Palin Speaks With Press

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing

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To quote the Kwisatz Haderach, “Fear Is The Mind-Killer.”

And I must admit, I fear a McCain/Palin administration and admittedly, I fear a Palin administration even more. If McCain is a maverick, Palin is pure chaos.

Why am I so fearful? Where do I even start? First off, I am afraid the American public is still horrifically stupid. They voted for Bush in vast numbers TWICE, plus they gave him swollen approval ratings when it was obvious there was no basis for it. Are these Bush fans thinking, “third time is the charm?” These people are low-information voters and have consisantly voted against their best economic interests time and time again. They just can’t seem to get enough of failure, torment and pain. It is quite remarkable.

For some unknown reason, these voters do not understand the danger of our deficit, national debt and the debt hole. They do not understand that buying from Walmart puts Americans out of work. They seem to have forgotten that American families used to only need one breadwinner – now it takes two spouses and a pile of credit cards to make ends meet. There was a time in Amercia where we took pride in our national parks. My great grandparents used to think very highly of how we as Americans set aside the Great Smokey Mountains, the Petrified Forest, Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. I have ancestors that cut the route for the Blue Ridge Parkway. But now the mantra is “drill baby, drill.” My parents, grandparents and great-grandparents used to always think about saving and conserving. They all grew up in hard times in the rough patches of West Virginia. “Why buy a new shovel when you can fix the one you have?” was a saying of Andrew Keys, my great-grandfather who spent a lifetime coal mining and keeping a farm near Spanishburg, West Virginia.

The Republicans seem to have forgotten how to work together. It is there way and they will advance their position with no outside help. That is a very divisive way of thinking. As some of you may know, I run a soldier support charity, Books For Soldiers. During Katrina, I worked with Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan to set-up a relief network for residents of the Gulf Coast. We set out to deliver food, medicine and clothing to those who were affected by the hurricane. When some of the Books For Soldiers volunteers figured out that Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan were helping out, they refused to help Americans in need because, and I quote from their emails, “because the medicine might be delivered by Democrats.”

No shit.

So I fear. I fear that half of this nation will continue to not use their brains and vote for McCain / Palin and we will finally lose America.

Forever.

3 Comments

dada on September 8, 2008 at 3:37 pm

that’s how the RATs…of both flavours… view the americans.

leonard pitts, jr from mcclatchy lays it out today:

How do you say ‘hypocrisy’ in Romney-speak?

“We need change, all right. Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington. We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals.” — Mitt Romney, Sept. 3,2008

:::

If you’re a regular here, you’ve heard me rant from time to time about intellectual dishonesty. By this, I mean more than just your garden variety lie. No, to be intellectually dishonest means to argue that which you know to be untrue and to substitute ideology for intellect to the degree that you’ll do violence to language and logic rather than cross the party line.

Yes, we’re all intellectually dishonest on occasion. But no one does it like Republican conservatives. They are to intellectual dishonesty what Michael Jordan was to basketball or the Temptations to harmony: the avatar, the exemplar, the paradigm. They have elevated it beyond hypocrisy and political expedience. They have made it … art.

Which returns us to the astonishing thing Mitt Romney said while addressing the party faithful in St. Paul, Minn. You want to walk around it the way you would Michelangelo’s “David,” admiring the elegance of the workmanship. You hesitate to touch it, much less pull it apart. To do so seems almost an act of desecration.

Unfortunately, some of us are too plodding and earthbound, too blind to the seductions of art, too stubbornly wedded to some vestigial notion that intellectual honesty matters, to walk past a steaming pile of bovine excreta without calling it a steaming pile of bovine excreta.

So excuse me, beg pardon, so sorry, but I have to ask: what liberal Washington is he talking about? The federal government has three branches. The legislative, i.e., Congress, was under conservative control from 1995 until 2007. The judicial, i.e., the Supreme Court, consists of nine justices, seven of whom were nominated by conservative presidents. The executive, i.e., the president, is George W. Bush. Enough said.

Washington is already what Romney wants to make it. Our current state of affairs, love it or loathe it, is indisputably a product of conservative governance. I wish that mattered more than it does…

read the entire essay HERE

poloticos of both parties think the american voting public is “dumber than a bag of hammers”…they may be proven right…again.

idredit on September 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm

Arianna Huffington:

Sarah Palin the Trojan Moose

Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the “Bridge to Nowhere?” Did she really sell Alaska’s plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard?

The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares? Which isn’t to say these aren’t valid questions, or that Palin and the McCain camp aren’t playing it fast, loose, and coy with each of them. The point is that Palin, and the circus she’s brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.

Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party’s record, and John McCain’s role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

Her critics like to say that Palin hasn’t accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she’s succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record — and McCain’s complicity in it. My friends, that’s accomplishment we can believe in.

[.]

McCain’s team, in an effort to distract, is going to keep doing what they’re doing — diverting voters and the media with a tantalizing combination of personal trivia and small lies. It doesn’t matter if they’re caught in them — in fact, all the better. Because they know there is no way in hell they can win if this election is about the big truth of the Bush years.

Well said.

martini on September 9, 2008 at 1:14 am

things.

I am afraid the American public is still horrifically stupid. They voted for Bush in vast numbers TWICE, plus they gave him swollen approval ratings when it was obvious there was no basis for it.

I submit, the “American Public” didn’t vote for Bush in the vast numbers portrayed in the media, and didn’t give him those great approval ratings. Just like now, the press controls what information we get through their (clear)channels, and can lie big enough, long enough, that people who know better eventually get worn down, and give up.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, and try again.

