She's a Gifted Orator

"Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations."

-Sarah Palin

Tight Race?

Is the race getting tight? Nationally, kind of, sort of. But if you follow the current trend lines, it will be a tied race by about November 15th. Awwww, too late! Sorry Johnny Boy. Sorry Sarah Plain and Stupid.

Dr. Suess' Take

This is terrific.

Veep Veep!

Again, what in god's name is she talking about? Forget the fact that this is incoherant from an English language perspective. (I'm sure her high school English teacher is rolling over in her grave.) The fact that she wants to expand Dick Cheney's already dangerous VP role into the other two branches of govenment is very scary. I MIGHT hire her to run a yogurt stand. But for her to be put in charge of three branches of government? Wow. Um, No.

Flow Chart

This flow chart is brilliant!

U.S. Americans...in The Iraq...who don't have maps

Her and Miss South Carolina are giving beauty queens a bad name.

Gotcha!

So now "Gotcha! Journalism" is coming from voters in pizza parlors? And her excuse is that it was a question yelled across a room?

I know that when I don't hear a question clearly, my first inclination is to resond just like that:

Joey: "Yes, we'll go after terrorists in Pakistan!"

Questioner: "But sir, I just asked if you wanted mushrooms on your pizza..."

Joey: "ATTACK THEM!!!!!!"

By the way, did you notice the barely hidden contempt on McCain's face during this interview? Looks very familiar...in fact...that's how he was looking at Obama on Friday! I bet anything that he hates her guts and wants to kill whoever in his campaign talked him into this woman. He has to!

The First Debate

Yeah, yeah, foreign policy. We're good, terrorists and Iran and our economy are bad. Obama A-, McCain B.

Someone mentioned a VP debate next Thursday? Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden? That is something I might have an interest in, please tell me more...

Palin will not have a prompter or Rovian speech writers and won't know the questions going in you say? Like in her wonderful, delightful prime time interviews? Yes, this is definitely must-see TV! It will preemt both 30 Rock and The Office on Thursday, but I boldy predict this debate will be TWICE as funny as the two shows combined.

In fact, my current "Favorite TV Comedies" list is currently in this order:

1. Sarah Palin dry-heaving out "answers" to "tough" questions in prime-time.
2. The Office
3. 30 Rock
4. The Daily Show
5. Late Show with David Letterman (this one jumps back onto the list this week for obvious reasons; sorry Colbert, you'll make it back here soon.)
   

THIS is why they are hiding her from the press.

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At about the 2:00 mark, she just starts pulling ideas out of her butt! Literally- out of her butt.

Energy "Expert"

What in god's name is she blathering about? And what does "fungible" mean?

"Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,” Palin said. “So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first," - Sarah Palin, Energy Expert and University of Idaho graduate in sports journalism.

Faux News

For some reason this part of the interview struck me as funny. Hannity asks Palin about her specific role as VP and she basically lays out the broadest set of duties possible: “I will focus on energy independence and reform overall of Washington and tax cuts for Americans and reigning in spending.”

Then, amazingly, he presses her for specifics, and after trying to bypass the question by saying there is not enough time to explain it all, she takes it down about 10,000 notches and says that her duties will include “helping families with special-needs children and being able to strengthen our National Institute of Health…”


HANNITY: Governor, have you spoken with Senator McCain about your specific role in the McCain administration?
PALIN: Sure have. I'm very excited about the role that I will play as his partner. And I will focus on energy independence and reform overall of Washington and tax cuts for Americans and reigning in spending. The...
HANNITY: These are specific roles that you already talked about?
PALIN: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
HANNITY: That you will — you will take on as vice president?
PALIN: Right. So I'd like to talk about each one of them. And I wish we had hours to talk about this also.
HANNITY: I have nothing to do.
PALIN: OK. Good. Because another thing that we'll talk about also is the role that I will play that is very near and dear to my heart. And that's helping families with special-needs children and being able to strengthen our National Institute of Health also and find cures for presently incurable diseases.
But, first and foremost, an energy independent nation. We must get there, Sean. It is a matter of national security and of our future prosperity, being able to quit relying on foreign sources of energy to feed our hungry markets when we have the American supplies and we have the American ingenuity and we have the American workers to produce these supplies of energy.

