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I guess I prove her right. #sarahpalinoprah
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Also, Sarah Palin is a marginal person. #sarahpalinoprah
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I can't take her seriously as an adult....and barely as a human being. I get it--you'll never truly know someone running for public office, but her persona is that of a grotesque cartoon who (as someone else points out) is smiley-faced dishonest and scatterbrained self-contradictory. How can you talk to someone as a rational person when you could Google their sins right in front of them--her horrible history with sexual assault policies, her wishy washy position on choice ("pro-life", but pro-contraception too...whoops, I'm shooting for higher than governor now, so no I'm not)--and they'd still insist it was the media trying them? She's....worthless. She's a piece of shit.
I feel hatred when I consider the people that support her.
She's one idiot--with her supporters, she is legion.
And during those campaign rallies when those people were shouting "KILL HIM!' and "OFF WITH HIS HEAD" when she brought up Bill Ayers, and her stupid face...God, I want to punish them all, banish them to live on an island of ignorant, angry idiots and let her and her ilk lead. I know they feel the same. They see Obama as somethign they're paying for because of us, "fake" America..."real" America is welcome to secede. #sarahpalinoprah
11/17/09
Then again, I am a huge believer in the facts and science and knowledge, and I will always admit I am wrong when confronted with facts that say I am. I say sitka deer are from India, a quick fact check says I'm wrong. So I was wrong. No big deal. Why can't she just admit that she made mistakes and then move on to whatever her next thing is? Why keep lying? #sarahpalinoprah
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Well it's obvious why. When McCain says it, the people are cheering not for him so much as for how good it feels to believe him. They're cheering the loosening of a weird sort of knot in the electoral tummy. McCain's resume and candor, in other words, promise not empathy with voters' pain, but relief from it. Because we've been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It's ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you're supposed to believe in's really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it's a good bet you remember "No new taxes" and "Out of the loop" and "No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time" and "Did not inhale" and "Did not have sex with that woman" and etc. etc. It's depressing and painful to believe that the would-be "public servants" you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you're an idiot. So who wouldn't fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?"
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Mom: "Hello?"
Penny: "Oh, hi."
Mom: "I LIKE HER!"
Penny: "Um....what?"
Mom: "Oh, I thought you were Sherrie (her sister)."
Penny: "Mom...you aren't talking about the Palin interview on Oprah are you?"
Mom: "Don't be so judgmental, Penny."
Penny: "You've GOT to be fucking kidding, mom, seriously????"
Mom: "I think she has things to say."
Penny: "Yeah, bullshit things!"
Mom: "Penny, you just don't want to hear anyone's opinion if it's not in line with yours. I have read Albright's book, HRC's book, and I will read this book."
Penny: "Mom, let's talk about this at Thanksgiving. Is dad around?" #sarahpalinoprah
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Me...Silence. "Really, mom? I am at Costco. I will finish this conversation when I am not in public" #sarahpalinoprah
11/16/09
To be clear, I'm not personally saying that I equate abortion with murder/robbing banks/etc--but I could see how someone who believes it's an immoral act would, which kinda takes it out of the realm of consideration with regards to Palin's statement about making choices for one's self.
11/16/09
ETA: and, no, they're not comparable or understandable. Palin's a disingenuous, stupid liar. There's less excuse for people who follow her and try to reduce women to the status of flower pots.
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I'm pro-choice, so please don't go acting like I'm not--but the fact that Sarah Palin used the word choice in a context not related to abortion does not mean she contradicted her pro-life stance. #sarahpalinoprah
11/16/09
Or she could have not asked that at all.
How many times have we heard someone ask the current president how he plans on balancing the presidency with having two young daughters? I mean, I really could have missed it but I don't remember hearing him (or any other male politician) being asked how they plan on raising their children. #sarahpalinoprah
11/16/09
There's a reason that the female attorneys at the law firm I worked for didn't talk about their kids. My fav attorney waited until she made partner-- then put the kid pictures on her desk. No one even knew she had children.
Slight fail on Oprah's part. #sarahpalinoprah
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If she had a better brain she would have countered that she has a husband, who as capable of taking care of their children as she is. But that might have raised points in favour of gay couples raising kids, and we can't have that, can we? #sarahpalinoprah
11/16/09
I think it's so sad.
Big fail on Oprah's part. #sarahpalinoprah
11/17/09
She's not saying that Palin's defense of her pro-life stance is valid. She's saying you can't take Palin's pro-life stance and put it next to a conversation, not about abortion, that happens to have the word choice in it, and use it to say Palin is contradicting herself. She didn't say Palin's defense was valid AT ALL. #sarahpalinoprah
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I'm not articulating this well, so I hope at least one person wades through it and understands why this pisses me off.
Then again, maybe she did and I just don't know because I couldn't sit through an hour of Sarah Palin without psychotropic drugs. And it's not like I'm not already clear on the fact that she is the bitter enemy of a common sense feminist agenda.
Oh fuck it, I want in on the headdesk wave.
11/16/09
(Plus I think b/c she's had so much other drama, people forget - Oprah's a really good interviwer.) #sarahpalinoprah
11/16/09
Well, she does love Bumpits™. #sarahpalinoprah
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Otherwise, yes. Palin never made much sense. #sarahpalinoprah
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Also, Oprah is only an hour long. #sarahpalinoprah