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You have a party (Republicans) that, since 1980, has been elected on the premise that government is the problem.
Is it any wonder, then, that when people like that infect government offices, only crap policies are going to come out?
In the 2006 gubernatorial primate debates, her opponents basically did her job for her. The would bicker with each other and Palin would stay above-the-fray chiming in occasionally.
She will have no such advantage this time around.
"The new doctrine will be laid out by President Bush's National Security Council as part of the administration's first "National Security Strategy" being drafted for release by early this fall [2002], senior officials said. "
The Bush Doctrine of preemption came out just before the Iraq War, America's latest preemptive war. What a coincidence!
Is it a hate crime if a black person kills another black person?
No!
What does your theory of gender say about that?
More like loserloser.
"I and many others had no idea what Gibson meant by Bush Doctrine (I thought he meant the axis of evil; lots of other informed guesses have been propounded)."
Here, let me help you
Bush Developing Military Policy Of Striking First
New Doctrine Addresses Terrorism
By Thomas E. Ricks and Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 10, 2002; Page A01
" The Bush administration is developing a new strategic doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The new doctrine will be laid out by President Bush's National Security Council as part of the administration's first "National Security Strategy" being drafted for release by early this fall, senior officials said. "
"...says to me she doesn't deserve to call herself one."
I hope you're joking.
'fellow' women? With people like Sarah Palin, you're either with her or against her. She has demonstrated again and again that if you cross her, you pay the price.
And since when is there a 'fellowship' of women?
Do you walk around greeting other women with some secret handshake? "'sup my bitch?," "bitches holla!"
No!
And why does she call herself a women, because she is one. Or do you have to have a minor in women's studies from Wells College to call yourself one?
That's all this myspace/facebook bullshit is all about.
That's why you use an alias, lady. I know that defeats the purpose of "networking", but hey, ever heard of business cards.
I've heard from third parties that there are videos of teenage girls jerking off on their webcams on the internets.
I wonder what their job interviews are going to be like when they're 25.
Have I seen you from somewhere?
It's amazing how little people value their anonymity now-a-days.
And I am a computer geek, to boot. But that only means I am well aware of their consequences.
NO facebook myspace friendster for me thank you. If I want friends I go to the nearest bar.
At the moment McCain announced his VP I was like whaaattt?
Palin who?
And then she has conservatives eating out of her hands, she's the most popular person in America, and no one seems to be asking her any questions.
For a whole week after the republican convention it was all Sarah, all the time. She was cultivating a cult of personality like no one other than Bush himself.
Then my mood changed from incredulousness to slightly panicked. Could this really have been a master stroke by McCain
But the drip drip drip of scandal was slowly accumulating around her. First the pregnant kid, then troopergate, then the librarian, and on its goes on.
Then her interview with Charlie Gibson came along.
Plus the Couric interview only confirmed Palin's incompetence. And I have recently felt relief that my original judgment had been correct, and after Barack's superb debate performance and his ascendance in the polls am no longer worried.
OP, you should not be either. Let Sarah Palin go!
For it would seem that the Palin pick was not McCain's Master Stroke, but merely a stroke :-)
Here is this lady? (the OP) who works at a not-for-profit community center, no doubt a die-hard progressive vegan animal rights activist environmentalist liberal (she complains about the cleaning solutions), coming face-to-face with what any serious-minded person would acknowledge is the fruit of the progressive movement (namely mentally handicapped people gainfully employed) and what is her reaction, disgust!
But it's not just a simple opposition to their employment, with her. No, it goes further than that.
It is a cognitive dissonance between the work that she (supposedly) wants to do and its outcome.
Let's look at it this way.
Let's say the OP got her way and they were fired. What would that look like?
Two mentally handicapped individuals fired for doing their jobs from a not-for-profit community center. It would be inexcusable, no doubt a few other people would lose their jobs, and at a minimum their funding would go down.
What world does this lady live in?
I guess to her being a progressive means wearing a hemp shirt, or something. "But I buy organic," she says to herself. Or maybe she watched "Captain Planet" one too many times as a child, and never really gave though as to what it means to be a progressive.
Lady, what's wrong with you. If you don't want "special" people cleaning your desk, go work at a corporate law firm. No r-tards there, am I right?
I hear that they're working on the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary as we speak.