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Simon
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USA
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 Posted - 10/10/2008 : 22:00:13
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Palin's actions were unethical.
I am not expecting it to change much; the GOP is already spinning its conclusion, but it's one more thorn on their side.
Man, McCain must really regret rushing up the VPing process.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/11/2008 : 02:21:38 [Permalink]
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I don't think it will make a whole lot of difference one way or another. Everyone is thinking about undecided voters but any voter who might be 'undecided' at this point either hasn't been paying attention or is a hopeless moron.
Here's a pretty good screed on Sarah Palin. I meant to link it the other day, but forgot.
Sarah Palin: A Farce To Be Reckoned With
October 6th, 2008 · Go on and comment
This is also posted at Huffington Post.
In the post-debate, post-partisan, postpartum, postmortem by those that think about stuff, those vilified media types, it was a pretty clear consensus of what happened on that stage in St. Louis last week: Sarah Palin did well because we all know she's not too bright. It's like she won a gold medal in the Special Olympics. Yay! She's a winner! The problem is that she's been recruited to play in the majors. But she won the gold, doggone it! Somehow she gets extra credit for knowing less than Joe.
It's disheartening to come out of a two term George Bush era and watch the standards get lowered even further for our political leaders. The Republican Party has been crying sexism since Palin was nominated. But sexism goes both ways. Instead of being held to a higher standard, like Hillary Clinton was, Sarah Palin is applauded for basic motor skills. Yay! She's a winner! Somehow she also gets extra credit for knowing less than Hillary.
I've been describing Sarah Palin as scary stupid. Scary stupid is the kind of stupid where you don't know enough to know - you don't know enough. If you don't read anything – you have no idea what else you haven't read. If you don't spend any time thinking – you never worry about how you're not spending enough time thinking. Charles Bukowski once said that the worst writers have the least self-doubt. Well, the same can be said for the dumbest politicians.
Great ambition with little intellectual ability: Scary stupid.
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I was considering her merely ignorant rather than stupid. Now we've learned what I suspected from my first reading of her: she's vicious as well being either or both.
I must ask again: what was McCain thinking when he appointed her? She gives the term 'harridan' a whole, new meaning.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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It's official now!
