THIS. For the love of God, this.
Alaska Governor Palin to resign
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THIS. For the love of God, this.
whatever you say shes the hotted Vice Presidential candidate the US has ever seen.
If this airhead SP is even remotely in the running for the presidency the next time I swear to God there truly is a thing such as "conspiracy theories." The fact that McCain picked her in the first place was evidence that McCain threw in the towel and gave it to Obama.
I never liked her,
she sucks.:thefinger
she sucks.:thefinger
That won't happen. I cannot say her even getting a whiff at the 2012 Iowa Caucus, let alone the primaries.
More impersonations or not coming from either Tina Fey or the always sexy one in Lisa Ann,
I predict Sarah will become the next Phyllis George and trade off football thoughts with the talking heads
either for CBS' The NFL Today or for Fox NFL Sunday.
And posing for Playboy--it is almost the equivalent of trying to win the Powerball lottery.
Not going to happen.:2 cents:
I predict Sarah will become the next Phyllis George and trade off football thoughts with the talking heads
either for CBS' The NFL Today or for Fox NFL Sunday.And posing for Playboy--it is almost the equivalent of trying to win the Powerball lottery.
Not going to happen.:2 cents:
I think it was Karl Rove who *directed* McCain to select Palin. Remember Ninety, McCain wanted to go with Joe Lieberman.
Karl Rove--the architect of a 20% approval rating President...yeah, he's the guy who people should listen to....
I just wanted a smart one, black or white, I dont know if he will be the right pick despite the times and a very tough situation at hand. I am hopefull though!
A future female president is fine by me, but not palin...
I think it is very likely that she will get a talk show on cable tv, syndicated tv or maybe radio.
No. The majority of Americans voted for someone who could articulate his beliefs, who was actually going to fill in the Iraq blank check, send more troops to Afghanistan, be less partisan, try and fix healthcare, invest in the US' infrastructure, etc. and that guy just happened to be black (or mulatto if you prefer).
The same idiots who would support Palin are the same ones who would vote for Dan Quayle, the 20-25 percent of hard righters that would vote for anything with an (R) beside it...no matter what stupidity came out of it's mouth.
Palin IS the female version of Quayle...and woman or otherwise she is just as big of a political bumbling idiot as he was/is.
George w Bush was the President Dan Quayle would have been. They had the same syntax problems in their speeches and both had a exclusive direct line to God's wishes.
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Moderated
I must admit, I, like most of us, to this day don't know a great deal about this woman other than she has been the recipient of slimy - rancorous & vitriolic hate campaigns that have been attacking her person since the day the news hit that she would be John McCain's running mate for '08.
The Governor of Alaska, "appears" to be an energetic, vivacious, motivated as well as an enthusiastic political figure who loves her family and supports the rule of law in that, she believes that America is a Constitutional Republic not a mob rule democracy.
I wish her the best !
Almost forgot - The Palin family have a son, of which I regret not knowing his name, whose serving in the military at this time, so, I am thankful for his service to the country and I certainly hope that he, as well as all of those who are courageous enough to serve, would return home in the best of health. :hatsoff:
:yahoo: :jester: Joe Biden ? :rofl::laugh:
He was selected to be a dunce cap kind of vice pres.
What gives ?
The Governor of Alaska, "appears" to be an energetic, vivacious, motivated as well as an enthusiastic political figure who loves her family and supports the rule of law in that, she believes that America is a Constitutional Republic not a mob rule democracy.
I wish her the best !
Almost forgot - The Palin family have a son, of which I regret not knowing his name, whose serving in the military at this time, so, I am thankful for his service to the country and I certainly hope that he, as well as all of those who are courageous enough to serve, would return home in the best of health. :hatsoff:
:yahoo: :jester: Joe Biden ? :rofl::laugh:
He was selected to be a dunce cap kind of vice pres.
What gives ?
Thanks, Sarah, for proving that you really are as big of a bimbo as many of us thought you were - and she thinks that this is going to make it easier for her to run for president - riiiiiiiggghht? Of course there are going to be people who thinks she's just the thing no matter what she does - she could get vampire teeth put on and literally eat her husband and there'd be people saying, "oh, she must have just been stressed out."
The talk show thing would be perfect for her - she could join all the other brainless no-nothings spouting crap non-stop.
My question: Where are the serious deficit-hawks that actually want to solve problems. Obama's a good guy, but he's so infatuated with the ability to come up with ways for the government to solve things, that his programs aren't very good. The "just say no" crowd aren't contributing a damned thing. But there have to be some people with some actual ideas out there who can step in to try to influence things in a bitter direction - more incentives, less government programs
Shit, the government can't do what it's supposed to do as is - look at that whole SEC - Madoff debacle. Even with the right people on the job able to recognize that there was a problem, the fools called her off the case when the whole thing could have been stopped years later - morons!
