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Sarah Palin continues to delude herself -- or at least, is desperately hoping to continue deluding her fans, which isn't very hard to do -- that she, as the two-year governor of Alaska and former mayor of Wasilla, has more "executive" experience than either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. At least, that was what she tried telling Bill O'Reilly in the second part of her interview shown last night:

O'Reilly: You pointed out his [Obama's] lack of experience -- you don't have that much experience. You walked away from the governorship after, what, two years? Two and a half years?

Palin: Going into my lame-duck session -- my fourth legislative session -- and not wanting to put Alaskans through a lame-duck session --

O'Reilly: OK, but is it fair for you to criticize Obama's lack of experience when somebody could make the same criticism about you on the national stage.

Palin: If you're talking about executive experience, I would put my experience up against his any day of the week. I have been elected to local office since 1992, and was a city manager, strong-mayor form of government, was a chief executive of the state, and was an oil and gas regulator. There was some good experience there that could have been put to use in a vice presidential ticket. We've to remember too that I wasn't running for president.

O'Reilly: No, but that's the key question. Because John McCain is up there in years, you had to be qualified to take that office over.

Palin: Right. But I -- I'm saying I was running for vice president, just like Joe Biden had been running for vice president. I never once heard you or anybody else question Joe Biden and his experience.

O'Reilly: Well, he's got a lot of experience.

That's the whole absurdity of Palin claiming she has more "executive" experience, as though being mayor of a small town places her on the same level of experience as a United States Senator. The issue of experience isn't related to the organizational context, but rather the scale of it: Joe Biden has nearly a half-century of wrestling with national and international issues -- the kind a president has to deal with -- and has an established track record there.

When Palin was Wasilla's mayor (and before that a council member), the issues she was dealing with involved placement of a sewage-treatment plant and deciding whether someone's driveway needed paving. Oh,and let's not forget the vital issue of building a new gym with taxpayer dollars.

But the interview reached its real nadir when Palin tried to explain why voters would want to vote for her. It's possibly the most garbled, incoherent piece of anti-intellectual right-wing populist nonsense I've ever heard:

O'Reilly: Let me be bold and fresh again. Do you believe you are smart enough, and incisive enough, intellectual enough, to handle the most powerful job in the world?

Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the, um, the, ah -- kind of spineless -- a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with elite Ivy League education and -- fact resume that's based on anything but hard work and private-sector, free-enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I'm not saying that that has to be me.

No, it definitely doesn't have to be you, Sarah. Indeed, I think it's safe to say that this level of intellectual incoherence would be a real danger to the country.

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akovia's picture

Can C&L move along now?


We have surrendered our passion for freedom to the acquisition of stuff. We cannot even mount a decent opposition to wars that are destroying what little we have left in our treasury or to resist the oligarchy that has taken over our electoral process.

savannah43's picture

for this society isn't working, in case you haven't noticed.

See my post below. Sarah's followers are mind numbingly stupid. They need to be paid attention to.

Pete2069's picture
BS

MSNBC , other news media , the democratic web sites and others are the ones which are giving her all this exposure...

When and If Palin goes to the bath room there is a 24/7 report of it.

MSN and other web sites are obsessed with her for some reason... NO one else has ever received this much 24/7 coverage for NOTHING but BS..

The news has made Palin into something she never was a conservative STAR>>

Most of the time I do not even read the articles that these different news media and web sites write or say about her..

I can not believe that an average person wishes to waste their time hearing about he lies and deceit. There is nothing Palin will not do or say to keek this 24/7 coverage coming..


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jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s's picture

Mitt Romney will tear her a new asshole when she tries that 'people want a dumb-dumb with common sense' in the primaries.

Edwin's picture

Ding ding ding-- love it!! I guess Mittehs does have a role to play.


“let’s hold our nose this one time” and hope, dear Neptune, we don't perpetuate this rancid continuum

miss_kitty's picture

then the thread will have less traffic. I personally don't post in threads that don't interest me.

You could start your own blog and publish stuff only you want to see.

I'm sorry...But, WTF is she talking about????

savannah43's picture

can't understand her. To them, that's proof that she is smarter than they are.

Ravin.Sangha's picture

As painful as it was, I watched that final answer 3 times to see if I could figure it out. It's downright embarrassing and this time she had a year to prepare for interviews.

