So Palin Didn't Know What Africa Was...

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Crafty Angler

With all due respect, if brains were dynamite, that woman couldn't blow her nose.

McCain selected her because 1.) She was a woman, and he wanted to appeal to female voters, and 2.) She's a wacko right-wing, gun-totin' born-again redneck who would be better suited to a trailer park than the Oval Office. And that was the the constituency he was appealing to on that count.

In simpler terms, McCain knew he was beat unless he chose a total 'game changer'.. a person who would compete with Obama's votes.. so he chose a hot woman. If McCain had chosed a man, he would not be able to take away any of Obama's votes..
The thinking was that she would steal all of the people that were going to vote for hillary...


on a side note- if you divide the campain spending to votes, Obama spent $10 for every vote and McCain spent 10 cents for every vote..

amazing..

For the love of God, I hope Obama gets this country back on track, or at the very least the GOP gets its act together and realigns itself with the fundamentals that they were once known for..

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by Nebe

...For the love of God, I hope Obama gets this country back on track, or at the very least the GOP gets its act together and realigns itself with the fundamentals that they were once known for..

I'm with you Nebe - I think it's going to take a young man - and man, is it weird to have a President that's younger than you are - to inspire people to straighten this ****ing mess out that Bush has created.

Vitriol aside, I don't honestly think McCain/Palin would have done that - this country has been that seriously damaged, economically and spiritually.

Nebe, given your age, you would have no way of knowing what it felt like to have listened to Dr. King, JFK and especially his brother Bobby, who would have been, I believe, the man to bring the country back together after the assassinations. Regardless of all the things now 'discovered' about those men to discredit them, they created an atmosphere that would have inspired us to a more compassionate approach to our own people and those in the world around us. And that is not to say we wouldn't have been more than ready to kick a$$ when necessary anywhere we were threatened.

Anger and fear are powerful and dangerously volatile emotions and they were used to great advantage by Bush et al. to manipulate the country - let's face it, they had Americans hypnotized and hysterical with a new threat every week.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel Barack will lead us back in the direction of the ideals the country was founded on and has been moved so far away from and make us a more humane and compassionate society.

He can't do it alone and certainly won't by himself. It's up to us to turn to and make this country live up to it's promise.

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Crafty Angler

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel Barack will lead us back in the direction of the ideals the country was founded on and has been moved so far away from and make us a more humane and compassionate society.

He can't do it alone and certainly won't by himself. It's up to us to turn to and make this country live up to it's promise.

Well said. I hope the first thing he does is get rid of the torture memos by Yoo and Addington, closes Gitmo, tighten the clamps on the FBI back to near where they were before 9/11.

[fishsmith]

Originally Posted by Nebe

on a side note- if you divide the campain spending to votes, Obama spent $10 for every vote and McCain spent 10 cents for every vote..

One correction, it's - Oprah spent $10 for every 'anonymous' vote.

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by fishsmith

One correction, it's - Oprah spent $10 for every 'anonymous' vote.

It's the redistribution of wealth, dude -

The GOP concentrated most of theirs in the hanging chad election by giving it all to Katherine Harris - hey, she earned it, I suppose

[Mike P]

Check this out, and then try to tell me that there's anyone home behind that 15 watt porch light

And this isn't Tina Fey doing a SNL skit--this is legitimately your gal Sarah.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-132425

[Joe]

I was so consumed by her hotness that I did not hear anything she said.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Joe

I was so consumed by her hotness that I did not hear anything she said.

Something about the Constitution preaching that First Dude is Alaskan

[JH Beers]

Todd is Eskimo, at least partially.