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Mike70
12-Sep-2009, 04:42 AM
this is a collection of sarah palin's most ridiculous interview responses. i have never in all my 39 years, seen a sadder and more idiotic collection of responses to straight forward and politically basic questions like:

what is your position on the bush doctrine?

besides roe v. wade what are some other supreme court decisions do you disagree with?

what kind of foreign policy experience do you have?

what do you think of the federal bailout and what would you have done differently?

anyone, no matter what your political affiliation is, who can watch this vid and then continue to defend palin has to be living in some bizzaro world reality.

i really don't want to hear any shit about the media. that is fucking bullshit when palin cannot even give coherent answers to basic political questions, some of which a fucking sophmore in high school could've given better answers to.

her answer about the bailout is, quite possibly, the most idiotic and incoherent thing i've ever heard come out of a politician who is running for vice-president. it is just fooking sad.


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the bailout answer:

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i've known people who could give a better answer than that while they were tripping on shrooms.

Phenia Films
12-Sep-2009, 09:25 PM
id still do her in a heartbeat..something very sexy about her.
she can say whatever she wants

capncnut
12-Sep-2009, 10:33 PM
At best she's like that slightly cute but seriously coffee-breathed mathematics teacher at school.

Purge
13-Sep-2009, 01:46 AM
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One of my favorite YT clips there. Savage didn't fall for it. Listen to the last line of the segment.

Mike70
13-Sep-2009, 05:45 AM
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One of my favorite YT clips there. Savage didn't fall for it. Listen to the last line of the segment.

ouch man, he spares nothing.

i love that "let him pick someone who has led an army, not someone who has led a dog sled" line.

strayrider
13-Sep-2009, 08:22 AM
If she decides to run for President, and if she campaigns topless with a cucumber shoved up her butt, I might vote for her.

Oh, and she might have to get a little dykey with Michelle Malkin ... nothing serious ... maybe just a little spit-swapping during an interview while staring at the camera and smiling around their wildly lashing tongues ... can you see it?

Close your eyes and imagine ...

:D

-stray-

MoonSylver
13-Sep-2009, 05:57 PM
If she decides to run for President, and if she campaigns topless with a cucumber shoved up her butt, I might vote for her.

Oh, and she might have to get a little dykey with Michelle Malkin ... nothing serious ... maybe just a little spit-swapping during an interview while staring at the camera and smiling around their wildly lashing tongues ... can you see it?

Close your eyes and imagine ...

:D

-stray-

Uh...words are your medium, the forum your canvas ...you paint quite the picture there Stray...:stunned: :lol:

Purge
13-Sep-2009, 08:11 PM
As I said in other political posts, I'm a very Conservative person and agree with Palin on the issues, but that doesn't change the fact that she's dumber than a second coat of paint.

We had an incompetent beaurecrat in office for eight years, and we have another one in there now. If Palin gets elected in '12, we'd really be pushing our luck as a country.

ProfessorChaos
13-Sep-2009, 09:43 PM
it really amuses me how some still hail palin as some sort of future politcal legend...

Mike70
13-Sep-2009, 09:50 PM
As I said in other political posts, I'm a very Conservative person and agree with Palin on the issues, but that doesn't change the fact that she's dumber than a second coat of paint.


to be honest i never got the defense of palin after it became painfully obvious that she was actually proud to be an ignoramus. the lack of preparation was nothing short of earth shattering and her lack of basic knowledge about what the job of vice-president entails; the complete ignorance displayed by not being able to name a single news source that she read regularly; not being to cite even one other supreme court decision; the asinine answers about russia; and worst of all, the complete and total ignorance of the bush doctrine, something of central importance in the bush admin, all add up to the worst vice-presidential candidate in, quite possibly, the entire history of the US.


the whole mantra about "executive experience" was shallow as shallow gets. yeah, she was governor of alaska for 2 years. big fucking deal. alaska has about 670,000 people in it. that is 1.5 million people less than the metro area of the city i live in and probably amounts to a decent size neighborhood in new york, LA, or chicago. again, big fucking deal.

the council that runs hamilton county has far more people (845,000 people in 415 square miles), far more complicated urban problems to deal with and simply more shit to handle on a daily basis than the whole state of alaska (670,000 people in 663,000 square miles). i wouldn't vote for any of them to be president either.

