Quote of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on February 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
“This is why Palin was seen as anti-intellectual when, properly speaking, she was simply non-intellectual. What she lacked was not intelligence—she is, clearly, highly intelligent—but rather the particular set of assumptions, references, and attitudes inculcated by America’s top twenty universities and transmitted by the nation’s elite cultural organs.
Many of those (including especially those on the Right) who reacted badly to Palin on intellectual grounds understand themselves to be advancing the interests of lower-middle-class families similar to Palin’s own family and to many of those in attendance at her rallies who greeted her arrival on the scene as a kind of deliverance. But it is hard to escape the conclusion that while these members of the intellectual elite want the government to serve the interests of such people first and foremost, they do not want those people to hold the levers of power. They see lower-middle-class populists like Palin and their supporters as profoundly ill-suited for governance, because they lack the accoutrements required for its employment—especially in foreign policy, which, even more than domestic affairs, is thought to be an intellectual exercise. It is for this reason that Barack Obama, who actually has far less experience in executive governance than Palin, was not dismissed as unprepared for the presidency. Palin may have been elected governor of Alaska, but his peers in Cambridge had elected Obama editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is thoroughly fluent in the parlance of the college town, and in the eyes of the new American elite, Washington is the ultimate college town.”
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Like I’ve said before in threads that shortly died, Palin-hatred comes from the fact that calling Palin a “ditz” was how some voters justified to themselves why they went along with the crowd.
As long as Palin is dumb, some voters aren’t the dumbasses who jumped on a trillion-dollar bandwagon and voted for Carter II in some ultimately empty gesture of racial reconciliation.
Sekhmet on February 4, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Apparently this writer did go to the right university . . .
PastorJon on February 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I learn something here every day…and all this time I thought it was just because he was black…and since, white liberal guilt knows no limits, he would miraculously wash their imagined (and very real) sins away…along with everything else about America as well.
AUINSC on February 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$2,700.”
The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?”
The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.
http://theanchoressonline.com/2009/02/04/how-the-stimulus-plan-will-work/
Mr. Joe on February 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM
It’s time for a real change in Washington,..let’s hope it comes in 2012!
PALIN 2012.
christene on February 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM
The plebs are fine to talk about and imitate (think: going to Home Depot) during an election year, but Heaven forbid we should elect a real one. / sarc
theotherKate on February 4, 2009 at 10:44 PM
I bought my wife some accoutrements for her birthday and she lost one!
DerKrieger on February 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM
“BAD” Quote of the Day! IMHO!!!!
bucko36 on February 4, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Obama didn’t show himself much of a legal scholar or intellectual on abortion or gun rights.
aikidoka on February 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Uhh uhh uhh uhm uhh I uhh guess uhmm uhh it’s good that we uhh uhmm uhh have leaders like uhhh uhh Barry who uhm uhh went to one of uhh those uhh uhhm top 20 uhh uhm universities.
angryed on February 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM
And like you know Caroline Kennedy who you know went to you know one of those you know top 20 you know uni you know versities you know too.
angryed on February 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM
/Sarc off
blatantblue on February 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I guarantee you this quote is better:
Nancy Pelosi wants to pee on the Washington Times?
That’s why the “Lady” is a Tramp!
Mr. Joe on February 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM
All while Biden cracks awful jokes!
blatantblue on February 4, 2009 at 10:53 PM
ROTFLMAO. Obama got into Harvard because of quotas not merit. He may have the Ivy League degree but he is dumber than a box of rocks. Palin is a real American in the sense that she, better than the Obamas, understand real families because that’s where she is coming from. Palin was a PTA mom. Filthy bastard was a community organizer.
What I find most humorous, however, is the idea that Palin is a low class populist. The fact of the matter is that her appeal comes from the fact that she was the only candidate of either party who real Americans of any economic strata could identify with. The other choices were 1) an aloof “Republican” who grew up as the son of a four-star Admiral 2) a sorta black sorta white sorta Christian sorta Muslim hybrid corrupt Chicago politician and 3) a complete moron from Delaware who thinks he’s Cordell Hull or Kissenger.
highhopes on February 4, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Or Constitutional scholarship for that matter; railing against it’s fundamental flaw of not addressing re-distributive rights.
