Unflattering Angles

No, it's not only the photo. 

Palin-drone is busy winning over voters in Clearwater, FL, the worldwide spiritual capital of Scientology:

"I was reading my copy of the New York Times the other day," she said.

"Booooo!" replied the crowd.

The first erroneous claim that Palin makes is that she reads the New York Times. 

Next, Palin goes on: 

"Now it turns out, one [Obama's] earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.

"Booooo!" said the crowd.

"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote 'launched a campaign of bombing that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Booooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience

Bill Ayers is currently a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. Boooo education! 

He was once a radical protestor against the war in Vietman and did bomb the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. He did cause a water leak at the Pentagon and later turned himself into the police. Barack Obama was 10 years old at the time. Boooo water leaks! Booooo ten-year-olds!

Ayers and Obama worked together for education reform and served on a community anti-poverty group together. Obama has condemned Ayers' violent actions. Boooo education reform, anti-poverty, and condemnation of violence! 

A group of McCain-Palin supporters condoning violence towards a remorseful professor and/or Barack Obama. Booooo!

Something for the Kids

Its like Hitler Youth or child soldiers in Africa.... they never had a chance

Something for the Kids

Who doesn't love the adorable Garbage Pail Kids ?


And don't forget, Halloween is just around the corner...

Sarah Palin v. America's Decline

1. We just lost 160,000 jobs in September.
2. The credit markets are completely frozen
3. The day before the debate, General McKiernan, (of the popular McClellen pronounciation), the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, made an urgent appeal for more troops and equipment.

and (my personal favorite calamity)

4. "The election’s outcome is likely to have an enormous impact on questions like the right to abortion, the wall between church and state, and the power of the president to detain Americans. Since several justices could depart in the next four years, this could be the most important election for the court in many decades."

Bob Herbert asks in puzzled amazement, " Where is the evidence that Governor Palin even understands these complex and enormously challenging problems?"

It's best to not think of CNN's Sanjay Gupta announcing that the medical records the McCain campaign allowed journalists to review in a closed room for three hours (no copies, no pictures, they were allowed to take notes and I guess use their amazing powers of photographic memory) were probably nowhere near complete (they would have no way of knowing).

People, the emperor has no clothes. Or rather, he has had several bouts of skin cancer, a stroke, and physical, emotional, and mental damage from his internment.

I keep waiting for J-tron to JK us. "Oh my god guys, I was totally just fucking with you. It's really Mitt"

Shore Up September

If you’re at work today — and screwing around on the Internet, as usual — then good for you! This means you aren’t one of the 159,000 people who lost their jobs last month. The number is “unexpectedly large,” and the monthly job-loss rate is the biggest seen for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.

If you're not at work today-and still screwing around on the Internet, looking for job, as usual- then vote for Obama! Not because you'll get a job on November 5th, but because, well, anything is better than this....

Even if you do have a six-pack (or drink six packs), and your first name happens to be Joe, I promise you that Sarah Palin and John McCain will not be "shoring up this economy" (what does that even mean?!?!) anytime soon.

16%

For many of you out there, Sarah Palin is the scariest thing that has happened to this country since Bush did not get elected in 2000 and became president anyway.

The present is immaterial, its all about the future. The only thing the present is good for is setting precedents. And in Sarah Palin's case, the precedent that is being set is that you don't have to be smart, capable, learned, know about our country's history, or be able to speak extemporaneously in complete sentences to be the president of the most (well, we used to be anyways...) powerful country in the world.

There is another precedent that's even more alarming for about 50% of you out there. The XX Factor, Slate's running commentary on all things concerning our favorite pair of chromosomes, had done a great job of detailing the myriad of ways Palin's deeply flawed candidacy has/will effect women (particularly powerful women) in the future.

Emily Bazelon, my favorite and not just cause of her name, sums it up like this:

"The fear now is that Palin is the anti-Hillary and that her lack of competence threatens to undo what the Democratic primary did for women. Palin won't bust through the ceiling that has Hillary's 18 million cracks in it. She'll give men an excuse to replace it with a new one."

By the way, just in case you were curious what the chances that Palin would become the president should McCain um, drop dead because he's so fucking old that sometimes I can't even beleive he's actually a candidate for president.... Its about 16%*.




*and that percentage goes up every year McCain gets older

Pro-Choice

Sarah Palin is pro-choice...

but only when it comes to deciding one's sexuality. 

The nation's own all-in-one Russia Border Patrol Fembot says: 

"But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay, and I love her dearly. And she is not my "gay friend," she is one of my best friends, who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice a I would have made. But I am not going to judge people."

cue The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"