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After having to listen to Palin waddle twaddle through 90 minutes attempting to debate Joe Biden, I’m seriously considering general anaesthesia until 4 November.
Palin could not stay on topic, made numerous factual errors, would not address the moderator’s questions, at one point saying that she ‘may not answer the questions to the moderator’s satisfaction’ and would ‘just speak directly to the American people.’ Unlike in her recent interviews when caught out lacking basic information, in this instance, Palin didn’t act dazzled like a moose in the headlights, she just simply refused to address the matter at hand.
Mrs Palin- it was a freaking DEBATE! Did anybody let you in on that? You respond to questions from the moderator and attempt to discredit your opponent- you don’t stand up and read your talking points memo. Not until McC-word is elected and subsequently buried do you get to write your own rules.
Palin revealed herself as a climate change doubter who wants to not only increase US oil consumption, but just like King George, wants to “drill, baby drill!” in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve. But a McC-word presidency isn’t going to be King G term 3, oh no…
Most gratingly, Palin can not pronounce ‘nuclear,’ insisting upon King George’s self-branding hick pronunciation of ‘NOO-kew-ler.’ If you can’t pronounce it, you sure as hell shouldn’t be in charge of it. But believe it or not, this telltale of lack of sophistication is not at all a negative for Palindrones, who find her tacky yet unrefined ignorance ‘refreshing.’ Biden called Palin out on error after error (though dismayingly did not bag her for her inability to pronounce ‘nuclear’), which she steadfastly refused to acknowledge, allowing Biden to score points, one after the other.
All Biden had to do was not lose this debate, which he certainly managed, but neither did he nail Palin to the wall. I suppose part of Biden’s strategy was to not go both barrels at Palin, out of fear of being pegged as misogynistic, but he did so to his detriment. Biden had several opportunities to truly wallop Palin, but it would appear he followed advice to not be too adversarial. Dear Senator Biden, gender equality means when interviewing for a job, a woman has to take it like a man- and Palin definitely didn’t have to take too much from you!
The McCain/Palin ticket approval ratings and Palin’s own polling, as women voters become familiar with Palin’s stands on the issues, are sliding fast, with Obama/Biden now leading by 9 points (1 Oct CBS News poll).
This election is Obama/Biden’s to lose. All sails up, steady as she goes and they will romp this one home in a landslide.
Kathleen Parker, syndicated columnist for the conservative National Review, has given Sarah Palin her very last break (in between muting the teev when Palin gets too painful) and called on her to quit the race.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger […]
I want voters to have Palin’s worldview squarely in mind when they go to the polls. There’s a much better than average chance this person, who couldn’t give a stuff about reality, let alone national and foreign affairs, will one day have the nuclear launch codes.
Couric Why, in your view, is Roe v. Wade a bad decision?
Sarah Palin: I think it should be a states’ issue not a federal government-mandated, mandating yes or no on such an important issue. I’m, in that sense, a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas. Now, foundationally, also, though, it’s no secret that I’m pro-life that I believe in a culture of life is very important for this country. Personally that’s what I would like to see, um, further embraced by America.
Couric: Do you think there’s an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?
Palin: I do. Yeah, I do.
Couric: The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade.
Palin: I do. And I believe that individual states can best handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in an issue like that.
Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, let’s see. There’s, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but …
Couric: Can you think of any?
Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.
The Queensland Police Union says personal information of journalists has allegedly been examined as part of an internal investigation into officers with close links to journalists.
General secretary Mick Barnes says members have told the Union that Ethical Standards investigators are targeting officers who talk or socialise with the media.
Mr Barnes says he has received advice that private telephone records and the bank statements of police officers and journalists have been examined.
Dear Queensland Police, if you want to get a handle on this free press thing, THIS is how you do it:
NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) – An opposition Internet news site owner in Russia’s troubled Ingushetia region was fatally shot on Sunday soon after being detained by police, and his colleagues called for a rally to protest his death.
