DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: Sarah’s A Runner

  • jchem · 5 months ago
    If Obama had done this, it would be non-stop on Fox.

    Of course it would. And no doubt his supporters would say how petty this is to even be discussing. We would have the exact same discussion; its just that the parties would switch sides.

    I guess Sullivan's quest to uncover the secret plot about Palin's child has no effect on his credibility when he has anything to say about Palin. Perhaps we could be entertained to a Guest Voice by Michael Reagan complaining about Obama's citizenship. Or better yet, someone can post about the "real story" about the twin towers falling down.
  • NitrogenNick · 5 months ago
    Of course it would. And no doubt his supporters would say how petty this is to even be discussing. We would have the exact same discussion; its just that the parties would switch sides.

    jchem, it wouldn't be the exact same discussion, because nobody on the Left *really* thinks that Palin's disrespect of the flag means that she's anti-American, communist, terrorist, or any of the other epithets thrown at Obama. A picture such as this with Obama would serve as "proof" of every right-wing conspiracy theory out there. The only "proof" that the left draws from this picture is that she's careless.
  • Father_Time · 5 months ago
    Two things:

    1. This woman actually thinks that she has a chance at becoming President. She has been labeled an idiot by nearly the entire country including her own party, yet in her mind she is legend.

    2. She thinks that she is attractive. Well maybe not, she does have Old Glory there ready to be thrown over her face.
  • DaGoat · 5 months ago
    If nothing else this shows the left wingnuts are as petty as the right.
  • ThurmanHart · 5 months ago
    The only thing that bothers me about this is that it obviously a posed picture. It would have taken five seconds to drape the flag properly, which is generally common sense. It's a mystery why someone would want to court a public outcry - unless they truly believe that there is no such a thing as bad PR.

    Let's just hope Joe Biden doesn't want to get in on the sex symbol game.
  • GreenDreams · 5 months ago
    I heard today speculation that the UFOs that "disabled nuclear missile silos" may launch an attack if we bomb the moon, as we are apparently planning to do.

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?i...
  • KNicoll · 5 months ago
    I don't actually have the impression that a lot of people are really aware of the nuances of the Flag Code, or care. (I am taking as evidence of this, by the way, my experience of living in the US in late 2001, in which effectively everybody had a flag and effectively nobody displayed it in a way I found not grating on the nerves due to my own moderate Flag Code fetishism.)

    Mostly that photo leaves me at 'Shrug. It's not touching the floor.'
  • GeorgeSorwell · 5 months ago
    I agree with what Jchem said, including what he said about Sullivan's credibility.
  • Ryan · 5 months ago
    Yes, many are sticklers for that sort of thing. I call them lunatics.
  • keelaay · 5 months ago
    I've posted my opinion before to lots of backlash. But here goes... Those of us who expound so emotionally and negatively about Sarah Palin, if we want her to go away, then we need stop writing about her! Her only claim to the front page is the vitriol of those against her. She continues to play us like cheap fiddles. Ignore her, and she will wither away.
  • shannonlee · 5 months ago
    I can't believe this is on TMV.
    I can't believe it has 10 comments.

    My inner Id saw the legs and had to click. That's my excuse :)
  • JSpencer · 5 months ago
    I can't believe it has 10 comments.

    11 ;-) (same excuse)
  • DLS · 5 months ago
    I used to run. Maybe I need to start again and offer to go running with her, leaving Sullivan to snivel stupidly about torture again on the Diane Rehm show on NPR.