Sarah Palin Gets The VP Job Description Wrong. Again.
By Nicole Belle Sunday Nov 02, 2008 5:00amBut of course, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News gives her a pass...
During another FOX News softball interview with Sarah Palin, Greta Van Susteren asked Palin how she envisions her role as Vice President. Palin wrongly stated, "Well, they've got to be exclusively, of course, concentrating on the administrative side of governance and there again, that's where my executive experience will be put to good use."
Actually, just about the only role for the VP set out by the Constitution is to act as the tie-breaking officer of the Senate.
Oh for crying out loud...now this is just plain obstinacy. When you've been criticized for not knowing the job description of the position for which you've been campaigning not once but at least twice in a short two month period, don't you think this is an answer you'd take pains to get right?
No wonder why there's a show on the air "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader"...we're consistently dumbing down the population so that they don't know what a Vice President is for...or what their Constitutional rights are...
We are in the beginning stages of Idiocracy, make no mistake. And Sarah Palin is the posterchild for it.
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she won't stop until it's an unrecognizable string of disconnected phrases. Before she starts a sentence, she needs an exit strategy. Otherwise she'll keep landing herself in syntactical quagmires.
So that's what a Palindrome is.
Al Jazeera in English just broadcast the entire fake "Sarkozy" call to Sarah Palin. WOW is she ever a dumb broad! The Canadian tells Palin, "We can go shooting together as long as we don't bring Dick Cheny with us. I just LOVE firing a gun". And Palin says, "I'll make sure I'm careful with the gun".
Again, WHAT A DUMB BROAD! How dare McCain tote this Bimbo around on the campaign trail!
I watched it for the third time last night.
It has been reclassified from Comedy to Documentary.
Maybe she knows what to do about the burrito covers.
Was watching C.S.A (Confederate States of America) and Idiocracy back to back recently.
Made for some strange nightmares.
Played on about 10 screens when released. I wish C&L had signature lines.
Shut up! Batin'!
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I made this a while ago. Enjoy:
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what is it with both McCain & Palin with their kids on stage all the time? What's with their schooling?
Other than the DNC, we have only seen Obamas little angels once.
Everything about his campaign has been profesional. No vicious attacks that could not be proven. He's there, on stage by himself. When the crowds come, they come to see him.
McCain requires a sideshow, the entire team.
Why Americans don't see this bewilders me.
Standing behind him like a lamp-post at every rally? Is she supposed to be a sex symbol or something? Michele Obama and Jill Biden are 100 times better looking than Cindy McCain.
I thought that WAS a lamp-post.
True. But I can't help but stare at that "House of Wax" complexion she has. I am still trying to figure out if she is a droid, or a post mortem creature?
You guys are being a little harsh on Cindy. She's being punished enough. Think about it, she blew ALL that money trying to become The Wife of Someone Important and now what does she have to show for it? Grampa.
Not-so-instant karma strikes again...
Every time you see mccain on stage with his wife and daughter have you ever seen him acknowledge them in any way? Touch them? Hug them or show any affection? They come off the plane after him, they stand behind and never beside him and there is never any hand holding or any of the other "normal" familial kind of things.
Just asking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhomInJ7Pc
Thanks dude, you made my evening for me. I have to pass this one around. When was that show aired (Chris Matthews I mean)
Not Sure
Shouldn't those Palin kids be off playing hockey somewhere? How can you be a hockey mom with no kids playing hockey?
Sarah Palin's very calculating that way.
She uses her family as props to try and make herself appealing. I think she did that after her RNC speech. And, I noticed that she pulled that again at end the first vp debate. Biden and Palin were on stage, and Palin discreetly (but I saw it) and urgently motioned her family to come on to the stage. As her family began filing onto the stage, Biden and his family saw this attempt to monopolize the moment, and Biden's family got on the stage too. I could see the surprise on Palin's face as if she thought that she and her family were going to have the stage all to themselves.
Yes, she disingenuous and very manipulating that way.
We're way past the beginning stages. Palin's grandchild may just grow up to be Beef Supreme.
Trig for Secretary of Education? (OK that was mean)
Her pregnant daughter for Secretary of Abstinence.
I's not the kids fault their mother is a fascist imbecile. I actually feel sorry for them.
Could you imagine having that nutjob for a momma? Sheeeesshh!
It's a psychological slip in that Sarah is envisioning herself as the president. She doesn't answer VP questions because it is not a position she has entertained.
On February 2, 2009 John Mccain will announce that he's feeling dizzy and Sarah needs to assume duties as president.
You just watch.
