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"This decision is not worthy of a great power. Whatever skills Palin may turn out to have, however fabulous a person she may turn out to be, even if she becomes the Eva Peron of Christianism, McCain
had no idea when he picked her.
He winged this. That's the critical, unavoidable, devastating point.
John McCain has demonstrated with this insane decision that he is unfit to be president of the United States. This was an act of near-criminal negligence. If he can behave this recklessly and impulsively with this decision, the idea of allowing him to become president of the United States is only a smidgen less terrifying than thinking of Palin in that position.
Whatever few doubts I may once have still had about this election, they are resolved now.
Obama has to win. The alternative is unthinkable."
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...
He finds the GOP fabulous until it isn't.
The 2nd highest office in the land and he winged it.
Y O U C A N B E C U R E D !!!!
Love one another and become a Democrat.
Or be CURED and stay heterosexual Republicans like Buffy, Bristol, Levi, Trig, Willow, John, Cindy and the rest..
They're just fucking with your mind. It's what totalitarians do.
THEIR troubles can be explained as a consequence of unfortunate events. YOUR mistakes and troubles are a consequence of your defective character. QED. The "Saints" will always be untouchable be the likes of you and me.
And once they've finished with their Krischun revolution, we will have to kneel to them, too.
I'm sick of stupid people running this country.
Naming Palin was a real f**k up for McCain.
The fact that Palin hasn't immediately been laughed out of the VP slot just amazes me. But everybody including the MSM and the GOP party is keeping up this pretense that somebody like Palin is legit. When I hear discussion of Palin's qualifications where average Americans are being interviewed, I hear them talk about how she's a mother with kids or that she's a good organizer. Many of these people aren't even concerned with asking any questions about Palin's qualifications. They talk about how they like her, identify with her, think that she is one of them, and that is all the qualifications in their mind that they need.
The elitist truth is that there are a whole lot of stupid Americans who lack the sophistication and the judgement to understand the difference between liking someone and thinking that someone is qualified for a government position. They have no clue about the difference between being qualified to be a small town mayor and being next in line to be executive head of the US governement.
Some say she is beautiful.
These people think its American Idol. Scary, indeed, but its the reality.
Bill Maher has said it best when he said we are getting the kind of leaders we deserve.
Pedestal? Maybe. But I believe in our founding documents.
that I wanted to aspire to something great, something important, so I became
a teacher. Since Nixon, no President has made me feel this way. Perhaps
Clinton a little bit. The rest have been total assholes. Just paving the
paths for their rich white straight buddies to fuck the nation for quarterly
rates of return on stocks. A President like Obama could fire up the nation
again to greatness. McSame will just set fires.
very much. I am too old to achieve any more greatness than touching the
future through my students. That has been very rewarding some 30 years. But
he makes me want to give even more.
It looks like Cindy is saying it.
jaw frozen shut.
yes, Obama was first in his class at Harvard Law School and that is good
enough for me. In fact, they create good supreme court judges and public
defenders at Harvard. At Yale they just turn out bad presidents and evil
sharks who spend their careers fucking over the lower classes. Yale has been
and always will be NUMBER TWO and it cannot stand it. It suffers from a
dreadful inferiority complex. Although the gay sex was excellent there in
the lockerrooms at the field house.
Republicans want a President who can drink them under the table.
Republicans want a President who can be a better hypocrite, so they don't feel so guilty.
I just don't think we're a society that respects intellectual and cultural achievement anymore--in fact, we mock it as "elitist."
I was thinking the other day of Pablo Casals playing for the Kennedys at the White House. Can you imagine that happening with Bush in the White House?
Or think about how our parents forced us to listen to classical music or take art appreciation or learn one of the romance languages as kids. Not simply to get a better job or make money but to be sophisticated adults.
It's just not that America anymore. Now, it's a country full of rednecks and cheap hustlers who are resentful of anybody who isn't cut from the same cloth.
1. Yes, their expectations and standards are LOW, when it comes to their leaders.
2. They can never learn from past mistakes - they voted for Bush because they wanted to have a beer with him, not because of his intelligence, and good policies. Never mind, that he was an oil man. Al Gore was "stiff" and he sighed at the debates ' never mind, that he wanted to continue the successful policies of Bill Clinton. They wanted a breath of fresh air, that they were delusional enough to think that Bush brought, and now got an awful stench coming from the present WH.
3. Right now, they can see the havoc caused by Bush/Cheney policies, and yet
they seem to WANT to continue these policies by supporting a man, who has voted 90 percent of the time with Bush. The term idiots come to mind, but that seems to understate the whole situation. Why are these people gluttons for punishment? They were wrong about voting for Bush/Cheney TWICE. They were WRONG about supporting Bush and Cheney's bloody war, and they still cannot get it? If they are unhappy with the way the country is heading, why vote to continue the downward slide?
4. When will they realize that doing the same thing, again, and again, will NOT
change the end result?
5.They made the wrong judgment when it came to voting for Bush vs. Gore,
and if they think that McCain/Palin will bring back the jobs, the badly needed healthcare in the country, better education, no unnecessary wars, more respect in world, more unity in this fractured country, help for the majority, and not only the wealthy, among other things, then they will be horribly WRONG again, and show bad judgment once more.
Republicans have been promoting this anti-elitism thing a very long time.
Oh, and Carswell was a white supremacist in his earlier years and had some Larry Craig-like "bathroom behavior" later on in life after his nomination was rejected by the Senate.
But stupid thoughts need a good firm stupid base upon which to build.
Pet media's doing this now by conflating teevee ratings with candidate support...Perhaps corp media believes no one would actually watch their product in an attempt to be informed so naturally massive upticks in viewership must reflect fanatical followings for individuals and not popular interest in the general subject.
Five schools in six years--only one of which could seriously be called a college--to end up with a bachelor's in communications?
She and McCain should have a dumb-off.
You KNOW that Obama & Biden's scores would be AT LEAST twice as high as the dumb-fuck Republicans' scores!
That's why they picked the self admitted C student.
-- H. L. Mencken
Obama/Biden to the American public "education should be enhanced to all of the American public" vote for me and I'' set you free.
I don't understand why someone wants a president who's like them. And they voted that way in the past 2 elections and look what happened to us. But I think they're just dumb enough to do it again. The idiots are taking over the country. Maybe the rest of us will have to seek sanctuary in Alaska.