Juli An-- I’m sorry, but your description of Sarah Palin sounds like it bubbled out of an alternate universe. The only reason Palin comes off as “strong” is because she’s not bright enough to know what her considerable limitations are. A person who is oblivious to their own shortcomings often appears confident and, as some have said, “excessively decisive”. I don’t know of anybody who is threatened by or afraid of Palin. That is, unless you’re talking about her having any power over their lives. This is a woman who eschews the scientific method, and has shown zero interest in the world outside of Alaska for most of her adult life. After attending five colleges, looking for the campus with a suitable climate, she finally got a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and eventually became a television sportscaster. That gave her a taste of celebrité, which she has pursued ever since. There is simply nothing distinguished about her, yet John McCain would have placed her within his aging heartbeat of the most powerful office on the planet. That scared a lot of people, including some very smart ones, such as Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker, Susan Eisenhower, Colin Powell, Ken Dubenstein, Scott McClellan and David Brookes. Now, either all of those distinguished Republicans aren’t as perceptive as you, or you have an other-worldly image of Sarah Palin. If you think that Palin has the intelligence and skill to end our energy dependence, I have some beachfront property I’d like to sell you up in Alaska. You can see Russia from the kitchen. This is the same person who thinks mankind walked alongside living dinosaurs and wanted to ban books in her local library. I would say that she excels in the pursuit of ignorance and reactionary ideology. You say she’s beautiful.  So what? Since when does a pretty face have one single thing to do with the intelligence necessary to understand complex issues and articulate policy? You say she’s kind and approachable, yet this is the same person who was the point-person for the most divisive, deceptive political campaign since Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams. And that is why so many people are still talking about Palin and expressing contempt for her.

I agree with Joe the Polar Bear...Ole’ “moose turds” is THE PERFECT REPUBLICAN...She is a liar-cheat-thief-conniver-dirty politician-smile to your face/knife you in the back-bridge to nowhere-bible thumping-uneducated-underhanded-bigot...AND THE REPUB PARTY WILL RUN HER AGAIN...but They will groom her better NEXT TIME....

Well, now that the election’s over and my choice has won, here’s a few thoughts I’d like to share with you all:

Ms. Sarah will be back for two reasons:
1) Do you really think, after 8 years of Coup detat rule that the religious right is just going to fold their tents and go away?

2) SP’s ambition, as supported by The Third Wave, knows no bounds and no shortage of money.

If there’s some further research you’d like to do on the cult of personality we have on display with SP:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell28.html

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20070925.html

If John Dean sees it, we should take him at face value.

Here’s to hoping Ms. Palin never darkens our door again. But somehow, I think we’ll see more of here. If Mary Glazier has anything to say about it.

Sarah Palin’s 15 minutes are up. Now, the Republican Party will re-evaluate her potential and then ditch her faster than a Jamaican sprinter. She has been an embarrassment to herself, her state and the GOP.

LET ALL OF US IGNORE THAT WOMAN.
THERE IS NO ROOM IN OUR PSYCHE FOR EVEN HER NAME.
MUCH LESS FOR TALKING ABOUT HER.

HONOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AND TAKE DOWN THIS SITE !

Time to take this story (and her picture) off the site.  Hopefully we’ll never have to hear or see this woman again.

This vacuous harpy is finished; get her off of here!!  I never want to hear reference to her again.  May she disappear under a pile of moose dung!  Karma realized!

Hey...."Ms.Mooseturd".....now you can go back to WAH-SILLY and secede “your great state” from the rest of US[the lower 48]....cuz WE-THE PEOPLE....HAVE DECLARED YOU AND MCSHAME/BULLSH*T UNFIT TO LEAD.........

This McCain Palin campaign is a new low in the history of our country. They have nothing positive to
offer us, so they have resorted to hatred and their
own kind of poisonous terrorism in the USA...they are
truly a disgrace to our democracy. Fascism, anyone?

What other purpose could Dick Cheney’s Presidential endorsement yesterday serve at this point than to go on the record in a big way in support of Sarah Palin, who is likely to continue to be his and the neo-cons front person for a long time, or so they hope. I mean, isn’t a Cheney’s endorsement the kiss of death for McCain.

