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what a wonderful world...away from all the madness...and the nonsense...
and that's about it. They are going to lose. Too bad.
no matter what he says...it's a joke.
no matter what she says...or wears...it's ridiculous.
So the designer clothes are not her property and she doesn't get to take them home? Who cares? The fact is what it is: The party bought your "celebrity" clothes, you wore them among the American people, and now you stand in front of the oblivion of your moronic supporters trying to explain away your "consignment" jacket.
So according to McCain those are clothes for Charity? What kind of charity? Does one need an invitation to such an event? I don't know of any charities that would sell designer clothes at Salvation Army prices. I know that I'm not fooled by a damn moron and her token "eskimo" earrings. The media is sexist? Americans are sexist? I say the party is sexist for thinking you must look hot to engage in a vice-presidential campaign.
The fact that the party spends that kind of money on one-time events, so that their candidate can look good or better, and that candidate (along with her family) wears them in front of the American people, says to me that conservatives have their heads are up their asses and they are in complete indifference to the condition of our economy and what your average American can afford. Or, maybe pumping $150,000 to Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Macy's is their idea of what "shore-in up," "rampin' up," or "giddy-upin' our economy is all about.
I do feel a sigh of relief because I think at long last it is evident that this election isn't about POW's, mentally handicapped babies born to 44-year olds, hockey, fishing, chopping wood with the big boys while drinkin' a six-pack or looking good. It's about social awareness. It's about knowing something. And, while I hesitate to think Americans know much about anything, I do think Americans are definitely aware.
is this scary? Somebody wanna elaborate on this? Costumes like this for women are friggin' dumb as cat shit. I can't for the life of me understand why halloween costumes for women are just another opportunity for women to dress like whores. And what's sad is that a lot of women go all out for this. Come on ladies! This is a chance to look how you really want to look-- sexy and ready. I mean look at this! Oh I'm just so scared of that cleavage.
Now this is a real costume that makes sense:
I watched the Vice-Presidential debate online last night and was surprised by Ms. Palin’s delivery. I wasn’t impressed though. I think she was coached well by someone, and as a result, was very good at parroting facts so as to look intelligent.
But as far as having a real feel for what is going on in the world? That’s hard to say what with the disastrous Katie Courac interview, dinosaurs being here 4,000 years ago, and her inability to name one current magazine or newspaper that she supposedly reads regularly. I think she seems rather inhuman regardless of any “humanitarian” efforts and successes she may have accomplished in Alaska as mayor and governor.
I could make excuses for her. I could say that she made those mistakes in recent interviews because she was nervous. I could say that she was turning the table on a catty reporter who wanted to make her look stupid. (How that mealy-mouth Katie Courac ever got anywhere is something to be looked into too.)
Anyway, I could excuse Palin for being the small-town hick from Alaska who isn’t used to this sort of publicity. I could say she evades or skirts around questions like she doesn’t know anything because she’s too damn scared to say anything—like she’s McCain’s puppet or something and isn’t sure what she should or shouldn’t say. As a result, she doesn’t look very real to me. And to most, she looks pretty dumb. Considering where she’s been and her accomplishments, she should know better. There are no excuses.
However, I can’t deny that Palin may have reinvented herself during last night’s debate as far as what she knows. However, I still don’t get the feeling that knowing is inherent in her case. I still don't think she is qualified for this position. I mean, is last night an example of what she really knows or rather, what she learned while camping out at McCain’s place over the last week preparing for last night’s debate? She tried to be something of herself, but she looked more choreographed than Biden with the exception of her little winking“hey ya knows” and “hee- haw’s”. Biden is older and has more experience with public speaking. So, it was pretty natural and effortless for him. I liked the fact that he showed Palin respect in that most of his attacks were not directed toward her, but rather at McCain, throughout the debate. I can’t stand that Palin makes derisive comments that look like she’s poking fun but she turns it around saying that she is simply stating facts. Since when is a fact supposed to be a joke?
