It's a sad day in our illustrious history when Saturday Night Live spoofs a candidate and doesn't even need to change the script. Tina Fey took EXACTLY what Palin said in those Couric interviews and repeated it verbatim.
Sarah Palin and John McCain are comedic figures from a sitcom or b-movie about political life. They're satirizing the US elections; they're a total farce!
And voters are STILL going to be hoodwinked into voting for the morons the GOP runs -- after eight year of Bush Jr., they still haven't wise up and had enough!!!
Astounding! We are the laughing stock of the world for this if we elect those two idiots: McCain-Palin.
We deserve to have our country ruined if that's the best we can find to lead us to certain destruction. This would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
Palin Is Ready? Please.
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Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/04/2008 11:23:55 AM
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Posted By: ashwindhir @ 10/03/2008 10:17:56 PM
I guess having a middle name Hussien would help solve the problem in the middle east. Rev Wright will help South America with Hugo Chavez they share the same views about America . Why do you not write OBAMA is READY? Please.
Did you see the debate ? She is standing up for the VICE PRESIDENT and not the PRESIDENT. OBAMA IS joke no experience, Reading books and reading speeches does not President make.-
Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/04/2008 11:16:50 AM
And YOU should know? You probably voted twice for the Bush Bimbo (male bimbo) we have now. You and people like you.
Wipe stupidity and mediocrity off the center stage of our election. Relegate it to the wings, like Alaska, and keep it there for good. Go back to Wasilla, Ms. Palin, with the First Dude and your trailer tribe. Six colleges before finally graduating, wow, that's so impressive. None of your kids going to University - that's really stunning. Your class is best left at the bowling alley, harharhar...... ;-)
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Posted By: siriterminator @ 10/03/2008 6:01:28 PM
Yesterday, Gov. Palin proved to Mr. Zakaria that he was wrong. Mr. Zakaria's judgment about Gov. Palin's based on just TWO interviews which had been edited by a liberal media, leads me to believe that, either Mr. Zakaria has a political agenda por-Obama or he has lost any sense balanced reporting. Having never met or interviewed Gov. Pailn in person, Mr. Zakaria can no longer be taken seriously in any reporting about Sen. Obama or Sen. McCain. It is a sad day at Newsweek when one of his main and most respected analysts comes out with such an unbalanced and unethical article.
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Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/04/2008 11:07:53 AM
No, it's a sad day when Saturday Night Live spoofs a candidate and doesn't even need to change the script. Tina Fey took EXACTLY what Palin said in those Couric interviews and repeated it verbatim.
The day we elect a team whose leader is an aging old fart with cancer, and whose second-in-command is a Barbie Doll, is the day we seriously begin to watch the very speedy Decline and Fall of the United States of America. It's already happening, thanks to Bush: 9/11, Enron, Iraq War, recessions, Surge, economic crash. Thanks to the GOP, who purposely runs these types of idiots to fool the stupid people across the country, we have a country that is failing.
You get an "F" for your comments, your choices and your current plans to vote for McCain-Palin. You fail, and you aren't serving your country - you're championing irresponsible leadership and sheer stupidity again and again. Go back to grade school, pick up some books and try to read them. I know it's a strain, and you may not retain much of the information, but it teaches you how to think. That's a start. That's more than Palin has learned. And McCain is just inexcusable.
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Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 10/04/2008 10:58:03 AM
Excellent article, as usual, Fareed, you're right on the money.
Even in the wake of Palin's "debate" with Senator Biden, I agree with your conclusions completely. It was painfully embarrassing to watch Biden, a superb debator and longtime statesman, have to patiently tolerate this bimbo spouting Republican talking points and hich platitudes, while she winked and grinned at the camera and pulled out her stupid-sounding folksy phrases.
If Palin is a prime example of what the GOP and its supporters thinks is an electable female candidate, then we have a complete disconnect here with half the country and the rest of the world. She will impress nobody in the foreign policy arena. She has no economic knowledge whatsoever. She is simply a Barbie Doll dressed up as a politician, parading around licking her lips and flashing those peepers at everyone who wants to see her.
What poor taste, what a poor choice, what a terrible bit of judgement on McCain's part. Did his wife advise him to pick Palin? So she could dominate her? Cindy's another weirdo who looks like the cat dragged her out of bed each morning, what's up with her hair for god's sake?
Other than that, the GOP must have better females in its "troops" of politicos? I cannot believe that Palin is their best shot. Gawd - it's a national security threat. Our enemies will see how weak we are if those two are elected, and they will not hesitate to create mayhem as soon as they're inaugurated.
