To: whottt From: Extra Stout Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, Don't Hurt Yourself

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God Bless America!

i just *sploated.

Definately a GILF! :tu

you betcha id buy that for a dollar

I think I see 1/4 of a piece of cleavage.

shes got that slutty jogger look

*Throw 0 2 1 up forever!*

That's how you get people to take you seriously politically. Bend over and show some cleavage.

What a proud and proper way to display the flag.

Where's the camel toe?

Boooring....

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Where's the camel toe?

Boooring....

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And I get accused of being tacky with a pic I posted...

So was this a spread in a woman's fitness mag?


Kid looks adorable. Children with down syndrome are usually super loving.

What an odd photo spread. You'd think Runner's World would have a picture of her, you know, running.

POW

jesus tapdancing christ it should be flat out illegal for women that bonerific to hold offices.

....and the jealousy continues.

She looks cute, that's got nothing to do with why I like her as a politician though. You guys may vote based on looks...but I do not.

got dAMN if you could pretend she was a mute she would be perfect

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Originally Posted by ploto

That's how you get people to take you seriously politically. Bend over and show some cleavage.

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u mad?

Just heard on CNN that she's going to quit her post next month.

Quit = Not seek second term?

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

Quit = Not seek second term?

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quit = quit.

next month.

as in not in 18 months.

as in quit. as in resign.

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

Quit = Not seek second term?

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Yes.

If by not seek a 2nd term you mean resign... then yes.

ah my article just got updated

lol wow. What is she doing. That's pretty shitty.


Spin: Will the left-wing media now praise her for stepping down from her business responsibilities to care for all of her children?

I wonder why she's quitting.

Apparently she said that she can do more on a national scene and that she's done as much as she can for Alaska.

That's a major paraphrase. Something along those lines... probably not as blunt.

I'm watching the video right now... really weird press conference.. even for her standards.

:lmao @ her basketball analogy :lmao

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Originally Posted by jman3000

If by not seek a 2nd term you mean resign... then yes.

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As he said, shit just got updated.

Nobody likes a quitter, except people who like quitters.

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

ah my article just got updated

lol wow. What is she doing. That's pretty shitty.


Spin: Will the left-wing media now praise her for stepping down from her business responsibilities to care for all of her children?

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She didn't mention that until the very end. Do you really think that's the reason? :lol

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Originally Posted by jman3000

She didn't mention that until the very end. Do you really think that's the reason? :lol

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haha I'm just joking. That's the only spin I could throw out on this story.

Quitting an elected position to pursue your own interest shows a serious character flaw.

I don't know what to think to be honest.

This is so out of left field it's a bit surreal.

I wanna know what she's thinking and who exactly is advising her.

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Originally Posted by jman3000

I'm watching the video right now... really weird press conference.. even for her standards.

:lmao @ her basketball analogy :lmao

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She talks to much and its almost like you can see the wheels turning. It happens to slowly and she ends up repeating herself.

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

haha I'm just joking. That's the only spin I could throw out on this story.

Quitting an elected position to pursue your own interest shows a serious character flaw.

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Its just weird. I dunno what the dael is

Senate run?

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Originally Posted by whottt

She looks cute, that's got nothing to do with why I like her as a politician though. You guys may vote based on looks...but I do not.

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You. Piece. Of. Shit. Fuck you. It would be better if you said looks were the reason for your support. At least it'd be sensible.

As it is, saying that you support Palin for her intelligence or capacity for governance (or whatever other traits she entirely lacks), is analogous to one saying that they support Michael Jackson, not for his music, but because of his inspirational relationship with little boys.

The cult of Palin is absolutely brain dead (more than she herself). She and what she represents is so fucking retarded that supporting her as a national political figure is to more or less commit a treasonous act against the peoples of the United States. And you, whottt, you fucking moronic douche, are just as culpable as any of the worst offenders. Your shiittiness as a human being is only rivaled by your shittiness as an American. Fuck you, have a horrible 4th of July.

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Originally Posted by jman3000

Senate run?

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Not by leaving this way. You at least run out your term. She's pretty much damaged goods, IMO, for any future political office bigger than Governor.

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Originally Posted by MannyIsGod

Its just weird. I dunno what the dael is

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She has to spend too much time in Iowa and New Hampshire to keep an eye on Putin now.

:lol this thread title is a lot funnier now.

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Originally Posted by balli

You. Piece. Of. Shit. Fuck you. It would be better if you said looks were the reason for your support. At least it'd be sensible.

As it is, saying that you support Palin for her intelligence or capacity for governance (or whatever other traits she entirely lacks), is analogous to one saying that they support Michael Jackson, not for his music, but because of his inspirational relationship with little boys.

The cult of Palin is absolutely brain dead (more than she herself). She and what she represents is so fucking retarded that supporting her as a national political figure is to more or less commit a treasonous act against the peoples of the United States. And you, whottt, you fucking moronic douche, are just as culpable as any of the worst offenders. Your shiittiness as a human being is only rivaled by your shittiness as an American. Fuck you, have a horrible 4th of July.

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Yes, because you worship politicians who you deem "intelligent". Because we all know intelligent politicians are intelligent enough to impose themselves into everyone's lives.

Politicians don't need intelligence. They just need enough common sense to not think of themselves as royalty and stay the fuck out of people's business.

Her brother is saying in an interview on FNC that she couldn't run her state effectively because she was spending too much time defending herself from the media.

and that's a minimal paraphrase.

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

Politicians don't need intelligence. They just need enough common sense to not think of themselves as royalty and stay the fuck out of people's business.

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I'd suggest you read Purdham's piece, where it was revealed Palin once signed God's name instead of her own at the bottom of a document.

After all, WTF is royalty next to the creator of the universe?

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Originally Posted by balli

The cult of Palin is absolutely brain dead (more than she herself) to the point that supporting her as a national political figure is to more or less commit a treasonous act against the people of the United States.

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A lot of *erstwhile* Republicans thought so last fall, yes.

(The rest is over the top IMO, but I suspect it was meant to be.)

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

Yes, because you worship politicians who you deem "intelligent". Because we all know intelligent politicians are intelligent enough to impose themselves into everyone's lives.

Politicians don't need intelligence. They just need enough common sense to not think of themselves as royalty and stay the fuck out of people's business.

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Are you saying Palin is not intelligent?

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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Are you saying Palin is not intelligent?

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I'm saying this "intelligent" argument is pointless because a politician can be intelligent but have a whackball agenda.

That Ivy League Degree Obama landed hasn't done shit for his solution to the economy. I know why. You do too chumpster.

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

I'm saying this "intelligent" argument is pointless because a politician can be intelligent but have a whackball agenda.

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So which politicians do you consider to be not intelligent?

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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

So which politicians do you consider to be not intelligent?

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The ones whose last names end with e.

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Originally Posted by balli

You. Piece. Of. Shit. Fuck you. It would be better if you said looks were the reason for your support. At least it'd be sensible.

As it is, saying that you support Palin for her intelligence or capacity for governance (or whatever other traits she entirely lacks), is analogous to one saying that they support Michael Jackson, not for his music, but because of his inspirational relationship with little boys.

The cult of Palin is absolutely brain dead (more than she herself). She and what she represents is so fucking retarded that supporting her as a national political figure is to more or less commit a treasonous act against the peoples of the United States. And you, whottt, you fucking moronic douche, are just as culpable as any of the worst offenders. Your shiittiness as a human being is only rivaled by your shittiness as an American. Fuck you, have a horrible 4th of July.

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Ok go fuck yourself you ignorant little punk.


You know what I know? 10-15 years from now, you'll either be as stupid as you are right now, or else you'll have gotten smarter to the point that you realize how stupid you were right now and how little you actually knew.


You do not know fucking sheeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit. About shit.

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The ones whose last names end with e.

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You have a list?

I've watched her press conference 3 times already and I'm still perplexed.

It's all over the place.

It comes off as a poorly written essay.

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Originally Posted by jman3000

I've watched her press conference 3 times already and I'm still perplexed.

It's all over the place.

It comes off as a poorly written essay.

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What if it was blackmail? I bet someone found a sex tape.

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What if it was blackmail? I bet someone found a sex tape.

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That would probably make her more popular.

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After all, WTF is royalty next to the creator of the universe?

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Traditionally, yes.


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Originally Posted by whottt

You do not know fucking sheeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit. About shit.

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As was mentioned by DOK in the other thread:

At least I know that some barely coherent moron who bounced between community colleges for 5 years and who thinks the continent of Africa is one country, isn't qualified for the American presidency. Yeah, at least I know that much.

*Not wired to get things done under the pressure of politics as usual.*

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*That's not good for Alaska.*

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Originally Posted by SonOfAGun

Politicians don't need intelligence.

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:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

First thing she should do is fire her communications director.

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Originally Posted by balli

As was mentioned by DOK in the other thread:

At least I know that some barely coherent moron who bounced between community colleges for 5 years and who thinks the continent of Africa is one country, isn't qualified for the American presidency. Yeah, at least I know that much.

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At least she knows we have 50 states...shit for brains.

Anyway you guys are right...last thing we need is someone who is religious running the country, best to elect ahteists like Obama :tu

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Originally Posted by whottt

At least she knows we have 50 states...shit for brains.

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Was that one of the final lessons at her community college?

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Anyway you guys are right...last thing we need is someone who is religious running the country, best to elect ahteists like Obama :tu

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Ha!

A fat lot you know!

He's a devout Muslim.