Sarah Palin’s experience as governor of Alaska is inconsequential. Alaska’s total population is one-twentieth of Illinois’, where Obama was a state legislator and then U.S. senator . Because it feeds at the spigot of the oil companies drilling there, every Alaskan is given a check from the state rather than having to pay any state tax. The primary reason that the Alaskan Independence Party emerged is because a large number of its citizens resented having to pay any federal withholding on their paychecks. 

Whatever limited experience Palin has gained over the last two short years as that state’s governor is offset by her utter lack of interest in and knowledge of the complex national and international issues we’re facing today. Ronald Reagan was a two-term governor of a state with nearly 50 times Alaska’s population, and an economy as big as many countries. Because California is the gateway to Asia and has three major ports and two international airports, Reagan was also involved international trade issues, and he often traveled to other countries to develop trade and tourism relationships. To compare Palin’s experience with Ronald Reagan’s is laughable.

Palin’s greatest shortcoming is that her arrogance makes her indifferent to her own limitations. This hubris makes her a person who would be dangerous with any real power. She has showed signs of this during her governorship in Alaska. To say that she has more experience than Obama is not only inaccurate, it also ignores the fact that she lacks the education, both academic and practical, to make informed decisions about almost anything. She’s a former sportscaster at a local television station who knows how to play the flute and wink. And the only thing that she has done in this entire political campaign is divide the country and inspire more partisan hostility than we have seen in decades. 

There is no question that relevant experience is an important quality for any leader, but the most important qualities are intellectual competence and the ability to unify rather than divide. Any candidate who says with a straight face that they have foreign policy experience because they could see Russia from an island which they’ve NEVER set foot on should be automatically disqualified from holding national office.

I’ve been trying to understand the uncomfortable feeling I get when watching Sarah Palin speak to an audience.  She appears pleasant enough and she shouldn’t be hard to look at but…..

The smirk/grin never leaves her face.  Regardless of the seriousness of her words, she has that constant almost smile.  And I’ve finally figured out where I’ve seen this before.  In highschool.  Yes, in those high school student government speeches, where the cheerleader cum class treasurer wannabe is smirking because she knows she’s the hottest twat in the class, and the rest of her class is a bunch of losers that just don’t get it.  It doesn’t really matter to her what she is saying, just that she is saying it with all of the confidence her raw ambition and class superiority can bring her.  She is the perfect George W. Bush clone.  Don’t forget, he lettered in cheer leading.  McSame seems committed to continuing the Bush Doctrine, but while Palin doesn’t even know what that is, she’s committed to exuding the Bush Style.  Though I doubt she has the genetic credentials, she is channeling that same screw you arrogance and breech no argument rich boy confidence that has the US standing alone on every front.

McSame might ‘get ‘er done’ just like Bush, but Palin will even do it just like Bush.  All in all, she is probably the more dangerous, like Shrub probably psychotically dangerous, of the two.

re: djc007x

Thank you for reporting on the Governor of Alaska’s library activities. Just what this nation needs: a self confidently ignorant person who believes intolerance is a form of righteousness.

Right now, Sarah Palin is so full of herself that she is speaking publicly about her dissatisfaction with the McCain campaign. My guess is that she will pick up on the “rogue” tag, and wear it just as proudly as McCain wears his “maverick” badge. She also seems to think that nobody remembers the Couric interviews, because she is revising history and claiming that Couric didn’t ask her any relevant questions. She now says she “got frustrated with the interviewer”. Well, anybody who saw those interviews knows that most of Palin’s answers were stunningly incoherent, as if she just didn’t understand the questions. These were questions that wouldn’t permit her to resort to talking points, so they revealed Palin’s inability to think and her pathetic lack of general knowledge. She has proven that she can read a teleprompter and regurgitate talking points at these rallies, but she is an intellectual disaster who is lost without them.

It is going to be very interesting to see how quickly Palin goes from pitbull to poodle when she loses this election and the Republican Party ditches her faster than Usain Bolt. She has been prancing around in the limelight for two months now, and it’s all going to end on November 5th. No more big rallies with adoring, undiscriminating fans. News organizations will have no reason to worry about sounding biased against her, so any subsequent interviews will make the Couric interview look like a FOX News tribute. 

What is going to be most interesting will be the concession speeches. How do you give a gracious, unifying speech after having run such a despicable, slanderous campaign? If they believe even half of what they’ve said about Obama in the last month, how can either one of them say they’ll stand behind the new president without sounding like raging hypocrites? In the process of throwing all that mud, McCain and Palin have been digging themselves into a very deep hole since the Republican convention. Watching them trying to climb out of it is going to be better than the final episode of “Survivor”.

