My favorite passage from the recent Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin:
When one child refused to sign autographs unless she was provided with pink or purple Sharpies that had been custom-printed with her name, the staff tried to argue that black Sharpies—the only kind they had—would do just fine. But Sarah ordered them to do what the child said, and personalized pink and purple markers were produced.
BP has apologized for the oil spill. When will John McCain apologize for unleashing this toxic never-ending gusher upon us?
(Obviously, I’m not advocating that Sarah Palin be capped. I’m using a metaphor. I merely want Palin to go away…forever.)
(h/t Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish)
But Obama’s the one screwing over our grandchildren.
Sarah Palin says President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget is “immoral” because it increases the national debt, which she called “generational theft.”
Palin told the national “tea party” convention Saturday that America’s national debt, which is held largely by other nations, “makes us less free” and “should tick us off.”
By the way, the largest state debt-to-GDP-ration? Former half-governor Palin’s Alaska.
When the former vice presidential candidate resigned as governor of Alaska in the summer of 2009, she left the state with a 70 percent debt-to-GDP ratio — the highest state debt burden in the United States.
[Obama has been] taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Sarah Palin, 5/23/2010
Palin criticizing Obama for not grasping the complexity of something is like Lady Gaga bashing Mother Theresa for wearing too much makeup.
Where’s Half-Gov. Lipstick now? Isn’t she an expert on oil and the environment?
Didn’t follow that?
Oil (of coal), of course, is a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, ya know, the molecules where, where it’s going to where it’s not but and in the, in the sense of the Congress today they know our very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So I believe that what Congress is going to do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here, it’s gotta flow into our domestic markets first.
The fact that we even know who this person is should be blamed squarely on John McCain, who recklessly insisted a year ago that Sarah Palin was the best choice of a running mate suitable to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. You know all those folks declaring that Obama is a Marxist, a Fascist, or a Hitler? They got their legitimacy when a United States major party Vice-Presidential candidate declared at her rallies that Obama had been “palling around with terrorists”. That health care town hall rage that brought out the birthers and gun enthusiasts had little to do with concerns about health care and everything to do with the fear that American just doesn’t look like it did 30 years ago, that Sarah Palin’s “real” America is gradually fading away.
46% of American voters preferred the ticket with the total nightmare that is Sarah Palin. Whatever you may think of the state of the nation right now, can you fathom, knowing all you know now about former-Governor Palin, an America with a President Palin at the helm?
By the way, the artist who did that portrait has done similar pancake portraits of other personalities, including Barack Obama.
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.
- Governor of the 50th State, for whom English is her first and only language, I believe, and who, despite never having released her medical records, has no known history of stroke or brain injury, and whom 40% of Americans believed to have been qualified to be President of the United State
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!‘s Peter Sagel explains that the new James Bond movie got its odd title from a fan contest, won by Sarah Palin.
You wanted to give the nuclear codes to someone who thought that Africa was a country and could not name the three countries that compose North America.
Just an FYI.
