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There’s no need to create a malfunctioning robot rant. Just print her drooling mouth noises verbatim.

I already addressed this.

Hey cut her some slack… she’s a former beauty queen. That was a hard question.

Yeah, but…Obama says um sometimes. I win, infinity plus two times!

She sounds exactly like Michael Steele. That clown speaks nonsense also. Kinda like speaking in tongues.

I already addressed this.

In that comment you muffed? SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME internet user!

Wow. Not only did I not learn anything but I forgot things I used to know.

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Cheese and rice! Oh that really bad.

Still up for adoption to good Canadian home: clean and sober IT guy, experience with Canadian payroll and long winters, empty nester, comes with wife and small dog, known for occasional flashes of wit.

GET ME OUTTA HERE!!!

Stick a fork in her.

OK, people, I am scared to death. If any Canadian friends will take me in, I will be your official houseboy: I’ll clean up, take out the trash, wash dishes, cook meals, walk your pets, ANYTHING. Just GET ME OUTTA THIS MADHOUSE!!!
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I love it when Lefties threaten to move to Canada or France.

It’s so pathetic.

I am completely aware of all internet traditions. Including the muffed link.

Correct linky

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck And I’m a goddamn software engineer! fuck fuck fuck

Great googly moogly.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88adebate.phtml

George Bush: Well, more has to be done, sure. But the programs we have in place are doing the job, so let’s keep on track and stay the course.

Diane Sawyer: You have fifty seconds left, Mr. Vice-President.

George Bush: Let me sum up. On track, stay the course. Thousand points of light.

Diane Sawyer: Governor Dukakis. Rebuttal?

Michael Dukakis: I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!

– Not losing, but I can’t believe this is as close as it is.

You can’t run away to Canada. She’ll be president there as well because she can see if from her porch.

This kind of shit has gotten one man into the presidency twice…

I really love the part when asked about what reforms Jhonny McCrappypants has been involved with, she goes into the Maverick routine.

Man, that never gets old.

GO AMERICA!!!eleventy!

God I hope that someday the phrase “Sarah Palin” is nothing more than an answer to an extremely obscure Trivial Pursuit question.

and housing creation, such as, and the economy uhm…

Ringo, Righties have threatened to move if Obama gets elected too. And plus, I’d rather move to Denmark. France is a little too dirty for me.

Will provide sexual services for food and lodging in foreign country. English-speaking preferred, but not required.

AC/DC

Serious replies only.

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COURIC: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials?

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries. they’re in the state that i am the executive of. And there in Russia —

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do — it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia — as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?

It’s Alaska, It’s right over the border. It is from Alaska, that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

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Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too.

..and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Our FOUR chief weapons…

I meant in the other clip. Dummy *slaps forehead* get it right for once.

You know who she reminds me of? Fred Armisen’s “political comedian” character, Nicholas Fehn, on SNL’s news.

See if you don’t agree

You saw the part where she takes credit for foreign policy experience because the US Air Force patrols from bases in Alaska?

I guess I’m a European expert since the Atlantic approaches are patrolled from Cape Cod. Who knew?

Well, I for one am staying until this madhouse has become such corrupt police-state that one could be charged with battery for farting.

Oops!
Looks like I’ll be a Kiwi sooner than I thought.

It resembles what you’d get by passing a paragraph back and forth through a 1994-era English/Japanese translation program a few dozen times.

The best part is that she’s obviously consulting her notes to come up with that response.

And go here for her explanation of how Alaska’s proximity to Russia bolsters her foreign policy credentials.

Just as stupid.

Just a minute, that’s not Tina Fey – that’s Julia Gorin!

Let’s face it. That is wingnut pron at its raunchiest. The only corner-ites and freepers not orgasming right now are still waiting for Larry Craig to return to the stall. That shouldn’t be out on youtube where any child can see it. Won’t somebody please think of the CHILDREN!

All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

She’s such a rhetorical genius that she has dropped the verb from the noun + verb + POW formula. Verbs are for faggy big city elitists.

Meanwhile, in other news…

Jurors also will hear about a 2006 conversation between Stevens and Allen, who already was cooperating with federal authorities at that point. In the conversation, Stevens told Allen that the worst that could happen to the two was if anyone found what the company had done for him was that they’d have to spend a lot of money on lawyers – and perhaps serve a little jail time.

Ted Stevens, thank you thank you thank you for the best belly laugh I’ve had in a while.

I’m starting to come to the conclusion that Sara Palin in the auditory equivalent of the Necronomicon.

It’s all becoming clear. McCain wants to postpone the presidential debates so the VP debate will never happen, or at least get pushed back. (See http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/24/mccain-camp-to-propose-postponing-vp-debate/.) He “suspended” the campaign so Palin could cancel her apparances. And he backed out on Letterman and went on Couric’s show instead to see if he could staunch the bleeding from the Palin internview.

