1 Yeah, I saw that from a couple other places.

I guess Ayres isn't as good as one would think. Still better than Obama. Or perhaps that's a line that Ayres didn't "edit".

2

I am truly laughing my ass. That was a beautiful a juke as they come.

God bless whoever did that one.

3

Dang I hate it when I leave out a word as in "laughing my ass OFF."

My point stands.

4 The concept of the dorks getting fooled by an incognito Barry quote is more interesting than the comments over there.

5 Ha ha, what a rube! What? Oh. Er, I mean what a rubicon. In the history of literature. That Obama crossed. Um.

6

You want me to read all the Palin hatin' reviews at Slate?

Okay, what am looking for, or will I know when I find it?

7 Personally, I thought Sarah Pizzle should have released like 27 or so different variations of the book ranging from allcaps gibberish to Milton-esque meditations and pre-released them to certain media figures. Each one would have it's own distinguishing characteristics similar to those heathen tomes in the Ninth Gate and would become collectibles subsequent to her consumation of the ritual giving her the power of the seven scepters and thus the anti-christ.

Call me Sarah, I'm full of good ideas.

8 Posted by: Jim in San Diego

Just read the f'in thread you pussy.

9 Just read the f'in thread you pussy.

Posted by: Iskandar at November 23, 2009 04:38 AM (u1pln)

How's your mom Iskander?

10 Oh, and apropos of nothing, the plot to COD:MW2 was incoherent.

11 OK, I read the entire thread and the lefties are all prisoners of their own invalid preconceptions while lambasting their opponents for misdeeds actually committed their own.

12 You know, I had no trouble with the original sentence.  Made sense and everything.  Even with all the liquor I've been...um, pre-health-screening um, Bush-regretting-syndroming.  (Did that sound right?)

13 Hmmm... I didn't know that Dobermans drank out of bottles. What an interesting fact - I really should tell that to that hot English dogtrainer chick on Animal Planet - after, of course,  I pull off her leather dominatrix outfit and nail her like a nuclear warhead.

14

Okay, I read through some more of the comments...I guess my goverment-sponsored-liquor-treatments needs some more um, editing.  And more Bush-regretting.  (Sounds good in the state legislator, right?)

Seriously, I love Sarah Palin,  Gotta wait more than a month for the Kindle version, though...that almost sounds Democratic.

15 Anything to kick that "Outliers" shot off the charts.

16 I read that in the book.  She writes like me.  Sometimes my sentences get a little long and I go back and check the structure and grammar to see if it is still fragmented and not quite a sentence.

And they say she had it ghost-written?

Make up your minds statists.

17 Maybe I should have added "while being blown by Albanian midgets" to really have given it a bit  more substance..

18
I seem to remember that quote, but I can't find it in the book.  I think I read it somewhere else a few days ago when I started the book so I may be mixing it up with some 'fact-check' nonsense I read last week or something in another blog.

Hmmm.  The previous post though about my having to check sentences when they get too long is true. 

19 "It was at a local Kwanzaa dance that I first looked across the room and saw a vision of loveliness in a mastodonic tower of assmeat."

20 Thats not a beclowning, that's a douching!

21 Meanwhile, at Freep.com, Conyers is "tired". "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers, who added that the White House strategy appears to be, "Give us anything and we'll sign it and declare victory."

22 Yah Bill, I could have used your help.  I would have remembered commie midgets.  Of course I have only reached page 51.

Question:  Given how libs are like claiming not to be reading Palin's book, has anybody here ever read from beginning to end one of Obama's books?

Would it be too painful?

23 Question:  Given how libs are like claiming not to be reading Palin's book, has anybody here ever read from beginning to end one of Obama's books?

Would it be too painful?

Posted by: Sapwolf at November 23, 2009 05:22 AM (70pPH)

People don't read books anymore, they read reviews. Thats how the Obama stuff could be slipped in and unnoticed.

24 And yes, the Obama book while not bad is no great shakes either.

25 So predictable, like moths to a flame.

26 People don't read books anymore, they read reviews. Thats how the Obama stuff could be slipped in and unnoticed.

What?  Like admissions of cocaine use in your autobiography is no big deal?

27 27 People don't read books anymore, they read reviews. Thats how the Obama stuff could be slipped in and unnoticed.

