|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:12 PM Original message |
There's one demographic that will solidly reject Palin across party lines |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
renegade000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. but |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. Shows a disturbing lack of education and, possibly, intelligence. - n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. And she majored in JOURNALISM! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Unfortunately, journalism doesn't equate to English |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Journalism doesn't equate to English |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. That would be nice... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, they're called "sane people"..... n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. Here's what I find disturbing: "the mission that we’re on, reform of this country" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Yeah, that one phrase really leaped out and grabbed me first time I heard it. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
qwlauren35 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
39. An America Controlled by the "Moral Majority"... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
trudyco (975 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. What do you expect? The teleprompter was out -nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mr. McD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sounds like verbage to me. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Believing Is Art (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. I'm now convinced |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
34. Devastatingly funny parody of her speaking style here... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. No wonder she and ** sound alike. They have the same coaches. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. Alas, I'm sure those right-wing grammarians who voted for bush the last two cycles |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Well, Krauthammer, Will and Wick Allison are all anti-Palin |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
10. All those schools, community colleges, state colleges, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. But she's the kind of candy-date the cretins want to sit down and have a beer with. And then get |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. Oh, they'll get her .................... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. Grammar Nazis Against Palin! LOL! n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
12. Well those fuckers need to start voting. Bush isn't exactly a wordsmith, either. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. The deeply weird thing is, he used to be passably articulate. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Maybe. But he never really mastered the English language. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MadrasT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. The first four words got me: |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Maybe she's channeling Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Joyce's Ulysses |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. No doubt that's one of the books she wanted banned (if she was aware of it at all). |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. No doubt. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. ack, you just tripped my gag reflex. That happens only very seldom. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
19. Why is it that the stupid are cocksure |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. That paraphrases Thucydides and Yeats also, incidentally |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:51 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. "And the worst are full of passionate intensity." Who is that? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. That would be Yeats. Here's Thucydides in one of his best passages: |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. First thing that strikes me -- the translation is lovingly, nearly perfectly done? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Compared to Hobbes's translation, it's a lot more readable! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. "Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved." |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Interesting that Hobbes and so many others saw implicit support for oligarchy in him |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
22. So much for her Journalism degree? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
33. I genuinely hate that woman. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. She's a pretty evocative symbol of the worst in our politics |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Tue Apr 30th 2024, 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC