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"Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your..."

By Chuck Ansbacher

Friday October 3, 2008

“Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. I come from a house full of school teachers. My grandma was, my dad who is in the audience today, he’s a schoolteacher, had been for many years. My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here’s a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate.”

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Sarah Palin

This is Sullivan’s quote of the day, and is the exact moment in the debate when my body went into shock for a number of minutes. Hyperbole aside, John McCain’s reward for choosing this joke of a running mate will most certainly not be in heaven. I believe in Obama, and I know he will win this thing, but the fact that this supremely unqualified bucket of dumbness is even remotely close to being president is an unforgivable sin. John, your reward is in hell. Right?