AZfederalist on February 4, 2009 at 10:54 PM
The Ivy League worshippers are nothing but groupies for pseudo-intellectuals.
Be that as it may, we now have the dumbest, most inept person sitting in the White House in all of American history. Yay!
Precedent BHO: “I screwed up.”
You’ve got to love the vocabulary that those Ivy Leaguers bring with them. I am truly awe-struck by the idiot messiah’s command of English.
Morons.
progressoverpeace on February 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Scranton! Scranton, slanderer!
Jim62sch on February 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM
In other words a government of the people and by the people is a quaint notion but “elites” think they know better about what’s good for us and therefore must be in charge. The sad part is that the general public buys into that load of crap. Personally I am certain that an average intelligent middle class citizen picked at random by lottery would be better suited as representatives than the so-called educated elitists we keep having to choose from.
Guardian on February 4, 2009 at 10:55 PM
MB4 on February 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Bravo sir!
highhopes on February 4, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Not to mention his confusion on how judges should decide cases:
“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”
If the idiot messiah had attended a law school that I ran and said something this stupid in public I would have rescinded his diploma for bringing shame to my institution.
Gotta love that affirmative action!
progressoverpeace on February 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I’ve always been at a loss on Palin.
How can you be so vehemently pilloried over putting forth a conservative, straight forward set of beliefs? And pretty much, from what I’ve seen, walk the walk. Her daughter got pregnant…and this somehow either paints her as a phony or her stance on abstinence is wrong.
And people right away start pissing all over themselves like she was right away going to start enacting laws to make them toe the line and have a ‘Come to Jesus’ or else type thing.
BigWyo on February 4, 2009 at 11:03 PM
god forbid anyone actually acknowledge that sarah palin is, in fact, stupid.
Xolom on February 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
If that means an endless circus of Ivy League empty suits and their sleazy hangers-on, it’s time for a revolution.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I wonder how Obama’s accoutrements will help him when a nuclear device goes off in a US city and 10′s of thousands of people are dead and dying in the streets and no one can get into or out of that city. Commerce within 500 miles is shut down. The US is paralyzed with fear. Everything comes to a grinding halt. Panic and chaos and you get the picture.
You want street smarts and grit in the White House or an untested elite who is thoroughly fluent in the parlance of the college town?
This country needs to have it’s G.D. head examined and Fast!!
katy on February 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I’d trust her wits to those of Obama any day of the week. Been following the news much?
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
-its head-
katy on February 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Not merely empty but horribly, disastrously mistimed as well. Now? We needed to make this empty gesture now? With the economy on the verge of cratering into a depression if some dumbass Leftist is allowed free reign over it? Now?
Kensington on February 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Barry was voted “president” of the Harvard Law Review. A popularity contest. He didn’t have the chops to be “editor”. Mr. Levin incorrectly asserts otherwise.
Abu Bin Squid on February 4, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Very simple and predictable. “Liberal” = “smart”. “Conservative” = “stupid”. “Conservative” + “religious” = “subhuman”.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Y’all should read the entire article.
Palin may or may not be the one to carry the banner into the victory circle, but the alternative that she represents – completion of the Reagan Revolution, Jacksonian response to the complete and evident bankruptcy of all the nation’s elites, small government populism, Americanism, whatever you want to call it – is something worth thinking about apart from tabloid-level personality politics, whether or not its dressed up with academic airs.
As for Palin herself, if she develops and shapes a vision to go with her appeal and her record, and, just as important, she shows that she can command respect, not just suffer disrespect bravely, then all of the catcalls and insults from leftists and our supposed cultural and intellectual elite will fade into insignificance. That’s how Reagan overcame similar, to a large extent even worse, condescension and vituperation from his self-styled intellectual and moral superiors.
As VP candidate new on the scene, Palin was in no position to take command, but, if she wants the big job, she’s going to have to convince a large number of the unconvinced that she can.
CK MacLeod on February 4, 2009 at 11:11 PM
If you grow up in Alaska, in school, or in Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts, you’ll learn how to survive in the cold dark wilderness for several days if you get stranded. That requires intelligence, creativity, courage, and most of all, commonsense. Maybe we should do some intelligence tests in Alaskan Wilderness terms, and see how the Washingtonians fare.