The talk show thing would be perfect for her - she could join all the other brainless no-nothings spouting crap non-stop.
My question: Where are the serious deficit-hawks that actually want to solve problems. Obama's a good guy, but he's so infatuated with the ability to come up with ways for the government to solve things, that his programs aren't very good. The "just say no" crowd aren't contributing a damned thing. But there have to be some people with some actual ideas out there who can step in to try to influence things in a bitter direction - more incentives, less government programs
Shit, the government can't do what it's supposed to do as is - look at that whole SEC - Madoff debacle. Even with the right people on the job able to recognize that there was a problem, the fools called her off the case when the whole thing could have been stopped years later - morons!
Oh my god, I can't believe this, she knows what resign means! Truely a shocker.
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I ran across this short article; it hits all the salient points.
I have often wondered why the shrill Palin attacks keep coming, here on FOs and out there in LettermanLand.
This article pretty much addresses the key issues the Dems and Libs seem to have with her...any fool without an agenda knows she is smart, good people, and nothing in the way of an evil buffoon (oops...did I just describe Joe Biden?); Palin gave good reasons why she is stepping down, and the truism is still true...we get the Government we deserve.
Why They Hate Her
(the Angelina Jolie of Politics)
Tuesday night on Hugh's program, we discussed the Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin and why, eight months after the election, Palin still arouses such fury amongst liberals and so many rank-and-file Democrats.
After all, even if you think her election to the vice presidency would be the worst disaster ever to befall the Republic, Palin has, by and large, gone away. She's mostly focused on her work as governor of Alaska. She doesn't appear on many talk shows or do many interviews. She's been outside of Alaska . . . four times? Once to the National Governors Association meeting, once to a pro-life dinner, once to the Alfalfa Club dinner, and once to Albany for an event raising money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th-century U.S. secretary of state who acquired Alaska for the United States. There's no clear sense of her future plans; the near-daily denunciation seems to be just in case she decides to run for national office, a far-from-certain event that would occur, at the earliest, three and a half years from now.
My first thought was that it tied heavily to her appearance. In liberals' minds, conservatives are supposed to look like the couple from the painting American Gothic: Dour and joyless, aged, spartan and frail. Political leaders aren't supposed to be young, really good-looking women, full of energy, smiles, and winks.
Hugh suggested it tied to the contrast between her lifestyle and her critics: "She is the embodiment of the anti-choice, the opposite of every choice that lefty elites have ever made — as to going back home instead of moving to the west coast, having children, having a child with Down's, staying married to one man the whole time, choosing rural or suburban over urban and living a generally conservative lifestyle, working with her hands . . . That everything she is is the antithesis of everything that liberal urban elites are, so it's not just enough to say, 'I disagree with you,'; she has to be repudiated and crushed."
And now, I would submit a slight refining of that idea, that the seeming happiness of Palin's life is a 24-7 irritant because it challenges the way some liberals see the world.
Liberals believe that their ideas, philosophy, worldview, and policies liberate believers, and that the conservative equivalents limit people. Liberals see themselves as rejecting outdated beliefs and obsolete ideas, overturning established orders, and discarding traditions established by superstitious and ignorant forebears who weren't as enlightened as we are. Conservatives, in their minds, are runaway cultural superegos, always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they can't always do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others.
Conservatism, they suspect, will leave you in a marriage that doesn't satisfy you, burden you with children you don't want, repress your passions, and trap you in a empty, boring, and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help.
Today almost everyone faces some sort of challenge in balancing work and family; I don't know too many people who believe there are sufficient hours in a day. And then along comes this woman who's made all of these "conservative" choices and now has an amazing career, a supportive husband, a beautiful family, and great health and appearance, and she bears it all, including the inevitable hard times, with pluck and a smile, as far as we can tell. (For all we know, perhaps behind closed doors, Sarah Palin screams into a pillow when it all gets to be too much. But what we know about her suggests she relieves her stress by shooting moose.)
A short while back, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum suggested, only half-jokingly, that actress Angelina Jolie's "entire Oscar-winning, serial-adopting, Brad Pitt-snagging, plane-piloting, unattainably hot-looking existence makes women around the world feel hopelessly inadequate and therefore unhappy." Perhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world.
In her opponents' minds, Palin's made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she's happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again.
I have often wondered why the shrill Palin attacks keep coming, here on FOs and out there in LettermanLand.
This article pretty much addresses the key issues the Dems and Libs seem to have with her...any fool without an agenda knows she is smart, good people, and nothing in the way of an evil buffoon (oops...did I just describe Joe Biden?); Palin gave good reasons why she is stepping down, and the truism is still true...we get the Government we deserve.
