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
Tags: election, election 2008, isn't lying against what God teaches?, Jesus Freaks, Palin
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?
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.
“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.
It’s all a joke, right? But wait. No one is laughing.
This is intensely insane.
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.
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/
Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin: “Wrong woman, Wrong message”
http://tinyurl.com/6aoxpt
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.
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! …”
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
(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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
So you only post the comments that agree with you.
tsk tsk Jon…. I am really disappointed…..but not suprised.
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.”
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.
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.
Bossy can’t even hear the name Palin without needing immediate bed rest: oy the coronary.
Ughhhh. That’s the first thing that comes to mind every time I hear “Palin”.
Sarah Palin: The Liar from Nowhere
http://www. opednews. com/articles/The-Liar-From-Nowhere-by-Gregory-Paul-080912-902. html
“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.
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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.
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.
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.”)
@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.
Amen to that!
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/fred-graver/knocking-on-ohios-door_b_125229.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!
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!
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!
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.
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.