Yes, that's why the latte-swilling masses dislike you.

[apocalypsos]

Hewitt asked Palin her reaction to the “extreme hostility” that she has faced from liberals.

“Oh, I think they’re just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that a normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it,” she said.

You're right, Governor Palin. We don't know what it's like to have Joe Six-Pack as the VP. We just know what it was like to have him as the actual president for the past eight years.

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[torificus.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't WANT Normal Joe Six-pack running the country. I want someone who is CAPABLE and BETTER AT IT THAN ME doing it.

Dear Sarah Palin,
EARTHLOGIC: UR DOIN IT RONG.
-Tori

[lyra-wing.livejournal.com]

WORD X 1 MILLION.

Not to say that we're a whole lot smarter than anyone else, but I'm surrounded by law school students at an Ivy university, and we all emphatically don't believe in this crap about having "Joe Normal" in office. We want someone SMARTER than us in office, shit.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Heh. Word. I think something like 90% of law professors who donated to a Presidential campaign this cycle donated to Obama, which is an insane ratio even for academia.

*toddles to your journal* You're a 1L? I'm so sorry. Not that 2L year is a treat right now...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Not just you. I don't want "Joe Six-Pack" or "a working mom" or whatever bullshit role is being put forth in the media to be running the country. It's POLITICS. I want a politician. I want the best politician. I know politicians get a bad rap, but for fuck's sake, is it really that detrimental to mention you ARE one when you're basically interviewing with your bosses (the American public) for the job?

... on second thought, don't answer that.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

*icontwins*

I completely AWTC.

[torificus.livejournal.com]

YOURS IS SHINY. *aweface*

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

Haha, mostly I really, really ♥ textures. :D You're welcome to share if you want though! (I had a big set of band girls and other stuff way back on my journal somewhere...hmm.) But yeah, I love this pic of Lyn-Z.

[edit - er, THAT pic of Lyn-Z, since I'm actually using another icon of her]

[swingangel.livejournal.com]

This is from an admittedly very left wing news site but this article summed up exactly how I feel about the election and Palin.

"I don't know about you, but I don't want the two most powerful people in the free world to be a couple of folks I'd just like to sit down and have a beer with; I want them to be fucking super heroes -- sharper, stronger and wiser than I could ever hope to be. They have the weight of the world on their shoulders; I want to never have to worry that they won't be able to carry it."

[torificus.livejournal.com]

/EXACTLY/.


I don't understand why so many Americans apparently have such a problem with exceptional, above-average people.

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

You don't? It's because they believe that the continuation of democracy depends on everyone being just as good as everyone else, especially the people who aren't. They believe that extremely stupid people should be put in charge, in order not to offend other extremely stupid people with the notion they're unfit for something - anything.

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

I..... what... *keysmashes*

It's not elitism, you f'ing morons, it's WANTING TO ELECT SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING. As she's making it oh so clear she doesn't.

[justen.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I would not want the leader of my country to be someone I can relate to, who's on my level. I want my leader to be better than I am. To be more intelligent, more experienced, and more qualified for the position.

[justen.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the latest? Sarah Palin speaking about how homosexuality is a choice. Guh!! So much anger!!

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-hom.html

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

She's not my gay friend, she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I have made.

...well, at least she's admitting that heterosexuality is a choice XD

[justen.livejournal.com]

And there's this gem:

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-can.html

She can't name a single news source she uses to keep up to date on important issues.

Seriously, all these clips need to be compiled somewhere. It'd be like some sort of hilarious idiot checklist.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

O_o Well, and the thing is, she gets all ~offended like Couric's suggesting she's a giant hick, but it's not like she then rattles off a giant list of media sources. She just gets snarky.

[justen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that, as a Canadian, our elections tend to be a little more about the issues and our candidates tend to be a little more informed, or at least that's what they try to focus on (though we are headed away form that as the States has).

I will say, however, that our elections are not nearly as entertaining as yours. I seriously cannot imagine a leader of one of our parties saying these things and not being either encouraged to resign or just laughed right out of their position.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

I seriously cannot imagine a leader of one of our parties saying these things and not being either encouraged to resign or just laughed right out of their position.

If only. Sigh. I'm pretty sure elections aren't supposed to be "entertaining".

[justen.livejournal.com]

Despite all the humour her lack of knowledge, experience, credential,s etc. provides, it still worries me greatly as a world citizen that the Republicans still have such strong report even in light of such complete and utter blatant idiocy.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. Imagine living here. o_O I'm actually worried about McCain winning the election, and I feel like with this kind of stuff showing up in the news on a daily basis I shouldn't have to worry about that. (And understandably, Palin isn't the presidential nominee, but McCain's just a lot more subtle about his idiocy...which isn't saying much.)

[elohvee.livejournal.com]

I am so sick of this "Democrats don't care about real people" bullshit. I turned off the debate because the blatant lies about the democratic tax plans got to be too annoying.

I also still don't understand why we should want our leaders to be on out level or worse. What was that line from the Bartlet-Obama dialogue? "American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional"?

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I think she doesn't do Joe Sixpack credit with that comparison. I bet plenty of Joe Sixpacks can name more than one Supreme Court case, or, when asked what periodicals they read, have a better answer than "all of them." Especially when Joe Sixpack wants to run the country. Cripes.

What's even more mind-numbing is that if anyone in this campaign has a humble background, it's Obama. But of course, the unspoken subtext is that he can't represent "normal" America because...well, you know why.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

I think she doesn't do Joe Sixpack credit with that comparison. I bet plenty of Joe Sixpacks can name more than one Supreme Court case, or, when asked what periodicals they read, have a better answer than "all of them."

ALL of them? Whoa, that must get expensive.
...maybe she needs to ditch her subscription to the Advocate.

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

Oh, cry me a pollutant-and-dead-fish-choked river.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

President AND Vice President. Cheney counts too in my book.

[stabeest.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, in my nasty little conspiracy theory lovin' mind, I think that Sarah Palin is the Republican party's way of making women who have the AUDACITY to run for a "man's job" look foolish. Seriously, how can anyone think this woman is qualified to be president? How? She can barely get through an interview with KATIE COURIC and she's not a bastion of hard-hitting journalism by any stretch of the imagination.

I fear that Sarah Palin will set women back by thirty years. She's so ridiculously uninformed and she waves her "hockey mom" flag so much that I wouldn't be surprised if after this election, whether the Republicans win or not (which they won't unless they cheat and I think they know that, but that is an entire other set of crunchy conspiracy theory goodness) Sarah Palin is going to be held up as the example of WHY a woman shouldn't be president. She perpetuates every stereotype about women. That we can't be as intellectual as men, that we are dishonest, that we fall apart under "real" pressure.

As much as I support the Obama/Biden ticket, there is a part of me that wishes that he had chosen Hilary Clinton as his VP because she would wipe the floor with Sarah Palin and, hopefully, make the country understand that Sarah Palin doesn't fail because she is a WOMAN, she fails because she is a MORON.

[bluesteelstars.livejournal.com]

This!

[dargie.livejournal.com]

When she's not giving a beauty queen answer, i.e., saying nothing in as many words as possible, she's being condescending and stupid.

[lunardreamed.livejournal.com]

I'm sick of hearing how Republicans represent the ordinary working man more than democrats. McCain has how many houses and cars. Obama is far closer to the working man than him. And Palin being a moron is not good compensation.