Oh, how sweet is the karmic delight! Everything that voters once found so right about Sarah Palin now is turning them off.
A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that Palin is people’s biggest concern about voting for McCain.
Fifty-five percent of respondents say she’s not qualified to serve as president if the need arises, up five points from the previous poll. …In the survey, 47 percent view her negatively, versus 38 percent who see her in a positive light. …Now, Palin’s qualifications to be president rank as voters’ top concern about McCain’s candidacy – ahead of continuing President Bush’s policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too high of a troop presence in Iraq.
Sweet. I’m turning Obama! Obama! cartwheels at this marvelous turn of events. Every day, it seems, there’s a new reason to turn away from Palin.
This is a good summary of the sundry screw-up’s and "can you believe it?" expressions on the face of American voters. I’ve also done my own cyberspace walk through the not-so-wonderful world of PalinLand today.
Front and center, of course, is her $150,000 Fashiongate scandal. That’s what was spent in a single month to dress up Palin, who tries to claim that she’s just an average hockey Mom.
Yeah, right. Her clothing budget in September was four times the median salary of an American plumber. Sarah, please say "elitist" while you look in the mirror.
If you’re into fashion, it’s entertaining to browse through some photos of what the $150,000 bought (about halfway down the page). She should win the expensive high-heeled shoe vote, for sure. Those high boots also are cool. And how adorable – her daughter carries a Louis Vuitton bag!
You also can see what $8,700 worth of makeup consultations brought to Palin. (Excessive blush, in my utterly non-professional opinion.) And learn her favorite "hockey Mom" stores: Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.
An LA Times fashion critic says
Voters must find it unfathomable for Palin, who has been presented as a woman "like us," to spend that kind of money on clothes in these difficult financial times, to see her speaking so passionately about Joe the Plumber while plumbing campaign coffers for Valentino jackets and pencil skirts. And yet, they’ve eaten it up, tittering on chat sites about Palin’s Kawasaki eyeglass frames and her Naughty Monkey red peep-toe pumps.
… You also have to wonder how it feels, as a woman, to have everyone know that you really have been dressed up and trotted out like a beauty queen for the American public to wag their tongues at. Caribou Barbie indeed.
Well, at least she’s giving answers befitting her beauty queen background. Palin still doesn’t understand what a vice-president does, even though she thinks it’d be cool to be one. No, the VP isn’t in charge of the Senate, Sarah.
And somehow she manages to find socialism lurking behind Obama’s middle class tax cut, excoriating him for wanting to "spread the wealth," while sucking up redistributive income from the Alaska Permanent Fund – a massive transfer of wealth from oil company royalties to every non-felon Alaskan.
Yes, Palin presides over the People’s Republic of Alaska. So she shouldn’t be throwing socialist stones at Obama when she lives in such a glass house state of unearned wealth spreading.
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Does anybody have anything positive or good to say about their candidate of choice? I am disappointed that you can’t extol the virtues of Joe Bide, if that’s your “Man” rather kicking the opposition.
I’m a cynical undecided voter; prove to me your man, Barak, will (not wants to) change the world because I don’t think McCain/Palin will either.
So I will vote for candidate that scares me the least (how sad is that?). Who would I want in the Oval Office if a dirty bomb goes off in Paris or the Israelis attack Iran? I don’t really care that Sarah is dressed up like a Designer Barbie. Check out Joe Biden’s suits, their not Men’s Warehouse specials.
With all these cartwheels you’re setting yourself up for a big disappointment if Obama doesn’t deliver. It’s like you have blind religious faith in this guy much like belief in a guru who says he can deliver salvation (in Obama’s case, “change”) but hasn’t proven he can do it.
You just simply believe which doesn’t sound like the objective, skeptical rationalist you present yourself to be on your other blog.
Are there two Brian Hines?
Being in Oregon, where we vote by mail, I have already voted for Obama. A lot of times I have had to choose the lesser of evils. Maybe almost every time. This time I really believe in Obama’s ideas, his personality as a vehicle to deliver them, and I think his choice of Biden was a good example. I have always liked Joe Biden. I have written a lot about all these candidates– the pros and cons– in my own blog.
Most people can find the information on what these candidates promise, on their backgrounds and their work to date, but a lot don’t want to do the work. They are swayed by the least little thing. To me by now if someone is really undecided, there is a deeper reason, a reluctance maybe to admit their real reasons (like maybe age for McCain and race for Obama, possibly always voting for one party but realizing this time it’d be a mistake).
For almost a year now, I have believed Obama was our best chance to fix the mess we are in. His campaign has not disappointed me.
No matter who gets in, they will displease a lot of people because this country has gotten itself into a mess by believing it can have something for nothing and voting for those who promise it. What McCain and Palin have been stirring up is more resentment than I have yet seen– and it wasn’t good before. I don’t know how that will work for whoever gets elected. Bush promised to unite the country and then did all he could to divide it as a way to keep power. McCain has literally done all the things he said were wrong when Bush did them but now he wants to win so badly he doesn’t care.
To be honest, I wasn’t as upset about McCain as a possible president until I began researching and found that a lot of what we thought we knew about him, we did not. Then he picked Palin and it was like how could anyone who loved this country have chosen someone so ill-prepared to be president in such a critical time?
They say Obama is not prepared. He ran a campaign that has shown that he is. Palin has proven nothing except she can look beautiful. That isn’t exactly reassuring to me especially since she could be president January 22.
Might Obama disappoint me? Of course. That’s how it goes. We vote the best we know but to me his character and temperament are the best bet we have for today and any of those possible disasters you mentioned.
Obama’s hardest stand will be against those in his own party who think he’ll be a pushover. I think they will find out he has strong ideas and he won’t let them railroad through what they expect. None of them delivered this to him. He did it through hard work, good organizations, the support of the little guys like my family, and ideas that resonated with a lot of Americans enough that they have sacrificed to support his campaign financially and through their hard work. He’s never said it’ll be easy or without cost. That alone is a refreshing change.
YAWN……….
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Hey Brian! When do you get that new bike?
No THERE is something to do cartwheels about!
Well, not while on the bike hopefully.
GEEZZZE it sure is a relief to take ones mind off of the flakes running for office!
Such “mind pollution”. I’m sick of it.
Maybe in 4 years there will be someone running worth a tinkers damn.
condor, there’s just one of me. I don’t have blind faith in Obama. I’ve listened to him speak. I’ve read his policy proposals. I’ve seen him in person.
One difference between politics and religion is that in a presidential election, “none of the above” is a stupid choice — whereas it makes a lot of sense with religion.
We have two alternatives for president. In my opinion, Obama and Biden are far superior to McCain and Palin. They aren’t perfect, but their understanding of how this country needs to change makes good sense.
You’re not saying that “churchless” people can’t be enthusiastic, are you? I don’t see why you would. So where’s the problem in me being excited about the prospect of an Obama presidency?
It’s 96% or so likely to happen, according to a respected polling web site.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
That’s a heck of a lot better odds than religion offers — for heaven or salvation. So again, politics is very different from religion. The blind faith involved is much less in an election.
I think by being positive, by imagining that Obama has won, by keeping respectful (as you always do here), what you are doing is part of what is helping him win and it’s about spirituality too as it’s that think it and it shall be kind of thinking. It sure won’t do any good to be down in the dumps. We have to work, donate and think positive until it’s been decided; then hope for the best for what it means for our country and the world– as what the US does impacts the world whether our citizens want to think it or care about it or not.