Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Mascara on a Scarecrow

Sarah Palin thinks Barak Obama called her pig. Don’t know the story? Here’s a quick recap.

Governor Palin, a.k.a. the Scourge of the Polar Bears, said in her now recycled speech—the same spiel she’s recited at every stop since the convention; she’s kind of like one of those broken animatronic dinosaurs they have on the Jurassic Park ride at Islands of Adventure; well, not exactly, the dinosaur said it wouldn’t force it’s hatchling to have a baby if it was raped—she said in her speech that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was...lipstick. Bad dum dum.

Several days later Obama said that McCain promising to invoke change while simultaneously promising to continue Bush’s polices was like putting lipstick on a pig, or wrapping an old fish in newspapers—it stills stinks.

Can you guess what the McCain-Palin camp did next? Come on, you can guess it. They’ve been playing the victim card better than fake handicapped Eddie Murphy in Trading Places. Think. Think hard. They’re good at this. They’ve had to be.

Otherwise the public might actually pay attention to the following facts (and yes, these are research based and vetted, unlike Palin. If even one of these facts isn’t true, I’ll delete my blog account forever. And I don’t mean true in the mirky, maybe there’s a one in a million chance you could interpret it this way true that McCain and Bill O’Reilly operate by. I mean completely true and accurate. Like red, white, and blue are colors of the flag that the Republicans so eagerly drape themselves in true.)

1. She was for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere and still pursued state funding for it when it federal dollars fell through.

She’s not a reformer.

2. She has said that the Iraq War is God’s task for America. Palin asked students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track (his honest to God name), was expected to be deployed there.

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she continued.


She’s not in touch with the average person.

3. She told churchgoers that God wanted a 30 billion dollar pipeline built though Alaska.

"God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.

She’s not in touch with reality. Plus, it didn’t get built, so whoever she hears in her head sure ain’t God.

4. She did not actually sell the jet on eBay. First off, it is common for Alaska to sell big ticket items every few years. Her move wasn’t that of some maverick reformer cutting out wasteful spending, just simply following established procedure. Nine days after she took office, the Alaskan government already had three planes on eBay.

Unfortunately, her luxury jet never sold (big shock). So who’d she sell it to? Tee hee. She didn’t actually sell it, either.

Dan Spencer, director of administrative services at Alaska's Public Safety Department, informed the media that John Harris, the speaker of the Alaska House, arranged a sale to Larry Reynolds, a businessman who made campaign contributions to both Mrs. Palin and Mr Harris. He ended up paying only $2.1m for the aircraft, and now wants $50,000 from the Alaskan taxpayer to cover maintenance costs.

She twists the truth to her own political advantage, the same as those she’s aiming to replace have for the last eight years.

5. Her “executive” experience as governor of the sparsely populated state of Alaska, all two years of it, does not make her better equipped to deal with serious issues, if something should happen to John McCain.

Want to know her thoughts on Iraq? "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
That’s an exact quote.

She is dangerously uncurious about the grave conflicts threatening our national security.

This contradictory record, a record that would have doomed her candidacy had she been in this election for more than a couple weeks, is starting to be unearthed by reporters. So the McCain camp has cried sexism. Deployed Fox News, right wing radio (both of which skewered Hillary Clinton on a regular basis) and other Republican media to yell into their microphones that a hatchet job is being done to poor, innocent, she-is-perfect-and-has-never-done-anything-wrong-so-don’t-look-plus-she-has-the-same-chromosomes-as-Hillary-so-all-of-her supporters-should-vote-for-us-Palin.

But now they’ve outdone themselves. Truly. In an era when energy is of grave concern, when our brave young men and women are being left to police a fatally dangerous country indefinitely, when our economy has more holes than one of Mrs. Palin’s convention anecdotes, the McCain camp has all media debating whether or not Obama’s lipstick comment was “directed” at Palin.

And now, considering all this attention it’s gotten, I think I agree.

Yes, of course it was aimed at her. And, after a little time to think about it, I discovered several more instances where I think Mrs. Palin is being disparaged by Obama. Let me share them with you.

Last year Barak Obama said Ho-Ho-Ho at Christmas. He must have been calling Mrs. Palin a ho! That jerk!

It’s rumored that Obama told his kids they could watch Disney’s Lady and the Tramp. You just know he meant his wife was the lady, and Mrs. Palin was the tramp! That chauvinist!

Obama’s campaign slogan is “Yes we can.” But he doesn’t explicitly state that Mrs. Palin can, too. He thinks Mrs. Palin can’t! That pig!

Barak Obama said he loves his wife. But he doesn’t say that Mrs. Palin is deserving of love! That woman hater!

We don’t know if Obama loves hockey, so Obama must hate hockey. Mrs. Palin’s a hockey mom! That evil man!

Obama repsonded to criticism by saying "you just have to brush your shoulders off." He's implying Mrs. Palin has dandruff! That monster!

(Stopped to puke in my mouth.)

When candidates do absolutely nothing but attack their opponents, make up stories like middle schoolers, pleading “but I was picked on” so that they won’t be held accountable for vandalizing a locker, it means they have no good ideas themselves. This is how Bush stayed in office. With short stories about swift boats.

This is also how McCain and Palin would slither into office.

Gleefully skipping down the red state road, all the while ginning up wildly fantastical charges of sexism, and screaming, “pay no attention to the frauds behind the podiums!”

Go here. Watch Obama’s comments and judge for yourself. If you think he’s calling Sarah Palin a pig, you’re a total idiot and shouldn’t be allowed to vote or operate a motor vehicle. In fact, you’re brain dead and should seek immediate medical attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmd_OujjKM)

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This pretty accurately reflects my level of outrage.

Yup, yup and yup.

September 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM  
Blogger Carrie Harris said...

Yes, I'm puking in my mouth right about now too. But I'm also snickering at the same time, which is kinda weird.

September 12, 2008 at 8:41 AM  
Blogger Carrie Harris said...

Yo. I hate commenting twice in a row, but I wanted to let you know that I gave you an I Love Your Blog award in my latest post. It's one of those pass-it-along things in case you wanted to play. :)

Because, hey, I love your blog.

September 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM  

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