Writing on the blank page that is Sarah Palin
Bill Kristol, the Fox commentator and editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, has long been an avid cheerleader for Sarah Palin. He was touting her as a potential vice presidential pick even before John McCain plucked her from the obscurity of Alaska, and once the nomination was announced Kristol became downright giddy about her prospects.
Last fall, while others reacted with surprise and even shock to McCain’s choice, Kristol was waxing poetic. He romanticized her as “the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.” He didn’t mention that she could also leap tall buildings in a single bound, but maybe he thought that was implied.
Time and experience haven’t lessened that infatuation. Palin is celebrated on the Weekly Standard cover this week, accompanied by a lengthy piece by Matthew Continetti that compares the 1/2-term governor to historic luminaries Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryant and even Ronald Reagan himself.
According to Continetti, America at this moment in its history is dissatisfied, angry and fearful. It is losing confidence in its leadership and simmering with resentment at its elites. He writes:
“All of which creates a gigantic opening for a politician to display imagination and leadership. An opportunity for a figure who will separate the good populism (championing free-enterprising individuals) from the bad (concocting loony theories and vilifying “enemies of the people”). Someone who will give voice to the millions who don’t want government aggrandizing the powerful; who don’t want government risking dangerous fiscal imbalances; who do want public policies that create the conditions for a general prosperity. Someone, in other words, who can play the same role in contemporary politics that Jackson, Bryan, and Reagan did in the past.
She lives in Alaska.”
Reading the piece, though, you come to realize that somebody central to the story is missing. That somebody is Palin herself. Continetti, like Kristol, is less infatuated with Palin the actual person and politician than he is with what Palin can be made to symbolize, what pre-written role she can be cast to play.
In that regard, Palin’s critics and supporters are actually responding in different ways to the same central characteristic. They both understand that she is undefined and raw as a leader, but one side sees that as political opportunity and the other side sees it as danger in someone seeking such high office. Her appeal is not in what she is or can do; it’s in what she embodies.
Like many Palin supporters, Continetti and Kristol also adore her for the response she draws from others. Napolean Linardatos, a conservative writer at Frumforum.com and no Palin fan, describes that phenomenon well:
“The sole legitimizing force behind Sarah Palin is the persecution that her supporters perceive that she is subjected to. It’s a movement – if we could call it that – animated by its sense of victimhood. The quantity and ferocity of criticism directed at Palin, right or wrong, is the ultimate arbiter of her worth as a political figure; what she has done, what she promised to do, what she could do, don’t seem to matter.”
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Normal
November 11th, 2009
10:04 am
This might be on topic, or might not…you deside.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/vatican-looks-to-heavens-192302.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm
Normal
November 11th, 2009
10:13 am
But truthfully Jay, even I am getting tired of Palin blogs. I will concede she is a phenom, but I’m just not sure of what.
Have fun, y’all.
To any Veteran out there that I missed…Happy Veteran’s Day and Welcome Home.
bob
November 11th, 2009
10:18 am
Another Palin item ? Can you find another way to divert attention away from Obama/Pelosi. Palin lost and does not get to vote on anything other than in elections, those that do get a vote on bills in congress are the ones we should be concentrating on. Jay, if you want to talk about stupid women in politics, Palin would have a place in line behind many in congress, way behind. The first spot would be a tie between a few Cali dems.
AmVet
November 11th, 2009
10:19 am
Normal, right back at ya!
I am thrilled to stand shoulder to shoulder with guys like you, Jackie, jconservative, Curious Observer and Common Sense. Among others.
And as for the old adage “Hug a Veteran”, you can bet I’m getting mine today!
Off to pay for the occupations.
Enjoy this special day everyone…
Mrs. Godzilla
November 11th, 2009
10:19 am
I see that Fox News fact checked her the other day on the coin nonsense……
She’s come along way since her great first appearance at the RNC….
sorry to say it’s been downhill alll the way.
Hef
November 11th, 2009
10:20 am
“is less infatuated with Palin the actual person & politician than he is with what Palin can be made to symbolize”, thanks again Jay well said. You could insert the name of a certain community organizer a few years years back,change the party affiliation and that statement would be spot on. Twice in one day Jay,great work.
pat
November 11th, 2009
10:22 am
Seriously, more Sarah Palin? All I want to see from her is a playboy spread.
She’s not even a politician any more, can’t you bash somebody else for a change, just to shake things up?
Truth
November 11th, 2009
10:22 am
Death… Taxes… and Jay writing another Palin story.
jt
November 11th, 2009
10:23 am
No Tarp Babies 2010.
Paul/Palin 2012.
Wilson/PreJean 2020.
Normal
November 11th, 2009
10:25 am
Jay, I told you so…
Finn McCool
November 11th, 2009
10:27 am
It’s worth having a look at bill Kristol’s background to see just how easily dismissable are any ideas coming from his brain.
Kristol received a college deferment during the Vietnam war but he was a talking head behind the Iraq war. Go figure. Just like the rest of the BushCo team.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:27 am
Did we really have to go from a nice Veterans Day tribute to more mindless Sarah bashing in less than two hours?
N-GA
November 11th, 2009
10:28 am
I not so much annoyed by Palin as I am by the numbnuts who think she would make a good POTUS. At least Palin is obvious about what she desires with her using her temporary notoriety to generate a lifetime of $$$.
In business we would call her an empty suit. I don’t know what real politicians would call her…..
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
10:30 am
I refuse to comment on this thread because I feel that this dead horse has been beaten into a fine powderey finish.
Mrs. Godzilla
November 11th, 2009
10:30 am
Webb/Garamendi 2016
Curious Observer
November 11th, 2009
10:32 am
Time to move on. Palin lacks the intellectual heft and the experience ever to be president. She became a symbol for a while–of the good old days of the conservative movement and a promise of a restoration of conservatives to prominence. Once she reached the national stage and people started to drill down, most encountered an emptiness and even a certain tawdry stench. Obama lacked a lot of experience, but no one could deny his intellectual brilliance and his political savvy. You don’t become an editor of the law review at Harvard and beat the Clinton machine at its own game purely by making pretty speeches.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:32 am
Let me see if I can channel DoggoneGA
I refuse to comment on this thread
But you did just comment, ABM.
/channeling off
Man that was painful
Finn McCool
November 11th, 2009
10:33 am
Mrs. Godzi!
Webb? from VA? Sweet. Have you read his book, “Born Fightin’?” Good read.
@@
November 11th, 2009
10:35 am
Gosh, jay!!!! It’s Veteran’s Day for crying out loud. A quickie and then it’s on to Sarah. Her son is serving in Iraq…..maybe a little something about HIM?
I’ll bring my Veteran’s Day post up here. I’m in celebration mode.
Great pictorial, jay!!! From boy to man.
I LUV listening to my husband talk about his time in the service. “Mom….feel free to send home-baked cookies, but spare me the letters about how much you miss me.”
He had a high-school sweetheart when he went in too. I think they were planning on getting married. Small town…friends write about what’s goin’ on in town — BAM!!! she gets a “Dear Jane” letter from him. Of course, the fact that her Dad had previously ran him outta town at gunpoint didn’t help matters much. Her music (cello) was more important than MY GUY!!!
I came later. I’m still here. She’s been married three separate times. No great career in music as was anticipated.
I WIN!!!!!
Those pictures of Ian with his Dad were great. I couldn’t help but reflect on all the libs “trailer trash” comments. Men in tats…low grade point averages. Not up to the standards of liberals but bearing “The Standard” for America.
Libs don’t want ‘em? I’ll proudly accept ‘em just as they are.
Happy Veterans Day! Men outstanding in the field. You WERE and ARE the Best of America!
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
10:36 am
RW
Tee hee hee, you got me red-handed!! Let me rephrase that; I refuse to comment about Palin.
Got a question though, how do you imbed links in your posts?
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
10:38 am
The New America – where mediocrity is celebrated as genius, where the intelligent and thoughtful are derided as obtuse and where anything of substance is reduced to a catch phrase.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:38 am
ABM,
Take a look here and see if it makes sense.
