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DEL.ICIO.USOur values reflected in those of Palin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Country music legend Loretta Lynn, the coal miner’s daughter, captured the America that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin touches in Lynn’s 1971 hit, “One’s on the Way.”
The song contrasts the glitzy world of celebrities with the routine of the ordinary life of a woman in Topeka where: “The rain is a fallin’. The faucet is a drippin’ and the kids are a bawlin’, one of ‘em a toddlin’, and one is a crawlin’. And one’s on the way.”
Though dated, it speaks to life removed from the spectacle of television, where unimportant people engage in celebrity and important people play games with incomprehensible purpose and rules, while, for the rest of America, “the screen door’s a bangin’; the coffee’s boilin’ over and the wash needs a hangin’,” and the routines of ordinary life prevail.
There is a frustration extant in this country. It’s the frustration that, while we play by the rules and manage, as a family, the routines of life, Washington betrays us. Betrays us in the sense that we are made strangers from our government. We can’t make it be responsible. We can’t make it reform. We can’t make it understand — we can’t make them, the celebrities and insiders, the important people, understand.
That’s what’s most refreshing about Palin. She is one of us. Her family is the one where the rain falls and the faucet drips and, no matter what, the family deals with it. These families go to work every day, send their sons and daughters off to fight the country’s wars, nurse their children through crisis, and walk proudly together to face the troubles that come their way.
It’s been said repeatedly that she’s genuine. She’s authentic. She’s real. She’s not somebody who scripted her life to be in a position of power and influence by age 30 or 40. She’s just a woman from the nation’s frontier state who lives among people who are open and honest, who don’t know when not to talk to the media or how to speak in phrases empty and correct. They just live and deal with life as it comes.
Gov. Sonny Perdue, when asked once why he didn’t trumpet his administration’s successes, responded by telling a story of farmers gathered at the country store. Boasting was pointless and unbecoming, he said, because farmers had but to drive by the fields of others to know the caliber of their work. The crop spoke for itself.
With Sarah Palin, the crop speaks for itself. There’s no pretense, nor political calculation, nor abstract Washington think-tank or interest group agendas in play on the issue of abortion. She and husband Todd had months to decide about a problematic pregnancy; they chose life. They chose to build their family in accordance with their values. They were not dealing with what-might-be. They were dealing with life.
On the crisis in their daughter’s life, they were pawns in a chess game that pits abstinence-only education interest groups against those that argue some other policy position. They are the American family. “Our family has the same ups and downs as any other,” she told the nation Wednesday, “the same challenges and the same joys.”
Their son Track is off to war. This is no abstraction. This is no pro-con on the wisdom of pursuing the war waged against us into Iraq. This is an Amercian family that understands and feels the obligation that John McCain had expressed to the Bob Dole generation in his 1996 speech to the Republican convention: You did for us. We do for you. It’s not a game. It’s not a talking point. It’s Topeka. It’s Commerce and Lithia Springs and Wasilla. It’s us.
It’s the family that’s proud to be American composed of those who feel goose bumps when the flag passes in parades. Palin drew wild applause Wednesday night when she declared in obvious response to Michelle Obama’s pronouncement that for the first time, with the ascent of her husband, she felt proud to be an American:
People in the small towns where she grew up, “love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America.” It’s not conditional love. It’s not love based on whether we behave and believe as others wish. It’s lasting and unconditional.
Palin’s story is our story. Her life is our life.
She and McCain will carry the South because her values and his are ours.
She is not of Washington.
She is of us.
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By Churchill
September 7, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this
Where’s Sarah?
That’s all everyone is asking, as Gov. Sarah Palin has become the hot ticket item for all the news programs, as well as for any TV interview. Despite her electrifying debut at the Republican National Convention, she will not complete her introductory rollout as the vice presidential nominee for the G.O.P. ticket on one of this Sunday’s morning news programs — appearances that were derided by none other than former Senator Fred Thompson in his speech this past week at the gathering in St. Paul. (Even though Mr. Thompson — and Senator John McCain himself — have never been strangers to the Sunday news program circuit.)
The Times’s Monica Davey reported today that McCain campaign aides suggested that she’ll be largely shielded from mega-press interviews — perhaps for a while. She’ll be campaigning and speaking to the “American people.”
To us, that seems topsy-turvy after the G.O.P. boasted all week long that Governor Palin is a force unto herself, independent, dogged, reformist and quite capable of not only being vice president but of taking on big special interests. So what’s the upshot of not booking her? What message does it send that the first G.O.P. woman to land the No. 2 slot — the one who energized the base, who totally kicked up the McCain enthusiasm meter and stepped confidently onto the national stage at the convention with a speech that was well-received and tough on her Democratic opponents — won’t be available for interviews? That she’s not ready for the glare of the national media? (The McCain campaign, throughout the past week, set up the MSM as her nemesis.) Or is this a protective move on the part of Senator John McCain’s advisers?
We’ll let you decide …
Meanwhile, here’s the lineup for Sunday, and it’s chock-full of the other candidates and their surrogates. Senator Barack Obama will appear on ABC News’ “This Week.” His opponent, Senator John McCain, will be the guest of Bob Schieffer on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., takes the stage at NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Fox News Sunday brings out the main campaign thinkers, Rick Davis, campaign manager for the McCain campaign and David Axelrod, chief strategist for the Obama campaign. Fox also plans a documentary tonight on Governor Palin, with interviews of her family. (In case you missed it, the former brother-in-law of Governor Palin and the protagonist of “Troopergate” in Alaska spoke to The Washington Post for an article today, expressing regret for some of his behavior and also seeming to want to put the past behind him in the interest of Ms. Palin’s candidacy.)
CNN’s “Late Edition” has a slate of talkers and senators, including Obama strategist Robert Gibbs
By BoobyD
September 7, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
Jim Wooten, nice codespeak.
Sarah Palin’s values are not necessarily our values:
No “normal” woman goes back to work 3 days after supposedly giving birth to a child with special needs.
Most regular women do not walk around toting shotguns, and bustin’ caps from fully automatic assault weapons.
Regular women never really make a big deal about “loving their country”, no matter what size town they come from because its kinda a given. They feel no need to shout it out all the time.
I know hacks like you are doing all they can to prop this broad up so that she looks viable.
