INDIGESTION 2008...t & Zed approved

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:18 pm

I'll counter Dick with Camille Paglia. After a page of gushing over Lord Obama she then writes:

Given that Obama had served on a Chicago board with Ayers and approved funding of a leftist educational project sponsored by Ayers, one might think that the unrepentant Ayers-Dohrn couple might be of some interest to the national media. But no, reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views.

How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don't know their asses from their elbows.

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology -- contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns -- that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee -- what navel-gazing hypocrisy! What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry's nod for veep four years ago? And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama's pick and who was on everyone's short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin's. Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.

The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan -- nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching. No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit, as Richard Nixon did in his long haul back from political limbo following his California gubernatorial defeat in 1962. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:18 pm

Only 1451 Days Until the 2012 Election!

http://thecountdownto2012.blogspot.com/

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:45 pm

ElfDude wrote:I'll counter Dick with Camille Paglia. After a page of gushing over Lord Obama she then writes:

That was a good counter. I wasn't trying to start anything, though. Dick just seemed to find the right balance of eloquence and humor that I've been trying to muster when explaining my "fillings" about sweet Sarah (I bet she has an awesome navel.) I especially like and relate to this bit, and I'm sure that allot of us do;

May I confess that upon first seeing her, I liked her looks? With the sound off, she presents a not uncomely frontal appearance.

And then the last bit is probably just for me;

But now, as the Brits say, ?I?ll be glad to see the back of her.?

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:55 pm

Big Blue Owl wrote:
And then the last bit is probably just for me;

But now, as the Brits say, ?I?ll be glad to see the back of her.?

Kind of akin to the old Limbaugh addage from the 80's... "I LOVE the women's movement! Especially from behind!"

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:57 pm

I will so love it when people stop looking at women as sex objects.

This guy just pointed out a number of things he really dislikes about Sarah and then ends with statements about how she is good looking?

I"M SICK OF IT!!!!

What a sexist statement.

Big Blue Owl wrote: May I confess that upon first seeing her, I liked her looks? With the sound off, she presents a not uncomely frontal appearance.

But now, as the Brits say, ?I?ll be glad to see the back of her.?

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:59 pm

*hides*

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:01 pm

You don't have to hide, Elfie.

But, doesn't anybody else see this going on with stuff about Sarah? It's fine to say all the bad stuff you want about her and then drool over her?

Ugh!

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:07 pm

I'm sorry you're offended by that, t, but it is the plain truth, whether anybody else will admit to it or not. In her case...not in the case of women, necessarily, but in her case, all that some see that she has going for her is her looks. Seemingly the cheerleader/ditzy type that so many of us have at least a small place in our hearts for. She went for something that was above her station and it made her look worse than she really is. And then there is the voice. You can remove a person's socks with a voice like that. Anyway, I don't agree that women should be always seen as sex objects, but I am a man and it is part of my make-up to ogle over boobs and butts every once in a while.
Hey guys, if you really want to get all up in arms about an issue pertaining to losing masculinity one gun at a time, we should be thinking of not going too far in our quest to be PERFECT gentlemen (or is it to become a woman at this point?) and remember that men are men and women are women. Otherwise we'll ALL be gay in a hundred years!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:15 pm

Big Blue Owl wrote: And then there is the voice. You can remove a person's socks with a voice like that.

I'd rather hear Governor Palin speak than Senator Clinton any day. (Paglia's description) be bop jazz sax voice vs the angry ex wife voice. No contest.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:16 am

That's it? That's all anyone has to say about this subject? Hm. Ok.

be bop jazz sax voice

Heh, with a leaky spit valve. That shrill din makes me want to punch babies.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:06 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:That's it? That's all anyone has to say about this subject? Hm. Ok.

be bop jazz sax voice
Heh, with a leaky spit valve. That shrill din makes me want to punch babies.

Okay, so Sarah should have been born blonde... At least Hillary plays the
role...

***goes out to have a smoke in a weak moment***

***pops back in***

Yeah, Palin's voice is annoying to me too, but I don't hate her for it.

Let's not talk about clueless people, k?

Don't make me bust out the www.howobamagotelected.com video...

Crap...too late.

I saw it last night and wasn't shocked in the least.

What a sad bunch of Obamanation with blinders on...

I can't wait 'till the McCain version comes out!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:18 am

In the middle of the video now. This is painful.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:22 am

I don't hate her either. I just didn't want her to be vice or president. And I hate her voice, what's the big deal? And I think that what she says is horrible, yeah? I like her looks. Sue me.

As to the Obama fear and hatred, it's just poor sportsmanship, sore losers and sour grapists. Who gives a crap at this point? If you want to do more than complain, conspiracy theorize and spin in circles like the Tazmanian Devil, organize your community and country to impeach Obama. If he is such a cheat and a threat to us all, you should get enough people on your side to overthrow the government.
Besides:
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln
March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln
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ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:27 am

Man, according to the Zogby poll which asked those exact same questions...

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1641

... just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores.

You know what that means?

I've been vindicated in my old "9 out of 10" post.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:28 am

2 things...

Give Obama a chance

and to Sarah, please for the love of God, call Larry Flynt.