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tarav wrote:Thank you for that last post, Mr. Pessimistic! Are there any good independents out there? Please, anyone, give me some alternative!
We need more Independents...and not just party fence-sitters that switch their tag.
For me, The Republicans had their turn and it failed. McCain is a bit loopy, and if Ihear the word Maverik once more, I am going to start shooting Republicans. Palin is a sign of his judgement. Superficial (get the woman vote!) and without substance.
``Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backward,''
Except in that sentence, she looks backward to two different events. "Say it ain't so" refers to the baseball scandal involving Shoeless Joe Jackson and "there you go again" refers to a refrain Reagan repeated in one of his debates. No no, looking back is not allowed!
Amazing, it really contrasts her seeming tone of levity, and the smirk. The crowd had a good chuckle. I had no idea she could be so referential on the spot like that. Do you think she had the phrase memorized before hand?
Grim wrote:Amazing, it really contrasts her seeming tone of levity, and the smirk. The crowd had a good chuckle. I had no idea she could be so referential on the spot like that. Do you think she had the phrase memorized before hand?
You know what else sounded odd, in that it seemed like a memorized talking point? When she said that "your plan is a white flag if surrender" regarding Iraq. There were a few seconds before she got it out that seemed oddly silent and then she jumped into the phrase.
We need more Independents...and not just party fence-sitters that switch their tag.
What we need is a communist revolution to topple this broken ass political system that governs the United States of Corporate America. Palin and Biden are two sides of the same rusted coin. Arguing about which one is more qualified to lead this country is like debating who sells better clothes, Gap or Old Navy. The beneficiary is the same. Fuck 'em both.
Cheryl
When I die, I hope to do so with dignity,
like my grandfather, quietly in my sleep,
not yelling and screaming in pain,
like the passengers in his car.
Besides being wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, the Economic Bail-out, Biblical Literalism, American History, Constitutional Law, Climate Change, Sustainable Industries, and the Failure of Corporate Capitalism...Palin is the worst sort of cynical ploy to distract US voters from the disasterous policies and practices her Party has forcefully enacted over (in the very least) the last 8 years.
First, I apologize for just disappearing for the whole weekend. I had a lot going on, but I could have quickly explained that somewhere. It wasn't personal, just life intervening.
Second, it's perfectly valid to ask "Who is being racist?"
I meant that the general tenor of the race has been impacted by speculations in the media along the lines of "Is America ready for it's First Black President?" or pitting the supposed appeal/drawback of supporting women in the person of Hillary Clinton against the supposed appeal/drawback of supporting people of color in the person of Obama. This framing shows our society is still racist enough to seriously ask these questions. In a non-racist, non-sexist society candidates would be assessed according to their stand on issues and whether or not they had the skills and experience that make a person a good president. Period.
In addition to this generally racist atmosphere of our media, there have been specific smear tactics, including the dissemination of racist misinformation (I'm not repeating any) that has had to be countered about Obama, inappropriate comments (such as "he should stick to basketball" when Obama was revealed not to be a great bowler -- a skill not needed in a President of the U.S. at all) and even hate crimes, such as the recent hanging of an effigy of Obama on the George Fox College Campus accompanied by an anti-affirmative action message. (George Fox would have deplored such an act of violence, by the way.)
In that sort of atmosphere, McCain and Palin both should be careful to be clear about what they are talking about when they discuss disagreement with historic Supreme Court decisions. To state vaguely that you are for "States Rights" in answer to that question "Which other famous decisions of the Supreme Court do you disagree with?" in such a context, when that is most famously known as the code word reasoning used to argue for the rights of states that wanted to oppress African Americans in at least two famous instances, really begs the question that no journalist in our current media is asking. I think we should ask: what cases is she talking about? Why doesn't she mention the names or at least what the issues in question were?
As has too often been the case with recent politicians from Ronald Reagan on, we are left to wonder, did she really mean what that sounds like or is she just too stupid to think of one Supreme Court decision she doesn't like? Either way, it's not the quality of thought a politician needs for me to want them to represent this country to the world.
Does that explain it? I wish people would ask Palin to explain her comments about States Rights that thoroughly.
"Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?"
-- Chuang-Tzu (c. 200 B.C.E.)
as quoted by Robert A. Burton
GentleReader9 wrote:I wish people would ask Palin to explain her comments about States Rights.
Oh - and in Australia we call that sort of 'states rights' talk 'dog whistle politics' because it is intended to appeal to a racist electorate without making overt racist comments, and even better, the comments are in code that will be understood by the targets but not by others - just as the high pitched dog whistle is heard by the dog but is above human hearing range. Except SP seems to have accidentally used a fog horn.
I'm not sure the question is if she's too inexperienced, I think the real question is if she's smart enough.
Obama may be inexperienced in certain arenas, but I've never heard him tell a reported he'd try to find some examples and get back with him, though his 57 states comment was embarrassing, but much different than the whole interview situation, IMHO.
