Posted on 10/24/2008 6:16:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
........ While Gov. Palin’s frequent college transfers and Idaho degree are an item of snickering among pundits, none of them can claim to care much about Barack Obama’s own undergraduate career. To suggest that he release his undergraduate transcript is near blasphemy; to scribble that Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome child was not her own is journalism as we now know it. To care that Joe Biden is vain, with bleached teeth, the apparent recipient of some sort of strange facial tightening tonic, and hair plugs is deservedly mean and petty; to sneer that the Alaskan mom of five bought a new wardrobe to run for Vice President is, of course, vital proof for the American voter of her vanity and shallowness.
.....The list could go on ad nauseam. But we got the picture. Biden has devolved from the ridiculous to the unhinged, confident that in-house journalism would understand that the law graduate with 36 years in the Senate was simply being Joe, while a Sarah Palin, who flinched when asked to parse the Bush Doctrine, was a Neanderthal creationist. I thought by now the You-tubed exchange of a Congressional Finance Committee hearing between the pompous Harvard Law School graduate Barney Frank and the conniving Harvard Law School graduate Franklin Raines — at the proverbial moment of conception of the financial meltdown — would have put to rest the notion that graduation from law school was any proof of either wisdom or morality.
I don’t know whether Sarah Palin would make a great vice president. But I did learn that by the standard of John Kerry’s pick of John Edwards, and now Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden, as running mates, she is wise and ethical beyond their measure.
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“I don’t know whether Sarah Palin would make a great vice president. But I did learn that by the standard of John Kerry’s pick of John Edwards, and now Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden, as running mates, she is wise and ethical beyond their measure.”
Of course, she would be anyway, but this is a brilliant way to highlight it.
I don’t remember hearing anyone in the drive-by media claiming that Biden was picked to give the ticket gravitas.
Victor Hanson doesn’t need to read the so-called ‘conservative” online London papers, Telegraph and Times, which used to be great publications. Every day, they have published vitriolic articles about Palin (not a critical word about the ridiculous Joe Biden). I don’t know whether they think we’re getting our just desserts after what happened in 1776, or they need to focus away from their crime-ridden island full of soccer idiots and knife-wielding yobs, or they are just ashamed of the bland stand-for-nothing zero the British Conservatives have as their leader, David Cameron, but the two newspapers have not been objective in the slightest.
They see Sarah Palin as a threat to them.That is one of the reasons they have tried to destroy her.Yet in their process to do that,she has displayed,the character and fierce strength, they could only wish for in a candidate.
I think her lack of Washington experience is in her favor. She owes nothing to anyone in Washington and can work for us instead. What a refreshing change.
Ditto "Joe the plumber," just a working stiff with the normal dream of achieving professional status with a license and his own business. He's targeted by Pravda for asking a question that 0baMarx didn't have sense enough to dance around.
What’s the big secret they’re hiding about his college transcript? Did he have a few Communist professors at Columbia?
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“With all of Biden’s gaffes, is it possible he has Alzheimer’s? He is supposed to be this great intellect, but he can not seem to remove foot from mouth. “
If so, then, he’s had it for a very long time.
Or Dementia....like my father right now.
Seriously, yours is a good point.
As ever, he is right on.
We are also curious about Obama’s actual medical records. We’d like to see, for example, the records of any examination of his nasal passages and cavity.
Wow. Isn't that true? What a ridiculous double-standard.
Meanwhile Joe Biden has just been Ol’ Joe Biden — which means not that he can get away with the occasional gaffe, but that can say things so outrageous, so silly, and so empty that, had they come out of the mouth of Sarah Palin, she would have long ago been forced to have stepped aside from the ticket.
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