The Stepford VP, The Worst and the Dimmest

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/17659

The Stepford VP, The Worst and the Dimmest
by Bob Higgins | October 3, 2008


Last night's debate between six term Senator Joe Biden and the former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

What I saw and heard:

Joe Biden was a picture of confidence and self assurance. He took the stage with over three decades of experience in the Senate and his stature as one of the preeminent legislators of the latter half of the twentieth century and a key policy maker in the current one, was inescapable.

For the most part he offered serious and thoughtful answers to the questions which were put to him and presented a solid supportive picture of the Democratic ticket and their intentions in office.

He performed his first major job as vice president admirably if cautiously. Although I saw his anger rise several times when confronted with Palin's distortions of his and Obama's records, and her flatulent cutesiness, he kept it under control. He proved that he belongs in my White House on either position of the ticket.

Sarah Palin, doggone it, what can I say, golly, wasn't she just precious, the way she read talking points and sound bites to the cameras. She was a model of right wing Church Lady womanhood, all lip gloss and sly winks to the camera, and jeepers she was so folksy, reminded me of the time Aunt Martha fell in the privy at the family reunion.

She was the Stepford Vice President. I thought her delivery to be robotic, canned, and obviously drilled into her by rote.

Compared to the calm seriousness and substance of Joe Biden she offered the ultimate pop cultural spam of what modern Republicans pass off as political discourse.

She also pronounces the word nuclear exactly like George Bush: NuKUler. I find that single fact eerily and enormously frightening. Hell, she even cribbed on Ronald Reagan, "Now Joe, there you go again."

Palin could not be a more transparent fraud. In that area she needs no practice; she learned the curtsy and dimples shtick in the beauty pageant business.

I do not want this woman anywhere near my White House. Alaska is not far enough away, maybe we can get her a place on Big Diomede so she can see Russia for the first time.

[Cresent City Kid]

1. I found a funny tidbit on a right wing site

I was looking for potential attacks on Obama that may come with the promise of mudslinging by McCain. EXPOSEOBAMA.com had nothing except a lead story on a connection to a politician in Kenya who's biggest crime was being a peacemaker, redefined as appeasing muslims. I can't tell you any more because the "rest of the story" link went to "page cannot be displayed." Our policies and links actually go somewhere.

On topic, I did find this review of Palin's debate performance.

She killed. She had him at "Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?" She was the star. He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man. She was not petrified but peppy. The whole debate was about Sarah Palin. She is not a person of thought but of action. Interviews are about thinking, about reflecting, marshaling data and integrating it into an answer. Debates are more
active, more propelled—they are thrust and parry. They are for campaigners. She is a campaigner. Her syntax did not hold, but her magnetism did. At one point she literally winked at the nation.

You heard it folks, she is not a person of thought, and her syntax did not hold. At least on that, I agree.

[StClone]

2. Why do Repiggies want a Woman-Man?

"He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man." WTF. I know part of their insecurity is eased by emasculating Biden to make them feel potent. What I think is really going on is they can not relate to Woman as people or adults so they channel them as beings that become viable when they demonstrate power and force (more-manlike characteristics). The same thing goes for that blond thing whose name I will not post.

[Kaleko]

3. This miraculously sums up what I wrote elsewhere:

"She was the Stepford Vice President. I thought her delivery to be robotic, canned, and obviously drilled into her by rote."

What a terrifying joke to even let Wrinkly and Winky get this far!!