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Sarah Palin: The Barracuda

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Pat said:
I like your Robert Frost there.
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:topic poetry can be handy mate lol
I said to some bloke the other day, waiting for a taxi in a 99% shadey street in North Sydney, and a couple of us trying to get warm in these narrow beams of sun...
"don't you just love these stingy rays of sunlight struggling feebly down between the houses tall" - and he looked at me as if I had 4 heads - at least I had the taxi queue to myself after that ;)
 
2020hindsight said:
:topic poetry can be handy mate lol
I said to some bloke the other day, waiting for a taxi in a 99% shadey street in North Sydney, and a couple of us trying to get warm in these narrow beams of sun...
"don't you just love these stingy rays of sunlight struggling feebly down between the houses tall" - and he looked at me as if I had 4 heads - at least I had the taxi queue to myself after that ;)
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LOL, if a guy came up to me on the street speaking poetics to me, I'd run to the other side of the street for sure!! It actually happened to me about 25 years ago at Hyde Park in London at the speaker's corner. I had just finished a one hour run, and stopped to listen to some of the people spouting off. I was young and in my shorts and some old guy quoted something eloquent too me, and I soon realized what he wanted!! I took off running right after that!!
 
A view from this side of the big ditch:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4692133.ece

This cynical choice has left McCain’s honour in shreds
Minette Marrin

I’m an American, California born. It’s true my mother was English and that I was brought up here from early childhood and think myself exceptionally lucky to belong here; I feel as English as I think anyone possibly can. Yet all the same, America is the land of my forebears on my late father’s side. I would even qualify to be a Daughter of the American Revolution, since one of my ancestors in North Carolina fought in the American war of independence. My grandmother travelled as a little girl in a covered wagon in the Wild West with my great-grandfather, who was an army officer. I have close family living in America still, and I have the right to vote there.

So I have always felt a strong sentimental attachment to the United States. I’ve felt proud of American achievements and generosity, and resented the unthinking antiAmericanism everywhere in Europe, ever since the first child in the playground of my first school shouted at me “Yanks go home”. Admittedly the spectacle of electioneering is a painful test of anyone’s respect for the United States. In their ghastly harrumphing electoral extravaganzas the Americans show themselves at their worst - vulgar, venal, naive, dishonest, stupid, wasteful, tasteless and vicious. Priggish though it may sound, I prefer to ignore these periods of national hysteria; after all, politics is nasty everywhere, it’s just that America does everything in extremes.

But last week everything changed............
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wayneL said:
A view from this side of the big ditch:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4692133.ece
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wayne, continuing with that article (you missed out some of the other good parts lol) ....
well said lady... ( Minette Marrin )

But last week everything changed. John McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin was the last straw. It makes American politics look like a sick comedy. My faith in my native country had already been shaken by other elections and by other wrongs, such as the Iraq war (which I at first supported, to my shame). But the moose-hunting pitbull with lipstick is too much. I have never used my vote in the past, but if I had, I would usually have voted Republican. Today no rational conservative can vote for the Palin and McCain ticket. It makes America an international laughing stock. The fact that there has been a Palin bounce, after her charismatic speech, fills me with dismay.

............. What horrified me was not so much the woman herself, though she is clearly entirely unfit to be vice-president or president. It was McCain’s cynical and sudden choice of her. Would you give power of attorney over your entire life to someone you had only met once, or possibly twice? Of course not. You would give the matter and the person very serious consideration.

Yet McCain in effect is offering power of attorney over all the affairs of the United States and over all Americans, including me, to a woman he had barely met. I myself wouldn’t hire a house-sitter on such scant acquaintance.
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In the terminology of Rumsfeld, she's a "known unknown"

Obviously McCain’s public relations people have been scouring the country for libertarian babes. But politics is not painting by numbers. McCain doesn’t know Palin at all, nor it seems did his vetting people; revelations keep emerging about her all the time. But he showed himself willing to hand the free world over to a stranger because his people think she is a psephological paragon. (??)

I had thought that McCain was, for a politician, an honourable man. Certainly honour is one of his top selling points. But who can think so now? In choosing a woman he doesn’t know or understand, purely for electoral advantage, he reveals a dishonourable lust for office, a disrespect for women generally and a dishonourable indifference to the future of his country. After all, if this known unknown woman does become president, it will almost certainly be because he himself is dead - quite possible given his age and health - and past caring.
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lol - my personal word for the day ...
pse·phol·o·gy n. The study of political elections

In short Palin is an ill-educated, inexperienced hypocrite. The Republicans are trying to sell her to the voters as something she isn’t, and McCain hardly cares what she is. It’s a bad day for my native land.
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To say nothing of the fact that she's a walking disaster.
 
First Obama, now Sarah.

This election reminds me about some of the things I so dislike about America.

The cult of celebrity mixed up with politics.

MILF for VP.

God help us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-for-Sarah-Palinmania---US-Election-2008.html

Obamania makes way for Palinmania - US Election 2008
We've been through Obamamania. Now a new phenomenon is sweeping America – Palinmania.


By Toby Harnden in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Last Updated: 12:53AM BST 11 Sep 2008
Governor Sarah Palin. Wasila, Alaska
Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, poses in the Alaskan cold for Vogue magazine Photo: JONATHAN BECKER/CONTACT FOR US VOGUE

Even before Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska had appeared on the stage to introduce Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, the chant went up around the hall: "We want Sarah!"

