*** EMBARRACUDA - the ugly, the perverse, and the putrescent ***

[crazy_vanilla]

Love this piece in Time's Swampland written by Joe Klein. Read the complete piece below:
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/embarracuda.html

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I'm of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: "Well, it is bull-pucky, but the splatter pattern is interesting..." which, of course, only serves to get your perverse message out.

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It is appropriate that the prime vessel for this assault is Sarah Palin, whose very presence on a national ticket is an insult to your intelligence. She now has "credibility," we are told, because she managed to read talking points off notecards in the debate last week with unwitting enthusiasm.

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In any case, this is rather rich coming from Palin, who is married to a man who belonged to a political party--the Alaskan Independence Party--that wanted to secede from the union.


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Then we have the ever-reliable Bill Kristol, in today's New York Times, advising Palin to bring up the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Palin, of course, believes that's a darn good idea:

“To tell you the truth, Bill, I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn’t get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.”

So then, I'd guess, it would be appropriate to bring up some of the nuttiness that passes for godliness in Palin's religious life. Leave aside the fact that The Embarracuda allowed herself to participate in a cermony that protected her from witchcraft, how about her presence--she didn't "get up and leave"-- at a sermon by the founder of Jews for Jesus, who argued that the Palestinian terrorist acts against Israel were God's "judgment" on the Jews because they hadn't accepted Jesus.

[quiet.american]

1. That was a DELIGHT to read. Thanks for posting. nt

[MarthaMyDear]

2. Thanks for posting!

What a wonderful, informative article...I avoid the right-wing rhetoric, Hannity, etc., but sometimes it pays off to know what the other side is up to...

...and what's up with the weird religious practices of Palin? EWWWWWWWW.....

[crazy_vanilla]

3. thanks

I am glad Joe Kline has a way with words. He has expressed so well what a lot of us have been thinking. This election is turning into Catch 22. It's surreal.