DjfunkmasterG
13-Sep-2009, 09:54 PM
The only thing she has going for her is the fact she is fuckable, but put in her in a room with joan Allen and give me a choice of 40+ or 5)= year old women to fuck and I would take Joan Allen over Palin anyday.

In regards to her ingornance... I was quite shocked at how utterly brainless she really is, and here I thought Bush was the dumbest SOB on the planet... Nope, we found the female version... and she is trying to run for President. :rolleyes:

blind2d
14-Sep-2009, 01:27 AM
It's just so funny to me that she couldn't name a single publication that she regularly reads! I mean, who is like that? Seriously? She says she reads "most of them"... should be able to name ONE! I mean... come on!

strayrider
14-Sep-2009, 08:02 AM
Uh...words are your medium, the forum your canvas ...you paint quite the picture there Stray...:stunned: :lol:

Wrong, Clarice, the canvas is in your mind. When you closed your eyes, what did you see?

http://manofroma.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/hannibal-lecter-hopkinsopt.jpg

:sneaky:

-stray-

http://www.theimproper.com/Images/Art/sarah%20palin%20action%20figure%20doll.jpg

I really approve of the posing of her left hand ... very symbolic. :evil:

Mike70
14-Sep-2009, 12:35 PM
Wrong, Clarice, the canvas is in your mind. When you closed your eyes, what did you see?



:shifty:

i'm mike70 and i approve this poontang.

ProfessorChaos
19-Nov-2009, 10:37 PM
anyone else tired of the latest sarah palin media blitz? i thought it was already established that this woman is as bright as a bag of hammers....but lately alot of talk has been going on about her new book and fox news has had their red carpet out for palin, giving her all kinds of interviews and airtime.

i honestly can't believe that some people still think she's some sort of political superstar and the answer to obama-rama.:rolleyes:

blind2d
20-Nov-2009, 12:31 AM
Reading today's Washington Post, there was an article on her doing a book signing in Michigan... ON THE FRONT PAGE!!! Geez... she had some fangirls there, blabbering about how her son was "hot", or some such... why won't she just go away?:confused:

deadpunk
20-Nov-2009, 12:44 AM
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/m/L/2/palin-gotcha.jpg

blind2d
21-Nov-2009, 01:21 AM
Bwa ha! Nice...

shootemindehead
21-Nov-2009, 11:03 AM
Incredible...truly incredible.

MaximusIncredulous
21-Nov-2009, 07:07 PM
If she decides to run for President, and if she campaigns topless with a cucumber shoved up her butt, I might vote for her.

Oh, and she might have to get a little dykey with Michelle Malkin ... nothing serious ... maybe just a little spit-swapping during an interview while staring at the camera and smiling around their wildly lashing tongues ... can you see it?

Close your eyes and imagine ...

:D

-stray-

A Palin/Malkin ticket :p

The first porno prez and veep :p

Now that's a stimulus I can believe in :p

Then again, when seeing Palin supporters, I'd have to reconsider letting my member do the thinking:
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shootemindehead
23-Nov-2009, 09:36 AM
"Emmmmm...she's a mother...and she won a beauty contest, but didn't let it go to her head."


Ha ha.....fuckin morons.

:lol:

Danny
23-Nov-2009, 11:06 AM
YA THINK THATS PAINFUL TO WATCH?!?

WATCH THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT MOVING YOUR LEGS.

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god it never gets any easier to watch.

mista_mo
23-Nov-2009, 01:18 PM
YA THINK THATS PAINFUL TO WATCH?!?

WATCH THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT MOVING YOUR LEGS.

o-waN30mYiY

god it never gets any easier to watch.

That offends me as a paraplegic. Retract your statement before I send a mothers group after you.

thxleo
23-Nov-2009, 01:38 PM
"Emmmmm...she's a mother...and she won a beauty contest, but didn't let it go to her head."


Ha ha.....fuckin morons.

:lol:

Yeah, as opposed to those other morons who voted for a radical with ties to communists(Frank Marshall Davis) and terrorists(Bill Ayers). :rolleyes:

BTW, the sexism in this thread is amazing. You guys are truly class acts.

