Posted on 11/04/2008 12:00:03 PM PST by AJKauf
There's one thing that has my dander flying: the snooty treatment of Palin. It’s as if that old New Yorker cover–the one that shows Manhattan occupying most of the map of the United States, then the Mississippi River and fly-over country in a small strip, then San Francisco and Los Angeles in a larger area–has now become the template for all proper thinkers. I’m sure lots of folks in fly-over country are enraged by this, but many others want to have a seat at the table, want to join the celebrities, want to be thought of as serious thinkers. And so they join the swarm.
American exceptionalism rests upon independent thinking, pride in community and heritage, and disdain for ivory tower intellectuals combined with admiration for self-help and achievement. My greatest fear is that these values are going to be trashed over and over again the next few years, and we will have to fight it very fiercely.
The Ledeen family is now a military family. All three of our children are engaged in the war which to my way of thinking is the single greatest issue for America, but which has virtually vanished from our national debate. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
“As long as they’re on the right side of the issues, I don’t need an “intellectual”.”
Apparently, you are another idealogue who wants to be out of power for the next 8 years...reminds me of the Marxist candidate who always shows up on my ballot...I laugh at you both...
Why are you such an arrogant jerk?
What precisely is “arrogant” about speaking the truth?
You have a stronghold on the “truth”?
I’ve seen your other posts, you insult anyone who disagrees with you, you insulted me without provocation.
Your communication skills leave much to be desired, I want nothing more to do with you.
Wow, this threads title and not a single pic of Sarah ...
I know the difference between your and you’re, genius.
A spelling flame...good for you bobby...that certainly proves that palin isn’t the shnook that America perceives her to be. No doubt she DOES know that Africa is a continent...snicker...
It wasn’t YOUR spelling I corrected. YOU’RE lying.
You attacked and insulted me on this thread without provocation, anyone who reads the thread and our exchange can see YOU’RE a horses a$$.
If you continue to believe this small-town, uneducated, geography-challenged bumpkin should be the President of our country, then you must secretly wish for an 8 year reign by Obama
And there you go parroting a claim that is now documented to be a hoax. So who is stupid here?
From your posts, such as parroting anti-Palin hoaxes, I'd say that sentiment doesn't eliminate much of the American electorate.
Funny, you are still around insulting Palin, a successful governor, yet here you are, behind an anonomous keyboard, still falling for this hoax about her knowledge: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Hate to break it to you, but you may want to be careful about throwing stones about intelligence when even the NYT seems to have a leg up on you. It must be odd being trumped by the paper of Stephen Glass, Jason Blair, and Eitan Gorlin.
But that’s ok, you just keep up your little internet holier than thou crusade. I’m sure your mom will keep running pop-tarts down to you.
It is the part about still proclaiming known hoaxes as a the truth. It means either you are foolish and continue to fall for them, not bright enough to know what the word 'hoax' means, a sucker enough to fall for media manipulation, or arrogant to believe you've tapped into some inter-dimensional portal where hoaxes happen to be true.
You can choose which it is.
1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)
2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
3. "Ohh, good, thank you, yes." --Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler's "Nailin Paylin," Nov. 1, 2008
4. "Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
5. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
6. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
7. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
8. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it
9. "If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008
10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council
If that’s the best you can come up with, Palin is not the dumb one. But we already determined that a while back..
CIC Sarah Palin.
I think it's cool that Palin can see Russia from her state.
Katie....Harumph!
:<)
What are your specific problems with #2 and #7 — or are you just mindlessly copying & pasting?
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