Saturday, August 30, 2008

Palin In Comparison

This is Sarah Palin


. . . America’s hottest governor and the Republican nominee for Vice President.


She is the governor of Alaska


. . . the northernmost of our fifty some odd states.


She has an approval rating over 80%. That is . . .


. . . almost better than God's.

She likes fishing . . .


. . . for salmon


She likes hunting . . .


. . . for moose.


And Mooseburgers . . .


. . . are whats for dinner at the Alaska Governor's mansion.


What she doesn't eat . . .


. . . makes for comfortable office decor.


She started out her adult life as a working woman, a hockey mom, . . .


. . . and a runner up for Miss Alaska.


Obama started out as . . .


. . . a follower of the Marxist organizer Saul Alinsky.


Palin won her first election for executive office to become . . .


. . . the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska in 1996.


She did so by beating a three term incumbent . . .


. . . in a hotly contested election.


Obama won his first election to the Illinois State Senate . . .


. . . by having his competition, Alice Palmer, a civil rights icon, decertified from the ballot by his attorneys. Likewise, none of his subsequent elections to office were models of democracy.


Palin is famous for blowing the whistle on massive corruption


. . . at the very top of Alaska's Republican Party.


Obama is famous for meeting corrupt people . . .


. . . befriending them and doing business deals.


Palin has a twenty year old son . . .


. . . in the U.S. Army Infantry, a job that requires he put his life on the line in order to serve our country.


Obama attended Trinity United Church for 20 years . . .


. . . exposing his children to the deeply racist, seperatist and anti-American Black Liberation Theology and a preacher who damns America.


Palin has run businesses, including. . . .


. . . a commercial fishing business with her husband


That gives her more business experience than . . .


. . . these two combined.


Palin has been a mayor and is now a governor. That gives her more executive experience than . . .



. . . these two combined.


Palin went to Germany. She gave no speeches while there, but . . .


. . . she did visit wounded soldiers in Landstuhl


Obama went to Germany. He gave a speech to Germans . . .


. . . then exercised near Landstuhl


Palin has fought against . . .


. . . tax increases and earmarks


Obama has . . .


. . . sought millions in earmarks for special interests.


Obama voted against a bill that would have killed the funding for the most infamous pork project of the last decade, the $200+ million earmark for the Bridge to Nowhere . . .




When she became Governor of Alaska . . .


. . . Palin killed the Bridge to Nowhere project.


Palin is a huge proponent of . . .



. . . drilling in ANWR and off the coast to bring down gas prices.


Obama is a huge proponent of


. . . inflating your tires.


And Obama is fine with . . .


. . . $4 a gallon for gas


Palin is a lifetime member . . .




. . . of the NRA


Obama voted . . .


. . . against a bill to allow people threatened with domestic violence to carry a firearm for self protection and against a bill to protect a man from prosecution who had used a hand gun unlawful in Chicago to defend his family inside his own home.


The McCains adopted . . .


. . . an infant with heart ailments from an orphanage in Bangladesh and raised her to health and as one of their own children.


Obama adopted . . .


. . . the symbols of the presidency.


Palin is a working mom with five children . . .




Her fifth child was born four months ago. His name is Trig and they knew five months before he was born that he had Down's Syndrome . . .


They chose not to abort the child because she is pro-life.


That puts her at odds with Obama . . .


. . . who voted against an Illinois bill designed to stop infanticide of children born alive from botched abortions.


The Left says that Gov. Palin . . .


. . . is inexperienced and not ready to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency.


Who would have guessed . . .


. . . that lack of experience is now a disqualifier - for the position Vice President.

Indeed, putting aside foreign policy, Gov. Palin has more and varied experience than


. . . these two combined


Some on the left are questioning her intelligence and trying to label her the second coming of . . .

. . . Mr. "potato-e," former Vice President Dan Quayle.


The MSM of the day magnified Qualye's gaffes, while it seems that the MSM of today is ignoring . . .




. . . the serial gaffes of at least one of the candidates who makes Dan Quayle seem erudite by comparison.


McCain wants the Left and the MSM to speak up about this stuff so that he and . . .


. . . his new BFF's can hear also.

Of one thing there is no question. Of all the four candidates for President and Vice President from the two parties . . .


. . . Gov. Palin is the only one I would want to see both in the White House and on the cover of Vogue showing a bit of cleavage.
(Update 2: I included the above photo in the belief that it was the actual cover of the edition of Vogue for which Gov. Palin posed in February, 2008. Yes, she posed for Vogue, no, the above is not one of the photos. It is a photoshop. I thank one of the commentors, Mare, for pointing this out.)

(Update: Jim at Bright & Early has an additional comparison worth a view)







50 comments:

Ortho said...

Interesting observations! This post must have taken forever to write.

GW said...

I budgeted two hours to writing this and getting together the pics. Suffice it to say, it took far more than two hours. It was getting the pics together and the links that ran laps around the time budget.

bethtopaz said...

This was great! Hat tip from Seraphic Secret.

Pleeeeeeze make a YouTube video of this!!! I could use it!!

Thanks,
Beth in Winters, CA

GW said...

lollllllllll . . . . alas, when it comes to youtube, I have all the technical expertise of McCain himself. But if anyone is interested . . . I am not claiming copyright.

MK said...

That was a really good post, love the pictures. Especially the pigs. :)

gecko said...

What a great post!

KG said...

Brilliant! Linking to it.

S M said...

Her state borders Russia and Canada, she has completed a pipeline deal with Canada.
The Alaskan fisheries border the Japanese and South Korean fisheries, most likely she has dealt with those nations.
And she visited her troops in Iraq, she does command the Alaskan National Guard
So she has more foreign policy experience than Obama.

