The excitement of watching Obama speak last night, delivering, “The American Promise” speech to the most live, television and internet watchers ever for a political speech, got me all wound up. I ended up watching Project Runway in the wee hours of the new morn, with still-baited breath and a bitemark. Yes, finally, this lifelong watcher of Meet the Press has been bit by the election bug. I want to go outside and say, come on people, we’ve just won the Olympics now lets take back the Presidency!
Or something. The effect of an election bug bite is similar to insomnia. Except that instead of counting sheep, yours truly will be counting swing states and points awarded in political crossfire from various situation room fortresses. Let’s begin with the bombshell dropped by the McCain camp today; Sarah Palin as pick for vice president on his ticket. The two most stunning lines of counter-attack I read on the interwebs thus far both compared Sarah Palin, who is pretty unknown to the American people, to two female politicians that we are all familiar with:
“Sarah Palin is to the movement for women’s equality what Clarence Thomas is to civil rights. She’s an extremist and an enemy to the cause that has been fought on her behalf…. Someone should stand up and say: ‘I know Senator Clinton. Senator Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah Palin is no Hillary Rodham Clinton.'” Van Jones at The Huffington Post
On the Ms. Alaska page put up by the NYT, jo comments, “McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate is more like George Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to be a Supreme Court justice: an insult to the office and to the voters, no matter how admirable a person she is.” If my opinion is taken as an amalgamation of the professional political personages who I read online, which it is, then my impression right now is…
This mother of five including a baby with Down Syndrome has very little experience in the public sphere and a checkered background. But at least she looks like Tina Fey.
Fuck Obama not picking HR Clinton as a running mate.
No, actually: fuck Americas Democrats for not picking HR Clinton as the presidential candidate.
Yikes. I think one reason I have been reluctant to get involved in politics these days is that I’m scared of people’s extreme emotions regarding American politics. Although I respect those people fully, that’s not how I see it.
hey I think this is really exciting and just so everyone knows, I think she has more experience than Obama….but Art you should check it out. I think if you looked at it the checkered past of Obama and the company he keeps is a lot worse than a woman whose most horrible thing was to be in a beauty pageant. Read the editorial in the WSJ today it is quite good.
i’m scared! this woman is a nightmare. i’m sure she’s worked very hard to get where she is but…..hello’s and goodbye’s, against abortion? men who don’t believe in it can be excused (tho not voted for my moi), but a woman who feels this way is a major Playa Hater w/o a clue. the fact that mccain was pleased to announce her ‘while celebrating the suffrage movement’ is bananas. it’s fine to not be a feminist but don’t pretend to carry that mantle! –i sincerely wish her pregnant 17 yr. old daughter well and hope the decision to have a child was truly her desire! however, if she starts partying w/britney’s lil’ sis i may have to intervene. haha! yes, you’ll all shake your heads if you see my haggard ass dragging them out of a club in l.a.
please, if men got pregnant, clinic’s would be open 24/7 (on most street corners), and they’d serve beer while you waited. i would’ve preferred one back in the day w/a decent mojito for christ’s sake! the valium they gave me was tit.