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August 29, 2008

Double-Standard in the MSM? Nah
— Ace

"I would add that Obama does not need to be arguing how important experience is. Let me also add that when Tim Kaine, who has exactly the same experience as Palin, was treated by the Media and the Dems as a serious and acceptable potential pick, it opens up charges of a double standard."

Who's that from? Instapundit? Some other Obama-skeptic? Nah -- he linked it, but it's from TalkLeft.

More from Instapundit: A big round up. Here's a good snap from McCain:

This rather churlish response from the Obama campaign won't help them -- dissing small towns doesn't fit well after Biden's "nobody is better than anybody" talk. [LATER: McCain response: "I'd think the Obama people would have learned by now not to belittle the experience of women."

I stand by my previous statement: Obama was not the mayor of a big city. He wasn't the mayor, or governor, of anything. Though he's from a big city, he actually just represented a part of it. And the key word is "represented." He didn't lead; he sat in committee and cogitated and voted (well, he mostly voted present, but whatever). And of course he dished pork to his donors and corrupt friends.

Obama does a lot of resume padding. But he seems to be implying, without saying, that he actually had some executive experience governing big-city Chicago.

He didn't. His district was bigger than Palin's town, but Palin, unlike Obama, actually governed. She ran it. She made decisions. She couldn't just vote "present" on difficult issues like Obama could (and did, and did, and did and did and did).

Oh-- and since then, she's been a governor. A governor of a state which borders on two countries: Canada, our biggest trading partner, and Russia, our biggest, um, "rival."

(And yeah: They do border. There's that island where the border runs along the middle.)

Obama, meanwhile, can brag that he helped bring about trade agreements and quell border-disputes between the South Side and Lakefront.

Well, Her or Tina Fey: Bart--

You know who Gov Palin reminds me of?
Chief Marge Gunderson from the movie Fargo. Pregnant but still chuggin' along in her important mostly-male-occupied profession, and Palin sounds a lot like a Yooper.

Correctionmania! Boy am I getting crap wrong today.

Alaska and Russia have no split island as I asserted. However, in the winter, the ice freezes between them and you can walk from one to the other.

Thanks to Alice H and others.

Posted by: Ace at 10:35 AM | Comments (51)
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1 OMG there is a honest cocksucker on the Leftwing!

Posted by: Bart at August 29, 2008 10:42 AM (/EpPq)

2 Read the last line Bart. "My first reaction to John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for VP: He just gave the election to Barack Obama." He may have shown a glimmer of of honesty, but smarts, not so much.

Posted by: mbruce at August 29, 2008 10:49 AM (h/5U0)

3 Gee, all that supposed goodwill the Dems created with Montana at the convention and now they poo-poo small towns/sparse populations.

Posted by: Bart at August 29, 2008 10:51 AM (/EpPq)

OMG there is a honest cocksucker on the Leftwing!

Watch your language, please!!

sb: "OMG there is an honest cocksucker on the Leftwing!"

We have standards here.

Posted by: sherlock at August 29, 2008 10:52 AM (ZrS0c)

5 Not the only one, Bart. Seems Andi has a tingle, too. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/w hy-she-backed.html

Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2008 10:52 AM (VBon8)

6 Wonder if Time or Newsweek will put her on the cover?

Posted by: shunha7878 at August 29, 2008 10:53 AM (/DeBx)

7 He may have shown a glimmer of of honesty, but smarts, not so much.

You're right. In fact, I'm sure that the author now regrets posting that and would've rather spun for the Obama ticket 100% instead of letting a little truth slip through the spin.

Posted by: Bart at August 29, 2008 10:55 AM (/EpPq)

8 OK, I stole this from the Corner, but it would be about 10 kinds of awesome if Heart's Barracuda was her theme music every time she came on stage.

Posted by: Dudley Smith at August 29, 2008 10:57 AM (0S8Xt)

9 And yeah: They do border. There's that island where the border runs along the middle.

Be careful, Ace. Our resident geography-checker, BA, might call you on that.

