She took the first hit of fame and cannot put the pipe down now. She and her family cannot stay out of the news. I had no issues with her family life, her hairstyle or her diligently tailored suits. I didn't like her politics, her inability to answer the simplest of simple questions or her penchant for name-calling and dropping sensational sound bites not based on fact. I didn't like the fact that John McCain was not a young man, nor did he look particularly healthy. I feared this woman who could not name the last three magazines she had read would be running the country in which I live. That was my issue with Sarah Palin.
Vanity Fair has rolled out an article on the Queen of Wasilla. Check it out, they breakdown Governor Palin's strengths and weaknesses and air more dirty laundry from the campaign trail.
Soon Palin will take a crack at her own story: she has signed a book contract for an undisclosed but presumably substantial sum, and has chosen Lynn Vincent, a senior writer at the Christian-conservative World magazine, as co-author of the memoir, which is to be published next year not only by HarperCollins but also in a special edition by Zondervan, the Bible-publishing house, that may include supplemental material on faith. During the presidential campaign, Palin’s deep ignorance about most aspects of foreign and domestic policy provided her with a powerful political reason not to submit to interviews. The forthcoming book adds a powerful commercial reason.
Palin is a cipher by choice. When she chooses o reveal herself, what she reveals is not always the same thing as the truth. Her singular refusal to have in-depth conversations with the national media—even Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney, among the most saturnine political figures in modern American history, each submitted to countless detailed interviews over the years—has compounded the challenge of understanding who she really is. There has been Hollywood talk that Palin could star in a reality-TV show about running Alaska, but nothing has come of it yet. Recently, Palin did star in a week-long seriocomic feud with David Letterman over some of his borderline jokes.
In sorta-related news, she also appeared in a Runner's World article this week (complete with photo spread) declaring that she would beat Barack Obama in a foot race. Just determined to beat him somewhere, eh? Are you as over Say-Pay as I am or can you give a substantial reason why I should continue to care about her?
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Let me get this straight. You were concerned that Palin would have been the President if something happened to McCain but you're okay with a community organizer who has no experience in any shape form or fashion in running anything. Zero. Nuttin. Or could it be because he's..... well, you know the rest.
No I don't know, do enlighten me. No need for me to run Obama's resume (i.e. State Senate, US Senate) no doubt you could Google and read it if you cared to. Hey, thanks for stopping by the site.
Exactly, he was in the Senate for a couple of years. That's it. What else is there? Did I miss something. What is his background compared to Palin? Obama was never in charge of anything except community organizing. Palin was at least a Governor. And somehow Obama is more qualified? Wow!! I thought a Governor has to deal with budgets, taxes, national guard, deficits for their state and silly things like that. But being a community organizer and spending a couple of years in the Senate is the same or greater. Can you please name Obama's other qualifications? I may have missed something. Thanks.
Why is it that black people are not outraged by what Obama is doing to this economy? None of my black friends are concerned about the spending and debt he's imposing on this country. None of my black friends seem to be concerned about what's going to happen to their taxes in the near future. Why is that? I have no answers. And dear lord, please don't bring up Bush. Obama has spent Bush and every other President out of the water. No comparison. Unemployment is ramapant and continuing to rise. That means you know it's kicking black folks right in the but. Yet I don't hear the concern. I'm just don't get it.
First of all, not all black folks are unemployed, hence the Black and Bougie site. Secondly, are you really trying to say that unemployment climbed this high in the last six months? Seriously?
None of your black friends are concerned because they know none of this happened overnight and it won't be fixed overnight. When you are steering the Titanic, it takes a while to cut the wheel.
As for Barack's resume, yes - clearly you missed alot. I'll direct you to wikipedia or any major search engine to review his years of legal, foundation, corporate and public service.
Sarah Palin holds no political office at this time since she quit mid-term. The office she did hold, I would advice you to check her record of service and check with the Alaskans on how they are feeling about her lately.
Here's the fact, like him or not Barack Obama is your current President. If you don't approve of the job he's doing, pick a candidate and vote him/her in for 2012. Good luck with that.
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