Slog - Comments on Man, I Love Small-Town U.S.A! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa I can't emphasize enough how much Sarah Palin makes me want to throw up. “John McCain is always, always proud to be an American,” Ms. Palin told more than 10,000 people at the Richmond International Raceway. “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” she continued, leading many of them in chant. Nothing warms the heart like a politician leading nationalistic chants, don'tchathink? “America, doggone it, unfortunately we’re deep in debt, and Barack Obama would put us even deeper in debt,” she added a few minutes later. “We’ve got to reverse this. America, we cannot afford another big spender in the White... Copyright 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:14:57 -0800 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Knock knock...Sarah Palin!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172377 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172377 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:17:55 -0800 Comment by Non Hey Mr. Poe:

Q What's the difference between Sarah Palin's vagina and Sarah Palin's mouth?

A Not everything that comes out of her vagina is retarded

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172380 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:24:17 -0800 Comment by Scott Dow What happened to Napoleon the XXXIV? I seriously miss him.

]]> Scott Dow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172382 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172382 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:25:48 -0800 Comment by Julie in Chicago The comment about how they “ultimately decided” to have the baby just drives me batty. If she thinks abortion is wrong, why was there even any discussion at all? Killin’ babies is killin’ babies whether they are “special needs” or not. Lack of internal consistency makes me angry.

]]> Julie in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172390 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172390 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:29:57 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable Wave THIS at her next rally...

http://andypendence.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-mccainanites-can-wave-blunt-signs.html

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172393 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:34:15 -0800 Comment by Hernandez Talking, praying, reflecting, and eventually deciding not to abort the disabled fetus? Wow, what a pro-choice move by the Palins! If she was truly pro-life, there would have been no discussion.

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172394 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:34:53 -0800 Comment by Pigstick You know, she needs to be seriously grilled on this "deciding" thing. It makes her out to be either (more of) a liar, or having serious issue issues.

]]> Pigstick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172402 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:41:52 -0800 Comment by Misty Brown Don't worry Tone. One day she'll be nothing more than a trivia question.

]]> Misty Brown http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172410 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:51:43 -0800 Comment by ReverendZ Ahh Richmond, it's a great town (I was born/raised there), and most of it's people are smarter than Palin. By the by, the news reports of this rally tell that she spoke with around or just over 10,000 people. That's a bit, for sure, but the Richmond Int'l Raceway has space for 112,000 - I wonder how many crowd photos we'll see of that?

]]> ReverendZ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172414 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172414 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:52:58 -0800 Comment by raisedbywolves Nice sign Andy!

]]> raisedbywolves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172445 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172445 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:09:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Economists are divided on the subject of whether the McCain proposals would treble or merely double the current national deficit. So, Sarah darlin', maybe you should shut up about debt.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172458 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:17:27 -0800 Comment by Chris B As an escapee from a small town (although it's a bustling metropolis compared to the wilderness of Wasilla), it's people like Sarah Palin that make me wonder why so many people are so bloody nostalgic about small towns. It's never made sense to me.

]]> Chris B http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172487 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:43:33 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo @11: There you go again, bringing your what-do-you-call, "facts" into the discussion. Joe America Six-Pack is tired of your elitist "facts" and "reality." Because what has reality done for him lately? Exactly!

USA!USA!USA!USA!

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172499 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172499 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:53:02 -0800 Comment by Calpete That bit about praying and ultimately deciding is such bullshit -- they have to throw that in to make the drama real to people who can't connect the dots. Only a woman who believes other women shouldn't have the right to terminate a pregnancy would think she could get away with this kind of daytime television script. Gah, the stupid!

]]> Calpete http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172508 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172508 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:03:51 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable I'd give a thousand dollars to the McCain campaign if Governor Palin would go on The View for an entire hour. It would be an all-girl version of the climax of SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER...

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172543 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:24:06 -0800 Comment by Vince When it comes to "special needs" SHE could be the poster child. But then Republitards think delusion is cute.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172577 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:43:40 -0800 Comment by Evie @2 Try to keep up. That one's been done to death and wasn't funny the first time...just sick. Move on.

]]> Evie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172582 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172582 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:45:14 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop Sarah Palin is garbage. Pure, solid trash.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1172701 2008 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:45:29 -0800 Comment by Seajay To be accurate, national debt and national deficit are two rather different things. A national debt, in this day and age, means money goes overseas. A deficit means that money gets rearranged within this country.

And if we're gonna talk about big spenders, I don't see how Mr Obama's proposals, if all implemented, can come in under a trillion dollars of new spending. That's not to mention the rapidly ballooning Social Security and Medicare obligations.

A few weeks ago, Mr Obama said he'd consider putting some parts of his agenda on hold "if the economy gets worse." Since then the Dow's lost about fifteen percent, and nine major banks have agreed to partial Federal buyouts. I'd call that the economy getting worse, but I haven't heard what he'd put on hold yet. Any guesses??

]]> Seajay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1173033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1173033 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:40:03 -0800 Comment by cmh "She and her husband, Todd, talked, prayed, reflected and ultimately decided to have the child" is a PARAPHRASE of her speeches. By, to the delight of conservatives, the NY Times.

Here's a counter-argument: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bill-hobbs/2008/10/14/new-york-times-writer-thinks-palin-pro-choice

Of course, conservative Newsbusters offering up ONE speech in which Palin doesn't really speak in terms of "choice" doesn't prove that she NEVER speaks in terms of "choice". But some writer in the NY Times' interpretation of the GIST of her speeches definitely doesn't prove she DOES, either.

The bandwagon-jumping and outrage probably need to be put on hold until and unless WE can find actual speeches by actual Palin to substantiate a claim of hypocrisy specifically re: "deciding" to have Trig.

]]> cmh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1173213 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/man_i_love_smalltown_usa#c1173213 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:10 -0800