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lolaraincoat) wrote2008-09-01 03:35 pm
lolaraincoat) wrote2008-09-01 03:35 pm
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I can quit any time! I do not have a problem!
Okay, so, I am powerless to control my need to read every bit and byte anywhere in the whole internet about Sarah Palin. It's not even about politics - she's like the most implausible fictional character ever, and the more I read, the less plausible she seems, and I'm fascinated.
So anyway, here are some of the my favorite random Vice-Presidential-candidate facts:
When her youngest child was born, she sent an email to her friends and family explaining that even though he has Down Syndrome, he is still "perfect." Nothing odd there, and yay for her for continuing the pregnancy and cherishing her child (pro-choice means pro-choice, not pro-eugenicist-decision-making, all right? Just my opinion of course.) It's just that Palin wrote the letter "in the voice of and signed it as 'Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father.'" according to this story in the Anchorage Daily News.
All her kids have appalling names! The youngest kid's middle name is Van because his parents are Van Halen fans! One of the others is named after an airplane! Another is named after a fishing port! And another is named after a city that never got built!
She modeled for Vogue - while pregnant!
She is more willing to throw her vulnerable family members under the national-media train than John Edwards ever was! (I don't even care about his screwing the videographer. He lost me when he decided to stay in the race while his wife went through chemo.) I think anyone likely to be morally offended by her daughter having premarital sex will be mollified by her daughter's marriage, while anyone worried by the possibility that the daughter is not making all her own reproductive and marital decisions with complete autonomy wasn't going to vote for McCain anyway. So it's a wash, politically. But what a story!
She had her ex-brother-in-law fired, and then she fired the guy who didn't fire the ex-brother-in-law fast enough! The ex-brother-in-law either did or did not use a taser on her nephew! She fired the only librarian in Wasilla, Alaska! She fired the Chief of Police too! She loves her family and she loves firing people!
She's just as confused as I am about what the Vice-President is supposed to do all day besides waiting around in case the President dies! And I'm not running for Vice President! But then, Dick Cheney was really sure what the Vice President should be doing, and look how that turned out.
She's very loyal to Wasilla, in the context of Alaskan politics, and to Alaska, now that she's on a national stage! This is great! We might end up with mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style patria chica politics to go with our mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style elections!
She only got a passport for the first time in 2007! eta: She used it to visit Kuwait! Thanks Heidi for that important info! /eta
She shoots polar bears! To save them from drowning because of global warming! It's mercy killing! (Okay, that last part, I made that up. She does hunt polar bears, but she does not believe that human interventions are changing the climate, and I'm guessing she would be anti-euthanasia as well, though she's pro-death-penalty so maybe not?)
eta:She may or may not have belonged to a very silly Alaska-secessionist-movement party at some point in her past! As someone who has signed on to more than one obscure and annoying-to-others political organization in my time, I say: She really is just like us! /eta
In sum, even if McCain loses, I think we can expect to see more of Sarah Palin and her family - either in national politics, or on the Jerry Springer Show. Or both.
So anyway, here are some of the my favorite random Vice-Presidential-candidate facts:
When her youngest child was born, she sent an email to her friends and family explaining that even though he has Down Syndrome, he is still "perfect." Nothing odd there, and yay for her for continuing the pregnancy and cherishing her child (pro-choice means pro-choice, not pro-eugenicist-decision-making, all right? Just my opinion of course.) It's just that Palin wrote the letter "in the voice of and signed it as 'Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father.'" according to this story in the Anchorage Daily News.
All her kids have appalling names! The youngest kid's middle name is Van because his parents are Van Halen fans! One of the others is named after an airplane! Another is named after a fishing port! And another is named after a city that never got built!
She modeled for Vogue - while pregnant!
She is more willing to throw her vulnerable family members under the national-media train than John Edwards ever was! (I don't even care about his screwing the videographer. He lost me when he decided to stay in the race while his wife went through chemo.) I think anyone likely to be morally offended by her daughter having premarital sex will be mollified by her daughter's marriage, while anyone worried by the possibility that the daughter is not making all her own reproductive and marital decisions with complete autonomy wasn't going to vote for McCain anyway. So it's a wash, politically. But what a story!
She had her ex-brother-in-law fired, and then she fired the guy who didn't fire the ex-brother-in-law fast enough! The ex-brother-in-law either did or did not use a taser on her nephew! She fired the only librarian in Wasilla, Alaska! She fired the Chief of Police too! She loves her family and she loves firing people!
She's just as confused as I am about what the Vice-President is supposed to do all day besides waiting around in case the President dies! And I'm not running for Vice President! But then, Dick Cheney was really sure what the Vice President should be doing, and look how that turned out.
She's very loyal to Wasilla, in the context of Alaskan politics, and to Alaska, now that she's on a national stage! This is great! We might end up with mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style patria chica politics to go with our mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style elections!
She only got a passport for the first time in 2007! eta: She used it to visit Kuwait! Thanks Heidi for that important info! /eta
She shoots polar bears! To save them from drowning because of global warming! It's mercy killing! (Okay, that last part, I made that up. She does hunt polar bears, but she does not believe that human interventions are changing the climate, and I'm guessing she would be anti-euthanasia as well, though she's pro-death-penalty so maybe not?)
eta:She may or may not have belonged to a very silly Alaska-secessionist-movement party at some point in her past! As someone who has signed on to more than one obscure and annoying-to-others political organization in my time, I say: She really is just like us! /eta
In sum, even if McCain loses, I think we can expect to see more of Sarah Palin and her family - either in national politics, or on the Jerry Springer Show. Or both.
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I don't like that she and the campaign are pushing her image as family first because I have a hard time understanding how she thinks she'll ever have any time to spend with her new baby as VP. But this is something a great many people would give a man a pass on, which bugs the hell out of me, too. And it's not news, it's spin. In fact, it's such pointless spin people went looking for scandal instead.
Also, can I just throw in a random other thing that bugs the hell out of me? All the ageism against McCain? WTF?! I understand being concerned about his health, but dude people are going really ridiculously off point about it.
This campaign really does have everything. Sexism against Palin, ageism against McCain, and racism against Obama (which include 'not really black' which just *facepalm*). And classism of one sort or another against all of them (since it's the equal opportunity -ism).
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And yeah, a man would without a doubt get a pass on the new baby issue and that drives me batshit. Really, it's her personal decision whether or not she can run with a special needs infant. I myself wouldn't ever make that choice because yeah, I have no idea when she thinks she'd see the baby, but maybe she sees it otherwise. Or maybe she has resources she knows she could call on for help.
There's a lot of -isms going on right now. It's making my head hurt, to be honest, and making me despair about humanity as a whole.
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AHHAHAHAHAAHAH! I had that exact same thought. :D
And yeah...I've just been reading this morning since I got to work thanks to still being internetless at home, but I'm already frustrated and wrung out by it all. I'm not sure I can make it through the next two months. I might end up with my keyboard permanently implanted in my forehead. *G*
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I think we all need pillows over our keyboards. Or to step back from the internet. I spent something like 18 hours yesterday looking stuff up and reading threads, which was not a great thing to do. All I got from it was pain and rage and disgust. And a very little bit of information. Particularly facepalmy was the Kos diary entry on the editing of her wikipedia entry.
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I haven't read the Kos diary yet...Salon's comments have made me headdesk this morning...
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Disgust and anger vs horror and despair. Such a charming choice. *facepalm* Remember how happy it was on Thursday? Someone on my flist posted this on Friday, and sometimes I look at it to make me laugh because I think otherwise I'd spork someone to death.