Flashback

I would partially blame Cheney for 40% of americans thinking Palin is up for the job.If you think about it, Cheney basically acted as the Mouth of Sauron for most of the Bush presidency. He came out and pointed fingers at the Boogeymen a lot, but his offical actions have been pretty secret.Most people probably think the VP’s only job is to be a hawkish fear-monger, and in that respect, Palin is totaly up for the job.

Speaking of simple things…..Bob, read the “Construction”…..the VP runs the Senate. Don’t die of ignorance!

This cannot is not possible to the parse the sentence. An easy thing.

wow–I suspected CNN’s Drew Griffin was a right wing tool after his one sided, misleading ACORN story (that CNMN has had on a loop for two weeks)–it is now confirmed. He is either a right wing tool, or Sean Hannity was wearing his Drew Griffin Halloweeen costume a few days early while “interviewing” Palin just now–tee ball anyone?

May I recommend this Slate article, “Diagramming Sarah” wherein an intrepid language buff attempts to diagram Palinese for us.

We’ve had to translate Bushisms for the past 8 years…Palinese should be positively easy. What she’s trying to say is: “Johnny McNasty likes it when I put my ankles around my neck.”

I think what the BBQ media misses completely–THAT ALL THE POLLING DOES NOT MISS IN HER NEGATIVES–is how downright nasty she is. Her tone is so unattractive–and the media still won’t give up the ROCK STAR meme. It is utter BULLSHIT–Bush and Cheney could garner those crowds from their base as well–

It’s been sneers with a smile from the beginning. There is such a horrible disconnection between her demeanor and her words. At this point, I have gone from thinking she speaks like a non-English speaker who has learned the language from some very bad tapes (or a double translation from Babelfish) to thinking she is an evil space alien in the shell of a human being, constantly being tripped up by her inability to put thoughts to language in any comprehensible form.

There is a comedian that I can’t put my finger on–maybe from an old show or a standup–who did that sentence thing Palin (or very similar to it, knocking off parts of thoughts if there is even a whole thought there). I wish I could place it.(challenge to you YouTubers)@Peggy–”double translation from Babelfish”, love it. And good point on the words/demeanor thing. It’s hard to watch.@Jane! My mother the college English teacher (ret.) is getting that one tonight. Thank you. They never truly retire. Especially if they have children.

What do Republicans dislike so much about the English language? For people that don’t want anyone to learn other languages, they are remarkably reluctant to even attempt mastery of the one they claim to support.That is absolute gibberish. What is wrong with her?

And yet I read something like this:http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1515/pub_detail.aspMakes me want to barf!

Maybe if we fed Palinspeak into Babelfish and back into English, it would come out meaning something….

Governor Sarah’s sentence wizardry is the same kind one encounters in hideously incompetent freshman English papers: just a jumble of words sputtered out anyoldhow the day before the paper comes due; the writer has no idea what he or she means and really doesn’t see what all the fuss is regarding “what your words mean and what order ya put ‘em in” (Tina Fey’s Palin). It is also why I stopped being willing to teach composition years ago–life is too short, and I leave teaching writing as a dedicated subject (a noble endeavor) to people with more time and patience than I could summon in three bundles of threescore and ten. When people are as far from competent writing or speaking as Palin seems to be, correcting them is like trying to explain how to tie a pair of shoelaces–it ought to be simple to explain, but somehow it’s next to impossible.

To “schadenfroid”: The VP is the “President of the Senate” but their only power is to cast tie-breaking votes. That’s it. They don’t “run” anything, they can’t affect legislation (except in the way that any member of a separate branch of government can – by asking for favors) or write bills or schedule votes or anything else that Senators do. They historically preside over the swearing-in of new members as well. Whee!The only other thing they might be able to do is recognize someone else over the Majority Leader, as parliamentary procedure dictates that the member with the highest post is recognized first, and arguably “President” outranks Majority Leader. But even the most right-wing Republican wouldn’t stand for too much of this as tradition holds more weight in the Senate than anything, and a disruptive VP would violate tradition pretty substantially.The Senate is too austere a body to allow itself to be “run” by any VP. Period.

To “schadenfroid”: The VP is the “President of the Senate” but their only power is to cast tie-breaking votes. That’s it. They don’t “run” anything, they can’t affect legislation (except in the way that any member of a separate branch of government can – by asking for favors) or write bills or schedule votes or anything else that Senators do. They historically preside over the swearing-in of new members as well. Whee!The only other thing they might be able to do is recognize someone else over the Majority Leader, as parliamentary procedure dictates that the member with the highest post is recognized first, and arguably “President” outranks Majority Leader. But even the most right-wing Republican wouldn’t stand for too much of this as tradition holds more weight in the Senate than anything, and a disruptive VP would violate tradition pretty substantially.The Senate is too austere a body to allow itself to be “run” by any VP. Period.

I am a new citizen and this is my first year to vote. I came to this country for seeking American dream. Barack will help me make it happen. English is my second language. I will vote THAT ONE who speaks better English that makes a lot sense to me. I can’t help laughing at THE ONE who doesn’t have clear mind about whom he is speaking to when he addressed,”…my fellow prisoners…”, and who chose his VP simply for the purpose of attracting women voters. I can’t trust the cheer leader type of woman to be our VP for the next four year, who doesn’t even do her homework before she has become a sort of celeberty recently.