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Thursday, September 4, 2008
"Vladimir Putin Is Chase Utley"



Quote, "Vladimir Putin is Chase Utley."

The question is the identity of the speaker

Was it Charlie Manuel?

Jerry Manuel?

Shane Victorino?

Anna Kournikova?

Nikolai Gogol?

George W. Bush?

Evgeni Malkin?

Mrs. Putin?

Mikheil Saakashvili?

Condoleezza Rice?

Alas, it was none of the above. The guy who said it was James Carville, the Democratic political operative/commentator. He was speaking on XM Radio on some show or other, talking about Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president. He was suggesting she wasn't ready for the big time.

"It's like they're bringing somebody up from Single-A to face the Phillies," Carville said.

Then he said, "Vladimir Putin is Chase Utley."

A little later he said, "China is like Ryan Howard."

It apparently was a compliment -- to the Phillies.

Posted by Rich Hofmann @ 10:05 PM  Permalink | 11 comments
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Posted 11:48 PM, 09/04/2008
uts
If Sarah Palin is not ready for the big time, how could she rock the house and country last night? How does a rookie obliterate the Obama/Biden team in front of 37 million people? And how does a small timer bring McCain up severral points in the polls with one speech. Begala is a smug and out of control hard leftist who has not an ounce of credibility.
Posted 08:21 AM, 09/05/2008
B in DC
No polls out yet have the impact of Sarah Palin's speech. Sarah Palin is like Kyle Kendrick, they both helped out immediately. Her performance in the VP debate will be like his last couple months. McCain will wish she could skip a start.
Posted 08:59 AM, 09/05/2008
mbphilly
uts, she did a good job delivering a prepared speech in front of a supportive, enthusiastic crowd. doesn't get much easier than that, especially for a politician; let's see if she "obliterates" Biden in the debate, or if the campaign ever lets her speak to the press on her own.
Posted 09:00 AM, 09/05/2008
mbphilly
BTW, she also helped Obama raise $10 million over the 24 hours following her speech. so it looks like a double-edged sword to me, and not what's going to help ease the divisive nature of our politics, as McCain claims he wants to do.
Posted 09:42 AM, 09/05/2008
Captain Splendor
It's funny how she was making a big deal about having more executive experience than Obama. How much executive experience does McCain have?
Posted 11:30 AM, 09/05/2008
thekruker
uh?....... weird blog entry all-around from hofmann can't you do better i mean come on mets series coming up , brewers starting to falter a bit that might help phils in the wild card chase i know this is'nt your main article and coming up with something new everyday probably isn't easy but carville's comments are so weird and out of leftfield why bother giving it coverage
Posted 01:11 PM, 09/05/2008
TheRock2020
McCain is the man. Obama is a paper tiger, all talk and 143 votes of present.
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Posted 02:04 PM, 09/05/2008
glensider54
Putin had a better August than Utley.
Posted 02:31 PM, 09/05/2008
Fernando08
Sarah sad eyed lady of the lowlands is the death wish of an addled mind geriatric in pre senility mode. The race is over the only question is who will lock up the family gun collection in Alaska to keep the Palin's from going postal.
Posted 08:35 PM, 09/05/2008
David_Murphy
I did see Chase Utley walking around the clubhouse with a vile of Polonium today. . .Maybe Carville is on to something.
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