The funny thing about Sarah Palin is that she thinks she is helping herself by doing all of these interviews. The more she talks, the more we know about her, the less her appeal. She will never overcome those initial negative impressions of her – she will only reinforce them. She will always have a small cadre of supporters – those on the religious right who do not value clarity of thought or academic achievement. But the simple truth is that she is not qualified for a high leadership position – she could spend her next four years at Harvard Law, and she still wouldn’t muster up. She doesn’t have the chops. You can put lipstick on a pig …
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Piece of Mindful 
Oh come on now, you know she’s still just a victim of “gotchya” journalism.
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I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the concept that she’d even be considered for Harvard Law. For pity’s sake, the woman has a Journalism degree and can’t even grasp that the 1st Amendment doesn’t protect her from journalists. And for the record, I desperately hope that she stays in front of the press for the next four years. There’s work as needs doing, and it ain’t gonna be pretty. Distracting the morans can only help the effort.
OHHHH! Shiny!
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Can’t never forget, as J Carville says, “TV likes her”. Got Reagan by.
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I’m sitting here waiting for you to chronicle the descent of the Obama administration into the corruption and malfeasance of the Clinton years since he is bringing the old gang back. It reminds me that there is line authority, and there is staff. Palin may be damaged goods, but she has shown the chops to administer a state in a decent manner. Game show winners seldom make good leaders. Instead of doing your verbal Einsatzgruppen imitation, maybe you Marxists should raise up some leaders who can hire and fire.
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Dammit! I’ve said it many times before. I am not a Marxist. I’m a Markist.
And it appears as though Barack organized their silly asses out from under them.
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One things for sure, if she had graduated Harvard, we’d be able to see her transcripts.
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Mr. non sequitur stops by.
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>>>>…it appears as though Barack organized…
I think of it as the Chicago boys who organized this: Axlerod, Emanuel, et al. I give them credit, but I suspect Barack was the computer date front man.
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Last I heard, executives assemble talent, guide it to achieve objectives. Bad executives run disorganized campaigns. Obama’s was top notch, and his people give him great credit for leadership. They said he treats people well.
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>>>>executives assemble talent…his people give him great credit for leadership.
Obama never showed any particular leadership abilities prior to his jump into Chicago politics. His two books are non-leadership self analysis. His days as a community organizer were largely directionless feel goodism. I heard he is not a particularly diligent worker (he wrote no articles at the Harvard Law Review, he didn’t deliver on one book deal) I suspect people came to Obama and said, “run and we’ll back you.” Notice how fast David Axlerod was made senior White House adviser. Obama is smart and can follow directions. He has an eye for grabbing the honorary. Maybe it will work out in the White House if the egos don’t get too large.
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Add to this Obama’s penchant for not voting on any controversial legislative measure: more non-leadership evidence. History may call this the Axelrod presidency.
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Imagine graduating Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from the best law school in the country and not being a hard worker. He must do it on pure Spock-like intelligence. You need to turn off your radio.
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Obviously, Mark Trotsky has no idea how affirmative action works. Either that or he doesn’t believe a word he is saying about Barry Hussein’s “credentials.”
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Harvard Law School is generally blind grading, so we can give Obama credit for his degree. But magna recipients from Harvard Law demonstrate variable rates of “hard work”.
Even granting that Obama worked like a beaver in his law school days, his pre-political career wasn’t especially “weighty”. My point is that Obama has had a lot of support not initiated by himself in his political career.
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Fred-
You have ZERO idea what you’re talking about.
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Thanks, Steve T. for the ad hominem attack. It lets me know I’m deep in the Left blogosphere.
I’m reminded of the quote from Lenin, “Why should we answer Kautsky?…Let us just denounce him, then everyone will know.”
Where do you think I’m wrong? Aside from Obama’s law degree and prior to his injection into the Chicago political machine, Obama was unremarkable. His only outstanding feature was his anxiety over his racial identity.
I’ll hold out the possibility that he will be a good president. Based on what, I don’t know.
I suspect you are testy over criticism of your messiah.
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I don’t think that was ad hominem – you can’t possibly know as much about the man’s inner workings as you claim to. You were making it up as you went, and he called you on it.
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Fred-
Golly, I guess I’m sorry for assuming that you get all of your information on Harvard’s grading and admission policies from right wing blogs. I’m sure you had some kind of prior experience with them that gives you an actual depth of knowledge. And I’m sure you can prove that to me.
(psst… you have ZERO idea what you’re talking about.)
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Yeah, on second thought it isn’t an ad hominem attack.
I get prickly at the playground quality of Steve T’s offerings.
As far as Harvard’s grading and admissions policy, I do have inside knowledge. But Harvard was not the point. I was giving Obama full credit for his accomplishments there pace affirmative action.
Barack has essentially worked for other people his whole life. He has not taken substantive leadership positions. His literary record is one of indulgent mopery about racial identity and his place in the world, not especially encouraging traits for a leader. Maybe he can come off the bench and be a star, but that’s not the way to bet.
Do you think he has done something substantive, like lead a program to improve Chicago schools? Oops, I see he tanked that one.
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It’s starting.
Anyway, terrorists come from many backgrounds.
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Wow, Fred… you read his books too?
You never cease to impress.
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Mark–I don’t get your post.
Steve–Do you ever post anything useful?
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Neither do I. It’s been more than a day.
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