03 Oct 08
After watching the debate, all I can say is I am suffering saccharine overload from a certain GOP quarter. Now while cutesy folksy may work in some parts of the country, doesn't she get it that the job description is to represent the world leading qualities of America to itself and the rest of the world?
At this rate will Paris Hilton run in 2020? No doubt with increased concerns about global warming she will be the *hot* ticket!
03 Oct 08
Why would you trust someone in high office who says quote unquote
"Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution. In fact, too often you're the problem so, government, lessen the tax burden and on our families and get out of the way and let the private sector and our families grow and thrive and prosper
You have in Palin a person who shows great contempt for the process of government and because she is willing to admit to the blunders of the present Republican administration and yet even though she is running with a guy who has steadfastly stood behind the policies of George Bush, by showing *honesty* in recognizing the problem :- ie the country has gone to the crapper because of neo con evangelism on the virtues of free market capitalism, somehow in her convoluted logic of the absurd, championing the very ideals that caused the problem somehow represents the solution!?
You got to be kidding right?
03 Oct 08
2 edits
It seems that with Palinomics there is still a failure to communicate.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/debate.transcript/index.html
"It is a crisis. It's a toxic mess, really, on Main Street that's affecting Wall Street. And now we have to be ever vigilant and also making sure that credit markets don't seize up. That's where the Main Streeters like me, that's where we would really feel the effects."
Typical of the free trade brigade this mess started with sub prime defaults. Yet any serious analysis of this market meltdown puts the blame for this crises squarely at the feet of lax lending rules. Having allowed the market to become increasingly deregulated in terms of the multiplication factor of money financial institutions could loan out, against the hard currency they held to cover those loans, and all the complex weave of derivative products that they increasingly held to cover their increasingly leveraged positions, now surely that was the real story of the meltdown.
If Palin had instead said
"It's a toxic mess, really, on Wall Street, that's affecting Main Street"
people may at least start taking her opinions seriously because she would be demonstrating an ability to be on the same page as common sense and reason. But that might be hoping too much..
03 Oct 08
Freudian slip of the night must go to this comment though
Also, John McCain's maverick position that he's in, that's really prompt up to and indicated by the supporters that he has. Look at Lieberman, and Giuliani, and Romney, and Lingle, and all of us who come from such a diverse background of -- of policy and of partisanship, all coming together at this time, recognizing he is the man that we need to leave -- lead in these next four years, because these are tumultuous times.
arrrrr! out of the mouth of babes!
