Posted on 10/06/2008 1:59:39 PM PDT by pissant
There is a time when it is necessary to take the gloves off and that time is right now, said Sarah Palin in Colorado. Interesting that she did not want the gloves off before her vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden. Oh, gloves on then. Headgear, too. Maybe some of those big shoulder pads that quarter-backs wear; and throw cushions for a softer landing. In fact, Palin and her minders could not have demanded a safer arena for debate when the opposition was within striking distance. Biden appeared with his hands tied, his intellect muted, his manner subdued, lest he should seem smarter, better informed or more competent than his opponent, a move which was inexplicably deemed undesirable. This shows how far we have come. Intelligence is now viewed as a threat. Isn't that how Pol Pot operated?
Meanwhile, the Republican lobby put pressure on the debate moderator not to go heavy on foreign policy, perhaps fearing that Palin would repeat her view that experience in this area was linked to proximity to a coastline, and expectations were lowered so that just avoiding intellectual humiliation would be seen as victory. And it worked. She got the name of the Nato commander in Afghanistan wrong and Biden smiled politely. She pronounced nuclear the same way that Homer Simpson does and he had to find it charming. She failed to answer direct questions, while advancing a carefully moulded image as a straight-talking maverick, and it went unquestioned. Now, from a safe distance, Palin wants the gloves off. Of course she does, with no chance of instant scrutiny.
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What a hysterical wuss this author is. Must be friends with the Atlantic's resident drama queen, Andra Sullivan.
Worry about your own Labour Party and bugger off!
Bingo!
Course the gloves weren’t off when she was announced and all those scandalous stories came out about her. No, that was fine.
“Maybe some of those big shoulder pads that quarter-backs wear;”
Verrrry knowledgeable. QB’s wear nearly no protection compared to the rigs everyone else has on. This idiot came to a battle of wits half prepared
LOL. This guy obviously doesn't know Biden very well. There is nothing there to mute.
Again, when does a Brit male (other than Churchill) NOT sound like a fairy?
I never thought that, out of all of the Python alumni, it would be Terry Jones that would become Prime Minister. Your picture says otherwise!
Martin Samuel is the paper’s football [soccer] columnist.
Sounds like a description of Obama.
Has this guy figured what TV channel aired FDR in 1929?
And which of the 57 states the program aired in?
I guess they like neutered fairies for football writers.
“Biden appeared with his hands tied, his intellect muted, his manner subdued, lest he should seem smarter, better informed or more competent than his opponent,”
Biden not only muted his intellect, he muted the FACTS as well and lied about a variety of positions and issues.
What’s with the horn?
She’s governor of a state the size of all of Western Europe combined.
She beat the oil companies at their own game.
She took on members of her own party, and the opposing party as well, and drove them out of office.
Obama never did any of that. Neither, for that matter, has Biden. Half of Biden’s factoids during his debate were hysterically wrong, fictional, pulled right out of his hat, from the amounts spent in Afghanistan, to the histories of Lebanon and Palestine. This, from Mr. Foreign Policy. And to make it worse, he’s one of those guys in Washington who, like Reid, if you want to talk to him you slip his son a check for $250,000. Of course, thats not the kind of thing to come up in a debate, but thats where the press is supposed to come in.
no horn. He just doesn’t know how to comb his hair
“Interesting that she did not want the gloves off before her vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden.”
What, exactly, is this man talking about?
I recall that Governor Palin got slapped around badly by the news media as soon as the news of her selection came out.
Hey, Martin Samuel, ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.
Hey, Martin Samuel — as long as we are still American’s this is exactly the kind of BS we are trying to prevent in this country.
So, how about a hot steaming cup of shut the “F” up.
Next time we want a Brits opinion — we will give it to you — enjoy that sharia law...let us know how that works out for you...
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