Comments on: Parsing the NY Times on Palin

By: Wadsy

Wadsy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:01:50 +0000

Regarding Brain Dead Libs: I am not sure that their brains comprehend the error of their ways.

By: deguello

deguello — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:53:18 +0000

William:keep deceiving yourself,you and other brain-dead libs.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:55:24 +0000

I am pretty sure that “state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were in danger” is supposed to be “state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were NOT in danger”. Otherwise this anecdote makes no sense.

By: The Wide Awake Cafe » She’s Got The Gams

The Wide Awake Cafe » She’s Got The Gams — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:23:42 +0000

[...] zoo opened its door and all the wild animals spilled out in a rage. The media has gone on a fugue of attack on those who don’t suscribe to Barack Obama’s kind of politics. Thirty lawyers have been [...]

By: William

William — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:18:05 +0000

And sorry, Republicans have lost most of their attack lines. The series of virtues Palin was supposed to bring to the ticket: She’s a reformer, a steadfast opponent of earmarks, a proponent of transparency and clean government. Subsequent reporting has revealed that Palin embodies the precise opposite of every one of these virtues. She appointed unqualified cronies, abused her power to punish personal enemies, and has displayed a Cheney-esque passion for government secrecy.

Game over. As the NYT said, ““the Palin effect” was, at least so far, a limited burst of interest.”

By: smith

smith — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:57:30 +0000

What’s wrong with using personal e-mail for state business? A million reasons, but a couple of very obvious ones: – First, she does it for the express reason of avoiding subpoenas for public records (a highly dubious and frankly, misinformed attempt to avoid legal public information disclosure requirements – her attorney must be as naive as she is); second – Yahoo is not secure – anyone who has worked for any business, even Jiffy-lube, knows the importance of internet security – but apparently not Sarah Palin – the fact they were able to hack her account so easily merely confirms that she is not qualified to be trusted with matters of national security – were her yahoo account only truly personal items then it would not be any big deal, BUT she not only used it for official business, but was expressly requiring others to use if for her most politically sensitive government and RNC business. Your average 8th grader would know not to put truly confidential info at such risk. This is truly naive behavior. Finally, I would not be surprised if it did not violate Alaska State Government internet usage rules and other rules concerning conduct of official business, if Alaska even is savvy enough to have promulated such rules as most other states have.

By: Jeff Dorfman

Jeff Dorfman — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:40:13 +0000

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!” [AGAIN, THE POINT IS?]

The point here is that the constitution forbids any representative of government from curtailing free speech. He did not call her up to argue a point or note errors of fact she may have made. He purported just told her to stop speaking. Last time I checked, our government and its representatives cannot do this.

By: Robert Hurley

Robert Hurley — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:07:59 +0000

Rachel:

Check the latest polls. Oops, I guess you sent that before todays polls were released.

By: Rachel Peepers

Rachel Peepers — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:54:26 +0000

To Bob Hurley,

Robert, what’s a suicide watch? Is it the telling-time kind where the face is a picture of the moment Barack decided to invite Biden, rather than Hillary onto the ticket? Killing his chances of victory.

Or do you mean somebody keeping an eye on us Republicans so we don’t kill ourselves?

Which, I guess is a decent joke, albeit, a very old joke, kind of like the kind of mud slinging, old style politics that’s coming from what was supposed to be a fresh faced new politician with a new kind of hope/change politics.

Though, I guess, the hope part still makes sense because after all his mistakes, like leaving Hillary off the ticket, hope, pretty much, is all Barack’s got.

Barack has figuratively kissed Florida and Virginia and Ohio goodbye. He may win Pennsylvania, but Mo., is going to Palin/McCain too. Along with the whole south, including Texas. For Barack, it’s the bottom of the seventh, and the home team is starting to leave so they get an early out of the parking lots.

Palin, having driving in two in the top of the 7th, will be batting in the top of the eighth.

Obama is still on the mound, slinging behind-the-plate-Axelrod calls for mudballs.

Michelle is in the first row behind the dugout first base side with a scowl on her face that seems etched in stone.

Oh, the top of the eighth started and the crowd roared as McCain drove one of Obama’s mudballs out of the park for his second homerun of the contest.

Whoops, we can see a fight break out in the right field stands. Let me grab the binoculars. Somebody’s just gotten punched in the face and is bleeding profusely from the nose. Looks like Jill Greenberg. Now a cop is helping her, no, he simply helped her stand up, then kicked her down some stairs.

Gotta go. The game of politics can get rough and tumble Jill is finding out.

Incidentally, I don’t think Republicans will be needing any free watches. Looks like Barack’s 15 minutes of fame is coming to a pathetically abrupt end.

P.S. Michelle is still scowling.

By: deguello

deguello — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:24:09 +0000

Joe,Palin will not exposed as a liar,petty tyrant, or anything else,because she is none of those things. On the other hand, Obama has sent thugs to try and censor a radio station for presenting Stanley Kurtz’expose of his radicalism.Where is your precious media scrutiny of that truly tyrannical behavior? Audacious liars,already hold high office in the US remenber Clinton? You probably voted for him hypocrite!