Posts Tagged ‘sarah palin

12
Oct
08

even the hockey moms hate her!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

The spawn of Satan got BOOED.  HAAAAAAAAAA!

10
Sep
08

matt damon saying something worth hearing

I’ve never disliked Matt Damon, but at the same time, I’ve always just pushed him to the back of my celebrity focus. I never saw the Bourne movies, so I thus don’t really care too much about him. But man, did this guy rise up on my list today. He was able to articulate basically every feeling I have about Sarah Palin without attacking, nitpicking, or giving snarky insults. Maybe I’ll go rent your movies now, Matty.

And yet it baffles me how people can continue to throw aside these concerns and actually believe that she’s the right choice to be President if McCain dies.

06
Sep
08

McBush!

This is one of my favorite things on the Internet right now. :)

05
Sep
08

5 people who bug me

#5. Eddie Murphy
Are you there, God? It’s me, Eddie Murphy. Please, send me the sense to make some good career choices. I don’t even know what’s wrong with me anymore, honestly. I can’t decide if I’m doing kids’ movies (which, by the way, the kids don’t even see), or if I’m going for the adult comedies (which, by the way, the adults don’t even see). Why does his Heavenly Body tease me so, with a semi-comeback with “Dreamgirls?” Why did I give up the momentum that came from that movie? Why am I such an idiot lately, and why did I lose the respect of so many people? Please send me a good script, and I promise I’ll consider it before taking the option to executive produce “Norbit 2.” Amen.

#4. Stephen King
I don’t know if anyone’s read his column in Entertainment Weekly but Stephen King has the ugliest mug to put on a column each week. I don’t know why he writes a column for EW, because honestly, there’s nothing about his pop culture analysis that makes me like him. Plus, he’s Stephen King. I really don’t care what he has to say. He brought “It” into my life, and for that, I will never forgive him.

#3. Cindy McCain
Her outfit at the RNC on Tuesday cost about $300,000, according to my boy Perez. There’s just something about her that screams, “I’m married to a septuagenarian, can’t you guess?” I do NOT want my First Lady wearing something that costs more than a modest house, nor do I want someone who looks like Cruella de Vil. Poor girl. It’s like she’s a 53-year-old trapped in a 54-year-old’s body. :(

#2. Chris Matthews
Hey, I’ve always liked Chris Matthews. I really have. But the other day I turned on Hardball and no more than 15 seconds after he and Pat Buchanan exchanged friendly greetings did Matthews immediately start lashing out at Buchanan, giving the poor old man 30 seconds of trash before allowing him to utter out an answer. Matthews started out as a great political watchdog, but now he’s just as obnoxious as Larry King… he knows he’s got the reputation, and now he’s just annoyingly vicious, as if that’s what’s expected of him. You bug me this week, Chris Matthews.

#1. Sarah Palin
I suppose it’s to nobody’s surprise that Sarah Palin takes the number one spot this week. After all, it was a mere 7 days ago that I first heard her name, and what great friends we’ve become since! Gosh, she’s such a darn great girl. And so pretty, too, for a hockey mom, that is! You know what they say about hockey moms! The only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is lipstick! What an absolutely absurd and hilarious wit! Gosh, she’s so great.

You all bug the hell out of me this week. We’ll see who shows up on the list again next Friday… I’m looking at you, hockey mom.

05
Sep
08

7 FUN things i bet you didn’t know about sarah palin!

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!

05
Sep
08

Why the media should apologize to Sarah Palin

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.”

04
Sep
08

McCain: suddenly religious and increasingly elderly

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!

03
Sep
08

Sarah Palin: THE TINY TERROR. My real analysis.

Ok, so, I’m over the anger I had when I first heard Sarah Palin’s pathetic excuse for a speech. And I’m embarrassed by my first post. Want my real idea of who Sarah Palin is? Real, articulate, and with plenty of fact to back me up.

This is a woman who cares so much about introducing herself to a world that has spent the last six days investigating every aspect of her life that she tries, yet again, to use the “special needs” angle. When she was introducing her children, I was cringing in anticipation for a statement like, “…and this is Trig, who has Down Syndrome.” And yet, she didn’t say that… she waited until afterwards to bring it up. Yes, lovely, we all know, and I’m terribly sorry. But I have no respect for people who use angles like that to win over other people. Maybe I’d sympathize with your little plea for votes if Obama was a big mean special needs-hating machine. But he’s not, and so please don’t use tragedy to attract sympathy, Ms. Palin.

This is a woman who claims that “country comes first” for Republicans, yet she had no problem insulting the women of America by assuming that they would vote for her simply because Hillary wasn’t in the running anymore. I’m sorry, but Hillary’s 18 million supporters are not going to switch over to Palin’s agenda simply because she’s a woman. Gender does not a true political vote ensure. I like to think that the 18 million DEMOCRATS have enough dignity to STAY DEMOCRATS, and have more sense than to go, “Oh, a woman? Wow! Paul, come read this — it’s a woman! Let’s vote her instead! She’s got Hillary’s hips!” If Ms. Palin thinks she can dupe the women of America, I’m wondering what she thinks of the rest of us.

This is a woman who calls for “country over politics.” I’m sorry, but does she even know why she’s in the VP seat to begin with? It’s not for her years of experience or her huge popularity with the voting public (who didn’t even know she existed until last Friday). It’s all politics, and it’s infuriating to watch Ms. Palin pretend that McCain’s campaign truly cares about the country when it first tried to manipulate America with the selection of her as VP. There is a difference between a strategic pick, and a selfish one. Obama’s pick of Biden fills the void of inexperience. The only thing McCain’s pick fills is the lack of ovaries. It’s a despicable show of politics, and if McCain truly, truly cared about this country, he would have chosen someone who heaven knows would do a better job in the White House than Ms. Palin.

This is a woman who has contradicted her positions countless times with the projects she’s supported and the laws she’s pursued. I’m willing to forgive the petty things — her daughter’s pregnancy, her husband’s affiliation with the group that favored Alaska’s secession — but I can’t ignore the big ones, like Palin’s constant plea to be seen as the future of reform, when she’s supported earmarks that she so firmly said she was against time and time again.

Don’t get me wrong. Sarah Palin seems to have a happy marriage, a beautiful family, and an intellect unmatched by a lot of players in politics today. But this is a woman who is better suited running for a city councilwoman, a PTA president, or a spot in the House. She is NOT who I want to give all control to when McCain keels over before his term is filled. Give her access to nuclear weapons and I’m terrified for what she’ll do.

I can’t stand to see Sarah Palin become McCainified. She was someone who could have been promising if she climbed the steps to the top, but instead, she just took the elevator, and hasn’t had time to rectify her kinks. So instead, she just covers them up.

Call me insensitive, call me inarticulate, and call me a hypocrite — I know the Democrats have their faults, too. But please, if you call me those things, at least call Sarah Palin them, too.

03
Sep
08

Dike’s view

Seeing as I’m a moderate in the political arena, I can’t let snarc needlessly hate on Sarah Palin.  I was very impressed by her speech, she both showed she is her own person while supporting McCain very well.  That being said, I am still a bit wary considering she has minimal experience with almost everything involved in the presidential race.

I still don’t know who I am going to vote for. 

-dike

01
Sep
08

the only reason I like diddy

Yes, Diddy, I’m SURE they have some black people in Alaska.

And THIS is what I want to show EVERY SINGLE DUMBASS VOTING FOR MCCAIN.

Thank you Nicky.




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