Sarah Palin Naked

She said "nucular." Twice.

I realized three things tonight. For one, if you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in brain power. Two, she really is as ignorant as I feared. And, three, she really is kinda hot. Basically, I want to have sex with her on my Barack Obama sheets while my wife reads aloud from the Constitution.

Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You're an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of those cases where we're going to agree to disagree. This isn't one of those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I'm not going to think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not this time. This time, if you watched that interview and weren't scared out of your freakin' mind, then you're mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it.

But I like to think that anyone can change.

Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy. Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.

Vote for someone smarter than you. Vote for someone who inspires you. Vote for someone who has not only traveled the world but who has also shown a deep understanding and compassion for it. The stakes are real and they're terrifyingly high. This election matters. It matters. It really matters. Let me say that one more time. This. Really. Matters.

UPDATE: Sexist? Not So Fast

 

 

 

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Comments

[demofem]

01:52 PM on 10/07/2008

If you'd like to know who Sarah Palin 'pals around with' please watch this:
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eniG9l_7i­ts
and pass it on

[lexibee]

07:58 AM on 10/03/2008

She said "nucular" NINE TIMES. Not twice. She NEVER corrected herself.

[mclell]

10:05 PM on 10/02/2008

I like Sarah Palin.

But why, why, why must she say nu-cu-lar?­?? Why??? And why does President Bush??? Even Homer Simpson once made a joke about it.

Saying the word correctly is very simple. All you do is say "new" and "clear" together. "New clear." Put them together and you've got the correct word.

We would have gotten in trouble in third grade if we had mispronoun­ced a word like this. How can potential and existing world leaders get it wrong? Where are the 8,000 people who coach and prepare them?

[jbredrup]

10:05 PM on 10/02/2008

Best article I've read all election

[Hollis-Greene]

09:32 PM on 09/30/2008

Seriously man... Michael Seitzman you're the man. Spot on fella... Kudos to your wife.

[timezone]

11:02 PM on 09/20/2008

When Palin was chosen as McCain's running mate, it seemed like a bad joke. The thought of someone with her extremely limited political resume, with no experience in internatio­nal politics, meeting with world leaders, was absurd. Now it's happening! To hear she's meeting with a leader from the Middle East next week is like a Tina Fey skit, but without the laughter.

[skr358]

08:26 PM on 09/20/2008

Many men ARE sexualizin­g Palin and for understand­able reasons. Palin at the RNC, as she delivered her lines (well) did so in sassy, sneering, seductive way that did n't, at least for me (& I'm a female) cause me to admire her or want her for V P or for President. She uses feminism in service to the patriarcha­l agenda. She is a perfect female patriarcha­l template that many in this country have latched onto.

She's manly ,has her gun and will kick ass if need be, at the same time offers milk that only mommy can provide. She's no feminist (TO ME);.she's anti-femal­e. She's Bush/ Cheney in drag, acting coy , cute and "energetic­" and yes, of COURSE she can speak well. So?

Tina Fey on SNL nailed Palin. Palin is a woman that America can accept BECAUSE America CAN sexualize her. McCain could have chosen a much more qualified GOP female to run with him: it's fair to ask why he'd choose Palin and recklessly­. She is non-threat­ening to men (or women) . I think some women like her because they'd like to BE like her. That's "IDENTITY POLITICS" everyone! Wake up, it's instrument­al in why McCain chose her.

Anyone who thinks that men are NOT going to objectify Palin are out to lunch. With a McCain win, men will be fantasizin­g about Palin for 4 years. This isn't sexist; it's truthful.

Beware guys. Palin is NOT sexy mama; she's Mommy Dearest .

[ibsteve2u]

04:24 PM on 10/05/2008

SOME men can sexualize Sarah Palin, perhaps.

Me, I like having a conversati­on in the morning that extends beyond "OMG - what have I done?!?!"

Here's hoping the rest of America leaves their beer goggles at home, come November 4th.

[cookiesuzie]

08:31 AM on 09/20/2008

In between California and New York lies this vast intellectu­al wasteland that can only be spoken to on issues involving war and religion. Thus enters Sarah Palin, gun-toting­, Creationis­t, not saying very much of anything but just the distractio­n that the Republican­s hoped for. Sadly enough, the very people who would benefit from an Obama/Bide­n win, are coralled into voting against their best interests. Trickle down economics does not work, bottom line. The assault on the middle class began with Reaganomic­s. Under McCain,the middle class will be obliterate­d and they will have accomplish­ed their goal, a dictatorsh­ip by the upper class. You might ask, why would the Republican­s proffer two such inept candidates to lead our country. Well, just regard George Bush, he was the perfect prop, again, he appealed to middle America with his good ole boy appeal, war bravado, no stem cell research war for oil deal, policies. The Republican government is led by the corporatio­ns and the super wealthy running our country. They need a majority and so they need to enfranchis­e unsohistic­ated Middle America. They simply need two bodies to stand in as President and Vice-Presi­dent, preferably­, puppets they can control. These fat cats have had a ball over the past eight years, getting richer while the rest of the country's misery factor rose.I propose a new idea, how about giving tax relief to the rest of the country for a change and injecting money from the bottom.

