"We are not amused!"
Posted on 09/10/2008 9:48:35 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
"We are not amused!"
In the days after Senator McCain chose his running mate, I learned a new hockey term: "Yard sale." A yard sale is a particularly brutal body check that causes the victim's gear to fly all over the ice. Several times during Governor Palin's speech at the RNC, my son and I called out "Yard sale" after she stuck it to the community organizer with an especially satisfying line.
The past 24 hours or so have been Yard Sale Day for the Democratic Party, and the beauty of it is that this time out, they've done it to themselves. All these events occurred today or were covered in today's news cycle:
1. Obama delivers the lipstick and stinky fish lines, which were either scripted or mark him as truly clueless.
2. A few moments later, Obama goes into arguably worse territory, wondering out loud how the governor could ever have the energy to handle five kids, since his two kids wear him out. Gee, that's not sexist at all...Hopefully this dipstick's handlers will point out to him that a.) he declared kids to be off-limits and b.) she doesn't have to take care of Track any more, because he's been in the Army for a year and leaves for Iraq tomorrow.
3. Joe Biden asks a guy in a wheelchair to stand up. Actually, this was a minor error and Biden handled his mistake in a very classy way, but let's all take a moment and think how this gaffe would be handled by the media if John McCain or George W. Bush had done it. It would be seen as a very revealing sign of their inner character and lead newscasts for days.
4. Biden let it be known that Hillary might have been a better pick than him.
5. Biden also has what Jonah Goldberg at National Review describes as a mini-Tuzla, and adds that he knows where Bin Laden is. Note to Biden: Joe, forward that info to the CIA or Central Command instead of offering it to audiences of Obama groupies. We'd like to get this guy.
6. The Chairwoman of the South Carolina Democratic Party describes Palin as someone "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion."
7. A Tenessee Congresscritter proceeds to the well of the house and portrays Obama as Jesus and Palin as one of the most notorious men in world history.
8. Governor Paterson in New York lets us know that anyone who is skeptical of the value of being a community organizers is really making racist remarks about blacks.
9. Bill Ayers pops up as a cartoon to say violence isn't necessarily the way to handle political disagreements. Way to deliver moral clarity, Bill.
10. Obama goes on Letterman and keeps digging the hole, offering this remark: "Keep in mind that, technically had I meant it this way –- she would be the lipstick!"
A few more days like this and Obama will be lucky to win Illinois!
By the way, I came across most of these items at The Corner, which has been just awesome the last several weeks.
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Thanks for the ping. I had not heard of the term “yard sale” before, or at least I didn’t quite get it.
for future reference
A yard sale is a particularly brutal body check that causes the victim’s gear to fly all over the ice.
Barack Hussein al-Bomba is having a bad run.
Part II runs either tomorrow or Friday, though it won’t be called “Yard Sale II” it is definitely related.
You’re welcome!
I hope it’s not overconfidence, but I have to say that his campaign is starting to remind me of Dukakis...only with the VP’s brain removed....
I think if they pulled that they would lose badly. Also, I think that if this was in the offing, Hillary would be hitting Palin hard instead of refusing to criticize her at all on the stump.
When I played ECAC hockey in the 1970s, a body check that knocked a helmet or goaltender's mask off, or seriously disarranged someone's pads was called 'souvenir time'.
Sigh........
Sounds like just as good a term to me!
At this rate, we’ll see a campaign ad featuring Obama riding around in a tank saying he considered joining the Army when he was 19
I am just a voter, I get no respect at all
From the politicians, stealing, and
Draining off my blood for their own purposes.
I do not jest.
But the voters hear what they want to hear
And disregard the rest.
Now comes this man Obama
Trolling such a line of lies.
He's wearing the disguises, of
'Hope and Change', and 'Fair play', and 'Equality'.
It's such a bore.
Since he won't speak of his true views,
He is no more than a whore.
His cow'rdice makes him just another whore.
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Have to write a new verse each for Bidet, McQueeg, and Gov. Palin. Working on it...
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
(and where is that Claude Rains/Louis Renault photo when I need it? ...grrr!)
I read it exactly opposite! Hillary would shoot her own capital in the foot if she attacked Palin knowing she would soon be up against her in debate! And adding Hillary would remove what McCain gained in non-conservative Republicans leaning to him now.
This reminds me of Kim Campbell versus Jean Cretien in 1993 Canada. Except of course, in this case the incumbent does not implode.
I guess we’ll have to see, my FRiend.
If Biden steps aside, I’m switching from popcorn to Vodka.
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