I find something deeply disturbing about "that woman." It's interesting how many have taken to using that when referring to Sarah Palin.
It's not eerie inflections straight out of the movie, Fargo. It's not when she dropped her first nuc-u-lar, and my mind screamed "sweet lord, please, not four more years of mispronunciation of a force that could turn us all into cosmic lint."
It's not the odorous political flotsam that trails behind her -- the librarian incident, the trooper incident, the bridge to nowhere incident or anything else that might be discovered by the industrious dumpster-divers from the National Enquirer.
It's not just the fact that we have seen all this for eight torturous years.
Go down the line to your far right on every issue: gay rights, reproductive rights, stem-cell research, guns, Russia, Iran. She rewards her friends (without regard to qualification) and punishes her enemies (political or personal.) She insulates herself with a fleecy layer or friends, family and true believers who make sure that dissenting opinion and inconvenient reality do not intrude on her frontier certainty.
Know the difference between George Bush and Sarah Palin? Lipstick.
I can deal with all that.
What scared me as I listened to her tightly choreographed presentations -- and that includes the "Charlie" interviews -- is the sense of a cold and calculating soullessness, an inability to project the person beneath the politician because the person has been tossed overboard long ago.
I look in her eyes and get a feeling that, if you cross her, she would drop you as easily as she would a wolf from a helicopter.
What scares me even more is that she is all part of the plan. Maybe it's true that John McCain picked her in one of his maverick moments. It's more likely that they went out to find a gun toting, God-fearing woman who could get the get the conservative crazies off their backs and, with a little buffing and polishing, might even bring some wandering Hillary women into camp.
They found a narrative, subtracted and added as needed, wound her up and sent her straight at us -- political baggage, obvious inexperience and all -- saying: "Go ahead. Try to stop her."
Credit due, she has played the part beautifully -- hot chick and tough cookie. Even Real Time host Bill Maher seems thrown off his usually reliable game. He admitted that he was so unnerved by Palin's convention speech that, even though he doesn't make political donations, he cut a check for Obama that night. Said Maher: "She is scary."
At the Convention, she let her newborn be passed around like a bong at Snoop Dog's House. She allowed the very private act of sending her oldest son off to war into a photo op. She will continue to say she killed the bridge -- like Bush said Saddam and Bin Laden were racquetball buddies -- until enough people believe it.
She is tough, calculating, photogenic and female. Unless we want to see her a septuagenarian heartbeat away from the presidency, we best take her seriously.
If not, why isn't the media calling for Palin to release these records?
"Antichrist is a false Christ, according to Matthew 24:24. He claims to be anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and claims to be qualified to do the work in God's name of redeeming God's people and renewing the creation. But he is not. He is a liar. His claims are false."
http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_3.html
Palin, like Bush, is the empty vessel the corporate masters will fill with whatever it takes to ensure 4 more years of corporate rule. She, like Bush, is Chance the gardener from Kosinski's apparently prophetic book, Being There.
Let's see Track joined as private and makes if he's lucky 24k/year. He could have attend a college with an ROTC program and enlisted as an officer @ probably 40-60k.
What kind of judgment, does that show as a parent, much less as an Executive?? Was the kid not able to get into college?? While I understand the desire to serve and make a difference, if you have the means, which the Palins do, then what rational reason is there??
Isn't it about time that the real bridge-killers stand up and take credit for their work? How about Sen. Tom Coburn (failed amendment, 10/18/2005)?
Letter to the editor - appeared in the Juneau Empire Sept. 15, 2008
I am a three-term Ketchikan City Council member. I am, and always have been, an opponent of the Gravina Bridge - but Gov. Sarah Palin is taking a cheap shot.
The purpose of the bridge was not a quicker way to the airport (which actually it wouldn't be), but a way to reach developable land. Ketchikan is 30 miles long and four blocks deep - jammed between the Pacific and mountains.
A large hydro project will come online in two years, but there are very few places suitable to build additional businesses or industry on this island.
The bridge was to open up a large expanse of flat land for development on Gravina Island. It was not a project created so greedy buffoons could drive to the airport. Palin knows this but continues to trot Ketchikan out for national ridicule.
What does it say about a leader who is willing to ridicule constituents to make political points?
Marty West
Ketchikan
Passing her baby around like said bong....
Outing her daughter's pregnancy...
While touting her ability, not to mention RIGHT to make an intensely private decision about her own......
While openly stating the rest of us are undeserving of that same right.
As unfit and undeserving of this office as mccain.
How's this for melodrama: I don't believe we will ever have a democratic president again.
Thanks!
If you are filled with dread, DO SOMETHING!
Go to his website, get a list of names to call, volunteer for voter registration, knock on doors, find something happening in your area, sign up and GO!
Each time a name is added to the voting rolls, I feel a deep satisfaction. ONE MORE voter the republicans can't have.
This woman is WOEFULLY UNQUALIFIED and DANGEROUSLY INEXPERIENCED! The total number of people who have ever voted for her in Alaska is less than one precinct in many of our large cities! The thought that she could quite possibly be stepping into the Presidency at a moment's notice is CHILLING!
The fact that John McCain chose her over many more qualified, wiser candidates is REPREHENSIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE! So much for putting "Country First"!
You nailed it.
Those designer eyeglasses are quite the cover!
What troubles me more than anything else about governor Palin is her lack of sensitivity toward animals.
I understand the pioneering spirit and the living off the land attitude of some Alaskans but I think it is time for them to join the rest of Americans as we enter the twenty first century.
Being a vegan for the last 30 years I personally do not think it is necessary or healthy to be living on Moose meat but the pros and cons of meat eating can wait for another day.
What I do find disturbing about the Moose hunting governor is her indifference to the beauty and majesty that is Alaska. "Lets drill anywhere baby."
Approving aerial hunting of Wolves to help increase the population of Moose and Caribou is a callous mindless attempt to control the forces of nature so she and her fellow hunters will have more game to shoot at.
The Wolf if raised from a puppy can be just like any pet dog, loving and loyal but Sarah Palin is unconcerned with the rights or feelings of animals, her priority is having fun killing one of god’s creatures.
For a person who is such a religious fanatic when it comes to protecting a fetus but so pro death when it comes to other forms of life, she should be aware that god created all creatures great and small.
Obama/Biden
People say Palin is "pretty" or "hot" but I dont see it. I don't think she is attractive at ALL (I'm a man age 59 On the contrary; she gives me the creeps.
I see a ruthless person in her supposedly "pretty" face. I think she is a liar, a religious fanatic, an enemy of the environment, and very dangerous. Some people get a rush out of killing animals, and she is one of them, and it is just sick.