU~* – Wrong…already discredited. The nonstop character smears against her and her family will only make her more popular.
LOL…you aer so freaking funny….Hey Pigez, why is it that NOBODY is reporting about Biden's 27 year old daughter getting arrested, outside a sting of bars early Saturday morning (extremely late Friday night drinking party), after someone in her party (maybe her) threw a bottle at a plice patrolling the area (she was the only one arrested….threatening the officer and physically obstrucing justice. Hmmmmm…..also, where is the news about Bidens son and brother currently involved in a lobbyist hedgefund investigation, and several lawsuits invloving defrauding businesses and partners….Why aren't these ADULTS being reported on? Huh? These stupid ass people Biden and Obama like to pretend do not exist…..
Honey97431, Barack TAUGHT constitutional law for 12 years, he served as a Illionis Senator for EIGHT.. 8… years, he has served as a US Senator for FOUR.. 4 years!! I didn't say he was a governor of Chicago….how stupid.
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I meant to write that CHICAGO IS THE MOST SEGREGATED NORTHERN STATE. SORRY FOR THE MISTYPE.
Don't worry guys. Obama may win. His campaign will cheat just as they did in the primaries!
Luckily the primaries does not have caucuses!
Please, Obama's numbers blew Palin away. She repeated a speech WRITTEN for her. Not her words, Bush's speech writer. Obama is the real deal, and she came across like a bitchy angry shrew.
Mmmmmm so you spend your entire waking life dealing with celebrities… yet YOU are supposedly able to point out factual inaccuracies?? AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA you're a moron Perez.
Her husband is hot, I'd drain his baby-batter anyday.
Re: arrora – I did, and she didn't bring any subtance to the table, and Obama speech bought in 38 million. That is beating her. Like I said People wanted to see what she was about, after they saw. I am pretty sure that they wanted to kick themselves in the ass…HARD! LIKE I SAID: she didn't talk about: the economy, Health care, Abotion rights, About her slashing teen pregnancy funds, Global Warming, about her foreign Policies etc
So maybe you should listen to Obama Speech! Because he hit every point on the head!
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bottom line: palin can deliver a lot of witty, sarcastic one-liners, but she has nothing to say about the real issues facing americans. she is like an insecure high school freshman, looking for acceptance from the seniors.
Re: LULU~* – Again LuLu you type like Hussein Obama talks. Uh - Uh - yeah change - Uh Uh - hmmm Uh. No clear sentences there babe.
Re: LULU~* – if they are identifying with her - than how the HECK ARE THEY IDENTIFYING WITH MCCAIN????
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We are to identify with McCain because he is a true American hero and reformer not a Muslim sympathizer that has plotted his way to the top of the democratic party with half-truths and character changes.
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I DID IT AGAIN
CHICAGO IS THE MOST SEGRGATED NORTHERN CITY. GOODNESS!
Until sarah palin got involved I was disgusted with politics and politicians she is awesome .. love her .. my new idol
I would trust Governor Palin as President of the US over Obama any day of the week. She clearly has more experience than he does, which wouldn't be hard as he has no experience at all. I would vote for Perez for President before I would vote for Obama.
yea…many americans just wanted to see how shitty she would do thats all.
haha probably because no one knew who she was outside of alaskans.
Perez, I love you, but stick to trashy celeb gossip. I don't come to your website for political rhetoric… I come here to read about hollywood trash making a mess of themselves. I dont listen to NPR to hear about celebrities and I dont come to Perez Hilton to learn about the Presidential race. Stick to what you intended this website for and use another venue to talk politics. Just please, please give me my trashy celeb gossip without all this crazy one-sided Washington crap!!! I really dont want to boycott your website until after November, but your celeb-web peers are avoiding politics and it is a refreshing idea you should consider utilizing. xoxo.
Umm… the only ones calling them inaccuracies are the far-left owls.
Just think! Those lips were wrapped around her gay hubby's business partner's schlong!
Re: LULU~* – So . . . which is it?? You identify with Sarah — or — you identify with McCain. You can't have it both ways.