Magomed Yevloyev is one of the most high-profile journalists to be killed in Russia since investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead near her Moscow apartment in 2006, provoking condemnation of Russia’s record on media freedom.
Yevloyev, owner of the www.Ingushetiya.ru website, was a vocal critic of the region’s Kremlin-backed administration, accused by opponents of crushing dissent and free speech.
A lawyer for the website — which survived repeated official attempts to close it down — said police met Yevloyev at the steps of the aircraft after he flew in to Ingushetia’s airport, put him in a Volga saloon car and drove him away.
“As they drove he was shot in the temple… They threw him out of the car near the hospital,” lawyer Kaloi Akhilgov told Reuters by telephone.
“He was discovered there and they quickly put him on the operating table, which is where he died.”
Your bad publicity and leak problems will stop in nothing flat!
State Representative Says Plan Would Fight Poverty
NEW ORLEANS — A suburban New Orleans legislator is revisiting the controversial idea of paying poor women to undergo sterilization.
State Rep. John LaBruzzo told New Orleans Citybusiness, in an article published this week, that the program he is thinking about would be voluntary. It would pay poor women $1,000 to have their fallopian tubes tied.
“I’ve got a stack of e-mails for and against,” LaBruzzo said. “Two-to-one in favor of something being done.”
LaBruzzo, a Metairie Republican, said the plan could slow the growth of welfare rolls.
“It could be tubal ligation, IUD,” LaBruzzo said. “It would be more coast-effective than having three to four kids. It would be more cost-effective for them.”
Labruzzo said he’s not sure exactly how much the state spends on welfare each year. He requested that information from Baton Rouge, but he said he’s sure the dollar amount is rising.
The poor are so evil they must be stopped from procreating!
Wow.
Obviously wiping out the poor is a superior solution to ascertaining and correcting the causes of poverty.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says John McCain had been unfairly criticised for his “verbiage” on the state of the US economy.
Asked by Fox television about criticism over McCain’s comment that the fundamentals of the US economy were “strong” despite a deepening financial crisis, Ms Palin said; “It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use…”
In an interview to be aired later today, she said the White House hopeful “means our workforce. He means the ingenuity of the American people.”
While praising the skills of US workers, the Alaska Governor said “the economy is a mess.”
The Macquarie Dictionary defines “verbiage” as “abundance of useless words, as in writing or speech; wordiness.”
But the US-based Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as “a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content” or “manner of expressing oneself in words: diction”.
If McCain is elected, when you consider his age and health, there’s about a 50% chance that his sub-Arctic anti-choice dolt is going to be President before 2012.
Obama is furiously trying to appear to be less than what he is, lest he be accused of elitism; mind you, how a biracial guy raised by a single mum gets to be an elitist is well beyond my ken. On the other hand, McCain and Palin constantly overreach, trying to make themselves out to be more than they are.
The lipstick gags have been worn out. Here’s a new one:
What’s the difference between Palin and trailer trash?
Independent senator Nick Xenophon says he will not support the federal government’s proposed increase to the Medicare surcharge levy income threshold.
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The government expects 600,000 people to drop out of private health insurance if the bill goes through, he said.
Wouldn’t someone please remind me exactly why a country with a national healthcare system even HAS private health care and insurance available? Doesn’t one undermine the other?
If 600,000 people drop out of private health cover, perhaps the government will find some motivation to properly fund the public health system.
A Nationals senator nicknamed “Wacca” has used his first speech to tell dole bludgers that they should be poked with a cattle prod to get them off their butts and into the workforce.
The mere suggestion of violence against benefit recipients adds to the climate of hatred of the poor.
I’ll agree to cattle prodding dole recipients if we can Taser stupid politicians until they have some commonsense.
Morris Iemma has been forced to resign as New South Wales Premier after sacking his colourful Treasurer Michael Costa.
News that Mr Iemma was gone came in the wake of a press conference by Mr Costa, who said he did not consider that he had been sacked until the decision was ratified by a Caucus meeting.
Mr Iemma left a meeting of his Right faction without speaking to reporters, but is believed to have lost the support of the faction.
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