Imagine the fun at McCain HQ.

Malfunctioning Sarah Palin Robot said,

I like this new one. Especially the “In what respect, Charlie?” part.

I love how diplomatic Katie is about the whole thing…

“She’s not always responsive when she’s asked questions,” Couric said of Palin. “It was a really interesting experience for me to interview her yesterday,” she added.

She knows she can’t just come out and say how utterly gobsmacked she obviously was at the diamond-hard veneer of sheer stupidity she was facing, so it’s “interesting.” Yah.

She’s absolutely right when she says “reducing taxes … has got to accompany tax reductions.” I mean, how can you argue with that?

Alaska – the comedy gift that keeps on giving.

Won’t somebody please think of the CHILDREN!

I think that would be Mark Foley.

buh-dum-pah.

Drat.

O.M.G!

I had alrady read the transcipt, but I finally broke down and watched the damn thing. as Bill Walton would say, that’s hooooooooorible

Palin heard the words “health care,” a bell went off in her head, and she partially regurgitated what she had memorized to say about the subject. Then she remembered “job creation” and that triggered a memory of “shore up the economy” and she was off at the races, rattling off everything she could remember in stream-of-consciousness fashion.

Keerist, she can’t even recite the Clif’s Notes on Economics coherently. Would someone with Photoshop/GIMP skills please make a picture of her reading “Commandering in Chiefiness for Dummies.”

You have to watch the video and read the transcript simultaneously for maximum comedic effect.

fucking liberal media.

I said elsewhere, she’s like a fourth-grader trying to remember her lines for the school play.

Yeesh. One stinkin’ heartbeat away from launch codes and Supreme Court apppointments.

“Billy Madison Ms. Palin, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Yep the clip of her explanation of the foreign affairs expertise by osmosis theory is equally pitiful. What I wouldn’t give to have been a fly on the wall about two weeks ago when McCain’s crew and Lieberman were trying to brief her and realized they were totally fucked.

can we get her, Yogi Bera and the AFLAC duck all in a room together?!?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do — it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia — as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?

So, Putin is apparently a Dragon, or some other mystical creature.

You know, I don’t think this woman could pass a Turing test, much less a debate. She literally sounds like a Markov text generator. Perhaps that’s okay for a VP, and some day we will elect Mark F Cheney.

She’s missing “trickle-down” and “free markets” in her answer. Guess she needs to go back to school.

Tell me Ringo, are you willing to hold the position that she has foreign policy experience because Alaska shares a somewhat border with Russia? Please, please explain how that works, because Palin apparently can’t.

The Idiotocracy moment has arrived…..will you survive?

Baahhhhaaaahhhaaa!

Katie looks like she wants to take a fucking chainsaw to Palin’s head. OMG. It’s full-on Teh Eeeeevul Eye going on there. Gotta love it.

Brad,

E-mail me.

Signed,

A busy Canadian who is only typing this so that I can get a houseboy.

[Who cares if our broken electoral system might give our bush-loving party a majority?]

I’m starting to come to the conclusion that Sara Palin in the auditory equivalent of the Necronomicon.

The occult secret of the summoning of Shub-Niggurath is revealed!

Burns: Moving on to new business, what act of unmitigated
evil shall the Republican Party undertake this week?
Nader: [raises his hand] Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Burns: You’ve already done enough, Nader.
Krusty: Let’s get rid of PBS! Those lousy Muppets have been
taking food out of my mouth for too long. Humph!
Dracula: I say we crack down on the hippies. Blah!
Tex: What about this dang environment? Back in Texas, we
got rid of it, and made everyone a lot happier.
[the other Republicans murmur their assent]
Burns: Excellent! We shall destroy the environment by
scrapping every anti-pollution law. Now, Bob Dole
will read from the Necronomicon.
[Burns yields the podium to Bob Dole, who is dressed
in a monk-like robe and carries a thick book with a
pentagram on it]
Dole: [reading] “Ezak iziri golanus, maledictu nosferatu in principi…”

And from the sulfurous pit rises… Shub-Palinrath!!!

Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

It explains a lot when you think about it.

turrible. Just turrible.

National Emergency, suspend the Convention.

National Emergency, suspend the Debate.

National Emergency, suspend the ______.

WTF?

I can’t imagine why the McCain campaign wanted to keep her away from the media.

can we get her, Yogi Bera and the AFLAC duck all in a room together?!?

Please, no. I fear that might do what the Large Hadron Collider can’t, and implode the planet.

Did someone mention goats?

Did she say that the bailout would cause it to rain ponies?

Palin heard the words “health care,” a bell went off in her head, and she partially regurgitated what she had memorized to say about the subject.