Mike70
23-Nov-2009, 02:03 PM
Yeah, as opposed to those other morons who voted for a radical with ties to communists(Frank Marshall Davis) and terrorists(Bill Ayers). :rolleyes:

BTW, the sexism in this thread is amazing. You guys are truly class acts.

yeah, half the posts in this thread go something like this: "i think she's an idiot but i'd still fuck her."

alrighty, then, so would i but what does that have to do with her childish grasp on politics and her inability to give a coherent answer to very simple, direct questions? she isn't an idiot because she's a woman. her "fuckability" has fuck all to do with whether she's a decent politician.

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 02:42 PM
BTW, the sexism in this thread is amazing. You guys are truly class acts.


yeah, half the posts in this thread go something like this: "i think she's an idiot but i'd still fuck her."

alrighty, then, so would i but what does that have to do with her childish grasp on politics and her inability to give a coherent answer to very simple, direct questions? she isn't an idiot because she's a woman. her "fuckability" has fuck all to do with whether she's a decent politician.

She's clearly not a decent politician. And while I didn't participate in the "fuckability" discussion, I don't hold much symapthy for her either. She exploited the fact that she was an attractive female to get where she is. I mean, it sure wasn't her brains or personality.

To me, the initial video posted holds as much relevance as the Q&A session of the Miss America contest. Wasn't really looking for much intelligence and was rewarded as such :rockbrow:

thxleo
23-Nov-2009, 03:44 PM
She's clearly not a decent politician. And while I didn't participate in the "fuckability" discussion, I don't hold much symapthy for her either. She exploited the fact that she was an attractive female to get where she is. I mean, it sure wasn't her brains or personality.



Exactly how did she exploit her looks to get where she is? What facts do you have to back that point up?
As for her personality, you could not be more wrong. Her personality is one of her strongest points.

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 03:58 PM
Exactly how did she exploit her looks to get where she is? What facts do you have to back that point up?
As for her personality, you could not be more wrong. Her personality is one of her strongest points.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html

Yeah...a pageant contestant would never use her looks to get ahead. :rolleyes:

As for her personality... that falls under the category of opinion. I, personally, find her personality to be shallow at best.

My post was not meant to be inflammitory. However, I will always maintain that a woman who uses her gender as her main platform to advance in any manner opens herself to that type of slander. I equate this with a Hooter's waitress being disgruntled because her customers continuously oogle her... ;)

And for the record, I never said it was right. I simply have no empathy for her. :)

BillyRay
23-Nov-2009, 04:05 PM
As for her personality, you could not be more wrong. Her personality is one of her strongest points.

And that's what scares people. On the surface is this homespun, "Plain speaking, Good Christian Woman, you betcha", but it's not backed up by anything.

She has no Executive skills, can't carry herself in public very well, and comes off looking as dumb as a bag of hammers. Palin may be a better/worse (depending on your point of view) Republican figurehead than Dubya was.

But at least she's got "personality". And the more of it she shows, the less likely she'll be a serious contender for the White House in 2012.

Keep up the good work, "rogue".

darth los
23-Nov-2009, 04:12 PM
Wow, men actullay wanting to fuck a good looking woman!?!

What is the world coming to. :rolleyes:

:cool:

BillyRay
23-Nov-2009, 04:30 PM
A pretty coherent expression of what a lot of folks are feeling:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/536


Not that it's directed at anybody here....

thxleo
23-Nov-2009, 04:59 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_129667.html

Yeah...a pageant contestant would never use her looks to get ahead. :rolleyes:

As for her personality... that falls under the category of opinion. I, personally, find her personality to be shallow at best.

My post was not meant to be inflammitory. However, I will always maintain that a woman who uses her gender as her main platform to advance in any manner opens herself to that type of slander. I equate this with a Hooter's waitress being disgruntled because her customers continuously oogle her... ;)

And for the record, I never said it was right. I simply have no empathy for her. :)

I'll ask you again, how did she use her looks to get where she is? Showing that she was in a beauty pageant in the 1980's does not explain how she became the governor of Alaska or how she became the Republican VP candidate.

