Really, it doesn't get more sublimely idiotic than it did last night on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show, when she brought on Sarah Palin to attack the imminent passage of health-care reform.
Why oh why wasn't this a bipartisan bill? Van Susteren wondered. In a rational world, the simple answer would be obvious: Because Republicans have found it more politically expedient to simply oppose every step taken by President Obama. But of course in Palintopia, it's all President Obama's fault:
Palin: It really reflects a lack of experience of President Obama's, which -- it was warned about during the campaign that Candidate Obama didn't have executive experience, he hasn't been an administrator or a manager of anything. So to jump into this huge -- hugely important responsible position as President of the United States without the experience to know how to work across party lines, and to know how to administer and to manage a team to get policy through that makes sense, that's supported by the people -- it's a bit, um, it's a bit over his head, if you will. And, uh, things aren't going well, and the public is really voicing their frustration.
Of course, hearing Palin talk up her "executive experience" as somehow superior to Obama's is always occasion for low mordant chuckles, if not outright guffaws.
In the course of carefully examining Palin's public record as an administrator -- particularly her stint as Mayor of Wasilla -- for the investigative piece Max Blumenthal and I co-wrote for Salon in October 2008, I happen to be intimately familiar with just what kind of issues and decisions Sarah Palin dealt with on a daily basis.
Primarily, Palin was involved with such vital issues as which streets to pave in town, whether to put a levy for a sewer bond, and issuing proclamations of support for the Iditarod. Probably her most difficult issue involved construction of a new sports-activity center -- a project that turned into a gigantic financial headache for her former constituents.
So when she talks about cramming bad ideas down people's throats with deceptive tactics, she knows whereof she speaks.
But the notion that Palin's "experience" compares to Obama's background crafting legislation that affects the health and well-being of millions of Americans -- well, let's just say the guffaws are well earned.
That will be hilarious to see her say she has more experience than Obama does after 4 years in office as president.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Okay, how many jobs has Obama quit?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The senate?
That's one...
Obama quit the Senate when he was elected President...
Palin wasnt elected to anything to make her resign as Governor...She just quit because it just got too hard for her!
I know I know, but it was one job he left before finished and that's what ys asked.. And look at the imminently qualified man who we got to replace Obama.
Change you can believe in.
Actually, Roland Burris is a good replacement...its just that Blagojevich appointed him, so it leaves a taint on the appointment...
While he does have Blago's taint on him, he has also been an excellent Senator for the state of Illinois. I have no complaints about Senator Burris;s performance as my Senator. For those of you outside of Illinois, Senator Burris has a long and honorable record of service in the State of Illinois. While I do question the wisdom of his taking the seat while Blago was still in...he should have waiting until then Lt. Governor Quinn became governor...he has done a superb job of representing the citizens of the state of Illinois.
I also have to say that quitting because you have been elected to a higher office is not even in the same universe as quitting because it was too difficult for you or quitting because you realized you can make more money on the lecture circuit than by serving out the term the people of your state elected you to. That's not even comparable.
The nation NEEDED her. Next she goes to high schools and lectures teenage girls on the evils of premarital sex. And also to stay in school - don't be a quitter.
I think she needs to keep talking. It took awhile but people eventually figured out that W was a clueless dumbass.
and they certainly have more experience than the quitter--I WANT A TOTAL BLACKOUT ON THIS BROAD>>>Quit giving her video and ink....
Where's her new hair helmet?
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She usually just wears it when she talks to Jed about the birds and bees. Which 5 babies later she doesn't get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_0b7Ogv94&fe...
Jawohl, vas da fuck ist los mit der Herr (Hair) Helmet, hmmm?
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
for the wingtards the day before the big vote. Sublimely idiotic. Nice way to put it, David. FNC's stock and trade.
I'll see your guffaw, and raise you a laugh-out-loud. The table stakes limit play to rolling on the floor laughing.
I laughed until I had to puke!