“They chose to build their family in accordance with their values. “??? Oh REALLY…..???
Now all of a sudden parents are not responsible for their teen children who live under THEIR roof and they support??
Thanks for taking the heat off of the many urban and minority parents out there because for about 2 decades now they’ve been carrying the GUILT imposed on them by fake “moralists” like you and your people.
By Greg
September 7, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Jim hit the target with this commentary. “Dead solid perfect” as Dan Jenkins would say.
By Sam
September 7, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Thanks Jim for some good thoughts and thanks Churchhill for kicking it off right this morning.
I agree with you Jim, there are a lot of similarities between folks who live in small towns across the United States. Still what concerns me in this election is the experience and politic know how of ensuring the United States position in the global economy of today. Which pair of candidates carries the greatest risk?
Churchill points out a valid question - Where’s Sarah? If she is being shielded because she places the ticket at risk, that is a risk to us all.
The maverick spontaneity of McCain in choosing Palin is contrary to the community reflected in Governor Purdue’s story of a farmer not boasting the quality of his crop when it was all too apparent through drive by inspection.
This is quite an interesting election - gonna be close - again.
By Serge
September 7, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
Sarah Palin supports givng rapists the right to father the children of their victims.
As a major of Wasilla Sarah Palin left her city in deep debt.
Sarah Palin “values” include censuring books she does not agree with, from your local library (She may take a clue from Fidel Castro here)
Sarah Palin does’t belive in scientific evidence.
Sarah Palin is not prepared to be VP, it’s not even interested in the war we are fighting.
By chris
September 7, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
At what point do we realize that a two-week or even a two-month cram course is NOT going to make a vice-president? Just the fact that people of this country is willing to consider her is amazing. The fact that John McCain chose her puts our country at risk. If she were a man, there would be no way that he would have chosen her. Her resume is TOO weak.
By chris
September 7, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
At what point do we realize that a two-week or even a two-month cram course is NOT going to make a vice-president? Just the fact that people of this country is willing to consider her is amazing. The fact that John McCain chose her puts our country at risk. If she were a man, there would be no way that he would have chosen her. Her resume is TOO weak.
By p
September 7, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
Wooten, you are so wrong. if we have been betrayed, it was by a Republican President that has put us in trillions of dollars in debt to fight his daddy’s war.
We don’t need another SPEND, but don’t tax administration. I’d rather pay more taxes than accumulate more debt that places out economy at the mercy of Arab and Chinese governments’ bond buyers.
Where is a Republican energy policy? Why did you rip Obama’s windfall oil tax when Palin pushed for an increase, and got it, in the Alaska windfall oil tax?
Where is the Republican immigration policy?
Why is it that life is sacred to Republicans- but only until the child is born, then the policy becomes screw the kid, let them fend for themselves?
Where is the Republican education policy?
Where is the Republican infrastructure, roads, bridges, and transit policy?
Where is the republican healthcare policy?
Where is the Republican social security plan policy- other than the one to screw us out of our last remaining safety net?
Where is the Republican environmental policy?
And I was a REPUBLICAN, but I tired of the disgraceful and short-sighted behavior of the Party.
By yesiamworried
September 7, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
The South’s Value— sure,
Teenage pregnancy High School dropout (future son in law)
Both things that make the South such a great region to live in.
You are kidding me right — I am a moderate centrist who can’t believe McCain just lost my vote. Her politics are way to right wing, especially when it comes to social issues.
By ron
September 7, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this
Good morning Jim,I agree with you.Mrs.Palin is exactly like the women who were around when I grew up.Real women,Jim,not a phoney among them.Small town women,they raised families,went to church,kept the house,worked in the fields.No one told them what to do.They did whatever had to be done to live.Those women are still around today in small town America.One of them became Govenor of Alaska.
There are issues where I don’t agree with Mrs.Palin,serious issues,but I’m willing to give her a pass on these issues for the moment.Should she think for one moment that her far right values are the values of all Americans,she’s wrong,and the voters will tell her so.She is one of us small town people,but she bears watching.
By Ray
September 7, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
Tell me the last time you agreed with everything that a candidate had to say. In almost 55 years of voting, I have never found the perfect candidate. Palin’s opposition to stem cell research and it’s use in turning the corner on some of the most serious of diseases…. NO. Her stand of not aborting the fetus due to instances of rape and incest…. NO. Her evangelical approach to decision making….. NO.
A lot of people are in the same boat, but why has she created such a stir in the electorate? An approval rating of Pelosi and her ilk in the single digits? The sad truth that when asked about the most honorable professions, the American public voted politicians as not much better, if at all, to lawyers and used car salesmen. The electorate views her as not one of the Washington pack, although I don’t know how long she will stay that way. Sort of like a child when he/she grows up. You would like them to be kids as long as they can.
So stay the way you are, Sarah, for just a little while, and maybe the American people will be glad that you arrived on the scene to give them, at least, a temporary breath of fresh air, not being infected with re-electionitis, fraud, corruption and incompetence, at least not yet.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 7, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
Stinking Republicans don’t have values, they just have the BIG LIES that they all rally around. When you get a republican down, don’t stop, just stomp the living s h i t out of them. Talk about hiding behind women and children, the palin hag and her freak baby and preggers girl toy minor are perfect shields for the coward McCancerFace and his ilk. Hillary can handle old lady palin, but we may have to bring in Chelsea to teach the teenager a lesson. As for the deformed baby, ah think we will give him a pass, he has enough problems on his mind. Just a reminder for the little fella, McCancerFace burned hundreds of babies to death with napalm dropped from his almost invulnerable fighter plane. Maybe the Gods foresaw McCancerFace’s pick for VP, and decided to do a little pay back…..
By Ray
September 7, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this
Beat up, You are so typical of the nuts on this blog who hide behind a cutsie name and hurl insults at someone you do not even know. I’ll wager to say that if the “Palin Hag’s” husband were present when you spewed this trash that he would kick your sorry a**. I am surprised, Jim, that you would allow this idiot to post this trash.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 7, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this
Ray, the hag’s husband can bring it on, he gits the first blow, then I wipe the floor with his ugly a s s. Feel free to join in, I prefer it when the odds are against me….
