[collared_cherri]

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Hugeboobfan said:
I'm not mad, just jaw-droppingly shocked at how completely unqualified she is to be VP.

Not mad here either.  I'm more shocked at how many people still think she's a good idea.

[Real]

yep, no hatred at all.

i think a lot of people are simply stupefied that someone so roundly unqualified could be one 72 year old, 4 time cancer surviving heartbeat from the presidency.

i mean look at bush.  he was the "common guy"  the "guy youd rather have a beer with" he was "what those elitists in washington" needed.  well how did that one turn out?  like i said until gut voters stop looking sideways at people who use their brains your system of government is in real danger.

shit i dont even hate bush.  i have no doubt he's done everything he thought was right and good for his country as far as the big picture.  

he's just an unqualified idiot who's wrong all the time and thinks projecting anything but absolute confidence in his deficiency is a dign of weakness.  i see this woman as a flavor of the month with many of the same qualities.

i dont see how stupid answers to questions any of the other 3 candidates could field easily makes someone anything but a laughing stock when theyre going for vp.

any percieved "hate" id more aptly desribe as frustration is with the people who will vote for anyone, even this unmitigated retard, who has an (r) by their name.  8 years is enough.

but yeah no one i know hates sarah palin, they just think she's dumb and unqualified and far right.  familiar and unpopular qualities...

[TheZookie007]

I don't hate her. I pity her. And I sympathize with her, if only a little. I mean, think about it, and be honest: put yourself in her shoes. You were able to parlay your good looks (relatively speaking) to become mayor of a small town, and thence to become governor of an equally small (population-wise) state in the back of beyond. You've just about reached the highest level that your incompetence can take you. One fine day after a moose-hunting trip, you get a call to say that a presidential candidate for a major party is asking you to be his running mate. Be honest: wouldn't you wholeheartedly and instantly agree to take the post? Especially since there would have practically been no way under the sun that you could have otherwise gotten national exposure. And it doesn't matter how incompetent you are, you know you would have taken it. After all, you figure you'll have 4 years to understudy the big old guy and then you can use the power of incumbency to get to the Oval Office. Quite honestly, I probably would have done the exact same thing she did, she saw her chance and she took it.

The silver lining in all this is, if she is equally honest to herself, she would recognize something that even Stevie Wonder can see, that she is incompetent, that she is unworthy, and that she is not ready, not by a long chalk, to be vice-president of the United States. BUT: if she settles down after the inevitable loss of McCain/Palin '08, goes back to school, learns the ropes, and in 8 or so years makes another run at the White House, she might have a shot. Americans are suckers for comeback stories; just ask my man Bill Clinton.

The Young Turks, 9/19/08: "Another Sarah Palin Lie"

[TheZookie007]

More videos from The Young Turks:

• "Michael Hirsh of Newsweek unloads on Sarah Palin"
  
• "Jack Cafferty from CNN gives Palin a pounding"
  
• "Sarah Palin vs. the Witches"
  
• "Matt Damon Absolutely Shreds Sarah Palin"
  

[TheZookie007]

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Yahoo! News: "Alaska Natives question Palin's support"

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin routinely notes her husband's Yup'ik Eskimo roots. But those connections haven't erased doubts about her in a community long slighted by the white settlers who flocked to Alaska and dominate its government.

Since she took office in 2006, many Alaska Natives say they've felt ignored when she made appointments to her administration, sided with sporting interests over Native hunting rights and pursued a lawsuit that Natives say seeks to undermine their ancient traditions.

Alaska's population today is mostly white but nearly a fifth of its people are Native Americans — primarily Alaska Natives. Blacks and Asians combined make up less than 10 percent of the state's population.

As a result, race relations in Alaska are different from those in other states. Palin inherited a complex, sometimes strained relationship with Alaska Natives. There is a wide economic disparity between its predominantly white urban areas and the scores of isolated Native villages, and competition between sport hunting rights and tribal sovereignty.

Early in her administration, Palin created a furor by trying to appoint a white woman to a seat, held for more than 25 years by a Native, on the panel that oversees wildlife management. Ultimately, Palin named an Athabascan Indian to the game board, but not before relations were bruised.

When a game board chairman suggested Alaska Natives missed a meeting because they were **94** beer, the remark struck a chord since the Alaska Native community is wracked by alcohol abuse. Palin, a candidate for governor at the time, asked him to resign.

Critics felt the man's remarks rose to the level of misconduct that would have allowed the governor to fire him and were appalled Palin didn't do more to get him off the board once she became governor later that year.

"He should have been removed," said Lloyd Miller, a tribal rights attorney based in Anchorage. "When your conduct fractures the public trust, it's misconduct."

