Sarah Palin finally gets a job she’s actually qualified for
Shocker of all shockers, the “Fair and Balanced” cable news channel Fox News Channel has hired former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a contributor. She will appear on the channel on a regular basis.
Fox News Channel is a cushy landing spot for failed Republican candidates. Mike Huckabee has his own show on Fox News Channel. When RNC chairman Michael Steele finally gets fired, I’m sure he’ll end up on Fox News Channel too.
They most interesting thing about Palin getting this gig is that she will finally be putting that five school, six year Bachelor’s degree in communications to good use. Unlike the job John McCain asked her to run foe, she’s actually well qualified to be a talking head on TV.
Hillary Clinton: ‘We’re not talking about an exit strategy or a drop dead deadline’
If your only problem with President Obama’s military escalation of the Afghanistan war was that you thought it included a set date for troop withdrawal, think again. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates taped an interview with David Gregory of NBC’s Meet The Press that seemed to contradict what President Obama said in his speech at West Point. From the interview:
HILLARY CLINTON: We’re not talking about an exit strategy or a drop dead deadline. What we’re talking about is an assessment that in January 2011, we can begin a transition. A transition to hand off — responsibility to the Afghan forces.
ROBERT GATES: We’re not talking about an abrupt withdrawal. We’re talking about something that will take place over a period of time…. Our military thinks we have a real opportunity to do that. And it’s not just in the next 18 months. Because we will have a significant — we will have 100,000 forces — troops there. And they are not leaving– in July of 2011. Some handful or some small number or whatever the conditions permit, we’ll begin to withdraw at that time.
A handful? What a load of crap. And to think that I and every other American was told that a vote of John McCain was in fact a vote for George W. Bush. The idea being is that John McCain would simply continue with the Bush ideas and strategies. Well, the ironic thing is that Defense Secretary Robert Gates used to be George W. Bush’s defense secretary and he is on national TV talking about an open-ended, no deadline set war in Afghanistan.
So how is this any different?
When I voted for Barack Obama, I was looking for some Change. I thought it was time that we stopped spending so much of our money (and future money) on a massive military so that we could have the distinct privilege of waging unwindable wars in far off lands. I thought it was time to instead spend our money and resources closer to home. I thought it was time to start spending our money on things like universal health care and reusable energy.
If Barack Obama wanted to be the war president, he should have said so during the campaign.
Sarah Palin will tell you what you can do with your fact checking
Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s new book is coming out tomorrow. A lot of people, including those that worked in the McCain campaign, have taken exception to some of the contents of the book, specifically the parts she evidently just made up. The AP have been going through the book and have been writing about the factual errors the book contains. Palin has a problem with this. So much so that she wrote about it on her Facebook page:
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.
She refers to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as though Sheik is his title, like the Iron Sheik. It’s not his title, it’s his middle name. Maybe she just likes to refer to people by their middle name. In that case, I’m going to start referring to her has Louise Palin. That’s her middle name.
Louise Palin also wrote the following:
We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.
I couldn’t disagree with her more. If Americans want objective reporting, why do so many of them watch Fox News? On the contrary, a good many Americans want non-objective, biased reporting. They not only want their news to be biased, a good many of them will simply reject anything that doesn’t embrace their particular bias.
I also think Louise Palin is dead wrong about the AP. I think the AP is very serious about getting the facts right. Back when I found a t-shirt at Wal-Mart with a Nazi skull on it, I was interviewed by an AP reporter for an article they published about the controversy. When the article first appeared online, it incorrectly stated that I’m a veteran of the U.S. Navy. I’m not. I’m a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, not that it mattered.
I didn’t really care, because to me, it didn’t make a difference. I didn’t think my military service pertained at all to the article. About 20 minutes after reading the article, the reporter called me. He asked me whether I had said I was in the Navy or the Air Force. I guess he was going over his notes and noticed that I never said I was in the Navy. I told him that I was in the Air Force, but that I don’t think it mattered. He disagreed. He said that the mistake would be fixed immediately. He said the AP cared a lot about getting facts, all the facts, correct.
Sure enough, the AP quickly corrected the article.
I was impressed by this. I didn’t think it really mattered, but they went to the trouble of fixing a mistake anyway.