By Herb Kornfeld
September 7, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
People over the next few weeks will find out palin is every bit as much a phony as obama. If these four up for election are the best we can do, we’re sunk.
By Goose Bumps
September 7, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Goose Bumps or Mother Goose?
There was a cold woman who lived near igloos. She kept having children, (is she red state or blue)? She flashed bright at Right moths then hid from the press, thus the state where she wins is the state of undress.
By Goose Bumps
September 7, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
So Track joined the army. The only goose bumps that someone might get looking at the flag (the flag that Cheney and Rove hide behind) is the blisters they have from Cheney’s drunken firearm mishaps.
That opens up Iraq as a topic as readily as Mr. Woo, of China, opened up the Mother Goose story he spun, about there being any political justice beyond the constitutional disenfranchisement of the 300 million victims of 911: just us.
Why? Because this war isn’t a war. It’s a hybrid coming-of-age, (nursery-rhyme free), of three different Islamo-Christian sojourns, which themselves are an ever-changing melee of invented national security precautions and misguided nation building.
There’s no need to summarize the 100 year history of the Christian West and the Islamic Hoards sitting on all that oil and how much justice we afforded their own national autonomy.
This war is from people’s everyday lives, with faucets a-drippin’ and lights a-flickerin’ and baby’s a-cryin, but these are ethno-sectarian lives, whose goose-bumps aren’t inspired by any one flag, but rather the tattered rags of past genocide; not so much hand-me-down as hand-me-a-grenade. We are dealing with the history of perpetual ethnic bandages and self-fulfilling sectarian blood.
To ignore history is 2 cause armeggedon. The planet has a self-help book, and it’s the planet’s first self help book (especially the chapter about self-fulfilling prophesies): the Bible which was written by the same folks what brung us M. Goose, oddly enough).
True.
The Bible: Chapter 37. Now we come to the crux of the fruition of the crucifixion: Does God talk to us, literally, so that we can gain counsel from a message we receive from him, as we pray about how to behave concerning the little events in our lives, like fixin the screen door, and plowing up the back forty, and ambushing our neighbor before he ambushes us? Are we all Kings with diplomatic immunity for our acts when we declare them to be acts of God? (as bush did, and Sarah Palin does)?
There was a cold woman who lived near igloos. She kept having children, (is she red state or blue)? She flashed bright at Right moths then hid from the press, thus the state where she wins is the state of undress.
Proof: Chapter 37 of the Kama Sutra is the page where they depict the Missionary Postion. Coincidence? I think not. This is the only place where East meets West. It’s like the bible code, and God is telling us something about Sarah Palin.
I’m Pofo and I’m immune from the consequences of this message so ordained by bush’s entire presidency.
By jim
September 7, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten;
You are right. We Republicans are proud and don’t need no handouts from the govenments. There plenty of educations without no one payin for us to go. I finished 10th grade which plenty enough for anyone and my wifes done got her ged dipoma. Both got us good payin jobs and don’t need no welfare. Couple of paymjents behind on my picku truck but plan to get some part time work when the fair comes to town. Don’t want no one payin for ourn doctors. 10 teeths enough for anyone. Need them commandts put back to schools. You tellm the old librourals that we is right.
By whatacrock
September 7, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
See Jim, this is the lie you right wingers want us to believe. Your article reveals the lies and hypocracy of the Republican party and addresses clearly the thin veil that they want us to believe. “No Political calculation”? Really?
The thin veil, is sure pretty isn’t it? The beautiful lace that it is created with, the wonderfully romanticized family, the quaint little small town; the republicans take us all for idiots. They don’t want you to think for yourself because when you do, you will see the light. Behind the thin little veil is a politician beyond politicians. And she and the republican party realizes that by lying to the American public, she will gain what every other self-serving politician seeks to gain; power, money, influence.
People, look underneath it all, look at it for what it is - she is a servant to the rich and powerful. She has left her town in debt, tried to destroy freedom of speech, attempted to pork barrell her state to death, lies, dang it, lies! Change? Really? Whatacrock!!!!
By Goose Bumps
September 7, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
Ray, that was duhng, redneck or glenn who wrote that. It’s an old trick. Rush Limbaugh has callers who talk like lunatics and he claims they’re lefties. It’s all set up. Dont you recognize the retarded synactical choices?
Let them talk. They know they cant win. It’s like how the demon who possessed the little girl acted in the Exorcist when he knew he was being driven out? Remember the histrionics and spewing? Sooner or later, Duhng will get around to describing what Bill Clinton’s mother is doing in hell.
We cant be distracted by the death throes of conservatism. We’ve got a country to save, and the world to convince.
Obama 08: America takes over.
By Charles
September 7, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this
The more attacks on Governor Palin by Liberals and the mainstream press the more I feel Senator McCain made a brilliant choice. The Left really don’t have an answer to the magnatism this woman brings to the GOP ticket. Unlike Obama who is an empty suit of slogans Sarah’s resume overshadows the Democrat’s choice for the top job.
I think last week was a turning point. In my neighborhood I was the only person with a McCain yard sign (there was only one Obama sign as well). This weekend I have seen 5 more McCain signs pop-up while the lone Obama yard sign is beginning to fade sitting in the sun.
By DavidEm
September 7, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
The funniest part of McCain’s speach was when he said he would put an end to partisan rancor—-which apparently had been the THEME of Palin’s juvenile, sarcastic address (written by one of BUSH’s speachwriters!) the night before. Oh and when he said he wouldn’t be working for a party in Washington, I noticed the crowd feel into a bewildered silence. Ah, the Republican “base” (appropriately named) is FIRED UP. Who wants to talk about good government? They’re much more interested in demonizing and smearing their opponents. They’re at a loss without the “culture war”…and someone to HATE. Just take a look, one more time, at the FACES in that audience during Palin’s speach. Oh, and I can’t think of a better image of irrational aggression than a pit bull.
By Sitcom Setup
September 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
This is a bad dream. Doddering, addled war-hero gets elected thanks to spunky babe. Then, downed by skin-cancer, the huntress takes the throne. Hijinks ensue. One thing the ‘republicans’ have mastered is cynical manipulation of the media and the people. Sad state of affairs, America.
By getalife "whiners"
September 7, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
Values?
