Originally posted by Shakka
If it failed it failed. I just passed it on as I said it was moderately interesting. I'd give it more of a C- based on your additions.;)
:)
ing knew that degree would come in handy one day ing still paying the loan off..... :whip:
LazFX
Jesus Christ ..... she CANNOT be that focking dumb.
Can she?
Its Bush in a skirt, I swear.
I just saw the clip....been at work and talking to relatives stuck in Houston area....
OMG! Words.......words..... cannot describe that. I knew she would be horrible on her own....she is small time... sorry guys of the GOP....
I am creaming thinking about this new "christian solder" that the right wing has canonized in a debate with Biden.... ;)
Wow...getting goosebumps :)
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Ha ha ha ha hope the pics came out.... :)
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I was reading other excerpts from the interview. Almost every answer she gives is a facepalm moment:
Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News, "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."
I can see an apartment building from my window that has 100 people in it. Seeing it doesn't give me any insight into the resident's actions.
Pressed repeatedly on whether the United States could attack terrorist hideouts in Pakistan without the country's permission, she said: "If there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend."
He didn't ask you if it was OK if "a strike was imminent", he was asking if it was OK period, since we've been doing it lately. Of course you probably don't even know we've been doing that lately.
She said nuclear weapons in Iran's hands are dangerous, and said "we've got to put the pressure on Iran." Asked three times what her position would be if Israel felt threatened enough to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, Palin repeatedly said the United States shouldn't "second guess" Israel's steps to secure itself.
When you don't know what answer you are supposed to give, just don't give an answer. Repeat your non-answer over and over like a parrot. It makes you look very smart!
She called for Georgia and the Ukraine to be included in NATO, a treaty that requires the U.S. to defend them militarily. She also said Russia's attack into Georgia last month was "unprovoked." Asked to clarify that she'd support going to war over Georgia, she said: "Perhaps so."
I'm gonna get drunk and watch this whole interview on 20/20 tonight. It should be very fun.
something else:
LazFX
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Palin Uses Magic 8-Ball in ABC Interview
GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said today that she was "delighted" with her performance in a much-publicized ABC News interview with Charlie Gibson and gave credit to her "trusty Magic 8-Ball" for helping her come up with answers to "some darn tricky questions."
"Charlie brought his A-game, that's for darn sure," Gov. Palin said after her interview. "That's why it's a good thing I had my Magic 8-Ball with me."
During the interview broadcast on ABC, the Alaska governor was seen shaking her Magic 8-Ball after each question before responding to Mr. Gibson.
All in all, Gov. Palin responded to over eighty of the ABC newsman's questions with only three answers, believed to be a record for a nationally broadcast interview with a major political figure.
"Terrorists are hell-bent on destroying us," Gov. Palin said no fewer than nineteen times.
"I believe that America must do what we can to be strong," she said fifteen times.
"Reply hazy -- try again," she said nine times.
Occasionally, she attempted an adlib, usually the word "Charlie," which she used over one thousand times.
All in all, Gov. Palin said she was "pleased as punch" by her performance, despite having told Mr. Gibson that the United States should invade Russia.
When asked by reporters where she got her answer to the Russia question, Gov. Palin replied, "My Magic 8-Ball got stuck on that one, so I asked God."
On the campaign trail, GOP presidential nominee John McCain said he was "thrilled" with Gov, Palin's performance, adding that she would be shipped to Alaska and frozen in a block of ice for the remainder of the campaign.
John M. Murtagh: Fire in the Night and The Weathermen tried to kill my family.
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.
I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.
For the next 18 months, I went to school in an unmarked police car. My mother, a schoolteacher, had plainclothes detectives waiting in the faculty lounge all day. My brother saved a few bucks because he didn’t have to rent a limo for the senior prom: the NYPD did the driving. We all made the best of the odd new life that had been thrust upon us, but for years, the sound of a fire truck’s siren made my stomach knot and my heart race. In many ways, the enormity of the attempt to kill my entire family didn’t fully hit me until years later, when, a father myself, I was tucking my own nine-year-old John Murtagh into bed.
