Posted on 03/07/2009 7:37:10 AM PST by slomark
EXCERPT:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got off to a rocky start in Europe yesterday when she mispronounced the names of her European counterparts and then followed that up by re-writing history.
But never fear. Reuters excused the accident prone Secretary of State’s gaffes with these two paragraphs:
(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...
If this had been Bush, the coverage would have been significantly different.
As far as the press is concerned, this administration is too big too fail.
Smartest woman in the world; couldn’t possibly be wrong!
There’s no excuse for the damage this Administration is doing to this country.
This Administration is a primer on the dysfunctional personalities of Democrats.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT TRIED TO TRANSLATE ‘HOPE AND CHANGE’ AND CAME UP WITH ‘ARROGANCE AND INEPTITUDE’.
PEREGRUZKA!!!!!!
“...too big[,] too fail” would work even better than the correct grammar, IMHO. ;-P
yes..great excuse..poor hillary is so sleepy..having to fly all over the world to serve this great nation of ours..we all know the sos has to fly coach on the cheapest airlines around..the stewardess..oops I mean flight attendant probably offered our brave sos a pillow..but hillary refused saying give it to the homeless person flying next to her..what a woman..
Kids in charge. But extremely dangerous to our liberty.
0-vercharge.
As long as she didn’t have to dodge sniper fire again!
The zigler/brown clip is hysterical. Ouch, she does NOT want to debate anybody w/half a brain.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
Former President George W. Bush is becoming more of a superman every day. Lack of sleep and tiredness was never attributed to him during his eight years in office.
In a very real sense, you are correct, but I feel very strongly that much of what we're stuck with right now has to do with selecting from a pool of people who have gone to the same universities and who have been deluded by the same narrow minded world view perpetuated as dogma in those universities.
There are very broadly accepted but false premises about the correlation between going to an ‘elite’ university and being ‘smart’. Smart is a difficult thing to define, and it could be very reasonably argued that truly smart people realize that they aren't smart enough to judge who is or is not ‘smart’.
I spoke to a friend of mine recently who thinks Obama is brilliant. I ask why he thought so, and I said that there was little objective evidence out there to assess it one way or the other. He said, ‘well, he went to Harvard Law School’. So what? I'm quite sure I have markedly more years of education than him and that my classwork back then was of a more difficult nature. That doesn't mean that I'm smarter than him, or anyone else. In the same manner, neither should his Harvard Law school diploma be used to make that judgment.
The world is a big broad place with lots of smart people and lots of diverse opinions. If we keep looking toward a very finite and to some extent close-minded group of people with the same backgrounds we will keep making the same mistakes. In my opinion it's time to move beyond using simplistic and often meaningless criteria such as ‘what school did you go to?’ as a basis for choosing people to represent us in government. In the last election cycle this was used against Sarah Palin; ‘She went to three different colleges, none of which was high profile’, ‘what does she read?’, etc. etc. At worst it's an elitist world view. At best it's simplistic knee jerk thinking without in depth consideration. Either way, it's destructive.
Still, Clinton has been well received in Brussels, where the Obama administration has been viewed as a breath of fresh air after the unpopular leadership of George W. Bush.
So "breath of fresh air" = "they can laugh at stupid American slapstick antics"?
“In a very real sense, you are correct, but I feel very strongly that much of what we’re stuck with right now has to do with selecting from a pool of people who have gone to the same universities and who have been deluded by the same narrow minded world view perpetuated as dogma in those universities.”
Good Lord Man!!
It’s not where our leaders went to school. It’s the content of their character. The major cause of our current state is the increasing moral blindness of the electorate. The government schools and the MSM have been making steady progress at creating voters who cannot tell truth from lies or good from evil.
The last tree “squeaker” elections should tell us that conservatism has been losing the battle for hearts and minds for quite some time.
make that THREE “squeaker” elections
That's because for too long the left has gone unchallenged, and now much of what they've said has become established as ‘truth’. Conservatives will only regain stature by beating the left at their own game, which in large measure means challenging the intellectual content of the lefts platform, directly, unabashedly, publicly, and without worrying about civility. There is NO room for civility, because this is a cultural war in which the other side will stop at nothing.
As long as conservatives let the left characterize everyone not on their side as either dumb or a zealot, people won't listen fully to what conservatives have to say. Think about it; ‘Reagan was an idiot’, ‘Bush is an idiot’, ‘Palin is an idiot’, ‘Jindal can't think on his feet’, etc. etc. You can't debate in the arena of ideas if the other side has painted you as unthinking.
Thanks. I think I’m closing in on a bumper sticker...
The Hillary gaff was "old news" as it was happening.
Hey guys, this is why you're numbers are going down, down, down.
The Hillary gaff was "old news" as it was happening.
Hey guys, this is why your numbers are going down, down, down.
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