Liveblogging the VP Debate
10:00pm: Sarah Palin is lying like a rug. Oh, and she can’t pronounce “nuclear”. Who coached her, Bush?
As usual, Palin is expressing the idea of “change” and “regulation”, completely ignoring the fact that the Republicans have been in charge for the last 8 years. She also repeats stupid lines like “they hate our freedom”.
Biden got in a few nice hits. He pointed out McCain’s record on the Iraq war and diplomacy with…Spain. But shame on you and Obama both for not supporting gay marriage!
Palin: lie lie lie. She’s a lying sack. Been there, done that, don’t need another.
She spouts the party line about Iraq: victory, Petraus, central front in the War on Terror. Hey, Sarah! Bin Laden isn’t in Iraq, he’s in Pakistan! Idiot.
If she says “maverick” again I might break the TV. Maverick my ass! McCain and Palin represent the status quo. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.
Where’s the question about womens’ issues?
10:18pm: Palin thinks the VP isn’t part of the executive branch? She shouldn’t refer to the constitution, since she clearly doesn’t know anything about it.
Biden DOES know the consitution. And yes, the VP is part of the executive branch. SMACKDOWN! SCORE!!
Go Biden! The maverick label is horse pucky. Tell it!
So…how is appointing your best friends from high school to government positions bipartisan, Governor Palin? Lying sack. Oh, did I mention she’s a liar?
Oooh take a dig at the mainstream media. You’re going to fight for me, Governor Palin? You want to do something for me? Drop out of the race, kthx~
They’re going to say she won the debate because she didn’t puke or pee on herself. I expected no less from her, though. She’s ambition incarnate, narcissistic, and a skilled liar.
My take: this did not help the McCain ticket. She spewed a lot of talking points but avoided answering a lot of the questions. Just saying “We’re going to change things/shake things up” and giving no details isn’t very convincing, especially when your running mate is part of the status quo. Anyone who thinks she did well was probably already going to vote for McCain.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t liveblog. Or maybe I should drink next time.
I’m off. Gotta donate some more money to Obama.
How McCain deals with a crisis
John McCain showed us today how he deals with a crisis(h/t HuffingtonPost):
RUN AWAY!!! RUN!!!! FUQN RUUUUUUUUUUUN!!
Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it.
Did you feel the world shake?
I did something today that I’ve never done before: I called all of my elected representatives to tell them to vote against Paulson’s bailout plan.
I expected a lot of resistance. Imagine my surprise to discover that Jim DeMint in particular has come out against the bailout. This is a man who glided into the Senate in 2004 by agreeing with Bush about, well, everything. Yet we are in total agreement on this issue!
I think I felt a rip in the space-time continuum.
Oh, yeah, and I smell a rat. Why do I feel like this is just a huge trap being set for the Democrats?
A splash of color at the Democratic National Convention
The DNCC announced the list of bloggers credentialed for the general blogger pool in Denver. The following blogs of color made the cut:
- African American Political Pundit
- Culture Kitchen
- Dallas South Blog
- Georgia Politics Unfiltered
- Jack and Jill Politics
- Oliver Willis
- Pam’s House Blend
- RaceWire
- What about our daughters
My congratulations to all of you! I know which blogs I’ll be reading during the convention. 🙂
Where the Black bloggers at
The DNC has chosen 55 bloggers for its State Bloggers Corps (a list of the chosen bloggers can be found at the bottom of this post on African American Political Pundit). Going through the list, one discovers that the majority of the bloggers are White.
African Americans vote Democratic more reliably than any other group in this country. We vote Democratic at rates of 90%, election after election. Common wisdom states that a Democrat can’t win a national election without the Black vote. Yet there’s no room for us as bloggers within the state delegations, even in states where a large percentage of Democrats are African Americans.
Why am I not surprised?
Anybody remember the Yearly Kos last year? They were so utterly surprised that the convention was mostly attended by middle-aged White men. People contorted themselves into knots making excuses for why it would be so, saying stupid shit like “Black people are too poor to have computers”. Of course they missed the point. DKos has never been amenable to voices that might criticize them for racist or sexist stereotyping, and in fact people have been banned for trying. They act as gatekeepers, reject us if we dare criticize them for exhibiting White privilege, and then wonder why we don’t participate in their convention.
Nobody wants to hear us, not if we insist on speaking as Black people from a Black perspective. They don’t link to us, they pretend we don’t exist (“They” being the Big Dogs, ie DKos, MyDD, Firedoglake, etc. and no they get no link love from me). They insist that on the Internet no one can tell your race, but that’s just bullshit. Anyone who bothers to read THIS blog will know very quickly that I identify as a Black woman. They don’t listen to us or link our blogs because they don’t want to. They don’t want to have real discussions about race, they only mention it when it’s a convenient talking point for their own agendas. Otherwise, we might as well be invisible.
We’re out here, though, and we’re not going away. We are not invisible, we have voices, and we will be heard.
NOTE: Before anyone starts with me, no I didn’t apply to blog at the convention. I do consider myself part of the Afrosphere so I use the term “we”, but that doesn’t mean I think I should be blogging at the convention personally. Miss Thing wouldn’t let me go, anyway.
Health Insurance with No Preventative Medicine (Updated)
I recently discovered that our health insurance doesn’t cover preventative medicine. I found this out when we had to pay $1200 for a colonoscopy.
My mother actually had colon cancer, and a colonoscopy not only saved her life, it detected the cancer so early that she didn’t need chemotherapy after surgery. Now MY insurance company would rather pay for cancer treatment than screening. Because my mother had colon cancer I’m at higher risk than normal, and my doctor suggests a colonoscopy every 5 years rather than the usual 10. But if I want that screening I have to pay for it myself.
Looks like I’m going to have to use a different method for cancer screening, namely Miss Thing. I’ve heard dogs can smell tumors. Can’t be any worse than relying on Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Update: It’s a scam, a colonoscopy should be covered but Blue Cross/Blue Shield is trying to get away with filing it as a “wellness” procedure instead of preventative medicine. The hope is that I won’t challenge their refusal to pay. What an utterly dishonest way to make a profit.
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