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Please stop reporting on this ditzy woman. She is not an icon, she is just a wing nut, obscure governor shot to fame with the help of John McCain. The hideous crazy woman now has the delusion she REALLY is Presidential material. Like, really, really, Presidential! You betcha!
I am so damn sick of these people who hear voices in their head that tell us that God told them that are so damn smart and great they should tell the rest of us what to do. These people are frickin' sick. Let's call them out for what they are.
Don't get me wrong, I know there are good Christians/Muslims/Jews, etc. out there. I am not talking about you. Most of you don't think you are on a mission from God to take over the world.
In a real world, we used to treat people who were on a mission from God to rule everyone else. Palin, like Bush, is a power hungry ego manic who is so sick that when she hears her own voice in her head she thinks it is God. She really believes it, she isn't making this up. She needs treatment, not a chance a the Presidency. Besides that, she is really, really mean. How quickly everyone forgot how hateful this woman was on the campaign trail.
Can't we just let President Obama get in office for a while and quit worrying about the Ice Queen?
It's Barack, not Barak.
And, I agree, can we at least get the new guy sworn in before we start talking about who his next opponents will be?
I am soooooo offended--- by Joe Scarbourgh's dirty mouth and all the filth that he spews forth. Too bad I am not talking about the f-bomb he dropped today.
Isn't her fifteen minutes over?
Can we PLEASE move on?
For the first time, I am really not only ashamed but saddened at my state. While every other part of the country is turning blue, we are actually getting MORE conservative.
Not only did Obama lose every freaking county here, but some sitting Democratic legislators in our State House and Senate were swept out. When the conservatives came out to vote against Obama, they voted against down ticket Democrats as well. It wasn't just Obama, they would have voted against Hillary, too. The Republicans now control our State House and Senate with a lame duck very conservative Democratic governor who will be gone soon, probably to be replaced by a Republican. Expect more news out of Oklahoma about backwards, anti-constitutional legislation.
We lost an outstanding Corporation Commissioner (who had been appointed to the office to fill a term) because he was openly gay. We kept the woman in office who said gays are worst than terrorists. In fact, she ran on a anti-gay agenda while claiming to be such a fine Christian woman--she is married to a Baptist minister. She did her own smear against the Corporation Commissioner to make sure he lost. How twisted can people be to vote for someone like that?
And yes, we reelected that awful Jim Inhofe to the United States Senate. He ran against an extremely talented young man who would have won in a landslide anywhere else.
I am thrilled Obama won. But I did not expect that our state would turn into the worst in the country. How do you live with that? There are great liberal minded people here, but we are obviously becoming a super minority.
Many of us cried Tuesday. We cried tears of shame. Don't ever move here, no matter what they tell you about how cheap it is to live. It isn't worth it to have neighbors who hate you because you had an Obama sign in your yard. Maybe Okies are the salt of the earth, but scratch the surface, and you can find people who hate along with the worst of the hardened religious fanatics anywhere.
I have to be very careful not to become bitter and mean like the so called Christians myself. However, it is difficult not to when you see super fancy mega-churches sporting garish 100 ft tall aluminum crosses and signs on their marquee saying "Vote Pro Life" while they ignore, among other things, the poor people starving in town and the old people wallowing in piss in the state funded nursing homes.
About all I can say is McCain's make up looked good. Wonder how much that cost? Otherwise, he sounded just, well, out of touch.
BTW, what thrift store gets the pricy clothing of Palin? And when do we all get to go shopping there?
The 'donation' of $150K worth of clothing is so lame and so hollow. If our government gives tax deductions for that, surely I can deduct the loss in my 401k.
No, that would make sense. Losing your retirement or the value of your home that cannot be deducted. Sarah Palin's clothing to make her look good CAN be deducted.
The tax system rigged for the wealthy: That is one of the many, many reasons why the Republicans are toast.
And Farnsworth, I realize you were probably being all Stephen Colbert on me, but I have such frayed nerves these days. Being in these uber red areas sometimes makes you very sensitive and protective.