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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).
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).
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Palin might a bit a bit naive - but so are a lot of upper-middle class white folks. (Even liberal upper-middle class white folks.) But she just as much right to her core set of beliefs as I do to mind. I may think she is dead wrong on the issues - but I don't think she is stupid or weak or letting herself become "a tool of the patriarchy" because of them.
One a side note - in reply I posted on another LJ I said (half in jest, half serious) that one of the reasons McCain chose Palin was that she really is a "life-long member of the NRA"