Why is Sarah an 'Idiot'?

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]K2000 wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Like it mattered for Obama?

Obama can speak intelligently on national and international issues. Sarah Palin - not so much. She couldn’t even come off as smart when speaking about herself (the Katie Couric interview). Oh yes, that vicious vicious Katie Couric LOL. If you can’t handle Katie Couric, how well will you perform when you need to meet with Putin? Anybody who thinks Katie Couric is tough is a pussy.

Obama went through 10 or 12 televised Democratic debates, where he had to speak off the cuff on the issues, plenty of time to evaluate his intelligence and depth. Palin had one debate, and half her answers were “you betcha” or general attacks on liberals, or winks. She didn’t display a command on the issues, IMO.

But I like Sarah Palin because I don’t think she can win a national election, so I hope she stays around forever. Don’t let me persuade you that she’s not totally awesome.
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You see I look at it differently. Carter allegedly could speak well about international issues, but he was wrong. So in my opinion, he did not speak well on international issues.

Do you remember the Iranian hostage situation? I do and i saw how that fool screwed that up by being weak. All it took for them to get home was to swear in Reagan.

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
Sarah Palin could look like Madeline Albright and the liberal media and her detractors would think and say EXACTLY the same things about her. There is NOTHING, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH to suggest otherwise. [/quote]

Yes, but if she was liberal, she would be beautiful at least. Madeline Albright would be vivacious. But be conservative and attractive, well…

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Like it mattered for Obama?

Obama can speak intelligently on national and international issues. Sarah Palin - not so much. She couldn’t even come off as smart when speaking about herself (the Katie Couric interview). Oh yes, that vicious vicious Katie Couric LOL. If you can’t handle Katie Couric, how well will you perform when you need to meet with Putin? Anybody who thinks Katie Couric is tough is a pussy.

Obama went through 10 or 12 televised Democratic debates, where he had to speak off the cuff on the issues, plenty of time to evaluate his intelligence and depth. Palin had one debate, and half her answers were “you betcha” or general attacks on liberals, or winks. She didn’t display a command on the issues, IMO.

But I like Sarah Palin because I don’t think she can win a national election, so I hope she stays around forever. Don’t let me persuade you that she’s not totally awesome.
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Interviews can be edited, unlike off the cuff tough questions.

Obama hits a slow pitch softball and the media claims he hit one out of the park from a 1968 Bob Gibson. And what has Joe Biden ever done about international relations than maybe taking some free trips?

Again, explain how a first term senator with no foreign policy or executive experience is so much more qualified to lead than a governor?

My brother in law has a Harvard Phd. He was a Top gun aviator, a USNA grad. He was Under Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs and has held high level executive positions.

Now explain to me how Obama is more qualified than him. He’s also black if you need this current President to meet those qualifications. There are probably 100 or more qualified people to be President than this guy.

He just happened to win. Of course the actual qualifications are listed in the Constitution and Sarah was more than qualified, as was Barry.

But if it’s experience you mean, well, that’s a different story. And McCain was the Presidential candidate from the republican party, not Sarah Palin.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Sarah Palin could look like Madeline Albright and the liberal media and her detractors would think and say EXACTLY the same things about her. There is NOTHING, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH to suggest otherwise.

Yes, but if she was liberal, she would be beautiful at least. Madeline Albright would be vivacious. But be conservative and attractive, well…[/quote]

I have never heard any liberals claim that Palin is unattractive. But then maybe I just haven’t been listening. Because I’ve never heard ANYONE, liberal or conservative, say that Bella Abzug is beautiful. Brilliant, charismatic, a prioneer, a force some have said.

But I’ve never heard anyone pretend she was a beautiful woman. If they did, they’d certainly be wrong. I don’t know what she looked like in her youth. But she was certainly not an attractive woman by the time she made it on the national political scene.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
My point is that a decent, moral, hard working person is FAR more desireable in government than a bunch of lawyers who’ve never run anything or built anything. Sarah built a business and was a successful governor. What have yo-yos like out wonderful Harvard Law grads done?

In 1913, our national debt was 2.9 billion. Its now trillions. So much for turning our country over to lawyers and other criminals, no matter how ‘brilliant’ they are.[/quote]

I do completely agree with this post and particularly the part I put in bold.

I’ve known a businessman or 2 who on sheer honest inborn American sensibilities I would trust in a heartbeat with the reigns of this nation over any of these haughty bookworms.

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[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
K2000 wrote:
tom63 wrote:
Like it mattered for Obama?

Obama can speak intelligently on national and international issues. Sarah Palin - not so much. She couldn’t even come off as smart when speaking about herself (the Katie Couric interview). Oh yes, that vicious vicious Katie Couric LOL. If you can’t handle Katie Couric, how well will you perform when you need to meet with Putin? Anybody who thinks Katie Couric is tough is a pussy.

Obama went through 10 or 12 televised Democratic debates, where he had to speak off the cuff on the issues, plenty of time to evaluate his intelligence and depth. Palin had one debate, and half her answers were “you betcha” or general attacks on liberals, or winks. She didn’t display a command on the issues, IMO.

