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AMERICAblog: THIS JUST IN: Sarah Palin not as bright as she looks

  • risa87 · 1 year ago
    I am astounded. But then again, she's so darn cute.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    Shocked, absolutely shocked that he guv does not have a clue.
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    Say it ain't so John, there you go again! I'm not gonna comment on facts or anything, just gonna say Obama is gonna raise your taxes and send all the money to al queda via william ayers or something.
    (wink)
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    It took the woman six years and five colleges to get a four year degree, she was part time mayor of Mayberry, and two year governor of one of the smallest, per capita, states in the union; consequently, because of these "experiences", she is an energy expert. Just ask McCain.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    I don't think she looks so bright to begin with. I guess that makes her look like a door knob to me. And I don't think she's sexy either. Now Todd . . .
  • gallery · 1 year ago
    LOL.... oh don't even..... Todd will drop you in an inuit minute if some hot "blubber hunter" pulled up to the bar at the Wassila "dew drop inn"
    Your asking for heartbreak sir.
    I know from experience. Mitch Mc'Connell threw me over for Jeff Gannon at the K street kinko's just because I vote democratic.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    Do tell! You know the saying, "If you don't have anything good to say about anyone, come sit by me!"
  • martha · 1 year ago
    I am so depressed. People that care, --people on Americblog are rushing around refuting all the lies, but I live in Missouri,-- my Obama yard sign was stolen the same day McCain signs turned about in all the other yards in the area. There are alot of hateful, bigoted, racist people out there - and elections, as we know, can be stolen. I have such a sick feeling.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    In San Juan County NM 350 Obama signs were wired, tied, hammered, glued.. They tore down or stole them all. So people just volunteered to drive, call, give money, make even the smallest difference. This Republican county is just 3000 voters short of a tie. the really good news is that 10,300 voters have registered "independent".
    They can steal your sign but they cannot steal your beliefs!

    So find some people that believe in hope. Then drive them to the polls!
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    If it makes you feel any better, I only see a few McCain/Palin yard signs here in my rather conservative enclave in Central California. By far, the majority of stickers and signs are for Obama.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    I just thiink that is the sign of scared people. Put the sign in your window. They can't take it. In 2004, I tied tin cans to the stakes of the sign so it would make noise when they tried to steal it. That pretty much stopped it because my bedroom window overlooks the front yard. This election, our neighborhood has no signs for either campaign. I think if one person starts, we will have an all out war.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    OT, but I love the CNN and MSNBC financial analysts saying for the past two weeks to put money in the stock market because it will bottom out "some day" LOL. If you put money in when they started saying that two weeks ago- "There is money to be made", you'd have lost everything! Are they crazy?

    Any bets on where the market lands tomorrow? Hong Kong down another 8%
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I moved my money a month ago. What the bastards refuse to say is that you can reallocate within your 401k to a safer investment!
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    you can always just dump into cash if you are really in a panic
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    Money market, only a 2.85% loss last quarter.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    money market will get hit soon, but can we save that conversation for another day? I'm still recovering from the beating I got last week here on that subject. John had to save me.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I know. I really have just put that beating off. But there is not that
    much money to worry about for me. Quite frankly, I spent it. It does not
    seem like such a bad decision, now!
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    some you can --- some you can't.... depends on how (if it's a company sponsored / run 401k) it's set up...
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    funny you should ask.... my sister called me this afternoon told me that I could NO LONGER predict where the DOW was going to be on election day....

    We talked about 3 weeks ago and I mentioned that I thought the DOW was going to be around 8500 on election day and I told her I hoped she had her money in something than her 401k... she said she thought she was fine, that she was diversified and had it spread between money markets and other things...

    it'll probably be a bit down tomorrow... maybe another 150 points.... or it could test the 8,000 pt floor....
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    I think it depends on whether you even believe there is an "intrinsic value"
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    personally I've always thought that the whole idea of "the markets" and betting which company will do well and which will do poorly is pretty silly... especially since / when there are no rules / or regulators to make sure "the house" isn't cheating...
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    agree. and I don't really understand why people are complaining now about it being a "casino". wasn't it always? I just always tried to know where the greatest and least risk was.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    I think the difference is that it used to be a "rich man's game" and most of the "rich men" who played knew a bit more about the companies they were betting on...

