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roachboy · 10-22-2008, 01:32 PM

ace--i'm not interested in the question of whether palin is or is not a "hypocrite"--i don't know her as a human being, and i don't particularly care about it. what interests me is the disconnect between the story in that article and the "outsider" business in her persona--the clothing business is secondary to me--i just find it to be funny, that's all.

like i said, if some guy gave me 150k to go shopping for clothes, i'd do my level best to spend every dime of it---but i can't imagine the idea behind that spree would be to set me up as "everyman."

the contradictions in all this are self-evident, ace.
hypocrisy is not an issue at the personal level--what's more at issue are self-defeating, stupid tactics undertaken by the mc-cain campaign shaped by, and feeding into, a totally retrograde kind of identity politics. you reap what you sow.

o yeah--and about 20 years of republican-dominated media making a Big Fucking Deal out of this kind of lint when it served their political advantage.
can't forget that shit.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	ace--i'm not interested in the question of whether palin is or is not a "hypocrite"--i don't know her as a human being, and i don't particularly care about it. what interests me is the disconnect between the story in that article and the "outsider" business in her persona--the clothing business is secondary to me--i just find it to be funny, that's all. like i said, if some guy gave me 150k to go shopping for clothes, i'd do my level best to spend every dime of it---but i can't imagine the idea behind that spree would be to set me up as "everyman." the contradictions in all this are self-evident, ace. hypocrisy is not an issue at the personal level--what's more at issue are self-defeating, stupid tactics undertaken by the mc-cain campaign shaped by, and feeding into, a totally retrograde kind of identity politics. you reap what you sow. o yeah--and about 20 years of republican-dominated media making a Big Fucking Deal out of this kind of lint when it served their political advantage. can't forget that shit. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 10-22-2008 at 01:34 PM..