What?  Like admissions of cocaine use in your autobiography is no big deal?

Posted by: Tom in Korea at November 23, 2009 06:17 AM (nS7nk)

Considering his base, he could have admitted to rape and it wouldn't have mattered. The feminists would hail him for his sensitivity and honesty too. Hell, Ted Kennedy killed a woman and it wasn't even a stumbling block for that crowd.

28 Leftists are a collective of mindless hate and rage. Mention "Sarah Palin" and they go all Two Minutes Hate. Mention "Barack Obama" and tingles shoot up their thighs. Somewhere, Orwell is chuckling.

29 Laughing my panniculus off.

30

It falls short of classic rope-a-dope.  The guy should have waited longer to reveal the punchline.

One or two comments from dummies who fall for the trick is amusing.  A few pages worth would have been hilarious.

31 The most powerful writer since Caesar, I say! Hail, Caesar!

32 Not quite the bear trap it could have been. More like a beaver trap.

33

You have to reveal the trick early, or it'll get lost in the snowstorm of "Palin is stupid, and so is Bush!" comments.

Not that little things like "facts" deter the lib-tards...

34 more like a skunk trap....

35

OMG it's from the opening paragraph! lolz!

You'd think the Obama-lovers would have at least read the first page of the book, eh?

36 Question:  Given how libs are like claiming not to be reading Palin's book, has anybody here ever read from beginning to end one of Obama's books?

My mother-in-law did.  Of course, I then had to listen to hours of her railing about how big a liar and traitor Obama is.

37 Want an update on the book sales--where can I get that?  Or could you post it next to the national debt clock, TIA....

38 That was delicious.

39 Poor Obumbles can't even make his lies believable.  It would be much more credible if the black Dobie was carrying a teddy bear.

40 hahahahaha...........

41 The Past is Prologue:

excertps from a 2008 article on Obama's tenure at the Harvard Law Review (link under name)


"He's willing to talk to them (the conservatives) and he has a grasp of where they are coming from, which is something a lot of blacks don't have and don't care to have," said Christine Lee, a second-year law student who is black. "[Barack Obama's] election was significant at the time, but now it's meaningless because he's becoming just like all the others (in the Establishment)."

=====


Unlike many peer-review professional journals, the [Harvard] law review is run solely by students. It is widely considered the major forum for current legal debate and consequently is watched closely by courts around the country.

In his second year at law school, Obama decided to run for law review president after a conversation with a black friend.

"I said I was not planning to run and he said, `Yes you are because that is a door that needs to be kicked down and you can take it down.' "

It was a marathon selection process, an arcane throwback to the early days of the review. The students editors deliberated behind closed doors from 8:30 a.m. until early the next day. The 19 anxious candidates took turns cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner for the selection committee, whose members [ed:  all of whom were students]  emerged with a historic decision.

...

Yet tensions were building. White students grumbled about the attention paid to Obama's race. Black students criticized him for not choosing more blacks for other top positions at the review. Caught in the cross-fire, Obama, who has a tendency toward understatement, downplayed his own achievements.

"For every one of me, there are thousands of young black kids with the same energies, enthusiasm and talent that I have who have not gotten the opportunity because of crime, drugs and poverty," he said. "I think my election does symbolize progress but I don't want people to forget that there is still a lot of work to be done."

Describing Obama, fellow students and professors point to a self-confidence tempered by modesty as one of his greatest attributes.

"He's very unusual, in the sense that other students who might have something approximating his degree of insight are very intimidating to other students or inconsiderate and thoughtless," said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor. "He's able to build upon what other students say and see what's valuable in their comments without belittling them."

But what truly distinguishes Obama from other bright students at Harvard Law, Tribe said, is his ability to make sense of complex legal arguments and translate them into current social concerns. For example, Tribe said, Obama wrote an insightful research article showing how contrasting views in the abortion debate are a direct result of cultural and sociological differences.  [ed:  where is that Obama-written article on abortion  now?]

As law review president, Obama is the last person to edit student articles, as well as longer pieces by accomplished legal scholars. The review publishes eight times a year and receives about 600 free-lance articles each year.

