Speaking Truth to Power... about drink sizes?

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

And here's Sarah Palin at CPAC, demonstrating the childish reactionism that we've come to expect.

Bonus facts:
1) The NYC drink ban didn't include Big Gulps
2) It was struck down by a judge anyway
3) The lovely people of facebook have christened Sarah Palin as "Bible Spice"

Comments

[radioclashed.livejournal.com]

Drinking soda is a privilege, not a right. ;)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

She just doesn't drink a lot of soda. Betcha she didn't drink it all.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

Reposting the comment I put up on this one when it showed up in my Facebook feed:

One has a hollow head; the other one was sculpted out of copper by the French.

[citrus00.livejournal.com]

Damn, she has a nice body.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

She has an uncanny sense for the big issues of our times. A regular Churchill.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I'd say you were being a cynical bastard by suggesting the giant drink cup was just a cheap prop but yeah, it was found backstage after the event, half-full.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

If your chief response is "the ban didn't involve Big Gulps," you've utterly failed to understand the point of the protest against a nanny state that believes it has the right to tell you how much of a legal food you can purchase.

If you need to fall back on the "a judge struck it down" defense after that, you miss the point that it was only struck down on procedural grounds (was done by fiat, was not done equally as a result) and that the point remains that there are people who think this is good policy.

[wind-shadow2008.livejournal.com]

And if your chief response to this image/story is " Palin, the Prodigious Pandering Puppet"??

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Meh. There's no motor in the trunk.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Big Gulps could just be dealt with by a fine, after all.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

It's cheap theatrics in place of genuine policy discussion. Sarah also took time to rile up gun nuts and birthers, I suppose you approve of that as well.

Conservatives could earn respect if they focused on positive solutions instead of such diversions.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I bet it had backwash!!!!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

It least its not as bad as wearing band aids to mock Kerry's war wounds.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

There are two sides to the issue though.

Doesn't NYC have every right to deal with local issues in the way that they see fit? The way that the city council for The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island wish to deal with them? (I know that there is debate over how actual citizens feel about the ban, but borough citizens elected their council representatives.)

Look, I hate Democrat matriarchal politics in every way - It's one of the reasons I left NYC. But I don't like the GOP patriarchal politics either. The point is that I left. If they want to nanny up the City, that's fine. I don't have to live there. But, the GOP seems to think it's just fine to interfere in local politics as long as it's about god, abortion and immigration.

Telling people that they can't get a huge soda at a bodega in NYC is a far cry from overturning a Supreme Court decision that ensures women have privacy in their reproductive decision making. Palin didn't even know that's what Roe v Wade was about. That's what people are mocking.

[cinnamontoast.livejournal.com]

I wonder how she'd look as a walker.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

It's probably being sold on Ebay right now! (the cup, not the backwash, that's nasty)

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Doesn't NYC have every right to deal with local issues in the way that they see fit? The way that the city council for The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island wish to deal with them? (I know that there is debate over how actual citizens feel about the ban, but borough citizens elected their council representatives.)

Yes and no. Do they have the legislative right? Maybe, I haven't looked close enough to the relevant statutes. Should they? No, they shouldn't. Just because a group has the right to do something doesn't mean they necessarily should.

Telling people that they can't get a huge soda at a bodega in NYC is a far cry from overturning a Supreme Court decision that ensures women have privacy in their reproductive decision making. Palin didn't even know that's what Roe v Wade was about. That's what people are mocking.

While I'm not sure your statement about Palin is true, the soda ban is really something that speaks to the (overdue) newfound distaste of onerous regulations that the more liberty-minded conservatives that Palin appeals to have come out against. After all, if they can do it to soda, they can do it to health care...

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It's cheap theatrics in place of genuine policy discussion

Sometimes cheap theatrics at a overtly political event matters.

Sarah also took time to rile up gun nuts and birthers, I suppose you approve of that as well.

I have my doubts on the latter, but good on the former - the "gun nuts" need to wake up a bit.

Conservatives could earn respect if they focused on positive solutions instead of such diversions.

They'll never earn the respect of those who don't see such nannying measures as the stupidity they are, nor should they try.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Or we can just leave it alone. That's a better option.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It's no sillier than any other silly protests about Palin.

[bikinisquad3000.livejournal.com]

This had nothing to do with telling you how much you had a right to purchase. The protest is not the part being misunderstood, the ban is.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

If your chief response is "the ban didn't involve Big Gulps," you've utterly failed to understand the point of the protest against a nanny state that believes it has the right to tell you how much of a legal food you can purchase.

Where in the Constitution are soda sizes protected?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

How is the ban being misunderstood, then?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Soda sales from store to consumer aren't interstate commerce.