Of course here you can just paste the url and it becomes a link.
joe matarotz
November 11th, 2009
10:41 am
Is Sarah Palin unfairly pilloried by the Liberal media? Absolutely.
That being said, there are a lot of libs I’d vote for instead of her. She is clueless. She might (or might not) be a nice person, but she is clueless.
Exhibit A: “You can see Russia from my house”. The media jumps all over that statement. Camera crews are sent to her house to prove that you cannot see Russia from her house. She was using hyperbole. She does not know what hyperbole is, therefore she is unable to downplay the statement and expose the media for the bloodsucking scum that they are. Clueless.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
10:43 am
RW
Thanks, lemme give it a good old try.
Navajo Code Talkers break silence for Veterans Day
Here’s a group that I would love to sit and hear stories from. I didn’t hear about them in history class, but I did know about them before the movie “Windtalkers” came out.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:43 am
“You can see Russia from my house”.
joe,
I’m sure most of your comment is facetious, but Sarah Palin never said that, Tina Fey did.
jconservative
November 11th, 2009
10:46 am
The first time I ever heard/saw Palin was in June 2008. The Supreme Court had just dismissed a major portion of the jury award to Alaska in the Exxon Valdez case. Palin held a news conference and just blasted the US Supreme Court, really raked them over the coals.
Flash forward to the Couric interview on CBS. She was asked what Supreme Court case besides Roe she disagreed with. She could not name a single case. I crossed her off my list that day. I remembered the case, but she did not.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:46 am
Good job, ABM.
One thing you should know about Yahoo links though is that they expire fairly quickly so if you ever want to save the link for later you should try to get back to the original source. For some odd reason the same thing goes for WaPo links unless you link to the printer friendly version.
N-GA
November 11th, 2009
10:47 am
I can’t resist. Here is Jon Stewart catching Faux news manufacturing news by using film clips to make a D.D. rally appear bigger than it really was. Can you believe it? You can’t believe ANYTHING they say! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/jon-stewart-catches-sean_n_353447.html
@@
November 11th, 2009
10:48 am
If I may be so bold? I’m was catching up downstairs and NORMAL? You’re starting to sound like the blog’s SUPER NANNY!
And Kamchak? Why must you insist on being such a tattle tale?
jay?
If you have evidence to the contrary, provide it. If you can’t, duty and honor would require you to apologize, but I won’t make that a requirement myself. Let’s see if you act like you talk.
Uhmmmmm…..know what I’m sayin’?
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
10:48 am
For those who don’t know, here’s what Sarah Palin ACTUALLY said: “In her Sept. 11 interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin had this to say about Russia: “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” Nina Shen Rastogi in Slate
N-GA
November 11th, 2009
10:49 am
That would be a “D.C.” rally…
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
10:49 am
Thank goodness we have true patriots in this country like Republican Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. During the Bush years the man never met an Iraq spending bill he didn’t like (and never figured a way to offset the price), and now that those soldiers have come home in pieces, won’t lift a finger to help their caregivers.
His press statement explaining his actions, “Coburn has the courage to stand up for veterans, their children and grandchildren “by demanding that Congress not write another multibillion-dollar hot check that puts future generations in even deeper debt.”
I’m sure that is great comfort to severely wounded Iraq veteran Eric Edmundson, whose father had to quit his job and go without his own healthcare to care for his son.
That’s how you take care of our soldiers. At least in people who think like Tom Coburn.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
10:49 am
RW
Thanks again, I’m beginning to get the hang of this. Who knows, I might have to upgrade from angry to disgruntled or even irritated.
Normal
November 11th, 2009
10:52 am
@@
November 11th, 2009
10:48 am
Thank you, one does what one can…
Boogers for the Children Fund
November 11th, 2009
10:52 am
“The sole legitimizing force behind Barack Obama is the persecution that his supporters perceive that he is subjected to. It’s a movement – if we could call it that – animated by its sense of victimhood. The quantity and ferocity of criticism directed at Obama, right or wrong, is the ultimate arbiter of his worth as a political figure; what he has done, what he promised to do, what he could do, don’t seem to matter.”
Same thing could be said for the kenyan! Oh…it has!
