Yeah, the POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. But let's keep talking about the irrelevant Sarah Palin...
The double-standard is the religious orthodoxy of the left.
The double-standard is the religious orthodoxy of the left.
Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?
http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter
Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.
Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright.
Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.
Hmm? Do you think this is news? It's a "dumb blonde joke" writ large. These people are cockroaches, period.
You have to understand that many of us ditched sites like Reddit and Digg because for weeks on end hit pieces on her were the front page. On Digg it was a farce because you could limit the topics down to any one of the narrow choices and still get two or three Palin stories on the front page.
My first instinct seeing that title was "Oh on, not here. Aren't we done whipping her around yet?". Then realizing the source was HN, I had to click the link... I'll concede that it was interesting to see the edited copy.