Actually, she regurgitated the bullet points that someone gave her without bothering to flesh them out into a complete thought. The flunky who briefed her probably didn’t realize that s/he needed to stuff full paragraphs down Palin’s gullet. I mean, she’s essentially sitting there going “Well, Katie, low taxes healthcare reform maverick; economic bailout Putin; executive experience and tax relief; Iraq defense God Bless America.” She sounds like Bush 1.

Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho! Ow, my balls! My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Go away, baitin’. I bent my Wookie. It’s got electrolytes. I’m Idaho!

Large Hadron Collider

It’s spelled “Hardon”.

You folks gotta lay offa my wife. So did my business partner but don’t tell anyone.

I watch BBC American, CBC AND can see Canada on a clear day- and used to do ‘trade missions’ and ‘cultural exchanges’ before I turned 21 up in White Rock, BC. I figure I am able to be an Ambassador to any Commonwealth Nation with those qualifications.

That Julia Gorin video is one of the most painfully unfunny stand-up routines I’ve ever witnessed. She’s barely even getting laughs from her Repug audience, they’re just hooting when she drops reichtard talking points.

It is a bit funny that she hopes to see some Bush Democrats. Instead she got Obama Republicans. Also, her career ended. Nice one, kid!

You know, I don’t think this woman could pass a Turing test, much less a debate. She literally sounds like a Markov text generator. Perhaps that’s okay for a VP, and some day we will elect Mark F Cheney.

I swear to God this output would have gotten you a D- if you were asked to write a natural language interface in a 1980’s comp. science class.

What I wouldn’t give to have been a fly on the wall about two weeks ago when McCain’s crew and Lieberman were trying to brief her and realized they were totally fucked.

I was thinking the same thing recently and this came to mind. Solo una version Espanola parece estar disponible.

It’s hilarious to watch you liberals try to understand why Palin is so popular. You people just don’t get it, and that makes me laugh. I can’t wait for Nov…for Nov…for…for….

Fuck this. I just can’t do it anymore. Can someone tell me where to turn in my troll badge? This gig sucks.

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I bet she’s getting the two Georgias confused…

God I hope that someday the phrase “Sarah Palin” is nothing more than an answer to an extremely obscure Trivial Pursuit question.

I fear that 100 years from now, “sarahpalin” will be a word that the feral children living in the wasteland use to name the beasts that come and devour you if you aren’t back in your cave before nightfall.

My name is Paris, it would be really hot if I were ambassador to France.

What the smeg was that? She’s like, I can’t decide if she reminds me more of Ralph Wiggum or Bubba-hotep. Some kind of, even more unholy combination of the two. That non-answer doesn’t just lower the bar for idiot politician non-answers. It has eliminated the bar from existence entirely. She’s a total, a word has yet to be invented that describes what she is, but she is one. And a total one at that!

“I fear that 100 years from now, “sarahpalin” will be a word that the feral children living in the wasteland use to name the beasts that come and devour you if you aren’t back in your cave before nightfall.”

Oryx and Crake, come to life!

I bet she’s getting the two Georgias confused…

Putin rears his head over American airspace. I can’t get over that. Vlad’s probably laughing himself to tears.

All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

WHAT THE HOLY HELL IS SHE EVEN TALKING ABOUT??!?!!!?!!?

BRAD!

Get a grip, man!

It’s a big enough umbrella, but it always me that ends up getting wet!

No soap, radio, dig it????

I know that this is a cliche by now, but I just gotta say:

The stupid, it burns!

I love it when Lefties threaten to move to Canada or France.

It’s so pathetic.

Kinda like conservatives running a beauty queen breeder as a “feminist”…

As far as I’m concerned, the poster child for socialism right now is a Republican, not a Canadian.

Palin would flub up an interview with Rush Limpballs. She probably gets flustered and starts talking about Russia when her shildren ask her simple questions. That might explain how her daughter was unaware of where babies come from.

Doctorb: I see what you did there. Clever.

You people are being mean to Sarah Palin. It isn’t nice. I’m telling.

ShubShrub’s-Palinrath

Fixed!

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do — it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia — as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?

I think what she’s trying to say is, “I wish Vladimir would rear his head in my airspace, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.”

Hey, Brad, et al. I’m Canadian, have a spare bed downstairs, and will help you with becoming an inmigrante ilegale Americano if you like. You have to provide your own transportation, though. I’m not a member of the car culture.

Doctorb sez:

“You know, I don’t think this woman could pass a Turing test”

For the win. Thanks for playing, everyone. Perfect.

I don’t know why you guys keep talking about coming to Canada. The latest polls show that we’re about to give mini-Bush the full driver’s license, not just the learner’s permit he got last election.

