Nail meet Head

Quote:President Palin’s First 100 Days
A near disaster.

By Victor Davis Hanson

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first 100 days of the Palin presidency, according to a consensus of media commentators, have proven a near disaster. Perhaps it was Palin’s scant two years’ experience in a major government position that has eroded her gravitas, or maybe it was her flirty reliance on looks and informal chit-chat. In any case, the press has had a field day, and it is hard to see how President Palin can ever recover from the Quayle/potatoe syndrome. Here is a roundup of this week’s pundit mockery.

LET THEM EAT MOOSE
“Ted Stevens may have gotten off,” wrote Bob Herbert in the New York Times, “but he taught our Sarah something first — like using $100-a-pound beef for her state dinners. And what’s this $50 mil for her inauguration gala? Since when do you fly in your favorite pizza-maker from across the country on our dime? Or send the presidential 747 for a spin over the Big Apple for a third-of-a-million-dollar joyride? Does Palin think she’s still in Alaska and has to have everything flown in from the South 48 by jumbo jet?”

WASILLA CHIC
Also in the Times, Gail Collins weighed in on the already-tired yokelism of the new commander in chief. “What we’re getting is Wasilla chic. That’s what we’re getting. She arrives in the Oval Office, and first thing sends back Blair’s gift of the Churchill bust as if it’s a once-worn Penney’s outfit. Then she gives the Brits some unwatchable DVDs as a booby prize — as if she idled the old Yukon and ran into Target’s sale aisle. Did Sarah send Bristol into Wal-Mart back in Anchorage for that ‘engraved’ iPod for the queen? And what’s this don’t-bow-to-the-queen stuff, but curtsy for a Saudi sheik? Maybe that explains why she brags to Stephanopoulos about her ‘Muslim faith.’ So far, the best things going for her are Todd’s biceps.”


IT'S THE MATH, STUPID!
“Well,” lectured Paul Krugman, again in the Times, “we were worried that they didn’t teach math at Idaho U., and now we know for sure they don’t. Is it $1.6 trillion, $1.7 trillion, or $2 trillion in red ink this year? Are we supposed to be impressed that she offers ‘fiscal sobriety’ by cutting 0.003 percent of the budget? She gives out money to those who don’t pay taxes and calls it a tax cut. And now Queen Sarah tells us that in four years she’ll ‘halve’ the deficit, as if she hasn’t borrowed another $5 trillion in the meantime. Does she think we’re morons? How many ‘Drill, baby, drill!’ oil wells can she tap into up there in Alaska to pay for the extra $11 trillion in debt she’s saddling us with?”

WORSE THAN 'NUCULAR'
ABC’s Katie Couric summed up the general disappointment with the president’s communication skills. “I tried to warn the American people in that interview a few years back what they would get if they voted for her. Let’s face it: She’s a walking embarrassment. I mean just count ’em up: The mayor of Wasilla thinks Austrians speak some lingo called ‘Austrian.’ Then she tries her hand at Spanish and comes up with some concoction, ‘Cinco de Cuatro.’ Next thing she’ll walk into the window of the Oval Office and expect it to open — oops, she’s already done that. No wonder that when her Teleprompter stalls, she shuts her mouth until it catches up. I’m surprised she managed to get sworn in. And did she think that tasteless ‘Special Olympics’ slur was funny? Or making fun of octogenarian Nancy Reagan’s séances? No wonder Wanda Sykes feels at home.”

ANCHORAGE STYLE
A “dragon lady in heels” is what President Palin is, according to the NYT’s Frank Rich. “Don’t fall for this pageant nice-girl stuff. Our former beauty queen is a ward hack. Look at her nominations. Can’t Palin find anyone who has paid his taxes — or do they simply ignore that stuff in no-tax Alaska? Does ‘No more lobbyists’ mean ‘More lobbyists than ever’? Her chief performance overseer doesn’t perform too well herself — and, like Daschle, Geithner, and the rest, skips out on her taxes. When Palin brags about fiscal sobriety, it really means record deficits. In Sarahland, not wanting to take over banks and car companies translates into, ‘She already has.’ Highest ethical standards equates to ‘There are none.’ Calling herself the VA president means she’s just told vets to use their own health insurance.”