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Its called the 'compliment of the ticket'…McCain amoung other things McCain offers experience, national security and leadership to Palin's youthfulness, energy experience and fresh look into Washington. Fortunately we as Americans can have it both ways and we do in McCain and Palin.
Re: liz222 – The mistake you make her pinhead is the Hussein Obama is on the top of the ticket while Ms. Palin is only the VP. Good law education you got there son. The man is a Muslim
Re: njpaul0129 –
I'm waiting for your response to me - you're clearly a typical Republican…. can't take the heat, so you ignore it to pick on others…
Re: liz222 –
Scripted Speeches? What the hell do you think B. Hussein Obama does? Speak from the heart? Hardly - If the teleprompter failed he wouldnt know what to do. The teleprompter continued to scroll on Gov Palin during the long applauses and she still knocked it out of the park. I would love to see that happen to B. Hussein Obama. That would be a laugh.
Sara Palin is a GOVERNOR which is 60 miles from Russia and right next door to Canada. She has more foriegn relations experience then B. Hussein Obama which has almost none other then empowering our enemy by trashing our war efforts. B. Hussein Obama has NOT LEAD OR RAN EVEN A SMALL BUSINESS. She runs the biggest state in the Nation and has done a kick ass job at it for the last two years with over an 80% approval rating. Also, B. Hussein Obama is the Presidential Candidate. She is the VP candidate and she still has more executive experience than B. Hussein Obama.
"she says her family is off limits to the press, and yet she wants to limit every woman to losing the right to abortion? What a hypocrite"
What the hell is this supposed to mean? Typical liberal fashion. How does her family have anything to do with the legal murder of babies (abortion for you ignorant liberals like yourself)
I would guess you probably have little to no education considering most people who vote democrat usually are. So, go back to watching your cartoons or MTV.
I heard no substance in her speech. Just scripted attacks. Tell me your ideas. She provides nothing but a smoke screen for the Republicans because they have no clue how to solve the problems in this country. Republicans do nothing but lie…just as they have in the past 7+ years. OBAMA 08
Re: Astrochicks.com – She wrote the speech…look at her history of speeches, in all of her pocitical races, everyone knows she wrote it. It was verified that she composed it, and it was actually softened by editors, prior to airing. They said they had to do it, to make it less "masculine". As for scripted speeches, lets look at Biden and Obama….ROTFL! Two of the most infamous plageurizer in the history of American politics! They not only do not compopse their speeches, they steal lines from other peoples speeches!! DAMN!! That is some crazy stupid bullshit! And then for idiots like yourself to sit there and talk about scripted speeches. EVERY SPEECH INVOLVES A TELEPROMPTER….BY EVERY POLITICIAN EVERY ADDRESS! This is well known….pick a different argument as you are lost on this one….
Re: misopretty –
you must be out of your mind to write that. either that, or you didn't graduate elementary school.
Re: arrora – Go back and do some research. Everything that she had written for her were lies lies lies…
Re: D-Bag – One thing we can all agree on, Todd Palin is hot-hot-hot. Very easy on the eyes.
Ha. She didn't get higher ratings than Obama. All in all, people wanted to see what she was about, and what we saw we didn't like.
perez has joined the spin doctor parade. i know you are pro obama, my precious perezito but seriously from now on, if you want to post political items please do so without adding your uninformed bias' to the mix.
You can pick apart any speech and claim it's full of lies, the democrats are experts at it. They can spin any sentence or thought to fit their agenda. As can the republicans. it's what these people get paid to do. dont lower yourself to that level. report the "news" and let people decide for themselves.
or go back to just drawing cum drops on celebs
Re: liz222 –
I know A LOT of people who attempted law school and failed. You probably wont make graduate with your ignorant, absence of fact rambles. You must be government educated.
Re: Bluebonnet –
Obama has about 20 more years of experience than Palin. I think being a part of Harvard's Law Review is more experience than being a "hockey mom," don't you? No? It's probably because you didn't go to college. At least, if you voted for Obama, your kids actually could go to college…
Re: liz222 –
It is a known fact Obama has admitted that he has admitted to that he was originally brought up Muslim until the age of 10yrs. You might be a law student, but you certainly don't know your facts.
