Friday, September 05, 2008
It's amusing that every act & statement by the Repug nominees is examined & judged. Convention week is the time to do it. But 95% are distractions & of minor significance; bloggers targeting their personal peeves like Alaska's "Christian Heritage Week" - which has precedent in the multitude of special interest proclamations issued at all levels of government all the time. Just pay attention to the first 15 minutes of town council meetings & note the occasions when half the audience leaves before the important business begins. The White Protestant Ruling Minority becomes envious when anyone else's "heritage" is honored. We don't give much thought to this in New Jersey, where not so long ago the primary political power struggle was between urban Irish-Catholics & wealthy Anglos of no strong religious views from colonial era families.
There are important issues in this campaign & it would be wise for Democrats to stick to them. Palin does have experience as a star high school basketball player, beauty pageant contestant, TV sports reporter, & small town politician. She's ambitious, comfortable in the spotlight, not accustomed to losing. The general impression I have of her is that she wears the pants in a large family where the husband is frequently absent: Her matriarchal power is implied rather openly acknowledged. Sorry, Todd, but like that kid Levi, you're mainly for stud service. Playing "Barracuda" by Heart is a real headscratcher given the song's murky lyrics. They'd be wise to drop it lest people become fixated on "You lying so low in the weeds /I bet you gonna ambush me / You'd have me down on my knees /Now wouldn't you, Barracuda?" Both Palin & Biden are loose talkers, could be some fun moments over the bext two months. But they're only the VP candidates. They may yet trip themselves, but I doubt they can be tripped.
There are important issues in this campaign & it would be wise for Democrats to stick to them. Palin does have experience as a star high school basketball player, beauty pageant contestant, TV sports reporter, & small town politician. She's ambitious, comfortable in the spotlight, not accustomed to losing. The general impression I have of her is that she wears the pants in a large family where the husband is frequently absent: Her matriarchal power is implied rather openly acknowledged. Sorry, Todd, but like that kid Levi, you're mainly for stud service. Playing "Barracuda" by Heart is a real headscratcher given the song's murky lyrics. They'd be wise to drop it lest people become fixated on "You lying so low in the weeds /I bet you gonna ambush me / You'd have me down on my knees /Now wouldn't you, Barracuda?" Both Palin & Biden are loose talkers, could be some fun moments over the bext two months. But they're only the VP candidates. They may yet trip themselves, but I doubt they can be tripped.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
You can't trip up what won't talk to you. Word on the street is that the McCain campaign is refusing to let Palin out, and she will only give canned scripted speeches. She will not be allowed to be interviewed and she will not be making the talk show circuit. Basically, the McCain campaign has said the American public will get what the McCain campaign decides to release about Palin, and no more. They further state that it's none of American's business ... imagine that.
I don't know how that's gonna work. Even I can think of the questions American women want answered, & they go like this: If you're just getting started "reforming" Alaska's state government, & you're so good at it, & Alaska is such a paradisical place to raise children, & you put family first, & you got two kids with serious special needs right now, why are you running for a job 4000 miles away in Washington DC that has no power in it, & no more influence than the president allows you?
& if I may be VERY presumptuous, I believe you, a working American mother & grandmother, want to hear Sarah Palin explain these things in her own words while asking for your vote at McDonald's, or the laundramat, or the car wash, or the amusement pier, or the street fair, or the supermarket.
& if I may be VERY presumptuous, I believe you, a working American mother & grandmother, want to hear Sarah Palin explain these things in her own words while asking for your vote at McDonald's, or the laundramat, or the car wash, or the amusement pier, or the street fair, or the supermarket.
Your comments are all well and good, except you aren't asking them from the base, damn it! they don't care about McDonalds, they are the "base" which means they have their heads buried in their asses. Not like they get what traditional moms are ... or what real moms of any type are.
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