McCain's VP Choice

[nugz]

Gibson asks about Bridge to Nowhere lie. she completely dances around the issue:

[JoyDiv007]

I don't know anyone who's voting for McCain because of Palin. Actually a few aren't voting for him due to her.

[Corrissey]

Awwww shucks. You may HATE me, but I still LOVE you Corrissey.

Girl, I could never hate you. Our friendship is above politics.

I don't know anyone who's voting for McCain because of Palin. Actually a few aren't voting for him due to her.

Good to hear.

[bysshe]

[WinkWink]

Well, then why was she parading them around- but you have a good point. All Presidential candidates have done the same thing, Clinton with Chelsea, Bush with the party girls, and yeah, Gore's daughters are pretty. I don't know. I just don't have a good feeling about her. You're right about the babydaddy- you KNOW that's gotta hurt. I don't have CNN anymore, so I haven't had Lou Dobbs or Wolf Blitzer to give me the scoop on Palin. I think I'll look at CNN online and read up on Palin. Shouldn't have jumped to conclusions but the one time I saw her, people were screaming with adoration about the kids.

McCain is obviously gaining on the hype from Palin. But there may be some staying power with those who switched over due to Palin. I think many like a more human portrayal of the candidate. And Palin holding a baby will do that. Obama needs to pimp out his family and fast. He said he doesn't want to bring his children into it, but those same white women with kids who jumped ship and went over to McCain after Palin was selected, may switch back to Obama because he has two little adorable girls. He must show his family life. And if it's not authentic enough, then they must make it so. Hell, Republicans understand this. Democrats come out as being robotic while Republicans more down to earth.

Yes, the politics of mainstream America. It's a reality TV country. That's how the game is played now. That's why these same people are so fickle.

[Corrissey]

Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'

The rock group Heart has sent a message to John McCain and Sarah "Barracuda'' Palin: quit playing our 1977 hit ''Barracuda.''

Soon after the presidential nominee finished his acceptance speech late Thursday and running-mate Palin joined him on the Republican National Convention stage in St. Paul, the sound system pumped the throbbing introductory guitar licks to "Barracuda.''

It seemed the cleverest musical choice of both conventions. Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson, like Alaska Governor Palin, are outspoken products of the Pacific Northwest, and the sisters's tune also could refer to Palin's Dazed-and-Confused-Era nickname of Sarah Barracuda, given for her intense high-school basketball play.

But the Wilsons condemned the usage then and earlier in the convention, adding that Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG have sent a cease-and-desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign, according to CNN.

Here's a statement by Ann and Nancy Wilson from EW.com:

"Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."

No word so far on whether the tune would be dropped from the GOP playlist. "If the real thing don't do the trick,'' Ann Wilson sang in "Barracuda,'' "You better make up something quick.''



For the glory days of high school basketball

[troubleluvsme]

Girl, I could never hate you. Our friendship is above politics.

[Corrissey]

besides you carry a gun

[troubleluvsme]

besides you carry a gun

Yep. You're always safe with me.

[Corrissey]

Yep. You're always safe with me.

I also have my attack cat.

[troubleluvsme]

I also have my attack cat.

Oh yeah...!

God, I can't believe this hurricane...Are you watching it?
What are you up to tonight?

[Dave]

Barracuda is about the music business?

[oye terence]

as i am not a woman,nor a feminist , I can only speak from my point of view,however I found this quite interesting,and it brought back flashbacks to my ex performing the vagina monologues at college.

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin.


Drill Drill Drill

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares.


I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears.


Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one.


Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice.


Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.


I don't like raging at women.


I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them.


It is hard to write about Sarah Palin.


This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical.


The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.


But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story — connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.


I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover.


But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world.


Unfortunately, this is not a joke.


In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the
presidency with regularity.


Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution.


I take this as a metaphor.


In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves.


She does not believe in global warming.


The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan.


She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list.


The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered.


The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered.


Iraq is here to be taken and plundered.


As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God.
"

Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion.


She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open
against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.


She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control.


I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.


Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking.


From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently.


She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference.


This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States.


She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.


Sarah believes in guns.


She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle.


She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.


Sarah believes in God.


That is of course her right, her private right.


But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.


I write to my sisters.


I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands.


This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S.
, but of the
planet.


It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans.


It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack.


It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest
our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction.


It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing.


It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.


If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills.


I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination.


I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent.


I think of pain.


Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?

Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008

[bysshe]

*snort*

[Corrissey]

oye, Eve Ensler is great

I read in the Tribune yesterday that Sarah Palin's handlers thought it was so important for her to pronounce "Nuclear" that they spelled it out phonetically for her in her speech. They wrote, "We're going to lay more pipeline and build more new-clear plans...Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons...

Worked like a charm. Not!

The Trib did a web survey and 56% said her mispronunciation made them think less of her, 2% said it made her seem more normal! and likeable! and the last 42% said "So what, can we please talk about the real issues?"

[chica]

She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.

This can't be true, I read that her family eat whatever they kill, they don't kill for sport.

[Sir Alec]

as i am not a woman,nor a feminist , I can only speak from my point of view,however I found this quite interesting,and it brought back flashbacks to my ex performing the vagina monologues at college.

That was awesome, but something tells me some of those facts aren't 100% true. Don't get me wrong, I despise Palin and can't believe anyone is going to vote for McCain, but so far the proven facts about Palin are enough to label her insane. No need to stretch the just plain absurd into the completely unbelievable.

[oye terence]

That was awesome, but something tells me some of those facts aren't 100% true. Don't get me wrong, I despise Palin and can't believe anyone is going to vote for McCain, but so far the proven facts about Palin are enough to label her insane. No need to stretch the just plain absurd into the completely unbelievable.

i was just quoting her, i cant vouch for her facts or anything, i just found it well written.
and i think she was trying to set it up as her vision of what Palin could be if elected.

[nugz]

the guest on the Rachel Maddow show just called Palin a "less talented and less accomplished Mike Huckabee." ouchhhhhh.

[nugz]

OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. SHUT THE FUCK UP

A top aide to John McCain said Monday she thought comedian Tina Fey's impersonation of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin on NBC's Saturday Night Live over the weekend was sexist because it portrayed the Alaska governor as lacking in substance.

The NBC comedy show's season premiere began with a "nonpartisan message" during which Fey's Palin and Amy Poehler's depiction of Hillary Clinton called for an end to sexism in the presidential race.

"The portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive, and Sarah Palin as totally superficial," Fiorina told MSNBC earlier Monday. "I think that continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the extreme, and yes, I would say, sexist in the sense that just because Sarah Palin has different views than Hillary Clinton does not mean that she lacks substance." ...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-palin-sexist/