As someone on the YouTube comments section pointed out, with just a few events turning out slightly differently, that might have been a State of the Union Address. Geezus, what a horrifying thought.
Intellectually, she makes GWB look like GHWB.
Indeed, or any kind of thinker at all.
I heartily support ChefGuy’s comment above.
ETA: Dang, that’s some funny shit Colbert did.
She makes GHB look like GHWB.
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Did you just make a joke about a club drug I’d never heard of until I googled GHB just now?
I don’t expect her programming will be very expensive to produce. Could she count on 10,000 subscribers? Does she have potential ad revenue lined up for people selling gold, people buying gold, people selling vaults to people to store their gold and people selling shovels to people to bury their gold? I can see it running at break-even or a slight loss long enough for her to get distracted and move on.
I know- we could have had a brainless, walking gaffe machine as the Vice President. Instead we have…
Wait a second.
I did not know the VP gave the SotU address. The things you learn on the internet!
I think some of the ideas are pretty smart. Two weeks free - lots of folks forgetting to cancel. Free to active duty military. A conservative base where critical thinking is not necessarily a desirable trait.
I can see a segment like “The View” with Sarah - don’t these plain lens glasses make me look smarter, Michele - crazy eyes, Sharron Angle from Nevada, and Sally Kern from Oklahoma.
I imagine they’re assuming McCain would have kicked it pretty quick from stress and Palin’d be in charge a year or two in.
Exactly. Which is not like today.
I remember looking into Biden’s so-called gaffes, and none of them seemed really gaffish to me. Maybe a bit blunt and direct at times, but I kinda like that.
Time has a “Top 10 Joe Biden Gaffes” list. Of these, I see:
-At an event, Biden invites Chuck Graham (confined to a wheelchair) to “stand up” to receive accolades from an admiring crowd. To Biden’s credit, he very quickly realizes his error, shows some chagrin, and invites everyone else “to stand up for Chuck” and the entire crowd does do, applauding for Graham. I think that’s quite an effective salvaging of the situation, whereas I’d expect Palin to double-down on the stoopid and make it worse.
-In early 2007, Biden describes Obama as “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” I admit, I see this as pretty gaffish, but it’s worth noting that he wasn’t Vice President at the time.
-In mid 2006: “In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” I think he was probably joking, a little bit, but he was talking to an Indian immigrant at the time and I think was trying to be positive and complimentary. I actually think the gaffist part of the encounter is that Biden (still not yet Vice President) isn’t letting the Indian guy speak - Biden just blurts out a semi-coherent factoid when he should be listening.
-The last item on the list is from 1987 (!) and the video is a slamming news report claiming Biden lifts phrases from the speeches of other politicians. Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Overall, nothing on this list prompts me to view Biden in a negative light, and indeed some of the so-called gaffes actually strike me as fairly clever, or self-deprecatingly humorous. In one, he takes a shot at Chief Justice Roberts, which I was thought was mildly amusing, enhanced by the fact the Obama obviously didn’t find it amusing at all. My favourite is “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.” That’s not a gaffe, that’s life.
Palin, in contrast, I can’t listen to for more than a minute or so without becoming irritated at her utter ignorance in combination with her pride at being utterly ignorant.
I don’t understand what you’re objecting to. There was perhaps a 1% chance that Palin, once selected as Republican VP candidate, would be President before 2012. Not likely, but hardly a win-the-lottery-while-being-struck-by-lightning longshot. I wouldn’t go to a restaurant if there was a mere 1% chance of getting a razor blade in my salad.
Yes, in “a few things” turning out differently, I had assumed the poster meant McCain winning, then dying; or McCain winning, retiring after one term, and Palin running successfully for President afterwards.
Whatever the alternate timeline would have been, I’m just glad we’re in the one where Palin is vanishingly unlikely ever to run this country.
Someone said “If things had been different, she would have been giving the State of the Union.” To which astorian replied “I know- we could have had a brainless, walking gaffe machine as the Vice President.”
I know it was a lame partisan gibe, but it was just SO lame that I thought it was remarkable. It was a step above “Benghazi!” as a reply.
Ah, okay, I understand now and I withdraw my comment and any disparagement implied therein. Yes, it would not be like today - I don’t actually get why Biden has this “gaffe” reputation - even scouring his entire and lengthy political history finds fewer examples than Palin generated during any given month from June 2008 onward.
Similarly, I think it’s a tad unfair that Ford had a reputation for being physically clumsy. He slipped on camera, what… twice (that I know of, anyway)? And then Chevy Chase put a pratfall in all of his lame Ford impressions on early episodes of SNL, and it undeservedly stuck.
Well, he really does get goofy sometimes. I get why he has it. But when people bust it out in relation to Palin, it’s just stupid. Biden makes gaffes. Palin isn’t coherent enough for gaffes. A gaffe requires that you know what the person was trying to say in the first place. With Palin, it just turns into a game of gibbering political madlibs. And yet people defend her, or try to deflect criticism, because she’s on their team.
She’s an unintelligible idiot and positively symbolic.
Well, now I’m curious - is there a particularly good Palin speech somewhere in her history (preferably on youtube) where she was really on her game? The only line of hers I can actually remember is the “hockey mom/timber wolf” joke (“Lipstick!”) and it’s not exactly a “We choose to go to the moon” moment.
Not that I’m aware of, and I’m very familiar with her history. Even her resignation speech as governor was rambling and incoherent.
Honestly, I think the White House prefers for Biden to have this reputation, because it diverts negative attention from the president.
I prefer cupcakes to word salad.