RBMN on February 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM
As inept as this administration appears to be in the early going, in 2012 my cat may have a shot at being elected.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM
When’s the last time you got a budget suruplus check from the Governor of your state? I haven’t, and I’ve lived in several states.
It could be worse, she could have earmarked $975 million dollars of taxpayer money in two years, and some of it to the hospital that employed her spouse, and then her spouse get a pay increase of 150%. So it pays to be crooked as long as you went to the right college and got Matthews and Olberman licking your boots…
Soooo…. is she stupid for being a fiscal conservative, or stupid for not being a crooked politician?
Hog Wild on February 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM
It’s funny that this comment is coming from someone who claims that Homeschooling is usually for religious nutjobs.
An Era of Hate on February 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM
This article was a fair representation of how the 2008 election played out for Sarah Palin. She is not dumb.She intelligent and politically savy. There were times she didn’t help herself, but I cannot say they were any different than Obama running for 2 years and making stupid rookie mistakes.
I don’t know what the future holds for Sarah Palin, but I thank her for running with McCain. I don’t feel John had much of a chance with any other pick (Romney,Huckabee,etc). I will support Palin if she runs in 2012. I am not a true believer, but find that I can recognize many of the great traits I admire in quality people.
After 4 years of Obama, the “Change” America will be looking for might just be a 2 term Conservative Governor of Alaska. I can only hope.
portlandon on February 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM
The only reason Dumbo and Prissy made it to Harvard is the color of their skin. Yes, I said it because it’s true.
SouthernGent on February 4, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Is that right? My understanding is that kids who are homeschooled generally turn out to be among the best and brightest.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Palin does not have to convince anyone of anything that she hasn’t already. It’s the American people that need to take a look at themselves and what it is about them and their values and priorities that have become so jaded.
Obama convinced them of their own desperation. That says a lot about the fall of this country’s moral failings.
katy on February 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM
This is just more BS, Elitist style. They have to keep their boot on the serfs throat lest they rise up and dethrone the aristocracy. If the aristocracy is so great, why all the financial, political and ethical disasters that require immediate attention, since they have been doing all of the dictating?….
DL13 on February 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Just get this straight. The Marxists will be do anything to take Sarah out. If they could arrest her and send her to a gulag they would. With the Constitution still in force Obama and the MSM are stuck with disinformation, ridicule, and falsehood. In the last election it was good enough to get the Messiah elected. in 2012 it may not be.
I am under no illusion. Even with his uneven start in his administration Obama will be hard to beat in 2012. But it will be easier if we can prepare for what Obama is going to throw Sarah’s way.
technopeasant on February 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM
It’s a good article that is worth reading. Make sure you get to the end of it.
said it well.
INC on February 4, 2009 at 11:21 PM
The Ivy League is like West Virginia. Inbred, incestuous and producing an abnormally high level of mental defectives.
jerryofva on February 4, 2009 at 11:23 PM
I don’t know this Levin guy, but he has perfectly encapsulated the prejudiced reaction of the Northeast establishment to Sarah Palin. Nice work.
Palin’s great, in my book, but if she’s ever going to relaunch onto the national scene, it had better be with the skills to outmaneuver the Katie Courics of the world, or it’s not going to fly.
Splunge on February 4, 2009 at 11:24 PM
again with this “you either worship palin or you worship obama” horsesh*t.
and, no. it’s not because she or her worshipers lack the “particular set of assumptions, references, and attitudes inculcated by America’s top twenty universities and transmitted by the nation’s elite cultural organs.”
it’s because they are proud to be incurious and shallow. it’s because they regard the interrogation of root assumptions as some sort of corruption of the purity of conviction. it’s because she can’t think of any information sources she reads from daily and her supporters receive that as evidence of her homespun, no b.s. reality. that is anti-intellectualism exemplified.
eh on February 4, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Excellent commentary by Yuval Levin. Very insightful and a great synopsis of what happened during the campaign. The only way Palin could have been more effective is if she pushed McCain and his people out of the way.
