Miss Al Qaeda America, by Steven Weber
an excerpt
Well, one may no longer claim that women are the smarter, more sophisticated, more earthbound of the species. It is now possible in this wonderful age to be female and still be a completely unqualified, bleating, prevaricating moron who can get kicked upstairs like any of the men before her to have been so blessed.
To the unified delight of all the other morons of both sexes assembled at last night's Repustule Convention, the glass ceiling took another head-butt courtesy of a scrunch-wearing no-nothing and now -- incredibly -- the race is on. While thousands of conventioneers frequently burst into spontaneous cheers (one wishes that many of them could have burst into spontaneous flames instead) all too reminiscent of the ones heard in brauhauses in Munich in the early 30's, the spectacle of the bespectacled bobble-headed boobie capably reading her teleprompter gave the crowd of dead-enders the hope they have prayed so long for. For unto them has been delivered the perfect candidate to further their agenda, one that can deflate and defeat any and all who try to use reason and sense to better this nation's future chances at survival by invoking a large uterus and a tiny brain.
Forgive me if this post may, at first blush, sound sexist. But, it truly isn't. Gosh, I guess I am a liberal if charges of sexism instantly makes me more aware and be careful about what I say.
In any case, Stephen Weber's diary on Huffington Post pretty much summed up how I felt about Sarah Palin's speech last night. Her delivery through the teleprompter was exquisite. But, the content of her speech left me cold.
Once again, we have a new standard bearer for the Bush/Cheney/Rove politics of divide and conquer. Once again, we have a Republican--or a Repustule (as Weber intimates)--who thinks creationism should be thought in public schools, that the American invasion of Iraq was a task from God, and that women's right to choose should be suspended even in the face of rape or incest. Is this the newest face of Republicanism? a pitbull who delights on putting lipstick on her hockey mom persona?
Unfortunately, the more you look the more it stays the same. Her speech could have been just as deftly delivered by Cheney, himself, without benefit of a teleprompter. The right-wing message is the same: Our beliefs trump everybody else's rights! And, the crowd in Xcel Energy Center would still have burst into spontaneous cheers of USA! USA! USA!
Disclosure: I was one of the 130,000 who felt (in the past 24 hours) that Barack Obama needed a little help in our collective quest to change that message.
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