US Election 2008 in Three Acts - 未名交友--(www.jiaoyou8.com)

Act I
'Between a man and a woman' from 'Flogging Molly'

BETWEEN JOHNNY AND SARAH
LIFE BEGINS AGAIN
BETWEEN LOVE AND CONFUSION
THERE LIES ONLY PAIN.

chorus

TAKE MY WORD
HEAL MY SOUL
SHAKE MY PRIDE
I'M TOO PROUD TO LET GO
GIVE ME THE SUN AND SONS
AND THE MOON ABOVE
IF THE STARS AND POLLS SHOULD FALL
THEN ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS
BETWEEN JOHNNY AND SARAH
IT'S EVERYTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL
EVERYTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL

NEITHER RHYME NOR A REASON
WILL MAKE US THINK THE SAME
YOU TELL ME I'M HALF CRAZY
BUT YOU'RE INSANE

SHE SAYS 'LOVE ME LIKE YOU DID, YOU DID BEFORE'
HE SAYS 'LOVE ME LIKE YOU DID. YOU DID ONCE MORE'

chorus -> United We Are NOT Gayy

TAKE MY WORD
HEAL MY SOUL
SHAKE MY PRIDE
I'M TOO PROUD TO LET GO
GIVE ME THE SUN AND SONS
AND THE MOON ABOVE
IF THE STARS AND POLLS SHOULD FALL
THEN ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS
BETWEEN JOHNNY AND SARAH
IT'S EVERYTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL
EVERYTHING OR NOTHING AT ALL

NEITHER RHYME NOR A REASON
WILL MAKE US THINK THE SAME
YOU TELL ME I'M HALF CRAZY
BUT YOU'RE INSANE

Act II.
Vice in go-go boots?

By MAUREEN DOWD

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

So imagine my delight, my absolute astonishment, when the hokey chick flick came out on the trail, a Cinderella story so preposterous it's hard to believe it's not premiering on Lifetime. Instead of going home and watching "Miss Congeniality" with Sandra Bullock, I get to stay here and watch "Miss Congeniality" with Sarah Palin.

Sheer heaven.

It's easy to see where this movie is going. It begins, of course, with a cute, cool unknown from Alaska who has never even been on "Meet the Press" triumphing over a cute, cool unknowable from Hawaii who has been on "Meet the Press" a lot.

Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes "The Brady Bunch" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show," reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested.

Instead, they embrace 72-year-old John McCain and 44-year-old Sarah Palin, whose average age is 58, a mere two years older than the average age of the Obama-Biden ticket. Enthusiastic Republicans don't see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified "babe," as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket. They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they're learning to drive, what's the big deal?

Obama may have been president of The Harvard Law Review, but Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a minor in poli-sci and worked briefly as a TV sports reporter. And she was tougher on the basketball court than the ethereal Obama, earning the nickname "Sarah Barracuda."

The legacy of Geraldine Ferraro was supposed to be that no one would ever go on a blind date with history again. But that crazy maverick and gambler McCain does it, and conservatives and evangelicals rally around him in admiration of his refreshingly cynical choice of Sarah, an evangelical Protestant and anti-abortion crusader who became a hero when she decided to have her baby, who has Down syndrome, and when she urged schools to debate creationism as well as that stuffy old evolution thing.

Palinistas, as they are called, love Sarah's spunky, relentlessly quirky "Northern Exposure" story from being a Miss Alaska runner-up, and winning Miss Congeniality, to being mayor and hockey mom in Wasilla, a rural Alaskan town of 6,715, to being governor for two years to being the first woman ever to run on a national Republican ticket. (Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It's a little insulting.)

Sarah is a zealot, but she's a fun zealot. She has a beehive and sexy shoes, and the day she's named she goes shopping with McCain in Ohio for a cheerleader outfit for her daughter.

As she once told Vogue, she's learned the hard way to deal with press comments about her looks. "I wish they'd stick with the issues instead of discussing my black go-go boots," she said. "A reporter once asked me about it during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wearing my hair on top of my head and these schoolmarm glasses."

This chick flick, naturally, features a wild stroke of fate, when the two-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.

The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it's close to Alaska. "Back off, Commie dude," she says. "I'm a much better shot than Cheney."

Then she takes off in her seaplane and lands on the White House lawn, near the new ice fishing hole and hockey rink. The "First Dude," as she calls the hunky Eskimo in the East Wing, waits on his snowmobile with the kids -- Track (named after high school track meets), Bristol (after Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing), Willow (after a community in Alaska), Piper (just a cool name) and Trig (Norse for "strength.")

