drama!

[ironymaiden]

as i said in this thread, the rumor that Governor Sarah Palin is really the grandmother of her youngest child seemed delicious but very far-fetched.

yet it's starting to hang together.

oh, and Biden's son and brother may be trouble (via hottipper sinthrex)

i need some popcorn.

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[ironymaiden]

i think that the left will always tear itself apart when it isn't uniting against an outside enemy. and even when it is. when someone on the left comes forward and starts talking about ageism, and how nasty it is to keep mentioning that lump on McCain's face, maybe then i'll feel less annoyed about those rushing to protect Palin's delicate self. i'd say the rhetoric used to describe her is remarkably like the rhetoric used to describe Dan Quayle back in the day - young, pretty, inexperienced, etc. and i'm certainly not going to refrain from calling an anti-sex ed/antiabortion female politician a stupid cunt.

all we need is a standard sweaty-mom-exhausted-after-labor holding infant Trig picture to clear this up. everyone takes them. i'm surprised that it's not been taken care of already. i know putting an intimate family moment out there is an invasion of privacy, but she's already getting the welcome-to-national-politics anal probe. and they haven't pulled out the opera-length gloves yet...

and yes, i feel terrible for the daughter.

[buhrger]

i know putting an intimate family moment out there is an invasion of privacy
IDHTBIFOM right now, but i recall a favoured paragraph by john ralston saul whereïn he suggests that if a politican runs on policy and (if elected) implements that policy in a competent manner, s|he should be allowed to get falling-down-drunk in public. but if a politican runs on "family values", then that politician opens up her|his family to scrutiny. it's worded better than that. shall track down.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

shall track down

please do.

[buhrger]

the book in question is The Doubter's Companion a dictionary of aggressive common sense by the aforementioned john ralston saul, now yclept "his excellency" due to his recent tenure as the consort of this country's vice-regent. in spite of that, his writing is by turns entertaining and thought-provoking. the companion, in particular, advances several political arguments, but also owes a great deal in style and tone to ambrose bierce's earlier work. the relevant entry in this context is the one for

PRIVATE LIVES The private lives of public people may be considered private only so long as they don't trade on them to advance their public careers.
If an individual presents himself to the public for election as a happily married father of three, then he has made his weekend with a secretary or his visit to a prostitute of either sex a matter of public interest. If he makes a point of drinking milk in public, then the public will want to know whenever he gets drunk. If he buys his suits at Wal-Mart for the cameras, then proceeds to holiday on rich men's yachts, he will be photographed with telephoto lenses. But if he were to present himself to the public for election as a believer in specific policies, he might well be judged on those while his genitals, interesting though he himself might find them, would be forgotten by those not directly concerned as being of little relevance to the public good. He would probably even be able to fall down drunk in public from time to time without anyone much caring so long as the interests of the citizenry were being looked after. See AD HOMINEM.