The wonderful comment over at thinkprogress…

moose lips sink ships

Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America.

spalin imagines this while the first dude rides away.

Oh, Brad. You can come be our houseboy, and walk dogs with us. We were looking to hire a part-time dog walker, and I’m sure you’d be great. We’re also happy to harbour fleeing Americans, through we’re too poor to sponsor your citizenship application.

this is what happens when you make Stepford wives do more than housework; they simply aren’t designed to handle questions beyond things like “What’s for dinner?” I’d bet Sarah-bot’s warranty has been invalidated because of this misusage.

If McCain wanted a female running mate, he should have at least chosen a real woman and not a fake copy of one.

But she can field dress a moose! What more do you people want?

BRAWNDO: It’s got what plants crave.

As usual, you 495lie-berals just don’t get it. Putin had his best scientists engineer a 100 mile tall version of one of these things with his face on it and then had it installed on the eastern tip of the Chukchi Peninsula. It violates our airspace every time there’s a stiff breeze.

Forget Canada, which is following us right down the toilet. Disaffected Americans of all stripes need to work out some plan for where we go to avoid this nonsense. Maybe we could pool our money to buy a little chunk of one of our countries where we could live free of our idiot oppressors.

Palin heard the words “health care,” a bell went off in her head, and she partially regurgitated what she had memorized to say about the subject. Then she remembered “job creation” and that triggered a memory of “shore up the economy” and she was off at the races, rattling off everything she could remember in stream-of-consciousness fashion.

Oh, thank the lord/Susan, a coherent paragraph at last. My brain felt like it was clawing at the thin air of meaning itself.

Uh, ahem, let’s see…The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians call it, “maize”. Another famous Indian was “Crazy Horse”. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrast. Thank you.

Looks to me like we’re going to find out just exactly HOW stupid the majority of Americans really are.

If being an uneducated, unprincipled lying nutjob hack actually QUALIFIES you for the job of vice president, while at the same time the presidential candidate failed to win when he was honest so he has adopted an “all-lying, all the time” approach to campaigning, if this is the candidates that win this election, you will know once and for all all you need to know about the people who populate this country.

The question becomes what will you do with this knowledge?

mikey

Ok, that’s just crazy. Did Katy not ask her to explain what the hell she’d just said because it made no sense. She sounds exactly like that idiot beauty queen who spoke about maps.

I love the look on Couric’s face.

Disaffected Americans of all stripes need to work out some plan for where we go to avoid this nonsense.

Personally, I plan to perform menial household chores for a wealthy Mexican peasant family.

Well, now we know why they have been hiding her, and are trying to de-rail the debates. She couldn’t be any dumber or more inept.

Maybe she was speaking in tongues.

OMG. The gubner is all over the map with that response.

Honestly, Katie Couric has more experience than this schlub. Katie should be running for VEEP on the McCain ticket… at least she can speak coherently.

She is so totally, horrifyingly clueless that when she’s asked a question, she can’t even remember the talking points that have been drilled into her and starts grasping at any phrase she can remember. Just free-form stream-of-low-consciousness, panic-stricken clutching at invisible straws.
It is jaw-droppingly terrifying.

Now I am confused. Are these the same clowns that were controlling our reality, or is this a different group of clowns?

Speaking of clowns, did anyone see Colbert’s take down of Bill Bennett? Was a thing of beauty.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/185683/september-24-2008/alpha-dog-of-the-week—bill-bennett

I’ve got elderly relatives on a farm in Northern Ireland. That branch of the family is about to die out, so maybe they’d welcome me and my son to take over the farmstead, which has been in our family for hundreds of years, in order to keep it in the family.

I also have a friend in Genova, Italy; maybe I could crash there for a while. I don’t speak Italian and italy is having some trouble with its own right-wing resurgence, though, so that might not be the best way to go.

I cannot live under a McCain/Palin regime. I won’t.

If any Canadian friends will take me in, I will be your official houseboy

If only I had a spare room for you – I totally understand your existential horror … I had a St. Bernard – German Shepherd cross that made this woman look slow.

This is friggin’ KATIE COURIC she’s getting hammered by – as somebody pointed out in a previous thread, it truly is like seeing someone get pwned by a bloody Care-Bear. The idea of her in a conference with Merkel or Putin is pure black-comedy.

NOW I think I understand how she could put a town with 8,000 or so folks $20 million in the hole: she’s probably got two pictures on opposite walls of her bedroom that read “ASS” & “HOLE IN THE GROUND” respectively – yep, Wet-Start sure picked himself a real winner, huh?

The 21st-Century politician in its natural setting – the Tee-Vee interview:

I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too.

Heck, lady, why not throw in national security, a manned mission to Mars & a box of Twinkies too?

