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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I mean Shawn, you're still pretty good at screeching. But that's about it.
Poll Date Sample McCain (R) Obama (D) Spread
FOX News/Rasmussen 09/14 - 09/14 500 LV 48 48 Tie
SurveyUSA 09/12 - 09/14 732 LV 46 50 Obama +4
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/va/virginia_mccain_vs_obama-551.html
Or do you have another link.
The trend is against McCain shorterm in VA right now. And the Ras poll showing a tie has a smaller sample size.
But as usual, you are more interested in backfitting the data to support your dubious claims than any real analysis.
And Klytus is a funny looking Egyptian dude living in the South. I'm the funny looking white dude living in the elitist NorthEast. Do try to keep it straight. Finally, not everyone agrees with RCP's poll averaging methodology. 538 has a different approach. They show your boy winning at the moment.
No Hoot. No surprise.
Coward.
The Clintons sold themselves as two-for-one. The Eleanor-Franklin Roosevelt example is famous. This year, both presidential candidates put their wives out front to make speeches because the days of the spouse-who-sits-quietly-beside is over. This isn't an instance of Rovian control, where the leader is not the one really leading. I think Palin has amply shown that she does make decisions, often very awful ones, all on her own.
I'm determined to be fair to this woman, and judge her by her actions and her words, on documented evidence. I don't support her. Heck, I don't like her. But I'm not going to ape the Republican smearmeisters.
When I read these attacks on her kids and her church and—from Salon, of all places!—her gender, I xan't remain silent. I don't believe in one set of rules for my side, and another for the side I'm against. I can't be that kind of hypocrite.
I had hoped Salon would return to form once the Obama-Hillary race was over (remember when Salon was willing to criticize any number of Democrats for their response to the war?). Now it seems obvious that that isn't going to happen.
I do.
Palin has been reported to not want the $100,000+job she was given with the oil commission (I may have got that name wrong) as it was a regular job, with regular hours and she became bored after a year (approximate?) and left. In this article she is reported to be incurious and to know little about the workings of Alaska's government and its 1500 employees; evidently she doesn't monitor them, or, presumably, their supervisors.
She also has been reported in many places to have attended five colleges before graduating (from U.Idaho).
Her demonstrated restlessness and inability to 'attend', her lack of curiosity, would seem to rule her out as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. --Wouldn't it?
She seems to be what is known in family therapy circles as 'a runaway', someone who operates in many ways out of bounds and no one stops her or contains her. These people are usually asking to be contained. Their unearned power scares them. But they will go on going on until they are actually and firmly stopped.
Palin's demonstrated and documented (in many places) style of vengeance, going after people who disagree with her (plus having an outwardly 'nice' persona), has gotten her this far. People seem to be afraid of her and with good reason: she has fired many from their jobs for not being loyal to her. She arranges it so everyone in Alaska gets given an extra (on top of their usual yearly oil rebate) $1200-1500 (I have forgotten the exact figure), each man, woman and child. Many people reward her with their vote (and their hopes, no doubt, that this will continue).
Her husband's power-meddling in Alaskan politics is disturbing. The author's final question is a good one.
[At the anti-Palin rally on Sunday, after her speech that morning (see DailyKos.com for photos and description), there were some with signs which proclaimed they had voted for her once but never again. If this keeps up, she will not get voted in for a second term. Thus, her desperate, lying campaigning for another job -- as our Vice President.]
Another final question remains: When Palin was campaigning for governor and people asked her who would mind the children if she became governor, she told them her husband would -- and he publicly agreed. But he now is reported to have gone off snow-mobiling (yecch, incidentally, what a loud insult to nature) and hunting (I think it was; anyway, another of his hobbies, the moment his wife was elected). He is shown holding their new baby a lot during her campaign. -- In addition to allowing the sleeping baby to attend the extremely noisy Republican convention, he even held up the (sleeping!) baby's hand, recently, and waved it to the cameras like a puppet or a doll.
If the father was also at meetings with the mother, who is governor: Who minds the children? Children are ALL our business. Neglect of children cannot be ignored.
Look. Husbands and wives talk. The role of "first spouse" is ambiguous. And, no one really knows what to do when the "first lady" is adude.
Do I think Palin got where she is because of her husband? Nope.
Do I think Todd Palin should be sitting in on meetings? Ummmm .... no. No one elected him to anything.
But on my "Things Wrong With Sarah Palin" list, this doesn't even break the top 10.
Maybe he should change his name to Hillary.
We are now facing the most serious and complicated issues that our country has faced since the great depression.
What do we get? Endless stories about how the "first Dude" may or may not have been places he should not have been. This is important because we are faced with the prospect of a vice president who seems to be walking under a black cloud; a person who seems to have no real sense of what it means to govern.
Judgment, temperament and decency are traits needed to govern well, and are in fact prerequisites to being an effective chief executive. McCain/Palin can't deliver the goods. Every day brings more revelations of incompetence, cronyism and political distortions and lies.
Certainly Sen. Obama is not perfect, but his campaign and running mate trump the "straight talk express". It's amazing to me that the majority of voters don't see through the downright lack of substance that the Republicans are offering this year.
Pay attention - there is a real difference.
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
