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BREAKING NEWS--SARAH PALIN REPLACED BY TINA FEY
I have it through frequently reliable entertainment contacts that Sarah Palin has been removed from the Republican ticket—but only physically. With her own cooperation—“I just can’t stand the way the press looks at me anymore!”--Palin is being sequestered on Little Diomede (previously unvisited by an Alaskan governor), the island closest to Russia’s Big Diomede, where she will mend fishing nets, throw zingers at the locals, keep an eye on Putin for us, abuse her authority, and shoot baby seals for the remainder of the campaign.
Fey has taken up Palin’s schedule seamlessly, without the need for a briefing, and will continue the campaign filling in for McCain on days when he is too angry or confused to complete the planned itinerary himself.
The switch occurred yesterday morning, at nine a.m., when Palin was escorted by four ear-phoned, sunglassed men, disguised Secret Service into a waiting red pickup and driven by a circuitous route to Memphis International. Ten minutes later the Vice Presidential candidate’s limo pulled up at the bus station where Fey alighted to join McCain in his humongous campaign bus along with her own makeup and hair. Within minutes, according to reporters, the Senator from Arizona was laughing again, though he later admitted he didn’t “get” what Fey-Palin was talking about.
According to the Morris Office, who represents Palin, her deal for the prolonged impersonation, which includes weekend breaks so she can appear both as Fey-Palin and Palin-Fey on “Saturday Night Live,” was “in the mid eight figures”--but was tucked away in Clause 383e of the Bail-Out as a service to the public that both Republicans and Democrats agreed upon immediately.
Neither Fey’s agent nor her publicist could be reached, though their assistants reported they were “laughing all the way to the bank.”
One can only hope the bank wasn’t Wachovia.
Fey has taken up Palin’s schedule seamlessly, without the need for a briefing, and will continue the campaign filling in for McCain on days when he is too angry or confused to complete the planned itinerary himself.
The switch occurred yesterday morning, at nine a.m., when Palin was escorted by four ear-phoned, sunglassed men, disguised Secret Service into a waiting red pickup and driven by a circuitous route to Memphis International. Ten minutes later the Vice Presidential candidate’s limo pulled up at the bus station where Fey alighted to join McCain in his humongous campaign bus along with her own makeup and hair. Within minutes, according to reporters, the Senator from Arizona was laughing again, though he later admitted he didn’t “get” what Fey-Palin was talking about.
According to the Morris Office, who represents Palin, her deal for the prolonged impersonation, which includes weekend breaks so she can appear both as Fey-Palin and Palin-Fey on “Saturday Night Live,” was “in the mid eight figures”--but was tucked away in Clause 383e of the Bail-Out as a service to the public that both Republicans and Democrats agreed upon immediately.
Neither Fey’s agent nor her publicist could be reached, though their assistants reported they were “laughing all the way to the bank.”
One can only hope the bank wasn’t Wachovia.
$700 billion to bail-out Greed; $600 billion (and counting) to fight an illicit War:
Who will pay these bills?
That is the only important question about this election. Vote for McCain, and you will pay the bill by further erosion of your pocketbook and your dreams. Vote for Obama, and the bill will be paid by the people who incurred it—the corporations, the mortgage firms, the banks, the brokers the leaders of which became individually wealth not only at our expense but at the expense of their works whose benefits and welfare shrunk in direct proportion to the growth of their obscenely high annual compensation.
Ask yourself, who can better afford to pay this bill?
The profiteers demanded that government “stay out of the way,” so that they could profit unchecked, cutting back on benefits, raising fuel costs, raising interest costs, evading insurance claims, raising credit card interest rates, offering unsound mortgage bargains—in general, preying on the desperate needs of our weakened Middle Class and hopeless Lower Class.
But the moment the house of cards they created topples on all of us, they immediately turn screaming to the same government to save them and to put them right back in their high-paying offices. At Lehman Brothers, top managers who went home on Tuesday of last week were back at work on Thursday.
Don’t get me wrong: the bail-out is good. It gives us a shot at a way back, just as the bail-out of the savings & loans did a while back. It’s just a question of who will pay for it.
Vote for Obama and let the profiteers dip into their offshore accounts and help rebuild the country they have wrecked.
