A little markup for Mo
Somebody’s a tiny bit jealous and a little bitchy! So let’s give her some TLC:
Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes “The Brady Bunch” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested.
No, Obama spent the bulk of his work experience as a participant in the Long March brand of socialism that is the Chicago community activism scene, and then he went to Washington to campaign immediately for President to represent that scene and steer more money to it and sell it to a nationwide audience. And condoned killing the little babies. That’s all.
Pardon us neanderthals if we don’t think that’s a suitable kind of experience.
Instead, they embrace 72-year-old John McCain and 44-year-old Sarah Palin, whose average age is 58, a mere two years older than the average age of the Obama-Biden ticket. Enthusiastic Republicans don’t see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified “babe,” as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket. They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they’re learning to drive, what’s the big deal?
Then why isn’t Joe Biden your fucking Presidential nominee?
If Clinton didn’t leave such a big hole, I doubt Palin would have even been considered. We would have been stuck with another (likely) white guy, and you would have been ABSOLUTELY BITCHING about that too. Same old McSame. Her pick was opportunistic, for sure, but big deal!
The legacy of Geraldine Ferraro was supposed to be that no one would ever go on a blind date with history again. But that crazy maverick and gambler McCain does it, and conservatives and evangelicals rally around him in admiration of his refreshingly cynical choice of Sarah, an evangelical Protestant and anti-abortion crusader who became a hero when she decided to have her baby, who has Down syndrome, and when she urged schools to debate creationism as well as that stuffy old evolution thing.
You mean she urged schools to debate creationism? Now THAT’s pure Taliban, isn’t it? Yes, promote alternative lifestyles in our schools but DEAR GOD DON’T SUGGEST CREATIONISM COULD BE AN ALTERNATE BELIEF.
Palinistas, as they are called, love Sarah’s spunky, relentlessly quirky “Northern Exposure” story from being a Miss Alaska runner-up, and winning Miss Congeniality, to being mayor and hockey mom in Wasilla, a rural Alaskan town of 6,715, to being governor for two years to being the first woman ever to run on a national Republican ticket. (Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting.)
Although a little behind in some polls, McCain was holding his own before her pick.
The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it’s close to Alaska. “Back off, Commie dude,” she says. “I’m a much better shot than Cheney.”
Has Palin ever suggested Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience? Or did you pick that out of the clear blue sky, because Cindy McCain never said Palin had experience because of it. She said she was aware of the situation.
Critics like you yearn for the day when Outside-the-Beltway types come to Washington to knock your socks off. But when one is presented to you as a potential suitor, you run back into your elitist cocoon and roll out grumbling missives condemning “tackiness” and “creationism”. You’ll never marry if you keep this up.
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Personally, no, but what’s the problem with presenting it as an option? Specifically, alongside other theories about the origins of the universe.
Let local school boards decide.
Whoa, only one thing stands out about this entire post… Vinman, do you really think that creationism should be taught in schools? I thought I was at least debating someone who believed in science and was remotely sane? But I guess in hindsight to follow your logic in most cases requires a leap of faith.