Dumbassness of the Day: Soulja Boy

soulja boy tellem, originally uploaded by msken94@sbcglobal.net.

At the recent BET Hip Hop Awards, commentator Toure asked rapper Soulja Boy (I am appalled at the lack of grammar and horrible spelling! I'll admit I have a fondness for standard English.) The exchange between the two went something like this:

"What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, "Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters..." He said, "Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we'd still be in Africa." My jaw, at this point, was on the ground."We wouldn't be here," he continued, having no idea how far in it he'd stepped, "to get this ice and tattoos."

WTF!? Talk about some dumbass ignorance, Soulja Boy tell 'em. And no, he wasn't joking. Pure dumbassness indeed. Soulja is a moron and obviously knows nothing about the history of slavery, the enslaved Africans brought to this country against their will or the blood, sweat and tears that go into producing his ice. All so he can run around acting and looking like an imbecile with his ice and tattoos. Lord help us!

Fundamentalist Islam Strikes Again!

A few days ago, twenty-three year old Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow,was stoned to death in Kismayu, Somalia. Score another one for Islamic extremists and their strict, archaic interpretation of Islam and Sharia law. Dhuhulow was accused of adultery and paid for it with her life. According to Sheikh Hayakalah, the Sharia court judge:

"The evidence came from her side and she officially confirmed her guilt, while she told us that she is happy with the punishment under Islamic law.''

Really!? Not that the 23 year old stoning victim can speak for herself now but I highly doubt she said that. In a gruesome scene that sounded like something out of the dark ages, the alleged adulteress was buried in a hole up to her neck while stones were thrown at her. A crowd of more than a hundred looked on. No word on what happened to the man she committed adultery with but I bet he didn't get stoned to death. This kind of barbaric punishment whether in the name of Islam or not, needs to stop!

God, Energy & Sarah Palin

Oh God! Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made another one of those policy speeches. Last week it was special needs children where she ridiculed fruit fly research in Paris. I kid you not! Her comments were laced with so much sarcasm that I couldn't tell whether it was the fruit fly research she didn't like or the fact that the fruit fly research was done in Paris. Either way, Palin should be embarrassed but doesn't have enough sense to be. No one bothered to tell her that fruit fly research has been vital to the discovery of diseases in human genes.

Today's policy speech was about energy, another topic she's supposed to be an expert on. According to Palin, an evangelical Christian, God has blessed our country with all the resources we need so we don't have to be at the mercy of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez or our ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. She offers no alternatives to our dependency on oil but that "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" energy policy that she and McCain are touting. And don't forget the vacuous "drill, baby, drill".

As usual, Palin's snarkiness got her into trouble. She ridiculed Alaskan Senator and former political ally, Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted of Federal ethics violations, for being a member of the good old boys network. She must have forgotten about her own ethics violation in Alaska over Troopergate and the looming ethics investigation over Palin family travel at the state's expense.

I won't even go into how she ragged on Congress for thirty years of failure since they couldn't pass an energy independence policy. She must have forgotten that John McCain has been there for at least twenty of those years. So much for the meat and substance she promised the Wall Street Journal. If she is elected Vice President, God help us!

The Best Obama Ad Yet

John McCain Could Still Win

While campaigning in DesMoines, Iowa last Saturday in her fancy designer clothese, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of being a communist. Yes, the dreaded "c" word. Palin brought it up before a crowd of cheering supporters in a no-doubt "pro-America" part of the country.

Nothing is more threatening to Joe Six Pack than communism. Communism is just downright evil and an anathema to our democratic form of government, it's right up there with patriotism, jingoism and the Bible. Palin told the crowd:

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody."

The quickest way to get people who live in the "pro-America" parts of the country all riled up is to accuse the front-runner with a funny sounding name of being a communist and even worse, a Muslim. Evidently these are the people who rely more on rumor, innuendo and hate-mongering to decide who they'll vote for on November 4th.

Although Obama is leading in just about every poll, do not for a minute believe he has the election won. This is the most important election of our lifetime which makes it imperative that everyone who is registered to vote does so. Do not underestimate the likelihood that John McCain and Sarah Palin could wake up on November 5th as our President and Vice President elect.

What Not to Wear: The Sarah Palin Edition

I couldn't resist joining the choir about Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's $150,000 wardrobe. It must be a pageant contestant's dream to be given free reign at some of the toniest department stores in the country like Saks, Neiman-Marcus and Barneys. I guess Payless and Wal-Mart will have to do with one less customer.

