PAILIN: THE MASTER AT SAYING NOTHING
justin
America.
lilhornie
Provides No Answers, Just More "Me!"
As was publicized days in advance of last night's debate, the McCain
planners' ploy for Daffi Dumb Shit (Failin' Palin) was for her to
ignore at all costs the topics of the questions posed by Gwen Ifill.
As Tom Shales noted, "Palin's insistence on avoiding substantial
comment on issues and simply ignoring questions she couldn't answer
convincingly" would be her strategy. As it was.
And as was feared, Ifill didn't hold Daffi to actual answer-to-
question protocol.
So, we are still left with a substance-less, vacant-minded, issues-
illiterate nitwit who can't name any newspapers she claims to read.
Maybe the gun-huggers and religion-graspers, and even some of the
leftover Hillary Hags still see her as their president, should
Mc"Cane" croak (if he hasn't already, and how would we know?).
But last night did little to convince intelligent viewers that she's
not a daffy dumb shit after all!
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"Hockey Mom on Thin Ice"
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, October 3, 2008; A23
Early in last night's vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that
she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them.
This was the Alaska governor's way of saying she was going to stick to
the talking points she had stuffed into her head, no matter what the
subject.
When Palin described John McCain's health-care plan, she talked about
his offer of a $5,000 tax credit so families could buy insurance. She
failed to mention that McCain would pay for the credit by taxing
existing insurance benefits. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe
Biden -- politely -- pounced on her omission, warning that McCain's
plan could lead millions to lose their insurance coverage. Palin
didn't come back to defend her running mate.
Nor did she come back when Biden challenged her false claims about how
many times Barack Obama had voted for tax increases. Palin just plowed
forward, piling one attack on top of another, with leavening
references to "Joe Six-Pack" and "hockey moms."
Oh, yes, she did correct Biden on one thing. When he said the
Republican energy slogan is "drill, drill, drill," she quickly
reminded him that "the chant is drill, baby, drill." Thanks for
clearing that up.
Last night's debate took place at the moment when a majority of
American voters had decided that Palin was unprepared to be president
if she were called upon to assume the office. Surveys by The Post and
ABC News and by the Pew Research Center both found that doubts about
Palin have risen sharply since the beginning of September.
The key to understanding how McCain chose Palin as his running mate
was provided by the New York Times last weekend when it described an
episode in which he "tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table."
Americans are increasingly uneasy about the gamble they might take by
putting Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Expectations for Palin were so low that the mere fact that she managed
to keep talking and to keep assailing Obama will be rated as a great
victory by McCain's lieutenants. But it was Biden who knew what he was
talking about, who could engage in argument and who showed he actually
understood the issues. In recent interviews with CBS anchor Katie
Couric, Palin came off as profoundly uninformed, as someone who had
given little thought to the issues that will matter. Nothing Palin did
last night changed that. Those rooting for her were relieved. Those
who doubted her readiness going in were not persuaded by her endless
repetition of the word "maverick."
Palin has also brought out the very worst in McCain, forcing him to --
and I do not use this word lightly -- lie about her. In an interview
broadcast Wednesday, National Public Radio's Steve Inskeep asked
McCain if there would be "an occasion where you could imagine turning
to Governor Palin for advice in a foreign policy crisis?"
McCain replied: "I've turned to her advice many times in the past. I
can't imagine turning to Senator Obama or Senator Biden, because
they've been wrong."
" Many times in the past?" McCain met Palin only twice before he
selected her. What McCain said could not be true. And would anyone who
listened to her last night really consult Palin on foreign policy?
This week, McCain's backers signaled their fears that Palin would fail
by trying to discredit the debate in advance. Although it has been
known at least since July that Gwen Ifill was writing a book on
"Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," the usual right-wing attack
squad waited until two days before the debate to mount a campaign to
the effect that Ifill's book project turned her into a biased
moderator. In her measured questioning, Ifill showed that the attack
was nonsense.
The core issue, of course, is the contrast between how Obama and
McCain chose their running mates. Say what you will about Joe Biden --
and last night, he was far from being either the gaffe machine or the
windbag so many predicted would appear on stage -- no one loses sleep
at the idea of his being in the Oval Office. Obama picked a vice
president more likely to help him govern the country than win the
chance to do so.