Obama has Less Experience than Palin and your ready to gullably elect him as Presedent, 154 days in the senate is nothing compared to being a Mayor and a Governor?? Being a Paid "volunteer" does not count as experience!
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH ON OBAMA JUST TUNE INTO BILL O REILLY TONIGHT FOR THERE DEBATE ON FOX 8PM!!
OMG…Please MAKE HER GO AWAY…i can't look at her idiot face anymore.
Re: dASH – whats more important to you…a wolf or a baby?
The whole point is that it doesn't matter whom I identify with… far left, far right, or somewhere in the middle… I just dont want Perez to talk politics through this website. This is my guilty pleasure and I want it to stay that way
She looks so scary.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Seriously –
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You're not helping her, considering her speech was full of blatant lies that's why the media is all over it like flies on shit. And before you rebutt about Obama the fact is the RNC had their chance during the DNC to poke holes etc.
Unfortunately she was surrounded by the Rove brigade and it clearly showed.
Re: Minx –
Palin said NO THANKS to the Bridge to Nowhere; the Troopergate issue has been investigated, and the person who did the firing confirmed that Palin knew nothing about it; Alaska is NOT in debt, in fact, we're all receiving an extra $1200 from the surplus, to help with energy costs this winter; etc etc etc. Get your facts straight BEFORE you try to slam someone.
Re: liz222 – obama is not a muslim, never has been
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Once again, Obama was a Muslim. He was born Muslim, raised Muslim, studied the Koran and was taught Islamic values. He didn't become a Christian until he was in his 30's and only did so to advance his political aspirations.
Re: buck –
Buck I may not agree w/you politically but what Dash or whatever wrote was disgusting, disrespectful and crude. I agree w/ you 100% on this one.
Re: *Lola* –
I Couldn't agree with you more. I used to get a guilty pleasure coming to this site and reading celebrity garbage, but all this political onesense and one sided posts are just annoying.
Take the hint Mario and go start your own One Sided Obama Political Website and go crazy, but keep this page to the Celebrity Gossip, Obama is NOT a Celebrity stop Glorifying Him, he's NOT the Messiah!!
Why do comments keep disappearing? (mine and others…?)
Re: Minx – It has already been rreported that is not true….get with it, I even looked it up myself…..did the reasearch and responded to everything Pigez copied and pasted from the smear campaign website….lol. Do your homework and get a clue. Please, you are doing yourself a grave injustice….look into it and you may see the light.
Re: Yourstruly – You're right, John McCain hasn't done squat! He married for all that money and has sat on his ass and hired assistants to do all the major work since…..you're so right!
Re: Charmer –
Let me rephrase: Sleaze and scandal always draws a crowd! Hence her high viewer ship.
How's that?
Re: MissCheerleader – And don't YOU sound every bit the intelligent and intellectual voter. Get to know the candidate before you comment.
Re: State ziti – and she didn't bring any subtance to the table, and Obama speech bought in 38 million. That is beating her. Like I said People wanted to see what she was about, after they saw. I am pretty sure that they wanted to kick themselves in the ass…HARD! LIKE I SAID: she didn't talk about: the economy, Health care, Abotion rights, About her slashing teen pregnancy funds, Global Warming, about her foreign Policies etc
So maybe you should listen to Obama Speech! Because he hit every point on the head!
Obama has raised $8 million since Gov. Plain's speech, from over 130,000 donors. On pace to hit $10 million by the time McCain hits the stage (developing story from DRUDGE REPORT).
Who says the Republicans are the only ones energized after last night?!!
Obama/Biden '08
SHE KICKED BUTT!!!
and she was making jokes…I loved it! of course he jokes weren't supposed to be fact filled….
but it seems to be nothing is truly "true" anymore….
