[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
I agree with every word Andrew Sullivan writes. And that Salon article someone posted is devastating. Sarah is not only an incompetent, a know-nothing, and a serial liar, she is one mean bitch, too!! How long can she last? All the way to the White House, no doubt, because America seems to have ceased demanding anything from its leaders other than empty slogans and relentless fear-mongering. How did all this happen to a great country? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  > > From The Sunday Times > September 14, 2008 > > Sarah Palin: the most underqualified vice-president ever? > > Andrew Sullivan > > To read Camille Paglia's opposing opinion, click in the links panel, > below left > > For the past two weeks serious commentators and columnists have been > asked to take the candidacy of Sarah Palin for the vice-presidency of > the United States seriously. > > Formerly sane people have written of the McCain campaignâs selection > of this running mate as if it represents a new face for > Republicanism, an emblem of can-do western spirit, a brilliant ploy > to win over Clinton voters, a new feminism, a reformist revolution, > and a genius appeal to the religious right. > > Iâm afraid I cannot join in. In fact I cannot say anything about > this candidacy that takes it in any way seriously. It is a farce. It > is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It is a sign of > a candidate who has lost his mind. There is no way to take the > nomination of Palin to be vice-president of the worldâs sole > superpower - except to treat it as a massive, unforgivable, > inexplicable decision by someone who has either gone insane or is > managerially unfit to be president of the United States. When, at > some point, the hysteria dies down, even her supporters will realise > that, by this decision, McCain has rendered himself unfit to run a > branch of Starbucks, let alone the White House. > > Isnât she doing well in the polls? Hasnât she rattled the Obama > campaign? Yes, she is. And yes, she has, a little. But review the > extraordinary facts on the table about this woman and you will see > how ephemeral this will soon turn out to be. > > The announcement of Palin was made more than two weeks ago. It took a > fortnight for her to agree to sit down for an intimate interview of > the kind usually reserved for Hollywood stars instead of the press > conference typical of a new vice-presidential candidate. This has > never happened in American political history. Even Dan Quayle, the > least qualified vice-presidential nominee before Palin, and a man who > did not know how to spell âpotatoâ, gave a press conference a day > after the convention in 1988. > > There have been two explanations for this astonishing Putin-style > decision to keep a vice-presidential candidate from the press. The > first was that the press would be too mean to her and needed to show, > in campaign manager Rick Davisâs word, sufficient âdeferenceâ > before they would be allowed to ask her a question. Deference? Is > 21st-century America an 18th-century monarchy? The press owes such a > total unknown who could be president next January deference? > > The second explanation is that she needed time to cram for the exam. > The McCain camp knew she had never expressed any views about foreign > policy. And the only time she had on record was to oppose the surge > that is the centrepiece of McCainâs campaign. They knew she knew > nothing and was utterly unqualified to be president at a momentâs > notice. And so she spent the last week furiously prepping. As Maureen > Dowd noticed, she is Eliza Doolittle to John McCainâs Henry Higgins. > > But at the end of last week we were granted an audience with the > Princess of Alaska. It was painful. She had no idea what the Bush > Doctrine was â" the central and most controversial foreign policy > innovation of the past eight years: the doctrine of preemption > against states with WMDs. Moreover, in her speech the same day, she > described the war in Iraq. She said her eldest son, who has just > enlisted, would âdefend the innocent from the enemies who planned > and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americansâ. > > Does Palin believe that the men who planned and carried out the 9/11 > attack are in Iraq? The hijackers are all dead, but Bin Laden and > Zawahiri and the rest of the gang are, as far as we know, in > Pakistan. Nobody believes they are in Iraq. > > Then we have the now mountain of lies that follow Palin everywhere > she goes, lies she keeps repeating as if they are not subject to > factual scrutiny. In her first interview she said it was common for > vice-presidential candidates never to have met a single foreign > leader. Untrue. Every living vice-presidential candidate has met some
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But > they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red states. > These states are still for a Republican ticket. > > Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that > neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation like > HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. > > She also said that Obama and Biden weren't qualified either. Given her OWN record, I wonder who she thinks IS qualified? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=2546914 Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But > > they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red states. > > These states are still for a Republican ticket. > > > > Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that > > neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation like > > HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. > > > > > > She also said that Obama and Biden weren't qualified either. > > > Given her OWN record, I wonder who she thinks IS qualified? > Fiorina's comment shows that she is better than all of the candidates and that she should be the president of the USA. This also reveals one of the reasons why Hewlitt Packard got rid of her. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=2546914 > > > Lawson >
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:44 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > >> > >> These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But > >> they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red states. > >> These states are still for a Republican ticket. > >> > >> Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that > >> neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation like > >> HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. > >> > >> > > > > She also said that Obama and Biden weren't qualified either. > > > > > > Given her OWN record, I wonder who she thinks IS qualified? > > > She has incredible appeal in rural areas, often by people who listen > to enough news to hear she was the VP pick, some "yay, a woman!" > soundbites and who hear little of the later commentary. I meet people > like that every day. The same ones who tell me "I HATE that Michael > Moore" but when I ask which of his movies they've seen, they've never > seen even one. The same ones who believe global climate change is a > hoax, and when I ask them if they've seen Al Gore's movie say "I HATE > Al Gore". Nope, never saw his movie either. > > There's a huge opening for what "everyday women" would consider a > 'real woman's feminist', you know the ones who can't stand Hillary and > don't trust career politicians--and many see Palin as representing > that figure. Many DID want a woman but despised Hillary. I've never > seen such hatred. > > What they sadly don't realize, Palin ain't the woman they want. > Palin is running strictly on "image". In politics, image is EVERYTHING, to borrow a phrase from Andre Agassi's commercial.
