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Posted By MyWayOnNow 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsA day after The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote about how the Secret Service is blocking press at Sarah Palin's rallies, it appears Palin's staff is blocking her from listening to the press. Palin revealed at a fundraiser last night that she is in an ever-growing media bubble.
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Dionys1 year, 2 months ago
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So on top of being a fundamentalist nutjob who believes in a soon-to-come armageddon (perhaps with a little help from Washington), who would probably become president a few months into office after McCain has a stroke, she's also suffering from depression? Even when she's lined up to possibly be the next Veep?
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More and more frightening every day.-
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chuck-the-canuck1 year, 2 months ago
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obiefrommuskogee1 year, 2 months ago
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But can we really claim Palin has any executive experience at all? I mean, when a decision needs to be made, she just brings in the first Dope.
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He stands in during her meetings and reviews all her emails. When she needed to cut the budget, she went and asked first Dope.
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lloydm651 year, 2 months ago
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chuck the canuck:The next time you write a comment on this page please preface it with the successes in your life.If Palin is to dumb to write on the bathroom wall,where does that put you.Have you been the mayor of a city,been a governor of a state,have you ever served your country in any way,I didn't think so.Here in Texas you would be classified a tumble weed,it has no reason for it's existence,and all it does is blow across the plains kicking up dust.
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bonaroo1 year, 2 months ago
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Sheesh. Some one please keep the news away from Clockworkorange as well.
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Sarah Palin is the reason many prominent conservatives are now supporting Obama. Many of them have had a hard time warming up to McCain in the first place and now that they have had a chance to see Palin in action they are shocked. Palin represents the fundamentalist Christian faction of the Republican party well. I think they refer to themselves as the "Folks". (Wink) But there are other factions within her own party that will not risk putting the security of our Nation into her hands. This is the news that her handlers don't want her to see.-
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fsev411 year, 2 months ago
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Almost every newspaper and every Republican who have chosen to endorse OBama say that Sarah Palin is a significant part of the reason that they cannot endorse John McCain. Hard to figure what the few Palin supporters see in her if everyone else is seeing something different.
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Out of curiosity I was wondering if Sarah gets more depressed from what she hears or if her handlers get more depressed after she says something publicly about what she hears. I would have to say her handlers have a very depressing job for sure.
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 2 months ago
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clockwork orange,
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You need to relax. What is your blood pressure?
Hey lloydm65,
Chuckthe canuck isn't running for a political office. Why does his credentials matter? Just because Palin tries to send the message that she is an average Joe doesn't mean we need an average Joe in the office. Our standards should be much higher than average anything. We should have the BEST in office and she ain't the best the republican party has to offer. -
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Poulenc1 year, 2 months ago
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Well, of course, keeping her away from the news--at least the printed kind--presupposes literacy.
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But seriously, she's not a dumb woman--she's just dumb about everything about which she needs to be knowledgeable to be second-in-command were McCain to become prez.
At bottom,of course, the "depression" claim is a silly and too-transparent spin on the actual need to isolate her from challenging contacts with the media.
If she self-defines as (or is defined as) ignorant, well, one can hardly bash her for not knowing--that is, for not having an opinion, can one? If it got to that, which it's not supposed to.
Of course, her handlers are actually HINDERING her ability to appear credible by keeping her barefoot and pregnant. So to speak.
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Progressive1 year, 2 months ago
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Here's what Peggy Noonan said about Palin in yesterday's WSJ:
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There has never been a second's debate among liberals, to use an old-fashioned word that may yet return to vogue, over Mrs. Palin: She was a dope and unqualified from the start. Conservatives and Republicans, on the other hand, continue to battle it out: Was her choice a success or a disaster? And if one holds negative views, should one say so? For conservatives in general, but certainly for writers, the answer is a variation on Edmund Burke: You owe your readers not your industry only but your judgment, and you betray instead of serve them if you sacrifice it to what may or may not be their opinion.
Here is a fact of life that is also a fact of politics: You have to hold open the possibility of magic. People can come from nowhere, with modest backgrounds and short résumés, and yet be individuals of real gifts, gifts that had previously been unseen, that had been gleaming quietly under a bushel, and are suddenly revealed. Mrs. Palin came, essentially, from nowhere. But there was a man who came from nowhere, the seeming tool of a political machine, a tidy, narrow, unsophisticated senator appointed to high office and then thrust into power by a careless Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose vanity told him he would live forever. And yet that limited little man was Harry S. Truman. Of the Marshall Plan, of containment. Little Harry was big. He had magic. You have to give people time to show what they have. Because maybe they have magic too.
But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office. She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition? She wants to rise, but what for? For seven weeks I've listened to her, trying to understand if she is Bushian or Reaganite—a spender, to speak briefly, whose political decisions seem untethered to a political philosophy, and whose foreign policy is shaped by a certain emotionalism, or a conservative whose principles are rooted in philosophy, and whose foreign policy leans more toward what might be called romantic realism, and that is speak truth, know America, be America, move diplomatically, respect public opinion, and move within an awareness and appreciation of reality.
But it's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just . . . says things.-
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Progressive1 year, 2 months ago
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Her supporters accuse her critics of snobbery: Maybe she's not a big "egghead" but she has brilliant instincts and inner toughness. But what instincts? "I'm Joe Six-Pack"? She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation—"palling around with terrorists." If the Ayers case is a serious issue, treat it seriously. She is not as thoughtful or persuasive as Joe the Plumber, who in an extended cable interview Thursday made a better case for the Republican ticket than the Republican ticket has made. In the past two weeks she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn't, really, understand. This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.
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No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.
In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.
I gather this week from conservative publications that those whose thoughts lead them to criticism in this area are to be shunned, and accused of the lowest motives. In one now-famous case, Christopher Buckley was shooed from the great magazine his father invented. In all this, the conservative intelligentsia are doing what they have done for five years. They bitterly attacked those who came to stand against the Bush administration. This was destructive. If they had stood for conservative principle and the full expression of views, instead of attempting to silence those who opposed mere party, their movement, and the party, would be in a better, and healthier, position.
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