On the news last night, we were treated to her speech addressing attendees of the 50 years of statehood gala. First off, doesn’t “gala” sort of imply fancy dress? Sorry, no linky. She looked like she had just picked out her wardrobe from the Salvation Army, wearing pants that looked like shelf liner and some weird fur collar thingy. She also looked like she was on the fourth or fifth day without washing her hair.
Okay, so that’s catty stuff that my wife pointed out (“looks like she’s cutting her own bangs now”).
The speech was a long, rambling incoherency loaded with buzzwords that she just kept repeating: the future of Alaska is the future with progress to the future and prosperity with progress working together for the future of Alaskans. All delivered in that screechy sandpaper-on-a-raw-nerve voice.
That’s not the worst of it, of course. The dumb twat couldn’t resist attempting another shot across the bow of the interview embarassment of the national campaign. While welcoming visiting government officials, she welcomed the Russian Ambassador and then (so fucking help me Og) launched into her meme about how you really can see Russia from Alaska, “no matter what anybody says”. “When you stand on Big Diomede, you really can see it.” I should fucking hope so, since Big Diomede Island belongs to Russia. Little Diomede Island belongs to Alaska. She still doesn’t seem to know that you can actually see the Russian mainland from the Alaska mainland at Tin City.
She then proceeded to welcome the representative from “The Seashells”. :rolleyes:
Whenever Palin talks, it just turns into a jumble of random words in my head. She might as well be saying, “Rhubarb cancer face elaborate corvette spindle head” and it would make as much sense to me as whatever she thinks she’s actually saying.
I don’t really care what she does or says at this point except and to the extent that it does not in any way encourage anyone in the Republican party to be tempted to think of her as a future standard bearer. Can I officially stop being worried that that’s off the table? I don’t think so . . . . So keep talking, lady.
I can’t help but wonder if something like that could happen over here. Is there a possibility that a presidential candidate could say something as incredibly stupid and still, for some reason, have a chance to get elected. I’m wondering what it would take for this to happen.
At the risk of engaging in American bashing, I must say that this reflects extremely poorly on the USA. Possibly more poorly than anything else. A ruthless politician running and having a chance of being elected is hardly a novelty. But a complete idiot? It seems astounding. More astounding even is the fact that she has been picked as a running mate when there was no particular reason to choose her.
I sure hope our politicians won’t fall that low in my lifetime.
Dude, don’t you know missing clue one about her own bloody State makes her all mavericky and shit ? *Do *try to follow the plot. She don’t play by nobody’s rules, not even geography can get in her way, onwards to the future !
By the way… There has been a debate between the candidates for vice-presidency. Why didn’t Biden call her on stuff like that, and contrarily to journalists, insist on getting a straight answer about her foreign policy credentials and stances and the relevance of being able to see Russia from Alaska? Or did he?
I think at the time, along with Obama and Biden being comfortable enough with their internal poll data concerning where they stood, Biden and the campaign didn’t want to play into the pre-fabricated and pre-sold notion put out there by the Republicans that they’d simply be picking on her (<stage whisper> because she was a woman).
He didn’t because it wouldn’t have helped his ticket. The narrative about Palin’s unpreparedness, and McCain’s recklessness in picking her, was well-established already, and nothing Biden could have said would have changed any more minds. If he’d laid into her himself, he not only could not have done the job as well as the late-night comedians (who play a major role here in steering opinions), he would have appeared meanspirited. That would have hardened Rep-leaning voters into defending her.
Biden’s task was to show his own, and Obama’s, seriousness and grasp of the issues, making the contrast obvious and convincing as many potential McCain voters as possible that the Dem ticket was superior in character as well as preparedness. He did it just right.
Speaking of France’s superior politicians, which you were, what’s Jean-Marie Le Pen doing these days? :dubious:
