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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Say it with me kids, over and over. Sarah Palin got up on stage tonight and looked straight into the camera and lied. Several times. She didn't embellish, or exaggerate, or use hyperbole. She lied. And we cannot let get away with it.
She is a liar.
This year the universal Republican tactic of getting the whole gang together on the playground and laughing at whomever they want to humiliate has finally become grating beyond measure. Compared to the DNC this was like watching 7-graders. They don't actually have any substantive points so they just fall back on slogans and playground jeering in hopes it will convince the fence sitters to join in.
After these last 8 years Americans are finally seeing through these Rovian antics and the result is that Republicans look like idiots as they carry on. The whole show is laughable. Old Boy Oil Thugs cheer as Palin goes on with how she is all about taking their money and giving it back to the people. The whole Reform schtick being done by entrenched moneyed power-brokers is Theatre of the Absurd.
As has been pointed out, when McCain came out the whole vibe changed. Instead of a powerhouse finale it becomes an embarrassing clench as the crowd goes from cheering to hoping Grampa doesn't soil himself in front of company. The first time he and Obama take the same stage the show's over.
Put a fork in it.
Likening her to Dick Cheney in lipstick is forever seared into my brain... I will never be the same.
Like others have pointed out, she has already graduated from the Bush School of Staff Management and has proven to be a top protege. Max Blumenthal of the Nation said on Democracy Now that the Repubs expect her to parallel Cheney by running the domestic agenda behind the scenes (as opposed to foreign policy like Cheney). She will continue Bush's tactic of forcing agencies to promote the conservative agenda.
The McCain camp has adopted the message of change which means Obama is controlling the conversation. Much of this convention, particularly tonight, centered on John McCain's "maverick" status and the introduction of his spunky sidekick and their combined passion for fighting corruption - even within their own party.
The problem for them is that the vast majority of the corruption is within their own party. The largest cesspool of corruption is the administration, which John McCain has sided with more than 90% of the time. Once the administration is gone, fighting corruption is no longer the priority. We needed Senator McCain to stand up to the administration more than he actually did. It's over.
With the departure of this administration we will need to rebuild the economy, explore new sources of energy, provide affordable access to health care, maintain our technology leadership role, take care of our returning military, improve our education system - and that only represents a start.
McCain and Palin are applying for jobs that no longer exist. At not even a week out and awaiting McCain's acceptance speech, the ticket already feels stale.
You two rock!
Although you are being kind by saying seven-yr olds, you get the point across clearly. These grey and blue haired men and women are comporting themselves like children, mean spirited, unsupervised, selfish, and vindictive.
Barack said it succinctly: Enough!
Mark 4:39 . . . Be still.
Number Six: Of course she lied. There is a quite a legacy in the RNC for this. Honed to perfection with W and Cheney, et al.
The real fun begins on that first Tuesday in November. We will see who is laughing the next day.
No worries. First and foremost, neither McCain nor that pitpull with the shitty hairstyle will get elected. Forget the conjecturing and what ifs. You can't control what you don't control in the first place. Busy yourself getting Obama-Biden in the White House and leave Mrs. Palin for the trashmen to pickup on November 5th. Believe me: you will fill so much better!
Mr. Shapiro, you and all the pundits love to give us this endless line that VPs don't matter on a ticket...Dick Cheney changed all that...we are on to a new era...wake up and put down your Washington insider punditry routine...the rest of the nation neither believes what you are saying or cares.
This lady is gross
I just want to say that Sarah Palin has the kind of hard, closed face and erotically null "beauty" of one of those creepy "dirty housewife" posters on amateur porn sites. She also seems full of a certain kind of stone-cold ruthlessness and resentment particular to certain women.
Someone has some unresolved issues to attend to...in fact, I notice a lot of supposed enlightened Obama fans who, since the primaries, spout the most inane sexist tripe I have ever heard...they feel free to spout this verbal diahhrea unabashedly, all the while condemning and attacking anyone who dares criticize Obama as a racist.
is anyone else buyign what she's selling? I highly doubt it. I think Palin should enjoy her night. She's in for a brutal next two months.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw the following things:
-> The former mayor of New York City using "cosmopolitan" as a pejorative
-> Republicans talking up a war most people don't like and most of the rest couldn't care less about
-> Chants of "zero, zero, zero" from Republicans, apparently digging Obama on his meteoric rise in politics (and say what you want about him, he earned it) and historic achievement. This after Democrats went out of their way to pay respect to McCain's sacrifice and public career and Obama personally defended Palin's credentials and boundaries.
-> Teen pregnancy being exalted and a good education mocked by the party that used to pride itself on values
-> Community service being demeaned in the most cruel and base way imaginable. As a young person who has spent years doing community service, I was saddened and repulsed.
-> A VP candidate promising to be "a friend to families with special needs children" while her own special-needs baby was handed off to a seven-year-old (and no, the father didn't step up to hold the baby)
-> Civil rights--a proud American tradition--being turned into nothing more into a nasty laugh line by a major party candidate. I bet McCain's captors never "read him his rights" either.
-> A nineteen-year-old future soldier identified to the world as the child of a prominent political figure. I didn't appreciate that when Biden did it either.
-> Hockey moms being called pit bulls with lipstick. That stuff may play in Peoria, but my mother thought it was the most sexist remark she'd ever heard from a national party candidate.
-> Republicans somehow taking up the mantle for "real change" after their party has been in power for 6 of the last 8 years and held the presidency all that time. Better late than never, I guess. Not to mention how they can't figure out whether they want to be moderate reformers (go unions!) or red-meat Republicans. A totally conflicted message.
This was jaw-dropping, and not in a good way. I was for Obama all along, but my parents are moderate Republicans. My mom leaned Obama, my dad was undecided. Mrs. Palin's speech, and the creepy, borderline-schizophrenic tone of the Republican convention, have driven them into the Obama camp for good--and doubled my commitment. We live in a swing state.
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