Conservatives want Democrats to be transparent about everything, but Republicans can use 'national security' as an excuse to hide, say, Border Patrol reports. (I cannot cite this, alas, but you get the point.)
How can you argue with someone who applauds when Sarah Palin says we need a real commander-in-chief, not some scholar? Oh, I see, we don’t like intellectuals. We don’t want a smart guy as president because he won’t start a war with Iran. We like the dumb guy better, who couldn’t pronounce any leader’s name and couldn’t find a country on a map; who struggled with the English language like a guy trying to hold on to a live eel. Yeah, that’s, you know, the coarsening of the intellect. Who feared smart people? Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Putin…interesting. And Palin. And her flock. “I like Sarah because she’s like me and she’s a good person.” Well, what about her policies? “Oh, I don’t know about them, but she’s a good person and that’s why she should be president.”
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I haven't seen Rollins talk about politics in a while. Good to see he's on my side!
I don't really appreciate when people mock a president. I'd say that it's a rather hard gig to run the most powerful country in the world, and even those that do what many would consider a "bad" job have to put up with more bullshit than any of us would in several lifetimes.
Hell, I had a tough time making decisions in Dragon Age, I can't imagine the burden one must have to juggle when trying to decide on how to deal with an Iran or North Korea.
Then there's the constant thought in the back of your head that no matter what you do, almost half of the nation's population is going to disagree with you. And that's just America! There's also a point where you need to consider the rest of the world's reaction to whatever it is you do.
Seriously, being the President could be either the best, or worst job in the world.
I remember Scott Brown. Something about him just doesn't sit well with me. I have this feeling he's got career-killing secrets that might come out during a campaign. His daughters are smokin' hot though.
Either one of them could hold office...
...in my pants.
In regards to Mormon, the ones I know are ultra-conservative. Too much for my tastes, in fact. Romney's being a Mormon isn't really that big a deal to me though, because I know that he wouldn't be able to make policy based on the more conservative aspects of Mormon beliefs.
The man went on national TV and endorsed an act of terrorism. He's done.
How can you argue with someone who applauds when Sarah Palin says we need a real commander-in-chief, not some scholar? Oh, I see, we don’t like intellectuals. We don’t want a smart guy as president because he won’t start a war with Iran. We like the dumb guy better, who couldn’t pronounce any leader’s name and couldn’t find a country on a map; who struggled with the English language like a guy trying to hold on to a live eel. Yeah, that’s, you know, the coarsening of the intellect. Who feared smart people? Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Putin…interesting. And Palin. And her flock. “I like Sarah because she’s like me and she’s a good person.” Well, what about her policies? “Oh, I don’t know about them, but she’s a good person and that’s why she should be president.”
It's kind of hard to build rockets and nuclear bombs when you fear smart people...
Palin is given to meandering phraseology of a kind suggesting someone more commenting on impressions as they enter and leave her head rather than constructing insights about them. Or at least, insights that go beyond the bare-bones essentials of human cognition — an entity (i.e. something) and a predicate (i.e. something about it).
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“Folksy” is only the beginning of it — “You betcha,” -in for -ing, and “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” during her debate with Joseph Biden indeed make her sound accessible, ordinary, unpretentious. This, however, is America as a whole, and no one should be shocked that a public figure would strike this note. “You betcha” hits the same chord in Palin’s fans as the equally folksy — and close to meaningless -- “Yes, We Can” intoned in a preacherly “black” way did when a certain someone else was saying it. Folksy is America; it always has been, but is especially so now.
What truly distinguishes Palin’s speech is its utter subjectivity: that is, she speaks very much from the inside of her head, as someone watching the issues from a considerable distance. The there fetish, for instance — Palin frequently displaces statements with an appended “there,” as in “We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there...” But where? Why the distancing gesture? At another time, she referred to Condoleezza Rice trying to “forge that peace.” That peace? You mean that peace way over there — as opposed to the peace that you as Vice-President would have been responsible for forging? She’s far, far away from that peace.
