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I could have sworn that, a few weeks back, you promised Jim you were going to knock this crap off.

He did, but his promises are meaningless, just like the _resident's.

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DAISYJANE69 WROTE ON A SIMILAR THREAD

The Hillbuzz guys (those 5 gay Hillary guys that turned on the Dems in ‘08, after the Obama shenanigans, and campaigned for McCain/Palin) went to the rally Saturday. I’m going to excerpt one of their essays (there will be 5 more on the rally, as they were there to report back):

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As we were leaving the Lincoln Memorial area, and walking up 23rd street near some State Department buildings, we spotted two black African vendors, selling buttons, pins, and tee shirts to the Mississippi-grade river of people leaving the million-strong event.
The vendors had plenty of Palin 2012 materials, and they were selling as fast as the pair could hand them out to people.
They were shouting, as loud as they could, “Get your Sarah Palin buttons! We have Sarah Palin butons for 2012! Get your Sarah Palin shirts! Sarah Palin will be the next president! Get her buttons now!”.
In their accented voices, in all sincerity, they were stating something we believe is clear FACT: that Sarah Palin will be our next president, and that people in the merchandising world realize this.
It’s what we noticed the moment we landed in DC and walked through the concourse at Reagan National: the shops selling political items treat Sarah Palin as if she is already president. On the shelves, these stores have small bobble-head dolls of presidents from the past: Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, etc. Obama is up there too. And right next to him is Sarah Palin, in either a red jacket or the black outfit she wore when she spoke in Dayton, Ohio on August 29th, 2008.
We don’t remember the merchandising world treating Hillary Clinton with this certainty back in 2006. We saw plenty of Obama materials, but nothing for Secretary Clinton that early. Even in the heat of the campaign, there was never as much Hillary merchandise…as if the people who make, produce, purchase, and distribute this stuff didn’t believe it had a shelf life long enough to produce so much of it.
With Sarah Palin, there is an enormous amount of merchandise out there, geared both towards people who love her and the Left who wants to buy things to mock her (like the Hillary Clinton nutcrackers that were made to appeal to those on the Right who still are afflicted with Clinton Derangement Syndrome).
We have a good friend who is a buyer for a major department store. She says that trends are followed closely in the merchandising industry, with prognasticators looking far into the future to determine what consumers are going to want not today, or tomorrow, but far enough into the future for companies to get rich cornering a market on something the public will have an insatiable desire for.
People, these trend-followers, who earn enormous salaries for being RIGHT about what American popular culture is going to look like in the years ahead, have identified Sarah Palin as a source of immense merchandising revenue.
They are treating Governor Palin as a viable, lasting brand and retailers are placing her alongside the current and past presidents as an equal on par with them. The Palin bobbleheads are not displayed next to the Michelle Obama or Ben Franlin ones, which were the only two non-presidential dolls we spotted (there were no Hillary ones, and no Bill Clinton ones either, but there were dolls of Franklin Roosevelt standing that were unrecognizable because we never picture FDR that way).
Since Governor Palin is not a current or former US President, and is just a private citizen now, she should rightly be grouped with Franklin and Michelle Antoinette, if retailers were grouping these dolls as presidents on one shelf, and other politically-realmed figures on another.
It just looks RIGHT for Governor Palins’ dolls to be up there with the “president” ones.
That’s where customers appear to look for her, so that’s where retailers place her.
It is all part of the larger fact that, culturally, America is indeed trending towards accepting the reality that Governor Palin will indeed by our 45th president, elected in 2012.
"You betcha.”
Entire piece at LINK