I too, have no degree, have bounced around colleges since 1974, and have not accomplished much.

Sometimes I wallow in despair.

But now I have hope! I’m going to move to Alaska! I’m going to be the freakin’ governor! I have the qualifications!

Finally, a purpose in life! Then, maybe, if I can find a role-model to be president … hey, didn’t that George Bush’s kid do it? Oh, the possibilities are endless.

And they said the American Dream was dead!

If McCain called Cindy what he is widely reported to have called her…and that particular four letter epithet has been universally substantiated… can you just guess ( I cannot!) what he has to say about SWWNBN?

He never had to “babysit” Cindy–her drug problems were hers to deal with–but at this advanced age, John finds himself in position of babysitting SWWNBN.

Good heavens!

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Who was it that said, “Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.”?

Oh to be a fly on Biden’s podium come Thursday nite.

When I saw a snipped piece of the joint interview on the Daily Show, I think, with McCain favorably comparing Sarah’s experience, to Clinton’s “as governor of Arkansas,” I was pissed.

This blog has compared the experience quite well.

A couple of weeks ago, an ex-mayor friend in Alaska sent me a similar piece of nonsense, comparing Palin to Teddy Roosevelt. “Two years as governor.” “Lots of kids,” etc. Only “puts on underwear one leg at a time” seemed to be missing.

Roosevelt was the Police Commissioner who cleaned up the filthy NYPD. He was a war hero who won the Medal of Honor. He was governor of NY at a time when ten times as many people lived in NYC as now live in Alaska. He was the quintessential world traveler. He read a book a day and wrote 35 of his own. After becoming president, he broke up the Rockefeller oil trusts, initiated food and drug safety regulations, won a Nobel Prize for negotiating the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese war, negotiated the end of the coal strike of 1902, etc., etc. Shamefully denied the “R” nomination in 1912 he invented a party, got it qualified in about half the states and gave Wilson a hell of a run for his money, finishing way ahead of Taft with Debs bringing up the rear.

Sarah was the problematic mayor of a small town in which I lived. She damn near got recalled in her first year in office thanks to her imperiousness and spending habits. She took VECO money, over 10% of her Lt. Gov. campaign contributions in 2002, splitting the fundamentalist vote with the eventual winner, Loren Leman. (VECO ex-CEO Bill Allen testified in Sen. Ted Stevens’ corruption trial today. Bill Allen’s pled guilty to money laundering. ) She got 21% in that primary. She won 51% of the primary vote against a disgraced incumbent governor in 2006. She took the governor’s seat with a plurality, winning by only 6 points, despite the Democrats being outnumbered by “R” registrants by about 3:5, and despite a huge GOTV by the fundy churches. I watched the debate from “Gavel-to-Gavel” just a few days ago. Up against two extremely bright and experienced policy wonks, she rigorously avoided specifics. She did once again support the “Bridge to Nowhere” though, just days before the general election. It’s 90 minutes, linked at http://www.andyhalcro.com

She dropped in and out of at least four second and third rate colleges in three states in six years before getting a degree. I’d bet she was a “C” student in a lightweight program, but no one seems to have checked. I am quite familiar with the community college she attended in the middle of that walkabout. She is a mediocre intellect, dishonest, the epitome of opacity rather than transparency, a perfect picture of “do what I say, not what I do.” She is credibly said to be homophobic and racist. I’m not sure she’s ever read any book besides the Bible. She may well be impeached for Troopergate, as with Watergate and Monicagate, it not being the crime, but the cover-up.

For McCain to indulge in this sort of shameful “comparison” with Bill Clinton is nothing short of mendacious.

When I saw a snipped piece of the joint interview on the Daily Show, I think, with McCain favorably comparing Sarah’s experience, to Clinton’s “as governor of Arkansas,” I was pissed.

This blog has compared the experience of the two quite well. “Next to none,” vs. “Loaded.”

A couple of weeks ago, an ex-mayor friend in Alaska sent me a similar piece of nonsense, comparing Palin to Teddy Roosevelt. “Two years as governor.” “Lots of kids,” etc. Only “puts on underwear one leg at a time” seemed to be missing.

Roosevelt was the Police Commissioner who cleaned up the filthy NYPD. He was a war hero who won the Medal of Honor. He was governor of NY at a time when ten times as many people lived in NYC as now live in Alaska. He was the quintessential world traveler. He read a book a day and wrote 35 of his own. After becoming president, he broke up the Rockefeller oil trusts, initiated food and drug safety regulations, won a Nobel Prize for negotiating the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese war, negotiated the end of the coal strike of 1902, etc., etc. Shamefully denied the “R” nomination in 1912 he invented a party, got it qualified in about half the states and gave Wilson a hell of a run for his money, finishing way ahead of Taft with Debs bringing up the rear.

Sarah was the problematic mayor of a small town in which I lived. She damn near got recalled in her first year in office thanks to her imperiousness and spending habits. She took VECO money, over 10% of her Lt. Gov. campaign contributions in 2002, splitting the fundamentalist vote with the eventual winner, Loren Leman. She got 21% in that primary. She won 51% of the vote against a disgraced incumbent governor in 2006. She took the governor’s seat with a plurality, winning by only 6 points, despite the Democrats being outnumbered by “R” registrants by about 3:5, and despite a huge GOTV by the fundy churches. I watched the debate from “Gavel-to-Gavel” just a few days ago. Up against two extremely bright and experienced policy wonks, she rigorously avoided specifics. She did once again support the “Bridge to Nowhere” though, just days before the general election. It’s 90 minutes, linked at http://www.andyhalcro.com

She dropped in and out of at least four second and third rate colleges in three states in six years before getting a degree. I’d bet she was a “C” student in a lightweight program, but no one seems to have checked. I am quite familiar with the community college she attended in the middle of that walkabout. She is a mediocre intellect, dishonest, the epitome of opacity rather than transparent, a perfect picture of “do what I say, not what I do.” She is said to be homophobic and racist. I’m not sure she’s ever read any book besides the Bible. She may well be impeached for Troopergate, as with Watergate and Monicagate, it not being the crime, but the cover-up. A workers comp and contract fix is rearing its ugly head.

For McCain to indulge in this sort of shameful “comparison” with Bill Clinton is nothing short of mendacious.

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