All of us use there and that in this way in casual speech — it’s a way of placing topics as separate from us on a kind of abstract “desktop” that the conversation encompasses. “The people in accounting down there think they can just ....” But Palin, doing this even when speaking to the whole nation, is no further outside of her head than we are when talking about what’s going on at work over a beer. The issues, American people, you name it, are “there” — in other words, not in her head 24/7. She hasn’t given them much thought before; they are not her. They’re that, over there.
I remember Scott Brown. Something about him just doesn't sit well with me. I have this feeling he's got career-killing secrets that might come out during a campaign. His daughters are smokin' hot though.
Either one of them could hold office...
...in my pants.
In regards to Mormon, the ones I know are ultra-conservative. Too much for my tastes, in fact. Romney's being a Mormon isn't really that big a deal to me though, because I know that he wouldn't be able to make policy based on the more conservative aspects of Mormon beliefs.
The man went on national TV and endorsed an act of terrorism. He's done.
I remember Scott Brown. Something about him just doesn't sit well with me. I have this feeling he's got career-killing secrets that might come out during a campaign. His daughters are smokin' hot though.
Either one of them could hold office...
...in my pants.
In regards to Mormon, the ones I know are ultra-conservative. Too much for my tastes, in fact. Romney's being a Mormon isn't really that big a deal to me though, because I know that he wouldn't be able to make policy based on the more conservative aspects of Mormon beliefs.
The man went on national TV and endorsed an act of terrorism. He's done.
Wait, what?!!?!?
Scott Brown on Joe Stack, who flew a plane into an IRS building:
Neil Cavuto: Invariably people are going to look at this type of incident, Senator, and say, "Well, that’s where some of this populist rage gets you." Isn’t that a bit extreme?”
Scott Brown: Yeah, of course it's extreme. You don’t know anything about the individual. He could have had other issues. Certainly, no one likes paying taxes, obviously. But the way we are trying to deal with things and have been in the past, at least until I got here is, there is such a log jam in Washington and people want us to do better. They want us to help solve the problems that are affecting Americans in a very real way. And I think, I’m hopeful that we can do that with a lot of the things that are coming forward, at least what I’m hearing through and speaking with my colleagues. There seems to be a different feel, there’s kind of a message that was sent with my election, the fact that I was elected by a substantial margin in taking the former Ted Kenedy’s seat. They want somebody different… I’m hopeful that’s going to happen.
As ridiculous as it seems, Brown took more heat from his side for voting with the Dems for cloture on a jobs bill than he did for rationalizing a terrorist as a disgruntled taxpayer who just wanted Washington to work right.
I'm a republican, and pray for the day this lady gets hit by a bus.
You can say that, but appreciate that if that did happen, her audience would immediately declare her as having been martyred for their righteous cause, a victim of liberal persecution to the very end.
It sounds funny, but I don't think it's so far from the truth. Especially if it was a bus, given that mass transit is already increasingly thought of as liberal witchcraft.
If she was hit by a city bus, a form of public transportation, it would obviously be part of a socialist plot.
I'm a republican, and pray for the day this lady gets hit by a bus.
You can say that, but appreciate that if that did happen, her audience would immediately declare her as having been martyred for their righteous cause, a victim of liberal persecution to the very end.
It sounds funny, but I don't think it's so far from the truth. Especially if it was a bus, given that mass transit is already increasingly thought of as liberal witchcraft.
If she was hit by a city bus, a form of public transportation, it would obviously be part of a socialist plot.
I'm a republican, and pray for the day this lady gets hit by a bus.
You can say that, but appreciate that if that did happen, her audience would immediately declare her as having been martyred for their righteous cause, a victim of liberal persecution to the very end.
It sounds funny, but I don't think it's so far from the truth. Especially if it was a bus, given that mass transit is already increasingly thought of as liberal witchcraft.
If she was hit by a city bus, a form of public transportation, it would obviously be part of a socialist plot.
Make it a Greyhound then.
Or even better, a country musician's tour bus.
Like Toby Keith, or the Dixie Chicks? o_O
(hint: Country musicians and fans not exclusively Republican)
Palin spent much of her speech lauding Bachmann for standing up to Democrats in Washington.
