I just read an article in The Guardian about Palin's pseudo debate performance.
This article says it all.
Wish US journalists had the balls to report truth to power like this.
JUMP
I cannot express how angry this woman makes me.
I was not a supporter of Hillary but man, I miss the woman!
Hillary could stand toe to toe with any man, anyday, anytime, anywhere.
She, not once, had to use her sexuality to try to score points.
I am seething right now.
How dare this vacuous nonentity dare to imply that she could be President of this great country? How big is this woman's head?
She really thinks that more power should be given to her in the office of VP?
WHAT EFFING NERVE!!!! OOOOH! she makes me sooooooooooooooo mad!!!!!
Read this article it gets to the effing point!!!!
Flirting her way to victory Sarah Palin's farcical debate performance lowered the standards for both female candidates and US political discourse
Michelle Goldberg guardian.co.uk, Friday October 03 2008 18:30 BST
At least three times last night, Sarah Palin, the adorable, preposterous vice-presidential candidate, winked at the audience. Had a male candidate with a similar reputation for attractive vapidity made such a brazen attempt to flirt his way into the good graces of the voting public, it would have universally noted, discussed and mocked. Palin, however, has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably last night.
By any normal standard, including the ones applied to male presidential candidates of either party, she did not. Early on, she made the astonishing announcement that she had no intentions of actually answering the queries put to her. "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also," she said.
And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity...
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