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Sarah Palin: The Barracuda

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Garpal Gumnut said:
What a great lady the Republican candidate John McCain has picked for his running mate.

A far cry from the insipid lickspittle Biden, who Obama chose.

This is a full blooded American woman in the tradition of glass ceiling shattering women of that great nation, the USA.

And she gave credit where it was due to Hilary Clinton.

The Barracuda will eat Biden and take a reasonable bite out of Obama.

See this link for a bio.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/rollins.palin/

John McCain will easily win this election with this lady as a running mate. she may be President one day.

gg
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Paraphrased "finally a US presidential contender with some balls" :roflmao:
 
What a pleasant break from the sanitised left wing media darlings we are so used to seeing is Sarah Barracuda.

Bill Clinton , the dirty old roger is conspicuously silent. His long suffering wife's only claim in posterity will to have been mentioned by Sarah in her first speech.

Even the poor old hen, Kerry O'Brien tonight on the 730 report was unable to muster any words with which to denigrate her.

She is young, female, fertile, sexy, articulate and intelligent. Traits she shares with Obama Barack.

However she has experience in life and government way beyond his meagre accomplishments.

Roll on the election.

McCain and Palin will roll in.

gg
 
There has been so much US political coverage consist of tabloid crap about the presidential candidate's associations (Jeremiah Wight / Sarah Palin). The US public laps it all up which says a lot about the American population.
 
juw177 said:
There has been so much US political coverage consist of tabloid crap about the presidential candidate's associations (Jeremiah Wight / Sarah Palin). The US public laps it all up which says a lot about the American population.
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Yes mate, the quality of voters ruins elections I believe so as well lol

gg
 
I'm still trying to work out if she's exploiting the system, or ( more likely) the system is exploiting her (total newbie that she is).

I suspect she is being exploited more than she is exploiting....

Then again , I am so totally against almost everything she stands for ... no way can I sympathise with her plight. :2twocents
 
2020hindsight said:
I'm still trying to work out if she's exploiting the system, or ( more likely) the system is exploiting her (total newbie that she is).

I suspect she is being exploited more than she is exploiting....

Then again , I am so totally against almost everything she stands for ... no way can I sympathise with her plight. :2twocents
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Don't vote for her then...

...oh that's right. You can't vote anyway.

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Why is it that almost all US poiltical speeches make me want to vomit? (doesn't matter which side btw)
 
2020hindsight said:
I'm still trying to work out if she's exploiting the system, or ( more likely) the system is exploiting her (total newbie that she is).

I suspect she is being exploited more than she is exploiting....

Then again , I am so totally against almost everything she stands for ... no way can I sympathise with her plight. :2twocents
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Yes mate I agree with your last statement. I'd be totally pissed off if the left had brough a candidate like this out of the woodwork so close to the election.

Obama might have achieved much, but McCain is not a conservative in the recognised mode, he is innovative, can move quickly, is willing to take risks and has experience.

Sarah Barracuda illustrates this.

The left is like the Catholic church in the fifties, ossified, look at Rudd, he's afraid of his own shadow.

gg
 
I keep trying to visualise Ms Palin on the world stage (say if McCain does get elected then has a heart attack or another bout of cancer). Keep trying to see her in the sort of role to which Condaleeza Rice has brought such dignity and diligence. But I just can't see it.

OK, if you're into hunting beautiful native animals, and into denial about normal teenage sexual behaviour, and if you harbour some lasciviousness about the photos of her with the gold G-string, then I guess she's your woman.

But heaven help all of us if essential global negotiations were to be up to her with her complete lack of experience.

Can you just imagine her involved in a strategic discussion with Putin, e.g.?
She'd probably invite him to a game of hockey, and let the winner make the global decision.

Sorry if I'm offending all you dedicated Republicans out there. I don't even have an axe to grind for or against either party. Don't care for either of the candidates particularly. But Ms Palin arouses in me more antipathy than I would have thought possible for an election so far away.
 
Julia said:
... Can you just imagine her involved in a strategic discussion with Putin, e.g.?
She'd probably invite him to a game of hockey, and let the winner make the global decision.
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lol, thank you Julia
great imagery - and I needed a laugh :cool:

I mean - the weakness of the US system has to be this VP situation - no scrutiny WHATSOEVER over the last 12 months - crazy ! - "Sarah Who?" as they say . :2twocents

It would be like the "Governor" of Flinders Island (and I have no idea if there is such a position) ...
suddenly (within 2 months of the election) promoted to "next-in-line-to-the-top-dog-position-in-Canberra-and-one-heartbeat-away."

This lady could be telling us to go to war with Iran in a couple of years for cryssake! Along with her son who will probably be Stop-lossed (unless he uses his mums influence) to remain in the army 6 months longer than he contracted with the Army to serve his time. -

Forget Civvy Street dude - get back in that trench!!

