“She clearly doesn’t understand…”

By Tuesday September 30, 2008

The original is up at CNN. This excerpt is enough to get you thinking.



47 Comments
  1. McCullough says:
    9/30/2008 at 10:04 am

    #14. That is stupid…but it sure is funny!!!!

    #16. Sorry, but that is just stupid.

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  2. chuck says:
    9/30/2008 at 10:32 am

    For the last few weeks they (Democrats) have been saying Palin is an idiot and she’s not qualified to be VP, etc.

    But just recently, they’ve started saying they expect her to be a “challenge” for Biden in the VP debate.

    So, if she does well in the debate (or Biden screws up), they can claim it was expected. But if she flubs it, they can claim they’ve been saying she’s an idiot all along.

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  3. ibdense says:
    9/30/2008 at 11:57 am

    Wolf said Palin was very popular in Alaska. I hold a 50% popularity rating (sometimes higher) in my house BUT I am not qualified to be president of the US. And I am more qualified than Palin.

    Imagine this 2008 race was the NFL. Can you picture the 49ers announcing that their second string quarterback was some unknown kid who had only played two games as tackle or guard on the high school junior varsity team? Sports fans would be up in arms. Sports radio voices would be calling for the firing of the entire 49er front office.

    If this was boxing then there would be allegations of throwing the match.

    Thankfully this is only politics and the future of our country at stake, and not an NFL franchise or boxing match.

    I’m a left-wing liberal Democrat (nut job wacko if you will) but I don’t NOT WANT (double negative for effect a la Paul Harvey)Sara Palin for VP for me and the democratic party. I don’t want her because I think the nation and the GOP deserve better.

    If the GOP doesn’t want better choices than these, then I figure that they have decided to make McCain and Palin sacrificial lambs. This would be a great way to get this extremely screwed-up mess that Bush is leaving us with out of their hands.

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  4. ArianeB says:
    9/30/2008 at 12:08 pm

    #11 and #13

    Apparently, you did not get the point of the OP. There is a HUGE difference between Palin and Obama. Obama knows what he is talking about, Palin does not.

    Obama taught constitutional law at Harvard. He wouldn’t be able to do that if he didn’t damm well know his stuff. He has written two books without a ghost writer to back him up. He is not repeating talking points, he is often inventing his own talking points. He intellectually understands not only the liberal view of the world but also the conservative one.

    Palin parrots the conservative talking points without understanding their full context. She went to 6 different colleges, the most prestigious being the University of Idaho.

    I know her type. She was from birth raised to believe certain things without understanding why she believed them. She has probably never had the intellectual curiosity to question her own beliefs, and as a result she seems incapable of intellectually defending them.

    Obama questions his beliefs all the time, and has successfully defended his beliefs through 22 debates so far(?), not only intellectually, but without saying anything politically damaging either.

    What Obama lacks in experience, he makes up for in intellect. Lincoln, Kennedy and Reagan also got to be President with little proven experience, but with strong understanding of the issues at hand, and by most people’s reckoning, they did pretty good.

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  5. Montanaguy says:
    9/30/2008 at 1:32 pm

    Obama is certainly intellectual, but he is not a leader. He’s like Carter,who overly micro-managed and over-thought everything to the point of paralysis. Look at Obama now; he is not engaging the action in congress, just standing on the sidelines wondering what to do and how to make it sound just right. Frozen. Not a leader. Sounds great, looks ok, but indecisive about anything ‘above his pay grade’. You may like him, you may admire his ideals, but if you’ve ever been around people with real leadership qualities who get things done, he’s clearly not one of them.

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  6. Mister Mustard says:
    9/30/2008 at 1:43 pm

    @25 – Hannah;

    >>Frozen. Not a leader.

    Do you imagine that if you keep repeating that silly mantra over and over and over again, that someone is going to believe you? Or worse, do you imagine it will become true?

    >>if you’ve ever been around people with real
    >>leadership qualities who get things done,
    >>he’s clearly not one of them.

    And McBush is? Haw! HAW! He may be a lot of things, but leadership material sure isn’t one of them.

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  7. Springheel Jack says:
    9/30/2008 at 1:45 pm

    @12 hawkeye666

    Only a leftie steeped in the natural juices of big-government liberalism would equate a Harvard Law with preparing someone to become president.

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  8. Montanaguy says:
    9/30/2008 at 1:46 pm

    #26
    Do you imagine … that if you frantically reply to every post, you will become right 5% of the time?
    You didn’t respond to my comment at all, as usual. Just the same re-fried, spastic dogma.

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  9. Mr. Fusion says:
    9/30/2008 at 3:12 pm

    #25, HanahMontana

    (Obama’s) like Carter,who overly micro-managed and over-thought everything to the point of paralysis. Look at Obama now; he is not engaging the action in congress, just standing on the sidelines wondering what to do and how to make it sound just right.

    So pray tell how is standing on the sidelines allowing those with the responsibility to come up with proper legislation “micro-managing”? None of Obama’s Senate committees dealt with banking or commerce. Quite correctly, he didn’t interfere with their work. McCain, on the other hand, did interject himself into the conferences and did stall the process.

    How you can suggest that Carter overly micro-managed is beyond me. This probably makes a great sound bite, even if untrue. Another typical Republican tact.