WAKE UP said...

The moment that Palin's name was confirmed, the Obama-Biden team began to look like old-time machine politics, while McCain-Palin look brand new. Yes !

Anonymous said...

RE: " . . Gov. Palin is the only one I would want to see both in the White House and on the cover of Vogue showing a bit of cleavage."

Not a bit sexist now, are we? LOL

GW said...

lol . . . No, not sexist at all. Merely human.

Anonymous said...

I bow to your post. At my blog, http://fuanglada.wordpress.com/ I am devoting the week to Sarah. I am Alaskan and have a link over there comparing Sarah to Barack. Poor Barack and we Alaskans feel sorry for Slow Joe's having to be compared face to face with her at the debate. Semper Fi i do not have a google name but I am Maysman on my blog.

Neo said...

“As a Democrat, I am reeling. That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.”

Jim said...

I've added one more for you to use:
http://www.brightandearlyblog.com/2008/09/compare-and-contrast/

BF Texas said...

Absolutely excellent.

Ymarsakar said...

Nice job with the hard work, Wolf.

MataHarley said...

When Word over at Flopping Aces recommended we come over and have a peek, just had to do it, GW.

And glad I did. Just may have to shut down the computer since nothing after this will leave this size grin on my face.

Well done, guy.

MataHarley from FA

Anonymous said...

Is this meant as only entertainment or was any of this information researched?

GW said...

The format and the styling were meant for humor. I have links with many of the things I've marked above and you will find lengthy essays with extensive research behind them. Some are links to my my own essays and research, others are from Rick Moran and Dafydd ab Hugh.

Obama tries to be endlessly nuanced. To the extent the above goes for humor, I've removed the nuance.

That said, the nuance he provides is largely a smoke screen. For example, he justified killing an infanticide bill (no pun intended) in committee because he thought that the companion legislation was not perfect. That was either being incredibly disingenuous or it displayed incredibly poor judgment.

You will we see the same in regards to most positions Obama has taken. For example, there is his position on the Second Amendment. The link I provide on Obama will lead you to a long essay discussing his strong support for the type of draconian regulatory regime that was recently overturned by the Supreme Court. The same essay discusses his subsequent claim that his views and those of the recent Supreme Court are in lock-step. There is an incredible cognitive dissonance about Obama.

At any rate, by all means, follow the links and decide for yourself. Like all humor, this was tongue in cheek, but underlying it is fact.

Karen said...

Terrific post. Enjoyed the contrasts so clearly defined. I'll be referencing this in an upcoming post on my blog.

(h/t Bookworm)

underthehill said...

Terrific job, GW!

Eileen said...

Wonderful post? You left out the part about Palin offering a bounty on wolves in Alaska ($150 each) which is actually against the law! You left out many facts...only including ones that make her "look" good. And twisted facts about Obama to make him look bad. I guess you have an agenda! You must be so committed to the Republican Party that you are blind to the truth. People like you elected Bush, and then re-elected him. Funny, lots of those people are now whining and moaning about the last eight years. Sorry, can't take them back now. What we can do is carefully research the FACTS about both sets of candidates and make a decision that is right for the USA. People, don't just read this guy's cutesy blog and accept everything as the God's honest truth. At least do some reading. Read Obama's policies, not just the parts some guy with an agenda posts here to entertain you. Read McCain's policies too. What you find out might make you think twice - AND YOU SHOULD.

GW said...
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The Whited Sepulchre said...

Your Best Ever. Brilliant.

Allen In Fort Worth

GW said...

Hello, Eileen

Thanks for dropping by and posting a comment. I do appreciate it.

If you parouse my blog, you will find 99% of it dedicated to serious research and analysis. Indeed, if you click on any of the links included in the post above, they will lead you some of those posts. I invite you to start "reading" there. Then let's argue the facts, madame.

And within that same vein, though I am a bit flippant in this post - since I was shooting for humor - I have not in the least misrepresented Obama's positions or history. Again, before you start to label me or this blog, please argue a single point that is substantively incorrect.

GW said...

Whited Sepulchre - thanks much.

Anonymous said...

*STANDING O*

e~C

MidPointMan said...

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http://www.youtube.com/v/Obrd9uHpGRE&hl=en&fs=1

MidPointMan said...

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Random Numbers said...

So at the top of the ticket, we have The Hero vs. The Zero
And at the bottom of the ticket we have The Chick vs. The Dick

Mare said...

You had me until the Vogue cover at the end.

Her accomplishments stand on their own.

Her positions on important issues and her follow through on those issues stand on their own.

Her values and character stand on their own.

She is someones wife, daughter and mother (a soldier's mother no less). By objectifying her, people are giving fodder to the other side for her to be taken less seriously.

Fun is fun, but this is an election for the leader of our nation and his second in command. I think it deserves our respect, not Photoshop.

There will be plenty of time after they are elected to discuss the hot librarian look and Photoshop to our hearts content. Let's help assure that outcome by not giving the Obama camp anything to work with.

GW said...

Mare, thank you for stopping by and commenting.

One, as far as I know, this is not a photoshop. Gov. Palin posed for Vogue and, though I have not purchased the magazine, some reputable sites were listing the photo above as the cover. The best way to deal with and defuse that is humor.

Two, I think you have to utterly seperate the final picture from the rest of the above post to claim that I am objectifying her. I did my best to portray her substance.

So we disagree on that one. But again, thank you for stopping by and commenting.

GW said...

Midpoint Man - great video