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Our fine gov. of Pa Rendell has done it again making cuts freezing pay considering layoffs He has gone and hired a friend of his as something to do with tourisum like we need it to the sum of $95,000.00 a year and when he was questioned about it His return was I can do as I like and dont have to answer to it now that is what maybe three saleries of some people

I am a moderate whom basically votes democrat. I don't fear Sarah Palin or any candidate. bush finally woke up the population to this I'm not very intelligent but we could share a beer together & ignore reality type. Face it, Sarah's no braniac. She charms people & has the salesmanship to sell ice to Eskimos (no offense Eskimos). It's gotten her a long way but leading the USA & representing us to the world is a bad movie we've all just watched. If the hard right want her to represent them & believe she's their most qualified candidate, then I say "Go For It". Also, if you want to compare gaffes or embarrasing moments. Lets bring up Sarahs' interviews, her expense sheet, her scandals, McCains' senior slips, THEIR pastors, & don't get me started on bush, etc. etc. etc. Dwelling on the 57 state slip is very desperate. Graduated from Harvard (with honors) ends any doubt about Obamas' record or intelligence level. Weigh out the pros & cons & that's why she's back in Wasilla. Oh & to maybe work on the values, in her own home, that she would like to impose on everybody else, whether she lives by them or not.

It took Sarah Palin less than 3 seconds to come from a curtain to a podium. 3 seconds for people to yell, scream for joy and cry, as though she was moses coming out of the mount with the tabloids. For a total of 5 minutes the roar and applause was so loud all she could do was wave and say "thankyou" As a women and a career executive for 36 years at a telecom fortune 500 company I was offended that people could make their mind up in 3 seconds, with out hearing anything else but "thankyou"

More of Sarah Palin's high fashion campaign bills are coming to light. The total is now up to $338,000. That's $173,000 for clothes and accessories and $165,000 for the three stylists who pomped and circumstanced her. (I can "progress" the English language too.)

Palin, who once denied the $150,000 figure now says she "had no idea taxpayer money was being spent in this way." Whadda genius.

There's no need to tear Sarah Palin down. She falls to pieces all by herself just by opening her mouth.

You can tell when someone is good,,thats when the left tries to tear them down

I beg to differ..Sarah palin IS a moron. To say she is no genius is an understatement. Most, and I mean MOSt Americans think shes an idiot, and no matter how much Republicans and conservatives try to pretty it up, she keeps proving it day after day (Gobble Gobble, kill the turkeys while I give an interview). In fact, most Americans DONT want someone just like us, we want smarter, and shes not it. I am amazed that anyone with a serious mind even gives her a second thought. Make Sarah Palin the Republican standard bearer, and Republicans will be out of power for a generation or more. We picked one stupid Republican, and wont be fooled again. the point is, saying its so, and it being so, are no longer the same. We wont be putting lipstick on this pig

WWW - I didn't compare them, I was asking YOU if you did. Oh- but I forgot, you're perfect.

These are not “little errors” that Sarah Palin makes. A high-level politician needs superior communication skills. Imagine a foreign leader trying to sift through this pile of Palinese slop:

"Any of the chants of 'Sarah' or anything that maybe would look like maybe anything was Sarah-centric, is, on my part, I know that it is not me personally, that the cheers were for. It's for, 'Cool, we've got a woman on the ticket, we've got this manifestation of progress and change in America.'... But not me, personally, were those cheers for, but it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that, I believe, will progress this country in the right direction."

ellsbells930,

Now you dare to compare people with lisps, stutters and physical impairments to a woman who mispronounces her words out of sheer ignorance.

These are not “little errors” that Sarah Palin makes. A high-level politician needs superior communication skills. Imagine a foreign leader trying to sift through this pile of Palinese slop:

"Any of the chants of 'Sarah' or anything that maybe would look like maybe anything was Sarah-centric, is, on my part, I know that it is not me personally, that the cheers were for. It's for, 'Cool, we've got a woman on the ticket, we've got this manifestation of progress and change in America.'... But not me, personally, were those cheers for, but it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that, I believe, will progress this country in the right direction."

Isn't part of the attraction that Sarah Palin is "just like us"? Palin is normal, average - she's the extraordinary girl next door. Palin has never pretended to be an intellectual heavyweight.

The intelligence comments are not about Palin's accent - they are about Palin's ability to think -- Her ability to understand the problems, to invent the solutions, and to debate the theories.

Some people are a lot smarter than other people. But so what? Why is everybody so angry about that? Did you really not know that your doctor and your lawyer and your philosophy teacher were smarter than you?

I heard someone say that Americans are not angry when someone has more money, but they get very angry when someone has more intelligence. I was really mad at that guy, but you people have proved him right.