PS the US have gone stark raving mad - attack Iraq and then totally overwork their Army trying to make some cheap political point (beyond the Chickenhawks incidentally)... just that they won't accept the truthful verdict when you tell them .

The thing about Sarah is , she diverts attention from the Cheney's who will continue to reap the rewards of supplying war machinery to the US military
 
Julia said:
I keep trying to visualise Ms Palin on the world stage (say if McCain does get elected then has a heart attack or another bout of cancer). Keep trying to see her in the sort of role to which Condaleeza Rice has brought such dignity and diligence. But I just can't see it.

OK, if you're into hunting beautiful native animals, and into denial about normal teenage sexual behaviour, and if you harbour some lasciviousness about the photos of her with the gold G-string, then I guess she's your woman.

But heaven help all of us if essential global negotiations were to be up to her with her complete lack of experience.

Can you just imagine her involved in a strategic discussion with Putin, e.g.?
She'd probably invite him to a game of hockey, and let the winner make the global decision.

Sorry if I'm offending all you dedicated Republicans out there. I don't even have an axe to grind for or against either party. Don't care for either of the candidates particularly. But Ms Palin arouses in me more antipathy than I would have thought possible for an election so far away.
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It didn't seem to make much difference when the USA was led by a sex addict, Kennedy or Clinton.

Or when a person with obvious Alzheimers , Reagan, was negotiating on the world stage.

She appears far more grounded and appropriate than either Bush or Ford.

And Nixon was a crook, and Carter an incompetent godbotherer.

gg
 
2020hindsight said:
It would be like the "Governor" of Flinders Island (and I have no idea if there is such a position) ...
suddenly (within 2 months of the election) promoted to "next-in-line-to-the-top-dog-position-in-Canberra-and-one-heartbeat-away."
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Not quite.

Alaska (IPA: /əˈlæskə/, Russian: Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent. It is the largest U.S. state by area, and the 6th wealthiest (per capita income).[

In 2006 Alaska had an estimated population of 670,053, an increase of 6,392 (0.96%) from 2005 and 43,121 (6.9%) from 2000. In 2000 Alaska ranked 48th out of 50 states by population.[19] Alaska is the least densely populated state, at 1.1 people per square mile (0.42/km ²), with the next state, Wyoming, at 5.1 per square mile (1.97/km ²).
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More like a cross between the premier of Tasmania and WA.

It pays to check your facts before running off at the mouth.
 
juw177 said:
Then the character assassination by the media has worked?
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No, juw, just the view I've formed from listening to and watching her and considering her professed values. Doesn't need any further assassination by the media.
 
wayneL said:
Not quite.
More like a cross between the premier of Tasmania and WA.
It pays to check your facts before running off at the mouth.
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Jeez Wayne, can I play pedant now –
perhaps if you compare “President of USA" with “Prime Minister of Australia” you’ll judge me less mmmm toughly.

PS I once listened in on a lecture on bridge building by a famous American engineer at an international conference.
He proposed a bridge between Alaska and Russia - across the Bering Strait. Needless to say there was an allegory going on in the background. "Bridge building between east and west."

It is possible technically
even philosophically.

But not with the likes of McCain and Palin in charge !
 
Julia said:
No, juw, just the view I've formed from listening to and watching her and considering her professed values. Doesn't need any further assassination by the media.
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Your views are still largely a product of the media. It is no accident that the media chooses to sensationalise the personal life of some one who is not even an election candidate.
 
2020hindsight said:
Jeez Wayne, can I play pedant now –
perhaps if you compare “President of USA" with “Prime Minister of Australia” you’ll judge me less mmmm toughly.
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Nothing to do with that. It is do do with the administrative demands of running a state like Alaska versus a small and sparsely inhabited island.

You're playing the character assassination game when Sarah is making her values plain for all to see. She will be judged on that.

She's not my cup of ideological tea either, but she represents many for whom it is.
 
juw177 said:
Your views are still largely a product of the media. It is no accident that the media chooses to sensationalise the personal life of some one who is not even an election candidate.
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Juw,

I believe Julia is forming an opinion based on the words from her own mouth, not the interpretation of the press.

If it disagrees with yours, it doesn't mean it ois the product of "the media". :rolleyes:
 
wayneL said:
Juw,

I believe Julia is forming an opinion based on the words from her own mouth, not the interpretation of the press.

If it disagrees with yours, it doesn't mean it ois the product of "the media". :rolleyes:
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Thank you, Wayne, for saving me the trouble of saying this.
Did think it would have been apparent, though.
 
Julia said:
I keep trying to visualise Ms Palin on the world stage (say if McCain does get elected then has a heart attack or another bout of cancer). Keep trying to see her in the sort of role to which Condaleeza Rice has brought such dignity and diligence. But I just can't see it.
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As Secretary of State i can't think of a single thing that Condi has done to improve foreign affairs. Now lets see, there is Russia, basically the whole middle east, Pakistan, China, Zimbabwe etc.. etc..
 
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