UGH. Get mediocrity and worse off the center stage of US politics. It deserves to be exterminated.
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 9:16:20 PM
Day 5 of stealing Ohio's election!:
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
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Posted By: TMA1 @ 10/03/2008 8:48:04 PM
I saw in Sarah Palin a sincere, well spoken, intelligent person.
And in Barack uh Hussein uh Obama uh uh I uh I uh uh saw uh a uh uh uh u h.....
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Posted By: sjones2132 @ 10/03/2008 6:24:09 PM
siriterminator : If you saw in Palin someone who is ready to lead this country or even share that responsibility. I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
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Posted By: sjones2132 @ 10/03/2008 6:21:14 PM
siriterminator: You have not met Palin in person and you wish to follow her pied piper nonsense. That's shameful. If you saw a person who is ready to help govern the U.S. through these times, I've got a bridge I'll sell you.
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:31:43 PM
EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!
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Posted By: mbarnich @ 10/03/2008 3:24:36 PM
And, Tanya, it's a Cheshire cat, which you'd know if you had a Harvard education.
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Posted By: mbarnich @ 10/03/2008 3:22:20 PM
Jeez, Tanya, all the stuff you stated has been in the public eye for over a month. So what? Being a mom doesn't qualify for anything other than being a mom. Give me a Harvard grad who has always worked for the public interest anyday. Did you know that Palin supports denying abortions to victims of incest and rape? Did you know that Palin thinks that dinosaurs and humans inhabited the planet at the same time? Did you know she believes in speaking in tongues? Did you know that it took her over 4 universities to get a stinking bachelors degree? Did you know she believes that witches can influence your life? Did you know that she usually refuses to go to Alaska's state capitol, instead staying at home in Anchorage and then charges the State of Alasks per diem for staying at home? Normal people are NOT what we want in leaders. Leaders are where we want extraordinary humans. And that's not McCain who graduated at the bottom of his Annapolis class and crashed 3 airplanes before th final crash that ended with him in a POW camp. The pair are embarrassing idiots. Give me someone with new, good ideas and fresh ways of looking at things. Someone who will be respected by the rest of the world and not by Joe Six Pack.
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Posted By: JD1964 @ 10/01/2008 1:42:50 PM
"Can someone tell me, with accuracy, the amount of foreign policy experience the former governor of Arkansas had...or for that matter economic experience (considering Arkansas was in the bottom three states in standard of living I believe at the time)...or for that matter the good governor from Georgia, or even the good governor from California, the republican icon Reagan. Palin has more energy experience and EASILY comparable experience on foreign policy and economic experience than any of those men...and they were running for...and were elected President of the United States. Could it be that a conservative, attractive woman is judged by a radically different standard? People, get a CLUE! This has truly gone beyond disgusting. It is intellectually dishonest, but agenda true."
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Posted By: dukeitout @ 10/03/2008 2:53:19 PM
This comment is entirely too objective and well written. The writer is hereby sentenced to 60 hours of uninterrupted reading of the many anti-Palin comments displayed under this article.
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Posted By: dukeitout @ 10/03/2008 2:52:55 PM
This comment is entirely too objective and well written. The writer is hereby sentenced to 60 hours of uninterrupted reading of the many anti-Palin comments displayed under this article.
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Posted By: Tanja @ 10/03/2008 2:53:06 PM
I tried to post this comment in relation to another blog on MomsRising and it was odd that it was not posted at all. So I am thinking that it was just an oversight so I am trying this again.
I saw the debate yesterday.
Did you know that Palin's family members are teachers?
Did you know that she is one of 4 kids and had to work her way to college?
Did you know that her and her husband had no health insurance?
Did you know that she is from a middle class family?
Did you know that her son is in the military?
I am glad that I saw the debate and actually had a chance to hear her.
She is a very strong, intelligent woman with experience. A Mayor and now a Governor. She has a strong work ethic as I am sure most moms do.
After watching the debate, I can say "Yeah, she's a working mom who cares about the United States. She can get the job done."
She is a normal person like you and I. She's real.
I decided to vote for the Republican ticket this time. In the past I voted for Clinton and Nader.
REGISTER TO VOTE. IT IS OUR RIGHT. THANK YOU.
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Posted By: BryanB08 @ 10/03/2008 2:49:50 PM
That's just a terrible argument star3. Kennedy wasn't in his 70s. What reasons do you have that Palin would be capable to be president, or even vice president? Just because you like her and think she's "one of you" doesn't mean that she can handle worldly issues.
