… paternalistic, sexist, and — dare I say it — misogynistic. These are words that describe the McCain’s campaign’s cringe-worthy “handling” of Sarah Palin. Now they’re sending Gramps along to babysit her when she talks to the press. I’m insulted and embarrassed on her behalf. McCain’s people should have talked with Sarah Palin before they offered her a spot on the ticket — if they had spent even an hour in a room with her, chatting about the issues, they would have realized she wasn’t up to the job and wouldn’t be able to handle the rigors of the campaign trail on her own. And she, by the same token, put herself into this excruciatingly humiliating position — she shouldn’t have accepted the offer when it was made. Both McCain and Palin were derelict and irresponsible when they made his unholy alliance and they’re gambling with America’s future every moment that they perpetuate this charade — it is becoming more and more clear that neither of them is up to competent governance.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
These are the remarks that made the Republicans fling the world’s financial markets into chaos:
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by Steve Conley
Apparently Bono spoke too soon…
“It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.”
Here are a few links responding to the day’s news:
Shorter House GOP: We killed the bailout bill because Pelosi hurt our feelings
Who Are America’s Worst Politicians Today? All Of Them!
Krugman: OK, we are a banana republic
CNN’s Ed Henry: John McCain failed
McCain has another “McCain Moment”
And here’s a quick question from me: Whatever happened to “Country First?” The stock market has set new records in plummeting and the House members have pretty much all split town — and they won’t be back until Thursday?!?!? WTF? What the hell are we supposed to do in the meantime? What do they think the market is going to do for the next few days?!? Did they even bother looking at what this is doing to the world’s markets before they hightailed it out of town?
Uh, would I be speaking for most of the country if I suggested that they just not bother coming back?* With wankers like these, who needs Herbert Hoover?
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Oh, and ps! Michael Bérubé is back, and he’s ready to place the blame!
Also, have you checked out the Tennessee’s Progressive Blog Roundup this week?
*If anyone sees Zach Wamp skulking or slithering about town this week, please smack him upside the head for the rest of us!
It was a narrow defeat. The Dow is plummeting and world markets are getting hammered.
So much for McCain’s ability to lead. John McCain was supposed to deliver 100 House Republican votes. He only delivered 65. Democrats were supposed to deliver 120 House Democratic votes, they delivered 140.
Chris Matthews on McCain’s recent failed dramatics: “He called ‘charge’ and the Republicans retreated.”
Have you checked out hyperwords yet? It’s a firefox extension that might just blow you away…
Rachel Maddow changes the media (here are a few excerpts, but do read the whole thing!):
She is liberal without apology or embarrassment, bases her authority on a deep comprehension of policy rather than the culture warrior’s claim to authenticity, and does it all with a light, even slightly mocking, touch. [...]
Maddow’s immersion in facts rather than in opinions has helped shape her on-air persona. When Pat Buchanan, who joined Maddow on MSNBC’s election-night panel throughout the presidential primary, claimed that the expansion of the health-care program S-CHIP would give money to already well-off families, Maddow quickly pointed out that 8 million children in the very income group he claimed could afford insurance don’t have it. And in another segment, when conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said John McCain had not backtracked on previous support for immigration reform, Maddow was ready with examples of how McCain had reversed himself on the issue during the primary campaign. [...]
Maddow’s wonkery, however, is leavened by a light, sardonic touch that keeps her commentary from veering into the pedantic. Unlike so many televised liberals, who seem almost physically pained by the combative cable-news format, she obviously enjoys herself. A good example came during an election-night panel discussion of Obama’s victory in the Nebraska and Idaho primaries, which Buchanan tried to delegitimize by saying that Obama could only appeal to liberals. Without missing a beat, Maddow responded, “In what kind of a world do Idaho and Nebraska represent the left lane?” She had the entire panel laughing outright. A chastened Buchanan could only manage a wan joke about Marxists.
She’s been on less than a month, but already she has created a large audience for her show, which airs weeknights at 9pm, opposite Larry King’s juggernaut.
An animated dissection of political events and offbeat news, punctuated by the host’s sardonic humor, “The Rachel Maddow Show” has debuted with a strength that surprised even MSNBC executives. An average of 1.64 million viewers tuned in since the show launched on Sept. 8, more than double the number who watched the same hour in the first eight months of the year.
In her second week on the air, Maddow beat CNN’s “Larry King Live,” a cable news institution — quite a feat for a self-described television novice and former AIDS activist who doesn’t even own a TV.
If you haven’t checked her out yet, here’s a sample from a recent show:
I hope not! Here’s your weekend Palin update!
Did you know she was selected by God (via Crooks & Liars)? I thought she was selected by McCain. Go figure.
Do you think she’s living by Sarah rules? Or by the Palin Principle:
A theory of workplace economics which postulates that one can be vaulted several rungs above their level of incompetence when it suits the demands of the Religious Right.
The scariest thing about Sarah? Is it that she believes dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time, her general confusion, what her candidacy says about America, or the fact that with practice, she is actually getting worse? And if her performance in the Couric interview (which scared more than a few conservatives) means that she’s circling the drain, where will she be by the debate? The McCain team is apparently afraid of the possibilities (btw, I’m not the only one who thinks they’re stuck with her).
So a lot of people (hi, Ruthrocks!) noticed that Sarah was conspicuously absent after the debate on Friday. I don’t care how much you sympathize with her, that’s not a good sign.
It’s pretty strange when a candidate can’t trust his own running mate to be out there spinning on his behalf.
And it’s funny that a lot of McCain supporters seem to think that’s about media bias and not the fact that Palin is in lockdown somewhere.
Finally, if you can’t get enough of Sarah Palin, here’s a random quote generator (via WTF is it now?). And, of course, the latest from SNL:
As shameless, pathetic and desperate as John McCain has become, I find it hard to believe that even he would stoop so low as to do this to a couple of young kids.
Here’s the awesome interactive video and transcript of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama debating in Oxford, Mississippi on September 26th, from the New York Times.
Even if you have already seen the debate, this is a cool way to target points in the transcript you want to rewatch — find them in the text, click, and you’ll be taken to that point in the video! How cool is that?!?
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