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McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate
Many readers have written to tell us about McCain's choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his VP choice. "Palin, 44, a self-described 'hockey mom,' is a conservative first-term governor of Alaska with strong anti-abortion views, a record of reform and fiscal conservatism and an outsider's perspective on Washington. [...] If elected, Palin would be the first woman US vice president, adding another historic element to a presidential race that has been filled with firsts. Obama, 47, is the first black nominee of a major US political party. The choice of a vice president rarely has a major impact on the presidential race. Palin will meet Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a debate in October."
It's so sad that so many Americans will fall for this trick.
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Just to be sure about the spelling...
For the first time, we will have a vice-president that looks good naked!
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
McCain and Biden have both been around a long time, and are known factors, and thus boring. So after watching too many speeches that were so vague that either side could have read them, I decided a Q&A between Obama and Palin could be very interesting.
Obama: What did you think of my acceptance speech, where I spoke of my vision for America based on my "belief that I am my brother's keeper"? (1)
Palin: I can't say that appeals to me, thinking of Americans living in 2 by 3 meter shacks, and living off only a dollar a day.
Palin: You are only 40 something, and the Junior Senator of Illinois, do you really think you have the experience to be President?
Obama: You too are only 40 something, and the Governor of Alaska, but do you really think a woman should even be considered for vice-president? (2)
Obama: I heard you're a NRA member, could you show me how to load a gun? Just kidding, I don't believe in the 2cd Amendment.
Palin: I read your voting record, could you tell me how you could possibly support infanticide? Just kidding, I couldn't even consider feticide. (3)
(1) Yes, Obama actually used that metaphor in his nomination acceptance speech, August 28th 2008.
(2) Obama didn't even have the courtesy to vet Hillary Clinton as a possible vice-president, ouch.
(3) Palin's 5th child, in the womb, was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome, but she kept him anyway.
Did you see the same Obama/Hillary race I did? The amount of overt misogyny against Hillary was absolutely shocking. There were plenty of b*tch bumper stickers for Hillary. Can you imagine the firestorm if the equivalent for Obama was wide spread?
This is America, you know? That place where you have to PROVE accusations? Without proof, its just slander. Prove it to me, and I'll say I'm wrong. Otherwise, fuck you.
4 more years!
It's one thing to like McCain, but to really want 4 more years of the worst President in American history is insane. There is no need to go into the countless things GWB has screwed up, intentionally or not, you have to be blind not to see them.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Not what I was going for. What is wrong from a scientific standpoint? (The direction LWATCDR was coming from.)
Palin is used to supporting those with Downs so she'll be able to look after McCain and his supporters with the greatest of ease.
(3) Palin's 5th child, in the womb, was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome, but she kept him anyway.
and did she ask the child about this ? guess not. how could she, after all, s/he is in the womb yet.
let me tell you, if i was a child, i wouldnt like to be born with down syndrome, or any other kind of serious disability, and i would regret being the child of a mother who would make me live through such a tough life due to her out of touch conditioned ideas that come from some teaching from 3000 years ago from another goddamn corner of the world - middle east. yea, not 2000, 3000. it is a cultural trait of the region to repress women and use them as birthing machines not for 1000, 2000, but for over 4000 years in middle east. it only changes shape with time, adapts to modern times. they were outright despised and seen as satan at one point, and now they are repressed because 'they cant understand'. and ALL the religions out of middle east contain that characteristic.
imagine being the child of a mother who follows these ideals and puts you through a life of suffering, whereas she had the chance of NOT doing so.
why did she do that ? because GOD said it so.
where did god say it so ?
in some scripted text that is rewritten in council of nicea in 325 AD, according to byzantine emperor constantine's political wishes. (the 4 major versions of bible were compiled here, and others discredited).
great.
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Now see, this is exactly what she was advocating--introduce both concepts and encourage healthy debate. Debate requires constant research, exploration, and effort. This strengthens the mind and carries us forward. Having an opposing side in anything always forces additional effort and therefore accomplishments. Seems like a good idea to me.
