Thoughts on Sarah Palin

[draconic_rogue]

I read a rant recently written by some idiot feminist going off on women who hate Palin. She wrote that any woman who could say she hates Palin is anti-feminist and that it's one thing to say you hate Palin's politics but to go after Palin personally makes you sexist. Unfortunately, I was so irritated with the poster that I didn't bother to save

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[jackie]

One of my friends posted a pro-Palin rant about how she couldn't understand why people don't just ADOOOOOOORE HER.

Well, because she FAILS AT LIFE??? How about that? She went on and on about how Palin obviously won the debate and she just didn't see what people were bitching about when it comes to comparing McCain to Bush.

UGGGGGH. I like this girl, but that's almost enough for me to defriend her. D: There's opinion and then there's just complete and utter willful ignorance.

[draconic_rogue]

I can't help but think that anyone who actually likes Palin and is in favor of McCain/Palin is mentally inferior. There has to be something seriously wrong with anyone who can look at the America of the last eight years and think that we need more of the same policies. And anyone who can look at Palin, who is so obviously clueless about everything going on around her and needs to be coached on what to say, and think that she's someone who can handle the vice presidency and being a step from the presidency is a fool.

I can understand exactly why you want to defriend her too. There are a lot of things that people say and believe that make me wonder what they're on to believe something so ridiculous but this is one that makes me flat out lose respect for someone.

[maiamorgan]

Palin............................. I can kill her with my brain. XD

[draconic_rogue]

Or a spoon. Because it would hurt more. :D

[hatter23]

I still think teaching her a course on evolution, science, ethics, economics, US History, and actual US political procedure...with the express permission of hitting with a phone book every time she got an answer wrong would be more appealing.

[eska_rina]

If someone have a morality that I absolutely despise AND WANTS TO FORCE THIS DOWN ON ME, then, bloody hell, I reserve the right to despise, dislike and HATE whoever this person is.

Now, I'm not an American, so if she does become the VP (and McCain doesn't die before time. PLEASE DON'T!) it will most likely not affect me much, but I do really understand all those Americans (especially the American women) who are shitfaced scared of the possibility of her becoming the VP - and hate her for this, and for the risk she is for Women's Rights and everything else (American) women have fought for.

[draconic_rogue]

If someone have a morality that I absolutely despise AND WANTS TO FORCE THIS DOWN ON ME, then, bloody hell, I reserve the right to despise, dislike and HATE whoever this person is.

Precisely!

Her morality is her own deal and while I disagree with it, it's a private matter and none of my business. Just as my own morality is my business and no one else should interfere. The fact that she wants to take this ass-backwards morality of hers and force it on others is disgusting. Stay out of other people's private lives, that's not something the government should get involved in.

And it's not like that's her only set back. This woman has no idea what she's doing out there. She's terribly uninformed and is being turned into a marionette. She seems to think posing, looking cute, and being folksy gives her some kind of credit with the American people and it really doesn't. She's up there looking like a fool and trying to say her and McCain are about change when they're just parroting the same bad policies of the last eight years.

[hatter23]

"She seems to think posing, looking cute, and being folksy gives her some kind of credit with the American people and it really doesn't."

For something that doesn't work, it seems to be working awfully well. Apparently those snooty foreign bastards saying Americans are morons are looking to be more correct than I suspected.

Seriously 8 years to double the national deb, get us involved in an unwinnable war, thousands dead, the economy in the crapper.

And there millions that are going "YEA! YEA AMERICA! GIVE ME MORE OF THAT!"

And I am scratching my head. I knew why people voted for an extra four of Reagan, disagreed with them, but I could understand. But this is insane!

[draconic_rogue]

For something that doesn't work, it seems to be working awfully well.

I guess I should have clarified by saying among intelligent people. We all know idiots are easily swayed a pretty smile and a wink.

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[shapedhistory]

I don't understand why I should like the women running (Palin and Clinton was...) just because they are women and I am a woman. That in itself is ridiculous. I just don't like Palin and yeah, B. mentioned how she wasn't even addressing the issues. Just looking "pretty"...

Re: Random comment

[draconic_rogue]

I don't think even with her training she really knows or understands the issues. She absolutely doesn't know them well enough to make any kind of an educated comment on them. It seems to me that the things coming out of her mouth are only what she's been drilled to say.

What I honestly don't get are the Clinton supporters who decided to go vote McCain/Palin. Their platforms are so different and there is no way that they would run this country in any way that Clinton would have. Those people honestly baffle me with their lack of logic.

Re: Random comment

[shapedhistory]

Some guy was donating money to charity for every lie she told and so far he has given a few thousand.

Well, seeing as the other big candidate is Obama and there are certain groups in this country that have prejudice they would probably rather have anyone but him. :/ Racism is far from over. In Pennsylvania, Obama spent two times what Clinton spent and yet still didn't win because there are a couple hate groups that don't plan on having him as president.

Re: Random comment

[draconic_rogue]

Unfortunately, you're right about racism being far from over. I really wish people would think more with their ears and their brains and than with their eyes and backwards views on race and gender. Anyone who really listens to what's being said and has any kind of intelligence would see that McCain/Palin is bad for the country and Obama/Biden really do want and could make a difference.

[albaestranya]

I was just thinking about this, today. There was a little report on the news here in which a journalist followed the responses of the population of Wasilla to the Biden-Palin debate. It was amazing how the ones supporting Palin, congregated in a bar, represented ALL the negative stereotypes that we Europeans have about Americans (so much that I thought I was a parody of some kind at first; I couldn't believe that such people really existed and was quite appalled). They were rude and loud, and wearing t-shirts with huge American flags, all eating enormous quantities of fat-saturated food, some were even carrying guns (shocking!). When asked why they were going to vote for McCain they only responded "HE IS A TRUE AMERICAN!11

[draconic_rogue]

While I don't think there's anything wrong with patriotism, I do not like flag-waving idiots who go around talking about what a "true American" is or isn't. They always seem to think that the only kind of American worth calling American are other white, Christian, flag-waving idiots, and heaven forbid you be anything other than that because it makes you "the enemy." They're a caricature of an American that gives the rest of us a bad name and I wish more was done to shame those people into acting like decent people