GUTTER TRASH
“Pretty crude, pretty petty,” Sally Quinn sighed in the Washington Post. “No manners at all. Does our new mom in chief think it’s neat to laugh when her court jester at the correspondents’ dinner calls Michael Moore a traitor and a terrorist — and hopes he dies of kidney failure? Is that funny? Ask those on dialysis. Is that what Alaskan hockey moms do — scream out at every talk-show host who hurts their itty-bitty feelings? Limbaugh, Hannity — who will it will be next? Poor old Jim Cramer?”

NEOCON CON
“She’s a Bush clone,” the Times’s Maureen Dowd chimed in. “Bush is out, Palin is in — but we keep getting renditions, military tribunals, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, Predator drone executions over Pakistan, the same in Iraq, and even more of the same in Afghanistan — all retrofitted with new ‘hope and change’ banalities. I mean, who’s putting Mommy Dearest up to this — Wolfie, Perlie, Cheney?”

TINGLE FOR HUGO?
“There is no foreign policy,” Chris Matthews said on Hardball, his voice dripping with scorn. “She just tours the world and nods, as if her good looks and serial apologies are going to win us a collective tingle abroad. I don’t think Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad care much that she’s got great legs and a nice wink. How many times can Ms. Vapid say, ‘We’re sorry’ and ‘Hit that old reset button’ and expect thugs to make nice?”

RACE, ALL THE TIME
Eugene Robinson worried in the Washington Post about Palin’s emphasis on race. “Look, she gets 95 percent of the working-class white vote. She promises next month to talk to the ‘Christian world’ from Estonia, of all places. Hello? She goes to the Summit of the Americas and immediately puts race on the table — as if we are supposed to separate those with European heritage from those without. Then she tells al Arabiyya that she hopes to heal the rift with Europe ‘because of my own shared European heritage that seems to resonate in ways I hadn’t imagined throughout the EU.’ I guess we’re learning that those ‘gaffes’ last year on the campaign trail, like her ‘typical black person’ remark and Todd’s ‘I am finally proud of my country again’ nonsense were not gaffes at all.”

WHERE IS THE PRESS?
Howard Kurtz summed up the press cynicism the best in his Washington Post column. “How long does she think she can keep picking on her right-wing plants in the audience for these softball Q-and-A sessions? I mean, there are only so many pukey ‘What has surprised you the most about this office? What has enchanted you the most about serving in this office?’ questions you can lob.”


— Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal. 2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

Sad, but true

A lot of folks from the left are gonna write, "I don't get it."

Well I get it. It's just more sour grapes from the right. It is nice hearing something else coming from them instead of just the usual "Lower taxes" mantra....

(05-15-2009 10:29 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  Well I get it. It's just more sour grapes from the right. It is nice hearing something else coming from them instead of just the usual "Lower taxes" mantra....

People frequently use the "sour grapes" expression incorrectly. It's kinda funny, they're so smart, but they don't even understand a children's fable.

Well you know Torch people use expressions incorrectly all the time and sometimes the incorrect use overtakes the original intent. I believe that at one time the dreaded N word was supposed to be a compliment. Now through incorrect use it is considered an insult.

So take heart in being smart enough to realize its original intent and just smile to yourself as the rest of the population uses it incorrectly.

the 'sour grapes' here would be against the Media more so than the Dems.

akin to say, Referees throwing a game to the other team. You get more pissed at the Refs, than the other team

that whole fairness and dishonesty thing, which in other realms of life is the professed rationale behind much of the Dems ideas.

(05-15-2009 10:43 AM)GGniner Wrote:  the 'sour grapes' here would be against the Media more so than the Dems.

akin to say, Referees throwing a game to the other team. You get more pissed at the Refs, than the other team

But that's not really "sour grapes".

My 2 cents ... I don't really care about Palin's politics. I'm just glad she's around because she's a lot easier on the eyes than 99.9% of politicians.

Yes, that is a blatant sexist statement.

Carry on.

