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A friend who was doubtless more socially successful in her high school than I was in mine characterizes the McCain/Palin ticket as “the captain of the football team and the mean girl who connived her way to head cheerleader: the two kids you most love to hate.”
Archive for the ‘Palin’ Category
October 21st, 2008
Category: Palin
… to the tune of $150,000 in clothing and make-up paid for by the Republican National Committee.
October 16th, 2008
Category: Palin
Sarah Palin likes visiting “pro-American” parts of the country with “hard-working” people. May we have a list of the anti-American areas inhabited by lazy bums?
October 11th, 2008
In the annals of political incompetence, there are gaffes, bad ideas, flops, and disasters. And then there is the decision to send Sarah Palin to Philadelphia to drop the first puck at the Flyers’ home opener. Palin, as could have been easily predicted by someone with a positive IQ, was roundly booed by the crowd. [...]
October 10th, 2008
The Troopergate report highlights a distinction invisible to the Bush administration, to its further eternal shame, and kind of a challenge to a large part of the Republican party: a lot of things that are legal are Very Bad, and “not convicted [yet]” is not at all the same as “heckuva job”. An executive may [...]
