BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:22 PM

She's going to reserrect herself in the black community!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:26 PM

I think she'd get along very well with Chongo Chimp. He likes guns, action, straight talk, and long-legged, feisty women. Maybe they could team up in the next presidential election. But who would get the top position?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:38 PM

I think that issue was a sore point between Sarah and John McCain, also...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:49 PM

McCain cuts a very poor figure alongside Chongo. No comparison really. I think Sarah would much prefer teaming up with Chongo, as they would be a far better match for one another.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 02:03 PM

She's going to reserrect herself in the black community!
-Riginslinger

Which black community?

There are millions of communities where Black people live in the USA and elsewhere, so why the singular reference? All Black communities aren't the same just like all Black people aren't the same.

But I'd be hard pressed to find any Black community where Sarah Palin would be lauded-resurrected or otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 02:35 PM

Azizi?? That is a common reference used daily to indicate that someone wishes to appeal in a better light to black people... no??

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:10 PM

Yes, Azizi, of course you're right about all of that. It was only that I thought it so outrageous to consider that I mentioned it at all. Bad material that I ought to forward to David Letterman, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 04:32 PM

gnu, sometimes I share information about African Americans that is a given or is already known to those posting on Mudcat threads.

However, there are lots of other people who read these discussions than those who post to them. I'm pointing this out to them-in case they are interested-more than I am pointing this out to Mudcatters.

Also gnu, I saw that you wrote "Black people" and not "The black man" which used to be what mainstream society [meaning White folks] used to use. So things are changing for the better.

My point is that we [Black people] are plural and not singular.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 05:27 PM

There are a lot of other collective expressions for groups of people along that line too, like:

the White man
the Red man
the Mohammedan
the westerm woman
the Christian
the Hindu
the Scot
the Frenchman
the Mason
etc...

They aren't necessarily derogatory or condescending in use or intention...it depends on the context in which they are used, but they can sometimes sound a bit odd to anyone in the group indicated.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 11:50 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:07 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 11:38 AM

This Fairbanks News-Miner editorial board, like other newspapers in Alaska has not been able to meet with Sarah Palin, due, apparently to her mistrust of the "liberal" media (Fairbanks, by the way, is NOT liberal). In a radio interview she cited Walter Cronkite's opinion - but took it out of context.

She ain't nice.

"She has Changed"

"She did it again on Friday, posting on Twitter in advance of her appearance on KFAR radio in Fairbanks: "Candidly, I love radio vs some newspapers bc... 'Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen.' W. Cronkite"

"Of course, the governor has misinterpreted the quotation for her own use. Cronkite, in the 1973 interview with Playboy magazine, used the word "liberal" as meaning open-minded.

"PLAYBOY: Implicit in the (Nixon) administration's attempts to force the networks to "balance" the news is a conviction that most newscasters are biased against conservatism. Is there some truth in the view that television newsmen tend to be left of center?

"CRONKITE: Well, certainly liberal, and possibly left of center as well. I would have to accept that.

"PLAYBOY: What's the distinction between those two terms?

"CRONKITE: I think the distinction is both clear and important. I think that being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncommitted to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: heric
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 12:28 PM

She's going to do well as Fox's Fox.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 12:41 PM

Frankly, I think the paper is wrong. The media did change. Once they saw her as a credible national political figure instead of a local candidate in Alaska. She became a threat to them and they circled their wagons.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: heric
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 12:49 PM

Of course they did, and, as the article points out, she showed no capacity whatsoever to challenge them. That's as it should be.

Obama used to be a terrorist with delusions of being the second coming of Christ.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 01:03 PM

Okaaay! And what is Obama now?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: heric
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 01:05 PM

Remember the best she had to offer us was that she used to stare down Russian fighter jets while fishing, and would so the same for all of us. Political theatre of the absurd.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: heric
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 01:05 PM

(I knew you would say that!)

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:42 PM

Ah, but you have no idea how many Russian surprise attacks were turned away when the pilots panicked under the angry gaze of Sarah Palin, turned tail, and flew back to their airfields in Siberia. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:50 PM

The image of Putin sticking his head up over the horizon still makes me giggle.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: heric
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 02:51 PM

I believe she did it with one wink through her magic glasses, but that's supposed to be classified.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 03:57 PM

Well, they glassify me. I felt hard for her.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 03:58 PM

FELL hard.

Yeah... yeah.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 04:06 PM

You folks have been looking at Palin's high school phots. More and more she is showing some age, and the person she is gonna look like is becoming more and more apparent.



That person is Janet Reno.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 04:07 PM

gnu! You got a cellar? Go there.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 04:56 PM

Ebbie. I can't help myself. Alaska and New Brunswick have kinship. Both are lumber woods. Hard woods. Soft woods. I pine fir her. If I could spruce myself up enough to cedar, I'd moose my way through ruts to mountain ash, beech myself wailing for her... she is the alder scratch on the truck of my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 05:02 PM

But as it is, you may pine as you will and treat your cones with your alder palms.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 05:52 PM

oooo shame on gnu
you should be pun ished

I think her courageous move should be emulated by Arnold Schartzenegger , Sanford and many others. Afterall this is the home of the brave. Like Sarah says, "When you drive naked, use seat cushions".

