In a sad commentary on what a Sarah Palin vice presidency would be like, she was pranked by Justiciers Masques, what the New York Times calls “a pair of Canadian comedians, notorious for pranking politicians and heads of state.”  The comedians called Ms. Palin on Saturday and pretended to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Apparently, even the governor’s staff had no idea that they were being punked when accepting the call.  Apparently the incompetence is at all levels of the McCain-Palin ticket.

Listen to the call below or at http://www.justiciers.tv.

~Vulcanella

The text below comes from an e-mail a friend forwarded to me.  It has some valid points.  What if things were a little different and roles were reversed?  How would this year’s presidential campaign be different?

Ponder the following:

• What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
• What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
• What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
• What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
• What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
• What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
• What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
• What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
• What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
• What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
• What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
• What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
• What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
• What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
• What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Educational Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism

Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

~Vulcanella

10. The straight talk express will be converted to a blimp.  The hot air in Sarah Palin’s head will be used as fuel.

9. Creepy debate-watcher Rich Lowry at the National Review will bid on Sarah Palin’s expensive wardrobe.

8. Campaign brochures will now be printed on recycled paper from the 1500 pages of McCain’s medical records.

7. To encourage 527 groups to pay for attack ads, McCain will now refer to audiences as “my fellow Swiftboaters.”

6. McCain’s seven houses will host all future fundraisers.

5. Governor Palin’s daily diet will be converted from moose burgers to baby seals.

4. Paid surrogates will no longer explain the latest Palin gaffes.  Instead a pre-recorded message will state, “It’s clear that the elitist media is behaving in a sexist manner, and Obama is a Muslim anti-American socialist who pals around with people like bin Laden.

3. McCain will streak at Game 4 of the World Series to get free national TV coverage.

2. Campaign witchdoctor will be let go and re-assigned to Gov Palin’s Office of Voodoo Affairs.

1. It won’t save money, but has our campaign accused Obama of being a Neo-Nazi yet?

Bonus #1: Governor Palin will sell Alaska back to Russia to boost her foreign policy credentials and reduce travel costs.

Bonus #2: McCain and Palin attire to be purchased on triple-coupon day at Walmart.

~Roy

Captain O’Biden and myself did a little fall gardening this weekend in hopes of having a colorful garden in spring.  It can sometimes be difficult to envision what the garden will look like in several months when it now just sits as a pile of recently disturbed soil.  However I have faith in those daffodil bulbs, and the patience to wait for my springtime reward.  My patience extends to the upcoming election.  I know that our country’s problems won’t be solved in one day.  We have to hunker down are really get to work, but there are no east fixes.

I do worry that the country’s apparent ADD and short-term memory will cause people to forget that all our goals, universal healthcare, balanced budget, healthy economy, secure borders, reduced gun violence, etc, will take a lot of hard work and time!.  I worry this falls on deaf ears.  After all no one this entire campaign season has remembered that John McCain was under investigation in the 1980’s when we were going through the Savings and Loan crisis.  He was never charged with a crime, but …  it was forgotten almost as quickly as the report finding that Sarah Palin abused her power as governor.

Why don’t people remember the past and learn from its lessons?  I cannot believe that Sarah Palin admonished Joe Biden in the VP debate for not looking forward.  Where are we going if we don’t know our point of origin?

My point is that the United States has serious problems and we need to identify all the problems and we cannot forget some in lieu of others.  Then we must draw the solutions from every available port of information including our own past.  Then we must implement our solutions, support President Obama, and above all exercise patience.  Understand that it took 8 years to get into this mess and it will take time to repair, but like those spring daffodils, the rewards will be the first color in the gloom and bountiful for us and generations to come.

~ Ferosha

Now the Terminator is dissing Palin, he told Campbell Brown that he doesn’t think Palin is ready to be commander in chief yet, ouch!

CAMPBELL BROWN: Do you think she’s qualified to be president?

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: I think that she will get to be qualified.

BROWN: She will get there? What do you mean? She’s not ready yet?

SCHWARZENEGGER: By the time that she is sworn in I think she will be ready.”

That doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement to me.

~Roy

And I’m not even going to mention how much McCain pays to get his own makeup done.  Nor will I mention that his makeup artist has also worked for American Idol and So You Think You can Dance.  I guess “paling around” with Hollywood types isn’t that bad after all.

~Vulcanella

The Daily Show sent a correspondent to Wasilla to find out what things are like in the “real America” and what makes Wasilla so different from the lower 48.

Turns out the town’s mayor doesn’t manage the fire department, the school system or any social service.  But she does hold staff meetings on Mondays at 10 am and sign checks on Thursday afternoons.  By the way, did you know that Wasilla is the meth capital of Alaska?

Watch the video:

The mayor of Wasilla has staff meetings on Mondays and signs checks on Thursdays. Sure, she's ready to be president!

Yup, this video makes me feel so much more confident in Sarah Palin.

~Vulcanella

Andrew Sullivan did all the work for us and has taken Sarah Palin’s lies apart one by one.  As can be expected, there are too many to count.

Sarah Palin chooses to lie about things that ordinary people shouldn’t lie about.  Whether it is a bridge to nowhere, selling the state’s plane on e-Bay, or asking her daughters’ permission to join the McCain ticket, Palin’s lies seem to show no signs of abating any time soon.

• The Twelve Lies Of Sarah Palin
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin II: The Bridge To Nowhere
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin III: Firing Stambaugh
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin IV: Endangered Species
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin V: The Oil Pipeline
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin VI: Gays
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin VII: Climate Change
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin VIII: Habeas Corpus
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin IX: Alaska’s Energy Contribution
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin IX: Energy, Ctd
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin X: The Teleprompter
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XI: Asking The Girls?‘
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XI: Asking The Girls, Ctd.
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XII: Her Pay Cut As Mayor
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIII: Accessing Wooten’s Medical Records
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XIV: What Trade Missions To Russia?
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XV: Her Israeli Flag
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XVI: Divestment From Sudan
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XVII: “Pre-Surge Troop Levels”
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XVIII: Abuse Of Power
• The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin, XIX: “Fear” Of Wooten

Check The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, for more.  It seems like he finds more Sarah Palin lies every day.  The point isn’t that Sarah Palin lies – almost all politicians have to lie at one point or another.  It is that Sarah Palin lies with such a blatant disregard for the truth.

~Vulcanella

Yes, you read that right.  Saturday’s episode of Saturday Night Live featured a Sarah Palin rap.  No, the Alaskan governor didn’t actually perform the rap – Amy Poehler did, but it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen:

Watch Amy Poehler's Sarah Palin rap!

All of the lyrics were great, but here’s my favorite: “In Wasilla we just chill baby chilla / but when i see oil let’s drill, baby, drilla.”

Watch the opening sketch of SNL, in which Tina Fey does another masterful job of impersonating Palin.  It was funny, but nothing beats “drill, baby, drilla” with Sarah Palin grooving along to the music.  With sketches featuring Mark Whalberg (he’ll always be Marky Mark to me) and Alec Baldwin, SNL just keeps getting better and better.

~Vulcanella

Watch John McCain on the Late Show with David Letterman.  This is must-see TV if you want to see McCain answer critical questions about his campaign’s decision to blast Obama’s connection with David Ayers and McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as VP.  Oh, and McCain also had to explain why he skipped out on his date with Letterman a few weeks ago.  Fun.