And it will be hilarious; because President Obama will be into his first month, while Sarah is preparing for her Ted Stevens like indictment.
Reality never was a GOP strong suit!
He redefined the VP role. Constitution be damned. The true role of the VP is now to run everything and he basically did.
She's just repeating some of the BIG LIES. The knuckleheads are eating this shit up.
The Dems and the American people allowed Cheney to basically declare himself the most powerful man on the globe. Fear or stupidity?
That its most famous citizen not only repeatedly gets this simple American civics lesson fact wrong, but even when told about it by the media (OK, admittedly, she does not read anything because her handlers are keeping things from her), she continues to repeat mistakes. This is something she should have learned in junior high school. Guess she was more concerned then about boys, clothes and makeup than learning. Nothing much has changed.
Palin’s Advice: Put MORE Vice in the Vice Presidency
She said that she reads EVERYTHING. You know all those magazines and stuff. I can't name one 'cause I don't wanna upset all the rest donchaknow.
Sarah is a Diva
If you look at her history as gov. you realize what Sarah wants, Sarah gets.
She wants the power. She will never be satisfied with being #2.
She will make is a position of Power.
She will have to satisfy the right wing if she wants to get to power in '12.
Of course she should be back in Wasilla by Nov. 5th.
And then the good people of Alaska can have a recall.
By 2012, Sarah bumb and dumber, will be a LONG forgotten punchline. After years in the political wilderness, the GOP will have to un-Palin their party, or become a third party fringe nutjob group!
It's over for the neocons and Reaganomics! History is passing them bye. They are just to stupid to realize it yet!
That she has ex bush people telling her what to say, and you have to understand that they believe they create their own reality.
Know wonder she is so fucked up!
Sarah is a poster child for amateur internet porn. She needs to dye her hair blonde to match her IQ, and then her full status as MILF airhead would be complete. How does a female with no real intelligence rise this high on the ladder of life? Answer:sexually.
pretending to be the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, reported by the Huffington Post. She fell for it hook-line-sinker, and the result is hilarious, making her look like a fool. Her enthusiastic pandering and receiving "her due" as the next American president from "Sarkozy" is extremely unfortunate. I don't feel sorry for her at all.
Listen to the call here:
Palin Prank Call: Canadian Comedy Duo Convinces Palin She's Talking To Sarkozy (AUDIO)
Yahoo News has a more complete writeup of the prank call.
back to the House of Representin'
and
give Caribou Barbie a job at Starbucks.
/batin'
"We are in the beginning stages of Idiocracy, make no mistake." The beginning stages? I'd say we're about 10 years into it. If this were an intelligent and informed society, there would be open public discussion and mainstream news stories about how shockingly under-educated and misinformed she is. If a person is going to be a heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world, shouldn't that person have just a little more education than a communications-journalism degree from Idaho University?
We could avoid a lot of agony by simply filtering out anyone running for public office who says "nookular". You have to pass a test in order to drive, why not do the same for people running for public office?
But don't forget about the whole NCLB we've had forced on us for the past 7 years or so. That accelerates the stupidity by about a 50% margin. Its all about 'pass the test, pass the test pass the test' or your school district loses what little federal money they get.
I'm a teacher and I can tell you we're not allowed to teach students HOW to think anymore. We don't have time - we're too busy cramming them full of facts so they can pass that test. Hopefully this policy will get a serious hatchet job under an Obama presidency.
....and I agree. I cannot wait for No Child Gets Ahead to get thrown onto the dustbin of history. It's ruining our kids and our schools.
I hate that you guys aren't able to teach effectively anymore. The best teachers I had were the ones that let us actually discuss things and ramble off lesson on occasion. My senior year English teacher (God rest your soul, Mrs Hurt), taught us Sophocles in a way that I still remember 14 years later. One of my other teachers had us debating the methods of MLK, Malcolm X, Booker T Washington and WEB Du Bois when I was in 6th and 7th grade. This was in the inner city and it instilled a pride in me that I have not lost to this day.
I was chatting to my dad last night, and he said that thanks to Sarah Palin, political satire is now dead. We then got on the topic of elitism and I said that I want elite people in charge, not the regular guy. (What he said about Joe the Plumber is unprintable,) He said not only do people want stupid, they seem to go for deranged.
I teach Media Literacy, an elective course that nearly all the 8th grade takes in my school. I'm not bound by the tests, and at first, I wanted to leave. The students were a bit unruly and the drive is over an hour.
