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The Creatures Outside Looked From Lipstick Wearing Pig To Man...But Already It Was Impossible To Say Which Was Which

(CNN) -- The Republican Party of Pennsylvania launched a last-minute television ad that calls attention to Barack Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright…

Sen. John McCain has repeatedly said he does not believe Obama's relationship to Wright should be an issue -- to the ire of some Republicans who feel it raises questions about the Illinois senator's judgment.
 
Gov. Sarah Palin appeared to suggest last month that Wright is a fair issue to raise, but said ultimately it is McCain's decision.

"[Obama] sat in the pews for 20 years and heard Rev. Wright say some things that most people would find a bit concerning. But again that is John McCain's call," Palin told reporters.  

What's truly funny about this--and only because the American people are going deport Sarah Palin back to the People's Socialist Republic of Alaska on Tuesday--is that here is the same Governor Brainsurgeon, who is idiotically concerned about the First Amendment implications of people writing newspaper articles she doesn't like, saying that American citizens should be judged and held accountable for things they hear.

I mean, yes, there's also the whole thing about John McCain once again--as he did with Bush's irresponsible tax cuts, immigration, special interest lobbying, negative campaigning, and basically every issue he's ever put forth an opinion about-- showing steady leadership by completely reversing himself for crass political gain.

But I don't care about that.  That's how you earn your stripes in the modern Gee Oh Pee.  You have to be on both sides of every issue so you can always be prepared to hysterically attack your opponent, even when he agrees with you.

Fourteen years ago, I could be amazed that Republicans would have the nuts to display such shameless contempt for Americans by proposing a Constitutional Amendment to balance the budget after spending the preceding fourteen years telling Americans that deficits don't matter.

But these days, when I read that Michelle Malkin is writing indignant opinion articles about how private citizen Joe The Plumber's privacy was invaded because he had the temerity to express a political opinion, after she personally led a public investigation into the Frost family for expressing a political opinion,  I pretty much shrug my shoulders and say, "Well, she's a world class scumbag.  And she makes a living writing for people like her.  What did you expect her to write?  Something that makes sense?"

So I don't care about that.

What's entirely disgusting about the Country First party and it's base energizing special needs Vice Presidential candidate is this whole idea that Americans now are accountable for who they know, who they work with, who lives in their neighborhood, what church they go to(which is also actually kind of funny because Sarah Palin goes to a church that had a witch doctor come in and pray over her), and, now, what things they hear.

Not even what they say.  Just things they allow themselves to hear.

What's next? Are Americans going to be held accountable for things they read?

Maybe so, since the "Patriot" Act allows the federal government to look into what books you check out at the library.  Maybe the federal government  can look into what books you buy from Border's or Amazon.  Who knows?  We don't.  Since a bunch of that publicly paid for  legislation is classified.

This shithead, Sarah Palin, with her repugnant ideas, this is where the Gee Oh Pee is excited to go?

An America where you better be careful who your friends are?  Who you work with?  What you hear?

That's the kind of America these cretins think this country needs to become to save us from the evils of 39% top marginal rate taxing Obama styled socialism?

Dear Gee Oh Pee:  please stop running morons to run our country.  It's becoming very, very expensive and dangerous.

And when one finally goes "rogue", it won't just be your hated liberals who wind up in Room 101 with a head cage full of rats.  That's not the way it works.

Gee Oh Pee Muppet Show, Starring Sarah The Stupid!

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – With days still to go in the White House race, backers of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are talking her up as a possible contender in 2012, speculation that irritates other Republicans who contend she's a drag on the ticket and that her lightweight image — unfair or not — will be hard to shed.
 
The Alaska governor has done little to quiet the talk. In fact, she fueled the discussion this week when she signaled that she will remain on the national political scene no matter what happens Tuesday. "I'm not doing this for naught," she said in an interview with ABC News.
 

She'll never be the Gee Oh Pee candidate for President.  

But, as I said in the comments, if she were, Vic the Vice President will be her running mate.  Paul the Pollster will tell her how she's doing.  And Oscar the Orderly will administer her meds.

It's been, and hopefully will be again, a campaign directed at the reading and comprehension and emotional level of its target audience--ages 3 to 8.

And, if successful, it's sure to bring us the kind of America I know we all want to live in.  

The kind where who you know in your neighborhood, who you work with, who your kids go to school with, who your friends are, how your friends feel about Israel(which, in case you're Joe Lieberman or you only watch Fox News, is a foreign country and not actually part of the United States), and where you go to church all becomes part of your "record".

