Coyotl: “Let me name the fear to which she quaked before: Katie Couric. She was afraid of Katie Couric. It was palpable.”

No, I watched the interview, and there was no fear; Sarah Palin looked Couric in the eye and didn’t blink. I trust my own observations and instincts over your clairvoyance on this one.

Sarah Palin may not have the same slick journalist style of Katie Couric, or the lawyer style of Obama, but that is refreshing to me, and to her credit. I prefer and trust the company and speech of a plain-spoken person over a journalist or lawyer any day.

So, Kathleen Parker is a “nationally syndicated columnist” – I’m not impressed. I’m impressed with very few of the species.

Thomas Jefferson was a genius, but he was also gifted with moral clarity. He knew an intelligent and immoral fraud when he saw one. There is a difference between cleverness and rhetorical, and wisdom. There is a difference between style and substance.

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.” Thomas Jefferson

“The accounts of the United States ought to be, and may be made, as simple as those of a common farmer, and capable of being understood by common farmers.” Thomas Jefferson

George Orwell also understood the difference between IQ and MQ – the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” George Orwell