The Reverend Wright issue only rang true with those who already knew that Obama was the devil incarnate. It didn't have much impact on the electorate at large. Choosing to ignore the goofy things one's pastor says but choosing to continue going to that church because the pastor is inspirational is a commonplace occurrence to which many can relate.
Would have to disagree. And he didn't just do that, he said the man was like a father figure to him, and titled one of his books after one of his sermons. The man traveled once with Farrakhan.
So you're telling me all leftists and Democrats would let it slide if say Sarah Palin attended a church of let's say some John Hagee or Rich Warren type, whom she said was like a father figure and had baptize her children and marry her to her husband, meanwhile he had once traveled with some guy who said whites should kill blacks and Jews...?
The simple fact is that the political Left became complete and total hypocrites on that one. No Republican would ever have been allowed to slide on something like that. People STILL criticize Palin for her church.
And no, you do not sit in a church because the guy is "inspirational" if he says racist and anti-American things unless you hold similar views, I know I wouldn't anyway.
Palin's move will be viewed by the public at large as proof that she is not qualified to serve as president.
Perhaps.
Choosing to quit one's job because its not fun anymore is also something to which many can relate.
The thing is, did she quit because it wasn't "fun" or because she couldn't do it properly anymore due to all the ethics charges and so forth?
Most of us don't follow this urge because we know that doing so is a career killer. Those who do follow this urge find a new career. Palin's move was a career killer. She needs to find a new career
Time will tell.
The trouble is that Sarah Palin has her Reverend Muthee and her End of Days Congregation up there in Wasilla. She has Reverend Wright problems up to her eyeballs.
I haven't seen anything racist or prejudiced from her church. If they believe in the End of Days, whatever, that's their belief. No different than the similar End of Days the global warming fearmongers currently in charge believe in. The Reverand Wright issue was because he said racist and anti-American things, had a history that suggested racism, and the hypocrisy the left showed on this; the mainstream media, they were going to cover that whole thing up! Do you really think they would have done so with a Republican? NO WAY.
Obama gave confidence that he understands what he says. That if called upon he can actually solve a problem intelligently.
Sure, that's how he
seemed. But how one "sounds" or "seems" means little, all that matters is how much one actually knows, and the truth is Barack Obama was horribly qualified to be President. He had a very poor knowledge of the issues and no one in the media ever asked him any real questions, like
how will you pay for your healthcare,
how will you tackle global warming without harming the economy,
how will you fix education, etc...he avoided like the plague the network he knew would ask him such questions, Fox News, except for Bill O'Reilly, whom he had to go on because he'd promised, in which he only allowed a very short interview and couldn't really answer any of the questions in detail.
For whatever reason, he still cannot even admit he was wrong on the surge, of which there is nothing to be ashamed of, considering the entire foreign policy establishment, the Pentagon, the Iraq Study Group, and both Republicans and Democrats were against initially.
He also never was able to explain his desire to "spread the wealth" and how that is not socialist. He ran as a hardcore leftist for the most part, which clearly showed him as either an ideologue or someone willing to say whatever needs to be said to get elected to power.
Poor Sarah Palin puts lipstick on Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich prose without apparently really grasping what she's talking about.
It isn't that tough to understand the basic principles she was talking about. She just needs more in-depth knowledge of the issues, but had no more or less than Barack Obama and Biden at the time. And she clearly knew just as much, or more, than Joseph Biden in their debate.
I'd say her body of work speaks for itself. Leaving aside her fractured academic career, anyone that would even suggest that because Alaska borders Russia across the Arctic Ocean, that qualifies her as having foreign policy experience, ... or when Putin raises his head ... or she can see Russia ... These are sophomoric statements that even most couch potato-heads find sub-par.
Even her withdrawal for the Governorship yesterday reveals a rambling declaration that raises more questions about her political sense than it answers questions about what she's really planning on doing. She seems ready to borrow from other sources like Reagan and Gingrich, but she shows little aptitude for any real analysis ... preferring to rely on ignorance and parochial simplification, like drill baby drill, that may appeal to the folks in her state, but doesn't by any stretch begin to deal with solving energy problems.
Palin said in her speech at the RNC she was fully aware drilling alone will not solve our energy problems.
I'd say Barack Obama never explained how carbon cap-and-trade magically will fix our energy problems though. Also, have you ever considered that the reason she may have resigned is so she can actually concentrate on studying the issues in-depth, something that may be rather impossible right now when she can't even really do her job as governor at the moment?
Is she an intelligent mother and caring adult for her family, she probably is, but her family does show some remarkable lapses and departure from the dogma of the conservative values that she publicly embraces.
Sometimes one can be a fabulous parent and the children will still be screwy.
