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http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-is-accused-as-not-being-as-intellectual-as-obamaon-fox-news-sunday-2010-12 (http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-is-accused-as-not-being-as-intellectual-as-obamaon-fox-news-sunday-2010-12)
Fox News analyst Juan Williams has never exactly been timid with his criticism of Sarah Palin but he took it to a new level this weekend on Fox News Sunday. Here's Williams' frank assessment of the 2012 GOP presidential field:
"This is such a weak field. It's too weak, even, to exploit Obama's considerable flaws...The only potential candidate who could match Obama in charisma is Sarah Palin and she can't stand on the intellectual stage with Obama."
Cue gasps from fellow panel members Dana Perino and Bill Kristol (naturally). Some might say Williams is picking up where Karl Rove left off and is merely voicing reality too many GOPer's are unwilling to speak up about.
Meanwhile, could anything be better for Fox News than a on-air contretemps between Williams, who was welcomed into the Fox family following his NPR debacle with open arms and a multi-million dollar contract, and Sarah Palin, their star contributor? Video below.
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wo the teleprompter telling him what to say, barry is no smarter than the guy who serves me pizza for lunch every day.
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Palin has very good positions on many issues, and she riles up the base -
But does anyone here really believe she has an IQ near Obama's?
I mean - he may be a marxkist kenyan puppet, and she might be the second coming of christ... BUT...
Williams is 100% correct on this one. Intelligence-wise, she can't comprehend many of the issues she speaks on so freely - and he has 4 years of experience now as well.
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she's too dumb to take on Mitt much less Newton
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We have no idea about barrys intelligence since he won't release his records.
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We have no idea about barrys intelligence since he won't release his records.
Are you honestly gonna tell me you think Sarah Palin has anywhere the same IQ as Obama?
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I honestly don't know. I see absolutely no evidewnce whatsoever of obamas supposed great intellect. When off teleprompter he is no more intelligent than anyone I come across day to day in my life.
How you fools got suckered into believing he is some genius and scholar is so laughable on its face.
Where are the LSAT scores, the SAT scores, the law review articles, the college transcripts, the professional articles, the legal briefs, etc?
Please - what is the evidence that barry is more intelligent than Sarah? Seriously - and please dont tell me Harvard Law since we don't know his LSAT Score, and by all accounts favors were done to get him in there as his record at Columbia is scant at best.
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Reminds me of a couple of libtards before the election who defended Obama by saying that "at least we will have a president who is an articulate speaker...." ::) Great......
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Im no Obama supporter but he does seem pretty bright and articulate you have to give him that
To bad his economic politics is not so bright :(
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Im no Obama supporter but he does seem pretty bright and articulate you have to give him that
To bad his economic politics is not so bright :(
That was my point, i don't care if he's an articulate speaker..........that hasn't accomplished shit in his presidency.....
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Im no Obama supporter but he does seem pretty bright and articulate you have to give him that
To bad his economic politics is not so bright :(
I disagree completely. Watch this and tell me he is bright. He was being told the truth and looked like he was lost.
This is bright - no teleprompter or stammering.
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The video stops 3 sec into his response... ???
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The video stops 3 sec into his response... ???
I'm still looking for the full clip - but it was more bogus crappola. I came cross this gem.
Look how Bama lied. This is bright to you? Please - he is not bright - anyone with .00001% of a clu knows what he is sayinghere is all lies.
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Sarah Palin's Idiotic Conservationist Diss
(http://palin-bachmann-2012.com/images/i-cant-wait-header.gif)
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palin is not stupid,,smart lady in a sense she knows how tomake her money obama is smart to decieve you,,palin is dumb in a sense she CANT DECIEVE YOU she can mezmorize you due to her beuaty,,no decieve obama will decieve you,,lie to you and then being a black man that he is come around and stab you behind the back IF HE DIDNT LIKE YOU,,,,
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Sarah Palin's Idiotic Conservationist Diss
(http://palin-bachmann-2012.com/images/i-cant-wait-header.gif)
where can I get that bumper sticker; they will be a collector's item!
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Again - where is the evidence obama is smarter than she is?
Everything he has done has failed even accoring to his own promises.
He won't release his records, LSAT, SAT, transcripts, etc.
He has no work history or law career to base anything on.
Stmi Bill - FAIL
BamaCare - FAIL
Cash for Clunkers - FAIL
Foreign Policy - FAIL
Where is the brilliance of Obama? Anyone?
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The video stops 3 sec into his response... ???
that's par for the course for 333
only look at the stuff that supports your preconceived beliefs and go out of your way to ignore everything else
if he can't do that then he just ignores what the person is saying and "hears" what he wants to hear
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that's par for the course for 333
only look at the stuff that supports your preconceived beliefs and go out of your way to ignore everything else
if he can't do that then he just ignores what the person is saying and "hears" what he wants to hear
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Ill find the end of that thing - and it wont be good for bama.