Though no one was ever caught or tried for the attempt on my family’s life, there was never any doubt who was behind it. Only a few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. The same cell had bombed my house, writes Ron Jacobs in The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. And in late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’s wife, promised more bombings.
As the association between Obama and Ayers came to light, it would have helped the senator a little if his friend had at least shown some remorse. But listen to Ayers interviewed in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, of all days: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Translation: “We meant to kill that judge and his family, not just damage the porch.” When asked by the Times if he would do it all again, Ayers responded: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.”
Though never a supporter of Obama, I admired him for a time for his ability to engage our imaginations, and especially for his ability to inspire the young once again to embrace the political system. Yet his myopia in the last few months has cast a new light on his “politics of change.” Nobody should hold the junior senator from Illinois responsible for his friends’ and supporters’ violent terrorist acts. But it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates, and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country. It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy, and the direction he would take our nation.
At the conclusion of his 2001 Times interview, Ayers said of his upbringing and subsequent radicalization: “I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.”
Funny thing, Bill: one night, so did I.
John M. Murtagh is a practicing attorney, an adjunct professor of public policy at the Fordham University College of Liberal Studies, and a member of the city council in Yonkers, New York, where he resides with his wife and two sons.
LazFX
et tu shakka? et tu?
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Though never a supporter of Obama, I admired him for a time for his ability to engage our imaginations, and especially for his ability to inspire the young once again to embrace the political system. Yet his myopia in the last few months has cast a new light on his “politics of change.” Nobody should hold the junior senator from Illinois responsible for his friends’ and supporters’ violent terrorist acts. But it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates, and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country. It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy, and the direction he would take our nation.
It still does not excuse the fact that Palin is under qualified, you know it deep down in your gut....come on, its ok.... WE LOVE YOU ON OUR SIDE.......
come play with us....
ha ha ha
//i have got to stop smoking this :D
LazFX
Dj Smitty20
my grandfather was saying something about "Palin praying away the gay" a couple of days ago. I chalked it up to his senile rambling, but he must have seen a report that showed this ridiculous display.
This woman is going to VP of the USA? HAHAHAAHAHAHA!! Give me a ing break!
Pray away the gay they say! Now that is a role model for America!
What a progressive choice McCain, you desperate old fuddy. It's obvious he'll do anything to get elected.
Where are the right wing nutjobs to defend this now?
LazFX
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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
Where are the right wing nutjobs to defend this now?
3, 2, 1, ..............
Shakka
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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
my grandfather was saying something about "Palin praying away the gay" a couple of days ago. I chalked it up to his senile rambling, but he must have seen a report that showed this ridiculous display.
This woman is going to VP of the USA? HAHAHAAHAHAHA!! Give me a ing break!
Pray away the gay they say! Now that is a role model for America!
What a progressive choice McCain, you desperate old fuddy. It's obvious he'll do anything to get elected.
Where are the right wing nutjobs to defend this now?
Does your grandfather watch Southpark too? That was in a recent episode.
Dj Smitty20
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Originally posted by Shakka
Does your grandfather watch Southpark too? That was in a recent episode.
he might watch it. It's funny sometimes. He's in his 80s and is a real war hero. He fought in a real war against a real enemy if you actually have to know.
How can you defend this woman for VP? It is absolutely stunning that you'd even try.
Shakka
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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
he might watch it. It's funny sometimes. He's in his 80s and is a real war hero. He fought in a real war against a real enemy if you actually have to know.
How can you defend this woman for VP? It is absolutely stunning that you'd even try.
I'm not happy about attempting to defend her. I'm trying to more selectively defend certain aspects, though I'm pretty cool on everyone these days. I was less than impressed with the Gibson interview (on both of their parts). If her energy expertise is real, I believe that may be her best attribute and that's what she should stick with. It's no the end of the world if she's not a foreign policy ace, but I wish she wouldn't be so blatantly hawkish and hard-lined about the issue if she knows so little. That said, I hated the way Charlie Gibson asked the questions. It was so condescending.
I'm not excited about this election. My more recent post just rehashes another concern about Obama. Just because I'm not pro-Obama does not mean that I am super-pro McCain/Palin.
