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“I’m 35 years old and I’ve never been interested in politics.” Okay. So I should take you seriously when you finally decide it’s expedient to stop being ignorant and stand up to throw an inarticulate tantrum at a town hall meeting?
It Always Has Been About Trig is the top Memeorandum item right now.
I suppose this qualifies as a straw baby argument?
And I’m not sure the use of the phrase “has been” has a deeper significance. Perhaps I’m just reading too much into it.
“You need a little bit of levity in this job.”
Palin yammers semi-incoherently while a bloodstain-trouser’d poultry executioner beheads turkeys in the background.
The ostensible reason for the media event was the pardoning of a local Wasilla turkey in honor of Thanksgiving. Poised in her Burberry scarf and designer frames, clutching a Starbucks, Palin seems oblivious to the lurid slaughter behind her. When asked by the cameraperson if she really wanted this tableau as a backdrop, Palin chirped “no worries!”
SNL can no longer satirize this person. She’s cornered the market.
The love affair between the Republicans and the religious right: It’s complicated.
Newt lowers the brow-bar.
From http://www.kauaiworld.com/ letters section:
Obama the ‘elitist’
Barack Obama held his first news conference to reiterate his promises to solve all of our problems. I sure hope that he is successful.
KHON TV news did a little puff piece about the eagerly awaited puppy issue. President-elect Obama stated that he would definitely keep his promise.
A wise politician would have said “as soon as time permits we will visit the shelter to look for a suitable pup.” This would show the world that he is humble like the rest of us. Then later he could accept a gift from one of the many dog breeders who certainly will make offers in an attempt to get their breed on display in the White House.
Instead, he said, “I don’t want to go to an expensive pet shop (asking for freebies?) but many breeds are more hypoallergenic than others. I should go to the shelter but most dogs there are mutts like me (pointing at himself).” I guess this semi-joke was intended to show that he is just a down-to-earth guy.
The feeling that I came away with is that there will no “mutts” in his administration. Everybody will be vetted by pedigree– perhaps political lineage, racial lineage or social class lineage.
The words that pop into my mind are “racist” (check out Jeremiah Wright to know that not all racists are white), “elitist,” “exclusionary” (Republicans need not apply), “specie-ist” (if there is such a word to describe those who choose a dog based on its AKC papers rather than on its appearance and personality), and “snob.”
I sure hope that I am wrong.
Stan Godes, Hanalei
I’m ready for my close-up now, Governor Palin.
Good to know a former manager of Grand Funk Railroad can still get work.
It’s not over.
Steinbeck might’ve called this a modern-day witches’ Sabbath.
Hunkering down.
So…what’s your point?
Taliban Rising
That was Chris Matthews’ comment regarding Sarah Palin on Hardball tonight.
Later in the show, Christopher Hitchens went off on McCain and Palin. He said it’s “morally and intellectually impossible to vote for the Republicans” this time around, and repeatedly referred to McCain’s campaign persona as “weird” and “querulous.” Oh, and “borderline senile.”
Here’s an interesting exchange between Hitchens and execrable Fox News fem-bot Laura Ingraham.
There’s much speculation on what will happen to Sarah Palin if McCain loses. I’m voting for a hit reality TV show on the Hallmark channel.
