Tag Archive for ‘Sarah Palin’
What’s so funny about a governor, a turkey and slaughtering?
By Matthew Ralph Since you have an Internet connection, you’ve probably seen the YouTube video where a turkey is being slaughtered in the background of an interview Gov. Sarah Palin gave after pardoning one of the unfortunate turkey’s kin. It’s a PR mishap for sure, considering Palin’s appearance at the turkey farm was supposed to be a light and […]
Quotation: Ayers on the campaign
Well, what I didn’t want to comment on was the political campaign. I didn’t want to enter into that. The reason is simple: I thought that I was being used as a prop in a very dishonest narrative — and I didn’t want to be part of the narrative and I couldn’t find a way […]
Quotation: Palin media frenzy
“Much of the media focus now on Sarah Palin, whether you would ever vote for her or not, is uncalled for and even more than inappropriate. Some staff members from the McCain campaign and factions of the Republican Party have found their scapegoat and the sacrifice was swift. The press smelled the blood in the […]
Dumb campaign rumors
Now that the presidential campaign is officially over, we can look back and snicker all over again at some of the dumb campaign rumors that circulated about the presidential candidates and their running mates. Some have been officially put to rest, but others will likely continue to circulate and dupe gullible e-mail readers and forwarders for years […]
Elsewhere: The Palin poll
When John McCain came back from the dead to run away with the Republican primary and Barack Obama outlasted the slash-and-burn tactics of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, I was hopeful that the 2008 presidential election might rise above the polarizing red-state/blue-state “culture war” campaign we had to live through four years ago. Surely, […]
Quotation: McCain’s experience
“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job […]