But I like Sarah Palin because I don’t think she can win a national election, so I hope she stays around forever. Don’t let me persuade you that she’s not totally awesome.

When did Palin run against Obama?[/quote]

If you would actually bother to take a moment to read what you quoted (and then challenged me on) you would see that I was responding to tom63 who brought up a Palin/Obama comparison.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
Interviews can be edited, unlike off the cuff tough questions.[/quote]

Are you seriously going to claim that an interview with Katie Couric is more challenging than a live debate with Hillary Clinton? LOL

You apparently know nothing about Joe Biden. He was a Senator for 36 years, and most of that time he has been on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, including time spent as chairman.

You should be comparing people and their backgrounds, not just job titles. Obama has spent his life excelling at pretty much every level. Sarah Palin is pretty average in comparison.

I didn’t start out by comparing Palin to Obama or Biden, but when other people brought those names up, then sure lets compare them if you insist, because Palin falls painfully short in comparison. I originally just said she is not qualified to be president.

She’s a former weathercaster/sportscaster/beauty queen. She went to 5 or 6 colleges in order to get her degree in TV Broadcasting. She is not an idiot but she is not presidential material by a country mile, and anybody who thinks otherwise is daydreaming or smoking crack IMO. Plenty of Republicans think she’s way over her head, and not just Democrats.

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[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
the Manchurian got pumped into office with little more than a HUGE anti-Bush movement, which, county by county still looks like a McCain victory.[/quote]

McCain/Palin got shellacked. They took a solid drubbing. They were bitch-slapped. They lost resoundingly. It wasn’t even close.

So I don’t know which “counties” you’re looking at. Maybe you need to stand on your head and squint at the electoral map, to see it the way you do.

Also, re: Manchurian… either you’re a troll, or just an idiot.

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
<<< You apparently know nothing about Joe Biden. He was a Senator for 36 years, and most of that time he has been on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, including time spent as chairman. >>>[/quote]

During which time he demonstrated an impressive and still ongoing ineptitude in that arena.

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I love this thead, BTW…

Conservatives playing the ‘victim’ card (She was picked on! Boo hoo! The media took her brilliant answers, and twisted them around to make her look dumb!)

Conservatives bending over backward to set their standards lower (so that the least qualified candidate becomes the MOST qualified. Her glaring lack of experience and poor grasp of the issues makes her the best choice).

Bros, when you’re right, you’re right… Sarah Palin is teh awesome!

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
K2000 wrote:
<<< You apparently know nothing about Joe Biden. He was a Senator for 36 years, and most of that time he has been on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, including time spent as chairman. >>>

During which time he demonstrated an impressive and still ongoing ineptitude in that arena.[/quote]

Maybe Biden didn’t have the benefit of being able to see Russia from his front doorstep. That probably would have helped a whole lot.

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
K2000 wrote:
<<< You apparently know nothing about Joe Biden. He was a Senator for 36 years, and most of that time he has been on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, including time spent as chairman. >>>

During which time he demonstrated an impressive and still ongoing ineptitude in that arena.

Maybe Biden didn’t have the benefit of being able to see Russia from his front doorstep. That probably would have helped a whole lot.

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Yep, Biden was a high ranking Senator and they get to do cool stuff, even though they suck at it. But I knew there were 50 states when I was five. Obama had difficulties with such a serious domestic issue, oh well, last year.

You want to call some out on maybe an out of context thing, make sure your guy never has said anything, that, well, let’s say has been recorded.

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
tom63 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Sarah Palin could look like Madeline Albright and the liberal media and her detractors would think and say EXACTLY the same things about her. There is NOTHING, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH to suggest otherwise.

Yes, but if she was liberal, she would be beautiful at least. Madeline Albright would be vivacious. But be conservative and attractive, well…

I have never heard any liberals claim that Palin is unattractive. But then maybe I just haven’t been listening. Because I’ve never heard ANYONE, liberal or conservative, say that Bella Abzug is beautiful. Brilliant, charismatic, a prioneer, a force some have said.

But I’ve never heard anyone pretend she was a beautiful woman. If they did, they’d certainly be wrong. I don’t know what she looked like in her youth. But she was certainly not an attractive woman by the time she made it on the national political scene. [/quote]

I’ve heard a quote already from one source that one person made. The point is the double standard. If Palin was a radical liberal, high times, CSNBC, CNN etc. would talk about her beauty and her Brains.

Who here seriously thinks Barbara Boxter or Nancy Pelosi chose that government stuff out of desire to serve as opposed to their ground breaking cancer research or their next shuttle launch.

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
I love this thead, BTW…

Conservatives playing the ‘victim’ card (She was picked on! Boo hoo! The media took her brilliant answers, and twisted them around to make her look dumb!)

Conservatives bending over backward to set their standards lower (so that the least qualified candidate becomes the MOST qualified. Her glaring lack of experience and poor grasp of the issues makes her the best choice).

