Question: Did you see Sarah Palin's speech?
"No, but from the blurbs I've heard, she's entertaining,
feisty, has a fair streak of mean, is no nonsense,
smart, confident, sassy and spins a fair yarn of
barb wire, sticky tape and threads of gilded lily.
She reminds me of a bar fight in Central Valley, or
a hoedown in downhome anywhere. She's a force
to be reckoned with, with her glitz, glom, snurl and
snarl.
She is a brilliant pick.
However, someone said she faltered on International
affairs. But, she could learn rather quickly.
She would be fantastic as an international rep. Imagine
any of the world's leaders going up against this tornado
in stylish wirerims and snappy heels.
They will be put off balance by her bright attractiveness
and street smarts. They might try to wipe the floor with
her... forget it. She's Mr. Cheney in a skirt.
I think she's fun and interesting. It will be in the telling
whether she's just another governmental wasteful
spender who plys the dollars like a Vegas dealer...
She seems to know the political tangled ropes, knows
how to play the game, play others, ply the trades AND
tradeoffs.
She'll tow the party line, help preserve the status quo,
ignore issues that smack of liberalism, totally ignore,
with disdain, those who disagree with her. Why, she'll
whup'm good.
Who can't help but like a pitbull with lipstick? Such
a fellow/fella will surely protect you, and who can't help
appreciate a purty pout when the handsome pitbull
bites your head off?
:O
This election has become a funfest - full of exciting
twists and turns enough to turn the tummy in a slap
the forehead kind of way.
A Disneyland ride that may deter our concerns about
issues such as:
Our environment (What problem? there ain't no problem!)
Poor people around the world (If they don't have what it
takes, be done with'm! Work or die I say!)
Animal Abuse (Who gives a rats? eat'm! That's what
their herefur for G sakes!)
10 trillion dollar national debt (debt-schmet! We'll pay
it off in a month when we're da** good and ready)
International diplomacy (I'll wipe the floor with'm - I can
stop a moose at 10 paces, I can shoot a Premier at 3)
Oil (It's God's Will that we blast Iraq to kingdom come!
Drill! Drill! DRILLL!)
Renewable Energy (Yeah! As long as it's oil based)
Crime (It ain't crime if you don't get caught)
Religious Freedom (There's ONE religion. Mine.
Or, BURN!)
Peace (Yeah, I'll give you peace. A piece a this, a
piece of that. My way or the highway, chump!)
Morality (Do as I say, not as I do)
Your Right to Choose (WHAT right to choose?
What the He** are you talking about?)
Barack Obama (Just another moose - watch my trigger
finger)
Democrats & Liberals (Just another buncha mooses -
watch my AK47s.)
Truth and Honesty (Watch my lips. No new
<insert anything here>)
SUMMARY
Time will tell!"
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Some examples:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate."
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state _ by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "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, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
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Associated Press Writer Jim Drinkard in Washington contributed to this report.
You were upset! :O
Oh yes... there's so much wrong with all of this. It's become a sideshow.
People will go to any lengths to win the game... and Mrs. Palin adds
the necessary spice to enliven the Obama competition. But she also
adds a strangeness that I can't even watch anymore. It's all so...
surreal.
Can you image Mrs. Palin as the President? She has very little experience,
her speech was written by a brilliant strategist... it's all such a strange little
game. Nothing's real anymore!
I actually believe there is another Abraham Lincoln...
Believed...
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)