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:53 am
Flash forward to the Couric interview on CBS. She was asked what Supreme Court case besides Roe she disagreed with. She could not name a single case. I crossed her off my list that day.
jcon,
I seriously doubt she was ever on your list, but it’s a fine line doing interviews as a VP nominee. The McCain folks may have muzzled her on that case.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:54 am
ABM,
Don’t go with irritated. I think IBM might take issue.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
10:55 am
How about the blank page that is Joe Biden?
He plagarized part of a speech during a campaign.
He basically snapped at a reporter and said he was smarter than the reporter.
In last fall’s compaign, he spelled the 3-letter word “job” as “j o b s”.
He gushed about how President FDR went on TV to soothe Americans after the onset of the depression.
Granted, he is a great spokesman for the “Hair Club for Men”, but is pretty much an empty suit.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:55 am
@@,
If normal knew of amvets antics going all the way through his days as huge he might have a different perspective. Too bad some people think history began when they joined it.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
10:58 am
“The McCain folks may have muzzled her on that case.”
Why would they muzzle her? The case was decided and part of history. What could she say that would have any effect either way? Or she could have just mentioned it. After all, she was only asked if there were cases she disagreed with.
it’s along the lines of the actress who was asked: “Do you remember the most embarassing thing that every happened to you?”
her answer: yes
Normal
November 11th, 2009
10:58 am
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
10:55 am
I doubt it. I have certain beliefs and one of them is never call a fellow Veteran a coward no matter what you think of his ploitics. That is not an honorable thing to do.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
10:59 am
Quitters never win but she is cashing in.
FightTheSmears
November 11th, 2009
11:01 am
What I would like to see if why the media’s infatuation with Obama continues to this day. What on earth experience did he have prior to running for president? His 2-month stint as a senator certainly doesn’t qualify. And his prior state-level experience doesn’t either.
At least Palin governed a city, and then overwhelmingly won the election for governor (not to mention her experience in running a business, another thing Obama has never done). I’m just wondering why the outrage against her wasn’t there in 2006 when she was running for governor, if she was so “unqualified” to do anything…at least in your eyes.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:04 am
“I’m just wondering why the outrage against her wasn’t there in 2006 when she was running for governor”
In case you haven’t noticed, governor of Alaska is not a national elected position.
FightTheSmears
November 11th, 2009
11:04 am
I think what you need to do is write another story called…”Writing on the blank page that’s Barack Obama” (Considering no one has actually done a job of finding out who this man really is)
FightTheSmears
November 11th, 2009
11:06 am
“In case you haven’t noticed, governor of Alaska is not a national elected position.”
Gee, thanks for pointing that out. I guess you didn’t get my point (as a typical liberal often doesn’t).
Let me make it simple for you.
If people thought she was so unqualified to do anything, why did they vote her as governor in the first place.
GET IT NOW?????
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:07 am
FightTheSmears ,
Obama is the President and Sarah is a quitter cashing in in a book.
There you go.
Now you know.
N-GA
November 11th, 2009
11:08 am
I’m not a bit surprised at the silence of the Faux apologists here. “Fair and balanced” my butt!
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:08 am
FightTheSmears,
“What on earth experience did he have prior to running for president?”
Well, for starters, it didn’t take him 5 years and 5 schools to get a Bachelors degree in communications from the University of Idaho.
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
11:09 am
RW
Didn’t think about IBM. Maybe agitated, that way I’d still be ABM.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:09 am
“If people thought she was so unqualified to do anything, why did they vote her as governor in the first place”
and you didn’t get MY point: that the people of ALASKA elected her, not the people of the USA. And I think it’s safe to guess that those, in ALASKA who thought she wasn’t qualified DIDN’T vote for her…but they were obviously outnumbered.
GET IT NOW?
N-GA
November 11th, 2009
11:10 am
I am surprised that ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN aren’t taking Faux News to task for creating news. I guess they are terrified of Faux News, just like Republicans are terrified of Rush Limbaugh.
Boogers for the Children Fund
November 11th, 2009
11:13 am
Granted, he is a great spokesman for the “Hair Club for Men”, but is pretty much an empty suit.
