The next Vice President of the United States of America?

[zeusbheld]

I read she used to be the school bike, dabbled in hard drugs and was alledged to have murdered someone a while back but got away with it for lack of evidence.

Though I could be wrong.

i read that i felt her up in junior high school, in a public park, after older kids bought us beer.

[eagle]

Zeus wrote : (who i believe are nowhere near as ready for God's judgment as *they* think they are.)

THey are ready for Hell , bunch of phony cheaters

:twisted:

[Bruce551]

The Resentment Strategy

By PAUL KRUGMAN

5 Sept 08, N.Y. Times

Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts ? the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business ? really keep a straight face while denouncing ?Eastern elites??

Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, ?marched in gay pride parades, dressed up in drag and lived temporarily with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu? ? that was between his second and third marriages ? really get away with saying that Barack Obama doesn?t think small towns are sufficiently ?cosmopolitan??

Can the vice-presidential candidate of a party that has controlled the White House, Congress or both for 26 of the past 28 years, a party that, Borg-like, assimilated much of the D.C. lobbying industry into itself ? until Congress changed hands, high-paying lobbying jobs were reserved for loyal Republicans ? really portray herself as running against the ?Washington elite??

Yes, they can.

On Tuesday, He Who Must Not Be Named ? Mitt Romney mentioned him just once, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin not at all ? gave a video address to the Republican National Convention. John McCain, promised President Bush, would stand up to the ?angry left.? That?s no doubt true. But don?t be fooled either by Mr. McCain?s long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin?s appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side.

What?s the source of all that anger?

Some of it, of course, is driven by cultural and religious conflict: fundamentalist Christians are sincerely dismayed by Roe v. Wade and evolution in the curriculum.

(F*ck Them)

What struck me as I watched the convention speeches, however, is how much of the anger on the right is based not on the claim that Democrats have done bad things, but on the perception ? generally based on no evidence whatsoever ? that Democrats look down their noses at regular people.

Thus Mr. Giuliani asserted that Wasilla, Alaska, isn?t ?flashy enough? for Mr. Obama, who never said any such thing. And Ms. Palin asserted that Democrats ?look down? on small-town mayors ? again, without any evidence.

What the G.O.P. is selling, in other words, is the pure politics of resentment; you?re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it?s better than you. Or to put it another way, the G.O.P. is still the party of Nixon.

One of the key insights in ?Nixonland,? the new book by the historian Rick Perlstein, is that Nixon?s political strategy throughout his career was inspired by his college experience, in which he got himself elected student body president by exploiting his classmates? resentment against the Franklins, the school?s elite social club. There?s a direct line from that student election to Spiro Agnew?s attacks on the ?nattering nabobs of negativism? as ?an effete corps of impudent snobs,? and from there to the peculiar cult of personality that not long ago surrounded George W. Bush ? a cult that celebrated his anti-intellectualism and made much of the supposed fact that the ?misunderestimated? C-average student had proved himself smarter than all the fancy-pants experts.

And when Mr. Bush turned out not to be that smart after all, and his presidency crashed and burned, the angry right ? the raging rajas of resentment? ? became, if anything, even angrier. Humiliation will do that.

Can Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin really ride Nixonian resentment into an upset election victory in what should be an overwhelmingly Democratic year? The answer is a definite maybe.

By selecting Barack Obama as their nominee, the Democrats may have given Republicans an opening: the very qualities that inspire many fervent Obama supporters ? the candidate?s high-flown eloquence, his coolness factor ? have also laid him open to a Nixonian backlash. Unlike many observers, I wasn?t surprised at the effectiveness of the McCain ?celebrity? ad. It didn?t make much sense intellectually, but it skillfully exploited the resentment some voters feel toward Mr. Obama?s star quality.

That said, the experience of the years since 2000 ? the memory of what happened to working Americans when faux-populist Republicans controlled the government ? is still fairly fresh in voters? minds. Furthermore, while Democrats? supposed contempt for ordinary people is mainly a figment of Republican imagination, the G.O.P. really is the Gramm Old Party ? it really does believe that the economy is just fine, and the fact that most Americans disagree just shows that we?re a nation of whiners.

But the Democrats can?t afford to be complacent. Resentment, no matter how contrived, is a powerful force, and it?s one that Republicans are very, very good at exploiting.

[zeusbheld]

normally i don't talk about how i'm going to vote. but Mr. McCain, who i have had no small degree of interest in before his presidential campaign, completely obliterated ANY chance i will vote for him in november by choosing this creationist wing nut for VP. as soon as someone is stupid enough to propose teaching cretinism i mean creationism as science, i become a one-issue voter.

she does deliver a speech well though.

[zeusbheld]

she does deliver a speech well though.

Seems to me like she'd been told what to say and exactly how to say it.

of course she was. but actor/screenwriters are relatively uncommon, aren't they. and her speech, incidentally, was mostly written by one of Dubya's speech writers.

still, compare her reading of the lines to Pawlenty's snoozefest. only other one who gave a good speech that i saw was her felllow God Squadder Huckabee.

Surely even the yanks can't consider her a realistic candidate? Watching her speech and the all to predictable reactions of the massed supporters was laughable. Massed ranks of bloated mid-income hockey-mums clapping like a pack of seals at mating time for no more reason than it's a woman in the men's club.

it was pure pandering.

