VP Debate - a true "natural" and a wannabe

The New Energy Expert Doesn’t Blink - She Winks.

Tonight, we met the latest version of Sarah Palin. A mix between the RNC pitbull and the brawling Ross Perot.

We’ve been winked at, mavericked, joesixpacked, hockeymummed, heckofaloted,mainstreeterlikemeed, waktawaktaktataked by the new self proclaimed national expert in energy issues.

Tonight, Joe Biden was controling himself (he only managed to lose the gay-lesbian voters, who anyway won’t rush to Sarah Read My Lipstick Palin*). Like Obama the other day**, he missed opportunities on economics (he could for instance denounce the politics of "fear" of her opponent).

But he didn’t blink when it came to put a label on the Bush legacy, "an abject failure", Dick Cheney, "the most dangerous Vice-President in History". And he shed a tear that looked more genuine than Palin’s fake and nervous compassion. His support of Israel sounded more sincere than her AIPAC leaflet... The true "natural" was the one who didn’t have to train clumsily to look and sound like one.

As expected, Palin fared better than many thought, but only in appearance. I’m not sure everybody will be fooled, but at least some hardliners must feel some relief.

* Gobernator III doesn’t read newspapers (see Couric interview) but I know she subscribes to such publications as AmericanRifleman, The Neo-Creationist, Theocon Weekly, or the Bushnomist (the First Dude is rumored to favor an Alaskan skin magazine (Of Moose and Men).

** see "Debate # 1 : McCain didn’t lose, and President Obama spared him"

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originally published in blogules.

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by Forrest Higgs (xxx.xxx.xxx.157) 3 October 2008 15:07

I’m left with the feeling that the author, if that is the right word, meant to publish this little far-left primal scream over at the Daily Kos or MoveOn forums and hit his enter key before realising that he was on the wrong website. :-s

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by stephanemot (xxx.xxx.xxx.4) 3 October 2008 15:29

thanks, that was one the most articulate comments I ever received on this conservative heaven on earth.

PS: I don’t consider myself "far-left", but from a Bush-Cheney lover perspective, Reagan is already suspect.

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by Forrest Higgs (xxx.xxx.xxx.157) 3 October 2008 19:04

"I don’t consider myself "far-left"

I’ve no doubt. Most extremists of my acquaintance, and I am very much an extremist, mind, though not on a left-right axis, consider themselves centrists. When faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they usually retreat behind the rationalisation that "if I’m not in the centre, then that’s where the centre needs to be all the same and if it isn’t then the great unwashed are just stupid and need someone like me to lead them to enlightenment."

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  by stephanemot (xxx.xxx.xxx.4) 4 October 2008 05:44
  
  History will tell.
  
  I’m not sure your great grand kids will have a great opinion of the Bush-Cheney administration.
  
  Maybe we won’t have to wait that long.
  
  A couple of years ago, when moderates did have to raise their voices to be heard while weapons of mass disinformation carpet bombed America, I was already called an extremist (and far worse names) because I said the rushed invasion of Iraq would not only IMPORT international terrorism in Iraq but undermine all democratic processes in the region and fuel fundamentalism across the world.
  
  I’m glad to see that 6 years later, someone who says the same can be elected president.
  
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