Bit by your own dog?

Good stuff – it takes a couple of minutes to pick up, though.  It’s about the Republicans who are saying “Hey – Palin doesn’t tell the truth!”  It’s like the people who get bit by their own pit-bull, you just gotta love it.   

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34005238#34005238

 

 

Noonan Describes Palin…Well

Peggy Noonan writes fairly accurately (and with awesomefulness) about Sarah in “A Farewell to Harms”.   I think Palin is good for the rebuilding process.  The more people like her are in the party, the more likely it is to see that it needs to rebuild itself.  The best way to eliminate the bible-thumping, science-hating, neo-con, “everyone has to see the world like I do” people…is to have them step right up to the front.   Bush & Cheney are helping eradicate the imperialism and hopefully Palin will help elminate the bible-thumpalism.  I can’t wait until she runs for President! 

Feel free to use my two new words, just throw me a bone! 

From A Farewell to Harms:

Sarah Palin’s resignation gives Republicans a new opportunity to see her plain—to review the bidding, see her strengths, acknowledge her limits, and let go of her drama. It is an opportunity they should take. They mean to rebuild a great party. They need to do it on solid ground.

In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn’t thoughtful enough to know she wasn’t thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. “I’m not wired that way,” “I’m not a quitter,” “I’m standing up for our values.” I’m, I’m, I’m. 

In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.

More: http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html 

PETA, PETA, PETA…

PETA is not doing anything to further its cause by criticizing people swatting disease-carrying bugs like flies.  Your goal to distance yourself from the average American, make your group seem like a bunch of lunatics we can’t identify with, make us wonder if you are in touch with reality – it’s working.  Criticizing the President for swatting a fly.  PETA is on the way to becoming the Al Sharpton of animal causes.  Stop over-reacting to every minor imperfection that you don’t like. 

As for Obama going for a fly on TV: Yup, that’s a brave move.  Missing two or three times would have been a catastrophe.  Smushin’ it on the first try – nice work!  Getting up an getting a bug catcher like a 6-year old.  Right…..  That’s as realistic and functional as Palin’s ‘abstinence only’ programs. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_dead_fly

Palin & Letterman

It wasn’t a very funny joke.  But c’mon…  Palin’s gonna milk it for every bit of spotlight it’s worth.  She wants an apology.  He gave her one, on the air. Along with an explanation.  The joke writers thought Bristol was at the Yankees game and they wrote a line in the nightly “Top 10″ about her getting pregnant.  The line says “her (Palin) daughter” got pregnant at the game and while Bristol was implied, it turns out that Bristol at the game, it was one of the other daughters. 

So Dave says he’s sorry, that the joke was targeted at adults, that they should have said “Bristol” and not just “Palin’s daughter”, that he didn’t mean to point it at the other daughter, that he does not think jokes about kids are funny – that this was an accident (intent was for an adult) and he’s sorry for it.   The joke wasn’t even that funny and as Dave said, luckily they don’t have to go to the Hague to defend all of them.  Dave’s been doing the Top 10 lists for about 107 years and sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re not.  Did Dave come out wiping tears from his eyes during his apology?  No…it’s a comedy show.

One could take the apology and move on but in true celebrity fashion – Palin keeps that spotlight turned on.  If Sarh Palin doesn’t want the attention and pregnancy jokes, she should step away from cameras and microphones (and maybe she should teach her kids about both abstinency and birth-control).  She comes out boasting about how effective her abstince-only program is and how every school should teach it and every American should raise their kids using this method…and then her own daughter has to drop out of high-school and raise a baby on her own….it’s sets her up for criticism, much less jokes.

Secessionists, Conservatives, Republicans

Republican Governor Rick Perry talks of Texas secession.  Republican Governor Sarah Palin gives key-note and introductory speeches to Alaska’s secessionist party (AIP), as recently as 2008.  Todd Palin was an active member of the AIP for nearly a decade.  Why do these America-bashing conservative leaders publiwant to disintegrate the United States of America?  If you hate America, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Jack.

Republican Party 2009

They’re bashing America, Toby – where are you?  No stomach for it anymore?  Taking on a blonde girl in a band is about as much as you can handle?

Republican Secession

“We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. (you know what’s coming next).  But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot,” Perry said Wednesday.

What kind of dumb-shit America-hating secret muslim said that? 

Ridiculotic

Boo Hoo.  It’s the media’s fault.  It’s Tina Fey’s fault. 

Today Palin is attacking the media’s “Very Scary” reporting of her.  WOW is that hypocritical after the fear-mongering campaign she ran and the things she said about Obama! 

