[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: the meltdown begins
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been expecting this: Say It Ain't So, Sarah: Palin Smears Obama With Year-Old Discredited Attack: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/say-it-aint-so-sarah- pali_n_131841.html or http://tinyurl.com/4f436p snip Now that's done, and she didn't embarrass herself too badly, and so she's thinking, I'll show them. I'll show those conde- scending bastards that I know a thing or two too. I'll come up with my *own* talking points. That's pretty much got to be the case, right? No handler in the Republican Party would have let her trot out an old crapola smear like this. She pretty much had to have discovered it on her own, probably cruising some anti- Obama website. Remember how she bragged about doing her research on Obama before the debate itself? This was one of the zingers she thought she'd found, and was saving for the appropriate moment to unleash. Heh. Try actually reading the article you cited: One year after Obama's initial remark, the McCain campaign marked the anniversary by randomly raising it in the form of a biting press release. That charge didn't create many waves. (The Huffington Post wrote an article examining that attack as well.) But the McCain campaign kept at it... This happened only about six weeks ago. The smear was undoubtedly given to her by one of her handlers to use as she saw fit. What on earth makes you think the McCain campaign cares if it's been debunked??
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: the meltdown begins
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: This happened only about six weeks ago. The smear was undoubtedly given to her by one of her handlers to use as she saw fit. What on earth makes you think the McCain campaign cares if it's been debunked?? It screws up his off-the-cuff, ad hoc, inner-world, unsubstantiated, unresearched theory?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Palin: the meltdown begins
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip This happened only about six weeks ago. The smear was undoubtedly given to her by one of her handlers to use as she saw fit. What on earth makes you think the McCain campaign cares if it's been debunked?? It screws up his off-the-cuff, ad hoc, inner-world, unsubstantiated, unresearched theory? He didn't have to research it, just read the article he himself cited. Apparently he only skimmed the first couple of paragraphs, then assumed he magically knew the whole story, including where she got the idea for the attack and why she decided to use it. What's really funny is that there's more basis in reality for Palin's attack than there is for Barry's fantasies about it. And then he bases his subject heading on his fantasies, as if they were established fact. Remember last week when he mocked people here by accusing them of calling McCain a hero? Nobody on FFL had called McCain a hero except Barry himself, in a previous spate of mockery of McCain. The Republicans generally know when they're making stuff up; they just don't care. I don't think Barry is even aware that's what he's doing. It's no wonder he's so threatened by solipsists, even to the point of punching them in the stomach to get them to shut up.
