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She has a lot of populist appeal because she (apparently) sees things the way most people do: about one layer deep.

Yeah, but she looks good doing it-- which is far more than you can say for Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and all the other females in government. Because you know, we don't care what a woman has to say, we just want to stare at her breasts.

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Sort of. We have a kind of collective fantasy about stupid yet competent women. If her mind is completely blank but she can pop a clutch and shoot a gun, why, that's just good times right there.

I thought you were in the wombat demographic? That they'd have to eliminate the platypus crowd first so then there'd be no webbed-footed mammals to speak up for you. Or am I getting you confused with the echidna?

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Also, fruit flies are a good indicator of a restaurant with poor hygiene and low standards.

Somehow, Mr Allakhazam has found a good metaphor.

Christopher Hitchens' take on Palin & fruit flies:
http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/

I never knew he was right wing until a few weeks ago, as nearly every article I've read from him was about religion. In any regard, it's refreshing to read someone criticize religion as bluntly as he does.


Edit: upon further research, I can't find evidence that he is all that right-wing, except for a few issues. But I had heard someone else recently refer to him as such. Whatever.



Edited, Oct 27th 2008 6:31pm by trickybeck

That works on so many levels... some sort of comedic genius there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECI4QK_mXA&feature=related

Here is Christopher Hitchens talking about Iran, fairly conservative I'd say. The only reason he is supporting Obama right now is because the Republican nominees are absolute crap, but he himself is a neo-con.

God, that sounds like the girl I'm seeing right now.

I mean, except for the gun part. I don't think they have those in New Zealand.

I'm missing an awful lot of my childhood memories. But I remember about 20 Marx Brothers movies from Summer school holidays. The only ever bad thing in them was the dopey 4th brother who turned up later. But I loved that battle-axe woman who turned up in a lot of them.

This is apparently the legislation that Palin was referring too. Citizen's Against Governmental Waste (CAGW) targetted the bill earlier this year as being porkful by awarding it's sponsor the "French Kiss off Award". Reportedly, CAGW never contacted the rep to actually learn about it's necessity (or lack of it).

I believe CAGW is funded by the government as well......

Palin is a hardcore anti-intellectual. I get the impression she thought college was a monumental waste of time, considering it took her five years and six schools to eke out a BA in Communications. Her son and her soon-to-be son-in-law are both high school dropouts. Her daughter showed no inkling of college prep plans, and Palin showed no encouragement to her to pursue a degree even being teen-pregnant. And her kids have been with her on the campaign trail constantly (compared to the Obama kids, who have been with their grandmother or Michelle for much of the fall.)

I'd like her more if she wasn't so goddamn stuck on stupid. My parents worked and scraped to go to college on the GI Bill with three kids, and encouraged me to go to whatever college I could get into. My dad was thrilled when I got into UGA (since none of my sisters had even bothered to try), but there was always this expectation that I'd go to college or die trying.

I guess if all you need to know is how to field dress a moose to be Governor, then you view college with a bit of disdain as lost years.