Cartoonist paints Sarah Palin as pathetic high jumper
W40 Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin did a good job parroting her memorized bullet points in the vice presidential debate last night, but according to cartoonist Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune, Sarah is a lousy high jumper. So I guess we shouldn’t expect her on the masters circuit anytime soon. (Although I’d love to see the former Sarah Barracuda, whose oldest child is named Track, try our sport.) Breen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in a previous newspaper gig, won’t claim gold for his funky depiction of a high jump pit and standards, however. No matter. This made me howl:
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FR: David E. Ortman, (M55) Seattle, WA
Alaska does have track and field:
“I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record.” Sarah Palin
Kind of reminds me of the quest
of Dr. Woods-Howze.
How dare you mock me on your blog site. I am a maverick. and John McCain is a maverick. Believe me there is corruption on Wall Street, and we will get to the bottom of it. Obama will raise your taxes!. John McCain and I are mavericks. I am an energy expert because I come from an energy producing state and am also a maverick. I stood toe to toe with ExxonMobil and will look into the corruption on Wall Street. Did I mention that John and I are mavericks? We stand for change and maverickism. Obama will raise your taxes, unlike the maverick John McCain, and of course myself. To the Joe six pack and hockey Mom’s everywhere, I will get to the bottom of the corruption on Wall Street because I am a maverick. I also propose expanding the power of the vice president to include all power previously held by the president because I am a maverick and John McCain is an old fart. Opps!
Oh, c,mon, “Sarah.” I know it’s really Rick Davis, one of your handlers, who wrote the above. Just as he did this:
http://frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/30/breaking_news/doc48e1e1294d418713321438.txt
cant’t figure out if this
is funny or not, but I had to laugh – and that hurts… trying to re-coup from surgery and then THAT
AT LEAST NOT A DEATH SENTENCE.
painpill,here I come.
christel Donley
How does Sarah find time to train if she reads “all” magazines and newspapers. Wow!
Here’s hoping Obama raises all his supporters taxes; win or lose.
For all the talk about Exxon; why doesn’t anyone mention the governments take; from gasoline taxes. Exxon earned 40 billion in profits last year; with a profit margin of 8 cents a gallon. The government take is 52 cents a gallon; per citizen. If Exxon makes 40 billion from an 8 cent a gallon profit; does anyone realize the government take?? Try OVER a TRILLION dollars in four years; from ONE company. Then Exxon is taxed at the corporate level; and it’s shareholders at the individual level. Now let’s throw in BP; Chevron; Marathon; Citgo; and Hess. Get the picture yet??
I come to this site to escape all of the news sites with their perpetual gloom, doom, sniping, and backstabbing…and I see a political cartoon??? Argghhh!! Please, go back to masters track and field!
I am not going to get involved in a political debate on this forum, but that picture depicts accurately most of the masters competitions :-).
I did not mean to say that most of the masters are lousy high jumpers, I just meant to say that their years of experience are showing ;-). I posted twice because it does seem to work better if you repeat things several times.
I agree with Liz, what is this got to do with Master’s Track ?? You have way to much time on your hands !!
maybe the cartoon Sarah entered at a “low height” just to get her steps down, or work out form issues, and has the capability to clear bars much higher? Or if she jumps a lot at lower heights, will she get caught up in the “meat grinder” like Suhr is quoted as disliking?
the important thing to realize, is that the high jump bar is ABOVE the mat. as a jumper /hurdler soon to move to the M55 ranks..(and not a day to late)it’s always a good thing when you have to travel downward to land.
A British Medical Journal study (BMJ 2008;337;a439) showed that stronger people live longer. Mr McCain should disclose his bench press, squat, and best marks in the discus, shot, hammer, and weight throw because the prospect of a Palin presidency scares the hell out of me.
This side of the Pond, the only Palin we know used to be part of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. However, the cartoon did remind me of the hilarity at this year’s Eurovets in Ljubljana, when the officials had to find ways to lower the height of the HJ bed so that it was below the level of the bar for the opening heights in the M80 and M85 HJ competition. I didn’t realise until then that the bar has to be higher than the bed for the jumps to count.
thanks for the cartoon Ken – it made me laugh too- for a variety of reason including as Tom mentions – the reminder of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
It’s too bad Kenny had to fly his liberal bias loud and proud on a Track and Field site: “W40 Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin did a good job PARROTING [sic] HER MEMORIZED BULLET POINTS.”
I’ll hand it to you Kenny, for doing a good job of parrotting Al Franken.
Now go outside and shine-up your Obama bumper-sticker and tell us all about it. Hooray for Kenny!!
What’s wrong with PARROTING?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parroting
Nothing.
See also:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/thursday.handleigh/humour/monty-python/dead-parrot.htm
as evidence.
You people bore the hell out of me – I would rather read another entry by Anthony Treacher than to read about your political belly-aching and that goes for the Ken “The Parrot” Stone.
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