CanadianObserver's picture

It is unbelievable the words that pour out of her mouth. Does she really think she is intelligent enough to run the United States of America. OMG she would make the country the laughing stock of the world. I actually feel sorry for her because she has no idea that each time she opens her mouth she confirms what the majority thinks of her. THAT SHE IS AN IDIOT!

savannah43's picture

This is what happens when "dumbing down" is considered a good thing. How did this happen?

roooth's picture

of the Know Nothing Party.

Who needs an elite Ivy League education when you can fail your way through four colleges before finally finishing at the fifth - with a degree in that all-important internationally relevant field of Sports Journalism.

And all her "private sector, entreprenurial, free-market enterprises" were the same spectacular failures as her government work.

The land she built Wasilla's arena on didn't even belong to the town. They're still in litigation over it.

The woman is positively brazen in her criminality and dishonesty.

She really does believe she could run the whole show - why not? The only thing really saving us is that it looks like she has realized that even being dictator is a lot of work, and I don't think Sarah really wants to work.

So, I think she'll be content to hang around the edges of fame and power, and claim eternal and professional victimhood enough to stay as rich as possible with the least effort.

MikeD's picture

I suggest reading the book Idiot America. Its the best analysis of how stupidity became a virtue that I've seen.

MountainMan23's picture

Maybe if Obama had had more executive experience he'd be doing the things he promised during the campaign.

Instead he's cobbled together an executive branch made up of holdovers from the Bush administration (almost the entire Dept of Justice, for instance) and the Clinton administration (for instance Rahm Emanuel, ugh!).

So it's little wonder that the decisions made in the Obama administration bear a striking resemblance to the Bush administration and the modus operandi of the Obama administration bears a striking resemblance to the Clinton.

I thought GW Bush was the worst president in American history.

And I *really* didn't want to see another Clinton in the White House.

I'm hardly a Palin fan (well, I find her amusing, but that's not what I mean!) but I have to agree with her on this point ..


When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the Warriors of the Rainbow

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

hard to put together an administration when ones party has been out of power for 8 years

he made some mistakes when choosing his economic team

outside of that, his cabinet is made up of people who didnt serve in other administrations

except for rahm...

... and Ray LaHood as Secretary of Transportation;

... and John McHugh as Secretary of the Army;

... and the aborted attempt of Judd Gregg to lead Commerce;

... and ...

[on edit] oops, those were Republicans not members with experience in other administrations. my bad.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

For the life of me, i can't understand criticism like this.

He promised to get out of Iraq, and that's going FASTER than he promised. He promised to overhaul health care and his plan is MORE liberal than the one he promised, he also passed a jobs bill as promised. He ran as a centrist, not a liberal, and he's governing as a centrist. If you don't like how it is, you should of probably paid a little more attention during the campaign because he's giving exactly what he promised.

... more "liberal" than the one he promised.

Iraq is winding down pursuant to the agreement negotiated under W. Also, there's this thing in Afghanistan ....


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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I not gonna ask because we don't tell!!!

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

He NEVER promised to get us out of Afghanistan. The agreement wasn't finalized until Obama got in office and pushed it through.

A mandate IS considered more liberal, whether you think so or not. It's always been conservatives that have opposed mandates, because they prefer to spend and cut rather than pay as you go.

Mandates are entirely fair. The average person has to pay an extra 1000 a year for the uninsured. Forcing insurance companies to cover everyone and not requiring everyone to have insurance is a recipe for disaster. People will wait till they get sick to buy insurance.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

is not liberal

the health care plans are all a mess...but i aint blaming obama for that

fact remains, he has gotten further in changing our system than any other prez

He never said that he would make health care not-for-profit.

The argument isn't whether he's a liberal or not- he's absolutely not. The argument is whether or not he campaigned as a liberal- he didn't. Anyone who's disapointed in Obama because of the campaign wasn't paying attention, he was always a centrist, he campaigned as a centrist and he's governing as a centrist. In fact he was the most centrist of all the people running, including Hillary.

People got what they paid for, and now they say they want their money back.

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roooth's picture
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When I see posts like yours, I wonder; just how quickly do you want this guy assassinated? He's being so cautious, so middle-of-the-road, so NOT progressive - and we are still bordering on 25% of the population going postal. Have you not been paying attention? Unprecedented gun sales, a 400% increase in threats to his life, the continual not-so-veiled threats....can you imagine whast would be happening if he came in and abolished DOMA, Don't Tell, insisted on single-payer health care, shut down Guantanama, withdrew from Iraq & Afghanistan? (That's my personal wish list, BTW)

I thought the hatred for Clinton was bad - but, damn - they accused Clinton of murder, they're threatening Obama with it.

