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Abby, Jake, Matt Damon, and Dad on Palin, Obama, and Letterman

By Abby at 5:58 pm on Thursday, September 11, 2008

I know it’s a day old, like eons in internet time, but I can’t stop watching this, because it’s exactly how I feel. If you haven’t seen it yet, now is the time. It’s short, but pithy.

I think there’s a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that’s a really scary thing because I don’t know anything about her. I don’t think in eight weeks I’ll know anything about her. I know that she was mayor of a really, really small town and she’s been governor of Alaska for less than two years. I think the pick was made for political purposes but in terms of governance its a disaster. If you do the actuary tables, there’s a 1 out of 3 chance – if not more – that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it’ll be President Palin. (You know) we were just talking about it earlier. Its like a really bad Disney movie. You know, the hockey mom (saying) “Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska!” And she’s the president! and its like, she’s facing down Vladimir Putin (using the) folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. Its just absurd. Its totally absurd and I don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about how absurd it is. Its a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we’ve gotten this far…and we’re that close to this becoming a reality…is ….crazy. Crazy. I mean, did she, I mean I really need to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. That’s an important…I wanna know that, I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes. You know, I wanna know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. Or if she banned books, or tried to ban books. I mean, this is…this is…we can’t have that.”

Jake and I were talking about this last night – about how he was really disappointed that the Democrats were spending so much time focused on Palin, hating on Palin, because what has made the Obama campaign so strong is his ability to talk about issues and not get stuck in the mire of politics – to remain above all that stuff. So I couldn’t have been happier last night when I saw Obama being his regular self last night on Letterman. My Dad felt the same way. He was talking issues, keeping cool, not being reactive.

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Comment by Val

September 11, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

Great post!

Thanks for sharing these. I will definitely use them as well.

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Comment by Abby

September 11, 2008 @ 10:48 pm

Thanks, Val! Aren’t those great?

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Comment by parental unit

September 12, 2008 @ 9:10 pm

I love the Matt Damon!

Our ravings about Sarah are fun, but don’t matter much. She’s on the ticket to reel in the Religious Right Evangelicals, and they dismiss any criticism of her as Godless Liberal harangues. They are the “values voters” whose values are: anti-Abortion, anti-Homosexuality, anti-Stem Cell Research, anti-Evolution, anti-Separation of Church and State, and pro-National Rifle Association. If she were an ax murderer and had these values, she’d be just fine.

Will it work again? God only knows…

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