Oh Ironies Abound

GOP rhetoric as told by Sarah Palin while being interviewed by Charlie Gibson:

“…it is about putting government back on the side of the people…”

Really? By lining up for earmarks and then lying about it later? By being vindictive and misusing her paltry power for personal reasons and lying about it later? Her record isn’t matching her rhetoric in the least. She’s giving the current president a run for his money with baldfaced lies. Just what the country needs.

John McCain on Sarah Palin:

“…Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.…”

And this circus of absurdity is meant to make people vote for a McCain/Palin ticket? Are you serious?

The fundamentalist christian voice in the U.S. has had eight years to show their leadership skills. They blew it.

To wit: get everybody riled up over stupid stuff and then slowly and surely erode the constitution.

As a country, the United States should have learned that fundamentalists make for horrible leaders. They routinely pick the wrong people for any number of jobs and seek to bring out the worst in human nature. They give the incompetent power and position where none is warranted. They fail when people depend on them. I don’t care what your political views are if you can’t honestly assess the landscape: McCain chose the wrong person to run so that he could pander to the very element that needs to be run out of Washington D.C.

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  • http://www.iambossy.com/ BOSSY

    Bossy can’t even hear the name Palin without needing immediate bed rest: oy the coronary.

  • Andrea

    Ughhhh. That’s the first thing that comes to mind every time I hear “Palin”.

    Sarah Palin: The Liar from Nowhere

    http:​/​/​www.​ opedn​ews.​ com/​artic​les/​The-​Liar-​From-​Nowhe​re-​by-​Grego​ry-​Paul-​08091​2-​902.​ html

  • Lesley

    “christine1127 Says:
    I’m so completely fed up with the whole election process. As I said in my previous comment…there ARE other options, people. Why do we have to only choose between Obama and McCain? ”

    Why do you have to choose between the two? In this particular election, the risks are much too great that dividing the democratic vote will mean the election of another administration like Bush’s. Do you really want to risk that after the past eight years? McCain and Palin are even worse than Bush/Cheney. McCain’s associating with the same lobbyists and corrupt sons of bitches that Bush has working for him. He’s completely sold out. Palin adds the extremist element of fundie Christianity. Although Bush pandered to the fundies for votes he was never really one of them. Neither was Cheney. But Palin most definitely is. She is also one of the least educated and informed candidates for VP in the history of the US.

    Sure, you can pretend this election isn’t loaded with potential peril, but you do so at great risk. Unless, that is, you don’t mind the Republicans and aren’t at all concerned with the kind of gov’t you’ve had since 2000.

    ——————————–

    As for Darlin’s whine at blurb, I’m puzzled. If blurb was actually censoring contrarians, why is your comment visible? Also, if you have a point to make, then make it. If you want to say you support McCain and love Bush, go ahead. No one’s threatened. No one’s stopping you.

    Whining like you just did may be tolerable from five year olds, but it’s cringe-inducing in adults.

  • http://faydean.typepad.com faydean

    You might not like Sarah Palin, but I’m betting she wouldn’t misspell/misuse a word like this.…

    ” She’s giving the current president a run for his money with baldfaced lies. Just what the country needs.”

    Last time I checked, it was BOLDfaced.

    Love how you don’t post anything that conflicts with your rather skewed views so I won’t count on seeing this comment posted.

  • zippydav

    Oh, good god, @faydean — with all that is at stake in this election, you’re going to pick on one word? One that I have seen both ways, btw. So if you don’t have anything worthwhile to add to the discussion, how about you just pull your finger away from the “submit comment” button. And if you do have something to add that will move the discussion forward, it might be helpful if you (and @darlin) actually READ the comments first, so as not to look like an ass when posting. (“Love how you don’t post anything that conflicts with your rather skewed views so I won’t count on seeing this comment posted.” “So you only post the comments that agree with you. tsk tsk Jon…. I am really disappointed…..but not suprised.”)

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @faydean:

    bald-faced
    adjective
    1 (of an animal) having white markings on the face.
    2 shameless and undisguised; bare-faced : a bald-faced lie.

    Last time I checked, you are a little worked up because I disagree with you.

    Love how you project. Also: GOP = liars. Also, you are wrong about BOLDfaced:

    boldface |ˈbōldˌfās|
    noun
    a typeface with thick strokes.
    adjective
    printed or displayed in such a typeface.

