tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post6308634106680783379..comments2023-10-07T00:42:57.612-07:00Comments on The Great Endarkenment: Did Palin Win? >>>UpdatedChris in Seattlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16222544865765583990noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-3509435195649466032008-10-06T21:06:00.000-07:002008-10-06T21:06:00.000-07:00Buchanan... I think Rachel Maddow invites him on h...Buchanan... I think Rachel Maddow invites him on her show because she feels sorry for the old guy. I wonder if he has fantasies of converting her.Chris in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222544865765583990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-77060416075780960082008-10-05T09:09:00.000-07:002008-10-05T09:09:00.000-07:00kelso is the best....with standards set SO low ove...kelso is the best....<BR/><BR/>with standards set SO low over the past 28 years of GOP rule -- starting reagan and culiminating in 43 --- it is hard to believe they could get lower, but with Palin - you have a new gold star in intellectual vapidity.\<BR/><BR/>go back and watch parts over --- i made a DVD from work (one of the side benefits of working for a TV station) -- and while she was better than the couric interviews -- she is still amazingly incoherent and awful ---- only she covered it so well.<BR/><BR/>pat buchanan can eat shit -- he is an evil pathetic douchebag beyound belief - if he thinks she was fresh, wait till she is president and we see what fresh can really doDistributorcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10149154929149577121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-63892835411175543512008-10-04T17:28:00.000-07:002008-10-04T17:28:00.000-07:00Your html skills were fine but not necessary. Mol...Your html skills were fine but not necessary. Molly Ivins was a personal hero of mine. I've read all of her books. RIP.<BR/><BR/>I grew up in Manhattan in a Russian-Jewish immigrant family which spoke English and Spanish (long story: English mostly, Spanish when the topics were serious, and if my folks were talking Yiddish, my sister and I knew to run in the opposite direction because they were pissed about something!) <BR/><BR/>At 47, I'm sort of in the last age cohort of US born Jewish people to have grown up poor! Having grown up literally in the shadow of the headquarters of the ILGWU and having had very much a street childhood but with ambitious, literate and literary parents I've marinated in all kinds of politics since birth.<BR/><BR/>My views are not terribly different than those of the suburban liberals I met when I went to college but I was very different culturally. <BR/><BR/>In my neighborhood, the idea of being a true LEFTIST and also being an ambitious capitalist were not mutually-exclusive and as far as I've come and as patrician in a way as I am, I'm always the 11 yo boy hustling gin rummy or parlay cards or los dados ("dice") with my Puerto-Rican buddies.<BR/><BR/>Jeez, I'm twice divorced and have been a prick at times in my life.<BR/><BR/>But, trust me, I AM patrician. I have an MBA with honors. I have founded two off-shore hedge-funds and have lived all over the world, currently in Panama. I have presented papers before the World Bank and all that shit.<BR/><BR/>So, Molly Ivins really spoke to me in that sense. She was a great thinker and a real humanist but was proud of her toughness and Texas culture and saw no conflict among ALL her self-identities.<BR/><BR/>I get the same sense from the way you describe yourself, but being a part of the blogosphere for a number of years now, I've come to see that a lot of Americans are really open-minded and have no trouble dealing with the complexities of being human.<BR/><BR/>Fuck it, I'm more or less in exile from the US right now over certain arcane changes in Bush/Frist gambling and international financial transaction regulation, and I loathe the Palin aspects of American culture. But for some reason, I can't shake my optimism about American people.KELSO'S NUTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636889771989672795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-39331815811139168932008-10-04T09:58:00.000-07:002008-10-04T09:58:00.000-07:00Kelso.. Glad to see you here. I think it was Mol...Kelso.. Glad to see you here. <BR/><BR/>I think it was <A HREF="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu_Bwm.dIG9oATFVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMTNuNTZzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=12cq8nhqe/EXP=1223224560/**http%3a//www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/archive.html" REL="nofollow">Molly Ivins.</A>Molly Ivins who said, Dubya loves politics, but hates governing; governing bores him." I probably shouldn't use quotation marks there, since I'm sure that's not exact, but it conveys her sentiments. I used to think Dubya was stupid. It took a while for me to realize that his "stupidity" was a smokescreen to hide his evil, vile nature.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, I agree with what you say about the land grant system, etc. There are some VERY good schools that have arisen from that system: Penn State, Michigan State, TX A&M (?). I know that when I wrote what I did, over at D-Cup's, that I was talking about a segment of our population, and only a segment of the Southern population. <BR/><BR/>(let's see if my attempt at html was a success)Chris in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222544865765583990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-13352564210613715662008-10-03T22:05:00.000-07:002008-10-03T22:05:00.000-07:00CHRIS: Palin is not close to being in Chimpy's lea...CHRIS: Palin is not close to being in Chimpy's league. He is without question the worst president in the history of the USA, but...even he is a more serious and thoughtful person than Palin is. I've written it before and I'll write it again, I'm sure. Chimpy is no intellectual but he's a good campaigner, often a quick-study, and has to his credit one very fine debate performance on the issues against Al Gore. Sarah Palin does not measure up to Bush's extraordiarily low standard.<BR/><BR/>Picking up on your response to my comment on D-CUP's post, a school like UT-Knoxville and really the whole Public University/Land-Grant/Community College system is a great strength of the US and probably one of the reasons the return to the unit of labor is so high. [The virtual privatizing of that system in Republican hands is another story but nevertheless, the USA's public institutions of higher learning are excellent, whether or not the students or their families are goofy]. <BR/><BR/>Living in South America, I am exposed all the time to how culturally awkward a lot of Americans are.<BR/><BR/>There is a basic problem with the mythology and symbology. The love of war. The need to punish. The racism. The homophobia. The jingoism. The xenophobia. The religious superstitions. The fear. Yes, these are a bit peculiar to the (Red) States but in terms of innate brains or reasoning ability, I just don't see how Americans could possibly be weaker than any other culture. And I don't see why all Americans' hopes and goals for themselves and their families should be much different than those of any other culture.KELSO'S NUTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14636889771989672795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-72729170302459882422008-10-03T21:39:00.000-07:002008-10-03T21:39:00.000-07:00I read it somewhere tonight: Bush with Boobs.I read it somewhere tonight: Bush with Boobs.Chris in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16222544865765583990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4429091786003738995.post-54247315077394171932008-10-03T13:04:00.000-07:002008-10-03T13:04:00.000-07:00No, she didn't win. She played a role at that podi...No, she didn't win. She played a role at that podium. She is a pretty face with a pretty narrow world view and a stunning incuriosity about the world.<BR/><BR/>She is G Dubya.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com