Arkansas Blog

a most ironic and curious mirror reflection

Obama chooses "a" Hillary instead of "the" Hillary
McCain chooses "a" Huckabee instead of "the" Huckabee

each of whom have "credentials" (plural) opposite of the original.

and i expect we'll learn a lot about Todd in the coming days
shades of Mr. Ferraro ?

Hey, that was me who pointed out the "man's woman" quote. Glad you found out who it was.

From the right:

State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to tell her the news.

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? said Green, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"

(C & L)

I'm not sure if there is a comparison between Huckabee and Palin. Other than both being Repubs that is where the real comparison ends. Huckabee was always viewed as suspicious in the eyes of conservatives. Palin scored a big hit with conservatives because of her credentials.

While reading the comments from the Alaska GOP I got the chills.

One of her former opponents basically said the same thing I told a snotty NY Post reporter out in front of the Old State House as he bemoaned having to cover such a waste of a presidential announcement by a guy who didn't know foreign policy and had too many skeltons and was facing a way too popular incumbent.

I said, "You've never seen this man campaign. If he gets past the party, he's the next president."

One of her foes said she gets in campaigning, that it is about connecting with voters and getting them to like you. Obama has that magic, McCain had it 8 years ago, I don't see it now. Biden ain't got it.

If Palin avoids doing something unforgivably disastorus she may swing this sucker.

The weird buzz is this. An Obama voter from the primary who worked hard to get me off the Hillary bandwagon said this morning, "This is the first person running for national office who has a background I understand and identify with." Another adamant pro-choicer said, "She's the only anti-choice person I've ever heard who put their money where their mouth is. Usually its some pompous preacher. She lived it."

This woman is a game changer and I don't have confidence in the party or the campaign to understand that.

I admit that I don't know much about Governor Palin but I do know that to underestimate her is something that one does at their own political peril. I think that biden has his work cut out for him because he is known as being arrogant. He may underestimate her and get his lunch eaten by someone who will do it in a manner that he doesn't even know it when it happens.

ITS OBVIOUS THAT ALL YOU FRUITCACKE DEMOMEN THINK LIKE DBI WITH YOUR TOOL INSTEAD OF YOUR BRAINS,.. SCUSE ME... FORGOT. THAT IS YOUR BRAIN HEAR TELL. OVER FORTSIE WAY.

EAT THIS W A LIL DEBBIE YOU LEMON TWISTS.

Gee LardButt, what's with the shouting? How do you handle a disagreement with your wife? Yell and slap her around?

And what exactly are you talking about? MCain's choice has no business being picked. McCain has failed the first big test with this thing. He met her once for fifteen minutes. She's facing an investigation and the word"impeachment" is being used.

Got brain?

Dang, I'm feeding the trolls again.

I was mighty depressed last night when I went to bed. It wasn't because McCain had picked a winner, it was because so many otherwise intelligent, good, people, friends of mine are so stupid when it comes to politics and governmental affairs. I whipped a jazzy on them last night as they whooped and hollered about how they'd Hit That. I love sex, I love good looking women, I'm sure no prude, but damn it, we're talking about the future of this country where my 2 kids happen to live. Sex has nothing to do with it!

When I turned from drooling male to concerned Democrat, my friends started telling me what was great about McCain, which also included Mark W. Pryor. They were so proud! Problem is, they didn't know a damn thing they were talking about. Man...the 30 second sound bite works like a charm. You can have a man sawing a baby's head off and if he's good looking and speaking forcefully about God, Our Team, the Flag, and killing anyone who doesn't love America....no one notices the dead baby. If it's a good looking woman....double the effect.

My friend have been totally sucked in by the whole McCain is a maverick bullshit. When I brought up his Super Bush voting record, how he talks one way and votes like Jesse Helms, they changed the subject.....Man...I'd FK that! When I explained what Pryor's Gang of 14 was all about and had accomplished there was a big subject change.

I won't bore you with the rest...suffice to say my intelligent, successful male friends of last night have been purely suckered by slick TV. They don't know jack shit about the story behind the sound bites. They've spent zero time reading or studying or using the Google.....they're ignorance depresses me and shows that they'll vote for the best sound bite......they don't know any better.

These are not bus station people or 3rd grade education dirt farmers. These are people who are too busy to know, to lazy to find out, and too shallow to really care about anyone other than themselves. Though none went to Vietnam, in their mind they must see John McCain valiantly shooting down Mig after Mig, bombing whole nests of dirty North Vietnamese until one of the dirty commies gets his jet with a lucky shot, they imagine McCain plummeting to the earth holding a scrap of the American flag in his teeth.

