I don’t want her to win sympathy or any other kind of votes, but I really am beginning to feel sorry for her. She gave birth just a few months ago, THEN learned she was going to be a grandmother, THEN learned her son was going to Iraq, THEN got tossed into the middle of a huge arena that was bigger than she imagined, THEN is made to look like a nincompoop on every interview (and again, I don’t think she’s stupid, just a disastrously really really really bad choice) and all while prepping to take on a man who’s been a senator since she was in grade-school in a debate all while having family scandals and professional ethics violations made household knowledge- she’s got to be just about ready to implode and walk back to Alaska.
I feel sorry for her. But I still want Obama to whip her like the rented mule that killed his pa.
I don’t understand the sentiment. Some of you guys (and gals) keep saying she’s “smart” but I just don’t see where you’re getting it from. If, for instance, I am offered a position that I know I’m completely and utterly unqualified for, I should think that instead of making an ass out of myself I’d be smart enough not to say this: Palin said she never “blinked” when asked to join the ticket.
Like Detective nonpareil Harry Harry Callaghan used to say “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
Well guess what, so does Caribou Barbie – is she was smart that is.
In raw IQ as measured on a test she might pass those two up, but I have never heard either W. or Quayle sound so vapid and clueless in the public arena. GWB and Quayle are not the brightest bulbs in the marquee by any means, but at least something rubbed off on them just by growing up in political families, and in W.'s case, being a two-term governor of a large and populous state. Even W. at his worst doesn’t come close to being as bad as this Palin disaster.
mack, but you’re not a politician, who is running for the second highest office in our nation. If she doesn’t have the experience to deal with interviews and such situations, well, that frightens me.
And last time I checked, Putin is no longer President of Russia. He’s Prime Minister, but the President is Dmitry Medvedev. Yeesh, for all her going on about how close she is to Russia, she can’t even get the nation’s leaders right! :smack:
Well, everybody knows its really Putin, so no biggy. GW could look into the soul of a KGB officer, and not run screaming from the room. Sarah can look and if she doesn’t like what she sees, she can have him smote. You know that’s gonna give him pause.
It’s a thousand times weaker than barfing in the PM’s lap, or getting savaged by an amphibious lagomorph, or bumping one’s head on the airplane door. Being clumsy or unable to keep down a banquet’s worth of exotic food isn’t the equivalent of stupidity or incompetence.
Not possible. I checked a couple days ago, and the batshit crazy ratio was at .99, whereas the theoretical limit is 1.0. Therefore, any increase in batshit crazy is impossible. It follows, then, that this shit did not happen. So don’t show me any more of these lying-ass videotapes!
Joe Biden makes mistakes by slipping up on a single word in a sentence. More likely than not, he substituted television for radio. Even though Roosevelt wasn’t the President during the crash of 1929, he still may have done what Biden described once he became President.
Biden has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth and for having slips of the tongue. He doesn’t have a reputation for being stupid or ignorant.
I really can’t second guess Palin, but I don’t think she’s learned yet how not to answer a question. Instead, she gives fairly straight answers, but they are born of ignorance. But, as I said, I can’t second guess her.
I can’t help but wonder how No Child Left Behind has faired in Alaska when I read sentences such as this: "“Our next door neighbors are foreign countries — they’re in the state that I am the executive of.” … That is not a good thing. Russia and Canada are most definitely not** in the state where she is the chief executive. I hate to second guess her, but that sounds a bit delerious.
Four times during my lifetime, a Vice President has taken over for the President. I really don’t like the odds of that happening with Senator McCain and Sarah.
BTW, she wasn’t that good a mayor. She left that small town of five or six thousand people over twenty million dollars in debt.
