And, in short article form, it is explained why people chuckle when someone enters a thread and states that Obama's campaign is struggling and the libs are panicking.

Ever since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, I've gotten confused about all the reasons I'm supposed to dislike Barack Obama. The previous reasons, in rough chronological order, were his lack of experience, his empty rhetoric, his flip-flopping, and his "celebrity." But Palin has made each one of those critiques moot.

The difference is those glasses. Have you seen them? They're so hot right now!

Yeah, well, that's been the meme since about a day after the nomination was announced.

Yawn.

Heh...that's great.

dittybopper: Yeah, well, that's been the meme since about a day after the nomination was announced.

Yawn.

Totally unfair. To Quayle.

Dan Quayle made Gerald Ford look like Winston Churchill.

Sarah Palin makes Dan Quayle look like Thomas Jefferson.

sigdiamond2000: The difference is those glasses. Have you seen them? They're so hot right now!

They're Japanese and take two months to get, so says CNN, huge article about it...on the main page....

i thought it had something to do with shooting her friend in the face

Quaylin is pretty good. I also like Caribou Barbie and Mooselini.

sigdiamond2000: The difference is those glasses. Have you seen them? They're so hot right now!

Am I taking crazy pills???!??!!?

Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.

I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

Rapmaster2000: Quaylin is pretty good. I also like Caribou Barbie and Mooselini.

I like Caribou Barbie a lot.

The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

It is striking how similar the language the GOP is using tpo describe both really is. But I'm still amazed the press is letting her get away with not answering any questions except on her turf and under her terms


If she can't stand up to Ron Burgundy, then how can she Stand Up to Osama bin Laden

FishingWithFredo: Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.

I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

Why'd you take the time to post that? It was basically "Let me make up a story, then make insanely stupid generalizations".

I mean, does it make you feel better to post that, or what?

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

The difference is people are voting for Palin over McCain. Hell, even Palin's talking about "her administration" now.

Questions about Quayle's readiness remained, but he did his best to turn them into elite condescension toward small town America. Quayle, in his acceptance speech, spoke movingly about the small towns in Indiana where he had grown up, and later disparaged Dukakis for "sneer[ing] at common sense advice, Midwestern advice."

What?! Quayle grew up as a millionaire. His father owned the Indianapolis Star (worst sports section ever) and used that rag to push his son into office. He was, and is a daddy's boy.

FishingWithFredo: Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.

I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

I like her boobs.

Lionel Mandrake: Totally unfair. To Quayle.

Quayle wasn't actually a complete moron, he just tended to put his foot in his mouth. A lot. However, if you put him, GWB, and Palin on a stage together, he'd be hands-down the most knowledgeable speaker up there.

Republicowned.

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

What'd he win? Mockery? A bitter sense of what his worthless life could have been if he hadn't ditched the easiest job in the world. . Senator from Indiana?

In John McCain's OWN WORDS....

"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president."

From the horse's mouth in his own book.
He's running for President merely to satisfy his own ambition and ego, not to serve the people of the country. He doesn't really care about reforms or patriotism. His own mouth just bore him out to be a self-serving flip-flopper who will do whatever it takes to win.

What is McCain's economic policy and how does it differ significantly from the policy of the last 8 years?

Observatory: He doesn't really care about reforms or patriotism. His own mouth just bore him out to be a self-serving flip-flopper who will do whatever it takes to win.

Yeah, but Obama is a...well...he's black.

Rapmaster2000: Quaylin is pretty good. I also like Caribou Barbie and Mooselini.

I prefer Iselin

dittybopper: Yeah, well, that's been the meme since about a day after the nomination was announced.

Yawn.

The meme from democrats. This is from the New Republic. Entirely new weight added to meme. Nice try though.

Rapmaster2000: Quaylin is pretty good. I also like Caribou Barbie and Mooselini.

I'm more partial to Failin

seriously, the politics tab should be changed to the palin tab

FishingWithFredo: Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.

I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

Every time a liberal says something positive about Obama they get accused of "fellating" him by you and your retarded ilk. Maybe you should accept that your party nominated a completely unqualified knucklehead and just shut the fark up and go sulk somewhere else.

meh, she's no Hildabeast

/hot like you'd hit it

From TFA:

Engagement, not experience, is the difference between Palin's qualifications and Obama's.

This is what I've been saying since she was selected. It's not really an argument that Obama's campaign could make without making it sound like they were just calling her stupid, but rather a narrative that had to form on its own as she gained more exposure, which it appears to be doing. This whole argument over days served in public office was spurious at best when applied as an attack against Obama, and it's doubly so when used as a defense for her. This is about knowledge, interest and understanding of key issues, and she appears to have none of these things.