So when Louise Palin implies that the AP shouldn’t be trusted with the facts, I couldn’t disagree more.
Who knew losing paid so well?
Word came out yesterday that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was paid a $1.25 million advance for her memoir, Going Rogue. Being that she was still the governor of Alaska when she received the payment, she had to report it on some kind of official state form. If it wasn’t for that, I guess we wouldn’t have found out that she cashed in to such an extent.
If it didn’t appear on an official government form, who would have thought publisher HarperCollins would have paid so much for Sarah Palin’s memoir? Not that fudging an official government form would be something Palin wouldn’t do. She is after all a Rogue. It’s just that when people falsify financial forms, they generally under report, not over report.
I think it’s remarkable that Sarah Palin would get paid so much for writing a book that chronicles so little. After all, it’s her memoir, right? What has she done in her life that would be interesting enough to require a book? She was governor of Alaska, but she quit her before her first term was complete. She ran as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, but she lost.
Michael Barone is a douche
Michael Barone, senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, was speaking in front of a group of college administrators when he informed the crowd why exactly reporters weren’t very impressed with John McCain’s running-mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
It’s because she refused to abort her baby with Down syndrome.
From Politico:
“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby,” Barone said, according to accounts by attendees. “They wanted her to kill that child. … I’m talking about my media colleagues with whom I’ve worked for 35 years.”
He later claimed that he was only joking. Who among us doesn’t appreciate a joke about aborting a Down syndrome baby?
I don’t remember seeing anyone with the name Bible on the ballot
The local newspaper has a photo slideshow on their website that featured various photos taken in Washington County on Election Day. The local newspaper being what it is, failed to put the photos into any sort of context. They didn’t identify anyone in the photos. They offered no explanation as to what the photos were capturing.
For instance, what is this man actually campaigning for? I don’t remember seeing a candidate on the ballot with the name “Bible”. I also don’t remember anything on the ballot that had to do with abortion. I think I would remember that.
If he is Pro-Life, does that mean he is against the death penalty too?
There was something on the ballot concerning gambling. It had to do with allowing slot machines here in Maryland. Personally, I could care less about slots. I don’t gamble or play games of chance. It has nothing to do with my morals or anything like that, I just find gambling to be extremely boring. With that said, I voted to allow slots here in Maryland. The reason? Who am I to tell someone that wants to play slots that they can’t. It’s none of my business.
What exactly is this man trying to get across to the voters? He has a checkmark in the box next to Pro-Life and an “X” next to gambling. Don’t they mean the same thing, a checkmark and an “X”?
I take it that this man was a McCain supporter. I find that to be extremely ironic in that out of the two candidates, Obama is the one that is a born again Christian. He’s the only one that has been married to the same woman his entire life. McCain on the other hand, not so much. He left his first wife for a woman much younger then himself, a woman who’s vast fourtune was built on selling of beer. Most Christians frown on drinking beer, let alone making millions of dollars selling it.
John McCain or The Greaseman for President
I spotted this truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot today. Evidently whoever owns it is a supporter of both John McCain and The Greaseman for President.
Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht is an out-of-work racist hack disc jockey that once had a syndicated radio show. He is infamous for making racially insensitive comments. In 1985, he made an on-air comment about the Martin Luther King holiday, saying, “Why don’t we plug four more and get the whole week off?”
Coincidentally, that’s the same Martin Luther King holiday that John McCain adamantly opposed.
In 1999 The Greaseman made a tasteless joke involving James Byrd, a black man in Texas who had been murdered the year before when he was dragged by a pickup truck by two white supremacists. The Greaseman made the comment, “and they wonder why we drag them behind trucks” while commenting on a singer he did not care for. The singer happened to be black.
I can’t imagine even joking that a raging racist such as The Greaseman should be President. With that said, it doesn’t surprise me that just such a person would also be a John McCain supporter.
Looks like the maverick needs a nap
I saw this happen yesterday on Meet The Press and it made me cringe. The more this campaign drags on, the more I’m convinced John McCain has Alzheimer’s.
McCain communications director Peter Feldman pushed Ashly Todd story to reporters
This from TPM Election Central:
John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s cheek stood for “Barack,” according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”
Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the “B” stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.
