McCain/Palin

[Deleted]

Well, the fur is flying & the blame game begins now that the election is over. McCain campaign aides are blaming Palin for the trouncing that Obama gave McCain on Tuesday. They claim that she was uninformed & had little grasp of issues. They even have said that when Palin was being prepped for the debate with Biden that she had to be told that Africa is a continent & not a country, as she thought. I kid you not. This from a grown woman that was a hair's breadth away from the V.P. chair, let alone the Presidency. Maybe McCain should have insisted on Palin taking an I.Q. test before he picked her as his running mate. When Palin was asked about the Africa thing, she didn't deny it but did a good job of skirting the question. McCain aides are also blaming Palin for the $150,000 clothing fiasco, saying that her hubby also got a new $40,000 wardrobe. Nice. If you ask me the 2 of them are trailer park material.

[Clipper]

Something wrong with mobile home living? I think when all is said and done, the people of Alaska would not have elected someone to the governor's office if they considered her trashy. I am sure also that owning or living in a mobile home doesn't qualify one for scumbag of the year, as you might hint.

News flash. The campaign and election are both over. You don't have to spend your days digging up garbage and trashing the opposing party any more until 2012. She has gone back to Alaska, and McCain has gone back to his senatorial seat. Give it a rest.

We most likely would not want to know where half of the campaign money was spent on both sides of the election. I am sure that the dems lined a few pockets and committed as many campaign indescretions as the republicans did, or more. Obama had more money to mispend.

[dgriffin]

If this weren't sad, it would be funny. What's at stake here is not "milady's honor," so much as how we conduct ourselves within the electorate. Palin negativity is now ramping up among the minor wags, mostly those who never liked her in the first place. You'll notice it is not issue oriented, nor about anything of consequence, but rather about the woman, personally. This is nothing more than high school crap. If you didn't like a guy, you talked down what he did. If you didn't like a girl, you call her a scag. Applying that level of discourse to the election of our leaders is a regrettable mistake.

I'm willing to bet Sarah Palin is no angel. But she certainly appears to be an accomplished woman. She came out of nowhere, it's true, and her "nowhere" was even less than the guy who fast-tracked himself out of nowhere (with no experience to speak of) to win the presidency.
I'll wait to see what her peers think of her at the next Governor's conference, rather than visit web sites like SarahPalinIsDumb. com. I'm not comfortable in the company of adolescents, anyway.

[Clipper]

Amen

[corner]

Nov 7, 2008 18:21:35 GMT -5 Clipper said:

Something wrong with mobile home living? I think when all is said and done, the people of Alaska would not have elected someone to the governor's office if they considered her trashy. I am sure also that owning or living in a mobile home doesn't qualify one for scumbag of the year, as you might hint.

News flash. The campaign and election are both over. You don't have to spend your days digging up garbage and trashing the opposing party any more until 2012. She has gone back to Alaska, and McCain has gone back to his senatorial seat. Give it a rest.

We most likely would not want to know where half of the campaign money was spent on both sides of the election. I am sure that the dems lined a few pockets and committed as many campaign indescretions as the republicans did, or more. Obama had more money to mispend.

clip with men outnumbering women in alaska3 to one i could see how she got elected governor very easy on the eyes but you have to admit whensheopenedher mouth she proved to be dumber than a box of rocks forget the wardrobe folks the biggest thieves were already in the white house the clintons loaded up pretty good before they left so my secret service source tells me

[clarencebunsen]

How do you feel about the VP-elect recounting the story of President FDR going on television in 1929 to explain to the American citizenry the causes of the Depression?

[corner]

Nov 7, 2008 22:14:42 GMT -5 clarencebunsen said:

How do you feel about the VP-elect recounting the story of President FDR going on television in 1929 to explain to the American citizenry the causes of the Depression?

i always knew biden was an idiot i had hopes for palin that were quickly dashed by her poor skills in grasping even basic geography... i think the country is in for a rough ride folks the only thing thats changed is the engineer and conductor...when you get to that level of power you owe too many special interests its just changed fom big oil to general electric who is chomping at the bit to sell nuclear technology to iran...and has been doing so clandestinely for a few years now through shell companies

[dgriffin]

Corner, none of them are idiots. I'd be inclined to agree with you about Biden, but only because I don't care for him. I'm sure he didn't get where he's got without a lot of sense. You're probably right that, "when you get to that level of power you owe too many special interests ..." And the guy certainly knows TV was not around in 1929. Maybe Katie Couric unnerved him with her hand on his knee, out of camera. Hahaha! That would certainly scare me!

Here's what's pissing me off. I voted for McCain because I didn't want a Democrat and felt he could rise to the occasion. Obama won, and now I'm willing to support the guy and wish him well. I even feel a bit proud that our country elected a (sort of) minority, though I'm not going to cry in the streets or run up and kiss Al Sharpton. And while I'm busy acting so righteous and straight-arrow, there are those who continue to take cheap shots at my candidates. I'm not speaking of Cracker, who I don't know. I'm referring to the websites I've seen, as well as people who should know better, who are listed in the article I posted a couple of weeks ago:

www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20081026_Palin_deserves_our_respect.html

[dgriffin]

Here's Palin's reply to her detractors.