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  10. Paddy-O says:
    9/30/2008 at 3:16 pm

    #24 “Obama taught constitutional law at Harvard. He wouldn’t be able to do that if he didn’t damm well know his stuff.”

    Except he doesn’t think the 2nd amend allows you to own firearms.

    He should ask for a refund of his Harvard tuition…

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  11. Hugh Ripper says:
    9/30/2008 at 3:55 pm

    /rant

    John, how you can compare Obama to Palin is beyond reason. Obama is intelligent, reasonably articulate and has a good grasp of the issues. Palin has none of those qualities. Shes a strategic choice to pacify the god bothering right and a gender trap for the Democrats.

    The Demos have done the smart thing and not fallen into the gender trap by basically ignoring Palin and giving her enough rope to hang herself.

    How can you even consider electing this dimwit into high office, even as VP? I would have thought that 8 years of a dimwit in the White House would have been enough.

    And all this Republican warrior-cult bullshit about ‘leadership’. Your a bunch of war mongering inadequates who have seen too many hollywood action movies for your own good. What you really want to see as President is a stooge for the oil and arms industries that talks tough and doesn’t take shit from ‘loser’ countries. y’all make me sick.

    /end_rant

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  12. tchamp2 says:
    9/30/2008 at 4:06 pm

    To #30 — well said.

    To the rest who think Palin isn’t able to do the job — reality check, Obama hasn’t ever run anything. Period. She’s run a state.

    Granted, her experience isn’t long and studied, but it sure compares favorably with Obama.

    Trust me — being a professor at a University makes one less likely to be a good leader, not more likely. Academia doesn’t translate well to real life or real leadership. Obama is a liberal college professor. That’s all he is in mindset.

    All that being said, the fact is that a leader isn’t anything more than the advisors they have. Hence the current Paulson/Bush thing. Palin, Obama, etc — they will all be “able to do the job” perfectly fine. The question is more to how they would do it, and there I’d pick Palin/McCain’s views over extreme left-wing ideology.

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  13. Hugh Ripper says:
    9/30/2008 at 4:17 pm

    #32 Pfft ‘extreme left wing’ ideology. You’ll be seeing reds under the bed next. Are you related to McCarthy perchance?

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  14. Flip Wilson says:
    9/30/2008 at 4:20 pm

    tchamp2 — You are a retard.

    Anybody who’s got eyes and ears can clearly discern that Palin is not credible as a dog catcher let alone a mayor.

    In most situations politics are local and perhaps in Alaska, with a population of 600,000 you can basically go door to door and charm enough people to vote for you, but in a larger context the woman lacks a brain or any sense of knowledge of just about anything.

    If you really think she’s your man then move to Alaska where your dreams of her will keep you warm and cozy, as in the real world she’s fighting with inanimate objects for intellectual superiority.

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  15. bobbo says:
    9/30/2008 at 5:02 pm

    #32–tchamp==I thought #34 Flip was being a bit harsh in calling you a retard, and then I read your post.

    Puleeze!

    The President doesn’t show up a magically get advisors. No, the President will pick his advisors.

    Lets see. McCain picks Palin as his chief check and balance/resource.

    Obama picks Biden as his.

    Who is surrounded by inadequate advisors?

    Partisanship spin is a tricky business. You have sold your soul to push a particular outcome regardless of the facts, but push it too far as you have done, and you simply reveal the odious nature of your intent.

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  16. QB says:
    9/30/2008 at 5:54 pm

    Well according to the thinking here George HW Bush was the most qualified president in living memory.

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  17. ArianeB says:
    9/30/2008 at 9:23 pm

    #30 #24 “Obama taught constitutional law at Harvard. He wouldn’t be able to do that if he didn’t damm well know his stuff.”

    Except he doesn’t think the 2nd amend allows you to own firearms.”

    Another classic Logical Fallacy by Paddy-O (fallacy of composition if you must know).

    Here’s the thing: Not only could Obama explain his view of the second amendment in detail (it deals with the phrase “well regulated militia”) he could probably explain your view of the second amendment (it deals with the phrase “right of the people”) more accurately than you yourself could.

    Just today we see new video of Katie Couric asking Sarah Palin what magazines and newspapers does she read, and she says “all of them” and when pressed for more details she changes the subject. That goes in the same category of “How many houses do you own?” stupidity.

    If Sarah Palin really was the conservative thinker she claims to be, she would be reading the National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal on a regular basis. She should know this stuff.

    Heck intellectuals, read writings of the other side as well. Do you conservatives know who the philosophical thinkers behind your own beliefs are? Do you know who John Burke is? Emile Durkheim? Allan Bloom? Russel Kirk? Leo Strauss? Francis Fukuyama? William F. Buckley? I have read them all.

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  18. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:
    10/1/2008 at 4:11 am

    James Hill wrote: Does this mean the state can succeed and take it’s oil with it?[sic]

    Palin is equally qualified to be VPOTUS as you are qualified to teach English Comp.

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  19. Mr. Fusion says:
    10/1/2008 at 7:06 am

    #37, Ariane,

    Good, well made argument.

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  20. Paddy-O says:
    10/1/2008 at 7:09 am

    #37 “Another classic Logical Fallacy by Paddy-O.”

    Sorry, fact. See his comments regarding agreeing that the DC gun ban is legal.

    Like I said, he should get a refund.

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