More Palin Crap

So her speech last night was apparently rousing, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t watching, I was too busy watching recorded episodes of “Star Trek: DS9”, I also saw some “How It’s Made” and an episode of “Mythbusters.” I would prefer to learn something rather than watch some woman I know nothing about pander to a bunch of creationists.

But I have read some of the “highlights” of her speech this morning and well, she seems like a politician. Best way I know to put it.

She apparently defended her small town mayor status and at the same time took a shot at Obama. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” Oh she’s funny that one, because ya know Obama was an organizer in Chicago. I can see that Sarah, that you had a job with more responsibilities since you were mayor over a town of 5500 people. Seriously? There will be more people in the student section of the stadium at my alma mater’s game on Saturday. Four times more people.

First off how does Wasilla Alaska compare in any way to Chicago? They’re not even both English names!
Secondly, what about being mayor of small town Siberia prepped you for the vice presidency? I don’t think Andy and Helen arguing, and Opie’s small time drug ring are even close.

She went on to challenge Obama further about Iraq “Victory in Iraq is finally in sight;” By all means do tell Sarah… oh you’re not going to tell us why just that Obama is wrong, got ya.
Did Bush tell you to say that, because he’s fond of saying things like that. He’s not right Sarah, he doesn’t know anything about it, victory is nowhere near in sight, barring a massive time-travelling telescope and who knows, maybe one of her fairy friends from the skies gave her a vision.
She further said in that quote “… he (Obama) wants to forfeit. Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.” Because who cares about human rights anyway?

But her speech was not the only one against Obama, I expected no less, but they could have come up with some better arguments I’d think.
Giuliani’s speech contained this tidbit of info “Obama is the least experienced candidate for President in the United States in at least 100 years,” I’m assuming you think Bush had enough experience for the presidency. And if you did think that then may I ask why you’d still think experience helps?

Huckabee and Romney both had similar speeches, Palin is great, Obama is bad, McCain is god’s choice.

But these are really no different than the speeches at the DNC are they? It’s like jokes between rivalry football teams, you can usually just change the order of the names and the joke works either way.

This is what I’m really tired of, I don’t like seeing people say the right things to make crowds happy. I’d rather see a candidate do the right thing even when their constituency may be against it regardless of what party they belong to.
Watching these conventions is like watching a big circle jerk, everyone congratulating one another on believing the same things. It gives me the feeling that nothing is really being done, just pomp and circumstance and little more.

Republicans like to say that they’ve never not been proud to be an American, that’s a blind man’s folly. These conventions don’t make me proud to be American, they serve only as a reminder of the potential that we waste on tradition and pandering.