Tina Fey is incredible!

Laughable!

I watched that interview last night. Palin is laughable. I’d like McCain and the Republican pundits to take a lie detector test and say yes or no whether they think she is ready to be president. No way they would pass.

She defended the “Alaska is close to Russia so Palin knows foreign policy” argument by saying that they are neighbors and that you can see Russia from Alaska’s land. Oh...good.

She also basically said that if Georgia joined NATO, we would have to go to war with Russia if they attacked again. She is seriously George Bush in a dress- both in intelligence, speaking style (Nuc-you-ler), and policies. I can’t wait for the longer interview tonight. That's good watchin'!

This excellent point is from http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/:

A reader writes:

After watching that interview, can anyone honestly say that they think that Sarah Palin, the person who would take over the country in the event something happens to McCain, has more knowledge of policy than Charlie Gibson, the person giving the interview?
And isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
...Okay, isn't it at least supposed to be close??

Maher

Lipstick on a Palin...I mean Pig.

Yeah, I said it.

The problem with fighting in the mud with pigs is that everyone gets dirty and the pigs like it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. - Robert Heinlein





If it is okay for McCain it is okay for Obama. ENOUGH of the BS!

Lies and the Lying Liars

WARNING: This post is going to be slightly longer than I think a typical blog should be, but I couldn’t sleep last night and I need to get this off my chest. I know that I should be focusing my rage on John McCain and how to make sure that he is not going to be the next President but quite frankly, I am more worried about the right-wing extremist Sarah Palin. As Alec Baldwin so eloquently wrote at The Huffington Post, McCain isn’t Bush, Palin is.

Not only does Sarah Palin lack any foreign policy, economic, and legislative experience, she also lacks the ability to tell the truth. She has been off-limits to the press for almost 2 full weeks because the McCain people are worried about a gaff. I think this plan has started to back fire. Because she has not been subjected to being interviewed, all the press has been able to do is research and if you are a ‘typical’ republican politician, the last thing that you want to happen is have your past researched. More and more trash continues to pour out of her sorted political history.

As highlight to her complete lack of experience and knowledge in economic issues, Sarah had spewed this gaff just yesterday:



Unfortunately for these straight talking mavericks, the government has only been running Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae since about 8:00 eastern on Monday. So tax money hasn’t been used until yesterday. These two companies were run as if they were autonomous businesses and received profits in good times, but they also enjoyed federal protection in bad times. I understand that this is a small mistake but two things strike me as interesting. #1 – She is reading this speech which means that is was PREPARED and #2 – I understand Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and I am an idiot. I don’t want someone only as smart as me helping make financial decisions in a time that can/should be compared to the great depression.

I am absolutely sick of hearing how McCain and Palin are reformers and Mavericks and running for change. Disagreeing with someone 10% of the time is not dissention nor does that separate you from your party. To run on a reform ticket and anti-pork barrel spending, you better not have hired a lobbyist that helped your town of 10,000 earn over 27 million dollars in earmarks. That is the definition of pork barrel spending! Although, since both GOP candidates are so familiar with how to get earmarks, they would both understand how to spot an earmarked bill. I wonder if John McCain would veto Palin’s 27 million earmarked bill? Even FauxNews gets it:



There are so many lies, half truths, and delusional speeches that it is hard to pick my favorite, I do happen to enjoy the “She sold it on eBay” bit. However, Palin only stated that she ‘put’ it on eBay. She had to do this more than once and it never sold. That is a minor lie I guess, but it is the pattern that makes me the most fearful. McCain on the other hand, knows the truth (unless he didn’t properly vet Palin) and he still lies. I stand by my statement that he will do and say anything to win:



