Sarah Palin - A closer look

[Stealth Hunter]

I posted this video in the McCain/Obama debate thread, but I think it is worthy of its own home in the GT section:





Ignore the title. The segments of Palin being interviewed are the parts I want you to see. I can't believe he chose her for VP...

[Skybird]

as I just posted in the election sticky thread, I just saw the interview with Curic on CBS.

What a total and complete non-starter she is. Laughable. Simply laughable.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=232

Unfortunately, her only compensation seems to be a poisenous snake preferring to bite from behind, considering the issues around her office in Alaska. the guil of moral apostles is something that I deeply fear. Those feeling like being on a crusade to spread "true morals" often are the ones behaving more brutal than those they rail against. Or like being said in my sig.

I wouldn't trust her even if she hands me just a glass of water and doctors standing by on the ready.

She works as a kind of eye candy tag team for McCain but she really can't keep saying stuff that's just stupid. I mean, Biden has a history of saying the odd stupid thing but I think Palin takes the cake in that department. I think the VP debate might become the clincher in this election.

[GlobalExplorer]

Jack Cafferty: "I'm 65 and have been covering politics for a long time .. that's one of the most pathetic pieces of tape I have ever seen from someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in the country."

love this one from the viewers comments:

"finally someone in politics has appeared that can make Gerge W. Bush look like an intellectual"

or this

"The real question here is: What was McCain thinking?"

or this

"McCain should be ashamed of himself for making such a joke of the election"

This final one is from the YouTube comments: "unfortunately most americans are like this. just go to a church,footbal game or bus station(public transit) and you will see what I mean. we're ****ed between her and the bailout which will destroy our currency."

[Foxtrot]

She's the best candidate for presidential elections in future.
and yes....she will get votes

[GlobalExplorer]

You forgot to add: I believe!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Foxtrot

She's the best candidate for presidential elections in future.
and yes....she will get votes

That will definitely speak against these voters. If this is "the best candidate for presidential elections in the future", then God himself obviously already has turned his back on his very own country, and have rent it to his old buddy Lucifer to sack some additional fun-cash. Having voted for Bush the first time, eventually could be forgiven for reasons of not seen him in office before. having voted for him a second term, falls back on those who did so. after Bush running twice, now voting for a combo including Palin - is unforgivable. It will rightfully earn shame, mockery and laughter, well-deserved. The Us will alienate former friends and allies even more than it already did over the past years. with an economy in decline and the end of the American economic and financial domination in the world having begun with the current crisis (nothing different it means, if only you read the signs correctly), and other powers (India, China, Brazil, also Russia, EU) standing ready to take over and seal the end of the american empire, this maybe is not the most clever move to secure one's own place in the future world that will shape in the next 2-5 decades - world in which america will no longer be the dominant leading power anymore, but will be just one player amongst several others, and will eventually suffer payback from all those it did push too much in the years when it was the strong leader in the block.

I foind it amazing that still a majority does not see that the current fincial crisis and tzhe economic crisis following in its wake has most drastic conseqeucnes in strategic shifts on the global stage. sokme peopleseem to think that once it is over sooner or later, the world will be like before, and america continuing where it just had been interrupted. But that is unlikely to the most extreme, 700 billion dollar iad package yes or not. we currently see decisive shifts and breakups in the global structure of financial order. America will not die from this, but it will be the great looser from this over the coming 2-4 decades. It's nothing else but the beginning of the end of the American empire.

To bring, in such grim times, a figure like Palin, and a leader who brought her up, into power, will not produce the good will and sympathy that america now and in the future is depending on, more than ever before. Of course many - especially conservative, but not only these - americans will not like to hear this, since believing in american invulnerability and omnipotence is so much more popular in a country that loves Marvelcomics Superheroes and moralistic zealots like the relgious right, or playacting politicians serving this scheme. but it simply is true - no matter how uncomfortable and unwelcomed the news is.

And I really was naive enough to believe that after Bush it just could become better... spank me for that.

It speaks decisively against McCain, that he has chosen somebody like Palin. Looks and gender is not enough.

[August]

Well imagine that. Its yet another Skybird diatribe against my people, invoking the deity no less. Is this the opinion of all German warehouse workers or just the ex physiologists?

