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Palin resignation -- WTF??
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Anonymous
I would have never expressed the above sentiment in such a manner, but most of you would do the same for Obama. (I am not the PP who will not name the President.) |
Anonymous
As one who voted for Obama and considers him a vast improvement over Bush, my gut reaction to what appears to me to be knee-jerk criticism of everything he does, is to defend him. On the other hand, I have my own disappointments with his lack of action on the progressive agenda he ran on. I think it's poetic justice that despite the fact that he is ignoring his base to placate the right wing, many on the right still throw so much garbage at him. As to Palin, I have to give her credit for awakening a bit of empathy in the religious right toward teen-age sexuality. |
Anonymous
Not me. (from a left-liberal who voted for him) I bet there are lots of others, too, but as another pp noted, I get tired of the knee-jerk criticism of Obama. Even when we're not talking about him, the knee-jerk critic has to somehow throw his name in (or an allusion to him). BTW, I should also note that even though I disagree strongly with Palin's politics, I stood up for her when liberals smeared her with all kinds of inappropriate stereotypes about working-class, rural white people. |
Anonymous
| I find her whole "damsel in distress" routine tired and boring. She's quitting because it's hard and she's tired of doing it. |
Anonymous
| I don't understand why everyone tiptoes around the issue of her intelligence and says she's "not prepared" or "not sophisticated." She's not very bright. Period. Neither is her husband, who appears to be as dumb as a post. It's not a matter of fancy college degrees or anything like that, she's just not very smart. And Americans seem to be afraid to say that. |
Anonymous
The man has been in office for 6 months. Give him a minute to accomplish the entirety of the agenda on which he ran. He's already done an astonishing amount given the diplomatic and other damage he's had to work to undo. And as for Palin...no, she didn't awaken anything in anyone. Her teenage daughter got knocked up. She tried to hide it for as long as possible. She's still preaching abstinence as The Answer. |
Anonymous
I'm not afraid to say it! She's not smart and that's being kind. She's also dishonest and, apparently, a quitter. |
Anonymous
Short and sweet. And I agree. There's really just no "there" there, if you know what I mean. And the folksy bullsh*t get's old no matter who's acting folksy, right or left. She, like Bush, has an aversion to intellectual curiosity and, well, just being prepared. People like this are dangerous. |
Anonymous
Totally agree. Palin appeals to the lowest common (and I mean common) denominator. People like that start wars that get thousands of dedicated and hardworking American soldiers killed, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. For what? So Bush can show his pals Saddam Hussein's gun? Bush got a trophy, and thousands of people got dead. Palin is cut from the same cloth. Politics aside, you have to agree that she's a dunce. Not even that politically skillful. Just a stupid person who managed to claw her way into power in a very sparsely populated state full of people who think much like she does. Did you read the Vanity Fair article? Oh my God, and people actually voted for this woman. She's started a PAC. She wants to be President of the United States. Delusional. Can't the Republicans come up with a standard-bearer who is an intellectual? |
Anonymous
I dislike her as much as anyone, but what do we gain by continuing to rant? It's akin to those who bitch about "Hussein in the White House". They accomplish nothing beyond pissing us off, and I suspect we have the same result on those who support Palin. It's one thing to react to the resignation by trying to figure out what that was all about. But continuing to dump on her, for no reason other than to vent, does nothing to advance our ideas. I don't mean to put PP down. I've done my share of venting, and am just trying to suggest that both sides try to up the debate to venting ratio. |
Anonymous
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1. To the "I think she is pregnant" poster, thank you for perpetrating the myth that pregnancy is an illness and pregnant woman don't belong in the workplace.
2. To the poster discouraged that Obama is pandering to the Right Wing at the expense of his liberal supporters. News Flash! The right wing dislikes almost 100% of Obama's agenda (with some possible exceptions on immigration enforcement where they have common ground with unions) so if this is what Obama is doing, a) it isn't working and b) maybe Obama should reconsider. I am ambivalent about Palin myself but think the jury is still out on whether this was dumb or smart. As a mother myself, if a nationally broadcast comedian talked about my 14 year old daughter being "Knocked Up" by a Lothario baseball player and the MSN told me to get over it, I too might have second thoughts about whether this job was worth the psychic damage to my kids. |
Anonymous
| Meant MSM - not MSN |