I think it’s really hard for me to not view the McCain/Palin clan as being anything but what they say they are: Mavericks. They are the kind of mavericks that are bullies and aren’t interested in people. Like Biden said, they aren’t interested in the struggles of your typical family trying to send their kids to college, trying to pay for oil to heat their homes, or whether or not they’ll even have a place to live by Christmas. Like the Bush administration the McCain/Palin rodeo displays a desire to be in control. I certainly don’t think McCain is interested in anything but himself. I think he’s interested in throwing a lasso around the position of president as his final accomplishment before he dies. I think Palin is just trying to stay on top of the bull long enough for him to do that.
I’m glad that Biden had the chance to explain that while he’s just a man, he too, has had personal and family struggles. There has been all the attention on Palin and “keeping” her mentally handicapped child. I get tired of hearing from other women how much they admire that. Should we admire her for doing the right thing? Shouldn’t we expect it? Since when should doing the right thing elicit admiration? And in saying that you admire her, you are really admitting that if you were in her position, you would not do the right thing. I get so tired of the fact that women need someone or something to admire. Get on with it! I think you have to ask yourself, have you arrived or are you still trying? I get so tired of this emotionally unstable, callous need to latch onto or prove something that usually doesn’t prove anything other than you don’t breast-feed or clean the toilet, but rather you chop wood and catch fish.
Anyway…There is an obvious difference in presentation with the candidates. Obama and Biden always make an effort to look at their opponent. McCain never looked at Obama in the first debate and Palin hardly glanced at Biden while he was speaking. Instead, both McCain and Palin showcase an arrogant, rather insecure smirk about what the other is saying. McCain is better at cracking jokes that aren’t funny and Palin with toothy smiles, displays a kind of playground derision that makes her look both insecure and just plain insensitive. They are both insensitive because they are both bloated with their accomplishments. Palin has even used her inexperience as an accomplishment while publicly deriding Obama’s. So what does that mean? For her, I think it means that inexperience is ok as a vice-presidential nominee because she’s just the kickstand. After all, with a 73-year-old president, there is absolutely no chance that McCain will die and she’ll be left with the presidency.
I think when it comes to Palin we’re looking at a cowboy with a well-tweezed upper lip and a posse that does most of her bidding back in the governor’s seat. I don’t care how much wood you’ve chopped, how many fish you’ve caught, or how many six-packs you’ve consumed at the end of the workday. That doesn’t impress or define anything for me and I certainly don’t need you to admire.
I wish I could find that cool headdress she's wearing. I'd be wearing that every day.
This is kind of reminiscent of Michael Jackson. Anyway...still alive I am. Just very busy. You know, DEADlines...hahahahahahahahahahaha
Talk about disturbia...DIE McCAIN...die, already...and take your little hick-ass bimbo with ya!
cackling upon my fence post. FYI: I'm neither Republican not Democrat though, apparently I'm leaning quite a bit.
So, anyway, another sharp-shootin' rootin' tootin' last evening. So it seems. Pardon any grammatical errors or long-winded sentences.
I listened again to speeches made by both parties this morning before I began working and got to thinking about the nasty comments and snide remarks made about Obama at the RNC.
I went back and forth between speeches and discovered that Obama states a lot of facts in his speech. But he doesn’t do it in a nasty, stabbing, arrogant fashion. A man with a not-so-impressive past humbly states general fact as a reality. Why is that something to snicker about?
But on the flip-side when you’re comfortable, you’re actually scared, and experience settles itself into your backbone because you don’t have the will to really stand apart and continue to make action part of your experience. You’d think McCain would understand that.
McCain once didn’t have time for experience; he had to act. Experience helps, but rarely does it have anything to do with how you’re going to deal with reality. Sometimes experience gives you too much confidence, too much arrogance and self-assurance, too much time to sit around and think highly of yourself and all you’ve achieved while your ambition takes the easy chair.
