Buckin' Fig -
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Why is it that when someone in politics - or just in the public eye - says something offensive, they back peddle and claim they were trying to tell a joke or be funny? Read the following article from Politico.com and you tell me, was the comment by Michael Barone of U.S. News and World Report funny in any way at all: Barone: Media wanted Palin abortion By MIKE ALLEN & ANDY BARR | 11/11/08 5:58 PM EST A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, because "she did not abort her Down syndrome baby." Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and ... went over the line." Barone was speaking at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, to the 121st annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, which calls itself the nation’s oldest higher-education associatio...

This cracked me up. She's giving a stump speech about the only thing she can talk about: energy. Listen to the crowd after she says we need to develop new alternative energy sources and an "all of the above" approach. Palin supporters respond to her calling for "new alternative energy resources" by chanting "DRILL BABY DRILL!!!" Fuckin' idiots. HOW IS THAT NEW? HOW IS THAT ALTERNATIVE? (I know how it's energy and a resource). I guess her supporters really are like her.

This is what I feel like when I try to follow what John McCain and his campaign are up to... Every day, there's something else. There are so many to choose from, I'm not sure where to start. Actually, I'll go this way: I'll sum it up like this... There is only one thing republicans do not care about: NOUNS. NOUNS?! Yes, NOUNS (why am I shouting? watch below, then read on...) Now that you've had a refresher on grammar, let me explain: People (other than uber-rich white people who make so much money, they don't have to care about what they spend it on, unless it's taxes) Places (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Darfur, New Orleans, Wall Street, other peoples' houses to name a few) Things (honor, honesty, experience, integrity, the environment, recording equipment) This farce of a campaign season is really showing us what the 2 parties are like. The conventions were the perfect examples. The Democratic Convention had speeches filled with the notion that, i...