My guys don't know shit about the 32 propaganda messages McCain put out for the North Vietnamese government. But they know about that cross on the prison cell floor and they know if a guy like McCain can get a rich beauty queen for a wife and name another beauty queen for his running mate......he's their kinda guy....he is one hell of an American!

We are a shallow country, populated by shallow low-information voters. We are a nation who would continually sell Manhattan for 24 dollars worth of shiny trinkets. We are getting the leaders we deserve. We're getting the gas prices we deserve. The filthy rich, who aren't lazy or misinformed are getting the wealth and the tax cuts they deserve because they ARE paying attention and McCain WILL return their phone calls. The only CHANGE we deserve is in our pants pockets and the bottom corners of our purse. You better learn to live on it, it's all you'll have in the future the rate we're going.

You got it DBI and the really sad part is that you can't beat folks like Palin with conventional tactics (ie the attack ads on experience). I'll wager right now that the trooper thing fails to register with most Americans because 1) Folks identify with knocking around yer sisters ex if you get a chance and 2) down deep most figure a trooper was arrogant snot who needed taking down.

She's got to be given enough rope to hang herself. Best thing that can happy is a good honeymoon and be America's darling and then bait her into blowing up or making enough stupid comments to be dismissed.

guns, abortion, creationism, executive secrecy, using state apparatus for personal political purposes (though she did sell the state's plane right off) small state governor (reportedly witty, charming) etc.

lotta similarities there. wonder where she stands on immigration questions?

wonder if a reporter will get close enough to ask her 'who is the leader of India?'

wonder if Todd (the "commercial fisherman") has his bidness in order ?

time will tell (so far i'd say there's about a 20% chance of another Eagleton here, which if so, will then be used as best it can, to portray the media/DEMS as 'picking on a woman')

I have it on the best authority that Cheney and Rove have made overtures to the person who operates Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on the Conan O'Brian Show, hoping to get lessons on how to operate Palin like a sock-puppet.

i heard the talking heads arguing, moderator, rethuglican, democrat, on news this morning. the democrat was using argument that the vp choice was supposed to be the next best person the party had to be president in case something happened. he cited tom ridge, gingritch, buchannon,huck, ect as alternatives with experience. the rethug firmly stated that this was the ablolute best person in the country and best prepared to be president today. the more i listened the more i thought the next couple of months are going to get funnier and funnier. she may be nice, brillant, pretty but 1 and 1/2 years as gov of alaska doesn't prepare anybody that well and they are arguing that being a hockey mom is the best part of her resume. i imagine putin is wondering just how nuts mccain has gotten. the world thought we were nuts and now they are sure.

Good read..........

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OMG.........LOL.........LMAO

too sweet not to share..

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You know zonker....you may have hit the nail on the head. The RNC may have gone thru pages and pages of names and Miss Wasilla wound up being the "best" Republican they could find.

She's God's gift to the voters next to tom ridge, Gingrich, buchannon, huck, long time cancerous tumors on the Republican body politic.

How low has a political party sunk when they have to go to the absolute bottom of the list to find a minnow clean enough to run for top honors?

Gee LardButt, what's with the shouting? How do you handle a disagreement with your wife?<<<

Roger, you must learn to recognize Young Republicans,
living in their parents basement,
echoing what they heard their parents say,
eating Cheetos by the double handful
hunt and pecking on the keyboard
and all caps so they don't get lost hunting and pecking.
It's adolescent for sure but to them it's significance.

Hear, hear, eLwood!

I was going to post to LgA** that you don't spell "reasoned discussion" beginning with "Caps Lock," but I like your Scarborough ode better.

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"Gee LardButt, what's with the shouting? How do you handle a disagreement with your wife?<<<

Roger, you must learn to recognize Young Republicans,
living in their parents basement," eLwood

Oh, I just thought those people were made up to scare children into behaving.

You know the reason 9-11 happened is because we allowed these Rethuglicans to stal an election..and they promptly dropped the ball. Intel about 9-11 was there for Bush and when he was informed by the CIA, he simply said to the briefer, "Ok, you can go now, you've covered your ass."

And when folks like "state GOP Chairman Dennis (What We Need Is Another 9/11) Milligan" say these things to many of us simply dismiss it because it's so outrageous we can't fathom it being serious. But days like today, when republicans cheer for completely stupid VP nominations. A woman who said herself less than a month ago..she needed someone to tell her what the heck a VP does.. it means they are serious about neglecting all reason or intelligence in order to make sure another attack occurs just so they can be proven right and use fear to justify more horrors.

Dennis and Palin and McCain are dangerous.. it's far beyond time people realize this. If anything the next step will be worse than Bush, because they have to be worse in order to outperform him. They have to up their shock value in order to be able to push their agendas... legally, economic. theocratic and militarily.