Get used to it while everyone was watching MTV and playing Doom the powers that be we're laying the groundwork for our Idiocracy Nation.
"It's always a simple matter to drag the people along . . . "
That Down baby of hers is more of an expert on the issues than she is.
like Palin now is you don't need to be an expert on anything. You just need to perform and posture for the cameras.
Tricks of the beauty pageant: Vaseline on the lips gives a nice shine. If you put a spoon in the refrigerator and press it to your eye before going on stage it gets rid of the puffiness. Tape your breasts, everybody likes pert breasts. Never discount world peace as an answer. AND SMILE – ALWAYS SMILE.
wink for the camera
you betcha!
At least the Down baby knows enough to keep his mouth shut!
Kettle meet pot.
Or is Palin on pot?
the big bucks. There is no greater motivator.
Pot dont make you that stupid...it must be meth
Look at the Celebrity Jeopardy results. Cheech Marin, one of the most famous stoners in the world beat the pants off Anderson Cooper. I think she has just been exposed to too much freezing cold and has brain damage from it....that and maybe all the methane from the caribou poop and fumes from the oil industry...
she's about the only "fresh face" left on the right. Everyone else has dark circles under their eye's,chins, wrinkles, etc.
Palin's beauty secret? The hot jism bath!
What's jism?
Your name is curtilingus and you dont know what jism is? Its cum, a wad, a load, its sperm!
I know. I just wanted to hear you say it.
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in every field she decides to talk about? How much do we have to live with this dumb ass?
"See my witch doctor for bone to put in my new doo"
This coming from the stupist, uneducated Reslug who had to quit because she was in over her dunce cap with her job.
Bankable . . Money is the God of America
Palin's comments show how terrifying it would be if she were President. It makes you wonder if her IQ is high enough to have cognitive thought to make a statement like this. I mean, after making some of the statements like being qualified for foreign policy because Russia is so close to Alaska, and then not knowing why their is a South and North Korea to say Obama's over his head? Think about the crowd that think's she is just great, it makes you realize how dangerous ignorance is!
FOX News should have their liscense revoked for having this woman on the air.
"Show me the money where's the money. Whats my next booking?"
Now, now, Caribou Barbie knows foreign policy like the front of her hand.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Too bad the FOX news satellite does get demolished by space junk...it would be ironic...they spew junk and junk destroys their ability to spew further junk
and outside of Whitehorse, capital city of the Yukon, population ~25,000. The mayor of Whitehorse is a former barber who is a nice lady and for the most part well liked. In some ways Whitehorse is very similar to Wasilla, AK. However there is no way that the Whitehorse mayor is even remotely qualified to be our Prime Minister or even a senior minister of government. It is the peak of arrogance for Palin to lecture Obama on qualifications, experience and ability.
Please don't be too hard on Alaskans. For the most part they are well aware of the mistake they made with Palin. She's looked at more and more as a carpetbagger.
Also, is it just me who thinks that her rushed vice presidential candidate cosmetic surgery is starting to fall apart?
That doesn't make you the first dude does it?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
that even barbers who are mayors can't deal with it. I'll never be First Dude.
Hey, stop it.. the Swag Hag is gonna get a million per episode so take that you big, burly, ....Ooops, I forgot..this is reality now not Cluster-Fox make believe time....
It still concerns me that there are actually folks out there that are dumb enough to believe this woman actually has something to say! Alaskans hate this woman, a LOT of people outside of Alaska despise this woman but the Cluster-Fox wannabees still fall all over themselves to get on the teevee machine with her.. troubling...
We really DO need to concentrate on our education system... it is clearly broken..
That's graduating from high school beer drinking to college beer drinking. Then on to full fledged alcoholic by age 23.
She's just some telegenic gal with a palm pilot.
telepalmter.
a Palin pilot.
Actually she just palmed a pilot.
So when are they gonna get this one to anchor a faux news show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=218VZjod8xk&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Didn't she already sign on?
