Posts by Paul Williams
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I don't remember quite such an unabashed emphasis on this subject in any previous campaign.
Don, it appears that oil's big in both campaigns, Obama said:
In 10 years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
From the transcript at the NY Times.
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Insofar as I got the date wrong. But they sure did explain it.
"And kill us they did, this time on US soil. It was on September the eleventh... 9/11".
Then they showed Giuliani at Ground Zero but not Bush, which is extraordinary.
That's surreal.
Palin couldn't lose. The build up of negative coverage was such she would have met expectations if she'd come out to the podium, got McCain's name wrong, dismembered a blow-up Hilary Clinton doll with her teeth, urged the bombing of Afsponistan and then announced the Day of Rapture is at hand.
Agreed, it's like they'd been cribbing notes from scripts of West Wing however.
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The Ninth of September!
No, you're kidding right?
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if the NSW Liberals didn't have such problems reaching the Olympian heights of mere incompetence.
That's a very fair and accurate assessment Craig... pity this scandal overshadowed the appointment of the 25th Govenor General and the first woman to hold the office. I hope she's the last (not woman in the office, the office itself).
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If you thought US politics was in turmoil; news just in that the Premier of NSW, Iemma, has resigned... not sure who'll get the top job but there's a chance that both leader and deputy (Carmell Tebbutt) will go to left-aligned candidates (such is the turmoil within the right). All of this is a spillover from the failed attempt to privatise state energy...
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Slate's got a handy FAQ on Palin here.
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And I was going to say, hands off Molly! Just because she played the rich princess that one time in the Breakfast Club? But her latest project turns out to be spookily relevant.
Indeed. I didn't mean to slight Ringwall; just the she seemed to regularly portray the kind of preppy midwestern women who seem to be everywhere at the RNC.
The Harry Truman comparison they cooked up for Palin was duff too. Truman might have come from a small town, but he spent 10 years in the Senate (busting war profiteers, among other things) before FDR tapped him as veep in 1944.
And do you think thought was given to Truman's historic use of atomic weaponry? Perhaps they did and it was intended; that scares me most. I wonder if McCain might at least be a better commander in chief than W, but Palin? Talk about reversing gender stereotypes.
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sage, put the sherry back... innit earlier in your neighbourhood?
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We sniff panties in a non-partisan way. Priceless!
Hey, careful about throwing about the "sniffing" jibe! In Australia, Western Australia specifically, that's sensitive stuff!
if thats wood - its smokun!!! :)
Sage, lets for a moment assume you've got insight on this, insight from the UK that is, but are you fr'real? "smokun" (do you smoke, I don't so perhaps you're right, smoking's cool again?). She wasn't terrible, she was quite good for her target audience but that's a preppy-wannabee mob; the kind who want to hang in the rougher parts of town but only with a relocated Molly Ringwall-type. Everytime I see/hear Palin, I think of Valley Girl with icebergs.
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Simon, Kracklite... if you need any encouragement, I'd certainly appreciate it if you carry on with this topic while I step sideways to watch; sometimes PAS is like the Discovery Channel ;-)