I don't want to be able to say with a straight face that I'm more knowledgeable of and prepared to handle US foreign policy than our Vice President, and with Palin I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am.

FishingWithFredo: I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

I really don't think you're going to have that problem but go ahead and let your imagination run wild, bud.

Come January you - and your crazy political party - will be as marginalized as you belong and there will be no one to point the finger but yourselves.

moothemagiccow: seriously, the politics tab should be changed to the palin tab

Word to your hockey mother.

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

That's a great analogy. Especially since 43's legacy is just like Regan's legacy when he was finishing up his 8th year.

FishingWithFredo: Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.


That's fascinating.

What am I supposed to do with this information?

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

And America lost. Same with Bush's 2 terms.

Nice Republic we once had. Thanks to people who treat politics like sports. It's hard to blame them though since they get their news from AM radio -- the same medium that broadcasts political demagoguery, fire-and-brimstone sermons and sports talk almost exclusively.

Richard Pye: Am I taking crazy pills???!??!!?

VH1 Reporter: Derek, are you worried about Hansel?
Derek Zoolander: Uhh, not as much as I'm worried about Gretel.

/strangely appropriate

The more the Democrats talk about Sarah Palin, the more they increase their odds of choking yet another winnable election.

/it's the economy, stupid

Engagement, not experience, is the difference between Palin's qualifications and Obama's. Obama has a longstanding interest in national and (to a lesser extent) international issues, and has answered questions on all those issues in extensive detail. Palin has dealt almost exclusively with parochial issues in a wildly atypical state. (Her fiscal experience, which consists of divvying up oil lucre, offers better preparation to serve as president of Saudi Arabia than the United States.) It's possible Palin has harbored a long-standing, secret passion for policy wonkery, but the few signs available thus far--her convention speech that spelled out "new-clear weapons," her evident lack of familiarity with the term "Bush Doctrine"--suggest otherwise. The Republican intelligentsia is frantically tutoring her while they run out the clock until November 4.

This, this, this is what offends the hell out of me. And it's what I've told every mouth-breather who has used the "executive experience!"-card on me. I don't care if a person comes from nowhere if they have some sort of vision or plan. Palin doesn't have anything except a strong faith, but she fits the demographics, so now she's in a room somewhere cramming for the biggest exam of her life.

How can that not offend a true conservative?

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

And the country lost.

/wait, Dukakis? nm, retracted

The name of the time period between inexperienced VP candidates is called a 'Quaylude'.

/rainbow/star/moreyouknow

She is a rube and McCain has zero control over his campaign, instead leaving all decisions to his handlers. That is the sad, pathetic state of the GOP right now. Hopefully they'll die a swift death and the LP can move into it's place.

/I know, but I'll dream anyway.

Marquis de Sod: Rapmaster2000: Quaylin is pretty good. I also like Caribou Barbie and Mooselini.

I prefer Iselin

"Please hon, just one number, just one number that's easy to remember for how many Communists there are" *camera pan to Heinz 57 bottle" "57".

/obscure, even for Fark?

Quaalude.

FishingWithFredo: Fark reads like the Obamaton in my office. Vegan, diamond chip in nose but professional job, likes to brag about bands she adores that you've never heard of, to prove how much more progressive she is than you. You know the type.

She's farking OBSESSED with Palin. Can't stop thinking about her or saying hateful, disparaging things.

I haven't heard a positive word out of her mouth about the candidate she supports in weeks. She's generally very much about women's empowerment, but is thrown into a spittle-flying rage by Palin. I guess only women who follow certain liberal checklists are allowed to be empowered.

Her diatribes about Palin even have fellow office libs awkwardly staring at their shoes and shuffling away.

I would say it's going to be delicious when McCain/Palin win in November, but it won't be. Four more years of immature liberal hate, making people who disagree with you the evil enemy. I was hoping that garbage would stop when Bush and Cheney left town, but you Dems are having none of it.

you just passed up a chance to tell me something positive about your candidate of choice to rip on some vegan "Obamaton" in your office?
are you that "obamaton"?
very shallow of you to generalize all from one. says more about you than you probably care to expose.
good luck with your prediction!!

Dorf11: The name of the time period between inexperienced VP candidates is called a 'Quaylude'.

/rainbow/star/moreyouknow

beat me to it. Does anyone even remember those anymore?

BiffDangler: The lesson for you dems is that, of course, Quayle won.

The difference is that Reagan was a popular president.