Capitalists Share While Socialists Spread

The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

Yes, the Sarah Palin, who just two months ago was proudly bragging to a journalist about how the people in the state she governs collectively own the resources and share the wealth, has been running around the country calling Barack Obama a socialist.

I don't recall the Obama speech or policy wherein he proposed that under his presidency all Americans, including children, would collectively own the resources of this great land and share in the wealth.

I heard Barack say he'd like policies that spread the wealth around, which, really, isn't much more radical than when corporations pay dividends, or give their employees bonuses.  It's certainly not a departure from the income taxation policy we, Americans, have had since we, Americans, have had an income tax.

And Obama's tax proposals are nowhere near as redistributive as that total communist--and last honest Republican President--Dwight David Eisenhower.  

Seriously, you can look it up.

And while I'm too lazy to look it up, I'll bet you Barack Obama's tax proposals are less redistributive than, yep, Ronald Reagan's.

Okay, I'll look it up.  

Oh, gee!  In seven out of eight years of Reagan's presidency taxes were higher than what Obama proposes! What a surprise!  

Not really.  Since Reagan was such a fervent communist.

At least, according to the proud and popular governor of America's only socialist state.

What do you call a person like Sarah Palin?

I mean, I know she's stupid.  And I call her that.  And I know I'm not alone:

I’m sympathetic to Eskew and Wallace, and not just because they’re decent people. They’ve held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me—namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: “Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing.” It’s a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus.

Apparently, the people who put her on the ticket and worked closely with her and tried and failed to coach her on how to answer such hardball questions as, "What newspapers or magazines do you read?" also think she's a total moron.

And, of course, that begs the question, "What kind of political party puts an idiot like this on their ticket again and again and again and then does its best to hide it from Americans so that our country can be governed by a moron?"

Whatever.

But what's truly abhorrent about Palin is not her stupidity.  Her loose grasp of facts and history, total disinterest in policy, and complete lack of curiosity or understanding about economics, our government, or the world have been pretty much a job requirement for a Republican presidential candidate in my lifetime. 

No, what's grotesque about Palin is that she is a person who believes in nothing and can bring herself to say anything.  And whatever she's saying, even if she knows it's untrue, even if she doesn't personally agree with it, she says it with total, visibly emotional conviction.

She gets fired up!  About just goin' on out there!  And saying things!  She knows aren't true!  You betcha!

And that's a dangerous person.  

I guess that's what you'd call her.

Though, if we, Americans, know what's good for us and our grand democracy, what we'll call her for a few more years is "Governor".  

And then, if we really do right by ourselves, "trivia".

It Makes It All Worthwhile In So Many Hundreds Of Billions Of Ways

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's largest Sunni party said Saturday that it has suspended official contacts with American military personnel and civilians after the killing of a man near Fallujah.

 The Iraqi Islamic Party accused the raid of having a "hidden political motive" in an indication of rising tensions in Anbar province ahead of provincial elections, due to be held by the end of January.

Iraq's largest Sunni party is the Iraqi Islamic Party?  That's great.  Because the Sunni's are the secular Iraqis.  Iraq's largest Shiite party is The Supreme Council For Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

While I think theocracy anywhere, including the kind the nutballs at the Heritage Foundation or the AEI and many other right wing organizations would like to establish here in America, is a sign of insanity, I personally couldn't care less if people in far away countries want to be governed by Zeus or Thor or whatever other crazy Super Hero they think is peering down on us from a Cloud Castle and casting curses and lightning bolts and magically making things happen here on Earth.

If you'd like to think that pouring over the ancient scriptures and prophesies or speaking in tongues or picking through bird entrails or seeking the blessings of Holy Men in super huge stupid looking hats is a better method of coming up with a tax code than, say, using math, have at it.  

It's silly and it's stupid, but normally, as long as you keep your primitive superstitions on the other side of the world, I don't care.

Unless I have to pay for it.

Over twenty thousand American soldiers have been wounded, over three thousand of them have been killed, and about a trillion dollars of taxpayers' hard earned money has been spent so that the Iranian friendly Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq can govern the country, while the minority Iraqi Islamic Party can hold anti-American demonstrations.

And we're paying for this.

And what's worse, the Americans who brought us this mess that empowered the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Iraqi Islamic Party and who continue to be this war's most enthusiastic supporters, did and do so because they feared the spread of radical Islamic governments in the Mid-East.

It's insane.

The people who support and continue this war are insane.

The Gee Oh Pee Paints Its Masterpiece

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government."--Joe Vogler, founder of Alaskan Independence Party, 1991, commenting on his hatred for the American government.