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Originally Posted by whottt

Anyway you guys are right...last thing we need is someone who is religious running the country, best to elect ahteists like Obama :tu

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Yup, damn right.

I don't want someone in office who will try to turn the constitution into the bible. If people want to be religious that's their god given right but it shouldn't affect me if I chose not to practice religion.

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Originally Posted by DUNCANownsKOBE

Yup, damn right.

I don't want someone in office who will try to turn the constitution into the bible. If people want to be religious that's their god given right but it shouldn't affect me if I chose not to practice religion.

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You're an idiot.

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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Ha!

A fat lot you know!

He's a devout Muslim.

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You seem smarter when you are saying the ex-journalist is stupid and doesn't know the name of any magazines, because she didn't name any :tu


You really do.

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You seem smarter when you are saying the ex-journalist is stupid and doesn't know the name of any magazines, because she didn't name any :tu


You really do.

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I'll just be happy when we have an actual US citizen running the country again! :tu

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Originally Posted by whottt

You're an idiot.

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Why? Cause I don't want religion force fed to me?

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Originally Posted by DUNCANownsKOBE

I don't want someone in office who will try to turn the constitution into the bible.

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What about the Koran?

Palin suggested she could do more good for America out of office, than being Governor of Alaska.

I agree with her.

Until there is indisputable evidence god exists.....laws shouldn't be based off god's supposed "teachings".

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Originally Posted by Winehole23

First thing she should do is fire her communications director.

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There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator. The more the diagram is forced to wander around the page, loop back on itself, and generally stretch its capabilities, the more it reveals that the mind that created the sentence is either a richly educated one—with a Proustian grasp of language that pushes the limits of expression—or such an impoverished one that it can produce only hot air, baloney, and twaddle.

I found myself considering this paradox once again when confronted with the sentences of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. No one but a Republican denial specialist could argue with the fact that Sarah Palin's recent TV appearances have scaled the heights of inanity. The sentences she uttered in interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and Katie Couric seem to twitter all over the place like mourning doves frightened at the feeder. Which left me wondering: What can we learn from diagramming them?

One thing we can't learn, of course, is whether her words are true or make sense. Part of the appeal of diagramming is the fact that just about any sentence can be diagrammed, even when it is gibberish. Cats chase mice and Mice chase cats present the same kind of entity to the diagrammer. So does Muffins bludgeon bookcases. If it's a string of words containing a certain number of parts of speech arranged in reasonably coherent order, it can be hacked and beaten into a diagram.

Once we start diagramming political sentences, the diagram's indifference to meaning can be especially striking. Stirring words like "I have a dream," the magisterial Declaration of Independence (a staple of diagramming teachers), bald-faced lies ("I am not a crook"), and crafty shadings of the truth ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") can be diagrammed with equal ease. But some politicians—our current president included—offer meanderings in the higher realms of drivel that leave the diagrammer groping for the Tylenol ("Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream") or the gin bottle ("I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office").

So let's take a crack at a few of Palin's doozies. From the Katie Couric interview:

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It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where—where do they go?

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A diagrammer doesn't care about who "they" are in that last stuttered question or fuss over the problem of the head-rearing Putin coming into our "air space." A diagrammer simply diagrams. I didn't have a clue about what to do with the question that ends it. Otherwise, in its mice chase cats way, the sentence is perfectly diagrammable.

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Other Palinisms are not so tractable. From the Charlie Gibson interview:

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I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.

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I didn't stop to marvel at the mad thrusting of that pet political watchword "families" into the text. I just rolled up my sleeves and attempted to bring order out of the chaos:
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I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung together to elicit a reaction, floating ands and prepositional phrases ("with that vote of the American people") be damned. It requires not a diagram but a selection of push buttons.

Granted, diagramming usually deals with written English. We don't expect speech to reach the heights of eloquence or even lucidity that the written word is capable of. In our world, politicians don't do much writing: Their preferred communication is the canned speech. But they're also forced, from time to time, to answer questions, and their answers often resemble the rambling nonsense, obfuscation, and grammatical insanity that many of us would produce when put on the spot.

Yet surely, more than most of us, politicians need to be able to think on their feet, to have a brain that works quickly and rationally under pressure. Do we really want to be led by someone who, when asked a straightforward question, flails around like an undergraduate who stayed up all night boozing instead of studying for the exam?

In a few short weeks, Sarah Palin has produced enough poppycock to keep parsers and diagrammers busy for a long time. In the end, though, out of her mass of verbiage in the Sean Hannity interview, Palin did manage to emit a perfectly lucid diagram-ready statement that sums up, albeit modestly, not the state of the economy that she was (more or less) talking about but the quality of her thinking:
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We don''t really have to do this you know...

I've been extremely entertained watching the dual hypocrisy and ignorance over the Iranian elections. I haven't even needed to do anything to make those threads entertaining. It's like watching the stupidest people on Earth throw a convention.