Of course I don't get it but thats why we love her.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 06:02 PM

She uses seat cushions when she's out boggin in the nude in the mudder? Now, that is calss! Tellin ya, I am one Bud away from confessin.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 06:19 PM

DAM that's some beaver! I'd like to kit her kaboodle.

Cellar fer sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 09:25 PM

This discussion is indecent!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 11:56 PM

I can't remember now who said it, but there was a slogan going around the rodeos which comes to mind: "Ride naked. Your cheeks could use some color."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 12:42 AM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 05:03 AM

Rig... yes, very much in descent.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 11:49 AM

From The Baltimore Sun

There are many exceptions, I'm sure, but I tend to agree with Susan Reimer.

"The reaction of the punditocracy to Sarah Palin's abdication as Alaska's governor broke, not surprisingly, along gender lines.
The guys were flabbergasted. The women were furious.

"Women are mad because whatever you thought of Palin's politics, she was our horse in this race and she failed to cross the finish line -- and not because of those politics. She bailed. And she bailed with a garbled torrent of excuses. She blamed the media. She blamed the haters.

"Women are mad because Palin said she was being "altruistic, sincere and articulate," but she was not. She was self-pitying, melodramatic and scatter-brained. She was all the things women have been trying to out-run since we got the vote.

"And finally, I think women are mad because Palin's tabloid family life and her political meltdown seemed to confirm what we are all afraid might be true: Women can't have it all. Work or family. Choose, or you will end up doing both jobs badly.

"Columnist Ruth Marcus might have been speaking for all of us when she wrote, "I think my hostility has to do with our shared gender. I'm anxious to see women succeed in the political arena, as elsewhere, and I think (John) McCain's cynical choice of Palin and her faltering performance since has served to set back that cause."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 02:41 PM

Yes, it's too bad Hillary wasn't elected!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:19 PM

Ebbie, I don't agree with them. We've had so many women who have already served as governors and in other higher political positions to use as role models. I'm ecstatic that she has been such a f***up and do not feel it puts all women in such a bad light. If young women don't know that, then the journos should enlighten them with bios of Anne Richards, Maxine Waters, Olympia Dukakis, Hillary Clinton (yes!) and many, many more.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 03:23 PM

kat, I must agree with you. We're probably past the day when individual women can make or break the entire issue.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Barry Finn
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 06:20 PM

She'd have failed just as bad as a man. She's just not that good as a human, she'd have been much better as an android.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 01:09 PM

I hear she might to a photo shoot for one a them magazines. The centrefold will be a pic of her dressin out a sixty board shoulders deep.... with a rusty jack knife.

Ahhh, if ya dunno, don't ask.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 05:25 PM

Well, then, I guess I won't ask.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 06:45 PM

Ahhh shucks... sorry again, Eb. I guess I should just give it the rest it deserves. But, I am drawn, like a cock raven in a mating swoop in figure eights at break neck speed, wings aflap. Oh, to demonstrate my prowess at the defense of the nest such that I might share in the carrion of Sarah's Orion conqusets. Saint Hubert himself would find jealousy, indeed.

Yeah... time to let this thread fall off the board... sniff... unrequited...

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 08:54 PM

As I said, man....I feel your pain.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 11:07 PM

And you can believe him, gnu. Remember, he hsn't got Winona. Yet. There, there, Little Hawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 07:05 PM

He has the blow-up doll, Ebbie.


IF sarah Palin had been the first-ever female to run in politics, and had this happened 150 years back, I think women would have been set back by a thousand years. But after the Nellie McClungs, Hillary Clintons and others like them, the "womwen's" cause will not be affected by Palin. SHE'S an idiot, but I think people no longer make generalizations of that kind of sexist nature. Hell, if that were so, after Bush and Palin, the only people left to run would be dogs and cats, and I'd rather vote for a smart Siamese than a stupid Poodle, regardless of gender.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 07:32 PM

Regardless of gender.... yup... stunned as me arse knows no boundaries.

Besides... I really don't see that skinny ass luggin a large quarter too awful far on the bog.

But, as the old saying goes, for the smitten, "I'd drink warm piss out of a muddy hoofprint fer...."   ahhh... ever seen a cow moose do a piss dance?... maybe the nature channel might have it on some day.

Nevermind.

(But, it's a sight to see. Been there... 20 feet away. Wish I had a videocam with me... it would be on PBN.)

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 07:39 PM

Gnu, to quote LH, "I feel your pain."

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jul 09 - 10:57 PM

These scurrilous rumours that I have a blow-up doll of Winona Ryder are outrageous and totally untrue. ;-) I was trying to get one of Hillary Clinton a few years back, but that's another matter entirely.

Despite exhaustively searching all possible sources, I was utterly stymied in my search for a Hillary Clinton inflatable doll. It seems that her people arranged to buy them all up and destroy them some time well prior to the last election. They feared that those dolls might be used to embarrass the Clinton campaign.

The world has lost a treasure. I weep to think of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 12:19 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jul 09 - 01:45 PM

5 1/2