Monday, October 20, 2008

Sarah Palin? SNL comody? What?

Intuition tells me the Sarah Palin appearance on Saturday Night Live was not such a good idea for McCain camp. I watched the full clip on youtube before it got pulled by NBC for copyright reasons... hmmm, I wonder why just this one got pulled so quickly... Anyway, I did find some news footage showing clips from the show right here. Check out half way with Alec Baldwin. Here is a newspaper review from the independent.co.uk



Now does this Sarah Palin comedy appearance remind you of anything?
It reminds me of when the Scottish Member of Parliament George Galloway representing Bethnal Green in London appeared on Celebrity Big Brother to try and gain popularity with young voters.

George Galloway has been branded a "laughing stock" by a Labour opponent after the Respect MP imitated a cat on Celebrity Big Brother.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4608082.stm


Now in Sarah Palin's case, her appearance is not as crazy as George Gallaways (acting like a cat on Celebrity Big Brother) but in my opinion it falls into the same territory, especially as Sarah represents a potential candidate for the vice president of the United States. I don't think she is in a position to goof around like this --as much as I like a good laugh myself. Polls show 61% agree with what I am saying. The world is not in great shape and most people hardly know who Sarah Palin is. A few may know her in Alaska, but from what I hear in the press, she has at least one unresolved scandal. The BBC reports of a probe that she abused power there.
Palin abused power, probe finds:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7662820.stm
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By the way, I never got to blog about Mr. 15 minutes of fame (Joe the Samual plumber of 34, of suburban Toledo, Ohio). He earns $40,000 a year according to his divorce records of 2006 working for a business of two employees. He wants his taxes below 250K to not go down as this "spreads the wealth", but if he suddenly becomes part of the 5% of the population who earn over $250,000 a year, he does not want to pay 3% extra tax (above the 250k) which is what tax rates were before Bush came into office. Keep dreaming Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.He would already have been richer today under Obama's law. Also, I am sure Samual is blaming McCain for the media humiliation. McCain war hero? forcefully brought up Samual's middle name (Joe) up on more than one occasion to the third presidential debate. Sorry Sam, for your hassle in the media, although you could probably say you have learned a lot from this media experience! :)
Here are some related videos explaining how the taxes would work (which would actually favor Joe the plumber under Obama's plan):



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