Why People Care about the Palin Circus

[purplejuli]

My long-time, dear friend, sweetjezebel  commented on my last post asking why someone like me is interested in the garbage surrounding Sarah Palin.  We disagree politically so when something political comes up, I always think of her and try to see things from her perspective.  Without knowing it, she really makes me examine my thoughts and gut reactions to

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[redqueenmeg]

I'm also thinking about how the media jumped all over Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's daughter for her explicit Myspace page.

And it's not like Bobby or Whitney were running for anything on a platform of we're-awesome-parents.

Anyone with two Internets to rub together knows you check everyone.

[redqueenmeg]

And also, regarding Palin's politics, she used her line-item veto to cut funding for a state program that provided homes for pregnant teenage girls with nowhere to go.

Good thing Bristol has somewhere to go. If she didn't, she wouldn't matter.

[purplejuli]

I didn't know that. It's horrifying.

You're always one step ahead of me on the news. Medill is ashamed of me.

[redqueenmeg]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_cut_1.1_million_from_funding_0902.html ;)

[purplejuli]

I just want to believe that all the nonsense will help get Obama into the White House.

[redqueenmeg]

If it doesn't, then the American populace truly is every bit as stupid, easily led, and gullible as I've always thought, and those of us who aren't deserve what the other half vote for as punishment for allowing ourselves to be tarred with the same brush.

Uh, no.

[bredon]

We deserve it for not taking to the streets in massive protests against rigged elections, maybe (and even then I find I have a hard time saying anyone "deserves" the myriad horrors that a McCain presidency will bring).

In honest elections, McCain has ZERO chance of getting the WH. Sadly, we haven't had honest elections in a long time.

Re: Uh, no.

[redqueenmeg]

But that's exactly what I meant. By not preventing this horror, we are allowing ourselves to be tarred with the stupidity brush.

Re: Uh, no.

[jamiethetiger]

Oh, I think he does have a chance, even in honest elections. There is a LOT of this country that does not have the internet, does not know to find access to information, and blindly follows. They tend to vote for the GOP