People like Palin, (who left her gun behind and resorted instead to her index finger and blowing kisses at the crowd during her acceptance speech) and the lisping, rather personally experienced, womanizing Giuliani of New York, had nothing better to give us, after all we’ve put up with and been through, but the opportunity to remind everyone, scare everyone, with the fact that Obama has less experience.
Bravo!!! Here! Here! And a toast to the experienced! Well said. Well thought out.
Yes, Obama has less experience. Tell us something we don’t know. Oh while you’re at it, remind us of another thing or two like, the kind of experience George Bush has, and what that “experience” has done for us lately? There are indeed a lot of facts to be considered in this country and in this campaign, don’t you think?
Obama’s “lack” of experience is indeed a fact. But what kind of “experience” should we be impressed by?
Should I be impressed by P.O.W’s, who’ve been to hell and lived it, but spent the rest of their lives rewarding themselves and secretly, bitterly coveting the chance to be president as though he’s earned it and deserves it? Or should I weep for the man who actually died in Afghanistan and left his wife and children behind?
Should I be impressed by someone who, with nearly one foot in the grave, defines the American people as cry-babies because he’s had it so bad, he understands and is humbled by that fact?
Facts! Facts! Facts! What shall we do with them all? Facts are everywhere these days!
Should we be impressed now with what one man endured 50 years ago when thousands of our young men and women are dying right now, today and continue to lose their lives in uncivilized countries that have been uncivilized since the beginning of time and will never, EVER change?
We’re knee deep in sh** now, and experience means nothing to me. And quite frankly, with what we’ve seen lately—experience should be irrelevant to everybody.
Should I be impressed with thousands of lost jobs? Ridiculously fluctuating gas prices? Filthy air? Melting ice-caps? Dead, bloated, extinct animals? Just last night I heard GMAC let go 5,000 more workers who will now by vying for positions with our recent college graduates!
Were all those jobs lost for environmental change? What’s the real reason people are losing their jobs? (Yeah, like I’m believe that the average American is fore-going their vehicles for the environment and putting other Americans out of jobs when they’re too lazy to put an empty bottle in the recycling bin!)
Hello! Could it be we don’t have any money around here? Indeed, some of us are poor, poor scared little cry-babies who don’t know what to do with ourselves and all the plastic we consume and then some of us really look at the facts, reduce, reuse and make do at the hands of the experienced.
Furthermore, should I be impressed by pregnant teens with flashy engagement rings who keep their babies and their “good” mothers who showboat that fact in front of everyone as if to dare any heathen to challenge their good Christians values? And besides, what’s a pregnant teen when there are more important things to do? It’s irrelevant.
I’m disappointed.
I’m disappointed with some of the facts and a lot of the experience here. I disappointed that small-scale experience has somehow being equated with real significant change when experience, as we currently know it, more clearly defines large-scale stagnation and even failure.
Palin was a no-name doing good things for the people in a not-so-well known neck of the U.S. woodland but hey, that’s experience. I guess when I listened to Palin, I was expecting, even hoping, for a humble person— this no-name, experienced, suffering mother, who has done so much in such a short time and is being given yet another challenge, if you will.
I couldn’t believe the audacity and arrogance Palin openly expressed. I really was shocked. Just another showdown hoe-down sprinkled with the occasional glimpse of a ZZ-Top wannabe and his “Drill Now” poster swaying in the pig-shit breeze.
I now understand why McCain chose Palin--- she’s a female version of him. And she’s going to out-live him (probably because she’ll have him shot) and he wants to make sure his heroism lives on even after he’s dead and rotting in the ground with all that he earned and deserved. What better choice than that of a power-hungry bitter woman with little time for anything but power and personal pretense?
But you know…I also got to thinking about all of these facts and how important experience is for inflating one’s ego, fattening up resumes and making ignorant, less experienced people feel safe.
While I was turning that reality around in my mind I thought, who are any of us, really, in the “grand scheme of things” and who will we be after we’ve done great things and we’re gone? It’s rather ironic I think. And it’s rather historical of good Christians who sit back comfortably and smugly in their pristine suits, and typical of rednecks sweatin’ under stiff cowboy hats.
