What does Sarah Palin remind you of?

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 24 Sep 08 - 05:54 PM

They've lost making sense!! ..and 'wee'littledrummer..you must be very 'wee'

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 10:34 PM

The what?

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:41 AM

better watch it wld - last thread that said anything nasty about the Blessed Maggie got shut down by the rose tinted glasses cat chapter :)

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:37 AM

You are right, the mean streak they brag about, like a loveable pit bull, goes all the way to the bone. The mean streak is the source of all their power, intimidation and fear.

Clinton's advice is to not attack the dog but let it show all its inate behavior on its own. Give a dog enough leash and...

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:48 AM

I think you take it as read that what you see is never what you get with politicians, Sanity. Obama looks pretty normal to me - as does McCain. What we are talking about here is 'weird' - unfathomable!

After she'd pissed off everybody at every level as Education Minister - I don't think anyone (particularly in her own party) had Margaret Thatcher pegged as a bit of a genius. Albeit crazy as an owl.

However, unless you were completely unobservant of human nature - you did realise that she was a thoroughly nauseating bitch and that you were in for some unpleasant surprises when she got to be PM.


We had a lot of union leaders, people in every party etc., and every part of industry and culture that totally underestimated her, and she had their scalps dangling from her belt very soon.

The worse thing you can do with 'weird' is underestimate it, think it doesn't matter, can't hurt you. It can.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:45 AM

Those of us who have posted to this thread are not interchangeable. We are actually separate individuals. I have said that I agree with Clinton about not making personal attacks on Palin, and I have not made any personal attacks on her. Why someone would want to hold me responsible for what others in the thread have said and/or done is a mystery to me, unless, rather than seeing us as human beings, that person sees us as some sort of Borg entity or something.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:39 AM

"we shouldn't make personal attacks"


Like this entire thread???

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:26 AM

He said we shouldn't make personal attacks (and I agree with that). Attacking her record, on the other hand, is appropriate and necessary.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:20 AM

Bill Clinton says Dems shouldn't attack Palin
Posted: 10:36 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney


Bill Clinton said Dems shouldn't attack Palin.
(CNN) — Bill Clinton said Monday the Democratic ticket should steer clear of launching personal attacks on Sarah Palin over her relatively thin resume, and instead acknowledge she was a "good choice" for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket.

"Why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don't we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?" said Clinton, who faced repeated charges during the primary season he was overly negative toward Obama on the campaign trail.

Clinton's comments appear to echo advice Karl Rove gave to Barack Obama in his regular Wall Street Journal column last week, when the former Bush strategist noted attacking the VP candidate has rarely proven to be an effective strategy.

In one of the former president's few extended comments to date on Palin's surprise VP candidacy, Clinton also told reporters in New York Monday he knows why the Alaska governor is attracting massive crowds on the campaign trail.

"I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there," Clinton told reporters in New York, according to the Associated Press. "Why she's doing well."

"People look at her, and they say, 'All those kids. Something that happens in everybody's family I'm glad she loves her daughter and she's not ashamed of her. Glad that girl's going around with her boyfriend. Glad they're going to get married,'" he said.

Referencing Palin's 5-month old child who has Down Syndrome, Clinton also said voters will think, "I like that little Down syndrome kid — one of them lives down the street, they're wonderful children."

Earlier Monday, Clinton suggested his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, would have been a better political choice for the Democratic VP spot than Joe Biden.

"She would have been the best politically, at least in the short run, because of her enormous support of the country," he said on the daytime talk show The View.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 12:12 AM

From: Amos
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 10:16 PM

Mayhap a slightly less reliable life-form..

..and what is that??...Obama?, McCain? Weelittledrummer?, God?.The computer? you? Palin? Biden?...or all of the above??...or, of course, none of the above??

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 10:16 PM

Mayhap a slightly less reliable life-form..


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 10:06 PM

All the while knowing, of course, that a child of god would simple be a figment of the computer operator's imagination.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 09:16 PM

I was reeling in spiritual delight so much....I forgot to sign in......

From: weelittledrummer
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 05:27 PM

Look sanity - you're going to vote for a party whose vice presidential candidate gives every appearance of being barking mad.

We have established over many posts that this doesn't bother you one tiny bit.

A spiritual word.......
It doesn't bother me, at all, about either one...they're both full of shit!..You aren't too perceptive, yourself! I don't get where you think, that I think, Sarah Palin, is the next Messiah, after Obama.....
You'd know this too, if you'd go outside and take a big breath, and the revelation might bonk you on the head....choirs in heaven would sing a celestial song, in the heavens, and rays of light streaking through the silver lined clouds..and your inner voice would declare, to your whole being..." My Dearest child of God, there IS life outside the computer!'

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 09:14 PM

She's being deceptive, so she can sneak up on the Democrats.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 08:30 PM

She just oozes Intelligence, integrity, and brilliance

Her tone of voice sounds like "Tommy just pinched me, and you need to punish him NOW! whine ..."


