Even tho “they” have TRIED TO POLISH HER…..She still sounds Uneducated and Underinformed…Her high pitched nasal whine is SO VERY IRRITATING as she TRIES TO SOUND LIKE SHE HAS some “CLASS”...I still say that if MY GRANDAUGHTER dragged her D.S. child around like “mooseturd” does-Child Protective Service would be ALL OVER IT…...

Louise, And what about McCain, who does he remind me of?
Oh I have it now!
The Rabbit in Alice’s Wonderland!

No that’s not right. He’s that nervous, but not that quick. Maybe the Mouse in the teacup? 

how about Donald Duck specially when he is angry and incoherent?

Mackenzie Merrill: you got that right. It’s a SNL skit gone wrong.

The GOP ticket consists of a man whose principle claim is that he has been “tested” and a woman who “has executive experience.” You don’t say.

By “tested” do you mean he was tortured and imprisoned, and he survived. How does that test the judgment, temperament, and agility to handle the dauntingly complex array of issues confronting the world’s waning superpower on a global stage? How does courage in the face of physical torment test you to lead a divided nation to some kind of consensus? You might as well say that I’m qualified to run General Electric because I once shocked myself by touching a live wire.

By “executive experience” do you mean running a very small municipality into the ground with your decisions while delegating all of the management to a town administrator? Or do you just count the 18 months you spent as governor of a state with the population of an LA suburb – long enough to extort an extra $1,000 for every man, woman, and child from the oil industry (that’ll win some popularity, you betcha!), but not long enough to do anything substantive beyond canning a few people and hiring old high school pals in their place? You might as well promote the GM of a small rural dealership to CEO of GM.

BruSays:

Agreed.

And ...

We need to educate the media and OURSELVES to the fact that Capitalism IS NOT Democracy!

Take a look around the world. Capitalism is flourishing in China, and China IS NOT a Democracy! And that’s just one of many totalitarian governments where Capatilism is alive and well!

Running for VP is only the start of Sarah Palin’s ambition namely to become the first female President of our country. She was not “selected” by the McCain campaign, she “offered” herself unabashedly for the VP-ship. There is nothing strange or wrong with that because many VP-candidates have done that in our country’s history but it should be noted.

Sarah Palin has little to lose now. The Republican base will blame a defeat of McCain/Palin on McCain and not on Palin and he knows it. She will emerge smelling like roses to the Republican base. According to them she will have fought “like a man” and McCain “like a sissy.”

One scenario in her dreamworld is that an Obama Presidency will be a disaster in which case she will run in the 2012 Republican primaries. She may run anyway, no matter what. I predict: with the same results.

If the Republican ticket wins this time she is an immense step closer to her goal. McCain will not run in 2012 and no other candidate will have any chance against her.

If you do not understand what Sarah Palin is after, you cannot understand her behavior. McCain or Obama are only stepping stones for her ruthless ambition. I believe that she has contempt for both Presidential candidates and for that matter all politicians except herself.

There is a second thing you must understand about Sarah Palin. She has participated in beauty contests hence she has been trained to give answers and statements with a radiant smile no matter what the topic is and no matter whether she understands what she is talking about. Just like juries of beauty contests there are voters who fall for it.

If McCain loses he will return to the Senate. He can only atone for his vile attacks on Senator Obama by voting for every law that a President Obama supports. If he does not he ought to be ignored together with his pal Lieberman.

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Once Obama/Biden are in office, priorities must be:
1. To separate the “Corporate” from the “Media” so that our news returns to the business of educating the public rather than selling toothpaste and cars.
2. To get our electorate off its ass and participate in this democracy. This Bush/Cheney abomination has happened under our collective watch.

My take on the Sarah Palin Situation was and remains:

It’s not enough just to question her experience, her positions on the issues, her temperament, her intelligence, or her religious beliefs.

We have to question our entire political system - and our electorate that has allowed its creation.

That a once-respected, 150-year old Party within the most powerful nation on earth, drawing from an adult population of some 200 million, would wish to place this person in its Number Two position, is pathetic.

Once Obama/Biden are in office, their

I’ve been thinking about Snow Whites Cottage a lot lately [don’t ask] so I’m looking at that photo of Palin and something occures to me.

Take that face, pull the hair back, take off the glasses, put a fitted black wimple with pointy forehead at the scull, and what do you have? Why it’s Snow White’s wicked stepmother! Oh my gosh ...

I’m still looking for the wicked witch of the West to turn up in that cloudy sky over Portsmouth, Ohio.

And whats all that got to do with anything anyway? Well nothing, except everybody loves fantasy and fairy tales. Apparently repubs more than dems, which might explain why some folks love Palin and McCain.

And what about McCain, who does he remind me of?

Oh I have it now!
The Rabbit in Alice’s Wonderland!

No that’s not right. He’s that nervous, but not that quick. Maybe the Mouse in the teacup?

It occurs to me that John McCain’s “Experience” is touted.  Experience is ONLY valuable if it brings good judgment.  McCain has shown anything BUT good judgment which means his experience is WORTHLESS!

Obama has shown excellent judgment particularly in how he manages his campaign.  He’s shown far sounder judgment re: Foreign policy, economics, health care, environment, energy—-and in his VP pick.

Wisdom is a reflection of good judgment.
Good judgment is the result of learning from experience.
Experience comes from….
BAD JUDGMENT! 

