There is a form of convoluted thinking, described in a novel published nearly 60 years ago, called “doublethink”, from the George Orwell tale of “1984”, which allowed the person to hold two mutually exclusive opinions about a given subject at any given time, and yet never recognize the cognative dissonance and dilemma it presented to his view of the world.
Women should be given the opportunity to serve in the highest councils of the land, of the world, even, but not this woman. She is TOO capable, TOO much of a paradigm for anybody else to live up to, therefore she must not be allowed to be in a position of authority.
Paying lip service to an ideal you may not want to live by is one of the greatest of deceits a person may play upon themselves, and worse, on those around themselves. For they come to expect more of you, while you continually excuse yourself because “it’s not that important” or “nobody will hold me to it anyway”.
Well, it IS that important, and they WILL hold you to it. Which in the instance of Sarah Palin, she recognizes the importance of keeping that standard, and especially, she is a harder taskmaster of herself than anyone else could ever be.
This gratifies some people, of course, and astonishes the rest. Not always a good astonishment, either. They will despise you for that they could not, would not, do themselves.
This fellow is getting in a full measure of despising and loathing. He claims it is directed at Sarah Palin, but we really know who is the object of all this spleen. He knows he is not nearly as good a person as he could be or should be.
This is what comes out of Harvard? One more in a very long list of reasons Obama is not qualified to be president.
This clown actually thinks that the Gore was a qualified vice-president!
LOL!
By the way, what is with these comedians discovering the word "meme?"
Is this the new ignorant drugged-out loser word of choice?
“I celebrate small companies, new voices, inventive teams and individuals”
I suppose that his celebration is strictly limited to only those new voices and inventive individuals who share his point of view.
This former Harvard professor is proof of Buckley's comment that he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Boston phone book than by 2000 Harvard professors.
Reading this jerk’s bio and list of written works proves once again that the old saw about Ph.D meaning “piled higher and deeper” is as true today as ever.
As I recall Evergreen was one of those “enlighted” colleges which saw fit to have it’s graduates listen to the cop-killer Mumia at Commencement one year. What an honor.
50 years from now, this guy will be dead, he and his works forgotten, and Sarah Palin may very well have a place in our nation’s history as our first female President.
How come his biography is as long as the content of his piece? Sounds like something Obama would pull.
“What is Sarah Palin? What is her mission? Why did the Republican strategy elite–never known for stupidity or for honor, pick Palin? Palin herself tells us in every speech and interview she gives: “I’m a soccer mom. Do you know the definition of a soccer mom? A pit bull with lipstick.” “
Did he even watch the speech so he could quote the correct noun? Or are all kids’ sports - feely ones with satin shorts and bruising, padded ones - the same to this dweeb?
Besides, soccer moms vote for Clinton.
“Sarah Palin is a carefully-thought-out strategic version of Ann Coulter, Rush, Laura Ingram, Savage, etc”
Oh MY G-D!
Ann Coulter?
Rush?
Laura Ingram?
Savage?
Sarha barracuda is even BETTER than any of us could even imagine!!!
WOW!!!!!
STE=Q
So, THIS is what spending all that time and money on Law school makes a person turn into. I see. Not just a highly-educated idiot, but a highly-educated idiot who is wrong at the top of his lungs. Very interesting.
What a maroon.