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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
How can you think fast
With your head buried up your ass?
Typical biased double standard. Hillary was a co president and you didnt' complain...Rosie Carter attended cabinet meetings and went on solo trips for Jimmeh.............Tipper and Al were a true team.............why don't you think Todd can help Sarah? Oh, he doesn't have an Ivy league education like all the east coast elitists?
Agree with many prior posters. Unless you can differentiate him from, say, Hillary or Nancy Reagan or Rosalyn Carter as first ladies, don't publish this stuff. At the very least, it's unbelievably sexist.
Man, "The Women's Room" sure brings back memories, doesn't it? I started to read that book the day after I was married at 21. I was never so depressed in my life! I attribute the break-up of that (blessedly) brief marriage in large part to that book. My favorite part was the description of the method the main character had of cleaning the house. Scared the living be-Jesus out of me! Never was even tempted to try marriage again until this year at the wonderful age of 50. Not that I was inundated with proposals but there were a few along the way.
Anyway, I see Hootowl snuck back in. Still, without answering my question.
I and the whole nation need to understand what we can about Sarah before voting; and I hope to see her in many situations including the debates and various interviews. But, man, you guys are scared to death of her and it shows.
Todd Palin (or a look alike) is now appearing in an Army commercial seen last night on ESPN. The military brass with their control over our mercenary armed forces and its huge advertising budget, will do whatever it takes to get McCain/Palin elected. Reject the slide toward the military-industrial dictatorship and the republican-led march toward national financial ruin.
The Todd and Sara circus is nothing more than a side-show rerun of Bush/Cheney. They have borrowed the bully Bush administration's refusal to reveal and take responsibility based on an assumed executive privilege.
Elect Obama/Biden.
I don't think most people are "scared" of Palin. I think most people are appalled by Palin.
I second Traveling521's questions. Where, precisely, are we to draw the line between a public official and her spouse? What are the rules governing these kinds of things? (I ask this literally, not merely rhetorically.)
It seems a frequent tactic of the partisan battle to shine a light on questionable activities on one side, while neglecting to mention how common such activities are. Is Todd Palin's evident involvement with his wife's political career prima facie evidence of something sinister?
Out of the innumerable mass of potential criticisms of Sarah Palin, surely something more substantial could be found. Why not a greater focus on Troopergate, for instance? Or her failure to turn over documents? I'd like to see more context--these seem the strongest points of the article, but the author fails to develop them beyond a passing sentence or two.
I'm guessing the present article goes to "management style", but this is just the sort of vague, manipulative language we should strive, as thoughtful citizens, to avoid. Our appraisals should be fair and factual. Likening Palin/Palin to Bush/Cheney may be effective rhetorically, but is it fair to let ourselves be influenced by the mere proximity of words? Can we be satisfied with suggestive similes?
NO this is not sexist!
Bill Clinton was up front when he was first running for president that Hillary Clinton was part of his team. She got a heck of a lot of scrutiny.
As for Nancy and Roselyn, certainly it would have been fair to explore any of their roles in government.
I cannot imagine including my husband in day to day job emails. This is beyond council, discussion or "pillow talk". Considering this woman appears several weeks before the election, and McCain is old and not particularly healthy, it is absolutely necessary to explore anything that affects her thinking process, and quickly.
Next.
"Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."
--JP Morgan
I TOTALLY ENVISION THE ENTIRE BUSH CHENEY CABAL STANDING AT ATTENTION WITH THEIR HANDS OVER THEIR HEARTS AS THIS IS RECITED AT NATIONAL EVENTS. Does McCain have a clue as to what he has sold himself out to?
Anything that put Sarah Palin back in discussion, even negatively at this point, plays into Republican hands.
he's like hillary when she was first dude.
I remember when this "two-for-one" kind of deal was a good thing during the Clinton years.
Are you really comparing Todd Palin to Eleanor Roosevelt? Nice try, but Eleanor wasn't employed by oil companies. It is a conflict of interest. He was not elected and he has no business being there.
Next you will be saying Todd is like Hillary? Oh wait, there it is...
"I couldn't imagine a Democrat (such as Bill Clinton) letting his spouse hang aroung the office, having her involved in "state business" and exerting "unusual influence on her husband's (state and then federal) government." How shocking of Palin; what a tremendous scandal Mike Madden and Salon have uncovered here!
-- Fladad "
So, you are saying that it was alright for Bill Clinton to have Hillary working in the west wing? That's unusual. Most conservatives screamed bloody murder because he allowed her so close to the oval office. Several democrats felt the same.
This smacks of something...what's the word.....ahh, now I remember.....mendacity.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
