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Post by John B on Nov 3, 2009 14:35:50 GMT -5
Um...Obama has power. That's kind of a difference, and stuff. So does my vacuum, but even the dogs have gotten used to it by now. I just thought that was funny. I amuse myself.
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Post by millring on Nov 3, 2009 14:36:38 GMT -5
"I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." Uh, they already did. See, when I read that, I assume that everyone -- even those with whom I disagree on this forum -- is at once smart enough and well-read enough and up-to-date on current events enough to know that Palin ran for VP. Therefore, assuming that as I do, I read the word "again" after the word "Palin". "I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." . ...but then, my classes in Tramp's School of Snark have not begun yet. I still have to pay my tuition. Do you accept paypal?
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Post by Fingerplucked on Nov 3, 2009 14:40:54 GMT -5
"I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." Uh, they already did. See, when I read that, I assume that everyone -- even those with whom I disagree on this forum -- is at once smart enough and well-read enough and up-to-date on current events enough to know that Palin ran for VP. Therefore, assuming that as I do, I read the word "again" after the word "Palin". "I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." . ...but then, my classes in Tramp's School of Snark have not begun yet. I still have to pay my tuition. Do you accept paypal? Is that button for real? When did McCain have the top spot? I thought Palin ran for Vice President and McCain ran for Assistant Vice President.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Nov 3, 2009 14:42:51 GMT -5
"I read the word "again" after the word "Palin"."
I looked for it and didn't see it so I just read what I saw.
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Post by millring on Nov 3, 2009 14:44:20 GMT -5
Hmmm. And I don't take bamfiles as such an idiot.
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Post by Doug on Nov 3, 2009 14:45:11 GMT -5
I looked for it and didn't see it so I just read what I saw. That's not what we do on the Soundhole. We never look and only read what we want to see (saw). ;D
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Post by John B on Nov 3, 2009 14:49:20 GMT -5
"I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." Uh, they already did. See, when I read that, I assume that everyone -- even those with whom I disagree on this forum -- is at once smart enough and well-read enough and up-to-date on current events enough to know that Palin ran for VP. Therefore, assuming that as I do, I read the word "again" after the word "Palin". "I don't think there's much chance of the Republicans running Palin anytime soon. They may be dumb but they're not that dumb." . ...but then, my classes in Tramp's School of Snark have not begun yet. I still have to pay my tuition. Do you accept paypal? <semantics> <PayPal> <www.tss.edu/tuition> I think the book is mean-spirited overkill. Anyway, she'll be a completely different person in 2011 - she's got plenty of time to fill knowledge gaps.
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Post by John B on Nov 3, 2009 14:51:30 GMT -5
Hmmm. And I don't take bamfiles as such an idiot. <reading a whole lot more into a 4 word post that can possibly be there> <who's being snarky now?>
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Post by Supertramp78 on Nov 3, 2009 14:52:39 GMT -5
"Hmmm. And I don't take bamfiles as such an idiot."
I don't either. But I keep hearing people talk about Palin as if she isn't important or a big wig in the GOP or anyone we should be concerned with and I keep thinking that if a lot of people had their wish, she would be Vice President today.. which in my book is important and a big wig in the GOP and something to be concerned about. When someone says the GOP isn't stupid enough to run her, well hell, they already did. In some markets they ran ON her. She was a bigger draw than McCain and many here gave her the credit for McCain doing as good as he did. And now I'm hearing how you would have to be stupid to run her (again). Was it stupid THEN or has it just become stupid in the last 12 months?
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Post by Fingerplucked on Nov 3, 2009 14:55:05 GMT -5
Was it stupid THEN or has it just become stupid in the last 12 months? <Hand up in air> Call on me, call on me. I know this one.