Re: liz222 –
"Obama has about 20 more years of experience than Palin. I think being a part of Harvard's Law Review is more experience than being a "hockey mom," don't you? No? It's probably because you didn't go to college. At least, if you voted for Obama, your kids actually could go to college"
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Oh, so if we elect Obama he will send my kid to college, take care of me when I am sick, Heal the world make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race. WTF!!! Since when is it the governments responsibility to take care of me. The government, in theory is only supposed to keep me safe and secure not provide for my every need. That is my job. Obama wants to turn all the power over to the government. Read the Communist Manifesto sometime. You may not be able to tell the difference between that and an Obama campaign speech.
Re: Tinalouise –
Go Research Obama's Lies like I did oh so long ago and maybe you'll see why I'd Vote for my Dog Goober as President before Barack Huessien Obamaination, Electing him is like asking for a nuclear bomb to drop on us as far as I'm concerned. He'll be elected and will have North Korea and Iran building Nukes right under our noises and Obama will ignore it, he's been in bed with the enemy as soon as he started doing shady business dealings with CONVICTED TERRORISTS, thats not a joke people!
Re: jimbo99 –
I have "little to no education"? Well, I apologize - I'm a law student. Someone of your elementary intelligence probably doesn't understand words that have over 6 letters.
Sarah Palin is a travesty upon the entire political community. Her experience includes a few years as a mayor of a city that is 1/100th the size of Chicago - the same city that Palin criticized Obama for only being the "community organizer." Oh, wait - he was the community organized 20 YEARS AGO, before entering HARVARD LAW SCHOOL! Palin can't even lead her own family. I'd LOVE to see her attempt to lead our country.
C'mon Perez, I love your site but the political ramblings on here is just not your forte. Stick to what you do best, entertainment news and gossip. For anyone who actually comes to this site for political news on the candidates, please visit the Wizard of Oz and hope they have brains left to hand out.
this woman is a crazy effin bitch!! i don't care what she says in her speech, it means $hit! she's a politician. i rarely hate anyone - and i really think i hate that woman. if she gets elected with mccain our country is going to be as bad, if not worse off, than it was with bush.
Re: arrora –
KNOWN FACT? cite your sources, please! Obama is not and never has been a Muslim.
That's because good Democrats like us actually make the conscious effort to see our opponent's point of view; whereas, Republican viewers would rather go Bible thumping or shoot each others' faces during the televised DNC.
Palin just took cheap shots.
Just saying!
Re: buck –
dude, i was the one saying that obama is NOT a muslim. i think you have your quotes wrong
How about you stick to commenting and gossiping about celebrities and leave your ridiculous banter out of politics!!!!!!!!
Gov Palin is awsome. She has done so much for women. A mother of 5 between the ages of 19-5 months. And is a Gov of Alaska. Her speech was soooo true. And Amen for powerful women.
Loved her speech and how she handled the media. I may not agree with everything she stands for but sure do agree with a lot of it!
Like I said, you're not helping her by stating the fact she wrote it. Talking about being surrounded by the Rove Brigade is the fact that she plays on our fears of terrorists to justify people voting for them. Considering Dems, repubs, Independents and 18 year olds that probably haven't even voted yet died TOGETHER for us, I trust Obama and Biden to keep us safe while building back our relationships w/ other countries. Our arrogance is why we had to go it alone in Iraq.
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Re: jimbo99 – she didn’t say a word about the state of the economy, people losing jobs, homes, banks closing etc., Parades her Pregnant daughter and her boyfriend around like the GOP is now the poster people for teen pregnancy. The GOP can’t run on anything else, so they decided to bring out a very shrill woman to try and make this election about abortion and patriotisim. But they failed, alas she didn’t wear a FLAG PIN!
Re: Minx – Thanks Minx…i do respect you and enjoy your debating –most of the time ; ) — I appreciate your coming in to me like that.
WHAT YOU FORGOT TO ADD WAS THAT SARAH PALIN'S SPEECH WAS BROADCASTED ON FEWER CHANNELS THAN BARACK OBAMA'S. SHE WAS ONLY BROADCAST ON 6 CHANNELS AS OPPOSED TO HIS 10. So the fact that her number was only a million or so under Barack's make one wonder what her number would have been if she had been given the same amount of coverage?
