BUS YOUR OWN TRAY
September 2008
August 2008
I'll bet a beer that, before this race is over, Sarah Palin challenges Barack Obama to a game of one-on-one
Any takers?
“Remember — Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.”
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Cindy McCain, explaining why Sarah Palin has all the national security experience she needs. Yes, but in the movie Red Dawn, the Russians invaded Colorado, so hopefully the mayor of Vail will be McCain’s Secretary of Defense.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
“Among the critical undecideds, the Palin pick made only 6 percent more likely to vote for McCain; and it made 31 percent less likely to vote for him. 49 percent said it would have no impact, and 15 percent remained unsure. More to the point: among undecideds, 59 percent said Palin was unready to be president.”
—Andrew Sullivan, summarizing the first Rasmussen poll on Sarah Palin. Almost a third of swing voters think she’s a poor choice. Almost two-thirds think she doesn’t belong in the Oval Office. EPIC. FAIL.
It's not her child →
dailykos.com
Is this really appropriate?
I think it admirable that she would care for her daughter’s down syndrome child — it shows compassion and a devotion to her belief system. However, she deliberately misled her constituents. She lied and lived the lie, publicly. And it appears to be the second such allegation of untruthfulness. Sarah Palin seems very comfortable with dishonesty.
I can understand why she would lie to protect her daughter. I would probably do the same thing. But she had to know that there would be digging, and that this would come out the moment she set foot on the world stage. In that regard, she put her own ambition ahead of her daughter’s privacy. That’s another character defect.
point of comparison
Demi Moore 7 months pregnant:
Sarah Palin 7 months pregnant:
Play
It's not her child →
dailykos.com
cajunboy referred to this yesterday … I thought he was nuts. Do VP candidates generally release medical records during their candidacy? I don’t remember. Not many have been accused of faking a pregnancy.
“The disclosure will expose Russia to accusations that it is annexing land regarded internationally as part of Georgia.”
—Russia annexes South Ossetia. Another illustration of the inherrent problem with “International Law” — the rule of law, even if supported by majority opinion, is a fiction without enforcement. And the major world policeman, the United States, has been left crippled by an injudicious chief who blew the department’s budget and credibility on a single search-and-seizure executed without probable cause. So until the U.S. gets its act together, or some other confederation takes the lead, Russia is going to take what it wants. Way to go, Bushie!
“If it were your decision, and you were putting your country first, would you put an untested small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?”
—David Frum. The full scale of how monumentally bad a decision this was cannot be overstated. Judging by Frum’s assessment, I think there are going to be a lot more Obamacans than we initially suspected.
August 4, 2008: Palin pleased with Obama's energy plan →
64.233.167.104
I mean, did the McCain team do any research on this woman?
Andrew Sullivan: McCain only met her ONCE →
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
“simply unbelievable recklessness”
Play
things older than Sarah Palin: the Zapruder film
Well, finally there’s a candidate for office who can’t remember where they were when Kennedy was shot. BECAUSE SHE WASN’T BORN YET.
things older than Sarah Palin: the Baby Boomers
All of them. Seriously, for whom is this woman a leader? I’m beginning to think McCain has something against those hippie kids.
fun fact about Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Pallin served as mayor before becoming Governor less than two years ago
Its population is roughly 60% of the size of the undergraduate student body of my alma mater. I served in student government — maybe I should be the VP candidate. My constituency was bigger.
Also, if the entire city of Wasilla went to a Dodger game there would be 50,000 empty seats.
EPIC VP FAIL
The first serious female candidate for executive office was just undercut by a younger woman with a fraction of the experience, who will enjoy her candidacy soley because an old white man picked her out of a lineup.
If I were a Hillary supporter, I’d be really pissed off right now.
“It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care; it’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.”
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Listen
“Eye In The Sky” - Alan Parsons Project
Suck it, Tommy Jefferson!!
corollary to my previous etymological indulgence
How can you have “full membership” in a community if someone of your race or gender cannot ascend to its highest level of executive authority?
Upon reflection, I see the importance of Hillary’s tenacity. She probably knew after Texas, if not before, that her candidacy was doomed to failure. But when you’re taking a hammer to The Glass Ceiling, you need as many swings as time will allow. And when you’re hammering it home to your constituents that a woman can become President, that she can break through to full membership in the American community, it doesn’t hurt to have as much stage time as possible.
The Rocky metaphor more aptly applies to Hillary Clinton than it does Barack Obama. Rocky lost his big fight. But he stuck it out to the final bell, and that’s the whole point of the movie.
(thanks, bedds!)
