Posted on 09/03/2008 11:12:25 AM PDT by pissant
I have never met a weak woman or a male victim in Alaska.
You've got to be tough to survive in a state that is further away from Washington than any other, except Hawaii. In terms of the contrasts between how most Alaskans think and what passes for reasoning by career politicians in Washington, Alaska might as well be a colony on the moon.
Initial criticism from the Obama campaign (and his media acolytes) is that Gov. Sarah Palin lacks experience to be vice president and, if necessary, president. That Obama lacks experience to be president has led some pundits to say that issue is now a wash, harming neither candidate. Not true.
There is good and there is bad experience. More importantly, there is worldview. Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, see America as a nation in which government plays a primary role in individual lives. John McCain and Sarah Palin see the individual as primary and government as a protector of freedom that can help the less fortunate become self-sustaining.
One can already sense the lines of attack against Palin. Why did she have a child she knew would be born with Down syndrome? We used to call such children "mentally retarded," before the word "retarded" became an epithet commonly hurled by teenagers. She practices what she preaches about her pro-life views. She had this child because she didn't want to play God.
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I like Cal - but this time I disagree - "barracuda" works for me...
Wonder how the Muslim world feels about Sarah Palin!
I’ll withhold judgment until I hear her this evening. This is going to be good.
If I were nutjob, I wouldn’t threaten McCain & Palin, they might bloody his nose big time!
I agree. Sarah Barracuda is perfect!
I don’t agree on the Steel Magnolia thing, Sarah Palin shouldn’t be associated with Shirley MacClain in any way.
I like Saracuda.
More to the point, I got to drive by Governor Palin's house on the way to that glacier. Also along the way someone asked our driver/tour-guide what they did in Alaska when the weather turned really bad. His answer was so typically Alaskan: "We do the same thing that we do when the sun is shining. If we let the weather get in our way we would never get anything done".
It was Sarah’s nickname when she played basketball...
Saracuda works really good for me.
Wonder how the Muslim world feels about Sarah Palin!
That’s easy. Muslim men don’t care about what any woman thinks. They treat them as property and sometimes use them to make male babies. As for sex, Muslim men prefer men.
Sung to the tune of “Oh! Susanna, don’t you cry for me.”
“Oh, no Bama, please don’t lie to me... for I’m off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee.”
I come from Minnesota with my keyboard on my knee;
I’m goin’ to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming down the hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, I’m coming for the truth
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I fight in my pajamas
It’s plain for all to see
I aim to be the next Buckhead
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose
The Guvnor’s family ate it up
And then they set it loose.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then I’ll look all ‘round,
And when I find his birth record,
I’ll fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeper’ll surely die,
And when I’m dead and buried,
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you cry for me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee
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Cal Thomas might like her and James Dobson might like her, but once the Evangelical Social Conservatives find out about her 17 year old daughter, they’re just going to freak out.
They'll hate her for being a strong woman.
Then they'll go insane because of her sex appeal.
IOW they will act exactly like old feminist women do.
The poet Robert Service said it very well a long time ago:
“This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane —
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core;
Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce as the bear in defeat,
Sired of a bulldog parent, steeled in the furnace heat.
Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons;
Them will I gild with my treasure, them will I glut with my meat;
But the others — the misfits, the failures — I trample under my feet.
Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain,
Ye would send me the spawn of your gutters — Go! take back your spawn again”...
Too late, they already have, and they’re solidly behind her.
Who among us is not a sinner, hmmm ?
Experience is just another word for “mistake”.
Meh. Even “Princess Mooseburger” is better than “Steel Magnolia”.
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