WWW - I suppose you have NEVER mis-pronounced any word in your entire life? It must be nice to be perfect. But I still say that mispronouncing words is not a sign of how intelligent people are. So a person who has a lisp is stupid? Or stutters? Or has problems with certain letters? My daughter can't pronounce words correctly that have both an 'r' and and 's' in them because of the shape of palate- but she is VERY smart. I'm just sick of the arrogance of people who act like they are so perfect & that any little error by someone they have decided not to like is caused by stupidity. Mr. Obama has his share of speech issues too. I've noticed he has a habit of dropping the ends off of words too. But it IS a habit, not a sign of his intelligence or lack thereof.

Whomever keeps saying "just because she doesn't pronounce things just the way you do... it's a regional thing." Excuse me?

I went to school in Alaska AND I've lived in Idaho. I have NEVER heard a native Idahoan nor an Alaskan speak with an accent like hers.

Poor grammar is poor grammar. A college education is supposed to overcome some bad habits of "regional mistakes."

A college grad with a degree in journalism should have a better grasp on proper pronunciation and grammar than Palin exhibits, regardless of where she is from.

I don't think she is stupid; I think she's bright. But regardless of all that is reported by her supporters and childhood buddies, she shows signs of being intellectually lazy... and thus what we see is not stupidity, but acquired ignorance.

Not keeping up on world events isn't a sin. But what is truly horrifying in her case isn't just that she doesn't know things. It's that a) she does not appear to know she doesn't know these things, and b) she's bellicose that she does know everything about the things that, in reality, she doesn't know much beyond pageant answers for.

Her ignorance is not simply a cute regional dialect.

ellsbells930 wrote, "And just because she doesn't pronounce certain words the way you would, doesn't make her stupid - it's a regional thing"

Dropping G's and saying "you betcha" could be considered a regional thing, but the only region in which you would hear "pundint" and "heeneeus" is in Stupidville. Stop making excuses for Sarah Palin's unadulterated ignorance of her native tongue.

I am so tired of hearing the phrase "liberals who dislike Palin are afraid of strong women"! Look, I'm an independent progressive who favors Democratic candidates. I suppose by those criteria I qualify as a liberal. Whatever. I was raised by a very strong woman who also happens to be both an attorney AND a conservative Republican. She dislikes Sarah Palin even more than I do. For those conservatives who think Sarah Palin is a "shoe-in" for 2012, you'd better think again. It just ain't gonna happen. You'd be better off moving up to Alaska and hailing her as your governor (but that probably won't be the case after 2010 - she's no longer "America's popular governor" and has a lot of Alaskans ready to impeach/recall . . . ).

WWW- I can fault him, because he's no genius either.

(And just because she doesn't pronounce certain words the way you would, doesn't make her stupid - it's a regional thing).

Rendell is absolutely right. Sarah Palin is no genius. Just look at how she repeatedly mangles the pronunciation of English words:

PUN-dint = Pundit
NOO-kyoo-ler = Nuclear
VURB-ij = Verbiage
HEE-nee-us = Heinous

She incorrectly and repeatedly uses the word "progress" as a transitive verb:

"...take that in order to progress the message."

"...we were the true change that would progress this nation."

"...all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation."

"...move forward together, start progressing America."

"...work in bipartisan manners in order to progress this nation."

She strings words and phrases together into nonsensensical mish-mash:

"And I speak for other Republicans, other Republican governors also, they being willing also to, again, seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, a united front."

"Any of the chants of 'Sarah' or anything that maybe would look like maybe anything was Sarah-centric, is, on my part, I know that it is not me personally, that the cheers were for. It's for, 'Cool, we've got a woman on the ticket, we've got this manifestation of progress and change in America.'... But not me, personally, were those cheers for, but it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that, I believe, will progress this country in the right direction."

How can anyone possibly fault Rendell for saying Sarah Palin is no genius?

To Rendell spouting off into a hot mic: way to go, genius!

Matt Dooley writes, "Didn't ya'll just elect Barack Obama, 1st-Term US Senator, as President?"
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It's this kind of silly rationale that led to Republican defeat and will ultimately lead to another one in four years. You have to be pretty dense to NOT KNOW about Obama's tenure as a State Legistlator prior to becoming a United States Senator. You would have to be pretty ignorant to ignore his academic achievements and intelligence. Until Republicans can come up with someone to MATCH his intellect, they have ZERO chance of motivating Independents.

The more extreme conservatives like to lay the hyperbole thick on Sarah Palin because she validates the vision of their own power structure. Being an ideologue for an extremist agenda doesn't make a strong woman, but a token one. Palin, as a woman empowered by regressive forces, reminds me of the character,Serena Joy, from the Handmaid's Tale.