bmwracer wrote:
It is... McCain's turned the election into some kinda surreal beauty contest. :shakehead:
The ol' coot made a political decision plain and simple...there is no fuggin' way anybody could argue she's ready for that job...I mean gimme a break, if you've read how little she was vetted by the McCain campaign itself...it's absolutely absurd.
I'm getting sick of hearing about her already. All this "small town" bullshit she says...
...like how the Iraq War is a Mission from God....well what the hell do you think those radical Islamic fundamentalists believe...the SAME F*CKING THING! We need not go elsewhere for small-minded backward thinkers...they become VP candidates.
The lack of savoir faire w/ respect to foreign affairs is frightening....and then Laura Bush says because Alaska is CLOSE to Russia it gives Palin foreign affairs credentials. What a F*CKING IDIOT!!!!!!
The lack of savoir faire w/ respect to foreign affairs is frightening....and then Laura Bush says because Alaska is CLOSE to Russia it gives Palin foreign affairs credentials. What a F*CKING IDIOT!!!!!!
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad (and dangerous!) :shakehead:
What worries me is that far too many people seem to believe all that cr*p.
I am grateful for the wealth of information I have access to, which allows me to assess world politics from all kind of angles.
McCain's people have decided to make this a campaign of personality rather than issues.
I'd like to hear her answer to the question: Why do you think the American voters are morons?
Her only talking points so far have been:
I stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.
I cut the state budget by selling the gov. jet on ebay, I fired the Governor's chef, and I took a voluntary pay cut.
I have nothing to do with lobbyists.
Since each statement is an easily demonstrable lie;
She campaigned for the Bridge to Nowhere, (there's video proof on YouTube) and in the end took the money and built the road to nowhere.
She didn't sell the jet on ebay. She tried, but in the end the state had to hire an aviation broker to sell it.
She didn't fire the Chef. She just assigned her to a different branch of state gov. Alaska still pays for the Chef to cook for Palin's family, it just comes out of a different tax payers pocket.
She took a pay cut... but she's also been paying herself traveling perdiem, even when she's home. So it looks like she took a cut in pay, but she's actually been getting more money than her original base salary.
And she hired a big time firm of lobbyists to get earmarks put in several bills that brought hundreds of millions of dollars to Alaska.
It's all small stuff. But it's all lies to make her seem more impressive to the voters.
And since they're all lies that can easily be checked... and she keeps repeating them... she obviously thinks Americans are morons.
So gee Sarah... why do you have so little respect for the intelligence of the American voter?
McCain's people have decided to make this a campaign of personality rather than issues.
I'd like to hear her answer to the question: Why do you think the American voters are morons?
Her only talking points so far have been:
I stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.
I cut the state budget by selling the gov. jet on ebay, I fired the Governor's chef, and I took a voluntary pay cut.
I have nothing to do with lobbyists.
Since each statement is an easily demonstrable lie;
She campaigned for the Bridge to Nowhere, (there's video proof on YouTube) and in the end took the money and built the road to nowhere.
She didn't sell the jet on ebay. She tried, but in the end the state had to hire an aviation broker to sell it.
She didn't fire the Chef. She just assigned her to a different branch of state gov. Alaska still pays for the Chef to cook for Palin's family, it just comes out of a different tax payers pocket.
She took a pay cut... but she's also been paying herself traveling perdiem, even when she's home. So it looks like she took a cut in pay, but she's actually been getting more money than her original base salary.
And she hired a big time firm of lobbyists to get earmarks put in several bills that brought hundreds of millions of dollars to Alaska.
It's all small stuff. But it's all lies to make her seem more impressive to the voters.
And since they're all lies that can easily be checked... and she keeps repeating them... she obviously thinks Americans are morons.
So gee Sarah... why do you have so little respect for the intelligence of the American voter?
Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee has words for Sarah Palin.
(CNN) – Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee was known for keeping a low-key profile on Capitol Hill, but the Republican -turned -Independent is making waves with his exceedingly blunt comments on newly-minted Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin:
She's a "cocky wacko," he told a Washington think tank earlier this week.
Chafee, the lone Senate Republican to vote against the Iraq war who endorsed Obama's White House bid earlier this year, told an audience at the New America Foundation in Washington Tuesday that Palin's selection has energized Obama backers.
"People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' To see this cocky wacko up there," he said.
He also described McCain's candidacy as "lacklusterh and described the selection of Palin as a throwing "this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election."
Chafee, whose father served as senator from Rhode Island from 1976 until his death in 1999, narrowly lost his re-election bid two years ago to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse amid that election cyclefs wave of anti-Republican sentiment.
Chafee made a stir earlier this year when he directly called out Democrats who supported the Iraq war and were now expressing regret for their vote.
gI find it surprising now, in 2008, how many Democrats are running for president after shirking their constitutional duty to check and balance this president,h he wrote in his January 2008 book, gAgainst the Tide.h gBeing wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill."
Exceprt from Yahoo! News ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/palin_interview ):
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Palin, 44, has been Alaska's governor for less than two years and before that was a small-town mayor. She was McCain's surprise selection for the No. 2 slot on the ticket, raising questions about her readiness to serve in the White House, particularly during wartime.
McCain has defended her qualifications, citing her command of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska's proximity to Russia.
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Well jeez, McCain, Russia's right next door to Alaska, I guess that makes Palin the hands-down expert on that country... Now why the hell didn't GW call her to the Situation Room when Russia invaded Georgia to get her take on it???? :shakehead:
McCain has defended her qualifications, citing her command of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska's proximity to Russia.
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Well jeez, McCain, Russia's right next door to Alaska, I guess that makes Palin the hands-down expert on that country... Now why the hell didn't GW call her to the Situation Room when Russia invaded Georgia to get her take on it???? :shakehead:
Incredible reasoning. :crazy:
You feel my angst (and that of millions of Americans), bro.
By that rationale because I've lived in L.A. for most of my life and eaten many tacos so I am now an expert in Mexican and Latin-American affairs...in fact the State Department has a special desk for me for Central American Affairs...I am known in diplomatic circles as "Nacho Libre."
You feel my angst (and that of millions of Americans), bro.
By that rationale because I've lived in L.A. for most of my life and eaten many tacos so I am now an expert in Mexican and Latin-American affairs...in fact the State Department has a special desk for me for Central American Affairs...I am known in diplomatic circles as "Nacho Libre."
:lol:
And you've drunk enough sake to be a Japanese salaryman ;)
And you've drunk enough sake to be a Japanese salaryman ;)
You must be psychic my friend...for tonight I did drink a lot of sake! In fact I drank a whole bottle of Kubota Manju (720ml) at dinner...it's one of the most famous sakes in all of Japan. It has won numerous awards.
You must be psychic my friend...for tonight I did drink a lot of sake! In fact I drank a whole bottle of Kubota Manju (720ml) at dinner...it's one of the most famous sakes in all of Japan. It has won numerous awards.
bmwracer wrote: Now why the hell didn't GW call her to the Situation Room when Russia invaded Georgia to get her take on it???? :shakehead:
Because when Bush heard Georgia had been invaded, the first thing he thought was, "I better get ahold of Keith Jackson. Without Georgia, my BCS pool is totally screwed!!" [/list:u]
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