JohnRJ08, October 23 at 9:19 am #

Why is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president if she…

Doesn’t know the vice president’s job responsibilities.
Doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is.
Doesn’t know what a “precondition” is.
Doesn’t know what newspapers and magazines she reads to keep informed.
Doesn’t know what her own running-mate’s policies are.
Doesn’t know what a socialist is.
Doesn’t know any real plumbers.
Doesn’t know the difference between an attack ad and an ad criticizing policy.
Doesn’t know anything about foreign policy.
Doesn’t know anything about economics.
Doesn’t know who is “palling around with” who.
Doesn’t know who the U.S. commander is in Afghanistan.
Doesn’t know that someone making $200,000/year isn’t in the middle class.
Doesn’t know that we can’t drill our way out of dependence on foreign oil.
Doesn’t know that global warming is caused by man’s use of fossil fuels.
Doesn’t know that mankind never walked alongside living dinosaurs.
Doesn’t know that banning books from libraries is unAmerican.
Doesn’t know that spending $150,000 on clothes is excessive.
Doesn’t know or care about the implications of her divisive remarks.
Doesn’t know that one area isn’t more “pro-America” than any other.
Doesn’t know that secessionists are unAmerican.
Doesn’t know that she was found guilty of abuse of power in Alaska.
Doesn’t know that a “maverick” is a lost steer.
Doesn’t know that Saturday Night Live was laughing at her, not with her.
Doesn’t know when to shut the hell up.

I would have made a list of what she knows, but I’m not feeling that creative today.

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Why? It would have been a VERY short list!
She doesn’t even know how to teach her own daughter about either abstinence or birth control.

BTW, in her NYTimes Bio of yesterday or the day before, I noticed that she and Todd eloped and Trick was born 8 months later!

So...obviously, Ms. Religious was gettin’ it on before she and The First Thug tied the knot.

Yet another religious hypocrite.

I think Sarah Palin, in her ambitious self-absorption, sees herself as superior to John McCain. She’s younger, easier to look at, more popular, and she has the Republican Party base in her handbag.  But she is going to be in for a rude awakening. If, by some miracle, John McCain wins the election, he’ll be stuck with Palin for the next four years, assuming he lives out his term. Palin is an aggressive, obnoxiously ambitious, self-promoter, and she would be nipping at McCain’s heels from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden. Todd will be there, too. Palin knows that McCain would be a one-term president because he’ll be a very old and beat up 77 by the time he started a second term. That would leave her as the default presidential nominee in 2012. But there is no way that the Republican Party is going to allow her to gain that position because it would tear the party apart.  If the GOP wants to remain a viable political party in the coming years, it is going to have to regroup, re-prioritize, and re-think its platform. And whatever plan Republicans come up with, you can bet Palin won’t be part of it.

Thanks for the answer.I accidently hit (Report this) in your reply.Sorry.You hit it on the head about Rice.She would upstage him.I’m sure McCain would try to do his best,however,he has taken the low road to get elected.He says “Country First” What a Lie!

Janet G,

If you are serious, McCain did not select Condelize Rice, because she is educated and smart, plus she may be conceived as uppity to McCain.  Another thing Condaleeza Rice would upstage McCain, his ego could not stand it, but it almost seems to be happening to him now with Palin, she is getting ready for 2012, get out of the way McCain. Do not know if McCain is a racist, but he does use it as a tool. It would be harder to be bashing Obama, using code racism with Rice on his ticket. 

McCain is quite the sexist, his attitude toward women has been seen to be quite unsavory, look how he has treated his spouses, like his houses, he has lost count.

Why is it that John McCain chose Sarah Palin instead of Condaleeza Rice as his running mate?She would have been a much smarter choice.She has more experience,especially in foreign affairs.Was it because she was Black?

