They knew it the first time they saw her.
It's why they go insane ever time they think of her.
Posted on 01/25/2011 10:39:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Could the contrast have been more stark?
President Obama was, to borrow John Podhoretz's phrase, "pitch perfect" in his speech at the Memorial "service" in Tucson, Arizona. He focused on those whose lives were cut short, those whose lives were shattered, what we might learn from this searing atrocity and why it's important that we do so. The President rose to the moment with dignity and grace.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, chose to respond to the atrocity by proclaiming that she was the victim of a "blood libel," attacked by evil meanies on the television set, when there was no evidence that her actions had anything to do with the actions of the loon who committed the atrocity. Factually true enough, I would say. But who cares? And why bother even mentioning it? It couldn't be less important. It couldn't be more self-absorbed.
All presidents and all presidential candidates (announced and unannounced) live in what Richard Ben Cramer called "the bubble." It's an hermetically sealed environment which allows very few "outsiders" in and goes to great lengths to keep the number of "insiders" to a minimum. This is why such great emphasis is placed on the people around the President (who they are, what they think, what their skill sets are, etc) by the political community as a whole (including political journalists and opinion makers). The insiders "protect" the president from the hundreds and thousands of bothersome people who are clamoring to give him their ideas. The insiders control what the president reads, what he sees, who he sees. They make sure that very few people get inside the bubble for very good reason(s) and for reasons that are sometimes not so pure.....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
“The upshot is the awareness Sarah will acquire from this protracted outrage.”
It will stand her in good stead after she takes oath on Jan 20, 2013...
God help me understand our savior! I pray for PP everyday!
Are you planning to continue spamming with this post for the next two years? It’s annoying.
Gee. Calm down. He was responding to the article.
They knew it the first time they saw her.
It's why they go insane ever time they think of her.
Spam is against FR rules.
Twit.
Ahhhh, we already freep mailed each other and straightened it out (Thought I may have been trolled since it was a post to me and not to the article).
Thanks for your deep concern, have a nice day, live long and prosper, turn that frown upside down into a smile, whistle a happy tune, etc, etc ......whatever.
Good. Glad to help. *Grin*
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