When telling the story of how his granddaughters had a slumber party with Barack Obama’s daughters during the week of the Democratic National Convention, Biden equated it to what he says Americans want.
“I believe that’s a metaphor, a metaphor for what the country is looking for. They’re looking for a sleepover with people they like!”
I always thought the furor over Ted Stevens’ “the internet is a series of tubes” gaffe was really overblown. Why is Gore’s “information superhighway” slick, while Stevens’ “tubes” is stupid? Neither is remotely accurate.
However, the “[Americans are] looking for a sleepover with people they like” metaphor is far superior to Stevens in terms of general stupidness.
Virginia Postrel writes about the National Cowgirl Museum and Sarah Palin’s example:
Full of inspiring role models, the museum presented a piece of feminist history that gets left out of the city-oriented accounts most of us learn. There’s a reason Wyoming was the first state to let women vote and that the first female Supreme Court justice (a member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame) came from Arizona. The thinly populated western frontier couldn’t afford to waste women’s talents (though Arizona and New Mexico were among the last states to give married women full property rights).
Actually, New Jersey was the first state to grant women suffrage, at its inception. It was revoked in 1807. Wyoming granted it as a territory in 1869 and then kept it after it became a state in 1890.
Wikipedia conveniently fails to mention the important role of the Republican Party in achieving women’s suffrage in the United States, and misrepresents the role of President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, in passing the 19th Amendment. Wilson opposed it vigorously until 1918, even to the point of putting suffrage demonstrators in prison, before buckling under and supporting women’s suffrage - something that was first advocated in the Republican Party platform 46 years earlier.
And of course the first woman elected to Congress was Jeanette Rankin, Montana Republican, in 1916.
“Alaska, motherf*cker!? What is the reality in Alaska? There’s not even no crack heads in Alaska.” I think Mr. Combs would make an excellent sub for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