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Post by John B on Nov 3, 2009 14:56:30 GMT -5
I'm not a Palin fan but I'm starting to believe that the Democrats ran the only candidate they could find with less qualifications than she had. She could at least make a decision. Aside from that part of your post, which I think is total horseshit, I agree with you. There's a difference between making a decision and making the right decision. And if you look up the number of statements by each candidate of the four (P/VP), there are far more innacuracies/outright falsehoods in Gov. Palin's statements than the other three combined ( including Biden). And only one quitter. But again, I agree with everything else you said (not said in sarcasm, or snarkiness, etc.).
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Post by bamfiles on Nov 3, 2009 15:09:43 GMT -5
You missed "Anytime soon". The Republicans may run Palin someday but she needs to do a lot of work first so I think 2012 is out and probably 2016 is out. Given 10 years, she'll be low 50's and if she can build a following beyond the core conservatives, they'll run her. Just not now. SHe needs to do something to fix her negatives. A stint in congress might be an opportunity or, if a Republican wins in 2012, and I have no idea who that might be, they'd possibly make her secretary of something where she could do something to improve her image. Right now she's an easier target than Bush was. There's nothing they can do to fix that by 2012.
Trying to be clear here, my goal is to be un-PC and to contest anyone's statements made as if everyone should agree. The problem I have with the far left and far right is that neither of them believes that it's just possible they may be wrong. I'm skeptical of everything. I expect the worst at all times and am therefore seldom surprised and occasionally pleasantly surprised. I'm retired and have lots of time to think and to read and investigate, play and sing sometimes. It's what I did for a living and it's what I do for fun when I have free time.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Nov 3, 2009 15:22:20 GMT -5
Lot to agree with there.
"if a Republican wins in 2012, and I have no idea who that might be"
I don't either. Huckabee? Romney? I have no idea.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Nov 3, 2009 15:23:00 GMT -5
Trying to be clear here, my goal is to be un-PC and to contest anyone's statements made as if everyone should agree. I like that.
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 3, 2009 15:26:14 GMT -5
Sarah Palin is a fully-formed adult, and her personality isn't going to change--no road-to-Damascus moment is going to give her an analytical intelligence or transform her from a mean-high-school-prom-queen into a functional politician. I suppose a massive, coordinated (by someone else) makeover campaign might reconstruct her image, but she would have to be forever in the care of handlers to keep her from revealing her underlying narcissism and contempt for facts. Of course, had she been caught young enough, she might have been house-broke--after all, it kind of worked for Bush--but I fear she is what she is. The only thing that could give her a political career would be the triumph of the paranoid and the credulous. And since I live in Michele Bachmann's district, I'm not so sure that Our Sarah doesn't have a future.
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Post by John B on Nov 3, 2009 15:29:08 GMT -5
Trying to be clear here, my goal is to be un-PC and to contest anyone's statements made as if everyone should agree. I like that. I can't avoid being PC, as I think Macs are too expensive (that and I'm well-versed in Windows, and even like Vista!).
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Post by Marshall on Nov 3, 2009 15:30:43 GMT -5
I think the Palin spoof book is in bad taste. I don't like Palin. But i don't see where she deserves to be attacked so. Especially when her book isn't even out yet.
Strikes me as over-reacting. The humorous side of parodying Palin has been overdone. It's gone stale. It now just comes off as mean spirited. And that can backfire.
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Post by Russell Letson on Nov 3, 2009 15:35:11 GMT -5
Oh, Marshall--you think it's mean-spirited and in bad taste to make fun of a tirelessly self-promoting public figure who has leveraged her public service career into a seven-figure book deal (of course, she had to pay a chunk of it to the "collaborator"--I'd want six figures to tackle that job)? As for backfiring--for her core audience, Sarah is bulletproof. So the rest of us might as well get something out of the spectacle, and I vote for the pleasures of merciless mockery.
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Post by RickW on Nov 3, 2009 15:36:30 GMT -5
With any luck, Ms. P is simply this year's Dan Quayle. Bye bye.
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Post by Jawbone on Nov 3, 2009 15:36:36 GMT -5
Is there some reason why she looks up and to the left? Do people do that when they think or when they lie, I done forgot?
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