Get real - Ft. Hood would be a freaking picnic. What do you want the man do to?

Alice X - Chomsky Nader's picture

The Pope of Hope (R-Government Sachs) is doing precisely what the Oligarchs are telling him to do.

A political spectrum in Washington DC is only imagined. By those outside the Beltway.

Washington DC is a city of bought (mostly) men.

Palin would probably also do what she was told to do, although she is so goofy the Central Planners likely wouldn't take a chance on her.

It hardly matters, we do not have a functioning democracy. See the post in the NY Times where the Swiss Pharma Co is shown to have written the health speeches for BOTH Republican AND Democratic Senators. With a slightly different version for each. They no longer even try to conceal their venality.

The Banksters will go bust again, despite and because of the $17 trillion we have given them with no strings attached. Actually also our children and grandchildren have given them.

The $17 trillion has gone to more speculation, acquisition and risky derivative trade.

The five largest US banks have ALL of the credit default swap market now, since they are viewed as too big to fail and backed by the US government. No one else is trusted with the business, it is unregulated and it is as risky as hell. But they are the best bet going. Maybe.

Come the next meltdown, the Banksters will be back for another handout.

By that time, the Treasury is going to need a bailout itself.

This is class warfare. For thirty years the working class has been falling backwards. The working class is the vast majority of the population, never mind the propaganda about being a middle class consumer. That is all propaganda to rob the working class of their identity and conceal the enemy in plain sight, the Capitalist class, which has been eating our lunch while robbing us blind.

The only way the working class has managed is by having taken on greater and greater debt.

It is over, we are crashed.


statusquObama, change you can only pretend in

Karen's picture

Do you have any ideas about how to take the country back? A long term plan?

Just wondering. :)


Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?

Alice X - Chomsky Nader's picture

On the economic front the writing is on the wall. The inequality of wealth is the greatest since 1917. And worsening. The bogus consumer economy is built on debt and phony accounting.

We have peak energy coming soon, oil first. And peak ecology, everything is a subset of the ecology.

An immediate dramatic downsizing, moving out of fossil fuel much sooner than later and the end of growth is the only tonic.

An enormous bitter pill.

Then retool without globalization and without fossil fuel. Imagine that if you will.

There is no political leadership in the world, so we will just watch the inevitable unfold.

The Capitalists will run amuck until the last dying ember.

You asked about taking the country back and if I had a long term plan.

Yes, my plan is to learn how to defy the laws of physics.


statusquObama, change you can only pretend in

I'm (slightly) ashamed to admit this but I go to Sarah's FB all the time and torment her followers. Boy do they hate me. Facts and stuff really offend. Try it some time.

savannah43's picture

I love it. There is great honor in being hated by fools and idiots.

And always quote scripture. Blows their minds. Good God fearing Christians whom have apparently never read the bible.

roooth's picture

The Bible is not an interactive part of their lives - it isn't something they take responsibility for actually thinking about. (Me, I like the Jefferson Bible, which is only the words and teachings of Jesus. Evangelicals need the Old Testament's rules, vengeance, myths and superstition - and from there they like to skip pretty much to Revelations).

They are simply passive recipients of whatever their authoritarian clergy tell them - which is the only way a so-called Christian church could celebrate witch-hunting, like Palin's.

Jesus has left those buildings - although I have faith He's waiting outside for those who choose to walk away.

MikeD's picture

oh, who am I kidding I love to nitpick, I like the Jefferson bible as well but the words that the authors of the gospels put in the mouth of Jesus aren't the teachings of the historical Jesus. The book Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible by Bart Ehrman is one of the best analyses of why. As Ehrman shows, the men who wrote the Gospels didn't know jesus. They had different backgrounds and different agendas which is why their descriptions of the life of Jesus are so divergent and in some cases contradictory. Much like Plato used Socrates they used Jesus as their mouthpiece to proclaim their interpretation of what they wanted him to say.

Having said that I'm all for tormenting the moral minority by quoting scripture.