Vince on February 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM
I agree.
progressoverpeace on February 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
and, since when is populism a good thing? much less a conservative thing?
eh on February 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I thought it was BDS that put the big O in office…I thought the hatefilled Left said, “You want an idiot, you want incompetant? We’ll give you stupid and incompetant! How ya like that!” Got to give it to the Liberals… they outdid themselves.
Thanks for the post Allah…
CCRWM on February 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Maybe you should say “like the stereotype of West Virginia.” They were smart enough not to vote for Obama. :P
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
What a joke…Washington is the ultimate college town? It’s Hollywood for fugly people.
Christien on February 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Ever taken a look at the validity of YOUR root assumptions?
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM
God Forbid that should happen. Fema will come and force you and your able bodied kids to dig the bloated decaying radioactive corpses out of the still smoldering buildings. Refuse and you will be shot (Check it out, Part of Fema’s plans allow for this)
Meanwhile while you and your son are receiving a fatal dose of radiation, the obama kids, the gore kids, chelsea clinton and others will be in a secure location surrounded by the fema or military police with their guns pointed outward.
IOW, WE AND OUR FAMILIES will pay the price for the 52 percenters and obama’s inexperience and incompetence either in the initial event or in the cleanup afterwards.
bullseye on February 4, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Hey.. don’t insult WV by comparing them to ivy leaguers..
DaveC on February 4, 2009 at 11:31 PM
here’s the worst part about this sort of cynical pandering:
nope. no “elite” corrupted by the “assumptions, references, and attitudes inculcated by America’s top twenty universities” he. no siree. you betcha.
eh on February 4, 2009 at 11:34 PM
speaking of assuming things.
DaveC on February 4, 2009 at 11:34 PM
eh:
You are certainly not an elite with your typing. Very lazy. Makes it hard to follow your logic if you were trying to be logical.
Vince on February 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM
That’s a pretty broad brush you paint with to color your prejudices and assumptions.
I personally love to interrogate root assumptions and I’ve read many commenters here who do as well. Many of the Left are blind to the fact they even have some.
I found very little that was proud or incurious about that column. I don’t think you can say all the comments here fall into the proud or incurious column either.
From what I’ve read Sarah Palin is not proud or incurious either.
INC on February 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Amazing insight and an unbelieveable analysis and presentation of what is obviously a clear and well thought out logical process backed by volumes of clear and convincing evidence. I am truly honored to be in the presence of such an intellect as yours. I bow to your reason and cerebreal magnatude. I feel insignificant after reading such a statement, one that will rank up there with “Veni, Vidi, Vici” or Sir Winston Churchill’s Solemn Hour speech.
I am assuming you must already be a member of Mensa given the clear superiority of you reasoning and the overwhelming trueness of your arguments.
Bravo Sir, Well done… Excellent.
Seriously though.. What I smell from your post is a little spiteful person. Someone who has accomplished little of real value.. You aren’t Governor Corzine by any chance are you??? I’m sure you must be a democratic governor to be able to make such a resounding statement.
Oh heck, that was a waste of time.. Bugger off would have probably summed it up
bullseye on February 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM
often. yes.
eh on February 4, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Palin never taught her children abstinence-only.
Enoxo on February 4, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Well, it seems it’s also Harvard Yard for pseudo-intellectuals.
INC on February 4, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I saw a picture of an anal abscess on the hind end of a dog (wife is a vet).. Only thing I can think of to say was
DaveC on February 4, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Yeah, right.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:37 PM
See Allah…you can do Palin threads without fear that
we’llthey’ll unmask and then lynch you…;)jerrytbg on February 4, 2009 at 11:38 PM
And they’ve all done such a bang-up job so far, haven’t they? Tsk, tsk.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Don’t let the fact that President Obama opted to not indicate his race on his HLS application get in the way of your Affirmative Action conspiracy theories.
Ditto “[h]e didn’t have the chops to be ‘editor’” (President Obama was an Editor of HLR as a second-year student).
