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Nov
14
Palin’s still pluggin away
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She won’t go away. She’s giving interviews. And the pathetic part of all this, is reporters who were snubbed bevore the election are granting the interviews.
Matt Lauer, Larry King, and Greta van Susteren all interviewed Palin this week. Lauer and van Susteren got conned into interviewing her in her kitchen, while she cooked caribou pate and some other shit. Funny how van Susteren, FOX news (big surprise) thought she had an exclusive. Does FOX understand that an exclusive means you’re the only one. Not that you’re waiting in line behind seven other people waiting to kiss her ring, or ass.
Palin also made a short speech to the RGA, during which she of course tool the time to promote herself, like the self serving cow she that she is. She snapped her spunky lips between sentences and dropped her R’s to make herself more Joe Six-Packy. She even managed to put down Tina Fey.
Maybe she should take a shot at Letterman and Leno too. Hey, maybe Oprah.
Why does the news even continue to cover this idiot? She wouldn’t talk to them before and now they’re giving her more time than I can stand.
As for the Tina Fey comment … making fun of a comedian is never a good idea. The fact that she thinks she can make snotty comments like that and not suffer the repercussions, is more proof of Palin’s amateur standing.
Oct
17
What happened to John McCain?
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I’ve put off asking that question for several weeks. I’ve let the question bounce around in my head and off my walls for a few weeks now. I’ve asked it out loud when I was alone, or thought I was.
“He’s an asshole and an angry old man,” I’d hear occasionally from another room in the house from my wife. She really gets emotional.
I’ve gotten emotional too. This campaign has affected me physically. I let it get to me.
I liked the John McCain of 2000, when he ran against the chimp. I liked the Straight Talk Express and the wise ass comments and late night talk show appearances. I think the late night talk shows liked him too. I think Jon Stewart and Letterman liked him.
I’ve just felt that he sold out. That he was being told what to do and that what he was being told was, “Don’t be yourself, no more straight talk John. We’ll tell you what they want to hear.”
He’s looked uncomfortable. With the exception of Thursday night with Letterman, where he had that, “Whataya want me to say Dave? I fucked up,” attitude that made me trust him. Or at least endeared him to me.
Mike Barnicle wrote an article for the Huffington Post yesterday. What ever you might think about Barnicle, he’s another straight talker, and his article lets me know I’m not alone in my feelings about McCain.
I didn’t agree with everything McCain said, but I appreciated the way he said it. At least I did eight years ago.
Oct
7
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Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future, or you’re not ready to articulate it.
You know who said that? John McCain said that. He said that in 2000 when he was running against Bush and being accused of having fathered illegitimate black children, among other things. Now, I guess it’s all water under the bridge. A bridge too nowhere.
Now he’s calling his opponent a terrorist and letting people yell “kill” at his rallies? He’s running ads that call Obama dangerous and dishonorable? He’s selling out … God damn it!
I liked the McCain 2000 model. I didn’t like all of what it said and stood for, but I liked the way it said it. I liked the Straight Talk Express, that he called a kid a “little punk,” that he made witty and sarcastic remarks on Letterman and Jon Stewart. That he seemed (an important distinction) like a reasonable guy with a decent sense of humor.
The McCain 2008 is morally bankrupt and vicious. He’s lost the respect he had for the American people. I do believe that he once thought of the people of this country as able to think for themselves and see through the garbage that he himself is now tossing our way. It’s sad to see a man who once had a vision and passion resort to the underhanded tricks we’ve come to expect. It’s sad we weren’t wrong in expecting them.
I had hoped, when it came down to these two, that we’d finally see real conversation. Somehow I was naive enough to believe that there was a chance that we’d be offered plans that could stand on their own; hear debates that covered topics we cared about; and finally have questions answered honestly and directly. Not bullshit that we’d have to wait days until someone deciphered what was really meant and who was telling the truth.
They’re both capable of clean honest campaigns. They’re both experienced, articulate, intelligent guys who obviously made it far enough to be able to do something unbelievable.That we’re being inundated with smears, lies, and blatant attacks laced with slander is causing me physical pain.
I had bigger hopes for this election.
Sep
25
McCain blows off Letterman
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Great tape here with Letterman’s take on McCain. Word has it McCain said he had to catch a plane. When in fact he was down the street in a studio with Katie Couric.
When are these asswipes going to figure out that what they say is recorded and that people talk about it?
Can they really afford to be blowing people off and getting caught? Do they really think we’re that stupid?
