Sure, but Bobby Jindal’s gotta be disqualified somehow, doesn’t he?
No no no… yer all ignorant and failed tenth grade English. It was clearly a reference to Moby Dick. She was clearly saying that the party needs is a strong, dedicated leader in pure pursuit of an ideal–who has hope–in capturing and subjugating the behemoth-like evil that exists in the world (the whale). That leader should stick to his or her principles, heedless of the waves and storms of tumultuous dissent that would lead the leader astray. She is Ishmael. Bacchman is her Queequeg. They are in search of an Ahab.
Will Palin answer the call?
I didn’t have to read Moby Dick sophomore year. Since we were doing world literature then, that’s not surprising.
Your lack of refutation (three cite minimum with lines and circles and a paragraph on each of the Web pages) proves that I am correct.
Michael Steele was on NPR and gave his interviewer, Steve Inskeep a hard time because Inskeep called his answers “nuanced”.
Jindal’s family is North Indian. In all probability he’s Aryan.
My god. He doesn’t know what nuanced means. Oh, Poochie… you make me sad.
I think I’ll have to give her a pass, too. It wasn’t until I had read the linked article that I knew where the phrase came from. I knew it had to do with boxing, and that was it.
I think Steve Inskeep was getting frustrated at this point.
I posted in one of the other threads that Inskeep has always annoyed me, but I have to hand it to him for not letting Steele get away too easy. Inskeep also gave a minor working-over to a guy this morning (on the topic of energy conservation). If he’s going to keep asking tough questions, I might have to start liking Inskeep after all.
I think I’d give Rep. Jenkins a pass too.
Rex Rammell? Not so much. It may have been a joke, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a stupid thing to say.
I predict a long-shot win, or a talk show on FOX.
Apparently we were too quick to ascribe simple naivety to Ms. Jenkins. A month before she made this statement, she “supported a resolution that included the very phrase ‘great white hope’ in a historical context that made clear its origin.”
Link. The resolution stated in pertinent part: “Whereas the victory by Jack Johnson over Tommy Burns prompted a search for a White boxer who could beat Jack Johnson, a recruitment effort that was dubbed the search for the ‘great white hope.’”
She later explains this away by saying she did not read the resolution she was supporting. So she’s either dishonest or incompetent. Or both. Definitely stupid.
Oh, and here’s another Republican talking out of his butt about healthcare:
Link.
At a Texas townhall meeting, Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) uses the story of Britney and her unborn child to say that the baby would not have been born under the proposed public option. When attenders point out that the* insurance company* made her search for a doctor more difficult, Mr. Olson abruptly ends the meeting.
I lolled! They can dish it out, but they sure can’t take it!
It doesn’t count - we all know no one in Congress reads the bills it passes.
Pass revoked.
How sad, how very, very sad. He’s making his case because she’s convinced her son wouldn’t have been born? And who convinced her, asshole? Fucking pathetic.
No, wait, what’s truly pathetic is his response of “don’t talk to me, talk to her!” Sickening.
Fear mongering demagoguery: 1 Democracy: 0
From here.
Okay, I’ll grant that Donohue might not be exactly a Republican, though I don’t remember ever seeing him attack Republicans–only Democrats and, apparently, TV shows.
Penn and Teller are like NAZIS, yo.
Wow, everyone’s a Nazi these days!