This recent talking-point slur by the radical right has long puzzled me. Do they not know that all of their talking heads and politicians all read from pre-prepared material presented on teleprompters rather than paper also? They do know that, right?
Yes, but most politicians are not so completely dependent on the Tele-Prompter that they are completely inept without one. Bill Clinton certainly had no problem winging it if he needed to. President Obama flat-out cannot speak without a Tele-Prompter. I mean he
can but he struggles greatly. This isn't to say he's an idiot, I'm just pointing out about speaking.
Watch an Obama White House briefing and you'd realize he can speak just fine without a script. Do these people forget the library of books published featuring Bush's inability to speak coherently at all?
I have watched plenty of them and no he does not speak well without one. He also doesn't debate. He only allows a reporter to get the microphone, ask a question, upon which then the microphone is removed. He doesn't allow for any kind of sparring or debate really.
And yes, Republicans were fully aware of George W. Bush's bad speaking ability. But no one ever claimed he was a great speaker.
So to you, Wheels, I suggest you watch the Palin interviews with Katie Couric in which Palin wasn't reading from a teleprompter (which she was during her campaign speeches at rallies, by the way) and see how coherent and capable of speaking unaided she is.
Actually, during her speech at the RNC, her Tele-Prompter froze up midway through and she had to go from memory for the rest of the speech. If she knows the subject, she seems to have no problem speaking from memory, although I'd say she still has some work to do. It just takes practice. You need to take a look at some videos of what happened to President Obama when his Tele-Prompter either froze or went off script.
Find out if she can even name one of the many, many newspapers she reads.
Stupid flub she should have been prepared for.
For that matter, watch her announcement yesterday and see if you can make any sense of what the woman says.
Her pitch and tone on that one went up and down too much was the problem there.
Since most things written can easily have been written by someone else we have little choice but to go by how a politician speaks. I would also say their educational background but Palin's is rather spotty so I'll leave off and go by what I can see before me.
Speaking ability is not what you by. You go by knowledge. That's it. Educational background can be counted, but ultimately is meaningless when it comes to something like the Presidency. If the candidate has no degree, but is very knowledgeable on the issues, that is all that matters really.
Do not make the "fallacy of the intellectual," i.e. assuming that because one is an expert in some narrow, specialized profession, that this somehow makes them more qualified than others to be President.
Barack Obama showed himself to be highly ignorant of the basics of economics, foreign policy, history, and the Constitution, despite being a Columbia and Harvard graduate, and a Constitutional law professor.
That, or he's a total ideologue. It's one or the other. I'd guess the latter moreso, with some of the former. But no one ever really put any tough questions to him.
I've heard Obama several times with and without a prompter. When unprepared he may stutter and verbally misstep but I get the over all impression that he knows what he is talking about.
Any good politician can
seem to know what they're talking about. If you listen to his speeches however, and what he said throughout the campaign, it was very apparent, as I have said, that he was either an ideologue or he knew nothing. He is an expert at using a lot of words to ultimately say nothing.
He does not ramble on into never ending incoherant sentences. I heard Palin a number of times both prepared and unprepared. When she was prepared she seemed to be reciting lines as if she didn't really understand what she was talking about all that well and when she was unprepared she sounded like a babbling idiot who had no idea what was coming out of her mouth. It was frightfully reminicent of Ms South Carolina from the 2007 Teen USA Pagent.
True, she needs to work on those aspects. She needs to learn the issues more in-depth. She did okay during her VP debate, but she still needed to learn more. Some have been wondering why she hasn't yet, but some speculate it is because of the ethics charges and so forth she is handling right now and maybe that is why she resigned. Time will tell. But as I said, I never heard Barack Obama sound like he knew what he was talking about either. The list of questions Republicans wanted him to be asked, I don't think I could list them all here. Which he never would because if confronted with them, it would quickly come apparent either how ignorant of the issues he is or how much of an ideologue he is.
MCCAIN didn't know what he was talking about even, and Biden, they had to wire his jaw shut near the end of the election. None of them did really. That's the sad thing.
You still have not said why she is untouchable in regards to abortion.
She hasn't had an abortion herself.
And my point bringing up the daughter is that families forcing their daughters to keep children they may not necessarily want or be ready to take care of as well as pushing them into marriage with a person they may not have any interest in spending their lives with are major issues for prochoice activists.
Her daughter went and got knocked up. I doubt she would have kept, or even had, the baby if she really didn't want it.
cont'd...
Probably will be an impassioned plea for Americans to understand that she can actually see Russia from her house, the global media conspiracy to discredit her and her family, and a 100 page diatribe against her would be son in law Levi Johnston and David Letterman.
