Obama is back on the hot seat now that Jacko is dead, Sarah Palin is the Political Undead and Gov. Sanford got a “get out of jail free” card. Now the pundits are focused on the economy and why Obama hasn’t produced miracles yet.
If I were Obama, I would hope that another pop icon or political enigma hogs the airwaves for at least 6 months.
We dodged a serious bullet when Sarah Palin was not vice president. So, humankind 1, Sarah 0.
Then she scored big while we were feeling sorry for her. As a result of her “quitter” mentality and crazy press blitz, more Republicans than ever before support her and would vote for her for president in 2012. Sarah tied the score at 1 all.
I still think I watched Sarah Palin have a mini-breakdown before the cameras and I felt sorry for her, as I would anyone who was unraveling and even more so because she was doing so in the public view.
Now I also think she is crazy like a fox (or sociopath) AND I don’t understand a portion of the population of this great country.
I am really not crazy.I am really not crazy.I am really not crazy.I am really not crazy.I am really not crazy. (That’s my writing it like I mean it.)
A (former, I hope) CIA analyst appeared on the Glenn Beck show and said the best thing for us is if Bin Laden attacked us again so that the government would finally protect us. (ok, set aside the logical flaws for a moment.)
If this lunatic were, let’s say, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and not some nerdy white guy, would MSNBC be the only news outlet covering this? If Bush were in power, would the guy be on his way to Gitmo?
Gov. Sanford is really lucky.
Just when it looked like he could never recover, Michael Jackson died and Sarah Palin resigned.
And Michael Jackson is still dead (as is Generalissimo Francisco Franco) and will presumably stop making news some time soon.
But Sarah Palin will forever make headlines and late night joke lines and blogoshpere fodder. She is the Political Undead.
Sanford owes her big.
I was away this weekend, trying to unplug and relax. I worried about a threatened North Korean attack on the Fourth of July but that would mean that Kim Dong Il was crazy, sick AND stupid. Still, in the back of my mind, I worried. I thought Honduras would continue in chaos as nations back the principle of democracy although probably not the president himself. Even Dick Cheney gave it a rest. Ok, I thought, the usual grandstanding in Washington while everyone sets about the “people’s business”.
Oh, no! Sarah Palin is back! Check Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. She is listed under antonyms for “articulate”, “cogent” and “decipherable”. She bails because she does not want to be a lame duck? So, she passes the fiscal mess (recession compounded by low oil revenues) to the lieutenant governor? Unless he is running for governor in the next election, isn’t he a lame duck as well? I guess she wins the title, “Lamer Duck of Alaska”. (There would have to be three competitors in order to have a “most lame”, but, Sarah, dear, don’t start worrying about grammar.) Must be something about the days of Sarah Barricuda or the beauty pageants.
So Governor Family Values Stanford goes down the Appalachian trail. Then Governor Responsibility in Government (but not in family planning) Palin goes OFF the Appalachian trail.
P.S.: Sarah, being a leader is about sticking it out when it becomes hard and tough decisions have to be made. Thank G-d you were not vice president. If you had to ascend to the presidency, would you have bailed if Russia got tough, or Pakistan fell to the Taliban?
Who is more lame, the girl who had 56 stars tattooed on her face and who (out of a little-too-little-a-little-too-late fear of her parents’ hysteria) claimed she fell asleep while someone was drilling ink in her face or the family values governor of South Carolina who flew to Argentina to visit his mistress over Father’s Day weekend and claiming that he took a long hike along the Appalachian trail? I think the governor is more lame because he is older and supposed to know better. And this guy was someone planning to run for President in 2012. Thank G-d we found out now that he has no, or supremely bad, judgment. I would have appreciated a Heavenly heads-up about Bush II.
I often wonder why I wanted to start a blog. Probably because in this loud, crowded world I wanted to carve out a space for my voice. Today was a weird day for me. We are a gay family — two women with a young boy. Our synagogue sent a general email burst to tell us that a religious hate group — the same group that celebrates every death in Iraq and picketed at Matthew Shepard’s funeral — were coming to protest at our synagogue this morning. Now, let’s think about that. We are a family and members of a synagogue, and today we were having a birthday party for our son. Imagine, the Cleavers (only not so much) with the Beav — we work, we pay our taxes, we are good neighbors, we have the grandparents and aunts and uncles to dinner every Sunday night, we do and give charity, we try to balance career with family, our son’s education and health comes first and his job in life, among others, is to do more for the next generation than we did for him. Why again is anyone protesting my life? My loving family somehow undermines the lives and futures of a poverty-level family without health care and without job training? If I were Republican I could see how my political, social and economic views would undermine that family. But I am a Democrat, willing to pay extra in taxes for universal health care, for prenatal care, for job retraining. And I assure you that amount I pay in taxes every year would shock that family. So, I am a tax-paying (and willing to pay more), synagogue going, hard-working, family woman who loves her partner and her son more than anything in the world. Oh, I am a lesbian. Ahhhhh, THAT’s it. Whaaaaaat?