Bros, when you’re right, you’re right… Sarah Palin is teh awesome![/quote]

And so it begins. I heard this crap about Ronald Reagan. He did more foreign policy good because he was right as opposed to that idiot Jimmy Cater who so many thought was so smart.

Were you alive during the Iranian hostage crisis. I doubt it. Well you got Carter again, only more arrogant and more inept. Things will go on. Barry will say his silly ass campaign stuff and things will be a problem. It always happens.

My wife who is not into politics in any way does not like the current POTUS. she calls him a BS artist and doesn’t want to work at the job he has, just run for it.

I never hear someone who just does not watch all the issues and get into this stuff ever put it better. Governing is a lot different than running. And he is not up to the job. Whether or not Palin is not an issue. He is not qualified, and that is the issue.

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[quote]tom63 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
tom63 wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
Sarah Palin could look like Madeline Albright and the liberal media and her detractors would think and say EXACTLY the same things about her. There is NOTHING, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH to suggest otherwise.

Yes, but if she was liberal, she would be beautiful at least. Madeline Albright would be vivacious. But be conservative and attractive, well…

I have never heard any liberals claim that Palin is unattractive. But then maybe I just haven’t been listening. Because I’ve never heard ANYONE, liberal or conservative, say that Bella Abzug is beautiful. Brilliant, charismatic, a prioneer, a force some have said.

But I’ve never heard anyone pretend she was a beautiful woman. If they did, they’d certainly be wrong. I don’t know what she looked like in her youth. But she was certainly not an attractive woman by the time she made it on the national political scene.

I’ve heard a quote already from one source that one person made. The point is the double standard. If Palin was a radical liberal, high times, CSNBC, CNN etc. would talk about her beauty and her Brains.

Who here seriously thinks Barbara Boxter or Nancy Pelosi chose that government stuff out of desire to serve as opposed to their ground breaking cancer research or their next shuttle launch.[/quote]

No, sorry. I don’t think anyone would ever be talking about this woman’s brains. In a positive way (except the few people that currently, inexplicably, are). I will agree that the media has worked hard to make her look as bad as possible. There is a double standard, and conservatives get a bad rap from most of the media. I’ll give you that.

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Exactly Push. When I was talking about how the liberal media will calla liberal say, beautiful, while say a conservative vapid, stupid etc., I got the example from the Andrew Wilkow show on Sirius radio. He has this little translation guide to liberal talk comparing the similar trait or characteristic when a liberal does and says compared to what a conservative does and say.

It was funny. so when Barry calls the cops stupid before he knows anything, he’s just being concerned., while if Ronald Reagan rushed to judgment he would have been racist.

What has no reporter asked, " Mr. President, do you think you acting stupidly by commenting on the actions of the officers without hearing the 911 tapes, hearing both sides, reading the reports, and hearing eye witness testimony?" " If the officers acted stupidly sir, what should be said about your actions? Mr. Bill Cosby, America’s favorite negro long before you were on the scene said we should all wait until we hear the whole story. And everyone knows he played a wise doctor on tv while you only play a President."

I would piss my pants and die laughing. And said reporter would be right.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
“Sarah is an idiot” because some folks are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Harvard grads like Obama and Yale grads like GW Bush are infinitely smarter. These “infinitely smarter,” cerebrally bountiful intellectual wizards along with their bozo buds in Congress gave us the economic quicksand in which we find ourselves.

Thanks, GW, for never vetoing a spending bill and giving us Medicare Part D and thanks, Barackie, for taking the baton and saying, “Anything GW can do I can do 10 times over, dooooooood. Just watch me.”

I honestly think if a terrorist’s neutron bomb wiped out 535 reps and sens, a P and a VP and nine USSC justices, and the people (along with the new Pres) were forced to place 546 Sarah Palins in office…that the United States of America would become a better place. Overnight.[/quote]

I don’t recall anyone ever accusing GW of being smart. Just a dolt who loved to spend recklessly and destroyed fiscal conservatism and any leg up Republicans ever had over democrat’s wasteful spending. Palin’s fiscal record ain’t so great by the way. Her record in Wasilla and Alaska is not that of fiscal conservative. Supporters somehow forget that because she’s a salt-of-the earth gal that looks a helluva lot better than, well, Bella Abzug. And no one with half a brain spends all those millions on land without making sure the state has good title to it. It’s not all her fault. I can’t believe her administration let that one get by. They were clearly all idiots too.

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Palin is actually just like Obama but on the other end of the spectrum. They are both all image. All show and no go. Superficially very likeable and inspiring people to very different segments of the population. But neither are fit to be in positions of high power making decisions that actually affect real lives.

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
Well, of course the liberals dogged on Palin, I agree. She’s beautiful, and if you’ve looked at the difference between the Fox side of the media and the CNN side of the media. Republican chicks win hands down! Republicans are hot enough they are not jealous, have their own stuff to worry about. Democrats on the other hand need everyone to agree with them and believe that they are beautiful, even when they are not. At least the Republicans can chose their dirty dirty whore newscasters (that I fantasize about) better than the democrats.

  • Brother

See Gambit… or this one too. [/quote]

Quality.