Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I just can't understand waiting for hours for somebody or something you know so little about. Sure, I can see a parent waiting in line for this year's "Tickle Me Elmo", but these people waiting in line for Sarah aren't doing it for the kiddies!
Originally Posted By DAR <<Bart Starr? Henry Aaron?>> You bring up a good point. I met Bart Starr once at a fundraising event a few years back. One of the best people you'll know.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "You bring up a good point. I met Bart Starr once at a fundraising event a few years back. One of the best people you'll know." Agreed. Met him a few years ago. Couldn't have been nicer.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The goal was to make Palin supporters look like morons, and they did their job.<< For an encore they made water look wet.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt What a bunch of silly sheep. The more I watched that video the more disgusted I became. I am tired to death of stupid conservatives and their xenophobic rants and reliance on sound bites to support their nonsensical viewpoint. The people in that clip are ten times worse than any of the so-called "crooks" in the O'Keefe ACORN videos and make me ashamed to be an American.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Agreed, Hans. Two minutes into the video, and I had to stop watching, it was so depressing. It saddens me that young women would point to Palin and use her as an example of why they're proud to be a woman. Someone please hand me an airsick bag, pronto. No one in line could articulate what specific policies of Palin's they liked or wanted to see her bring to the WH, if she were to win the Presidential election in 2012. These Palin supporters, upon hearing that question, gave the same deer-in-the-headlights look that Palin herself gave Katie Couric when asked what newspapers she regularly read. What a surprise, not. It's one thing to be uneducated and ignorant of our government and how it works, how corporations have bought and paid for our political system on both sides of the aisle (but mostly on the right), and how the gap between the uber rich/upper class and the middle class/working poor has been steadily widening since Reagan. But it's an entirely different animal to take your uneducated, ignorant arse and parade it up and down on the National Mall. That's what these Palin foamers represent: the uneducated, ignorant citizens who con themselves into thinking that they get it, they're the "real Americans," and that no one, but no one, is pulling the wool over their eyes and taking advantage of their ignorance. In their eyes, those would be the socialists who voted for Obama, who are going to further drive the country off the cliff, because heaven knows that it's those pesky liberals who've slowly worsened everyone's lives for the past decade. Those liberals are the ones who've been conned, and these people know deep in their hearts that America will be saved by folks like Palin. Of course, if you ask them what exactly Palin would do to "save America," be prepared for more deer-in-the-headlights expressions. Like Palin, they have no freakin clue whatsoever. Too bad they don't have enough self-realization to recognize this.