The KDKA reporter contacted the McCain campaign office shortly after reading about the story on Drudge Report. The reporter spoke to McCain communications director Peter Feldman who pushed the racially charged story.
Considering the racially charged aspects to this story, that an angry negro thug attacked and maimed a white women simply because she supported John McCain for President, one might think that the McCain campaign would show restraint when dealing with this story. Instead, they do the complete opposite. They do their best to fan the flames of racism and bigotry.
Ashley Todd is in jail
The McCain volunteer who made up a story about being mugged, beaten, and carved on by an angry black male Obama supporter is in police custody. Ashley Todd, 20, admitted to police that she made the story up.
She claims she doesn’t know how she got the backwards letter “B” etched on her face. She told police that she has mental problems and “sometimes forgets”. She also told police it was not politically motivated.
Yeah, right. [KDKA TV]
McCain volunteer claims to have been mugged by Obama supporter [UPDATE]
College student and McCain/Palin volunteer Ashley Todd claims to have been mugged by a black Obama supporter. Not only did he steal the $60 she had just withdrawn from an ATM on “the bad part of town” in Pittsburgh, the mugger punched her a couple of times in the head, knocked her down, continued to kick and punch her, and then carved a backwards letter “B” in her face. The reason? Because he saw that she had a McCain bumper sticker on her car.
The robber is described as a DARK-skinned BLACK man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short BLACK hair and BROWN eyes. The man was wearing DARK COLORED jeans, a BLACK undershirt and BLACK shoes.
Personally, I’m not buying any of it. Not only do I not believe anything I read about on the Internets, I find the story just a little too hard to believe. Why would the mugger carve a backwards “B” into her face? It seems more likely that she did it herself. In a mirror. She refused medical attention at the scene and would not go to the hospital. Really? Some dirty Obama supporter carved a backwards “B” in her face and she isn’t worried about infection or cooties?
And what’s with the black eyes? The eyes don’t appear to be swollen or puffy. They just appear discolored. Black eyes are usually always swollen. That’s why the eye area turns black. I’ve never seen anyone take a beating to the face and not have a lot of swelling. Notice how white her eyes are? If she took a beating to the face, her eyes should be red. If the punches were sufficient enough to give her black eyes, they would also be sufficient enough to cause the blood vessels near the surface of the eye to enlarge and dilate. If she took a beating, her eyes would be bloodshot.
Her eyes are lily white. [True Crime Report]
UPDATE: The story is getting fishier and fishier. She now says that she was also sexually assaulted during the attack. She also took a polygraph test, but the police have not released the results.
UPDATE to the UPDATE: She now admits that she made the whole thing up and she will now be facing charges.
McCain campaign chairman Joe the Prosecutor subpoenas personal information of early voters
Joe Deters, John McCain’s Southwest Ohio campaign chairman is using his position as a county prosecutor to find out the personal information for some individuals who registered to vote and then immediately cast a ballot during a week long early voting period. From the Cincinnati Inquirer:
Deters issued a subpoena on Friday for complete registration records for roughly 40 percent of the 671 voters who registered and cast a ballot between Sept. 30, when early voting began, and Oct. 6, the deadline for voter registration.
Nothing discourages voting like the idea of the county prosecutor accessing your personal information so that he can conduct some kind of investigation. I’m guessing that the people that had their private information subpoenaed didn’t register as Republicans.
Joe the Plumber does not always pay his taxes
Just when I thought the ridiculousness surrounding John McCain’s newest BFF Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber couldn’t get any more kooky, I read an article over at ABC News that shows Joe Wurzelbacher has a judgment lien against him for nonpayment of state income tax.
Joe the Plumber owes the state of Ohio nearly $1,200 in taxes from 2007.
I don’t know why Joe the Plumber failed to pay his state taxes last year. What I do know is that he and others like him shouldn’t be criticizing Obama’s tax plan if he doesn’t actually pay his taxes.
I have to wonder what’s going on over at the McCain campaign. Why didn’t they discover that Joe the Plumber owes back taxes before they decided to make him the star of last night’s debate? Did they even do a simple Google search on him first? Someone working for ABC News was able to ascertain that Joe the Plumber owes unpaid taxes by simplely accessing public records that can be accessed online.
