Palin is generally uninformed. She cannot cite a mainstream news source, nor can she cite a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade. Her convoluted and incoherent speaking style, riddled with awkward idioms and misused words, is that of a woman who appears to have read little and to have received an inadequate education. For example, she continues to talk about Vladimir Putin "rearing" his head as though he's a gopher coming up from a hole. She often speaks as though English were not her primary language, and that owes, obviously, to her discomfort with various subjects and the challenge of discussing topics that she doesn't understand. It happens to everyone--I'd fumble my way through questions about quantum mechanics--but everyone isn't vested with the responsibilities of the vice presidency. And she's not falling short on complicated physics; she can't summon the name of a newspaper.you can see the entire post here
It wouldn't be so maddening, and it wouldn't be so dangerous, if Palin weren't running for national office. Then it would be funny. But instead, she is saluted merely for failing to make mistakes; she is excused for knowing so little because she delivers what she does know with a smile; she is praised for being rude and dismissive as though it were appropriate or desirable.
What kind of country is this? When did so many people decide that they were so comfortable leaving a hard job to someone so under-qualified? The same goes for McCain--what vast understanding of anything other than military affairs has he demonstrated? Is it really such a bad thing to be well educated? To have the mental acuity required to assimilate varied information and synthesize a nuanced understanding of a complicated world? We don't want that from the leader of our nation?
That's depressing.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thought on Palin
Joey at Straight Bangin' never ceases to amaze me with his posts. So I stole an extract from a recent post on Palin and the debates:
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Joey...Straight Bangin'...sound just like Obama, Intellectual Elitist...I grew up in South Stockton and so I have a degree in Ebonics. Does that make me uneducated? Well, I am uneducated, but does that make me stupid? Well, then I guess most of this country is stupid according to that standard. According to your point of view the only person qualified to run this country is Barrack Obama. Harvard educated. How did that work out for Bush? Obama is another Chicago politican that is passing himself off as the agent of change. But he is a DC Superstar. The same as the DC elite: double dealing, back stabbing, on the take (it doesn't bother you about all the PAC money that he received?), says whatever he has to then does a 180 to speak to someone else. You obviously aren't bitter otherwise you would be clinging to your guns and religion. Audacity of Hope? Lifted that line from Rev. Wright, now he disowned him although Obama said he couldn't disown an "uncle".
Palin has a stable family life and a foundation of Christian faith. Oh, no!!! That must mean that she is closed minded, believing in hocus pocus and superstition and intellectually challenged.
Nothing that I say and nothing that you say is going to change how we are going to vote or how we see things.
This is the problem. You see Obama as change. I see him as well frankly a socialist. That is not change that I need. You see Palin as unqualified and I see her as the true agent of change, no attachments to Washington, no debts owed. Hope is fading for me because I see McCain's chances beginning shrink by the minute. Then the country will be run by Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Howard Dean and Charlie Rangel, because that is who Obama will owe for delivering him and not Clinton the White House.
Respectful discourse is one of America's greatest strengths and I respect your comments even though I don't agree.
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