Can Imagine the Uproar if Palin Said This:

"We have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. And all three of us will have to come together ..."

Senator Charles Schumer
CNN’s State of the Union
January 30, 2011

I disagree with Senator Schumer on just about everything. I don't doubt that, in the proper context, Senator Schumer would list the three branches of government correctly. However just imagine the late night jokes if George Bush or Sarah Palin had said this.

Palin Derangement Syndrome, Again

PALIN'S RECKLESS VIEWS ON OBESITY

A few days ago Roland Martin, of CNN fame, added one more example of Palin's inane ideas to the public record . Surely by this time we all know that Palin is an embarrassment to the body politic: unlike Biden, Hank "Guam May Tip Over" Johnson or Sheila Jackson Lee. Well, let's laugh at Palin's stupidity one more time. After all, who can't use a good laugh every now and then?

ROLAND MARTIN:
It's clear that we can't go 24 hours without Sarah Palin saying something so stupid that it defies logic, but leave it to the Kim Kardashian of politics to find something wrong with first lady Michelle Obama's effort to curb obesity in America's kids.

What did Palin say that was so stupid?

SARAH PALIN:
And I know I'm going to be again criticized for bringing this up, but instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions and then our country gets back on the right track.

Palin is truly out of the mainstream here. Martin is so correct: who can pay attention to this Kim Kardashian of politics when obesity rates have "tripled in the last three decades, and one in three children are obese." Palin must be crazy to think that the parents ought to decide. Obviously the parents don't know what they're doing. The government must step in to save the children. They're our future after all.

ROLAND MARTIN :
This latest broadside by Palin shows how reckless and ridiculous she is.

Libertarians and far right conservative Republicans are always talking about government intrusion into our lives, but when we look at clean water, air quality and food supply, thank God for governmental standards.

There's a lot wrong with your arguments Roland. I'll mention two things. First, let’s focus directly upon your statement of government standards. You would see, if you cared to look, that water and air quality were improving before the EPA was founded. Take a look at the same graphs and you will not see a change in the slope of the curve; thus showing that the value of the EPA is debatable.

Second, the fact that government has a role in upholding contracts (that what one says is in the food actually is) and in making certain that a person/company does not damage another person's property (pollution) has nothing to do with the government forcing people to eat good food.

Nobody is against a plain and simple "education" message. Nobody is against the first lady saying "brush your teeth," or "read to your kid every night," or "don't eat too much," or "eat more fruits and vegetable." What we're against is government intrusion; what we're against is the rise of Euro-socialist nanny state where laws and government power is used to enforce such a standard.

We have a social contract here: I promise not to kill you and take your stuff, if you promise not to kill me and take mine. We entered no such arrangement whereby I promise to stop you from eating too many Twinkies if you promise to stop me from eating too much meat.

Sarah Palin and North Korea

I'm not a Palin-phile but that doesn't mean that she shouldn't be defended from the garbage the media is throwing her way.

Obama misspeaks and says "57 states" and nobody bats an eye. And rightfully so. But Palin misspeaks and it becomes international news.

Looks at the headlines:

SARAH PALIN MAKES GAFFE, SAYING NORTH KOREA IS US ALLY

Former Alaskan governor and potential 2012 presidential contender Sarah Palin has made a gaffe on a radio show by saying North Korea is a US ally.

A review of the transcript shows that it was a mis-statement. One thing that's for certain Sarah Palin is much tougher, much more comfortable in dealing with a critical press, and, I think, much better at handling tough situations than President "voted present" Obama.

The transcript of the interview is below:

PAT: Sarah, you said in the last few days that you are considering a run for president.

SARAH PALIN: Yes.

PAT: And polls show that you would probably win the Republican nomination. How would you handle a situation like just developed in North Korea?

SARAH PALIN: Well, North Korea, this is stemming from I think a greater problem when we're all sitting around asking, "Oh, no, what are we going to do" and we're not having a lot of faith that the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea's going to do. So this speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policies. But obviously got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty. We're also bound to by ‑‑

STU: South Korea.

SARAH PALIN: Yeah. And we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes. And, you know, to remind North Korea, well, we're not going to reward bad behavior and we're not going to walk away and we do need to press China to do more to increase pressure on that arena.

Obviously this was an informal conversation and she misspoke. Imagine though, that Sarah Palin was in Austria and said that "she didn't know the term in Austrian."

Should that comment by Obama automatically be taken as a misstatement? No. Imagine the outcry had Sarah Palin made the exact same statement.

Look at the accompanying photo: can we get a more unflattering picture of Sarah Palin than that? Why try to evoke images of Hitler and other dictators? "Oh, I know, I know": because the BBC is trying to implant this image, and yet maintain a pretense of objectivity by including this last paragraph in their article:

The conservative US website The Weekly Standard came to Ms Palin's defence, pointing out that "she correctly identified North Korea as our enemy literally eight seconds before the mix-up".

Once again we see the objective media at their best.

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EDIT: 11/27/2010
What follows is an audio file of Sarah Palin's comments:

HAT TIP: rctlfy

Obama = Keynesian, or is that Kenyan?

HAT TIP: HOT AIR

This is too funny for words. And these people would be among the first to ridicule Sarah Palin and George Bush; and consider that Tea Party supporters are poorly educated dolts.

