Quote Of The Day
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Palin, Video“I can’t link to them; they’re too painful.”
- Republican blogger Ross Douthat on Palin’s disastrous interview with Couric
But hey, I’ll link to them.
Hell, I’ll even embed them!
Wow.
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September 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I’m going to assume this’ll be her last interview…
September 25th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Is that really Sarah or Tina Fey parodying her?
September 25th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Please tell me how any rational human being can listen to her say, “Yes, she is the person that I would most like to be one chicken bone away from the presidency.” Please. Pretty please?
I think the greatest insult to the intelligence of the American public during this campaign is for McCain to claim that Sarah Palin is, “the most qualified person in the country to be Vice President”.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I can’t wait to see how hard they try to get her out of doing the VP debates…
September 25th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Well, just for starters: Because the alternative is Barack Obama being in the Presidency, and Joe Biden being a heartbeat away from being in it. That is ample reason.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Simon, what’s your point? Barack Obama & Joe Biden can speak intelligently about all of the important issues facing America. Sarah Palin cannot string 2 coherent sentences together without her teleprompter. Even comparing them is ridiculous. I understand being a partisan. But if you have any real intelligence you will admit to yourself that Sarah Palin is unacceptable. And John McCain is unacceptable for choosing her.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am
rusty,
There are those who are blindly loyal to the Republican Party to the extent that they see what they want to see. Some blindly hate “liberals” or believe anything that comes from people like Rush or Hannity. Others have no clue about the full background of all of the candidates or buy into parodies of them. That’s how people can believe that Palin is actually qualified for VP.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Well, to be fair to Simon, I think we all want more than the ability to string two words together for our next president.
That said, there are people who are blindly partisan and will never vote for the person over the party, and there are people who can be blinded by partisan rhetoric and will never be able to see the real person.
I rarely get a coherent answer from people who are against Obama, but when I do they make valid points. Obama is not the perfect candidate (but no one is).
One year ago, I hoped for a Obama McCain matchup. I thought we would have two good candidates for a change; I held McCain’s party affiliation and unfathomable cozy, yet somehow strained relationship with Bush against him, but I was willing to overlook it and at least consider him.
In the last 12 months, though, McCain has gone over the deep end. His negative campaigning and willingness to push lies and allow them, his bizarre drill baby drill attitude, his Georgian response, his pick of Palin, his inability and UNWILLINGNESS to look at the economy, his relationship with Phil Gramm, his revisionist history on Iraq (I can concede that the escalation, er “surge,” was needed in the context of the instability there, but he refuses to acknowledge that Iraq was unnecessary and now pushes the terrorist angle in relationship to Iraq)…in short, almost everything McCain has done since sewing up the nomination and has been wrong.
People point to his maverick status, but that is a sham. They stammer for a while, but settle on good old Republican values, but the GOP jettisoned almost all of them in the last year–now they’re suddenly concerned about fiscal responsibility? I don’t even believe they are pro-life anymore and are simply stringing pro-life people along to keep them on their side. Seriously, with a President and both houses of congress for 6 years, if they were really against abortion, wouldn’t they have done something?
I’m sorry, I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
The Republican Party is a shell of its former self and McCain is a shell of his former self. They are trying to scare people into voting for them because that’s all they have.
Despite his flaws, any rationale person would have to vote for Obama.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Are we sure that it isn’t Sarah Palin, and not her baby, that has Down’s Syndrome?
September 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Barack Obama 2008 Says:
No they can’t. All they offer is rote repetition of the same failed, discredited FDR-LBJ liberal verities that America turned away from in 1980. Whether one thinks that is “speak[ing] intelligently” depends entirely on what one thinks about those policies; if one thinks that those policies are deeply, profoundly intellectually disreputable, one is not going to think that a person who says them is speaking intelligently. My favorite Scott Adams line is his observation - from The Dilbert Future, IIRC - that ignorance is not a point of view. Reading the policy proposals on Obama’s website and I hear what he has to say, I think of that line often.
A word about partisanship is in order. Partisanship, in the pejorative sense, means is blindly following your party regardless of what it does. Supporting it even when it does something you think is unacceptable. I think that that is far less common than some suppose. Supporting your party because you think it is doing the right thing - or at least, better than what the other party will do - is quite different. McCain has evidently lost Gerry’s vote, but I have to confess doubting that Gerry actually supported McCain - it’s not as though McCain’s positions have changed over the last year. Those of us who support those positions, and those who are less sure but understand how profoundly ignorant and damaging Obama’s proposals are, should be with him, not because he’s a Republican but because he’s right.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:52 am
(To put it another way, I’m not against Obama because he’s a Democrat and I’m a Republican, I’m against him because I think he’s wrong; I think he’s wrong because I believe certain things which align me with the GOP, and he believes certain things that align him with the Democrats. It isn’t about partisanship, it’s about philosophy. It’s about ideology. It’s about who is right and who is wrong.)
September 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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September 26th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Wow! Sarah Palin comes across like a college student who didn’t crack a book all semester, then crammed all night the night before the final exam.