Why couldn’t anyone over at the McCain campaign?
Joe the (unlicenced) Plumber
It’s turns out that John McCain’s newest best buddy Joe Wurzelbacher isn’t really even a plumber.
From MSNBC:
Joe the Plumber, American’s most famous tradesman, said Thursday he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t need one.
Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday’s presidential debate, said he works for a small plumbing company that does residential work. Because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license, he said.
The article goes on to state that Wurzelbacher is the one lone employee of Newell Plumbing and Heating located in nearby Toledo. Evidently owner Al Newell has a plumbing license, so Wurzelbacher supposedly does not need one.
If Newell Plumbing and Heating is clearing over $250,000 a year, why doesn’t the current owner hire some more workers? That way, Wurzelbacher wouldn’t have to work 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week like John McCain says he does.
‘Joe the Plumber’ is not regestered to vote [UPDATED]
It seems that Joe Wurzelbacher, AKA “Joe The Plumber”, the McCain-Palin campaign’s favorite turd herder isn’t even registered to vote in Ohio. Learning this fact makes me wonder why he bothered to complain to Barack Obama about his plan to raise taxes on bald guys people making over $250,000 a year.
Since he chooses not to participate in the democratic process, wasn’t there something else he could have been doing with his valuable time? Wasn’t there a plugged up toilet somewhere needing his attention? [Politico]
UPDATE: It appears that “Joe The Plumber” is registered to vote under his real name, Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher. I researched the Ohio voter rolls under the names Joe The Plumber, Detective Vic Mackey, Joe Wurzelbacher, and Joe The Turd Herder. I never thought of checking for a Samuel Wurzelbacher. My bad.
Racist Missouri Obama billboard angers some
Outside West Plains, Missouri on U.S. 63 sits a sign so absurd and racist that it’s almost funny. At least it doesn’t follow John McCain and Sarah Palin’s latest talking points claiming that Barack Obama has terrorists for friends.
The billboard attempts to capitalize on Obama’s middle name, Hussein. It’s not like he picked that name for himself in 1992. The name was given to him by his parents when he was born. I can’t see the logic in attacking someone over their middle name. If I did, I might have something to say about John McCain’s middle name, Sidney.
And the billboard is not even factually accurate. I wish Barack Obama did favor gay marriage. Unfortunately, he does not. Instead, he favors civil unions. As far as taxes go, he is only raising taxes on the top 5% of taxpayers. He wants to give the rest of us a tax cut.
I’m not even sure that it is Obama wearing that turban. It looks more like Baba Booey from the Howard Stern show. [Link]
McCain thinks we were all prisoners with him back in the ‘Nam
It looks like somebody needs a nap.
Meet some of the people at a McCain-Palin rally
Have you ever watched news coverage of a McCain-Palin rally and wondered what gives with all of the people in the audience booing and hissing at the mere mention of Barack Hussein Obama’s name? I sure have.
Blogger Interrupted took a video camera to a rally in Strongsville, Ohio and asked some of those in attendance a few questions. The result is comedy gold. The sad part is that it’s all real and these people vote.
I don’t think any of them are even liquored up.
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in VP Debate
Former Saturday Night Live head writer returned to the show last night to once again play the part of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Even though she is a tree hugging liberal like me, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tina Fey secretly wanted McCain to win next month. Not only as a millionaire would she be getting a massive cut under a McCain presidency, she would never have to worry about not having anything to do on a Saturday night.
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is comedy gold.
McCain: ‘This bill is putting us on the brink of economic disaster’
John McCain claims that the Wall Street bailout bill he voted for last night in the Senate puts the country on the brink of economic disaster. Gee, then why did he vote for it?
Maybe the world “brink” means something different then what I think it does. I don’t think so, but the alternative is that McCain is just plain nuts.
VP debate moderator is a scary black woman that writes history books
Some members of the right wing spin machine have been in a tizzy over the fact that the moderator for tomorrow night’s Vice Presidential debate, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, has written a book about the black political movement. The book is entitled Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and it is scheduled to be published sometime in January 2009. The book looks at the the various people that have contributed to the breakthroughs that black people have made in the world of politics since the civil rights movement.