That is the only important question about this election. Vote for McCain, and you will pay the bill by further erosion of your pocketbook and your dreams. Vote for Obama, and the bill will be paid by the people who incurred it—the corporations, the mortgage firms, the banks, the brokers the leaders of which became individually wealth not only at our expense but at the expense of their works whose benefits and welfare shrunk in direct proportion to the growth of their obscenely high annual compensation.
Ask yourself, who can better afford to pay this bill?
The profiteers demanded that government “stay out of the way,” so that they could profit unchecked, cutting back on benefits, raising fuel costs, raising interest costs, evading insurance claims, raising credit card interest rates, offering unsound mortgage bargains—in general, preying on the desperate needs of our weakened Middle Class and hopeless Lower Class.
But the moment the house of cards they created topples on all of us, they immediately turn screaming to the same government to save them and to put them right back in their high-paying offices. At Lehman Brothers, top managers who went home on Tuesday of last week were back at work on Thursday.
Don’t get me wrong: the bail-out is good. It gives us a shot at a way back, just as the bail-out of the savings & loans did a while back. It’s just a question of who will pay for it.
Vote for Obama and let the profiteers dip into their offshore accounts and help rebuild the country they have wrecked.
OBAMA AND HISTORY
From Dennis Palumbo--For what it's worth...
Tonight, Joe Biden accepted his party's nomination as Vice President, to run with nominee Barack Obama, who speaks tomorrow night in Denver.
However, as good a running mate as Biden is, I think Obama's real running mate is history itself. The first African-American nominee of a major American political party. A man whose father was from Kenya, and whose white mother raised him herself, with the help of her parents. A black man with the unlikely name of Barack Hussein Obama, running for President. If this isn't the unfolding of history---a history with a new face, a new contour, a new expectation of how things go, I don't know what is.
History itself is Obama's running mate, and partner, and advisor. History itself is the thing with which he must contend, the thing he must convince with his oratory and policies, the thing he must both respect and challenge. But it's not his personal history that accompanies him on the upcoming campaign trail. It's our history, the history of the American voter, that stands with him on every podium at which he speaks in the coming months. It's our history that will be challenged, tested, wooed. It's a nation's history that will be made and, perhaps, re-made, in a new, 21st-century image.
Yes, history was made tonight, when Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee. And so he begins his campaign with his new partner, new constant companion, new (and truest) running mate: American history---as conflicted, complicated, disheartening, inspiring, and surprising an entity as any living, breathing person.
Only in November will we know whether the team of Obama and history itself can work together in such a way as to, frankly, reinvent each other.
Dennis Palumbo is the author of From Crime to Crime: Mind-Boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder
Click on book image to buy From Crime to Crime on Amazon.
Visit Dennis Palumbo's website here.
Read his blog here.
Tonight, Joe Biden accepted his party's nomination as Vice President, to run with nominee Barack Obama, who speaks tomorrow night in Denver.
However, as good a running mate as Biden is, I think Obama's real running mate is history itself. The first African-American nominee of a major American political party. A man whose father was from Kenya, and whose white mother raised him herself, with the help of her parents. A black man with the unlikely name of Barack Hussein Obama, running for President. If this isn't the unfolding of history---a history with a new face, a new contour, a new expectation of how things go, I don't know what is.
History itself is Obama's running mate, and partner, and advisor. History itself is the thing with which he must contend, the thing he must convince with his oratory and policies, the thing he must both respect and challenge. But it's not his personal history that accompanies him on the upcoming campaign trail. It's our history, the history of the American voter, that stands with him on every podium at which he speaks in the coming months. It's our history that will be challenged, tested, wooed. It's a nation's history that will be made and, perhaps, re-made, in a new, 21st-century image.
Yes, history was made tonight, when Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee. And so he begins his campaign with his new partner, new constant companion, new (and truest) running mate: American history---as conflicted, complicated, disheartening, inspiring, and surprising an entity as any living, breathing person.
Only in November will we know whether the team of Obama and history itself can work together in such a way as to, frankly, reinvent each other.
Dennis Palumbo is the author of From Crime to Crime: Mind-Boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder
Click on book image to buy From Crime to Crime on Amazon.
Visit Dennis Palumbo's website here.
Read his blog here.
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