Palinmantics & Moose Lingo: More of the Same

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“My attitude and my approaches towards dealing with the complexities of health care issues,” she said in an AARP debate in October 2006, “is a respectful and responsible approach, and it’s a positive approach. I don’t believe that the sky is falling here in Alaska.”

About Healthcare :
“Certificates of need” , they had been inflexible, “creating an environment where a lot of folks are lacking the receiving of their health care that is needed in some of the areas, especially in some of our larger markets.” She added, “The State of Alaska needs to be looking specifically at that inflexibility that exists today in order to fill some of the market needs that are out there in Alaska in our larger markets.”

She then added, “I can’t tell you how much that will reduce monetarily our health care costs, but competition makes everyone better, it makes us work harder, it does allow reduction in costs, so addressing that is going to be a priority.”

“Well, the point there, she said, “is that these are critical, and again it’s a matter of prioritizing and it’s a matter of government understanding its proper role in public safety, is health care, so it’s a matter of priorities.”

Mr. Halcro called her answer “political gibberish.”

About senior citizens:

“Yes, our precious, precious elders,” she said, looking into the camera. “For those who were prematurely lopped off, I am so sorry that that has happened to you.”

“It’s been a year today that I’ve been on the campaign trail,” Ms. Palin responded.

You know, you got to have the balls to take it on in the early part of a campaign, and not just go right to the big show.”

More Articles in US » A version of this article appeared in print on October 1, 2008, on page A20 of the New York edition

Senator McPain:“we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say”

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At the Intersection of History and Memory...

channeling a famous Bush dictum of 2003: “Somehow you just got to go over the heads of the filter.” In Bush’s case, the lies lobbed over the heads of the press were to sell the war in Iraq. That propaganda blitz, devised by a secret White House Iraq Group that included Rove, was a triumph. In mere months, Americans came to believe thatSaddam Hussein had aided the 9/11 attacks and even that Iraqis were among the hijackers. A largely cowed press failed to set the record straight.Frank Rich- The NYTimes

Confronting the Existence of Contradiction

Apropos the issue of male,female,experience,presidency & other infernos
1-favor instinct
2-favor sophistication
3-favor practical knowledge
4-favor simplicity
5-favor blinking
6-favor sources of wisdom
7-favor emotions
8-favor character
9-favor curiosity
10-then you have to live with a passion.
"It’s not like you go to the office and just check in. You have to dedicate all you have.”

Hillary's Stew a la White House Meuniere

It’s a story, all right, with Bill at the center. If Hillary expects anybody to get misty-eyed about the first woman president at the inauguration, she’s got to send him home and go back to the original plotline.She said that having Bill on the team was “a great gift. I have always believed you should get the very best people to advise you.”As every sentient being on the planet knows, the Clintons have an extremely complicated marriage, and sticking it smack in the middle of the chain of command caused chaos.Read more: Gail Collins in the NYTimes.

Note:
Meuniere refers to both a sauce and a method of preparation. The word itself means "miller's wife" and that etymology provides insight into both culinary uses. The miller's wife of course had easy access to flour, and so to cook something á la meuniere was to cook it by first dredging it in flour. But the mill was also located on a stream and thus often had very fresh fish available. Many of the elaborate sauces and preparations that were developed in the 18th and 19th centuries had an underlying purpose of masking food that had begun to spoil during the several days needed for transport from fishing ports. By contrast the fish prepared by the miller's wife did not need to be masked under a heavy sauce. A meuniere sauce is very simple--browned butter, chopped parsley, and lemon.from wikipedia

“I guess this is how the West was won,” Mrs. Clinton told her supporters

....during a victory rally at the Planet Hollywood hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Speaking over loud cheers, she added: “We will all be united in November. I don’t think politics is a game. I don’t think elections are just another day in the calendar.”

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“Who knows if it will work,” said the strategist .“But the danger is what you are seeing now. We’re obviously concerned.”“I’m going there a lot for money,” he said. “I ought to go there for votes.”That’s what we tell ourselves.He needs people to look at him and see John Kennedy, or The Beatles, or Tiger Woods in his first Master’s tournament. He needs people to see youth, a break with the past, style under pressure.But recent experience shows that campaigning with color is fraught with peril.When they see black this or black that — even a positive black first — it’s trouble. “That’s not what I’m talking about.”“Neither race nor gender should be a part of this campaign.”How about getting some endangered species as candidates?Blah, blah, blah.Just like that, all the old unmentionables came out of the shadows.“I have a great story about how my family came to America, as good as Gary’s,” as Rice said. “We just happened to have different travel agents.”Whatever the reason, there is a gap, and it’s real.