Hilarious Jim.
The “barracuda” is more like a minnow scared of the media.
If you value your freedom, no draft, your house, your job and your money, you would vote Dem.
Its the economy stupid not abortion.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 7, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
jim: you repukes git your handouts from the guv via the 15% capital gains tax, the ~100k limit on social security and medicare taxes, and from bailouts of financial institutions that you have looted…
By alice
September 7, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
I am confused. It is ILLEGAL ot have an elective abortion in Alaska after 12 weeks. She found out he had Downs Syndrome in her 4th month, 16+ weeks. As Goverenr sehs should have been well aware that terminating that pregnancy was illegal. Another big lie by Palin to look like a great mom and just like one of us. She had no choice to make, she had to keep him no matter what. Besides the fact she is a liar I wont vote for an uneducated mayor of a town of less than 6,000 who left it 20 million dollars in debt. 20 million? That is like leaving Winder 20 million in debt but Winder is more populated. How bad do you have to screw up to accumulate such debt? Is this the the person we want handling our record national deficit now? Her views on abortion and family values will have little impact on this nation. Bush has the same views and nothing changed. But he got us into 2 wars, ran up a huge deficit, increased spending, ostracised our allies and mismanaged our economy. No way will I vote for another Yokel to hold the financial reigns of this nation or command the troops overseas. McCain lost my vote when he picked a beauty queen with no education or experience.
By stepehn Seabolt
September 7, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
I’m an old disabled veteran who has read the Bible form the first page to the last and I never saw any referance that GOD would request a task to send our young men and women to fight a war concieved on lies. Gov. Sarah Palin Stated “the United Staes troops in Iraq were sent on a Mission from GOD” Whats next Iran or Russia.
Steve Seabolt, USMC
By Ray
September 7, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Bumps,
Interesting article in the Phil Inquirer today as to the elephant in the living room. Wouldn’t let me pull up the link. Main point….. with 12% of the Demos in exit polls stating that race would not let them vote for a black candidate, and that’s with Demos, not the general electorate, where does that leave Mr. Wonderful? He is going to have to have at least a 10-15% lead in the polls come Nov 3rd to make up for that. The writing is on the wall, Bumps, sad to say but true.
By they 'chose'
September 7, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
What makes this even more surreal is that the ‘republicans’ are using the ‘choice’ made by Palin and her husband to make the argument for denying the opportunity for ‘choice’ by others. The height of cynical, lying, anti-American manipulation. Shame on you, Jim, for denying what is good and true about America, and siding with the bad guys. Why are the ‘republicans’ always trashing America like this? America is a great country that believes in its people. It is not the evil prison island that Jim Wooten and other ‘republicans’ think it is. It is a once-free country that the ‘republicans’ are trying to keep oppressed and exploited.
By Charlie the Tuna
September 7, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
McCain’s speech hacked the “change” mantra from Barrack Obama. America knows that, (and they’re real impressed).
Palin’s speech hacked the “proud of America” mantra from Michele Obama. America knows that (and is real impressed.)
Obama 08: America knows.
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 7, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this
Well, ah see’s the price of newsprint is up over 27% so far this year, with another 11% hike in the pipeline by December. Yet advertising dollars are down, circulation is down, so it is my fond hope that the Urinal fold real soon, and put that idiot woodenhead on the welfare line. Papers are folding from coast to coast, so why not also here in Atlanta, the most illiterate city in an increasingly illiterate AmeriKa? Children, work on your lower body strenth, it will serve you well in the world to come….pullin mah plows.
By Just Nasty and Mean
September 7, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
G’Mornin Jim, et al,
With little doubt, Jim’s article speaks to what Sarah Palin says to all conservatives. God~~ I HATE to even say it—-CHANGE. But just any change~~not towards socialism, larger government, or more intervention into our businesses, personal lives and the nanny state. But to change back to the self-sufficient independence of the 40s, 50s and 60s when Americans felt that, even though government screwed up occasionally, we trusted their intent was to do what was right. That was before the confidence crushing events of Watergate, Kennedy assassination, MLK, Vietnam—
That trust no longer exists—Not anymore.
Americans are so fed up by being screwed by their government combined with the partisan bickering in Washington that many have virtually given up on the morass of a government accomplishing ANYTHING worthwhile. Everything in DC turns into a government giveaway based on compromise. But with these jumbo compromises, everybody gets everything they want—all at the taxpayer’s expense—and nobody is held accountable! Americans are simply SICK of pork, earmarks, waste, spending, ineptitude, and government becoming the central repository and owner of everyone’s personal problems.
Palin is not a Washington insider. So far, she is doesn’t appear influenced or even impressed by the powerful and entrenched politicos, going so far as to poke fun at the mainstream media. Judging from her actions (which speak MUCH louder than just words), Palin reflects what we have wanted in Washington for a long, long time…Someone who is going to do what is RIGHT for America, not based upon what party gets the credit.
She is only the VP candidate, but we can hope and pray she is the “real deal” and the 1st step towards cutting off the massive army of 300,000+ lobbyists that influence OUR government’s decisions every single day—-far more than the millions and millions of taxpaying Americans.
Palin is a breath of fresh air not yet contaminated sewage permeating Washington.
So far, she is one of us.
By norman ravitch
September 7, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
Sorry, Jim. Palin’s values are not my own. I like my Chardonnay and cheese. I don’t care for moose stew and don’t know how to dress one, except in an outfit from Ralph Lauren. You rednecks don’t run this country yet.
I know evolution is a fact and that the Bible is bunkum. And I don’t own a gun but if I did it would use it on Christofascists.
By Ray
September 7, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
Bottom line….
At least 10-12% of the electorate not voting for the Annointed One because of his race. At least 10+% of the Hillaryites going to the dark side. A rejuvenated GOP with something that they can believe in…….. Mr. Wonderful should have not wasted his time for the last 19mos. Wow, he could have been representing all of those people in Chicago that elected him or is that not why we elect our exaulted Senators?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 7, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
Good morning all. Sarah is a tough one for the democrats to crack. She is the new America’s Sweetheart, and the Obama brand has seemingly lost its luster. The dems know they cannot take her on head-on, as America shares her conservative values, and not those of the leftists. She refuses to play along to script with the media, so the MSM will be unable to keep their ratings AND take her out.