While this spending spree tells you something about Palin, it tells you more about the Republican National Committee. We're supposed to be so distracted by Palin's beauty pageant looks, shiny new shoes and fancy designer suits that we really won't be paying attention to what she says. They were wrong about that. Palin is a huge liability according to the latest polls. If Palin really was qualified, I doubt that the RNC would have shelled out a dime to dress her in designer clothes. You can dress a turd up in a tuxedo, but it's still a turd.

The media and Democrats are all over this one. Meanwhile, some Republicans have expressed their disgust at the expenditures, for good reason. At a time when people are losing their jobs, homes and most of their retirement in the stock market, $150,000 is a whole lot of money to spend on fancy threads.

Dumbassness of the Day

Sarah Palin NOPE Poster, originally uploaded by squarerootofftwo.

There's a reason Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin isn't allowed to take questions from reporters. She probably thought she'd coast right through her interview with a Denver, Colorado television station. Her mouth should come with an emergency brake, it's seems her brain is rarely engaged when her mouth is moving. Very little of what she says makes sense, unless of course she doing some fear-mongering, race-baiting or some of that good old-fashioned lying. None of that requires a brain!

Today the most qualified Republican Vice Presidential candidate of my lifetime told a third grader named Brandon that the Vice President is "in charge of the United States Senate." *blank stare* Last time I checked the Constitution, the powers of the Vice President are limited to breaking a tie in the Senate and primarily ceremonial. Does Palin know something we don't know? Or has she been hanging out with the most powerful Vice President of my lifetime, Dick Cheney? Either way this woman is dangerous.

Seems she's been doing some studying, when she was first nominated she didn't know what a Vice President's role was, now she wants to "really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom". I sure wish she would have read the Constitution. This chick really needs to go back to Alaska and stay.

McCain-Palin Desperation Play #3: Obama is a Socialist

I have to thank the real Angry White Dude (not Rush Limbaugh) for this idea. He doesn't like Barack Obama because he says he's a socialist. It's been awhile since I've had a discussion about political ideologies with anyone. One that's been mentioned a lot lately has been socialism especially with regard to Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate. "Barack Obama is a socialist!" has been said by more than one gun-toting, pro-life conservative. I guess calling someone a socialist is supposed to be the ultimate insult.

As a refresher for myself, here's how Merriam Webster defines socialism:

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Now with that out of the way, I can begin to discuss what defines a socialist. When Obama's name is mentioned you will often hear the word socialist mentioned especially in conservative circles. You'll notice how you are never given proof for his socialist leanings but you'll often hear the word thrown about as freely as you hear words like "terrorist" and "traitor" at a McCain-Palin rally. I'm certain most of the people attending these rallies don't even know what socialism is, they just know it's bad.

I've read Barack Obama's platform on issues like health care, education and the economy and didn't see anything relating to or sounding like socialism. I haven't heard him say anything about taking away anyone's private property or taking control of GM or the neighborhood Piggly Wiggly in any of his stump speeches. What am I missing? The same people who believe Obama is a socialist also believe he's: a) a terrorist b) a secret Muslim and c) unpatriotic. I see the correlation, don't you?

Remember last month when President George W. Bush, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wanted to hastily sell us that $700 billion Wall Street bail out? They were essentially advocating government control of the banking industry. In order to avoid what was sure to be a financial catastrophe, the government bailed out AIG, bought up those troubled mortgages and took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all at taxpayer expense. This sounds like socialism to me but this wasn't Obama's idea.

If we're going to label people socialists then we should first start with President Bush, Bernanke, and Paulson. Anyone who understands how our democracy works, knows that no one person, regardless of their political beliefs, can turn this country socialist, not even Barack Obama when he's elected president.

Rush Limbaugh is One Angry White Dude

Photo taken from Rush Limbaugh's website because it was too good to pass up.

I've had a strong dislike for Rush Limbaugh ever since I first heard his show in Northern California back in the early 90s. Rush exemplifies the ne'er-do-well, mediocre white male. He's not well educated, he only managed to graduate from high school. What he lacks in education and intelligence, he more than makes up for in hatred and narrow-mindedness. He has become a millionaire spewing his own brand of conservatism.

Limbaugh appeals to listeners who have never advanced beyond 1960. America has changed since then but you'd never know it listening to Limbaugh. He never got over the fact that segregation ended and black people didn't stay in their place. He's bought into every possible stereotype about black people and can provide you with evidence that they are all true. And if you're thinking he's racist or bigoted, think again, he will tell you he's just stating the facts.

