Comments on: After Tom Friedman, Sarah Palin is Flat Now Too

By: Bill Farren

Bill Farren — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:44:05 +0000

Good read. Thanks for pointing it out, Clay.
And Jose, thanks for quoting Zinn. Too bad more haven’t read Zinn. There’d be less people throwing themselves under the Straight Talk Express.

By: Michael Doyle

Michael Doyle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:57:01 +0000

I’ll try to refrain from attacking Friedman–he’s not a quarter as bright as thinks he is, and only half-bright as his adoring public believes he is. If that.

He can write, true. He’s a decent wordsmith with a two-bit cortex–reminds me of Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham.

Palin is a symptom; so was Hitler. Yes, I lumped the two together–different ideologies, but similar tactics. And in both cases, as much as we like to absolve hoi polloi, the people surrounding her (i.e., the mob)are culpable.

We have the democracy we deserve. I have no idea if the pundits are right about economic doom, or if it’s just hyperbole.

If it’s the former, please go back to Gilgamesh–if we’re doomed, may as well read the wisdom of a prior doomed culture.

If it’s the latter, please go back to Gilgamesh–no sense wasting energy on false prophets.

If nothing else, I am beginning to grasp how Nero could fiddle as Rome burned. What else can we do?

[I'm going clamming again Saturday. Sunlight to plankton to clams to me. I'm not inviting Thomas Friedman, but if you ever want to come along Clay, I have an extra kayak and a place to stay.]

Michael Doyles last blog post..The cost of tools

By: diane

diane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:25:27 +0000

This is the same woman who trumpeted her desire for a "victory" in Iraq comparable to our "victory" in Viet Nam. I hope our country will be spared such a fate. I continue to be mortally offended that John McCain imagined I would vote for his ticket because he included a woman as his running mate, without evaluating the suitability of the particular female he chose. dianes last blog post..The Brisbins of Saratoga County

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:13:56 +0000

Well said, Jose. I’m fine with an intelligent, principled conservative party, but that’s not what Palin appeals to. She appeals to the populist lynch mobs.

It’s good to see so many conservatives joining the condemnation of McCain’s choice and Palin’s mettle. They’re going to have an embarrassing mess on their hands when she runs for president in ‘12.

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:10:51 +0000

Until they serve her purposes. That’s what was funny about her Obama smear: she trumpeted her source, the NYTimes, as if it were the final authority on everything. And as everyone has noted, she either didn’t read beyond the article’s title (because the article dismissed any serious connection between the two), or she did, and chose to distort it anyway.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:11:37 +0000

She probably won’t notice. Remember, she can’t name any newspapers or magazines that she reads.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:48:12 +0000

It needed to be said. In the immortal words of Howard Zinn, "dissent is the greatest form of patriotism." You can't call yourself a maverick and still be a conformist. You can't call yourself an outsider if your earmarks are some of the biggest in Senate. You can't call yourself a positive example for all women when you don't care much (to put it nicely) for rights women have worked so hard for. At first, I honestly thought she'd be someone that Obama and Biden could sidestep (even if just to stand clear of charges of sexism), but unfortunately, enough sycophants have given her carte blanche with every word she spews and stammers over. Joses last blog post..The Holiest Redeemers