Referring to his fellow students at the review, whom he edits, he said: "These are the people who will be running the country in some form or other when they graduate. If I'm talking to a white conservative who wants to dismantle the welfare state, he has the respect to listen to me and I to him. That's the biggest value of the Harvard Law Review. Ideas get fleshed out and there is no party line to follow."
...

"While I applaud Obama's achievement, I guess I am not as hopeful for what this will mean for other blacks at Harvard," said Derrick Bell, the school's first black tenured law professor.

"There is a strange character to this black achievement. When you have someone that reaches this high level, you find that he is just deemed exceptional and it does not change society's view of all of the rest."

42 Yeah, the poster should have waited a lot longer to "reveal the secret."

HA! Well, You Win The Gotcha Contest For Today!
by Le Roy Was here
11/18/2009, 1:52 PM

This guy responded the same way after last year's election when a summary of Obama's true credentials were described.

43 I meant to slice out more of that article, given that we're all morons with short attention spans here:

In sum:

1.  Students elected Obama to the Harvard Law Review Editor post

2.  Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe mentions an article written by Obama about Abortion

3.  Obama talked about himself quite a bit.

.

Dear Dr. Tribe - where's the Obama article on Abortion?

44 I think that the word you're looking for is pwned.

Of course, now the lefty Barry lovers will redefine the rules of grammar and style to make that sentence da' bomb.

45

"he has the respect to listen to me and I to him

at November 23, 2009 07:59 "

 

"Then I proceeded to tell the Conservative, F-off, I won"

46 @45 So, Obama hasn't changed at least since law school.  I doubt he will never change.  His nanometer deep personality with absolutely nothing underneath it has lead him to the top with ease.

If we saw that abortion article Obama wrote it would show a lazy intellect hitting all the lefty talking points neatly and but actually saying nothing of consequence.  In other words, Obama parroting the party line for a cookie.

47 Using the line about "cocaine, if you could afford it" and attributing it to Palin, rather than Obama, would be fascinating, I think.

48 I'm beginning to understand Obama's Economic Plan:

At Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama studied international relations and spent much of his time helping to organize anti-apartheid protests. In his junior year, he transferred to Columbia University, "more for what (New York City) had to offer than for the education," he said.

After graduating, Obama landed a job writing manuals for a New York-based international trade publication. Once his college loans were paid off, he took a $13,000-a-year job as director for the Developing Communities Project, a church-based social action group in Chicago.

Mmmmm - kay.

Four years of college education, including two years at an Ivy League college, and the student loans were paid off.  Within a two-to-three year span?

which allowed Barack Obama to take a $13K per year job.

... I can make sense of all this, except that it makes no sense.

Which sounds like a Harlan Ellison story.

.

49 From what I've seen exerpted from Obama's book, the 'writing' stinks on ice.

Overdone, florid, and bad.

50 Anyone use Digg?

If so, the story has been "dug" here:

http://tinyurl.com/ybyzcej

51 Perfect.  The childish, mindless impulse to hate anything Palin exposed and all the guy had to do was quote Mr. Perfect.  Liberal minds have never been sullied with the presence of thought.

52 Pailyn iz teh stoopud!

53 /the phone would ring....a friend would be breathing heavily on the other end....i assumed they had out run the big, black, drooling, drunk canine....the street lights reflecting of his glistening coat.....teeth sharpened from chewing on 40's and as white as the full moon above him.....muscles rippling...was he created by allah? or the devil himself? i was conflicted, i wanted him to eat....but not necessarily my friends.....he was a beautiful, sensual animan...i mean animal......i'm so conflicted! MICHELLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

54

Did barry ever get his jet fighter night rating?

Or is he teh stoopud too?

55 Needs more apes.

And figs.

56 I'm gonna let Sarah finish, but Barry wrote the best book evah!

57

My mother-in-law did.  Of course, I then had to listen to hours of her railing about how big a liar and traitor Obama is.

Here, everyday before breakfast....

58 He may have a student loans for living expenses but I bet Odanga or whomever paid the tuition. Perhaps he was "granted" the money from the school because he should have been at least $60K in debt. What job does it say he took to pay off his loans?

59 In Barry's defense, the coke keeps him so thin and "athletic-looking."

60 "I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers

That sounds like a euphemism for a sex act, but damned if I can't figure out which one.

re: Barry's "$13k/yr job"  That was a training wage, which went up to $30k/year after three months.  Which was a lot of money in 1983. 

