Sarah, quit staring at me. Oh and the cute little winks didn't work either. You may be talking to someone babe, but it's not me. For starters I was an English major. English as a first language, not second. I really don't want my Vice President to tell Putin he's "darn right". Or we need "a heck of a lot more" cooperation. Just as a little aside and something I remember from either grammar or middle school when words end in "ing" you actually PRONOUNCE the "g". It doesn't get dropped for an n' . Oh I'm a stickler, I know. Words like: "betcha, ya , 'em, hurtin', bring 'em to ya, doin', comin',and somethin", really hurt my ears, so if you're elected could you please get an English tutor? One more little thing re: the language ,NUCULER is not a word. I know President Bush thinks it is...but it's not. It's nuclear.
I'm glad the debate is over. For a while there I thought it would never ever end. After 8 minutes I was staring at the clock wondering how I could stand another 82. I couldn't decide whether to pinch myself to make sure it wasn't a big bad dream or look around to see if I was being held hostage in a prison camp where they make you listen to Marge from the movie "Fargo" discuss foreign policy until you confess. Funny how questions never did get answered regardless of Gwen Ifil's attempt at keeping our little Alaskan Valley Girl focused. I wasn't on the debate team, but when I was called on in class I responded to the question and actually knew the answer. I don't want to be Vice President however.
My dad thought Sarah should have talked more about her years as a Girl Scout leader because she seemed as qualified as one. They lead troops, don't they? Oh Dad, you're a jokester! Thank the Lord the election is only a few weeks away because I'm soccer and hockey mom'd out as political discourse. I am worried however, that they might be tough ass competitors when we're all lined up at at Home Depot applying for a job if things don't CHANGE soon.
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Get over it Gail Maria. You are just jealous because Sarah Palin reminds you of your heroines Anita Bryant and Mary Ann Mobley. She is a cheap imitation of a Miss America wannabee and makes me wanna (see I can talk the talk) barf just like Bert Parts and his group of 50 virgins did when I was a kid. She is part Barbie Doll and part bobble head and belongs in the back of a car with her head bobbing up and down. If it wasn't so scary it would be funny. But, I am ashamed to say, that I actually know people who like her. They will not be in my life very much longer. Omigod!!!
Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!!! I can't stand her looks, can't stand her winks, can't stand her accent, and can’t stand her answers, can’t stand her hair, glasses, smile, hands, you name it, can’t just CAN NOT STAND THE WOMAN!!!. Go to youtube and check "Sharon Osbourne on Sarah Palin" this is exactly what I think of Sarah. If McCain wins this one, we are in big trouble. I watched the entire debate, I know who I am voting for and as for Sarah, honey PLEASE! Go back to Alaska, go take care of your children, go please GO!. What was John McCain thinking? What igloo fell on his head? I need an ice pack because I am getting a headache just thinking about Sarah Palin... What would Ann Richards say, I wonder?... Does McCain think that women will vote for him because he chose a woman for VP? Does he think women are stupid? Well ok one is, Sarah is stupid, maybe she is not stupid but she sure plays the part quite well. I can't take her off my mind, I think I will go to Google and check out Michelle Obamas pictures, better yet, I'll go have a couple of glasses of wine, flirt with Brenda the bartender and ask her to wink at me a dozen times, Brenda is not very attractive but at this point BRAINS are more attractive that looks. Thank you Sarah for ruining my pickiness for women, who cares about looks now, brains is what I am looking for.. Hey Hillary, talk to me baby...
I know what. Let's find an english major to be vice president. After all, McCain isn't much of a speaker either. We could have a national "speak-off" for the office.
Then when we get the perfect speaker in there, one that doesn't use old fashion, corney words like gosh and darn.
So when they tell Putin to back off, or establish his nuclear offensiveness further (or father) from our shores it will at least sound correct and not silly. Of course if it's Obama who says it Putiin won't pay any attention because Obama will, no doubt restate it again as meaning something else.
At least, I am willing to bet Sarah Palin will 1) mean it and Putin will know that and 2) won't wink when she says it.
Your blog is an almost perfect representation of political America today - form over substance - words over actions - speeches over track records.
Who you hang around with is not important - preachers who routinely "God damn America" from the pulpit - terrorists who are allowed to teach in our halls of higher education and criminals who sell political favors ... don't matter. If you can sound good and win debates you can entertain the media and they will give or get you money. And, the public will love you. After all it is harder to see character and track records.
With your apparent fixation on Palin, I am beginning to think you like her more than you will admit.
The only thing I missed last night was Palin failing to congratulate Ifill on her upcoming book which is set to come out in January and is quite favorable to Obama. You seem not to think there is anything wrong with her moderating a debate in which she has a financial stake in the outcome but you 'diss Palin for her accent.
Why not comment on the numerous, shall we say, factual errors made by Biden? You give him a pass on them but you come down hard on how Palin says some of her words.
And, as for the poster who "CAN'T STAND THE WOMAN". Chill out.
Let's go back to the vice presidential speak-off - so we'll never be embarrassed by poor grammar again - only dishonesty. We can take a page from Herr Goebbels on how to make a lie the truth just by saying it loud, often and with conviction.
Like Joe Biden - "Look, we have spent more money -- we spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we've spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country. Let me say it again. Three weeks in Iraq; seven years -- seven
years, or six and a half years, in Afghanistan." And, Joe said it three times in the debate.
Joe doesn't lie he just misleads and that works well with people who don't care about the truth. I do so I spent some time checking several sources on the costs of the wars.
While numbers are all over the place it's safe to say that we have spent somewhere around $150 to $180 billion in Afghanistan. Meaning we would have to spend between $50 to $60 billion a week in Iraq. Do you really think so? Rummer has it that, at most we spend $3 billion a week in Iraq.
The catch phrase here is "building that country". He was comparing everything we spend in Iraq against just what we spend in building and diplomatic operations alone in Afghanistan. At least that's how NPR tried to explain it away.
Did he offer that strange comparison to say it's more important to build than to wage war? Since he is calling for more troops in Afghanistan, I don't think so.
Some of Joe's well spoken words are simply plagiarism. Like "the 20 million people would see their health insurance dropped etc." That actually came from the journal Health Affairs. But that's nothing for a guy who stole an entire speech from Neil Kinnock the Irish Prime Minister when running for president some years back. He stopped running when European newspapers picked it up.
People were all too quick to say that McCain didn't do his homework when he picked Palin. That ain't so -at 44 she has accomplished more than most people at 60 and older. What is so is that Obama's ego in not taking Mrs. Clinton as his running mate and later picking Biden because of his international knowledge is back-firing on him. Hezbollah didn't take over the PLO, as Joe said, Hamas did.
I think you have pushed this good grammar and proper pronunciation too far.
It's interesting that the focus seems to be more about how the Governor of Alaska speaks than substantive issues like Biden's fabrications about McCain's voting record, lack of knowledge about the Constitutional power of the VP, and evasive answer's about gay marriage, among other (many other) things. Biden was at his deceitful best when he didn't know the answer, or didn't want to admit his past mistakes. I guess Biden's debate preparation consisted of too much watching of videos of FDR's TV address to the nation when the market crashed in 1929.
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