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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2008-09-05 10:25 am
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As usual, Dave Barry brings the awesome:

The Republicans are also feeling good about their message, which is that Washington is bad and whoever is in charge there needs to be run out of town on a rail. Interestingly, this is also the Democrats' message. We are now in our fourth consecutive decade in which both of our major political parties are just totally FED UP with Washington. I frankly don't see how Washington can survive this onslaught much longer.

I do love Dave Barry.

I also love this delightfully stabby rejoinder to Palin criticizing Obama for being a "community organizer":

"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor."

Hee hee. ZING!

I started off with a lot of respect for Palin, but I must admit that every time she opens her mouth on the national stage, my respect for her drops a few notches (by which I assume she must be doing a good job of appealing to her constituency ... *rimshot*). The pre-emptive dismissal of Palin (apparently on the basis of her gender and Alaska's remoteness) really upset me, but it also bothers me because I think the Democrats are fools to underestimate her. She's smart, charismatic and very much a self-made woman, and I just hope she's not going to be what gives the Republicans their edge in November, because the more hypocrisy comes out of her mouth, the more I want to see the whole ticket go down (and I wanted that quite badly to begin with).

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2008-09-05 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! *sob* I cringed when I saw that he'd picked Palin, because I really do think that she's got a shot at injecting enough vigor into the Republican ticket and giving them the White House. I mean, for pete's sake, even leaving aside my own personal (quite liberal-leaning) politics, out of the last 40 years we've only had 12 years of Democratic presidents -- isn't it time to give the other side a shot at screwing up for a change? *g*