McCain hasn’t learned from his bad judgment.  Obama has.  We’ve had 8 years of a president who never learns from his bad judgment because he doesn’t believe he ever has bad judgment.  Isn’t that enough?

“Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have been described as elitist by both Republicans and Democrats at times, and so much was made whe she appeared on “The View” in June in a black-and-white patterned dress. Turns out it sold for $148 at an off-the-rack store.”
Patrickly Healy, Michael Luo
NY Times, October 22, 2008

“The use of campaign funds for items which most Americans would consider to be strictly personal reasons, in my view, erodes public confidence and erodes it significantly.”
John McCain, May 1993

In answer to questions which only require a basic GOP philosophy.  She does not do well on questions which require basic information about our government, our constitution, or our relationships within the world community. 

It as my father-in-law used to say,  “is dangerous to have a little bit of knowledge”.  The confidence, indeed arrogance which McCain and Palin bring to the table, coupled with dangerous lack of understanding and their unwillingness to speak with and listen to others holding different positions will only result in great tragedy of America. 

We have lied our way into war to attempt to sustain our “American Ideal”, our excessive lifestyle,  and it is bringing the world economy to the brink of collapse.  McCains policies could well lead us not only into depression, but the nightmare of nuclear war.  We do not avoid this danger with Obama, his bluster over Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan all concern me, as well as the difficult we will have leaving Iraq,  but there is some hope that his even temperament and ability bring people together might lead to some progress in international relations.  America can no longer treat the rest of the world as if they are our servants, tending to our every desire.  We cannot pretend to be the parent telling the children what to do.  Our leadership is desperately needed,  but as an adult sitting at a table of adults, leading because we articulate reasons plans, which benefit others as well as ourselves.  This Obama is much better prepared to do than the McCain Palin ticket.

The ignorant are always absolutely certain of what they know. Knowing very little makes it much easier to be certain.

A Palin presidency, God forbid, would be the end of us all.

Of course one would expect Mr. Williams to pounce on Palin when she states obvious mis-statement. But for all we know there may have been pre-conditions. [In fact I’m quite sure there were] Like if you ask a question she may not know the answer to, the interview is over.

As I understand it, this interview has been parced out into three segments. Now how happy would those corporate sponsors be if two and three never happened?

As far as I’m concerned, the only notable thing that came out of this segment is what a wimp McCain is. Suddenly it becomes abundantly clear why he chose Palin. She’s quick, verbose and doesn’t bat an eyelash, even if she doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about!

McCain on the other hand is slow, tends to rattle around an answer [right or wrong] and his eyelids are batting all the time anyway, so there’s no charm there!

Long way of saying ... McCain NEEDED someone sitting next to him who’s quick on the uptake, will jump in and clarify [sorta] his non-specific, specifics, like “I’ve been tested,” and make up a few along the way, if necessary. Worked well for a while, but now?

Her quickness highlights his slowness. Her bright and cheery apparent self-confidence highlights his glum and ineffective efforts at humor. And her age highlights his OLD age.

This reminds me, like so many, of the ditsy answer given by the charming beauty queen to an intelligent answer. Palin discovered she could charm an audience with her smiling empty headed blather.

Most “didn’t quite make it” beauty queen contestents go on to be wannabbee models or movie stars. Palin decided to take her smile and her ditsy answers into politics. She never would have been able to pull it off had she been running for Mayor in say, Cincinnati. But hooking up with the Dude, and location made it possible.

Location, location, location. That’s why she’s such a hit in the less than heavy traveled, areas of rural America.

Right now, we are all living in denial. That’s what happens when you wonder if you’ll have a job, or a retirement account tomorrow. But McCain is living in denial MORE than ALL of us! Because he truly believes his pretty Palin is going to win the election for him!

And his dependence on her, more than anything else, tells us all, we better not depend on him.

She is SO VERY STUPID….It amazes me that the re_puke_likins’ think she is or ever will be qualified to step up…

Maybe Palin has tooted McCain’s horn and that’s how she got the nod as VP!

Of course you know, Todd fathered a baby with a black Muslim woman, while Sarah was having her exorcism by the witch doctor… Not to mention her first dude working on seceding from the union.

She’s right about one thing: THEY DON’T SEE AMERICA THE WAY I DO! PLONK!

This must be true, I heard it on FUX News!

They might as well toot something. When Senator McCain states that he has been tested, I guess that refers to his days in the infamous Hanoi Hilton? What that has to do with being challenged as President, is at best a stretcher, as Mark Twain once said.
Don’t you love accepted conventional wisdom? When Governor Palin refers to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a dictator, you did not see Brian (he likes to be called Mister) Williams interrupt and say: excuse me Governor, you said dictator, isn’t the President of Iran an elected official? The sixth president who won 62 percent of the vote in a run-off election? Of course not. Nor has the myth about the Iranian President being in charge of their military ever been debunked. Instead we have the sartorially splendid Mrs. Caribou, talking about the future president of the U.S. being challenged by that Iranian dictator.
This was an opening (as they say in political double speak) that was pounced on after Zionist Senator Joe Biden opened wide even further a mouth that never seems to close about the “test” of the next U.S. president. And please note, when I say Zionist, I am not being snarky, this is what Senator Biden has called himself.

Williams has the uncanny ability to ask stupid and meanigless questions in a very intelligent manner.