Sarah Palin Can't Name Any Founding Fathers!
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 23:06
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Quote:This implies that politicians *should* have some working knowledge, did I read it wrong?
Originally posted by Geezer:
Okay. I'll address your question.
First, knowing American history isn't, or shouldn't be, specialist knowledge for politicians alone.
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Palin did answer Beck's question about her favorite Founder.
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George Washington, by any criteria, WAS a Founding Father, dispite Niki's quibbles and circumlocutions, so the title of this thread is obviously incorrect.
I'm with ya here.
Quote:Not martial arts in the strictest sense, but I DO appreciate your answer nonetheless.
my favorite lead strike is a .308 caliber 200g Sierra MatchKing at 1000 yards.
My only point was that being in government should entail some intimate knowledge of the workings & history of it, in the way being in martial arts entails the same.
Thank you.
The laughing Chrisisall
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my favorite lead strike is a .308 caliber 200g Sierra MatchKing at 1000 yards.
In the martial arts world, I believe that's known as sniper-fu.
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Quote:To kill, I need only use one digit of my foot.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
In the martial arts world, I believe that's known as sniper-fu.
Yes. It's To-Fu.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Yet I only need to twitch a finger... :)
It's said that it takes thirteen muscles to smile, yet it only takes seven to pull the trigger on a really nice sniper rifle. 
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Seems to me the folks who put the video you posted together are loonies on a par with pundits like Limbaugh, the folks who put 'birther' sites up, and those who create pictures of Pres. Obama in Joker makeup.
My view on this:
I agree that a lot of the Palin scoffs are unfair (though not all of them!), and there are a lot of cheap shots taken at her (although in this example she set herself up for cheap shots by foolishly re-using her infamous 'all of them' line). This is just the nature of partisan politics - it's bias, shaded lenses - it doesn't equate to loonyness. Conspiracy theories I would say, are a different matter - they are often outlandish and deny all the available evidence.
Is the view that Sarah Palin is an 'ignorant airhead' a conspiracy theory (or comparable to one)? Certainly the very idea of a VP candidate and popular political figure being an ignorant airhead is quite outlandish and unlikely... but in my subjective judgement the evidence points to just that. Certainly, she has given so many apparently clueless answers that such a conclusion can only be described as hasty/cynical (not loony) at worst.
Heads should roll
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Yet I only need to twitch a finger... :)
It's said that it takes thirteen muscles to smile, yet it only takes seven to pull the trigger on a really nice sniper rifle.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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Originally posted by kpo:Quote:
Seems to me the folks who put the video you posted together are loonies on a par with pundits like Limbaugh, the folks who put 'birther' sites up, and those who create pictures of Pres. Obama in Joker makeup.
My view on this:
I agree that a lot of the Palin scoffs are unfair (though not all of them!), and there are a lot of cheap shots taken at her (although in this example she set herself up for cheap shots by foolishly re-using her infamous 'all of them' line). This is just the nature of partisan politics - it's bias, shaded lenses - it doesn't equate to loonyness. Conspiracy theories I would say, are a different matter - they are often outlandish and deny all the available evidence.
Is the view that Sarah Palin is a dunderhead a conspiracy theory (or comparable to one)? Certainly the very idea of a VP candidate and popular political figure being an ignorant airhead is quite outlandish and unlikely... but in my subjective judgement the evidence points to just that. Certainly, she has given so many apparently clueless answers that such a conclusion can only be described as hasty/cynical (not loony) at worst.
Heads should roll
And while the idea of a dunderhead VP *seems* unlikely... at the same time it seems pretty dang *normal*, too.
Anyone remember Dan Quayle? Spiro Agnew? *ahem* Ermmm...
Joe Biden?
I rest my case.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Some say potatoe, while I say potato...
The laughing Chrisisall
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Anyone remember Dan Quayle? Spiro Agnew? *ahem* Ermmm...
Joe Biden?
I rest my case.
hmm, I see your point...
I should've stuck with 'ignorant airhead' (Joe Biden for e.g sometimes gives evidence of deep *knowledge* of some issues, if not wisdom). Best to edit I think.
Heads should roll
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