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Friday 
26 December 2008
friday follies
lots of people who thought sarah palin was ready to be president are now dissing caroline kennedy.
kennedy’s unqualified to be the next senator from new york, they say.
it’s funny, isn’t it?
calling the republican chick “unqualified” was sexist. calling kennedy unqualified is de rigueur.
key differences between the two: kennedy has a functioning cerebellum, and can answer simple questions.
note: many democrats also are questioning kennedy’s bona fides for a senate seat. she hasn’t run for office, and has sometimes declined even to vote. she’s not stood in line for this opportunity, but rather, has cut to the front on the basis of her family brand.
i’m not agitating for her. but i do enjoy the irony.
and i dig her little tattoo.
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pakistani troops are massing on the border with india. this is bad.
for those of you scoring at home, india and pakistan loathe each other, and both flex nuclear arms. and india seems inclined to blame the pakistani military for the recent terror attack in mumbai.
everyone will have to hope the indian government doesn’t favor the bush doctrine of pre-emptive war…and attack guinea.
note: for those of you not scoring at home, blame google.
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speaking of vp-wannabe palin, she may want to reconsider her daughter’s pending shotgun marriage into the johnston family.
it seems that soon-to-be granny sherry johnston was busted for trafficking in rush limbaugh’s drug of choice, oxycontin. the funny thing is, the alaska state police delayed acting on its investigation until after the election, allegedly out of political consideration for granny palin.
tsk, politics corrupting justice. how unseemly. right scooter?
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final friday dialogue…
isaac toussie: “thanks for the pardon, mr. president.”
gwb: “psyche!”
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It is an ironic thing, but not in the way you mentioned. You see, one of those two women is actually an elected politician, having risen with no family name to the governorship of her state. The other woman’s primary accomplishment is editing a book of her mother’s poetry. The irony is that some Dems think the latter is qualified to be a Senator of one of the biggest states population-wise, but the former wasn’t qualified for the essentially meaningless job of VP. But hey, maybe actually accomplishing something doesn’t mean much to an “intellectual” like yourself.
By the way, Pakistan and India have been engaged in low grade war in the Kashmir for basically the last 50 years. India is not actually blaming the Pakistani military, but rather the groups that they are refusing to turn over to the Indians. Another factoid you may have missed in your “intellectual” musings. And Sarah Palin’s the idiot?
It’s interesting how “allegations” count as facts to you, but you don’t seem to know any actual facts. Weird.
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First you guys all start sounding like Dick Cheney, and now it turns out Obama is emulating Bush!
“In a New York Times Magazine profile of Robert Gibbs, the incoming White House press secretary, Mark Leibovich reveals that the Obama campaign emulated the “Bush model” of tight information control. Campaign manager David Plouffe acknowledged that they “talked a lot about the Bush model” inside the campaign and, like the Bush White House, sought to limit the spread of information internally so as to avoid the leaking that badly damaged the campaigns of Obama’s rivals.
There are other similarities. During the 2004 election, Dick Cheney famously kicked the New York Times off his campaign plane. Obama apparently did the same to three newspapers this fall–the Washington Times, the New York Post, and the Dallas Morning News–all of which had endorsed John McCain. At the time, the Obama campaign cited space concerns. But when Leibovich asked Gibbs whether reporters were kicked off the plane for considerations other than space, Obama’s spokesman first said “no” but later amended his response. “On occasion, yes,” Gibbs said, adding that such instances were infrequent. “I mean, were there occasions? Sure.””
Perhaps this quote is apropos:
“No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”