Perez do not be afraid of her speech, you don't have to "explain it". What are the "factual inaccuracies"?- The amazing thing about this Palin's phenomenom is that the press trashed this women with GUSTO, but she went on stage and , with her charmed, destroyed Obama's myth.- Great, great job!
She is a star, a beautiful woman and a pitbull with lipstick….What a wonderful surprise….I feel sorry for the democratic party.
Her speech wasn't filled with inaccuracies, you KOS shill. You've tried to lie about her in every post you make, smear her AND her daughter, and now you put that crap out. Anyone with half a brain can look up all that stuff without being manipulated by the KOS or YOU. I watched every second of the Dems convention- it's POLITICS and they said outrageous things that were not true because it is POLITICS. Dems are saying stuff TODAY that isn't true. the KOS must be paying you ALOT of money for all this, which by the way, is all politics, and you are going to lose a lot of fans. It isn't OUR fault your party picked Obama about 12 years before his time. If you'd put him as VP, you MIGHT have won and in 12 years he'd get experience. HE IS NOT READY because he hasn't even led a cub scout troop, let alone a business or city or state or country OR even a PTA.
Re: liz222 – Opps…sorry…getting carried away. I'm taking a break.
Re: liz222 – 4"47th smallest state"???????? Alaska is the largest state in the union, and Palin has made tremendous positive changes up here. She sold the State's luxury jet, fired the chef (she can cook her own food), brokered a natural gas pipeline (which will employ people from all over the USA), etc etc etc. Get your facts straight before you open your mouth.
Re: liz222 –
No doubt the person you are addressing still believes Hussein had EVERYTHING to do with 9/11. Don't get to heated, it's no fun fighting with truly stupid people.
Re: Ms. Sugar Walls –
Hi Darling!
When they panned around the convention last night as the masses aplauded did you notice something missing. You could count black america on 1 hand. The speakers were all white and the delegates 98% white. Iowa is tired of that. The rest of america is tired of that. Barack is rapidly unifying the masses while McCain is unifying the GOOD OLE BOYS as evidenced by the Old White guys speaking last night.
Lets me say that I still think it is a bad example that her daughter is preggers. Also Sarita's handlers should have told baby daddy Levy to get rid of his gum before he went on stage. Other than that bitch wore it out. There is no doubt that this woman can handle speeches. She looked like a natural and was completely in her element. She came off as a pretty polished politician who has been doing it for years. She might have white trash roots but the bitch can pull it off and the majority of people identify with her. She got away with cheap shots at Obama which would have sounded ridiculous coming from a male politician and she injected a lot of humor. Even my boyfriend who doesn't like her laughed at her comment about the "columns" will be taken back to some studio lot. The bitch pulled it off and gave everyone exactly what they wanted to hear. Let's see if she can keep it up with all of the attacks that will come her way. GO SARITA!!! MCCAIN PALIN 08
Re: Oyes – We all have "family baggage." If that precluded people from public office, no one would be able to run.
Re: vamonticello –
Do you need help with facts?…With the rating of 6 of the top cable news, this are the results. 37.2 million watch her last night, just short of Obama 38.3 million. She scored higher ratings thatn Hillary Clinton and in some cases, more than Obama.
And this is without a Greek Themple and 85 thousands adoring fans…..
BTW one of her policies didn't work and it has affected her family…..and that is SEX EDUCATION. Palin believes that schools should not have sex education and now look her daughter is going to have a Bastard child.
And Palin is a pro life supporter, which she also believes that when a woman is raped she should not have the choice to keep or abort the fetus.
She also believes that the Iraq war is a holy war, what a retard. Smart Americans and the rest of the world all know that the Bush admin illegally attached Iraq for their Oil.
Oh one more thing what is the Maccain and Palin going to "shake up" in the White House???? I think she should say what are they going to "Fuck up" We all know the Repubs do that best
Re: liz222 –
Keep trashing her…The more you do, the angry we'll get.
