Caribou Barbie is at it again

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by Garnet

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...l?hpid=topnews

From the link:

He was befuddled that this had become a question of euthanasia, termed Palin's interpretation "nuts," and emphasized that all 50 states currently have some legislation allowing end-of-life directives.

[Garnet]

Oh joy.

The Associated Press: Palin finishes memoir, 'Going Rogue,' out Nov. 17

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, her publisher said.

[wei yau]

Oh FFS!

That bitch just had to ruin the eagerly awaited expansion pack to City of Heroes, didn't she!

[Ensign Steve]

"Going Rogue" was what the McCain camp accused her of doing during the campaign when she was being all stupid and making them look bad. She is wearing the insult as a badge of honor.

[Brimshack]

...and thus another pseudo-conservative comes to embrace an irony that is non-existent.

[Qingdai]

Hmm. She can write?
Oh yeah, ghost writers.
There's a job I don't envy, trying to make her speechifying into coherent prose.
My she is trying to cash in on her fame, isn't she?

How many talk shows is she on now?

[JamesBannon]

Sometimes when I look at American politics, or what passes for politics, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Militarily the most powerful country in the world is dominated by a bunch of lunatics. Scary!

[Smilin]

The people behind those politicians is the scariest part of the whole mess JB.

[BDS]

Originally Posted by JamesBannon

Sometimes when I look at American politics, or what passes for politics, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Militarily the most powerful country in the world is dominated by a bunch of lunatics. Scary!

You may not like Obama, but I hardly think he's a lunatic.

[Crumb]

I'm so glad she resigned as Governor of Alaska for the good of the people. It would have sucked for Alaska to have a governor living in California to finish her book.

[Watser?]

Originally Posted by JamesBannon

Sometimes when I look at American politics, or what passes for politics, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I do








But then, this is my usual reaction to Dutch politics:





At least US politics is not boring.

[JamesBannon]

Originally Posted by BDS

You may not like Obama, but I hardly think he's a lunatic.

I haven't seen enough of him to form an opinion yet.

[ZEZOZE]

she is hot. i would vote for her if i lived there.

[Crumb]

Politics should be boring.

[ZEZOZE]

Originally Posted by Crumb

Politics should be boring.

i 100 percent agree with you.


but since it isn't and it's all currently a sham, i think i'll vote with my wiener.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Watser?

But then, this is my usual reaction to Dutch politics:





At least US politics is not boring.

Originally Posted by Crumb

Politics should be boring.

Andrew Sullivan posted about that yesterday after a report from a user about the German elections.

Originally Posted by Sully

Of course, boring politics in Germany is always good news. In successful countries, politics is always boring. It's life that's interesting.

Germany and the Netherlands, together again at last.

[Waluigi]

I will not be reading her memoir.

OTOH, when the G.W. Bush book comes out next year, I'll pick it up. That one sounds like it could be pretty interesting.

[D. Scarlatti]

Good piece here.

[Qingdai]

Thanks, not attributing ghost writers is lame. I sincerely doubted she could string a paragraph, much less write 400 pages.

I was interested to see in the comments about Pharmaceutical companies ghostwriting in medical journals too.
I had no idea.
Yay. Science!

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Qingdai

I was interested to see in the comments about Pharmaceutical companies ghostwriting in medical journals too.
I had no idea.
Yay. Science!

Hey! That's the best science money can buy.

[Jug Pilot]

Does anyone know when the English translation of her book will be released?

[Smilin]

[Nullifidian]

Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti

Good piece here.

Speaking of politicians, aside from openly acknowledging when their memoirs are ghosted, wouldn't it be nice if we could have a full accounting of who actually writes bills and how long they've been in the pipeline? I'd love to see "Authored by Joe Schmo, Esq., Legal Consultant for Monsanto" on an agriculture bill or find out exactly how long the "Patriot Act" was in the works. Drafting a far-reaching bill longer than 300 pages in eight days just simply isn't plausible.

Man, I should really run for office. I would cause everyone fits.

And note that no one at HarperCollins, publisher of Palin’s book and subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire News Corp., needs to call anyone at ABC News, which is owned by CapCities ABC, or online tabloids like The Huffington Post , and ask them to minimize the question of authorship.

God bless the "liberal" Huffington Post, right? If anybody should be all over the absurdity of Sarah Palin writing a book when she couldn't even say which books she reads in her interview with Katie Couric, it should be the HuffPo. But they won't touch it, in part because they're as much a part of the corporate media monopoly as anything else, and because some uncomfortable questions might be raised about some very prominent Democrats' books. Like about JFK's book Profiles in Courage. Kennedy accepted a Pulitzer Prize for a book he didn't write.

[Garnet]

The Gaggle : McCain Strategist: Palin in 2012 Would be 'Catastrophic' for GOP

Looks like there’s at least one high-profile Republican who won’t be voting for Sarah Palin should she run in 2012. Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s top political strategist in 2008, told a forum in Washington today that nominating Palin as the party’s next presidential nominee would be “catastrophic” for Republicans. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate,” Schmidt said. “In fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have a catastrophic election result.”

In a way, I hope they don't listen to Schmidt and they do run her for president. It would be a blood bath but I think the it would pretty much guarantee that the Repubs would lose.

I found this to be a little bizarre:

UPDATE, 1:43pm: Meg Stapleton, Palin's spokeswoman, responds via e-mail: "The Governor will write about all of this in her book. There will be plenty of time to talk about it then."

The Governor? Non any more, she quit. Will write? Isn't the book already written?

[Kael]

Provided some bizarre turn of events doesn't win her the election, do you think a Palin ticket in 2012 would finally spell the end of the Republican party as the opposition party to the Dems, or would they continue to hang around, increasingly decrepit and splintered?