Posted by: Bart at August 29, 2008 10:58 AM (/EpPq)

10 Why are they talking about population. Alaska is the wealthiest state in the union when it comes to natural resources. Governing Alaska is a big difficult job regardless of its population.

Posted by: lemmiwinks at August 29, 2008 10:59 AM (Qv6BF)

There's another political factor working in Sarah's favor (and I wonder if it's the one that killed Hillary). Palin is likeable.

Shallow? Maybe. Important? Goddam right, I think it's largely what got GWB elected in 2000.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 29, 2008 10:59 AM (eiOZw)

12 Hey Ace, what's up with that crazy woman, Sarah something, who is stalking that stalker with her weird blog where she mentions you?

Posted by: Christoph at August 29, 2008 10:59 AM (hawOV)

13 if Alaska doesn't border russia, than Michigan doesn't border Canada.

Posted by: marc at August 29, 2008 11:02 AM (oLZks)

14 And you can guarantee that if Jennifer Granholm were the Dem VP pick, they'd be citing her dealings with Ontario's government as foreign policy experience.

Posted by: marc at August 29, 2008 11:03 AM (oLZks)

15 Everyone, just trust me on this. You want to watch this video.

Really.

Posted by: Christoph at August 29, 2008 11:06 AM (hawOV)

16 Let's be fair Ace, Chicago does border on Illinois and that's like bordering another country (filled with bitter, clingy, gun-totin' bible-thumpers).

Posted by: kbiel at August 29, 2008 11:07 AM (5ZRDo)

17 Andrew Sullivan wonders if this McCain's Harriet Miers moment. Seriously.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 29, 2008 11:08 AM (Q+mBb)

Not sure which of the Palin threads to post this on, but Slu needs to make a photoshop of a McCain bumper sticker:

McCain/Palin '08

Stop Obama from beating women!

Posted by: Hadlowe at August 29, 2008 11:09 AM (zK1MQ)

19 " And yeah: They do border. There's that island where the border runs along the middle." It's been about 45 years since I wuz learned Murikan geography, but I thing the border runs between a couple of flyspeck islands called something like Big Diomede and Little Diomede. BA--report to Ace of Spades HQ, stat! Cordially....

Posted by: Rick at August 29, 2008 11:09 AM (zncSj)

20 I heard on the radio that John Edwards is giving a speech at U of I, Champaign Urbana for $65,000. Previously, he gave a speech at UC-Davis on poverty for $50,000. What a fucking pig.

Posted by: grc at August 29, 2008 11:10 AM (cMq8o)

21 I wonder if it ever dawns on Andrew Sullivan how insignificant he's become.

Posted by: Slublog at August 29, 2008 11:10 AM (R8+nJ)

22 Oh, and he closed down his scholarship program. I guess times are harrrrdddd for the Edwards.

Posted by: grc at August 29, 2008 11:10 AM (cMq8o)

23 if Jennifer Granholm were the Dem VP pick, they'd be citing her dealings with Ontario's government as foreign policy experience. Or just as Sam Riddle points out: "The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit." So there's that.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at August 29, 2008 11:11 AM (Q+mBb)

24 Rick just rolled

Posted by: spenn at August 29, 2008 11:13 AM (QIfim)

25 As a mayor, she had a police force reporting to her. As governor, she has the Alaska National Guard, State Police and DNR Rangers reporting to her. As for her C.I.C. bonafides, that's a lot of folks carrying deadly force that she has already commanded. I am satisfied.

Posted by: Neoluddite at August 29, 2008 11:13 AM (rxH5O)

26 Her workout.

"My ideal fantasy is to be running on a hot dusty road just wearing running shorts and some kind of top that wicks away sweat. But in reality I'm running in 20-below temperatures, so I wear layers of fleece and always a good outdoor waterproof trail shoe. Right now I've been running in Nike Air Structure Triax. And I always wear sunglasses. My kids tell me to put them on so I don't freak people out when they see me with a goofy hairdo and no makeup."

