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The following represents a set of OBSERVATIONS of the way it is.
So Sarah Palin couldn't tell Katie that Roger Taney and his court represent some kind of ethical and moral nadir, or that Plessy vs Ferguson was another, or that AG Jackson who agreed to move americans who happened to have japanese ancestors into camps, turned his story around and reached a peak of justice at Nuremberg, and then within SCOTUS.
Many think she's a stupid troglodyte with guns. But one has to ignore the education background of Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho College, Matanuska-Susitna College, and U Idaho .. a profile of someone seeking a degree not a PEDIGREE. This served for a BA in Communcations and a job as a sportscaster at the local Anchorage station. We all know people who went to several schools.
She did not go to school to align herself for the purpose of LOOKING GOOD for a CV, or to appear erudite alongside either Peggy Noonan or David Frum, or B Obama.
She got her degree to GET A JOB. To lead a life. A 'real' life, some might say
Instead, as one may OBSERVE empirically her intelligence is expressed in her APTITUDE to reach HER AUDIENCE.
Thus, when she speaks, when she makes a point, she is one of the people, speaking to the people. Too often, those who malign her are speaking as the elite, who self identify as such and think that to be effective govt service must be reserved for those who know better, THE ELITE, with the right university, the right intellectual pedigree and the right belief set.
Will this do? Is she smart enough? Or is she smart in a way Obama people cannot even DETECT, and what does that mean?
And so we come to Obama's INCREDIBLY stupid response to what Sarah Palin said about his new policy of 'hit me in the chin'.
To paraphrase the REAL dispute.. Obama announces he will not retaliate with nukes against a WMD attack on the USA if the attacker has no nukes (thus hoping to influence nations not to seek nukes), and BTW we have a new agreement with Russia. Palin responds by saying this policy is asking to be hit in the chin, and Obama PERSONALLY ASNWERS by calling her an inexperienced dimwit who knows jack, and he'll take Robert Gates' advice any day. PS the same Gates who thinks 183 F-22's really can replace across the next 25 years, 751 F-15 C's and D's, and chose Hesham Islam over Dr. Coughlin.
This plays PERFECTLY for Palin, and if you can't figure out why, you are one of the elite, who self identify as such and think that to be effective govt service must be reserved for those who know better, THE ELITE, with the right university, the right intellectual pedigree and the right belief set.
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UPDATE
I hope Epam doesn't mind me butting in but this is a perfect followup on this post. Palin responds to the charge of no nuclear experience. The money shot starts around 0:50 but it's all good. --MR
1 comment:
Good stuff, Epa. I say don't count Palin out yet or someone is going to get sucker punched.
She was very much maligned when she resigned as Governor of ALaska but I said, and still say, she wasn't so crazy for it.
She had a mountian of legal bills to pay and speaking engagements etc. are making her far more thna being a governor.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY she would not be able to say and criticize Obama the way she has been if she were a sitting governor. She is a Pit Bull (with lipstick) for The Tea Party.
She may or may not run for President again but I don't think that matters, at least right now, at least to her. She is keeping the pressure on Obama and his minions and more importantly keeping the issues out there so they cannot be ignored and Americans are listening.
A lot of people turned on her after thelection and after her resignation. Not me. I still support her.
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