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Couric + Palin interview? How about Pacino + Deniro interview?

The Katie Couric/Sarah Palin interview grows more tiresome with every new re-view.

I mean really....stop it, please.

Couric's TV 2-shots seem always to have her grimacing (artfully, I suppose). Or the b-roll shows her body awkwardly angled away from Palin...(Kinda like: "Get me the heck out of this blind date!") Sarah Palin was "taken to the movies", but boy did that little Katie leave her eating popcorn kernels, alone....

What a mis-casting, from the get-go.

Given that, I decided to hit the movies myself and see if there were any other co-star mis-casting in a current movie that could lead me out of the blues and purge my feelings against the widow-woman, Katie. No, not really, but I found some terrific co-casting.

I found it in A Righteous Kill.....and then I found somethig even better! I found the key(s) to unlock the painful mystery of the Curic-Palin pain-fest:

Robert Deniro and Al Pacino.

What?

Yeah, listen up.....they should have been interviewed by "Katie the Knife". Cause, they're the only ones who can get away with saying the "F-word" and not make it sound like they're swearing....(keep reading for the "script")

Associated Press reports: 777...the number of perfection?

For those of you who are students of numerology and eschatology, you may find it interesting (and somewhat depressing?) that the single biggest 1-day drop in the history happened today - Dow Jones stock dropped 777 points.

Now, I'm not a big "mystic-numbers guy", but ya gotta sit up and take notice, occasionally. Trust me, if the drop had been 666 points, the freak-show-on-parade would have marched down Wall Street AND Main Street. But what to make out of the "number of perfection", held in esteem by followers of the Hebrew and Christian GOD?

Hmm, set aside the shear volume of loss by investors and set aside the political blow-back on those who voted FOR the bail-out or AGAINST it- and just take a second to ask the question, "What is God doing?"

The question that might be better to ask, first, may be: What is God NOT doing? My guess is that He's NOT spanking America for greed and avarice, though we may deserve such a treatment in some people's minds.
He's also NOT forcing people to divest their wealth out of fear...'cause they are doing that themselves, highlighting His gift of "choice" in their lives.

Are we on the same page?

So, what is God doing? It seems to me that He's allowing people who have too great a concern for their inve$tment$ on Earth (conservatives and liberals in OR out of politics) to face the insecurity of the loss of their own wealth - by watching it slip away right in front of them. Many a man and woman will confront their own mortality tonight, knowing that they lost almost everything in one day. And when all a person has is God, that is often the time that all a person really needs is God.

Pain and suffering are our lot as a nation today and tonight...but joy comes in the morning.

May souls be saved even if fortunes are lost.

This may, in fact, be the most perfect day in the history of modern America...the day the financial markets bent their collective knee to the God who allows them AND the people who invest in them - to even exist. He's asking the perfect question: What are YOU doing with my son, Jesus Christ?

But that's just me.....

What do you think?
Den

Palin's interview with Couric

So, Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin and the liberal D's just love it. Their argument is that the interview showed Gov. Palin as an idiot....and they'll do just about anything to re-enforce their belief.

Well, let's see.

Did anybody catch the YouTube home-made CG (computer graphic) under the governor's name at one point (thanks, Thom - you were correct and I was in error): "former beauty queen"?

So why didn't the home-grown liberal elites CG Katie, the newswoman, as a "former widow" on YouTube?

Or..."former NBC star and current CBS limbo-ette"?

Or...you fill in the blank.....

I'm impressed that Palin took on Couric. In fact, should she become the next VP, I'm kinda thinkin' that Couric's lone interview (nasty as it was) will be another reason why CBS News continues to tank in the national ratings.

Everything happens in the context of relationship and the "widow, former Today Show star and former somebody" may well have ruined an influential relationship, right from the start, as she played to her liberal audience...you know, the ones who SOMETIMES watch CBS, but only if they can illegally edit her comments via YouTube.

Who was the real idiot, YouTube buddies?
Den

Presidential Debate: McCain vs Obama vs You

Forget about the little nit-picky personal attack(s) by John McCain against Barack Obama.

And forget about the "calm, cool, programed" eloquence of JFK, er I mean, Sen. Obama.

Even forget about the last 50 minutes on foreign policy in the debate.

The first 40 minutes of the debate about the economy mattered most to people all across America.

Somewhere in the middle of this maddening week, weren't we all handed a brown piece of torn cardboard with charcoal-written words that say: "Down and out, will work for food"....Oh, didn't you get yours?

What? Your life is actually doing OK right now? What? Didn't you roll out of bed this week and go stand in line...you know, the line for the Depression-Era Great-Grandkids?

No? Oh really.....

The Debates tonight omitted one real-live person: You. Your success was ignored, your wins were ignored and your family was ignored. McCain spoke like he was reading from the Congressional Quarterly...with all of its buzz words and much more. (Earmarks, blah, blah, blah). Watching Obama tonight was like watching an 18 year-old version of Bill Clinton primping in front of the mirror before he was to meet JFK. Poser is too strong a word...but barely.

And where were YOU in the debate? Uninvited? Where was the passion for the people? Where were the voices that said WE CAN OVERCOME this financial problem? "Hope" took the last train for the coast....and not the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

You (and I) were there...just on the other sie of the TV screen, wondering if anybody will lead us during this unsteady time of greed gone wild.

Posers stand in lines with posters. This nation needs men (and women) who will stand up and call the game, by participating.

We were'nt there tonight...not even invited, by my estimate.

Den

McCain~Obama: Gettin' ready to rumble.....

John McCain arrived in Mississippi to debate Sen. Barack Obama.