However, President of HLR as a “popularity contest” is hilarious even by HotAir standards. I know you people don’t have much personal experience with higher education, but this is a particularly inspired comment.. bravo!
benny shakar on February 4, 2009 at 11:41 PM
This article is a bunch of crap. It disputes that people unfairly categorize Palin as an idiot because she was not taught in the snob-filled schools, yet, Yuval goes on to slobber and lavish praide at Obama’s membership in Harvard’s school paper as its president.
It looks like he’ll be working for the NY Slimes pretty soon. Same kind of garbage I’ll read from Brooks.
Palin actually is an outsider of Washington and relates to the average person. She knows the trials and tribulations we go through because she also lived through them. Thus, entered government to change it, not just act like a change agent. The people we have in government learn about our life experiences through college textbooks and socialist professors. They think they know how to rectify the problems, but instead, they enlarge the problem and/or create new problems.
jencab on February 4, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Has Obama? I haven’t seen any evidence of it…
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Why has she bothered to write op ed pieces in local Alaskan newspapers for years in the past if she apparently doesn’t read anything.
Why did Palin in 2002 send the following message to an editor of a San Francisco newspaper?
This is why this stupid newspaper question bothers the heck out of me. She didn’t think fast on her feet or she thought katie was setting her up who knows… but she clearly as you can see reads many newspapers outside of Alaska
An Era of Hate on February 4, 2009 at 11:46 PM
By the way, benny, I’d say most of us here are probably a tad better-educated than your typical O-bot waiting for that free gas and mortgage payout. If you’re so concerned about ignorance, take a look at your own side, dude.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM
C’mon jencab! The article is complimentary of Palin and perfectly explains the “educated elite’s” prejudices.
Vince on February 4, 2009 at 11:48 PM
My friend, I’m not concerned about ignorance… I find you people very entertaining.
benny shakar on February 4, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I think Palin didn’t answer Couric’s question because she either suspected a trap or got annoyed probably both or really she just didn’t like Couric and it’s not hard to see why…
The article is okay it probably depicts the hatefilled Left accurately but the conservative right not so much…
CCRWM on February 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM
jencab,
Over all it was a fairly balanced piece even though he attributed very little to the real failure and where it belongs…The McCain camp didn’t know who she was…
jerrytbg on February 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Aw, cute, he thinks he’s people!
Jim Treacher on February 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
The feeling is mutual.
ddrintn on February 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Poor Benny. His BEST PRESIDENT EVAH isn’t working out so well, what with all the corruption and indictments and incompetence and everything.
But thank heaven Sarah Palin isn’t Vice President, benny!
Jim62sch on February 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM
I don’t equate articulation with being intellectual. I’m sure there are brilliant scientists out there that if you put a camera in their face they would sound horrible. I also don’t equate intelligence with wisdom. Wisdom matters, not intelligence.
terryannonline on February 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM
When your name is “Barack” and you attend Harvard, indicating your race on an application to HLR is a moot point.
SouthernGent on February 4, 2009 at 11:56 PM
What I think has helped Sarah in the past 2 weeks is the emergence of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele as credible threats to Obama’s cult-like hold on the electorate to take the focus off her. Now Obama has a three-headed monster to contend with. And what the three-headed monster has done is emboldened the Republicans in Congress.
I have a theory. By Rush convincing the GOP house members to vote unanimously against the stimulus package it gave the 168 members of the RNC the courage to vote for change and go with Michael Steele, even though it took him 6 rounds to win, but let’s not forget that Steele got 46 votes on the first ballot, only 6 behind Duncan when the pundits had projected Steele at around 30 votes. That Steele got so close to Duncan after the first ballot enhanced his credibility and made him a player.
technopeasant on February 4, 2009 at 11:56 PM
All liberals ever have to do is re-define the terms – then they can be anything they want to be.
That’s how a man who has never in his life uttered a quotable sentence became the most “articulate” person in the history of planet earth.
logis on February 4, 2009 at 11:58 PM
terryann,
Wisdom matters, not perceived intelligence.
Agreed.
jerrytbg on February 4, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Mr. Joe on February 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM
That is a nail hit squarely on the head with a heavy hammer!
goat on February 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM
i’ve drawn my opinion from these very comments sections here at hot air.
an example:
all pro-palin argumentation comes down to three assertions:
1) “your a liberal. shouldn’t you be under the oval office desk blowing obama?”
