Photo of the day - Palin, the new face of the GOP

I had the same feeling about her...

I expected the Fraulein to start singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"

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by: Wes @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 09:17:50 AM CDT

Local Radio Personality Said....

"I guess Jesus wouldn't measure up to her standards either because he was just a community organizer."

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by: xrk9854 @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 09:31:56 AM CDT

She mocked the Bible a lot.

She mocked Obama as parting the red sea (moses) and saving the world (jesus) in her speech.  Moses was a community leader too.  

The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY

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by: R.K. Wright @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:43:18 AM CDT

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In all seriousness

I'm a wine-drinking New Yorker, so I'm probably a poor judge, but if I were in middle America I don't think this would play. People are hurting and you want to make it a personality contest? If I had just lost my insurance and was about to lose my home, Palin's Friars Club roast of Barack Obama wouldn't mean much, at least not for long. None of that stuff is going to put food on their families. McCain needs to bring substance tonight.

Not to bring up HRC again after she was so awesome last week, but I notice McCain has the same problem where he seems to lack vision beyond envisioning himself in the White House.

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by: janinedm @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 09:55:01 AM CDT

Re: In all seriousness

Apparently the Fox News focus group in Minnesota didn't like the speech either ... not clear if they were drinking wine at the time, though.

jon

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by: jonpincus @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:11:01 AM CDT

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possibly

not clear if they were drinking wine at the time

Or Grain Belt beer, perhaps?

Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:35:24 AM CDT

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Her UNCLE raped and impregnated 11 y/o girl!!

Woo, talk about your FAMILY VALUES!

This just in from a comment on her speech on SF gate: 

Her voice is grating and her evangelical beliefs are beyond scary. She believes in creationism; does not believe in global warming;
believes an 11 year old girl raped by her uncle should be forced to have the baby;
has led the charge to shoot wolves and bears from planes; and is against any equal rights for gays and lesbians. Her constant use of God in justifying the Iraq invasion, drilling, etc. is ridiculous. Yeah the Dems are real scared!

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 09:55:01 AM CDT

?

Is this actually saying that Palin has an uncle who did that? Or does the 'her' refer back to a hypothetical '11 year-old girl'?

Nothing surprises me about this person and her family - but lets not give them any 'see, them evil lib-rul bloggers are making stuff up' ammo.

Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:05:47 AM CDT

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Pro Rapist-Procreational-Rights

Just phrase it that way.  If you believe that a woman has no right to abort a fetus just because it is the product of a rape, then you're essentially defending the right of a rapist to choose his baby mama.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 16:12:56 PM CDT

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that was a hypothetical, i'm sure.

she has stated her opposition to abortion even in cases of rape and incest.  that was an irresponsibly phrased sentence if it created the impression that palin's uncle really committed such a crime.

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:11:06 AM CDT

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agreed, it was a hypothetical

but, even if it weren't, that should not be a black mark against her - it would be a black mark against the uncle and anyone who helped him

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by: ol cranky @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 16:04:48 PM CDT

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No photoshopping?!?

Now I'm surprised. I saw that pic earlier and assumed it was a manip.

I'm not scared of Palin now -- I think this campaign is going down hard -- but she's young, a demagogue, and now has national visibility. I definitely fear her for the future.

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by: doctorscience @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:00:38 AM CDT

The funny thing is

I was talking to my husband last week, during the stadium decorations flap for Obama, and had just seen the set for the Republican's.  I said to him that the set (which is done mostly in Red and BLACK-not BLUE) looked a lot like the whole Hitler/Nazi thing, and the V for vendetta set.  I can just imagine John Hurt as Adam Sutler.  That set just made the shot above possible.  I can't believe no one in the media or blog world remarked on that when the Greek Columns were a problem for Obama.

The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY

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by: R.K. Wright @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:41:01 AM CDT

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Heil GOP!

A bit more work and that wall beside her would make a perfect swastika...

Or is that kinda the POINT?

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:10:37 AM CDT

One big question I have:

Sarah Palin has never been "second".

Captain of basketball team.
Mayor of Wasilla.
Governor of Texas.

And she has demonstrated that she does not like her ideas being challenged.

How will she handle being second to McCain? What will she do when she does not get her way?

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by: cindik @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:10:55 AM CDT

LOL!

Was the 'Governor of Texas' intentional or a freudian slip? Either way it's funny since she's nothing but Bush in a skirt.

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by: AggieCowboy @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:19:17 AM CDT

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As for what happens when she doesn't get her way

she'll push him down the steps when they head offstage for a costume change...or maybe 'accidently' break off her pearl necklace so that the old man slips and breaks his neck while doing his song and dance.

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by: AggieCowboy @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:23:49 AM CDT

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Nothing so drastic

She'll jump out from behind a door and scream "Boo!"

Just a heartbeat away...

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 14:43:55 PM CDT

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Gov. of Alaska not Texas

And she was "second" once. She was the runner up in the Miss Alaska pageant.

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by: craigkg @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:32:33 AM CDT

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True

on both counts. How was her rein as second-in-command representing the beauty queens of Alaska?

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by: cindik @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:50:52 AM CDT

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Also failed to be Lt. Gov.

She ran and failed to become Alaska's #2 in the GOP primary.

We'll see how she likes the 2 spot when the subject of ANWR drilling (McCain's against it... today, anyway) comes up.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 16:15:34 PM CDT

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Yes, it was a mistake on my part

Alaska != Texas.

I've been to both, and if you confuse them in either place, it's not a pretty scene.

I have no idea why I typed Texas. Can't edit it now.

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by: cindik @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:49:48 AM CDT

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CNN responds...

I saw this at CNN.com this morning, but I notice that now, CNN has taken that photo down and replaced it with a photo of Palin blowing kisses.

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by: minty @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:14:30 AM CDT

It really is worth 1000 words ...

Giuliani also attacked community organizers.  Bizarre.   Hard to believe that's a vote-getter.

Unsurprisingly, there's a new Facebook group: 1,000,000 Strong for Community Organizers.


jon

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by: jonpincus @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:08:10 AM CDT

an observation

Was it me, or did Rudy look like he was a cross between Col. Klink and Dr. Strangelove?  

Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:41:23 AM CDT

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And also unsurprisingly ...

There's also another Facebook group, We are all community organizers.


jon

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by: jonpincus @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:43:23 AM CDT

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funny for a Thur

These are kind of funny.  Family guy on Giuliani and a decent summary of some of Palin's MO last night:

Lois runs for mayor

Rudy's answers

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:28:33 AM CDT

Oh, snap!

Great comeback. Something else to consider: in an election, who would you want working on your side--the nation's mayors, or the nation's community organizers?  

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by: halloweenjack @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 15:30:26 PM CDT

what Sarah Palin did as a small town mayor

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities.

Yet again, I feel the need to quote from that Time article:

Vicki Naegele was the managing editor of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman at the time. "[Stein] figured he was just going to run your average, friendly small-town race," she recalls, "but it turned into something much different than that." Naegele held the same conservative Christian beliefs as Palin but didn't think they had any place in local politics.

"I just thought, That's ridiculous, she should concentrate on roads, not abortion," says Naegele. Time

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by: ol cranky @ Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 16:08:13 PM CDT