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- philosophyzombi, on 07/18/2009, -23/+575As a side note: I really hate hearing the talking heads refer to candidate X as a "regular guy" or someone you could "have a beer with." Why the hell is mediocrity beneficial for our elected officials? I want the POTUS to be exceptional, not just a "regular guy."
- joeditto, on 07/19/2009, -32/+420FTA....
President? Get real. Sarah Palin couldn't manage a Wal-Mart.
She has neither the management skills nor the capacity for detail.
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Bullseye! - deweyhewson, on 07/19/2009, -13/+198The wave of anti-intellectualism (which I would say dates back to the release of Darwin's "Origin of the Species") is, in my belief, the largest problem in this country today.
How sad is it that we have become a nation where a lack of intelligence is looked upon more favorably than intelligence? - Anomaly100, on 07/19/2009, -29/+150"Life is too short to compromise time and resources," Palin said. "It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and 'go with the flow.' Nah, only dead fish 'go with the flow."
Me think speech bad Palin did. She make verbal farts. (I'm just putting it in words she can understand) - Joest23, on 07/19/2009, -14/+114I didn't really have an opinion about Sarah Palin for a while. I kept an open mind and I said 'Well, she /could/ be intelligent and the debates with Joe Biden could be interesting. Maybe they'll argue economics or healthcare intelligently.' I thought this for a long time, at least until the interviews on CBS with Katie Couric, and then I was proven horribly wrong. Instead of getting an intelligent person that could debate socioeconomics or healthcare, John McCain and the GOP chose an airhead that argued that the earth was 6,000 years old.
John McCain deserved to lose after choosing to run with Pailin. She is what lost him the election. - RandomGorilla, on 07/19/2009, -9/+107She's like a side-show freak. We can't stop watching because she keeps doing ***** our minds can't comprehend. Like holding a press conference in her back yard to announce she's quitting being governor or trying to sue the entire internet for talking about rumors of her embezzling money. The moment she stops doing stupid ***** will probably the moment when we can yank our gazes away from the train-wreck.
- benroy, on 07/19/2009, -17/+104Dammit people! If we stop paying attention to her an talking about her she'll go away!
- algaeturd, on 07/19/2009, -18/+102These people are actually waging a war against intellectualism and it's been going on for a long time.
It boils down to the educated vs. the uneducated. Does anyone REALLY know anybody who supported Palin who had beyond a high school education? Because I've never heard of it. - tnerb067, on 07/19/2009, -5/+72FTA: "Three Great Premises" of America's decayed TV celebrity culture. First, "Any theory is valid if it moves units," i..e. sells advertising. Second, "Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough." Third, "Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it."
He's right. sigh... - inactive, on 07/19/2009, -2/+68I think the point they're trying to make when referring to a candidate as a "regular guy" is that they (supposedly) have the interests of other "normal people" as their first priority, and not the interests of the rich and powerful. Of course, we all know this is a sham, but it's the image they're trying to portray.
- skellener, on 07/19/2009, -9/+68She quit her job.
POLITICAL FAIL. - charm803, on 07/19/2009, -5/+61And to think, it only took her 6 years at 5 different colleges to get a BS in communications.
Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming........ - BRod1, on 07/19/2009, -5/+59The often decried lack of home-grown engineers, architects, etc. coming out of our institutions of higher learning in recent years is a result of this cultural phenomenon. Although our glitzy culture here in the USA certainly celebrates wealth, if that wealth is generated from intellectual activity rather than athletic ability or the ability to whore oneself out to the press, then that avenue of pursuing wealth is somehow less valid to the average American or, at the very least, a lot less cool.
This mindset is really what needs to change if we are to compete as a country in the long run. I'd like to be an optimist and say the tide is turning, but this strain of anti-intellectualism has taken hold of my generational cohorts in the X and Y brackets like flame to a tinder-dry forest, even if my peers often try to make a pretense of respecting science, logic, and intelligence. I fear that Sarah Palin, while not having a chance to win the Presidency, is a symptom of not just a naive ignorance of the world at large but is instead a sign of a growing segment of the population that isn't ashamed of their lack of expertise or knowledge but rather embraces it, seeing being "average" as some kind of moral badge of honor.
Given the inverse relationship between educational levels and the number of offspring of any particular couple, I find myself often wondering if that movie "Idiocracy" isn't a more accurate portrayal of the future than I'd like! - xshare, on 07/19/2009, -4/+57Yep. Because staying in office would've been the quitters way out. Rather than quitting, which is what she did.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/19/2009, -9/+61I think it's more along the lines of: "This person isn't an elitist who thinks they are too good to sit down with someone for a beer and some laughs."
Rather than: "This is the kind of average person you'd find in your average bar."
The first being a good thing.. the later being a BAD thing.
Palin strives to show she's the second type. - AraleNorimaki, on 07/19/2009, -6/+57"In Boca Raton, Florida, yesterday, a woman who looked like Sarah Palin caused a near riot when she walked into a diner for breakfast. And after a minute or two, people finally realized it wasn't her when she started answering questions." --Jay Leno
- rocknog, on 07/19/2009, -8/+55Liberals would LOVE to see Palin running, are you kidding? I just love the fact that Republicans don't get it. Yes, please keep up the delusion that anyone is remotely afraid of her.
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -6/+52Politics is a popularity contest it has never been a test of intellect. Smart people become engineers, doctors, scientists, etc. and have meaningful lives in which they work on problems that benefit society. They don't become politicians. People that become politicians were usually the annoying popular kids in school that were good at manipulating and conning people into liking them. Only a small percentage of politicians even have above average intelligence, most are average to below average.
- frygar, on 07/19/2009, -8/+53"Conservatism is getting your ass handed to you in a landslide election and telling the rest of the world, anonymously on the internet, what a butthurt crybaby loser you are." - Me
Grow the ***** up already. - rabidjester, on 07/19/2009, -3/+47She couldn't handle being governor of a state with no people in it, the other republican candidates would eat her alive in the primaries.
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -11/+53All the presidents I would think of having a beer with, should not be presidents. It's like wanting a president who can throw a baseball, or football like a pro... it's not necessary for the man to do his job, or woman one day, should one rise to the occasion with the skills to do the job. Hasn't been one yet.
They should understand what a regular person goes through in order to become exceptional! Having been grounded by a normal life at one time and not of privilege is my only caveat. - brad3378, on 07/19/2009, -18/+59Give her another 5 years and she won't even be worthy of posing for Playboy.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/19/2009, -9/+49No.. She won't.
She'll take it as the left giving up and it will mean the only one speaking of her will be Fox "News", praising every little thing she does. - Joest23, on 07/19/2009, -3/+43Yes, because Bush ***** up our economy.
1. Vote for a conservative.
2. Conservative ***** up country.
3. Conservative get's re-elected because America is ***** stupid (Remember the purple heart bandaids? Where was the outrage?)
4. Conservative ***** up country further.
What do he conservatives to next? Blame the liberals despite the fact that the CONSERVATIVES were in control for 8 years. So, do you HONESTLY think that America should have voted for the conservatives again when they had 6 years (Filibusterless majority) without interference from the left to do whatever they wanted and they ***** up the whole God damn country in that time? No, and I'm glad that America is at least smart enough to know that. Too bad a lot of them had to lose their jobs before they saw that. - SteveMTyler, on 07/19/2009, -10/+50It is obvious she is going to run in 2012. Democrats need to keep the pressure on her so she stays in the news till then. The hard core GOP will rally around her and she would win the primary, thus ensuring another 4 years of obama.
- RagManX, on 07/19/2009, -4/+44So many people are really, really uncomfortable being around folks who are significantly smarter than they are. "Hey, George barely made it through college - that's someone I can trust to think like I do!" Seems they don't want "He's clearly able to think big-picture and recognize problems I wouldn't have through about" in a candidate.
- regeya, on 07/19/2009, -9/+48Don't be such a troll. It's not just liberals, and I'm sure you realize it.
- deweyhewson, on 07/19/2009, -6/+44Short.
- danmk, on 07/19/2009, -3/+37The rise of idiot America is a scarier thought than any single war, because it has the capacity to start so many wars.
- Joest23, on 07/19/2009, -5/+39A complete sham. I mean, just look at Bush. Normal guy, right? Good guy to have a beer with? He created a whirlwind of a budget deficit and debt by cutting taxes for the rich. Personally, I'd rather have someone who graduated first in their class from Harvard or Princeton than someone who got into Yale because his father was a congressman. And, wow! Look at that! Obama graduated at the top of his class from Harvard.
- dissolutionman, on 07/19/2009, -1/+34LOL, "idoit."
- tomarocco, on 07/19/2009, -3/+36McCain is a moron. Being a veteran doesn't qualify you to lead a country anymore than being a janitor qualifies you to be an architect.
- charm803, on 07/19/2009, -6/+38I sometimes wonder what the alternate reality would have been if she had, indeed, been our VP.
- zapass, on 07/19/2009, -3/+31mmmm, that was tasty.
i love reading a frustrated right wing moron's babble while having breakfast.
you made my day, thx XD - Maddoktor2, on 07/19/2009, -6/+34Maximum doubleplus ungood.
- Moralogic, on 07/19/2009, -6/+34Coming from the idiot who said, "Where 'reform' == total takeover of the system" in regards to Obama.
- sizzzzlerz, on 07/19/2009, -3/+29She would have resigned by now
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -3/+27I feel like a lot of the adults in our society are acting like children by resisting higher thought and intellectualism. They should either grow up or shut up. The problem is that they think their way of life (being dumb) is important and throw tantrums like the little kids they are when you refuse to play by their rules.
- amoirae, on 07/19/2009, -6/+29Yeah... she'll be in Juggs.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 07/19/2009, -12/+35Actually given the degree of nepotism and good ole boy network that goes in with Wal Mart management, she'd probably fit right in. Except they usually don't admit women into the good ole boy network.
- kingmanic, on 07/19/2009, -3/+24Me, I'd rather have a beer with a congenial Rhodes scholar than a vacuous former cokehead.
- tomarocco, on 07/19/2009, -3/+24We're about as scared of Palin as we are of Quayle.
- amoirae, on 07/19/2009, -2/+23Ah, conservatism: the opiate of the idiots.
- kingmanic, on 07/19/2009, -6/+26By 'any meanful' you mean by nearly all existing metrics right? Average lifespan. Infant mortality. Cancer survival rates. Total Cost per capita. early cancer detection rates. etc... The majority of single payer systems beat the US in those metrics. From mixed market Canada to socialist Sweden.
- fragMasterFlash, on 07/19/2009, -2/+22So she is unwilling to compromise, yet she wants to be in politics? Yeah, I'll vote for comrade Palin as supreme commander. U Betcha! Just as soon as hell fields an outdoor ice hockey team.
- charm803, on 07/19/2009, -8/+28I like how people keep bringing up the 57 states. Seriously, still stuck on that? Is that the best you could do? Because if I recall correctly, that was during the elections, a long time ago.
And if you want to get into content, he was traveling to all 50 states and traveled to Puerto Rico.
So, I will take the benefit of the doubt and say he misspoke due to fatigue.
I did what you said to do: Look at the content.
You should try it! It's fun! - kingmanic, on 07/19/2009, -7/+27A single payer system is reform. Work better for almost all other western nations than the US's farce of a system.
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -2/+22I remember reading Lenin and other Bolsheviks making incredibly similar arguments against "experts," I seem to recall Mao saying much of the same.
It seems that Ideology and fact are just not compatible :.-( - archiesteel, on 07/19/2009, -5/+24"and claiming to have invented it"
Really, are you still repeating that old, tired lie?
No wonder you guys got your asses handed to you last election. Keep it up and you're certain to make Barry a two-term president. - homercles337, on 07/19/2009, -3/+22Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.
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