As for McCain, he found himself in a political hole and threw the dice
with Palin. At the time of her selection, voters were often compared
with "American Idol" watchers who put personality and stage presence
above everything else. But it turns out that Americans take the
presidency very seriously. And surviving 90 minutes on a stage with
Biden did not transform Palin into a plausible president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203046.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100300020.html
James Fenimore
scorp...@yahoo.com
<slipu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Doggone It, I'm Still DAFFI DUMB SHIT!" Palin (As Predicted)
>Provides No Answers, Just More "Me!"
>
>
>As was publicized days in advance of last night's debate, the McCain
>planners' ploy for Daffi Dumb Shit (Failin' Palin) was for her to
>ignore at all costs the topics of the questions posed by Gwen Ifill.
>
>As Tom Shales noted, "Palin's insistence on avoiding substantial
>comment on issues and simply ignoring questions she couldn't answer
>convincingly" would be her strategy. As it was.
>
>And as was feared, Ifill didn't hold Daffi to actual answer-to-
>question protocol.
>
>So, we are still left with a substance-less, vacant-minded, issues-
>illiterate nitwit who can't name any newspapers she claims to read.
>
>Maybe the gun-huggers and religion-graspers, and even some of the
>leftover Hillary Hags still see her as their president, should
>Mc"Cane" croak (if he hasn't already, and how would we know?).
>
>But last night did little to convince intelligent viewers that she's
>not a daffy dumb shit after all!
>
If you are considering yourself as one of those intelligent viewers
it's no wonder this country is all fucked up. What a moron!
Hal Henderson
>She didn't answer one question. But that's appealing to Middle
>America.
An Obama fan complaining about a politician saying nothing? How
ironic!! ;-)
jelato
> She didn't answer one question. But that's appealing to Middle
> America.
She can do no worse as Vice President than W as president. When do
people start saying "W has no brains". The emperor is naked, the
president is stupid. Someone has their hand up his back moving his
lips.
W surrounded himself or was swarmed rather by the people who "knew"
how to run the country. He's stupid!
Big J
news:4h4ce4ddg062dmdbt...@4ax.com:
> She didn't answer one question. But that's appealing to Middle
> America.
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/palin-on-fox-news-couric_n_
131655.html
She's even gone as far as blaming the Couric/Ifill types for not giving
her a chance to change the subject to what she wanted to talk about.
Here's a quote from the URL above, which also contains the video of her
saying this shit....
"The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed," she said.
"It's like, man, no matter what you say, you are going to get clobbered.
If you choose to answer a question, you are going to get clobbered on the
answer. If you choose to try to pivot and go to another subject that you
believe that Americans want to hear about, you get clobbered for that
too."
"In those Katie Couric interviews, I did feel that there were lot of
things that she was missing in terms of an opportunity to ask what a VP
candidate stands for, what the values are represented in our ticket. I
wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to
killing jobs. I wanted to talk about his proposal to increase government
spending by another trillion dollars. Some of his comments that he's made
about the war, that I think may, in my world, disqualify someone from
consideration as the next commander in chief. Some of the comments that
he has made about Afghanistan -- what we are doing there, supposedly just
air raiding villages and killing civilians. That's reckless. I want to
talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize for being a
bit annoyed, but that's also an indication of being outside the
Washington elite, outside of the media elite also. I just wanted to talk
to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for."
TRANSLATION: "Waah Waah....they expected me to be qualified and actually
know something! I didn't get to change the subject to my talking points!"
Big J
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Bluuuue Rajah
news:Xns9B2E4CC6ADAD2...@69.16.185.247:
Conservatives are the biggest whiners.
Makedde
> GUEST wrote:
> She didn't answer one question. But that's appealing to Middle
> America.
Gosh darn, doncha know I'm doin' the best I can?
Darn it, I betcha you need tax relief, right? Well, darn right and
you betcha you need it!
2nz
> " Many times in the past?" McCain met Palin only twice before he
> selected her. What McCain said could not be true. And would anyone who
> listened to her last night really consult Palin on foreign policy?
<Sarah>
"Okay, here's what ya do. Drop some fish on the sidewalk and hide in
the taxidermy shop.
When those pesky Russians sneak into town and bend over to get the
fish, ya run out and bonk 'em on the head with this anvil."
Big J
6f2438...@g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
...or maybe bonk 'em w/ a maverickey hockey stick, while the brain-dead
pastor prays all the witchcraft out of them.