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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I'm very angry this morning, because Sarah Palin's speech last night prompted me to give up more of my hard earned dollars...to support the Obama campaign. Actually, the one-two punch of arrogant cynicism from Giuliani and Palen really did it for me. More than anything else, where do they get off criticizing community organizers? I suppose taking a low-paying job to help out-of-work steelworkers is somehow trivial compared to using your also-ran beauty pageant status as a springboard to a part-time sportscaster gig, but, hey, we can't all take the high road.
The Republican base isn't the only one that's fired up this morning.
She was the only one he could find that was shorter than himself. Did anyone actually watch how they interacted on the stage last night? She can't stand him.
Sorry, but you really should get the facts on Palin's performance and her blatant lies.
Too numerous to list here, but the info is available in a AP news article published today.
So the educated, non-Wasilla, cosmopolitan take on Palin's speech is: "Waaaaaah! Sarah hit me! I'm telling!"
I'm afraid y'all gonna have to turn in your MacBooks right now.
According to the Times yesterday, it is "unclear" which books she attempted to ban:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html
Mary Ellen Emmons, the town librarian at the time, has so far declined to elaborate on the episode.
Did you get your name from the Richard Thomson song, Vincent '52?
Best motorcycle song. Ever.
Thank you. :)
Shapiro writes: mayor of good ol' Wassila, Alaska.
It's WASILLA.
Or, did you spell it incorrectlty (more than once) as a clever put-down?
When I first heard McCan't had chosen the governor of Alaska, before I knew what sex he was, I thought "is the GOP really that desperate?" And as Mdm. Hockey Stick has emerged into the spotlight I realize "yes--that desperate and even more."
This choice is a GOP disaster in several key respects. First off, it is a thumb-in-the-nose for all those East of the Mississippi. The GOP, the party of power, wasn't able to find a single politician able to meet the qualifications of Mdm. Hockey Stick, namely:
1. Pro-Life (whatever the heck that is)
2. Pro-Gun
3. Pro-Oil
4. Nice rack
Clearly then, this is a party bankrupt of depth or even the pretense of qualifications. To gauge the magnitude of the disaster--find out how she plays in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Indiana.
As Peggy Noonan said yesterday: Political Bullshit
Her record in Alaska speaks really to a single qualification: A take-no-prisoners attitude to government and the inability to build consensus.
Biden needs to draw out the pit-bull, let her savage and insult, then destroy her on anything that people really care about. Do it in a calm and respectful voice, but with absolutely no mercy.
Cheers
"it is impossible to imagine her browbeating CIA analysts to concoct new rationales for invading Iraq. "
Oh yeah? that's precisely the type of bully she appears to be. Vindictive and ruthless. Sounds like a perfect successor to Cheney.
BTW, anyone out there who can't see that when McCain dies or retires for health reasons, she becomes the next Bush? An intellectual mediocrity who will be have a strong VP appointed to 'help' her... maybe even Cheney again.
Indeed, my username comes from the song. And I am a redhead, though I don't wear leather.
I, Sarah Pailin, am a neandertahl book burning, hypocritical freak.
I adore the possibility that God will whisper in MY ear (no one else's. mine) that I need to press the red button to end this world and to bring about his Son's PROMISED return. I feel so special.
Oh, and you all suck because I am prettier.
thank you.
-"I'm sorry that Barack Obama doesn't feel that her hometown isn't cosmopolitan enough," said Giuliani, whose life is not exactly a testament to small-town values.-
I did not watch Giuliani's speech because I do not feel it is a good idea to listen to psychopaths, so for that same reason I've not been watching the RNC and I feel great about it. The quote above attributed to Giuliani doesn't make any sense and I wonder if anyone has noticed yet. I guess that the line is supposed to read "I'm sorry that Barack Obama doesn't feel her hometown is cosmopolitan enough." So I'm wondering is this a typo on Mr. Shapiro's part, has Mr. Shapiro misquoted Giuliani or did Giuliani actually make the nonsensical statement as Mr. Shapiro quotes it herein.
If any one knows about this please comment.
Someone actually called Palin a tramp in an earlier posting. I automatically stop reading when I see something like that and dismiss the persons views out of hand. Oh, same goes for the use of the word Nazi as a descriptive term for anyone who is not literally commiting genocide.
but only wounds the moose. Doesn't kill it. The moose doesn't run away but turns and charges the shooter. Trying to reload and fire in time to avoid the angry moose the shooter is too slow. 2000 pound of moosemeat slams into the panicked hunter.
The moral of the story is that when you shoot, shoot to kill.
Palin failed at this last night.
The moose turned towards the shooter ....
My wife and I watched the speech last night, as far as I know, she has never voted Republican for any office.
I've worked at some level on every Presidential campaign for Democrats since 1984 (except for 1988, I was on a local campaign).
She turned to me and said, "We've just lost."
Why, because despite what people are hoping here, the speech did exactly what it needed to do, and since I like lists, I'll make one.
1) Highlighted difference between the two camps in a way unfavorable to the Democrats. The line, "Being a small town mayor is a bit like being a 'community organizer' except you have actual responsibilities" is devastating. It doesn't degenerate community service, it juxtaposes that it is not important for national office than being a mayor. Obama inadvertently brought this on by comparing his running his campaign to Palin being a mayor, instead of Palin being a Governor. Let's be honest, people mocked Palin's time as a city council-member and mayor as being irrelevant to office, then these same people try to defend community organizer. It's a losing argument.
2) Invited comparisons to skills between the top of the ticket and the bottom of the ticket. Most critics of Palin's speech are acting as if she is running for President and Obama is not. People are writing, "Well, anyone can read off a teleprompter" which is EXACTLY what critics have been saying about Obama. Both deliver effective speeches, and attacking her for that ability, just reinforces that Obama doesn't have much else going for him.
Saying "Palin is too inexperienced to be a heart-beat away from the Presidency" makes people openly question the experience of whose will 100% be president if elected, not maybe or a heartbeat away.
3) Appealed to middle America, where elections are won. Republicans won't win the major cities, they never do in national elections. They run up the score in rural areas. Palin is middle America, and she will connect with middle America. Making fun of the very people needed to win elections is not a winning strategy, yet, you constantly encounter this "strategy" on Democratic leaning sites.
4) Listed actual accomplishments and used humor. The selling of the Governor's private plane on E-Bay was brilliant, it feed the conservative base with eliminating wasteful spending, it feed into the middle American about not being pretentious and doing what many people do when selling unneeded items, E-Bay it.
5) It attacked Obama while mentioning his name all of ONCE. It allowed listener to fill in the blanks. The line, "Some people used change to promote their careers and others, like John McCain use their careers to promote change" doesn't mention Obama at all, yet EVERYONE knew who she walking talking about, so it waters the seed that Obama is just using change to get elected. Then when listeners try to mentally rebut this, they can't come up with what real change Obama has implemented.
Was the speech going to win over large numbers of hard core Democrats? No, of course not, but it galvanized the base, and spoke directly to those undecided.
Calling Palin names and trying to dismiss her based on her gender, or whining about the fairness of it all doesn't win elections, nor will praying that somehow Biden destroys her in a debate.
Palin is a game changer in the election, and Democrats had better start preparing.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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