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Friday, Nov 6, 2009
"It seems equally implausible that in a McCain-Palin administration, the vice president's office would be an outside-the-law power center running its own foreign policy. Palin is not a traditional vice-presidential nominee, but if elected she is apt to mark a return to a modest conception of the office that had been the butt of jokes for nearly two centuries. "
Do you have anything, besides your own opinion, to back up that statement, whatsoever?
We have no idea who her staff will be. If its a bunch of neocons I have EVERY reason to believe the vp's office will continue to operate exactly as it has. Its allowed many of these failed policies to proceed with no accountability.
I think your assertion is totally niave. Stop listening to what they have to say and start looking at what they are doing. Their behavior is a more accurate predictor - they will say anything to get elected.
Quick -- how many sneering epithets did you hear thrown at McCain at the Democratic convention? How many people there mentioned his name without prefacing their remarks with a statement that they liked and respected the man, and acknowledged his military service? How many chants did you hear of "zero,zero,zero?" When speakers at Denver criticized McCain, they were careful to establish that they were critiquing his policies, his public positions, and the fact that he was wrong about invading Iraq.
Now who uses phrases like this? "snide and obnoxious" "college campuses, the latte counters and the urban centers" "hick and bitter and backward and antediluvian?" The only word in that last litany that Obama used was in the context of a statement that was definitely not an attack on the people he was describing, although the "liberal" media definitely tried to spin it that way.
When Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of a quaint little village in the American heartland, spits out the word "cosmopolitan" in the most contemptuous tone he can manage, a lot of people out there know that he's just come within an inch of calling Obama a "rootless cosmopolitan." (Go look that up. The phrase has a lot of political baggage. It does not refer to a vodka drink without radishes). And although things haven't gotten as thoroughly ugly and demagogic in St. Paul as they did in Houston in '92, the more negative, hostile tone coming out of this convention is quite an unpleasant contrast to the tone of the proceedings in Denver, and I think swing voters will notice that.
"Palin is far less experienced, unless you count her years wielding major executive powers as the mayor of good ol' Wassila, Alaska."
She's the Governor of Alaska and has been for 2 years. More time than obama has actually done anything in the Senate, which has been proven to be little.
I love the new attack line now that she delivered a killer speech. She didn't write it, she's just reading the teleprompter.
She is going to eat Biden's lunch.
Also, I imagine she knows quite a bit about community organizers. Some must have worked for her.
Even though the republicans know nothing about this women, they are already treating her like the second comming of Mary Mother of Jesus. It just shows how a large segment of the American population has lost their minds.
I attribute this to their inability to cognitively smooth* the disparity between reality, and how they think things 'shoud' be.
*Cognitive smoothing: my term for reducing cognitive disonance.
What a novelty to have some truths spoken about the democratic nominee. We all are aware he is a great speaker and is one of our American stories. But is that enough to be president? He has never accomplished anything.Increased taxes will kill our economy actually result in less job growth and opportunity and security!! We need reform not tax increases.The chosen one by the media is not the right one to lead at this time- he cannot make decisions without committee approval because he has no experience. He has never served but had plenty of time to write 2 egocentric books. I completely disagree with the republicans on some issues but I was very proud to see a strong woman. What a transformative moment to see the VP holding her baby -- not someone else's. I have waited a long time for this!
There is electrifying word on the street that tonight John McCain will appear
brandishing an authentic World War II Japanese seppuku sword!
His speech as written is rumored to be brief. Something to the effect of:
"My friends, let's just end this now."
for me to vote for Obama.
George Bush has the lowest approval rating in history and she is loves by the tiny percent of people who think he has been a great president.
Sarah Palin in not "what America wants." She is a huge Bush fan.
The GOP isn't just telling you, they are bragging about it.
People who refer to Palin as a "tramp" are handing her a dozen votes every time they open their mouths. A lot of people, myself included, think that it was Hillary's most vicious attackers who gave her the big win in New Hampshire, mainly because a lot of women were so offended by the sexism of the attacks. And though I'm an Obama supporter, the sight of Chris Matthews with egg on his face the next day gave me immense schadenfreude.
As for Palin's actions just before delivering her baby last March, I warn you all: Step away from the gynecologist's office! Drop that medical chart! You are intruding into an area where you have absolutely no business and less information.
To set the record straight, Palin's water did not break when she was in Houston. She was leaking some amniotic fluid, which had happened to her in her other pregnancies as well, and it doesn't necessarily mean that labor is imminent. The idea that she wanted to "kill" the baby is libelous, possibly in the actionable sense. If she had not wanted to raise a child with Down syndrome she had a legal alternative that would have been completely confidential between her and her doctor. Considering that her colleagues didn't know she was pregnant until quite late in the pregnancy, I doubt anyone would have been the wiser. So give her credit at least for living by her own principles when it comes to abortion.
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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