I'm sorry, Sarah Palin is a total "flake-ball" Her daughters "ex-boyfriend" said as much in an interview last week. He said that, in his opinion, she is "not qualified" to be president of the United States, much less Governor of Alaska.
She wasn't trying to change anything, actually she was the candidate of the "status quo" backing those good old-fashioned family values and bedrock conservative values of the Republican "Moral Majority" types. Until the whole thing with her daughters pregnancy "out-of-wedlock" blew up in her face and made her the laughing-stock of her own "religious right" wing of her own party! She knew career-wise she was going nowhere, so why put up with the hassle of trying to run Alaska? Through budget deficits and a rebellious legislature? She just gave up when the going got tough. This is the type of person to hold up as an exemplar of a national political candidate? May I hold up a genuine Female hero? Jennifer Granholm of Michigan! Battling a horrible budget deficit, the collapse of her state's major industry, wholesale exodus of people, talent, and manufacturing to other places as her state surges towards being the next "rust-belt" Appalachia? She is desperately trying as hard as she can to "reinvent" the State of Michigan and it looks like she may be successful at it! She ain't showing any indication of "abandoning ship!" Hell, she'd make a real fantastic Presidential Candidate! But she cannot, for the same reason that Schwartznegger cannot, she was born in Canada!
Calm down! My quip about Palin was a total joke because I thought you were joking about Carter. 60 years is long enough to see your church veering even further towards kookdom. And he didn't just quit: he wrote about it explaining why he chose to leave, why cherry-picking the bible is wrong, and that other elders of other churches and organizations should do the same. While I had my issues with his Presidency (and they are not what most people think he did wrong) I believe he is an honest and caring man who tries to do the right thing. And I respect this stand, which for him must have been very painful.
I know what Carter did wrong. He started the Iranian revolution, that's what he did wrong!
Stupid jerk. One of the first things he did when he got into office was review the entire CIA budget. Line item by line item all the way down the list. And when he got to the idem of the payoff's to the Mullah's of Iran to keep them quiet and happy, he immediately went into his whole sanctimonious fit about how there should be "separation of church and state" and that we had no business contributing to Shiia Islamic Religious Leaders etc... Of course, he didn't know, that in the Islamic Middle East THERE IS NO SUCH THING!!! THE ENTIRE CONCEPT IS A FOREIGN AND UNKNOWN IDEA! Every state (and every political leader) there "pays-off" and/or "supports" the Islamic religious leaders, it's commonplace and expected, and keeps the heads upon those leaders attached to the rest of their bodies! You wanna make enemies of the entire population? overnight? Cut off the money to the mullah's and Kadii's, you won't survive the next Friday afternoon sermons! Well, Carter went ahead on his high-horse, "I know better than you old hands in State and Shop (Agency) and this is immoral!!! Cut off the payments! Well, the Mullah's in Iran immediately threw their support form the ShahanShah (who funneled the CIA money through his offices) to Khomeini, who was then in exile in Paris and the rest is history. The Iranian Hostage Crisis was of HIS OWN MAKING! And fittingly, it destroyed any chance of his re-election. Ronald Ray-Guns walked into the White House, and vowed that as his first official act in office, he would blow IRAN off the planet, if the hostages weren't released. Exactly an HOUR before he took the oath of office, Khomeini and the "students" announced that the hostages were being released!
After that, the American embassy in Tehran was closed up and the Iranian "students" who invaded sovereign American territory were "volunteered" to be sent to the front lines of the Iran-Iraq border to be used as human "mine clearance" squads of the Revolutionary Guards!
Jimmy Carter high-tailed it back to his bankrupt peanut farm in Georgia, rejected by a significant majority of Americans who were fed up with his simple minded foolishness.
Yeah, I take it seriously when a president of the United States and leader of the free world screws up so magnificently! The American people, whom I have grown to love, do not deserve such incompetent, stupid leadership, of ANY political party. Why doesn't he just disappear into Arnold Toynbee's "dustbin of history" like he should.
Her daughters "ex-boyfriend" said as much in an interview last week. He said that, in his opinion, she is "not qualified" to be president of the United States, much less Governor of Alaska.
She wasn't trying to change anything, actually she was the candidate of the "status quo" backing those good old-fashioned family values and bedrock conservative values of the Republican "Moral Majority" types. Until the whole thing with her daughters pregnancy "out-of-wedlock" blew up in her face and made her the laughing-stock of her own "religious right" wing of her own party! She knew career-wise she was going nowhere, so why put up with the hassle of trying to run Alaska? Through budget deficits and a rebellious legislature? She just gave up when the going got tough. This is the type of person to hold up as an exemplar of a national political candidate? May I hold up a genuine Female hero? Jennifer Granholm of Michigan! Battling a horrible budget deficit, the collapse of her state's major industry, wholesale exodus of people, talent, and manufacturing to other places as her state surges towards being the next "rust-belt" Appalachia? She is desperately trying as hard as she can to "reinvent" the State of Michigan and it looks like she may be successful at it! She ain't showing any indication of "abandoning ship!" Hell, she'd make a real fantastic Presidential Candidate! But she cannot, for the same reason that Schwartznegger cannot, she was born in Canada!
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While I had my issues with his Presidency (and they are not what most people think he did wrong) I believe he is an honest and caring man who tries to do the right thing. And I respect this stand, which for him must have been very painful.
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He started the Iranian revolution, that's what he did wrong!
Stupid jerk. One of the first things he did when he got into office was review the entire CIA budget. Line item by line item all the way down the list. And when he got to the idem of the payoff's to the Mullah's of Iran to keep them quiet and happy, he immediately went into his whole sanctimonious fit about how there should be "separation of church and state" and that we had no business contributing to Shiia Islamic Religious Leaders etc...
Of course, he didn't know, that in the Islamic Middle East THERE IS NO SUCH THING!!! THE ENTIRE CONCEPT IS A FOREIGN AND UNKNOWN IDEA! Every state (and every political leader) there "pays-off" and/or "supports" the Islamic religious leaders, it's commonplace and expected, and keeps the heads upon those leaders attached to the rest of their bodies! You wanna make enemies of the entire population? overnight? Cut off the money to the mullah's and Kadii's, you won't survive the next Friday afternoon sermons!
Well, Carter went ahead on his high-horse, "I know better than you old hands in State and Shop (Agency) and this is immoral!!! Cut off the payments!
Well, the Mullah's in Iran immediately threw their support form the ShahanShah (who funneled the CIA money through his offices) to Khomeini, who was then in exile in Paris and the rest is history. The Iranian Hostage Crisis was of HIS OWN MAKING! And fittingly, it destroyed any chance of his re-election. Ronald Ray-Guns walked into the White House, and vowed that as his first official act in office, he would blow IRAN off the planet, if the hostages weren't released. Exactly an HOUR before he took the oath of office, Khomeini and the "students" announced that the hostages were being released!
After that, the American embassy in Tehran was closed up and the Iranian "students" who invaded sovereign American territory were "volunteered" to be sent to the front lines of the Iran-Iraq border to be used as human "mine clearance" squads of the Revolutionary Guards!
Jimmy Carter high-tailed it back to his bankrupt peanut farm in Georgia, rejected by a significant majority of Americans who were fed up with his simple minded foolishness.
Yeah, I take it seriously when a president of the United States and leader of the free world screws up so magnificently! The American people, whom I have grown to love, do not deserve such incompetent, stupid leadership, of ANY political party. Why doesn't he just disappear into Arnold Toynbee's "dustbin of history" like he should.
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