Rush Limbaugh does not like Barack Obama but it has nothing to do with politics. Obama represents his worst nightmare, he's a smart, well-educated black man with broad based appeal. Neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton, Obama is a politician that transcends race. I'm certain this is what scares Limbaugh the most.

Politics aside, Barack Obama should be the poster child for conservative Christian conservative types like Limbaugh; they've been touting that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy to minorities and the poor for decades. Rather than praise Obama for what he has accomplished, Limbaugh freely engages in and supports the lies, innuendo and smears about Obama. What better way to scare your white conservative listeners than to insinuate that if Obama is elected, he's going to turn this country into the 'hood?

If you don't think this election is about fear, you haven't been listening to Limbaugh, Sarah Palin or those kooky people who show up at McCain-Palin rallies. It's fear of terrorists, funny sounding foreign names and the unpatriotic. According to Limbaugh, you should be very afraid:

"Of course McCain's fighting for plumbers; he's fighting for everybody. He has fought for everybody, Obama. Name one time you've fought for anybody -- other than a bunch of leftist radicals who want to overthrow the country as it exists?"

Observations from Debate #3: McCain v. Obama

I watched the debate on my network of choice, C-SPAN, they have this wonderful split-screen approach of covering the candidates. Barack Obama was on my left and John McCain on my right. Of course, John McCain was as stiff and robotic as ever. Was he erratic? You betcha! Barack Obama was cool as a cucumber. As in previous debates, he behaved presidential. McCain sat there grimacing, making weird faces and smiling inappropriately.WTF!?

Other observations:

• The winner of the debate was Joe the plumber, he was mentioned over twenty times.
  I guess John McCain saw this as an opportunity to relate to everyman but it got to be downright annoying after the third time Joe was mentioned.
  
• McCain delivered the best line of the night, "I'm not George Bush" but blew it by delving into the quicksand of a mother's health with regard to a late term abortion later in the debate.
  He didn't win any votes on that one but it does go to prove my theory that abortion and a woman's right to chose are personal issues, not political ones.
• I didn't learn anything new about either candidate that I didn't learn in the first two debates. It was just more of the same issues rehashed.
  It was almost as if on cue when talking about health care, McCain was going to tell us about his $5,000 tax credit. That put me to sleep. I fail to see how a $5,000 credit is going to help me afford health insurance when I don't have it. I sure as heck am not going to be crossing state lines to get some cheap healthcare. How ridiculous is that?
  
• For all that talking McCain did, he accomplished very little.
  He skirted around his accusations about Obama's paling around with terrorists. This was a non-issue and nothing said that more than McCain's approach. It was more 'Much Ado About Nothing' than 'Gotcha'. Obama neutralized him.
  
• I didn't buy McCain's phony outrage about negative campaigning and Obama's unwillingness to repudiate John Lewis' criticism.
  It was as if he himself was the victim of the attacks and smears. He wasn't.
  
• Ask any American what her concerns are and I guarantee you that Bill Ayres and ACORN won't make the top five.
• Michelle Obama redeemed herself by wearing a beautiful purple dress with gorgeous accents.
  Yeah, Michelle!
• Obama let the opportunity to criticize Sarah Palin pass him by.
  The barn door was open on that one. Obama was gracious and classy and didn't say a critical word. He was right, she is a politician but she is also a bunch of other things too.
  

After watching all three of these debates, I'm not convinced this is the best format for people to find out where the candidates stand on the issues. Neither candidate changed my mind about anything. I voted yesterday.

Link of the Day: Straight Talk on McCain

Being a one-woman crusade against divisive politics, hate-mongering and hypocrisy can seriously tire a sister out. I'm still appalled at how low John McCain has sunk in this campaign. He appears to be riding an escalator going straight to hell. The man has no soul.

To find out what happened to John McCain, please visit 'Straight Talk on McCain', a blog devoted to this very subject. It smart, well-written and offers some thought provoking insight into what went wrong. It's great reading!

Thanks Keith Olbermann!

Hucksters of Hate

A couple of weeks ago, former President Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan had nothing but praise for Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin after her debate with her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden. Noonan oozed:

"Sarah Palin saved John McCain again Thursday night. She is the political equivalent of cardiac paddles: Clear! Zap! We've got a beat! She will re-electrify the base."

Noonan was right, weeks since the Vice Presidential debate, Palin has re-electrified the base. We're not talking about the educated Republican establishment who have circled their wagons around McCain's erratic choice of the unqualified Palin but the uneducated, bigoted contingent of the party whom Palin appeals to.