The more I see the more disgusted I get. I can’t even imagine another four years of this economic strife, unemployment, and energy crisis. Something has to give. I am glad that McCain, if elected, will tell the lobbyists “a change is coming.” The only problem that I see is he is literally SURROUNDED by lobbyists. At one time he had nearly 60 lobbyists that were feeding him information (including the lobbyist from Georgia). Most of these lobbyists have clients that a vested interest in securing that alternative energy is not part of McCain’s energy policy. Sure, he states in his speech that alternative energy is necessary, but he has included exactly ZERO dollars in his plan. This is a plan that is published on his website. He talks about clean coal but he isn’t going to help us get it.





I love Obama. I must admit that I voted for Hillary and even donated to her campaign but I am convert. I am inspired by this man but I want Obama to stand up and stop allowing the GOP to slam him. He needs to start shitting on McCain unapologetically and without refrain. Run ads that show how McCain has flipped. Hell, I can find them on YouTube. Start showing how Palin was for it and then against it. I know you are saying these things in your speeches but damn it start running some GD ads. The mainstream media is not doing what they should be doing. They need to be challenging McCain at every turn and they are not. They are more interested in applause lines like the dog wearing lipstick BS.

The GOP won’t hesitate to step on your throat and Obama shouldn’t hesitate to step on theirs. Democrats have been on defense since Palin’s speech. ENOUGH! Start kicking Palin and McCain in the balls. This has to end and it has to end now. This country can not afford another four years of W.

Polled

I know it doesn’t matter that much at this stage, but it still makes me physically ill that McCain could have received a bump out of the convention and that he could actually be leading in some polls. Our country is ridiculous sometimes. I can’t wait till the debates though- then people will see how ridiculous their policies are and that half of the things they said in the conventions were lies.

I loved all of the comments by people who watched another Palin speech at a campaign stop yesterday. NPR asked a couple of them what they liked about her- "I like that she's a mother of 5..." "I just love that "pitbull with lipstick" line!"

I guess Palin appeals to the sitcom crowd out there, she gives them one stupid joke with a laugh track and they will love her forever! YOU IDIOTS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER!!!!!!!! Not one of them said "I like her stand on ___________" Ya know why? Because they don't know her stand on __________ because she hasn't given her stand on __________.


All I have to say is ______________________!!!! (You can fill in your own words for that one.)

Sarah Palin scare the sh!t out of me

I love Biden. I can't help it. He might be my political man crush.

How dare you....

This interview has sparked quite a controversy. I had sent it to a few people before but this is really uncomfortable to watch. If you couple this speech with the New York Times article about what McCain learned about Sarah Palin AFTER he had picked her as his running mate.

According to NPR, this interview is what has sparked the McCain campaign to fight against the media which again is in stark contrast to what McCain used to call the media, "my base." Remember when this whole thing started and he was having BBQs and invited them on the "Straight Talk Express?" Well, Candidate McCain has change again. Now the media is evil. In retribution to the above interview, John McCain pulled out of the Larry King Show and has started on this crusade of how the media is 'liberal' and out to get him and poor Sarah.

Question of the day: If Chelsea Clinton would have been pregnant as a teenager, do you think the GOP and conservative would have given her the free pass the Palin has received? This whole situation kind of reminds me of how we can't ask McCain hard questions because he was a POW. So we can't challenge McCain on anything because he was a POW and we can't challenge Pallin because she is a woman and her daughter is a pregnant and yet there wasn't a single piece of policy in McCain's address last night. What can we challenge them on? Hair color or cut?

I also find it odd that Palin has not given a single interview yet. She is officially 'unavailable' to the press because she doesn't know anything yet. She has to be primped and preened by McCain's people and they have to have her ready for the debates. They don't want her to go on TV or in the press and say something stupid.

Stewart