. . these daze.
Where to go where there is actual intelligence in this world anymore is beyond me.
money . . .
How can I sell out today. Let me count the ways.
Murdoch must watch this stuff in his office and laugh his ass off. He probably sits there wondering if there is a bottom to the barrel of republican base stupidity?
"Hey Glenn, can you do something even dumber and more psychotic than you did today?"
"I don't know Mr. Murdoch, I have been running on stupid fumes for a while, but these Fox viewers just can't seem to figure anything out on their own."
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I'm a Palin basher like everyone else who is, but I gotta say that I'm tired of left-leaning authors posting the same kind of crap we see in the right-leaning blogs.
For example, this 'article' begins with, "In the course of carefully examining Palin's public record as an administrator -- particularly her stint as Mayor of Wasilla..." What about discussing her recent activity as governor instead of reaching back into history?
What is the difference between using her Wasilla experience as a measure versus using Obama's ancient pot smoking history to illustrate his mental state?
Progressives should be setting the better example, rather than parroting the ways of the wingnuts.
Low hanging fruit and easy pickings still tastes good.
Maybe she wasn't a governor LONG ENOUGH to discuss! What was it, about 18 months? And in that short time, she was found guilty of ethics violations, used her position to hound her ex brother in law and get tanning beds installed. While charging Alaska a per diem for living in her own home.
I love how Sarah can say the President doesn't have enough experience and is in over his head. This coming from a woman who had to abandon her post as gov. of AK for fear of having to actually carry out her duties as gov of AK.
I hope health care passes tommorrow, I mean the bill is barely worth while but at this point I just want to hear the sound of all the repugs heads popping at the same time.
Not only did she walk out on the people who elected her, but this is a woman who went through 5 colleges to get a bachelors degree - in journalism - and when asked she couldn't name one newspaper or magazine. And she's questioning Obama's qualifications? That's fucking hysterical.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
"Stoopid" is about right.
Palin is unquestionably,an idiot,and Obama is clearly a very bright guy.
These are perfectly obvious facts.
Fox continues to turn reality upside down.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
You know what gets me is, every time they interview this idiot on FOX, they use the same bullshit "Alaska" backdrop. Memo to FOX producers: We KNOW she's doing the interview in some studio somewhere; We KNOW she's not standing out in the woods somewhere; We KNOW what Alaska looks like, so can we at least have enough integrity to can the fucking phony backdrops. I realize everything about the Quitta from Wasilla is as fake as a 3 dollar bill, but Jesus Christ!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I know- it's painful.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Notice Toad added a FAN to the side, to blow her hair? Like she's BRAVING the what? SPRING BREEZE. It certainly isnt WINTER up there, according those who live there. Warmest winter evah!
they leave the sound on!
(maybe they're trying to get her to re-recognize the place....)
Stupid should hurt! And no painkillers should be able to relieve that hurt!
Fan the trees too
Sarah's lack of experience is the reason her children are the screwups that they are.
Anything will come out of the mouth of a money grubbing HO like Palin.
That while Mayor, Wasilla had to hire a City Manager to run the town (village?). I doubt she worried about which streets to pave, her day to day job was to figure out a way to move up the political ladder.
They caught her using city employees and resources in her run for Lt. Governor so on top of trying to fire anyone and everyone who didn't fall into line, she was already taking the town for a ride. I guess in Sarah Land administrative experience equates to scamming your constituents.
She wasn't a Mayor, just a grifter in training.
As she gathers alll that cash from the UNEXPECTING deewbs. God, when will they ever wake up from the nightmare of PALIN. I doubt it they ever will.
