I’m smiling at some of the postings on this page. I just finished reading something about someone being in the brightest, most well informed circles, who commented that John McCain had “associations” to be questioned that the media didn’t investigate. In the next paragraph the person repeated MSM gossip about Gov. Palin……..yes, Gov. Palin, not knowing “geography” facts. It’s funny, because there is an article today about Obama’s new Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, and how he was with Freddie or Fannie during their “scandal”. Now, I wouldn’t just assume that this man was guilty, or contributed to wrong doing, just because he worked with one of those troubled organizations, just as I wouldn’t assume that some of the people in BHO’s campaign circle were also questionable “associates”, even though bits and pieces of information on those individuals kept popping up throughout the campaign. In the same way, I wouldn’t assume that just because an “anonymous” source made a statement about Gov. Palin’s “geography knowledge”, that it would be true. A personal aide to Gov. Palin, who has given her name to the media, came out today in defense of Gov. Palin, stating that those statements were “sickening”, and “Not True!. She said that Gov. Palin was smart, amicable, and never went on shopping sprees, and had never asked for anything other than a “diet soda”. None of the nonsense was true.
Someone else on this page commented that she was a “dolt” and looked like a “dolt”. I guess that is why she attracted such large crowds, and drew the highest Saturday Night Live viewership in 14 years.
There are some people who have the great ability to take complicated information and break it down so that anyone, educated or not, would be able to understand it. She has that ability. I agree that she had a rocky start on the first few interviews. She hadn’t been on the campaign trail but a month or so, where as everyone else had been out there for 18 months. She was given talking points, and crammed with information, and it definitely did not go well. I also remember BHO’s first few interviews. They were horrible…full of stuttering and misrepresentations, and just big mistakes. But he learned as he went, and he got better at interviews over time. I don’t remember anyone continually calling him stupid,nor did I ever hear a continuous trashing of his looks. But nobody gave Gov. Palin any time or consideration to make mistakes and bring herself up to speed. She has been out there for 2 1/2 months, and has been trashed more times than all the other candidates put together. She is actually a very good Governor. She was popular and elected to the position. There are many, many bright and well-informed “circles” in Alaska, as well, who thought she was a very good choice.
Now don’t you feel a little bit bad? lol
Just because someone is well informed, bright, genius in nature, it doesn’t mean they have good common sense, people skills, and are popular. As badly as you try to make Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin look, and as poorly as their campaign was run, with lack of Obama’s funding and lack of the funding from Acorn that was required for mass organization, they still did pretty well. What was it…by 7 Million popular votes…that is like 140,000 people per state, if we divided the loss equally. Not exactly a landslide. They did get around 56 Million votes. “All” of those people couldn’t have possibly missed the brightest, most well-informed circles in their own states, could they have?
The mention of Bill Ayers and Acorn surprises me though, you being the best and brightest and all, as I am really just a commoner, State College, struggling small business owner, still raising kids, etc. I don’t think the republicans were ever implying that Bill Ayers and BHO were best friends or anything. They were saying that while together they were using 501C3 funds to implement programs in our public schools that were teaching radical ideas to our kids. Ideas that were so incorporated into Bill Ayers character, that it drove him to commit terrorist acts inside our own country, in protest of our government. Acts that he never regretted to this day. In other words, our children were being indoctrinated with radical ideas, instead of being taught your basic academic subjects. Like many communist countries, the indoctrination begins in the early school years, and continues throughout the learning process.
As far as Acorn is concerned, when you have millions of dollars of taxpayer money going to an organization that is not an equal-opportunity organizer, as far as registration of voters, etc., it does seem a little suspicious; like, spending millions of taxpayer dollars to organize, behind the scenes for four years, preparing a mass of new voters for an upcoming election, while endorsing the Candidate on the Democratic side, and influencing and encouraging your workers and new registrants to do the same. Something doesn’t quite pass the “smell test” on that one.
Anyway, I’m not trying to be contrary. I just believe that there has been right and wrong on both sides as far as associates, mistakes made, questionable actions, etc.