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-palin8-2008nov08,0,2688299.story

Who knows who is telling the truth, which is possibly somewhere in the middle. I have to agree with her characterization of those who spoke anonymously about her as "jerks who were too cowardly to speak publicly." Where I come from, if you accuse, you do it without concealment, and a person has the right to face their accuser.

I found this interesting: "And McCain himself has privately expressed sadness and displeasure over former staffers' emerging criticism of his running mate, an aide said."

You wonder why he didn't say that publicly. Probably because he's fighting for his own place in the party. Right now, I imagine, Republican Party leaders are like survivors of a hurricane waking up after the storm and wondering what to do first. McCain won't be viable in 2012, so the first task for would-be GOP Presidential hopefuls is to get Palin out of the picture. Start now, before she becomes even more of a celebrity. Maybe she agreed to go home quietly if she lost, and someone wants to make sure she does.

[Clipper]

I guess I think along the same lines quite by accident. I have already been thinking about republican statesmen to oppose Obama in 2012. I would have liked to see Colin Powell run at one time, but I think he is smarter than to put himself and his family through THAT wringer. There are very few in Bush's cabinet that I would even think seriously about. Possibly one of our great generals will step forward by 2012.

[corner]

lets face it you have to be one hell of a self centered arrogant s.o.b. to r;un for president to think you are the only one to have the solutions to the countries and ultimately the worlds woes..dont matter who you are the thought process has to be the same...cant wait to see obamas hairs turn white when he gets briefed on area 51 and gets told who is really running the country.

[Clipper]

Do ya think he will look more like Redd Fox at the end of his first term, haha? If it is a REALLY tough 4 years, he may even look more like "Grady", LOL.

[dgriffin]

Corner, you should admit that the Martians have been running the country well for the last fifty years, before a green van shows up in front of your house.
Every time I see a green van, I think, "They're here!"
I know that sounds crazy, but we all believed it when I was growing up on Cornhill. I suppose I helped, by constantly mentioning it to the neighbors.
I had Mrs. Gambino convinced of it, as well as believing that the blue mail boxes on the corner were for us and the green ones were for our alien captors.
"You'll never hear it spoken of in public, Mrs. G.," I'd say. "But they constantly keep track of us."
"How?" she asked, fear beginning to creep into her voice.
"The paperboys. They're not human. They're encased in a sort of balloon that looks human. If you can get a look at a paperboy's belly button, you'll see a small green hose attached to it."

I made this up in her kitchen, while Mrs. Gambino cut up tomatoes at the table and I stood near the window, watching her paper boy, George, come up the sidewalk. George and I were best friends. I hadn't quite gotten even with him for stealing a pair of jockey shorts out of my dresser and placing them in Mary Louise's homeroom desk at school with a note purportedly from me.
He soon banged on the door and shouted, "Collecting!"

"My paperboy!" the woman gasped.
"I'm on their hit list, Mrs. G, I have to hide!" I said.
"Mama Mia, this is crazy. I wish Anthony was home!"
"If you can get hold of his hose and pull it off, he can't hurt you, Mrs. G."

Mrs. Gambino stood and straightened her apron, then walked resolutely to the door. She opened it, reached out and pulled George's T-Shirt up to his nipples and with her other hand grabbed somewhere down near his belly button.

"Yow," yelled George, as he folded up backwards, grabbed his middle and tumbled back out on the porch.
I suddenly noticed the knife was gone from the table. I got scared and ran to the door. George was down on the back porch floor. I didn't see any blood.
"You're a Martian!" she screamed at George. "Where's your hose?"
"No, no,” I said, “it's really George. I was only kidding, Mrs. G."
She was crazily laughing now, having recovered too quickly to have been really fooled.

"Where's your little hosey, Georgie," she sang. "You're supposed to be a Martian."
"He must have lost it," I said.
"And you're full of crapola, youngster. Why was it you came here, David?"
"I don't remember."

"Yes, you do. Here you are telling me stories and you're supposed to be selling me a subscription to the new diocesan newspaper. You are really bad!"
I cringed, knowing someday she'd find out the newspaper was to be mailed free to everyone.

I hurried George off the porch, before anything worse happened. Later, I explained everything.

"I feel sort of bad," I said.
"No, you don't."
“Damn!” I laughed, “for a minute, I thought she took the knife to you.”
“Nope,” he said, “but boy, she had cold hands. And she was aiming lower than my belly button.”
“I don’t believe you,” I said.
“Yup,” he said, "I think I'm in love with an Earth Warrior."

[clarencebunsen]

Wait a minute, I thought it was Masons who run the world. Perhaps, they were Masonic Martians.

[corner]

who do you think control the mason's?