    since it's been sold to the masses as "THE BESTEST GET RICH" scheme of all time there are more "middlemen, brokers, analysts and other asshats" concocting "gold" out of "absolute shit" and selling that as well. Or as McCain calls them "innovative products and services". So in that respect there are more "experts" giving advice that couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a map and I'd venture it's a whole bunch riskier than it used to be...
  • evie · 1 year ago
    Yup -- and energy is HER issue.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    they may not be shipping oil to China, but a fair amount of Alaskan natural gas is being exported to Japan and other pacific rim countries....
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    She lied about everything. The bridge, her involvement with troopergate, and especially her experience. Keith Olbermann said that she has had only TWELVE hours of dealings (phonecalls etc) with other nations, for the 2 years that she served as Governor. So that makes her a great foreign policy expert, according to the dumb republicans who chose her. Remember, they also gave us Bush the bungler. She is not very bright folks. She could not even name one single publication that she reads.
  • aarrgghh · 1 year ago
    after november, this is all anyone will remember of her:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMkV_vdlIM
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    Why is this not a surprise?
  • KISSman · 1 year ago
    Say it ain't so, John.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    OT, per Anderson, Japan markets "in crash territory" down 10%
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    that's gonna leave a mark... they're just recovered from their last big crash...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    funny.

    I had a Repub say to me at work yesterday that "Palin is a quick study" or some such--implying that she could pick up the vice presidency as she went along--and I just went after him.

    "What makes you say she's intelligent? Her 5 schools in 6 years for a lousy communications degree education? Her hiding from anything close to a tough interview and making an ass of herself when she has any kind of non-Fox News interview? Tell me, exactly, why you think she's capable of learning anything?"

    He couldn't answer.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    so you Hannitized him! good!
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Yeah, it just pissed me off.

    There are some conservatives who are smart, and I'll admit it when they are, even if I can't stand them.

    But it's obvious that Palin is a blockhead.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    the smart ones are pretty damned few and far between. I usually run into the bots who follow Limbutt, Hannity and Coulter (oh God, my laptop doesn't want to key those letters consecutively). I just can't handle all that brain mush.
  • minik · 1 year ago
    The GOP has nobody to blame but themselves for the fractured and pathetic state of their party.

    They continually give up the reins to the Bushes, McCains and Palins of the world, when they should put a foot down and insist on a smart candidate who has a working brain in between their ears.

    When they lose this election they all need to take a look in the mirror and realize that standing up for people like Palin is what got them where they are today.

    Fortunately for the Democrats the Republican party is not good at learning lessons or paying attention to the past. When you brainwash an entire party with "faith" you essentially teach them to ignore logic and simply take what is handed to them. They are pre-conditioned to accept without question whatever garbage candidates are presented. It is a sad pattern apparent in the GOP.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Brooks was making the same point in a recent column.

    He was saying that people like Bush and Palin are anti-intelligence and anti-ideas.

    And the Repubs are fucked if they keep picking people like them as their leaders.
  • minik · 1 year ago
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  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Here's the Brooks column.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10bro...

    (Even though I don't like Brooks; he's right about this.)
  • minik · 1 year ago
    Agreed. Thanks for the link.
  • DeppFan · 1 year ago
    Thanks for that. The republican party hitched its wagon to the christian conservatives, and is now paying the price. The last paragraph of that article says it all:

    "And so, politically, the G.O.P. is squeezed at both ends. The party is losing the working class by sins of omission — because it has not developed policies to address economic anxiety. It has lost the educated class by sins of commission — by telling members of that class to go away."
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    They are priming their Eric Cantor and Pawlenty for the next election. They will bring out fresh new faces to blame the crash of 2008 on the Dems. You can hear it in the background already.

    Heather Wilson was saying it today on HB and Coulter (damn it, I try not to use that name) has been saying it all week.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Wilson is a complete _itch. She'd be perfect as a candidate for Rethugs.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    insert "smug" after "complete".
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    Oh boy! Bushoover is going to speak at us tomorrow morning!!!! I think I'll stay in bed and sleep thru it.
  • DeppFan · 1 year ago
    McCain-Palin campaign pre-empts state ethics report, clears governor of wrongdoing:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=599...
  • minik · 1 year ago
    For a second I thought that was a joke. But you were serious...

    "Later this evening OJ simpson was released after he pardoned himself..."
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    OT:
    I can't be sure, but did I see the words "never back obama" in between scenes in a Ram truck commercial? I saw the commercial twice and the first time, I didn't really question it, it was so fast and I was thinking about something else. The second time, I said "it does say that, but I must be wrong". Please keep an eye peeled for it.
    I JUST SAW THIS AGAIN. IT SAYS "NEVER BACK DOWN" DUH.
    sorry to take up space.
  • sherifffruitfly · 1 year ago
    That's REALLY unfortunate, because she looks like a blithering fucking idiot.
  • minik · 1 year ago
    lol good point.
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    THE IGLOO LIGHTS ARE ON, BUT NOBODY IS HOME.
  • SteamingPile · 1 year ago
    841 - Sarah's SAT composite from 1981.
  • benb · 1 year ago
    Wow! This is no small gap in knowledge. Oil is big money up there. If I were Alaskan, I'd be really pissed that she didn't know this. Who's really running that state 'cause it sure isn't someone who knows what she's doing.