In the words of George W. Bush, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

Dubya, I’m pretty sure that’s a Who lyric.

Regardless of Bush’s gaffs and goofs, Sarah Palin did get fooled…again…and….again….and….again during this campaign. It’s been fun Palinator, hope to not hear from you again.

Gosh darn that “gotcha journalism”

There is a saying in Ohio:

“The two most important people in Ohio are the governor and the quarterback for Ohio State.

And the governor is not number one.”

If that’s true, then Terrelle Pryor is the most important person in the state of Ohio. He is (regrettably for an Illini fan) an incredibly talented young quarterback whose collegiate and professional future seem very bright.

He is also black. Which, if you know anything about football, really shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise. There is also another young, promising black American making headlines these days. You might have heard of him.

And the people at this McCain/Palin rally in Strongsville, OH seem like they’re willing to overlook the question of race in the former case, but not the latter.

There are plenty of reasons to vote for McCain (or so I’m told) but one of them is not “because Barack Obama is a one man terror cell,” or because “he’s got the bloodlines and the name [of a terrorist].”

Call me crazy, but does anyone think for one second that republicans would be insinuating that the democratic nominee is a terrorist if he wasn’t black, or if he didn’t have an unusual name?

What would happen if Terrelle Pryor’s mother had named him Terrelle “Hussein” Pryor?

No, Sarah Palin would be, “Ice Man,” I think.

Regardless, a Texas family with the last name Maverick has bone to pick the the McCain campaign. The Maverick Family, originally of San Antonio, has taken issue with McCain and Palin’s constant characterization of the senator as a “Maverick.” The word originated when one of the Maverick family’s ancestors opted against branding his cows, leading to unbranded livestock being referred to as “mavericks.” The term eventually came to mean someone who acted independently with no affiliation to a particular party or ideology. While the family has no bone to pick with the television show of same name, Mel Gibson, or Tom Cruise, they do seem peeved that McCain is running all over the place calling himself, “The Original Maverick.” He’s not, they are.

As a Republican candidate for President, you know you have issues when a family of Texas ranchers are pissed off at you. One has to wonder if he should have gone with a less overused campaign handle. Take a look at what other members of the political competition tried out:

Mitt “Viper” Romney
Mike “Jester” Gravel
Hillary “Wolf Man” Clinton

Frankly, I would be worried that all the constant allusions to his military service and use of the word “maverick” would just remind the electorate of this doozy.

Mission Accomplished

Seriously. Does she? Matt Damon would like to know.

And, frankly, so do a lot of people. Palin is a former member of the Wasilla Assembly of God, a pentecostal church in Alaska. Palin left the church in 2002, but as governor she named a street after WAG’s founding pastor Paul Riley, so it would seem her time there meant a great deal to her.

This is a church where, while it wouldn’t be required, speaking in tongues would not be out of place. This is a church in which the pastor brought Palin up to the front and prayed to God to protect her from “witchcraft.”

This is a church that commits obvious violations of tax exempt status by endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Let’s be frank, these people are not Darwin’s biggest fans. So, if Palin belonged to this church, and if its members believe that evolution is a fallacy, how old does Sarah Palin think the world is? Does she believe that dinosaurs existed?

Given the previous facts, it’s not an unreasonable question to ask. It really isn’t.

Source: AP, Wasilla Assembly of God

Katie Couric interviewed Sarah Palin for the prestigious, Emmy winning news magazine “Katie Couric Reports.”

Katie Couric went straight upside Sarah Palin’s head.

It was embarrassing.

Sarah Palin made herself seem so bumblingly incompetent that I am, to some degree, amazed that she managed to find the hockey rink she dropped her kids off at.

Throughout the entire interview she seemed to be in way over her head, skirting calls by Couric to point out specific examples of a variety of different topics. When Couric asked her to qualify what she meant when she said that living in Alaska provided her with foriegn policy experience, she said this:

Watch the whole interview either on Youtube or here. And remember while you watch that this is a woman who only grants the press access to her when she so chooses, so she theoretically should have been incredibly well prepared. My obvious bias aside, watch the interview and ask yourself honestly if this woman is the best candidate for one of the most important offices IN THE WORLD.

Then leave a comment.

As I checked my gmail a few weeks ago, I didn’t immediately delete a Facebook email inviting me to join yet another group. This was one group I couldn’t pass up. With a click of the mouse, I was a member of “Intelligent Women Against Sarah Palin.”

Whoops, guess I let the cat out of the bag with that one. I am a liberal woman on a college campus who does not appreciate getting her intelligence insulted by septuagenarian presidential candidates.

As I did my daily perusal of slate.com, I came across a September 2nd piece on Sarah Palin. Featured on the XX Factor, a blog by women about how we fit into the world today, this particular post was entitled, “Questions for a Superhuman Mom.”

The blog focuses in on what I feel is and will always be one of the central issues of being a woman: what makes someone a “good” woman.

Sarah Palin’s answer is implied by her deliberate choice to paint herself as a “hockey mom:” in order to be a good woman, a woman has to be a mother.

Palin has been heralded far and wide about her choice to keep her baby even after prenatal tests revealed that the child had Down Syndrome. She has been criticized and lauded for her help in her 17 year old daughter’s decision to keep her baby and to marry its father. Although Daily Show bits on these topics make me laugh, they are not what concerns me about Sarah Palin.

Instead, I agree with Slate’s position that “feminism, to the GOP, appears to mean never having to say you’re exhausted.” This nouveau version of feminism scares me.

Life sometimes shows us how cyclical it truly is. However, in the paraphrased words of George Santayana, those who haven’t read The Feminine Mystique are condemned to live in a world without knowledge of its meaning. Sarah Palin seems to be trying to steer women clear of Betty Friedan and towards Betty Crocker.

I know that women will sympathize with the non-child care usin’, five children raisin’ ways of Sarah Palin. To them, I pose this question: “How does her mommy cred prepare her for vice presidential duties?” When I am given a believable answer to this question, that’s when I’ll vote for Sarah Palin.

Source: Slate Magazine

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