[lit-ideas] Re: Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:47:28 +0900
Aw, Lawrence. I guess we should apologize. Like the guys at Politico just
did.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
But no. We heard the speech. We have also seen the AP (AP, for God's sake)
story that details the lies that Palin told.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/ap-attacks-praise-stretch_n_123771.html
And, for all your huffing and puffing, you're acting just like Tucker
Bounds. We ask for specifics and you bluster that she provided them....
without providing a single example. You must think that just because you say
it over and over again it must be true. But, right, that is the conservative
approach to truth.
John
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Lawrence Helm
<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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?
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> 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.
>
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>
> Lawrence
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> *From:* lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *John McCreery
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:45 PM
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher
> treatment
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> 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?
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>
> 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?
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>
>
> Balls in your court.
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>
>
> John
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>
> 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
>
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> 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:
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do0404.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_05092008
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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.
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>
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> "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
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