Here and There

On the “socialism” farce, like only Rik knows how …

A Palin effigy that shows the VP candidate hung from a noose. Not cool. Not at all.

Let’s debate this on merits, people. Ideas, remember? Not lynch mobs.

For our first installment, I pose the simple question:

What’s scarier: The fact that Sarah Palin is running for vice president, however unlikely it is that she’ll win, or the fact that she’s currently, actually the governor of Alaska, however sparsely populated?

I vote the latter.

… can be like watching water boil. Therefore, I’m going to start ignoring all news about John McCain and Sarah Palin, unless (and as we saw earlier today, until) they involve violence. At that point, none of us can afford to ignore the freak show.

Sarah Palin reprimands one of her supporters, erroneously.

From Frank RIch’s New York Times column tomorrow:

Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008.

Surprised? Stupid liberal bipartisan panel!

When CNN starts telling people to panic over the economy, well, it’s not lookin good here kids.

Luckily for us, we’re about to hire the most unintentionally funny person in Alaska (maybe even the world) for Vice President. We’ll be laughing all the way to the soup line. You know, maybe McCain/Palin can take another spin on the economy. Sticking to free markets and lower taxes is going to solve our obesity problems. Nobody will be able to afford food!

And when the sad reality begins to kick in and the twinkie junkies start going through withdrawal, out comes Palin with her flute:

And when the lies and distractions stop working, an interview with Sarah Palin puts us all at ease.

Q: How will you fix the economy?

A: The economy and putting it back on the side of the grade of problem that America has to be found here. Consumers and those who maybe came from a background of, you know, that has worked in Iraq that John McCain has a great plan to get caught up in this evil, in this one and who the good guys are the ones who say Israel is a stinking corpse and should be inherent in corporations who are spending, investing other people’s money, the abuse of that self-dealing and kind of that self-dealing and kind of grab it all and pretend like they have all the all the dealings within the party. Also.

There. I feel better now.

* The video is real. The quote was randomly generated from the site interviewpalin.com

- Scott

I’ve always hated stupid people acting smart. It bugs me. If you’re dumb, own it.

Smart acting stupid is annoying, but only mildly so.

It struck me, watching the following CNN clip of Sarah Palin doing her damnedest to answer a question about energy, supposedly her policy strong-suit, that Palin is a classic example of stupid-acting-smart:

For extra fun with Palin’s answer, see the comments on Obsidian Wings.

Sorry for the pedestrian headline, but my god, if McCain knew what he’s doing, he’d Fiorinize her, stat.

Black Comic Introduces McCain.

Thx: Sullivan.

For the record, I don’t think Sarah Palin isn’t smart. In fact, I think she’s very smart. I think she’s manipulative, and an opportunist.

But what scares me is that her ignorance of the bigger issues of the day, especially on the international scene, will be embraced by voters. I fear that her limited, jumbled world view will be applauded and used as justification for people’s admiration of her.

She comes across as a nit-wit in the following clip, frankly. But the whole “well, she knows what I know, and dammit, she stuck to her guns” bit is part of what got the last not-too-worldly person elected president of the United States. We all know how well that’s gone.

Thx: Josh Marshall.

Rhetorical question? Here’s one for you: What if Nazis take over the U.S. government? I’m just asking rhetorically.

Thx: John Cole

“I told Washington, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’”

Actually, honey, you told them “kthxbai.”