61

 For example, Tribe said, Obama wrote an insightful research article showing how contrasting views in the abortion debate are a direct result of cultural and sociological differences. 

"cultural and sociological differences".

This was considered brillant? (And I can't get the underline off). Who wouldn't instinctively know that different views on abortion are the direct result of cultural and sociological differences. Cultural and sociological differences would include: marriage, being raised in a married household, religion, emphasis on religion, family support structure, views on pre-marital sex, ability to use birth control, sympathy toward infants, etc, etc.

I know, tendency toward crime is a direct result of cultural and sociological differences.

Duh

62 OK, maybe not Wall Street money, but the median wage was about $20k, so he was in the upper half and possibly the upper quartile of income. If he was living in squalor, it was because he's a piss-poor money manager.  As we saw in February.

63 Heh.  The comments are classic, particularly the back-pedaling.  I only wish the person who posted the quote had waited a bit longer before pointing out the sentence was from the Fearless Reader's book. 

These Palin-bashers make me sick. 

64

Oh sure, the bait and switch was funny as hell, but have you stopped to consider all the damages suffered by leftists from whiplash?  Going from blind hatred to blind love within the space of a single comment can't be good for you. 

65
Somebody should try this trick out on Amazon. I'll bet it would get a lot of bites over there.

66 Of course, now the lefty Barry lovers will redefine the rules of grammar and style to make that sentence da' bomb.

You need to catch up, physics geek.  Grammar is racist. 

I'm serious. Having evaluated student college applications (grad school, actually), I can assure you that grammar, punctuation, etc are artificial constructs designed to keep people of color in their place.

67 The stupidity of liberals knows no bounds.

68 PWNED!

69 If he was living in squalor, it was because he's a piss-poor money manager.  As we saw in February.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at November 23, 2009 08:54 AM (OkT2m)

Cocaine will do that to you.

70

Chapter 69 - My first date with Michelle

Looking across the restaurant table, our eyes met, we were locked in a trans, like an Israeli heat seaking missile onto an Iranian fighter jets tail. 

I only wanted the best for Michelle and told her to choose anything on the menu.  I wanted her to feel like a Queen.  She chose everything, like Imelda Marcos at a shoe fair.

We ended the evening on a journey to paradise, which is the name Michelle gave her apartment. I would be alone with Michelle. I thought, how am I worthy to partake of such a beautiful, glistening beast? What did I do in my god awful life to deserve this?

After we indulged in a little blow, one thing led to another. After some heavy wookie petting, Michelle removed her panties. It was like watching Ringling Brothers taking down the big tent. How humbling, but also breathtaking! I knew then that there was an Allah.

71 75 Gross

72

Alright, I just did the same on Craigslist. Gonna see if anyone will take the bait.

73

Palin wrote it: What an idiot. She can't even string together a sentance.

Barry wrote it: It's perfect English. It's sheer genius. What brilliant prose.

 

And that encapsulates the intellectual dishonesty of the left.

74 And in the irony department, we have Martha Stewart, you know that ex-con who makes a living off all things mundane? Yeah, she says Palin is boring and dangerous.

75 And in the irony department, we have Martha Stewart, you know that ex-con who makes a living off all things mundane? Yeah, she says Palin is boring and dangerous.

Posted by: koopy at November 23, 2009 09:26 AM (XllG0)

You mean like convicted felon serving time in a federal penitentiary dangerous ?

76 75 Dammit! Now my breakfast is all over the place, eeeew!

77 She's boring...and dangerous!!1! Yeh, Martha, that says a lot more about you than you realize.

78 You mean like convicted felon serving time in a federal penitentiary dangerous ?

More like Federal "pound-you-in-the-ass" prison.  This smart military blog needs more Office Space references.

79 our eyes met, we were locked in a trans

Beautiful.

80

Chapter 3, Dreams of the Bitch that is My Mother, page 34

It was a day like most days in my small cage. Me and my brothers and sisters clamoring around my mothers teets, pushing and shoving to nurse before she started to move about. The day still sticks out in my memory more for its bland sameness than for anything else, but that was the day my life changed forever.