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Ill find the end of that thing - and it wont be good for bama.
why bother
no one cares except you
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why bother
no one cares except you
Exactly - because no matter what Obama does, lies about, or gets totally destroyed on the facts, team kneepad will support him.
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Exactly - because no matter what Obama does, lies about, or gets totally destroyed on the facts, team kneepad will support him.
no one cares because you are off the deep end delusional
Obama is a mix of good and bad like any other POTUS
only you see a commie conspiracy in everything he does
not sure if you'll ever be able to understand taht
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Obama completely ignored Ryan because he knows he cant say a word about Ryan's brutal destruction of obaaCare which we all now know is based on reality, not the hokus pokus pixy dust the Obamabots tried to get the public to believe.
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no one cares because you are off the deep end delusional
Obama is a mix of good and bad like any other POTUS
only you see a commie conspiracy in everything he does
not sure if you'll ever be able to understand taht
while not wanting to upset 333 any more; buddy; these last several days your posts and remarks have been even more caustic than usual. Are you alright? Business OK? Getting laid? You usually are not this far wheels off.
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Reminds me of a couple of libtards before the election who defended Obama by saying that "at least we will have a president who is an articulate speaker...." ::) Great......
What we have seen in two years is he can read a teleprompter, is average-to-bad without his teleprompter, has problems admitting mistakes, broke a number campaign promises, thinks very highly of himself, etc. He really does not sound like an intellectual (unless he his reading something).
Intelligence isn't just about IQ. It's about common sense, integrity, humility, etc.
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What we have seen in two years is he can read a teleprompter, is average-to-bad without his teleprompter, has problems admitting mistakes, broke a number campaign promises, thinks very highly of himself, etc. He really does not sound like an intellectual (unless he his reading something).
Intelligence isn't just about IQ. It's about common sense, integrity, humility, etc.
And how about actually having some of his proclamations turn out to be true?
Stim Bill will keep UE under 8% - FAIL
Premiums will fall under ObamaCare - FAIL
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while not wanting to upset 333 any more; buddy; these last several days your posts and remarks have been even more caustic than usual. Are you alright? Business OK? Getting laid? You usually are not this far wheels off.
yeah - this last week is end of month, end of quarter and end of year so lot's of stress
i've been up since 4:30 this morning
I could use few days of R&R
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And how about actually having some of his proclamations turn out to be true?
Stim Bill will keep UE under 8% - FAIL
Premiums will fall under ObamaCare - FAIL
Can't see that happening. He doesn't know what he's talking about half the time.
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And how about actually having some of his proclamations turn out to be true?
Stim Bill will keep UE under 8% - FAIL
Premiums will fall under ObamaCare - FAIL
Gitmo will be closed by January 2010 - FAIL
Trying terrorists in civilian courts will yield same results as military tribunals - FAIL
Mortgage program will keep people from losing their houses - FAIL
You can keep your own doctor under ObamaCare - FAIL
No death panels on ObamaCare - FAIL
Obama's ability to pass legislation is no indicator of intelligence. An 8-year-old can do that, with the margins Obama had in the House and Senate. It's about the legislation producing the advertised effects, which virtually NONE OF HIS POLICIES have done to this point.
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Gitmo will be closed by January 2010 - FAIL
Trying terrorists in civilian courts will yield same results as military tribunals - FAIL
Mortgage program will keep people from losing their houses - FAIL
You can keep your own doctor under ObamaCare - FAIL
No death panels on ObamaCare - FAIL
Obama's ability to pass legislation is no indicator of intelligence. An 8-year-old can do that, with the margins Obama had in the House and Senate. It's about the legislation producing the advertised effects, which virtually NONE OF HIS POLICIES have done to this point.
Agree. The fact he was able to convince his own party to vote for controversial legislation is not an accomplishment. The fact he could not get bipartisan support for much of his agenda is a failure, particularly when he preached bipartisanship during the campaign.
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Agree. The fact he was able to convince his own party to vote for controversial legislation is not an accomplishment. The fact he could not get bipartisan support for much of his agenda is a failure, particularly when he preached bipartisanship during the campaign.
Well, technically he'll claim "bipartisanship" because he got some RINOs to go along with his programs. But even then, he had to capitulate with the tax cuts to get that done.
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Again - where is the evidence obama is smarter than she is?
Everything he has done has failed even accoring to his own promises.
He won't release his records, LSAT, SAT, transcripts, etc.
He has no work history or law career to base anything on.
Stmi Bill - FAIL
BamaCare - FAIL
Cash for Clunkers - FAIL
Foreign Policy - FAIL
Where is the brilliance of Obama? Anyone?
he = President of Harvard Law Review.. she......not so much
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Intelligence isn't just about IQ. It's about common sense, integrity, humility, etc.
That sumbitch Noah Webster said Intelligence is:
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Capacity and aptitude. Obama destroys palin on those.