    So, in short, I’m right, you are wrong and you need to reconsider your political leanings. Suck it.

  • Candice

    Amen to that!

  • habitual

    I love that people expect you to post information in your posts that conflicts with your POV… people, if it conflicts with his point of view he probably thinks it’s shit, so there ya go.

    I think everyone — and I do mean everyone– needs to campaign in a battleground state. Here’s a great article on the difference it can make:
    http://​www​.huffingtonpost​.com/​f​r​e​d​-​g​r​a​v​e​r​/​k​n​o​c​k​i​n​g​-​o​n​-​o​h​i​o​s​-​d​o​o​r​_​b​_​1​2​5​2​2​9.html
    PA
    NH
    NM
    MI
    OH
    NV
    I mean, Utah might be a lost cause (kind of like MA for the GOP), but Nevada is not that far?!
    Imagine waking up the day after the election (remember how close the last two election were, and how the GOP stole the election and stole votes?) thinking you could have done more.….

    Keep up the good work Blurb!

  • Kari-Mel

    LMFAO — go John!

    Faydean and Darlin — get a clue! While you are both so worried about your posts “appearing” because you disagree — you should be worried that they actually DID! You look like complete MORONS!

  • kmhicks

    Hi Jon.
    Put me in the boat with the Christians voting for Obama. Please don’t think we are all right-wing uber conservatives hoping to democratize the world! Not so. How about Christians for feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, educating our children? That’s the party I want to be a part of, and that’s the party I see Obama leading.
    Obama 08!

  • http://faydean.typepad.com faydean

    The one thing I am not is a person who can’t stand corrected. And to you Jon, I will say sorry for that correction. I do very much disagree with your political views and wish you’d stop being so harsh in your comments, but then again it is your blog, so do as you wish. The one thing I do admire about you and Heather is your ability, at times, to see the error of your own ways (I refer to her recent apology for the tone of the post she wrote about this whole political thing). Though I was really irked with that particular post, I totally admired her saying she was sorry for the tone she used. Been meaning to drop her line about that, but I’m sure she’s busy enough reading all the other silly mail she gets.

    Anyway, last week my nephew hung himself. And to be honest, I have not been myself for days. I read your blog and Heather’s alot. I think I was looking for someone to get pissed at. Unfortunately you were my target this day where I seriously (and I even looked it up which is pathetic…amazing what grief and lack of sleep can do) thought you had misused that word. Someone said I should rethink my send button finger. They would be right, especially then.

    I wrote a very long comment to Heather on her political post, about my nephew in fact (it had happened the previous night I do believe). I was out of my mind…ranting…alone waiting for his organs to be taken for transplant while my husband was with him. Now, in truth, I can’t recall why I even wanted to comment. Same with why I even commented on your post. It was just an impulse and a silly and completely wrong to boot. Though, in truth, I can’t say I’ve ever thought I heard bald-faced…I’m southern, you gotta throw me a bone. You live with one, you know we hear things MUCH differently down here, ha,ha.

    Anyway, you’re a liberal. I’m a reformed one. I have my reasons for that. YOu have yours. Really I could care less…I just wish people would stop being so nasty about it all and keep things in perspective. I guess my experience of last week, which was simply horrific, has made me realize the most important thing is to be kind to people. So, with that, I am sucking it…I was a moron and I generally try and have better sense. You and your wife provide me alot of laughs and entertainment. I guess last week when I was sitting here alone during all that horrible stuff I was hoping for something more lighthearted and just got taken back when it was not what I hoped for.

    I stand corrected and ain’t to shamed to admit it, LOL. Seriously though, it’s BALD faced. God bless, I never ever thought that. I’m still sayin it the other way :) . Oh, and I like Palin, nanee nanee boo, boo.

  • http://faydean.typepad.com faydean

    P.S.

    I hope you honestly sense my apology in that comment. It sounded a bit sarcastic, but totally wasn’t. Btw, I did look up both words on webster​.com and I swear you can use both versions and it mean the same thing. Seriously, I know you’re right in your use, but please humor a girl whose had a seriously bad couple of weeks and look up boldfaced on there. It gives the meaning as brazen and impudent…which I can totally see as correct too. I guess I’d like to think I still have a couple of good brain cells left, if anyone could agree with me, lol.

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