The room flooded with light, just like normal as the tall flesh creatures walked in like Gods. Me and my brothers and sisters hurredly rushed forward to seek their attention. Having the tall flesh creatures stroke our black fur and coo into our faces seemed to be the greatest joy in life other than a full nipple sucked gently. The flesh creatures did not rush forward today however, they stood by the door with fear smell clinging to their bodies. A hush fell over my family, what could make the tall flesh creatures stink of fear. We soon found out as the dominant one padded into the room. Tall as the sky, smelling of dominance and anger, the female flesh creature came. She showed her teeth to the flesh creatures I once viewed as Gods and in a breathe cowed them. I quickly rolled over on my back baring my throat in submission, urinating on myself in my fear.

81

Sarah Palin?

Never heard of her.

82 Yeah, she says Palin is boring and dangerous.

And Martha knows this because she has never read or listened to a word Palin has said.  That's a woman who's not afraid to let the whole world know how open-minded she really is.

83

OT, but wondering whether Obama is going to use TOTUS when he pardons the turkeys.

84

Of course, now the lefty Barry lovers will redefine the rules of grammar and style to make that sentence da' bomb.

And, indeed, they did.  In all of one or two comments.  It is classic.

85

Chapter 3, Dreams of the Bitch that is My Mother, page 35

The dominant one, known to me now as Wookie, sniffed our cage. Me and my brothers and sisters all cowered or whined, some rolling over to copy my submissive posture. After a quick sniff Wookie lefted her leg and urinated over side of the cage that held me for my entire life. Looking at us with baleful red eyes, the she creature scratched our smell off the floor marking her territory while daring us to challenge her. As if any of us would. My mother, who even when the flesh creatures came around would sometimes bare her teeth to protect us, did not even stir. She seemed to be trying to melt into the floor.

The Wookie padded back over to the door and snarled seemingly at random. This is when another tall flesh creature with remarkebly huge ears entered the room. He had been waiting respectfully outside, waiting until the dominant one had entered the room. The Wookie snarled again, this time at his neck, which he bared in submission quickly.

86 Nothing anyone else will write in this or any other thread anywhere on the web will ever approach the sheer ball-wrenching awesomeness of the phrase "mastodonic tower of assmeat".

Fact.

87 And the ironical part is that none of the Comment Intelligentsia read the one about how it was Obama's Ayer's sentence, so they kept on bashing away.

Because they're smarter than everybody else.

88 I didn't read the whole sentence, but I could tell by scanning the first couple of words that Palin is the stupidest person that ever existed in the history of the universe.

89 Yeah, she says Palin is boring and dangerous.

These concepts are mutually exclusive, although I suppose Martha has been to jail and is only capable of showing detached ennui in the face of danger. Or she's just drunk all the time. Meh.

90

97 Yeah, she says Palin is boring and dangerous

...says the convicted felon

91 btw Ace, thanks for rolling out of th rack so early.

92 The one thing about the Left insulating itself from its own failures is that you can do this over and over again and they won't get that they've been had.

Do you think anybody except the few on that board will repeat this story?  Hell no.  We'll be able to pull this con -- even with the exact same excerpt from DfMF -- over and over again.

93 Periods are racist.

94

almost finished with book.  It is a very enjoyable read.  Well worth the effort.  Not what I thought it was based on the news report.  It is in Palin's own words, first person pov.  You can tell she wrote most of the book herself or at least dictated it.  I would highly recommend the book to fans and people that are unsure of her.  To the haters I would strongly suggest you read her book like Patton read Rommenals.  she gives you her plan that is coming in 2010 and 2012 if your liberals are smart enough to understand it.

 

 

95 What?  Like admissions of cocaine use in your autobiography is no big deal?

He could have admitted to rape, murder and cannibalism of babies and the left would have given him a pass.

96 99 btw Ace, thanks for rolling out of th rack so early.

Posted by: Truman North at November 23, 2009 09:58 AM (e8YaH)

Are you sure you didn't mean, "Thanks for stopping by to post on your way to the rack?"

97 When the health care, the cap-and-trade and the second stimulus bills get passed and everything goes to heck in a handbasket, the Republicans Democrats will all point to Barack Obama Sarah Palin and say "We told you so."

