Wonder-full Matt Damon on Sarah Palin

[SpiritAlight 1]

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[kaydee457 13]

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Yep, seen this a few times...Another Hollywood liberal dunce that thinks he's helping his candidate by denigrating Palin, a person with arguably more experience than his own democratic choice, "the one".....

It's Hollywood cronies like him that sway undecideds to vote for, nort against McCain.

Didn't they learn from their foray into the Kerry election?

[rebeccajo 14]

Entertainment figures speaking about politics should be regarded as just what they are - entertainers.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I hope they keep it up. They did a great job helping Kerry!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Women voters, this election is up to us

By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist

Published Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:33 PM

Women will decide this presidential election — so say the political experts. We vote in greater numbers than men and when we even marginally abandon our Democratic-leanings, Republicans win.

The big question is whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's two X chromosomes and morning-anchor mien will be the thing that drives women to the McCain-Palin ticket this November.

Palin personifies the over-scripted, jab-laden, plasticized rhetoric of the modern presidential campaign. One might even say she was born to the sound-bite. But you get the impression that all she's got to offer is about two lines on each issue, parroting what she's been told or what has been written for her.

In Palin's now well-dissected interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC News, her answers were shallow and at times barely cogent. On Iran's nuclear ambitions, Palin said three times that she wouldn't "second-guess" Israel if it attacks Iran to eliminate its nuclear facilities.

This is probably the most significant national security issue the next administration will face, yet her answer was devoid of the slightest depth.

On our sputtering economy and how she would diverge from President Bush's economic policies, she said: "We have got to make sure that we reform the oversight also of the agencies, including the quasi-government agencies like Freddie and Fannie, those things that have created an atmosphere here in America where people are fearful of losing their homes."

Huh?

If she wanted to discuss the foreclosure crisis, Palin could have talked about an end to predatory lending practices or the need to assert regulatory authority over the investment banking sector.

If she wanted to talk about Freddie and Fannie, Palin could have referred to them properly as "government-sponsored enterprises" and described the way they used lobbyists to keep their capital ratios dangerously low.

But what she said instead was nonsensically broad — just a platitude really and a mangled one at that.

On Iraq, Palin has conflated what happened on 9/11 with going to war there. Is she really still confused about this?

What we have heard from Palin scares me. I want the first woman vice president to be up to the job regardless of her party.

I may not be a fan of anyone in Bush's inner circle, but I know that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is prepared to be vice president. I know that Bush's former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman could do it. There are a number of women on the Republican bench who are able, but Sen. John McCain chose someone who is — to say it bluntly — not smart enough.

I'm not a school snob. You don't need an Ivy degree to be qualified as vice president. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Yale, an MBA from Harvard, and yet he's one of the dimmest bulbs to live in the White House. But it took Palin six years at six different schools to finally secure an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Idaho.

That's indicative of someone who either can't cut it in the academic world or doesn't want to. Either way it's a problem for a potential vice president.

Palin reminds me of Bush's pick of lightweight Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Those on the ideological right such as former Bush speechwriter David Frum and conservative activist Linda Chavez knew that Miers didn't have the intellectual chops for the job and harangued the administration until she withdrew.

This time, there are no anti-Palin ad campaigns coming from the political right. It apparently cares more about who sits on the Supreme Court than who sits one-malignant-melanoma away from the presidency.

It is not partisan to say that a vice presidential candidate needs to understand this complex, dangerous world with nuance and depth. Palin doesn't. And it is up to women to vote her back to Alaska, where she can see Russia but thankfully not attack it.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

More piling on. I love it! Keep it coming!

[Marilyn. 340]

what the difference between him stating his opinion and the million of opinions that are stated around here??

Edited September 21, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[Peikko 1,575]

Not a lot, but in the alternative universe that GEG and her ilk inhabit there is a reverse psycology at work wich states that making fun of the political candidate you support is detrimental to the opposition campaign where as making fun of the candidate you don't suppoort is a great way to ensure victory. It's like a heads you win, tales you lose situation.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Just a couple of names...

Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sonny Bonno, all republicans btw

"Entertainment figures speaking about politics should be regarded as just what they are - entertainers"

Couldn't agree more thanks for bringing us Schwarzenegger

Edited September 21, 2008 by GueraYTavo

[Wei&Shu(Joe) 2]

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Palin, a person with arguably more experience than his own democratic choice, "the one".....

BWAH! I love republican humor. Experience of what? Skinning moose? Gazing at Russia? Flying to DC to beg for pork? Yes, all that experience would make her a great VP or POTUS.

We need us some moose skinning in the oval office!

Thank you for the entertainment break.

I'd like to suggest a little tweak to your technique though. Right now it seems to be

Read republican talking point ----------> post on VJ---------->try to defend obviously false republican talking points.

Try this

Read Republican talking points--------> think, research, reality test ------> realize they are neither true nor even resembling reality---------> avoid the embarrasment of posting indefensible false statements on VJ.

I know, the thinkin' makes your head hurt but try it. You might like it!

[IAMX 3,055]

Good for Damon. Along with Pitt, maybe they can rob the White House with a third party.

I love at the end:

"I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were around 4,000 years ago."

Soooo fvcking true. Wonder where the dinosaurs came from, Mrs. Creationist?

[rebeccajo 14]

Just a couple of names...

Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sonny Bonno, all republicans btw

"Entertainment figures speaking about politics should be regarded as just what they are - entertainers"

Couldn't agree more thanks for bringing us Schwarzenegger

All three of whom 'retired' from Hollywood before they became politicians.

[IAMX 3,055]

BWAH! I love republican humor. Experience of what? Skinning moose? Gazing at Russia? Flying to DC to beg for pork? Yes, all that experience would make her a great VP or POTUS.

I think "experience" is one of the two English words Republicans know.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I love republican humor. Experience of what? Skinning moose? Gazing at Russia? Flying to DC to beg for pork?

Gazing at Russia.

[Peikko 1,575]

What happens if a VP gets pregnant? Just curious, but has the system provision for such an eventuality? Call me whatever names you like, but my question is purely from the point of view of curiosity not scoring political points.