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Oh here this will cheer you up or bore you: John McCain does an interview with Maine reporter Rob Caldwell and basically does not answer any questions. Here is a direct quote from the 4:24 mark in the video (which we did not embed because the HTML was such utter garbage with an autoplay feature that could not be killed): “What experience does [Sarah Palin] have in the field of national security?” Answer: “Energy.” [WCSH6.com]
So Mary Lou Retton should be president?
I didn’t know she had “energy”. I guess I was wrong before when I thought she was the least qualified candidate for VP in the history of the world.
Q: What’s her plan for education?
A: Armadillo.
Energy? Is that what the R’s are calling meth these days?
Q: What experience does [Sarah Palin] have in the field of foreign policy?
A: Mooseburgers.
Gabby Johnson is right!
Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expresses a courage little seen in this day and age!
Wait, what?
I’m voting for the candidate who can chug the most red bulls.
Slightly off topic, but everyone should immediately read through all five clicks of the WaPo story about Cindy’s jones for narcotics. Juan’s right: she is a cunt and a trollop.
Delicious:
Q: What are her views on federalism?
A: Apple butter shoehorn gamma ray.
We up here in the “other” northern state are so proud of Rob for - um - actually conducting an interview and not being awed by WALNUTS! Go Rob Go!
Grrgggllllmmmmphhh!
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Is anyone else just completly gob-smacked by all this horeshit?
“Energy” is Caribou Barbie’s “POW.” She will now proceed to tell you how energy is the basis for life, the universe and everything. Therefore, experience in energy makes her qualified not only to run this country, but to also sub in for God, when he takes a day off for golf.
“She probably knows more about energy than anyone in the United States”
…yeah
Why why why do people insist on quizzing WALNUTS!?
Remember the day when McCain picked Palin and we were all like “hahah, he’s going to have to withdraw her because she’s corrupt, knows nothing, and will be slaughtered by Joe Biden!” ? That was before the Repugs managed to kung fu Hopey off message and slide the polls 10 points and before the conservatards embraced Palin no matter how immoral her family is and how unqualified she is and before the Salon article I read where white working class voters still hate the negras anyway and 20% of them still think Hopey is a Mooslem and it turned out it didn’t matter if Walnuts even chose the Moose instead of the Moose Knuckle… Yeah, that was a good half day or so…
The Energizer Bunny for President. It’s corporate synergy.
grendel: Those halcyon days of yore.
Some good follow-up questions would be, 1) Haven’t we had an administration who “knows energy” for the past eight years? 2) What was the price of “energy” when they came into office? 3) What is the price of this same “energy” now?
So Sarah Palin is America’s Greatest Mind when it comes to energy issues? Did I hear McCain right when he said that nobody else in the ENTIRE DAMN COUNTRY knows as much about energy issues as Sarah Palin? … or was I just mishearing what he said, due to all the white noise caused by the cacophonic symphony of spontaneous aneurysms going off in my head as a result of McCain projectile vomiting his cognitive dissonance all over the TV screen?
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…but a very wealthy one who funded all his various runs for office.
API: I think what he meant was, “If there’s one person on Earth who is farther up the ass of Big Oil than the current occupants of the White House, it’s whoever is the Governor of Alaska.”
Ok- I’m at work where I don’t have time to check in as much as I like (damn Preschoolers). But on an earlier story (no recollection which one) AngryBlakGuy asked the legitimate question of when did we start wanting a President we could identify with rather than one who knew what the hell he/she was doing.
I think it comes down to several things. First, we’ve told an entire generation of kids who are now coming of age that they were all superstars. Everybody got a trophy for playing- no need to win. Ergo, they learned that even the President of the largest free country in the world was no better than they were.
Secondly, media of all sorts have made familiarity the name of the game. We know everything there is to know about everyone, and if we don’t, we can find it all out in a moment’s search. Formality is a thing of the past and if you wouldn’t want to have a beer with someone, they aren’t worth your time and/or vote.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, knowledge is not required when everything is boiled down to short quips to accommodate the ever shrinking American attention span. The smart guys are making the money and ruling the world because they’ve taken time to learn. Joe Blow would rather watch young sluts on MTV have sex/throw tantrums/grind around the room than read Economic policy.
We will only prevail if we teach the next generation to pay attention, recognize what’s happening in their world, and realize that it takes work to bring about change. I am proud to say that I’ve done this with my 13 year old daughter. She took some fool out to the woodshed in Social Studies class the other day for suggesting that just because McCain was a POW he was qualified to be Commander in Chief. Her teacher sent me an email regarding the event- I teared up a little.
