[Wings-n-Wind]

Juan...
---you high-brow [former] NPR dumbass....

It's not about the "intellectual stage"...
We have seen what "the elite" can do to our free republic...

IT'S ABOUT WHO LOVES AMERICA...

WHO LOVES OUR WAY OF LIFE AND WILL NOT ONLY PROMISE AN OATH...
--BUT ACT...

--TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION...
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY...
-- AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE USA!!

*************

yumpin' yiminy...

Juan has gone pinhead...

[yarddog]

I wonder where this “Obama the intellectual” stuff got started. I recall O’Reilly saying something about how Obama would destroy some person in a debate.

At the time I did not know much about him but it is clear Obama is a person with average intelligence, not even bright average.

Still the myth keeps getting repeated.

[YankeeReb]

0dumbo can’t share the intellectual stage with Bubbles the chimp without being the least qualified on that stage.

[Ouderkirk]

She sure does scare the pants off them doesn’t she?

[Portcall24]

Actually, Sarah can prove she has a degree and produce classmates to prove she was in class. Something the “o” can’t or won ‘t do. So the response is, “Prove it”.

[Iron Munro]

Juan Williams: Sarah Palin "Can't Stand on the Intellectual Stage With Obama"

That judgement will be up to the people in the 57 states (plus the one Obama still has to visit). And maybe even some CORPSEMEN and the lines of fallen heroes he sees attending his speeches.

[ronnie raygun]

Like convincing everyone that my frog can talk. Juan is in with valarie Jarret, he's so intelligent he bores himself. When I grow up I want to be a community organizer just like him

[nathanbedford]

By this remark Juan Williams betrays a conceit of the Democrat party and a profound misunderstanding of the dynamics of presidential debates.

It is virtually an article of the Democrat canon that the Democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid, a conceit derived from their universal obsession to play God. Every presidential candidate on the Republican side has been described as virtual morons by the Democrats. As a lad, I remember being told that the man who organized the greatest amphibious assault in history and conducted successfully the Crusade in Europe against the Nazis was intellectually deficient. Every other Republican since Eisenhower, except Nixon who was evil, was stupid. The problem for the Democrats is they come down with a virus every four years which confuses intellect with character, forensics with statesmanship.

They misunderstand the nature and dynamics of presidential debates because the people do not seek a schoolmaster, they seek a president. That means they are judging the debaters on whether or not they can lead the country.

Further, the judgment is made not on the basis of the forensic performance of the two participants, therefore, each candidate is not so much judged against the other-although that certainly occurs-but he is judged against the context in which he or she enters the debate. That is one of the main reasons why Barack Obama actually defeated John McCain in the debates even though in at least one debate McCain might have won on points. The electorate was looking to see whether Obama had the stuff of presidential material within him. He did not have to win debates, all he had to do was look presidential. That is a rather low threshold and he crossed it easily. McCain could have bested him on every issue and still have lost the debate. The test for Obama will be different this time.

If Palin were to debate Obama, very little will turn on the substance of the debate and much less on the intellectual domination of one over the other because each candidate is already a known quantity and few voters will have their minds changed by the exchange on stage. But to the degree that minds are changed they will be changed by the same test that was so easy for Obama in 2008, is Sarah Palin presidential? If she is, she has a very good chance of winning the election because the electorate is likely to be as fed up with Obama as they were with George Bush and the debates merely serve as a final check that the country would be safe in the Republican candidate's hands. If Sarah Palin and can pass that test she can win.

All that being said, it is also true that she has done very little to improve her forensic performance which is always dynamic and compelling but not necessarily presidential. She needs training to project gravitas. She has not done a thing to change that image.

[Mobties]

Village idiot Juan Williams rarely disappoints. His nonsensical pontifications and filibusters make a better case for conservatism and against Obama and the Democrats than the best conservative debater imaginable. I don't think anyone on television digs his own grave in public better than Juan.

I do miss Brit Hume's bitchslaps, but Bill Kristol’s quiet laughter at Juan's risible remarks is almost as good.

[upsdriver]

Juan Williams dumbs down every room he enters.

[bwc2221]

There's nothing conservative about FNC, except in the mind of the loony left. FNC is a mix of neocons and RINOs thrown for good measure: Williams, Krathammer, Rove, Perino, Hayes, Kristol, Barnes, BORe, Shep Smith, Hoover, ditsy Nicole Wallace, Whore-aldo, etc.

The only conservatives are Palin and Hannity and Sean is dumber than a brick.

I've stopped watching FNC all together.

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[Sprite518]

Juan an idiot. Why is he given any credibility is beyond me?

[PubliusMM]

Well, let’s ponder on that for a moment.

On the one hand we have a down-to-earth, speaks-from-the-heart, conservative woman who represents all that is American.
On the other hand we have a mysterious, no-background, avowed redistributionist progressive who hasn’t uttered a complete and intelligent sentence in over four years without the assistance of a teleprompter.

Gee whiz! That’s a tough one... but, I think I’ll go with the conservative.

[ExTexasRedhead]

I cringe and turn off the TV when I see Hannity and BOR sucking up to this Liberal.

[fish hawk]

LOL. Coming from the dimmest bulb on any show, any stage, any panel. Did this guy actually go to college and what percent of the class was he in if he graduated?

[DungeonMaster]

"You've heard of Plato, Aristhottle, Thocrateese, Obama? MORONS!"

[Paul Kib]

I was more offended by Williams’ remark that Mike Pence isn’t charismatic enough to run for president. That tells you all you need to know about what Williams thinks is the most important characteristic of the Commander in Chief.

FWIW, Mike Pence would wipe the floor with Obama in a debate. I suspect he’d wipe the floor with most of the other potential contenders as well.

[pallis]

Why would Sarah want to lower herself to Obamao’s intellectual stage? She doesn’t need a teleprompter because she isn’t a fraud.

I used to try and give Juan a little consideration, thinking he might be an honest though confused lib, but as it turns out, Juan is just another stool floating in the Democrap bowel.

[ken21]

my wife and i laugh at juan williams.

if not for affirmative action,

no one would have ever heard of him.