"What's wrong with being the party of no when you consider what Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying to do to our country? So be it," she said. "Not when it violates our Constitution!"
She told the crowd that many in Washington are "addicted to opium -- o.p.m., other people's money."
She said a vote for Bachmann was a vote "for the principles that make this country great." Such a vote, she added, was a way to state that members of the military are "a force for good in this world and that is nothing to apologize for."
"What do you say, Minnesota?" asked Palin. "Will you do the rest of the nation a favor and reelect Michele Bachmann?"
She has never actually said why the fuck it violates the constitution.
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
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"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
I don't want to believe those two clowns actually said that to each other, it just sounds, odd.
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
I don't want to believe those two clowns actually said that to each other, it just sounds, odd.
Well even Plants have some sort of Rudimentary Communication ability with each other. Two idiots with Bell peeper innards for brain stems should theoretically be in sync.
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"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
I don't want to believe those two clowns actually said that to each other, it just sounds, odd.
It does sound sort of sitcomish. Like "Presidential Buddies, starring John McCain and Sarah Palin!". In a very special episode where Palin's old college pal Bachmann comes to visit.
Bachmann: "Drill here, drill now!"
Palin: "Drill baby Drill!"
Both: "You betcha!"
*canned audience applause*
McCain: Settle down, ladies.
Bachmann: You were right, he is a maverick.
*canned audience laughter*
"I knew that we'd be buddies when I met her when she said, 'Drill here, drill now,'" Palin said. "And then I replied, 'Drill baby drill,' and then we both said, 'You betcha!'"
I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
I don't want to believe those two clowns actually said that to each other, it just sounds, odd.
The best clowns never take off the motley. Not inside their heads.
"Something kind of interesting about some of these Tea Party leaders - we are finding out that most of them are women," she told a boisterous crowd of 10,000 or so. "Yeah, some surveys show that."
She then quoted British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in explaining why that "gives us hope for this movement."
"She used to say, 'In politics, you want something said - ask a man. You want something done - ask a woman.'"
Screw her. She doesn't even have close to as many lady balls as Thatcher did.
"Someone better tell Washington that that pink elephant is on the move, and 2010 is shaping up to be the year that conservative women get together and help take back this country," Palin said. "And Michele is leading the stampede!"
Hahaha. I hope that wasn't an intentional reference to "seeing pink elephants."
describes one sort of alcoholic in the autobiographical John Barleycorn as "the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers."[1]
But the former Alaska governor then curbed her feminist enthusiasm almost as quickly as she had unleashed it, saying she "was just kidding about this gender thing."
"Gender is no issue," she said. "Neither is the color of one's skin," she added, without referencing anyone in particular. "That's not a measuring issue either."
YOU JUST BROUGHT IT UP AS A MEASURING ISSUE! YOU BROUGHT THAT UP IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY PUBLIC SPEECH!
Palin: Obama is a ******. Just kidding! Race shouldn't be an issue!
Edit:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty revved up the crowd, asking: "Have you had enough?"
"We now live in a country where Wall Street gets a bailout and the poor get a handout -- and everybody else gets their wallet out," he said. "So I ask you, have you had enough?" The crowd shouted back, "Yes!"
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty revved up the crowd, asking: "Have you had enough?"
"We now live in a country where Wall Street gets a bailout and the poor get a handout -- and everybody else gets their wallet out," he said. "So I ask you, have you had enough?" The crowd shouted back, "Yes!"
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty revved up the crowd, asking: "Have you had enough?"
"We now live in a country where Wall Street gets a bailout and the poor get a handout -- and everybody else gets their wallet out," he said. "So I ask you, have you had enough?" The crowd shouted back, "Yes!"
What is this, the 1800s?
More like 1934:
There are so many possible subtitles for this, from "talk to the hand" to ancient dance moves (I swear, I've seen a picture of Michael Jackson in that exact pose).
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty revved up the crowd, asking: "Have you had enough?"
