Posted on 03/18/2009 12:04:37 PM PDT by SolidWood
Now that the Obama presidency is nearing the 60-day mark, it’s time to thank those fastidious scribes on the left and the right who worked so hard to warn us against Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, and the dire things that would surely occur if she ever got close to executive power. How right they were to insist that she was unfit for high office. Let’s just imagine what she might have done:
As president, she might have caused the stock market to plunge over 2,000 points in the six weeks after she assumed office, left important posts in the Treasury unfilled for two months, been described by insiders as ‘overwhelmed’ by the office, and then gone on to diss the British Prime Minister on his first state visit, giving him, as one head of state to another, a set of DVDs plucked from the aisles of Wal Mart, a tasteful gift, even if they can’t be played on a TV in Britain. (Note, the Prime Minister, who is losing his eyesight, may even be blind in one eye).
As vice president, she might have told Katie Couric that when the stock market crashed in 1929, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on TV to reassure a terrified nation. Or on her first trip abroad as Secretary of State, she might have, as the AP reported, “raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe...when she mispronounced her “EU counterparts names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe’s,” then gave the Russian minister a gag “reset” button, on which the word “reset” was translated incorrectly.
What a good thing that Palin, whom Christopher Buckley called “an embarrassment, and a dangerous one,” wasn’t in office to cause such debacles, and that we have Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at dcexaminer.com ...
—yep, we were saved by the “ONE”—(barf)—
She is AWESOME!!! Come on 2012!!!!
LOL good article. I might have to use a line or two out of that.
Something like, yea things could be worse, we could have had someone in office that actually knows how to run an executive office.
We were honored to have Governor Sarah Palin as our Vice President nominee...
Thank you Governor Palin for being willing to serve our great country...
You make it great !!!!!
I'm afraid I don't understand this criticism. By any standard American democracy is considerably older than any in Europe.
I wish the critics would post the European democracy that is older than the US.
Athens?
I know, doesn’t exist any more... but I don’t see ours lasting much longer either.
Britain’s Parliamentary system. When the US Republic was founded, the right to vote and hold office was also confined to only part of the population.
Well, if you want to count slave-owning, woman-oppressing aristocratic republics that lasted less than 170 years (with interruptions) more than 2000 years ago.
wow... up to this point, you could be channelling Michelle Obama
Is that new speak so our Constitutional Republic will turn into a democracy?
Which leads to socialism.
Which leads to communism.
Just my thoughts...
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“wow... up to this point, you could be channelling Michelle Obama”
Telling it like it WAS in Greece...Obammy Mammy thinks that is how it IS in America...
True, but the US went to suffrage for all white males long before Britain, or any other European country, did. That’s why Alexis de Tocqueville was banging around the USA in the early 1830s. He wanted to see what a country with real democracy was like, as there weren’t any in Europe.
Britain passed two major Reform Bills in 1832 and 1867. When the second passed, the British electorate was still a good deal more restricted than the American electorate was in 1824.
“I wish the critics would post the European democracy that is older than the US. “
Greece 500 BC
America is a representative republic, not a democracy.
Well, the difference is that the ancient Athenians really were slave-owners and woman-oppressors. Athenian women were, for instance, much more oppressed than Spartan or Roman women.
Michelle ought to spend a day or two in ancient Athens so she could see what real oppression by a patriarchate was like.
“Why is the US so many times called a democracy?”
Because Americans are typically ignorant of history and the absolute HORROR our founders had at the notion of unrestrained Democracy.
We are a Republic.
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