Let's be sure to equate one day of trolling at the U.N. with foreign-policy experience, even though so many supporters of the troll's party believe the U.N. is pointless.
Let's also be sure to keep a lid on the investigation going on about how a public official canned someone who wouldn't can her ex-BIL, who may well have mean to her sister but who nevertheless didn't do anything wrong in his job.
Let's play a game called "I'll trot my children out for my own benefit but don't you dare bring them into it" so that every angle will be the public official's to play. Yes, her party had trouble with the out-of-wedlock baby of a fictional character named Murphy Brown who, some have pointed out, was not a minor, had a job and was independent and successful. It's true Murphy didn't have a husband, but she also didn't have to wash any "Redneck Pride" t-shirts. Some things, you just can't put a price on.
Let's play a game called "Family Values doesn't mean the public official won't go back to work three days after her special-needs child is born and it also doesn't mean she'll be disappointed when her 17-year-old gets knocked up and limits all the high hopes she had for her." It's so much fun to keep changing all the rules to suit the needs of the party.
And let's say maverick when we mean liar and/or simp.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Smear this on your puppy's lips
So the only difference between pitbulls and hockey moms is lipstick? Hmm. Let me play that game, too.
Here are the differences b/w Joe Biden and Sarah Palin:
1. The former didn't take 5 years to get through 6 schools. He got through U of Delaware and Syracuse Law in normal time.
2. The former didn't go back to work 3 days after a special-needs child was born. In fact, when the former was made a senator, he was sworn in from his son's hospital room, where he was after a horrific accident that killed his wife and baby daughter.
3. The latter said she was proud of her 17-year-old's decision to raise a child. You can be pro-life, you can accept life's realities. It doesn't mean you're proud of the situation. Being proud of an oncoming trainwreck just means your judgment is dreadful.
4. The former isn't governor of a state that functions unlike any other. Moreoever, he's worked in Washington. Just like McCain. Just like Obama.
5. The former actually has foreign-policy experience.
6. The former isn't being investigated for having a government employee canned for his unwillingness to fire someone the former didn't like. And the former isn't trying to withhold the investigation until nanoseconds before the election.
7. The latter dissed Washington's elite, but never once had the cajones to admit it's her party that's been running the shoddy show for the last eight years.
Nothing to see here, folks. It's just more of the same, from the party who taught you (courtesy the Karl Rove playbook), "When you have nothing to offer, hurl invective at the other side."
Face it: Palin's a hillbilly in go-go boots who supports drilling and guns, and has no new ideas. I can't imagine what drove McCain against choosing an actual qualified Republican female, like Olympia Snowe, or Kay Bailey Hutchison, but it makes me question his judgment (not to mention his campaign's vetting process.) And it makes me wonder how much closer the glass ceiling falls on all women's heads when public women's personal lives get in the way of their jobs in a way they simply don't for public men.
(Let me save my rant against the insulting idea that as a woman, I'd have to vote for a woman on the basis of her being a woman, never mind that she's completely counter to all I hold dear, for another day.)
Sources, I got your sources:
1. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1116906&srvc=home&position=comment
2. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10382124
3. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/382560.html
4. http://lookinginatiowa.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/1972-article-about-fatal-crash-which-took-life-of-bidens-wife-daughter/
5. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2069707/posts
6. http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palins-17-year-old-daughter-bristol-palin-is-pregnant/
7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-guttman/bidens-foreign-policy-cr_b_38144.html
8. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5702697&page=2
9. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04assess.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=palin%20washington&st=cse&oref=slogin
Here are the differences b/w Joe Biden and Sarah Palin:
1. The former didn't take 5 years to get through 6 schools. He got through U of Delaware and Syracuse Law in normal time.
2. The former didn't go back to work 3 days after a special-needs child was born. In fact, when the former was made a senator, he was sworn in from his son's hospital room, where he was after a horrific accident that killed his wife and baby daughter.
3. The latter said she was proud of her 17-year-old's decision to raise a child. You can be pro-life, you can accept life's realities. It doesn't mean you're proud of the situation. Being proud of an oncoming trainwreck just means your judgment is dreadful.
4. The former isn't governor of a state that functions unlike any other. Moreoever, he's worked in Washington. Just like McCain. Just like Obama.
5. The former actually has foreign-policy experience.
6. The former isn't being investigated for having a government employee canned for his unwillingness to fire someone the former didn't like. And the former isn't trying to withhold the investigation until nanoseconds before the election.
7. The latter dissed Washington's elite, but never once had the cajones to admit it's her party that's been running the shoddy show for the last eight years.
Nothing to see here, folks. It's just more of the same, from the party who taught you (courtesy the Karl Rove playbook), "When you have nothing to offer, hurl invective at the other side."
Face it: Palin's a hillbilly in go-go boots who supports drilling and guns, and has no new ideas. I can't imagine what drove McCain against choosing an actual qualified Republican female, like Olympia Snowe, or Kay Bailey Hutchison, but it makes me question his judgment (not to mention his campaign's vetting process.) And it makes me wonder how much closer the glass ceiling falls on all women's heads when public women's personal lives get in the way of their jobs in a way they simply don't for public men.
(Let me save my rant against the insulting idea that as a woman, I'd have to vote for a woman on the basis of her being a woman, never mind that she's completely counter to all I hold dear, for another day.)
Sources, I got your sources:
1. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1116906&srvc=home&position=comment
2. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10382124
3. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/382560.html
4. http://lookinginatiowa.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/1972-article-about-fatal-crash-which-took-life-of-bidens-wife-daughter/
5. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2069707/posts
6. http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palins-17-year-old-daughter-bristol-palin-is-pregnant/
7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-guttman/bidens-foreign-policy-cr_b_38144.html
8. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5702697&page=2
9. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04assess.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=palin%20washington&st=cse&oref=slogin
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