You can argue she has more common sense, she is more humble, she has greater integrity, and you may be right. But those do not fall under the auspices of intelligence by the primary definition. Hope this clears things up for ya bro.
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Gettng to be President of The Law Review is not based upon objective criteria.
Without his writings, SAT, LSAT, or anything else - you cant say he is any smarter than she is.
She was a mayor, Governor, president of energy commission, etc. Her accomplishments stack up better than his.
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he = President of Harvard Law Review.. she......not so much
Who cares?
All of his "brilliance" hasn't done JACK to help this country. 333386 and I have pointed out his FAILURES for all to see. And, in typical TK fashion, the only thing you can do is point out Palin's high school transcript, which has nothing to do with the price of tea in China.
Bottom line: Obama's policies SUCK, and his party just took the WORST POLITICAL BEATING in over 70 years, as a result.
Let see his Harvard degree deal with that.
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That sumbitch Noah Webster said Intelligence is:
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Capacity and aptitude. Obama destroys palin on those.
You can argue she has more common sense, she is more humble, she has greater integrity, and you may be right. But those do not fall under the auspices of intelligence by the primary definition. Hope this clears things up for ya bro.
Dear God are you fucked in the head. Obama has pursued policied KNOWN to be failures and destructive to the economy. What does that tell you?
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That sumbitch Noah Webster said Intelligence is:
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Capacity and aptitude. Obama destroys palin on those.
You can argue she has more common sense, she is more humble, she has greater integrity, and you may be right. But those do not fall under the auspices of intelligence by the primary definition. Hope this clears things up for ya bro.
::) Go read the book Emotional Intelligence and get back to me.
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::) Go read the book Emotional Intelligence and get back to me.
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Your post didn't cite emotional intelligence.
Intelligence isn't just about IQ.
Had you included the word "emotional", your post would have been valid. Did you forget to include it, or are you just adding it now that you learn the primary definition of intelligence doesn't include the things you believe it included?
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Your post didn't cite emotional intelligence.
Had you included the word "emotional", your post would have been valid. Did you forget to include it, or are you just adding it now that you learn the primary definition of intelligence doesn't include the things you believe it included?
Yes it did:
Intelligence isn't just about IQ. It's about common sense, integrity, humility, etc.
Like I said, go read the book Emotional Intelligence and get back to me. You wouldn't be making such simplistic comments if you read the book.
On second thought . . . .
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Again - what is the OBJECTIVE proof Obama is smarter than Palin?
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Again - what is the OBJECTIVE proof Obama is smarter than Palin?
I just bumped the "objective proof".
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Gettng to be President of The Law Review is not based upon objective criteria.
Without his writings, SAT, LSAT, or anything else - you cant say he is any smarter than she is.
She was a mayor, Governor, president of energy commission, etc. Her accomplishments stack up better than his.
1. Dont you have to go to Harvard to be president of the law review.. she couldnt suck her way into Harvard with those grades
2...she quit.
3. his accompishments are better.. he= president she= failed quitting governor of the north pole
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I would love to see Palin as the Repub nominee
seriously, I'm praying to the baby jeebus she's the candidate
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1. Dont you have to go to Harvard to be president of the law review.. she couldnt suck her way into Harvard with those grades
2...she quit.
3. his accompishments are better.. he= president she= failed quitting governor of the north pole
Do yo know how he got into Harvard Mal?
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I agree she's too dumb to represent the great USA!
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1. Dont you have to go to Harvard to be president of the law review.. she couldnt suck her way into Harvard with those grades
2...she quit.
3. his accompishments are better.. he= president she= failed quitting governor of the north pole
Not necessarily. He had a huge advantage over most American kids because he went to one of the best high schools in the country (Punahou). Punahou graduates routinely get into Ivy League schools. They make up probably close to half the professional class in Hawaii. That gave him a tremendous advantage.
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What did Bush jr graduate???? I miss him! He was entertaining and very witty!
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Not necessarily. He had a huge advantage over most American kids because he went to one of the best high schools in the country (Punahou). Punahou graduates routinely get into Ivy League schools. They make up probably close to half the professional class in Hawaii. That gave him a tremendous advantage.
There were a ton of Punahou kids at my college too
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How Obama got into Harvard
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Posted: May 27, 2010
1:00 am Eastern© 2010
Two years ago I inadvertently began my exploration of the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," with an inquiry into how Obama got into Harvard Law School in 1988.
In the summer of 2008, I was tipped to a story that the media were scrupulously ignoring. It involved the venerable African-American entrepreneur and politico Percy Sutton.
A Manhattan borough president for 12 years and a credible candidate for mayor of New York City in 1977, Sutton had appeared in late March 2008 on a local New York City show called "Inside City Hall."
When asked about Obama by the show's host, Dominic Carter, the octogenarian Sutton calmly and lucidly explained that he had been "introduced to [Obama] by a friend."