Thinker's picture

Bart's book isn't that good. The things he points out are taught in freshman theology - getting people to think in a manner than does not need literalism - now there's the problem. I've taught Scripture for 25 years. Ehrman's stuff is old and phrased in a manner that feels a bit vindictive towards his old faith tradition.. Read scripture scholars - Raymond Brown is one of my favorites, Sandra Schneiders another. Ehrman just doesn't feel that scholarly. But then my favorite magazines and books are things like Biblical archeology or anything by Karen Armstrong - there's a scholar par excellence. She takes no sides and brings big ideas and knowledge together so well. A fun read was God's Secretaries - about the writing of the King James version. Gary Wills does a nice job of talking scholarly ideas for the rest of us. On the Evangelical scholar side of things - I'm not sure. The great Orthodox scholar Jaraslav Pelkin has been a great teacher.


Thinker

I still think its an excellent book. I've read other books about the historical Jesus that were more scholarly and thoughtful. But what I liked about Ehrman's book is that he so clearly pointed out some basic contradictions in the new testament and also that he explained the reasons for them. I think his book is a great place to start and then go into more scholarly works.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

the kid has a nice bod

Liberalicious's picture

You're "straight".

Now move along.

Andy K's picture

I'd say the same thing if the kid was Palin's son, and baby-mama was a Palin almost-in-law posing for Playboy, stretching her 15 minutes of fame by showing her boobs.

Not everyone shares a perspective that's based primarily on their sexuality, Liberalicious. There's a deeper end of this pool, too.

Liberalicious's picture

Believes it when I sees it.

Not everyone is all politics 24/7. Levi got dragged around as another campaign prop. I think it's great he's finally making a few bucks for enduring that, and pissing off Palin at the same time.

And he is HOT. Yummy.


“let’s hold our nose this one time” and hope, dear Neptune, we don't perpetuate this rancid continuum

And what was O'Reilly doing asking, um, real questions?


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

it was a pretty good interview

and you know that palin wont be visiting loofa boy again anytime soon

Trittydi's picture

Interesting - apparently he feels there's a line that can't be crossed.
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MikeD's picture

has more to do with his ego and his feeling that the republicans are looking to leaders (Beck, Limbaugh, Palin) who are even crazier than he is than with any feeling for the value of truth. Notice how he asked the question, working in the title of his inane book "A bold fresh piece of humanity": "Let me be bold and fresh again..."

zz4mula's picture

that is code for "i just scored a few pills from Rush,,,, and this desk isn't being held up by the legs either."

Outwestern's picture

You just made Bill OReilly look reasonable.

dandy's picture

quit pallin' aroung with terrorists.


dandy

Even O'Reilly now has to be agreeing with David Brooks: "She's a joke"


If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?

Rufus's picture

But, darn it, she's so purdy. Well, the bridge of her nose needs some work, but except for that. You betcha.

MikeD's picture

I've never understood the "Palin is hot" meme. I just can't see it. Now Rachel Maddow or Anna Marie Cox, definitely.

ysbaddaden's picture
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sarah only knows long and short.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Man, I read that last part about 3x and I still don't get it. My head hurts! Where's the tylenol? Intellectualism=Spinelessness? Only in your world, Sarah dear (Some poster recently nailed it when he called Alaska "Oklahoma North"). By the way, I must admit I've never encountered anybody whose resume was based on free enterprise principles; must be an Alaskan thing.


If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

George Carlin

...experience any day of the week, Palin ought to be required a) to prove she knows how many days are in a week and b) to name and spell the names of the days of the week.

What a complete moron. Somewhere along the way she learned that she can say anything she wants to -- no matter how absurd, unfounded, or even impossible -- and she'll be allowed to get away with it.

Andy K's picture

That darned Wednesday and it's elitist, Ivy League spellin', dontchya know...

zz4mula's picture

the last three letters wrong of that 6 question spelling bee. Sunday doesn't count. Its sabbath and all.

I like his digging into Obama on the question.

O'reilly said "A lot of people are very nervous about him now he's not having a good time in the White house Now."

Mmmm, Billo? Who's "very nervous" about him now asside from Fox news? Why isn't he having a "good time"? He's enjoying a 56% approval rating, higher than almost any president at this time in the past 40 years, he's about to pass a major health care overhaul. But according to Billo he's in big trouble.

Wishful thinking, much?

Uncle Joe Mccarthy's picture

if someone is having a good time as prez...they aint working

clinton had a great time....

roooth's picture

from your brain

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

but I couldn't care less that he got a BJ in the oval office. And Clinton worked like the workaholic that he was. The person who thought bein' Presdent was a hoot was George Bush.