LMAO!
@@
November 11th, 2009
11:14 am
Normal:
It wasn’t a compliment. There’s only room for one Super Nanny here. jay has “graciously” assumed the role. Assistants need not apply.
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:19 am
FightTheSmears,
Let us see:
Palin – University of Idaho – BA Communications
Obama – Columbia University – BS Political Science / Harvard – JD magnum cum laude
1996 – 2002 – Palin – Mayor of Wasilla – pop.5500
1997 – 2004 – Obama – State Senator – District 13 – pop- 780,000
2006 – 2009 – Palin – Governor of Alaska – pop. 686,000
2004 – 2008 – Obama – US Senator for Illinois – pop. 13,000,000
I can see how Sarah was just as qualified as Obama.
Jay
November 11th, 2009
11:19 am
Just to jump in here, I too have little interest in Sarah Palin. (gasps of disbelief!)
It’s true, though. For example, I have no interest whatsoever in Sarah and Levi and Todd and Trig, etc., and I’d be shocked if she ever held elective office again. Palin herself is what she is, and it’s really not all that fascinating.
However, I will confess to being intrigued by the Sarah Phenomenon. The fact that after all this time and exposure, one of the leading “intellectual journals” of the right still tries to celebrate Palin as the legitimate heiress to Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan tells us something interesting about the country and its politics in 2009.
As others here have noted, it’s Palin’s followers that make her notable, not Palin the empty vessel in which they try to pour their hopes, resentments and yearnings. What is the mindset that can dismiss all the evidence to the contrary and still see presidential timber in such a hopelessly unqualified person?
I am honestly perplexed by that, as are some of the more intelligent figures on the right.
In addition to the Linardatos piece quoted above, I’d recommend a piece by Daniel Larison in American Conservative magazine. (http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/11/10/palin-the-jacksonian/). He says wise things both about Palin and about those who champion her cause.
For example, he contrasts the rather harmless populism practiced by Palin against the potentially more dangerous form advocated by Mike Huckabee:
So we come to the core of Palin’s pseudo-populism, which is her cultivation of the cultural grievances of her audience and the manipulation of their feelings of relative powerlessness to promote her own ambitions. She feeds off of the elite anxiety that her performance generates, and elites are happy to fuel her rise, because she makes populism appear ridiculous and makes their positions even more secure than they were before. After all, when given the choice between the incompetent and ridiculous populist and even a moderately informed establishment figure, the public will tend to favor the latter despite their dissatisfaction with the status quo. They may also suspect that she has no intention of giving any substance to her complaints against elites. This makes her useful as a means of diverting populist anger away from them and their preferred policies and channeling it into useless identitarian protest movements that congratulate themselves on how deeply American they are before fading into obscurity. This is why many movement and party elites tolerate and even encourage Palin, but regard Huckabee as a serious threat who must be thwarted, because he occasionally gives them reason to worry that he is hostile to their interests.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2009
11:19 am
I tried to read that Weakly Standard cover piece, I really did, but I got to this whiny bit of passive-aggressive self-flagellation…
When the Reagan era rolled around, the Gipper’s conservative supporters were “right-wing extremists” engaged in a racist “backlash.” Later, “angry white men” brought Newt Gingrich to power in the 1994 Republican Revolution. When Sarah Palin-loving activists held anti-big government tea parties and engaged in rowdy behavior at congressional town halls in the summer of 2009, Democrats took out the carving knives once more. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wrote of an “ugly campaign” that was “simply un-American.”
People actually still pay to read this?
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:24 am
“If people thought she was so unqualified to do anything, why did they vote her as governor in the first place.
Less people voted for Palin for her 2 years as Governor, than voted for Obama in his 7 years as State Senator in the Illinois legislature.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:24 am
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:07 am
Fascinating, I didn’t realize Barack Obama and Sarah Palin ran for the same office. Thank you for clearing that up.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2009
11:25 am
I guess they are terrified of Faux News
More likely they don’t want to burn any future employment bridges.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:26 am
Jay – you beat me to it, I was JUST about to ask if anyone besides me realized that your piece was not about Sarah Palin, it was about those who “write on the blank page”
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:27 am
“More likely they don’t want to burn any future employment bridges.”