The friend's name was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction had taken place about 20 years prior. Sutton described al-Mansour as "the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men." The billionaire in question was Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
According to Sutton, al-Mansour had asked him to "please write a letter in support of [Obama] ... a young man that has applied to Harvard." Sutton had friends at Harvard and gladly did so.
Three months before the election it should have mattered that a respected black political figure had publicly announced that a crazed anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally bonkers Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama's career perhaps for the last 20 years, but the story died a quick and unnatural death.
The definitive documentary on the red-hot eligibility story: "The Question of Eligibility: Is Barack Obama's presidency constitutionally legitimate?"
The books that might have shed some light on this incident have not done so. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's comprehensive look at the 2008 campaign, "Game Change," does not so much as mention Percy Sutton.
Nor does David Remnick. His new book, "The Bridge," stands as the authoritative book on Obama's "life and rise," but he only inadvertently addresses the question of how Obama got into Harvard Law.
The reader learns from Remnick that Obama was an "unspectacular" student in his two years at Columbia and at every stop before that going back to grade school.
A Northwestern University prof who wrote a letter of reference for Obama reinforces the point, telling Remnick, "I don't think [Obama] did too well in college." As to Obama's LSAT scores, Jimmy Hoffa's body will be unearthed before those are.
How such an indifferent student got into a law school whose applicants' LSAT scores typically track between 98 to 99 percentile and whose GPAs range between 3.8 and 4.0 is a subject Remnick avoids in the section of his book dealing with Obama's admission.
In his 2007 book, "Obama: From Promise to Power," David Mendell is likewise silent on the mystery admission. This surprises because Mendell, a Chicago Tribune reporter who saw more of Obama than Michelle often did, writes objectively and intimately about Obama's ascendancy.
Mendell traces Obama's sudden itch to become a lawyer to the model of the recently deceased Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, but Washington went to Northwestern's very respectable law school in Evanston, Ill.
The thought doesn't cross Obama's mind. In "Dreams," he limits his choices to "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." Writes Mendell as casually as if the honor were deserved, "Obama would soon be accepted at the most prestigious law school in the nation."
Whether or not Sutton helped Obama get into Harvard, Michelle Obama's experience suggests that he could have gotten in without that help.
"Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren't good enough for an Ivy League school," writes Christopher Andersen in "Barack and Michelle," "Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway."
Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well."
She did not write well, either. Au contraire. One of my correspondents, a college drop-out, found Michelle's senior thesis at Princeton online and concluded, "I could have written it in sophomore English class." Mundy charitably describes it as "dense and turgid."
The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observes, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."
(Column continues below)
Hitchens exaggerates only a little. The following summary statement by Michelle captures her unfamiliarity with many of the rules of grammar and most of logic:
The study inquires about the respondents' motivations to benefit him/herself, and the following social groups: the family, the Black community, the White community, God and church, The U.S. society, the non-White races of the world, and the human species as a whole.
Michelle even typed badly. Still, she was admitted to and graduated from Harvard Law. One almost feels sorry for her. She was in so far over her head that the anxiety had to have been corrosive.
Obama was sufficiently self-deluding – some would say narcissistic – that he felt little of that anxiety. Later in his book, Remnick lets slip into the record a revealing letter Obama had written while president of the Harvard Law Review:
I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I I have not felt stigmatized within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review.
Bottom line: Had Obama's father come from Kentucky not Kenya and been named O'Hara not Obama, there would have been no Harvard Law Review, no Harvard, no Columbia. Barry O'Hara would probably be chasing ambulances in Honolulu and setting his political sights on the Honolulu City Council.
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Jack Cashill is an Emmy-award winning independent writer and producer with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue.
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I'm he was, at least in part, a legacy admit.
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Bottom line: Had Obama's father come from Kentucky not Kenya and been named O'Hara not Obama, there would have been no Harvard Law Review, no Harvard, no Columbia. Barry O'Hara would probably be chasing ambulances in Honolulu and setting his political sights on the Honolulu City Council.
So was it because he was fortunate enough to go to a great school or because his dad was a kenyan?
You do realize this is the exact same excuse Black people give when "white people" do better than they do... It's because they had some advantage.
What a bunch of shit dude.
1. It's conjecture
2. It's an excuse for why you and many other white people didn't make it into Harvard... They were discriminated against.
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So was it because he was fortunate enough to go to a great school or because his dad was a kenyan?
You do realize this is the exact same excuse Black people give when "white people" do better than they do... It's because they had some advantage.
What a bunch of shit dude.
1. It's conjecture
2. It's an excuse for why you and many other white people didn't make it into Harvard... They were discriminated against.
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Without his releasing his SAT, LSAT, or other records, we ill never know.
I just viewed this video and and wonder where this guy went. think he sold out to wall street and big business TBH.
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Without his releasing his SAT, LSAT, or other records, we ill never know.
I know that he used his opportunity to his advantage and has become President of The United States.
