Palin is an ignorant, uneducated fool-The VP debate thread!

[-Jrabbit]

FYI...

Meanwhile, a poll conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center over the weekend found that just over half of registered voters view Palin favorably and about four in 10 think she's qualified to be president, essentially unchanged from a week earlier, before her debate with Biden. Biden's positive image improved slightly to 63 percent, and those saying he's qualified to be president grew to 77 percent, the same poll showed.

Alarming paragraph in the same article...

Reporters weren't permitted to talk to Palin's audience in a Clearwater park, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. One escort, who would not give her name, told a reporter the press couldn't mingle because negative things had been written in the past, Schulte reported.

From an AP story I just saw on Palin's appearance in Clearwater today.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Now there's some brilliant strategy. Palin talks directly to an audience today, then flies out of there, leaving them to get their election info for the next 4 weeks from the very local media she just pissed off in the course of her appearance. What could possibly go wrong there?



Her 15 minutes can't end fast enough, honest to God.

[Jon Miller]

Do you think she will face a serious contest in Alaska next time it is up?

JM

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Now there's some brilliant strategy. Palin talks directly to an audience today, then flies out of there, leaving them to get their election info for the next 4 weeks from the very local media she just pissed off in the course of her appearance. What could possibly go wrong there?



Her 15 minutes can't end fast enough, honest to God.

The sad thing is that a lot of people believe the evil media is persecuting her .

[Asher]

[Guynemer]

I think that would make Dubya Boomhauer.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Guynemer


I think that would make Dubya Boomhauer.

Mentally, much more akin to Bill.

[Vesayen]

Bill is not filled with Malice.

Greedy, short sighted and ignortant?

CLEARLY Bush is Mr. Strictland.

[Guynemer]

Richard Cohen calls out the MSM for their treatment of Palin:

Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and therefore, shall we say, has a Mister Rogers approach to certain politicians, got Palin on the phone and reported that "she doesn't have a very high opinion of the mainstream media." This is where we are in agreement. On account of Palin, neither do I.


In her debate against Joe Biden last week, she mischaracterized Barack Obama's tax plan and his offer to meet with foreign adversaries of the United States. She found whole new powers for the vice president by misreading the Constitution, if she ever read it at all. She called one moment for the federal government to virtually disappear and a moment later lamented the lack of its oversight of the financial markets. She asserted that she "may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you [Biden] want to hear" because, apparently, the rules don't apply to her on account of her being a hockey mom. Fer sure.


Not enough? Okay. Palin also said that she "and others in the legislature" had called for the state of Alaska to divest itself of investments in companies that do business with Sudan. But, as the indefatigable truth-hunter at The Post found out, the divestiture effort was not led by Palin. In fact, her administration opposed the initiative, and Palin herself only came around to it after the bill had died.

In spite of it all, much of the media saw a credible performance. I could quote the hosannas of some of my colleagues, but I spare them the infamy that will surely follow them to their graves. (The debate's moderator, Gwen Ifill, used the occasion to catch up on some sleep.) Many of my colleagues judged Palin simply as a performer and inferred that her performance would go over well in homes with aboveground swimming pools.

A perfect example is the Wall Street Journal, whose (conservative) editorial page has been absolutely fixated on a strict (Scalian) reading of the Constitution. Did it wonder what in the world Palin meant by the authority she found in the Constitution to increase the role of "the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate"? What? Oh, never mind. The Journal chivalrously ignored the matter. Palin is excused from knowing the limits of the office she seeks.

In effect, columnists, bloggers, talk-show hosts and digital lamplighters have adopted the ethic of the political consultant: what works, works. It did not matter what Palin said. It only mattered how she said it -- all those doggones, references to her working-class status (net worth in excess of $2 million), promiscuous use of the word "maverick," repeated mentions of "greed and corruption on Wall Street" (Who? Be specific. Give examples. Didn't anyone here go to school?) and, of course, that manic good cheer. Palin knows that the standard is not right or wrong, truth or lie, but the graph that ran under both debaters on CNN, measuring approval, disapproval or, maybe, the blood sugar levels of certain people in their focus group. Things have changed. Might used to make right. Now a wink does.

Since I began with the Times' conservative columnist of the moment, I will end with its conservative columnist of years past -- the estimable William Safire. In 1996, he called Hillary Clinton "a congenital liar." It was a head-snapping characterization that, alas for Clinton, has defined her for the ages and that she stubbornly vindicates from time to time.

But what about Palin? Can you imagine the reaction of the press corps if Clinton had given the audience a "hiya, sailor" wink? Can you imagine the feverish blogging across the political spectrum if Clinton had claimed credit for stopping a bridge that, in fact, had set her heart aflutter? What if she had shown that she didn't know squat about the Constitution, if she could not tell Katie Couric what newspapers or magazines she read or if she had claimed an intimacy with foreign affairs based on sighting Russia through binoculars?

Ah, but the scorn, approbation and ridicule that would have descended on Clinton -- I can just imagine the Journal editorial -- have been withheld from Palin. Much of the mainstream media, grading on a curve suitable for a parrot -- "greed and corruption, greed and corruption, greed and corruption" -- gave her a passing grade or better. I agree with Palin. It's the mainstream media that flunked.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602634.html

[Elok]

He forgot how we need to cut emissions while drilling for more oil. That's essential to the Palin plan.

[Guynemer]

Christ Almighty, the prospect of her in the Oval Office scares the **** outta me.


Just noticed your sig. What the hell's an aluminum falcon?!

[-Jrabbit]

Nice.

[Asher]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html

McCain asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear someone yell "terrorist." McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting. Oh, but McCain does say in the next sentence that he's upset about all the "angry barrage of insults."

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.


"Boooo!" said the crowd.

"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Only the finest.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Just noticed your sig. What the hell's an aluminum falcon?!

Oh, just rebuild it? Real original, jackass. And who's gonna give me a loan, you? You got an ATM on that lite-brite chest of yours? Now get your seven-foot-tall asthmatic ass back here or I'm gonna tell everyone what a whiny ***** you were about Padamame, or panda bear, or whatever the hell her name was...oh geez, he's actually crying, hehehe...look, I'm sorry, I'm just under a lot of stress lately, pressure of my job, Death Star gets blown up by a bunch of ****ing teenagers...just come back here as quick as you can...bye...I love you...bye.

-Yo mama's so fat, Ben Kenobi said, 'that's no moon, that's yo mama!'
-Yo mama's so stupid, she thinks Jar Jar comes with pickles pickles!
-Yo mama's so fat, Jabba the Hutt said 'damn!'
-Yo mama's so dumb, she thinks a "light" saber has less calories...what? Light? Less calories? You get it?

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Asher

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html

McCain asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear someone yell "terrorist." McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting. Oh, but McCain does say in the next sentence that he's upset about all the "angry barrage of insults."

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.


"Boooo!" said the crowd.

"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Only the finest.

Yes, because no Obama supporters have ever said Kill whitey. I've seen it myself in the hood, they snarf down chicken wings and whine about the white men keeping them down. No, it's not us. Maybe it is the weight of your bizarrely huge penises dragging you down. I couldn't get out of that iKFC fast enough.