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She has no Executive skills, can't carry herself in public very well,

Being a governor and being a mayor are executive skills.
What makes you say she can't carry herself in public?

---------- Post added at 12:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 PM ----------


A pretty coherent expression of what a lot of folks are feeling:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/536


Not that it's directed at anybody here....

Yes, from the democraticunderground.com, a website that self proclaims "providing political satire and commentary for Democrats, a weekly Top Ten Conservative Idiots list and a wide range of discussion groups." Obviously, an unbiased source you provided.

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Wow, men actullay wanting to fuck a good looking woman!?!

What is the world coming to. :rolleyes:

:cool:

Again, another classy response.

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 05:07 PM
I'll ask you again, how did she use her looks to get where she is? Showing that she was in a beauty pageant in the 1980's does not explain how she became the governor of Alaska or how she became the Republican VP candidate.

You are either being obtuse or attempting to bait me into taking this conversation in a direction of your choosing.

To say choosing Palin as a VP candidate was a thinly veiled guise to counter the presence of Obama and Clinton is an unjustice. There was no veil. That's kinda how politics work, bro. Biden was nothing more than the Democrats pulling their shirts off at the concert, showing their goodies and whooping: "No worries baby! We still like old white dudes too!"

If McCain had wanted the most qualified VP candidate, he would have chosen the candidate that gave him the most competition for his Republican nomination. He didn't want that though. He wanted the candidate that would help facilitate drawing votes from the pool that the Dems had clearly targeted. Agan, this is how politics work...

Showing that she was a paegant contestant in the 80s clearly demonstrates her desire to be a public figure. And she clearly used her looks. But hey, nothing says Presidential hopeful like booty shorts, huh?

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/ww/news/2009/11/17/palin.jpg

;)

darth los
23-Nov-2009, 05:40 PM
Again, another classy response.

It's not about being classy.


I'm man, she's a woman. Men like to fuck women.

I like to fuck women and I'm not going to apologize for it.

If it bothers you that much how another man feels about it perhaps some introspection is in order.

:cool:

bassman
23-Nov-2009, 05:45 PM
It's not about being classy.


I'm man, she's a woman. Men like to fuck women.

I like to fuck women and I'm not going to apologize for it.

If it bothers you that much how another man feels about it perhaps some introspection is in order.


:lol::lol::lol:


This thread is highly entertaining....

darth los
23-Nov-2009, 05:46 PM
A pretty coherent expression of what a lot of folks are feeling:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NanceGreggs/536


Not that it's directed at anybody here....


Perfectly put.

Or you could put it this way:

You don't change the way the whole town runs in order to please the village idiot.

And when she speaks she doesn't have people like me in mind so i look to her for the only other thing she's good for.

:cool:

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 06:21 PM
:lol::lol::lol:


This thread is highly entertaining....

It's actually obnoxious to a degree. I'm not sure where we went from discussing Palin's less than adequate grip on reali--- the issues, to defending her honor. :rolleyes::lol:

thxleo
23-Nov-2009, 06:54 PM
You are either being obtuse or attempting to bait me into taking this conversation in a direction of your choosing.

To say choosing Palin as a VP candidate was a thinly veiled guise to counter the presence of Obama and Clinton is an unjustice. There was no veil. That's kinda how politics work, bro. Biden was nothing more than the Democrats pulling their shirts off at the concert, showing their goodies and whooping: "No worries baby! We still like old white dudes too!"

If McCain had wanted the most qualified VP candidate, he would have chosen the candidate that gave him the most competition for his Republican nomination. He didn't want that though. He wanted the candidate that would help facilitate drawing votes from the pool that the Dems had clearly targeted. Agan, this is how politics work...

Showing that she was a paegant contestant in the 80s clearly demonstrates her desire to be a public figure. And she clearly used her looks. But hey, nothing says Presidential hopeful like booty shorts, huh?

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/ww/news/2009/11/17/palin.jpg

;)

I expected a lot more from you on this. That picture that Newsweek used, was from Runner's World magazine. It was from an article about how she keeps in shape. It was obviously used out of context and the fact that you post it shows either your ignorance of that or just your flat out hatred of her. Remember those pics of a bare chested Obama walking out of the ocean? Did the media paint him as some guy looking to gain attention with his athletic physique? No, they did not.
You STILL have not answered my question. How did Palin being in a beauty pageant help her become governor of Alaska and how did it help her become the VP nominee?