Re: liz222 – THe purpose of Palin's speech was to introduce her to the country, not to explain policy, etc. That's McCain's job.
Re: liz222 – He did go to an elite Muslim school- their description, not mine. they taught Muslim doctrine there. He went to an elite hawaiian prep school. Then eventually on to the ivy league. All the while insisting on a black identity rather than a biracial one. Teen agers do community service- no one scoffed at that. It's just something anyone- if not almost everyone who is civic minded- does. All those people saying Christians are too judgemental need to look at Obama- his church was one of the most judgemental I've ever seen. This is politics. the GOP didn't mock community service- they just don't see it as a qualification for being president.
Everyone likes to look at a trainwreck, it makes them feel glad that it isn't them
It's no secret women are more popular than men.
I thought it was the frickin' POPE
when McStain came out last night!
Re: Leona$ Gho$t – hey honey? just schooling some people
Re: xxcaiti – Yep, we Alaskans know EXACTLY who Palin is, and we're not thrilled she's leaving us for the VP position. We finally have a great leader, and she's gone.
SHE IS A POWER BOMB. IRAN WON'T FUK WITH HER. SHE SHOWS SO MUCH STRENGTH AND THAT FAMILY OF HERS, LUCKY HER.
Re: Leona$ Gho$t – That's disgusting and untrue. Feel better now?
well Perez It was on EVERY MAJOR TV STATION..wasn't like you could get away with not watching. FUNNY THINGS IS..I dont remember the DNC convention being on every MAJOR TV STATION. anywho. I watched for the simple reason I wanted to know who the fuck was this woman who no one knew but the eskmoos in Alaska. I especially found disgusting how PLAIN brought her new born son who is a sick child to be PASS AROUND like a loaf of stale bread. Didnt she think that the noise level might NOT be a good thing for her baby.?? all them people touching him. apart from that I thought the speech lacked , she only read it all from a telepromoter, any idiot can do that. and the attacks on Barack were cheap. especially when the truth was no were at the convention..Only the rednecks/richhhh understood that babble …McBush is another idiot Oh let me not forget GUILIANI between him and plain jane i couldnt figure out which of the 2 was the bigger Idiot
Re: Nashvillian –
Great, great comment. It's not about his inexperience, it's about his love for radical's muzlim and his hater for Whites. It's about his full name: 3 muzlims names. Barack-Hussein-Obama.
Get off her Perez! She had TWO exaggerated facts. The thing about the bridge is TRUE.
Re: Ms. Sugar Walls –
HONEY, DON'T WORRY SHE'S SAVING THE ECONOMY FOR THE DEBATE. OBAMA WILL CHOCK UP AGAINST HER. HELL, HE WOULDN'T EVEN DEBATE HILARY, REMEMBER? OBAMA IS AFRAID OF A GIRL, LOL.
Good grief…that is scary. Please don't bite me…
Re: buck – lololol that is too funny, Obama the Presbyterian vs. McCain the senile psycho and Sarah Palin the secessionist wack-job far-right extremist hypocrite. If it wasn't my country, and innocent people wouldn't die because of it, I'd say just elect the two nutty ones just so we can sit back and watch teh crazee.
Re: State ziti – face it shitturd..he isn't muslim
Re: Ms. Sugar Walls –
The reason why there were not a lot of blacks in the audience is because only the deomcrats promise more well-fare, universal health care and additional handouts. Most of the black community play the victim and want to be taken care of. Read Bill Cosby's new book "Come on People". I am a black american and I truly am disgusted by my own race. This campaign has ressurected racism in its raw form and it didnt come from Whitey.
That lady looks like Karen Walker from Will & Grace!!!!!!
Re: PoisonBitchyIvy – do you mean choke?
Well. I think it's safe to say the 36 Republican delegates who are non-white just left the Party.
Which probably makes them "uppity". According to conservative leaders.
…and be warned that *this* website is filled with factual inaccuracies, every single day. Oh give me a break, Perez. One thing that cannot be denied. A first term, **junior** senator with only grass roots level experience is absolutely not qualified to govern the USA. Get serious.