Trittydi's picture

She imagines her experience as governor of Alaska as sufficient experience to sit in the Oval Office.

That is truly frightening because it highlights how UNBELIEVABLY clueless she is about the remarkable scope of the office of President of the US and the attendant responsibilities.

Terrifying. It's a good thing she's highly unelectable.
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Oh but she wasn't running for President, only the Vice-President's job. This twit couldn't get it through that cinderblock-like grey matter of hers that the VP must be ready at any time to assume the duties of the President. Astounding, just astounding!


If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

George Carlin

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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Q U E S T I O N:
Did she ever figure out what a vice president does?

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

zz4mula's picture

to pick up behind my dogs

Ravin.Sangha's picture

in Wasilla. It's almost the same thing as being POTUS.

PackageThief2315's picture

By her logic, she has more relevant experience to be POTUS than John McCain has (and any other member of Congress who hasn't served a term as a mayor or governor).

dandy's picture

....you gotta' be kidding. Palin and logic are not compatible.


dandy

SadButTrue's picture

..once refer to "the Palin-McCain ticket" during the campaign?

She was so ignorant and arrogant that she thought McCain was HER running mate.


"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."

project's picture

At the end of the clips when nixon's voice says I am not a crook.
For palin it should have been: I am not an idiot!

Tax the Rich's picture

republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is destroying america.

I always enjoy reading that after your posts.


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Thanks for a good laugh.

The only reason this imbecile gets any notice at all is because of our idiot media which would rather cover trivial circus freaks like her versus more important issues--like the USDA report that recently said that 50 million people starve every day in America.


"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."

Robert F. Kennedy

It may just be me, but I think if a person is hyping their common-sense, they should have some.

Wouldn't someone with common sense take note of their unpopularity?

Media Matters:

A CBS poll conducted this month found that only 23 percent have a favorable opinion of Palin; 38 percent have an unfavorable view. Only one in four Americans wants her to run for president; two out of three don't. One in four thinks she has the ability to be an effective president; more than 60 percent disagree. Only 43 percent of Republicans think she could be effective.

An ABC poll, also conducted this month, found similar results: 43 percent have a favorable impression of Palin, 52 percent unfavorable. A whopping 53 percent of Americans would not even consider voting for her for president, and 60 percent don't think she's qualified for the job.

A CNN poll conducted last month found that even more Americans -- 71 percent -- think Palin is not qualified to be president.

Or are all these poll-takers just trying to make poor Sarah look bad? Yeah, that's it, they are going for the 'gotcha!'. ;o}


I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all

Tax the Rich's picture

Wink wink! She's got them all figured out ain't she? That's because she's a real murkin.


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

roooth's picture

Anyone with commpon sense would stand in front of a working turkey decapitating and deblooding machine for a post-Turkey pardon interview.

You betcha.

How did Tina Fey put it? "I'm so tired of the gotcha MSM media tryin to make sense of the words I'm sayin". Or something to that affect.

Because that last quote was uh...well, I don't quite know. I mean it was English but..............

ProgressiveTroll's picture

I've had enough of this woman. Every channel you put it on, every internet site you go to, including liberal ones that should know better. Yeah, I get that you can't ignore the idiots, but this level of coverage to absolutely nothing but idiocy is taking away from what we should be doing. That is, getting real Democrats elected next year, alot of primaries in Feb., getting jobs, fixing global warming and getting out of this depression that we are in. Instead you are doing nothing but the bidding of the powers that be with this ignorant distraction. Move along to the real problems please. If you get out the vote you do not have to worry about this mindless wingnut and her minions.

year?" I didn't know that. I thought it was devoted to calling out crooks and liars. Silly me!

Embittered Angry Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1's picture
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Who ever told Sarah that she has a future in politics told her a whopper...
... That she belies it is the character flaw.

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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.

Let that be a lesson, boys and girls; Don't believe everything the voices in your head tell you.


If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

George Carlin

Amitola's picture

yes.

I'm just torn between sociopathic or narcissistic personality disorder. She kinda, perhaps, also has some characteristics of each, yew betcha'.

Fortunately, I used my common sense and didn't vote for her!


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

real_earl's picture

without the Ivy League Skull n' Bones, Oil drillin', Hitler Lovin' pedigree..