Encouraging to see America making its decision based on the eternal values rather than any particular issues.
The longer perspective has to be that Obama lost this election, not that McCain won it. While the Palin nomination is a master stroke, a move of genius well beyond McCain’s paygrade, it should not have been so meaningful. Obama had eight months to define himself for American, and steadfastly refused to do so. Thus, when Sarah began painting, she had a blank slate to work.
jbmlaw forecast: Obama will now try to sound more conservative than McCain. This election will be won - and lost - on conservative ground.
By TW
September 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
proud look,
a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Let Sarah Palin continure ‘w’s mission
By r u kidding me
September 7, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Her values are definitely not MY values. I was going to vote republican until McCain put her on his ticket. Looks like Obama just gained another vote!
By Thespis
September 7, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
The arrogance of this column astounds me. Do political operatives, and it appears at least to me that Wooten qualifies as a GOP mouthpiece, honestly think the people of America and particularly of the South, are so easily categorized? To say that Palin’s values are our values, or even to say that ANY politician’s values are our values assumes that the writer either writes for one group alone, such as in the trade press or that the writer possesses some omniscient power to know all of our values a nd therefore is able to make such a sweeping pronouncement. I must admit that I do believe that Wooten believes he speaks for all of the GOP readers, but the contention he makes is that Palin’s values are the values of all of us who live in the South. That is ludicrous and arrogant and typical of the current political climate promulgated by the extremists like Wooten on both sides of the question.
Wooten may believe he speaks for us all but nothing could be further from the truth. Not necessarily because he speaks of Palim, but because he makes the statement in the first place. None of the candidates share all of our values. There are aspects of Palin’s values that I do agree with, but there are aspects of Biden’s (to isolate this to VP candidates) values with which I agree as well. Contrary to what Mr. Wooten appears to believe, all Southeners are not sheep and we do not all think alike. The arrogance of his statement to the contrary is amazing.
The other thing that bothers me is that this election is not, nor should it be, about values. It should be about where candidates stand on issues and policies that will move our Country back to prosperity and security. If people know the candidates stands on such issues and choose who they will vote for based on that, then that’s great. But pandering to “values voters” based on such non-issues is what got us eight years down the road to oblivion. I’ll take a competent leader who has clear positions on issues with which I agree but with whom I share not one “value” over one who shares all of my values but lacks the ability to do the job. The fact that this statement describes McCain for some and Obama for others is where the greatness of America resides.
By demsrscared
September 7, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Wow, you know the dems r scared when all they can do is spew misinformation this hateful kind of stuff: oh wait, that’s what they always do. Guess they shouldn’t have nominated an unqualified candidate for President.
By BS Aplenty
September 7, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
It’s a beautiful day in Atlanta, Jim, indeed, in America.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin remind us that there can be a new day in the country, a day where the political air is once again fresh. A day when far more of the governing policy reflects genuine American values, including that can-do attitude of these two independent-minded ‘Westerners’. They will, indeed, find friends in many Southern homes.
McCain/Palin ‘08 - The Right Kind of Change.
By marko
September 7, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this
Jim, I believe that you’re in love old fella. I thought you might want to know that nude pictures of a famous republican Governor have suffaced on the internet. Before you go running off to fog up your pc screen let me tell you that the of pictures are Arnold not Sarah. Sorry to dissapoint you old guy, but maybe you ought to tell senator Craig. I think he just might be interested.
By W
September 7, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
McBush/Palin is a losing ticket! 1. Palin’s foreign policy experience is limited to negotiating fishing treaties with Russia. 2. Palin would rather grow her career than help her husband raise their disabled child. 3. Palin would rather grow her career than raise her teen daughter responsibly (i.e. to teach her to uphold their Republican, conservative values of keeping her legs closed until marriage).
Give me a freakin break. Palin is trailer trash! McBush made the WRONG CHOICE!!!
By Dave
September 7, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Wow, it’s AMAZING that McCain is preaching “change” — changed from the failed leadership of his own party for the past eight years.
Although I disagree with Jim Wooten about 90% of the time, I used to at least respect him and his points of view. But his blind loyalty to Palin and dismissive approach to any doubts about her ability to lead have revealed him for what he truly is — a go-along GOP partisan. It has tarnished by view of all of his opinions and it makes me look foolish for defending a few of his positions in the past.
By The SnowWitch
September 7, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
In the land of the Pundits they were choosing a chief. The Black Prince was sure to win. But then suddenly-susan, a witch appeared among them, a mutated genome from the land of gnomes near Nome. She turned polls into trolls, and soldiers into ogres. She appeared and disappeared at will, seemingly into thin air. Her feet never touched the ground when she walked, as it was always covered by a carpet of snow. Her skin was usually covered in fur, but you could see that she was obviously female. It was the SnowWitch. The Pundits knew not what she was, and of her elk they had not seen before. She asked only that they let her inside their great white house. A texas-tea party in a Rose Garden seemed harmless enough, and the Pundits were disarmed, enchanted and engaged. Was this their avocation’s long-awaited advocate? Could the Black Prince ever realize his mandate?
to be continued…..
By Dusty
September 7, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Mean @10:54
Very nice post indeed. I like it when bloggers sound sensible and observant as you did.
Sarah suits me just fine. I don’t agree with her on EVERYTHING but she is certainly what is needed in America. Bravery in decisions, faith inspired, honest in her work and decent in her family, topped off with patriotism; sounds very good to me. She will be the perfect backup to a man of similar character and long experience, McCain of course.
For now, the fresh spirit of America IS McCain & Palin. For Obama, he needs to graduate from the school of experience and then he may be ready. There are signs of greatness that slip from beneath the political facade now presented. Let him grow and he may be the NEXT one to offer something America needs. He’s not ready now.
By fearless fosdik
September 7, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten
“Our values reflected in those of Palin.”
Count me out!
An article from Rick Steiner a professor at the Alaska University
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/377955_palinenvir07.html
By Sleepy
September 7, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Speak for yourself Jimmie. You have repeatedly shown that you have less than no understanding of the values that the majority of people may or may not share with Ms. Palin. You, she and the rest of the extreme Christianists wish to impose views that distort Christianity as wildly as those of the muslim jihads distort Islam. You call yourselves “conservatives”, but every time the courts and legislatures decline to impose your religious views on the rest of us, you demand yet another constitutional amendment. Be honest - that isn’t conservatism, it’s radical, revolutionary theocratism, from which the Constitution (that which is to be “conserved”) gratefully protects us all.