When Palin this summer fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, a Native, she replaced him with a non-Native. His successor resigned after 10 days on the job, when a previously undisclosed reprimand that stemmed from a sexual harassment claim against him came to light.

The Monegan firing is the subject of two state investigations. Palin is accused of firing Monegan because he refused to fire her sister's former husband, a state trooper.

Two weeks after she was tapped as John McCain's running mate, Palin named a Native to Monegan's old position.

Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said the governor's Cabinet members and chief advisers represent the state's diversity. For example, Palin's communications director, Bill McAllister, is part black. Her commissioner for the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, Emil Notti, is a noted Alaska Native leader.

"The governor is colorblind when it comes to hiring," Leighow said.

But Duke University political science professor Paula McClain, who went to high school in Alaska and now specializes in minority relations, said Palin's actions suggest she has "a political tin ear or that she simply doesn't care."

"In a state like Alaska, how can you not be aware of how not reappointing a Native is going to play? At best, she's naive," McClain said.

Alaska Natives — the term includes indigenous Eskimo, Aleut and Indian populations — tend to lean Democrat. Many prominent Native leaders have endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.

But the mother of Palin's husband, Todd, is a quarter Yup'ik Eskimo. Each summer, he heads to his birthplace in Western Alaska to work in the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery.

Palin's family ties would suggest she would be more sensitive to Native issues, said Stephen Haycox, a University of Alaska Anchorage history professor. But in her 21-month tenure, the governor has used those ties mostly to highlight her experiences in commercial fishing, moose hunting and general outdoorsmanship.

"She has not manifested, so far, any extraordinary measures on behalf of Alaska Natives," Haycox said.

Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Chairman Mike Williams of Akiak said he's been seeking an audience with Palin to address tribal concerns ever since she was elected governor, but her staff keeps telling him that her schedule is full.

"She's so busy that she doesn't have time for the tribes. There needs to be respect and a dialogue," said Williams, who is also Yup'ik Eskimo....

[AZWolf]

She knows everything she needs to from the Bush/Cheney book about giving all her family and friends the benefits of her office and hiding all her official activities from the freedom of information act by using personal e-mail accounts to do business.  Too bad she's the worst debater in recent history despite her handlers' best efforts.  Though they continue as I speak in Sedona, AZ.  

Joe...Mr. Biden.  You're a loose cannon like me, but you know of what you speak.  Please, own Ms. Figurehead without going overboard so the press agrees with you but doesn't blame you.  I know you have the skill to walk that line, but I only hope you'll have the willpower.

[3deroticer]

I'm thrilled to ecstatic for having Palin! I want Barack to win! She is our best chance for McCain to lose.

Tina Fey hopes that she wont have to play Palin after the election, but all the jokes about her is killing me.

[MasterDragonfly]

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TheZookie007 said:
One fine day after a moose-hunting trip, you get a call to say that a presidential candidate for a major party is asking you to be his running mate.

The first thing which popped into my head when I read this:

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Well let me tell you a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, then one day he was shooting at some food, when up from the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is, black gold...Texas tea.

[AZWolf]

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3deroticer said:
I'm thrilled to ecstatic for having Palin! I want Barack to win! She is our best chance for McCain to lose.

I agree.  

[ChrisR1]

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AZWolf said:

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3deroticer said:
I'm thrilled to ecstatic for having Palin! I want Barack to win! She is our best chance for McCain to lose.

I agree.  

So do I - and I'm not a big Obama fan. I wish McCain would've gone with Charlie Crist

[Q_BE]

Just wait 'til Thursday, y'all.

Q-"'Nuff said"-BE

[Hugeboobfan]

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Q_BE said:
Just wait 'til Thursday, y'all.

Q-"'Nuff said"-BE

Nuff said indeed.  Let's just hope nobody brings up the subject of dinosaurs.  That would be embarrassing.

[Q_BE]

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Hugeboobfan said:
Nuff said indeed.  Let's just hope nobody brings up the subject of dinosaurs.  That would be embarrassing.

Or lipstick. Or pit bulls. Or pigs.

Q-"Or Barack Hussein Obaby"-BE

[Hugeboobfan]

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Q_BE said:

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Hugeboobfan said:
Nuff said indeed.  Let's just hope nobody brings up the subject of dinosaurs.  That would be embarrassing.

Or lipstick. Or pit bulls. Or pigs.

Q-"Or Barack Hussein Obaby"-BE

Sure, ok.

Can you help me out with Obaby thing?  I understand why you'd want to use his middle name as much as possible (because he's a secret muslim, OH NOES!), but what is the Obaby thing all about?

[TheZookie007]

It's juvenile name-calling, that's all it is. You can't get him on the charge of being a crypto-Muslim, you can't get him on not having bad policy, you can't get him on not having good education, so you revert to the "sticks and stones" approach.