Though this is stupidity, yet there is method in't
It's like she invented a whole new breed of super-stupid.
Palin displays ignorance of 1st Amendment with bravado, panache
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Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
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Now, stupidity is easy to hate, but when someone's arrogant stupidity threatens to let them fall ass backwards into successfully abridging the rights of others, I hate so hard my temples ache. She's attempting to silence the media under the guise of upholding the 1st Amendment. Frankly, I think either she knows she's incorrect but is cynically trying to push the point anyway or doesn't care if she's right or not. If she's stupid, she's skillfully stupid. Because let's be real here, Alaska is what it is but you don't get to be governor of jack shit without knowing a thing or two about manipulation.
That's what I think is dangerous about the common misconception that Sarah Palin's main fault is lack of experience, or ditziness. She may come off as an airhead, and she might very well be an airhead, but she's a young airhead who has plenty of time to study up well enough that the "experience" argument won't hold up as well in 8, 12, 16, 20 years. But, barring a miracle, what she will retain is her single-minded, Us vs. Them, high school bitch political ambition -- if people don't wise up, it gives her plenty of time to put her abominable fantasies into reality.
But let's end on a high note. What gives me the most hope about this country's future is not the people's acceptance of Barack Obama; it's their rejection of Sarah Palin. Right now she's the least-liked candidate on either ticket. I can only hope that every day in the Oval Office (god willing he gets in there) Obama has in the back of his mind that anything less than a fucking ace job every day for four years opens up the door for Sarah the Jackhole to get her fingers on our Constitution.
Palin displays ignorance of 1st Amendment with bravado, panache
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Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
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Now, stupidity is easy to hate, but when someone's arrogant stupidity threatens to let them fall ass backwards into successfully abridging the rights of others, I hate so hard my temples ache. She's attempting to silence the media under the guise of upholding the 1st Amendment. Frankly, I think either she knows she's incorrect but is cynically trying to push the point anyway or doesn't care if she's right or not. If she's stupid, she's skillfully stupid. Because let's be real here, Alaska is what it is but you don't get to be governor of jack shit without knowing a thing or two about manipulation.
That's what I think is dangerous about the common misconception that Sarah Palin's main fault is lack of experience, or ditziness. She may come off as an airhead, and she might very well be an airhead, but she's a young airhead who has plenty of time to study up well enough that the "experience" argument won't hold up as well in 8, 12, 16, 20 years. But, barring a miracle, what she will retain is her single-minded, Us vs. Them, high school bitch political ambition -- if people don't wise up, it gives her plenty of time to put her abominable fantasies into reality.
But let's end on a high note. What gives me the most hope about this country's future is not the people's acceptance of Barack Obama; it's their rejection of Sarah Palin. Right now she's the least-liked candidate on either ticket. I can only hope that every day in the Oval Office (god willing he gets in there) Obama has in the back of his mind that anything less than a fucking ace job every day for four years opens up the door for Sarah the Jackhole to get her fingers on our Constitution.