I keep getting angrier and angrier with McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for vice president so here comes another rant:
I have to laugh. Don't we all know someone exactly like Sarah Palin?
You know that type of woman who just isn't smart enough to realize she just isn't smart enough? Someone who's been blessed with extreme self-confidence and has no need to ever second guess herself or her views. An empty-headed, true-believer who's managed to fake her way though life whether it's a piss-poor flute solo or a piss-poor VP debate and still believes she did "awesome".
They are able to maintain this high level of self confidence by unplugging themselves from the real world which might offer challenges to their self view.
They often mispronounce words because they don't hear how others say the word or assume that all other people are saying the word incorrectly or just think: well, that's how *I* say it.
Why else would Palin still pronounce nuclear, "New Q ler"? No need to learn anything; no need to be accurate, no need to admit a flaw, even as minor as a mispronunciation. (George Bush falls into this category too.)
They don't look to improve themselves by learning something new, and are completely satisfied with their current knowledge or lack of it, on any given subject.
They do all this while playing to the stereotype of the woman they think men really want: a dimply, winking, coy, pink bubblegum for a tongue, hide behind the man's broad shoulders, celluloid, carnival Kewpie doll child/woman.
They teeter around on stilettos , distracting attention from the stiletto they are slipping into their victims all the while smiling smiling smiling.
Palin needs to be stopped and now, or she'll be "shouting out" to us again and again. Even if Obama wins in November, this "gal" is going to dog us, "doggone it," unless people let the Republicans know that Sarah Palin is the last dirty trick the American people will tolerate from them.
The Sarah Palins of the world are often found in our workplace, our neighborhood, or yes, even our kids' hockey games, but we don't have to put up with them in our government. May women's voices ring loud and clear at the voting booths: send that 1980's dinosaur back to Alaska, baked.
I have to laugh. Don't we all know someone exactly like Sarah Palin?
You know that type of woman who just isn't smart enough to realize she just isn't smart enough? Someone who's been blessed with extreme self-confidence and has no need to ever second guess herself or her views. An empty-headed, true-believer who's managed to fake her way though life whether it's a piss-poor flute solo or a piss-poor VP debate and still believes she did "awesome".
They are able to maintain this high level of self confidence by unplugging themselves from the real world which might offer challenges to their self view.
They often mispronounce words because they don't hear how others say the word or assume that all other people are saying the word incorrectly or just think: well, that's how *I* say it.
Why else would Palin still pronounce nuclear, "New Q ler"? No need to learn anything; no need to be accurate, no need to admit a flaw, even as minor as a mispronunciation. (George Bush falls into this category too.)
They don't look to improve themselves by learning something new, and are completely satisfied with their current knowledge or lack of it, on any given subject.
They do all this while playing to the stereotype of the woman they think men really want: a dimply, winking, coy, pink bubblegum for a tongue, hide behind the man's broad shoulders, celluloid, carnival Kewpie doll child/woman.
They teeter around on stilettos , distracting attention from the stiletto they are slipping into their victims all the while smiling smiling smiling.
Palin needs to be stopped and now, or she'll be "shouting out" to us again and again. Even if Obama wins in November, this "gal" is going to dog us, "doggone it," unless people let the Republicans know that Sarah Palin is the last dirty trick the American people will tolerate from them.
The Sarah Palins of the world are often found in our workplace, our neighborhood, or yes, even our kids' hockey games, but we don't have to put up with them in our government. May women's voices ring loud and clear at the voting booths: send that 1980's dinosaur back to Alaska, baked.
posted by mary bishop | 12:52 PM
7 Comments:
all the talk of hockey moms and "joe 6-pack" - i honestly have to wonder - when did being an elistest be a bad thing when it comes to having an ELITE job??? I mean - i don't want the 7-11 checkout guy running the nasa space program now do i? So I certainly don't want a hockey mom - who may be very intelligent, or not, doing something she isn't TRAINED or prepared for. IF she's got a doctorate in political science and is a hockey mom - then more power to her - but i think of her as a Dr of political science who happens to be a hockey mom - not a hockey mom who happens to have a doctorate.
Let's hilite the important factors here people - appealing to the common denominator is what has us in an education and financial crisis in this country - it's why other countries are laughing at us to our faces, and improving in math and science and everything else and TAKING our jobs etc... because we want to have our cake and eat it too - be joe schmoe or joe 6-pack, but be paid like Dr. Science. There's no incentive to better ourselves if our politians and people running the country can't be bothered to do it themselves...
Love what you wrote Ilanna...
All work is dignified and all people deserve respect, but I don't want the lawn guy to extract my tooth and my oral surgeon might very well like beer, but isn't Joe six pack either.
Our country is in sad shape and the games must stop and candidates have to be educated and open minded -- both parties to give us a choice in the election.
The choice of Palin is just beyond what Americans can tolerate.
And as you point out, other countries are guffawing at us now, and I can't blame them.
Oh lordy this whole election is making me nuts...back to my wine and no more whine for today.
(How's that beautiful baby girl? I sure hope our country does right by her...xoxoxo
i'm just waiting on her to wake up right now :) there's some new pics posted on my blog :) mom had fun making collages. :)
But as far as palin and that - yup - exactly - I can fix a computer, but i'm not gonna fix one controlling someone's heart monitor, or the ones controlling the nuclear warheads. you need to be qualified and vetted to get any kind of specialist job - so why not the presidency?
I remember there was a joke 'presidential test' going around on the internet - but in all honesty - i don't think it's a bad idea. :) And it should be graded by a bipartisan/nonpartisan panel of political science professors etc... :)
Oh honey... angry doesn't begin to describe that which continues to throb in me whenever I hear that super flat A. I keep channeling my mother (may she rest in peace) making fun of her -- you betcha!
I have a different theory on why she (and W) mispronounce nuc Q ler... a few times she said it right and a time or two said it right, fumphered, then "corrected" herself. I think she knows how to say it but was told by the handlers that mispronouncing it makes her more like "one of the guys" and you don't want to come off other than the CT you are portraying yourself to be.
They are playing fast and loose with the smears, and I truly believe in the rule of three...it will come back to them big time. They are already being warned, not too subtly, by operatives that Keating 5 could become an out front topic of conversation, along with other "topics and people" if they continue trying to link Obama to what they term as undesirables.
Caribou Babie is using her cutesy wink and her "sex appeal to the horny Rebugnicans [sic]" to get things out front that don't belong out front.
As Obama said, we have two wars, an economic crisis, a crumbling infrastructure, a disappearing middle class and more jobs overseas than at home... and they want to talk about a neighbor of his who had a militant past 40+ years ago.
I think Ms. Sarah needs to take her veloca raptor out for a walk before climbing on her brontosaurus to go to the next campaign stop! That makes as much sense as the rest of her world from my perspective (reality).
And for the record I'd welcome a chance to go head to head with her, on flute, in political discourse... on humanity!
Ilanna, I'm all for a presidential vice presidential test...why not? Lawyers have to pass the bar, Doctors, Architects and other professionals have to pass boards, why not have the candidates take some kind of test to show they have the intellectual capacity, temperament and wisdom to take on such a position...going to your place next.
EC - as always I adore your commentary and would that you could take her on...she'd be toast within the first five minutes. Thanks for stopping by!!
OMG MB.........you are so right on! I love your blog!!!!
HI Linda! Thank you sweet pea...I just am flummoxed by McCain's choice and scared to death what would happen if those two got elected!!!
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