I have no issue with using opportunities presented to do what you want.
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I know that he used his opportunity to his advantage and has become President of The United States.
I have no issue with using opportunities presented to do what you want.
I don't disagree - but what gauls me more than anything is how he sold out to the wall street mob, the big insurance companies, the big regulators, and intl cabal seeking to enslave us.
I just got out of a meeting with an inner city pastor who I work for Pro Bono who is tying to help get ex cons jobs and inner city people work and we were both totally flumoxed at the lack of a manufacturing, infrastructure, and real energy policy from obama. This is a black pastor BTW wh runs a program in Yonkers and the Bronx and tries to help young people out and was sitting there in disbelief as to the policies of this govt.
This is why I trash Obama - he sold out. He sold out the middle and lower middle class people to te wall street and big business mafia and for that I will curse him forever. He had an opportunity to do good for the average uy and totally fucked us all.
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How Obama got into Harvard
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Posted: May 27, 2010
1:00 am Eastern© 2010
Two years ago I inadvertently began my exploration of the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father," with an inquiry into how Obama got into Harvard Law School in 1988.
In the summer of 2008, I was tipped to a story that the media were scrupulously ignoring. It involved the venerable African-American entrepreneur and politico Percy Sutton.
A Manhattan borough president for 12 years and a credible candidate for mayor of New York City in 1977, Sutton had appeared in late March 2008 on a local New York City show called "Inside City Hall."
When asked about Obama by the show's host, Dominic Carter, the octogenarian Sutton calmly and lucidly explained that he had been "introduced to [Obama] by a friend."
The friend's name was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction had taken place about 20 years prior. Sutton described al-Mansour as "the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men." The billionaire in question was Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
According to Sutton, al-Mansour had asked him to "please write a letter in support of [Obama] ... a young man that has applied to Harvard." Sutton had friends at Harvard and gladly did so.
Three months before the election it should have mattered that a respected black political figure had publicly announced that a crazed anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally bonkers Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama's career perhaps for the last 20 years, but the story died a quick and unnatural death.
The definitive documentary on the red-hot eligibility story: "The Question of Eligibility: Is Barack Obama's presidency constitutionally legitimate?"
The books that might have shed some light on this incident have not done so. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's comprehensive look at the 2008 campaign, "Game Change," does not so much as mention Percy Sutton.
Nor does David Remnick. His new book, "The Bridge," stands as the authoritative book on Obama's "life and rise," but he only inadvertently addresses the question of how Obama got into Harvard Law.
The reader learns from Remnick that Obama was an "unspectacular" student in his two years at Columbia and at every stop before that going back to grade school.
A Northwestern University prof who wrote a letter of reference for Obama reinforces the point, telling Remnick, "I don't think [Obama] did too well in college." As to Obama's LSAT scores, Jimmy Hoffa's body will be unearthed before those are.
How such an indifferent student got into a law school whose applicants' LSAT scores typically track between 98 to 99 percentile and whose GPAs range between 3.8 and 4.0 is a subject Remnick avoids in the section of his book dealing with Obama's admission.
In his 2007 book, "Obama: From Promise to Power," David Mendell is likewise silent on the mystery admission. This surprises because Mendell, a Chicago Tribune reporter who saw more of Obama than Michelle often did, writes objectively and intimately about Obama's ascendancy.
Mendell traces Obama's sudden itch to become a lawyer to the model of the recently deceased Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, but Washington went to Northwestern's very respectable law school in Evanston, Ill.
The thought doesn't cross Obama's mind. In "Dreams," he limits his choices to "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." Writes Mendell as casually as if the honor were deserved, "Obama would soon be accepted at the most prestigious law school in the nation."
Whether or not Sutton helped Obama get into Harvard, Michelle Obama's experience suggests that he could have gotten in without that help.
"Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren't good enough for an Ivy League school," writes Christopher Andersen in "Barack and Michelle," "Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway."
Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well."
She did not write well, either. Au contraire. One of my correspondents, a college drop-out, found Michelle's senior thesis at Princeton online and concluded, "I could have written it in sophomore English class." Mundy charitably describes it as "dense and turgid."
The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observes, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."
(Column continues below)
Hitchens exaggerates only a little. The following summary statement by Michelle captures her unfamiliarity with many of the rules of grammar and most of logic:
The study inquires about the respondents' motivations to benefit him/herself, and the following social groups: the family, the Black community, the White community, God and church, The U.S. society, the non-White races of the world, and the human species as a whole.
Michelle even typed badly. Still, she was admitted to and graduated from Harvard Law. One almost feels sorry for her. She was in so far over her head that the anxiety had to have been corrosive.
Obama was sufficiently self-deluding – some would say narcissistic – that he felt little of that anxiety. Later in his book, Remnick lets slip into the record a revealing letter Obama had written while president of the Harvard Law Review:
I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I I have not felt stigmatized within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review.
