Sarah Algar

I can't write much more about the Sarah Palin debacle than has already been said, both by friends and professionals alike. So I'll just add this insight:

Remember the scene in Wayne's World where Wayne leaves Garth alone on the show and he goes "I'm having a good time... not..." and Garth is staring petrified into the camera and the camera guy turns to the other guy and says, "Ever seen the scene from that movie Scanners where the dude's head explodes?"

Well... I couldn't find a clip of Garth doing that or an image on the web, but... for at least the first half hour of the debate, Sarah Palin's petrified stare into the camera reminded us of that.

Sarah Palin - get your popcorn ready...

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night


The V.P. debates are coming up Thursday night - Sarah Palin vs. Joey Biden. The more Sarah Palin talks... well, it's like all of this stuff has just been thrusted upon here. To put it simply, she's just in way over her head. I predict (well, I hope) that she winds up like some kind of Johnny Fairplay, or Vanilla Ice - some reality star or some lucky sap who got thrust into the limelight and then winds up being the butt of our collective jokes for years to come. This gig just isn't for her. I'm sure she was fine in the remoteness of Alaskan politics. But when GOP talking heads are saying like that her best strategy is to not actually talk about the issues, or facts in general, and "just be Sarah"... well, that's not a good sign.

I almost feel bad for her. Almost.

Palin, etc...

As much as I wish this picture that I got on email was real, it's not.

The boys over at Where's Luke have been posting many political items recently, from awesome videos to general political questions like this for which I don't have an answer. As ChuckJerry posted in the last link, it's unfathomable how many people are duped by the Republican agenda which has been proven to not work in this country for the past 30 years. People who think that business should just run free and that anybody can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" the way their grandfathers did when they came to America is living in the past. However, I don't think the people who read this blog (if any of you are out there) would disagree with me. But, in answer to Jerry's non-rhetorical question, the book "What's the Matter With Kansas?" explains it well. Read the Wikipedia summary.

But anyway, some random thoughts:
- Joe Biden was awesome with Tom Brokaw this past Sunday on Meet the Press.
- Gloria Steinem weighs in.
- It's ironic, among many hundreds of phony-ass things, that the GOP has tried to paint Barack Obama as style over substance, yet if you actually go watch everything stated in the GOP convention, you hear all style ("Country First", "A True Maverick", "Let's Fight for America!") and no substance, whereas the converse seems to be true when I hear Obama and Biden speak.
- And fuck Sarah Palin for saying these words: "Just know that if I get elected, you mothers of special needs children will have a friend in the White House." Fuck you. How manipulative even above all the other manipulative, crafty insubstantial shit they spew. Is the implication that you won't have a friend there with those evil Democrats? And is there any substance to being a "friend" of these people?

This has turned into a rant. I'm going to stop now.