"We now live in a country where Wall Street gets a bailout and the poor get a handout -- and everybody else gets their wallet out," he said. "So I ask you, have you had enough?" The crowd shouted back, "Yes!"
What is this, the 1800s?
Pawlenty has ramped up the D-Bag levels ever since he decided to run for President. Good thing he's boring and no one knows or cares who he is.
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Hell, I had a tough time making decisions in Dragon Age, I can't imagine the burden one must have to juggle when trying to decide on how to deal with an Iran or North Korea.
Then there's the constant thought in the back of your head that no matter what you do, almost half of the nation's population is going to disagree with you. And that's just America! There's also a point where you need to consider the rest of the world's reaction to whatever it is you do.
Seriously, being the President could be either the best, or worst job in the world.
The man went on national TV and endorsed an act of terrorism. He's done.
It's kind of hard to build rockets and nuclear bombs when you fear smart people...
Wait, what?!!?!?
Scott Brown on Joe Stack, who flew a plane into an IRS building:
Neil Cavuto: Invariably people are going to look at this type of incident, Senator, and say, "Well, that’s where some of this populist rage gets you." Isn’t that a bit extreme?”
Scott Brown: Yeah, of course it's extreme. You don’t know anything about the individual. He could have had other issues. Certainly, no one likes paying taxes, obviously. But the way we are trying to deal with things and have been in the past, at least until I got here is, there is such a log jam in Washington and people want us to do better. They want us to help solve the problems that are affecting Americans in a very real way. And I think, I’m hopeful that we can do that with a lot of the things that are coming forward, at least what I’m hearing through and speaking with my colleagues. There seems to be a different feel, there’s kind of a message that was sent with my election, the fact that I was elected by a substantial margin in taking the former Ted Kenedy’s seat. They want somebody different… I’m hopeful that’s going to happen.
As ridiculous as it seems, Brown took more heat from his side for voting with the Dems for cloture on a jobs bill than he did for rationalizing a terrorist as a disgruntled taxpayer who just wanted Washington to work right.
If she was hit by a city bus, a form of public transportation, it would obviously be part of a socialist plot.
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She threw herself under it if you ask me.
Make it a Greyhound then.
Or even better, a country musician's tour bus.
Like Toby Keith, or the Dixie Chicks? o_O
(hint: Country musicians and fans not exclusively Republican)
Yeah because it's cool to generalize, unless it's about people we like.
I just named two.
edit - Your 'nvm' must have popped up while I was multi-quoting...
Everyone happy?
I think you'd have a quorum there.
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/04/07/sarah_palin_and_michele_bachmann I see that computerized speech generator is coming along well...
I wonder if anyone pointed out that there isn't any oil under Minneapolis.
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I don't want to believe those two clowns actually said that to each other, it just sounds, odd.
Well even Plants have some sort of Rudimentary Communication ability with each other. Two idiots with Bell peeper innards for brain stems should theoretically be in sync.
It does sound sort of sitcomish. Like "Presidential Buddies, starring John McCain and Sarah Palin!". In a very special episode where Palin's old college pal Bachmann comes to visit.
Bachmann: "Drill here, drill now!"
Palin: "Drill baby Drill!"
Both: "You betcha!"
*canned audience applause*
McCain: Settle down, ladies.
Bachmann: You were right, he is a maverick.
*canned audience laughter*
The best clowns never take off the motley. Not inside their heads.
Hahaha. I hope that wasn't an intentional reference to "seeing pink elephants."
YOU JUST BROUGHT IT UP AS A MEASURING ISSUE! YOU BROUGHT THAT UP IN PRETTY MUCH EVERY PUBLIC SPEECH!
Palin: Obama is a ******. Just kidding! Race shouldn't be an issue!
Edit: What is this, the 1800s?
There are so many possible subtitles for this, from "talk to the hand" to ancient dance moves (I swear, I've seen a picture of Michael Jackson in that exact pose).
(that was the best movie)
Pawlenty has ramped up the D-Bag levels ever since he decided to run for President. Good thing he's boring and no one knows or cares who he is.
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