Leonard Pitts in action
Posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:11 AM PST by Russ
Originally Published: 2/19/2010 Leonard Pitts Jr.: Palin should do nation a favor and run for president
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Dear Sarah Palin:
I hear you're pondering a run for the White House in 2012. You told Fox News it would be absurd to rule it out. I'm writing to ask that you rule it in. I very badly want you to run for - and win - the Republican nomination for the presidency
I know you're waiting for the punch line. Maybe you figure I think you'd be a weak candidate who would pave the way for President Barack Obama's easy re-election. No. I want you to run because I believe a Palin candidacy would force upon this country a desperately needed moment of truth. It would require us to decide what kind of America we want to be.
You are an avatar of the shameless hypocrisy and cognitive disconnection that have driven our politics for the last decade, a process of stupidification creeping like kudzu over our national life.
As Exhibit A, consider your speech at a Tea Party event, wherein you dismissed the president as a charismatic guy with a teleprompter. Bad enough you imply that teleprompter use is the mark of an insubstantial man, even though you use one. But what made the comment truly jaw-dropping is that even as you spoke, you had penned on your left palm, clearly visible, a series of crib notes.
If Obama is an idiot for reading a prepared speech off a teleprompter, what are you for reading notes you've inked on your hand like a school kid who failed to study for the big test?
In the Fox interview, you scored Obama for supposedly expecting Americans to sit down and shut up and accept his policies. But when asked when the president has ever said that, you couldn't answer.
I found that a telling moment. Ultimately what you represent is not conservatism. Heck, I suspect that somewhere, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan are spinning like helicopter rotors at the very idea. You represent the latest iteration of an anti-intellectualism that periodically rises in the American character.
There is a belief in us that y'all just can't trust nobody who acts too smart or talks too good - somebody whose general persona indicates he may have once cracked a book or had a thought. Americans tend to believe common sense is the exclusive province of humble folks without sheepskins on the wall or big words in their vocabularies.
I don't mock those people. They are my parents, my family elders, members of my childhood church. I honor their native good sense. But if it is insulting to condescend to them, it is insulting to mythologize them.
More to the point, something is wrong when we celebrate mental mediocrity like yours under the misapprehension that competence or, God forbid, intelligence, makes a person one of those elites lacking authenticity, compassion and common sense.
This is not a clash of ideologies, but a clash between intelligence and its opposite. And I am tired of being asked to pretend stupid is a virtue. That's why I'd welcome the moment of truth your campaign would bring. It would force us to decide once and for all whether we are permanently committed to the path of ignorance or whether we will turn back from the cliff toward which we race.
Either way, we need to know, and your candidacy would tell us. If you love this country, you can do it no greater service. Run, Sarah, run.
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
Palin is the Left’s Obama.
Obamao should do the nation a favor and act like a president.
Guess even that is above his pay grade.
We’re supposed to take Leonard Pitts, Jr. seriously? One who defends racist remarks??
http://www.miamiherald.com/285/story/1421970.html
The simple fact that they just can’t shut up about her proves how much they fear her.
“And I am tired of being asked to pretend stupid is a virtue.”
And I am tired of liberals taking common sense and turning it into nonsense.
Leonard Pitts in action
“If Obama is an idiot for reading a prepared speech off a teleprompter, what are you for reading notes you’ve inked on your hand like a school kid who failed to study for the big test?”
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HUGE difference, Dumbo.
Your affirmative action President reads entire speeches verbatim off his little helpee security blanket.
GOVERNOR Palin sketched out broad concepts on her hand which she could flesh out on the spot, utilizing her superior, white girl intellect.
Pitts is such a race hack. He writes as if his fondest aspiration is to be as big an idiot as Al Sharpton.
It makes Sarah Palin someone who only needed 6 words in order to do an interview, as compared to 0bama who needs every single word he says, written for him by someone else on a teleprompter, even when he speaks to 6th graders.
The democrats have no room to question anyone's intelligence as they surrendered any hold on the intellectual high ground the day they elected Barry Soetero as POTUS.
“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess — I don’t want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. (Applause.) I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking. (Applause.)”
Lenny is a racist and the reason I no longer give the Miami Herald 5 dollars a week
The “Democrat” party is the party of low IQ poorly educated and easily led sheeple.
The “Democrat” party is the party of low IQ poorly educated and easily led sheeple.
badabing!
been saying for some time now that the left are the dumb [party who needs slogans to say because they do not know facts.
Look at this election we had, the obama voters will go down in history as the dumbest voters in history.
They knew nothing about what they were voting for and have you ever talked to a far left loon.
It’s like they have non concept of the world they live in.
We want to get rid of nukes, well we all do but not while we have fools trying to get tghem.
We want peace, well we all do but sometimes war is the only answer and history has proved that .
Then there is the global warming crap which they think is happening.
They drive their hybrid and yet live in a 3500 sq ft home.
save the enviroment but they move into a gated community of which was built by knocking down acres of trees, killing animals and making more pollution .
They just seem to not grasp the world they live in and thus make a la la land for themselves and the surround themselves with like minded fools.
They love homosexuals and yet forget how unnatural they are and what they do
A. Just a guess here, but is Pitts black?
B. The liberals will tell us who should run for POTUS. They are terrified of the Gov, and who and what she stands for.
C. Pitts do us a favor and STFU!
One quick definition of a liberal, a person who absolutely refuses to mature past their freshman year of college. Of course liberals being but one part of the “Democrat” party, the rest composed of ethnic/racial proto Nazis and union thugs, put Pitt down as a proto nazi anti-white propagandist.
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