Sarah Palin and Paul Revere

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]ZEB wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:

I never bought into the whole Bush stupidity thing. Bad speaker, yes. Perhaps not incredibly intelligent.[/quote]

And that’s exactly what the MSLM would have you believe. But, did you know that his IQ was higher than John Kerry’s? And as far as Obama none of us know how bright he is as his grades are all on lock down, as are his medical records. Nice huh? And did you here the MSLM protest this? Not at all! Not such a free press huh?
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IQ means jack shit, but I have already stated that Bush was treated unfairly by many with regard to his intelligence.

As for the Biden/Palin thing: he Gaffes a ton, true. But you still haven’t addressed Palin’s Africa thing. That isn’t a gaffe…it’s stupidity in its profoundest incarnation. I know a nine year-old boy with an ostensibly better understanding of both geography and (apparently) American history.

As for Obama, well he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, so I think it’s safe to say the guy is intelligent.

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“But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” --Sarah Palin, Nov. 24, 2010. That is a gaffe. It is clear that she meant to say South Korean, and simply misspoke. That is something Biden would do, and it is entirely forgivable. No one should be expected to speak perfectly and clearly all of the time.

But:

–“All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.” --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008.

–“Well, let’s see. There’s ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―” --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008.

–“I think it’s appalling and a violation of our freedom of the press.” --Sarah Palin, speaking about the negative media coverage of Republican congressional candidate Vaughn Ward, Boise, Idaho, May 21, 2010. This literally means that she didn’t understand what freedom of the press means.

–Not understanding that Africa was a continent.

–Paul Revere.

These aren’t gaffes, and they couldn’t be attributed to anyone who wasn’t entirely and profoundly stupid.

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Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American sensibilities, instincts and intuition which automatically qualifies her over Obama for any political office. That is not the same as saying that I would like her to be my president.

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[quote]smh23 wrote:

[quote]ZEB wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:

I never bought into the whole Bush stupidity thing. Bad speaker, yes. Perhaps not incredibly intelligent.[/quote]

And that’s exactly what the MSLM would have you believe. But, did you know that his IQ was higher than John Kerry’s? And as far as Obama none of us know how bright he is as his grades are all on lock down, as are his medical records. Nice huh? And did you here the MSLM protest this? Not at all! Not such a free press huh?
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IQ means jack shit, but I have already stated that Bush was treated unfairly by many with regard to his intelligence.[/quote]

Really now? Someone better tell Bill Gates that he wasted his time way back when he was forming Microsoft as he used that one criteria (IQ) as the most important yard stick in measuring the intelligence of his key executives. And now you tell us it means nothing? Poor Gates wasting all that time testing. As a matter of fact many fortune 500 companies use some sort of IQ test in their pre-hiring exam.

By the way one more political bias on your part. If Kerry had a higher IQ than Bush then it would mean something right? LOL…why don’t you just admit it so we can stop this?

People say lots of dumb things under pressure of the TV camera and lights. But if you recall my point is that there are gaffes and dumb mistakes enough to go around on both sides. I’d like to give Biden an IQ test I wonder if it would be bigger than his shoe size? But that doesn’t matter to you huh? It’s just Palin that you’re after because she has an important job right? Oh wait…no…that’s Biden who is VP, Palin is no more than a public speaker for conservative causes. But you keep going after her I’m sure it makes you feel good to kick a conservative. I get it, I get it. It’s sooooo coooool to hate her huh? When you and your friends get together you really give it to her don’t you? LMAO. (shaking head)…stop really.

But how do you know this? His grades are under lock and key. Oh wait, you read it on the Internet. Yeah, I just did too. But I wonder if they are so proud why don’t they reveal his grades? Maybe he did graduate magna cum laude, then again maybe he didn’t.

The MSLM has been so protective of Obama it’s hard to know reality from fiction. By the way how did Obama get into Harvard in the first place? When you actually have the right answer to that one I’d sure like to know.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American sensibilities, instincts and intuition which automatically qualifies her over Obama for any political office. That is not the same as saying that I would like her to be my president.[/quote]

I’ve tried to explain these things to the kid several times. But he’s too busy trying to kick her. It’s a total waste of a good kick as she will never become President, the press took care of that in 08’. The real point is that politico’s on both sides have said some crazy stuff. But smh is like the MSLM—FOCUS ON PALIN—MUST GET PALIN–LOL.

Hopefully while all the blind liberals are trying to destroy Palin (again) someone with some credibility will defeat Obama.

MSLM has trashed every republican from Ike to Bush for being stupid. Odd isn’t it? Those darn democrats are the smartest people in the world, or is it they are protected by the press?

Live—learn.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American sensibilities, instincts and intuition which automatically qualifies her over Obama for any political office. That is not the same as saying that I would like her to be my president.[/quote]

Obama doesn’t possess vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition?

What exactly would you define as “vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition”?

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Look, I put a bunch of quotes up like 3 posts back. They are all really stupid. I’m not joking when I say that I know children with ostensibly better understandings of American history/policy/just general shit.

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[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< Obama doesn’t possess vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition?

What exactly would you define as “vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition”? [/quote]BO is an enemy of the United States. A hippified Marxist specimen of the ideology we fought the cold war to defeat. Practically a clone of the very first post I ever wrote here about him way back in spring of 08. In light of that America hating pagan church he went to, his promise to “transform” this nation should have been a dead giveaway.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< Obama doesn’t possess vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition?

