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[uberscheisse]

nothing about her performance suggested that she had done any serious digging.

she did well from a PR standpoint. and that's it. it's not enough.

[gangpae]

[mises]

Her picture looks like the picture of that obnoxious poster cinsinatilink or whatever.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081003/capt.a9a835d7222843cda7329d263a718f02.vice_presidential_debate_mots151.jpg?x=304&y=345&q=85&sig=epeRhKzWHHZywyZbqQ6_QQ--

[Gopher]

Mises: that pic comes from someone's disingenuously searching all available pics and then selecting only those which portray S. Palin in a negative light. Someone could do that to any of us.

By the way...

[mises]

That pic is from the front page of the right-wing Drudge Report, with the headline:

SARAH SHOW: HIGHEST RATED DEBATE SINCE 1992

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[mithridates]

Hey, Barack Obama's back up to the highest rating he's ever had, the one right after the convention (49.2):

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

[Gopher]

Very well. But that is not who your original link cites. Playing baiting games?

In any case, in this instance, it is someone's searching all available pics for the "cutesy" one. But it backfires when someone like you, someone who opposes her, views it.

At the end of the day, she is not an obnoxiously-looking woman; she is a good-looking woman; a former beauty queen, I understand. And none of this matters, because we should not be judging candidates on whether or not they strike us as photogenic.

All this being said, I, too, could not stand cincinattilink, or whatever his name was.

[mises]

[Gopher]

Mises: most liberals in fact dwell on America's faults and shortcomings. They obsess on the negative and speak, at times, in superlatives and hyperbolically. Anything positive, they bitterly denounce as flag-waving, and they even assign mental illness to those who disagree. America is the worst place in the world, American healthcare is the worst in the world, and Americans are the stupidest people in the world, etc.

Liberals such as historian Linda K. Kerber see America as little different than totalitarian Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Liberals such as M. Moore do indeed seem to hate America. Liberal organizations such as MoveOn.org have called our military commanders "traitors." And grass-roots liberals such as Rev. J. Wright, someone who spoke into B. Obama's ear for decades, even serving as spiritual advisor until very recently, undeniably hate and even damn America.

I was just in a seminar with liberals. They argued for the disabled peoples' identity politics. You see people who are disabled are not really disabled. It is just that the harshly oppressive American society has constructed medical science in such as way as to oppress and harm these people, by telling them that they are different, etc. If we change the discourse we will eliminate the hierarchies, and we will see that wheelchair-bound people, blind people, mentally retarded and autistic people can do anything that so-called normal people can do. They only believe they are different now because America's thoroughly hierarchical and oppressive society and "power" have conspired to subject them to this.

Those are liberals, Mises. Liberals call B. Clinton "a Republican."

[mises]

Those are leftists. And academic leftists.

Ok, so, you're in academia. Do you think that being in the center of the circus is warping your perception of what is a normal liberal/center-left position?

[Gopher]

I would not say "a warped perception." We all see the world around us from where we stand, Mises. Who is to say which place to stand is the right place to be?

[mises]

Maybe "warp" is rude. But you certainly are exposed to the more radical end of the democratic party. No?

[On the other hand]

[Kuros]

[Gopher]