Meanwhile the US police state continues to accelerate today. not just Blackwater troops arriving all over the Gulf Coast again..But with warrantless raids in many peoples homes all over the Twin Cities.. several posts, interviews and videos up at my name.

If the argument is valid that Palin is not experienced enough to be vice-president, how is obama experienced enough to be president?

OK strange, you get one reply. There is no need to look further than Palin's own words. She said she herself she didn't even have a clue what a VP does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gkPXSDtGQ

Does anyone here remember Harriet Myers? She's more qualified than this woman. Why is there no hue and cry about the inadequacy of this choice? McThuselah has made his first (and I hope only) presidential choice and he failed miserably.

Well, what does the VP do? The only constitutional reason is in the event the President dies in office and to preside over the Senate(largely ceremonious) for tie breaking purposes . The VP job varies all over the place. Truman had nothing to do in the FDR administration. He didn't even know about the Atom bomb until FDR died. Gore had something menial to do but most do relatively nothing.

I still haven't heard how obama is experienced enough to be president.

Why in the world does every source I've seen and heard today refer to her as "relatively inexperienced?" She's not "relatively inexperienced," she's inexperienced period. By any measure of government service she is woefully inexperienced. Would you nominate someone for Vice President of the United States whose experience, besides 1 1/2 years as governor of a state less than a third the population of Arkansas, was a short time as mayor and council member of a town about the size of DeQueen? According to "maps & stats" there are over 50 cities in Arkansas larger than Wasilla, AK. I suspect that experience in DeQueen would be much more helpful than in Wasilla, AK. DeQueen is much more diverse.

We should be insulted as a nation by this choice. There are several female Republicans much more qualified, who would be insulted to even be compared to this person. Why the media gives this choice any credibility at all is beyond me.

As entertainment becomes the god of our culture, it also becomes the god of the media and now, of politics. CNN, MSNBC, etc. have become the same as Entertainment Tonight. We are all the worse for it and our children will pay the price. McThuselah made a VP choice to maximize his Nielson ratings.

Ok, I'll bight then why are you calling obama experienced with 143 + days experience in the Senate?

Harriet Myers was nominated for the Supreme Court not because she was the most experienced for that postion but because she was a woman. That is why her name was withdrawn because that was obvious when it was publicly scrutinized.

If the argument is valid that Palin is not experienced enough to be vice-president, how is obama experienced enough to be president?

Posted by: strangelove

A hell of lot more than George was. Sometimes, it's not about experience. It's about how one uses their brain.

Sure, McCain has experience, but he's just a cocked and loaded pistol waiting to go off. Witness the Georgia/Russia situation.

I hope some of the concern trolls on here have seen what some of the "serious" republikans are saying about this pick and what it says.

And one more issue about this"experience" everyone speaks of.

If Obama dies, Biden is more than capable of stepping in and handling the job.

If McCain dies, well, that's another story.

And its all about who you surround yourself with, yesmen or real advisors.

strange, bight me.

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what makes obama experienced enough to be president. Is there a problem with that? Do you need more time to figure out what it is?

strange, bight me.

Posted by: Doc

Uh, Doc, a bight has to do with tying knots. MIght rethink that invitation! LOL

Bush had served two terms as Governor of Texas. That is executive experience. What executive experience does obama have. The President is the Chief Executive Officer of the federal government.

Roger, Doc was quoting strange's own strange spelling of "bight" for "bite". Doc knew what he was doing.

BTW, "bight" is also another word for a shallow bay.

Yes, I erred in the spelling.

"Bush had served two terms as Governor of Texas. That is executive experience"

Yes, and look where that experience got us. From a budget surplus to trillions of dollars in debt; in a war that should have never happened; tax cuts for the richest people in the country; loss of standing in the world community etc. Obama has had experience in government in Illinois and the US Senate. He has had years in government and in public service to formulate ideas that make sense and develop plans on how to put those ideas in action. He has a brain and he uses it. Unlike the current "experienced" executive. Experience is not all it is cut out to be.

Using your argument strange, that executive experience is what the candidates need, how does that make McCain more qualified? Just because a person has more years of senate experience, how does that make them more qualified as an executive? All it does is make them older. So if they are already old when they take office, the odds of dying are greater. The average life expectancy for US males is around 75. Enough said!

Not just that, Strange.

I'm not a McCain supporter so you are not going to get an argument from me. The only management experience he has is as an officer in the US Navy. Also, he commanded an Air Wing. I don't think that anyone in a legislative job is suited for a chief executive job. That would include obama and biden. Clinton and Bush both had been Governors and generally I think that is more suited for the Presidency. However, being a Governor does not give them Foreign Policy experience. McCain does have the hands down advantage in that area above obama and palin. However, as VP one doesn't need to have foreign policy experience.

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