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Thread: Sarah Palin, The Right Man







Post#1 at 09-15-2008 04:17 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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Sarah Palin, The Right Man

This pretty much sums it up for me.

Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton in a non-partisan announcement.
Americans have had enough of glitz and roar . . Foreboding has deepened, and spiritual currents have darkened . . .
THE FOURTH TURNING IS AT HAND.
See T4T, p. 253.







Post#2 at 09-15-2008 06:30 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Echo View Post
Well what bothers me is that no one has brought up what influence her brother Micheal might have on the election and the presidency.

Who's the handsome grey and white furry one?
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.







Post#3 at 09-15-2008 06:52 PM by Virgil K. Saari [at '49er, north of the Mesabi Mountains joined Jun 2001 #posts 7,835]
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Exclamation Two concerns for Progressive Americans

What about AlPAC?



And, I think Progressive Communities ought be concerned that Odobenusine-Americans will replace the gerbils now in place in those sodalities.







Post#4 at 09-19-2008 01:01 PM by Child of Socrates [at Cybrarian from America's Dairyland, 1961 cohort joined Sep 2001 #posts 14,092]
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Palin-tology

Sarah speaks about oil imports and exports

Of course
it's a fungible commodity
and they don't flag
you know
the molecules
where it's going
and where it's not
But in the sense
of the Congress today
they know that there are
very, very hungry
domestic markets
that need that oil first
So, I believe
that what Congress
is going to do
also
is not to allow
the export bans
to such a degree
that it's Americans
who get stuck
holding the bag
without the energy source
that is produced here
pumped here
It's got to flow
into our domestic markets
first







Post#5 at 09-23-2008 01:20 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Mean Girl

Salon has an interesting article about Sarah Palin. Here is an excerpt.

According to some political observers in Alaska, this pattern -- exploiting "old-boy" mentors and then turning against them for her own advantage -- defines Sarah Palin's rise to power. Again and again, Palin has charmed powerful political patrons, and then rejected them when it suited her purposes. She has crafted a public image as a clean politics reformer, but in truth, she has only blown the whistle on political corruption when it was expedient for her to do so. Above all, Palin is a dynamo of ambition, shrewdly maneuvering her way through the notoriously compromised world of Alaska politics, making and breaking alliances along the way.

"When Palin takes credit for knocking off the old-boy network in Alaska, it drives me crazy," said Andrew Halcro, an Anchorage businessman and radio talk show host who ran against her in the 2006 GOP primary race for governor. "Sarah certainly availed herself of that network whenever it was expedient."
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008







Post#6 at 09-23-2008 06:50 PM by jamesdglick [at Clarksville, TN joined Mar 2007 #posts 2,007]
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Talking Hmmm...

Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
Salon has an interesting article about Sarah Palin. Here is an excerpt:

"When Palin takes credit for knocking off the old-boy network in Alaska, it drives me crazy," said Andrew Halcro, an Anchorage businessman and radio talk show host who ran against her in the 2006 GOP primary race for governor. "Sarah certainly availed herself of that network whenever it was expedient."
...and lost.







Post#7 at 09-23-2008 07:33 PM by Ragnarök_62 [at Oklahoma joined Nov 2006 #posts 5,511]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
...and lost.
Uh... To quote Generations

"... The portrait that emerges of the 1961-1964 cohort group is vivid and unflattering. Over the post-war period, at each age through 24, this group has generated all of America's lost aptitude test scores; the highest high school senior drug and alcohol abuse; all but one of America's highest drunk driving rates... record rates for many other pathologies, including suicide."

Either way... "may we live in interesting times."

Obama - 1961
Palin - 1964

Though Obama seems to be a lot more with it than Palin. Palin even outdoes Hillary. Geez.
MBTI step II type : Expressive INTP

There's an annual contest at Bond University, Australia, calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term:
The winning student wrote:

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."
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