Hours, nay, days worth of entertainment.

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What about the Koran?

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Since Obama isn't a Muslim and has never been a Muslim that's not an issue, and to answer your question obviously I wouldn't want the Koran to be in American law.

I think she's going to get her own Fox News show a la Huckabee.

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Originally Posted by whottt

It's like watching the stupidest people on Earth throw a convention.

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So it's like watching the Republican convention......the crowd is probably not as white though, the RNC looks like a KKK meeting these days.

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..I've been extremely entertained watching the dual hypocrisy and ignorance over the Iranian elections. I haven't even needed to do anything to make those threads entertaining. It's like watching the stupidest people on Earth throw a convention.


Hours, nay, days worth of entertainment.

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I am most gratified to hear that our performance pleased you.

To hear so personally from you is a special treat.

The spin is pretty funny. Gotta love em for trying.

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So it's like watching the Republican convention......the crowd is probably not as white though, the RNC looks like a KKK meeting these days.

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I guess it takes a racist to know one.

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I guess it takes a racist to know one.

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Saying the Republican convention draws an extremely white crowd isn't racism....it's stating the obvious.

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Originally Posted by DUNCANownsKOBE

Saying the Republican convention draws an extremely white crowd isn't racism....it's stating the obvious.

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You compared them to a KKK meeting because they are white...


You fucking racist piece of shit.

Funniest thing about racists, they can't hide what they are, they're too fucking stupid.

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I just want to say, so many people who over time here -- for Alaska -- families, everyone who has reached out, because it really has been a whirlwind to think that I --thank you.

Because with all that has been going on since the election Alaska, the America, what for my family -- and Todd has been so supportive -- again, thank you -- Alaska is in good hands.

But really the time has come, from the time John McCain and I -- when I stood up there, so many American people and a great country it is, to meet all of you and them -- but sometimes you just think, and I come to a point where I realize these things, that my faith in God, and my family, which is so important to me, and to everyone.

It comes to me to be that the best thing now for me -- and for all Alaskans -- really, the best thing going forward, and I just want to be wisdom here -- not for myself, but just in the best interests of Alaska and the American people and my family -- for they've gone through so much, what with the media -- and I've learned a lot of things here about how the media deals -- but some of them at Fox News I want to -- well, really, I could name, but then there's also -- there's a spirit of -- to believe that we all just want what's best for the American people.

Thank you and God bless.

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Well, she has three years to learn how to use a teleprompter.






Yeah, I said it.

Is balli gone from this thread? I was enjoying the Obama supporter saying the Palin supporters are like the Michael Jackson supporters. That was like 5th level self asskicking...and I want to see more of it.

oy vey... this is giving me a headache.

:lol

I'm hearing things.

^^^^ Is that real? I mean I know on page 3 I just posted some diagrams of Palin's sentences and I should be prepared for this level of gibberish , but seriously.....

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I just want to be wisdom here.

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all that has been going on since the election Alaska, the America, what for my family -- and Todd has been so supportive -- again, thank you

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I mean, my God. Who the fuck supports this absolute idiot with a straight face?

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but sometimes you just think

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No, trust me Sarah, you don't.

I'd support a tree branch for president knowing it could not fuck up as much as the same ol' politicians.

Whatever Mr Sir Tree branch does or does not do to this country, it is win win.

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^^^^ Is that real? I mean I know on page 3 I just posted some diagrams of Palin's sentences and I should be prepared for this level of gibberish , but seriously.....
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I mean, my God. Who the fuck supports this absolute idiot with a straight face?

No, trust me Sarah, you don't.

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It was a random speech generator.

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^^^^ Is that real?

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No, that's me, making fun of her inability to speak coherently.

"This success... I am proud to take all the credit... for hiring all the right people."

:lol


It just came to me what she sounds like... It sounds as if she's speaking as a translator translating another language into English.

You guys have proved beyond all doubt Sarah Palin can't give a speech, way to go geniuses.

Pat yourself on the back for your intelligence, and take a well deserved bow.

I'm sure she could give a speech at some point. Few people can speak at length off the cuff.

She sounds a little less condescending than Jindal, I'll give her that.

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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

I'm sure she could give a speech at some point. Few people can speak at length off the cuff.

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Yeah she's only a journalist, probably has stage fright.

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She sounds a little less condescending than Jindal, I'll give her that.

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And if there's anyone that'd be an expert on condescending.....

Anything else? Tball will always have a special place in my heart but it's not my everything.

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Yeah she's only a journalist, probably has stage fright.

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Nah, she just wasn't using a telelprompter today. Those help journalists too.

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And if there's anyone that'd be an expert on condescending.....

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I'm not an expert on anything -- but I am hugely condescending. It's probably the main reason I wouldn't vote for me.