[lit-ideas] Re: Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:10:35 -0700
You and Irene are both speaking from ignorance. Someone who listened to her
speech knows how dumb what you two are saying really is. Sarah addressed
these things you two maunder about and did it brilliantly. She admitted she
was being criticized for being from a small town and being the mayor of one.
She said she guessed being mayor of a small town was sort of like being a
Community Organizer - except that she had to make decisions. Pretty good,
don't you think?
She wasn't just a mayor. She was also a governor. She was a brilliant
governor. She has had more executive experience than your whole Democratic
ticket. If your Democratic leaders are going to criticize her lack of
experience, they are going to lose big time.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher
treatment
Do tell. What scurrilous lies have been told about Palin? Except, of course,
things like the preposterous puffery of treating being the Mayor of a town
of 9,000 as "executive experience," acting as if her relationship to the
Alaska National Guard in any but the most pro forma way military command,
the sorts of things her supporters say? Why, precisely, was it that Tucker
Bounds had such a terrible time coming up with a single concrete example of
an executive decision that she's made; not that she hasn't made any, but
government routine is no qualification to be a heartbeat away from the
presidency? How do you square this incredible inflation of the truth with
what Karl Rove had to say about Tim Kaine's experience when he was being
considered for VP by Obama?
Come on, Lawrence, do list some lies for us.
Is it a lie that she left Wasilia 20 million dollars in debt for a sports
complex instead of improvements to basic infrastructure, for example?
Is it a lie that she is now under investigation for two (albeit related)
ethics violations?
Is it a lie that she supports the teaching of Creationism in public schools
or sought to have books removed from the public library because they
offended her religious prejudices?
Is it a lie that she has a pregnant teenage daughter and a special needs
child, both of whom she has exposed to intense public scrutiny for her own
political purposes?
Balls in your court.
John
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Talk about taking your identity from your enemy. Instead of finding
something positive to say about Sarah Palin, the right wing finds the
negative about the other side. Can't you say anything positive about your
candidate? And while you're at it, can you find something about Margaret
Thatcher other than the left supposedly hated her?
--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher
treatment
To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 1:02 AM
I watched Sarah Palin's speech last night - as well as a ton of Left-Wing
garbage from various sources. Here is an interesting article about Sarah
from England:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do0404
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<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do040
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This is from the www.Telegraph.co.uk <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/> by Janet
Daley comparing the current Leftist criticism of Sarah Palin to that once
aimed at Margaret Thatcher.
"Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels
of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was
dismissed as a "grocer's daughter" by people who called themselves
egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim
to represent 'ordinary people'.
"What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when
Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most
(and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic
decencies, the "small-town values", of family, marital fidelity, and
personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do
not manage to uphold them.
"Middle America - of which Alaska is spiritually, if not geographically, a
part - builds its life around those ideals and regards commonplace moral
lapses as part of the eternal struggle to be good.
"The life of small-town USA is based on the principles of those Protestant
colonial settlers who founded the nation: hard work, self-improvement,
personal faith and family devotion. Mrs Palin speaks to and for them in a
way that patronising "liberal" elitists find infuriating."
Good stuff!
Lawrence Helm
San Jacinto
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John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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