But it soon became clear what a unique opportunity I was given. It's not your usual class, it's only offered in a few schools, and I'm able to go off lesson quite often and simply talk about what is going on the media today. I've been able to successfully awaken some of these kids to the power the media holds over us -- thus getting them to learn to think for themselves. We've been covering the election and looking at the messages each of these candidates have set out. They are overwhelmingly Obama, but that's because of the area (high minority students, hispanic and black), but they honestly questioned the fear and negatively they saw when watching McCain and Palin.
I wish more schools could offer what I teach. The VP of the school, when he was reprimanding a student for misbehaving in my class, told him,"Do you want to be a sheep? Do you want to be led around without thinking for yourself? That class is helping you to learn to think!"
I felt so proud at that moment.
I really hate all this stupidity I see in this country. Obama should be way ahead, but, alas, he isn't. Still too many Palins in the world.
"We are in the beginning stages of Idiocracy." No. I think you graduated a long time ago, and have forgotten any lessons learned.
I teach (in Korea) where the kids ONLY cram for tests. When they come in my class, I tell them, "I am not a Korean teacher (not that they are bad), and if you want a good grade in my class, you have to think and participate." I always tell them I don't know the answer, I expect them to tell me the answer. Of course I do know the answer (and do guide them, but I don't mollycoddle), but I tell them to think. 50% of their grade is purely subjective based on my assessment of their participation. I tell them they get grades for trying. I don't care if the answer is right or worng, trying gets you points. Guess what? They try and they dig it.
PS The vice principal at the school told me they've seen results; last Friday.
I miss intelligence in government. I miss the belief that intelligence matters. When we have intelligence in the form of leadership we try harder. It is ok to think beyond what we think we are capable of. It doesn't matter what field we are in. We just give more and we try to give more. We get an education to think beyond our boundaries.
If we vote for Obama we are voting for a new century. We are voting for a rebirth of a great nation. We are capable of so much more than what we have been.
However, for all you bloggers, you have been on the front line. You have helped save America because every time you emailed a senator, fox news, the fcc, public radio and TV....with your views, you reminded the leaders and the spokesmen and media that you know the truth. Every site like Crooks and Liars was a beacon of our liberty.
VOTE!
Aspiring to intelligence is the first step; even if you don't go as high as you'd like. How often do you hear people say, "I don't know" or "I fucked up?" Or even... "I was wrong?"
It has been my experience that most people belligerently and obstinately prefer to think they are right, no matter what, and turn up the volume.
10. Jesse Ventura will run for president in 2012
9. During the extreme drought in Atlanta it was discovered that the largest consumer of water was the Gatorade Plant.
8. Fox News doing a report about a group that wants to re-spell English words that are often mispelled anyway (and the reporter agreeing)
7. Corporate omnipresence, dependency and extreme monopolies.
6. People accepting identification chips and GPS tracking devices
5. Sarah Palin
Come folks help me out with some more here!
American Gladiators back on the air.
Also the prevalence of UFC fighting, and my favorite, the born again mixed martial arts fighers. Jesus didn't tap, or "I kick ass for the Lord!"
Arguing over the remote control. America's Next Top Model or an equally banal programme on channel 7? Then divorce court for irreconcilable differences.
I don't think you all are reading her right. Foremost she is a religious whack job. She feels she doesn't need to do the homework, she doesn't need any intellectual curiosity because she prays and in a moment of divine clarity all the answers will come to her. Just because you may not agree with her answers just means you are not one with the big guy. She may even be wrong sometimes but it's all part of God's plan for her.
Hey, it worked in the Middle Ages (sometimes known as the Dark Ages).
What you must understand is that it isn't wrong in Sarah Palen's mind. She knows exactly what she will be doing if she is VP. She is broadcasting to America what her plans are. America needs to listen.
Sarah Palen is redefining the role of VP even before she has been elected.
VOTE!
Palindrome is so apt, but how about Palindrone. That Canadian French PM prank was telling. She mentions running for president in 8 years. She wants it so bad, she puts out of her mind, Troopergate, and it seems educating her children. Just how much school have they missed? Is someone on that? Will we see her in consignment clothes post election? someone should be tracking those designer clothes on their pathway to Goodwill. Aargh, breaking news a bit OT.I'm just watching Rupert Murdoch giving special Boyer lectures on the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the national broadcaster. He stills considers himself Australian. Now he's telling Australians how to live and slamming our public education system. No mention of the imbecilic slime that pours out of Faux Noose. Now, he's trying to tell us how to reconcile with the indigenous commmunity. No mention of the blatant racism of FN. Now on immigration, he says we should be a beacon to all. Sure does that include those of the Islamic faith? Now he's an expert on climate change. He says Europe has lost the will to be aggressive. Australians should fight in distant wars. And we should be a reliable partner for the US to call on!!!! This guy has a messiah complex. These lectures are usually given by people of high intellect. Oh, he said one good thing, that Australia should be a Republic. He has criticised Obama and doesn't believe he'll be a good President! He really said nothing of intellect at all. That means Obama will be getting it worse than ever from FN after he's elected.