But to think that Americans only find her ridiculous becuase of the media and not becuase of her own idiocy is… well, it’s ridiculous and idiotic.  She’s ridiculotic! 

It’s the media’s fault that I am ridiculous.  It’s the media’s fault that my town charges rape victims for rape kits.  (Source)

It’s the media’s fault that three times John McCain specifically critized my Wasilla earmarks and used them as examples of wasteful spending. Source

It’s the media’s fault I look foolish for proclaiming in that my “Abstinence Only” programs are the most effective way to combat teen pregnancy and keep our youth in high school and college, and then having my eldest daughter be a high-school dropout with a baby - and marry a redneck who’s also a high-school dropout.  Source  (Note: Levi was asked to resign from his job because that position requires…wait for it….wait for it……….a High School diploma!  Abstinence Only programs are awesome, Sarah! You must be so happy.)

It’s the media’s fault that I claimed I was experienced in foreign policy simply based on my street address, and without owning a passport until 2007.  At that point, I had met with zero foreign leaders or heads of state and I had travelled outside the USA only once.  Source and Source

It’s the media’s fault that not only do I not read any current events publications, but I cannot even name one of those publications. 

It’s the media’s fault that for 312 nights during my first 19 months in office that I charged the taxpayers a “per diem” totaling $16,951 for staying in my own home — an allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business (Source)

It’s the media’s fault that not only do I permit the slaughter of wolves by chasing them with planes until they’re so exhausted that they fall down on the ground, but I also pay $150 for cutting off their leg and bringing me that prize. (Source) (If wolves can roam in Alaska…where can they live??)

It’s the media’s fault that I tried to ban books and fire librarians who stood up against government censorship (a la Middle East, China, Russia). Source, Source, and Source

It’s the media’s fault I look an idiot for saying “nucular” Source 

It’s the media’s fault that I supported the Bridge to Nowhere, that I accepted and kept the $233 million dollars provided by America’s tax payers, that I only distanced from the Bridge after it became an embarrasment and another shining example of wasteful spending.  Source

It’s the media’s fault that after 9 United States Geological Survey studies have all concluded that the habitat of Alaska’s polar bears is threatened by global warming that I sued the USA for listing Polar Bears as a Threatened Species.  Source

It’s the media’s fault that I look like a tool for saying that couldn’t entertain the idea “until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day”.

 

Palin lashes out at media: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28573074/?GT1=43001 

Sarah Palin – what a mistake

Successful campaigns are what one team did right, combined with what the other side did wrong.  As I mentioned, I think the Palin choice was the biggest mistake.  Here’s what Julian Zelizer has to say:

Team McCain ran a campaign that ranks on the bottom of this list. This was an aimless and chaotic operation made worse by poor choices at key moments.

Their first mistake was picking Gov. Sarah Palin. Though in the first week following her selection, Palin energized the conservative base of the GOP, she became a serious drag on the ticket.

This turned into one of the worst picks since McGovern selected Thomas Eagleton, a Missouri senator who withdrew after revealing that he had gone through electroshock therapy and suffered from “nervous exhaustion.” By picking Palin, McCain simultaneously eliminated his own best argument against Senator Obama—the limited experience of his opponent—while compounding his own most negative image, that of someone who was erratic and out of control. The pick also fueled the feeling that grew throughout September and October that the Republican candidate was willing to take any step necessary to win the campaign. The Palin pick made every decision that followed seem purely political.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167561

4 Days that Killed the McCain Campaign

Daniel Gross of Slate writes about 3 days that he says killed McCain’s campaign in an excellent and to-the-point essay last night.  I think he’s exactly right – but I think he left out one very important date that crippled the campaign: August 29th.

On August 29th, John McCain announced his first “presidential” decision – the choice of a running mate.  While the shiny new wrapper was impressive for a couple of weeks, it did not last.  As Gross says of September 15th, this date was also a twin killer.  First, the thought of the uninformed, power-abusing, bible-thumping, ultra-right-winger as the President of the USA hurt the campaign.  Because this decision was John’s, and John’s alone, it also reflects very poorly on his judgement and decision makig process. 

His other 3 dates were also disasterous: Proclaiming the economy is still strong, halting his campaign but accomplishing nothing, and using the 3rd debate to regail voters with the economic insight of Joe Wurzelbacher. 

September 24, 2008
The Day John McCain Lost the Election
http://www.slate.com/id/2203763/?GT1=38001

A Question

Obama aides have long argued that their candidate offers hope while McCain offers fear. Judging by the balance of messages both candidates are giving voters before Election Day, it’s hard to disagree.  

Question: You take the money that government generates and you spread that money equally among all of the citizens. Is that: the former Soviet Republic? … or Alaska?