Palin steps down as governor of Alaska

[YukonJack]

"Seriously now, 'children' is already a double negative (normally not permissible in English grammar as it is), the first negative being the ending -er, followed by -en, contracted to -ren, and then Bush insists on making it a triple negative!:shock:"

HUH???

 

[petros]

YouTube - Ron James: Sarah Palin

 

[captain morgan]

Give Machjo a break YJ, I'll bet that Bush never relied on a teleprompter in order to speak.

 

[Machjo]

I suspect that you would not have to worry that much about Palin's intimate understanding of all important presidential portfolios. Certainly she'd heed to be informed and fluent, however, the policy that is developed is really done through the advisors that are chosen.

So in other words, Americans vote for a talking head, but the real decisions aren't made by elected representatives? You're probably right.:-(

As for education, I think we can't judge by a piece of paper. Tolstoy dropped out of university because he'd found what he was learning uninspiring, yet his philosophical writings influenced such persons as Ghandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Zamenhof's greatest achievement ( in the field of linguistics) wasn't even in his field of study (he was a trained oculist). Harvard happily gave Bush a Master's degree even though he couldn't make his verbs agree with his subjects, something most elementary school pupils can do.

 

[Machjo]

Give Machjo a break YJ, I'll bet that Bush never relied on a teleprompter in order to speak.

You're right, maybe I was being a little hard on Bush. It can be hard to keep subject-verb agreement in your mother-tongue of English when all you have is a Master's degree from one of the United-States' finest educational institutions.

 

[Machjo]

So Palin should definitely give herself a pat on the back for keeping ensuring subject-verb agreement, thus surpassing a holder of a Master's degree from Harvard.

Then again, looking at it that way, most elementary school children should give themselves a pat on the back too.

 

[Machjo]

"Seriously now, 'children' is already a double negative (normally not permissible in English grammar as it is), the first negative being the ending -er, followed by -en, contracted to -ren, and then Bush insists on making it a triple negative!:shock:"

HUH???

Oops. Sorry, I meant not negative, but plural. Brain ain`t kickin`in today. So as if a double plural ain`t enough, he has to add another pluralÉ What, just to make it damn clear thathe`s referring to more than three?

 

[YukonJack]

Ronald Reagan destroyed Jimmy Carter with a simple question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Should Sarah Palin run for President in 2012, that would be the only question she would need to ask the empiest of all empty talking heads, Barrack Hussain "57 States, teleprompter junkie" Obama.

 

[petros]

YJ - Sarah uses Bluetooth and is less likely to stumble in a speech she didn't write and didn't get a chance to read?

None of today's "TV celebrity" so called politicans break script and ad lib their lies oops lines.

 

[Machjo]

Ronald Reagan destroyed Jimmy Carter with a simple question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Should Sarah Palin run for President in 2012, that would be the only question she would need to ask the empiest of all empty talking heads, Barrack Hussain "57 States, teleprompter junkie" Obama.

At least he makes more sense than Bush when he talks. Could you explain the meaning of these Harvard-quality statement:

"I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008

"Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008

"The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them." --George W. Bush, Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 3, 2008

"And they have no disregard for human life." --George W. Bush, on the brutality of Afghan fighters, Washington, D.C., July 15, 2008

"Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people." --George W. Bush, Charlottesville, Va., July 4, 2008

"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008

"There's no question this is a major human disaster that requires a strong response from the Chinese government, which is what they're providing, but it also responds a compassionate response from nations to whom -- that have got the blessings, good blessings of life, and that's us." --George W. Bush, on relief efforts after a Chinese earthquake, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2008

"How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?" --George W. Bush, Camp David, April 19, 2008

"We want people owning their home -- we want people owning a businesses." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 18, 2008

"And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq." --George W. Bush, to Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

"I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest." --George W. Bush, Accra, Ghana, Feb. 20, 2008

"There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world." --George W. Bush, addressing U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, Jan. 12, 2008

 

[Machjo]

Ronald Reagan destroyed Jimmy Carter with a simple question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Should Sarah Palin run for President in 2012, that would be the only question she would need to ask the empiest of all empty talking heads, Barrack Hussain "57 States, teleprompter junkie" Obama.

Also, even if Barack should prove a disaster for the US, would you honestly want to replace him with someone even more likely to cause further carnage?

 

[YukonJack]

Machjo, I thought this thread was about Sarah Palin.

Those quotes by you are the last desperate attempts to debase a decent man who is no longer in the political picture.

