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11/10/08
The more I hear about Sheila Bair the more I like her. She's realistic and logical.
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What is Barney Frank smoking. It is the job of regulators to be concerned about consumers. (Not that they necessarily are in practice, but...) The FDIC exists to protect depositors' money; the SEC exists to protect investors; FERC protects energy consumers...
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Larry Summers, beyond his sexist assholery (a huge count against him in my book), is way, way too friendly with Wall Street. I suspect his ideas will be more of the same and the last thing the country needs.
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You can keep your $20, dad. Smoking got me through college.
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Yes, please!
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Sorry, I just need to go check my manual and make sure that's right....
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It totally doesn't work on the interwebs.
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(I have appointed myself, btw, head of the ABLS movement - Anyone But Larry Summers.)
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(Also, p.s., I don't like anybody who's super-chummy with the Wall Street set.)
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But I do hate Larry Summers.
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11/06/08
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I'm rereading Studs Terkel's "Race," and a woman makes the point, early on, that if you appoint someone to a position solely as a token, you harm the person who comes along and has earned that job, making it that much harder for her to succeed. I'm afraid that's what Palin will have done. And worse yet, if it is, it's a win for the Republican party anyway, as their entire agenda has always struck me as anti-woman. She'll have done their bidding through her own incompetence.
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I see the Governor returning to her kingdom and staying there -- I think her foray into politics in the lower 48 told her it was not a nice place to be.
11/06/08
Remember after Hillary lost and we heard all about how Mark Penn and Ickes HATED each other and their battles for power?
Sorry Palin does not get a pass because she is a woman....that is sexist.
11/06/08
I'm not sure anyone's saying that attacking her is sexist. I think that what's sexist is the type of things they're focused on. It's one thing to call her a shameless egomaniac and another to call her a diva. It's one thing to call her out for being ill-informed and anti-intellectual and another to call her a clotheshorse (the spending of campaign funds was problematic, but if the campaign wants to criticize her for something, they have far bigger and better things to use). The point is their criticisms seem to be downplaying the fact that she was a politician instead of criticizing her approach to the campaign itself. That's what's sexist.
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Remember John Edward's hair cut...and that was his own money. I don't think saying she refused interview prep, NAFTA etc. is sexist. If Palin was a man and we were hearing all these things about him we wouldn't be so quick to defend him. And believe we would be hearing about it.
How a candidate approach a campaign is important and she failed. Like I said she should have never been picked but once it went down she should have been about the ticket, not herself.
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Well neither are any of us. Seriously, try to understand what exactly people are claiming.
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I don't remember anyone else having anything to attack him for then, except his relative youth. People generally harp on stupid things when they can't think of weightier things to throw around. That's not the case with Sarah Palin. Talk about her refusing interview prep. Talk about her lack of knowledge about NAFTA. I defended those kinds of attacks in my original comment.
Using diva as a smear is more gender-specific. Talk about the clothes in the context of her abusing the campaign money and talk about it in the context of her having a history of abusing power-- that's not sexist. However, using the shopping thing as a way to give the impression that that's what she was in it for because that's what chicks do; they shop, and they're divas and they're too emotional on the campaign trail? Those things seem to be attempts not only to smear her (which I approve of, and aren't really even smears because they're true) but to diminish the fact that she's a politician and emphasize that she's just some dumb chick.
She's not just some dumb chick. She's an anti-intellectual, power hungry, corrupt politician. Those are harsh words that I approve of that would be applied to her if she were a man. Let's use those. Not diva. She's not a pop singer.
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Okay, I was unclear here. The part that's true is not the stuff in the beginning of that sentence, but the stuff I wrote about before that.
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And baby calves all over the world are offended.
I can't express how happy I am that McCain's handlers picked Palin.
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His staff speaking out now has nothing to do with McCain. Like Yellow Dog said they are free agents. And remember she tried to blame them for the clothes disaster.
I'm glad they are talking. What is wrong with her? She thought she would speak at his concession speech? I'm just blown away by her ill directed "moxie".
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But she's certainly not the only one to blame for the failed campaign. I realize McCain's staff is trying to salvage their careers, but come on, this is kind of embarrassing.
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This has had me in hysterics ALL morning.
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