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- sophiak2, on 09/16/2008, -43/+865Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least popular in a single weekend. People are starting to see through the empty hype, lies, and blatant corruption.
- Lincolnlover, on 09/16/2008, -25/+478My wife calls them 'The old man and the twinkie'.
- grytpype, on 09/16/2008, -20/+450Palin would be a worse president than Bush. I never thought I would say that about anyone.
- RIB08, on 09/16/2008, -25/+339America = Financially Bankrupt
Republicans = Morally Bankrupt - ChristPissed, on 09/16/2008, -30/+330Sarah Palin is appalling.
- jsatz23, on 09/16/2008, -27/+306Did not take long.
- parkerparrot, on 09/16/2008, -16/+221Lying will do that to your popularity.
- Deanblackoak, on 09/16/2008, -15/+167Yeah. I think we all could have predicted this one. Short term fix, long term problem.
- damonic, on 09/16/2008, -1/+134I call them Incontinence and Incompetence.
- coelomate, on 09/16/2008, -17/+126Looks about right, and was quite predictable.
What remains to be seen is exactly what demographics are lagging behind - if it's the democrats who are deciding they don't like her this won't be worth much, but if the independents are being turned off expect the tracking polls to be showing solid (~3 point) Obama leads by next week. - huntress58, on 09/16/2008, -28/+136Palin=Lies
McCain=Bush
McCain First, Country Last! - MadKennyP, on 09/16/2008, -21/+119Sarah Failin'
see what I did there? - lisaatucla, on 09/16/2008, -3/+94If she can't handle a staged interview, then I cannot wait for the debates! My husband and I are already getting the popcorn & soda ready.
September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (Tickets)
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (Tickets)
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Tickets)
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (Tickets) - wwwonka, on 09/16/2008, -9/+95McCain: "Look new shiny pretty object! I call it Palin!"
Blind Followers:"PRETTY! PRETTY!"
American Public:"Yeah but..."
Blind Followers:"not pretty?"
American Public:"not pretty." - IrishJoe, on 09/16/2008, -0/+86Sounds like a Hemingway novel.
- MotherGinSling, on 09/16/2008, -12/+96Sarah Palin was completely unknown when McCain announced his choice. Well...now that we're getting to know her, to know her is not to love her.
- kingofinternet, on 09/16/2008, -14/+97cue republican complaints of bias and unfair reporting.
those pesky facts always get you in the end. the long term consequences of a lie are usually much worse than the short term gains of the lie. - cgibbo, on 09/16/2008, -6/+87I call them 'The senile ***** idiot and the murderous lunatic'.
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -7/+86Not surprising considering her outlandish and extremist views.
- Echota, on 01/05/2009, -8/+86FTA: UPDATE, 2:27 p.m.: Also, it doesn't help when McCain's Victory 2008 chair Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, tells a St. Louis radio host that Palin would've been unqualified to lead HP--a slightly less demanding role than leading the free world. Today's exchange:
HOST: "Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?"
FIORINA: "No, I don't. But that's not what she's running for."
Icing on McCain/Palin cake!!! - mk3k, on 09/16/2008, -3/+81Such things happen often with well good looking people, initial charm is mostly skin deep.
- inactive, on 09/16/2008, -19/+95ha ha ha omg this is awesome. The neo cons were so damn hyped up on this self-delusion that they almost started to believe it themselves, but of course I say 'almost'. Republicans are way too devious and immature to accept truth let alone perceive it.
- Kinsbane, on 09/16/2008, -5/+74For *****'s sake.
- Kinsbane, on 09/16/2008, -3/+72THINK about this. Fiorina just said that she doesn't think Palin can run a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company, with thousands of employees. Then she HEAVILY alludes to her thinking that Palin would be fine as VP when she says, "But that's not what she's running for."
Well ***** me silly! I coulda sworn she was running for an important position in the country! Obviously, it's not nearly as important as running HP. - algaeturd, on 09/16/2008, -8/+73Well, the honeymoon ended when people actually looked at the FACTS finally. They held this woman to the same scrutiny that every other candidate dealt with and there you have it....the truth came out, people realized she was unqualified, had questionable experience and questionable judgement and then snapped out of the trance.
- LorraineH, on 09/16/2008, -20/+84Thats what happens when Pitbulls wear cheap lipstick....should of went with the non-smear kind;)
- bicyclethief, on 09/16/2008, -1/+62Please, no more of these knuckleheads who substitute inexperience with decisiveness.
- aussiejan, on 09/16/2008, -5/+61You scare me.
