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lol from this side of the pond all i can say is we found her funny . on a serious note i doubt shes electable given her iq must be way below average and lets face it shes not exactly the most honest person . i mean really would you elect someone like that ??? would you eh???  :P 

Not that I'd ever vote for her anyway, but she really lost me when she started referring to a certain regional demographic as the "real Americans"and "pro-America," which of course means that anyone who does not fall into this demographic are the "fake Americans," and "anti-America." The second you start questioning the patriotism of people based on their likelihood of voting for you, you have proven yourself unfit to run for dog catcher, much less Vice President of the United States.

If she runs in 2012, expect the Democrats to have a field day pointing out her blatant disdain for 56% of the country.

*Clears throat* I normally don't post in threads like this, or on any forums in general, but I felt the need to provide some insight and some historical facts for the Palin pundits to chew on.

Let me start by saying that I voted for Barack Obama. I also have the honor of saying that I knew him at one point in time, when he was the professor of one of my classes at the University of Chicago. Barack Obama is as intelligent, insightful, and well spoken as he appears in print and media. I have listened to him speak for hours on subjects that would bore anyone with a pulse to tears, but somehow he injects his own enthusiasm into his lectures and captures your interest with his words. He is also the smartest man I have ever met, and was once president of the Harvard Law Review.

I have never met Sarah Palin, but I have watched her extensively during her campaign. She strikes me as a woman who is not very intelligent, and her only political skills seem to be her wink and her "holier than thou" attitude which is strikingly similar to President Bush's. Every time she makes a statement I can't help but compare it to a contestant answering the "final question" in the Miss America pageant. Furthermore, she has a sub-par education, stumbling from community college to state school to community college before finally receiving a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.

I find it scary that the Palin pundits can stand up and defend this woman with a straight face.  I want a president who is smart above all things (not Karl Rove smart, not evil genius), and clearly Barack Obama trumps Sarah Palin in that regard. Need I say more?

I will leave you with a history lesson. The year was 1932. America had been feeling the effects of the Great Depression for over 3 years. Tired of Herbert Hoover's ineffective efforts to keep America from spiraling even deeper into Depression, Americans clearly stated "enough is enough" by electing a democrat by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the greatest american president imo) to the presidency. Roosevelt almost singlehandedly brought America out of the great depression with aggressive government in the form of the first New Deal. The New Deal created many of the socioeconomic programs that have fallen to crap during the Bush administration, such as Fannie Mae, the FDIC, and the SEC. His second New Deal created the Social Security system, which has also taken a dump during the Bush administration. The second New Deal also created the National Labor Relations Act, which allowed workers to organize into unions and is the reason many americans have 5 day work weeks, paid vacations, pensions, healthcare, and overtime.

During this time period, many right wing groups criticized the programs of Roosevelt as being "socialist", just as they are doing to Obama today. So rest easy my friends, this has all happened before. Obama has both the brains and the will to be another Franklin Roosevelt, and can easily bring this country out of this recession. If Roosevelt could singlehandedly bring a country out of a much greater economic crisis than the current one, then Obama can do the same, in my belief. He reminds me more of Roosevelt than any single president since.

On a side note, Ronald Reagan couldn't fill the space of a pimple on Roosevelt's ass. He was that insignificant, he was.

Originally posted by kobie173

Not that I'd ever vote for her anyway, but she really lost me when she started referring to a certain regional demographic as the "real Americans"and "pro-America," which of course means that anyone who does not fall into this demographic are the "fake Americans," and "anti-America." The second you start questioning the patriotism of people based on their likelihood of voting for you, you have proven yourself unfit to run for dog catcher, much less Vice President of the United States.

If she runs in 2012, expect the Democrats to have a field day pointing out her blatant disdain for 56% of the country.

I agree.  Somehow being from a small town makes you better person than someone who lives in a city according to that line of thinking cause we all know "city folk" lack "small town values".  Of course, if those values include things like intolerance, bigotry and blind devotion to the "with us or against us" mentality then I'm glad I live in a city.

Originally posted by googajoob7

lol from this side of the pond all i can say is we found her funny . on a serious note i doubt shes electable given her iq must be way below average and lets face it shes not exactly the most honest person . i mean really would you elect someone like that ??? would you eh???  :P 

They already have..... twice lol

Originally posted by Ginaz

Originally posted by kobie173

Not that I'd ever vote for her anyway, but she really lost me when she started referring to a certain regional demographic as the "real Americans"and "pro-America," which of course means that anyone who does not fall into this demographic are the "fake Americans," and "anti-America." The second you start questioning the patriotism of people based on their likelihood of voting for you, you have proven yourself unfit to run for dog catcher, much less Vice President of the United States.

If she runs in 2012, expect the Democrats to have a field day pointing out her blatant disdain for 56% of the country.

 

I agree.  Somehow being from a small town makes you better person than someone who lives in a city according to that line of thinking cause we all know "city folk" lack "small town values".  Of course, if those values include things like intolerance, bigotry and blind devotion to the "with us or against us" mentality then I'm glad I live in a city.

And where a certain other poster on this forum lost me is, when I confronted him with this notion of Governor Palin's, he said "she's right."

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Just a thought:  Obama is not even in office and everyone is saying that the country is gonna go to hell, why don't we all just give it a year without pre-judging like mother fuckers?  I don't know how badly or well it will go, and neither does anyone else on this board, I say give Obama a fucking chance, he can't be nearly as bad as Bush was.

"On a side note, Ronald Reagan couldn't fill the space of a pimple on Roosevelt's ass. He was that insignificant, he was."

Reagan is dead and it looks like his policies are not long for this world either. Reagan may be God to the GOP but he'll just be another Presidential side-note in 20 years where FDR will be remembered with the likes of Washington and Lincoln. 

Whoops, here she is again.  The incredible disappearing governor.  I'm so sad she's been forgotten since the election.