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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I can't tell...
Salon has become an embarrassing playground to demonize Sarah Palin and anything she does or stands for. Where is this comprehensive breakdown of a person's character for the democrats, whenever they do something "controversial" or "different"? Seems, all we have are author's such as David Talbot, who apparently has nothing better to do than to try and shed as negative a light on Palin or McCain as possible while completely ignoring their political opponents... hypocritical? of course!
"David, in what possible way do you think Salon's Palin obsession helps Obama?"
It is NOT the obligation of David Talbot and Salon's editors to try to deduce whether articles about Sarah Palin help or hurt Barack Obama, John McCain, or Palin herself.
It IS the obligation of ALL reporters to find out RELEVANT information about Palin, Biden, Obama, McCain, and others whose decisionmaking might impact this nation.
I agree that Salon should also have detailed articles about the public service histories of others besides Palin. I'm not sure that Salon hasn't done that.
You can also argue that probing Palin is more crucial because her record is much more of a blank slate to voters. You can also argue that all sorts of circulation and viewership numbers demonstrate that Americans are more interested in Palin so articles about her are more valuable to readers.
In any case, I appreciate Salon's investigation of Palin. I find it interesting and important -- particularly the overwhelming evidence that many, if not most, of her erstwhile political allies despise her.
To sum it up, information good, propaganda bad.
Shalom,
ZWrite
The Obamessiah has thrown over his pastor of 20 years, his founding political patron and, in his first run for office, the woman that ushered him in to elected politics. He went so far as to file suit against her being able to run.
Sarah Palin wins a race against a fellow Republican and Salon is horrified?
This is laughable even for an opinion magazine!
McCain/Palin 2008
McCain/Palin 2012
Palin/Romney 2016
Palin/Romney 2020
I hope all of you at Salon have a heart attack for the next 16 years.
Thank you
There was evangelical fervor sweeping the lower Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
Knox Bronson, I keep hearing anti-Republican/Conservatives saying things like "God help us if..." Exactly what God are you referring to, and "if...[such and such happens]", why did God allow for it to happen?? If McCain/Palin make it to the whitehouse, isn't that suggesting God allowed this to happen for a reason? Just curious what kind of logic you (and others like you) are using...
It is important that these facts be reported. The GOP is trying to reinvent Sarah Palin, as they have with Bush and Cheney. Even if Salon readers have their minds made up, not everyone does. People should know who the potential next V-P, and possibly president, of the US is.
God doesn't "make" things happen. That is why we have free will.
I you predictions are right there will be a mass exodus of bright, educated wealthy people leaving the US. You will be left with undereducated religious fanatics.
It doesn't matter how well-educated the candidates are if the majority aren't going to vote for them.
Kerry is just the latest case in point.
What the anti-Palin faction just don't get is that a lot of her support comes from the rejection of the unknown in Obama and the consolation of the familiar in her. And as a result of the very many sorts of division Obama has become iconic of. He has not managed to unite anything other than his opposition. Which is exactly why Karl Rove made4 very sure he was the candiate on the ballot.
How else could you possible get an GOP candidate in the White House after 8 Bush years other than to find an even more unelectable Democrat? After eliminating any viable candidates.
What a coincidence that this is just what has happened, isn't it.
God, how can you possibly be so gullible.
And there may be an element of sanity on this, oddly enough.
All the Obamabots seem to think Inauguration Day would mean Happily Ever After while the problems would just going to be beginning.
Obama is the least team player of any candidate in memory except for George Bush. And Richard Nixon.
Put Obama's personality before Congress and Congress will simply hand him four years of being treated like a marshmallow at a campfire.
He has no record at all, at any time, of working well with others. How many of his "community organizing" compatriots have you heard praising what it was like to work with him? How many of ANYONE who has worked with him has said anything good about the experience? Consider that, why don't you?
We aren't giving the power to Palin. We are going to hand it, like it or not, to McCain. At least we have the consolation that he has some idea of what he is doing some of the time.
McCain was in Congress literally before Obama was old enough to vote. If you want things to get done somehow, it's going to have to get through Congress at some point.
The Senate will have no qualms about telling Obama which ear he can stick it into if he tried giving them just an average dose of his arrogant rhetoric-R-us approach.We need someone who knows how to get it done. Not someone who can cant about why we should and not do anything other than be self-serving about it.
Moot point. In order for Obama to do that, he'd have to win. In order to win he'd have to have a majority of voters behind him.
And there are just too many reasons why he doesn't. And you all know it. Or you've never set foot in a small-town cafe.
Obama's urban base vanishes proportionally to city limits.
Palin means so utterly little other than to reassure small-town America. She is their mirror reflection against some guy even whose name represents everything they are against.
Especially now that Wall Street is imploding, Biden means nothing to them, people who never read or listen to the news, other than the status quo propping up an inexperienced too obviously narcissisticly ambitious baby politician.
And you are all wasting so much time tying Palin into the bow on the package while therest of us are trying to figure out how to get through this scarily expensive winter as our assets devalue around us.
-gala1
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"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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