"The P.T.A. is great preparation for dealing with the K.G.B.," President Palin murmurs to Todd, as they kiss in the final scene while she changes Trig's diaper. "Now that Georgia's safe, how 'bout I cook you up some caribou hot dogs and moose stew for dinner, babe?"

Act III

Hide Palin under a Bush?
OH NO!
I'm going to let her shine.

After Sarah Heath Palin had been announced as John McCain's VP pick, Palin's answers given in a July 31, 2006, Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire, published by Eagle Forum Alaska, began to make the rounds. Her answer to Question 11 was astonishing for its Revisionary American History assinity:

11. Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

Palin: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

Backgrounder

The Eagle Forum an organisation founded and presided over by the She-ite Christian Witch, Phyllis Schlafly. The Eagle Forum Alaska is a chapter of it, and its members publish their musing on The Free Blogger Platform.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy in 1892. Francis Bellamy was a Christian Socialist. At one time he was a Baptist minister, but was forced to leave their clergy, because of his vocal socialistic viewpoints. The Pledge of Allegiance has been changed twice since his original work. The most notable change occurring in 1954, when the phrase "Under God", was inserted into it. It's odd that staunch conservatives would be such vehement supporters of a socialist.

See: Gene Healy, "What's Conservative about the Pledge of Allegiance?", Cato Institute, November 4, 2003.

Memory Hole Failure

When the Eagle Forum Alaska realised that their July 2006 questionnaire was being used as a weapon against their darling politician, Sarah Heath Palin, they simply deleted it from their blog. The original link now leads to a 404.

Silly fundies do not know about The Internet Archives. A mirror of the original post is available for viewing there.

Conservapedia to the Abortion Rescue

Conservapedia is a wiki started by a son of Phyllis Schlafly's, Andrew. Many people, when visiting the site have a hard time believing that it is not a parody. I can assure you, that it is not. Andrew Schlafly even has his own "home schooling" service for children of loons. Harsh assessment you say? Check out his fatuous defense of Palin's Historical Stupidity:

Conservapedia - Sarah Palin - Beliefs

Another question asked, "Are you offended by the phrase 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?" Palin replied, "Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."

Liberals ignorant of the history of "under God" have tried to ridicule Palin's remark, even calling her an "idiot" for it. In fact, the origin of the phrase "under God" is the General Orders of George Washington on July 2 and 9, 1776: "The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army" (July 2)[32]; "the peace and safety of the Country now depends, under God, solely on the success of our arms" (July 9). George Washington was indeed a Founding Father, and all the Founding Fathers embraced reverence to God in the documents that established the United States.

This is a blatant dodge, intended to obfuscate. Check out this prior version:

Liberals ignorant of the history of "under God" have tried to ridicule Palin's remark, even calling her an "idiot" for it. In fact, the phrase "under God" was taken from George Washington's biography, written by Parson Weems, although not taken from George Washington directly. George Washington was indeed a Founding Father. Moreover, all the Founding Fathers embraced reference to God in the documents that established the United States.

Notice how the reference to Parson Weems was omitted in the later version? Mason Locke Weems, aka "Parson Weems", was an Early American writer of biographical fables, most famous for his tale about Washington cutting down the cherry tree, and then confessing to his father because, "I cannot tell a lie".

The versioning history to Conservapedia's Sarah Palin article offers up amusing and informative tidbits for those able to traverse it. Note that user, Aschlafly is indeed, Andrew Schlafly.

In the present Conservapedia version, Footnote 32 links to a Weekly Standard article, which does not verify the assertions given for the citation:

"Under God" was one of those phrases that Weems liked to use, and it appeared frequently in his biography of Washington. When Washington delivered his Farewell Address, for example, Weems noted the effect on the public of the president's impending retirement: "To be thus bidden farewell by one to whom, in every time of danger, they had so long and fondly looked up, as under God, their surest and safest friend, could not but prove to them a grievous shock." On Washington's death, Weems wrote (as quoted by Barton): "Sons and daughters of Columbia, gather yourselves together around the bed of your expiring father--around the last bed of him to whom you and your children owe, under God, many of the best blessings of this life."

In other words, "Under God" is not actually attributed to George Washington, but instead is addenda inserted by a fable writer. Is it any wonder that these people feel persecuted? They're pretentious morons and liars who believe they know what is best for the rest of the world, facts notwithstanding.

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