Read: This country was just under 200 electoral votes away from seriously FAILING.
Before I get into this, let me note the Palin posts will be dwindling sometime soon, but this was just too good not to blog.

Fox news has conveniently released this information a day after the elections, which is probably for the best. It’s been wildly reported by Palin’s aides that when discussing Africa in her room one day, she told her staff that the thought Africa was just a country. Furthering the polar bear’s lack of political knowledge, she said she had no clue what countries were in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ok, I get the fact that 99% of the general population doesn’t know what the NAFTA is, but that’s because that 99% aren’t preparing to be the Vice-Fucking-President of the top country in the world. I’m a Music Industry major, so you would assume that I would know about record contracts, sound waves and smoking lots of drugs… ya’kno’wha’I'mean? As far as the Africa thing, I’m dumbfounded. That’s about a 1st grader’s level, you know, the same time they teach you about things like evolution and dinosaurs.

And while I’m Palin’ing, note that the bitch went hog wild with the McCain camp’s credit cards, spending well over her budget on high end brands. Personally, I would have done the same, so +1 for her.

Sarah Palin spent “tens of thousands” more than the quoted $150,000 on clothes for the Republican campaign, met McCain aides in her hotel room dressed in nothing but a towel, and did not know Africa was a continent, according to new reports.

Fox news has reported that Mrs Palin did not understand that Africa was a continent, not a country, and did not know what countries were in the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In separate claims made in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine, the Republican vice presidential nominee was reported to have been told to buy three suits for the Republican convention, and to hire a stylist. Instead, she went on a spending spree in upmarket stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.

Quoting unnamed sources within the McCain camp, the magazine alleges that most of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who “was shocked when he got the bill.”

An angry aide described the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast”, and predicted that the truth would eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

The magazine also claimed that Mrs Palin used low ranking staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards, and that up to $40,000 was spent on clothes for her husband Todd.

A number of articles of clothing have been lost, the magazine states.

The disclosures are made in “How He Did It, 2008″, in Newsweek’s Special Election Project, a behind-the-scenes account of the presidential election produced the day after the polls closed.

The magazine also claims that at the GOP convention in St. Paul, when aides Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her, Ms Palin walked into the room wearing only a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat to Todd, adding: “I’ll be just a minute.”

Other election revelations include that on the night Hillary Clinton officially lost the Democratic nomination, she enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain.

“Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama,” reports the magazine. “Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow. “

In regards to weather she helped or hurt the McCain ticket, I don’t have a clue.  On one hand she is a complete moron that had an actual shot of John dying in office, therefore leaving us with the idiotic hockey mom.  On the other side of things, she created a legion of die hard fans that could have switched over to Obama’s ticket.  One thing’s for sure, shes pissed about how she was portrayed in the media, as shown in this video.

In the first of what may or may not be a continuing series (depending on how motivated I get and how long I can stomach beating the dead horse that is the 2008 election) I bring you one of the more salient, yet so far underreported lessons learned from this election: that people in Alaskan are either totally in denial or completely batshit insane.

First, we got to meet their Governor, who was supposedly “the most popular governor in America” according to her constituents. However, the rest of the country didn’t take long to figure out that she a filthy liar, a political ignoramus, and an embarrassment to both her party and her running mate John McCain. Wow, great governor you got there, Alaska! You can have her back thanks!

Then of course, we learned that their senior Senator Ted Stevens was guilty of felony corruption (actually seven felonies in all). Sucks for him that his political career is over right? WRONG! Alaskans apparently don’t care about their politicians being bought and sold by energy interests because they re-elected Stevens as their Senator, as well as his crony Don Young. I guess being corrupt isn’t nearly as bad as being A SOCIALIST!

After all, Alaska is so hardline Republican that they vote the party line no matter what! They must then, of course live by their small government creed, fighting the good fight against the socialist policies of their liberal adversaries in the lower 48…oh wait, that’s right, every Alaskan, despite paying no state income tax or sales tax, receives thousands of dollars from the government for just, being Alaskan. This money comes from, you guessed it, taxes on business, specifically the oil business, taxes that Commie Killer Sarah Palin raised last year, saying “collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WORKED SO HARD FOR IT!!111111

tl;dr Alaskans enjoy their $3600 government welfare check while voting overwhelmingly against anyone who would dare try to give ordinary Americans even a taste of such goverment-funded economic relief. Wow, thanks guys!

Here’s a few really smart people from Ohio and their take on Barack Obama.

Drudgereport has officially donned water skis and launched itself over the shark and into wingnut city. First there was Ashley Todd, now there’s today’s BREAKING NEWS HEADLINE of “Obama Congratulates McCain” which a picture of Obama supposedly flipping the bird. However, following the link takes you to a video of Obama scratching his fucking face during a speech. Uhhhhh? Really? This is the best you can do?

Man, if you believe that shit, you’re not gonna BELIEVE the Neuro Linguistic Sorcery over at FOX News!

YOU’RE WITH THE PINKY

The following is an open letter to the media at large from independent presidential nominee Ralph Nader.

Sorry, I haven’t actually had a chance to read it, I’ve been too busy ignoring Ralph Nader.

October 30, 2008
www.votenader.org
www.officialnaderstore.com

Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RALPH NADER QUESTIONS MEDIA COVERAGE

Below is an open letter to the national media from Ralph Nader….

Open Letter to Members of the National Media:
Dear Members of the 4th Estate:
Having spoken to numerous reporters and some editors with the national media (as distinguished from the local media) about the blackout or near blackout of the Nader/Gonzalez presidential campaign, striving to challenge the two party, exclusionary duopoly, (debates, ballot obstacles, etc.) I must ask a general question:

What journalistic criteria have you been employing in this presidential year that guides your pronounced non-coverage of the number three campaign that advances majoritarian agendas based on long experience, involvement, and accomplishment. These agendas are either opposed or ignored by McCain and Obama (see www.votenader.org) and are often rooted in the very investigative reports by your reporters?

It is puzzling how editors and publishers who oversee these prize winning stories seem to lose interest in covering Americans who are trying to do something with that information for a better country.

We asked one top editor of a major daily why his paper was not covering us at all and he said, “Because you can’t win.” Besides being a catch-22 that he quickly acknowledged, that is not a supportable newsworthy judgment. News Media have covered many stories outside the electoral arena of people “who can’t win” and such coverage extends to both the import of the struggles and the reasons why “winning is not possible” given the stacked deck against them.

There has been a witting or unwitting political bigotry against third parties and independent candidates, as there was years ago against minority voters. Against the status of such candidates obstructed through ballot access laws by the two parties that dislike competition they present other rigged ways to secure their domination over the electoral landscape, including gerrymandering each other in the majority of Congressional Districts, for example.

This is meant to be a short letter. Journalism scholars, reporters, and other post-election writers of books and articles will be chronicle, no doubt, the quantity and quality of media coverage (see the previous analysis by such scholars as Stephen Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter).

For now, please verify for yourselves your own non-coverage or coverage and inform us what your journalistic criteria standards or policies led you to this definition of your readers, listeners, and viewers rights to know.

Thank you for responding, even though there is obviously no obligation to do so.

Sincerely,

Ralph Nader

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So anyway… Anyone else catch Barack Obama on the Daily Show?