September 15, 2008

• The Spruce Moose & Other Political Observations

    
  Things I’ve surmised/learned/heard this week from Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, ABC News, Fox News, CNN, Slate.com, Gawker, Daily KOS, The Huffington Post and my Republican friends:

  

  • McCain
    has 9 homes (not 7) in 3 time zones and a private jet and he says that Obama, the
    guy who was raised by a single mom on food stamps, is an elitist??
  • The Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson frightened me (and Michael Seitzman too!).
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-seitzman/sarah-palin-naked_b_125861.html

  

  • Charlie Gibson has now interviewed and vetted Caribou Barbie more thoroughly that John McCain ever did.
  • Why can’t Charlie Gibson be Vice President?
  • At
    least two politicians in the upper level of American government know
    nothing about “The Bush Doctrine“.  Sarah Palin and George W. Bush.
  • Sarah Palin thinks The Bush Doctrine has something to do with not letting her daughters shave “down there“.
  • If
    Sarah Palin was any more of a deer (moose?) in the headlights during
    the Gibson interview, she would have shot herself (from a helicopter).
  • Sarah Palin (The Spruce Moose) is a Category 5 MORON.  But maybe a
    hockey mom with 5 kids doesn’t have time to read the newspapers.  Can she put the “Ma” in Democracy??

  • Upon
    her triumphant homecoming to Wasilla, Alaska last week, Sarah’s
    favorite sign held up in the audience was the one by her youngest
    daughter that said, “I got my period“.
  • The “lipstick on a pig” metaphor is unfair, because pigs are smart.  They don’t believe in Creationism.
  • This
    is Barack’s election to lose.  He’s running against a “200 year old man
    and a mountain mama who make Bush look like a professor”.
  • Sarah Palin’s like a bright shiny penny.  Nice to look at, but not worth the metal it’s made of. 

  

  • Where’s
    Hillary?  She needs to be out there saying, “This woman is not anything
    like me just because we both have tits“.

  • The Peter Principle states that people rise to their level of incompetence.  It should know be renamed “The Palin Principle”.
  • As ridiculously unqualified as she is, she’s not running for
    president, and if the media doesn’t start focusing on McCain soon,
    there will be a backlash (mainly from so-called hockey moms and ditzy
    stewardesses who haven’t been victims of rape or incest) and Obama will
    lose.  With less than 2 months to go, we can’t afford to let that
    happen.
  • “Democrats, as people, are fundamentally more decent“.  (Think
    torture, homophobia, Katrina, global warming, welfare, cultural
    arrogance.)  I’ll let Janeane Garofalo take the heat for that one, but let’s face it, it’s hard being a Democrat!
  • If I’m a snob for
    wanting to judge the intelligence level of someone who wants to live in
    the White House, then so be it.  This is NOT American Idol (or a beauty
    pageant).
  • If John McCain is such a Constitutionalist, (Did you see Whoopi
    Goldberg on “The View” ask him if slavery would come back if he was elected?),
    then what happened to the separation of church and state? 

  

  • The
    Democrats aren’t going to win this thing by pointing out that Jesus was
    a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor!
  • I can only hope that if conservatives are truly honest with
    themselves they will know that this woman cannot become vice
    president.  Far too much is at stake.
  • Last year police found 42 meth labs in Sarah Palin’s home county in
    Alaska.  Apparently small town values (like shooting animals with high
    powered weapons from the air and forcing your pregnant daughter into a
    doomed loveless marriage) are easier to stomach when you’re high. 
    There’s so much crystal meth in Wasilla, Alaska, I’m surprised the
    Palin’s didn’t name one of their goofy kids “Tweaker”.

  

  And finally, for those of you who think Americans shouldn’t care what the rest of the world thinks of us, please consider this:

  

  A new face for American diplomacy

  
  
  Barack Obama is perceived by Muslims abroad like no other candidate.
  He would begin a presidency with tremendous potential to heal U.S.
  relations with much of the world.
  

  By Hooman Majd

  Feb. 21, 2008 |
  When I was in Tehran, Iran, a year ago, I was asked by several senior
  government officials, including former President Mohammad Khatami, what
  to make of Barack Obama’s candidacy for president of the United States.
  The young senator from Illinois was still barely on the international
  radar then. My response was that I couldn’t see Americans nominating,
  let alone electing, a black man whose middle name was Hussein. My
  answer, clearly wrong in hindsight, stirred smiles and raised eyebrows
  among the Iranian leaders because they’d had no idea that Obama had a
  Muslim father. Even more surprising to them was that he carried,
  apparently without shame, a Muslim name. From Khatami this elicited an
  “Ajab!” — Farsi for, essentially, “You’ve got to be kidding!” There
  were also many nods of agreement with my conclusion about Obama’s
  chances.  Read more…

  
  http://weblog.xanga.com/CareyGLY/672180578/president-obama–the-beauty-queen.html
  Interesting New York Times editorial
  

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