The debate is on and I will bet my dollars on McCain's Senate skills coming to the forefront in this first debate.

Sen. Obama is clearly the better public speaker. His opening and closing comments will be masterful.

My ultimate call is that the "insides" of the debate will be rough and tumble....all to McCain's advantage.

It's the former POW vs the Community Activist. My money's on the guy who checked out of the Hanoi Hilton in barely one piece.....

Den

Contentious shouting match...

I had to go to London to find out about Washington DC.

Occasionally, it's a bit clearer to visit foreign press to get a better feel for the rawness of DC politics.

Here's a snippet:

"The White House meeting, which was described by Mr McCain's campaign as "a   contentious shouting match", appeared at one stage to have reached an  agreement.

But the Republicans' intervention, which centred on a proposal that the   Government offer to insure debts rather than use taxpayers' money to mop them up, caused the meeting to break apart in bitter political acrimony.

Leading Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reacted so angrily to the last-minute change in demands that Henry Paulson, the Treasury   Secretary, got down on one knee to beg them not to disclose how badly it had   gone, witnesses said."

Go here for the video and more.

Den

Does a BS campaign photo shoot in the woods?

Hey, is it just me or is Walt Minick using a shotgun to hunt in the woods? From my experience with weapons, shotguns have a unique and painful teaching ability when firing into or out of wooded areas. The shot bounces back and hurts like a mother...

But then again, maybe that's not a shotgun. My years of owning weapons makes me think it is. My years of walking through forests make me think the picture is in a wooded area. But then again, I could be wrong.

Maybe he wasn't there to shoot...but just to be shot at...by a photographer. You tell me...

Den

So...what if Bill Sali's correct, Mike Simpson?

I've been thinking about the supposed tussle between Idaho's two Congressmen...

I suppose I've been noodling on this issue 'cause I was around both men for years back in the Legislature when both were Reps (one eventually became Speaker) - and the latest PR deal probably has a bit of that "feel" to it. (No, not the "I'm gonna throw you out the window" thing...but rather, the basic voting patterns of the two men.)

See, the Bigger-S and the Lesser-S have REALLY been at odds with each other for years. (Maybe the Lesser-S should have gone in for more teeth cleanings from the Bigger-S, I suppose...)

The recent hug-fest between them never really seemed to fit, to me. The HUGE issue of the billion dollar bail-out has just accentuated the rift/difference/earthquake between them.

How cool is that?

Just think for a second...Sali stands up and says the bail-out is flawed...and that it does NOT match the philosophy of the GOP. Simpson says "spend it, baby."

What if Bill Sali's right?

Are we stuck as a state with two opposing votes? Yep...and, we REALLY get to see what these two fellows believe....so could there be 700 billion reasons for one of those congressman to come back home to Idaho? (And maybe start cleaning teeth again?)   I don't know...you tell em.

Den

36 years later: McGovern-Biden?

Not sure if you remember my posting that Senator Obama's incredibly poor decision to choose Senator Joe Biden could ultimately come to be seen as the equivalent of Senator George McGovern's equally incredibly poor choice of Senator Thomas Eagleton, as his running mate in 1972. What, no McGovern-Eagleton '72 buttons and signs?

Probably because there are none - at least none that can be found. Eagleton was replaced by Kennedy-esque R. Sargent Shriver, just weeks after the Democrat Convention. By the way...they lost.

So, read the following piece from DC that was circulated all across the US just minutes ago. Gary Bauer's reach is amazing....he's skeptical that it could/would happen. I am not.

Remember, www.Dennismansfield.com was the first blog in America that connected the Palin-TR comparisons.

Den

Bye, Bye Biden?

I’ve been getting a lot of messages lately about the rumor that Obama will drop Biden from the ticket next month and replace him with Hillary in an “October surprise” intended to offset the gains Senator McCain has made with his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. I am skeptical about Hillary being on the ballot in November.

• It would undermine Obama yet again on the key issue of experience and decisive leadership. We choose presidents to make tough decisions. You can’t vote “present” or change your mind on major decisions, like who should be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
• It would severely undermine Obama’s “change” mantra if a Clinton were on the ballot. Hillary is not forward-looking change, but a look to the past. Obama would be running for Bill Clinton’s third term.
• Obama rarely admits he’s wrong or has made a mistake, and I don’t think he is capable of admitting that the selection of Biden – rather than Hillary – was the wrong choice. And what would that ultimately say about his candidacy if he has to admit that he is not strong enough to win without her?
• Hillary comes with a lot of baggage, not the least of which is Bill, who recently said that Hillary wasn’t interested in being Obama’s running mate. I doubt those hard feelings have softened much since Obama so publicly dissed her by not even considering her for vice president.
• It could actually backfire, further energizing conservatives to vote and turning Independents against Obama, many of whom never really liked Hillary. During the primaries, many polls consistently showed that Hillary was very unpopular with Independent voters.
• Lastly, Hillary might not even accept. If Obama gets that desperate, there would still be a good chance he might lose anyway. It would be easier for Hillary to run in four years with the theme “I told you so” if she is not part of the losing ticket this time around.

Of course, with the Clintons, you “never say never,” and Biden is certainly doing his best to make the idea more attractive every day. From calling Obama campaign commercials “terrible” to taking contradictory stands on clean coal, Biden is living up to his reputation for having “foot-in-mouth” disease.

By the way, if John McCain had said, as Joe Biden recently did, that President Roosevelt went on the TV after the market crash in 1929, we’d be getting non-stop stories about the onset of senility and how unfit he is. (Roosevelt wasn’t president in 1929 and the television was still in the experimental stage.)

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