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