You might be right. Good for reporters, bad for us.
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2009
11:28 am
Fascinating, I didn’t realize Barack Obama and Sarah Palin ran for the same office. Thank you for clearing that up.
Tell that to the conservatives who insisted on making the comparison in the first place. Hef @ 10.20, Boogers @ 10.52.
Normal
November 11th, 2009
11:28 am
@@
November 11th, 2009
11:14 am
What? Are you sayin’ this town ain’t big enough for the both of us? Well, get used to it, I’m here ’til Jay asks me to leave, sorry.
just sayin’
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:31 am
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2009
11:28 am
I didn’t realize getalife needed your defense, unless, of course, you are one and the same. Get real – both were political lightweights.
Hef
November 11th, 2009
11:31 am
getalife@11:07-No Obama cashed in on a book then became President,ummmmm could history repeat itself? Me, I hope not not a Palin fan.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:31 am
Thankful for vets,
She ran on the losing ticket.
Accept it.
You lost .
Deal with it.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 11th, 2009
11:32 am
this dead horse has been beaten into a fine powderey finish.
Amen to that.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:33 am
Hef,
If they run her, she will lose again.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:34 am
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:31 am
I got over it last year. You, however, seem to be dwelling on it. Let it go…..let it go…..there’s no place like home…..theres’ no place like home….
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:34 am
“You lost .
Deal with it.”
Yeah, good luck with that.
Hef
November 11th, 2009
11:36 am
SFD@11:25am-Or it could be like calling the kettle black.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:36 am
Thankful for vets,
Yeah, I was a Hillary supporter but accepted the loss and am very happy the gop got thumped.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:38 am
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:36 am
If you’re so happy, then why do you come across as so angry?
I Report :-) You Whine :-( mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 11th, 2009
11:39 am
I was wondering when we would get our next PDS blog.
And get away from the veteran honoring.
Sunshine and Thunder
November 11th, 2009
11:40 am
ONe year after the election and the liberals are still licking their wounds over Sarah Palin. Not surprising. They just can’t fathom a woman who refuses to abort a down’s baby and who knows how to shoot a gun and skin a deer and won’t let democrat legislators run over her. My my she has you guys against the ropes.
Of course any of you that are wiling may want to explain to us what Obama did that made you feel he was qualified to be president. We’re still waiting for that one. LOL.
Joan
November 11th, 2009
11:40 am
Palin is a non-issue, and continuing to stick pins in her is a lame attempt to divert attention from a real issue–a President, full of himself, so egocentric he doesn’t realize how very tired we are of hearing him praise himself. The Muslim was elected over the Mormon. I have more concern about a country who thinks that makes sense than I do about Palin. She is pretty and tough, but time to move on, and deal with the pestilence we call our legislators and the white house.
Sunshine and Thunder
November 11th, 2009
11:41 am
And to all veterans: THANKS
Angry Black Man
November 11th, 2009
11:41 am
Here’s an interesting read for those of you concerned with the jihadist movements. I know there are a few here who would question the source, but it may be worth the read. If true, it may even help out a little in the ME.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jihadi.code/index.html
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:41 am
I Report
You Whine 
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
November 11th, 2009
11:39 am
You’re right. Honoring vets just one day is not right. We should be honoring them all year long.
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
11:43 am
It seems I’ve contracted a nasty case of crashing computer syndrome. See y’all later I hope.
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:44 am
Thankful for vets,
Don’t take it personally.
It is just my opinion on a blog.
cjohnthan
November 11th, 2009
11:45 am
getalife:
yes, i will accept i lost my soul, and i will leave it here for a while.
but i hope i can get it back some other day.
enjoy your victory. maybe it is not long though. you can find 1000 history writers to work for you, but i assure you, you are wasting your money.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:46 am
“Here’s an interesting read”
I read it, and yes found it very interesting. I don’t actually think it’s going to have much impact…except to show that there ARE multiple Isalmic voices out there.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:46 am
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:44 am
No need to be concerned with me as I didn’t take it personally. It just seems strange that sooooo many people come on here and profess their great satisfaction with the president, yet their comments reveal deep bitterness, frustration, and in many cases, anger.
