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Posted By gamahuche 1 year, 5 months ago in HumorSHE thinks she's ready! Does ANYONE else?
Can I sell you Gary Hart? Spiro Agnew? Woody Allen? William Burroughs? Divine? Andy Warhol? Anybody??
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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I didn't make it to the woods..
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Thank G_d I have some work to do and can avoid nightmares.
If there were even the slightest sign that she had a MENTOR somewhere..
A blow-up doll of Karl R, a subscription to Marxist Monthly??
SOMETHING..
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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FTA
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The campaign spent days preparing Palin for the ABC interview...
Can you look the country in the eye and say, 'I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?' " he asked.
"I do, Charlie, and on Jan. 20, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we'll be ready. I'm ready," Palin said
"And you didn't say to yourself, 'Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs? Do I -- will I feel comfortable enough on the national stage to do this?' "
"I didn't hesitate, no."
Gibson also asked her about comments that seemed to mean she thought the United States was fighting a holy war in Iraq.
Palin cited Abraham Lincoln in her explanation.
"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."-
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Candida1 year, 5 months ago
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gamahuche: '"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."'
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Oh, you beat me to it. That was the best joke I've heard today.
If that's what she had meant, then perhaps that's what she should have said.
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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More lipstick on the pig, please!
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http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/...
Palin is being marketed to the American public as a reformer who has battled the scourge of earmarks, which is rather like celebrating Madonna as a champion of chastity. As governor of Alaska, Palin has asked Congress for more than $200 million in earmarks for 2009, more per capita than any state in the country.
Of course, Palin didn’t ask for an earmark of $3 million to study the DNA of bears in Montana, which is one of McCain’s favorite examples of earmark waste and one he cites often. She’d never do something that foolish. Instead, as TalkingPointsMemo points out, Palin requested an earmark of $3 million to study the DNA of harbor seals, plus another $2 million to study the mating habits of crabs, and a million for rockfish research. -
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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For Working Moms 'Flawed' Palin is the Perfect Choice
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story...
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Most people I spoke to readily conceded that Palin lacks experience with or knowledge of many important national and foreign issues. But, as Allison McGarvey, a teacher who lives in Stafford County, said, Palin is "a courageous woman, and what she doesn't know, she can learn quickly. Let's face it, no president knows all the issues. Anyway, I don't see how a candidate can pick one stand and just stick to it. The world situation changes every day. It's their moral and ethical background that's important."
In this hyperdemocratized society, the national conviction that anyone can succeed is morphing into a belief that experience and knowledge may almost be disqualifying credentials.
Like many at the rally, Victoria Robinson-Worst sees Palin's lack of experience as an asset. "I know people who have experience who are totally incompetent," said Robinson-Worst, who lives in Loudoun County, designs wedding flowers and raises two children. "And I know people who have no experience who step in and get it right. I mean, women can do amazing things."
This is where culture wars, identity politics and self-suffocating academic theories of deconstructionism have led us: Authority is suspect. Experience is corrupting. Ignorance is strength?
Next will be "war is peace." Or have we already heard that one?-
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Candida1 year, 5 months ago
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Indeed, the "war is peace" part has been covered already:
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"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
- George W. Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20...
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StillUnashamed1 year, 5 months ago
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It was a baited question. How else was she supposed to answer? Answer like she did, which was a show of confidence and she is ridiculed for being arrogant. But if she had answered differently (what would that be? "No, I'm not ready!) these same people would still ridicule her by saying something like, "Why should we vote for them when she admits not being ready?"
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BTW, has any interviewer asked Obama that question? Or Biden? Or even McCain? Has that question been asked of any male presidential candidate?
And before anyone says I'm playing the gender card, please consider just why that question was asked of only her?-
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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Let's see... if I were running for President (and I'm not, only for Parliament), my answer would be.
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"To be honest, there are days when I have my doubts. It's a huge job and a huge responsibility. It's bigger than any one of us. But I have strength in my convictions, and I have faith in the people around me, and I know that, together, we would lead this nation proudly and properly."
Then again, I'm not going to have every word scrutinized. I'm not going to have my comments taken out of context and used in ads against me (I hope). -
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hyperbola1 year, 5 months ago
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Palin clearly knows very little about the world except for the state propaganda that is peddled by our military-industrial-media complex.
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For example, someone might tell her that a majority of Ukranians DO NOT WANT to join NATO. They are smarter than the neocon front man installed in Georgia (Saakashvili)and realize that piisssing off major parts of your own population (the Russian majority in Crimea) in return for favors from neocons in Washington is not a very productive way to build a country. -
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