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Yeah, the POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. But let's keep talking about the irrelevant Sarah Palin... The double-standard is the

Yeah, the POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. But let's keep talking about the irrelevant Sarah Palin... The double-standard is the religious orthodoxy of the left.

hvs 17y ago
A state governor resigns amidst controversy after running for Vice President of the United States and you don't think this is news?
- mynameishere 17y ago
  A smarmy leftist crossed out "because I know being right is better than being popular" and replaces it with "but I'm convinced that being right is better than being popular", with similar pointless non-corrections, in an obvious hit piece and you think this is news? Hmm? Do you think this is news? It's a "dumb blonde joke" writ large. These people are cockroaches, period.
- reduxredacted 17y ago
  It's not just any state governer, it's Sarah Palin. You have to understand that many of us ditched sites like Reddit and Digg because for weeks on end hit pieces on her were the front page. On Digg it was a farce because you could limit the topics down to any one of the narrow choices and still get two or three Palin stories on the front page. My first instinct seeing that title was "Oh on, not here. Aren't we done whipping her around yet?". Then realizing the source was HN, I had to click the link... I'll concede that it was interesting to see the edited copy.
_pius 17y ago
The POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?
- mynameishere 17y ago
  Bush usually worked from notes except for large speeches, like the state of the union address. Obama's reliance on speechwriters via his teleprompter is so significant that even the MSM has commented upon it. It's not a secret. http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.
- thras 17y ago
  It's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's. Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright. Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.
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Yeah, the POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. But let's keep talking about the irrelevant Sarah Palin... The double-standard is the religious orthodoxy of the left.

hvs 17y ago

A state governor resigns amidst controversy after running for Vice President of the United States and you don't think this is news?

mynameishere 17y ago
A smarmy leftist crossed out "because I know being right is better than being popular" and replaces it with "but I'm convinced that being right is better than being popular", with similar pointless non-corrections, in an obvious hit piece and you think this is news? Hmm? Do you think this is news? It's a "dumb blonde joke" writ large. These people are cockroaches, period.
reduxredacted 17y ago
It's not just any state governer, it's Sarah Palin. You have to understand that many of us ditched sites like Reddit and Digg because for weeks on end hit pieces on her were the front page. On Digg it was a farce because you could limit the topics down to any one of the narrow choices and still get two or three Palin stories on the front page. My first instinct seeing that title was "Oh on, not here. Aren't we done whipping her around yet?". Then realizing the source was HN, I had to click the link... I'll concede that it was interesting to see the edited copy.

_pius 17y ago

The POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?

mynameishere 17y ago
Bush usually worked from notes except for large speeches, like the state of the union address. Obama's reliance on speechwriters via his teleprompter is so significant that even the MSM has commented upon it. It's not a secret. http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.
thras 17y ago
It's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's. Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright. Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.
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