Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan In fact, the more you start bringing this stuff up, and then when she makes odd statements about what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are all about, the whole candidacy starts going a bit wobbly to say the least. But since she's well-hidden from those mean, mean piranahs of the press, maybe they can get their story straight by Thursday's ABC interview with Charles Gibson who has no reputation as a piranah.
Originally Posted By mawnck The piranha vs. the barracuda. I sense the tide is about to turn in this topic.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <The point is that Alaska would lead ANYTHING in per-capita. > You've said this before, but it makes no sense. Her most expensive boondoggle as mayor, I believe, was an ice arena. Why should an ice arena cost more per capita in Wasilla than in, say, Anaheim? Hell, it wouldn't cost as much to keep it cold! She left her small town over 20 million in debt; when she became mayor, her town had no debt. She cut the progressive property tax and raised the regressive sales tax to make up for it (i.e. she gave relief to wealthy people, and stuck it to average people). She is an earmark queen. SHE IS NOT WHAT THEY ARE SELLING HER AS. Why, Josh, are you buying? This whole "well, of course Alaska would be more per capita thing" just looks like a justification you've come up with the justify supporting her in your mind, but it makes no sense.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Yes, there is something fishy about the whole thing.<< I'll sue you for everything you've got. <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-99806-P-1.asp" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms...-P-1.asp</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>She left her small town over 20 million in debt;<< Yes, but a lot of that was to finance the war with Tanaina. They were harboring terrorist caribou.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I'll sue you for everything you've got.<< Ha. Joke's on you. I ain't got nuttin'. The Republicans have been running my country for eight years.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***The point is that Alaska would lead ANYTHING in per-capita.*** Can you explain exactly what you mean here please Josh?
Originally Posted By jdub >>McCain refuses to release all but 16 pages of his medical records. Well, that's just because of the special pills. Bob Dole's not embarrassed, and Senator McCain shouldn't be, either.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>More curious, frankly, is the revelation that Sarah Palin hates cats. This is not abnormal on its face, since it's perfectly reasonable to loathe anything that requires the permanent installation of a box full of feces in one's household. However, Palin may have a political reason for opposing cats. According to a letter sent to the Palm Beach Post, it seems that the residents of Talkeetna, Alaska - who the Wikipedia tells me is the inspiration for the fictional burg of Cicely, as depicted in the teevee show Northern Exposure - chose a cat named Stubbs as their official mayor. Stubbs has executive experience, hunts prey with his bare paws, and does not bilk the taxpayers of Alaska out of money for fake per diem expenses, like Palin does. Stubbs the cat hangs out at Nagley's General Store in Talkeetna, with a bunch of other cats, all of whom have been thoroughly vetted, by actual veterinarians. << <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/abc-interviews-palins-clo_n_125062.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...062.html</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Well .. more than the issue of cats ... it was interesting to her what several of her "so called" closest friends have to say about her. One of them said "She's honest". I wonder what really compelled her to say that (by, so, believing in her) as Miss Palin has been called out on the Bridge to nowhere .. just for starters. Anybody can have friends for years ... and think they know almost everything about that one specific person. But I think that's naive.
Originally Posted By mawnck "Sarah Palin is a Lying Two-Faced Traitor" The sordid details at the link. This should about do it for McCain/Palin. <a href="http://withleather.uproxx.com/?p=9330" target="_blank">http://withleather.uproxx.com/?p=9330</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck And if that doesn't settle it ... <a href="http://www.milehighhockey.com/2008/9/9/611130/obama-just-won-colorado" target="_blank">http://www.milehighhockey.com/...colorado</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck It's from kind of a weird source (I swear it's not a site I was familiar with until about 20 minutes ago, as proven by the date of the post I'm quoting), but it raises an interesting point. You'll like this one, X. >>A good friend of mine used to be an admissions officer at Princeton. She once said that she started getting applications with the acronym WWJD in the essay sections, one after another. Whole chunks of the application were supposed to be devoted to unpacking complex issues and she was getting a lot of white space - a sea of white space - broken by this single acronym. Thinking it was some kind of objection to the nature of the question, she gathered the applications up and took the stack to the dean to ask him what this acronym meant. “What would Jesus do,” he said. “That’s their answer to the question.” “But the whole point of the question is to display your ability to think critically,” she said. The dean shrugged. That story really struck me because it wasn’t about belief systems or spirituality or religion. It was about mindless obedience, so much so that when called to address a complicated issue, the response was an acronym, like a secret handshake. No thinking involved. Just a passive nod of the head. Palin scares the crap out of me because her platform requires no real thinking either, and plenty of blind obedience. Gays are deviant. Books are dangerous. Abortion is murder. Evolution is wrong. War is right. And all it takes to win with a platform like that is charisma.<< <a href="http://debauchette.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/sarah-palin/" target="_blank">http://debauchette.wordpress.c...h-palin/</a>
Originally Posted By alexbook I was reading Barron's on-line this morning (trying to catch up on the stock market mess) and got distracted by an Alan Abelson column from a couple of weeks ago: >>Among Ms. Palin's distinctive accomplishments was being featured in a recent photo shoot in Vogue. Our understanding is that Joe Biden spent most of Friday afternoon demanding an equal spread, but Vogue turned him down on the ground that things are tough enough already in the magazine business without scaring off half the readership. Anyway, Joe doesn't look great in furs or bunny boots. If only in the interest of generational synchronicity, it strikes us that the forthcoming debates ought to be between the youngsters, Obama and Palin, and between the old guys, McCain and Biden. If nothing else, the first two could talk about smoking joints and the later could swap complaints about stiff joints.<< More funny stuff at the link: <a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB122004938061284705.html" target="_blank">http://online.barrons.com/arti...705.html</a>
