Barack Obama’s Response to Palin’s Speech was Dumb When I Used it in Kindergarten
After Sarah Palin tore the roof of the sucka in Minneapolis, here’s Barack Obama’s reaction.
“The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years,” spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
That’s it? His entire response is, “Yeah, well, someone wrote her speech for her, so nyah”?
How freaking lame! He just unfurled the political equivalent of “Oh yeah? Well your Mommy dresses you funny!” That was a tired taunt when we used it in elementary school.
Maybe Obama was too busy getting some soothing Preparation H slathered on his backside after Giuliani and Palin ripped him a new one tonight to come up with something more hopeful and changey.
I think we’re seeing a new line of attack on Palin and McCain. The Obama campaign is desperate for you to think of both nominees as George Bush clones. He’s had all year to widen the gap between himself and John McCain and he’s failed miserably even though he’s had truckloads more money then McCain, far more media coverage than Johnny Mac, a galaxy of adoring media figures and a mostly open field. Still, the race is pretty much dead even because he can’t seem to step away from a teleprompter without saying something unutterably stupid.
So, he’s hoping that he can turn up the Bush-hatred just enough to squeak over the finish line. That’s the same strategy John Kerry used four years ago and we know how well that turned out for him.
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TC – Thank you for the comment regarding Palin's family issues drawing attention. The Republican party acts as if they have exclusive rights on family morals. Now they turn to this and support it. An example of how twisted their line of thinking is: Now lets make this 17 year old boy (whos clearly not ready for marriage), marry this 17 year old girl (whos clearly not ready for marriage) and they will go off and live happily ever after. Is the term "Shotgun Wedding" an exclusive republican term?
Rod – Zero experience? Really?
You want to put the budgets she's approved, the negotiations she'd handled, the legislative sessions she's dealt with against Obama's…less time in the US Senate not handling budgets and not going to committee meetings and not dealing very much with a legislature because he was campaigning from the first day he took office.
Yeah, you don't win that argument.
You were nicely patronizing to her, though. Like I said, so much for the tolerant womens'-rights party.
TC – Again, your source for the story, please. I'd hate to know that you accepted something as fact in a political race without bothering to check it out yourself.
Jimmy, if you expect me to believe Palin's done anything other than sold a beat up airplane on ebay, you gotta do better than that. To show how stupid she is, she bragged about something that minor. McCain is desperate and sent the lipstick hockymom to front line to take attention away from his shortcomings. If everyone is talking about Sara Palin, they can't talk about him. He talks as if America is hi baby, would you intrust your baby to a sitter you talked to one time. If so, you shouldn't have kids. If his election was truly about our country, he would have picked a qualified candidate. If Palin is Qualified for VP after 19 months in office, Obama is qualifed to run American France and Russia all at the same time.
Does any other woman get sick of listening to liberal feminists assume all women think like them? Newsflash – LOTS of women think like Sarah Palin!
Abortion – baby slaughtering (go check out what an aborted baby looks like, do a web search) – should absolutely always be illegal. Why is protection and the REAL right – to life – different for a defenseless little baby than any other person through the birth canal? Oh yeah, Obama doesn't care if they're left to die either in a botched "safe and legal" abortion.
You people are so incredibly stinking selfish it's unbelieveable. Your sex lives are more important than a precious baby's life?! If you can't take care of a baby that you know darn good and well how it's created, than at least have the basic decency to give it life so that someone can adopt it. How many children put up for adoption actually wish they would have been aborted instead??
Rarely is the life of the mother actually in danger – in which case a direct abortion is still murder. However, treating the mother – even knowing that the baby could die because of the treatment – is not.
I don't know how you people can live with yourselves. Just because a baby isn't "wanted" by it's mother and/or father, doesn't make it less than human.
Oh the taxpayers have to fund the care for the baby! But these same twisted "people" will pay millions of dollars to save a frog or whale or a bug.
Rod – If you want to give her a fair shake, look at her record. That's all I ask. It does, however, seem to be more than you're willing to do. That's unfortunate.
BOO-WHO… demi whimps. LOL!
Jimmie- This is not about how Palin thinks, its about how the Republican Party operates. Now you ask that we give Sara a FAIR SHAKE. Why do we try something completely new, like running a honest campaign without FEARMONGERING. If you want fairness, lets take it straight across the board. Not just where it benefits the Republican Party. Lets start being fair with being honest that our nation is in the worse possible position it could be in after 8 years. Lets be fair by admitting that for the first time since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, this country has hope for a purpose. Since before the civil rights movements, McCain's tactics are the "Norm" in politics. All the speakers last night proved it. Now that you have a man with integrity talking about putting the regular nonsense aside. He's being attacked. Barack Obama is going to be this nations next president. When he's trying to clean up the Bush mess (that can't be cleaned up in a single term), I'd like every Republican in this country to be FAIR. Lets see that happen.
Mr Jimmie I am not comparing Obama to Palin my statement about her running the country is in reference to her having to step up if Mccain doenst make the full 4 years and that should be taken into consideration no mater who the pres elect is and no I wouldnt feel comfortable with someone who has problems leading her child in the right direction that says alot to me she is careless at home and Im sure it will follow her straight to Washington. What was John thinking? I know repulican will not admit it to it but John did not do his homework he jumped the gun in picking his running mate.