- tcbishop12, on 09/16/2008, -7/+61As Romano noted, it's the start of an inevitable process - which I would call an inevitable slide. Romano states that between now and Nov. 4, voters will stop seeing Palin as a fascinating story and starting taking her measure as an actual candidate for office.
I think the article is "balls-on" accurate in these observations as well: "Palin's considerable novelty is starting to wear off. In part it's the result of a steady stream of unhelpful stories: her unfamiliarity with the Bush Doctrine during last Thursday's interview with Charles Gibson (really uncomfortable video moment embedded with article); her refusal to cooperate with the Troopergate investigation; her repeated stretching of the truth on everything from earmarks to the Bridge to Nowhere to the amount of energy her state produces. That stuff has a way of inspiring disapproval and eroding one's support."
Amen. Buh-bye, Sarah. Buh-bye. - FreddieD, on 09/16/2008, -2/+55Funny... conservatives didn't seem to mind Newsweek last week when they put Palin on it's cover and refuted many left-wing blog falsehoods.
I guess they become east coast liberal media again as soon as they say something you disagree with.. - frygar, on 09/16/2008, -5/+56Next time, back up your claims with something *other* than an op-ed piece.
Thanks. - slabdigger, on 09/16/2008, -8/+59here comes the "readers reported as inaccurate" - wait for it ... wait for it ...
- elhaf, on 09/16/2008, -21/+71I love the image of Grampa Simpson/Marge Flanders as McCain/Simpson.
- GBPACKGB, on 09/16/2008, -9/+58My faith in my fellow Americans is restored. A little.
- MakinBacon, on 09/17/2008, -4/+52Sorry for hijacking the thread but one of the people who commented on the story had some really poignant words to say about Palin (and to some extent McCain) so I thought I'd share them with the class...
Posted By: darlenegray (September 17, 2008 at 12:48 AM)
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a '***' redneck,' like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll 'kick their ***' ass,' and talk about how you like to 'shoot ***' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're 'untested.'
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a 'second look.'
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a 'light' burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole 'change' thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem. - raulbot, on 09/16/2008, -11/+59"I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation."..but that doesn't matter to some people its all about who you'd rather have a beer with
- FTWmovin2canada, on 09/16/2008, -3/+50The general consensus seems to be that he is a good guy who isn't intellectually curious and got manipulated. Cheney, on the other hand, may be truly evil.
- ironhide, on 09/16/2008, -4/+48Rest assured, you cretin, I will be voting and so will my family and friends. We're sick of swine like you and are going to turn out in force to make sure your ilk never wins.
- guslabu, on 09/16/2008, -0/+42Now there's something i could agree with. She does have the experience as a hockey mom of five children to make Jello, but not be a VP.
- kevinkris, on 09/16/2008, -15/+57Thanks but No Thanks Gov. Palin.
Your Attention Please,
Bus Number 2862 “Straight and Outright Lies Express” will be
leaving to “Bridge to Nowhere” on Nov 4th 2008.
Not this Time, Not this Election, Not this Year.
Yes We Can!
Obama/ Biden ‘08 - inactive, on 09/16/2008, -11/+52I guess the American people don't really like lying morons. Who'da thunk it?
- DreKor, on 09/16/2008, -2/+42who the hell is Marge Flanders?
- Meursault, on 09/16/2008, -5/+44Good. If her popularity remained high, I would've written off this country. We will have reached Idiocracy earlier than scheduled.
- LiberalKid, on 09/17/2008, -0/+39Based on her performance being interviewed by Charlie, Biden is going to destroy her....
- Taiyoryu, on 09/16/2008, -1/+40Took longer than it should have.
- Obama44thPrez, on 09/16/2008, -5/+43I guess the mainstream media couldn't maintain the false perception for too long. Hey, did anyone see any of the CNN/MSNBC/FOX cameras pan OUT when they showed her homecoming rally in Alaska. All the images were closely shot..not once did they pan out to show the entire crowd..oops, I mean show the entire group.....
- mywhitenoise, on 09/16/2008, -1/+39a weekend? You're being too generous. Took about 8 hours I'd say.
- RMoore08, on 09/16/2008, -3/+40HES GOING TO EAT HER?!?!??!
OMFG! - Gabberwok, on 09/16/2008, -14/+50Despite all of his failings, I think that Bush is actually a good person when you get down to it (just horribly wrong for his job and incredibly ill-advised). Palin on the other hand represents the intolerant, ignorant and cruel branch of the Christian right. Bush was just ignorant (and some of his advisors filled out the other parts).
(For the record, I never voted for Bush.) - kraetos, on 09/16/2008, -3/+37Good, can we get back to issues now?
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