Comments on: Biden Palin debate! Open thread

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:52:43 +0000

I’ll mention the Anne Davies article. It was terrible. The meeting of low expectations has lead to the same with the journos.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:07:07 +0000

I notice no one has mentioned the Naomi Wolf and Anne Davies articles in the SMH today.
Wolf really expressed beautifully what a number of us fenced at without quite getting there, yesterday.
Really along the lines of a Hugh Mackay “victimhood entitlement” piece about Howard and the mortgage belt that we were used to at one time, its a sort of revenge of the mortgage belt thesis, but particularly relates to a new category getting much print space just recently; downtrodden Hockey mums.
The thread about Henson’s mate hanging round the tiny tots toilets sort of parallels it a bit, because that also talks to a sense of disempowerment in the suburbs, albeit in a different incarnation.

By: joe2

joe2 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:00:09 +0000

jo @148 that is quite brilliant.
I will be sending it round the traps for sure.

By: joe2

joe2 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:46:49 +0000

Mr Fish has a view on the Palin effort.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/fish/2008/10/when_an_iq_falls_in_a_forest_f.php#comments

By: jo

jo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:42:15 +0000

Thanks Down & Out – found a link to this one on that one – best song & dance so far and quite amusing:

http://www.peteyandpetunia.com/VoteHere/VoteHere.htm

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:20:19 +0000

Kim @ 140,
Yeah, I know. And I still haven’t been able to work out why.

By: Enemy Combatant

Enemy Combatant — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:14:35 +0000

Fri Oct 3:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/patoliphant;_ylt=A0WTUccpF.dIai8B.hsDwLAF

By: Down and Out of Sài Gòn

Down and Out of Sài Gòn — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:07:16 +0000

Some columnists get a little too Palin-infatuated for their own good.

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:58:58 +0000

Bravo, Tig Tog!

By: Burr Deming

Burr Deming — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:59:22 +0000

Governor Palin did very well for herself.

Joe Biden merely did well for Obama.

But I have not yet heard anyone from any side express any concern about the most dangerous possibility if Governor Palin is elected to national office.