And if I hear any more about McCain and his POW imprisonment I do believe I'll puke.

As far as I can see, it's a choice between an attempt at change, and a bunch of bullshitting motherf*ckers who just want power for no other reason than they just want power.

before this campaign mccain had showed some promise (as a senator), especially, ironically enough, in the area of campaign reform. now, he's a shameless panderer, even by the standards of politicians.

liked the sign reading "The mavrick" which the editor cut away to just as McCain was talking about adult literacy, though. THAT was funny.

[zeusbheld]

"Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor so you can draw your own conclusions............"*

* it's not mine but i don't know who to attribute it to, as i've seen it in several article and blog comments, all by different posters, none of whom attributed.

[beej]

[Stramash]

I also see that Palin is completely opposed to NASA. She says they have no right to abort missions at any point they choose and that once a mission has been conceived then that mission has a right to life. When questioned as to what would happen when that mision was as a result of a forced aline probe, she replied, 'life is life'

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[eagle]

After seeing how the cops handled protests near the repubican convention and with all the computer voting machines in place ready to hack I feel like USSA will tell us who the next vice president is. Running man 2 in a theater near you :shock:

[Zombiedriven]

Obama is way out of his league he first off HAS NEVER SERVED A COMPLETE TERM FOR ANY OFFICE. With that said he does not get my vote for any reason and also when he was in the middle east and Refused to shake hands with people in the Military that once supported him kinda make me loose more respect for him.

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

[beej]

:shock:

[Stramash]

Obama is way out of his league he first off HAS NEVER SERVED A COMPLETE TERM FOR ANY OFFICE. With that said he does not get my vote for any reason and also when he was in the middle east and Refused to shake hands with people in the Military that once supported him kinda make me loose more respect for him.

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

hoorah!!!

4 more years of right wing reactionary evangelical sh*t in the white house then..

:twisted: .

[eagle]

:shock:

don't be shocked. war makes alot of people money and we all know thats more important then people's lives :roll:

[eagle]

Obama is way out of his league he first off HAS NEVER SERVED A COMPLETE TERM FOR ANY OFFICE. With that said he does not get my vote for any reason and also when he was in the middle east and Refused to shake hands with people in the Military that once supported him kinda make me loose more respect for him.

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

hoorah!!!

4 more years of right wing reactionary evangelical sh*t in the white house then..

:twisted: .

money money money and POWER woohooooo

[Stramash]

:shock:

don't be shocked. war makes alot of people money and we all know thats more important then people's lives :roll:

as Bill Hicks once said "too may fu**ers on the planet anyway"

(or was that McCain's manifesto?)

:twisted:

[eagle]

:shock:

don't be shocked. war makes alot of people money and we all know thats more important then people's lives :roll:

as Bill Hicks once said "too may fu**ers on the planet anyway"

(or was that McCain's manifesto?)

:twisted:

He still lost in one of his 6 or 7 houses. He was so sweet telling everyone how he lives to serve the people while he packs away the cash. Yea he's quite a monk :shock:

The republican convention was so phoney and staged it was like a 700 club ralley sheeeez scary people........... :twisted:

[beej]

Shock horror, zombiedriven might have to get a 'normal' job if theres no one to shoot!

As for the 'Obama hand shake thing'

A:This is another viral e-mail falsehood. The author now says it's not true; the Army says it's not true; and video and photos show Obama shaking hands with troops and eating breakfast with them as well.

[beej]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

Hitler, Osama, and Saddam had more Political Experience than Obama, would they have got your 'nod' a well?

[Stramash]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

Hitler, Osama, and Saddam had more Political Experience than Obama, would they have got your 'nod' a well?

:twisted:

[eagle]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

Hitler, Osama, and Saddam had more Political Experience than Obama, would they have got your 'nod' a well?

Palin would fit in well with the bunch of crooks they have in now :roll:

[LakeGeneve]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

I must confess, I do also agree that Palin is more qualified than anyone. (More widely travelled as well).

This Youtube clearly encapsulates the reasons why;

http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com

[zeusbheld]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

no offense but that just might be the single stupidest sentence i've ever seen in the english language.

Palin's massive experience is what---seeing russia from her back door? not knowing what the Bush doctrine is? bullying her enemies out of office? being the single most polarizing figure in American politics in our lifetime?

or is it just that she knows how to help out her buddies and piss on her enemies, screwing the country over for her own personal gain, like dubya?

[beej]

Pallin on the other hand HAS MORE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE THAN OBAMA AND THUS GETS MY NOD

no offense but that just might be the single stupidest sentence i've ever seen in the english language.

Palin's massive experience is what---seeing russia from her back door? not knowing what the Bush doctrine is? bullying her enemies out of office? being the single most polarizing figure in American politics in our lifetime?

or is it just that she knows how to help out her buddies and piss on her enemies, screwing the country over for her own personal gain, like dubya?

I'd like to see the long list of 'experience' she has, then again I don't give a **** and would like to see the US go down the pan.

[Jaymi]

BEEJ ROCKS MY SOCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[beej]

Better hope he doesn't SOCK YOUR ROCKS !

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