The thing is, as bad as all the hesitations sound … if you take out the ums, ahs, & ohs, it actually becomes slightly WORSE – it’s like spastics trying to do “Swan Lake” minus the grace.

I honestly think it might be best for the GOP to get her to fall deathly ill at the appropriate time – or just nakedly chicken out entirely – because once America gets an unedited unfiltered long hard look at her, the bloom will be WAY off the rose. A smile may make a swell umbrella but it can’t hide the raw stench of imbecilic bullshit that wafts from this woman’s every utterance.

I hope you live to see the election Brad.

Heck, lady, why not throw in national security, a manned mission to Mars & a box of Twinkies too?

Don’t forget ANIMAL-HUMAN HYBRIDS!1!!!!!11m!!!q!

I don’t know if anyone else saw this article about her:
“McCain Campaign running Alaska while Palin campaigns.”

Apparently, she’s completely abandoned her job as Governor. Those “Where’s Sarah” buttons need to be broken out again. Doesn’t she have a cell phone?

Even Palin’s lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said keeping in touch has been difficult. And since hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account last week, he said, it has dropped off entirely.

What I like is this:

“Until she was hacked, we were communicating just about daily. Now I’m talking with her chief of staff,” Parnell said. “I saw her in person when she came home about a week ago, but I haven’t spoken to her since.”

So, what is she still not using her official e-mail to communicate with the liuetenant governor??????

Doesn’t she have a cell phone?

Oh — and if she’s out of town, why isn’t the LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR running the state instead of the McCain folks?

I love the part about “as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska!” Well yes, because either they’re flying over Alaska as part of a great-circle flight path to someplace where they’re actually going to conduct business, or they’re hitting a refueling stop in Anchorage on their way to someplace where they’re actually going to conduct business.

And in GOPistan, that qualifies as top-drawer foreign policy experience.

Maybe this really a move by McCain to rescue the state of Alaska by effectively deposing an incompetent Governor. It’s bold, but then so is giving away $700billion dollars. when the smoke clears all you libruls will be sorry you doubted the maverick.

The worst part of it is that she seems to be glancing down at a cheat-sheet, and she STILL doesn’t make any sense.

Re the state government of Alaska in Palin’s campaign absence (from g’s HuffPo article):

[Lt. Gov. Sean] Parnell, meanwhile, said he has taken over giving many of Palin’s speeches and has taken a more active interest in Alaska’s budget and the governor’s legislative agenda.

“I’m speaking several more times a week _ like, for instance, I’m about to go meet the president of Iceland,” Parnell said.

Which will give him infinity times as much foreign experience as Palin herself.

By the way, doesn’t the other part, about how Parnells’ communications with the governor have dropped off since her email was “hacked ,” pretty much force the conclusion that she used a personal account for state business?

You can’t run away to Canada. She’ll be president there as well because she can see if from her porch.

Which reminds me of the time I flew home from Anchorage, Alaska. Beside me sat a woman and her kid from Seattle. As the plane entered Canadian air space, the child asked “Where are we now mommy? What’s between Alaska and our home?” Her mother said “I don’t know dear. I believe it’s all the United States.”

I repeat, this broad lived in Washington State, which is next door to the province of BC.

Maybe this really a move by McCain to rescue the state of Alaska by effectively deposing an incompetent Governor

New campaign slogan coming soon:

Save Alaska! Vote McCain/Palin

Allow me to delurk for a second here to ask if anyone else immediately thought of last year’s Miss Teen South Carolina? In case anyone’s memory needs refreshing:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children].
One makes just about much sense as the other….

Government rescue plan could worsen economic crisis, Congressional Budget Office director says
Bailout might put light on more companies that ‘are actually insolvent’
Frank Ahrens, Vancouver Sun; Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The director of the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the proposed $700-billion Wall Street bailout could actually worsen the current financial crisis.

During testimony before the House Budget Committee, Peter Orszag — Congress’s top bookkeeper — said the bailout could expose the way companies are stowing toxic assets on their books, leading to greater problems.

“Ironically, the intervention could even trigger additional failures of large institutions, because some institutions may be carrying troubled assets on their books at inflated values,” Orszag said in his testimony. “Establishing clearer prices might reveal those institutions to be insolvent.”

In an interview later, Orszag explained using the following example: Suppose a company has Asset X, whose value is recorded on the books as $100. Because of the current economic decline, Asset X’s real value has dropped to $50. If the company takes part in the government bailout and sells Asset X for $50, the company has to report a $50 loss on its books. On a scale of millions of dollars, such write-downs could ruin a company.

Such companies “look solvent today only because it’s kind of hidden,” Orszag said. “They actually are insolvent” already, he said.

In hearings on Capitol Hill so far this week, criticism of the bailout plan put forward by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has largely been restricted to the shape of the proposal, how the money will be spent and what sort of oversight Treasury should have.

