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Elizabeth Cassidy
Certified Life ,Transition and Intuitive Coach, Writer, Reiki Practitioner
I am a life and Intuitive coach for women who are looking to re-invent their lives or polish up the one the lives they are leading. Branching Out Life Coaching helps people to discover "Creative Solutions for Challenging Times." I also use humor and make offerings to the chocolate goddess if it wi...
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Sarah Palin - Wednesday Night Fright

elizabeth - creative life and transition coach

Thursday, September, 4, 2008

As I prepared to listen to Sarah Palin do a  “stand up routine” last night,  I walked into the bedroom with a few essentials: my dog’s Prozac, a bottle of cheap wine to wash down before mentioned prescription drugs, a rope to hang myself and a copy of “War and Peace.” Not to read, but to knock myself out if the Prozac wasn’t kicking in fast enough

My husband chose to cower in the living room. He knew my rebuttal  would start just around the time Ms Palin decided to speak.

My first impression was that I was in a comedy club with a rather mediocre comic at the mike. Then before the Prozac kicked in, I realized that this woman before me was running for vice president of this country. My country. Chris Rock, she ain’t!

I was rather taken aback by her  infantile sarcasm and her cruelty for the sake of making a group of people giggle like kids watching something they shouldn’t on TV.

When she was gleefully attacking Barack Obama for his community service, she showed a really ugly side. A lawyer who graduated from Harvard goes back into communities that needed a voice... what point was she trying to make? That Obama is a real son of a bitch for trying to help people less fortunate? Shame on you, Ms. Palin.

So lipstick is the one difference between a soccer mom and a pit bull? Old joke. So violence in sports is okay, huh? I have not lost my sense of humor.  I just don’t get her jokes. YOU ARE RUNNING FOR VP OF THIS COUNTRY.  Go home and go to open mike night!

I am still so angry with McCain for  picking Palin and thinking that Clinton supporters like me will move away from their party to vote for a woman who doesn’t seem to have the same values as they do.    A metaphor that comes to mind is  civil rights leaders getting into a car being driven out of town by a driver in a white sheet. 

Intelligent voters, both women and men, know that to have this team win in November is just plain Palin wrong

I sadly think as the honeymoon high wears off that people will do what they always do with a “strong” woman.  They will label her a bitch. And for once I will agree.



 

 

 


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Janealvarez
Janealvarez
A McCain Coup
Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:41
Barack Obama wants the American people to send him to the White House for on-the-job training as their next president. And there are those who will argue that his inexperience as a world leader will be supplanted by a myriad of advisors to guide him. I know that I do not want to do that. I know he will adhere to the worn out saying that “the buck stops here”. In other words, he makes the call. There is no guarantee that it will be the right call despite all the advice, which he may just choose to ignore. Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, has far more expertise in all areas of government, and a political history, all of which Obama lacks. Yet Biden is considered as the lesser candidate of the two. It is obvious that Biden was chosen to offset all that Obama lacks and to pacify those who see through Obama’s inadequacies. John McCain pulled off a great coup when he named Sarah Palin as his running mate. Certainly a lot more palatable choice in the long run not only because there are those who say that McCain is so old that he could die in office but because Palin is known as a goal setter, hard worker, activist, and achiever. In my opinion, I would rather have Sarah Palin receive further political maturation and training for the Presidency as a Vice President than to have Obama receive his presidential training on-the-job where mistakes on his part could reverberate across oceans. There is a very strong likelihood that Obama will last four years if elected, and small chance that he could be impeached for errors of judgment, as was proven by ex-president Clinton. On a set of scales it now looks like the McCain-Palin ticket far outweighs the Obama-Biden ticket. All of a sudden what was a race between an under achiever and a lack luster politician has become very interesting.
Faithisit
Faithisit
Totally Agree
Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 15:01
I'm right there with you Elizabeth. Sarcastic and condescending is what Palin's speech was. At least as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama dealt with diverse people dealing with economic and health problems echoed around the country. She's falling right in line with McCain's campaign of negativity and not focusing on the issues.
ReneeCK
ReneeCK
Elite from...?
Posted Thu, 09/04/2008 - 20:46
I thought the comment she made about McCain being a Washington elite really drove home the reason why we shouldn't vote for him. He's steeped in Washington politics- lobbyists, good ol' boys, and the way things were. Barack has rolled up his sleeves and worked along side those that McCain wouldn't even toss 50 cents to on his way to a golf game. And you wanna tell me that McCain's in touch with America's problems?

I don't hear anyone at the RNC talking about the skyrocketing forclosure rates, the increased costs of oil, (in fact, their answer is we should DRILL NOW! Love those signs) or even how Sarah's message of abstinence obviously wasn't heard at her house.

Twisting facts to please a willing crowd (which, btw, doesn't even fill the stadium they're in- they were paying to get in to the DNC!) is easy- backing them, not so much.
onetwothreebirds
onetwothreebirds
Scary
Posted Wed, 09/10/2008 - 21:15

There is no way I want Palin one breath away from the Oval Office. No way.

I, too, was floored by her sarcasm during the RNC speach. As time goes on, I'm floored by the facts that are coming about about her and the ridiculous lies the Republicans are willing to conjur in her defense.

~ Rhi B.
http://rhibowman.wordpress.com