Posted by: CUS at August 29, 2008 11:17 AM (bbXZq)

27 marc--our friend Jenny G. can't run for President or even VP. She's Canadian.

Posted by: Steve the Pirate's wife at August 29, 2008 11:19 AM (GbpjS)

28 Obama ad: John McCain's running mate kills innocent woodland creatures for fun. Is that who you want just one heartbeat away from "the button?"

Posted by: Bart at August 29, 2008 11:20 AM (/EpPq)

29 I heard on the radio that John Edwards is giving a speech at U of I, Champaign Urbana for $65,000. Previously, he gave a speech at UC-Davis on poverty for $50,000. What a fucking pig.

What's wrong with that? I mean, other than the fact that there are idiots willing to pay Silky Pony that much money? Nice work if you can get it. I wish I could get schools to pay me tens of thousands of dollars for one speech.

I wonder if they got their money's worth?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 29, 2008 11:23 AM (FO+YO)

30 Did you know that Sarah Palin recently shot down a Russian Bear Foxtrot airplane by pointing her finger at it and shouting "B A N G !"

Posted by: Doc Rochester at August 29, 2008 11:23 AM (kXcbE)

31 Hunter.And.NRA.Life.Member!!!11!!!11 She's the female Cheney. Awesome^1000000. Oh, and she has orders of magnitude more executive experience than McCain, Obama and Bidet ... err ... Biden combined.

Posted by: Andy at August 29, 2008 11:25 AM (8dVfR)

32 No one ha mentioned it yet--so I thought I'd point it out. McCain may have been dropping hints for a while. On more than one occasion he said "I've never been elected Miss Congeniality"

I think he had Palin in mind for a long time. He didn't want it seen as a "me too" pick in case Obama picked a woman (or hillary). So he dropped that as an Easter egg.

Posted by: Erik at August 29, 2008 11:29 AM (hblvb)

33

Queen Jenny and her effeminate husbandwife can do whatever their little hearts desire at anytime.

Like she said, you ain't seen nuthin yet.

She's so wonderful, so dreamy and awesome, super awesome and pretty and wonderful and has done so much for parks and clean water and children, way more than that dummy unqualified governor from Alaska, who ever heard of anyone needed governance up there, they can't do anything up there, we have the auto industry and Queen Jenni has done such a good job attracting 21st century jobs and cleaning our parks and water.

This state is majorly fucked. If Granmole thinks this is a resume builder, she's more of a gigantic twat bitch than I thought.

The Dems don't give a shit about something like the fucking Constitution...

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 29, 2008 11:30 AM (1pE/y)

I wonder if it ever dawns on Andrew Sullivan how insignificant he's become.

Not as long as he's cashing his checks from Time.

Posted by: Maetenloch at August 29, 2008 11:31 AM (hn7Rm)

35 Great responses by McCain but the media doesn't report it or quickly moves on to something else.

Posted by: grc at August 29, 2008 11:31 AM (cMq8o)

36 Look, we're trying to get the narrative straight. She's inexperienced is all we have right now, but that not might play so well. We're working on "she's really a traitor to women", and "she's McCain's women-shaped puppet being used to distract knuckle-dragging flyover-state women into voting for McCain."

We're waiting for the teleconference with Obama's people before we decide which way to go. Pardon our mess until we get it straight.

Posted by: MSM at August 29, 2008 11:32 AM (5MUej)

Christoph- Goddamn, that's some funny shit. Go Peggy!

The icebergs at the North Pole retreated with one harsh glance from Sarah Palin.

tmi3rd

Posted by: tmi3rd at August 29, 2008 11:35 AM (Gz0u5)

Marge Gunderson is one of cinema's most underappreciated great heroes. Competent, incorruptable, courageous, disarming, a patient supervisor, true and loving spouse. Brilliantly conceived and written character, McDormand's finest performance, in the Coens' best film. If we could ever get Margie to head the ticket, I'd walk busted glass for her.