I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...

miss_kitty's picture

aliens invade his body for a moment? Also, notice how she took it from him. Think she'll run around and say billo was 'snotty' to her? I mean his questions were MUCH harder (for her, anyway, since they required introspection) than the wholly offensive "What do you read?" interrogation K Couric put her through

Thinker's picture

Sociopaths in general are clever, charming, always say the right thing, have no idea they are what they are and live in a world absolutely disconnected from real connections with human beings. I sort of thought Cheney might be, but he loves his family so he's just immoral. I'm not sure about Sarah. Being a stupid sociopath is tricky. Your hate smart people, have no inner life or conscience and can lie about anything. Come to think of it she reminds me of the cheerleaders in jr. high. Maybe she just never got beyond the intellectual, spiritual, emotional age of 14. Now that's hell. She was damaged at an early age and intellect, curiosity, truth seem to be what got lost. Have we seen someone else like this? Yeah, he's living in Texas.


Thinker

ohkay's picture

Let me know when Palin does an unscripted interview (as opposed to a "book" promotion) with an actual journalist who isn't a total Republican propaganda mouthpiece.

ctalk's picture

You gotta be kidding, I'm not going to comment on her.


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein

fiver's picture

Me neither.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

Tax the Rich's picture

Then let me if you will?

Sarah Palin is the only GOP hack with a following; that could possibly be dumber (and more clueless) in her psychological maladjustment than George W. Bush.

It's as if the republican party continuosly tries to find a bigger imbecile, deranged sociopath each election cycle. Sarah Palin gives them the oppotunity to keep their moron base satisfied in this regard.


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

constituent's picture
wow

she quits here governor position and she has all the answers......palin wants to be disliked by the left
that way she will get plenty of speaking engagements to spew HATE.

miss_kitty's picture

what sort of shit talk is that? Really?

thick as pig poop, I tell ya.

Annoyed Canuck's picture

She's not just worse than Bush, she's exponentially worse.

She's operating at the level of one of Bush's dogs. Miss Beazley for President.

They can now say, "See? He's not the worst."

Just when you thought the bar couldn't get any lower....

Everytime she opens her mouth a whole new level of stupid is reached.

Why are so many people proud of stupid. I have family members who deny their degree in order to fit in among the stupid. All you need is bumper sticker dogma that makes you react instead of think. Sarah is one of those bumper stickers. Why do I react in such revulsion at her? Probably because I've seen what her type of religious conservative can do to destroy everything around them. I've watched a bishop (a sort of closet gay misogynistic guy who worries a lot about liturgical correctness) destroy a diocese known for it's progressive attitudes; I've watched a state senator (female) who believes women should never have been allowed to vote and that's the problem; I've watched professors and teacher dumb down classes because not to do so would have been career suicide - and also watched others who refused to dumb things down who no longer teach. These people - the Sarah's of the world - are not benignly stupid. They are visciously so. That's it. I've wasted enough energy on this.


Thinker

No doubt, I am always telling kids that it is not cool to be stupid...don't know when this became popular but STUPID IS NOT COOL!

ysbaddaden's picture
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You can empty my wallet

But not my mind

Except maybe with a shotgun.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Tax the Rich's picture

They be only stupid cuz dey real murkins. U.S.A...U.S.A....U.S.A......,


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

ysbaddaden's picture
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Sat, 11/21/2009 - 11:49 — ckerst

Everytime she opens her mouth a whole new level of stupid is reached.
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Anavrin


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

This is truly.....what is the word I'm looking for? UNFUCKINGREAL is that a word?

HeyCaptain's picture

She obviously has lotsa sperience---birthin babies and slinging bull****.

As many people keep asking:

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS IDIOT??????

idiot?" But they are talking about her and listening to her. She must be countered.

Tax the Rich's picture

Because there are millions of morons who do listen to these sock puppets, and they are more than willing to take the rest of us down the shithole of conservatism with them.

America - the land of the proud moron.


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

Every time I hear Sarah respond to a question it’s as though she’s answering a beauty contestant’s panel question – and every answer sounds like “World peace.”

Vapid. There is no there…anywhere.

mudshark's picture

This woman is so fecking stupid. She makes me want to bang my head on the wall. seriously.
New Rule: All blonde jokes must cease and desist. There's a new candidate to replace all the blondes. And I mean All the blonde's that used to get worked over by blonde jokes.
Yes, they were unfair. That's true.
But this woman deserves all the Palin jokes that can be created.
Gawd damn this woman is dumber than a sack of hammers.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

mudshark's picture

If there is a God. Please make it so.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

Be careful of what you wish for. Never underestimate the stupididy of the American electorate.