Why is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president if she…

Doesn’t know the vice president’s job responsibilities.
Doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is.
Doesn’t know what a “precondition” is.
Doesn’t know what newspapers and magazines she reads to keep informed.
Doesn’t know what her own running-mate’s policies are.
Doesn’t know what a socialist is.
Doesn’t know any real plumbers.
Doesn’t know the difference between an attack ad and an ad criticizing policy.
Doesn’t know anything about foreign policy.
Doesn’t know anything about economics.
Doesn’t know who is “palling around with” who.
Doesn’t know who the U.S. commander is in Afghanistan.
Doesn’t know that someone making $200,000/year isn’t in the middle class.
Doesn’t know that we can’t drill our way out of dependence on foreign oil.
Doesn’t know that global warming is caused by man’s use of fossil fuels.
Doesn’t know that mankind never walked alongside living dinosaurs.
Doesn’t know that banning books from libraries is unAmerican.
Doesn’t know that spending $150,000 on clothes is excessive.
Doesn’t know or care about the implications of her divisive remarks.
Doesn’t know that one area isn’t more “pro-America” than any other.
Doesn’t know that secessionists are unAmerican.
Doesn’t know that she was found guilty of abuse of power in Alaska.
Doesn’t know that a “maverick” is a lost steer.
Doesn’t know that Saturday Night Live was laughing at her, not with her.
Doesn’t know when to shut the hell up.

I would have made a list of what she knows, but I’m not feeling that creative today.

She would ban Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World? That is like the bible of the anti-NWO crowd. Death of a Salesman was about how it does not pay to be a handsome, charming psychopathic salesman who is basically an empty suit. Perhaps she saw an invidious comparison to herself.

I’m amazed that even the MSM doesn’t report on the books that Mayor Palin wanted banned from the public library.  This is from National Women’s Political Caucus, SFV, Newsletter, Sept - Oct. ‘08.  “...When she was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska she tried to get the local library to bad 69 books!  Including Brave New World by A. Huxley, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Lysistrata, Aristophanes, Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, Slaughterhouse - Five, Kurt Vonnegut, The Merchant of Venice & Twelfth Night, Shakespeare, Oh yes & all the Harry Potter’s… Confirmation on this comes from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board. When the Librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired.”

I think we’ve all heard about Palin trying to fire the Librarian, but I was amazed to find out exactly what books she was so afraid of.  I had read somewhere that it was simply a children’s book about a same sex couple raising a family.

Banning books is perhaps one of the most anti-American activities any politician can be involved in, and yet, here again, this is not reported in the MSM.

There’s a hilarious quiz called “What Would Sarah Do?” in her first days in office (if she wins). It’s by the people who wrote The Decency Rules and Regulations Manual, which skewers Bush and the Moral Majority. It’s at http://www.homelanddecency.com

John McCain was a high-strung young man long before he disappointed his father, Admiral John McCain Jr., with his dismal academic performance at the Naval Academy. Graduating 894th in his class of 899 midshipmen made him a man with something to prove. His short, stocky frame was well-suited to the cramped cockpit of a jet fighter, but it didn’t help him live up to the imposing image he needed, so he over-compensated by being physically tough and taking risks, especially when he flew. At the Academy, he had been a boxer and wrestler who was often in trouble with superior officers. When you put this kind of A-type personality into cruel captivity for five years, take away all of his dignity and torture him into betraying his country’s Code of Conduct, it’s going to do some serious psychological damage that doesn’t just go away. In my opinion, McCain shows all the symptoms of someone suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His manic body language, with constantly clinched fists and jutting thumbs, rapidly blinking eyes, tightly clinched jaw and grimace-like smile are physical manifestations of psychological issues. McCain had a well-earned reputation in the Senate for being ill-tempered and profane, and his inability to control his emotions was painfully evident in the last debate. In the last five years, McCain has also been faced with battling a lethal form of skin cancer, which cannot help but add to his stress levels. It is my belief that John McCain’s erratic choices during his campaign have been an expression of his emotional duress. Even some of his long-time supporters have described him as being “tightly coiled.” Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or Independent, you have to be somewhat concerned about a man with these issues being put in charge of our country at such a fragile time. Yes, John McCain is a fighter. The problem is that he has been fighting all his life and doesn’t know when to stop.

By troublesum, October 12 at 1:57 pm #

We now know more about Sarah Palin than we know about Obama’s early days in Chicago and his connection to this Resko character.  Obama hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with any details.

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You lose again troubled bert. Three books later, and a full tour of all 50 states, (and many more than once) we know more about Barak, his wife, his parents, his siblings, and for SURE his early years in Chicago, than we’ve ever known about a single other presidential candidate.

