Posts Tagged ‘Palin’

My next job application, as formatted by Gwen Ifill and answered by Sarah Palin.

Please tell me about your social security number:
It has 8 numbers, the numbers never changed, as long as I have been in jobs, I have never wavered on my numbers.
Please tell me about your past jobs:
I had some. Ones where I had to do things. I will not tell you what those things [...]

Friday morning hangover.

It’s election Day! In Virginia! Seriously — early voting starts in Virginia today. (It starts in a number of states in the days just following.) Stirling and I are packing up the kids and heading South, assuming identities, establishing residency, voting, destroying evidence, heading back north, re-establishing real identities, voting again. That’s basically the shape [...]

Lip-Schtick

Yesterday, at a campaign event in Virginia, Barack Obama employed an old southern colloquialism to describe Senator McCain’s assertion that he is now the candidate of change. Here is what Obama said:
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush – except for economic policy, [...]

John McCain: POW, Human Ambien [Updated.]

John McCain’s speech last night had two central themes. The first was designed to highlight the fact that he was a prisoner of war who was imprisoned during a time of war while he was also, incidentally, a POW. The second was a broadside against the Republican party designed to convince moderates and independents that [...]

Palinoscopy

It’s Wednesday and Ashton Kutcher has yet to emerge from my closet with a camera crew. It would appear that I am not, in fact, being Punk’d. Sarah Palin really is the Republican’s choice for Vice President of America!
Tonight Governor Palin will take the stage in what will undoubtedly be the most important speech of [...]