By dirty harry
September 7, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
Yes, Ragnar it is tough to take on Mrs Palin.
It’s tough to take on anyone when they run to their little undisclosed location, while they try to digest all that goes on in this world..that they should be aware of and arn’t.
If you saw Joe Biden on “MEET THE PRESS” this morning? You know what I’m talking about!
Tom Brokaw was left muttering “Let’s move on”!
By Ga Values
September 7, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this
Obama is not my man, with me it’s McCain or Barr. I am convinced McCain is correct about getting special interest/Lobbyist out of control of government. I do not understand why he picked an unknown like Palin, Coburn or DeMint would great. I could probably read a speech written by W’s main speech writter, I just don’t understand why he picked the Hockey Mom.
By The Way
September 7, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin: Goose bumps, or Mother Goose?
There was a cold woman who lived in snowshoes. She kept having children, (was she red state or blue)? She earmuffed her earmarks, while entitlements grew, so her children had children in a state-compted igloo.
By marko
September 7, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
Jim, I hope you’ll forgive if I withhold judgement as to whether or not Gov. Palin shares my values. You see I’m not Pentecostal so I have never learned to speak in tongues. She was’nt there when The Republican presidential cadidates were asked whether or not they believed in evolution. I hope someone ask her that question I’d really like to know her answer. I know that Obama opposed the war when it was popular to support it, and McCain supported the surge when it was’nt. I also know that Sarah supported the bridge to nowhere before she opposed it. People that read popular opinion polls before they form their values will always be popular. Real men say what they believe and let the chips fall where they may. Then again nobody ever accused Sarah of being a real man.
By AmVet
September 7, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
In spite of her apparently being a garden variety knuckle dragging, book burning wannabe, bible thumping, science denying neo-con who would be a heartbeat away from being the CIC, the thing that scares many Americans the most I suppose about Sister Sarah and her Two Mules, is that given what the nation has had to endure for the past eight years of deadly, bungling decisions by a man who was CLEARLY unqualified for the job in the first place, who in their right mind would even consider the possibility of seeing the consequences of another horrible choice like that again.
Not this American…
By Nomad
September 7, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this
AmVet - It is ok to acknowledge that a successful. intelligent woman scares you. You are seeing the future of the Republican party in Sarah Palin and what is being presented by the Democrats pales in comparison. What amazes me is that you want to replace the man who you say made bungling decisions with one who has no experience except for the 147 days he spent in the Senate. Hopefully, he will be allowed to return and finish out his term.
Try again.
NOMAD
By You make me sad
September 7, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
It makes me so sad to hear the redneck idiots speaking up to spout their stupid nonsense.
Calling Gov. Palin a “hag”, a “broad” and a “snow witch” only makes you look dumb, not cute like you think it does.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Do you want a mosque on every corner? Do you want to learn to speak Farsi instead of English?
Get a life and burn your computer.
By @@
September 7, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this
Hi’ya Jim! I’m gonna pull one excerpt from your column and tell you why, I’ve found, it hits the mark:
Washington betrays us. Betrays us in the sense that we are made strangers from our government. We can’t make it be responsible. We can’t make it reform. We can’t make it understand — we can’t make them, the celebrities and insiders, the important people, understand.
Like everyone, I’m looking to find out who Sarah Palin is in politics. She knows who she is in her heart….in her home….in her family.
I’ve been scouring the internet looking for Sarah Palin BEFORE she was selected by John McCain to be his running mate. It’s not easy, but I’ve found plenty of on-air discussions, debates, interviews. OUR (and I say that as one of the WEs you mentioned above) Sarah gets it. WE can’t bring about reform from the outside, looking in, but she and John McCain sure can.
It’s no wonder that John McCain chose her. He’s been on the hill trying to reform it for 26 years. He now has Sarah……who’s got his back. During a speech in Colorado, I saw “The Original McCain” — “McCain the Maverick”, a reinvigorated John who, with an angry spark in his eye, was giving Washington fair notice. “We (McCain/Palin) are a force FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!
And you……Washington?
You political partisans?
You insiders and inciters…………?
Be forewarned! You are our intended target!
I yiked it Jim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 7, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Dear harry @ 12:28, I think we hold similar views of reality here, and you will agree that may be a first. In many ways the Palin conundrum for the democrats is comparable to what republicans faced with Obama. I think she smoked-out Obama, such that he has to respond substantively. Thus my forecast that he will sound “right.”
I have a strategy that would allow Obama to retake the momentum. Joe Biden will have to withdraw, perhaps for unspecified “health” reasons (thus to keep a focus on one of the Obama allegations about McCain) and be replaced with a popular moderate. Either Hillary or Colin Powell would be a daring suggestion to re-take the momentum. I think Hillary would decline, but I think Powell would accept.
By Obama Man
September 7, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
I am a African American baby boomer who grew up in America where there was no access to power or influence. One thing is clear to me. We do not live in a world from which we came from the standpoint of nationalism. Just look at the differences in young people and and how they relate to one another. The internet, i-phone, computers, music, My space, You Tube, bloggers, globilization, etc etc. has changed everything. Most of the racism and cultural wars in America today originate from we baby boomers with their varying value systems used to separate us. The young kids of today do not have time for it. My grand kids have grown up in an integrated society of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, Caucasian Americans, Europeans,and others. They feel that most older people are out of touch. If you don’t believe me, strike up a conversation with them. They are very much aware.
Small town America where those in power were mostly white is coming to an end. We cannot afford to live in the past where this was the prevalent culture and way of life. Did you notice the differences in the conventions. The democrats had more young people and people of various races(mixed and otherwise). The Republicans were predominantly white baby boomers.It was pleasant to see them bring in a young white woman with lots of appeal for what ever reason. It appears that they recognize the need for change.
The focus of the elections should be on issues and policy and not values. Americans have different values and that will not change as we have always had different values. I want to hear about the economy, taxes, social security, healthcare, the environment, energy, foreign policy,special interest impacts, national security(domestic and foreign), education,etc. and how we blend these issues into the global world we live in today and in the future.
