“What’s that word I’m looking for? It’s another word for decision.”
The Daily Show – just in case you’ve forgotten – is pretty fucking brilliant: The best part of this segment is when the young girl almost says “choice,” but then catches herself and says “decision.” (h/t to Amy at Appetite for Equal Rights)
...read moreSarah Palin’s not-so-hidden extremism
Ezra Klein on Sarah Palin’s apparent taste for extremism: Sarah Palin is a secessionist, or at least is sympathetic enough to the cause that she belongs to a political group whose mission is to “seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance [...]
...read moreShorter Michael Gerson: “Women are children.”
Michael Gerson – noted Bush minion feminist – believes (not surprisingly) that most women are idiots: Palin is a historic pick — if elected as vice president, she would most likely be America’s first female president. Though the evangelical/hunter/beauty-contest contestant is unlikely to appeal to the hardest core of Hillary’s feminist supporters, she is likely [...]
...read moreBefore The Speculative Commentary Gets Out of Hand
News is that Sarah Palin’s oldest daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and plans to marry the father and keep the baby. Amidst some nasty rumors that Bristol is actually the mother of Palin’s infant — rumors that are completely unfounded but don’t stop the Daily Kos kids from running them into the ground — [...]
...read moreSarah Palin and the Drink America’s Milkshake Party
Within twenty-four hours of Obama’s history-making speech, McCain made another historical announcement, the addition of the first female vice-presidential candidate for a major American party since the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. And just as in the case with Mondale, many pundits view the addition of Palin to the Republican ticket as a gamble, or as one commenter [...]
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