Let me just state, I have never been so insulted in my life as I was by Palin last night

[LisaM]

The fact that she is being presented as a serious VP choice offends me in almost every possible way. I can't get over it (nor can I get over relentlessly mimicking her whenever I open my mouth).

You don't use a VP debate platform to give "shout outs" to third graders. You don't wink at the camera. You don't say, "well, gosh darn it Joe, there you go again" and intimate that Obama and Biden can't run opposing Bush's record of the last 7 years. You can't basically refuse to answer every question and twist it around to explain how being mayor of a small town in one of our least-populated states qualifies you to handle a mortgage crisis (especially when your legacy to that town is $22 million of debt).

I can't believe the CNN panel could keep a straight face. I don't know if they were just being very subtle by pretending to take her seriously or what.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Totally agreed.

Totally.

[cutlassmama]

2. Yeah, I thought the "shout out"

was just so unprofessional. I've never heard another politician ever do that before. It literally made me want to vomit.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Well, those are her intellectual peers, after all.

No offense to the third graders. :evilfrown:

[sakura]

25. As the mother of a third grader, I can tell you that they are NOT her intellectual peers.

I see more critical thinking going on in his classroom in one day than she's probably experienced in her entire life.

[KurtNYC]

3. I mostly agree -- I think the selection of Palin shows deep contempt

for the democratic process. To hypothetically pave the way for this Palin person to be President of the US is about a half-notch below treason. What could inflict more harm on the US than having a 2nd rate beauty pageant contestant leading us?

Makes me wonder who is really running the US -- it isn't Bush, Cheney is only part of it and Palin would only become the front man in the disturbing scenario where McCain is inaugarated and then dies in office. The front man for whom?

[rebel with a cause]

29. Corporations, especially oil corporations....that is who.

This country is ran by corporations and that is more evident every day. I don't know how they are going to let Obama win, they have done every thing in their power to stop him. The only way he has survived this far is that his organization is as powerful as they are. If you are going to fight an army of giants, you better have some pretty tall men on your side. ;)

[LisaM]

5. It's true that she could be a pawn in a larger game

though I don't doubt that she can be dangerous in her own right, just by her sheer audacity.

[zulchzulu]

6. I thought I slipped a tab of acid and was watching a bad infomercial when she spoke

She is beyond phony. She is beyond anyone I would EVER want to talk to. It was an insult that someone with cred like Biden had to be on the same stage as her. She was like a robot where you already knew what her "answer" was before she finished.

I think she was pulling out a lot of her previous gig as a sportscaster schtick with her cheap steak tough Fargoisms. It was a pathetic thing to have to sit through.

Worse yet, Ifill never asked her about her draconian views on abortion. I guess the Supreme Court is not an issue anymore. :puke:

[LisaM]

14. True - the insult to me pales before the insult to Biden

The whole thing is upsetting.

She said she wished they could debate again. I wished he had challenged her to do so, at that very moment. Suggested a debate early next week so she couldn't be stuffed full of practice notes.

[marlakay]

7. I know the mere thought of her being pres scares the shit

out of me. How people can be soo stupid as to vote for her after knowing what voting for a dumb person does with Bush is beyond me. Do they want the country to fail? Or is it like they just think life is one big party and until the runs on the banks happen and they have no food or home, then they will finally get it?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

8. She's a disaster for women....

n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Yes, indeed. The whole scenario with her as a VP pick is disgraceful.

[K8-EEE]

10. She will NOT get women's votes acting that way

We can see through it. I doubt if she seduces ANYBODY not their camp with that routine, frankly, except for the super-koolaid drinking Freep types that were for her anyway, you know, the geniuses who gave us BUSH!

[myrna minx]

11. Hear Hear. I am am so insulted and angry.

I can't even write about it, I'm so angry.

[unblock]

12. they accidently gave her tina fey's notes.

"shout out"? rilly?



what got me was the occassional breathiness thing she throws in for some kind of emphasis.
it's really -- inappropriate.

[bunnies]

13. They think we're stupid.

Its the only explanation for putting her in that position. I've seen store 24 workers behave more professionally than she did last night. Its a disgrace.

[Zuiderelle]

15. Wholeheartedly Agree.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I find it insulting that McCain thought that he would get the women's vote

by putting her on the ticket. He doesn't give women credit for haveing any intelligence at all.

[seabeyond]

22. they are stupid repug males that think palin is what a woman is.... they do NOT get it

this is inherently who they are hence their very stupidest....

[PVnRT]

17. SHOUT OUT TO ALL MY PEEPS IN ANCHOR-TOWN WAZZUP

Yeah...

[Gregorian]

18. Amen.

For the tenth time at least, I want to say thank you for expressing what I feel. I felt quite unconscious in my rage last night.

Well now I know that I'm not alone. And I also know that I can't handle being seriously offended. It's just too much after all of these years.

It was the fact that she was worse than Bush. I think it was the "nukular" that pushed me over the edge of sanity.

I literally wrote an email to a friend last night stating that if she and he won the election I was moving to Wales on an extended vacation.

Even my 80 plus year old parents were saying they didn't know what they'd do if Obama didn't win.

[LisaM]

20. It seemed funnier last night than today

Today I feel some mounting rage. How dare he?

[kick-ass-bob]

19. But it was the biggest state in the Union.

She said so.

[Disturbed]

21. Gov. Palin needs to be Impeached, now!!!

At the very least, Alaskans need to mount a Recall Petition & toss her out. She is corrupt & inept. The vetting process of her becoming Gov. must have been almost non existent. Her abuses while Gov. have been ignored until recently. The spotlight has revealed her unethical & perhaps criminal actions as Gov. She screwed up by accepting the VP position that is way beyond her level & has brought about scrutiny of her as Mayor & Gov. She is unfit to be Gov., much less VP or possibly Pres. of the USA.

[trashcanistanista]

23. If I were an Alaskan I would be ashamed to show my

face outside of my house. What the hell were they thinking? She is an embarrassment now, to the entire country! If they don't recall her now, they should be ashamed.

[GreenTea]

24. Come on this is the most you've ever been insulted in your whole life?

Either you must be very young or you don't get out much....there's some ugly, terribly insulting things out in this lying, greedy, selfish, cold, vindictive, painful world of ours.

[LisaM]

28. There are lots of insulting things out there

But she insults me on so many levels - as a woman, as an American, as a voter - as a world citizen - that I think it's one of the deepest insults we, the voters, have ever had to endure.

[stuntcat]

26. Yes, 100% Yes.

There are SO many women in politics that I'm proud of. She is nothing like any of them.

[hamsterjill]

27. Ashamed

If I simply didn't dislike her so much, I would have been ashamed for her last night.

I did not like the flirting, nor did I like it when she was bitchy to Joe for no reason. And it goes without saying that she did not have a clue how to answer the questions.

What a farce!

[marew]

30. Couldn't agree more.

The woman is a joke. How pathetic it would be to have her represent the US on an international stage! :wtf:

[TheKentuckian]

31. She ranks pretty high on the insult scale

I've taken some extremely offensive stuff to my face and let it roll of my back (at least to most observers) but I take my country seriously and Palin mocks about everything we are supposed to be about.
I tell you also that fucking Tucker Bounds drives me ape as well.

I have the least respect and the most agitation created by McCain's people he puts around him of about any group of people ever.

[tbyg52]

32. So I'm not the only one who keeps talking like Palin

whether I want to or not....?!

[texpatriot2004]

33. Well said. I agree. nm

[gratefultobelib]

34. Bookmarked. Thank you for expressing what I feel.

[npk]

35. I agree. I thought she was also very condescending toward Biden

It was all I could do to watch the debate.