First, ol’ Horace perfectly illustrates the rabid radical Left tactic of substituting ad hominem attacks for actual intellectual debate.

Then there is this gem: “You give a pass to someone who illegally used 150K in campaign funds for clothes that her running mate worked to end.” ?????

I get the feeling that ol’ Horace believes that Michael Moore makes documentaries, that the phrase “fake but accurate” actually means something, and that Air America spoke “truth to power”. Because this goofball slur against Palin falls squarely into the middle of such utter stupidity and willful ignorance.

Now, ol’ Hor might have preferred to see Sarah campaign in the togs appropriate to an Alaska hockey mom and small-state governor–just imagine his glee at that! But the RNC saw that when they pulled a woman out of her small-state rural lifestyle and threw her into the national spotlight, they would have to outfit her to fit the role they had chosen for her.

The figure our Hor has pulled out of, shall we say, his EAR, is one typically thrown around by those equally dedicated to fuss over fact. I’ll bet he has also subscribed to the silly notion that Sarah took time off to go SHOPPING, for krissakes.

What a silly, spiteful, little man. But in fact the RNC made the decision to outfit Sarah, the RNC called the shots, and the RNC made the purchases. Just how was Sarah supposed to get her hands on all this money, Hor? She dip into the till before taking off on a shopping spree?

Clearly there are some mental midgets who think, to use the term loosely, that trying to diminish Sarah’s intelligence, character, and accomplishments can best be done by trivializing her as a human being, by employing the sexist approach of trying to paint her as just a ditzy woman more interested in clothes shopping than in running for office.

I think the quality of Horace’s intellectual capacity is clearly shown by the gibberish of his final words on that subject: “…..for clothes that her running mate worked to end.” Does that make sense to ANYONE?? McCain worked to end clothes?

No, Horace is yet another poster child for those who think that righteous indignation over the trivial, even over spitefully invented trivia, is the same as having a valid and intelligent opinion, based on fact, on a legitimate political issue.

And he is wrong.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/far-left-loves-hamas-terrorists.html

My first wife was from a town in WI. Population 4,000. I was from nice suburb in a midwestern city. It was the early 70′s at Mizzou.

The people in her home town came together at the high school and the church. There was a Catholic/Protestant thing but mild if even at all. There were no Jews, no Blacks, and no prejudice.

There were heartbreaks and cemeteries but that was normal. She complained about the lack of anonymity and privacy and opportunity. She ultimately bacame a big achiever.

My son went to Boston and became a ‘Bush is an idiot’ Democrat. When he laughed at Sara Palin, I told him how much I thought his mother was a hick at the time. Big mistake.

I always want to drop these people off in the South Side of Chicago with a map and $10. If they make it out alive, I’ll drop them off on the Main Street of the rural Midwest town where I grew up. Then we’ll go have a $5 half-caf soy mocha latte at some college-town hipster hangout and I’ll ask them to explain to me again–using very small words, since I’m trash–how the big city was more civilized.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/international-climate-clowns.html

Many of the countries you listed have such a constitutional requirement (although not many use their constitution). What do you believe the international standard for basic health care is in the world?