grodscorp@grods.comNuggets of Palin
 | Posted by John Surname on Monday 6 October 2008, 9:40 am Categories: Politics Tags: SarahPalin, uselection |
From the offical transcript of the vice-presidential debate, comes this nugget of comedy gold from Sarah Palin.
IFILL: Let’s talk conventional wisdom for a moment. The conventional wisdom, Gov. Palin with you, is that your Achilles heel is that you lack experience. Your conventional wisdom against you is that your Achilles heel is that you lack discipline, Sen. Biden. What id it really for you, Gov. Palin? What is it really for you, Sen. Biden? Start with you, governor.
PALIN: My experience as an executive will be put to good use as a mayor and business owner and oil and gas regulator and then as governor of a huge state, a huge energy producing state that is accounting for much progress towards getting our nation energy independence and that’s extremely important.
But it wasn’t just that experience tapped into, it was my connection to the heartland of America. Being a mom, one very concerned about a son in the war, about a special needs child, about kids heading off to college, how are we going to pay those tuition bills? About times and Todd and our marriage in our past where we didn’t have health insurance and we know what other Americans are going through as they sit around the kitchen table and try to figure out how are they going to pay out-of-pocket for health care? We’ve been there also so that connection was important.
But even more important is that world view that I share with John McCain. That world view that says that America is a nation of exceptionalism. And we are to be that shining city on a hill, as President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and that we are unapologetic here. We are not perfect as a nation. But together, we represent a perfect ideal. And that is democracy and tolerance and freedom and equal rights. Those things that we stand for that can be put to good use as a force for good in this world.
John McCain and I share that. You combine all that with being a team with the only track record of making a really, a difference in where we’ve been and reforming, that’s a good team, it’s a good ticket.
If Joe Sixpacks like myself were asked our weaknesses in a job interview, and we answered the question the way she did, we wouldn’t get the job - you betcha.
Unlike most people here, I didn’t watch/listen to the debate. I started to, but, fatally, decided to play a drinking game. I would take a shot of Vodka everytime Palin used the word “maverick”.
Twenty minutes later I was rushed to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning. Serious shit. I nearly died.
Another golden nugget from our Alaskan friend:
“Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right?”
I have no idea what she is talking about, and I can’t remember what the question was, but hey, she can wink, right? If only, like Biden, she was smart enough to plagarise.
UPDATE: This morning McCain and Palin are accusing Obama of hanging out with terrorists. Duh. I revealed that Obama is a terrorist ages ago. A win for Citizen Journalism.
Monday 6 October 2008, 10:12 am #Dam Buster of Preston
As I said in the other thread using the ‘Alaskan Method’.. McCain spent 5 years living with the Vietcon in constant communication with them on a daily basis.. And that was during the war in which the USA was involved.
Monday 6 October 2008, 10:15 am #John Surname
What a leftist scumbag. I wouldn’t have negotiated with them. I just would have killed every single Vietnamese person with my bare hands. Millions of people judo chopped to death. He ignores my advice and spends years as a POW. Nice going, genius.
Monday 6 October 2008, 10:41 am #Dam Buster of Preston
And what is with this:
“UPDATE. The Palin/Biden SNL debate. Palin wins again, but it’s surprising how much less hot Tina Fey is than the Alaskan governor. Also, Queen Latifa is an excellent debate moderator.”
from Timmeh’s website. Again with the fat jokes.
Monday 6 October 2008, 10:54 am #Keri
You get alcohol poisoning from six drinks, Surname?
Kids these days. Chuch.
Monday 6 October 2008, 11:10 am #michelle
You would think Keri, but that vodka was almost pure alcohol - Surname got it from Putin’s personal stash. Putin himself has shots of it whenever he sees Palin from his house.
Monday 6 October 2008, 12:19 pm #Ross
“How are we going to pay those tuition bills?”, she asks?
Jesus-fucking-Christ, that’s just unbelievable.
