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It is really comical that after 5 years time, lefty ears perk up at the mention of Sarah Palin. They jump on the chance to hurl inane insults. W Bush is long since departed from the scene. Sarah Palin is out of the loop. Even Michele Bachman just announced her retirement. Rush Limbaugh is still around, but how many times can even a lefty comment on his weight before getting bored with it all?
A lefty without an object of hatred is a sad sight indeed. And no really good prospects in sight. Ted Cruz won't do, he's a 'person of color.' I fear we're going to have to bump up federal spending on therapy over the next several years to deal with the problem.
So there is no reference in the story but it is an opportunity to bash a speaker at a graduation. Or insult the graduates, which you just did.
I'm not a particular fan of Palin but, like it or not, she is a public figure. Had the thread been about her speech then criticism would have been a fair comment. As it is, we're looking at a trolling thread.
I am a Palin fan because she came from nothing to be elected Governor of Alaska. She was a popular and successful governor and would have continued her successful political career were she not called upon to rescue the 2008 failing McCain campaign. The left knew they had McCain on the ropes and Palin was his last hope. They also knew the key to finishing off McCain was to destroy Palin.
Not a fan of Palin, but her speaking is relatively benign compared to Obamas psy-ops address a few weeks ago where he told the graduates not to listen to the voices who question government. Not at all unlike a predator luring a child into a car with candy bar while telling them its okay.
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Originally Posted by mb1547
Questioning government (and authority in general) is a good thing--wanting to completely eliminate it (or at least gut it to nothing--in Grover Nordquist's words "drown government in a bathtub") makes you an anarchist. That's silly and foolish.
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Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest
Your response doesn't address what I said, but thanks for writing all that.
We need a face palm icon on this board...
And for the record, the president didn't say we shouldn't question government. He said that we shouldn't consider it a sinister and evil separate entity like so many of the rwnj's on this board seem to. The American people are DEFINED by our constitution and form of government, and it works as well as we make it work. It's pretty obvious that some of you don't want it to work at all--that's un-American.
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems; some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.
We have never been a people who place all of our faith in government to solve our problems; we shouldn’t want to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it’s not about what America can do for us; it’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And, Class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/0...at-ohio-state/
I am a Palin fan because she came from nothing to be elected Governor of Alaska. She was a popular and successful governor and would have continued her successful political career were she not called upon to rescue the 2008 failing McCain campaign. The left knew they had McCain on the ropes and Palin was his last hope. They also knew the key to finishing off McCain was to destroy Palin.
Oh come on. The truth is that McCain wanted Lieberman but his campaign thought he needed a conservative female. Palin was not his last hope...she was his downfall.
I am a Palin fan because she came from nothing to be elected Governor of Alaska. She was a popular and successful governor and would have continued her successful political career were she not called upon to rescue the 2008 failing McCain campaign. The left knew they had McCain on the ropes and Palin was his last hope. They also knew the key to finishing off McCain was to destroy Palin.
That's so very true, but the lefties hate a successful woman who became successful on her own and still managed to raise a family with a husband who loves her. And if beautiful, to boot. That's a huge slap in the face for dems.
I voted for Palin. Unfortunately, I had to vote for that fool mcCain by default.
That's so very true, but the lefties hate a successful woman who became successful on her own and still managed to raise a family with a husband who loves her. And if beautiful, to boot. That's a huge slap in the face for dems.
I voted for Palin. Unfortunately, I had to vote for that fool mcCain by default.
So you think Palin is a ground breaker. Beautiful women do this every day....successful, gorgeous and raising a family. How is any of that a slap in the face
And you won $500 for being "most informative"- in what, how to be a dirty lowdown conservative lapdawg?
Nice neanderthal chest-thumping AMERICA response.
Not a fan of Palin, but her speaking is relatively benign compared to Obamas psy-ops address a few weeks ago where he told the graduates not to listen to the voices who question government. Not at all unlike a predator luring a child into a car with candy bar while telling them its okay.
that's an odd comparison...To compare the President's address to young adults to pedophilia...
Very telling.
Not quite a Freudian slip...more like a Freudian itch.
that's an odd comparison...To compare the President's address to young adults to pedophilia...
Very telling.
Not quite a Freudian slip...more like a Freudian itch.
I was equating Obamas speech to that of a predator, not surprisingly you want to change the focus and make it about me.
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We need a face palm icon on this board...