What exactly would you define as “vaguely American sensibilities, instincts, and intuition”? [/quote]BO is an enemy of the United States. A hippified Marxist specimen of the ideology we fought the cold war to defeat. Practically a clone of the very first post I ever wrote here about him way back in spring of 08. In light of that America hating pagan church he went to, his promise to “transform” this nation should have been a dead giveaway.
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And yet he’s been in office for more than two years and somehow has done things remarkably similar to how all of his predecessors did them.

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His Marxism really bled through when he extended the Bush tax cuts, and his hippyism really shined when he bombed Libya and escalated the war in Afghanistan.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American buzzwords and talking points.[/quote]

Fixed that for ya. She’s just not substantive. Comes off as vapid. She’s a campaigner not a politician.

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[quote]siouxperman wrote:

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American buzzwords and talking points.[/quote]

Fixed that for ya. She’s just not substantive. Comes off as vapid. She’s a campaigner not a politician.[/quote]

Well put. She throws in a bunch of “our founding fathers” without being able even to speak a lucid sentence about Paul Revere. It works, though…well enough to fool the fools, anyway.

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YOU GUYS dont understand Paul Revere was one of those GOTCHA Historic Figures.

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[quote]siouxperman wrote:

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American buzzwords and talking points.[/quote]

Fixed that for ya. She’s just not substantive. Comes off as vapid. She’s a campaigner not a politician.[/quote]Fair enough, but being a simple non law educated American did her pretty well during her time as Alaska’s governor which is the point. I would trust somebody who had to have a lot of stuff explained to them, but made the right decisions once it was over over some bookworm who allegedly has all the answers and ruins what’s left of the country with their leftist education.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]siouxperman wrote:

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Except the fact that she does possess at least vaguely American buzzwords and talking points.[/quote]

Fixed that for ya. She’s just not substantive. Comes off as vapid. She’s a campaigner not a politician.[/quote]Fair enough, but being a simple non law educated American did her pretty well during her time as Alaska’s governor which is the point. I would trust somebody who had to have a lot of stuff explained to them, but made the right decisions once it was over over some bookworm who allegedly has all the answers and ruins what’s left of the country with their leftist education.
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There is a difference between a “non law educated American” and an utter ignoramus.

Other than that, I agree. If Palin hadn’t said and done some of the sheer bullshit that she has, then I’d say fine…she may not be as educated as Obama, but maybe to some that matters less in politics than things like intuition and/or moral rectitude. But she isn’t ‘not as educated as Obama’…she’s fucking stupid, and astoundingly so.

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[quote]smh23 wrote:
His Marxism really bled through when he extended the Bush tax cuts, and his hippyism really shined when he bombed Libya and escalated the war in Afghanistan.[/quote]All things he never would have done were it not for overwhelming external pressure. In other words those decisions were made under duress sufficient enough for him to deny who he actually is in those instances, but I will give him this much. It’s easy to crow about peace and love and being nice when you’re a “community organizer”, but now that he’s president he’s forced into those pesky classified daily morning security briefings. I can see it in his face. He now knows that there actually are people in this world for whom a bullet is the only answer and that he does not want to be the one on whose watch the march of evil freely progresses. That does not make him a good president, but it does mean that he’s developing SOME insight into how the world works and to the extent that he does I give him credit.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:
His Marxism really bled through when he extended the Bush tax cuts, and his hippyism really shined when he bombed Libya and escalated the war in Afghanistan.[/quote]All things he never would have done were it not for overwhelming external pressure. In other words those decisions were made under duress sufficient enough for him to deny who he actually is in those instances, but I will give him this much. It’s easy to crow about peace and love and being nice when you’re a “community organizer”, but now that he’s president he’s forced into those pesky classified daily morning security briefings. I can see it in his face. He now knows that there actually are people in this world for whom a bullet is the only answer and that he does not want to be the one on whose watch the march of evil freely progresses. That does make him a good president, but it does mean that he’s developing SOME insight into how the world works and to the extent that he does I give him credit.
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Agree on a lot of this. Campaign rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. Every president I can remember has to some varying degree abandoned his ideals for the sake of Realpolitik, and Obama more so than most.

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[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< .she’s fucking stupid, and astoundingly so.[/quote]I am no huge fan of hers, but I disagree. She did a more than credible job as governor of an economically complex state with remaining strategic military significance (though I didn’t approve of how she left) and she held her own against the very veteran Joe Biden in the campaign debate. Not spectacular, but she did well enough to dispel any notions of her brain dead idiocy. All that said, she would never make my list of hopefuls for the whitehouse.

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< .she’s fucking stupid, and astoundingly so.[/quote]I am no huge fan of hers, but I disagree. She did a more than credible job as governor of an economically complex state with remaining strategic military significance (though I didn’t approve of how she left) and she held her own against the very veteran Joe Biden in the campaign debate. Not spectacular, but she did well enough to dispel any notions of her brain dead idiocy. All that said, she would never make my list of hopefuls for the whitehouse.
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Fair enough. I actually don’t know much at all about her job as Governor in Alaska. I am just going on the things I’ve heard/seen…the little things, which have added up for me.

In the end, it doesn’t necessarily take a genius to run an executive branch well anyway.

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[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< In the end, it doesn’t necessarily take a genius to run an executive branch well anyway >>>[/quote]That’s exactly right. It does necessarily take penetrating common sense and high character to run one well and to the benefit of the leader’s constituency. I’ll take a decent patriotic Vietnam vet who owns a local hardware store in Kentucky over some snot nosed ivy league snob every time.