Posted on 09/25/2011 12:42:05 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Nice to see ya, too.
“If Cain doesn’t understand this fairly straightforward concept, where else is he intellectually and politically lacking?”
I would add philosophically as well. All these ideals have a philosophical underpinnig. I’m not sure Cain understands the basic ideal of free will and what it means to be an individual in the classical sense. I know of one person who does and that’s who I support.
Yes I got caught in that web also. Should have known better. (hanging head in shame) :)
Wake up Brother !!! It’s True! Even I had a flame free conversation with her!...then again it had nothing to do with Palin, but it ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!
And no, I wasn’t lighting any ‘incense’ at the holy altar at the time ;)
I dunno...she may be mellowing! ;)
Heh...yeah, you're probably right. I really didn't sleep well last night. No air mattresses, etc.
I'm glad to hear about your conversations with Lindy. Just being able to have an adult conversation with someone you've had lots of disagreements with is very refreshing.
Believe it or not, there were times when even pissant would settle down and talk to me like a normal person (not about Palin, of course). It's a start, and I'm glad to hear about it.
Aw! Poor Clyde! :-)
I was just telling DJ how even pissant was capable of having a flame-less discussion once in a while (but never about Palin).
I had to respect the fact that he didn’t (always) carry his PDS over into other topics, so I never pushed a single button on him while we were talking of other things.
That said, as soon as I saw him throwing down his usual histrionics on a Palin thread, I let him have it.
Well I have to go. I still have some stuff to do and it's late.
Goodnight my FRiend. :-)
I agree with you. Cain seems to be a nice guy, but it’s not enough to be the CIC.
Nothing new here. Demrats and the GOP has always stood shoulder to shoulder with FED Board Members like Herman Cain.
Nothing new here. Demrats and the GOP has always stood shoulder to shoulder with FED Board Members like Herman Cain.
I “hope” that once Palin gets in that a lot of naysayers will just accept it and either support her or not... Discuss their issues with her rationally and honestly or not at all.
There simply is no legitimate reason not to. Now or in the future. But I am not so naive to think that will happen...at least for some. For them, the Druids of Trollhenge await the latest ‘delivery’.
You have access to that? Got a link? Because I tried finding that and all I could find was a debunked PhotoShop job some PDS geek manufactured. I'd like a link if you can provide it.
As for her intellect, I think she's exceptional, as in gifted. My dad was in education for some 40 years, as a math/science teacher, then as a principal. According to him, true giftedness expresses itself over the full spectrum of one's life experiences. Palin is arguably more successful than anyone on this forum. You can argue luck, but no reasonable person would take that seriously. She has a combination of gifts and skills that have made her successful enough to put her in contention for the presidency, without the benefit of being born to wealth or having foreign benefactors.
BTW, did you know she has a photographic memory? That's apparently how she got through the teleprompter failure at her 2008 speech. Now a photographic memory by itself doesn't guarantee exceptional intellect, but many exceptional individuals do have it.
My own uncle had a gift that combined memory and symbolic reasoning for some remarkable results. He did fluid dynamics for some government-related scientific think tank. He could look at a page-long list of numbers and instantly and accurately tell you the sum.
But his capacity for articulation was ordinary. Palin is better. And Palin can write. Verbal skills, including writing, are central to early identification of high general intelligence. And Palin did show her abilities early. Did you know she was honor society in high school? She also was recently commended by one of her U of ID professors as one of his best writing students ever. Not to mention the writing analysis done on her emails, pegging her writing to be at CEO level. Like you say, the truth comes out in the overall pattern.
Time will tell. One of the smaller good things about FR is that no one can edit their comments after they hit “post”. Kinda neat.
“You have access to that? Got a link? Because I tried finding that and all I could find was a debunked PhotoShop job some PDS geek manufactured. I’d like a link if you can provide it. “
I don’t think she has released those records.
We do know that she attended at least 4 different colleges in the span of 6 years and ended up with a degree in journalism. It’s hard to believe that this is the record of some secret genius.
As I’ve said before, if we’re going to get out of the mess we’re in, with trillions in unfunded liabilities, tons of toxic assets and a global recession, we’re going to need people who seriously know what they’re doing. We can’t spend the next 4 years blaming Obama, just like he tries to blame everything on Bush and ATM machines. We will have to actually fix the problems.
Hard to say whether they will, or not.
For some, just the milestone of her actually becoming an official presidential candidate will be enough to send them over the edge into full screaming banshee territory.
For others, it will finally satisfy their need for her to stand in the ring with all the rest, and they'll begin focusing on her positions and campaign. It'll be intellectually stimulating, talking with them.
Some others will finally give up the quest to discourage her from seeking the nomination. I suppose those types will suddenly, and inexplicably drop off the radar or go back to 'sleep'.
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