What a set of stones on THAT ONE to think she gets to speak before the top of the ticket – entitled to speak at all when none before have.

I’m deeply grateful Barack showed her exactly what a community organizer can do.

Yeah collectively we dodged another bullet finally.

here’s an example;

“I told them thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere”

that was disproven the very first day she said it, yet she couldn’t get the concept that if you lobby for something and then are forced out of it, you did NOT say “no thanks”, you said “DAMN IT,I wanted that bridge so bad”

she really is a moron, I actually believe bush is smarter then palin

I actually believe bush is smarter then palin

yes, I really said that and I really mean it

But I do believe it. For about 8 years, I ran a Sunday evening chat “trivia hour” and I tried to ask questions that would actually teach people things, as opposed to movie, entertainment, etc. Of course, simple geography questions were a gold mine.

I had a few messages pre-programmed on a button, since I needed them so often, and the one that got more use than any other way ….

“Africa is not a country.”

I think the Palin pick really came from Dobson and the rest of the religious right, through Karl. They threatened McCain with a floor fight in St. Paul should he pick Lieberman, McCain would not take Romney or Pawlenty — so Palin was put forward as acceptable to the religious side, with the argument made that maybe some sort of neo-feminist movement was “out there” who would not care about reproductive rights and women’s economic rights (given McCain’s voting record), but would react against the non-Hillary VP selection and center on Palin. The Dobson people have control over much of Talk Radio world, and the cohorts of mega-church volunteers the McCain Campaign needed, and obviously lacked by late summer — thus their power to control the selection.

I think there is a mite of danger for the Progressive side of things to focus on Palin mainly in terms of her ripping off the RNC for a closet full of clothes unlike anything worn in Alaska, and for other things of value — or simply on her basic geographic knowledge stupidity quotent. We need to focus instead on the power centers — who had power to veto certain selections, who had power to demand others, and is that locus of power good and appropriate for the country? If I am right, and the real power was Dobson and the circle around him, then that is who should be confronted, not their tool, Sarah Palin. No one ever elected Dobson and his crowd to anything — not even Precinct Chair, and he can’t really be unelected. He needs to be held responsible in a quite public fashion, because that is the only way to take power away from him and his circle.

In short they just looked around for a woman to get the Hillery votes and picked the one they’d most like to fuck.

She shoulda blinked when she had the chance

she shoulda asked mcstain if he was fucking HIGH

we got some really smart people around here

any of you brainiacs think you would accept the veep nod without blinkin ???

come on

some of you guys are qualified …

I can’t see the Republicans engaging in anything other than political vandalism and obstructing any progressive legislation meant to ameliorate the recession so that they can try to recoup in the midterms and make Obama a one-termer.

and there are NINETEEN repuglitard senators on the menu in 2010

I can’t wait …

BRING IT ON, MUTHERFUCKERS

SIXTYSEVEN, MUTHERFUCKERS

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I’m suddenly pessimistic. I think the country’s ungovernable when 47% of the people vote for a party this extreme and when they are allowed an E-Z filibuster at their leisure.

I have often despaired this way. But, think of why they were allowed their easy filibuster. Very weak Dem leadership, + very small majority margins + bully-pulpit jackass pushing fear, fear, fear = crap result.

The players have changed, and we have a guy that knows how to marginalize people. I love the way Obama handled Hannity, AFTER he got burned doing that Fox interview.

If the Rep’s continue their push hard-right and their obstruction tactics, I just can’t believe it will work for them in the new environment. More of the same will lead to more marginalization as a party.

It will be interesting to see them try it, and I think they will. It’s all Grandma knows.