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > > > These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But > > > they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red > states. > > > These states are still for a Republican ticket. > > > > > > Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that > > > neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation > like > > > HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. > > > > > > > > > > She also said that Obama and Biden weren't qualified either. > > > > > > Given her OWN record, I wonder who she thinks IS qualified? > > > > Fiorina's comment shows that she is better than all of the candidates > and that she should be the president of the USA. This also reveals > one of the reasons why Hewlitt Packard got rid of her. > > > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=2546914 > > Yeah, the article above that refers to the "pestilential culture that she created at the company" certainly backs up your evaluation. Lawson
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:44 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red states. These states are still for a Republican ticket. Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation like HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. She also said that Obama and Biden weren't qualified either. Given her OWN record, I wonder who she thinks IS qualified? She has incredible appeal in rural areas, often by people who listen to enough news to hear she was the VP pick, some "yay, a woman!" soundbites and who hear little of the later commentary. I meet people like that every day. The same ones who tell me "I HATE that Michael Moore" but when I ask which of his movies they've seen, they've never seen even one. The same ones who believe global climate change is a hoax, and when I ask them if they've seen Al Gore's movie say "I HATE Al Gore". Nope, never saw his movie either. There's a huge opening for what "everyday women" would consider a 'real woman's feminist', you know the ones who can't stand Hillary and don't trust career politicians--and many see Palin as representing that figure. Many DID want a woman but despised Hillary. I've never seen such hatred. What they sadly don't realize, Palin ain't the woman they want.
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It is a sign of a candidate who has lost his mind."
These pundits may have a lot of things to say against Palin. But they don't appear to change the poll standings in the red states. These states are still for a Republican ticket. Ms. Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlitt Packard, said in an article that neither Palin nor McCain are qualified to run a big corporation like HP. And, Fiorina is an adviser to the Republican campaign. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  > > From The Sunday Times > September 14, 2008 > > Sarah Palin: the most underqualified vice-president ever? > > Andrew Sullivan > > To read Camille Paglia's opposing opinion, click in the links panel, > below left > > For the past two weeks serious commentators and columnists have been > asked to take the candidacy of Sarah Palin for the vice-presidency of > the United States seriously. > > Formerly sane people have written of the McCain campaignâs selection > of this running mate as if it represents a new face for > Republicanism, an emblem of can-do western spirit, a brilliant ploy > to win over Clinton voters, a new feminism, a reformist revolution, > and a genius appeal to the religious right. > > Iâm afraid I cannot join in. In fact I cannot say anything about > this candidacy that takes it in any way seriously. It is a farce. It > is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It is a sign of > a candidate who has lost his mind. There is no way to take the > nomination of Palin to be vice-president of the worldâs sole > superpower - except to treat it as a massive, unforgivable, > inexplicable decision by someone who has either gone insane or is > managerially unfit to be president of the United States. When, at > some point, the hysteria dies down, even her supporters will realise > that, by this decision, McCain has rendered himself unfit to run a > branch of Starbucks, let alone the White House. > > Isnât she doing well in the polls? Hasnât she rattled the Obama > campaign? Yes, she is. And yes, she has, a little. But review the > extraordinary facts on the table about this woman and you will see > how ephemeral this will soon turn out to be. > > The announcement of Palin was made more than two weeks ago. It took a > fortnight for her to agree to sit down for an intimate interview of > the kind usually reserved for Hollywood stars instead of the press > conference typical of a new vice-presidential candidate. This has > never happened in American political history. Even Dan Quayle, the > least qualified vice-presidential nominee before Palin, and a man who > did not know how to spell âpotatoâ, gave a press conference a day > after the convention in 1988. > > There have been two explanations for this astonishing Putin-style > decision to keep a vice-presidential candidate from the press. The > first was that the press would be too mean to her and needed to show, > in campaign manager Rick Davisâs word, sufficient âdeferenceâ > before they would be allowed to ask her a question. Deference? Is > 21st-century America an 18th-century monarchy? The press owes such a > total unknown who could be president next January deference? > > The second explanation is that she needed time to cram for the exam. > The McCain camp knew she had never expressed any views about foreign > policy. And the only time she had on record was to oppose the surge > that is the centrepiece of McCainâs campaign. They knew she knew > nothing and was utterly unqualified to be president at a momentâs > notice. And so she spent the last week furiously prepping. As Maureen > Dowd noticed, she is Eliza Doolittle to John McCainâs Henry Higgins. > > But at the end of last week we were granted an audience with the > Princess of Alaska. It was painful. She had no idea what the Bush > Doctrine was â" the central and most controversial foreign policy > innovation of the past eight years: the doctrine of preemption > against states with WMDs. Moreover, in her speech the same day, she > described the war in Iraq. She said her eldest son, who has just > enlisted, would âdefend the innocent from the enemies who planned > and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americansâ. > > Does Palin believe that the men who planned and carried out the 9/11 > attack are in Iraq? The hijackers are all dead, but Bin Laden and > Zawahiri and the rest of the gang are, as far as we know, in > Pakistan. Nobody believes they are in Iraq. > > Then we have the now mountain of lies that follow Palin everywhere > she goes, lies she keeps repeating as if they are not subject to > factual scrutiny. In her first interview she said it was common for > vice-presidential candidates never to have met a single foreign > leader. Untrue. Every living vice-presidential candidate has met some > foreign leaders bef
[FairfieldLife] Re: "It is a farce. It is absurd. It is an insult to all intelligent people. It is a sign of a candidate who has lost his mind."
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  > > From The Sunday Times > September 14, 2008 > > Sarah Palin: the most underqualified vice-president ever? > > Andrew Sullivan > Unfortunately, she's got that charisma comparable to the same of, say, Der Führer. : /
