Sarah Palin, different opinion now.

[eric (^__^)]

Just motherfucking fail. So now Alaska is part of the lower 48.

oh I'm sorry, add another half-dozen to that figure to account for those paranoid motherfuckers in Alaska.

If you haven't read Never Cry Wolf, go fail on your own time.

And why are we even debating this as if Wolves are a threat to all we hold near and dear. It's ridiculous, and you should be ashamed for attacking me. Wolves are predators, fine ones at that. I'm sure redneck hunters have killed more of their own than wolves. I'll put money on it. If Palin is half the woodsman she acclaims, she would understand this.

I'm going to love it when all the GOP heavy-hitters have to put up with Palin's popularity long after this has settled, no matter which way this election goes. What then, Palin? You don't blink? How about blinking next time your climb to the top of the political ladder means more than your own personal advancement? Asshole.

Maybe we should keep her up there, manning the land bridge so the Russians don't run through and attack Canada. Hey, I don't own a passport either, but at least I'm not running for VICE effing PRESIDENT.

If I were her, I'd shit my pants in the debates. Only way to secure a sympathy vote...

[Dave]

Moose in the headlights . . . .

How absolutely, head-in-the-ground oblivious do you have to be to our national politics to not be familiar with the Bush Doctrine, the very cornerstone of this administration's foreign policy and the doctrine that led us into the most disastrous foreign policy decision in American history?

Charlie: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?

Palin: In what respect, Charlie?

Charlie: What do you interpret it to be?

Palin: His worldview?

Charlie: No, No, the Bush Doctrine. He enunciated it in September 2002, before the Iraq War.

Palin: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is to rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hellbent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership--and that's the beauty of American elections and democracy--with new leadership comes the opportunity to do things better.

Charlie: The Bush Doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory defense. We have the right to preemptively strike any other country that we believe is going to attack us.

She looked like the unqualified fool that she is. The kicker is, you know ABC is keeping the good stuff for the third part . . .

[ragged325]

And then you realize McCain has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for most of his adult life. I'm not a religious guy, but if McCain/Palin got elected, I'd pray every day for McCain to keep going.

[BenM]

Moose in the headlights . . . .

How absolutely, head-in-the-ground oblivious do you have to be to our national politics to not be familiar with the Bush Doctrine, the very cornerstone of this administration's foreign policy and the doctrine that led us into the most disastrous foreign policy decision in American history?



She looked like the unqualified fool that she is. The kicker is, you know ABC is keeping the good stuff for the third part . . .

It would actually be funny if she and McSame didn't have a good chance at winning the election.

[Dave]

I wouldn't lose sleep over McCain if he had picked just about anyone else as his running mate. But this wacko?

[BenM]

I wouldn't lose sleep over McCain if he had picked just about anyone else as his running mate. But this wacko?

Bingo. I lost a lot of respect for him when he picked her.

[StereoInstaller1]

I wouldn't lose sleep over McCain if he had picked just about anyone else as his running mate. But this wacko?

Bingo. I lost a lot of respect for him when he picked her.

Yeah, scary bitch.

Like I have said before, I am not into politics, but I do know people.

That bitch is scary!

[CorvallisBMW]

The scary part is how popular she seems to be with people. They're not quite bright enough to see that she's an inexperienced, poor choice for VP. They just think "oh, she's a hockey mom like me! That makes her cool, I'll vote for her!"

[Funkmasta]

The scary part is how popular she seems to be with people. They're not quite bright enough to see that she's an inexperienced, poor choice for VP. They just think "oh, she's a hockey mom like me! That makes her cool, I'll vote for her!"

Whatever it takes to keep Fauxbama out of office...

[Vedubin01]

The scary part is how popular she seems to be with people. They're not quite bright enough to see that she's an inexperienced, poor choice for VP. They just think "oh, she's a hockey mom like me! That makes her cool, I'll vote for her!"

Wow thats just what we think of you and Obama!

Some good reading for ya!!!



Obama's Altitude Sickness
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to "start slamming down some phones." Camille Paglia suggests, "be boring!"

Meanwhile, a posse of Democratic lawyers, mainstream reporters, lefty bloggers and various other Obamaphiles are scouring the vast tundra of Alaska for something, anything, to bring down Sarah Palin: her daughter's pregnancy, her ex-brother-in-law problem, her $60 per diem, and now her religion. (CNN reports -- news flash! -- that she apparently has never spoken in tongues.) Not since Henry II asked if no one would rid him of his turbulent priest, have so many so urgently volunteered for duty.