Bottom line: Had Obama's father come from Kentucky not Kenya and been named O'Hara not Obama, there would have been no Harvard Law Review, no Harvard, no Columbia. Barry O'Hara would probably be chasing ambulances in Honolulu and setting his political sights on the Honolulu City Council.
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Jack Cashill is an Emmy-award winning independent writer and producer with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue.
Didnt read any of this.. even if he was some kind of special admit.. which i doubt.. to be president of Harvard law review once your in.. dosent that take smarts
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3333 some hating ass argument dosent qualify as "proof"
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1. Dont you have to go to Harvard to be president of the law review.. she couldnt suck her way into Harvard with those grades
2...she quit.
3. his accompishments are better.. he= president she= failed quitting governor of the north pole
BIG DEAL!!
How has that translated into more jobs and a BETTER ECONOMY for America?
Ten percent unemployment (it was around 7 percent, when he took over the presidency), an economy that in pieces, and his party just got the brakes beaten off them, due in no small part to that governor who "quit".
Then, there are all the aforementioned failures 333386 mentioned.
But, I'm sure all the broke, jobless, and struggling people in this country feel SOOOOOO much better that the man, driving our country into the ground, went to Harvard. ::)
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Mal relying on harvard is embarassing. Alan grayson went there too for fucks sake.
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Yeah, he is a genius ::)
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As far as I am concerned Obama is a ruthless communist.
I just heard an interview on our local talk radio 710 John Gambling. He interviewed the ex Ceo of Shell who said obama is intentionally trying to drive us energy prices as fast and as high as possible and could care less about the impact on people.
How does he know this? He said in 2007 he met with obama while on the campaign trail and told Obama he needed to drastically increase the amount of drilling of DOMESTIC resources or the prices would skyrocket and hurt middle class and lower class people.
Obama said - "we are doing something else and biofuel". Hoffmeister said to him that reliance on biofuels was impracticle and not going to work and that energy prices would skyrocket and we still needed traditional fuels. obama told him "John, I don't think you heard me, we are doing biofuel."
There you have it. Once again - this is why I support Sarah 100% over Obama.
I will post the interview as soon as its on the site.
And this is what you morons call intelligent?
Yeah, real fucking bright. ::) ::)
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down, boi.
calm down.
its almost the new year.
you have two more years to wait for a change;
you will have a stroke if you dont take a breath.
your posts, while amusing, are not going to change anyone's opinions here.
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Lying sack of horse crap. So much for change. Same old, same ol' politics.
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I support Sarah
that first name shit is creepy to say the least.
just call her 'baby girl' or choose a bodypart, like Sweet-tiits. If youre going to demean her, don't go half ass. go all teh way.
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Yeah - this is fucking brilliant 240. Only a transformational Harvard genius could come up with such intelligence. ::) ::)
Good job you schmucks who voted for this. Jackasses
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Yeah, real fucking bright. ::) ::)
you got it
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you got it
Again - where are Obama's SAT, LSAT, and other records?
I have met hot dog vendors with more common sense and lucidity than Obama.
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Again - where are Obama's SAT, LSAT, and other records?
I have met hot dog vendors with more common sense and lucidity than Obama.
then maybe they shouldve been President
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then maybe they shouldve been President
A hot dog vendor knows more about economics than Obama does. They actually do something productive.
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A hot dog vendor knows more about economics than Obama does. They actually do something productive.
Well maybe they should run for president of the united states.. seems like they have made good choices to end up on corners selling hotdogs...
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you got it
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=360687.0
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he = President of Harvard Law Review.. she......not so much
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=360687.0
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For those of you who keep posting Palin's purported high school transcripts, check out this link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/reportcard.asp
From the site:
Making (Up) the Grade
Claim: Image reproduces a test scoresheet showing Sarah Palin's high school grades and SAT scores.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, September 2008]
This is purportedly a copy of Sarah Palin's report card, with SAT scores.
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/graphics/reportcard1.jpg)
Origins: Altering photographs of politicians to make them appear silly or ridiculous is a common way of poking fun at political figures, but other forms of image manipulation can be used for denigrative purposes as well. Case in point: The image displayed above, which purportedly reproduces a test scoresheet showing Alaska governor (and Republican vice-presidential nominee) Sarah Palin as having achieved high school grades and an SAT score that were decidely mediocre.
There are several contextual clues that would give this image (which was part of a spurious background report on Sarah Louise Heath Palin) away as being fake, such as the fact that Sarah Palin was a member of Wasilla High School's Honor Society, a standing she was unlikely to have achieved if she had truly pulled a barely average 2.2 GPA.
We don't need contexual clues to debunk this image as phony, however. It's clearly a manipulated version of a genuine test report belonging to Dawn Eden, who posted it on her own blog back in January 2004:
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/graphics/reportcard2.jpg)
Ms. Eden noted in an October 2008 blog entry that:
Gawker fell for a forgery that purported to be Sarah Palin's SAT scoresheet but was actually a Photoshop job -- made by someone who stole my own scoresheet off my blog and pasted in bad grades.