I agree BGSU. We need more hotties in politics. I am hoping that perhaps Miss California can parley her new found fame into a senate run or something. I could definitely take seeing her more ....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/...enate-bid/

(05-15-2009 10:33 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(05-15-2009 10:29 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  Well I get it. It's just more sour grapes from the right. It is nice hearing something else coming from them instead of just the usual "Lower taxes" mantra....

People frequently use the "sour grapes" expression incorrectly. It's kinda funny, they're so smart, but they don't even understand a children's fable.

dumbasastump95, That's just super so gay.

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A "Child's Fable" kinda like one that fits the Obamagog Regime to a tee ...

"Ring around the Rosey, Pocket Full of Posey's, Upstairs Downstairs We All Fall Down".

For all you Little-god worshipers that don't get it, do the Research.



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(05-15-2009 11:49 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  I agree BGSU. We need more hotties in politics. I am hoping that perhaps Miss California can parley her new found fame into a senate run or something. I could definitely take seeing her more ....

Well it seems that media buzz is all it takes to get elected nowadays, so she's got that in the bag.

She has also thrown-out bold-faced lies on national TV (wind blowing her shirt open.) So she's at least halfway there in my book.

(05-15-2009 10:41 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  Well you know Torch people use expressions incorrectly all the time and sometimes the incorrect use overtakes the original intent. I believe that at one time the dreaded N word was supposed to be a compliment. Now through incorrect use it is considered an insult.

So take heart in being smart enough to realize its original intent and just smile to yourself as the rest of the population uses it incorrectly.

What are "Torch People"?

(05-15-2009 10:41 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  Well you know Torch people use expressions incorrectly all the time and sometimes the incorrect use overtakes the original intent. I believe that at one time the dreaded N word was supposed to be a compliment. Now through incorrect use it is considered an insult.

So take heart in being smart enough to realize its original intent and just smile to yourself as the rest of the population uses it incorrectly.

When was ****** a compliant. Better yet use it in a way that it is a compliant.
like
"That ****** was fabulous".
or
"D@mn, I gotta git my ****** on"

dumbasastump95, The article is about Hypocrites and irony not PC. PC is dead.

Quote:The mayor of Wasilla thinks Austrians speak some lingo called ‘Austrian.’ Then she tries her hand at Spanish and comes up with some concoction, ‘Cinco de Cuatro.’

When did Obama say this? I'm surprised I'm hearing about this now.

(05-17-2009 09:18 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

Quote:The mayor of Wasilla thinks Austrians speak some lingo called ‘Austrian.’ Then she tries her hand at Spanish and comes up with some concoction, ‘Cinco de Cuatro.’

When did Obama say this? I'm surprised I'm hearing about this now.

the Spanish part was during Cinco De Mayo

the Austrian thing was in April

(05-15-2009 12:05 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/...enate-bid/

We definately have to keep that pervert Trippy away from her. you know with that fisting fetish he has.

(05-17-2009 10:00 PM)GGniner Wrote:  

(05-17-2009 09:18 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

Quote:The mayor of Wasilla thinks Austrians speak some lingo called ‘Austrian.’ Then she tries her hand at Spanish and comes up with some concoction, ‘Cinco de Cuatro.’

When did Obama say this? I'm surprised I'm hearing about this now.

the Spanish part was during Cinco De Mayo

the Austrian thing was in April

Is Austria one of the 57 states?

(05-17-2009 10:08 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(05-15-2009 12:05 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/...enate-bid/

We definately have to keep that pervert Trippy away from her. you know with that fisting fetish he has.

Once again brain death boy, it was not ME who jammed this notion onto the world .....

It was another one of YOUR Brain Dead Little-god Blind Slobbering Worshipers, that openly stated to the International Television Community on Inauguration Day, that "Barack and Michelle FIST each other" and the idiot sitting next to her AGREED.

Here is the silly worshiping twit, slobbering and drooling in orgasmic glee about this dude and his wife, who have done nothing to deserve being labeled Deities, gods, Saviors, or Messiahs, being lathered over in regards to "Their FISTING Habits" ..... never-the-less, here is your VID:

Now go in peace my son and Fist in the fashion your Little-god doth Fist, oh ye Comrade Robert.



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