After almost three months, poor Sarah still cannot define the job she is applying for.
The constitution of the United States clearly states the “limited” duties of a US Vice-President:
The Vice President of the United States is the first person in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the president, should he or she accept the position. Every presidential term ends on January 20 of the year immediately after a presidential election. As designated by the Constitution of the United States, the vice president also serves as the President of the Senate, and may break tie votes in that chamber. He or she may be assigned additional duties by the president but, as the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, in performing such duties he or she acts only as an agent of the president.
Sarah Palin apparently doesn’t know so.
Sarah Thinks The VP is a “Majority Leader” OR a “Prime Minister”
McCain’s Palin Problem
New polls indicate that McCain’s biggest negative is his selection of Sarah Palin. McCain’s gamble to lure Hillary Clinton women voters is backfiring badly. Palin is not only viewed by a majority as un-qualified, but also as an unlikeable, negative and divisive. (In a newNBC/WSJ poll, 55 percentsaid Gov. Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president.)
What seemed to be a clever and exciting choice by John McCain, now looks like a disastrous display of poor judgment — a quagmire from which McCain will not be able to extricate himself.
Sarah seems to be incapable of operating in un-scripted mode, and seems deluded and confused when not reading from her handler’s notes, and when she speaks on the campaign trail, she engages in vicious demagoguery, which apparently many voters do not like.
The “Drilla From Wasilla” is a hopeless disaster. She is a rude and “Power Hungry” intellectual midget, unfit to be a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. Palin is the biggest joke on America since Indiana’s Dan Quayle in 1988. Anyone supporting her is glorifying willful ignorance.
That she is governor of Alaska — a huge wilderness of less than 700,000 human beings (fewer people than each of the20 largest cities in America), is irrelevant, because it is clear that her two year tenure as chief executive of the state of Alaska, really didn’t prepare her for the simplest of things — like reading-up the description of her potential job!
2.The Real Scandal — The real threat to democracy is the nonstop campaign by the G.O.P. and its supporters to disenfranchise American citizens who have every right to cast a ballot.
3.The Real Plumbers of Ohio — John McCain’s strategy, in this final stretch, is based on the belief that Republicans can still pursue plutocratic policies while claiming to be the party of regular guys.
Debates between vice presidential candidates can be ho-hum affairs, about as important as the office itself. But with one remark, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen scored a direct hit on Republican Dan Quayle and fashioned a debate highlight for the ages.
DAN QUAYLE: I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Bentsen.
LLOYD BENTSEN: Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy. (Prolonged shouts and applause).
….and here is Dan Quayle mis-spelling “Potato.” — Mr. Quayle’s most famous blunder occurred when he corrected a student’s correct spelling of “potato” to “potatoe” at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992. According to his memoirs, Quayle was uncomfortable with the version he gave, but did so because he decided to trust what he described as incorrect written materials provided by the school.
He informed student William Figueroa that he had misspelled the word “potato,” when in fact Figueroa had spelled it correctly. Quayle then had Figueroa add an “e,” not only making it incorrect, but once again making himself a target with this misspelling. Quayle was widely lambasted for his apparent inability to spell the word “potato.”
The ‘Drilla From Wasilla‘ — Is the biggest joke on America since Indiana’s Dan Quayle in 1988. Anyone supporting her is glorifying willful ignorance.
The more I get to know Sarah Palin (Via TV), the more I think McCain’s act of choosing a vice-presidential running mate, was like plucking a cheerleader out of dance routine — and rushing her to an OR to perform heart by-pass surgery on a dying patient.
How this lady became Governor beats me! What happened to the dictum — “Bad students finish last.”
Most politicians will lie, distort and embellish, but for Sarah its a different kind of lying — with a straight face, “Moose Eyes” and a smile.
Same lie(s) over and over!
This woman clearly has no idea what she’s talking about, but I have a strong feeling that — she thinks she knows!
After all, GOD IS ON HER SIDE! — Sealed and delivered by Kenyan “Evangelical Con-Man,” the “Bishop Witch-Doctor” of Kiambu, Kenya — Pastor Thomas Muthee.
What a comical embarrassment!
It is so incredible that Sarah still insists that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives her sufficient foreign policy credentials.
