McCain Veep Is Woman

[adamdavid80]

Come on now.  He's just a regular blue-collar guy who was swept up into the limelight by McCain.

Calling him a regular BCG is an insult to informed, licensed bluecollar guys everywhere.  


But your point is, he shoudl have known better than make an ass of himself on the natl stage, right?  That's my point too.  (though he will probably make some bucks off this nonsense...then again, so has the whore who was fuckign eliot spitzer...bfd)

[adamdavid80]

Why? Because his very existence gave a lie to liberals' pretense that everybody wants government's help and needs government's compassion.  

Yeah, and the rightwing would NEVER seek to find dirt on a guy by scanning a blue dress for dna, or claim that someone is  a secret muslim.

I'm done here.  See ya!

[Florestan]

Well, at the least, that rules you out, so that's a reason to cheer.  (You walked into that one!)  

The worth of a man is not determined by his franchise. Goethe or Beethoven never voted. ( Not that I compare myself to them, God forbid!)

[mn dave]

( Not that I compare myself to them, God forbid!)

I compare you to a summer's day.

[Florestan]

Yeah, and the rightwing would NEVER seek to find dirt on a guy by scanning a blue dress for dna, or claim that someone is  a secret muslim.

I'm neither right nor left.

Actually, I'm a Fascist for left-wing people and a Leftist for right-wing people (been called as such). And I'm proud of it. I call myself a Liberal, in the sense of that Liberalism that was opposed by Hitler and Stalin alike.

[Florestan]

I compare you to a summer's day.

Flattering... if I'd only knew what you meant... 

[knight66]

Shakespeare stuff.

Mike

[(poco) Sforzando]

Shakespeare stuff.

Mike

Remember, though, that in comparing the (youthful male) object of his love to a summer's day, the speaker of the sonnets does so only to say the young man is "more lovely and more temperate."

Just thought I'd throw that in, so we keep the thread on topic.

[adamdavid80]

Flattering... if I'd only knew what you meant... 

He's saying he wants your balls.  I think.

[Florestan]

Shakespeare stuff.

Silly me... 

[Florestan]

He's saying he wants your balls. 

Μολών Λαβέ! 

[Sarastro]

What is the profound difference between a summer day and a summer's day?

[Lethevich]

What is the profound difference between a summer day and a summer's day?

I don't think Elizabethan English made such distinctions I don't think anybody would use the latter anymore unless they were trying to be poetic.

[Sarastro]

Thanks for explanation.

[Homo Aestheticus]

I´ve enjoyed reading the views of Camille Paglia over the years but this is perplexing:

Reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views. How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don't know their asses from their elbows.

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology -- contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.

I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns -- that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

From Salon.com

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(bold emphases mine)

[Kullervo]

Here is a nice appraisal of that Paglia piece.

[Dundonnell]

Rod Blagojevich for President

[Homo Aestheticus]

If Sarah Palin's church was burned by arsonists, it is a warning to Christians

[Lethevich]

If Sarah Palin's church was burned by arsonists, it is a warning to Christians

I love the comment left by "Ian" on that article!

[Brian]

If Sarah Palin's church was burned by arsonists, it is a warning to Christians

What an idiotic commentary.