2) “she’s just got “it” – the “x” factor. pizzazz!”
3) “sure she’s a little rough around the edges, but she’s got four years to become informed and experienced, and don’t we owe it to her to suspend our consideration of all other possible standard-bearers while she prepares to emerge from her cocoon a beautiful butterfly?”
argument 1 is roughly 70% of what gets posted. another 25% is the pizazz argument. i pressed for a decent argument on her behalf. all i ever got was that she’s keen on energy policy. getting that was like pulling teeth, and for good reason – it doesn’t amount to much.
the reason it’s so hard to get a reasonable argument supporting palin – as a candidate, as a coservative, even – is because there is none. reason isn’t what the palin deifiers are responding to. they’re responding to cultural cues. their reasons for supporting palin are the same reasons the voices on the laugh track go “ooooh” when a.c. slater says something clever to zach on saved by the bell.
eh on February 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Off-topic, but I’d love to see the hilarious spectacle of that monstrosity getting killed off in the Senate.
ddrintn on February 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Most conservatives understand the difference between the possevive “your” and the contraction “you’re”.
SouthernGent on February 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM
i saw one of davec’s dumbass posts and you know what i said?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGn6_EH2gM
eh on February 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM
one would hope, but you’d be surprised.
eh on February 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Get a clue.
First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review
By FOX BUTTERFIELD, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: February 6, 1990
Yes, the idiot messiah got his editorship and Law Review precedency because of affirmative action. Period.
But I can understand why morons like yourself think he’s such an intellectual:
“I screwed up.” — Precedent of the US (G-d help us)
progressoverpeace on February 5, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Why do you support Biden?
Jim Treacher on February 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Washington the ultimate college town?
No. Effing. Shit.
Kasper Hauser on February 5, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Can’t say I care for your attitude, or least of all for your presumptions about Palin or her supporters. I don’t know whether or not you consider yourself a conservative, or even if you consider yourself a serious observer of politics, but the fact that you’re still recycling tabloid-level campaign trivia as though it’s new to anyone, as though anyone here hasn’t already been through it a few hundred times, and as though it matters or should matter to anyone suggests to me that you’re neither. However, you ask a reasonable question in your second post.
Populism itself is probably a bad thing to the extent it suggests demagogy or some other shortcut to acceptance or power based on shallow or dishonest appeals to popular emotions, but it’s also true that a political movement that can’t call on popular enthusiasm and emotion is like an army without morale and fighting spirit: Not worth anything.
In our present situation, with the symbolic and literal bankruptcy of our national elites, of both parties, before our eyes every day, a populist reaction is natural and probably healthy. It’s a good time for “mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore,” and could be getting better. Now, it’s also at least conceivable that Obama will get his act together and that the country won’t let him fail and that we’ll somehow muddle through, and that we have eight years to work this one out on the presidential level, and it’s also conceivable that the catastrophe will be too great for conventional American politics to handle, but a rebellion against the elites and in favor of a restoration of grassroots American, authentically republican virtues and values wouldn’t strike me as a bad thing at all.
I’m not trying to write a new Declaration of Independence here, so I’ll just say that the alternative that Palin represents, and may end up in position to advance successfully, is a lot more interesting to me than how much her wardrobe cost and whether she looked like a fool with Katie Couric or whatever nonsense the anti-Palin trolls find so fascinating.
CK MacLeod on February 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM
the plugs, man. i love the plugs.
eh on February 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM
The faithful believe that God does, in fact, forbid the telling of lies.
littleguy on February 5, 2009 at 12:13 AM
……… 500 million Americans will loose their jobs each month? Nothing she says is the truth.
Why are we letting this happen……….?
Seven Percent Solution on February 5, 2009 at 12:16 AM
eh:
You watch Saved by the Bell? What, are you watching the re-runs because you weren’t old enough to see the originals?
Vince on February 5, 2009 at 12:17 AM
A very interesting article. Palin has the drive, intelligence and ability to eliminate her deficiences for 2012 or 2016. IF she wants to.
JimC on February 5, 2009 at 12:18 AM
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