Writing for Slate.com, Christopher Beam observes: In her first interview, with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, she blanked when asked about the Bush doctrine (and her unfamiliarity seemed to be with the phrase itself, not its meaning). Her sit-down with Fox’s Sean Hannity was convincingly compared to an infomercial. And in her latest face-to-face, with Katie Couric of CBS, she looked like a high-schooler trying to B.S. her way through a book report.
CBS Katie Couric Grills Sarah Palin
CNN’s Jack Cafferty: Sarah Palin Is NOT Qualified
There is a significant chance of Palin becoming president, due to the McCain’s age and history of Melanoma, and the thought of Sarah manning the “nuclear button” gives me the shivers.
Who would she turn to in case Vladimir Putin pointed one thousand nuclear tipped bombs at the United States — ready to shoot?
Even more risky is the prospect that she would be vulnerable to manipulation by the power-hungry THUG Bush neo-cons currently hovering around McCain, — and have been instrumental in pushing clueless George Bush into the dustbins of history.
One blogger doesn’t mince his words:
“This is a brilliant move by McCain to court the powerful “trailer trash” bloc, which has put Bush into office 2 straight terms. Look for Palin’s husband to get involved in several bar fights and car crashes, while Our Girl gives a spirited rendition of “Stand by your Man” complete with mini-skirt and thigh-high boots.”
After Palin’s first televised interview with ABC TV another blogger lamented:
Here’s what scares me: All of you guys have a stronger grasp of foreign policy than most members of Congress – seriously. You guys can immediately spot all of her gaffes which required a bit of nuance when it comes to foreign policy. The average American voter, specifically the waitress in small town Ohio almost certainly cannot. These type of people heard: “We’ll go after any country that supports terrorism.” To these people, I’m worried she’ll come off as sounding strong and decisive. She’s being graded on a major curve and it will get spun into how great it is to hear a woman speak so strongly. They’ll be some crap about how mother can be the most dangerous creature on earth when she feels her children are threatened.
The McCain campaign will lambaste the press for being too hard on her and will insert this talking point. The press will play along and start debating this point, establishing the narrative and lending credibility to this.
Remember how we all laughed at Bush in 2000 for all of his gaffes, such as when he couldn’t name most of the major foreign leaders? This kind of shit played well in large swaths of the country and established his “everyman” credibility.
This whole “everyman” aspect of the election is one of the things I find so distressing. It’s the glorification of willful ignorance and represents a contempt for the world which is going to lead to a massive calamity in the next 10 years.
My own personal opinion about the interview is that Dan Quayle must be feeling pretty damn good about himself tonight.
LOL! ….I concur.
Sarah Palin is the biggest joke on America since George H. W. Bush elected to run with Indiana’s Dan Quayle in 1988.
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The Lost Palin Files
From NBC’s Jim Popkin
When federal judges in San Francisco ruled in 2002 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because it included the phrase “under God,” Sarah Palin was not amused. Palin, who at the time was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, quickly drafted a terse letter to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper.
“Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words,” Palin wrote.
“God Bless America,” she concluded.
Palin’s letter to the editor is one of hundreds of personal notes and letters written by the former Mayor, and obtained this week to NBC News and others. The documents shed light on the management style– and personality — of the small town mayor turned vice presidential candidate.
There are few headline grabbers in the lot. Even Palin’s Pledge-of-Allegiance rant was a commonly held view at the time. (The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the ruling on technical grounds. But not before Palin pushed through a city resolution stating that the Wasilla City Council “shall continue to recite America’s Pledge of Allegiance, in its entirety, including and especially the words, ‘…one nation, under God…”)
• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. — Dan Quayle
• I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future. — Dan Quayle
• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. — Dan Quayle
• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. — Dan Quayle
• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. — Dan Quayle
• The future will be better tomorrow. — Dan Quayle
• We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. — Dan Quayle
• We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe. — Dan Quayle
• We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. — Dan Quayle
FlashBack: George H.W. Bush’s V.P. pick - Indiana’s Dan
Quayle in 1988.
• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. — Dan Quayle
• What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. — Dan Quayle
• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. — Dan Quayle
• [It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. — Dan Quayle
• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. — Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’. — Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. — Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. — Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
• Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. — Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
• Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. — Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century. — Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. — Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
• We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world. — Dan Quayle, 9/21/88
• We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. — Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
• For NASA, space is still a high priority. — Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
• Public speaking is very easy. — Dan Quayle, to reporters in 10/88
• I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made. — Dan Quayle, to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
