"May your knife chip and shatter".
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Frank Herbert "DUNE"
John Edwards was indeed proven right on Thursday Night. There really are two Americas. Not just a Rich and a Poor America. There is one America where folks are intellectually curious, trying to make things for everyone better & where questions deserve answers. Then there is this alternative reality where someone as woefully lacking in thoughtfulness or intelligence as Sarah Palin is viewed as some kind of symbol of ordinary people or as some kind of hero of the Republican Party... I do have to give the Republicans a lot of credit. They so firmly convince themselves of anything they want you to believe. THey know how to stomp on news cycles, run smear ads, question people's patriotism and paint any soul in opposition as the bogeyman. Republicans know how to LIE, because as Seinfeld's George proclaimed. "It's not a lie, if you believe it's the truth".
They just can't run a government and when they do win those elections they run that government into the ground and convince you it doesn't work even though in perfect political jujitsu they are the ones that break it. (Read Frank's The Wrecking Crew)
Folks, I don't want an ordinary person for Potus or V Potus. I want someone extraordinary. Republicans love to talk about "American Exceptionalism", but they really don't believe in exceptional americans...
Republicans talk about Self-Reliance, Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, improving your education, school vouchers...yet they have been fighting a war against thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity for years.
I am not smart enough to be the President and I don't personally know anyone that is. WTF is up with this idea that someone like US should be President. Lincoln taught himself Law. I don't want Joe Six Pack to be President. We've got someone on the GOP ticket that graduated almost at the bottom of his class and someone who attended 6 schools in 4/5 years.
It's just hard for me to believe that folks out there really bought that second rate acting on Thursday night and to look at the polling it seems most independents didn't buy it, but you see these interviews with folks and you really wonder what goddamn debate they were watching. People from even democratic punditry are always at pains to say she's likable, but to me she's not. Am I the only one in the world that doesn't buy the whole FARGO Ruse? THey just pumped her with 4 stump speeches, modified Reaganisms and general scorn for her opponent, the media and the moderator. "I'm not going to answer the questions that you or even the moderator want, I am going to speak to the American People". Are you f*cking kidding me?
She wants government oversight and government to get out the way within 60 seconds. I understand the Obama tactic at this and the previous debate , but I would loved for Joe to go after her on that incongruence.
She is tolerant of gay people? WTF? When did Tolerance become a virtue? Oh thanks you tolerate me, you are so gracious. Do even Gay Republicans understand what a profane thing that is to say to another human being. I tolerate your choice? Try that on someone you know. "Hey Johnny I tolerate your wife" "hey susie I tolerate working with you"
And do you know what? WTF is up with the kids at every rally? Isn't this school time or does she home school them?
I do think it was incredibly brave to bear a child she knew would be afflicted with Down Syndrome, but the child is becoming a Prop after every speech. We have to see her "Show the "Disabled Child" on every stage".
And these losers find us and the media condescending?
As Andy Borowitz (Borowitz Report online) said on Brian Lehrer's WNYC show on Friday, "She's not a blank slate, we know her, she's from another Tina Fey sketch-Mean Girls".
"What is there to like about someone who is unqualified, stupid, and sarcastic and not even sarcastic in a clever way"
Before we got into the meat of this election I had some views that really some folks would consider moderate maybe even conservative. I thought the problem in our country is idealogues and polarization.I wanted to reach across and understand where conservatives come from. Do you know what?
Conservatism is just a failed philosophy. It failed us financially, it has failed us morally. When did invading a country that had nothing to do with attacking us seem like a good and moral idea. That's like us attacking Thailand after Pearl Harbor....Sarah Palin's qualifications aren't lacking because of experience. She just isn't intelligent or thoughtful enough. I love to hear people defend her on the grounds that she is somehow fighting against Big Oil. Guess what. The sponsor for her inauguration in Alaska? British Petroleum.
It's failed America...WE'VE TRIED IT YOUR WAY "GUYS AND GALS". We need a change. Go away and dream up your conservatism again. I know Sarah Palin will be running as a potential candidate in 2012 if she isn't indicted first.
Yeah...Chavez, the Saudis, Iran..>THEY LOVE DRILL BABY DRILL....They want us to continue on this failed course of Oil Dependence. We have 3% of the Deposits and we consume 25% of the world's supply.
FOLKS GET YOUR CHIN STRAPS ON. Starting Tuesday this election is going to get amped up. My sister told me they have already started in North Philly. People are spreading pamphlets telling predominately black folks that if they have parking tickets there will be police officers at the polls.
Expect, Rev. Wright, William Ayres, everything. This will be the DON'T VOTE FOR THE (Insert Racial Perjurative) PORTION OF THE ELECTION.
Camp Obama is going to have to make some decisions about how far and how high above the fray they want to remain. I think Keating 5, Todd Palin's Alaskan Independence Party, The Associations of McCain and his staff and many other things may have to come out. The Republicans are going to throw everything they got starting this week. Lets get ready and lets not get to confident because of the polls. THat doesn't mean folks can sit at home.