If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?

Tax the Rich's picture

Damn right!

There is a whole bunch of stupid out there. Remember that 46% of the country was just okey dokey having this idiot become president if grandpa Mcgrumpy kicked over.

And this was after 8 years of GWB. WTF?

I had teenage exchange students who were visiting from Europe last year, and they couldn't understand how 46% of the American people could have possibly voted repuke after the catastrophy of Bush/Satan.


Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.

HeyCaptain's picture

The ONLY positive thing that could possibly happen is that she becomes the Regressive candidate (with the Lords help, please).

There's a blond, a redhead and a Palin stuck on a desert island. They come across a genie and he grants each of them one wish. The blond wishes she could be home with her family. Poof, gone. The redhead wishes she could be home with her family. Poof, gone. The Palin says "I wish my friends were still here".

mudshark's picture

That's What I'm Talkin About!!

Thank You. I've decided to not bang my head against the wall now.
Thank you very much. I'll go make a Mango Martini instead.:-)


What is your conceptual, continuity?

ysbaddaden's picture
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I swear to Gawd!
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 11:57 — mudshark

New Rule: All blonde jokes must cease and desist. There's a new candidate to replace all the blondes. And I mean All the blonde's that used to get worked over by blonde jokes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Cat Atomic's picture

What a god damned fool that woman is! She basically said, "we don't need none o' that fancy book learnin'. I trust m' gut!".

The fact that she was considered in a legitimate vice presidential candidate makes me feel real despair for this country, and I'm not kidding. Something is very wrong here.

mudshark's picture

As if anyone would believe that bullshit.
Book deal. Plain and simple. And we all know it.


What is your conceptual, continuity?

Mike V.'s picture

which is largely why McSame got beat so bad..
But just the fact that there are so many stupid fucking rubes that think she's qualified to do anything other than put on makeup and look pretty.. that says a lot.

Maybe she's attractive, but pretty? I don't think so.

Mike V.'s picture

in the most sexist way about the makeup and stuff.. :)
I actually think she's pretty decent looking, but otherwise she's flippin unbearable.

I caught some of this. I didn't know Fox did comedy, cause I couldn't stop laughing. But it also rotted some of my brain cells, I'm almost positive.

PALIN: Right, but I'm saying I was running for vice president just like Joe Biden in running for vice president. I've never once heard you or anybody else question Joe Biden and his experience. He…

Bwhahahahahahahaha Ahahahahahahahahaha Stop. It. Can't...breathe...

O'REILLY: Well, he's got a lot of experience. Let me be very bold and fresh again. Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the kind of a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that's based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I'm not saying that has to be me.

Jesus. If SNL would hire this comedienne for the cast, they might have a season...

ysbaddaden's picture
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Old Spice?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Kate's picture

She said "a fat résumé," not "fact résumé."

Moderate Republicans thinks she's an idiot, ditto with Independents...

ysbaddaden's picture
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Tis a far far better thing for sarah to delude herself than denude herself

And take on all comers.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

It cracks me up in a painfull, cringing sort of way to watch dumb, but otherwise good people, get duped by this narcissistic, selfish, sad woman.

Palin was run out of Alaska for corruption. She quit to get out of the hot water.

We all have to just turn away. Turn away from the darkness no matter how tempting it seems back into the light. C&L PLEASE stop giving this woman web space.

Starcats's picture

are plain to see, but what I don't think any of us have ever witnessed is Palin engaged in hard work. Anyone who quits a governorship for anything other than grave illness (or impeachment) is a quitter plain and simple. One thing I'll say for Arnie Schwarzenegger (my gov) is that he's not a quitter. He isn't afraid of hard work. I don't agree with him on much of anything, but he stands his ground for good or ill. He never gives up. I'd take him hands down over Palin any day.

Palin might be qualified as a life appointee to the position of Wal-Mart greeter where she could do her fancy pageant walking or as traffic constable of Wasilla, but the jury is out over whether she'd show up for work.


"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes

Karen's picture

Queen Sara of Know Knothing Knation. Of course she thinks she has common sense. She don't need no education. She don't need no book learnin'. She can be ignorant and certain simultaneously, and she thinks that's common sense. All the citizens of Know Knothing Knation do.

