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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I had to turn off NPR in the car on the way to work! Ugh.
Oh, yeah. I was working at home yesterday and I kept trying to listen to the radio (NPR) but had to keep turning it off. Every program had something about the Palin thing and it was making my head explode.
I'm in such a meta place with the news. Daughter of a teen mother, standing right here. Imagining my 16 year old mom in this spotlight.
Also, Slate has possibly the most offensive article I have ever seen
The hell? I thought this was going to get ugly, but that's...that's...no words.
I thought Palin was a good pick for VP from a strategic standpoint, but I'm starting to have my doubts. I still am at a pit of a loss about why, if we wanted a woman on the ticket, he couldn't go for Kay Baily Hutchinson, or Elizabeth Dole, or Condi Rice, or maybe Jodi Rell if going for a governor.
why, if we wanted a woman on the ticket, he couldn't go for Kay Baily Hutchinson, or Elizabeth Dole, or Condi Rice, or maybe Jodi Rell if going for a governor.
I reckon they'd laugh in his face and turn him down.
I reckon they'd laugh in his face and turn him down.
Maybe they all did and Palin was the first to say "Okie dokie".
Am I an anomaly of my generation that I never watched the original 90210 and have yet to watch any Dawson's, GG, One Tree Hill, and only fragments of The OC
I'm another one of these, Barb! Actually, I've never seen the OC, either. Most of those shows were on network TV when I was going through my "only watching cable channels" phase, so I completely missed them. (It took Lost and my very late tuning into CSI Vegas to get me to watch the Big Three networks again.)
In Palin news, I think what bothers me most is the lack of vetting that obviously went on (no one in Alaska was ever contacted for background checks). If McCain can't be arsed to review a running mate's life history before meeting them once and then deciding she's his "soul mate" (ugh!), why should I vote for the man?
he couldn't go for Kay Baily Hutchinson, or Elizabeth Dole, or Condi Rice, or maybe Jodi Rell if going for a governor.
And quite frankly, none of them are sufficiently conservative, by wingnut terms. And this pick was all about the wingnuts.
Actually, let me back that up. I think the idea of choosing a woman was about the largely mythical PUMAs with a side of going for the Stupids (He picked a woman! Maybe he's not far-right after all!). But the choice of this particular woman was absolutely, and to a degree literally, dictated by the far end of the religious right.
meeting them once and then deciding she's his "soul mate" (ugh!),
Yeah, how'd that work out for George Bush?
I'm thinking this particular woman was a matter of creating a distraction from the issues at hand. Rove loves that shit and he is very good at it.