Why They Hate Her
(the Angelina Jolie of Politics)
Tuesday night on Hugh's program, we discussed the Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin and why, eight months after the election, Palin still arouses such fury amongst liberals and so many rank-and-file Democrats.
After all, even if you think her election to the vice presidency would be the worst disaster ever to befall the Republic, Palin has, by and large, gone away. She's mostly focused on her work as governor of Alaska. She doesn't appear on many talk shows or do many interviews. She's been outside of Alaska . . . four times? Once to the National Governors Association meeting, once to a pro-life dinner, once to the Alfalfa Club dinner, and once to Albany for an event raising money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th-century U.S. secretary of state who acquired Alaska for the United States. There's no clear sense of her future plans; the near-daily denunciation seems to be just in case she decides to run for national office, a far-from-certain event that would occur, at the earliest, three and a half years from now.
My first thought was that it tied heavily to her appearance. In liberals' minds, conservatives are supposed to look like the couple from the painting American Gothic: Dour and joyless, aged, spartan and frail. Political leaders aren't supposed to be young, really good-looking women, full of energy, smiles, and winks.
Hugh suggested it tied to the contrast between her lifestyle and her critics: "She is the embodiment of the anti-choice, the opposite of every choice that lefty elites have ever made — as to going back home instead of moving to the west coast, having children, having a child with Down's, staying married to one man the whole time, choosing rural or suburban over urban and living a generally conservative lifestyle, working with her hands . . . That everything she is is the antithesis of everything that liberal urban elites are, so it's not just enough to say, 'I disagree with you,'; she has to be repudiated and crushed."
And now, I would submit a slight refining of that idea, that the seeming happiness of Palin's life is a 24-7 irritant because it challenges the way some liberals see the world.
Liberals believe that their ideas, philosophy, worldview, and policies liberate believers, and that the conservative equivalents limit people. Liberals see themselves as rejecting outdated beliefs and obsolete ideas, overturning established orders, and discarding traditions established by superstitious and ignorant forebears who weren't as enlightened as we are. Conservatives, in their minds, are runaway cultural superegos, always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they can't always do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others.
Conservatism, they suspect, will leave you in a marriage that doesn't satisfy you, burden you with children you don't want, repress your passions, and trap you in a empty, boring, and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help.
Today almost everyone faces some sort of challenge in balancing work and family; I don't know too many people who believe there are sufficient hours in a day. And then along comes this woman who's made all of these "conservative" choices and now has an amazing career, a supportive husband, a beautiful family, and great health and appearance, and she bears it all, including the inevitable hard times, with pluck and a smile, as far as we can tell. (For all we know, perhaps behind closed doors, Sarah Palin screams into a pillow when it all gets to be too much. But what we know about her suggests she relieves her stress by shooting moose.)
A short while back, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum suggested, only half-jokingly, that actress Angelina Jolie's "entire Oscar-winning, serial-adopting, Brad Pitt-snagging, plane-piloting, unattainably hot-looking existence makes women around the world feel hopelessly inadequate and therefore unhappy." Perhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world.
In her opponents' minds, Palin's made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she's happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again.
Fair enough, but we didn't really know anything about her, as you pointed out. Not much different than BO, our annointed one, if you ask me. Seems all like a charade to me, this whole "politics" thing. Our annointed one is right now working to repeal the 22nd Amendment; now won't that be nice to have the dictator/annointed one - aka., the modern FDR for 3,4, 6 terms.
Fair enough, but we didn't really know anything about her, as you pointed out. Not much different than BO, our annointed one, if you ask me. Seems all like a charade to me, this whole "politics" thing. Our annointed one is right now working to repeal the 22nd Amendment; now won't that be nice to have the dictator/annointed one - aka., the modern FDR for 3,4, 6 terms.
Hi ninetysix good to see ya.
While I am not that familiar with the proposal to take off term limit on President I would bet that like when it was enacted it would not apply to the current president.In other words just like when it was talked about during Reagan it would not allow Obama to run for more then two terms,just future presidents.
I really don't have a strong opinion on whether or not it should be changed.I just wanted to point out that I'm sure it would not allow Obama to run for 3rd term.Some in both parties have talked about it but it would never be allowed to be used in such a partisan way for the sitting president.It was republicans who wanted it after FDR,then thought maybe during Reagan we should change it even if they would not be able to give Reagan more then two terms.8 years may be not be long enough in some cases maybe 12 would be better,but unlimited may not be good idea eithier.
An age limit might be good idea as well since were talking Reagan.:1orglaugh
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