They know that free markets don't work, think the idea is stupid and yet have probably never heard of Frederic Bastiat, Karl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Frederick Hayek, Murray Rothbard, or Milton Friedman. Obviously many have not heard of one of the most influential - unfortunately - economists of the 20th C: John Maynard Keynes, nor probably have they heard of Paul Samuelson one of Keynes foremost supporters, writer of one of the most successful textbooks in Economics, and mentor to Paul Krugman (now of NYTimes fame).

And yet I'm stupid and laughably ignorant for being a supporter of limited government and the free market.

Don't Party Like It's 1773, Yet!

Once again the Stupid TeaBaggers' hero Sarah Palin puts her foot in her mouth. As Markos Moulitsas puts it Sarah is "so smart." And, as Gwen Ifill so succinctly puts it "party like it 1773! ummm." How is it possible that this dolt, this Tea Party idiot, Sarah Palin, doesn't know that the Declaration of Independence took place in 1776!?

Maybe it's because the actual "Tea Party" took place on December 16th, 1773 and Sarah Palin was referring to that event and not the Declaration of Independence. Maybe, horror of horrors, Palin isn't as stupid as you portray her to be.

Weren't the left the ones that were mocking the Tea Party movement for not knowing their history and deprecating the very use of the phrase Tea Party? I've dealt with the appropriateness of the term, Tea Party, in an earlier post so I won't go over it again.

I'm not a Republican, but I am aligning myself with them in this election, and hope that come the night of November 2 we're partying as if it was 1894. (The election of November 6, 1894 saw a massive realignment in US politics. Interestingly enough, the Republicans of 1894 were for government intervention in the economy in ways that the somewhat free-market Democrats were not.)

You can see Sarah Palin's speech regarding "partying like it's 1773" at The Right Scoop

Obama: Mexicans were Here Long Before America was even an Idea!

In a speach to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus President Obama said:

"Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land,"

Once again we hav another foot-in-mouth statement by our Commander in Chief. Imagine the ridicule if George Bush or Sarah Palin had said something this inane.

The United States declared its independence in 1776 while Mexico
Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. The US became a country in 1787. Mexico was recognized on September 27, 1821.

For a little bit of geeky fun: Was the United States, THE United States under the Articles of Confederation? No, I don't think so. But, in a comparison to Mexico as per the topic, we were recognized as independent in 1783. So when was the birth of the United States? When the US Constitution was finally ratified on September 17, 1787? Or with the first election? Or when the first members of Congress, the President and the Supreme Court justicies were elected, approved and in office? We recognize the date of ratification as it's a simpler, more appreciable date.

Regarding the statement and lack of attention made to Obama's misstatements I must say that some of them make you wonder. The "57 States" quote is forgiveable, anybody can misspeak, I certainly do, and you can see a tired campaigner -- who thinks in terms of campaigns -- make a mistake as he includes Guam, Puerto Rico, DC, etc... and conflates that with States. Fine.

It is surprising he didn't catch it and go "oops, I meant to say 50, I must be getting tired." However some of the other misstatements have to make you wonder such as "speaking Austrian" or that the "Muslims invented the compass." Ow! Imagine the ridicule if George Bush or Sarah Palin had said that. Even people who didn't know that the Chinese invented the compass long before Muhammad's great-grand daddy was born would be laughing at Bush and Palin for being so "stupid."

And you think Republican's are Stupid?

Imagine the ridicule if Bush or Palin had said this. This is not Sanchez' only ridiculous statment in the last few months. Look at the video below: "What is 9 meters in English?"



How about Rick Sanchez' professional skill, reading from a teleprompter? He reads "ad lib" and says: "Upnext, ad lib, a tease."



Again, imagine the 24x7 ridicule if Sarah Palin or George Bush had said anything so stupid.

And Republican's are stupid?

His fear is that Guam may tip over. Mine is that he is in the US Congress.

If Sarah Palin had said this it would have been all over the airwaves, played again and again and again and again.

If Coakley was a Republican she would be made a laughing stock.

If Coakley was a Republican she would be made a laughing stock on the MSM. There would be 24 hours a day replays of her gaffs. And people call Sarah Palin stupid?

If Palin is stupid then so is Coakley. If Coakley is not stupid then how could anyone call Palin stupid?

Again, let me state that if Coakley was a Republican she would be made into a laughing stock.

FIRST, she says that there were no terrorists in Afghanistan the same week when 8 CIA analysts were killed by a suicide bomber; THEN she says she understands international relations because relatives live abroad and she talks with them; THEN she says that actually shaking hands with voters at Fenway is a bad idea; THEN she has TV ads where they misspell Massachusetts; THEN she considers all Catholics as unfit for ER jobs and describes a First Amendment Right - the Freedom of Religion - as "some law" and NOW, she dismisses Curt Shilling as a "Yankee Fan."

For those unfamiliar with baseball. Curt Shilling was a singularly important part of the Boston Red Sox getting to, and winning the World Series in 2004. This may seem unimportant, but it was a key event in Massachusetts, even non-baseball fans were aware that something important was happening. Boston was breaking "The Curse." Curt Shilling was one of the heroes of the day. A few years have passed; Curt Shilling is now a Republican activist and Coakley in an inane attempt in criticizing Shilling calls him a "Yankee Fan." See the interview. She doesn't seem to understand what she's saying.

Let's state this again. If she was a Republican the MSM would be cutting her to shreds and the meme "Republicans are stupid" would once again be filling the airwaves.