HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The spawn of Satan got BOOED. HAAAAAAAAAA!
Posts Tagged ‘republicans
12
Oct
08
even the hockey moms hate her!
06
Sep
08
McBush!
This is one of my favorite things on the Internet right now. 
Hooray! 7 FUN things! Sarah Palin is just so much fun!
#7. During her six years as mayor of Wasilla, the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%.
#6. She attempted to fire the City Librarian because the Librarian would not remove requested books from the Library that Palin wanted removed.
#5. After she ended her run as mayor, her city’s debt was $22 million. It was zero before she got into office.
#4. She was a PTA mom that was hardly involved, other mothers have told the press. When her 19-year-old son started elementary school.
#3. Her tax cuts were for the majority beneficial only to large corporations. For normal residents, she was kind enough to give the gift of a regressive sales tax that included food.
#2. She kept her pregnancy a secret from both her children and her parents for seven months. They found out when the news found out.
#1. She fired Wasilla’s police chief because, as she told the press, he “intimidated” her.
Lots more fun facts here!
What a primo article by Roger Simon. McCain’s campaign asked the media to stop inquiring about Palin, as it was disruptive to the campaign. Ok. Sorry, McCain. Anyway, read Roger Simon’s great article below:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
Why the media should apologize
By Roger Simon
“On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.
Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”
See Also
John McCain’s idealistic dilemma
Palin wows GOP, puts Dems on notice
Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist
Politico’s guide to the conventions
But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:
First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.
Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).
Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”
Why go there? What trees does that plant?
Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.
Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”
Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)
The official theme of the convention’s third day was “prosperity,” but the unofficial theme was “the media are really, really awful.”
Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying “I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody,” discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.
“I’d like to thank the elite media for doing something,” Huckabee said, “that, quite frankly, I didn’t think could be done: unify the Republican Party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?
No, that is simply the cynical, media view.
Though as Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s just never enough to keep up.”
I couldn’t resist that. For which I am sorry.”
So what did I think of Old McDonald’s speech?
You know what? It wasn’t terrible. But it wasn’t great either. It was good. Just, good.
The problem I’m having with it was that he did little more than make very broad statements about change, and did nothing more than tell his POW story yet again. Yes, McCain, we all know you’re a great American, thanks. But now it’s the big leagues and you’ve gotten your nomination… this story is not why people should vote for you. McCain played his entire speech very, very safe. He had no shock, no wit, no insight into anything other than, for the most part, “I am America and so can you.” That’s basically a summary of his speech. Thanks, Colbert.
Lots of vague talk about change. Nothing really all that interesting. The last thing McCain needs is to give off the image of uninteresting.
A safe speech, a nice speech, a semi-charismatic speech with a few elderly slip-ups. But McCain definitely hasn’t stepped up yet. The end of his speech did make me smile, I’ll admit, and it was a great finish. And he did well to distance himself from Bush.
Good job, McCain. And nice try winning over the evangelicals with all the talk about being God’s children, but this isn’t the 700 Club. I applaud McCain for a good effort, but this election might end up being another JFK vs. Nixon act, with the young’n far outshining the old man. If it even gets to that. Hell, it’s going to end up being Obama vs. Palin, with Biden and McCain just going along for the ride.
Oh, and I can’t end without sharing this gem.
Yes sir, Old McDonald wants to distance himself from Bush, but I’m not going to let him!
this just cracks me up.
look to the left of everyone’s favorite 30-minutes-of-fame political analyst.
some guys clearly had their priorities in order at the DNC, holding up a sign that says “BRING BACK CRYSTAL PEPSI.” hahahahahahaha.
you see, GOP? some of our people are just as stupid as yours.
Recent Comments