Re Palin's schooling -- you've just got to admire a journalism major who has no record of actually writing for the school paper or any other researchable print or media outlet.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Theodosia - Sep 04, 2008 1:20:23 pm PDT #7102 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
brenda m - Sep 04, 2008 1:24:07 pm PDT #7103 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So, um, what was Plan B there? If she decided at the end she "wasn't ready" then she just springs a quicky adoption on the kids like she did the vice presidency?
I don't fault anyone in that position for having fears or doubts. But that's kind of sickening.
Gudanov - Sep 04, 2008 1:25:33 pm PDT #7104 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
The thing that worries me most about Palin is that she doesn't appear to be intellectually curious, much like W. I'm not so worried about lack of experience, not all presidents (potentially) have had lots of experience and she is governor of a state after all. I do think to make experience a central campaign issue and select her as VP is hypocritical, however.
Speaking of experience, nobody ever seems to note that Obama is a genuine expert in constitutional law. I kinda think that would be good in a President.
Hil R. - Sep 04, 2008 1:28:45 pm PDT #7105 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
"Not knowing in my own heart if I was going to be ready to embrace a child with special needs,"
Huh? So what was she going to do if she got to delivery and realized she still wasn't ready?
brenda m - Sep 04, 2008 1:31:11 pm PDT #7106 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Heh. The Repub base isn't the only thing Palin's energized - apparently Obama's raised more than $8 mil since the speech.
Lee - Sep 04, 2008 1:31:45 pm PDT #7107 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
In different rage making news: [link]
OMGWTFRAGE.
As rage inducing as that is, a part of me is glad a Republican went that far, because I feel a lot of the GOP have been dancing around it with the elitist and "angry liberal" comments, but most are being careful to not quite cross the line.
bon bon - Sep 04, 2008 1:32:00 pm PDT #7108 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I have absolutely no problem with someone who is opposed to abortion having doubts about being able to raise a child with special needs -- or basically being worried, in any case. Is she saying that she didn't talk about it because she thought she might give it up? Because it looks like she didn't talk about it because it was hard for her to talk about. She's older. She's governor of Alaska. She has a lot of kids. She doesn't have a choice in the matter, given her beliefs. It must have been a stressful time for her. I think she's a ridiculous choice for McCain to make, a sort of Harriet Miers level lack of seriousness, but I have no reason to believe she's a bad person just because her beliefs are different from mine.
Laura - Sep 04, 2008 1:33:26 pm PDT #7109 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
Office: Messy area [link] Closeup [link] Someday they will be hung [link] We really are under serious construction at the moment, so a bit worse than usual.
Palin upsets me at a whole new level. Please let someone other than us see her objectively. Scary.
Barb - Sep 04, 2008 1:35:22 pm PDT #7110 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Bored, so here's my cubicle
We have matching chairs! (Not that you can see mine, but here's my workspace.)
P.M. Marc - Sep 04, 2008 1:36:45 pm PDT #7111 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I have absolutely no problem with someone who is opposed to abortion having doubts about being able to raise a child with special needs -- or basically being worried, in any case. Is she saying that she didn't talk about it because she thought she might give it up? Because it looks like she didn't talk about it because it was hard for her to talk about.
Yeah, I tend to agree with this, even though my dislike of her is strong and pre-dates her pick by McCain.