I think the real fact here is that you don’t need a fat resume to make a difference in the lives of people. And, fact is, you don’t need an SUV to travel more than 100 miles or a half dozen homes in which to rest your weary head. You don’t need experience to care. And, in fact, you just might be a real frustrated, nobody carpenter sweating your bloody tears and wondering just when everyone is going to get the facts straight.
Is this one of the daughter's holding the recent baby of Ms. Palin while Dad's in rehab and she waves at the crowd? Who is playing mom here? That girl looks nervous to me.
I think Reuters captured these moments quite well. I don't agree with Obama about family being off limits. When you decide to become a public figure, you also decide to bring your family to they table even if rarely, or ever, it's for dinner. It's idealistic, and it's ridiculous to think otherwise.
Shouldn't we have a peek behind the scenes to better know the man/woman? It seems only fair to the American people that we see how he/she runs things at home while we think about how he/she will run things on a much grander scale. Otherwise, it looks like someone is hiding the truth. At least that's how it looks to me-- I obviously won't speak for anyone else. God forbid if we are to learn some truth and then make sound judgments based on that truth.
People you have to look at the whole picture. If you're a Christian or pro-life, don't vote conservative because of that fact alone. If you're pro-gay marriage or pro-abortion, don't vote liberal on those premises alone. If you're anti-war or pro-air and being able to breathe, those are indeed serious issues. However, don't you think you're limiting yourself by voting for some reason, some thing that places identity on your own character when we’re talking about an entire country at stake here? There are so many issues to be considered. You have to vote for the person. You have to look at the person's character, the overall situation and his viewpoints in the grand scheme of things. You use that thing God gave you called a brain and you learn to discern. Otherwise, you’re being lazy and actively uninvolved.
And so, some truth has been told, and that's a good thing on the part of Ms. Palin. But, one's forthcoming about those things that are obvious isn't necessarily noble or noteworthy, and it doesn't create sound judgment for the American people. You can't hide those obvious things, and you owe it to the public to make explanations because the real, scary stuff we'll never hear about or see.
In a number of ways this woman's home-life has been neglected and it isn't good. However, I realize that nobody's home-life is perfect and everyone has problems. Some things happen, even to good people, that is beyond their control. But, McCain isn't a good person, and he isn't going to choose someone who is inherently good. I think I heard that even Palin's husband's is a drunk? When there are those many things bubbling on the surface, there is so much more lurking beneath still waters.
It looks to me like Ms. Palin preserves herself, the only one who stays intact because she's the only one that matters. If you can't manage your personal life, how in the hell will you manage a country? Or, is it that you manage everything else nicely, it's that your personal life is a wasteland? So, where does that leave us, the American people when it comes to you?
Great! So you smooth things over with the birth of your recent unplanned handicapped child at the age of 44, that you obviously don't have time to care for, or your pregnant teenage daughter because you're a pro-life conservative with God on your side? Certainly Americans aren't so stupid. Or, are they? Personally, I think Americans are fed-up and angry, and they're sick of the neglect at the expense of a cushy, Bush-y world they've been forced into.
You aren't pro anything but pro-you and pro-politics. You're pro-everything that isn't long-lasting or of substance. That much is obvious. And if this country votes out of fear as opposed to change for you and the good 'ol boy whose years and years of flashbacks, bitter calluses and corns you'll be trimmin', then you'll be representative of what this country has become and that's a good 'ol oxymoron that George Bush has put in place-- POWER and NEGLECT.
If you're confused, you're not...anyway, I opted out on that last post...i see things circulating in the media and tend to be reactionary (as you all know) without thinking. sorry folks...
anyway...here's to PRE-SEED! I'm hoping to try this stuff out this month. I have to consult with a neuro-surgeon about a disk tear next week before trying again. Hopefully, this won't hinder anything. Long...sigh...