98 As a person who will vote Republican in 2012, no matter what, I sincerely believe that many Democrats are purposefully attacking Palin as a way of (1) distracting conservatives from the big issues of the day while Obama merrily implements socialism, and (2) galvanizing conservatives behind Palin so that she will be the nominee. Obama would beat Palin head-to-head for sure. He already did it once. Yes, defend Palin. But get on with the business at hand and give other candidates a chance. I don't support anyone at this time.

99

Come to think of it, Josef, that might be the case.

I can't figure out how single people who work from home can stay on a day schedule.

100

OT, but wondering whether Obama is going to use TOTUS when he pardons the turkeys.

Posted by: Triumph at November 23, 2009 09:42 AM (lDdA/)

Only if they yell, Allah Akbar.

101

ok  this is why I LOVE this woman:

 

We see a united team.

Now, I want to give you more hope: We are Americans. Anything is possible in America. Anyone can make a positive difference. You donÂ’t need a title or a political position or a pedigree. We can take our country back from those who think growing national debt will grow prosperity for us, the little guys. We can take it back from those who think shrinking military power will make the homeland safer for us, the little guys.

We can take it back because weÂ’re fired up, and weÂ’re all about telling our government to listen to us, trust us, get back on our sideÂ… or politicians: youÂ’re fired.

Plunging our country deeper and deeper in debt; borrowing billions from foreign countries; relying on foreign nations to supply us with energy; talking about sanctions against dangerous regimes but not following through; hesitating to surge aggressively to stop terrorist strongholds from growing; allowing government to take over health care, banks, the auto industry, and who knows what else theyÂ’ve got up their sleeves... itÂ’s all too much and weÂ’ve had enough.

Ronald Reagan knew it took a united team to right the wrongs of Washington. He told his team in essence, “Gentlemen and Ladies, I hate inflation; I hate taxes; I hate terrorists. Do something about it.”

America, youÂ’re doing something about it! Thank you for standing up and speaking out. Thank you for holding on to hope, for loving America so passionately and supporting our troops who fight for freedom. Keep the faith!

- Sarah Palin

102 That was hilarious!

103 I will retain the mental note to avoid Dobermann's carrying beer bottles, regardless of how poorly Ayers wrote that sentence.

104 Anybody see the new bombshell on Big Government?

105

Posted by: Jean at November 23, 2009 10:05 AM (tJF9l)

He can't bite you if he's got a beer bottle in his mouth.

106

That was really funny.

I've read Obama's books -- checked them out from the library and read them.  Mainly because I was hearing two extreme critiques of the books, and it's best to just read them and decide for yourself.  My critique: ho hum as literature, but careful reading did point to some very distressing clues as to his mindset (or whoever wrote the things mindset) -- there's a lot of anger in those books, underneath the overwrought prose (and overwrought prose written straight up, with no sense of humor, is also a bit of a distressing clue).  I haven't read Palin's book yet, too busy with other things right now -- but I'll do the same.  It would be interesting to compare the stylistics of the two authors.

My Dobermans never drank from bottles; they would drink from a short stein however.

107

101 Periods are racist.

Lay off asshole, when its my time of the month, they are NOT racist, just when it's your time of the month.

108 Someone in the comments over at Slate thinks Obama wrote something for the HLR.   If he has copies of any Obama writings, he should contact the NYT.   As far as anyone knows, there isn't a single written word extant of anything Obama wrote while at law school or anywhere else.  His books not withstanding.

As for Palin, her book wasn't ghost written.  The name of her collaborator is right on the cover.

109

I'd prefer to buy her book on tape, IF she narrates it that is.

Read to me Sarah...

 

110

Posted by: Dave C at November 23, 2009 10:19 AM (qmecx)

 

headline should read:

Palin visits Ft. bragg after declaring war on Congress.

111 Anybody see the new bombshell on Big Government? Posted by: Truman North Yep. Mighty tasty. Mighty tasty. The Breitbart folks have a treasure chest in their hands and they've just started to learn what is in it.

112 comes out the 24th

113 There is so much of a difference between Palin's intellectual culture and Obama's intellectual culture.

It really resonates with me.  I'm a Ph.D. mathematician and my parents never went to college.  Those in my family who went to college never got a graduate degree of any kind and generally majored in English at a small "bible college".  Consequently, I'm not impressed with the trappings of the culture of the intelligensia.  I've learned to judge a brilliant idea even if it's presented without the most perfect grammar or references to obscure pretentious literature.