During campaign stops last week, McCain-Palin rallies have turned into revivals for those who have bought into the smears about Obama's association with terrorism, Arabs and Islam. These are the people who shout such niceties like "traitor", "terrorist" and "kill him" when Palin starts her "He doesn't see America they way we see America" schtick.

Although McCain has made a half-hearted attempt to tone down the rhetoric, it hasn't done much good. Palin is the huckster of hatemongering and the McCain-Palin ticket is a divisive one . Country first? Who are they trying to fool?

What's Really 'Hood?

Photo Source: Rhymes with Snitch

What do you give a rapper who has more collaborations on the radio than you can count? How about a millions dollars? Rapper Lil Wayne was "given" $1,000,000 cash in a Louis Vuitton suitcase the other night. Seems it was his 26th birthday and his "daddy" Birdman (aka Baby) of Cash Money Records thought this would be the perfect gift for the multi-platinum, syrup-sipping rapper.

Although times are hard for just about everyone, average folks are losing jobs, having their homes foreclosed on and losing money in the stock market, life isn't so hard for Lil Wayne. He's literally rolling in dough! Was there really a million dollars in that suitcase? Who knows but whatever you do, don't tell the IRS!

Link of the Day: African American Political Pundit

I see John McCain as cranky and disgruntled especially after last night's debate. His time has come and gone and I don't think he did much to change any of the undecided voters minds. His lack of respect for Barack Obama is obvious, he referred to him as "that one" as if he was talking about a piece of furniture.

It didn't help that he was condescending to the young African American male in the audience and completely ignored the African American woman who asked him about the environment. McCain isn't doing anything to woo undecided voters and if we can judge him by the way he treats Obama, he's not going to woo African American voters either. He doesn't care though, he doesn't need our vote but he does need Joe Six Pack's. The problem with the Republican party is that they don't have a problem pandering to their bigoted constituents.

While McCain lacked the courage to brooch this subject in last night's debate, he's assigned Sarah Palin to do his dirty work. While Palin may not be able to answer simple questions or construct a coherent sentence, she's very good at sarcasm, innuendo and race-baiting. For a conservative Christian woman, she's seemed to have left her good Christian morals in the Alaskan tundra, I see mockery, intolerance, and dishonesty in just about everything she says from insinuating a link between Obama and terrorism to questioning his character to lying about his past associations. Palin is quite despicable.

These kind of gutter politics aren't going to change the mind of the undecided voter but they do appeal to Joe Six Pack by confirming his suspicions about about funny sounding names, terrorist sleeper cells and black men. If McCain-Palin know how to set aside partisan politics and work across the aisle, they should have started with this campaign and kept it all about the issues instead we have one nasty smear after another. All I see is divisiveness with an undercurrent of racism.

Is McCain racist? Read the African American Political Pundit's take on John McCain here, he's got some ideas of his own.

Observations From Presidential Debate #2

1. Not one shout out to or mention of Sarah Palin.
   While it would have been prudent to tout his running mate's background on energy and foreign policy, McCain talked more about Senator Joe Lieberman instead.
   
2. McCain stumbled about the stage looking uncomfortable and unwell.
   This is my opinion. McCain hasn't released his health records yet and probably isn't going to.
   
3. McCain tells a young African American man "I bet you hadn't heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac until a few weeks ago".
   Presumptive, a tad bit condescending plus he forgot the man's name and didn't even bother answering the question.
4. I thought we already bought up the bad mortgages in the $700 billion dollar bail out.
   Sounds like McCain wants to increase government spending. I call it pandering to the middle class and if we were to believe some of his Republican comrades, the reason we're in this mess is because loans were given to minorities and other undesirables.
   
5. Still no mention of the middle class.
   McCain still can't bring himself to say middle class.
   
6. Obama owned the debate, he was calm, cool and Presidential. McCain looked cranky and ill-at-ease.
   
7. "That One"
   McCain still can't say Barack Obama or look him in the eye. Take it how you want it, but it seemed dismissive of McCain. At least he didn't call Obama "boy".
   
8. I love Michelle Obama but I did not like that dress she was wearing.
   She looked very plain and underwhelming.
9. Me thinks John McCain might be embarassed about the personal attacks and mudslinging.
   I would be too if I were lying out of my a** and making up things about my opponent that I'm not brave enough to say it myself.
10. Barack and Michelle Obama stayed after the debate to shake hands and take pictures. What happened to the McCains?
    I'm sure it was probably way past John's bedtime but if you're trying to win over the undecided, you should stick around and chat with the audience.
    

