No one buying $1 million Sarah Palin-signed Xbox 360
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lol What an idiot, he drove all the way out their to get a signature from someone more people hate then like to try and make a million dollars. And he won't even pay for the shipping.
I don't care who signed it, $1,000,000 is too much. I'd rather take my chances buying a $300 unsigned 360, and try to get Palin (or rather, someone I actually give a shit about) to sign that instead.
Of course it is Palin, so he could offer it for that same $300 and I'd still take the unsigned version. Why would anyone want that video game hating nut's signature on a game console? While you're at it, get Jack Thompson and that Irish dude who just had himself a rant to sign it too. The value will skyrocket! *eye roll*
Of course it is Palin, so he could offer it for that same $300 and I'd still take the unsigned version. Why would anyone want that video game hating nut's signature on a game console? While you're at it, get Jack Thompson and that Irish dude who just had himself a rant to sign it too. The value will skyrocket! *eye roll*
Because she was (one of) the deciding factor(s) that cost the Presidency for a (possibly) more effective US leader ;PPirate Kitty said:
This is one part of it.Romidude said:
Also.. should there not be a (-) sign in-front of that $1 million? I mean, it was signed by Sarah Palin of all people, right?
I dunno. If she is who McCain and his people picked to be his running mate in the first place, I have to figure that it says quite a lot about their decision making: namely, that they make rather poor decisions. Now I'm not trying to say that Obama has made the best decisions any president has ever made, but I still sleep a little better knowing that the people who thought Palin would be a good vice president aren't running the country right now because who knows what kind of shit they might have tried to do.PaulH said:
A million dollars? Really? If it was a piece of nostalgia fare like a Nintendo 64, a Sega Genesis, an NES, or something else from days gone by and signed by some borderline saintly humanitarian, I'm sure people would be jumping at it. However, it's a current gen system signed by a politician who has yet to do anything of major worth for humanity or the country as a whole. So... what?
How about this. She left her position as governor of Alaska without finishing 3/4 of her term out of the blue and went on selling books and appearing on talk shows. She has since done nothing for politics but be another voice for extremist republicans. And up until recently she did not knoe that Africa is a continent. I'm sorry but a person in a position of power should know what the continents of the world are. I mean for Christ's sake their's only 6.Pirate Kitty said:
Now I agree with you that her teenage daughter having a child out of wedlock isn't a fault of her governing skills, but at the same time it majorly affects her justification as a serious person when she goes around speaking about family values when her Catholic family isn't the best example. She does mot harm than good to the Republican party by simply speaking.
Not all Americans are smarter than that though (no offense) I mean they had George Bush before. I think there are only two maybe three reasons why she is liked.RatRace123 said:
1) She is part of the Republican party, there fore die hard republicans will tolerate her existence because she is on their "team."
2) She is a woman, seriously this may seem sexist but bare with me, I have asked before why she was so hated and nearly all the woman that answered said it was because she was a woman, if all those woman only vote for her because she is a woman in a powerful political position than all I can say is shame
3) A few people actually agree with some of what she has said.
Now to the Xbox 360. Who would seriously buy that xD it is just so "lol" that he would even consider auctioning it for one million dollars.
The thing is she exemplifies a lot of right wing rhetoric. She conforms to every stereotype associated with the right wing. To some, this is infuriating, while to others it heralds a big comeback for the republican party. the thing to remember is that a cartoonist couldn't have made a better character if he tried. She has essentially become a figurehead of sorts, for better or worse.Pirate Kitty said:
Now, the thing that makes her such a lightning rod of hate is that she is also an absolutely horrid politician. She drums up the rhetoric pretty hard in campaign speeches, but she is constantly in the news for all manner of gaffes and absurdities.
For instance, in a campaign map for the recent elections, she marked democratic districts of interest to win back with gun crosshairs (a large part of her platform and persona is gun rights)and vague statements about "The enemy". One of these crosshairs was over the district of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was recently shot in the head by a far right gunman. In a statement afterwards to deflect criticism of herself, she talked about how people have a "blood libel" out for her.
Blood libel refers to a false accusation that Jews murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals.
And Gabrielle Giffords was Jewish.
Things like this just keep her in the news, and that's why people talk about her.
I reckon it was a gamble more than poor decision making. See, I liked McCain ... he seemed like a reasonable kinda guy. Whenever he was interviewed (I'm from Australia so obviously not that much exposure, but what interviews were placed on the air here or the internet) he talked about economic theory, governmental practices, the need for consolidation of markets.mjc0961 said:
Everytime I heard Obama speak it was always the same flag waving message of 'change' ... everytime he talked economics, all he did was blame Bush (despite the credit crunch actually being analyzed and theorized during the Clinton Administration) and use negative politicking.
Then Palin completely alienated the public whom she was supposed (conservative, middle ages mothers) to be winning over (the reason for her candidacy as McCain's right hand woman in the first place).
Edit: To put it in a football perspective, McCain was supposed to be the central defender, and Palin the goalkeeper to catch any lost matronly voters .... the Democrats fudged a ground hugger kick that McCain let slide hoping for the goalie to score a long pass on the offence. Only for Palin to trip on her own feet and let it roll on forward to make the score 1, 0.
You say bad decision making, I say bad gamble. We could argue the difference between the two and I think we'd end up agreeing on the most part it was poor judgement however.
My friend said it best when he said, "Sarah Palin is just the Zaphod Beeblebrox of the Republican party."Altorin said:
1 million for that? I've seen better signed things sell for far less then that. He's just being down-right greedy. (AND its Sarah Palin)
Also, here's a link of the ebay page if anyone is interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sarah-Palin-Signed-Autograph-XBOX-360-/160532045033?pt=Video_Games&hash=item2560749ce9
Also, here's a link of the ebay page if anyone is interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sarah-Palin-Signed-Autograph-XBOX-360-/160532045033?pt=Video_Games&hash=item2560749ce9
George Carlin had a great quote, though not specifically about Americans:Dimensional Vortex said:
"Think about just how stupid the average person is. Half of everyone else is stupider than them."
Even leaving the air-headedness aside, let's look at the platform she runs as: The Hockey Mom. That may be great for getting voters to sympathize with her, but that's not the kind of person you want facing up against unstable foreign leaders. Imagine if instead of Kennedy, Sarah Palin had to face down the Cuban Missile Crisis. In order to be taken seriously, she would have needed to be stern and strong in her character. The quirky hockey mom image she's built for herself has kind of subverted that a tad. Now let's pretend it's the North Koreans building the secret nuclear ICBMs in Cuba and we go through the whole thing again with Sarah Palin as president. I suspect it would end much differently than it did years ago.
I get a kick out of the fact that the guy has had it up for auction since 2009. That and he's charging shipping.
It is cheaper to go find Palin yourself and get an autograph on your own xbox 360 for ten USD. Not that I think anyone would want to. Doesn't she want to make polar bear and wolf hunting legal and cheap because 'they are eating our elk'? That's the only thing I remember about her from the media when she wanted to be vice president of the USA.
It is cheaper to go find Palin yourself and get an autograph on your own xbox 360 for ten USD. Not that I think anyone would want to. Doesn't she want to make polar bear and wolf hunting legal and cheap because 'they are eating our elk'? That's the only thing I remember about her from the media when she wanted to be vice president of the USA.
That certainly is cynnical. I don't know, democracy works every now and again. And if Humanity must have nations (personally like to see the end of said institutions n.n), democracy is certainly better than tyranny. Of course you could argue whether democracy exists in a two party state ... but that's a whole different can of worms.ghstman said: