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Pulling the Curtain on Palin
WashingtonPost.com ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | By E. J. Dionne Jr.

Posted on 09/09/2008 7:27:06 AM PDT by TexasCajun

John McCain's campaign acknowledged this weekend that Sarah Palin is unprepared to be vice president or president of the United States.

Of course, McCain's people said no such thing. But their actions told you all you needed to know.

McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all subjected themselves to tough questioning on the regular Sunday news programs. Palin was the only no-show. And it's not just the Sunday interviews. She has not opened herself to any serious questioning since McCain picked her to be next in line for the presidency.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dionne; elitist; jerk; mccainpalin; pompus; sarahcuda
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To: TexasCajun

I bet he got pushed into lockers on a daily basis in high school......


61 posted on 09/09/2008 8:04:16 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: johnny7

I don’t believe he’s impersonating, johnny7.


62 posted on 09/09/2008 8:04:56 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: DManA

What can you expect from someone who calls himself Junior?


63 posted on 09/09/2008 8:05:00 AM PDT by DManA
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To: TexasCajun

This after the Obamessiah spoke of his “muslim religion?” But EJ, buddy, I thought the straight-arrow, non-biased mainstream media was telling us all we needed to know about Sarah Palin!! You know...had her daughters baby (or something like that); religious nut; bans books; built the Bridge to Nowhere after all (it’s just invisible). How could her own answers to gotcha questions on Meet the Depressed tell us any more??!!


64 posted on 09/09/2008 8:07:10 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: TexasCajun
Those Sunday RAT PROPAGANDA talk shows are so 'over'!!

No way do I subject myself to listening to those weasels trying to make themselves look important while they spread the RATS talking points.

Along with them - I don't subscribe to any of their rag, so called 'news' papers or magazines.

They are meaningless to those of us who want facts about what's going on.

65 posted on 09/09/2008 8:07:33 AM PDT by LADY J
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To: TexasCajun

This is a desperate attemtp to EJ Dione, Jr. to be considered part of the left wing media elite.

Otherwise who would care what he had to write?


66 posted on 09/09/2008 8:10:13 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Pat Paulsen for President - He has campaigned the longer than Obama)
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To: TexasCajun
John McCain's campaign acknowledged this weekend that Sarah Palin is unprepared to be vice president or president of the United States.

Of course, McCain's people said no such thing. But their actions told you all you needed to know.

In another weekend or 2 the line will be John McCain's campaign acknowledged this weekend that John McCain is unprepared to be President of the United States. Sarah Palin appears everywhere on national TV while John McCain is nowhere to be seen. LOL

67 posted on 09/09/2008 8:11:25 AM PDT by hflynn ( Soros would not make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: TexasCajun
EJ, you pontificate as if you and your ilk mean something or bring something of value to the debate. You don't, you know.

You are a legend in your own mind, and nowhere else, you pathetic little sack of waste.

68 posted on 09/09/2008 8:12:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: manc

Shhhhhhhh, don’t say anything, but if the media really wants to help Obama win, they are going to have to go back to their old playbook and cover his every move 24/7 with a multitude of reporters and cameras like they did on his trip to Europe. They need to recapture that rock star image that he is loosing. But thankfully instead they have been distracted by Governor Palin and are fully focused on looking for loose threads in her tapestry, digging for anything in her past or present they can use against her, and while they are looking away from Obama, his rock star image fades into nothingness quicker than Milli Vanilli.


69 posted on 09/09/2008 8:12:32 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: johnny7
Old fag impersonator ...

There, fixed it.
70 posted on 09/09/2008 8:13:42 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: TexasCajun

LOL, the self apointed 4th branch of government think Palin is a constitutional crisis. She won’t seek their approval.

