I would have preferred that Sarah Palin not get the spotlight on Saturday Night Live as she did last night, not once, but twice during the show. To counter her appearance, Obama released a new television commercial later in the show to appeal to ordinary women voters.
The opening sketch where it was eerie to see just how much Tina Fey looks like Palin, the set up was the press conference Palin has never subjected herself to. Then Alex Baldwin, Fey's co-star on 30 Rock, mistakes Palin for Fey, and ends up revealing her code name "Caribou Barbie."
Here's a link, just in case you missed it.
For those of you who went to sleep, you missed the second appearance on "Weekend Update," the feature with Amy Pohler and Seth Meyers. There Palin appeared once again as herself and decided not to perform the planned skit, allowing Pohler, who is very pregnant, to do the very funny, mockingly funny rap. Here's the link.
Now just how "pro-American" is Saturday Night Live? According to Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com, the real "pro-American" areas where Palin has held rallies are whiter than the U.S. average. SNL, of course, has a very white audience. How do we know? Just look at the audience when the camera pans. Is "pro-American" Palin's code for Republican white voters? I suggest it is.
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I too felt that SNL should not have given Palin the spotlight but I don't really think it was presidentially flattering. I would have liked Alec Baldwin to get down and dirty with her but that was not going to happen.
What troubles me to no end is that people still do not understand how criminally negligent Republicans are in running the economy. When you hear, "why shouldn't those who work hard be able to keep most of the money they made" or "everyone should pay the same % of tax and in doing so, the wealthy will still pay so much more." Usually that leaves most of us who are moderates or liberals with nothing to say.
The problem is we have to switch the perspective. We must force the argument to talk about take home pay and what is left after taxes, living expenses and medical costs and after all that how much is available to the middle and upper middle classes to support the economy and American business.
Very simply, without the 98% of Americans willing to spend, American industry will not invest, will not hire, they will give up and eventually recede. What clearer picture can there be of this problem than General Electric wanting to get rid of their consumer appliance division. After "so goes America" General Motors talking about bankruptcy, and lord knows they will never be able to pay the pensions to the millions of retired GM workers because much of those pension funds are invested in GM stock, and then the other American icon GE giving up the business that made the company so successful, what does that tell you?
On a different note, Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops died in his sleep on Friday. So many of us listened to the songs of the Four Tops every weekend of our youth, singing and dancing to "Baby I Need Your Loving", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", "It's the Same Old Song", "Reach Out I'll Be There", "Standing in the Shadows of Love", "Bernadette", "Still Water (Love)", and "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)." We will remember him with the greatest of feeling.
Finally, does anyone care what that lying SOB Colin Powell thinks or says anymore? The racists in the Republican Party will attribute what he says to black man supporting another black man. Maybe it will help with that class of voters who are waiting for Godot.
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