Oh Ironies Abound
September 12th, 2008GOP 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.
“…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. o
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September 12th, 2008 at 9:00 am
But Charlie, you can see Russia from our coastline! And I’ve been to Mexico! Granted it was only 4 nights in Cancun, but that counts, right?
September 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
But wouldn’t you want to have a beer with her? Wouldn’t you want to have her over for a backyard BBQ with some friends? Wouldn’t you want to go watch a hockey game with her?
I think you’re overlooking the issues most important to Americans.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:32 am
“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. ”
indeed.
it’s turn into a personality contest. “we like palin therefore she must be qualified.”
frankly, i’m beginning to think the people in the GOP fundamentalist base are basically, well, dumb.
somebody, PLEASE, prove me wrong.
what distresses me most is just how far the GOP seems to have moved away from it’s roots. small govt. strong defense. individual rights. they talk left and right about freedom, and want more and more to take as much of it away as they can.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:40 am
It’s all a joke, right? But wait. No one is laughing.
This is intensely insane.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am
this one was my favorite of the Bush appointees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmMGYv3mag
What a freakin tool he was…
Minds are like parachutes, they don’t work unless they’re open.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
McCain’s choice of Palin has me reeling, too. It’s absolutely absurd. But I’m not so sure I can fully back Obama, either. Ron Paul should have been nominated. He’s the one politician that actually makes sense. It really shouldn’t be one side or the other and I am one who will be voting for a third party candidate this time around.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/10/ron-paul-endorses-the-third-party-field/
September 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin: “Wrong woman, Wrong message”
http://tinyurl.com/6aoxpt
September 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Not that I’m arguing for either, but Obama and Biden combined for 200 Million in earmarks last year. Money that could have just as easily gone for some of those socialist programs that they want to enact.
I just wish we could find a candidate that was actually good for our country. The ones we got now aren’t all that great.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
One of my favorite blogs, which disappeared for a while, but has recently resurfaced, is fafblog, which contains deliciously odd and biting satire of the Bush administration, the GOP, and to a lesser degree, American politics in general. There was a great recent post on Sarah Palin that I really think you will enjoy.
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-sarah-palin-sarah-palin.html
Just a taste: “MAVERICKNESS.
As a moose-hunting Jesus-fearing hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose, Sarah Palin isn’t some petty Washington bureaucrat. She’s a petty Alaskan bureaucrat, and she’s gonna shake things up in Washington! …”
September 12th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Finally did the registration thing so that I could comment for the first time on your site . . .
I’m totally with you on the Palin thing. It makes no sense whatsoever, and it infuriates me.
I do take issue with all of us Christians being lumped into the GOP fundamentalist group. I’m a Christian but pro-Obama all the way. I think he stands for more of the ideals that Jesus stood for, actually, and I am one Christian who is horribly embarrassed by the religious right and how it has turned out that Christian = GOP. Not so! I promise.
Thanks, though, for continuing to post your thoughts on this election season. You and Dooce have an intelligent voice that truly encourages me when I get down and out about all this absurdity.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Agree, and I share your outrage.
However, as a political strategist, I believe that the Dems must pull the gloves off and set middle-of-the-road voters straight, and it MUST come from a woman.
Specifically, Hillary.
Hillary must say loudly and clearly to each and every person who voted for her in the primary, “The only thing that Sarah Palin and I have in common is a chromosome.”
And then she must say it again. Louder.
Unless that happens, all the folks who are voting purely for gender in the middle of the political road will default to this joke of a woman.
But absent of that, I’d be willing to debate this twit myself on energy. I’ll bet you a thousand dollars I’d win.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:34 am
This was a great, great, great post.
I’m pretty religious. I stay at home with our kids, and we homeschool. It completely grosses me out that because of those three things, I’m supposed to be conservative.
Fuck.That.Noise.
I believe in separation of church and state, period. I think Jesus was a liberal. And I KNOW He was a community organizer.
It’s gonna be a close one, folks. For the first time ever, I gave money to a politician- more than I could afford, but I SURELY can’t afford these fucking warmongers in office.
OBAMA ‘08!
September 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I’m glad you finally posted something. I was starting to think you had vanished and we were going to see Heather’s face all over the news.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I am very suprised. I realize that you and these others are young, but I find it hard to believe that such talented smart people really believe that Obama could possible be good for us.
Do you really want to become socialists? With the government deciding everything for us? Do you ever listen to anything besides the mainstream news? which is one side only?
Someone needs to say that all this Palin bashing sounds like sour grapes to me. Poor NObama (hopefully nobama) is going to be defeated because he wasn’t smart enough to pick a woman or at least a decent person for a running mate, but because McCain did, you feel the need to rip them to shreds.