[GlobalExplorer]

No, all germans. This woman is dumb as **** and that's what a lot of americans like about her.

[AntEater]

Same here
I actually like McCain, but Palin apparently is there to please the cliche dumb americans.

But Palin is a symptom of something more global than US exclusive.
She's just the typical conservative female politician.
Sarkozy and Berlusconi and other european right wing populists all have such gals as ministers.
Germany has them on state level and in political party posts.
Good looking, producing headlines, but rather dumb, inclined to favoritism and autocratic/hysterical leadership style.
They mostly come in the "bored rich wife" or "bored rich daughter" variant.
I suppose back in the good ole 1980s, when most of our current crop of politicans learned the ropes of their trade, feminism was still rampant.
And conservatives at that time (like today) are male dominated. All parties are, but especially conservatives, as their name implies they're usually not in the vanguard of social change.
So in order to counter all those verbal broadsides from the feminist left, they had to get some chicks, and fast.
But most importantly those chicks were not to interfere with serious business.
Rumour is that the secretary general of the CSU (Bavaria's eternal ruling party) told his female successor: "look, you may become the secretary, but I remain the general".

Well, at least our most famous german conservative politician was definitely not picked for her looks.

[TFatseas]

Here is a thought. Did anybody ask Cheney about Bush's policies as Governor, or Gore about Clinton's? How about Lieberman or Edwards? Katie was trying for a gotcha moment just like Gibson. I don't recall any VP candidate that ever got the pile-on Palin has received and the coverage from criticism her attackers have received from the press.

The media and the left tried this pathetic smear campaign against her, and it turns out most of everything they said wasn't true at all.

Biden has been sticking his foot in his mouth all campaign long. But does the media report it? No, or they down play it.

This is the crap why I find politics, and the media, to be so tiring over time.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by TFatseas

Here is a thought. Did anybody ask Cheney about Bush's policies as Governor, or Gore about Clinton's? How about Lieberman or Edwards? Katie was trying for a gotcha moment just like Gibson. I don't recall any VP candidate that ever got the pile-on Palin has received and the coverage from criticism her attackers have received from the press.

The media and the left tried this pathetic smear campaign against her, and it turns out most of everything they said wasn't true at all.

Biden has been sticking his foot in his mouth all campaign long. But does the media report it? No, or they down play it.

This is the crap why I find politics, and the media, to be so tiring over time.

Most accurate and intelligent post in this thread right here.

-S

[TheBrauerHour]

Originally Posted by TFatseas

Here is a thought. Did anybody ask Cheney about Bush's policies as Governor, or Gore about Clinton's? How about Lieberman or Edwards? Katie was trying for a gotcha moment just like Gibson. I don't recall any VP candidate that ever got the pile-on Palin has received and the coverage from criticism her attackers have received from the press.

The media and the left tried this pathetic smear campaign against her, and it turns out most of everything they said wasn't true at all.

Biden has been sticking his foot in his mouth all campaign long. But does the media report it? No, or they down play it.

This is the crap why I find politics, and the media, to be so tiring over time.

Thank you. Palin isn't perfect....but neither is Biden. What this thread should be about as well, is the low quality of our media these days.

[CCIP]

However I think Palin is more than not perfect. I think Biden's gaffes are of a different nature entirely - not to say they're not dumb, but Palin's are simply otherworldly. In both their cases the mouth often goes faster than the brain, but Biden's brain is at least competent. Palin hasn't said a damn thing so far that made real sense economically or geopolitically. Her sole appeal is her conservative social stance. And I'm sorry but that's just damned scary for someone who could hold the President's office - here you have someone who could wreck the US' position economically and in world politics, or alternatively, become a puppet to more competent advisors elsewhere. Given what the office is or should be, I'm not sure which of these is worse.

[Frame57]

Originally Posted by August

Well imagine that. Its yet another Skybird diatribe against my people, invoking the deity no less. Is this the opinion of all German warehouse workers or just the ex physiologists?

Yes Indeed! Membership in churches is at an all time low in europe. They fear morals (Moralaphobic?) This is why pedaphilia is being legalised in europe. This same mindset is attacking God in this country. They want God out of our history so we too can be a nation that embraces things like pedaphiles and beastiality. "One nation under God..."