She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child,
But she’s always a woman to me

She can lead you to love
She can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth
But she’ll never believe you
And she’ll take what you give her, as long as it’s free
Yeah, she steals like a thief
But she’s always a woman to me

CHORUS:
Oh—she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She’s ahead of her time
Oh—and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

And she’ll promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she’ll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you’re bleedin’
But she’ll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she’s always a woman to me

CHORUS:
Oh—she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She’s ahead of her time
Oh—and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

She is frequently kind
And she’s suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases
She’s nobody’s fool
And she can’t be convicted
She’s earned her degree
And the most she will do
Is throw shadows at you
But she’s always a woman to me

- Billy Joel


71 posted on 09/09/2008 8:14:30 AM PDT by Theophilus (Abortion: 9/11 Every Single Day)
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To: TexasCajun

You know, it’s a wonder that America was able to survive before television and Sunday morning news shows. /sarc


72 posted on 09/09/2008 8:19:33 AM PDT by HoustonTech
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To: TexasCajun

Ah, the smell of liberal fear in the morning. Love it!


73 posted on 09/09/2008 8:22:14 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Paradox

Why should Palin give these hateful little back biters any of her time at all? It’s not like they are going to be fair. Georgie Steph interrupted Obama to correct him and even finished Obama’s stuttering sentence for him. The liberal media will probably ask questions like, “When did you stop beating your kids?” and then interrupt her before she can answer.

Screw ‘em. I would piss on their heads if their hair was on fire.


74 posted on 09/09/2008 8:22:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Paradox

Why should Palin give these hateful little back biters any of her time at all? It’s not like they are going to be fair. Georgie Steph interrupted Obama to correct him and even finished Obama’s stuttering sentence for him. The liberal media will probably ask questions like, “When did you stop beating your kids?” and then interrupt her before she can answer.

Screw ‘em. I wouldn’t piss on their heads if their hair was on fire.


75 posted on 09/09/2008 8:22:50 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: avacado; All
reading up on how to “field dress” a jackass!

Wow! Now, where are the cartoonists among us? I can't draw, but I can visualize Sarah gutting the democrat jackass hanging from a tree limb.

76 posted on 09/09/2008 8:24:26 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: TexasCajun
McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all subjected themselves to tough questioning on the regular Sunday news programs. Palin was the only no-show.

This is beyond idiotic. Palin, like any good running mate, needs to coordinate with the nominee, dot their I's and cross their T's as to strategy, consistent responses to certain subjects, etc. Dionne just want to put this dig out there, and in fact is parroting the Obama/Biden campaign, to try to muddy the waters but after the ABC interview is done and aired, you won't be able to NOT see Palin in one interview or another. She is a natural politician with a pleasant twist - blunt honesty.

Contrast that with Obama's pick of Biden. Biden was able to jump right in because Obama's message is such liberal hyperbole that in no way can be claimed to be "change" but simply more of the same - reaching for more extreme gov't intervention in all things political.

Reformers have to plan, think through etc. Political hacks like newbie Obama and old hatters like Biden simply illustrate the old P.J. O'Rourke line: "Socialists are communists one drink at a time."

77 posted on 09/09/2008 8:26:57 AM PDT by torchthemummy (The Democrat Media Wears No Clothes)
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To: TexasCajun

It means nothing to me if Palin doesn’t go on those “other” “news” shows. I could care less and will actually applaud if she refuses to lend her credibility to idiots like Couric, et al.

There are only three people she needs to talk to, in my opinion, who speak to the majority of Americans- Bret Hume, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. They have audiences that the rest will NEVER have.


78 posted on 09/09/2008 8:29:11 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: TexasRepublic
"Wow! Now, where are the cartoonists among us? I can't draw, but I can visualize Sarah gutting the democrat jackass hanging from a tree limb."

I stole that line from this cartoon...




79 posted on 09/09/2008 8:29:27 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Did you know that Joe Biden has been on Meet The Press 41 times in his career?

Joe Biden: "Uh...excuse me but that's 42 times."

What a bunch of maroons.

80 posted on 09/09/2008 8:30:30 AM PDT by torchthemummy (The Democrat Media Wears No Clothes)
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