“She once made a battery out of a potato.”
“She courageously got out of her car and pumped the fuel herself that one time.”
Tawmn: win
cal: We need to get Todd to participate in one of those baking contests like all the other candidates wives had to do, you know the one that Bill and Cindy were in and some stupid intern gave her…whatever
Man, I bet he makes a great Moosburger with side of Freedom fries and topped off with with meth seasoning.
I think we need a VP with the national security credentials of governing where one inhabitable part of Russia can be seen from one inhabitable part of Alaska. Isn’t seeing one part of something from another part of something over a large body of water the greatest foreign policy challenge of the next two decades?
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…I can just imagine John McCain’s future responses on Sarah Palin:
Q. What experience does Sarah Palin have in education?
A. She let her kids watch “Sesame Street”
Q. What experience does Sarah Palin have in the stock market?
A. Her husband has a 401K
Q. What experience does Sarah Palin have in the war in Afganistan?
A. Her son is in Iraq
Q. What experience does Sarah Palin have in preventing teen pregnancy?
A. Her daughter is pregnant
cal: She’s close to Russia for God’s Sake!
irisheyes: If your daughter already knows that, then she’s ahead of at least 50% of the population.
AngryBlakGuy: Actually, based on WalNUTS response, I think his future responses would be more like:
Q. What experience does Glasses! have on education?
A. Pork rinds.
Q. What experience does Glasses! have on the stock market?
A. Bananaphone.
Q. What experience does Glasses! have in the Afghanistan war?
A. Well, Glasses! is a strong proponent of the American right to defend ourselves from… oh, I’m just fucking with ya. My real answer is “mousetrap.”
NoWireHangers: Witch! Witch!
irisheyes: Can we have your daughter in the presidential race? I think I like her even more than Barry.
RubberSoul: The answer to all three of those questions is “Liberal Democrat terrorist 9-11 Putin America’s enemies mental recession Liberal.”
Ha ha, I just loooove hearing McCain defend Palin. He gets all stuttery as he chokes out lie after lie. Actually, he gets all stuttery even defending himself. Can’t wait for the debates. Also, now that McCain has set her up as the nation’s foremost energy expert, the media needs to hammer Palin with energy questions.
The thing that’s killing me is that “energy” isn’t an answer to “what’s your foreign policy experience” any more than “drill, drill, drill!” saves us from foreign dependence on oil.
I know I’m asking a lot out of the average American citizen, but they do realize that oil is pumped by private companies, sold on an international commodity exchange and generally gets snapped up by China who can afford to buy it at a higher price?
Dealing with “energy” means dealing with private oil companies and just maybe the US Department of the Interior and a foreign trade commission or two. Every once in a while, she signs a state bill that someone else introduced. She meets with the odd lowly official forced to endure a trip to the tundra. For all practical purposes, she’s slightly more powerful than what amounts to the greeter for the Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
I think it’s just one of those old-people things. Like asking him what kind of Jello he wants with his lunch and he answers with some story about a dog he used to have. Not a big deal.
shortsshortsshorts:
…and billed the taxpayers for non-Governor work.
You were right Ms. Wonkette, it bored me.
irisheyes: More about the young sluts on MTV please.
So, I kinda have a legit question: If Gov. Palin is such and AMAZING energy expert (in such a well-qualified manner that she knows how to relieve this country of our dependence on foreign supply), why is Alaska SO dependent on the lower 48 for money? Shouldn’t AK be fiscally independent if she’s such an amazing energy expert?
Well, “Energy” in that she’s governor of a state basically run by big oil. Might as well say “Petroleum” and be done with it. Or “K-Y Jelly” for the thrill of the thing. Whatever lubes your canoe.
McCain is catching her stupidity. It’s contagious.
irisheyes: American anti-intellectualism has a longer history than that. One could argue that it cost Nixon his first Presidential run, so it’s been around since before MTV.
I wonder what Al Gore thinks about all of this.
John McCain: Greatest Surrealist Performance Artist Of Our Time
UnindictedCo-conspirator: Waitaminute! He’s running for President of the United WHAT?!
I think Ms. Palin could learn a lot from Paris Hilton in regards to a responsible, sustainable energy policy. Perhaps, that will be the october surprise - the old guy could preemptively name Ms. Hilton to take over the DoE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg2uWsKK6w