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and Palin is, if anything, even less educated and qualified than Bush was for the job. Bush had at least a nodding acquaintance with literate persons at Yale and Harvard. Sarah bounced around between 5 schools in 6 years before getting a degree in broadcast journalism aka Smile Perty and Read the TelePrompter.
Not to mention she belonged to a fringe branch of the Assemblies of God that makes Bush's evangelical Methodism mainstream by comparison.
Personally, I would vote for whatever candidate would be first to stand up and say There ain't no fucking God, can we just get on with it??
This uneducated harpy is clearly NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME.
who can blame this clueless ditz for not knowing shit from apple butter?
The guy on the top of the ticket thinks Spain is part of Mexico, the President can fire the head of the SEC, and that we should still be in Vietnam.
Sarah believes cavemen road dinosaurs, gays are bad and that she's the Queen of the Frickin' May.
Even Faux News' Chris Wallace saw thru Paulson's bullshit:
WALLACE: We've got a couple of more minutes, and I want to ask you a couple of questions. When you were last here in March, the Fed had just bailed out Bear Stearns, a company that ended up being sold and no longer exists, and I asked you the following question. Take a look.WALLACE: Are more Wall Street firms in danger, at risk, of going under?
PAULSON: Chris, I've got great confidence in our financial market, our financial institutions. Our markets are resilient. They're flexible. Our institutions, our banks and investment banks, are strong.
WALLACE: Mr. Secretary, weren't you and other government officials too optimistic about the situation? And if you had acted sooner, could we have avoided a $1 trillion bailout?
PAULSON: Well, Chris, I'm not sure what we could have done sooner. We're dealing with a situation that people have said to me, and I agree with, in terms of the run-up in real estate prices and the correction — you know, a once-in-a-50-year kind of a situation here.
Hello, Hank, you fucking wanker, perhaps you could have REGULATED the financial markets. Perhaps you could have done something about the sub-prime loans. Perhaps you could have done your goddam job as Secretary of the Treasury, instead of merely acting as another conduit to shovel massive amounts of $$$$$ from the middle class to the greedy assclowns that caused this problem.
And the nastiest part of this, the part that lets you know we're gonna get fucked without so much as a kiss . . . is now the same idiots who aren't sure what they could have done . . . have just asked us all to loan them ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!!
And they still don't know how this happened, and they don't know what they could have done to stop it, and let's be honest - just this once - they do not have CLUE ONE about how to prevent it from happening again with OUR TRILLION DOLLARS.
Sweet Jesus, gimme a friggin' XANAX!!!
The way I understand it, the Plan now is for the government to give a Trillion Dollars ($1,000,000,000,000.00, or about $2,300 per American) to Wall Street for a bunch of toxic assets, and the taxpayers will have to pay back the loan on behalf of the Wall Street firms if the assets don't prove to be worth shit. The rationale is we need to make $$$ available for borrowers so as to NOT have the Wheels of Commerce grind to a halt.
So here's the better idea part: Have the government loan $2,300 to each and every American if they will put the money into a loan fund designed to make reasonable interest rate investment $$ available. Each American will still owe $2,300 per capita, but at least this way WE GET SOMETHING FOR OUR $$$TRILLION.
And the Wall Street firms can go belly up; who cares? The investment $$ are still available for qualified lenders.
in which a rival race driver, anxious to foment trouble with Elvis, told him:
You're just like your seatcovers . . . YELLOW!!!
What're ya gonna do when Putin calls ya, John, tell him you've got a sprained ankle???
Pathetic Elephantboy, nothing McCain can say or do at this point, save possibly coming out and admitting a gay love triangle involving him, Phil Gramm and Lieberman is going to make any fucking headlines anywhere.
If McCain don't show for the debate on Friday night . . . you can put the BBQ fork in him . . . cause he will be DONE.
If you heard Nixon v. Kennedy on the radio, you might've thought Nixon won. On the TV, however, when JFK was calm, cool and collected, and Nixon was a sweating dufus, Kennedy creamed him.
Same deal last night . . . McCain looked like Grqampa Simpson ranting at the clouds and telling the kids to get the hell outa his pachysandra.
The irony was exquisite, in the 1860 census for Mississippi, John McCain great-great-grampa owned 62 slaves. And in full view of the world at Ole Miss Obama kicked McCain's wrinkled white ass to the curb.
Put a fork in McCain . . . he's done.
The folks who couldn't count their fucking votes are Boehner and Blunt.
Do his advisors really think this kindygarten crap is going to offset the Palin albatross and his image as the World's Most Angry Old Man?????
And if the McCain death spiral continues, it could even get worse than that for Grampa Simpson.
then, yeah, Palin is likeable.
Personally, I think she's a fucking dangerous idiot with borderline personality disorder and delusions of competence.