I've read that Todd Palin says he is homeschooling the children, so I'm sure that the Palins consider the children to be "in school" as they are carted all over the US on the campaign trail.
Americans are very tired of seeing Sarah, the tool, parade her "kid tools" out on the stage. I don't know about anyone else but at times they each look like they are "special needs kids". WTF is that? My initial reaction was that they looked like they, literally, crawled out from under some rock in the Tundra - then they were dressed to the nines by pilfering the hard-earned money of doting Republicans....and now they're all looking like a sick, pathetic gang of hillbillies.
It's completely irrational, I know, but I feel revulsion when I see pictures of that family on the campaign trail. It's as if we know something despicable about them when they don't know we know it. So they prance along sucking up adoration of teh stupids, thinking they're secure on the teetering edge of a fall.
And probably quite unfairly, I now think of Alaska as a state full of rednecks and skinheads, whereas before I've always wanted to visit because of the beauty of the land -- I assumed Alaskans were people with an appreciation of life, in tune with and protective of their environment because they had to be to survive.
Instead, Sarah Palin and her family have tainted Alaska for me, covered it with the lowest denominator of the human will, when I thought it provided opportunities that would ensure the best that humans could be.
Stupid me.
Each time this woman opens her mouth candidly, she wanders all over the place, stringing disconnected phrases and improper syntax so the viewer doesn't know what the hell she's just said when she'd done.
Palin has made "run on sentences" a new science! I'm sure her pathetically uneducated remarks are fodder for today's English 101 classes. Thanks for that Simple Secessionist Sarah! At least you've accomplished one positive thing for the people.
What I find truly pathetic is this woman's inability to learn on the job. She's had two months now to know what the job description actually is - yet she continues to impress us with how stupid she is.
The whack-job spoof on her by the Canadian comics was priceless and provided an inside glimpse into the idiocracy called Palintology. This woman's responses were, literally, on about a 5th grade level! Unimaginable that she could ever assume the duties of any high office in our government.
She's the Gov'nor of a state whose population rivals that of Austin, Texas - and it's become painfully clear that she's simply a "republican shill" - a GOP "token female" - and doesn't have enough intelligence to fight her way out of a paper bag with one way signs on it.
Sarah Palin HAS become a "national fool and disgrace".
She's fairly rich, does not have to do physical labour and has full healthcare coverage. I'd say she's done quite well for a beauty queen.
She learned she needed a makeover and a starting budget of 150k for her new wardrobe! Then she would LOOK presidential, ya know?
She's all about Carla Bruni this and that, but Carla Bruni is a big time socialist. France itself has tons of Socialist policies. If she read a newspaper, she'd know this. She'd also know that Sarkozy is well hated by a lot of the French people. Oh, and all religious symbols are banned in schools.
Later this week, the sad Palin family will all be a dark memory of a floundering GOP who finds itself on the rocks. The GOP will be trying to break free from the grasp of the religious wingnuts who have "hijacked" their party and the circular firing line will begin.
I suspect that Bob Barr and some of the real conservatives will break from this wingnut fringe who have invaded their party and form a new GOP.
She's history.
What about fauxes version of everyone's favorite liberal, Greta Van Susteren. Can she say " I'm a proud prostitute for the wacky right?"
The Palin sideshow keeps reminding me of that other media watercooler, Anna Nicole Smith. Seeing someone literaly 'dying on her feet'. The high followed by the tragic low. Who knows what is going on behind the scenes with this woman? It can't be normal.
What the HELL is she rambling on a about...?
Just a couple more days of 'discussing' this bimbo.
I'm counting the hours. Literally.
Sarah Palin is wrong.
Everyone knows the vice-president is the almighty master and supreme ruler of the universe, and all who inhabit it.
Ain't that right Cheney!
gets the lying off to a running start: sorry Liar, the job of the VP is clearly laid out in...(drum roll)...the Constitution of the United States of America! Every read it? Right, silly question.
Again this is where this web site loses credibility when it just piles on to a dead issue.
Reading Palin's comment what's the problem? The VP does focus on the administrative side of governance. That is 99% of what a VP does whereas her previous answers about being in charge of the Senate were the off base comments.
... for national office is not a dead issue.