---------- Post added at 02:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:45 PM ----------


It's not about being classy.


I'm man, she's a woman. Men like to fuck women.

I like to fuck women and I'm not going to apologize for it.

If it bothers you that much how another man feels about it perhaps some introspection is in order.

:cool:

You have a great way of coming across as a complete pig. Congratulations!
I wonder how much actual "action" a lot of you alpha males have gotten in your day? I bet it's not that much, otherwise you wouldn't talk the way you do. But I'm sure you will have some enlightening response to that as well. Can't wait.

darth los
23-Nov-2009, 07:19 PM
You have a great way of coming across as a complete pig. Congratulations!
I wonder how much actual "action" a lot of you alpha males have gotten in your day? I bet it's not that much, otherwise you wouldn't talk the way you do. But I'm sure you will have some enlightening response to that as well. Can't wait.


First off I'd like to take this opportunity to try and squash this. If I came off as it being personal i apologize. I never had problems with you and I don't want any. That's not what I'm here for.


There's a saying: "However many women a man says he's slept with cut it in half and however many men a woman says she's slept with, multiply it by two.

So it's all bullshit anyway.



To answer your post:


Well, to be honest, no. No man is going to get action talking that way, so we don't. We whisper all the sweet nothings they want to hear until it's apparent that they aren't going anywhere and only then do we revert to our true nature. I'm just honest enough to say it.

It's interesting though. You don't don't hear them trying to spare our feelings, ever. They make ignorant blanket statements about an entire gender like "men are pigs". When it's obvious that isn't true. On T.V. men are portrayed as these dumb, fat, slobs who couldn't find the front door in order to go to work if their smart, etherial wife didn't tell them where it is and frankly I'm sick of it. Seriously, turn on any sitcom and you'll see what I mean.


What's more interesting is the need for some men to defend them as if they needed it. (again not personal) A suppossedly empowered, equal gender shouldn't need us to do that. It's an oxy moron. Chivalry means treating someone differently because of their gender and it's wrong. The same way affirmative action is wrong for giving preference to some over others because of their skin tone.

Go on a show like Oprah and let a woman say that women are smater then men. Everyone in that audience would clap and nod their heads in agreement. Now let a man make a statement like that. He'd be derided, booed and hissed out of the room. Now what kind of society do we live in that we have to pretend that one sex is smarter than the other?

Women are just like us. They take smelly shit and everything, seriously, they do. Yet the reason they run things is because of what they have in between their legs. And it's wrong to talk about it? Please.

There's another saying: "The biggest victory the devil ever had is convincing mankind that he doesn't exist."

On the same coin: "The biggest victory women ever scored is convincing men that they are somehow worth more than us and she be put on a pedstal."

It's they reason why they say women and children first.

Like the great Bill Burr said. "Hey, I'm not trying to be a dick or anything. I'm just saying if you wanna be equal to me then when the Titanic starts to sink then you better be right next to me listening to that guy play the cello."

So if a woman is going into the political arena or any other for that matter she better be prepared to take the criticism a man would. Don't expect chivalry,it's not a birthright. So, if you can't stand the heat...

:cool:

BillyRay
23-Nov-2009, 07:19 PM
[QUOTE=thxleo;208729]You STILL have not answered my question. How did Palin being in a beauty pageant help her become governor of Alaska and how did it help her become the VP nominee?


Well, the beauty pagaent DID help her get the Anchorperson gig...

Which made her well-known enough to get elected Mayor of Wassilla
("Meth capitol of Alaska")

Although I have no idea why anyone thought Palin was qualified to be Governor or Vice President. Still Don't.

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 07:30 PM
I expected a lot more from you on this. That picture that Newsweek used, was from Runner's World magazine. It was from an article about how she keeps in shape. It was obviously used out of context and the fact that you post it shows either your ignorance of that or just your flat out hatred of her. Remember those pics of a bare chested Obama walking out of the ocean? Did the media paint him as some guy looking to gain attention with his athletic physique? No, they did not.
You STILL have not answered my question. How did Palin being in a beauty pageant help her become governor of Alaska and how did it help her become the VP nominee?