Finn McCool
November 11th, 2009
11:46 am
If they run her the democrats will win the white house with an even larger margin of victory.
The right wing of the Republican party likes to believe the american voters are total idiots but that opinion is far from reality. They are just so out of touch with reality it’s not funny…and Fox News doesn’t help their ability to grasp reality.
Hef
November 11th, 2009
11:47 am
getalife-I agree, then again she should not have been on the ticket to begin with. Then again neither should have McCain!!!
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
11:47 am
N-GA,
Hopefully my computer will last through this. Hannity isn’t news, but he shouldn’t misrepresent a crowd. If he did he should apologize, but what you’ve shown is a doctored comedy skit parroted by an uber liberal web site so a) we don’t know if it happened and b) we don’t know if it’s been corrected if it did happen and in any case it doesn’t reflect on the news side of the house.
Boogers for the Children Fund
November 11th, 2009
11:49 am
Agree with Joan, Sunshine/thunder. Ms Palin is as qualified as the kenyan so what exactly is the arguement here.
So when is Mr ShowBoats next wonderful, illustrious, grand speech about how wonderful islam is?
stands for decibels
November 11th, 2009
11:49 am
I was hoping to extend my sincere condolences to RW after learning of his loss of a treasured animal companion, since I only just recently surmised this event from skimming some other threads.
Well, if you get your computer back online–sorry, guy.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:49 am
“and in any case it doesn’t reflect on the news side of the house.”
I don’t agree. When a cable channel names itself the ??? NEWS Channel – then EVERTHING they do reflects on their “news” side of the house, whether they like it or not.
Finn McCool
November 11th, 2009
11:50 am
ooops, clarification:
They are just so out of touch with reality it’s not funny…and Fox News doesn’t help their ability to grasp reality. I’m referring to the right wing of the Republican party, not to the American voters.
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:51 am
Sunshine and Thunder,
“My my she has you guys against the ropes. ”
I think you may be misreading some feelings about Brand Palin. I can only speak for myself, I do not fear the “Juggernaut” that is Sarah Palin™. However, it is quite fun to mock her, and those who keep putting her out there as a serious contender or even as the voice of the Republican Party.
Does the Republican Party have ANY elected officials as leaders or do all the voices have no “real responsibility?”
If Republicans stop trying to make her the voice of the their party, the Democrats will stop responding.
Hef
November 11th, 2009
11:52 am
Flinn-Reality checks go both ways.Brain dead and clueless is not only for the right,there are countless Blondes on the left!
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:52 am
cjohnthan,
Your soul?
Come on.
I am making money.
Thankful for vets ,
Thanks blog shrink.
Just because we don’t agree with you, you take it personally I call us angry.
I do see hatred here, mostly from your side.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:53 am
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:49 am
All this anger. So what’s your take on MUSIC television (MTV)?
RW-(the original)
November 11th, 2009
11:55 am
Thanks for the sentiment on the pet sfd. As for the PC part I’m going to go get the world’s largest processor cooling fan or perhaps a brand spanking new box of troubles.
DoggoneGA,
The AJC calls itself a “news” paaper but you’re usually among the first to claim Jay B is opinion and has nothing to do with the news.
Thankful for vets
November 11th, 2009
11:56 am
getalife
November 11th, 2009
11:52 am
Then you must not be reading many of the posts. A bunch of name calling, finger pointing and taunting from both sides. As I said, I don’t take it personally, and my addressing “anger” is not name calling. It’s merely an observation.
Doggone/GA
November 11th, 2009
11:56 am
“All this anger.”
Anger? What anger? Why do the conned always seem to need to deal in exageration? What opinion should I have about MTV? That everything they do reflects on the “music” side of the house? Sure, why not?
jewcowboy
November 11th, 2009
11:58 am
“The AJC calls itself a “news” paaper but you’re usually among the first to claim Jay B is opinion and has nothing to do with the news
Hence the location within the “Opinion” section.