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Posted by Martin on 27 September 2008 - 11:13pm.
Sarah Palin reveals her keen command of geography and, er ... little else.
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I had read...
... about this interview in the newspaper to-day.
It's even worse actually seeing it.
Thanks for posting; and God help us all.
She sorta reminds me of Pauline McGlynn
who played Mrs Doyle in Father Ted. I keep expecting her to say 'now, you'll have some tea, aw, g'wan you will'
That would make more sense that the guff she came out with in that interview
Painful
If the Republicans keep up that standard of interview, I think everything will be ok come November.
Don't bet on it.
Read this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deer-Hunting-Jesus-Delusion-Redneck/dp/184627152...
You're right. Read this book a couple of weeks back
and it is truly scary. For millions of Americans this lack of experience and, frankly, stupidity is a positive advantage. Why, because she's 'one of them'. Small town american values with the holy trinity of jesus, family and guns are the best in the world, therefore what could be better than running the US, and by extension the world, according to those values.
Disturbing stuff. For any free thinking individual, be they on the left or right, this is unthinkable. But as the author points out, himself a self confessed redneck and ex-republican, there is no thought involved. For many it is a knee-jerk choice between guns and jesus or the godless liberal elite and their ilk.
McCain, unlike Palin, is not stupid. He knows where the votes are.
No, you're right
I remember thinking four years ago that it couldn't go any other way. This time I'm crossing my fingers and hoping.
Methinks she will not be entering the pantheon...
of great orators anytime soon.
Oh Dear Lord
She really is dim. Were any of those sentences coherent?
Miss Alaska
It immediately reminded me of the much-mocked Miss South Carolina contestant who mangled her words earlier this year. I wasn't the first to make the comparison:
It's astonishing
that, even though the american banking system is on the verge of collapse, and the equivalent of 2,300 dollars for every man woman and child is about to be pumped into the financial sector, much of which will end up in the pockets of rich financiers, in the form of contract honouring golden parachutes, that McCain and Obama are neck and neck. This should tell you all that you need to know. There are tens of millions of Americans who care about only three things: God, guns and abortion. Everything else, including the possible collapse of the western economy, comes a not very close second. Believe me, these people, and there are millions of them, see the overturning of Roe Vs Wade and the banning of the teaching of science in the classroom as infinitely more important than saving the jobs, livelihoods and homes of millions of people.
McCain and Palin will win in November. I am certain of it. McCain is 72 and has survived four bouts of cancer. If he dies in office, this woman will become president of the most powerful nation on earth. This is the woman who believes the invasion of Iraq is "God's work" and who has been attending a church for 26 years led by a pastor who believes that the global fight for oil is a sign of the impending apocalypse and The Rapture. These people do not fear this. They want to hasten it, as they all believe they are among the 144,000 believers who will be taken up to the heavens whilst the rest of us are left at the mercy of the antichrist on account of the sinful lives we have lived.
This is not a metaphor. Palin and millions of others believe that this is what is actually going to happen.
Pastors schmastors
If we're comparing mad pastors, the Rev. Wright is hardly our most appropriate guide on the path to righteousness either.
Nice try
at some political balance, but there's misguided and extreme, although not entirely unreasonable (Wright - since dropped by Obama) and then there's out and out cuckoo yet dangerously influential(Palin's minister). What's worrying is this continued trend for basing political ideas and actions on superstitious, irrational beliefs rather than on reason or rational thought, the former playing a significant part in getting us into the economic mess we are in now - ie, an irrational, deluded faith in the free market above all else. Francis Wheen's 'How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world', a book I have recently finished, is very good on this subject, and so it goes on.
Why the long face...
....I believe Obama will win in November, for all his faults he is a better candidate than McCain. McCain was forced to the right by the neocons in his own party and made a goddawful mistake in picking this cheap Thatcher knock-off. If, by some unforseen disaster, McCain wins , I´m sure he will have her locked into a broom closet and dump her at the earliest chance.
But , don´t worry, Obama wins . I´m reading " Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to Conspiracy theories,Quack medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History" and it gives the "Creationists " , a right good thumping too.
Had his chips (McCain) - geddit?
Not so worried. That book I mentioned (Wheen) actually one of most entertaining, funny and interesting I can recall. Nothing like a good treatise on how screwed up the world is - left and right alike. Keep smiling!
If it's any consolation
McCain's mother is still going strong at 95.
That is genuinely frightening
Nevertheless, the fact is that this woman could be responsible for swinging the vote away from Obama and FutureNoir above has it spot on.
She's ok in pictures
but as soon as you have to listen to her or read her comments, you get a tremendous chill just in case she gets in and the 72 year old president is incapacitated.
Agree
terrifying thought! All too real as well.
Lest we forget: Dan Quayle
Yeah
but his president was only 64 and in good health, not 72 with a dicky ticker.
Hmmm....
Has a touch of the Dr Melfi's about her.
Sans intelligence naturellement!
Thank You....
...That´s who she reminds me of. It was driving me crazy.
Palin Pop Star
I didn't know Sarah Palin was a musician until I saw her here on The Word blog....
I didn't know The Word
was exclusively about music...
I know that. . .
the last political thread we had, about M*rg*r*t Th*tch*r, was definitely Not A Good Idea.
But if you really want me to expound why I think Obama is at best a painstakingly spun windbag and at worst a conniving sleazebag, then I'll see what I can do. Although to be honest I'd prefer it if this blog didn't turn into the Huffington Puff. I'm a bit messiahed out, quite frankly.
Have you got dual log ins,
Mr V..?
I am legion
I'm here, there and everywhere. Underground, overground, waffling free....
That's kind of having it both ways
As in - I don't think it's a good idea to do politics but I'll just get my tuppence worth (or whatever the expression is) in before we call it a day. You're probably right though - best leave it, it'll only get messy and end in tears.
My last word on the subject
Where's Mike Dukakis when America needs him?
There. I said it.
Lets Face It...
none of the four candidates will be running the country anyway so what's it matter?
More to the point
They won't even be running their own.
Phew.
We can all relax then, with the Illuminati in place, quietly pulling the strings in the background. Good ol' boys.
David Icke?
Oh lordy
All governments are liars and murderers
Doug B you are spot on...and The Word does the 'arts' much better than it does politics.
Okay then
... so lets get away from politics, shall we, and move on to Palin's musical interests. I hear she's a big fan of the Butthole Surfers ...
She is truly scary
but am not sure anyone including her can be worse than GWB.
I am more amazed that Americans can totally screw up on more than one occasion - they had sufficient notice from his first 4 years that Bush was a complete plonker but decided to give him another chance. Now the Republicans are running neck and neck with a party that at the very least will restore their tarnished image in the world. The really scary thing is that very few of them really care what the rest of the world thinks about them. They are modern day cowboys that just love a good shootout. Is Palin any scarier than Cheney? I dont think so.We shouldnt baulk at discussing this subject on this website - it ultimately affects all of us.
So does prostate cancer
but let's give it a rest, eh?
Not strictly true
50% of the population don't have prostate glands. They are called women.
What a funny name for a woman
I thangyew.
To hell with give it a rest...
A former contestant for Miss Alaska who doesn't believe in evolution may end up running the most heavily armed nation in the world... I'm too scared to give it a rest and everyone else should be to...
250 million people to choose from
And she was the best McCain could do?