# Sarah blames Track's PTSD on Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737 "2016-01-21T01:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/201 "2017-12-19T17:14:04Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Don’t let that bother you Bryan. After a bumpy ride to eternity, you’ll meet some fine missionaries. You’ll be alone and cold, lost and disorganized when they appear. You’ll plead with them to help you, telling them you’re lost and need direction. They’ll wink and tell you that’s why they’ve come. Thereafter you’ll be known as Bryan the Jehovah Witness as you go door to door delivering the Watchtower. I’ll just assume this comment and your earlier one were in jest, because I can’t otherwise reconcile this with with your suggestion that _I’M_ losing my grip on reality. Mote, meet beam. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/202 "2017-12-19T17:43:31Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Pfff. She’s dumber than a sack of hair. But I’ll still put her ahead of Reagan. 😃 Oh piff. Palin is genuinely stupid, by any generally accepted standard of stupid. There are two basic reasons why she still gets a platform. One: she is pretty. Men have a simply bizarre tolerance for any kind of crap as long as a pretty woman is delivering it. Two: she represents a part of this country which is just as ignorant, pugnacious, incoherent, and low-class as herself, and they love to see her on stage. Reagan was horrible but until he got dementia anyway he was no fool. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/203 "2017-12-19T18:07:11Z")
One thing Reagan _definitely_ was, was a smooth talker. I’m sure there were moments when he seemed to ramble, and I’ve always liked [this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTtI3D6lqk) of him at a loss for words and Nancy prompting him, but he was never (that I can recall during his campaign or terms) as consistently incoherent as Palin, or Trump for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/204 "2017-12-19T18:08:06Z")
Man, I can’t believe I contributed to five pages of a thread about Sarah Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/205 "2017-12-19T18:30:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > One thing Reagan _definitely_ was, was a smooth talker. I’m sure there were moments when he seemed to ramble, and I’ve always liked [this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTtI3D6lqk) of him at a loss for words and Nancy prompting him, but he was never (that I can recall during his campaign or terms) as consistently incoherent as Palin, or Trump for that matter. Did you support Rob Ford? He seemed to be a smooth talker too. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/206 "2017-12-19T18:33:29Z")
The whole Palin gang is just a bunch of white trash. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/207 "2017-12-19T18:35:44Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Did you support Rob Ford? He seemed to be a smooth talker too. Well, he wasn’t the mayor of my city and I don’t really know if he was doing a good job for Toronto or not (and I had no idea who he was until his antics starting getting national press), but he was certainly entertaining. He didn’t strike me as _deliberately_ hurtful of others, like Moore, Palin or Trump, but I’ll cheerfully admit my ignorance. I feel kinda bad about the way he ended, though. The damage he inflicted seemed mostly to himself. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/208 "2017-12-19T20:48:32Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The whole Palin gang is just a bunch of white trash. I think of the Palins as a kind of apotheosis of white trash, more white trash than white trash can ever even aspire to becoming. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/209 "2017-12-19T20:52:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > There are any number of plausible reasons for them to be running separate errands at that point: one was going to to the lawyer’s office, the other was going to pick up the other children, for example. > > It wouldn’t shock me if the Palins divorced sometime in the next year, many other marriages have failed under less wacky and less public strain, but they might stay together. They still have a disabled child after all, and the second-youngest is not yet an adult. More likely he was headed for his favorite bar and she was headed for the liquor store in the opposite direction. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/210 "2017-12-19T20:57:53Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > One: she is pretty. Men have a simply bizarre tolerance for any kind of crap as long as a pretty woman is delivering it. I didn’t really find Palin pretty back in 2008, but I acknowledge there were at least a large number of people who did. But the last nine years haven’t been too good to her. Surely no one finds her attractive in 2017? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/211 "2017-12-19T21:08:12Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > I didn’t really find Palin pretty back in 2008, but I acknowledge there were at least a large number of people who did. But the last nine years haven’t been too good to her. Surely no one finds her attractive in 2017? I suppose the [“31 Rock” parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSvSDEQY3D8) is recent enough to judge, though she’s trying to imitate the frumpiness of the Liz Lemon character. I don’t doubt Palin still cleans up pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/212 "2017-12-19T22:05:12Z")
I think that a significant part of her poularity among the Republican boys club is that she looked quite nice in a leather skirt. [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcxlFyHBvU/VPt7WlTe8uI/AAAAAAAAEGI/mylys7wFsZI/s1600/original.jpg](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iwcxlFyHBvU/VPt7WlTe8uI/AAAAAAAAEGI/mylys7wFsZI/s1600/original.jpg) A terrible, terrible person with reprehensible views, but- Hey lookit that skirt! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/213 "2017-12-19T22:38:11Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Oh piff. Palin is genuinely stupid, by any generally accepted standard of stupid. … How politically incorrect can you be? She’s charming, alert and conversationally challenged. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/214 "2017-12-20T05:09:22Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > I didn’t really find Palin pretty back in 2008, but I acknowledge there were at least a large number of people who did. But the last nine years haven’t been too good to her. Surely no one finds her attractive in 2017? Well, to be honest, she’s one of a large group of women who’d I’d happily bed if it weren’t for the fact that there is complete nonsense streaming out of her mouth.\* I mean, I have to talk her _into_ bed in the first place. That’s going to have to be a pleasant experience, or I’m not gonna be interested by the time the magic happens. Even if that wasn’t the issue, I like talk and cuddling with a non-idiot in between going at it again. So, every other level than a purely physical level that doesn’t happen outside of masturbation: no. Remember fellas (and some gals, and all points in between): 51% of the population has a vagina, not all of them are idiots or crazy under otherwise normal circumstances; and some non-zero portion of them are in the intersection of not crazy, not idiots, and completely into what you’re about. If you’re not into vaginas, then reduce the percentage of the population accordingly. Oh, and don’t vote with your genitals, at least not in political elections. \*That, and the fact that my wife would find a sudden interest in how to dismember and dispose of a human body in the least icky possible manner. So, even if she became smart enough to work at Whataburger (and could you know, get me free burgers), there are barriers. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/215 "2017-12-20T05:26:01Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > … > > Remember fellas (and some gals, and all points in between): 51% of the population has a vagina, not all of them are idiots or crazy under otherwise normal circumstances; … Do they bite? The idiot and crazy vaginas you speak of that is. Need answer quick. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/216 "2017-12-20T07:43:29Z")
Track Marx would be a good punkrock name. That’s all I have to contribute. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/217 "2017-12-20T08:37:24Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > Track Marx would be a good punkrock name. That’s all I have to contribute. What about Track Package? Is that useful? He could be a mailman/stripper. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/218 "2017-12-20T13:30:18Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > there are barriers. I should hope so, just in case teh stoopid is contagious. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/219 "2017-12-20T14:17:34Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Do they bite? The idiot and crazy vaginas you speak of that is. Need answer quick. The actual vaginas? No, but biting is still a hazard from the other end. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737/220 "2017-12-20T16:07:52Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > The actual vaginas? No, but biting is still a hazard from the other end. I think you’re confusing the lil’ brown octopus with the Sacred Yoni. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-blames-tracks-ptsd-on-obama/743737.md?page=12)