I would much rather see an honest man with language problems than a silver-tongued charlatan half-breed hypocrit masquarading as a black man, because he knows fully well that it makes him immune to criticism; criticizing a LIBERAL black man is automatically racism. Only a conservative Black man can be called all the derogatory names liberals so liberally use.

By the time Obama is thru with turning the United States into Cuba, - in four short years - the people will be ready to give the bum the heave-ho, along with his stumble-bum VP and the slobbering, Obama-worshipping Congress.

If the liberals were not deathly afraid of Sarah Palin, they would simply ignore her.

 

[YukonJack]

"Also, even if Barack should prove a disaster for the US, would you honestly want to replace him with someone even more likely to cause further carnage?"

Why not?

Americans replaced Bush with Obama, only to find that all the deficit Bush caused/created has been tripled by their Annoited One in less than a half a year, the biggest financial disater in human history.

But he has charisma.

 

[Machjo]

Machjo, I thought this thread was about Sarah Palin.

I was referring to the comment that all she'd have to do is ask the previous president if things were any better. I was pointing out that Bush didn't do too bright a job on the economy himself, so Barack Obama shouldn't need too much competence to outshine that reputation. Sarah Palin would thus have a tough job of using the Reagan strategy suggested above. To Palin's credit though, she outshies Bush too.

As for grammar, if Bush can't even speak his own mother-tongue well, what does that say of the clarity of this thinking processes?

Those quotes by you are the last desperate attempts to debase a decent man who is no longer in the political picture.

Decent? You call lying to the international community about WMD's in Iraq as an excuse to violate international law for the sake of 'upholding' international law decent? Well, I guess irt should surprise me when he's willing to give up free market principles in order to defend the free market.

I would much rather see an honest man with language problems than a silver-tongued charlatan half-breed hypocrit masquarading as a black man, because he knows fully well that it makes him immune to criticism; criticizing a LIBETRAL black man is automatically racism.

Honest? Yo call making up stories about WMDs even when your own intelligence services are telling you it's bogus, decent? Dare I ask your definition of 'decent'?

By the time Obama is thru with turning the United States into Cuba, the people will be ready to give the bum the heave-ho, all the way back to Kenya.

So his having been born in the US still doesn't make him a US citizen in your mind? He should still be shipped back to Kenya because of his ancestry? Funny that, you never suggested Carter be shipped back to his ancestral homeland? Why's that?

 

[Machjo]

"Also, even if Barack should prove a disaster for the US, would you honestly want to replace him with someone even more likely to cause further carnage?"

Why not?

Americans replaced Bush with Obama, only to find that all the deficit Bush caused/created has been tripled by their Annoited One in less than a half a year, the biggest financial disater in human history.

But he has charisma.

To be fair, Obama did inherit a recession. However, I concede that he has mishandled the economy royally, essentially transforming the state into a corporate-socialist one. Though granted, Bush supported it too. I have had suspicions since the beginning that Obama is just a mini-Bush, only slightly better in his respect for the duty of the government to prove the guilt of those in its custody. So don't think my criticisms of Bush and Palin mean that I worship Obama. He's just slightly up on the scales, perhaps a little better than Harper though.

I'd love to see MEP Margareta Handzlik (Małgorzata Handzlik) for PM or President though, but alas, she's a Polish national.

 

[petros]

Ronald Reagan destroyed Jimmy Carter with a simple question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Are YOU better off 29 years later YJ?

 

[YukonJack]

"Are YOU better off 29 years later YJ?"

The "Are you better off..." question was posed by an American to another American. And it worked like charm. It did not then, nor does it now have anything to do with Canadians, directly, but only to the extent that our economy - for better or worse - is a function of American economy.

And YES, I am better off. I am comfortably retired, while 29 years ago I was paying an 18% mortgage, coped with a 10% inflation and my old country was still under Soviet yoke.

However, I fear for the mortgaged future of my children, grandchildren and beyond, for generations to come.

 

[petros]

I was paying an 18% mortgage, coped with a 10% inflation

What did you do to recover such loses?

 

[petros]

However, I fear for the mortgaged future of my children, grandchildren and beyond, for generations to come.

How so? That doesn't sound like things have improved if they are doomed. Does it? If you made it through the 18 and 10 you mention and they can't make it on 2.5 and 4 then how can you say things are better?

 

[ironsides]

Could Mr. Shwarzenegger hold a high level cabinet post in a Republican run
Palin Presidency, being born outside of the USA???[/quote]

Yes as long as he is not inline to become the President.