always overanalyze your rhetoric… September 4, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: communications, democrat, election, republican, rhetoric, RNC, sarah palin
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my mom scared the hell out of me last nite when i got home from class. she asked if i’d seen sarah palin’s speech at the RNC, to which i raised an eyebrow and reminded her that i missed both the cubs game and the RNC due to class. i’ve seen small chunks of the speech and it’s just like the rest of the empty-headed conservative drivel i’ve ever heard…but she scared me.
she’s a democrat turned independent who doesn’t plan – at the moment – on voting in november. however, last nite, i walked in the door and we started the dangerous conversation of politics. she said, verbatim, “you know, after her speech i really like that sarah palin. she seems like the right gal for the job and i agree with her”…
?!?!?!?!?!
there is no possible way this woman is my mother! she can’t be the very same who taught me to be self-reliant, distrust the government in solving social issues, and to always question authority and the motives of others…this very woman got sucked into the fundamentalist rhetoric of the GOP…
at any rate, anyone who reads this blog knows who’s side i’m on, but that’s not the point. the point is, QUESTION EVERYTHING…question your politicians. go ahead and pull a campbell brown, and piss off your [political] interviewee. they serve YOU…therefore, they should have nothing to hide.
but always remember that politicians are working out of self-interest before that of the people…
brown vs. bounds… September 2, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: campbell brown, cnn, communications, democratic party, election, interview, john mccain, public relations, republican national convention, republican party, RNC, sarah palin, tucker bounds
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there’s truly little i can say about this interview, other than now americans get to see the true hypocrisy of bipartisan politics and how neither party is the “better” party. this evening, larry king was scheduled to interview john mccain during the republican national convention, but the mccain camp has pulled the interview as a result of this interview of mccain spokesman tucker bounds by cnn’s campbell brown. the contradicitons are just flying in this…it’s a doozy. i applaud cnn for attempting to – seemingly – get both sides of party politics…
mainlanders only, please… August 31, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: alaska, bill maher, georgia, hurricane gustav, john mccain, mikheil saakashvili, republican vp, russia, sarah palin, wasilla
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a hockey mom in the second most powerful position in the free world..?
photo: new york times
shit…i generally don’t use obscene amounts of profanity here, but we’re ultimately fucked as a nation if this GOP ticket elbows its way to inauguration day. never again do i want to hear a single smear ad about obama’s inexperience from the mccain camp…at least he made it to the senate. and since when is there a wasilla, ak? if you’re not a mainland state representative, i find it hard to believe one could effectively co-govern the entire nation, especially with such limited diplomatic experience beyond county fairs and bake sales. but i digress…
hurricane gustav is on its way, and i’m beginning to wonder if it’s going to be anywhere near as intense as the media is playing it up to be. not to downplay the tragedy of hurricane katrina, but she was a cat. 5; gus was downgraded to cat. 3 today. i’m sure new orleans is still in a fragile state since ‘05, but i have a feeling the hasty, selective evacuations may have been a bit inflated…we’ll see tomorrow. i hope i’m right in my prediction that gus will fizzle more, but that remains to be seen. by no means do i want to see another katrina.
photo: the sun
anyone hear from saakashvili and the new accusations by the neo- [karl] marx brothers? alright, so putin isn’t directly mentioned in that article, but it’s become insanely obvious that medvedev is just a puppet with a napoleon complex packing enough room for two. vicious aren’t i? i can’t believe this isn’t a bigger issue in the “news”…i think russia quickly cutting diplomatic ties with the US specifically is a bit troublesome. then again, maybe i’m just paranoid.
and how’s my buddy misha? kind of hard to find out since georgian info is so hard to come by, even in the US. i’m still waiting for the kremlin to try to bring him to brussels and charge him for war crimes…right, that’ll be taken seriously by the international community. then again, with the exceptions of ukraine, germany, and poland, i see little concern for this whole issue. but i’m beating a dead horse…
enough for tonite. we’ll see what happens with gustav after tomorrow. i, unlike the other lucky mofos in the US, have to work at 4am tomorrow…but i’ll finish on a happy note:
real time’s back..!
photo: billmaher.com