But Orszag questioned the wisdom of the plan itself, testifying that, “It therefore remains uncertain whether the program will be sufficient to restore trust.”

In the interview, Orszag said: “The key question is: What are we buying and what are we paying for it?”

Orszag offered alternatives, such as equity injections into particularly troubled companies, but allowed that those could lead to further problems, as well. In the end, he said, Congress must pass some sort of relief, if only because Wall Street is expecting it.

“If we did nothing, there is a significant risk of another collapse of confidence in the financial markets,” he said.

Then there is the paperwork cost of the bailout.

The budget office “expects that the administrative costs of operating the program could amount to a few billion dollars per year, as long as the government held all or most of the purchased assets,” he testified, without defining what he meant by “a few.”

Even as the financial markets rallied more than 700 points last Thursday and Friday, Orszag said that the credit situation was so dire that “short-term lending was virtually shut down.”

He said that the Treasury was acting as a go-between in short-term lending between banks. Instead of Bank A lending directly to Bank B, as is customary, Bank A no longer had confidence that Bank B could repay the loan.

So Bank A would give the money to the Treasury, which issued a security that was put into the Federal Reserve, which then issued the cash to Bank B.

If the government is forced to intermediate such ordinary transactions, commerce slows, credit confidence remains low and operational strain is placed on the Treasury and the Fed.

“You don’t want them in the middle of every short-term financial transaction,” Orszag said.

During questioning before the Joint Economic Committee earlier, Bernanke acknowledged concerns about the bailout’s affect on the budget.

“I think those concerns are very serious,” he said. “But it’s really a question of alternatives.”

Well, now, THIS can’t be good:
BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.

The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry sources as saying the instruction from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to U.S. banks but not to banks from other countries.

“The decree appears to be Beijing’s first attempt to erect defences against the deepening U.S. financial meltdown after the mainland’s major lenders reported billions of U.S. dollars in exposure to the credit crisis,” the SCMP said.

A spokesman for the CBRC had no immediate comment. (Reporting by Alan Wheatley and Langi Chiang; editing by Ken Wills)

That farting guy doesn’t know how lucky he is just to be charged with assault. If he’d sneezed on a DEA agent, he’d be in Gitmo with electrodes clamped to his gentleman-parts by now.

So Palin’s an expert on Russia because she can see it from her back yard?

Sadly, no!

Apparently, everyone else is Alaska is interested in Russia, but not Palin.

Opportunities abound for Alaska governors to engage in Russian diplomacy, with the state host to several organizations focusing on Arctic issues. Anchorage is the seat of the Northern Forum, an 18-year-old organization that represents the leaders of regional governments in Russia, as well as Finland, Iceland and Canada, Japan, China and South Korea.

Palin — unlike the previous administrations of Gov. Frank Murkowski and Gov. Tony Knowles — also stopped sending representatives to Northern Forum’s annual meetings, including one last year for regional governors held in the heart of Russia’s oil territory.

The AP has an article on the interview that imposes some coherence on Palin’s comments by editing out, oh, 90% of the words.

But I think this interview excerpt quoted in the article also is interesting:

The comment met with derision from Palin’s critics and was turned into a punch line for a “Saturday Night Live” skit featuring actress Tina Fey. Appearing as Palin, she proclaimed, “I can see Russia from my house!”

In the interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric, Palin said: “It’s funny that a comment like that was, kind of made to … I don’t know, you know? Reporters …”

Couric said, “Mock?”

“Yeah,” Palin said, “mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_el_pr/palin

SNL?? Reporters?11?

Help me, I’m steppin’ into the Twilight Zone, this place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned.

McCain Campaign Think: With any luck they’ll think their translators have an ESL problem:

Palin quietly meets international leaders
Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters

NEW YORK – Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, had close encounters yesterday with leaders of international hot spots, part of a carefully choreographed campaign to expose the candidate to foreign affairs while shielding her from the media.

Only brief glimpses of John McCain’s running mate were permitted as she met leaders from Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq and Pakistan who are in New York for the UN General Assembly.

Ms. Palin, who as Governor of Alaska lacks foreign policy experience, could be heard chatting politely during the fleeting seconds the media were allowed to witness.

“There’s plenty to do here, isn’t there? Plenty to see,” she said to Iraqi leaders as she perched in an upholstered chair in a New York hotel. “I have plenty to do at home also,” replied Hero Ahmed, the Iraqi first lady.

The exchange was warmer at Ms. Palin’s meeting with Asif Ali Zardari, the new Pakistani President who greeted her with a huge smile, called her “gorgeous” and said he understood why many Americans “are crazy about you.”

Ms. Palin told reporters the day was “going great.”