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Posted By: teddyo @ 10/02/2008 8:09:01 PM
This is why you need education. We tried 8 yrs of Bush. We don't need another Dumb *** in the White House. Please send Palin back to School.
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Posted By: star3 @ 10/03/2008 2:07:50 PM
Teddyo, yes you do need education, and we have been trying our best to educate you in the truth and the facts, but you just don't get it! You are still living in la la land where you think mommie & daddy government will solve all your problems Grow up and accept the education we have been atte4mptong to show you! You can send a person to school, but you can't make them learn. Some people's kids.....sigh...
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Posted By: teddyo @ 10/03/2008 1:36:10 AM
McCain and Palin are very poor debaters. lack of education makes you like this.
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Posted By: star3 @ 10/03/2008 1:55:05 PM
Teddyo, did you even watch the debates??!!? If you did, you could neve have made such a remark, unless you are completely oblivious to the obvious, or in a state of denial. Sarah Palin won that debate hands down, even many Democrats admit that! And the biased media admits it! So, honey, you may not like it, and you may not want to accept it, but you can not escape it---Palin won her debate, and John McCain & Obama were very close in the scores, almost a tie, so how can you make such an asinine remark, unless you did not actually watch the debates, or are just not accepting it. Even the news reporters acknowledge the facts, also, many of your own party members, so where is your mind todaY?! Put down the comic book and pay attention to the real world!
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/02/2008 8:10:03 PM
Dick Cheney notwithstanding, and discounting the very slim chance that the "heart beat away" will become relevant an any first term, remember what the real job is that Palin and Biden are campaigning for. The vice presidency has been more a target for jokes and ridicule than a sought-after job. George Clinton, who became Thomas Jefferson's Vice President in 1805, called the job a "respectable retirement," after 18 years as Governor of New York. In 1848, Senator Daniel Webster turned down an offer to be Zachary Taylor's vice-presidential running mate, saying, "I do not propose to be buried until I am really dead." And John Nance Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Vice President for his first two terms (1933-41), said the job wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit. (Actually, he used a cruder word than that.) John Adams, the country's first Vice President, famously called it "the most insignificant office." Al Gore described the job as that of "the nation's mourner," as one of his main functions was to attend the funerals of deceased world leaders and dignitaries. And McCain correctly stated that the constitutional duties of the job were to cast votes in the Senate in the rare case of a tie and to enquire every morning as to the health of the President, a fairly accurate description. In fact, from a Constitutional perspective, the VP has no other duties or powers. You hear it said in the news all the time: people vote for the top of the ticket.
The media is making more of it this time because they think it works for Obama by distracting from his own total lack of experience. Problem is, as both H. Clinton and J. Biden pointed out, with Obama, that lack of experience is out of control on day one. Indeed, as Biden stated when addressing Obama's total lack of qualifications, "the Presidency does not lend itself to on the job training." But Palin is not running for the Presidency, and according to Walter Mondale, the VP slot does in fact amount to on the job training. As Mondale, Carter's VP, once notably said when subsequently running for the Presidency, "I learned an awful lot as Vice President that I didn't know as a Senator."
Where is a story on Biden's long standing relationship to the credit card industry, the stalled credit card reform bill, passed by house but dead in the Senate, where Biden "works." (And opposed by Bush. Idiot)
See also:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash
55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp
Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted' CNN
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/51_say_reporters_are_trying_to_hurt_palin_39_say_she_has_better_experience_than_obama
51% Say Reporters-
Posted By: mostlysunny1 @ 10/03/2008 1:15:34 PM
"Very slim chance"? Are you JOKING? McCain is 72, and he is refusing to release his medical records. There's a helluva lot more than a very slim chance and that proves that McCain was reckless in chosing someone who is in NO WAY qualified to be Vice President, much less President. You have GOT to be joking.
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Posted By: mostlysunny1 @ 10/03/2008 1:12:22 PM
Great article. I wish more people in the mainstream media would be honest with the American people and call Sarah Palin what she is: unqualified. She's an embarrassment to me as a woman when she stands up there winking during a VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. It's not a beauty show, it's not a football game, and she's not a cheerleader but that's what she acted like. All talk and no substance whatsoever.
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Posted By: mostlysunny1 @ 10/03/2008 1:09:48 PM
Great article. I wish the mainstream media (news anchors, newspaper editors, etc.) would have the courage to stand up and say the same thing. Sarah Palin needs to stand down. She's an insult and an embarrassment to me as a woman and an American. When did being intelligent go out of fashion? Oh yeah, that's right, the first time Bush got elected. Yeee-haw!
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