He couldn’t BE any more forthcoming. Maybe you should just read what he’s put out there, and check in on the mountains of recorded documents that have become a part of the record wherever he’s been.

It’ll probably take you a couple of years, since you’re obviously a bit ‘slow’. But, you also obviously don’t have anything better to do.

We now know more about Sarah Palin than we know about Obama’s early days in Chicago and his connection to this Resko character.  Obama hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with any details.

READ THIS CAREFULLY
So is the plan of Sarah Palin, a supporter and backer of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), to wheel and deal her way into having Alaska become Independent of the United States and declare themselves a Sovereign Nation!!!
While Sarah points fingers at Barack Obama and his relative bleak relationship with Ayers, accusing him of “Palling around with a terrorist”, she has hesitated to tell us about her GRAND PLAN and ULTERIOR MOTIVES.
Sarah Palin in the last year, along with her card caring member husband Todd Palin, was a featured speaker for the AIP, in which she said “Keep up the good work”. Well, exactly what is the founding and goals of the AIP. The website ( http://www.akip.org/ ) spells the matter out very plainly on the homepage:
___________________________________________________________ _________________
The Alaskan Independence Party’s goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:

1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.

The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party’s founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.
___________________________________________________________ __________________
Basically, the comment that Sarah Palin made during her debate with Biden, regarding the increased power of the Vice President’s role in the Senate via the US Constitution is becoming increasingly clear. While the Constitution provides no more such authority, it appears that she may intend to at least try and overthrow our Country in some manner and declare Alaska as an Independent Nation. The pieces are starting to fit together slowly. This is also called “Treason” and is punishable by the Death Penalty. While they promote a lawful means, it would certainly help to have ‘Good Ol Sarah’ pushing the measure through and turning her State into a Nation of her own. Quietly overthrown the US and forget about all the money that the other 49 States have paid into the development of Alaska.
Let’s take a look at the founder of AIP, Joe Vogler, who was murdered shortly after his beginning attempts to try and have Alaska become Independent from the US. A true patriot of the US Government, Joe Vogler made the following remarks in 1991 in an interview which is now housed in the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”

Volger also advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. “And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.”

AFTER these comments, Todd signed up and became a card carrying member and Sarah started attending their conventions. In fact she addressed their convention this past March.

There you have it folks, Sarah and Todd Palin support having Alaska as an Independent Nation, advocate a party and founder who renounces allegiance to the United States. If that does not sound like an overthrow and treason, I just don’t know what does!

Seems Sarah pals around with people who don’t want to be a part of the United States and have renounced their allegiance.

Wonder if McCain vetted Todd Palin? In the Troopergate Investigative Report, Officer Wheeler testifies that Todd Palin spent almost 50 percent of his time in Governor Palin’s Office. When asked to compare Todd Palin’s involvement with the involvement of other Governors’ spouses, Officer Wheeler testifies that the First Ladies were primarily involved in functions like Breast cancer awareness events while Todd Palin was more involved in day-to-day activities. [Pgs 45-46]

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/10/10/16/Branchflower report.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf

I am most disturbed by her recent speeches that foment anger, racism and hatred.  She spews lies and works the crowds into irrational rage against Obama and his supporters.  She is Joseph Goebbels in lipstick and encourages the vilest human behavior.  It is rabble rousing and should make most Americans afraid.
Even when they lose, Palin/McCain have created a poisoned atmosphere that will make our efforts to turn out country around much more difficult.  Their campaign is seditious and anti American.  The Republican party is no longer a respectable political organization, but rather a right wing fringe party representing anti government, anti constitution, anti American bigots.

By GrammaConcept, October 6 at 8:31 pm

Yeah, that’s my impression of her too. Reptilian. Cortical and limbic functions practically nonexistent.

Palin?  I think Mrs. Cindy needs to be vetted.  Is she for real?  Obama is running the dirtiest campaign in American History? Wow, does S.C. 2000 and the rumor of out of wedlock babies mean anything to her.  The desperation of the RePugz is sickening.

More about “energy independence nonsense.” Can you name the country whose leaders dance a jig every time one of the candidates yells “energy independence?” You got it: China. Every barrel that we wont buy they can get their hands on.