You all should really do your research and not just follow the liberal media circus.
I am so disappointed.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
(more preaching to the choir)
i want my president to have studied law, to be smarter than me, to have traveled to more countries than me, and believe in global warming… and evolution, and want to talk to enemies instead of using silence as a “punishment”, i want a rhodes scholar, an arugula eating, basketball playing dad (or mom) with an equally intelligent and worldly partner who think about their kid’s future with every decision they make…someone who consistently takes the high road, and focuses on the issues…
call me a damned elitest
but i don’t want my president to be sitting around and drinking a beer with me
September 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
From the Guardian in Great Britain — I’ve been sending this to everybody I know.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/12/sarahpalin.feminism
We. Aren’t. That. Dumb.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I watched the excerpts of the solitary Palin interview. That’s some scary stuff she is spouting there. (i.e. hostilities and saber rattling with Russia)
Look, all I know about foreign policy I gleaned from a cursory viewing of The Princess Bride, but even I know that getting into a land war in Asia is a bad idea.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I am sad that I ever called myself a Republican or conservative. Not because I don’t hold to some of the basic economic and political views professed by the GOP, but because honor and integrity have been so profoundly ignored by the party’s leaders. Ms. Palin is woefully under qualified to be in any executive office, much less a heartbeat from Presidency.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I am a feminist. I think that woman can do ANYTHING men can do, with the exceptions being primarily biological.
Sarah Palin wants to take away my rights to do what I want with my own uterus. Any woman who votes McCain/Palin is voting against their own reproductive freedom
I am pro-choice; this does not mean I am pro-abortion. But I refuse to give the government any say in what I do with my body, even if I don’t ever choose to get pregnant or to have an abortion.
The Hillary supporters who have swung to McCain are basically following this logic:
“Someone stole my shoes, so I’m going to cut off my legs.”
Wake the f*ck up, ladies. And this is coming from one of you.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I heart your twitter on Matt Damon’s thoughts on Palin. The McCain/Palin combo is even scarier than Bush/Cheney and who’d a thunk that would ever be possible????
I’m crossing my fingers the vast majority of the American electorate has half a brain and will never vote for these assholes. If it happens, America will not only be a laughing stock but it will probably mean the absolute end of America as she’s ever been known by her people and the rest of the world. I shudder to think of your rich and beautiful country being turned into one big war-mongering pork-barrelling illiterate bible camp (which seems to be the dream of Palin). Ugh!
September 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I’m sure Sarah Palin did very well in school — her interview with Gibson from last night shows that she’s very good at memorization. When you’ve been told what to say, you just keep repeating it over and over and over again until the person gives up asking, right?
Forget about the stupid lipstick on the pig, we’re being sold a pig in a poke here by the GOP and we’re going to pay a very steep price indeed if we fall for it.
I am about at the end of my rope with this election and there’s still so long to go.
September 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
So you only post the comments that agree with you.
tsk tsk Jon…. I am really disappointed…..but not suprised.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Darlin, I couldn’t agree with you more…but only on your first comment. I hardly think Jon posts only the comments that agree with him.
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?
I’m educating myself…I wish more people would do the same so that maybe change WILL happen in the future. It has to. I may not be the most intelligent person on this planet, but I can see through this media circus, the lies, the pettiness, the attempt by government to take away our freedoms.
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From Ron Paul’s website (RonPaul.com)
“Ron Paul has taken a tremendous risk by directly attacking the two party system. He expressed in clear words what we, the silent majority, had quietly resigned ourselves to a long time ago: The presidential election is a well designed charade that makes us believe we have a real choice, when in reality both parties are virtually identical and controlled by the same interests. They squabble over minor details while completely agreeing with each other on the elitist agenda that has taken away our freedoms and brought our country to the brink of financial ruin.
The time has come to stand up and eliminate the establishment’s monopoly on our lives, our money, our health and our freedom. Let’s take our country back and transcend the two party system so we can have a real choice over our future.”
September 13th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Amen Brahda Jon!
I enjoy reading your posts on the current political landscape. Keep ‘em coming, please.
To christine 1127: I just read your comment. Yours being the only one I’ve read. And um . . . God bless Ron Paul and all but . . . homeboy is crazy. He’s fun! He voted against the war! He has lots of theories! He even seemed nice! But never would I have trusted him to run this country.
It’s time for Barack Obama.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I don’t know — did you guys notice that little gaffe when Charlie asked her about the Bush doctrine and she comes back with this winner:
“In what respect, Charlie?”
And then she proceeds to give this rambling, drawn out answer that has nothing to do with the Bush doctrine. Then he asks point blank if she thinks we have the right to invade countries like Pakistan in cross-border attacks and she just starts spewing out random crap about terrorists and Islamic extremism.