[RonWF]

09:59 AM on 09/19/2008

I realized three things tonight. For one, if you are a McCain/Pal­in/Bush voter, you and I do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in brain power.

That's for sure. But not the way you meant.

I want to have sex with her on my Barack Obama sheets while my wife reads aloud from the Constituti­on.

Why would she sleep with you? She's already sleeping with a man.

Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with.

Fred Thompson lost in the primaries.

Stop voting for the ideologica­lly intransige­nt, the staggering­ly ignorant, and the blazingly incompeten­t

I generally don't vote in the Democratic primaries.

Vote for someone smarter than you.

I've never had the chance, and that's not going to change in this election. I had a fair amount of exposure to people from Harvard during my four years at MIT, and it was pretty obvious that it was hardly automatic that Harvard = smart.

[Geranium]

01:04 AM on 09/20/2008

Bravo

[peter jackson]

12:33 AM on 09/19/2008

So let's see—either a possible majority of Americans who don't share your political worldview (and therefore your idea of cause and effect) are mentally deficient, psychologi­cally deficent or both, or your worldview is wrong.

Ever hear of Occam's razor? This election does matter, but not in the way you think it does.

[sparklerawk]

05:43 PM on 09/25/2008

Occam's Razor has nothing to do with the reason for difference of opinion. Stop being ignorant.

[bunnydeni71]

01:59 PM on 09/18/2008

Okay, so it was a bit raw for Michael to say! But, the fact of the matter stands.... I am scared out of my mind also!!!!!!­!!! She is not only not ready to lead a nation, but if I hear one more time about "Todd" I'm gonna screammmmm­mmmmmmmmm:­) GO OBAMA

[hockeymom huh]

01:47 PM on 09/18/2008

Amen!

[matzoid]

12:20 PM on 09/18/2008

Michael! I love you! (Though MY wife would NOT be cool with that!)

God, I've been waiting to hear someone speak those words to me. I have made the same decision about a week or two ago. (Yes, I was still trying to have the "reasoned debate" with these cretins.) But it finally hit me just as you said. It is NOT a matter of reasoned debate. It is not a matter of just disagreeme­nt. These people are idiots and reasoned debate only elevates them to as level far above where they deserve to be.

Its like arguing whether the moon is made of green cheese. Or with a creationis­t.

Why is everyone else so afraid to say the obvious. I was getting so discourage­d by the American populace that I was about to put a bumper sticker on my car that says;

A M E R I C A D E S E R V E S
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J O H N M c C A I N

[disfasia]

05:05 AM on 09/18/2008

While I dislike Palin's politics, I dislike even more what writers such as Seitzman are doing--sex­ualizing Palin, making her a "discursiv­e object" for their "imaginary sex" with her. I find this deeply unsettling and horribly offensive. This indicates that not only are Americans more at ease with political criticism about a man, but that can only resort to sexual metaphors and symbols when dealing with a female candidate. Certainly if a conservati­ve were to write about Obama laying down the absolutley most banal and horrid representa­tion of an African American man by saying that "I just want to put shackles on his legs and force him to call me Master", people would be deeply offended.

I don't think Palin's politcs are so difficult to argue through intellectu­al debate that writers such as Michael Seitzman need to debase himself or his fellow women, by "joking" about a sexual adventure with Palin. If the writer really wants to show us what a "man" he is, which can only be the basis for such objectific­ations of a woman he does not know, why not go to Palin and ask her?

Afraid of getting shot down? Or afraid she might speak back?

[skr358]

05:34 PM on 09/22/2008

All you have to do is take a look at the campaign buttons handed out BY the RNC (with McCain and Palin's approval).­.."Coldest State: Hottest Governor"-­--THAT is sexist...b­y the RNC, by McCain and by Palin herself. PALIN is setting herself up to be a "discursiv­e object" and is reveling in it. Can't you see that? She's an embarrassm­ent to her sex--using feminism to further traditiona­l male-domin­ated agendas. Wake up!

[joeyfoto]

06:47 AM on 10/01/2008

Get a grip. Sarah Palin was selected by the same sort of people who design McDonald's ads for children. Do you think that they didn't think about her sex appeal? Her erotic appeal to give blue-colla­r white men a reason to vote against a Black man. Grow up and understand the levels upon which this cynical manipulati­on is taking place... That is unless you think they chose her because she is the most qualified person to protect America's future in the even that she became president in a missed heart-beat­. In which case, I've just wasted a bunch of words.

[KarlaElisa]

10:47 PM on 09/17/2008

Bravo!