Posted on 10/07/2008 9:12:14 PM PDT by publius1
My favorite parts -- other than calling Katie Couric a viper -- were these:
"Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."
"People who can't see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism..."
"She's no pre-programmed wonk of the backstage Hillary Clinton school; she's pugnacious and self-created, the product of no educational or political elite -- which is why her outsider style has been so hard for media lemmings to comprehend. And by the way, I think Tina Fey's witty impersonations of Palin have been fabulous. But while Fey has nailed Palin's cadences and charm, she can't capture the energy, which is a force of nature."
SEND SARAH AND TODD BACK TO MICHIGAN. NOW!!!
Yep!
Damn fine piece of work from one of the smartest women in the country, even if she is a liberal.
That was a very good read! I didn’t catch the authors name until I finished, and I’m shocked.
Although we differ on issues, I enjoy Paglia’s columns.
Her columns on Palin have been spot on and I respect that she can take on the hypocrisy of the elite.
In a column she wrote not long ago she offered that the reason that she did not live among the elite was because they were snobbish and out of touch.
Camille gets it.
It is so surprising to me that someone as intelligent as Camile Paglia can actually be voting for an empty suit like Obama.
I think I know who Camille is going to vote for. Her last line is right on the money.
Sarah is going to be a major political and cultural figure in this country for a long long time.. She has a larger than life personality and such great charisma. She connects with us.
In an era where people view politicians about as favorable as they do herpes. She is loved. We LOVE her.
I trully look forward to the second Wednesday of each month to read Camille Paglia's column. I don't agree with her on some issues, but I trully respect the incredible intelligence, insight and theory she puts forward. She calls it as she sees it. What first caught my attention was her fierce defense and celebration of the her family and the people/community she came from. I so applaud that.
So, I was not surprised when she defended Gov. Palin (Paglia doesn't agree with her, but thats not the point...she respects her...something not seen in the MSM). I would have been surprised if Camille didn't call upon her respect for a strong woman (even if she won't vote for her). Well done as always...
Also, pretty impressed she used two letters from LDS writers (how many Salonists will have to Google that?)
If you’re known by the company you keep, well, Paglia is apparently a dear friend of Rush’s.
Kind of cool on both their parts.
Down Butch, she’s taken. You’ll have to be content with a tingle up your leg.
A while back, Paglia wrote about the feminization of higher education; and how young men (in particular) who in other generations would have been encouraged to go into a trade, become an electrician, plumber, carpenter...and go into business for themselves...are now 'forced' to confirm to the societal need for white collar cubicle life. She felt that educators looked down upon the trades (as they stood in a building w/plumbing and electric...and get the picture). But Camille, this east coast intellectual saw not only the need for the trades but celebrated people who could build and fix and make the world work as opposed to those who are 'taught' to shuffle papers and some how stripped of the ability to 'do for themselves.' After I read it, I thought...'you sure you're not a conservative?'.
I’ll go you one better.
You and I and hundreds of thousands of others like us are bonded to Sarah for life, win or lose.
You want to talk about leadership, Sarah inspires me to want to do more for my country, my community, and my family.
And it’s not about her policies (which are generally on the nose when she isn’t listening to McCain) or her good looks - it’s all because of who she is, what she stands for, and how she lives her life.
Sarah gives voice to what we instinctively believe about this great land. What she says rings true somewhere deep in the soul. The lousy left can never hope to understand something like that.
Obama may win in November, but time will prove that Sarah is the political leader of Generation X.
She’s Italian, so of course she’s conservative.
Her liberal education and subsequent profession depended on her going lib, but you can sense the cracks in her contrived worldview.
Really rather a fair article from her.
I agree. I’ve always enjoyed her essays, especially on the intellectual corruption in academia. I’m lost as to how she always refers to herself politically as a “libertarian” yet votes extreme left. Last election, she called herself a libertarian and voted for Nader. This election, she calls herself a libertarian yet will vote for Obama.
If I remember correctly, she also wrote in an essay that she learned a lot about politics from Edward Said. That figures. She also doesn’t seem to know all that much about economics.
Still, her praise of Sarah is sincere (though I felt momentarily faint when she slipped in that bit about eight years of Obama presidencies), and her analysis of the rhetoric of the left (though, unfortunately, not its policies), is spot on.
Drink more of that Obama KOOL-AID Paglia, and continue down your aristocratic journalists path to fascist oblivion.
Palin is the future of America. Obama is the last desperate gasp of a passee generation of 60s has beens, who gave us the BJ loving president, who ejaculated on a blue dress instead of goin' whole hog.Both are men of extreme talk and little action.
Obama is their blow by, a desperate gamble at a Utopia that has no basis in reality,realizable only through a totalitarian state, and has effectively destroyed our banking system.
Get with the future Paglia. You are writing about it.
Well, Camille - I almost want Obama to win this November to enjoy the amusing sight of the Obama children being arc-welded to their brand-new seats on the slave-galley OBAMAUSA, and seeing the more-amusing sight of the old hippies being stripped of their pensions & 401Ks by Obama's Wealth Police.
Almost.
Dang! That she's on the other side!
Doesn't it just blow? Paglia is the freaking best, 98% of the time - and this time is no different.
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