"And I won't be buried under their damn flag,”--Joe Vogler, founder of Alaskan Independence Party, 1991, commenting on the American flag, which he considered to be damned to hell.

"I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."-- Joe Vogler, founder of Alaskan Independence Party, 1991, commenting on how much he hated America that he didn’t even want his bones on American soil.

"And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska."-- Joe Vogler, founder of Alaskan Independence Party, 1991, commenting on how he had founded a party for Americans devoted to renouncing their damned citizenship.

"I'm in!"-- Todd Palin, 1995, signing up for the Alaskan Independence Party, because of his hatred of the American government and his desire to renounce his citizenship.

"I love you, Todd."--Sarah Palin, 1995, commenting on how Todd Palin, proud member of the Alaskan Independence Party, was her soul mate.

“I appreciate the two hundred dollars, Mr.—is it Ayers? It is? Of course! That’s right! I saw you at that meeting for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.” Barack Obama, speaking to a guy, who was not wearing his Weather Underground t-shirt, while they were discussing educational initiatives in Chicago.

"Barack Obama pals around with terrorists, who hate America! And I would question the judgement of any person who has such close personal relationships with anyone who hates our country, our flag, and thinks we aren't a force for good in the world!" --Sarah Palin, 2008, completely pretending that she's not married to Todd.

"God, Almighty...if de Vinci had painted monstrous stupidity instead of an enigmatic smile, Sarah Palin would be hanging in the Louvre."--Me, since August.

The Stupidest Girl I've Ever Seen

About a year ago, Barack Obama gave an entirely reasonable answer to a question:

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, [Obama] brought up Afghanistan and said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Any halfway intelligent person would understand that Obama is saying that we require more troops in Afghanistan so that we don't have to rely on air strikes, which are sometimes inaccurate and wind up killing innocent people. And when American air strikes accidentally kill innocent people, it makes the very people we are trying to help angry at the United States and makes the American military's job that much more difficult.

Anybody who isn't a moron or entirely full of shit would understand that.

So, of course, Gubner Shitforbrains, who knows so little about anything that she thinks Afghanistan is in Canada, read or heard those comments and put on her heels and took off her gloves!

“Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may — in my world– disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief.” Palin said, “Some of his comments about Afghanistan and what we are doing there supposedly– just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That’s reckless…”

So you know what happens next. I don't even have to tell you. You just know how this is going to turn out.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan on Aug. 22 killed some 30 civilians, far more than the military has previously acknowledged, defense officials said Wednesday.

A new probe found that the strikes against a suspected Taliban compound in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians…

The issue of civilian deaths has caused outrage among Afghans and strained relations with foreign forces there to help fight the insurgency. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has warned U.S. and NATO for years that they must stop killing civilians on bombing runs against militants, saying the deaths undermine his government and the international mission.

That's right. The American military--not Barack Obama--has recklessly determined that American air strikes have killed a bunch of civilians. And the President of Afghanistan--not Barack Obama--has stated that these air strikes, which sometimes kill civilians undermine his government--that's the one we, Americans, support for you Sarah Palin fans out there--and the international mission, which, again, for you Sarah Palin fans, is the one we Americans are fighting for.

And who recklessly asked for this new probe into civilian deaths? Was it Barack Obama?

...[NATO Commander Gen. David] McKiernan ordered a second U.S. investigation into the deaths because pictures and video images surfaced that appeared to show 30 to 40 victims laid out in a village mosque, including at least 10 dead children.

D'oh!

And what has General David McKiernan taken away from these most unfortunate events?

McKiernan has said there aren't enough U.S. ground forces in Afghanistan, so the military is relying more heavily on air power — a greater risk in a conflict where insurgents don't wear uniforms and intentionally mix with the general population for protection.

Oh, geez! Now, in Sarah Palin's world, better known as "Planet Stupid", Hamid Karzai and General David McKiernan are disqualified from being considered for Commander In Chief. Which is okay by me, since Hamid Karzai wasn't born in the United States and I don't know jack shit about General David McKiernan. But clearly, on Planet Stupid, American generals are not qualified to command the American military. And the President of Afghanistan is making reckless remarks about what we are doing to support his own government.

Can these people be any more retarded? I mean, Palin and McCain and the entire modern Gee Oh Pee are mocking Obama for saying things as sensible as "You really ought to tie your shoes after you put them on."

For instance, is there really a single American who doesn't think we have the moral authority to go into any country in the entire world and catch or kill Osama bin Laden, who killed 3000 Americans in broad daylight in downtown Manhattan, whether or not the country he's hiding in likes it or not?

