Sarah Palin Update from the SFGate.com

I'm sorry but I was POed since this is not a Sarah Palin update, this is some stupid cartoon. That's fine, but why don't you title appropriately. I gave you a one for that. Not a serious discussion.

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I see the kindergartners have been by to pout and stamp their feet. I thought it was hilarious, and on target, so I left you a 10 after I recovered from laughing.

ROFL!!! :0) I loved it.

Very funny. I recently ran across a piece in the Guardian (UK) about Palin's performance in the debate which included a verbatim transcript of one of her "answers." It's apalling:

There is indeed something mesmerising about Palin, with her manic beaming and fulsome confidence in her own charm. The force of her personality managed to slightly obscure the insulting emptiness of her answers last night. It's worth reading the transcript of the encounter, where it becomes clearer how bizarre much of what she said was. Here, for example, is how she responded to Biden's comments about how the middle class has been short-changed during the Bush administration, and how McCain will continue Bush's policies:

"Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggon e it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education, and I'm glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? ... My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here's a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School , you get extra credit for watching the debate."

Evidently, Palin's pre-debate handlers judged her incapable of speaking on a fairly wide range of subjects, and so instructed to her to simply disregard questions that did not invite memorised talking points or cutesy filibustering. They probably told her to play up her spunky average-ness, which she did to the point of shtick - and dishonesty. Asked what her achilles heel is - a question she either didn't understand or chose to ignore - she started in on how McCain chose her because of her "connection to the heartland of America. Being a mom, one very concerned about a son in the war, about a special needs child, about kids heading off to college, how are we going to pay those tuition bills?"

None of Palin's children, it should be noted, is heading off to college. Her son is on the way to Iraq , and her pregnant 17-year-old daughter is engaged to be married to a high-school dropout and self-described "fuckin' redneck". Palin is a woman who can't even tell the truth about the most quotidian and public details of her own life, never mind about matters of major public import. In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney. What kind of maverick, after all, keeps harping on what a maverick she is? That her performance was considered anything but a farce doesn't show how high Palin has risen, but how low we all have sunk.

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Great video, my friends.

enjoying her 15 minutes of fame? We won't hear from her again after Obama wins!

I loved it.

I don't care a fig about Sarah Palin.

Thanks for passing this along, Anita. It is so close to the truth that it is hard to laugh at it.

Good one.

More laughs for your Monday morning!

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Thanks for sharing

Hello Anita D.,

I just wanted to say I am finally going through my currently over 6,500 pieces of gather new mail that is in my inbox on here. So with that in mind I have finally come to a piece of mail that was addressed to me in regards this article submission you have created to share with the gather community. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your piece with us here at gather. :o)