10th circle (4.00 / 1)

for a minute there I thought you were talking about 10th grade.

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by: Susan S @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:00:46 AM UTC

Let's all help Governor Palin (0.00 / 0)

We can perform an electoral intervention and put her out of her misery...

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by: Lukeness @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:20:27 AM UTC

Let Palin be Palin (0.00 / 0)

It's worked wonders for us so far--and for Tiny Fey and SNL.

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton

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by: kovie @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:43:39 AM UTC

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aggravating, but what else is new (0.00 / 0)

'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'

Rewrite:

'People should not support patriarchy.'

No?

Anyone good at math?  I wonder how long it would take to go over all of McCain and Palin's statements and rewrite them to eliminate the analytical and moral flaws in them. :)  Or maybe just get three monkeys and some typwriters...

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by: dr anonymous @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:21:54 AM UTC

When you're reduced to a 3rd rate provincial hack (4.00 / 2)

making dishonest and snarky 9th grade-level smear attacks on someone as substantive as Obama, you pretty much know that the end is near. They're circling the wagons and firing in all directions with whatever they have left--spitballs, slingshots, explosive farts, wooden-tipped arrows--all laced with their unique brand of venom. Whatever, it's not going to work.

And I was especially dismayed to find George Will now jumping on the "Carter, Clinton, CRA, ACORN and Barney Frank are to blame for the financial meltdown, by putting a gun to banks' heads and forcing them to lend to unqualified lenders, and blocking the GOP, which despite controlling both houses of congress, the presidency, and the courts, in its valient, desperate and doomed effort to prevent rampant fraud and bad lending" bandwagon, this morning on This Week. It's not so much that I expect honestly from serial liar Will. It's that I expected a more intelligent kind of lying from him. When even the likes of Will are reduced to such transparent lying, the end is near. And they all know it.

Couldn't happen to a more vile bunch of ratfuckers.

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton

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by: kovie @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:42:34 AM UTC

Where is Will (0.00 / 0)

Saying this?  Be great for a follow up to today's missive about everyone's favourite "true" conservative.

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by: Daniel De Groot @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:51:55 AM UTC

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I just put it up on YouTube (4.00 / 2)

Along with one from this morning's Washington Journal that follows the same lines:

They don't all say exactly the same thing, but they're all variations on the meme that Dems are largely responsible for the financial crisis, because:

1 - The original CRA was passed during the Carter administration.

2 - It was strengthened and more strongly enforced during the Clinton administration.

3 - Barney Frank & Chris Dodd singlehandedly blocked the administration and Repubs' massive effort to re-regulate the mortgage market and oversee it more strongly, in 2003, when Dems controlled nothing.

4 - Something about ACORN.

5 - Something about Raines and Johnson having close ties to Obama.

6 - Something about Dodd's sweetheart mortgage.

Nothing about Greenspan's opening up of the credit supply, about Pitt and Cox's lack of oversight, about the GOP congress's passing of bills making it easier for these bad mortgages to be made and risky CMO securities from being issued and traded without oversight. It was all Dems putting a gun to banks' heads and forcing them to lend to shiftless blacks and illegal aliens, and preventing Repubs who controlled the presidency, and ran congress with an iron fist, from stopping this. It's the latest variation on the Repubs' decades-long "Big Lie" tactic, no different from Nixon's "Silent Majority" that was sick and tired of lazy and militant blacks destroying cities and living on welfare, and Reagan's "Welfare Queen" line.

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton

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by: kovie @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 04:28:36 AM UTC

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the mccain palin campaign slogan (0.00 / 0)

do as i say not as i do.

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by: pc @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:52:35 AM UTC

missing the other story (4.00 / 2)

You're missing the other important story here.  Folksy Sarah "Middle American" Palin drinks coffee from StarBucks?  How... cosmopolitan.  

Our Dime Understanding the U.S. Budget

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by: dmineau @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 04:28:08 AM UTC

thanks (0.00 / 0)

I was in such a target rich environment that it was too easy for the lesser hypocrisy to escape notice.

I have to say, I'm impressed with the work of Republican scientists over the years who have assiduously advanced the science of hypocrisology to such a level that a Republican politician can jam in so many layers of contradiction into just one thought or phrase.  They're approaching some kind of asymptotic zen-like perfect hypocritical statement where each word will be in contradiction with all the others.

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by: Daniel De Groot @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 13:38:33 PM UTC

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Let this be a lesson (0.00 / 0)

There is a lesson here for all of us.

If you're going to misquote someone, at least have the prudence to wait until they're dead.

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by: Paul Avery @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 05:29:38 AM UTC

Starbucks Cup? (0.00 / 0)

Does that mean Palin was sipping a Starbucks latte while reading her New York Times article about Ayers?  What an elitist.  She probably drove over to the Starbucks in a Volvo.

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by: kaleidescope @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 06:42:05 AM UTC

Sarah Palin lost the 2008 Miss Maverick contest to Tina Fey! (0.00 / 0)

Sry, ot, but I'm mightily impressed. And a lil bit in love!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/...

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by: Gray @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 11:12:59 AM UTC

I can't understand why Albright (0.00 / 0)

made that statement in the first place. (and why Palin would repeat it) Imagine if some friend of obama said there was a place in hell reserved for blacks who don't help other blacks. The press would be headlining the story from now until election day, claiming obama was yet again playing the race card "from the bottom of the deck."

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by: avarus @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 11:33:47 AM UTC

Palin misquotes Albright and takes her words out of context (0.00 / 0)

My initial reaction was the same as yours. But, according to the Huffington Post, the original quote was in reference to human rights. It has nothing to do with partisan politics.  

Albright responded to Palin's remarks in a statement to the Huffington Post on Sunday. "Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Considering what we know about her time as mayor, I think it's safe to say that Palin hasn't focused on helping women.  

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by: pacersfan @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 18:55:27 PM UTC

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Oh okay that clears it up (0.00 / 0)

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by: avarus @ Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 00:57:11 AM UTC

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Skipping My Way To Hell (0.00 / 0)

I must be going to hell, then, because I'd throw her to the wolves before helping her (hey, they deserve a little vengeance!).
And I'll support every raped woman in Alaska before her.
I knew girls like her in high school--the ickily snotty, self-satisfied bitches that everyone with a brain wanted to slap.
Just a note, she makes herself out to be a soccer mom, right? Middle class soccer moms guzzle Starbucks like its going out of style. And she drinks the typical soccer mom drink--a non-fat white mocha. Ugh.

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by: Philosophe @ Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 16:48:30 PM UTC