The forger lowered the grades and scores on the printout to make Palin, an honor-society member, look like a mediocre student -- but wasn't smart enough to hide the obviousness of the Photoshop job.
Last updated: 21 October 2008
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It's not her SSN on the report card. lol . . . .
Sarah Palin's High-School Grades?
Any amateur document experts want to weigh in on this document which is floating around the web? It purports to represent the high-school grades of one Sarah Heath of Wasilla, Alaska, now the Republican running mate. If the report card is a forgery, it's decent work.
The grades are mediocre—appropriately the small-town girl scores a D in foreign language—but not so dreadful as to immediately stretch credulity. And the first five digits of the social security number do match Sarah Palin's.
However, that latter information is readily available on Nexis' public records search; the document would have been more believable had the last four digits not been erased from the school transcript. An SAT score of 841 does seem rather too low to be credible—especially since Sarah Palin was said to have been an honor student. And this document was in a PDF document clearly prepared recently but stamped "received" on June 2003, an effort to show authenticity which in fact only increases the doubts.
Update: Art director Rick Paulas demonstrates why he believes the transcripts are fake.
http://gawker.com/5061283/sarah-palins-high+school-grades
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Won't matter - Mal will still post it as some sort of talking point that The Golfer is smarter than Palin.
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Won't matter - Mal will still post it as some sort of talking point that The Golfer is smarter than Palin.
there is no doubt he is smarter than Palin
but it's really irrelevent
who cares if the POTUS is smarter than a TV pundit/minor celebrity
since when did we care about that?
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Won't matter - Mal will still post it as some sort of talking point that The Golfer is smarter than Palin.
Harvard vs Idaho Community..
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Harvard vs Idaho Community..
Tough one there.
The truth, however, is this...
People who HONESTLY don't know who is smarter - obama or palin - are terrible evaluators of talent and ability. So you can guess who they voted for in 2008 ;)
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Talk to thread starter. By the way - I completely disagree that he is smarter.
In what way? He pursues policies destined for failure. That is smart to you?
He either ignorantly or unkowingly confuses foregin policy issues like Israel and Iran.
He gets basic crap dead wrong all the time about economcs ad how business works.
He relies upon people and theories that are proven failures.
That to me is not the indication of a very smart person, regardless of what paper parchment degree is given to him.
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Talk to thread starter. By the way - I completely disagree that he is smarter.
In what way? He pursues policies destined for failure. That is smart to you?
He either ignorantly or unkowingly confuses foregin policy issues like Israel and Iran.
He gets basic crap dead wrong all the time about economcs ad how business works.
He relies upon people and theories that are proven failures.
That to me is not the indication of a very smart person, regardless of what paper parchment degree is given to him.
He is the President and you obsess over him 21 of 24 hours a day.. he is on your mind all the time.. he wins..you loose
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If you had to bet your gun and porn collection on it -
Which person would you say has the higher IQ? Palin or Obama?
(Keep in mind, an answer of "I don't know" means blacken700 gets your guns and porn....)
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He is the President and you obsess over him 21 of 24 hours a day.. he is on your mind all the time.. he wins..you loose
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Way to attack me instead of defend your bullshit that now has been debunked.
BTW - Bush got his MBA from Harvard - do ou consider him a brilliant economic mind?
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Way to attack me instead of defend your bullshit that now has been debunked.
BTW - Bush got his MBA from Harvard - do ou consider him a brilliant economic mind?
It was a shopped picture...like you post :-\
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33,
If you had to bet your gun and porn collection on it -
Which person would you say has the higher IQ? Palin or Obama?
(Keep in mind, an answer of "I don't know" means blacken700 gets your guns and porn....)
I don't know. There is ZERO evidence of Obama being smarter than Palin short ofhim releasing his records.
As far as Harvard goes, Bush went there too. Bush was called an idiot for 8 years. hhhmmmmm?
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I don't know. There is ZERO evidence of Obama being smarter than Palin short ofhim releasing his records.
As far as Harvard goes, Bush went there too. Bush was called an idiot for 8 years. hhhmmmmm?
You right.. we gotta stand with our North Korean allies... oh shit...i can see Russia from my front porch...were good ..ill go study the Bush doctrine.
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You right.. we gotta stand with our North Korean allies... oh shit...i can see Russia from my front porch...were good ..ill go study the Bush doctrine.
Another bogus lie from you - damn you are dense. the Russia statement was a SNL skit - what she actually said was there there are parts of alaska where you can see Russia - which is true.
Moron.
And do you want me to start with Bama gaffes? Yes or No? His are far worse.
Again - Bush went to Harvard anf Yale and and was called and idiot for 8 years. hhhhhhmmmmmmmm? ? ? ?