But Palin is not just a problem for Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him. Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential nominee in living memory had the gap between adulation and achievement been so great. Which is why McCain's Paris Hilton ads struck such a nerve. Obama's meteoric rise was based not on issues -- there was not a dime's worth of difference between him and Hillary on issues -- but on narrative, on eloquence, on charisma.

The unease at the Denver convention, the feeling of buyer's remorse, was the Democrats' realization that the arc of Obama's celebrity had peaked -- and had now entered a period of its steepest decline. That Palin could so instantly steal the celebrity spotlight is a reflection of that decline.

It was inevitable. Obama had managed to stay aloft for four full years. But no one can levitate forever.

Five speeches map Obama's trajectory.

Obama burst into celebrityhood with his brilliant and moving 2004 Democratic convention speech (#1). It turned an obscure state senator into a national figure and legitimate presidential candidate.

His next and highest moment (#2) was the night of his Iowa caucus victory when he gave an equally stirring speech of the highest tones that dazzled a national audience just tuning in.

The problem is that Obama began believing in his own magical powers -- the chants, the swoons, the "we are the ones" self-infatuation. Like Ronald Reagan, he was leading a movement, but one entirely driven by personality. Reagan's revolution was rooted in concrete political ideas (supply-side economics, welfare-state deregulation, national strength) that transcended one man. For Obama's movement, the man is the transcendence.

Which gave the Obama campaign a cult-like tinge. With every primary and every repetition of the high-flown, self-referential rhetoric, the campaign's insubstantiality became clear. By the time it was repeated yet again on the night of the last primary (#3), the tropes were tired and flat. To top himself, Obama had to reach. Hence his triumphal declaration that history would note that night, his victory, his ascension, as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Clang. But Obama heard only the cheers of the invited crowd. Not yet seeing how the pseudo-messianism was wearing thin, he did Berlin (#4) and finally jumped the shark. That grandiloquent proclamation of universalist puffery popped the bubble. The grandiosity had become bizarre.

From there it was but a short step to Paris Hilton. Finally, the Obama people understood. Which is why the next data point (#5) is so different. Obama's Denver acceptance speech was deliberately pedestrian, State-of-the-Union-ish, programmatic and only briefly (that lovely coda recalling the March on Washington) lyrical.

The problem, however, was that Obama had announced the Invesco Field setting for the speech during the pre-Berlin flush of hubris. They were stuck with the Greek columns, the circus atmosphere, the rock star fireworks farewell -- as opposed to the warmer, traditional, balloon-filled convention-hall hug-a-thon. The incongruity between text and context was apparent. Obama was trying to make himself ordinary -- and serious -- but could hardly remember how.

One star fades, another is born. The very next morning McCain picks Sarah Palin and a new celebrity is launched. And in the celebrity game, novelty is trump. With her narrative, her persona, her charisma carrying the McCain campaign to places it has never been and by all logic has no right to be, she's pulling an Obama.

But her job is easier. She only has to remain airborne for seven more weeks. Obama maintained altitude for an astonishing four years. In politics, as in all games, however, it's the finish that counts.

[Dave]

My 10 year old daughter has held a passport longer than Sarah Palin. So, I think she may have more foreign policy experience. To boot, my daughter has been to the World Showcase at EPCOT at least a dozen times, so she understands different cultures very well.

[Funkmasta]

My 10 year old daughter has held a passport longer than Sarah Palin. So, I think she may have more foreign policy experience. To boot, my daughter has been to the World Showcase at EPCOT at least a dozen times, so she understands different cultures very well.

I hope that McCain doesn't croak if he gets elected. At least we all know that there is no way in fuck that he will get assassinated.

[BenM]

I hope that McCain doesn't croak if he gets elected.

At least some of us can agree on that. I fear for the country if Palin comes into power.

[CorvallisBMW]

my 10 year old daughter has held a passport longer than sarah palin. So, i think she may have more foreign policy experience. To boot, my daughter has been to the world showcase at epcot at least a dozen times, so she understands different cultures very well.

rofl

[DarkWing6]

I hope that McCain doesn't croak if he gets elected. At least we all know that there is no way in fuck that he will get assassinated.

McCain is not going to die while in office. You all know the president does have to go through pretty thurough health screenings, right? They aren't just going to let some guy on his death bed run the country.