As if you could write a book about the history of black people in politics and not mention Barack Obama.
Some McCain-Palin backers are claiming that Gwen Ifill will be biased in tomorrow’s debate between Vice Presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Personally, I don’t think they have anything to worry about when it comes to Gwen Ifill moderating the debate.
That’s not to say I don’t think they have anything to worry about. It’s just that Gwen Ifill is the least of their problems. The idea of Sarah Palin debating Joe Biden in front of millions of people without a script or a teleprompter has got to be taking years off their lives.
I actually almost feel sorry for them.
Donald Trump: ‘McCain will force OPEC to lower oil prices’
I was listening to CNN this morning and Donald Trump was on the phone saying that he supports John McCain for President. Not that I’m surprised. I’m sure that most mega-millionaires are supporting John McCain for President. After all, he wants to lower their taxes while Barack Obama wants to raise their taxes.
It turns out that not the reason The Donald is supporting McCain. Supposedly, it’s because he thinks McCain will go to OPEC and “make” them lower oil prices. He then offered up an analogy. He said that if he and somebody else owned similar stores and they got together and decided collectively how much to charge for certain items, they would end up in jail. The problem with that logic is that OPEC does not set the price of oil. They collectively decide how much oil they will produce.
Why doesn’t Donald Trump know this?
OPEC doesn’t set the price for oil. The world oil market does that. That’s one of the reasons allowing oil companies to drill off-shore wont effect the price of oil. OPEC would almost certainly decrease their oil production to match any increase in oil production here in the United States. The amount of available oil on the world market would remain the same. The oil companies would certainly make even more money then they make now, but the price we as consumers pay wont change.
McCain is declaring himself the winner of tonight’s debate
First John McCain tried to pull a punk move and pull out of tonight’s debate with Barack Obama. Now he is announcing to the world that he is the winner of tonight’s debate.
Fire of the Delorean Marty, McCain is going BACK TO THE FUTURE!
He looks so young and energetic in this photo. No wonder he was able to jump to the future and beat Obama at that debating thing. I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain. I didn’t agree with most of his politics, but I always had loads of respect for the guy.
Now I just think he’s a joke. [Washington Post]
John Zogby thinks McCain is going to win because he smells like an old shoe
My old hack of a community college teacher political pollster John Zogby says that his buddy John McCain is going to win and win big. The reason? Because he smells like an old shoe.
Maybe it’s because he looks like an old shoe. A very, very, old shoe.
Who even likes old shoes? The only people that like old shoes are people with weird and perverted foot fetishes. I’m sure most of them are Republicans, but I doubt there are enough of them to deliver McCain the election. [Boston Herald]
David Letterman rips into John McCain
Evidently John McCain was scheduled to appear on the Late Show last night, but canceled at the last minute so he could suspend his campaign and fly to Washington and solve all of the problems facing Wall Street. At least that is what he personally told Late Show host David Letterman.
As it turns out, McCain instead went and sat down for an interview with CBS New’s Katie Couric.
McCain is suspending his campaign?
John McCain had decided to suspend his campaign. He has pulled all TV ad spots and will not participate in the first scheduled debate with Barack Obama this Friday in Mississippi. Why is he doing this? He says it’s so he can go to Washington and concentrate on the “problems” currently facing Wall Street, The Great Depression 2.0.
Barack Obama responded by announcing that he is not suspending his campaign. He also said that as far as he is concerned, the debate is still on. He correctly pointed out that Americans expect their President to be able to deal with more than one thing at once.
Does McCain even need to be at the debate? It’s not like the candidates spend a lot of time engaging one another in actual debate. In fact, usually they have rules in place that prohibit them from even speaking to each other. They could proceed with the debate and just allow McCain’s podium to remain empty.
The NRA wants you to know that Obama has probably never hunted a day in his life
If this wont make you want to vote for McCain, nothing will. Men that wear camouflage and shake their heads in disgust while they pump gasoline into their American made pickup trucks want you to know that your freedom depends on defeating Barack Obama.
Every four years around this time, the National Rifle Association tries to get their members into a tizzy by scaring them into thinking that whoever is running on the Democratic ticket wants to take their guns away. I don’t know why they continue to fall for it. Nobody wants to take their guns away.
