Yup that’s my take away from last nights debate.
Sarah’s folksy performance masked a deeply distubing pattern of not saying anything of substance but saying it with emphatic determined style. How special, this might work for a small town mayor but not for the VP IMO. Oh, and what was up with that answer about what a VP does… How is it she still doesn’t know this?
The question I wanted to ask her all night was: If you think Washington is so bad, why do you want to go there?
Those of you who joined us on the live chat, WOW, that was super fun! Big ol’ wet kiss to Catherine and the other moderators for making it possible.
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8 Responses to Palin: Winking, Blinking, Sneering and Peeking
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Where to start? She’s an embarrassment to every woman who ever sought, or ever will seek, political office. Her grade school performance says it all about the way the GOP views women. They like them cute, perky and dumb as a stump.
And I find it fascinating that she invoked the name of a Civil War General (McClellan) instead of the NATO commander (McKiernan). Freudian slip perhaps?
Here is Sarah’s real talent..
Fair warning it’s worse than a Rick roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0OZ9W2K_z0
Hair by Anita Baker, outfit well lets just it’s dreak ( that’s Yiddish for hideous)
I grow increasingly annoyed with candidates and elected officials who clearly have no respect for the government but want us to trust them to run it.
Again I am reminded of a line from The American President:
“How do you have patience for people who claim they love America but clearly can’t stand Americans?”
Some highlights of the most inane moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFPpCZEs_8
Sarah Palin showed what most people thought was a pretty good performance, because the bar was set so low we all expected her to start drooling and staring into the camera, or run off the stage crying at the big mean guy at the other podium.
That said, I was really impressed with Biden. Two things really struck me during the debate. After one segment where Palin talked about working and raising a family, etc, Biden went into his emotional story about losing his wife and daughter and being a young (at least younger than I am now!) single parent of two young children while working full time. I don’t think Palin even knew about that story, since she was probably in elementary school when it happened.
The other was his rebuttal of this whole “maverick” line about McCain and Palin. Simple, forceful and direct. Very well done.
The question I wanted to ask her all night was: If you think Washington is so bad, why do you want to go there?
Your typical politican response is… to fix it! I mean any of the parties will tell you that
I loved Catherine’s comment about people having no respect for the government but asking us to let them run it. So true.
from NYT editorial:
“The Republicans have tried to present the negative reaction to Ms. Palin as a matter of liberal elites sneering at someone who does not share their privileged backgrounds. That is a distraction. The problem with Ms. Palin‚Äôs candidacy, which she underscored in her appearance at the debate on Thursday night, is not that she didn‚Äôt attend a fancy school or go backpacking in Europe after college. It is her disdain for knowledge, education, experience and contemplative leadership.”
Some of us went into this debate petrified that Biden might lose his cool and say something condescending or disrespectful that might be interpreted as chauvinist and blow the whole thing.
Boy were we wrong. All of the disrespect came from that perky little beauty queen, and it started even before the debate. It started the way she snidely tried to BS Katie Couric that she wasn’t saying anything negative about Biden before repeating in her bratty tone that “we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years” in a manner that was not at all veiled derision.
And then on stage last night she starts by asking permission to call this man she’s never met “Joe” so she can go ahead and pull that “Say it ain’t so Joe” crap. She corrects a Senator who couldn’t give two shits what their ridiculous right-wing “Drill, baby, drill” slogan is, as if he just used the word “attribute” incorrectly for the second or third time, while he had the grace not to remind her Gen. McClellan has been dead a very long time. And hey, just because you tell a lame joke doesn’t mean you get to call the other guy’s joke lame.
Ugh. She’s a bad stereotype from a bad teen movie. And she wants the nuc-u-lar launch codes. Please spare me.