Before Tuesday, when she met Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, and Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian President, she had never met a foreign leader. Aides say she got her first passport in 2006.

Her lack of foreign policy expertise has been the subject of criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans.

The McCain campaign has been readying Ms. Palin for an Oct. 2 debate with her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden, a veteran senator from Delaware who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has broad knowledge of foreign policy issues.

The crash course in foreign policy is combined with efforts to keep the novice on the national political scene at a safe distance from the media.

Since her nomination this month, Ms. Palin has given no news conferences and only two nationally televised interviews. A third, with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, was taped yesterday and aired in the evening. Ms. Palin met solo with Iraqi and Pakistani leaders, but was joined by Mr. McCain in meetings with Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine and Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia.

There, she sat between the two foreign leaders and appeared to be listening attentively as they spoke.

Asked by a reporter what she had learned in the earlier sessions, Ms. Palin turned to Mr. McCain but did not reply. Aides shooed the media from the room. Their meeting with rock star Bono, lead singer for the band U2 who is active on behalf of African causes, was off limits to the press entirely.

[Brad’s application process continues….]

So Brad, just what kind of experience do you have with shit moats?
Do you have ‘pancake nipples’ that could potentially pose a threat during Canadian winters?
Do you think you could manage sexual congress in a canoe?
What could you bring that might potentially be used to club a baby seal to death? And a follow up question, have you ever purchased a Paul McCartney album? (Beatle’s albums will be considered exempt)….

Longtime reader, first-time commenter, and Canadian fan. I only wish we had room for you here. Keep up the great work!

Dooce has posted the video and an open question to her eleventy billion readers:
I am genuinely interested in hearing from fans of Palin. I want to know why you think she’s qualified, and why you’d vote for a man who would choose to run with someone like this. No name calling, no hurling of insults. I’d just really like to hear your side.
http://dooce.com/2008/09/25/oh-noes-here-her-goes-again

I wonder how many of those commenters have mastered basic spelling, grammar and syntax.

I wonder how many of those commenters have mastered basic spelling, grammar and syntax.

They keep talking to the screen but nothing happens!

This is being formatted all wrong. It’s poetry, people! Not prose.

PALIN:

We have trade missions
Back and forth. We do —
It’s very important
When you consider even national security
Issues with Russia —
As Putin rears his head and comes
Into the airspace of the United States of America

Where do they go?

It’s Alaska, it’s right
Over the border. It is
From Alaska that we send those out
To make sure an eye is being kept
On this very powerful nation
Russia, because they are right
There, they are right
Next to our state.

.

::snaps fingers::

The Truth–I thought your key driver was your mommy.

Well, I thought that to scramble into a governor’s seat, you’d have to be at least reasonably smart and fairly astute. Man, was I wrong! Someone needs to tell her that that bullet list contained headings for her to extemporise on, not a script for the interview.

Ahhh, pure poetry.

Good question, Nelson. Reading liberal responses to this is a key driver for my presence here. Well, liberals?

Sounds like a good reason not to respond to it.

I believe this should answer your question, Truther.

The thing to ask DA Toofy One is – seriously, would you want this person? With all the experenced and knowledgable people who share you ideology, do you REAALLY want this loser?

God I hope that someday the phrase “Sarah Palin” is nothing more than an answer to an extremely obscure Trivial Pursuit question.

Nah, she’ll always be better known than William Miller — if only because she’s somewhat better looking.

She reminds me of Sophie Masloff. Only Sophie was a better and more honest city administrator.

The best part about Sarah Palin interviews?

That moment when you go, “Wait, is this a SNL skit? C’mon, Tina Fey, I know you’re hot and all, but even hotness can’t fool the amazing mental powers of Katie Couric. Seriously. Pull the other leg guys, I might make noises.”

It would take an infinite number of blind greek poets with stone typewriters to write this saga:

When Epic Hubris Met Dark Matter Stupidity.

The Pussy shat out:

Well, liberals?

Fuck off, The Queef.

Ahh, yes, The Truth! What a rare specimen this raging small pecker is. Why don’t you eat shit and die, you tiny penised fuckfart?

they’re hitting a refueling stop in Anchorage on their way to someplace where they’re actually going to conduct business.

And in GOPistan, that qualifies as top-drawer foreign policy experience

Quid pro quo: she counted refueling at Shannon Airport as “visiting Ireland”.

Reading liberal responses to this is a key driver for my presence here. Well, liberals?

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

Sarah, why can’t Americans read maps?

“It’s poetry, people! Not prose.”

She should have tried for haiku.

Jobs? Yes, health care. Need.
Russia? They talk funny there.
Me Putin expert!

If America votes McPalin in, it gets what it deserves. Seriously, this time for real. Honest to God. DESERVES.