A tear rolled down the cheek of a middle-aged woman volunteer who moments earlier had been barking orders to keep the exits clear.

A mother clutched the hand of her 11-year-old daughter, whose face was made up like a clown with stars and the letters P-A-L-I-N painted across her face.

Outside, queues which began six hours earlier snaked around the sports hall as more than 9,000 people filed in. Hundreds would be left outside.

They held home-made signs with slogans like "God, guns, lipstick" and "Read my lipstick - Palin."
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What I find truely amazing is her ability of the American me, me, me thought celebrity, success over-riding the causese.

The choices she has made in the Alaskan environment are appaulling. Yet depsite evidence she is willing to go for VP for the sake of her family's future.

I am shocked to find out she doesn't understand that poplar bears are reducing in numbers. I watched a doc on Nat Geo and the problem is not just polar bears drowning. It is the females, without enough food to eat they don't have the body fat to reproduce and those that do give birth. The little ones are starving. Some Polar Bears are going without eating for 5 - 6 months. So the ice melts, the peguins disappear, and polar bears are now stalking humans - seeing a mother with a stroller walking with gun slung over her shoudler is highly disconcerting.

She must be utterly blind and narcissistic- break the glass ceiling at what cost?
 
Ah, the Evil Party (Republican) appears to be gaining the upper hand over the Stupid Party (Democrats).

How interesting that the two worst Presidents in US history were respectively drawn from their ranks. Abe Lincoln, a Republican, who oversaw the deaths of 600,000 of his countrymen in a pointless war, and Franklin Roosevelt who moved the country towards a socialist structure from which it has never fully recovered.

So reassuring to see the current contenders keeping up with their great traditions...
 
Green08 said:
So the ice melts, the peguins disappear, and polar bears are now stalking humans - seeing a mother with a stroller walking with gun slung over her shoudler is highly disconcerting.
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There were never any penguins in the Arctic. They are living happily in the Antarctic, undisturbed by polar bears.
 
See they are even spinning of Chuck facts for Palin now. It's all getting a bit silly.

Chuck won't be happy.:p:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_Facts

Sarah Palin Facts Spin-off

Michael Turk, Ben Domenech and Joshua Treviño have initiated a spinoff on Chuck Norris Facts entitled:[31]

* Sarah Palin Facts: Little Known Facts About the Alaska Governor, including:
* Sarah Palin used to wrestle kodiak bears in Alaskan bare knuckles fight clubs.
* Sarah Palin once bagged a caribou by staring it down until it died.
* Sarah Palin turned down a job as skipper of a Deadliest Catch boat because it wasn’t challenging enough
* Sarah Palin fishes salmon by convincing them it’s in their interest to jump into the boat.
* Sarah Palin once guided Santa’s sleigh through an Alaskan blizzard with the light from her smile
 
A good indication of the low morale of the Democrats is the lengths the party and their admirers will go to to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin. And where they cannot find dirt they will use snide innuendo.

She may not be everybody's cup of tea, but she has more guts than her detractors.
 
She will win it for them - that is why the American Empire is imploding before our very eyes. Celebrity has truely replaced morality in that civilisation and like all before them it will be the tipping point that signals the end.
 
Bushman said:
She will win it for them - that is why the American Empire is imploding before our very eyes. Celebrity has truely replaced morality in that civilisation and like all before them it will be the tipping point that signals the end.
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Obama is imploding for sure. As for America, I suspect we will be here and leading the world for many many more years. You have to be an American I guess to know just how strong and resilient this country is. Go ahead, take your potshots at us. We are strong enough to take it. We are the most optimistic people on earth.
 
ZzzzDad said:
Obama is imploding for sure. As for America, I suspect we will be here and leading the world for many many more years. You have to be an American I guess to know just how strong and resilient this country is. Go ahead, take your potshots at us. We are strong enough to take it. We are the most optimistic people on earth.
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Then, here's a coupla BB shot.... won't hurt a bit! :)

(1) Have you ever considered that blind, total optimism might have a downside? On second thoughts,

(2) What scientific proof do you have that Americans above all other humans are "the most optimistic people on earth"? (I've heard just as many say they are the most paranoid!)

You have to be an Aussie I guess to have an alternative point of view....


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Calliope said:
A good indication of the low morale of the Democrats is the lengths the party and their admirers will go to to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin. And where they cannot find dirt they will use snide innuendo.

She may not be everybody's cup of tea, but she has more guts than her detractors.
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Of course Calliope, the 'right', including stand-outs like yourself, don't engage in snide innuendo. Or 'dig up dirt'. Get down off that idiotic horse of yours mate.

zzzDad said:
Obama is imploding for sure. As for America, I suspect we will be here and leading the world for many many more years. You have to be an American I guess to know just how strong and resilient this country is. Go ahead, take your potshots at us. We are strong enough to take it. We are the most optimistic people on earth.
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Actually I found you the most fearful people on earth. Whether it be of 'red China' as it was referred to me, back in 1997 no less, or the dude out to enter your house that you need to sleep with a magnum for, I found your populace to be overwhelmingly scared. Guess you need to just get out and spend a bit of time in the world to compare.
 
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