Did she bother to practice this speech?
Sarcastro, are people supposed to tell when and where their kids are being deployed? That seems weird to me.
She’s got the Bill Frist look of terror where her mouth is smiling but her eyes are all “Oh my god! This is crazy.”
It tickles me to watch the Republicans clapping for progress for women. When did that happen?
Why are folks waving “We love Cindy” signs?
Okay, America, let’s have a brief talk about whether it’s wise for Palin to continue to harp on her “small town” roots. Those of us who grew up in small towns, who are watching her, know her. We recognize her. And I’ve got to guess it’s going to be 50/50 if they’ll vote for her. She’d better hit hard that Obama is worse than her, because the longer I listen to her, the more I think she’s the woman the other women are rolling our eyes about in the kitchen when we think she’s not looking.
But I get it. This is “Mrs. Palin goes to Washington.”
And I find her kind of terrified look kind of charming. I mean, she should be terrified, if she gets the magnitude of what she’s about to embark on.
Didn’t she take the money from the Bridge to Nowhere? Don’t the people who wrote her speech know that?
Oh, that silly Constitution.
Here’s the problem Palin has–the straight out fundimental problem–the longer she talks, the more I can believe that she’d ban books. This speech has indeed made me feel like I know her better, but I have to say, if they make her the attack dog–which is clearly the role she’s taking in this speech, look at her talking about how she’s a hockey mom and the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick–how can they they turn around and ask the media to lay off her?
It’s really empty to the left of her, there, isn’t it?
No, I take that back. There may just be some weird seat set-up.
Hey, did you hear that John McCain was a POW?
I see, though, that she neglected to mention that McCain was tortured.
Ha, sorry. I think I accidentally channelled Andrew Sullivan there.
Holy shit. She just said that John McCain went through torturous interrogations. So, are we now acknowledging that those actions constitute torture?
If you want change, vote for McCain? So, don’t vote for the one guy advocating change, vote for the other guy advocating change? It’s a weird political season my friends. And I’m just not sure how that speech served her. It didn’t make me feel like she was the person who should be second in line for the Presidency. I mean, I can completely see how she’ll be a good advocate for McCain, but will undecided people watch that speech and think “Okay, she could run this country?”
I’m just not sure.
As for everyone who predicted that the media would fall all over her, I think that’s right.
But the tone was strange.
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She’s had a lot on her mind recently, I reckon. I also am guessing that the speech was hammered together by a dysfunctional committee (the campaign is rumored to be incredibly fissured ideologically) and handed to her in bits and pieces as late as this afternoon. It probably is hard to get a moment to gather her wits, what with rumors and allegations flying thick and fast.
Yeah. She’s Uncle Junebug’s wife, bless her heart, the one who calls the cops on kids who skateboard in the trailer court because there’s a sign that clearly says that skateboarding isn’t permitted and she doesn’t want those little hooligans around.
Saying he’s going to Iraq as part of troop rotations next week isn’t giving away any military secrets.
We already invaded. Like five years ago.
Hmmm. Okay. Still seems uncool to me.
Yet not uncool when Biden’s son announced he was leaving for Iraq with the JAG Corps?
Aunt B., I understand why Palin made a point of advertising her son’s imminent deployment. How many of Bush’s or Cheney’s kids even wore a uniform in the war their fathers started? Even if the Palin kid never sees combat, it makes for a Republican ticket (including the Eternal POW) where both candidates have put some blood and flesh on the line for the bullshit wars they supported. That is the only moral advantage they have over the “I was for the war before I was against it and I refused to cut the funding even after it was obviously a massive clusterfuck” Democratic ticket.
Regarding the torture issue, don’t get too caught up in that. Don’t forget the underlying social mores at work in the electorate.* Brown people torturing white people is an unspeakable injustice. When white people (especially Merrkins) do it to sand niggers or other brown scum, it doesn’t even count; calling it torture is suggesting that towelheads have rights that a white nation is bound to respect, and that’s blasphemy.
*Sadly, we have to include a great many self-described liberals and progressives in this group. How many liberals howled for the hide of Michael Vick? How many continue to howl as vociferously for the hides of Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush? Torturing and killing dogs seems more repulsive to many of us than the torture and murder of foreign brown people. You can say that I’m exaggerating, if it makes you feel better. But Michael Vick is in prison, while impeachment is still off the table.
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The money quote was:
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
I saw reports that she’d been holed up with the speech writers from 11AM until 1AM, in the day before the speech.
I hate those damn kids on skateboards.
Little bastards.
B –
His imminent deployment was also mentioned a bunch of times during the 72-hour Palin family feeding frenzy, along with the time he picked his nose and the time he was caught masturbating to an old picture of Gillian Anderson.
The change John McCain seems best acquainted with is the change from independent thinker who claimed the Religious Right was destroying the Republican Party to tool of the people he used to hate. Candidate McCain doesn’t even support the positions endorsed in his own party’s platform. Neither of them are the right people to wave the “Opportunists? Who, Us?” flag.
“Why are people waving ‘I Love Cindy McCain” signs? Maybe because they’re afraid Sarah Palin will go after her. Because isn’t Palin making a big deal out of selling the former governer’s private plane? And wasn’t it Cindy McCain, private plane owner, who said the only way to get around Arizona is by small plane? How many Arizonas fit inside Alaska? And, as I’m an native Alaskan–as in born there–can I change my tag for the next three months from “college professor” to “territory-born Alaskan” (so I’m old…).
Wait a second. You weren’t born in the United States, but in a territory of the United States? Do folks on your campus know you’re practically a foreigner?
Ha, I tease.
The line that I particulaly didn’t like which reminded me why I will not vote Republican this year…or any time soon is this:
“Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
I am really fond of civil liberties and to have a VP candidate treat them as flippantly as this just goes to show how far from the Constitution the Republicans have gone….no matter how much I enjoyed the skewering rhetoric that painted Obama for the empty suit that he is.
DB: yeah, that and a the fact that she was trying to shame the democrats for *NOT* using september 11th as talking point. You know, because not wanting to use a national tragedy as a political football is so disgraceful.
.. Come ON.
DB, I didn’t want to lose your point here, because I think it’s important–it is scary to hear any large crowd of people chanting USA, USA while at the same time expressing delight at the thought of tossing out our Constitutional rights.
You cannot actually be a patriot if think the Constitutional protections of our rights are stupid.
Did we beat the Russian hockey team last night?
Well said, DB.
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