bago
1801
Well there was that report, titleled “Bin Laden determined to strike in the US”. At the very least give the Clinton administration the same credit that Bush gave him. “At least your asses are covered”.
ABC’s “Good Morning America” spoke with four members of the “Elite Six,” a group of Palin’s female friends in Alaska. They said Palin “lives off caffeine and chocolate”
Holy crap, she’s Rutger Hauer from Split Second.
Do they call themselves the Elite Six?
Do any of them have super powers?
Well, it’s a good thing no one’s defending the BUsh administration, I guess!
So, eight years of peace. Man, those were some great times. Unless you were in Somalia or Kosovo, I guess, or on the Cole, or in the Federal Building in Oklahoma.
Flowers, I loved the time machine stuff! Got anything on Corn-Nuts, or airplane food?
Oh my god, he fired cruise missiles? I can’t believe that didn’t work!
Comparing “eight years of peace” under Clinton is like saying four years of peace under Truman. We just didn’t happen to be attacked at the time. Even Obama advocates deploying more troops to Afghanistan. What a war-monger!
Looks like that education that the Bush team of advisors is supposed to be giving her isn’t complete.
McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, however, aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.
While they nominally operate as private companies, they have long had implied government backing - a kind of government insurance that was rather valuable to them (lowering the interest rates they needed to pay to borrow money).
Now, there will apparently be a multi-billion dollar claim against that implied insurance contract.
So yeah, I think it’s reasonable to say (though perhaps a slight simplification) that they are too expensive to the taxpayers.
antlers
1809
Clinton/Gore understood the threat. The Gore administration’s number one national security priority would’ve been terrorism–which they stated many times during the campaign. The Bush administration’s priority was national missile defense until 9/11.
The fact that you’re using hyperbolic ranting to try and cover up the obvious differences really says all we need to know.
Gawd, I thought Clinton’s voice was annoying, but Palin’s nasal Alaskan drawl drives me nuts.
Oh, come on. Bill’s voice isn’t that bad. The trick is to imagine Darrell Hammond anytime you see or hear Bill talking.
Podunk
1813
I still don’t hate Sarah Palin as much I hate Hillary.
I think maybe you’re taking your politics a LITTLE too seriously.
Dirt
1815
I can’t stand Obama’s faux southern accent.
Rimbo
1816
Wait… “uppity” has racist connotations?
This is some kind of a joke, right?
No, it’s not a joke.
It’s barely ever been used in any context other than race.
The word itself was created in the US in the 1800s, and I believe was only ever really used to refer to blacks.
Rimbo
1819
I’ve seen it used a lot, and I can’t recall a time when it was used in racial context. And most Dictionary entries mention no current racial connotations, although one etymology refers to blacks using it in reference to other blacks.
So maybe it was once, but it seems like it’s been used by folks of many different persuasions to refer to plenty of folks of many different persuasions who were gettin’ all high and mighty.
But based on the wee tad of research I’ve done on it, it’s not now referring to blacks any more than “gypsy” is referring to descendants of the Nile delta.
I dunno, I grew up in the South, and you didn’t hear the word “uppity” without the word “nigra” (the “more polite” way of spelling it) right after it.