Cindy McCain Sets the Record Straight

John and Cindy McCain, originally uploaded by cq.swat.

During a visit to Children's Hospital today in Nashville, Cindy McCain, wife of Republican Presidential candidate John McCain told reporters:

Sen. Barack Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history"

She looks for her husband John to set the record straight in tonight's debate. I can hardly wait!

Sarah in Wonderland

McCain-Palin Desperation Play #1: Obama = Terrorist

Sarah Six Pack was in Clearwater, Florida today spreading good cheer:

"I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."

Of course she wasn't talking about her husband Todd's association with the Alaskan Independence Party and its founder, Joe Vogler but Barack Obama's "association" with Bill Ayers.

Bobby Lee Six Pack Speaks

Sarah Palin's Joe Six Pack has surfaced in the form of Bobby Lee May (yes, really), a member of the Buchanan County (Virginia) Republican party. May, whom I've rechristened Bobby Lee Six Pack, has written a column about why he's supporting McCain. It should come as no surprise that this man is as ignorant as they come but he's not a racist.

Among some of Bobby Lee's claims about an Obama presidency, here are a few of my favorites:

• DRUG CRISES: Raise taxes to pay for free drugs for Obama's inner-city political base
• THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES: Raise taxes to send $845 billion, send most to Africa so the Obama family there can skim off enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream
• AMERICAN FLAG: Replace 50 stars with a star and crescent logo; red stripes changed to green to represent Obama's tree-hugging radical environmentalism and his lack of experience

He also issues a challenge to Obama to meet him next Friday so they can debate his plans to divide and conquer America. This man is so afraid of Obama that he thinks Obama will change Liberty and Freedom to Socialism and Communism. *blank stare*

I'm certain Bobby Lee was the person Sarah Six Pack was appealing to when she said Obama doesn't share "our" view of America. In my opinion, this was Palin's not-so-subtle nod to the race card. I think it's called fear of a black man.

McCain on Negative Campaign Advertising

McCain-Palin Get Lukewarm Reception in Anchorage

USA-POLITICS/MCCAIN & PALIN, originally uploaded by the_real_cjs.

Perhaps the most telling condition of the McCain-Palin ticket is how warmly they are greeted in Palin's home state of Alaska. Of course we know the liberal media has been hostile to Palin and that Palin was annoyed by Katie Couric, but how would she be treated by her fellow Alaskans since she joined John McCain?

If Palin can't get any love from her homies in Alaska, where else is she going to get it? There was a rally for McCain-Palin in Anchorage yesterday, about 300 people showed up. Neither McCain nor Palin appeared, but Palin's husband Todd made a surprise appearance and proclaimed, "The more I spend time with the McCains, the more I feel that this ticket is definitely the ticket for the next president and vice president of the United States."

Anchorage has an estimated population of about 270,000 people but only 300 show up for a McCain-Palin rally? This isn't exactly what I call showing love. It wasn't like Palin embarrassed them in the Vice Presidential debate with Joe Biden earlier this week. Granted she mugged and winked at the camera, didn't answer questions and kept to her spoon fed talking points but she wasn't a total failure.

The people of Anchorage knew Palin from way-back-when, before John McCain, before Katie Couric and certainly before the liberal media. She couldn't pull more than 300 people? Perhaps they know something the rest of us don't know. Maybe they aren't impressed with Palin's claim that they are mavericks, reformers and the real ticket for change. Or maybe it was too darn cold!

An Obama-Biden rally was also held on Saturday a few blocks away from the McCain-Palin rally, they drew a much larger crowd of 1,500. For a first hand account of the two rallies from a native Alaskan who attended both, click here.

The Last 31 Days

The McCain-Palin ticket is losing ground in spite of Sarah Six Pack's dazzling, folksy performance at the Vice Presidential debate. They've already thrown in the towel in Michigan and have announced that they're going negative against Obama. As if he couldn't be any more dishonorable and desperate, McCain is going to scrape the bottom of the dirty tricks barrel for the next 31 days to win the election.

What remains to be seen is whether or not the electorate buys into this farce. I look for McCain-Palin to sink to new lows by attempting to scare the heck out of people by doing one or all of the following:

• blame Obama for everything
  From the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, high gas prices, global warming and Hurricane Gustav, look for McCain-Palin to blame Obama
  
• claim that Obama is a terrorist, Muslim or anti-Semite
  And yes, people actually believe those secret rumors. After all Obama rhymes with Osama and his middle name is Hussein. Did I mention that he went to Koranic school?
  
