When Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin whether there were any other Supreme Court cases she disagreed with, Sarah Palin couldn’t name one. Interestingly, though, she made a statement that not only brings up the whole John Birch Society question, but also brings up more questions. Listen to what she says, and after you’re done shaking your head, and stuffing your brains back into your cranium, watch it again and listen for her state’s rights statement.
More after the video:
Okay, now that was bad enough, but, like Ginsu, there’s more!
If she truly believes that states should make these types of decisions on their own, then how does she feel about Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka? That was a matter dealing with state’s rights, and the whole segregation issue upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 (the whole ’separate but equal’ case). Thankfully the Brown case overturned the idiocy of previous generations that let a caste system be put in place legally. But, according to Sarah Palin’s logic, that should have been handled at the state level–at which level Brown’s case was denied with a citation of Plessy v. Ferguson.
I get it Sarah, I do. You don’t think that the federal government should step in, and that states should be able to keep those that they hate down, and enforce interpretations of some ‘holy’ book into their laws. You, and your kind are the exact ones responsible for the continuation of inequality in this world, Governor, and you are the ones that spread hate with your so called ‘Christian love.’
The real issue in this video isn’t that Sarah Palin can’t name another case with which she disagrees, the real issue is that the Supreme Court shouldn’t interfere in state level issues, such as abortion, or segregation, of anything like that. Let’s usher in a new era of oppression, let’s listen to this wonderfully fresh voice of hatred and ignorance.
Yes, that’s the claim that John McCain is making now. Ridiculous, isn’t it? On NPR, Senator McCain actually spewed this absurdity over the airwaves.
Steve Inskeep: Given what you’ve said, senator, is there an occasion where you could imagine turning to Gov. Palin for advice in a foreign policy crisis?
Sen. McCain: I’ve turned to her advice many times in the past. I can’t imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden, because they’ve been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong about Russia. Sen. Biden wanted to divide Iraq into three different countries. He voted against the first Gulf War. Sen. Obama has no experience whatsoever and has been wrong in the issues that he’s been involved in.
Steve Inskeep: But would you turn to Gov. Palin?
Sen. McCain: I certainly wouldn’t turn to them, and I already have turned to Gov. Palin, particularly on energy issues, and I’ve appreciated her background and knowledge on that and many other issues.
Give us a break, Senator. You have done no such thing, and if you have, you need to be locked up in an asylum. Imagine turning to Sarah ‘Russia is near Alaska, that’s my experience’ Palin for anything other than advice on highlighting your hair, or what caliber rifle to use on a bull moose? What kind of advice on energy could he get from her? The wrong information on what percentage of domestic oil comes from Alaska?
Be a man, Senator, admit that you made the worst VP choice in the history of VP choices, or we will all continue to laugh at you–in your face. A complete disgrace, John McCain, that’s what this whole charade is.
An average Phoenix home. Middle class values. Not an elitist in the least. This humble $12 million dollar home is going up for auction October 25, 2008. It used to be the Home of John and Cindy McCain. I’d love to buy it, but I don’t think that it could comfortably fit all of the 177 former or current lobbyists that work for John McCain’s presidential campaign. I’d love to throw them a party, they put America first!*
Imagine living in such a place? Which way would you enter the house to get to the kitchen? Oh, wait, that’s a ‘chef’s kitchen’ right there on the patio! It has two kitchens. That’s a good thing because if you stare into one fridge for a few minutes and don’t see anything you feel like eating, you can go to a completely different kitchen and stare into another fridge for a few minutes!
There looks to be at least 8 ways to get inside! Even if I had my heiress wife had a couple hundred million dollars, I don’t think I’d feel comfortable in a house like this. It’s too much. Don’t get me wrong, I like the whole Medellin drug lord style, but this is a little too Pablo Escobar, even for me.
*America first only after money, industry, clients, parties, hookers, voter manipulation. This list is subject to change at any time that a lobbyist feels it conflicts with their needs for that hour or minute in time.
You read that right, a big one. No, no, no, not the whole flippin’ n’ floppin’ he’s been doing, or his choice in VP candidate, or even all those silly and unnecessary lies he spouts–although those are all worthy of some time and space. This one is one of those basic, ‘my 14 year old nephew knows that this is wrong’ type blunder (smart kid, knows all the capitals and countries in the world and can tell you some basic facts about the country-but not in a geeky way).
Anyway, you’re dying to know what it is, so I’ll just quote Senator McCain…
I think the single biggest issue is to get our economy going, and a key element of that is creation of jobs, with alternate energy, clean coal, wind, tide, solar, automobiles that run on flex-fuel, hydrogen, and batteries. Making use of the coal reserves in Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The world’s largest oil reserves are in the United States of America. And nuclear power. Nuclear power…we can build 45 new nuclear power plants by 2030 and create 700,000 new jobs. We’ve got to put Americans back to work.
John McCain, 9/29/08
I know what you’re thinking, “What the heck is wrong with that guy!?” …and he didn’t correct himself, his campaign had to cover for him (as usual) hours later.
Senator McCain freely admits why he lies, and why he flip flops:
Anyway, let’s have some fun and fact check McCain, even though we know he is dead wrong, like anyone over the age of 14 would. The US, the largest oil reserves in the world? Where could we get some decently reliable info on that? Some info that maybe a Senator and two time presidential candidate would possibly have access to? I know, the Department of Energy!
Here you go, these are the latest estimates from the Energy Information Administration, a part of the DOE.
Oil
Oil
Oil
(Billion Barrels)
(Billion Barrels)
(Billion Barrels)
Country/Region
BP Statistical Review
Oil & Gas Journal
World Oil
Year-End 2007
January 1, 2008
Year-End 2006
Saudi Arabia
264.209
266.751
262.275
Iran
138.400
138.400
133.000
Iraq
115.000
115.000
125.100
Kuwait
101.500
104.000
100.110
United Arab Emirates
97.800
97.800
70.560
Venezuela
87.035
87.035
52.945
Russia
79.432
60.000
74.435
Libya
41.464
41.464
34.970
Kazakhstan
39.828
30.000
N/A
Nigeria
36.220
36.220
37.200
United States
29.444
20.972
20.972
Canada
27.664
178.592
25.591
Qatar
27.436
15.207
20.400
China
15.493
16.000
16.256
Brazil
12.624
12.182
12.267
Algeria
12.270
12.200
11.921
Mexico
12.187
11.650
11.656
Oh my! Who would have possibly ever thought that Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Venezuela, Russia, Libya, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria all have more oil reserves than the US!? Gosh, I don’t know…maybe anyone who’s been paying attention for the past 50 &*(%|n’ years!
His supporters will no doubt say something to the effect of “Well, c’mon, of course he didn’t mean that!” Well, then, what did he mean? What did the guy who wants to be President of the United States mean? Coal reserves? If he meant coal reserves, then the question of his mental acuity has to be taken into consideration. He had just mentioned ‘coal reserves’, so what’s with the flub?
Is this guy all there? Has his age caught up with him? Are we looking at a guy who is thinking like Reagan was in his last couple years in office (no offense, President Reagan not only seemed off kilter the last couple of years in office, but the onset of fairly severe Alzheimer’s wasn’t that long after he left office)?
Along with all of the very bad tactical mistakes, misstatements, blunders, and obvious flip flops (within hours of each other), Senator McCain is making a very good case for being mentally drained, or, unfortunately, not mentally capable to be in a very challenging and fatiguing job.
Look back on his campaign and ask yourself whether he is thinking clearly, or is he really this much of a flip floppin’ bumbler? I don’t know the answer, but neither one is good.