If you want to get thought-inducing information to those “low information” voters who are prey to such strategy, take on the task of showing them bigger things to fear.

Scroll past the first goofy image, here, and check out Putin as “James Bond”, then skiing, check his reputation for a cold, unending stare, and his willingness to throw down on a Judo mat.

Sure, Palin could probably out-hunt him in a moosefest, more maybe only possibly out-hunt him? However, make the teasing and clear comparison that in a battle of wits, with world-wide stakes at risk, we need a brain of rhetorical steel, in a healthy-enough body, in order to stand up to Putin.

At that point, McCain loses on health, and Palin loses on not flipping her freaking lid when people get on her “bad list”.

Contrast, Obama with calm, unruffled rhetoric and enough health to keep playing basketball while on the campaign trail? DONE! And Biden as backup, with a pair of brass knuckles? Throw down, go on. They can take it.

Palin would freak out, an McCain would snap. America needs better, stronger, saner, smarter leadership.

dada on September 8, 2008 at 3:37 pm

that’s how the RATs…of both flavours… view the americans.

leonard pitts, jr from mcclatchy lays it out today:

How do you say ‘hypocrisy’ in Romney-speak?

“We need change, all right. Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington. We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals.” — Mitt Romney, Sept. 3,2008

:::

If you’re a regular here, you’ve heard me rant from time to time about intellectual dishonesty. By this, I mean more than just your garden variety lie. No, to be intellectually dishonest means to argue that which you know to be untrue and to substitute ideology for intellect to the degree that you’ll do violence to language and logic rather than cross the party line.

Yes, we’re all intellectually dishonest on occasion. But no one does it like Republican conservatives. They are to intellectual dishonesty what Michael Jordan was to basketball or the Temptations to harmony: the avatar, the exemplar, the paradigm. They have elevated it beyond hypocrisy and political expedience. They have made it … art.

Which returns us to the astonishing thing Mitt Romney said while addressing the party faithful in St. Paul, Minn. You want to walk around it the way you would Michelangelo’s “David,” admiring the elegance of the workmanship. You hesitate to touch it, much less pull it apart. To do so seems almost an act of desecration.

Unfortunately, some of us are too plodding and earthbound, too blind to the seductions of art, too stubbornly wedded to some vestigial notion that intellectual honesty matters, to walk past a steaming pile of bovine excreta without calling it a steaming pile of bovine excreta.

So excuse me, beg pardon, so sorry, but I have to ask: what liberal Washington is he talking about? The federal government has three branches. The legislative, i.e., Congress, was under conservative control from 1995 until 2007. The judicial, i.e., the Supreme Court, consists of nine justices, seven of whom were nominated by conservative presidents. The executive, i.e., the president, is George W. Bush. Enough said.

Washington is already what Romney wants to make it. Our current state of affairs, love it or loathe it, is indisputably a product of conservative governance. I wish that mattered more than it does…

read the entire essay HERE

poloticos of both parties think the american voting public is “dumber than a bag of hammers”…they may be proven right…again.
- idredit on September 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm
  
  Arianna Huffington:
  
  Sarah Palin the Trojan Moose
  
  Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the “Bridge to Nowhere?” Did she really sell Alaska’s plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard?
  
  The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares? Which isn’t to say these aren’t valid questions, or that Palin and the McCain camp aren’t playing it fast, loose, and coy with each of them. The point is that Palin, and the circus she’s brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.
  
  Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party’s record, and John McCain’s role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.
  
  Her critics like to say that Palin hasn’t accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she’s succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record — and McCain’s complicity in it. My friends, that’s accomplishment we can believe in.
  
  [.]
  
  McCain’s team, in an effort to distract, is going to keep doing what they’re doing — diverting voters and the media with a tantalizing combination of personal trivia and small lies. It doesn’t matter if they’re caught in them — in fact, all the better. Because they know there is no way in hell they can win if this election is about the big truth of the Bush years.
  
  Well said.
martini on September 9, 2008 at 1:14 am

things.

I am afraid the American public is still horrifically stupid. They voted for Bush in vast numbers TWICE, plus they gave him swollen approval ratings when it was obvious there was no basis for it.

I submit, the “American Public” didn’t vote for Bush in the vast numbers portrayed in the media, and didn’t give him those great approval ratings. Just like now, the press controls what information we get through their (clear)channels, and can lie big enough, long enough, that people who know better eventually get worn down, and give up.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, and try again.

If you want to get thought-inducing information to those “low information” voters who are prey to such strategy, take on the task of showing them bigger things to fear.

Scroll past the first goofy image, here, and check out Putin as “James Bond”, then skiing, check his reputation for a cold, unending stare, and his willingness to throw down on a Judo mat.

Sure, Palin could probably out-hunt him in a moosefest, more maybe only possibly out-hunt him? However, make the teasing and clear comparison that in a battle of wits, with world-wide stakes at risk, we need a brain of rhetorical steel, in a healthy-enough body, in order to stand up to Putin.

At that point, McCain loses on health, and Palin loses on not flipping her freaking lid when people get on her “bad list”.

Contrast, Obama with calm, unruffled rhetoric and enough health to keep playing basketball while on the campaign trail? DONE! And Biden as backup, with a pair of brass knuckles? Throw down, go on. They can take it.

Palin would freak out, an McCain would snap. America needs better, stronger, saner, smarter leadership.

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