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Not one single defense of the real stupid one in the WH who does not even know how many states we have.
The left must be getting even more scared of Palin to post daily waste of space threads about her.
If you think Palin is stupid, she is surely smarter then the bookworm in the WH who has no common sense and is a mistake an hour, dumb as a rock scam artist.
Anyone who really believes that the president actually does not know how many states there are please raise your hand.
Now anyone who believes that Sarah did not know what the "Sputnik moment" analogy meant please raise your hand.
By the way, she never did answer Greta's interview question of do you think this is another sputnik moment for America.
She may have got the analogy wrong, but is she incorrect in what she said?
Yes, sputnik was in the fifties and after some more space shots in the early sixties, the Soviets really did not make many forays into the field. Then, the Soviet Union collapsed in the eighties? It wasn't due to space exploration debt!
The biggest result of sputnik was a re-focusing of math and science education in the US. At the same time, the book "Why Johnny Can't Read" came out and there was a big brouhaha in education. So the US got more math and more teaching of phonics.
The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful nations after World War II. For a half-century, the two superpowers competed for primacy in a global struggle pitting a democratic society against totalitarian communism.
Space was a crucial arena for this rivalry. Before a watchful world, each side sought to demonstrate its superiority through impressive feats in rocketry and spaceflight. Secret satellites kept a wary eye on the adversary.
At the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia agreed to build a space station and pursue other joint ventures in space. A contest that began in fear and enmity has become a partnership.
In this memorandum, devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations and the issues of arms control, Yakovlev proposes a radical breakthrough in Soviet foreign policy. Until now, the Soviet negotiating position on nuclear arms control was based on a " package " approach-tying together progress on strategic nuclear weapons, intermediate-range weapons and forward-based systems in Europe, and the issue of anti-ballistic missile defense. Gorbachev's insistence on the package approach and Reagan's commitment to SDI made a breakthrough at the U.S.-Soviet summit in Reykjavik impossible. Here, Yakovlev proposes " untying " the package and signing separate agreements on each of its elements, arguing that this would be in the Soviet interest. Gorbachev agreed to " untie the package " as early as March 1987.
In Iceland, last October, we had one moment of opportunity that the Soviets dashed because they sought to cripple our Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI. I wouldn't let them do it then; I won't let them do it now or in the future. This is the most positive and promising defense program we have undertaken. It's the path, for both sides, to a safer future—a system that defends human life instead of threatening it.
Nothing shows more fear of something than your requirement to compromise based on the removal of that fear. They knew they couldn't compete. Was the space race the only reason they collapsed? No, of course not. the fact that 1/2 their national income was going to a military build up, the civil unrest in the satellite nations, the massive drop in the prices of mineral wealth (negotiated by William J. Casey - DCI - with Saudi Arabia), our military build up making what they had built up to obsolete and Reagan's continual full court press is what led to their demise. It didn't hurt they were collapsing since 1917 and the main reason they didn't already is because of concessions they strong-armed the west into for fear of nuclear war. Detente and Containment didn't work.
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Not one single defense of the real stupid one in the WH who does not even know how many states we have.
The left must be getting even more scared of Palin to post daily waste of space threads about her.
If you think Palin is stupid, she is surely smarter then the bookworm in the WH who has no common sense and is a mistake an hour, dumb as a rock scam artist.
[LEFT]He then attended Harvard Law School, graduated magna *** laude, and served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review
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What award do smart people get? Magna *** Dumass?
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Just before that Q&A, she gave a 45 minute speech without a teleprompter. Can BO do that?
Let's put an end to this stupidity.
During the campaign I personally watched Obama give five different addresses sans teleprompter, once in State College, PA, the second in Harrisburg, a third in Johnston PA, a fourth in West Philadelphia, and the fifth on the Independence Mall in Philadelphia all of which lasted more than an hour.
I might add that we all witnessed Obama debate both his democratic challengers, and John McCain in at least 10 different occasions, we also had the opportunity to watch Obama respond in innumerable one on one interview, were again a TelePrompTer is absent by the very nature of the spontaneous nature of such formats.
On the other hand, MS Palin granted TWO interviews during the campaign, after being sequestered and tutored for weeks, and ONE vice-presidential debate in each instance she was an unmitigated disaster. So please, let's not allow time, blind loyalty, and partisanship to create some myth that Palin would have as much chance as a Wasilla popsicle in hell of out debating, speaking, thinking or chewing bubble gun against Sasha Obama much less her father.
I knew the OP couldn't make it the month of January before posting another "slam Palin" thread! Ha ha, too funny. The obsessive Palin derangement syndrome continues..........
I knew the OP couldn't make it the month of January before posting another "slam Palin" thread! Ha ha, too funny. The obsessive Palin derangement syndrome continues..........
Honestly, how could anyone when Palin provides such rich material on a bi-weekly basis?
On the other hand, MS Palin granted TWO interviews during the campaign, after being sequestered and tutored for weeks, and ONE vice-presidential debate in each instance she was an unmitigated disaster. So please, let's not allow time, blind loyalty, and partisanship to create some myth that Palin would have as much chance as a Wasilla popsicle in hell of out debating, speaking, thinking or chewing bubble gun against Sasha Obama much less her father.
MRS. Palin.
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