Mr Jimmie 3.3 percent thats alot wowww I wonder if its from the stimulous checks sent out by baby Bush to apoligize for screwing up 8 years of americans losing their jobs to call centers in other countries or just plain closing there doors that BILL CLINTON helped open up and foreclosing on homes and not being able to put gas in cars and healthcare for family members and puying high energy bills I personally have made it through the "Bush" storm but I care about others that have been put trough hell and back because of the economy and I want to see a change for the better not worse Democrates have hearts Republicans have jokes Oh and who shall we blame the stock market on Jimmie is it rising or falling?
YES WE CAN
OBAMA/BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CORRECTION MY FIRST COMMENT IS FOR Mr James
Tracy- I can respect your post, however, you can only speak for yourself. And I think its incredibly selfish to assume you can speak for other women across america. Or tell them what to do with their bodies. I belive that every body has a right to do with her or his body as he or she chooses. The goverment, she spend time figuring out what to do with all these lost souls in fostercare, or redefining the adoptive system. Rather than force unwanted and unplanned preganancies. My stomach knots up everytime I hear about a young mother drowning or killing a baby thats already brought into this world. I dont' think its a liberalist approach to agree to disagree and respect anothers right to choose. The best predictor for the present is the past. The supreme court ruled on this issue years ago, bringing the dead to life is often not wise.
I agree, this is ri-di-cu-lous!
First off, Obama does NOT write his own speeches. I'd like to hear one he DID write. Maybe then he wouldn't sound so grand.
And second, to say that a McCain/Palin ticket is more of the same just means they haven't been paying attention. They are renegades in their own party. They ARE NOT more of the same. I have faith they WILL shake things up!
PS….
Rod: You said, "My stomach knots up everytime I hear about a young mother drowning or killing a baby thats already brought into this world."
So why doesn't your stomach knot up when you hear of a mother killing her baby while it's growing in the womb? What's the difference? Because that's when MY stomach knots up……
And btw, I'm a woman. A young one. And a mother of two. And not so rich. It's not so freakin' hard….. and definitely not hard enough to kill a life for.
Rod, I'll make you a deal. When your guy campaigns using the same standard you apply to the Republicans, you'll have room to talk about fearmongering. Until then, it's just an empty buzzword from someone who's doing a bit of "fearmongering" himself in these comments.
As for your shuddering at infanticide, you should probably look into Obama's opposition to a law in Illinois that specifically prevented it. His prevarications about what he did would be instructional to you, perhaps.
This is all the same bland and unimaginative stuff to me. This lady, Palin, is the same example of the grotesquely distorted and half-baked understanding of the world around us that most conservative republicans have.
I love how "baby murdering" terms are popping up left and right. It's so funny how a bunch of generally desensitized husks can be so existential when it's convenient.
I think abortion is something terrible, don't get me wrong. It is a sad situation, and it's disgusting. Yet, there are definite situations where it is necessary, and it is not a choice anybody else can make.
I also love how there is so much defense for an unborn fetus and so much indifference for a struggling animal. For the record I think PETA is terrible and mostly about contradictions and shock value. But it seems to be much easier for republicans to swipe at PETA than to actually consider the issues.
(this concept is the same for environmentalism)
So, as a person on the fence, I see nothing more than the same desperate sniping and less of anything INTERESTING.
Ah, so typical. Wrapping an empty and shallow point in a witty snipe. I bet doing that for years and reaching no solution has made it a well trained instinct for repelling new ideal, that and blind dismissal.
The general lack of respect we have for animal life is not very far from the lack of respect we seem to have for human life, no matter how "vast" the differences are between the two. Just face it, it's not about "life". I'm sure if you met a satanic priestess and her national socialist hubbie on the way to the abortion clinic you'd open the door and bow.
My point is that certain issues connect, albeit in generally simple ways, and should be recognized as issues as well if the same principle applies. Such as "life"
These are the kind of situations that we have to measure the moral/honor and logic/principle area with precision, and give each fairness.
It's not a snipe. It's the truth. If you believe that killing a human being and killing an animal are morally equivalent, I have no common ground with you at all.
And no, I don't celebrate when someone has an abortion, no matter who that person it. It's offensive to me that you would assume so.
Now with that, I'm closing this thread to further comments. I've spent most of my time today riding herd on the comments here and I really don't have the time to do it more. Perhaps if some of you fill up my coffers, I'll treat it more like a job.
Palins speech was similar to a lynch mob, trying to draw out blood. She really did not have a stand on how she would represent us and took out her cat claws. She stretched the truth of her experience, which does a disservice to all Americans. Come on, we are not stupid. We know you are only in it for yourself and not the people of the great US.
We need Barack who will lead America to greater prosperity, because he will be able to bring in other countries to work with us to fight against terrorism. He is well received by other countries and will create strong allies. Do you all think Palin and McCain can do that? No, other countries will see McCain the same as Bush and they will not respect Palin because she lacks experience.
I wonder what nutroots site has linked me today.
Look, guys, here’s the deal. Most of what you’re saying is simply, objectively, not true. The rest of what you say is purely subjective, yet you state it with the certainty of scientific face.
Put down the talking points and step away. I know we can have a civil conversation. It isn’t going to happen, though, so long as you all sound like little parrots for the DNC.
There is a vast difference between a human being and an animal. If you can’t agree with that, we really don’t have common ground for conversation.