Originally posted by sh76"Still, Obama is a smart guy"
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I like Palin. I thought her speech at the GOP convention was good. But, I watched that interview with Diane Sawyer. Come on; she could not name a single newspaper that she read. I was really hoping for her to be a great candidate. I supported McCain and I was hoping she was the silver bullet. But, at some point, I had to call a spade a spade and realize s ...[text shortened]... able with him a President than with Governor Palin.
Sorry; I'm just being honest.
he claimed america created the automobile.
I've been in 57 states, (with) I think one left to go."(may 9th)
claimed somehow Arkansas was closer to Kentucky than Illinois.
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Originally posted by utherpendragonI have heard this kind of criticism of Obama's intelligence before.
{Obama] claimed america created the automobile.
I've been in 57 states, (with) I think one left to go."(may 9th)
claimed somehow Arkansas was closer to Kentucky than Illinois.
We know that the automobile, as we now know it anyway, was first developed in Germany.
We know there are 50 states in the U.S..
We know where the various states are, including their relative positions.
Are you claiming that you are more intelligent than the president. If I know these things too, does it mean I am more intelligent than him as well?
Seeing as, say, the "57 states" thing has been repeated ad nauseam, and isn't really funny anymore (it was only a verbal flub after all), I presume you - and others who rake over these things over and over and over again - are being serious.
Are you?
Originally posted by kmax87I don't know, I don't think there's anything decent about the way her child with down syndrome was attacked in blogs, or her daughter's child that didn't have a baby was attacked by letterman.
Can anyone name another candidate running for high office whose family presented such a tabloid goldmine?
From my memory of watching the steady roll of new candidates on the block being paraded as suitable options, if there was one constant, then all succesful candidate families tended to conform to a certain manifestation of American Wholesomeness, a cer ...[text shortened]... t thats the conspiracist meanderings possibly best left for another thread.
Still, that's politics, you never know just how low the bar will be lowered in any given election, but you know it's gonna be low.
Sarah Palin was ambushed by Katie Couric.
Originally posted by FMFjust pointing out to sh76 that Obama is no smarter (or less) than Palin Bush or anybody. And being president of the u.s. in todays day and age does not require one to be the sharpest tool in the shed.
I have heard this kind of criticism of Obama's intelligence before.
We know that the automobile, as we now know it anyway, was first developed in Germany.
We know there are 50 states in the U.S..
We know where the various states are, including their relative positions.
Are you claiming that you are more intelligent than the president. If I know these ...[text shortened]... ers who rake over these things over and over and over again - are being serious.
Are you?
Originally posted by utherpendragonBut if all you've got is stuff like the "57 states" thing, your assertion is very very weak. Everyone who has been in contact with him, including opponents, speak of how he is a highly intelligent man. Is it your patriotism that makes you wish this were not so?
just pointing out to sh76 that Obama is no smarter (or less) than Palin Bush or anybody.
Originally posted by eljefejesusYou don't think a candidate for VP ought to be made of sterner stuff than can me made to look inadequate by a rather ineffectual interviewer like Katie Couric?
The latter.
I find your support for rank mediocrity when attacked by rank mediocrity, rather intriguing.
Originally posted by FMFAre you saying that if you attacked a salmon, I would defend the salmon, and you would be intrigued?
You don't think a candidate for VP ought to be made of sterner stuff than can me made to look inadequate by a rather ineffectual interviewer like Katie Couric?
I find your support for rank mediocrity when attacked by rank mediocrity, rather intriguing.
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Originally posted by eljefejesusIt's interesting that you you this alleged "given" as a way to defend a patently inadequate candidate. It's also interesting that you seem to want a degree of conformity about how "all" see this.
It is interesting that a fact as obvious as that Couric ambushed Palin is not obvious and taken as a given by all.
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Originally posted by eljefejesusAren't you being rather petty and tabloid now? Someone rolled her eyes at an interviewee and this serves to suspend your political judgement and sense of proportion?
Did you not see Couric rolling her eyes at her... at a VP CANDIDATE!!!
She's surely shown worse people better treatment... but that was during the middle of the campaigns...
Originally posted by FMFI yield the forum floor for you to list her inadequacies.
It's interesting that you you this alleged "given" as a way to defend a patently inadequate candidate. It's also interesting that you seem to want a degree of conformity about how "all" see this.