By Carbon Footprint
September 7, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin is now being coached on every possible question the media will fire at her. (like the way dorothy and co. did for the lion when he prepared to be king of the forest)
When she emerges, she’ll shine again.
We’re being beguiled as a nation by a stranger. I dont see what could possibly go wrong, do you?
But sarah, what if you are faced with the choice of going to war and unrest? “I’ll show them who’s king of the forest.”
But sarah, what if you meet a reporter who offers you coffee in a caraffe? “Dont make me laugh”*
Expect very flippant answers to tough questions. With her “lipstick/ pittbull” joke, she obviously doesn’t know Vick about the media.
*I only put that in there to show you where I got my journalism degree.
By getalife "whiners"
September 7, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this
Looks like gop values corporate welfare:
“Government Takes Over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac”
Big auto is next for the welfare bail out.
FDIC borrowing to bail out banks.
When will you people say enough with stealing your tax money and borrowing on your children’s debt?
I thought you were against welfare.
By getalife "whiners"
September 7, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
If you really want country first.
“No way, no how, no McCain.”
By ROSS
September 7, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
When did getting an “Ivy League” education become a bad thing? Personally, my dream was to attend Princeton and my daughter is looking at several of those “horrible places” to get her Master’s.
Sara took 6-7 years and nearly as many colleges to come up with a bachelor’s degree. I’m sorry, but I want the leaders of this nation to be better educated and smarter than I am. Neither McCain nor Palin fit the bill.
Being able to field dress a moose is great, if you’re planning on being a contestant on Survivor, but not a skill set generally useful inside the Beltway, unless you’re hunting with Dick.
I don’t know what small town, you guys grew up in, but the one that I grew up in, Sara would be considered a “nut case.” End-time beliefs are not main stream small town beliefs, makes a fine Christian novel, but they are not waiting around for the Rapture to spirit them away, any minute.
Her values are somewhere right of Rev. Hagee. Her views, what little we have found out about them, are rigid, puritanical and down right dangerous. I’m sure the non-Christian citizens will be shocked to find out that they will all be going to hell, and that will really play well in foreign relations.
I am insulted that the only women that the Republican’s could find that they feel is qualified to be President (remember McCain’s age) is what my small town would call “white trash.”
By Dusty
September 7, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this
Ah.. AmVet the Awful.12:43..rising up from the depth of despair to denigrate one and all; a voice crying in the wilderness (of his mind). Cheer up, buddy, tomorrow’s another day and you can gripe some more.
SnowWitch, The Way, PoFo in meltdown….a light touch today, hmmm? So is a feather pillow.Whatever!! Go glue an igloo…
Dave,12:15 Nobody is MAKING you accept anything. Sarah Palin has many assets that will help this country. You don’t have to agree with everything about her but you should realize what whe has to offer. Wooten has analyzed quite happily the uplift she gives this country. Nobody else has given that incentive to America. McCain is the goal. She is the spirit of the team. Get with it!!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 7, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Dear OM @ 1:06, good argument. I disagree, respectfully. I think Obama yielded an “issues” election when he spent seven months developing his “rock star” brand. It is probably too late for him to establish credentials on any major issues. “Iraq is a loser” is a loser for Obama, and that is the only substantial foreign policy issue he has argued. “Bush tax cuts are bad” is a comparable loser-argument in economics, but that is the only position he has staked out for himself.
The Republicans, in selecting and promoting so-highly Sarah Palin, have made this a “values” election. Obama and Biden have some credibility on values, although that is a two-edge sword for Obama - he also has some conspicuous negatives there. I think Obama does best continuing to avoid issues - as his base is at odds with majority sensibilities on the issues, he must continue the “Jimmy Carter stealth” strategy there. Thus I think he will pusue a “values” position to the right of John McCain. How would it hit you if Obama comes out with “McCain-Feingold was a dumb idea on the fundamentals, and should have been ruled unconstitutional.”?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
September 7, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Could Obama credibly embrace “vouchers” and “fair tax?” If he really wants to stir the pot….
By Dusty
September 7, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this
Dear Ragnar,
Why do you think Colin Powell would accept a second hand position offer from Obama?
First, Powell is a top-0f-the-line man and not one to be a substitute.
Second, Powell is a wise man who can see without a doubt that Obama is inexperienced in matters of government.
Third, Powell is a military man who would not find a man of anti-war philosophy one he could support with honor.
Powell has had greater opportunities offered to him and refused them with a smile.
PS…Biden would not resign if he were dragged from the scene screaming.. R U dreaming????
By Carbon Footprint
September 7, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
So Track joined the army. The only goose bumps that someone might get looking at the flag (the flag that Cheney and Rove hide behind) is the blisters they have from Cheney’s drunken firearm mishaps.
That opens up Iraq as a topic as readily as Mr. Woo, of China, opened up the Mother Goose story he spun, about there being any political justice beyond the constitutional disenfranchisement of the 300 million victims of 911: just us.
Why? Because this war isn’t a war. It’s a hybrid coming-of-age, (nursery-rhyme free), of three different Islamo-Christian sojourns, which themselves are an ever-changing melee of invented national security precautions and misguided nation building.
There’s no need to summarize the 100 year history of the Christian West and the Islamic Hoards sitting on all that oil and how much justice we afforded their own national autonomy.
This war is from people’s everyday lives, with faucets a-drippin’ and lights a-flickerin’ and baby’s a-cryin, but these are ethno-sectarian lives, whose goose-bumps aren’t inspired by any one flag, but rather the tattered rags of past genocide; not so much hand-me-down as hand-me-a-grenade. We are dealing with the history of perpetual ethnic bandages and self-fulfilling sectarian blood.
To ignore history is 2 cause armeggedon. The planet has a self-help book, and it’s the planet’s first self help book (especially the chapter about self-fulfilling prophesies): the Bible which was written by the same folks what brung us M. Goose, oddly enough).
True.
