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About Sarah Palin: Optical Allusion (excellent read..)
The American Spectator ^ | 8/13/10 | Jay D. Homnick

Posted on 08/13/2010 12:49:23 PM PDT by American Dream 246

The reason they call it the Web is that it catches more flies-by-night than the aluminum siding business. Some image, poignant in its charisma or its grotesquerie, captivates the public imagination and suddenly millions of otherwise productive citizens must stop whatever they are doing and see the kitty trampoline unto the roof or the pea which sprouted in a man's lung. Some of these buzz arts are followed by buzzards, as 30-year careers are crushed by 30 seconds of crassness. This week's target was Sarah Palin, the former governess of Alaska, if that's the correct way to say female governor. What Palin did to cash in the wroth ire of retiring liberals nationwide was to roll her eyes. It wasn't what she said, it wasn't even how she said it, it was that she turned and gave a knowing look that amounted to a rolling of the eyes. Well, in the 1990s Bill Clinton promised us a revolution in optics and I guess we finally got one. The story, in case you have been occupying yourself with more momentous matters like Wall Street and Tiger Woods going down, is as follows. A lady, if that's the word I'm looking for, was protesting the filming of Sarah's documentary series. Her idea of a political banner was a horizontal horror about 100 feet wide (serving as a new sort of picket fence) bearing the legend: WORST GOVERNOR EVER. Sarah respectfully asked for a breakdown on the forensic method used to calibrate the degrees of worseness in the gubernatorial sweepstakes. The woman responded: "You walked out on your responsibility to serve your term when cash was waved in front of your face, and you left to become a celebrity."

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: digg; education; obama; palin; publicschools

1 posted on 08/13/2010 12:49:26 PM PDT by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246

Still living in Liberal heads, rent free!


2 posted on 08/13/2010 1:11:18 PM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: American Dream 246

I went to see an eye doctor while in Alaska. Turned out he was an optical Aleutian.


3 posted on 08/13/2010 1:25:58 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: American Dream 246
Seems to be part creative editing and skimpy information.

It was either the direct eye roll or the "Yeah. Right. Sure you are." response.

4 posted on 08/13/2010 1:35:20 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: AZLiberty

Thanks for the laugh!


5 posted on 08/13/2010 1:51:26 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: pingman

Sarah puts the pucker to the libs every day.


6 posted on 08/13/2010 2:00:48 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: AZLiberty

Was he short - like a Nome?


7 posted on 08/13/2010 2:07:49 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (He promised hope; he gave us hype. He promised change; he gave us chains!)
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To: eCSMaster

Did he come skydiving with you - or was he Chicken?


8 posted on 08/13/2010 2:13:18 PM PDT by momto6
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To: American Dream 246

Did read more at the Spector and all the comments. Funniest line was thought about considering Rick Perry as a Presidential candidate - “If Texans were meant to ski, God would have made bull shit white!” Well, He did - in the form of Bill White who is running as the Democrat candidate for Governor.


9 posted on 08/13/2010 3:07:50 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: FrdmLvr
Someone emailed me that joke yesterday. I was surprised to have such an obvious opportunity to use it.

At the school I volunteer at, they have a saying: "When the door of opportunity opens, run through it!". Finally, my door of opportunity opened.

10 posted on 08/13/2010 3:31:53 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: PureSolace; netmilsmom; StarCMC; narses; fanfan; murphE; Mjaye; GodGunsGuts; Momaw Nadon; ...
Digg it
11 posted on 08/13/2010 3:53:44 PM PDT by kanawa (Obama - "It's going to take a while for us to dig ourselves out of this hole.'')
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To: AZLiberty
Someone emailed me that joke yesterday. I was surprised to have such an obvious opportunity to use it.

Juneau, I got that e-mail, too, but I erased it...I thought it had no Bering.

12 posted on 08/13/2010 8:49:17 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

You guys are killin me!


13 posted on 08/14/2010 4:54:43 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: Big Horn

It’s a gift from God, I tell ya’!


14 posted on 08/14/2010 5:06:52 PM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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