Posted by: gp at August 29, 2008 11:37 AM (9OT+1)

39 Obama ad: John McCain's running mate kills innocent woodland creatures for fun. Is that who you want just one heartbeat away from "the button?"

I'm sure she's got more balls than Obama and Biden combined. At least she knows which end of the pipe goes "BANG!"

I hope they serve caribou steaks, ptarmigan and agutuk at the state dinners...

Posted by: Smokey Behr at August 29, 2008 11:47 AM (QyeW7)

40 Did you know that Sarah Palin recently shot down a Russian Bear Foxtrot airplane by pointing her finger at it and shouting "B A N G !"

This is not what happened. What happened is that she karate-kicked her way into a military base, commandeered a .50 machine gun, mounted it on a hippie, and took down the Bear. And then had a beer and a shot.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 29, 2008 11:48 AM (FO+YO)

41 The Bible thumping part of her scares me. I understand that she is not a hardcore believer in the literal sense, but I dont think that she gets that the Bible doesnt belong in the science class. She also comes from a state that has some issues about corruption in the state party that could come out and hurt her and McCain, but as that goes so does Biden in spades. Overall not a bad pick, I will have to learn more about her, but talk about out of left field, wow.

Posted by: jeff at August 29, 2008 11:53 AM (3ZswP)

42 I dont think that she gets that the Bible doesnt belong in the science class.

Any particular reason you believe this? Christoph doesn't seem to hate her and that's a pretty good indicator she's not the fanatic you seem to think.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2008 12:11 PM (0+Ggj)

The Bible belongs in a Philosiphy class, not the science class. I have just started to learn about her so I dont know if she is a true beliver, but from what I have read about her faith, not a big fan so far on that issue. I just dont want her to be a pusher of her religon on others, if she is a practioner of her own faith, great, if she is one of the pushers of her faith on others through her office, then not so great. I am a big believer in the seperation of church and state and when I see somebody trying to tell others what to believe religon wise, I get anxious about people, like me, that dont believe in an orginized faith.

Posted by: jeff at August 29, 2008 12:25 PM (3ZswP)

44 Can you do another Bear in the Woods Ad? But at the end have Gov. Palin just shoot the bear? Then have the words leadership appear?

Posted by: JAFKIAC at August 29, 2008 12:37 PM (HqtPo)

45 She also comes from a state that has some issues about corruption in the state party that could come out and hurt her and McCain

You're kidding right? She made her political reputation by taking on Alaska's famously corrupt establishment. Including her own party. Political ethics is probably her greatest strength.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 29, 2008 01:15 PM (ItxWA)

46 "I just dont want her to be a pusher of her religon on others ..." At least she'd be pushing Christianity, right? Let the Dems push all the other religions.

Posted by: gp at August 29, 2008 01:20 PM (9OT+1)

Jeff has been drinking the bathwater.

BTW, Palin is famed partly for going after the corruption in Alaska.

Is this the best the Rat Quick Response Team can come up with.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 29, 2008 01:51 PM (wgLRl)

48 Yeah I guess he can't really explain why he thinks that, heh. They'll refine the talking points, they've only had a few hours. By November they'll have us worn down with constant repeating of the big lie like they do with everything else.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2008 02:26 PM (0+Ggj)

49 McCain's built them a rhetorical box that they're going to spend a lot of energy trying to beat their way out of. Well played.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 29, 2008 02:53 PM (MMC8r)

50 I'm beginning to think McCain actually is trying to win this thing. He got me back in the fold with his pick of Gov. Palin. Hell, I even sent him a hundred bucks today. Gov. Palin is a Life Member of the NRA, and she hunts. How cool is that?

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