OMFG (Your Palin Clearinghouse)
Here's Plaidder's rundown on the VP debate. In short: we win on substance, they win on style - again. It went a little differently from the debate in her head, which pretty well sums up how I feel about Obama as I oscillate between hope and despair of ever reversing the policies of the last 8 years.
OBAMA: The market's holding us all hostage, Ms. Adder. But I do have a plan to make the downturn we're headed for less painful for the American taxpayer.
PLAIDDER: Different from the...well, I hate to call all your beautiful rhetoric 'boilerplate,' but from shall we say what you have outlined on your website?
OBAMA: Of course. I mean if you were me, would you put your _entire_ agenda on your campaign website?
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PLAIDDER: Senator Obama, there's only one thing that I really want to know, and that's whether I should believe you.
OBAMA: Believe me.
PLAIDDER: Why?
OBAMA: Because it might help and it can't hurt. Anyway you love words, right? And I got the words.
PLAIDDER: And that's all you've got?
OBAMA: That's all your introject of me has.
PLAIDDER: I guess I gotta hope the real you has something better.
Plaidder also figures out why Palin is so much more polarizing, but I won't spoil the surprise.
If you need a break from being angry, and would rather feel like you've dropped into a world run by Kafka, check out the excellently surreal Palin Disney movie trailer over at CollegeHumor.com. In an age where satire often doesn't work anymore, it's the perfect vehicle to convey how fucked up this election cycle is.
Finally, rile yourself up with Matt Taibbi's rant on Palin at Rolling Stone, and rise up against the suburbs where you were born.
Right-wingers of the Bush-Rove ilk have had a tough time finding a human face to put on their failed, inhuman, mean-as-hell policies. But it was hard not to recognize the genius of wedding that faltering brand of institutionalized greed to the image of the suburban-American supermom. It's the perfect cover, for there is almost nothing in the world meaner than this species of provincial tyrant.
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So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.
Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.
I still haven't talked to my parents about the election. I'm gobsmacked that I even have to worry about them voting for a ticket that includes a guy who keeps voting against veterans' benefits and a gal who doesn't believe in evolution.
OBAMA: The market's holding us all hostage, Ms. Adder. But I do have a plan to make the downturn we're headed for less painful for the American taxpayer.
PLAIDDER: Different from the...well, I hate to call all your beautiful rhetoric 'boilerplate,' but from shall we say what you have outlined on your website?
OBAMA: Of course. I mean if you were me, would you put your _entire_ agenda on your campaign website?
...
PLAIDDER: Senator Obama, there's only one thing that I really want to know, and that's whether I should believe you.
OBAMA: Believe me.
PLAIDDER: Why?
OBAMA: Because it might help and it can't hurt. Anyway you love words, right? And I got the words.
PLAIDDER: And that's all you've got?
OBAMA: That's all your introject of me has.
PLAIDDER: I guess I gotta hope the real you has something better.
Plaidder also figures out why Palin is so much more polarizing, but I won't spoil the surprise.
If you need a break from being angry, and would rather feel like you've dropped into a world run by Kafka, check out the excellently surreal Palin Disney movie trailer over at CollegeHumor.com. In an age where satire often doesn't work anymore, it's the perfect vehicle to convey how fucked up this election cycle is.
Finally, rile yourself up with Matt Taibbi's rant on Palin at Rolling Stone, and rise up against the suburbs where you were born.
Right-wingers of the Bush-Rove ilk have had a tough time finding a human face to put on their failed, inhuman, mean-as-hell policies. But it was hard not to recognize the genius of wedding that faltering brand of institutionalized greed to the image of the suburban-American supermom. It's the perfect cover, for there is almost nothing in the world meaner than this species of provincial tyrant.
...
So, sure, Barack Obama might be every bit as much a slick piece of imageering as Sarah Palin. The difference is in what the image represents. The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.
Here's what Sarah Palin represents: being a fat fucking pig who pins "Country First" buttons on his man titties and chants "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at the top of his lungs while his kids live off credit cards and Saudis buy up all the mortgages in Kansas.
I still haven't talked to my parents about the election. I'm gobsmacked that I even have to worry about them voting for a ticket that includes a guy who keeps voting against veterans' benefits and a gal who doesn't believe in evolution.