Posted on 03/28/2010 8:28:25 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Nothing annoys certain of my fellow conservative intellectuals more than when I remind them, as on occasion I mischievously do, that the derogatory things they say about Sarah Palin are uncannily similar to what many of their forebears once said about Ronald Reagan.
It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent. They readily acknowledged that his political views were on the whole close to ours, but the embarrassing primitivism with which he expressed them only served, they said, to undermine their credibility. In any case, his base was so narrow that he had no chance of rescuing us from the disastrous administration of Jimmy Carter.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
PALIN: "We don't want our Republican -- our senators and our representatives to hold hands with the Democrats if the Democrats are going to keep growing government. And why -- why engage in bipartisanship there if the Democrats are doing the wrong thing? We want our Republicans to stand tall, stand strong for smaller, smarter government, for those principles that so many independents and those in the Republican Party have believed in all these years. We want them to stick with those principles."
People need to stop writing nonsense about Obama's supposed high IQ, for which there is no evidence either from test scores or from his verbal skills without his teleprompter.
Exactly.
Sarah isn’t the one who said premiums would drop 3,000%.
“Nice to see iowahawk exposed for the asshole he is.”
Nice to see you exposed for the clueless individual you are.
Hint: It’s satire. Look it up.
But didn't you know? Obama is an "intellectual"...
The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]
April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott
This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.
I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)
We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.
Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy
III. Lunch and Public Encounters
Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.
William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)
The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn ("intellectual"), referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers ("intellectual") (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that ["intellectual"] Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
Lol, I guess in some circles that does pass as intellectual discourse.
You're a jerk, hinckley buzzard.
It would be great if there was a transcript of that event, because you just know Obama agreed with Ayers on just about everything.
(((((((( SARAH PING ))))))))
A worthy read... guaranteed. :)
Thank you for posting the piece. Other than the IQ part I enjoyed it a great deal.
What a disgusting piece of you know what... no wonder everyone is confused. What a neo-con RINO... First she kisses globalist Henry Kissinger... then she’s campaigning for Traitor Hawk McLame ...Kiss of death and 4 more years of Obama . Get with the program !
People describe Obama in all sorts of ways, but when it comes down to it, he is really just steeped in sixties radicalism of all sorts, with some Reverend Wright, and third world resentment and Chicago thuggery thrown in.
:-)
Great article, can't wait for the usual suspects to come and try to whine and moan.
Dang.
You beat me to it.....
Did I predict this snivvling crap or what......
I’ve never read such bovine excrement in my life. This author is a flippin idiot.
thanks, for a moment there, i thought my thread was highjacked.....with the whole IQ thing, not that it was silly but the overall point the writer was making is wort reading
I had to write-off our friend on this thread last night when he couldn’t back-up his ugly claim that Sarah Palin has trashed a ‘real conservative,’ no matter how many times I asked him which ‘real conservative’ did she trash.
Michael Savage listener. I told him I placed Michael Weiner and Michael Weiner, Democrat, NY, into the same ‘value’ category.
He doesn’t like Sarah Palin. Whoopdeedoo. I’m not impressed...lol.
Why do people assume Obama’s got a high IQ? And Sarah doesn’t?
I'm guessing he's a Paultard, or some other kind of 1%er.
I did predict it though, yes?
I was also stopped by that but then thought about it and it may be true but so what. Say Sarah has a 120 IQ and BO has 180. How does that help the country?
Carter, Clinton, BO..they are all highly educated but also the biggest foulups this country has ever known.
BTW: BO hasn’t released his school records, how do we know he has a huge IQ? We know he has a huge ego.
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