Actually it is not that Sara's IQ is low, it is that her fund of knowledge is nearly nonexistant. She simply doesn't know anything. Her brain is probably well wired, but she needs a good education so it has some actual knowledge with which to work. It seems like she read the Bible and GOP talking points and was to lazy to study anything else. I am still amazed that her parents were teachers. Palin also lacks any understanding of scientific method or critical thinking. Indeed she seems suspicious of such thought processes as they challenge simply following authority based sources. She has wasted what is probably a perfectly fine brain.
that she got that Beauty Pageant thing down really great too !!!!! You know, the wink,wink,wink, .... er....wink.....
Okay, I figured it out. We're being punked. Sarah secretly works for the Onion. Boy were we suckers. I mean that's the only logical explanation. She wouldn't be able to say this stuff with a straight face if she were serious. Would she?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Oh yeah. She's Ucking Funqualified :-)
NOBODY 2012
All the gop'rs sitting in front of their tv's drooling saying ...yup.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
... going to go away?
Never?
Damn. I could've sworn her 15 seconds were up.
BID
you Trailer Trash Idiot!
"It really reflects a lack of experience of President Obama's, which -- it was warned about during the campaign that Candidate Obama didn't have executive experience, he hasn't been an administrator or a manager of anything....it's a bit, um, it's a bit over his head, if you will."
I've gotta agree with that.
Let's consider the presidents who've presided during my lifetime. FDR was governor of New York. Truman was a politician supposedly connected to the Pendergast machine in Kansas City, so he knew how to get stuff done. Eisenhower was president of Columbia University -- and the mastermind of the D-Day invasion. JFK was commander of a PT boat in WWII. LBJ was majority leader of the Senate -- and did a far superior job compared to the one we have now. Nixon was Eisenhower's Veep. Gerald Ford was a House leader. Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia. Ronald Reagan was governor of California. George H. W. Bush held a variety of high-level government jobs, like head of the CIA. Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. And George W. Bush was governor of Texas.
Now what exactly is Barak Obama's credential for being President? And never mind the mouthing off. Just answer the question.
You're making a common mistake today, equating the need for presidents to either be chief executives of a state or a military officers. Many were simply party apparatchiks that moved up.
In 2008, we had julianna who was only a mayor, not even a governor, a vp candidate who was a governor who quit her first term under the cloud of scandal, another who arguably was running as both a former First Lady, as well as a Senator who had won a reelection, and an old geezer who's never run a city or state, and picked an airhead for a running mate, the aforementioned vp.
I know, you were a fred thompson fan.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This from the simpleton moron who had to write notes on her hand to remember boiler plate conservative issues. She is the person that thinks because she is class president, she's the smartest person in school, when we all know she got the position because she's good looking and dumb. Ms. Palin, you might want to pick up some books and learn your abc's before you attempt to talk about someone being over their heads on anything, you moron!
All this crap coming from someone who had to hire a city manager because she didn't know how to run a city of 8k people.
She also left Wasilla holding the bag financially, to the tune of 25 bigs ones. McCain should be made to retire from public life for that reason.
Hey peaches...So, because you were a mayor and a half-term governor, that gives you more administrative skills?
Bwhaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! (laughs until tears are flowing). ROTFLMAO!
Let me get this straight, sweetie, you're saying your hick-town, hick-state skills are better than THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
Give. Me. A. Fucking'. Break. Bwhaaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
is that Operah Winfrey had ms quitter on the other day. FOX "News"
I can accept, but how could you, Operah ?
Obama does now have over one year's experience as chief executive. At what point in time do they stop saying he has no experience?
Shut the up fuck up quitter
Go away, lady. The very fact that you have a national stage and people that take you seriously speaks volumes about the level of education in this country. One heartbeat away from the presidency... Heaven help us all.
"it's a bit, um, it's a bit over his head, if you will." Arrogant! Brazen liar! Condescending! And laughable!
That was one of her comments about the detainees in the controversy over what kind of trial should be used to try them. I guess it shows off the depth of her patriotism to the public. In addition, she had conferences with Dick Cheney. I bet she got his autograph. She is primarily ambitious in my view. And her looks help her immensely. How much money would you pay to see Virginia Foxx?
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