I mistakenly clicked on “Submit” before I was finished. Here is the rest.
The notion of both Obama and McCain that Russia can be “punished” by our “energy independence” because prices of crude oil would then plunge is the acme of irresponsible idiocy. To name just one country that will not allow this to happen ever: Saudi Arabia. They will just throttle their output to keep prices high which will benefit their overloaded fields anyway.

Judging from the nonsense that McCain/Palin spout about the oil industry it is certain that they have not read “The Prize” or “Twilight in the Desert” to mention just two seminal works on the topic at hand. What Palin is doing is obvious. She is preparing the groundwork for the next gubernatorial election so that she can brag: “I fought for Alaska during the Presidential campaign!”
Obama/Biden are just as much at sea. They share with McCain/Palin the nonsense that 700 billion dollars is transferred every year to countries “that hate us.” Guess what, the two countries that sell us most of the imported crude are our deadly enemies Canada and Mexico!

For more information on the vetting of Sarah Palin please check out:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/2/report_secretive_ right_wing_group_vetted

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178/ secretive_right_wing_group_vetted_palin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy

Dear All,

In regard to the glasses…

I’m pissed that Palin would do this thing with the glasses, in part because I’ve ALWAYS hated phonies, but more than that, because by now, (11 years older than Palin) I actually NEED them, and can’t afford them. (no..doesn’t matter that I’ve worked my ass off for years, and supposedly have medicare...it doesn’t cover astigmatism)I don’t CARE about being ‘cute’, (since I already am, without the assistance) or ‘looking smart’. I don’t need glasses to ‘look’ smart, because I AM smart. (age, experience, and education help).

So, I’ll make ya’ll a deal. I will continue to invest in US, (that would be OUR country and OUR future..which means OUR youth) if you guys just find a way for me to get a new pair of glasses. That’s all I ask. If they make my green eyes look better, so be it. I only care that I can SEE better, to share the view.

http://www.teachforamerica.com

BTW...Sarah Palin can kiss my ass. I’d beat her hands down in ANY contest, but I’m leaving that up to our future generation of leaders...Barack Obama, with the guidance of the rest of us…

this is just too good:

“But watching Palin’s speech I had no doubt that I was witnessing a historic, iconic performance. The candidate sauntered to the lectern with the assurance of a sleepwalker – And immediately launched into a symphony of snorting and sneering remarks, taking time out in between the superior invective to present herself as just a humble gal with a beefcake husband and a brood of healthy, combat-ready spawn who just happened to be innocent targets of a communist and probably also homosexual media conspiracy. She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who “Five children later” is “Still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.”

– Matt Taibbi, discussing the most disgraceful VP pick in history.

cyrena,
Interesting bit about the poster. Thanks.

If you look at the photos at:
http://palinglasses.googlepages.com/home
it makes a convincing case that the lenses in her eyeglasses have no corrective
power (it is possible to deduce this from photographs), so it’s clear that she is
wearing them for purely cosmetic reasons. As you say, to “look smarter”.

bassbam,

A poster from Alaska mentioned the thing with the glasses just after Palin was unveiled. He said that they had the same eye doctor, and that he knew she didn’t need glasses, and that she only wore them to ‘look smarter’.

Then some other poster (not Alaskan, and as unknown as palin) came along to say that he’d seen photos of her as a child, and she had them then. That would apppear to be a lie, or maybe this poster was just ‘special’ because none of the photos of her as a college student show her with glasses.

So, let’s just admit it. She thought they would make her ‘look smarter’ and it doesn’t work, because she is NOT smart, and that’s that. She could put on 10 pairs, and it isn’t going to raise her IQ.

How image versus substance is there in Palin? Here’s one more date point, her eyeglasses appear to be purely cosmetic! She seems to be wearing eyeglasses only to look more serious.
http://palinglasses.googlepages.com/home

EXCELLENT WORK!

Carefully exposing
a Professional Sociopath
whose puppetmaster
is the very voice of the reptilian brain
is Hard, exacting, and exhausting Work.....

Strive On!

this is interesting. and i can actually remember the second half of the timeline chronologically. who says you loose all short term memory smoking that stuff.
you all should put the other three guys up asap.

the tooltips need more caption room.

You guys should put up that clip of Jack Cafferty calling her interviews pathetic.  There’s been a lot of good clips on the Daily Show lately, too, but maybe those don’t really belong in a news report.

Including a cut from the killer bunny, in Monty Python’s search for the holy grail would be something to include.