#1 You must be a natural-born citizen.

#2 You must be 35 years old.

#3 Katie Couric and Joy Behar must like you.

#4 You must not have had the foolish ambition to enter a talent/beauty contest and perform badly and have video available for technologies that would be invented to reveal it decades later.

Oy.

On page one of the HP comments, not one single person had anything good to say about Sarah Palin. EvERY SINGLE ONE of the posts were condescending!

There were numerous comments regarding her flute performance, all of which were rewordings of one another’s posts, all trashing Sarah’s performance and flute skill, all claiming that they themselves, or their kid, or a second grader, or some variation of the same, can ALL play better than Sarah could in that performance.

Can they really?

Probably not.

Why am I saying this?

Because I have performed as a classical and jazz guitarist and vocalist in public concerts, a weddings, at mansions, with orchestras, and so forth, and, like many other citizens, I also attend live concerts, many which include the flute. I’ve also performed with flautists, and have friends or acquaintances who performed on flute, professionally. I also associate with flute students who were attending Music School in various Universities.

Fact is, the recording of that performance was not well done. It was not studio quality. Nevertheless, Sarah did fine. The accompaniment from the orchestra did not sound very good, but then, again, how was the sound balanced and mixed? Where was the microphone placed during the concert? Was it next to the horn section?

Although the performance did not remind me of Jeane Pierre Rampal or James Galloway, she did not come off as less skilled than a second grader, as one of the critics at HP claimed.

The fact is, people HATE Sarah Palin! There is a very strong, viral case of Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome running rampant.

Regarding the Supreme Court case, why is it that I NEVER heard any other presidential or Vice Presidential candidate in my life time EVER asked that question?

Fact is, unless they studied such historical cases, what reason would they have to know such information?

I could have answered it with Brown v the Board of Education, or Roe v Wade, or Doe v Bolton, or Dred Scott case, but that is because I have had reason to know about such cases, and I remember them. It really does not have bearing on the Presidency in contrast to the actual Executive Powers of the President, for the Supreme Court is a part of the Judiciary Branch of the Government, not the Executive Branch, hence, although the person asked might be able to show off their “knowledge” they would not have to know such information for functional purposes, since they are not serving as a lawyer or a judge, but as the Chief Executive.

What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?I’d be curious to hear how seasoned pols, especially one who aren’t lawyers by trade, handle that second bit. The obvious historical answers are Dred Scott and Korematsu, or Lochner if you’re feeling frisky (and not a conservative).

Well, they never did get Kobayashi Maru correct, either.

Same Barak-channel.

Which is MSNBC in case you didn’t know.

Hussein and Robinette ‘08! Has quite a ring to it! ROTFLMAO

Sung to the melody of “Goobers ans Raisinnets”.

I suppose the one case I would think of would be Kelo. But then again, I had time to think about it too. If someone asked me the question when I was not expecting it, I might not think of anything either.

Terrye on October 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM

But then you are not the gov. of Alaska, and running to fill the shoes of the POTUS if needed. It’s not her exact knowledge or lack of that bothers me, it’s her lack of interest in big issues beyond Alaska, things the POTUS has to deal with.

What song is she playing?

Darth Executor on October 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM

Homecoming or something. It’s named at HuffPo.

The accompaniment was flat.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 1, 2008 at 4:59 PM

In some parts it sounds that way, although I’d still say given the circumstances of the recording atmosphere, it’s likely that it’s just a bad recording.

The accompaniment does suck, though. The individuals playing the trumpet should have exercised a bit more lip control.

It amazes me that these liberal idiots think they’re experts on music when they can’t even so much as take into account the change in sound from auditorium acoustics recorded onto a cheap 80′s video camera that records only mono.

Then again, these people share a verbatim ideology with a set of people that think that regulating the finances of a GSE run by a documented crook in charge of over half of the country’s mortgages is a “political lynching”.

GOOD GAWD ! NO ONE with THAT backup group coulda won !!
Eeeeeeew !
:-)