She looks like a tv commercial housewife dressed up and using the Swiffer Duster.

,,,of an actor for one of those dating services.

But most of all she rminds me of a sit-com next door mom who has a job at the Mall.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 08:12 PM

"What does Sarah Palin remind you of?"


                   Intelligence, integrity, and brilliance!

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Don Firth
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 06:37 PM

". . . you can't imagine how he got there. . . ." except that you know it couldn't have got there without help . . . and the kindest think you can do is to help it get down.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 05:27 PM

Look sanity - you're going to vote for a party whose vice presidential candidate gives every appearance of being barking mad.

We have established over many posts that this doesn't bother you one tiny bit.

The rest of the world - not just Americans - have every reason to voice their concern. We will obviously not persuade you. We understand - there are people like you in every country - my party right or wrong. You are entitled to your view.

We are entitled to our growing sense of something terrible about to unfold. We are entitled to discuss our feelings and thoughts.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 04:52 PM

IN an amusing coincidence, this thread appeared right above the one named "Post Turtle"/

A good answer--you know he don't belong up there, you can't imagine how he got there, and you know he has no idea what to do while he's up there.


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 01:11 PM

Palin is a symbol for the misguided Religulous Right. It's not about issues. It's about personality distractions. The problem is with the American public, this works.

They can wrap their brains around Bristol but not foreign policy, derivatives, bail-outs
or any other issues. To deny this is to court more disaster.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 12:06 AM

You all fell for the bait!! Let's ask the important questions from these candidates..not this shit!..how about the borders?..How about lowering America's standard of living to match that of Mexico and Canada..so we can be one big fat 'happy' family?..how about all those jobs Americans aren't willing to do?..You know the bullshit excuse they've been handing us for the illegal aliens?? How about the illegal Fed, printing worthless money to bail out the very scoundrels who illegally defrauded the American public?,,How about something of real substance, instead of the media driver distractions???? How about what color Britney Spears underwear?...if you want to spend your time on this crap???

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 02:47 PM

A loud-mouth Bush in drag or a woman suffering from an extreme case of evangelitus.

The Queen of Pork on a Bridge to Nowhere.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: BK Lick
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 03:56 PM

Palin-Cheney morphing

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 01:25 PM

Some truth checking on Governor Palin.

Watch to the end.
Sunday Show Roundup

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Pete Sumner
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 01:24 PM

Oh joy......haven't laughed so much in years...thank you....

My take on it....
A composite of....
Margaret Thatcher and John Cleese or Graham Chapman in drag...but with less brains....

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 01:06 PM

Ya know, compared to Obama's trials by Pastor association, this is really ridiculous!! I'd rather have "America's chickens have come home to roost" over witch-hunting and religious king-making any day of the year.


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 01:05 PM

From an article in Christian Science Monitor,

headline
Targeting cities with 'spiritual mapping,' prayer

Can the 'spiritual DNA' of a community be altered?" That's the question posed in a Christian video called "Transformations."

Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee is convinced that it can be.
read the rest of the article

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 12:59 PM

also from that link:

"Palin's speech accompanied the Wasilla Assembly of God's Masters' Commission, which the church's pastor said will allow Alaska to become a refuge for American evangelicals during the coming "end of days" -- or Armageddon."

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 12:55 PM

Here's a little something about Sarah Palin's pastor, who goes to Africa in order to fight witches:

<<"As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he's so bold. And he was praying 'Lord make a way, Lord make a way,'" Palin remarked.

"And I'm thinking, this guy's really bold, he doesn't even know what I'm going to do, he doesn't know what my plans are," she continued. "And he's praying not 'oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,' no, he just prayed for it. He said, 'Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that's exactly what happened.'"

"So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church," she added.

In 1988, Pastor Muthee and his wife traveled to Kenya after being "called by God." Setting up shop in the basement of a grocery store, they claim to have brought 200 people "to God" and away from the town's "spiritual oppression."

The source of the oppression? Witchcraft, Muthee says. When researching the community, they found that a woman named "Mama Jane" ran a divination clinic that drew a large following in the town.

"We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place," Pastor Muthee said.

...

"According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned," the London Times noted Tuesday. "Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.">>

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_credits_electoral_success_to_witchhunter_0917.html

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 12:31 PM

In what regard Charlie?

She became governor because the pastor of her church laid hands on her. Thomas Muphee, the Wasilla Pastor chased after an old lady in Kenya because she was a "witch" and had
according to him caused auto accidents there.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 10:22 AM

And fooball, Amos. Don't forget fooball. My neffyew played fooball in grade skool and he turned out grate.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 02:43 AM

From: Amos
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:06 AM

Geeze, GfS, turn your sense of humotr back on, wouldja?? Damn pinko faggot commie hippies, I swear, man, they're gonna ruin the world.
IF they'da had Lill League they woulda turned out better Murkins, I just know it.

