Comments on: Vanity Fair on Palin. Let the Skewering Begin.

By: aker

aker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:42:41 +0000

After calling Africa a country, Palin’s office ordered a map of the world! Unfortunately she will probably think the world is flat now.

By: GinaM

GinaM — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:15:17 +0000

I think the reason why we haven’t heard from GINO about the VF article is because it’s all TRUE. Also her crazy fans haven’t come up with an appropriate spin just yet. Notice she takes her cues from them. Now that there is all this infighting over her she is probably sitting back and waiting to see how that’s going to turn out too.

By: Moose Pucky

Moose Pucky — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:38:15 +0000

“As in any resource-rich developing country with weak institutions and woeful oversight, corruption and official misconduct go easily unchecked.” Yep, yep.

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:54:05 +0000

Pat,
In her mind she is “God”

By: Pat, Washington state

Pat, Washington state — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:28:39 +0000

I finally got through the whole article, but only after I printed it out. It was too hard to read on-line. Maybe because it’s just too hard to even follow anything about Sarah Palin, whether it’s coming out of her mouth or just the list of all her nutty behavior.

I think the part that shocked me the most (because I’d heard most of it) was the birth announcement for Trig. Good grief. How does she think that it’s OK to send something out from God? Wow.

By: trisha

trisha — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:54:32 +0000

One thing I disagree with– The article stated that she could probably win the Iowa Caucus. He is probably thinking her “folksy charm” would play well there.

I lived in Iowa for 20 years (as recently as three years ago) and I can’t see Iowan’s falling for Palin. I may be wrong, but these are salt of the earth people who don’t buy into a lot of balony.

Her winking, flirting, skirting the issues style of politics doesn’t seem like it would play well with people who are REALLY concerned with the issues. Before the caucuses, people in Iowa really educated themselves on the candidates, their records and their plans for the Country. As the first caucus in the Nation, they take their role very seriously. They know the world is watching.

The candidates work for years in Iowa doing town hall meetings, traveling the state endlessly, and answering a lot of questions from concerned citizens. She can only wink and use her charms for so long before the people of Iowa would get fed up with her non-answers and want to know her record and where she stand on the issues that impact Iowa and our Nation.

I don’t think she can fool them for long.

By: oregonbird

oregonbird — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:44:10 +0000

In reading through the comments, I notice that, from the time the VF article came out, right up to today, there are commenters who present *lots* of text, and then a single sentence of their own view. *Lots* of text!

Can we take it as a given that we’ve all hopped over and read the article, and a line or two will remind us of the exact section that you’d like to offer commentary on? I honestly find the commentary to be more immediate and interesting than the article.

I found something missing from the article — Palin’s prediliction for surrounding herself with men who loathe and despise women. WAR comes to mind, as does her most recent hire. I wouldn’t mind seeing a high-class rag taking on the mental and emotional causes for actively working to place women in the hands of men who would subjugate and harm them.

By: Moose Pucky

Moose Pucky — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:08:14 +0000

And (hee-hee): “Palin turns her debate with Joe Biden into a winkathon. By J. Scott Applewhite/A.P. Images.”

By: Moose Pucky

Moose Pucky — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:04:19 +0000

This is good also: “Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure.”

And kudos once again to whoever came up with the book title:
Northern Overexposure

By: Moose Pucky

Moose Pucky — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:02:43 +0000

I rather like this line from the Vanity Fair article: “Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics—with a fine appreciation of life’s injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor—ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?”