She quit in order to spare Alaska from another lame duck session? Heh, she quit to cash in on her extended 15 minutes, but who cares? What the fuck kind of argument is that? In order to spare Alaska from a lame duck session, I'll throw everything into unexpected chaos by handing over my term to someone else?

Before Queen Sara goes into an interview like this, she's handed a list of talking points: Democrats are spineless; ivy league education is elitist; hard work good; taxes bad; etc. She figures that if she can just spit out the syllables, it won't matter whether they're in coherent, complete sentences.

And, by and large, she's right. At least for her Knation and her purposes.


Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?

mudshark's picture

Your perspective was missed. Not to mention how smart you are.
I missed ya.
As for these dipshits and their fearless leader.
goodtimes.:)


What is your conceptual, continuity?

Karen's picture

'Tis appreciated.


Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?

Kate's picture

y' misspelled "larnin'" ...

Hulk's picture

...and too stupid to realize that she is a dumb ass.

Good God, what an idiot. Nation of morons.....your bus is leaving!

Not that the rest isn't funny, but you know what I mean. You can put the crowd laughing sound in the background and SNL wouldn't be able to compete.

HeyCaptain's picture

IF the Republicans did not own and control the networks and the msm, would she be in the news and on the internet at all? She is sooo stupid , it is embarrassing.

oZer's picture

our President could easily be a partner in a big law firm following his stellar academic journey. instead, he chose community activism, followed by a stint in Chicago politics. did Ms. Palin refer to HIM as spineless?
LQTM

HeyCaptain's picture

She doesn't know what a lawfirm is.

mudshark's picture

A Lawyer with a Boehner.


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HeyCaptain's picture

MS said today:

During a Saturday broadcast, lifestyle television diva Martha Stewart panned former lawmaker Sarah Palin, calling her a "dangerous person" who Stewart "wouldn't watch... if you paid me."

Speaking to CNN, the host of Martha Stewart Living said Palin is "very boring to me." Having someone so "confused" in government is unsafe, she said. That makes Palin a "dangerous person."

"She's so confused," Stewart said. "Anyone in government like that is a real problem.

Reacting to the massive first-day sales of Palin's new book, she added: "Good for her. Good for her. ... I wouldn't watch her if you paid me."

Zach's picture

Dear Sarah,

You lost. Get over it.

Zach
cc: GOP & their minions

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Isn't that the phrase the wingnuts coined in 2000? Seems they can't follow their own advice (big surprise).


"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1904

It's really quite fascinating to hear someone say that they were not 'running for vice president'. Go read the US Constitution, including the Amendments, and show me where it speaks of someone 'running' for VP.

seevee's picture

Where do people go to get the portion of their brain removed so when they speak they sound like Miss. South Carolina? Are the tiaras too tight in the beauty contests? Do we need some regulations?

drock's picture

To O'Reilly's credit, he was tougher on her that I expected. Most of the interview was a BHO-bashing session joke, but he did grill her on her qualifications. Obviously he has a great deal of contempt for her.

It is a condition that affects, among other things, speech patterns. Those who suffer from this disease speak in words that are understandable but don't go together and have no connection to the converstion they are involved in. It is called mix salad speaking. I must say that Palin seems to be suffering this disease as she is getting worse and this is a progressive disease.

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ysbaddaden's picture
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I wish someone would bat her eyes.


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

real_earl's picture

is the kind of blather you'd expect to hear from some bint with 3 whinging sprogs in front of you at the supermarket ...sorry Bill Crystol ..your dream girl is a nightmare ...


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oldretire's picture

That about describes this backwoods Loser, you, you betcha, I ran a small town, LIED and Sold out the people with my support for a bridge to NO WHERE, then lied about that, I became governor and again sold out the People to the big Oil interest.

Wow! I made it on to the National stage and proved what a Ignorant backwoods Inbred Bitch I was, and much like my college years I did the same to my governorship I QUIT.

Yea! me the village Idiot calling out Joe Biden a National Politician and a International negotiator, oh how I wish I could be as good as him so in stead I have wet dreams fantazing about it.

I as the Bimbo of the right with my Anti American racist Nazi KKK members to declare that I am ready to push back and NO you may NOT ask QUESTIONS unless pre approved and researched, I said I wanted to be a the National Stage I never said I wanted to prove I was Dumber than my base.

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