My point was more in the vein of; Palin uses her looks when it suits her and cries sexism when it doesn't. While that picture was used out of context, it still shows this point. I doubt you're going to find pictures of Madeline Albright posed in such appearal. (If you do, please for the love of God keep them to yourself ;))


Let's undertake a thought experiment: having finally registered that her rank incompetence as vice-presidential nominee in 2008 was heavily instrumental in sinking the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin plummets into a food-fuelled depression and binges on deep-fried moose-bars for the next four years. Though still trumpeting her credentials as a "reformer" and having garnered fractionally more executive experience by serving out her term as Alaska's governor, the former conservative pin-up now weighs 26 stone. Just how viable a presidential candidate is our gravity-challenged ex-beauty queen now?

In assessing what Palin's candidacy has meant for feminism, the question is not specious. For symbolically, the nomination of the first female VP Republican candidate should hearten American feminists, even if Palin's views - insofar as they are discernible - don't conform to the liberal pro-choice agenda. But in relying so drastically on her looks, Sarah Palin as female political icon is a giant step backwards.

As for Palin's own views on the F-word, her assertion on Fox News this week - "Sometimes, y'know, I consider myself too a feminist - whatever that means!" - suggests that the guv'nor is about as expert on feminism as Prince Charles was on love.

Rabid fans at Palin rallies were predominantly male, and unabashedly lascivious. Wearing campaign buttons reading "Hot Chick!", many cheerfully admitted to journalists that they mainly came to ogle. It is hard to imagine these same drooling groupies cheering our roly-poly, post-moose-bar poster-girl in 2012.

Palin's physical allure is also a throw-back to yesteryear. Sporting a hairstyle circa 1963, she exudes the coy sexuality of Doris Day; this isn't a castrating dominatrix, but a bouncy, unintimidating girl next door with nice legs. Moreover, the qualification for high office that she has pushed most fervently - being a "hockey mom" - emphasises what women used to be considered exclusively good for: procreation. Picture just how far a male candidate would get by promoting himse
lf primarily as a "hockey dad".
Granted, Barack Obama has also benefited from a svelte physique; the fact that he looks swoon-inducingly cool on an Economist cover did his candidacy no harm. But remove the eloquence, the self-possession, the political purpose, and the brain from Obama, and just leave the build? You don't have a president-elect. In fact, handsome male political candidates such as the failed 2008 Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney have sometimes seemed fatally lightweight for the pretty face.

Even in the context of the impoverished linguistic expectations of the Bush era, Sarah Palin can't talk. When asked on CNN this week what Bush most needs to do in his remaining two months, she commended the president for reaching out to Obama and "those whom we know will be in the cabinet" - perhaps under the impression that when you stuff in "whom" willy-nilly you will sound more erudite. She went on: "And that bodes well for our president also. And other things also that bode well for President Bush and keeping our country safe the last seven years with no other attack on the homeland, those things that I think we cannot lose sight of, that President Bush has allowed progress in those areas in our nation. You know, I want to do a shout-out to our president and thank him for that." As a novelist, I craft fictional dialogue all the time: I could not make this stuff up.

Worse, she cannot answer direct questions. Just as she did in the vice-presidential debate, in her sweep through the American talk shows this week Palin utterly avoided straight answers to whether she supported a governmental bail-out for car companies, another economic stimulus package, or affirmative action. Perhaps she doesn't want to be pinned down, preserving that famed prerogative of women to change their minds.

And let's not mince words: the woman is an idiot. What makes the McCain campaign's post-election leaks so depressing - for example, that Palin couldn't name the signatories to Nafta (hint: the N and A stand for "North American", and there are only three) - is that they are not surprising. Governing a distant population smaller than that of Brooklyn, this woman, who first got a passport in 2007, knows little about the "lower 48", much less about Pakistan.

Clearly gunning for her party's presidential nomination in, as she puts it, "12", Palin has been all over the American media the past few days, and this is a candidate who lost. One gets the impression that it's the limelight that drives her far more than ideology or even theology. A recent blogger on the New York Times website nailed it: "Sarah Palin wouldn't close a single door that offers her a chance for what she seeks most: a life where she is always the centre of attention. She cares nothing about politics."