• insinuate that Obama is a dangerous black man that cannot be trusted
  Just like OJ Simpson was darkened on the cover of Newsweek, Obama will be darkened up in future McCain television ads making him look like very dark, very dangerous and very black
  
• claim that Obama wants to raise taxes for the middle class
  Oh, they've done that already but they'll beat everyone over the head with it for the next 31 days, just wait and see
  
• associate Obama with terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and al-Qaeda
  His name is Barack Hussein Obama after all, don't you get it?
• question Obama's patriotism
  Just because they can. His father was from Kenya, was a Muslim and named him Barack Hussein Obama, what else do you need to know?
  

If you think you're going to hear McCain-Palin discuss how they're going to get us out of the economic and political abyss, forget about it. It's going to be a full on attack against Obama. All they've got is some worn-out Bush-Cheney policies that they're trying to pass off as change and reform. Oh and did I mention they are mavericks?

The Game Changer

I taped the Vice Presidential debate but have yet to watch it. I have the feeling by tomorrow night, I won't have to watch it. From the snippets I've seen, Joe Biden performed admirably without being condescending or rude to Sarah Six Pack.

"Can I call you Joe?" Okay, the folksy down home act just didn't play well with me. The winking and mugging wasn't befitting of someone who aspires to be taken seriously unless it was some kind of terrorist signal. While this may play well in beauty pageants, it doesn't work well in a debate. Call them weapons of mass distraction designed to trick us into thinking that Sarah Six Pack actually something other than delivering put-downs and saracastic remarks. No wonder she was annoyed by Katie Couric! A real journalist will require that you answer real questions instead of sticking to spoon fed talking points.

Does this chick really know what an Achilles heel is? It's doubtful because she went off on something that had nothing to do with what she was asked. Like our current President George W., Sarah Six Pack has no flaws and doesn't make mistakes. We've had eight years of it and we see where this kind of dangerous thinking has gotten us: mission accomplished in Iraq, a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan and a new definition of torture.

While we're at it can we add Ak-mahdenijad to her list of mispronounced words. She may not know the difference between General McKiernan and General McClelland, but she's worked really hard to (mis)pronounce the president of I-RAN's name and it still isn't right. When Republicans get in trouble, they always try to conjure up Ronald Reagan and Sarah Six Pack, unleashed what she thought would be sure-fire winners. "There you go again."

With the debate won, you would expect that Sarah Six Pack would be allowed to freely take questions from the media and stray away from those scripted speeches, but no, the McCain people still plan to keep her away from the media. If she held her own against Biden, why doesn't she want to talk to the media? What are they trying to hide?

Just for Laughs!

Sarah Six Pack

"Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that a normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it."

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was allowed off her leash yesterday to talk to the press. This time she was interviewed by conservative talk host Hugh Hewitt. *blank stare* Why this woman is allowed to talk to the press at all is befuddling because she is not up to the task.

Palin's series of interviews with ABC's Charlie Gibson and the most recent ones with CBS's Katie Couric prove she is clearly out of her league. The vacant look on her face when she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about would be funny if it weren't tragically sad. "I'll have to find some and get back to ya" said Sarah when asked to provide an example of John McCain's call for more regulation.

As much as she's been kept away from the liberal media, the few interviews she's given have been disastrous. Okay, the Bush Doctrine was a bit tricky but what about the rest of the questions? She can't name one newspaper or magazine she reads. She can't name any other Supreme Court case besides Roe v. Wade. If this is what she has to offer, we're in big trouble.

Regardless of how healthy John McCain says he is, I don't want Sarah Six Pack sneaking into the presidency on a technicality. I like uppity credentials from places like Harvard and Yale because they require a superior level of intellect. While Palin's perseverance is admirable (She attended five colleges in four years or was it four colleges in five years), it doesn't change the fact that she is witless, incompetent and arrogant.

I also like people who have seen the world. The fact that this woman has had no interest in traveling outside the U.S. until last year is frightening. It's important to not only know who the enemy is but to also be able to find the enemy on a map especially if "Putin rears his head" and you believe "victory is within reach in I-RACK". Lord, help us.

I don't want to have a beer with Sarah Palin. I want her to go back to the tundra and stay. As a mother of five, I'm certain she has more important things to tend to than her political pretensions.