What I see in Obama's academic culture is a constant effort to impress people, to make themselves appear smart.  It's a shallow culture and, ironically, very similar to the shallow cultures of pretense and preening that are often the subjects of classic literature.  Obama's books are not deep.  In fact, the ideas therein are vapid.  The whole point is the rhetoric.  How does it read?  How does it sound?

It is judged by the standards of poetry.  It is not written to convey ideas, but to prove what a smart guy Obama (or Ayers or Favreau) is and, whatever ideas there are, the rhetoric exists to mask how weak the ideas are.

Palin cares not a whit for poetry.  She cares about the substance.  Whereas you could summarize Obama's tomes with a quick synopsis, Palin writes to summarize.

I see the difference between my own profession and those with Ph.D.'s in the humanities and social sciences.  My job is to take ridiculously complicated ideas and simplify them so that others can understand them.  Their job is to take simple and trivial ideas and try to pretty them up so that they look far more complicated than they really are.

Obama's first interest is style.  Palin's is substance.

114 112 Anybody see the new bombshell on Big Government?

Hoooooleeeeee CRAP!

115

Nice try, unseen, but I wrote that. Twice. And it didn't take me all that long, either.

116 ATNorth @90, I love how once the true source of the quote was revealed the writing style became a sign of true intellegence.

117 Debunks Ed Morrissey's early projection that Palin's book was written by a ghost writer. I'll say again, reading Palin's book is like listening to your friend. It's her story.

/And so far as jokes go, how many relayed here are grammatically correct?

118 Hey, Ace
Nice Ford Mustang Ad.
How about posting the early photo of Sarah in front of Todd's?

119 Wow, I honestly can't think of a better endorsement for Sarah Palin than that of a useless, white-toast bitch like Martha Stewart's dislike of her. That this woman or Oprah are famous makes me wish for a fiery apocolypse.

120 The indictment of ACORN will be more pages than the OBamaCare bill.

121 That was EXCELLENT.

122

Sarah will be in my town today for a book signing at 4 PM.

Over 1,800 people lined up for 1,000 numbered arm bands yesterday morning (some camped out from the night before).

I wouldn't have minded a signed copy but big crowds and standing in line just don't suit me well at all.

123

 maverick muse at November 23, 2009 10:42 AM (+CLh/)

 

agreed very good book and in Palin's voice.  Thinkl thye ghost writer was more there to shorten some of her runon sentences.  To help clarify her writing.  i would love to see an interview with the coauthor  and see how much work she did vs Palin on the book.  it looks like 80/20 Palin/vincent

 

 

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For a change last night on Fox's Bulls And Bears, I was paying close attention to the screwy opinions which were expressed by a Democrat strategist named Christina Something-Or-Another in her bizarre attempts to justify what she considered to be the many benefits of the healthcare legislation. Her wacky opinions affirmed my long held belief that all Democrats are either mentally ill or mentally retarded, and all of them are liars..

I've rarely heard such a convoluted description of the way in which that legislation will be financed. Her explanation was all smoke, mirrors and baloney, clearly intended to be so confusing to any senior citizens listening to her gibberish that they would throw up their hands in exasperation, and give up on trying to comprehend the vagueries and complexities of that issue, thereby going along with whatever scam the Democrats are running..

Like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama is nothing more than a street hustler who is running a scam on the entire country similar to the scams that Sharpton and Jackson have been running on black communities for years. I continue to be incredulous that so many white people are being duped by Obama's scam in their incrediply stupid belief that they're going to get something for nothing.

 Rush Limbaugh was right, Democrats succeeeded in dumbing down America, and the support that Obama is receiving for this b.s. healthcare legislation shows just how stupid the majority of Americans have become.

I'm with the guy who suggested that all hardcore conservatives should move to Texas, and then secede from the Union, which will become, in some ways, a third world country in this decade with or without conservative Republicans.

We're witnessing the decline and the fall of the American Empire, orchestrated by sneaky, sleazy and cowardly creeps, losers, misfits and perverts who have always hated this country and who have always blamed the rest of us for the fact that they are creeps, losers, misfits and perverts.   