I didn't support her candidacy, but at least Hillary Clinton has chops. She's a smart, educated woman who speaks in complete sentences, and would never demean herself by winking at her audience. Ignorant, inarticulate, evasive, and bizarrely apolitical, for men Sarah Palin is an unthreatening, retrograde female icon, at whom they can leer and to whom they can still feel superior. She relies on sexual manipulation, long women's last and sometimes only recourse to getting what they want. So a little advice, Sarah. Want the nomination in "12"? Keep away from those moose bars and hit the gym


I find the above article interesting for a few reasons. One, it proposes the idea that we, American voters, have a preference for attractive candidates. Reasonably true given that image is what attracts the majority of voters because they are (as you have stated many times) blissfully ignorant of the actual issues.

Secondly, the article poses a tough question. Would Palin even be in the limelight were she morbidly obese or ugly? Thats a judgemental call. For my money, the answer is no. She dodges easy questions and puts her foot in her mouth way too often. She manages to alienate her own supporters and has to constantly backtrack to regain them.

Everything about Palin screams: POPULARITY! She used her paegant days to begin her fan base and the money from those paegants bought her four years of education in 6 colleges...

I don't denounce Palin for her tactics. Obama clearly ran a similar campaign. I'm youthful, I'm attractive, I dig it... However, we can't have our cake and eat it too. If you're going to wink during debates, if you're going to pose for pictures that might come back to haunt you, if you're going to act flirtatious when it suits you, you better be prepared for the backlash.

In the end, Palin needs to spend the next 3 years boning up on her political knowledge. She's simply not qualified for the job she intends to persue.

Again, I do not condone the behavior or mindset of Palin's level of 'fuckability'. Yet, she opened that door for herself and continues to keep her foot in it, rather than slamming it shut.

thxleo
23-Nov-2009, 07:56 PM
Thank you to Darth Los and Deadpunk for taking the time to post decent responses to me. That's all I want, agree or disagree, just have something thoughtful to contribute! Having said that, I do not agree with you gentlemen, but that's what makes politics so interesting to me.
Now, I'll stop beating a dead horse. :)

deadpunk
23-Nov-2009, 07:58 PM
Thank you to Darth Los and Deadpunk for taking the time to post decent responses to me. That's all I want, agree or disagree, just have something thoughtful to contribute! Having said that, I do not agree with you gentlemen, but that's what makes politics so interesting to me.
Now, I'll stop beating a dead horse. :)

Well said. :)

blind2d
24-Nov-2009, 02:55 AM
There's a saying: "However many women a man says he's slept with cut it in half and however many men a woman says she's slept with, multiply it by two.

So it's all bullshit anyway.





:cool:

What if you're a virgin? And... honest about it? Like... me? Would that be -1/2? That's pretty cool, if so. I'm bad at math....... Sorry.
So. Palin. ...I'd like to go to Alaska some day... to be cold... She's one o' them female politicians, eh? Right on. Don't much care for people though, so... whatever.

ProfessorChaos
25-Nov-2009, 09:34 PM
goddamn, fox news can't get enough of this idiot. in addition to having lengthy interviews with her on almost all their evening programming, as of right now, their website's lead story is a picture of the genius herself giving a thumbs up and calling her a "Role Model":lol::lol::lol: and then they link to this story.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/25/palin-motivates-mothers-launch-political-campaigns/

sorry, but this woman is a fucking idiot and needs to stay the hell out of the political realm. and while i agree that most who show up for her book signings and are saying she should run for prez are pretty ignorant, too, the asshats carrying around that video camera during that book signing vid are a little bit condescending and rude. that was almost painful to watch as well, but only for the contrite smug attitude of the dildos doing the recording.

ProfessorChaos
01-Dec-2009, 04:39 PM
the "rogue" is also featured in another new book:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/12/01/sarah-palin-stars-heroine-new-childrens-books/?test=faces

jesus, fox news, give it a rest. nobody is jumping on the palin '12 bandwagon with you morons...:annoyed::annoyed::annoyed: