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Our North Korean allies; New Palinism
Topic Started: Nov 25 2010, 06:54 AM (3,091 Views)
sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
That's a 'Thanksgiving Message'? :lol: It's all about me me me, and how mean people are to me. Pretty pathetic to my eyes, but hey, whatever floats your boat. She's all yours.
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her focus is totally off.. she doesn't have a clue what is going on in the world because she doesn't... she can't share a thought without getting mixed up because she chatters.

George W. Bush was worse. Bushisms are absolutely hilarious.

i don't know who would win in the Bushisms vs. Palinisms contest.
it behooves me to behold
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Nov 26 2010, 08:43 PM
A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States

by Sarah Palin



My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.

If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)

“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
(hat tip Rick Zimmer)

Andrew Sullivan's response at the Atlantic:

Andrew Sullivan
 
Why America Won't Buy Palinism

26 Nov 2010 12:26 pm

I didn't note Sarah Palin's verbal screw-up when she called South Korea North Korea in an interview with Glenn Beck. Why? Because in context it seemed like a simple verbal slip-up, the kind everyone makes from time to time. Yes, when you listen to the whole thing, there's a weird, nervous-laughter defensiveness about her recognition that she got something wrong, but she gets the benefit of the doubt in my book.

What's really fascinating is her response. It's a merciless, grammar-free, sneering compilation of Obama verbal gaffes. It's like a blog-post from some Malkin clone:

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

This may be a smart-ass retort; it may be useful inoculation against a potentially damaging gaffe; it may even be a well-researched blog-post, but what it isn't is anything approaching the kind of character we expect in a president. A simple respect for the office she seeks would not reflect itself in these increasingly callow, sarcastic, cheap jibes at a sitting president. But sadly, like so many now purporting to represent conservatism, there is, behind the faux awe before the constitution, a contempt for the restraint and dignity a polity's institutions require from its leaders.

There is no maturity here; no self-reflection; no capacity even to think how to appeal to the half of Americans who are already so appalled by her trashy behavior and cheap publicity stunts. There is a meanness, a disrespect, a vicious partisanship that, if allowed to gain more power, would split this country more deeply and more rancorously than at any time in recent years. And that's saying something.

Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/11/why-america-wont-buy-palinism.html
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Andrew Sullivan?

The guy who's a regular on Bill Maher's show?

That Andrew Sullivan, calling for "respect for the office?"

Please.
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We continue to be provided with more and more proof that modern liberalism is a mental disease.
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It seems to me Gov. Palin is showing disrespect for the Media, not the POTUS.
Sullivan should re read the statment.
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I'd can't take Sullivan seriously when he criticizes the character of Palin while ignoring the antics of Obama.
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Palin was attacked as being stupid before anyone had even seen her. Democrats are sheep - their handlers told them to hate her, and by God they're gonna hate her. They're apparently too simple minded to figure out they've been made slaves.

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it's simple minded to pretend that she 'is an expert' on the geopolitical arena of the Koreas just so she can take a jab at the president.
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Oh? And is Obama and expert on the Koreas? If so, why is NK acting up so much lately?

I'll tell you why - he's weak, and the world perceives him now as not only weak, but wounded. Jimmy Carter writ large. The next two years until we can get him the hell out of the office are, IMO, the most dangerous period we have experienced since the Cold War.
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Nov 27 2010, 07:23 AM
it's simple minded to pretend that she 'is an expert' on the geopolitical arena of the Koreas just so she can take a jab at the president.
You seem to be of the opinion that presidents are "experts" on everything. Let me introduce you to reality - absent the room full of advisers, military brass, and the rest of the people it takes to keep a president informed, not one president you can name would have any more knowledge of the "geopolitical arena" (sounds like a liberal mind control tag) than Palin has.

We don't elect presidents based on their knowledge of the "geopolitical arena". We elect presidents based on their overall understanding of where we want the country to go. We've only had one who understood that, and that was Reagan. The Left portrayed him as an idiot too, but then, the Left portrays everyone who isn't on the Left as an idiot, and then sends you sheep out to bray about things like "geopolitical arenas".

F*ck 'geopolitical arenas". Give me someone with enough sense not to double the cost of electricity because his fanatical ideology bordering on a religion means more to him than the country or the people living in it. Between Obama and Palin, that gives us Palin. Give me someone with enough sense to know that you can't spend yourself out of debt. Between Obama and Palin, that gives us Palin.

As for North Korea, all one needs to know about the "geopolitical arena" is that we were left with this mess because of spineless Leftwing jackwagons, and the only way to solve it is to get rid of the spineless leftwing jackwagons that are still f*cking things up and give China a choice - reunite Korea or we will.

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Mikhailoh
Nov 27 2010, 07:36 AM
Oh? And is Obama and expert on the Koreas? If so, why is NK acting up so much lately?

I'll tell you why - he's weak, and the world perceives him now as not only weak, but wounded. Jimmy Carter writ large. The next two years until we can get him the hell out of the office are, IMO, the most dangerous period we have experienced since the Cold War.
Okay, just no.

North Korea is "acting up so much lately" because Kim Jong's a crazy bastard and there's no rhyme or reason to anything he does. This is the same guy who invented cold fusion but runs a country still using candles and lanterns instead of lightbulbs.

Obama may suck at foreign policy (or he might not, it's a very subjective criticism) but his job performance has nothing whatever to do with North Korea's weekly agenda.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Sure it does. All international politics depends on perception. And I cannot imagine how anyone anywhere could see Obama as anything but weak after his 'Gosh, America is so sorry' tours of the world.

As far as Jong Il being crazy, his father maintained control over the country, he maintained control over the country and now his son will take over. During that time he has had an enormous standing army, and developed nuclear weapons and missile technology. He's not crazy at all, but there is value in him being perceived that way. The man knows how to leverage what he has to work with.
Edited by Mikhailoh, Nov 27 2010, 08:04 AM.
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Admission of error does not imply weakness, it implies strength.
Edited by Moonbat, Nov 27 2010, 08:11 AM.
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Maybe in academia, but not in the world.
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Nov 27 2010, 08:11 AM
Admission of error does not imply weakness, it implies strength.
First, you assume an error was made. This brings up yet another issue - I'm sick to death of people in other countries accusing my country of being somehow "guilty" of something when it was the blood of my fellow countrymen that allowed your country to be what it is in the first place.

F*ck you.

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Jon, get with the program, boy. We're not talking individual incidents here.
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Maybe in academia, but not in the world.


Then the world is full of fools.
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Then the world is full of fools.



Yes - and most of them can be found hanging out in a university somewhere..
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First, you assume an error was made. This brings up yet another issue - I'm sick to death of people in other countries accusing my country of being somehow "guilty" of something when it was the blood of my fellow countrymen that allowed your country to be what it is in the first place.

F*ck you.


I don't care about countries, mine or yours and the statement stands regardless of whether one thinks any particular incident is an error or not.
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Yes - and most of them can be found hanging out in a university somewhere..


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'I know you are, but what am I?' :lol2:
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Then the world is full of fools.



Yes - and most of them can be found hanging out in a university somewhere..
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