tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post8774654040727365970..comments2023-07-07T04:02:25.375-04:00Comments on Sane Political Discourse: The Cheat Sheet and a Belated AOTWPatrick Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16377933168305160179noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-63690326078092128392010-02-13T11:10:28.936-05:002010-02-13T11:10:28.936-05:00Patrick: True. And it backfires sometimes. I can o...Patrick: True. And it backfires sometimes. I can only imagine the recent bashing of Sarah Palin over her handicapped child can easily backfire. I've seen some of the blogs even make fun of her over it. Like, imagine if conservatives made fun of Ted Kennedy's cancer.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-2741615863440306702010-02-12T11:02:29.506-05:002010-02-12T11:02:29.506-05:00Pamela: I think you and I are the only ones who f...Pamela: I think you and I are the only ones who found all this funny.<br /><br />The rest of you: lighten up. You spend way too much energy getting all worked up over someone who isn't even in office, giving them a whole lot more power than they'd have if you weren't getting all torqued off.Patrick Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16377933168305160179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-21379669559864939662010-02-10T17:59:32.535-05:002010-02-10T17:59:32.535-05:00I was just trying to be "funny". I'm...I was just trying to be "funny". I'm beyond the Obama telepromter jokes and could really care less what Palin had scrawled on her hand. Like Rocky mentioned, note cards are my preference when giving a speech, although it's been awhile since I've had to use them. <br /><br />I will agree that "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" and we have much more important things to worry about than teleprompters and crib notes.Pamela Zydelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00455065276657597689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-6730436533901415382010-02-10T15:28:06.123-05:002010-02-10T15:28:06.123-05:00All good orators have pre written speeches which t...All good orators have pre written speeches which they or their speech writers have put together.<br />In days of old, sheets of paper were used, then index cards.<br />These days we have powerpoint, blackberries and teleprompters.<br />The worst thing Palin did is not read her crib notes, but to actually READ off her hand. Several times. And this after she made such an issue about Obama and his teleprompter.<br />It was disrespectful and snarkey and hardly becoming of a former national candidate. But it isn't something I care to devote much time to.<br />We have more serious issues that require our attention.<br />The only issue here is people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.<br />This schoolyard silly season, like the long winter, is wearing pretty thin.rockynchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00772988855661101621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-9546957045880194962010-02-10T04:34:54.478-05:002010-02-10T04:34:54.478-05:00I think there's a difference between reading a...I think there's a difference between reading a speech, which is written, essentially, to be read, and Sarah writing basic concepts (that she ought to be living, breathing, eating and sleeping 24/7) on her hand.<br /><br />What WAS on her hand, anyway?<br /><br />"Energy, Budget cuts (with "budget" crossed out), Tax, Lift American Spirits."<br /><br />She needs reminders of these things?<br /><br />She can't remember four things?<br /><br />She can't remember to 'lift American Spirits' without writing it on her HAND???<br /><br />Come on. This is like finding me at work with 'Airway, Breathing, Circulation' written on my hand. If I need reminders on my hand about these most basic of concepts, after all the years I've been doing it, maybe I ought to look at another line of work.<br /><br />If Sarah Palin needs to write things like Energy, the Budget, Taxes and 'Lifting American Spirits' on her hand, after all the "experience" it's claimed she has, maybe she's the one who needs a different line of work. <br /><br />These were prescreened questions. She knew what was going to be asked. There were no surprises here. <br /><br />Still, she requires reminders of basic concepts that she supposedly stands for. That's just pitiful.<br /><br />And I do mean pitiful.Satyavati devi dasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13980257934310271457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-65147113005727394412010-02-10T00:39:33.773-05:002010-02-10T00:39:33.773-05:00Patrick: Aw! TOTUS has its OWN award! That IS good...Patrick: Aw! TOTUS has its OWN award! That IS good news! Maybe the White House can make little TOTUS statues and sell them in their gift shop, although with all the unemployed people no one can afford to buy them. But wait! Obama is going to create jobs—- let’s not all hold our breath though.Pamela Zydelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00455065276657597689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-71350712016615724032010-02-09T21:30:01.656-05:002010-02-09T21:30:01.656-05:00Palin's hand job just shows all of us what kin...Palin's hand job just shows all of us what kind of dullard we are up against. WOW and some call her a leader....please.Miltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250195226200160668.post-29281398101384575912010-02-09T18:17:48.021-05:002010-02-09T18:17:48.021-05:00Sarah Palin in an interview with Chris Wallace on ...Sarah Palin in an interview with Chris Wallace on FOX News opined that President Barack Obama won’t be re-elected in 2012 unless he can “toughen up” on national security. The former half-time Governor of Alaska believes that declaring war on Iran could help the president get re-elected.<br /><br />“Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do,” Palin told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday. “That changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years.”<br /><br />The governor who quit apparently doesn't know that the Executive Branch doesn't "declare war" on countries. A majority vote of both houses "declares war."<br /><br />If she doesn't know that basic fact, how can we expect her to know anything?<br /><br />Oh. Wait. She doesn't. She is a great little prettied-up performer with no basic undertanding of how our Constitution works.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.com