She's both moronic and very dangerous.
for framing the question like a moron who hasnt ever read the constitution?
the first spouse is not an elected position you dumb whore
and the vp does have specific duties
come on greta,its time for more plastic surgery so that you fully can look like the man you want to be....sean hannity
what has this election shown? that there are alot more dumb ****s (both male and female) in this country, then we have have wanted to admit to
...and I'm glad she's not a natural blonde...I would have dyed my hair black in shame at the slur on real blondes -- you know, the kind of Americans who for one thing would NEVER stoop to kill furry critters?
Besides, Palin's credentials suck. And I'm just talking about how she parades her children around, doesn't take time off to be with a newborn or spend time with her pregnant teen getting ready for the birth of the family's first grandchild. She has the family values of a sow.
There are plenty of things to point to as indications of how wrong Sarah Palin and John McCain are for the country, ethics, truthfulness, war mongers, the economy as well as their interpretation of the Constitution, but to pick on her vision of the role of the vice president seems very petty. Almost as bad as the republiecans. The duties and tasks both Al Gore and Dick Cheney took on far exceeded the narrow definition for the vice president stated in the Constitution.
"If I can say my daughter's son is really my son then the vice-presidency can be whatever I want it to be."
... about her false Trig pregnancy been discussed more?
Look at all the comments here. Do you see who/what you are discribing? Almost every one of these comments describe George W. Bush 8 years ago (they still apply today). Why do Republicans love their idiots?
You need to go back to school. Obama is offering a 4,000 school credit in exchange for 100 hours of community service. You should definitely take advantage of it. I'd suggest an elementary education first and then maybe critical thinking skills. You are scary...and another reason we need to get the republicans out of office. Obviously you were one of the children left behind in that failed program. It will probably take you 9 years to graduate but hey after your impeached you will have plenty of time. I hope you can resist the urge to burn the books.
You suck
Someone who will never vote for you.-ever
Sincerely_ Me
OBAMA BIDEN OBAMA BIDEN OBAMA
Maybe we're thinking of her as the wrong kind of idiot. We've been talking about the Constitutional role of the VP and, yes, she continues to get that wrong. But the VP can have gobs of administrative duties and powers if the President assigns them. Or if the VP, like Cheney, just takes them with the President's acquiescence.
Maybe Palin's actually giving away the details of her deal with McCain, and is too much of a fool to realize she's doing it.
You mentioned the movie Idiocracy, and here's an image I made about a month ago, enjoy: http://i33.tinypic.com/sy8t2x.png
[Right. You are done here-Sitemonitor]
While your at it, give a shout-out to the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, leprechauns, unicorns and my son's imaginary friend Mr Pirate.
Nice try troll, but you are as transparent as McCain's lies..
typical of a right-wing troll who doesn't like what they read or hear, and retreat to this "bunker mentality" wherein they attack everyone, while coming off sounding like a spoiled child who didn't get what they want.
And then the "praying" comment.
Sad, sad.
To the pious coolpillow: don't work so hard on praying for change (and being pious by adverstising you pray) but lend out a hand to those in need instead -
Funny how fundamentalists think God works personally for them because of how "righteous" they are.....
FYI-I sure hope someone writes you some new stuff. The koolaide thing is old--if your going to copy and paste it at least make it original.
I made this some time ago. Enjoy:
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as if that's comforting...
To heck with teaching her what the VP job is, would some one please just teach her basic English? Please!
Palin is never going to get this one right.
And if she is elected (it must be nice being Palin and McCain praying to their respective gods that the racists in America come out in huge numbers to deliver the win for the White Team) she'll spend four years (or however long it takes to push McCain into the great Prisoner of War Camp in the Sky) trying to tell the Senate and senators what to do.
In the long run, we can expect her to devote her life to trampling all over the Constitution like a monstrous Bull in a China shop.
I suggest a better future for her (for us) would be to spend the rest of her life answering the phone trying to figure out if the callers are pranking her or if they are sincerely offering her the position of dog catcher in some town/county with a population of less than 1,000. That would keep the Peter Principle nicely in check and protect us from Dumbass Borealis.
Hard to read who said what there.
She's power hungry, ruthless, self-centered, and also out of her league, but I don't have a problem with her comments. At least she didn't say she'd work with the Senate.
Appears as though your child has a "special need" for a KLEENEX! Can't you even teach that?
Blech.
You would think that McCain would demand that she memorize the answer for the roll of the VP by now, but McGrampa must think that ignorance will win him some southern votes or something. This is like the fact that they never in 8 years taught the current Dip-Shit in Cheif how to pronounce Nukular!
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