How retarded is it that that woman has set herself up as the sole representative/conscience/arbiter of fairness for the special needs community? Andrea Friedman said it best: "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes." This is the same woman who tells the press to leave her kids alone yet trotted them out at every opportunity during the 2008 campaign. Give me a fucking break.
Walk a mile in her shoes before you step all over her. Sarah Palin was unheard of before that moderate maverick, John S. McCain, picked her to be his running mate. I surmise that she might have remained in Alaska in perpetuity because she was happy there, getting things done. It wasn't until she was thrown to the media wolves by her own campaign that her family was turned into a political football--and NOT by her.
What the majority of the American people now see in Sarah Palin is the polar opposite of the man who currently occupies the Oval Office--someone with established executive experience in government and in the private sector, who takes responsibility for her duties both to her family and to the state and nation in which she lives. The way I see it, the more the media makes an issue of Sarah Palin, the more attractive a candidate she makes for a nation desperately in need of real hope and change--hope that the nation isn't being summarily destroyed by malice or incompetence, and a change in the relationship of the Washington establishment to the people who they are supposed to represent.
Slamming Palin because she takes issue with thinly veiled insults to her and her special-needs toddler is the same as slamming Barack Obama's children simply because they are fat (according to Michelle "My Belle" Obama), which I have never claimed to do, and have never advocated anyone else to do.
Take yourself and your appalling lack of scruples and decorum out of this thread post-haste. You're only damaging your own cause by defending the point.
Not "nonpartisanship", "BIpartisanship". "Bi" being a Latin root word for "two", meaning it takes two to tango. You can't be bipartisan all by yourself. If the other side refuses to play ball, but instead has set itself up as a party of opposition (instead of being what it's supposed to be, an opposition party), well, whose fault is that?
Wah wah wah...supermajorities in the House and Senate AND a sitting President, and you can't get anything done? Cry me a freakin' river. It's not like the American people want anything to get done anyway. From all the Porkculus bills running through Congress since 2007, to TARP, PAYGO, the Healthcare Monstrosity, Cap-and-Tax, the Jobless Bill, and all these other nonsensical sacks of shit you call legislation, absolutely nothing has stopped or prevented millions of jobs lost, unemployment in the double digits (closer to 20% counting those who gave up searching), inflation set to skyrocket 16% this year, inaction on clean nuclear power, kickbacks to unions, and recently the creation of a blue-ribbon panel to assess the nation's fiscal mess created by none other than Barack Obama himself (aka duck-and-cover for tax increases on EVERYBODY).
Need I mention that tax revenues this year will equal spending levels prior to 2007 when Pelosi and the Spend-o-Crats came into congressional power following the 2006 elections? Please tell me how bad it was in 2007 when we only spent $2 Trillion? Think about it--reversing all spending levels to 2007 markers would balance the budget TODAY. Give me even ONE legitimate economic marker that has improved in our nation since 2007 with the creation of a $1.5 Trillion ($1,500,000,000,000) deficit every year into the foreseeable future by the Congressional Democrats and Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm!)?
If that is what you call bipartisanship, you can shove that so far up your rectum it comes out your oral cavity. I'm absolutely astounded by your intellectual bankruptcy in this regard and I praise the current resiliency of the Republican Party as it stands to resist whatever it can in terms of totalitarian governmental laws.
So, you are proud of being a follower of a willfully ignorant, ambitious beyond her station, hypocritical, slightly mercenary, mildly racist at times, former governor of Alaska? Do you really, really, really, REALLY believe that this woman has any business whatsoever being anywhere in the Oval Office -- except as a visitor?
1. Ignorant? She has more executive governmental experience and entrepreneurial common sense in her pinky than Obama in his whole body. And Obama being a Harvard grad doesn't do much for his resume, in my humble opinion...according to you, a Yale grad got us into this mess (remember George W. Bush?). I don't place any value on education credentials in government anymore.
2. Ambitious beyond her station? Let's hear from Barack Obama himself:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
Talk about arrogant ambition. This man was supposed to be the "Messiah" of this nation. Has ANY of that even remotely come close to happening, and how in the hell does he plan to stem the rise of the oceans, if we even ought to accept his blatantly faulty premise in the first place?!?
3. Hypocritical? Barack Obama voted for EVERY PIECE of spending legislation authorized in the Bush Adminstration's final years, and now he claims to turn around and oppose EVERY PIECE of "abhorrent spending" by the Bush Administration? Not only that, but he's DOUBLED DOWN on all that spending and tossed on at least $1 Trillion more!
4. Slightly mercenary? How many people has Obama thrown under the bus since he ran for president? Let me count the people...his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah "Goddamn America" Wright, his mentor, Bill "Weather Underground" Ayers, countless "blue-dog" congressional Democrats, the governors of Virginia and New Jersey, and even the so-called "Ted Kennedy" seat in Massachusetts for crying out loud! That is just to name a few of the people he's bulldozed, not to mention all the Chicago "thug" politics he learned and practiced in Chicago and Illinois as a state legislator (where, as Switcher points out, he voted "Present" at least 130 times).
5. Mildly RACIST?!? How you even possibly entertain the insane notion that this woman has one racist bone in her body, given the fact she ran on a political ticket against a black man, is beyond me. Even a cursory review of her memoir reveals a uniquely compassionate, truly American feminist who is smashing all the political conventional wisdom while also succeeding in a truly vociferous political climate where the powers that be are scrambling at all levels of government to maintain their feeble grips on power and control. Did I mention her husband, Todd Palin, is multiracial himself?
All I have to point out about Barack Obama in this instance is to indicate that he sat in the pews of one of the most petulantly racist, bigoted churches pastored by the nearly-psychotic Reverend Jeremiah "Goddamn America" Wright, for
20 years, to indicate that Obama has acquired, or at the very least sought advice from, people with deeply-rooted hatred for this country in general and the "white people" in particular. Take this little sermon excerpt for instance:
Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and a culture controlled by rich white people? Somebody missed that. You got nervous because we got some white members here. I am still in Bible country. I am still in the text. Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians -- which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me with -- with -- within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model! He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged. (cheers) Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold! Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up, because her skin was the wrong color. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong lane! I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it! Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home; Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people! Hillary can never know that! Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had her people defined as nonpersons. Hillary ain't had to work twice as hard just to get accepted by the rich white folk who run everything, or to get a passing grade when you know you are smarter than their C-students sitting in the White House. Ooooh, I am so glad that I got a God who knows what it is to be a poor black man in a country and a culture that is controlled by and run by rich white people!
That quote is pure, unmitigated racism in its most vitriolic form, and Obama sat in his pews for 20 years, soaking it all up. To believe with any intellectual honesty that Sarah Palin is the real racist is to admit to such sophistry as should never see the light of day in any respectable intellectual debate.
In this way, I have demonstrated most clearly that not only is Sarah Palin NOT any of these things, it is precisely those who rail against her who seem to stand MOST guilty of the very sins she is accused--political leftists, socialists, communists, marxists and whackos. Why are these the people, dear Zookie, with whom you feel most politically aligned? I could ask that of any leftist on this board, because I fail to see how any honest appraisal of the facts could lead you to any other conclusion than that Sarah Palin, contrary to being the future evil she is portrayed to be, is actually one of the brightest hopes of a nation that desperately seeks the elimination of pure political insanity, perpetrated by an entire Democrat Party against the will of an entire nation!
Please get your head out of whatever deep, dark place it resides and open it up to the light of day. You have no standing to attack Sarah Palin, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
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This is the anger of a nation; directed at those who would truly destroy this country"-BE