Comments on: The Torch Is Passed

By: Chris Censullo

Chris Censullo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:18:24 +0000

And another thing, how stupid to Palin/McCain think people are? They parade around the country criticizing “government” when they both have made a substantial living on the people's payroll. McCain has NEVER HAD A JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, from his career in the military to the House and then the Senate. He's been living off of our taxes his entire life, as did his father and his grandfather. And yet, we cannot have access to the same health insurance choices we've been paying for him to have his entire life?

By: Chris Censullo

Chris Censullo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:12:40 +0000

The “thing” that Palin represents is nothing new. Her disdain for ideas in general and contempt for details and rigor in intellectual endeavors have been preached before, in other lands and during other times. Her trading of science for gut instinct, scholarship for the easy answer, and hate for those who work hard in learning about issues was at the heart of another political movement, this one in Germany in the 1920s. The banner of “anti-elitism”, in fact a whipping up of the downtrodden against those who tried hard in school, and “country first”, in fact a whites-only racial pig dressed up with lipstick, is exactly what was carried by the Nazi party into power in 1933 in Germany. Add into the mix the conscious diverting of working people's economic anxiety to easy targets of people of color, immigrants, and “smart” people, and you have rallies with hate speech and the attacking of reporters that would make Adolf Hitler beam with pride.

Palin is nothing new, in fact, her politics are old enough to be feared.

By: Chris Censullo

Chris Censullo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:18:24 +0000

By: Chris Censullo

Chris Censullo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:12:40 +0000

Palin is nothing new, in fact, her politics are old enough to be feared.

By: Howie Kurtznot

Howie Kurtznot — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:43:59 +0000

"What she represents finally is a turning of the dial, the torch being passed to a new generation of women."

Let's see if I've got this straight: The torch has been passed because Palin is a monumental disaster, who has accelerated the collapse of the McCain campaign?

What a concept.

By: Kwaayesnama

Kwaayesnama — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:35:19 +0000

Sarah Palin and me.

I wish to share my views on Sarah Palin with you; she and I have a lot of things in common.

My education matches hers it took years for me to earn my degree taking a few courses at a time here and there, so I guess I have that in common with her.

I was president of my PTA and an officer in my woman’s club we have that in common.

I was a soccer, baseball, and basketball mom, so we have that in common.

I own a small business where I make out budgets, so you could call me an executive that is another thing we have in common.

I am married to a Joe six-pack, but he says he is a Joe 12 pack, I wish we did not have that in common!

I have three children and five grand children, she’s catching up to me.

I am a catholic and have never had an abortion. I used birth control when I was too old to safely have a healthy child.

I will be voting for Obama. Why? Because I would never presume that I have the intellect and education to be 1/2 a breath away from being the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. It takes more then charm and snappy remarks to have a finger on the nuclear button. That is something that speechwriters and pundits can’t teach a candidate in a few weeks. Sorry I want intelligence running this nation. So this white, Catholic 61 year old, Republican grandmother will be voting for Barack Obama.

By: D. Swan

D. Swan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:59:03 +0000

Perhaps, oh heck, I could be wrong, but being “unabashedly feminine” for me includes being HONEST about how one treats others, and paying attention when one's family is in crisis, like when one has a young family and a pregnant, unmarried teenage daughter, who will need her family, most specifically her mom, when that baby is born. The winks and blinks and false folkiness mask raw ambition and misplaced loyalty, not a cute-as-heck babe.

And her Christian touchstone? Balderdash…underhanded dealings, hatred and racism have no place in a Christian person's heart or mouth.

By: double w

double w — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:09:50 +0000

McCain's job as a candidate was to choose someone that could step into his pace at a moment's notice should something awful happen. By choosing Palin in an utterly cynical attempt to drag in votes, he has demonstrated that he simply doesn't care about anything other than finally outranking his dead father. After a career of dressing up his spoiled-brat behavior as fiery passion while making backroom deals to line his pockets, he has destroyed the final shreds of his own dignity and will die a bitter and lonely old man if he loses the election.

By: fac

fac — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:02:23 +0000

Just because it's said she's running on common sense, doesn't make it so. She's running on ideas that are wrong, and are being delivered in the most divisive, nasty way.

By: ScottPruden

ScottPruden — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:41:56 +0000

Do we REALLY want the idiots to be in charge?
I personally recognize the President and Vice President to be public SERVANTS; they work for US
WE are THEIR bosses. This nonsense about an imperial Presidency leads to absolute power in the hands of lucky MORONS. I want the most 'elite' people possible for the hardest job in the world; if they screw up, we FIRE em and get somebody else.