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A 10 for Palin
September 4th, 2008

So, what were Mayor Mike’s thoughts on Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin’s speech last night?

“I give her a 10 out of 10,” he said at an unrelated press conference this afternoon.

Despite an earlier commitment to see “Xanadu” which he thought would keep him from seeing the speech, Bloomberg was able to catch Palin’s convention address after he caught Whoopi Goldberg on roller skates (An aside: despite some people’s perception that retro 80s movies should never have an encore presentation on Broadway — they should be reserved for late night TNT specials — Bloomberg praised the performance enthusiastically).

He had similar praise for Palin, who he called an “amazing woman.”

“I think she has shown she is a substantive person who shows she is something to be reckoned with,” Bloombeg said.

Earlier today, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who usually agrees with the billionaire mayor, took a different stance. Quinn, who was asked whether Palin’s nomination was significant for women, said she disagreed with most of her policy stances. She also said the nominee was too inexperienced to serve as second in command.

“I do not think she should be vice president of the United States,” said Quinn. “I think Joe Biden should be vice president of the United States.”

By Courtney Gross on September 4, 2008, 3:35 pm
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2 Responses to “A 10 for Palin”

  1. Joe Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    This message is only for autonomously living (this means not with your parents or in a dorm that your parents are paying for), employment happy (this means either employed or willing to be), tax-paying (non-recipients of welfare programs unless clinically disabled), private school/college tuition paying citizens who are tired of being called selfish, materialistic and elitist:

    She is finally here folks! A truly non-partisan contemporary adult who is young enough to relate to our youth and old enough to be comfortable with herself. If you saw substance last night – thank your family for teaching you common sense and thanks for working hard to make this country great! If you saw Obama bashing, you are comfortable with platitudes and probably haven’t paid enough in taxes or tuition in your life to understand (College loans don’t count until you have paid them off!) If we are fortunate, this woman will be in the political arena for many years to come. And hopefully, she will inspire the people that make this country move to public service. People of action to fix Washington…..not politicians to fix America!

  2. RoughAcres Says:
    September 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    You have GOT to be kidding.

    We have here a 44-year-old mother of five, one of whom is pregnant, one of whom is being sent to Iraq, one of whom is a special needs baby, and two of whom are still school-age, who has been governor for less than two years of a state where a pork-barrel, corrupt political machine rules the roost… and where petrodollar rebates bribe the residents to give their grateful support. She is just one more political puppet for the neocons to use, and her ambitiousness doesn’t seem to stand in their way.

    This is a woman whose narrative includes lies about selling the prior governor’s plane on eBay for a profit (it was NOT – a supporter bought it, at a sweet discount); lies about being against the “bridge to nowhere” when she supported it; lies about being “reformist” when she was an avid supporter of Ted Stevens; and lies claiming to be anti-pork, though she lobbied Washington DC heavily as mayor of Wasilla. She is the former mayor of a town of 5,000+ who needed to hire a City Administrator for the first time ever; who attempted to censor/ban books in the local library; who BORROWED money to build a sports complex, rather than funding a much-needed sewage treatment plant; who left her town $20 MILLION in debt, when it had been in surplus (hmmm — sound familiar?); and who chooses to use the annual tax bonus paid by oil companies to the state to give every resident a hefty chunk of change than invest in essential infrastructure, like bridges, roads, schools, etc. Heckuva job, Sarah!

    We do NOT need 4 more years of Republican debt spending — we have far too much debt owned by foreign countries as it is! We do not need 4 more years of Republican negligence — everything is crumbling around us! We do not need 4 more years of Republican snarky comments and spin aimed at Democrats while posturing as “uniters” — we’ve had a bellyful of that crap. And we do not need 4 more years of lying, hiding, and trampling of rights.

    America needs a CHANGE — not 4 more years of the same people who brought you Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and political favoritism (and if you still think McCain is a “maverick,” take a look at his political advisers, analysts and campaign team… WHY ARE THEY BUSH PEOPLE?

    Please, vote yourself a break this year. Vote Democratic all the way. Vote SMART for a change.

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