So, the McCain campaign has decided to make Sarah Palin off limits. Can't talk to her. Can't talk about her. Can't let any audience infer anything about her. You must uphold her honor at all times, or the McCain campaign will rush to her defense and attack and punish you. What does this sound like? It sounds like Islam! It also sounds like something much closer to home called "bullshit".
Dick Cheney's wettest dream is about secrecy. Remember that hazmat suit in his car? That undisclosed location? Cheney is so secretive most of the time that even his creature Bush doesn't know what he was doing or where he is doing it. Secrecy is the fetish of a tyrant, and Cheney has proved tyrannical -- whatever he has gotten away with isn't nearly as much as he hoped to get away with, and now they are doing it again.
People in the public eye get reviewed. Amazon sellers. Novelists. Restaurateurs. Actors and directors. Congresspersons. And sometimes the reviews are bad. I have two favorite bad reviews that I've gotten. One was written -- the reviewer said that one of my early novels, which was fairly harmless as far as I could tell, "epitomized everything that is wrong with modern literature." Not too long ago I was on a call-in show, and a guy called in and said that he had read my novel twice and found it to have "no redeeming features." He read it twice? What sort of masochist was this guy? The thing is, I have gotten used to bad reviews over the years, and I understand it's part of the deal. When I was in graduate school, another student had a sign above her desk. It read, "No one asked you to write that novel."
And gosh, Sarah, running for vice president is voluntary, too. You plan to work for us. We need to give you fifty-seven days of job interviews. We need to know why your husband is a member of a secessionist party. We need to know why you tried to fire that librarian. We need to know why you gave yourself a per diem for living in your own house. We need to know if you knew the cruelty involved in shooting wolves from the air before you offered that $150 bounty for dead monogamous wolf fathers and mothers (we hear you're a cat person, but I think shooting canidae lupi is going too far, even for a cat person). We need to know why you shade the truth on that bridge to nowhere. We need to know your views and plans. Every question we might ask isn't accusatory. Many of them are informational.
But the girl can't take it, that's obvious. She didn't like being challenged as mayor or as governor, and she's made up her mind that she isn't going be challenged as a candidate, that every thing anyone says about her will be termed "sexism" and will be a reason for her to retire into that veil of privacy that the McCain campaign says she requires. Now THAT'S sexism. But more important, it's contempt for the voters, contempt for the citizens, and a prelude to ever more tyranny.
This bit of window dressing was selected based soley on the fact she is female. She brings nothing else to the table.
The fact that she, herself doesn't recognize tokenism for what it is ought be the real source of outrage, and gives a clear indication of the depth of her intellect.
McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.
That is, not until Mr. "America First" spent a good hour sizing up his choice for second in command, Suddenly, I'm no longer on the same planet. I'm sure because Rod Serling recently appeared on my TV, live, "You're about to enter a land where up is down, small is big, lies are truth and logic has gone the way of the Dodo. You've just crossed over into...the Palin Zone."
How else do you explain wild cheers for someone who believes the Flintstones is reality TV; someone so far right, she needs her own time zone; someone who's foreign policy qualifications are a) have 2007 passport and b) live near Russia; someone who asked, "what exactly does a VP do?". Find me another explanation for the millions rushing to her defense while she holes up in an igloo, even though they know zippo about this woman who could easily become President.
Yup, it's another universe. A place where the last eight years never happened. A country where wars are holy and opposing opinions evil. Where global-warming is a joke and vast drilling is considered seriously. A land of people so terrified that, if plunked on board the Titanic, they'd rather hit an iceberg than change course.
Ah, why worry? I'll soon awaken to find myself back on earth. Otherwise, pass me a life jacket.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080922/hiddenbase_video
After hearing Biden's comment regarding Hiliary being the better choice for Prez or VP, seems the Dem party should spend more time on the fact that their party screwed up in picking their representatives instead of bashing the Repubs choices.
When your running VP says stuff like that - you got problems.
President Obama said in one of the articles - “Enough,” Obama declared yesterday while campaigning in Norfolk, Va. “I don’t care what they say about me. But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swift boat politics. Enough is enough.”
“Vote for the man with a Plan.” President Obama 2008.
Sarah Palin is going to be part of the next administration. For every one of you snarling and sniping at here, there are dozens who see her in their mirrors.
In times of crisis the stressed skew to the familiar.
Palin is there. Because Hillary isn't.
You created He Who Is Obama-- The Godhead Formerly Known As Junior Senator. You are the ones doing Big Brother rallies where True Believers genuflect. When they aren't on blogs bullying.
Instead Sarah Palin put her family right there with her.
Why? Because all her problems, real-time and grubby , are the SAME problems as the voters listening.
No Southside mansion, no icy remove from some patronage paid-for high-maintenance Jackie Barbie.
I don't agree with Palin, won't vote for her, but I'd very much like to meet her.
I agree with much more of what Obama rhetoricizes about and doesn't follow through, won't vote for him and the best thing about November is he'll be gone.
Palin will win because what you see is what you get.
Obama has proven to be a paint by numbers hologram who has no identity other than his aspirations, affectations and ambition..
Hope is good, but misplaced hope defines folly.
I'm writing in Hillary because I need to vote for someone.
Why squander a vote on the least of two bad ideas? How will that fix anything?
-gala1