"The only place Creationism has in a science classroom is as an object lesson of something that is not science."
Like all those other social 'sciences'.
Let's talk about what this shows about McCain's judgment.
If McCain drops dead walking home from the Inauguration, McCain has chosen this hockey mom who doesn't even know what the duties the Vice President are, to have a young Air Force officer with a "football" walking around behind her wherever she goes for the next 3+ years.
You want bad judgment, there's McCain's bad judgment . He'd risk throwing this country in to the hands of some beauty queen Biblical literalist Alaska mayor of a town of 6000 to sit across the table from Vladimir Putin discussing Georgia... McCain would put this county at that kind of risk in order to pull a "Hail Mary" political stunt.
Looks like McCain is the one we need to be asking those questions about bad judgment.
Oh, I'm not so sure about that. If someone who worked for me had a subordinate who was abusing his position, and failed to act, I'd ask them WTF they were doing, why, and if the answer didn't satisfy me, they'd be gone too. If I'm held responsible for the actions of those who report to me (I am), then I'm damn well going to make sure that they're responsible for that trust. If the cop reported to cop-boss, who reported to me, and they messed up bad, and cop-boss refused to fire him for it, I'd fire cop-boss. It's about accountability. No different than in my field where, say, a sysadmin does something stupid and causes (problem). If his team-lead didn't whack him hard, I'd have to whack them both. That's how leadership and accountability work.
If the unthinkable happened McCain would already have a functioning administration, all the Cabinet positions would be staffed with (hopefully) competent folk, etc.
This is what scares me the most about another Republican presidency, even more than the prospect of McCain becoming president. A competent administration? I wouldn't hold my breath.
The statement that some dinosaurs evolved into Birds is NOT science either, it's just Darwin's Theory. Neither argument has been proven correct. And by correct I mean one animal/plant/insect changing from it's past form to a completely different present form. ADAPTATION is not the same as evolution. So if you say one is a theory by your own logic you should say the other is also, teach both theories with evidence. As far as the Earth being 6K yrs old, that's not every specifically stated in the Bible, it is also a man made theory. In fact several places it's mentioned that God doesn't have any concept of Time. Time is entirely a man-made thing.
Equal Opportunity hire? Dude, I suspect some serious bitterness on your part towards "various groups," ostensibly for your own lack of success in life. If there are any beneficiaries of affirmative action among these candidates, they are the son of an admiral, and his running mate, the ex-beauty queen.
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
Budgets -- in a state with lots more money coming in than going out. Wow, how tough.
Personnel -- in Alaska? How many are we talking about here? Twelve?
Signed and vetoed legislation -- which is, of course, nothing at all like voting yes or no for legislation. Oh wait, it's exactly like it.
The fact is that his picking her is a transparent, cynical, and, above all, intellectually insulting attempt to sway people who to vote purely on the genitalia of their representatives.
Let me tell you a little story. My wife came to this country after spending her first 32 years in a communist country -- and loathing it the whole time. She has spent a bit short of six years here in the US. The first words out of her mouth tonight when I got home and asked her if she heard about McCain's pick were to the effect that he's trying to get Hillary voters and he thinks they're stupid enough to do so just because she's a woman. I had to smile at her easy insight despite her lack of experience with American politics.
The fact is, Palin is a joke and the joke's on McCain.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Jesus Fucking Christ. How did this idiot get modded up to +5 for anything other than a ironic Funny?
Seriously, how many McCainPoints(tm) does this post get you? Will you be ordering that new coffee mug tomorrow? Because I've rarely seen so many of the Republican smearing-point lies concatenated together in a single post.
Ah, gotta go now. I think I hear the Republican downmod squad coming to shove me into oblivion...
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Or we could have a black boy with less than two years experience take the reins...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Really? There are direct observations of that?
Why do you treat your 'theory' as if it were fact? It's complete conjecture. No, it's actually your faith.