SNL mocks John McCain ads
On one hand this Saturday Night Live skit is really funny, but considering the level of absurdity coming from the John McCain campaign in the way of commercials, I wouldn’t put it past the McCain campaign to actually try some of these ads.
Alaska’s First Dude refuses to testify
From my new favorite newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News:
Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband has refused to testify in the investigation of his wife’s alleged abuse of power, and a key lawmaker said today that uncooperative witnesses are effectively sidetracking the probe until after Election Day.
Maybe Todd Palin is just too busy to testify. He is the grandfather father of a baby with Down syndrome and his wife Sarah is kind of busy these days joining John McCain on the campaign trail making him look even older then he is. That’s something I didn’t even know was possible.
Putting the American into AIG
Good thing John McCain keeps on saying that the United States economy is fundamentally strong. If I had to only go by what I see in the news, I would think it was in trouble. The Federal Reserve has now done something it said it wouldn’t do and it bailed out insurgence giant AIG at the tune of $85 billion.
For those keeping track at home, the federal government now owns mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a result of a bailout deal.
Speaking as a renter, it warms the cockles of my heart to see my tax dollars spent on bailing out these financial institutions that lost money because of irresponsible home loans.
When in doubt, blame Abraham Lincoln
I watched some of the Sarah Palin interview shown last night on ABC News with Charles Gibson. Now we know why the McCain campaign wont allow the press to talk to Palin. I can’t say I really blame them either.
One of my favorite parts was when she blamed Abraham Lincoln when asked about her comment to her former church that the Iraq war was a “task from God”.
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words. But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side. That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.
No, that’s not what that comment was all about Charlie. Her statement to the Wasilla Assembly of God church was nothing at like anything Abraham Lincoln said. In fact, it sounded a lot more like the Blues Brothers’ “We’re on a mission from God” then anything Lincoln ever said.
Bristol Palin’s celebrity lookalike
Ever since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate and she paraded her family into the public consciousness, I’ve had the feeling that I’ve seen her oldest daughter before. I felt like I’ve seen Bristol Palin somewhere else before. I figured that she probably just looked like someone else, but I couldn’t think of who exactly she looked like.
I realized yesterday who she reminded me of. She looks very similar to Canadian actress Jewel Staite. She played Kaylee Frye, the ship’s engineer on the the short lived science fiction TV show Firefly.
Jewel Staite is on the left and Bristol Palin is on the right.
I’m not saying that they are identical twins, only that they look very simular.
When will Sarah Palin sit down for an interview?
If you thought the McCain campaign would quickly get Sarah Palin out on the Sunday morning talk show circuit to explain in her own words why she should be our vice president, you thought wrong. In fact, she might never sit down and answer questions from a reporter. That’s what McCain campaign strategist Rick Davis told Joe Scarborough on yesterday’s MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
I’m somewhat surprised by this. One of Sarah Palin’s many qualifications for vice president is that she won Miss Congeniality in a 1984 Miss Alaska competition. The dictionary defines the word congenial as having a “pleasant disposition” and being “friendly and sociable”.
It doesn’t sound very sociable to me to refuse sit down with a reporter and answer questions.
Sarah Palin has already done the impossible
Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has done the impossible. At least she has done something that I thought was impossible only two weeks ago. By John McCain putting her on his ticket instead of someone truly qualified, I have decided that I will be voting for Barack Obama for President.
Don’t get me wrong. I still don’t think he’s the “perfec”t candidate. I’m still bugged about the whole Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy. I’m still a little creeped out by the extreme, almost fanatic adoration he receives from some people.
Who knows, maybe voting for Barack Obama will turn out to be a mistake. Then again, maybe it wont. Maybe electing Barack Obama as our President will help repair some of the damage the Bush administration has done to our country and to the world. Maybe it will send a message to the world that we want things to be different.
Electing John McCain wont do that. In fact, I’m afraid it would send a whole different message.
I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain. All that changed when he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. By choosing someone with no experience and no qualifications to be his Vice President, McCain showed me that he lacks the judgment needed to be President. I thought good judgment was something McCain had going for him.
Obviously I was wrong.
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