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Aug. 29th, 2008
Hey, let's all go to our Obama altars!
Aug. 29th, 2008 11:01 am( Barack Obama's acceptance speech in its entirety. )
I love that man. And not just because his set design is obviously some sort of signal that he's secretly Zeus the Smiling Muslim Anti-Christ.
*rewatches*
*loves*
Oh, John McCain can't do that. (He can, however, choose Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. On one hand ... huh. On the other hand, considering she's even worse on the experience front than Obama -- and McCain just looooves knocking Obama on that count -- it rings of "Oh, hey, you have a vagina, don't you? Let's hook up!".)
I love that man. And not just because his set design is obviously some sort of signal that he's secretly Zeus the Smiling Muslim Anti-Christ.
*rewatches*
*loves*
Oh, John McCain can't do that. (He can, however, choose Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. On one hand ... huh. On the other hand, considering she's even worse on the experience front than Obama -- and McCain just looooves knocking Obama on that count -- it rings of "Oh, hey, you have a vagina, don't you? Let's hook up!".)
As seen on Daily Kos ...
Aug. 29th, 2008 11:23 amIn an interview just a month ago, [Gov. Sarah Palin] dissed the job, saying it didn’t seem “productive.”
In fact, she said she doesn’t know what the vice president does.
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain ticket mate.
Palin replied: “[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”
Your possible next vice-president, ladies and gentleman.
Hey, at least she's got lady parts! All you Hillary voters are stupid enough to fall for that, right?
(Note: I do not actually think anyone I know is stupid enough to fall for that. Not even my cat. In fact, I think even the chinchillas would call bullshit.)
In fact, she said she doesn’t know what the vice president does.
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain ticket mate.
Palin replied: “[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”
Your possible next vice-president, ladies and gentleman.
Hey, at least she's got lady parts! All you Hillary voters are stupid enough to fall for that, right?
(Note: I do not actually think anyone I know is stupid enough to fall for that. Not even my cat. In fact, I think even the chinchillas would call bullshit.)
Why I dislike McCain's VP pick ...
Aug. 29th, 2008 06:21 pm... and no, it's not because she's conservative. (Hell, who else was he gonna pick? Pelosi?)
I don't like her because he's goddamn old.
Here, let me explain. I've already seen reference to what the 2016 election season is going to look like if it turns into Biden vs. Palin. I honestly don't think they're planning ahead that far, I really don't. I think Palin was chosen for her politics, for her possible appeal to swing voters in this election, and ... yeah, because she's a woman. I do think there was a lot of, "Oh, let's see which old rich white guy McCain picks as VP!" going around and I don't doubt that that factored into it. And I don't blame him one bit.
I'd like to think that the campaign was thinking of the 2016 election when they picked her. The problem is that I don't think that they thought about the (possible) eight years in between. Suppose that Obama gets elected. Suppose (sadly enough) two months later he gets shot by some douchebag with a gun and a grudge against the first black president. Suppose that Joe Biden takes office. Like him or not, the man has been in politics for thirty-five years. (For the record, Sarah Palin was nine when he first went into politics.) He's practically bulging with experience in political matters.
My grandfather passed away when he was fifty-four. My grandmother went when she was sixty. My great-grandma died when she was about seventy-three. And all of them from natural causes. Now, McCain's family history is a little better than mine (his father was seventy when he passed away, but everybody else seems to have hit their late eighties or nineties), but the "heartbeat away from the presidency" line is exceedingly apt here. And I get the impression that nobody in his camp is bothering to point that out. I don't like Romney or any of the other possibilities that were bandied about, but at least I believed that if McCain dropped dead the day after the inauguration, they could easily step into the role.
You know what? Yes, Obama's experience is lacking. And so is hers. Here's the main difference ... *I* decided that regardless of his amount of experience, I prefer Obama. I like what he has to say, I like his plans for this country, I like his attitude and his presence and the way he makes me feel good about what this country can be. *I* picked *him*. And you did, and *you* did, and you did. (Well, okay, maybe not you.)
I did not pick HER. John McCain picked her, and I already don't trust his judgment.
And John McCain is goddamn old.
I'm not trying to start an argument or anything. I just ... I had to get that off my chest, I guess.
(Um, to offset the tone of the rest of my post, I had to stop somewhere in the middle to sing along when the theme to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" came on my Internet radio.)
I don't like her because he's goddamn old.
Here, let me explain. I've already seen reference to what the 2016 election season is going to look like if it turns into Biden vs. Palin. I honestly don't think they're planning ahead that far, I really don't. I think Palin was chosen for her politics, for her possible appeal to swing voters in this election, and ... yeah, because she's a woman. I do think there was a lot of, "Oh, let's see which old rich white guy McCain picks as VP!" going around and I don't doubt that that factored into it. And I don't blame him one bit.
I'd like to think that the campaign was thinking of the 2016 election when they picked her. The problem is that I don't think that they thought about the (possible) eight years in between. Suppose that Obama gets elected. Suppose (sadly enough) two months later he gets shot by some douchebag with a gun and a grudge against the first black president. Suppose that Joe Biden takes office. Like him or not, the man has been in politics for thirty-five years. (For the record, Sarah Palin was nine when he first went into politics.) He's practically bulging with experience in political matters.
My grandfather passed away when he was fifty-four. My grandmother went when she was sixty. My great-grandma died when she was about seventy-three. And all of them from natural causes. Now, McCain's family history is a little better than mine (his father was seventy when he passed away, but everybody else seems to have hit their late eighties or nineties), but the "heartbeat away from the presidency" line is exceedingly apt here. And I get the impression that nobody in his camp is bothering to point that out. I don't like Romney or any of the other possibilities that were bandied about, but at least I believed that if McCain dropped dead the day after the inauguration, they could easily step into the role.
You know what? Yes, Obama's experience is lacking. And so is hers. Here's the main difference ... *I* decided that regardless of his amount of experience, I prefer Obama. I like what he has to say, I like his plans for this country, I like his attitude and his presence and the way he makes me feel good about what this country can be. *I* picked *him*. And you did, and *you* did, and you did. (Well, okay, maybe not you.)
I did not pick HER. John McCain picked her, and I already don't trust his judgment.
And John McCain is goddamn old.
I'm not trying to start an argument or anything. I just ... I had to get that off my chest, I guess.
(Um, to offset the tone of the rest of my post, I had to stop somewhere in the middle to sing along when the theme to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" came on my Internet radio.)