Sarah Palin is No Brad Pitt

Posted on 10/03/2008 at 12:04 am by JumpyPants

Posted by JumpyPants

Sarah Palin is no Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt played Achilles in the movie Troy. Sarah Palin doesn’t know who Achilles was, nor what the significance of his heel is.

The debate confirmed a lot of things tonight, many of them inspiring things, many of them scary things, but one thing that is absolutely certain: Sarah Palin doesn’t know what “Achilles heel” means.

My 9-year old, who has seen Troy (we’re a liberal house, after all), knows who Achilles was and what his heel is all about.

But Sarah Palin doesn’t know. You’d think at one of the five colleges she attended en route to her BA, she would’ve learned about this guy. But then again, she was pretty clear that she doesn’t like looking back to the past.

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  • J M Ashby

    Palin was busy aspiring to be a stripper or sports-caster during her college years.

  • amaraya

    It’s great to have an instant reaction to moments like this and then come to the blog and find others reacting the same way, only in witty ways.

  • kansasdem

    Watching a replay – she’s the stupidest smart-ass I’ve ever seen!

  • bajasteve

    During her college years? I was familiar with “Achilles Heel” in grammar school! Of course, that was back when they actually taught us stuff in public schools, instead of agonzing over what to do to raise our self esteem.

  • dontpanic23

    Even without a movie out at the moment or 6 years of random undergrad schoolin’ (owe her a g), someone who got through 40-odd years without being in at least one conversation making reference to Achilles and his heel as a metaphor for something obviously hasn’t been listening to anything but her own next empty-headed thought.