The New Buzz Word Is “Vetted”
Posted by Tom Remington on September 3, 2008
The majority of Americans have probably never used the word vetted before this past week. Now that’s all we hear about. Yesterday and today, all I have read and heard was how John McCain didn’t “properly vet” Governor Sarah Palin before announcing her as a running mate. The American Standard Dictionary defines “vet”: “To examine or appraise expertly.”
The liberally biased, obsessed media are trying for a double whammy! One, they are looking to find anything on Sarah Palin, her husband, her children, any other family members, the dog and you better hope you aren’t a neighbor. Two, they want to paint a picture of McCain as being incapable of properly “vetting” a vice presidential candidate.
This vetting process is interesting. The media evidently feels it is their job to vet the vetted. That’s alright. There certainly is nothing wrong with taking a close look at any candidate for president or vice president. I think dragging in the kids and the cat into the vetting process is going too far.
So, can we now assume that once the obsessed, elite media is finished “vetting” the Palin family, they will then turn their attention back to vetting Barack Obama? We’ve all been waiting! Here’s a guy who has hundreds of unanswered questions of which no media outlet has spent an ounce of energy into trying to get to the truth on.
It took only a matter of hours before our vetting of the vetting vetters discovered that Sarah Palin’s husband once was charged with OUI, yet we’re actually still not 100% sure Obama is even a U.S. citizen.
It also has been brought out, with no details at all, that the Alaska governor was once charged with fishing without a license, yet no media has vetted Obama on his ties to organized crime and terrorism.
How does that old saying go? Something to the effect that you must be doing something right. Enough people are making an awful lot of noise about it.
The vetting process by the media will continue because they know that the more “National Inquirer” kind of crud they can dig up on a candidate they don’t agree with politically, the happier they will feel and the more issues they can sell.
We live in a world of double standards and elitism, where the divide between the snobs and the common people is growing exponentially. I’m a common folk. Always have been and I plan to always remain that way. I know where I came from and where I’m going. Much of the negative attention the Palin family is receiving is because they are probably considered common people by many of the elitists in Washington and in the press.
The press is so out of touch with reality, they run scared when they meet up with someone like the Palins. In short, they don’t like them. They don’t act and play the same as others in their circles do.
Just last night I was thinking about how many times I have sat in a coffee shop or around a campfire with friends and family and made a statement that this country needs a real person in office. Someone who isn’t raised with a silver spoon, someone not raised by the Beltway Bullies and someone who really is, well, just a common folk, completely removed from what we have all come to despise in politics.
Did we ever mean that? I think so but it becomes scary when we begin looking at what this would mean. Think of it for a moment. Picture Sarah Palin, Vice President of the United States. Only a short while ago she was sweating her butt off as a commercial fisherman. Imagine in four or eight years, Ms. Palin sitting in the Oval Office delivering a speech to the nation. You want to talk about change? An egg is an egg. You can fry it, scramble it, poach it or boil it but it’s still an egg. Maybe it’s time to try something that’s not an egg.
Not everyone is going to fall in love with Sarah Palin and that is to be expected. Those not so infatuated should disagree with her on the grounds that she doesn’t agree with you on issues and political ideologue.
Now we should wait and listen. Let’s see if the press will get over their hatred of Palin, complete their digging up of any and every skeleton they can find and then get on with vetting out Barack Obama and Joe Biden. That is their job isn’t it?
Tom Remington
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Barrack Hussein Mohammed Obama should just go out and walk on water and settle this crap today.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
Now, I know what “properly vetted” is all about….it’s if you’re approved by the liberal machine……(according to the liberals) BIG DEAL!
They sure made it sound official, didn’t they? As if “properly vetted” was THE official requirment in running for office?
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I was vetted once. What, with four horses to worm, plus the
cats and dog, that was expensive.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Your tellin me !! I got 16 critters living here, 5 cats, 3 dogs, 1 Iguana, 3 mules, 5 horses, and the sweety is a vet. I been vetted. Those Liberal know nothings need to be vetted, they all need a stiff dose of Constitutional Enlightenment…Heres some, There are no Constitutional qualifications to occupy the Presidency, which is what all the whiner Liberals are moaning about in case John McCain falls off that Banana Peel and loses his grip on life putting this lovely lady into the position of President, So 35 years of age is one and the other requirement is the President must be born in this Republic, which Obama was not, excuse me, the messiah of marxism. John was born in Panama. Of course five to eight years of Constitutional studies, OUR Constitution should have been a requirement, as well as a public schools requirement for all of us Americans, then perhaps we are not in this mess we find our selves in today, as you fellow thinkers and hunters must be seeing first hand the mistakes of teaching Marxism, Socialism, Evolution, and other stupid crap in our schools has put us in a frightful spot. Since George Bush Senior signed that U.N. Charter in 1992 At that Environmental Conference in Rio, this Nation has gone nuts, and a bunch of nuts are trying to ruin our lifestyles and heritage. He signed Agenda 21. Never was Ratified by Congress, as an international treaty either, they just started doing it, this agenda is the root doing this stuff we are fighting against. It is insanity.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Vetting the vetted? Even McCain’s own people only really started to check her out after he picked her. Nobody “vetted” her.
Look, very few people outside Alaska knew anything about Ms. Palin. So the press are asking questions. To inform their readers & viewers. So they can make and informed vote. That’s the press’s job. It’s called news. Get it?
You don’t like the facts that turn up? Too bad. It’s not the press’s fault if facts paint an unflattering picture.
And if they don’t turn up any facts to support your myths, too bad, too.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am
So, Russ, you think you know what “McCains own people” are doing or not doing? That’s a stretch! Makes me wonder just what and why you would believe anything…..
I’ve got a sneeky feeling I know just what kind of “facts” you’re looking for…..and I don’t like ‘em!
And I suppose you think that the press is impartial, and unbias, and fair, and unpolitical? Your naivete’ is showing!
September 10th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Well one things for sure, Obuma got “VETTED” by himself, Barrack logged in 143 days in the Senate, thats 143 actual days working as a “Senator,” while in session. Now Barrack believes he is ready to be Commander in Chief, Leader of the “Free” World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Ronald Reagan. 143 days…that in contrast to McCains 26 years in Congress…..Barrack is a joke. At least McCain knows how the machine operates even if I disagree with him as well, and its funnny about Joe Biden, He voted YES for several things in Congress McCain voted YES on, as well, like this WAR we are in, Biden likes to turn things to glass as well. The News is fake Lad, the Papacy wants a PUPPET in the Oval office, not a stupid Liberal PUPPY, GET IT…
September 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pm