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Doggone it!


October 03, 2008 | Tags: none

I had a day off, so you know I had to come through here with a blog post. It has been too long. What up Yaya? This one is for you.

This election is off the chains, and in conjunction with the T.K.O. state of the economy, I just can’t seem to think about much else lately. Believe me, I wish I could, because it’s rather depressing to think about, but yet it doesn’t leave my mind.

At least the grim reality of everything going on in the world got a little dose of humor last night while Sarah Palin was making a complete ass out of herself in the “debate”. Why the quotes, you ask? Well it’s not much of a debate when the candidates are speaking on different subjects half of the time. It’s one thing to stealthily avoid a question and flip it so that the person asking the question doesn’t even know what hit them, but the woman that sees Russia was on some “I don’t give a fuck, I’m going to say what I want” tip. I wasn’t even paying serious attention to the TV while it was on, and yet it was still obvious that she was dodging questions. That’s ridiculous.

Oh, did you miss it last night? It’s been posted in its entirety on YouTube.

Peep the 11 minute mark. The moderator asks Palin to respond to the comments Biden made about healthcare, and she just straight up goes, “I’d like to respond about the tax increases. We can speak in agreement here that darn right we need tax relief…” Not only does that render the moderator damn near unnecessary to the debate, since her guidance is just being disregarded, but she said “darn right” in a nationally televised debate! I wonder what would happen if she went up to Mahmoud Ahamdinejad and said “darn right you shouldn’t be able to have nuclear weapons!”? Later on she even said “doggone it”, which as utterly humorous as it was, just isn’t very Vice President-like. Quirky vocab aside, it was absurd how many times she pulled that subject-changing stunt. Come on, woman! Answer the questions presented to you! It’s not that hard…although for you? I suppose it is. A pitbull attacks its problems without hesitation, so apparently there’s more than lipstick that separates pitbulls from hockey moms.

Even worse is that Palin was being so ridiculous that I can barely remember anything Biden said, save for essentially saying that McCain is a round two of Bush. Or perhaps it’s not that Biden wasn’t interesting or saying anything important; maybe I was just too busy playing Palin bingo. In a way, you have to love Palin – she can make you feel nauseated and have you giggling at the same time. She provided the inspiration for one of the best skits I’ve seen on SNL in a long while. Her porn-industry lookalikes will probably have a decent 4th quarter.

I’ll give Palin this much: she probably would make a pretty good small town Mayor. Even governor of a sparsely populated state. Vice President of a country going through financial turmoil and wartime? Not so much. Maybe one day, when she finally stops taking a page from Bush’s book and learns how to properly pronounce “nuclear”.

I’m still curious as to how McKinney and Clemente would do in one of these debates, even if just to satisfy my dream of one day being able to hear a politican oppose America’s love for funding Israel during primetime TV on one of the major channels. Very curious. I have a feeling I may never get to find out, though. Quite a shame.


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