Monday 6 October 2008, 12:50 pm #Dam Buster of Preston
“How are we going to pay those tuition bills?”
Maybe her daughter could enter a pregnant teen beauty competition…
Monday 6 October 2008, 1:06 pm #cosmicjester
“but it’s surprising how much less hot Tina Fey is than the Alaskan governor.”
has timmeh seen tina fey? hot, smart and funny. mccain would have been better off picking her as a running mate
Monday 6 October 2008, 1:55 pm #Ross
Sarah Palin’s hot??? What is it with some men? Are these the same ones who thought Margaret Thatcher was hot? Pauline Hanson? Bronwyn Bishop?
I’d rather stick my dick in a cactus hollow on the off chance there might be a warm snake inside.
Monday 6 October 2008, 3:14 pm #Bridgit Gread
With incoherence like that, Sarah should have blog.
Monday 6 October 2008, 3:24 pm #Toaf
Surname, after killing the Vietnamese men he could have kissed all the women.
Michelle, LOL! I can imagine Sarah’s head coming into Putin’s airspace and him, trembling with fear, reaching for the bottle!
Monday 6 October 2008, 3:35 pm #Skeptic
Gold from Bill Maher (via Crooks and Liars)
And finally, new rule: You can’t be President if you practice a violent, Middle Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god. Which is why Sarah Palin can’t be President. Now all the churches that Sarah Palin has attended, and she’s been to almost as many churches as she has colleges, have one thing in common: a belief that the Bible is literally true. She’s not “Country First”, she’s “Bible First”. And not just the New Testament. That’s the happy half of the book: the baby in the manger, Jesus doing magic tricks, long romantic walks on the water that turn into fishing trips with the guys and a generally positive message. Jesus, after all, preached love and forgiveness, not shooting wolves from an airplane.
The problem is Gov. Avon Lady, she takes the Old Testament literally too, and in that one, God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He’s been alive forever and He has anger issues. He’s like John McCain if John McCain could fart hail. He’s pro-slavery, pro-polygamy and homophobic and he’ll kill you for masturbating. More people get stoned in the Old Testament than in my Jacuzzi. That’s what I have to tell you guys… If there was a video of Barack Obama standing in front of his congregation being healed by a black witch doctor, this election would be over.
But there is that video of Sarah Palin.
Monday 6 October 2008, 4:04 pm #Alister
More gold (did I get the link from here?) from AlterNet.
Monday 6 October 2008, 5:18 pm #Dylan
I would take a shot of Vodka everytime Palin used the word “maverick”. Twenty minutes later I was rushed to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning. Serious shit. I nearly died.
You’re lucky you didn’t take your shots when Biden used the word ‘maverick’. In aswering just one question he managed to employ it nine times - that’s 50% more than Palin did for the entire debate.
Monday 6 October 2008, 7:10 pm #Broken left leg
When rudd gets asked a quëstion he just ignore it, asks himself a totally different question, and then answers his own one.
When Palin gets asked something, she gets a huge case of verbal watery poo poos, jumps from one topic to another, and then adds family stories just like grandpa simpson. After 3 minutes of this stuff nobody can actually remember the question.
Monday 6 October 2008, 7:28 pm #Bron
It’s a clever strategy, maybe. Waffle on for so long and forget the question and forget that she hasn’t answered the question.
On the other hand, I hope American “undecideds” are smart enough to get pissed off with the lack of an answer to a question. “Just answer the fucking question!”, they should be yelling.
Monday 6 October 2008, 7:32 pm #Toaf
Don’t forget the wink, BLL. The wink!
Monday 6 October 2008, 8:08 pm #Mikey
As many annoyed yanks on various MSM forums have noted McCain’s far more frequent contact and greater dollars received from G Gordon Liddy is far more worrying than Obama’s minor association with an ex weatherman is.
Monday 6 October 2008, 8:46 pm #Broken left leg
I thought the wink was a genetic thing from growing up in a small Alaskan town that gets snowed in for 11 months of the year.