Am I the only one who sees the resemblance between Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) and Sarah Palin?
Posted on 09/13/2008 2:01:55 PM PDT by nhwingut
While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverage of the Palin phenomenon in general, I’ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might actually prevail.
How is it that this woman could have been selected to be the vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket? How is it that so much of the mainstream media has dropped all pretense of seriousness to hop aboard the bandwagon and go along for the giddy ride?
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The wording is different but the meaning is the same, both wanted clarification.
We can come at this with two premises. One is Palin had no clue about what Bush’s foreign policy was or that she did have a clue and knew the question wasn’t specific enough to answer.
So, we have a woman who son is about to go to Iraq. I’m no policy wonk but when my son was scheduled to go to Iraq I read everything I could about Bush’s policies on war even though I follow much of it here on FR.
Then we have a woman who ran for Governor 2 years ago as a Republican. If you didn’t notice, just about every Republican that was running was running against Bush’s record. She would have fielded many questions in that campaign about the war. The entire election season became a vote regarding the war. For Palin to have no idea about Bush’s foreign policies, she would have had to go through that election cycle completely clueless about Bush’s policies in the face of heavy national scrutiny.
Then, we have a Governor who sees the troops off to war and sees them come home maimed or dead. She has to face families and friends regarding the effect of Bush’s foreign policies. So, for to be completely stumped by this question she had to enter a bubble, stick her fingers in her ears and say I’m not listening really loud.
Finally, we have a woman who was deliberately prepped for this event. We have a press who hates Bush and his foreign policies. Given this, the foreign policies of Bush was never reviewed? For her to have been clueless through her role as mother to a son going to fight, a republican running for office 2 years ago, a Governor in charge of National Guard, she then has to be clue less about her preparation for this interview.
Your premise that she had no clue at the outset of the question what the Bush foreign policies were is nonsensical on its face.
Am I the only one who sees the resemblance between Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) and Sarah Palin?
Celebrities are entertaining, nothing more. You can’t fault a rat for being a rat ....useful idiots (Matt Damon, et al)
Premise 3 - Palin knows what the Bush doctrine says, but also knows that most of the left, including "Charlie", have their own idea of what the Bush doctrine is. And, Palin knows that one of the premises of Obambi's campaign is that McCain and Palin are the same as Bush.
Given these two pieces of knowledge, it was in Palin's best interest to draw Gibson's opinion of the Bush doctrine out before answering the question. Elsewise, she would be on Obama's next ad, depicting McCain/Palin as "more of the same".
Well, in one week the VP candidate asked a guy in a wheel chair to stand up, and said others would have been a better VP choice. Nor, is this an aberration. Previously, the candidate had been caught plagiarizing on more than one occasion. The candidate even wanted to partition Iraq in a way that would have strengthened Iran, and led to a Kurdish rebellion in Turkey. Now that’s dim. Now, that’s why we call him Slow Joe.
Perhaps if Charlie Gibson shared his internet browsing it could clear things up a bit. He has revealed he gives credence to the leftist blogs.
The only weapon the left has is pure ridicule. The NY Times has the audacity to call anything simple minded? Do they read their own garbage? I guess when you live in your own little elite world where only elite dirt bags like this author are allowed to speak this is the what you get. I wonder if he even read the whole transrcipt of the interview LOL. We know what the answer to that is.
The fact that Bob Herbert has been allowed to write a prominent column for the NYT these many years proves that dimwittedness has prevailed far too long. The Palin candidacy is merely an attempt to improve the nation’s political IQ.
When I went to school different words had different meanings. Facts matter!
LOL, there is only one way to say something? Nevermind.
Can anyone offer any explanation for why the dumbest people would vote for the same candidates as the brightest, with those in between voting for someone else? Does that really make sense, if the “brightest” have the same motives as everyone else?
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