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Another bogus lie from you - damn you are dense. the Russia statement was a SNL skit - what she actually said was there there are parts of alaska where you can see Russia - which is true.
Moron.
And do you want me to start with Bama gaffes? Yes or No? His are far worse.
Again - Bush went to Harvard anf Yale and and was called and idiot for 8 years. hhhhhhmmmmmmmm? ? ? ?
Obama = President..he won..
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Another bogus lie from you - damn you are dense. the Russia statement was a SNL skit - what she actually said was there there are parts of alaska where you can see Russia - which is true.
Moron.
And do you want me to start with Bama gaffes? Yes or No? His are far worse.
Again - Bush went to Harvard anf Yale and and was called and idiot for 8 years. hhhhhhmmmmmmmm? ? ? ?
Lie.. bro lighten up..im sorry for making jokes about your imaginary wife. You gent sensative dont you.. go get some fresh air bro
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Lie.. bro lighten up..im sorry for making jokes about your imaginary wife. You gent sensative dont you.. go get some fresh air bro
I'm on the phone fighting with some chinks on canal street trying to stiff a concrete client of mine out of 50k. They put me in a bad mood.
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I'm on the phone fighting with some chinks on canal street trying to stiff a concrete client of mine out of 50k. They put me in a bad mood.
Call them "tw*ts".
Good grief. You are one insecure little twat. ::)
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I'm on the phone fighting with some chinks on canal street trying to stiff a concrete client of mine out of 50k. They put me in a bad mood.
most of the attorneys I know are cool as a cucumber and never display any emotion
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most of the attorneys I know are cool as a cucumber and never display any emotion
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Yeah, in the construction field in NYC with thugs and mini-madoffs that does not work out too well.
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SNL (Tina Fey) came up with the "I can see Russia from my house" comment.
This is what she said:
From the Thursday, September 11, 2008, World News:
CHARLES GIBSON: Let me ask you about specific national security situations. Let's start, because we are near Russia. Let's start with Russia and Georgia. The administration has said, we've got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
SARAH PALIN: First off, we're going to continue good relations with Saakashvili there. I was able to speak with him the other day and giving him my commitment, as John McCain's running mate, that we will be committed to Georgia. And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable. And we have to keep...
GIBSON: You believe unprovoked?
PALIN: I do believe unprovoked. And we have got to keep our eyes on Russia. Under the leadership there.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you?
PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
GIBSON: You in favor of putting Georgia and Ukraine into NATO?
PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes. Yes, and Georgia. Putin thinks otherwise. Obviously he thinks otherwise.
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean that is the agreement. When you are a NATO ally, is, if another country is attacked, you are going to be expected to be called upon and help.
I hope that Rep party come up with a better candidate than Palin. But, it is hilarious to see Obamabots attribute a phrase to Palin when it was a comedy show that twisted her words. Many people are too uninformed to vote.
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Yeah, in the construction field in NYC with thugs and mini-madoffs that does not work out too well.
so do you scream and yell and threaten them?
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so do you scream and yell and threaten them?
Scream no. Threaten - yes. Follow through - yes. Having to do a lot of lien foreclosures lately. Problem is that most properties have a huge 1st mortgage to deal with that has priority over a mechanic's lien.
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anyone notice that Palin didn't (can't) even answer the question
Gibson asked what does the proximity of the state give you and Palin responded "they're our neighbors"
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you?
PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
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SNL (Tina Fey) came up with the "I can see Russia from my house" comment.
This is what she said:
From the Thursday, September 11, 2008, World News:
CHARLES GIBSON: Let me ask you about specific national security situations. Let's start, because we are near Russia. Let's start with Russia and Georgia. The administration has said, we've got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
SARAH PALIN: First off, we're going to continue good relations with Saakashvili there. I was able to speak with him the other day and giving him my commitment, as John McCain's running mate, that we will be committed to Georgia. And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable. And we have to keep...
GIBSON: You believe unprovoked?
PALIN: I do believe unprovoked. And we have got to keep our eyes on Russia. Under the leadership there.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you?
PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
GIBSON: You in favor of putting Georgia and Ukraine into NATO?
PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes. Yes, and Georgia. Putin thinks otherwise. Obviously he thinks otherwise.
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean that is the agreement. When you are a NATO ally, is, if another country is attacked, you are going to be expected to be called upon and help.
I hope that Rep party come up with a better candidate than Palin. But, it is hilarious to see Obamabots attribute a phrase to Palin when it was a comedy show that twisted her words. Many people are too uninformed to vote.
Not surprised.
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Not surprised.
her failure to grasp issues wasn't surprising to me either dude.
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her failure to grasp issues wasn't surprising to me either dude.
Funny you never the say the same thing about your hero is is proven dead wrong on every issue and policy he enacts.
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Being President doesn't require a high degree of intelligence or experience. I'd be happy with someone who balanced the budget and didn't touch anything else.