parah salin?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by cacophony

but honestly, haven't you been leaning more towards obama than mccain this whole time?

Absolutely. But setting aside the Presidential candidates and looking at the VP picks on their own merits - specifically as the folks who'll have to step up if something happens to the President - I find Biden a far more desirable alternative to Palin.

Originally Posted by Deckard

Palin in a talk to the church congregation on the Iraq War:

"[Pray] for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God....That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."


Palin, in supporting a $30 billion Alaskan national gas pipeline project:

"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that."


Exactly the kind of "thinking" the world could do without right now.

Ugh. And as an atheist, I'm getting sick of all the "God bless America" talk at the end of every single speech, both Republican and Democratic. Everyone's seeing who can out-god each other.

[cacophony]

well it's working on someone. because my hyper-religious texan in-laws have suddenly burst into a flurry of "why god is awesome" spam emails. it's an increase of fervor that's picked up just since this weekend.

i received one today explaining how different vegetables resemble different parts of the human body, and thus proves intelligent design. did you know the cross-section of a carrot looks like the human eye??

that's when i hit "delete."

[mmm skyscraper]

Originally Posted by cacophony

well it's working on someone. because my hyper-religious texan in-laws have suddenly burst into a flurry of "why god is awesome" spam emails. it's an increase of fervor that's picked up just since this weekend.

i received one today explaining how different vegetables resemble different parts of the human body, and thus proves intelligent design. did you know the cross-section of a carrot looks like the human eye??

that's when i hit "delete."

That's when i hit "delete."

That's when it all gets blown away

That's when i hit "delete."

The spirit fights to find its way

[gambit]

"Dear God, please let that $30 billion gas pipeline project go through so my hubby can make more money. I need more money to buy more guns to shoot those godless mooses. Of course, if it is your will."

[cured]

She doesn't shoot godless mooses. She shoots left wing, liberal polar bears.

She also snipes activist wolves from helicopters.

[kagenaki koe]

On Fox News Sunday, McCain said Palin knows what it means to lead troops.

"She has been commander-in-chief of the Alaska Guard," McCain said.

Governors decide when and how to deploy the guard to help in natural disasters...They also can use the guard to control civil unrest.

it's obvious she knows how to lead troops since Alaska has been besieged with natural disasters and emergencies over the last 2 years. and those alaskans are a riotous bunch.

[cacophony]

plus, the ever-present threat of russkies.

[gambit]

Wait wait wait! Rudy Giuliani vouches for her!

In an interview Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Giuliani was asked, "If she were the president on 9/11, you would have been confident?"

Giuliani responded: "I'd be confident that she'd be able to handle it. She's been a governor of a state, she's been mayor of a city."

It is a defense of Palin that grew to a crescendo on Wednesday in the hours before the Alaska governor was set to give a speech at the Republican National Convention.

"Sorry, Sen. Obama, if the city's not big enough for you," Giuliani cracked later in the day during a luncheon with the New York delegation at a Minneapolis hotel. "She was mayor for eight years of a city - I'll tell you one thing, when I was mayor of New York, sometimes I felt like I was mayor of a small town."

LOL. I'm practically quoting the entire article here, but the comparison this article gave is just hilarious.

But the city known as the historic gateway to the New World has little in common with a town that grew up as the railroad gateway to a mining district.

Wasilla is 85 percent white, 5 percent American Indian, 4 percent Hispanic, 1 percent Asian and less than 1 percent black, according to 2000 Census figures. New York City is 43 percent white, 27 percent Hispanic, 25 percent black and 12 percent Asian.

The mayor of New York City oversees an emergency service force that includes 37,000 police officers and 11,000 firefighters, while the Wasilla mayor is responsible for 21 officers and doesn't have to worry about fire services.

The borough, which is like a county, handles that.

The borough also handles the school system, ambulance services and public transportation, mainly a fleet of 20 buses in the area.

But the Wasilla mayor does have to battle and negotiate with a City Council, just like Giuliani did for eight years.

A City Council of six, compared with New York City's 51.

But Palin balanced Wasilla's budget, Republicans say. Certainly New York City mayors know how hard that is - ever since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, they have been required by law to balance the budget.

This year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrestled to do just that, rolling over a surplus from last fiscal year and keeping spending flat. The city's total budget for this fiscal year? $59 billion.

Wasilla's budget is what New York City's eats for breakfast - $13 million in fiscal 2008.

As far as crime goes in Wasilla, there were no murders, 7 robberies and 4 rapes in 2005, the latest year for which state figures were available.

There were 7 murders, 460 robberies and 39 rapes in New York City. Last week.

Oh yeah, they're practically the same.

[gambit]

And her husband was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which sought to, well, gain Alaskan Independence from the U.S. I guess the Republican's have to start questioning their patriotism now, huh?

[kagenaki koe]

what does 1% Asian and less than 1% black population even mean? there's 1 asian and 1 mixed guy in town?

larry king had a discussion with DL hughley and Jesse Ventura (and some other lady i dont know). DL made a comment "is the republican party just made up of really old white men?" and then i thought maybe Palin is McCain's only way to counter that perception considering the DNC's first day showed Obama's kids being cute.

another good comment was by Ventura when he said Republicans ridiculed a war veteran in 2004, and now their pimping a war veteran in 2008.