Huh????

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:06 AM

Geeze, GfS, turn your sense of humotr back on, wouldja?? Damn pinko faggot commie hippies, I swear, man, they're gonna ruin the world.
IF they'da had Lill League they woulda turned out better Murkins, I just know it.


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:52 AM

Amos, it looks like you're making as much sense as the politicos are, trying to twist history, to suit their 'facts'. Keep it up...one of the parties will hire you!

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:50 AM

'From: weelittledrummer
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 07:08 AM
what you sayabout inflation and printing money - of course is not drivel.
however theres such thing as priming the pump.

I guess the problem is, there's more water priming the pump, than the pump is pumping.'

Yep....and theres the monetarist/thatcherite alternative, you blow the pump up, let the drawer of water become an urban casualty of unemployment and hard drugs and daytime television - and import cheap water from China .....

as a long term policy, I think it leaves a lot to be desired.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 01:25 AM

They must be Catholick Communists, then, like them Eytalians we read about.


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 09:56 PM

How could they be Communists if their addicted to Roman Catholicism?

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 07:50 PM

Yeah, them derned ileee-gulls are prolly what caused the banks fallin' apart. Damn commyewnists.


A

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 05:09 PM

Yeah, you'd think they'd be really excited about illegals working here now, and sending money out of the country.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 04:35 PM

For what its worth....Conservatives believe Bush has moved to far to the left, as well. ....Still no discussion about the borders....

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 07:38 AM

My sister likes Palin a lot. She says she doesn't like Obama because he's too socialist. Boy, is she going to be in for a surprise.

(I suspect Palin is one of the many people who call themselves "conservative" who are phobic about anything that sounds the slightest bit socialist, but who are perfectly happy to adopt socialist practices when it's either politically expedient or financially profitable for them to do so. And for this reason, her brand of socialism won't be of the sort that helps the people who really need it, like those who need universal health care, but only her cronies and those who are already fat from feeding at the public trough.)

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 07:15 AM

"I guess that makes Palin a socialist."


                      And it makes her smart!

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 05:51 AM

Gratuitous refresh

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 05:12 PM

Good post, Don. I personally got lowered by paying cash. Still prices can vary from Doctor to Doctor, and most I've dealt with, will go lower for cash. Also, I know that other countries health care is now superior. I believe it is Taiwan, that is considered the best(I guess from what perspective you're looking through, but I hear it's the best)

As for the Sarah posts...,remember, a crush of investigative reporters went up there to dig up anything and everything they could. It will all come out in the wash....hopefully whatever comes out, is based solely on 'historical' fact, and not spun one way or the other, to play on anyone's political agenda.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Don Firth (I get MY computer back this week)
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 04:59 PM

True indeed, Ebbie. I should not have included Medicare in my comment about economic bracket. Every American citizen qualifies for it when they reach a certain age. The ravages of writing too fast. . . .

I am well above that "certain age," and although I have the benefit of my wife's health insurance at work, I am sometimes able to use my Medicare coverage as a "secondary." My wife's insurance, as much as they deduct from her paycheck, covers only a percentage of medical bills, and some things it doesn't cover at all.

In the countries I mentioned above, I wouldn't have to be concerned about what's covered or who doesn't want to pay for what.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 04:12 PM

"Whether you pay several thousand dollars a year in premiums or are in an economic bracket that qualifies you for Medicaid or Medicare, you should get comparable medical care." Don Firth

Don, I'm sure this is only unfortunate phrasing, that you are aware that Medicare goes to everyone including billionaires.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: GUEST,Don Firth (computer, etc.)
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 03:32 PM

Comparing private medical insurance with Medicaid or Medicare within the same system doesn't tell you much. Whether you pay several thousand dollars a year in premiums or are in an economic bracket that qualifies you for Medicaid or Medicare, you should get comparable medical care. The best medical care the system has to offer in either case.

It would be much more revealing to compare the cost to the individual in premiums in the American system with the cost in taxes paid by the individual in, say, France, Denmark, Norway, or Sweden. And then compare the quality of health care.

In terms of health statistics, we are way to hell and gone behind most other industrialized countries in the world, where the individual gets better health care at much lower cost. Hell, we're even behind Thailand!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 03:03 PM

I guess that makes Palin a socialist.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 02:59 PM

One can afford health care if one gets a job with government. Sarah Palin realized that and is applying for the job.

Subject: RE: What does Sarah Palin remind you of?
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 02:49 PM

The idea that one can afford medical care if one learns how to negotiate is a fiction. It's possible that one might be able to afford a visit to their doctor's office if they negotiate with him or her, but hospital stays and most medical procedures and treatments are out reach for anyone who isn't fairly well off.

And people who don't have health insurance are forgoing preventative medical care because they can't afford it. They can't afford to treat their high blood pressure and their diabetes, either, because of the cost of the prescriptions and supplies. Pharmacies don't negotiate prices.