The Bible: Chapter 37. Now we come to the crux of the fruition of the crucifixion: Does God talk to us, literally, so that we can gain counsel from a message we receive from him, as we pray about how to behave concerning the little events in our lives, like fixin the screen door, and plowing up the back forty, and ambushing our neighbor before he ambushes us? Are we all Kings with diplomatic immunity for our acts when we declare them to be acts of God? (as bush did, and Sarah Palin does)?
There was a cold woman who lived near igloos. She kept having children, (is she red state or blue)? She flashed bright at Right moths then hid from the press, thus the state where she wins is the state of undress.
Proof: Chapter 37 of the Kama Sutra is the page where they depict the Missionary Postion. Coincidence? I think not. This is the only place where East meets West. It’s like the bible code, and God is telling us something about Sarah Palin.
I’m Pofo and I’m immune from the consequences of this message so ordained by bush’s entire presidency.
By Andy
September 7, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
Dusty, thanks 4 the kind words. Thank you.
You keep writing, girlfriend, cause I know that a person could glean more salient comments than yours by reading the skidmarks on 3-day-old BVDs.
bwa haw
By @@
September 7, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this
Dusty:
One thing I’ve noticed about Ragnar — Sarah Pales In comparison to how much he likes to stir the pot here.
Take note of how he stirs the liberal masses.
Just like Sarah, his is an endearing quality to be sure.
By Ray
September 7, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
Dusty makes a good point. Alma Powell insisted that her husband not run for president because she was afraid for his safety, among other reasons.
He is not the kind of person that would run with a socialist who has no appreciation for the military that Powell spent all of his adult life emulating. When Powell accepted the Doughboy Award at Ft. Benning, GA (past recipients Eisenhouer, Bradley, Marshall), you could tell how much the military means to him and to his heritage. He would not degrade himself by associating with an empty suit like Mr. Wonderful. Never.
By AmVet
September 7, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this
Noman, are you a professional moron or just an amateur?
The fact that she is successful and intelligent is not at issue.
But even the possibility of teenage trailer trash, frozen though it may be, running around the White House is pretty off-setting to most decent American parents, regardless of party affiliation or political beliefs.
Her character, and the seemingly significant problems with it, are being closely examined by an electorate that is absolutely fed up with you non-conservative “conservative” charlatans.
And all these dwindling, impotent uber-hypocrites and non-christian frauds, including our very own oft-derided and pathetic dustball, DO NOT like it. But, of course, are powerless to do more than whine about it.
And threaten us with eternal damnation. So I’m just eternally thankful that the book burning cretins can’t get rid of the first amendment and just start with the second. Like they would just love to do in Cobb County.
Further, Noman, I will never vote for Senator Obama. I have stated so from before he won the nomination. He is IMHO much worse a choice.
That you assume I would, shows just how ill-informed and frankly, willing to look like an idiot and an ostrich, you really are.
By Chuck
September 7, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this
Sarah has certainly energized the Obama group. This woman is scary and it is clear will only bring four more years of the worst administration our country has had in generations. She may carry the South because of her values, but let us all pray that she won’t carry the Nation. Written by a gay former Atlantan that now fortunately lives in California and is getting married this month. Real family values at work.
By Chuck
September 7, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Sarah has certainly energized the Obama group. This woman is scary and it is clear will only bring four more years of the worst administration our country has had in generations. She may carry the South because of her values, but let us all pray that she won’t carry the Nation. Written by a gay former Atlantan that now fortunately lives in California and is getting married this month. Real family values at work.
By Chuck
September 7, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
Sarah has certainly energized the Obama group. This woman is scary and it is clear will only bring four more years of the worst administration our country has had in generations. She may carry the South because of her values, but let us all pray that she won’t carry the Nation. Written by a gay former Atlantan that now fortunately lives in California and is getting married this month. Real family values at work.
By Pee'er Pressure
September 7, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
So Track joined the army. The only goose bumps that someone might get looking at the flag (the flag that Cheney and Rove hide behind) is the blisters they have from Cheney’s drunken firearm mishaps.
That opens up Iraq as a topic as readily as Mr. Woo, of China, opened up the Mother Goose story he spun, about there being any political justice beyond the constitutional disenfranchisement of the 300 million victims of 911: just us.
Why? Because this war isn’t a war. It’s a hybrid coming-of-age, (nursery-rhyme free), of three different Islamo-Christian sojourns, which themselves are an ever-changing melee of invented national security precautions and misguided nation building.
There’s no need to summarize the 100 year history of the Christian West and the Islamic Hoards sitting on all that oil and how much justice we afforded their own national autonomy.
This war is from people’s everyday lives, with faucets a-drippin’ and lights a-flickerin’ and baby’s a-cryin, but these are ethno-sectarian lives, whose goose-bumps aren’t inspired by any one flag, but rather the tattered rags of past genocide; not so much hand-me-down as hand-me-a-grenade. We are dealing with the history of perpetual ethnic bandages and self-fulfilling sectarian blood.
To ignore history is 2 cause armeggedon. The planet has a self-help book, and it’s the planet’s first self help book (especially the chapter about self-fulfilling prophesies): the Bible which was written by the same folks what brung us M. Goose, oddly enough).
True.
The Bible: Chapter 37. Now we come to the crux of the fruition of the crucifixion: Does God talk to us, literally, so that we can gain counsel from a message we receive from him, as we pray about how to behave concerning the little events in our lives, like fixin the screen door, and plowing up the back forty, and ambushing our neighbor before he ambushes us? Are we all Kings with diplomatic immunity for our acts when we declare them to be acts of God? (as bush did, and Sarah Palin does)?
There was a cold woman who lived near igloos. She kept having children, (is she red state or blue)? She flashed bright at Right moths then hid from the press, thus the state where she wins is the state of undress.
Proof: Chapter 37 of the Kama Sutra is the page where they depict the Missionary Postion. Coincidence? I think not. This is the only place where East meets West. It’s like the bible code, and God is telling us something about Sarah Palin.
I’m Pofo and I’m immune from the consequences of this message so ordained by bush’s entire presidency.
By Andy
September 7, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this
Dusty, thanks 4 the kind words. Thank you.
You keep writing, girlfriend, cause I know that a person could glean more salient comments than yours by reading the skidmarks on 3-day-old BVDs.
bwa haw
By Beat Up a Repulican Everyday
September 7, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
How can you tell when Sarah is lying? Her lips are moving.