And good luck with that.

James Galbraith:

The point of the bailout is to buy assets that are illiquid but not worthless. But regular banks hold assets like that all the time. They’re called “loans.”

With banks, runs occur only when depositors panic, because they fear the loan book is bad. Deposit insurance takes care of that. So why not eliminate the pointless $100,000 cap on federal deposit insurance and go take inventory? If a bank is solvent, money market funds would flow in, eliminating the need to insure those separately. If it isn’t, the FDIC has the bridge bank facility to take care of that.

Next, put half a trillion dollars into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. fund — a cosmetic gesture — and as much money into that agency and the FBI as is needed for examiners, auditors and investigators. Keep $200 billion or more in reserve, so the Treasury can recapitalize banks by buying preferred shares if necessary — as Warren Buffett did this week with Goldman Sachs. Review the situation in three months, when Congress comes back. Hedge funds should be left on their own. You can’t save everyone, and those investors aren’t poor.

I have nothing to add…

mikey

She makes GW Bush look like Isaiah Berlin. How can this be happening?

I realized that there does not exist a question to which her statement could be an answer.

Not even on the moon.

One sentence for Twoof.

Bite me.

“Not bad” isn’t a sentence.

Beyond the Palin.

Christ all mighty. At first I thought she sounded as stupid as K-Load. But I clipped my eyelids open and read a bit more. Then I realized she sounds dumber.

And to be fair to K-Load, she’s never been deluded enough to run for office.

NEW YORK – Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, had close encounters yesterday with leaders of international hot spots who owed big favours to Bush.

That whole episode kind of flabbered my ghast… the idea that an opening session of the UN General Assembly could be co-opted by the Republican party and used to forge a shiny new Foreign Affairs Credential for their candidate. Perhaps it was the sheer pettiness of the misuse of power that got to me. This was on a level with a boss instructing his employees that they are going to spend the weekend helping his daughter with her science-fair project.

she met leaders from Georgia, Ukraine, Iraq and Pakistan
After they had dutifully played their role as props in the Palin photo-shoot, did they receive ceremonial “I’m Bush’s Bitch” t-shirts to remind them of their humiliation? Or studded dog-collars?

My understanding is that he recused himself from the dealings of the earth. That’s not a good guy who is saying that. Now, one who would seek to protect the good guys in this, the leaders of Israel and her friends, her allies, including us, all of our best interests to fight against a regime, especially Iran, who would seek to destroy America and that, and without preconditions being met. Barack Obama is going to find ourselves in another Great Depression.
But, there has got to be a multi-faceted solution that has to be found here. Unfortunately, that is the undue influence of lobbyists in public policy decisions being made.

It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we would allow a second Holocaust, for one. Israel has got to be considered also. But again, it’s got to have the opportunity and the pragmatism that’s needed at a crisis time like this. I can give you examples of things that can be looked to… As that leadership, that light needed across the world. That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have to look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it? My understanding is that Americans are waiting to see what John McCain has done.

I’m sorry, that’s far too coherent.

We do not believe in American ideals, and they do not believe in American ideals, and they attacked us and now we are so privileged to be allowed in their country, also. And I believe that new President Zardari has that mission at all. But no, the Pakistani people also, they want freedom. They want democratic values and ideals around this, around the world. I’ve never heard Henry Kissinger say, Yeah, I’ll meet with these leaders around our world to be action – bipartisan effort – Congress not pointing fingers at one another in a way of being so committed to Georgia. And we’ve got to be in NATO.

I cannot WAIT for the VP debate.

As Putin rears his head and comes Into the airspace of the United States of America
To be fair to Palin, judging from her understanding of world politics, she was exposed at an impressionable age to that old style of political cartooning where the head of der ewige Jude looms menacingly over the map of Europe.

McCain’s trying to delay the debate like a kid who tells teach the dog ate his homework. He must be very nervous.

Hey, I can see the moon from my apartment window! Whaddya know—I’m an astronaut!

You are running a corrupt Chicago windbag and a raging idiot.

If you think Chicago is any more corrupt than anyplace else, obviously you are not widely travelled.

And as to “raging idiot,” please. The GOP managed to pick a running mate that makes Biden look intelligent by comparison.

Oh, the poor thing sounds like a 15-year-old that stayed up all night cramming for a civics final. And maybe snorted a little crystal meth cause she thought it would help her stay alert.

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This is amazing. There must be something more to the video, I just can’t believe she (or anyone) would rant on like this. Malfunctioning robot indeed.

Tragedy reported in NYT:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/noninima/bullwinkle.jpg

It’s the shock doctrine. The list of items waiting for a rainy day (or a downpour). She’s referencing it clearly. They see this as an opportunity.

See Naomi Klein’s recent interview on Democracy Now.

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