I mean, aside from John McCain.

Sarah Palin is reckless. She's stupid and she's foolish. She's a person who would make it the official policy of the great United States to do things that harm American interests and get Americans killed just because she thinks it would be fun, you betcha, to just go on out there and be Vice President, don't you know!

I know I'm using the word "stupid", over and over and over again. But what are you going to do? It's like trying to blog about water without being repetitive about how "wet" it is.

Why Is There A Second Debate?

Why was there a first debate? Why are they called debates? There's no debating going on.

It's just two uncomfortable guys trying to blandly answer questions without saying anything terribly, terribly wrong.

It's like some kind of super weird date where two guys are having dinner with the same girl's parents for the first time and at the same time.

I don't even know what the point of these things are anymore.

The Real Deal

One morning in 2001, one of President Bush's most senior economic advisors walked into the Oval Office for a meeting with the president. The day before, the advisor had learned that the president had decided to send out tax-rebate checks to stimulate the faltering economy. Concerned about deficits and the dubious stimulatory effect of such rebates, he had called the president's chief of staff, Andy Card, to ask for the audience, and the meeting had been set.

As the man took his seat in the wing chair next to the president's desk, he began to explain his problem with the president's decision. The fact of the matter was that in this area of policy, this advisor was one of the experts, really top-drawer, and had been instrumental in devising some of the very language now used to discuss these concepts. He was convinced, he told Bush, that the president's position would soon enough be seen as "bad policy."

This, it seems, was the wrong thing to say to the president.

According to senior administration officials who learned of the encounter soon after it happened, President Bush looked at the man. "I don't ever want to hear you use those words in my presence again," he said.
"What words, Mr. President?"

"Bad policy," President Bush said. "If I decide to do it, by definition it's good policy. I thought you got that."

The advisor was dismissed. The meeting was over.

You're never truly stupid and dangerous until that moment when you have no idea how stupid and dangerous you are.

She's Not Just Stupid, She's Grotesque, Too!

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country…"

"We see America as the greatest force for good in this world," Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, "Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country…"

Palin cited an article in Saturday's New York Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.

So, Obama had a casual relationship with a guy who 40 years ago violently opposed the United States government. So, therefore, Obama hates America.

Meanwhile...

In the mid-1990s, the Alaskan Independence Party was experiencing a boom of sorts…

Among the new recruits was Todd Palin, whose wife, Sarah, would later become governor of Alaska. The Palins attended the party’s convention in their hometown, Wasilla, in 1994, according to party officials, where the party called for a revote on statehood and a draft constitution for an independent Republic of Alaska. Mr. Palin joined the party…

Mr. Palin registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995, remaining a member for all but two months of the next seven years, until he registered as an undeclared voter in July 2002.

I'll give Sarah Palin the benefit of the doubt here and assume that her marriage of twenty years or so is not a "casual" relationship. I don't know. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.

But if it isn't, that means that this fucking nitwit who can't name a single newspaper or magazine under "pressure" and who is claiming that she sees "America as the greatest force for good in the world" is married to a guy who wanted to renounce his citizenship as recently as six years ago. Because America sucked.

Please, someone ask Governor Shitforbrains: if Alaska had become an independent nation and left the union of United States, like her husband of twenty years so desired, which would she have chosen? Her family or her country?

It's a fair fucking question.

I'm sure Obama would have no problem choosing The United States over a guy he met a handful of times.

Oh, that's right! You can't ask Sarah Palin that, because you can't ask Sarah Palin anything! Because she's too stupid to talk without everything written down in front of her.

Stupid. And Disgusting. She's the "It" girl for the modern Gee Oh Pee.

Update: Also, John McCain's a giant, sleazy pussy for sending out this mentally challenged cheerleader to say things he'd be too embarrassed and ashamed to say himself.

Shrub In A Dress

Now, many of her responses seemed delivered by rote, and many did not answer the question. And, as you can see on our fact-checking segment, she distorted a few things. She also had a down-home aura that you don’t usually see in this type of setting, which, of course, was part of her point — that she’s not a creature of Washington but of the middle class. Few creatures of Washington wink, drop their “gs” and grin into the camera quite like Ms. Palin.

Maybe not. But I can think of one Washington creature that winks, drops its "gs" and smirks into the camera.

Does anybody except for shithead New York Times writers not, by now, get that letting a folksy, down home, winkin' and grinnin', inexperienced, incurious, Wershington outsider Gubner anywhere near the White House is a fucking nightmare?