125 Hey, where did everybody go? Was it something that I said?

126 If you don't know what you said, I'm not going to tell you. Oh, and there are new posts...

127

IÂ’m still hung up on the beer drinking Doberman. IÂ’m thinking a drunk Doberman would be far less fierce than a sober one, but maybe when Dobermans drink they become more belligerent.

128

But, but, but, my comments were so, so, so, well, so elucidating ..., and, oh yeah, so edifying, too.

 

129 Us (or is it we) Dobermans need love, too.

130 135  Oh, and there are new posts...

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 23, 2009 11:26 AM (Be4xl)

I do my own thing. I've never been one to follow the crowd.

131 @ 57 my thoughts exactly

132 Interestingly enough, and by an astonishing coincidence, and as incredible as it may seem,  #133 expressed my sentiments exactly, too.

133 Obama's first interest is style.  Palin's is substance.

Style is one of the very very few "assets" any successful narcissist has at their disposal.  Mesmerizing (to some) oratory being the only other major one.

134 142 Obama's first interest is style.  Palin's is substance.

Style is one of the very very few "assets" any successful narcissist street hustler has at their disposal.  Mesmerizing (to some) oratory being the only other major one.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at November 23, 2009 12:04 PM (t8sUy)

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"46 I think that the word you're looking for is pwned.

Of course, now the lefty Barry lovers will redefine the rules of grammar and style to make that sentence da' bomb"

 

Keep reading, after the "confession", the sentence suddenly turns into a work of deep and clever literary genius. It's a beautiful thing.

136 The only difference between street hustlers Jackson, Sharpton and Obama is that Obama has a better education and he has the added benefit of having been taught to have the added slickness of a slimy attorney

137

"103 What?  Like admissions of cocaine use in your autobiography is no big deal?

He could have admitted to rape, murder and cannibalism of babies and the left would have given him a pass."

That is what is known in Democrat circles as a "resume enhancement"

138

Has it occurred to anyone that, for jeopardizing the safety of our soldiers in Afganistan, that slimy con artist can be and should be impeached? The guy is an empty suit.

Even the French say that he is a joke, and for the French, of all people, to say that he is a joke, that should tell you what a dissaster that empty suit has become.

How about printing up and distributing thousands of bumber stickers which say simply. "Impeach Obama Now"?

139

To show the real stupidity of these idiots, after this boob points out that it was from Obama, there are still multiple posts slamming it as showing Palin's "ignorance" and some "fake but accurate"-type postings.

The true stupidity of the Obama books is that he "wrote" a freaking memoir after graduating from college.  What a douche.

What kind of freaking nut "writes" two memoirs without having done anything?  Leftist are such idiots.

They truly believed that this failed ACORN seminar instructor was the coming "messiah" to save their souls, lower the seas and freeze the ice caps???  Talk about stupid.

 

140 I knew as soon as I read that paragraph that it came from one of President Saystuff's books.

His sophomoric scribblings are striking in their sheer amateurism.

It's not that the writing is bad -- it is, of course -- it's that it so self-consciously apes a naturally gritty, yet insightful style of writing and falls short.

He's trying to come across as a rough-around-the-edges hardship case who's just brimming with natural talent.

But it just ain't so.

He's a poseur.

The only ones fooled are the other poseurs.

141 128 be careful what you wish for.

142

122 -- I realize Amish Dude, that you have a hatred for the humanities, probably in particular literary studies, and to a certain extent I can agree with you on many of your assumptions of those departments.  Please remember however, that the humanities do have their place in academics as a cornerstone (along with mathematics and the sciences, medicine) of human civilization -- and are not deserving of the trashing many give them.

In fact, the humanities are the departments most in need of rescue -- they have been the longest and most grievously assailed by petty minds.

Oh, and not all of us lowly humanities pukes make it a life's goal to preen and name drop at faculty cocktail parties; they are also in the sciences and math departments as well -- I give as evidence: global warming.

 

Sorry for being snippy, but I have to stand up for my area of study sometimes; I know it's infested with really moronic fascist "intelligentsia" who are doing all manner of harm to everything they touch...but the area of study itself deserves defense imho.

143 Awesome.

144 xxx