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Palin Drones

4th September 2008

Palin Drones

posted in Betty on the Issues, Christians Behaving Badly, GOP, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Traditional Marriage, True Chistian Politics, children left behind, vicious gossip out of Christian concern |

Palin's Speech

First off, let’s give Caribou Barbie some credit: She showed up and was rather feisty. But her demeanor made me think she was going to end her speech by saying, “I’m Tracy Flick and I’d be so honored and super-grateful to get YOUR vote for Student Government!”

The tone was much like her hometown: small and cold. While bitchiness is a definite plus at my dinner table (and the one thing I’ll miss most in Heaven), it isn’t very becoming in national politics. There’s a difference between being spunky and being snarky, being able to inspire and being able to get a laugh.

I suspect when voters weigh a candidate’s abilities, the best substitute for competency won’t be sarcasm. After all, they don’t call it mocking the vote. Because Leadership-by-Put-Downs hasn’t worked well for our current president and seems oddly suited to someone trying to pass herself off as being full of optimism, faith and fresh ideas.

Palin spoke with a snideness more at home in a catfight on Project Runway than a vice presidential acceptance speech.  Fortunately, I suspect this will wind up being to her advantage.  If allegations of an affair and other unseemly shenanigans prove true, her family is going to make for television’s most rivetingly nasty and bawdy reality show.

Tellingly, the image that lingers is not of Palin at all. It is her young daughter slathering the palm of her hand with spit and then smearing it on her baby brother’s head. Like her mommy’s speech, it was both cute and off-putting at the same time.

Spit 

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  1. 1 On September 4th, 2008, David said:

    Caribou Barbie….hehehe

    posted on September 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am

  2. 2 On September 5th, 2008, robert s. thomas said:

    Betty: Someone at the office just tunred me on to your website. Best line so far: Amen is like abracadabra, just christian. I gives me a new twist on things when I have to attend a family funeral mass and burial…as the coffin disappears into the ground. RE: Palin, I thought a bumper sticker with the head of a pit bull with red lipstick and square designer glasses within a circle, crossed over by two hockey sticks would be a nice sentiment.

    posted on September 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  3. 3 On September 5th, 2008, Dina Kerik said:

    Thank you for the laugh (Caribou Barbie!!!!LMAO!), and the reality check. All this gushing about McCain’s retaliatory strike at Obama’s leaving Hillary off of the ticket just smacks of monkey see.
    We just may yet see Hillary in some position at the WH if Obama is the next Head of State, but what would Sarah do? Arrange bake sales to build funds for poor folks to buy AK .47s of their own? Go on a t.v. campaign entitled, “Rubber is bad! Just say NO to premarital sex”?
    I am constantly entertained by the RNCs degradation into la-la land, followed without question by a horde of thoughtless lemmings.
    Blessings and thanks for a wonderful, well-written and timely blog!

    Dina

    posted on September 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

  4. 4 On September 5th, 2008, Miss Poppy Dixon said:

    Piper’s been spending too much time with Paul Wolfowitz.

    posted on September 5th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

  5. 5 On September 5th, 2008, Fama Keen said:

    OK, that spit/lick/smear thing was just repulsive.
    If Sarah Palin is just a regular hockey/PTA mom, well, she’s the kind the rest of us privately abhor and avoid. You know she would stab you in the back at any opportunity. No wonder her kids are off drinking and partying all the time!

    posted on September 5th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

  6. 6 On September 6th, 2008, O. Bama said:

    Please! That spit-take moment was as scripted as Mrs. Palin’s whole speech. I want to elect the speechwriter! Talk about putting lipstick on a pi… pitbull!

    posted on September 6th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  7. 7 On September 7th, 2008, Penny Pennington said:

    She is just plain unladylike! I wonder if she even has her husband’s permission to work outside the home, let alone run for Vice President of the United States.

    Wouldn’t it be better for America if she remained a full time mother and wife? She could compile her caribou recipes into a nice book and raise funds for worthy causes such as criminalizing abortion and teaching the Bible in public school science classes.

    Let’s not be too critical of her becoming the grandmother of a bastard child, poor thing. At least her daughter did not commit abortion and as far as I know, there are no CIVIL laws against fornication and adultery. Jesus, who is a shade more tolerant than I, said of the adulteress in the Bible that he who is without sin should cast the first stone. Betty, care to do the honors?

    A Righteous Response from America’s Best Christian:

    Penny, as usual, I will be happy to do the honors, as it is tantamount to being asked to throw the first baseball of the Major League season. But I’m afraid there has been so much sinning of late, my many stonings risk something a Christian Lady fears much more than a bastard grandchild — calluses!

    posted on September 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  8. 8 On September 7th, 2008, Penny Pennington said:

    PS At least she isn’t a lesbian.

    A Righteous Response from America’s Best Christian:

    Well, any woman who hunts polar bear, swears like Peggy Noonan on a bender and abandons her husband and children for a career of firing men is about as close to a lesbian as one can get without actually indulging in a moist lady parts buffet, no?

    posted on September 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  9. 9 On May 22nd, 2010, wow cable columbus said:

    thanks for the ideas , i’d love to stick to your weblog as generally as i can.have a great day~~

    posted on May 22nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm

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