Constant stupid.
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 @ 4:29 pm | Clueless Conservatives
This has to break some kind of record for number of insanely wrong and empty-headed statements in a row.
Republicans are for good things! Democrats for bad things!
Do we really deserve to be the most powerful country in the world at this rate? Not if these people are calling the shots. Non-stop, prideful ignorance, with no desire to learn or have their beliefs held accountable to reality.
-jb
November 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Idiots are easy to find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8
November 25th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Instant fail, Scott. Find somebody who can provide an intelligent defense of Palin’s ability to serve in the most powerful office in the world.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am
I’m not particularly enthralled with Palin other than the fact that she is from Alaska but if the scales would fall from your eyes you would realize that you could insert Obama’s name into every Palin screed you write and the conclusion would be the same.
“Find somebody who can provide an intelligent defense of Obamas ability to serve in the most powerful office in the world.”
November 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Scales? There’s no way to equivocate the two, any way, any how. Sarah Palin doesn’t know anything about policy a year later. Less than a year into his presidency, we have teabaggers screaming a truckload of noise but almost nobody serious is suggesting that Obama was never up to snuff for the job (unlike Bush, who was flailing). Nobody thinks policy is over his head. Nobody thinks he doesn’t know both sides of every argument. If anything, he’s starting to get the “too intellectual, not emotional enough” criticism.
You’re giving me a playground level retort…”I know Obama is but what is Palin?”
Meanwhile, any intelligent conservative is rebelling on Palin and frustrated with you yahoos who can’t stop insisting this bubble-headed know-nothing deserves to be President. You can look no further than David Brooks for the quintessential example:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-courtship
But he’s horrified by Palin, and calls her a “joke” in public. Why? Because there is no fear of being proven wrong there. And the public isn’t far behind:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/28/seven-in-10-say-palin-not-qualified-to-be-president/
It’s just the rabid, anti-intellectual GOP base who loves her, because they aren’t about substance anymore. They want another smiling dummy for president, so they get find another Cheney (or return Cheney himself) to whisper in her ear. You guys see yourselves in her because she’s another follower.
It’s all classic authoritarian thinking. Nobody likes the Cheneys of the world, the Ivy League rightwingers, so you put a dope in the office who reminds followers of themselves and makes them happy inside. And then the GOP base quiets down and does what it’s told. And if Sarah Palin says she wants to spend a trillion and worry about the money later, the base will go along with it.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
You created this fallacy that a handful of Palin fans are proof that the right as a whole is ignorant. If I was equivocating it was by pointing you to an equally ignorant bunch of Obama supporters. You then went completely off the rails and read into my reply some defense of Sarah Palin which degenerated into a Dick Cheney rant when I was obviously putting a dig to the Pres. Appealing to the authority of David Brooks who is obviously a victim of Stockholm syndrome. LOL
Getting back to the original contention that Obama is unqualified to be president, let me follow your lead and use the words a genuine liberal that is jumping ship. http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x124603932/Ted-Rall-It-s-increasingly-evident-that-Obama-should-resign
“MIAMI — We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
From health care to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn’t have the nerve to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss.”
“Nobody likes the Obama’s of the world, the Ivy League left-wingers, so you put a dope in the office who reminds followers of themselves and makes them happy inside. And then the Democratic base quiets down and does what it’s told. And if Obama says he wants to spend a trillion and worry about the money later, the base will go along with it.”
November 27th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
1. There’s virtually nobody outside those kind of ranting morons and the worst partisan hacks who supports Sarah Palin. She has terrible approval ratings, especially among women.
2. Obviously, you have to slag David Brooks because he doesn’t fit into that category. He’s capable of pissing anybody off, but he’s pretty intelligent, and he felt Obama was smarter than himself. Nobody will make similar claims about Sarah Palin.
3. Ted Rall is railing against Obama because he thinks he’s just as bad as Dubya policy-wise. Not because he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, like Sarah Palin.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
OK I get it already you think Palin is a fucking idiot. I’ll cede you that point if you in turn can provide an intelligent defense of Obama’s ability to serve in the most powerful office in the world.
Yes I slagged David Brooks because despite the fact that he seems to be intelligent, albeit not as intelligent as Obama of course, he is a faux conservative fawning fuck, “I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” WTF is that.
At least Rall offers some rational reasons for his assessment of Obama beyond the fact that discussing Burke with Obama gives Brooks a big woody.
There is more to being president that being the smartest guy with the best pressed pants in the room and I would think that if Obama is just recycling the policies of the person that you hate with just slightly more vehemence than Sarah Palin perhaps you would begin to question his abilities at some point. You stated that Palin supporters are guilty of “Non-stop, prideful ignorance, with no desire to learn or have their beliefs held accountable to reality.”
Scales my friend?
November 27th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I’m really struggling to find some coherence in your stance, Scott. Now you concede on Palin’s intelligence, but I’ve got to find the perfect defense of Obama’s basic abilities to handle the presidency, although nobody has really suggested that he’s incompetent. I provide an assessment of Obama’s intelligence by a smart guy, ah but you don’t like that because the guy is *too* enamored with Obama.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/cool-potus-watch.html#more
Oops, Andrew Sullivan! You’ve got some more crap to throw at him, I’m sure. He hates Palin too much!
Nobody’ll be good enough for you, no matter who I throw at you. Henry Kissinger thinks of him as a grand chessmaster. Not good enough I’m sure.
I question Obama’s priorities, his philosophy, his strategy, etc., but nobody thinks there’s a big zero there running on autopilot trying to desperately convince somebody that he isn’t an idiot.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 am
I think you have gotten cornfused. The goal was to find someone to make an “intelligent defense of Obamas ability to lead” not intelligent people making empty Obama platitudes. Beginning to look like snipe hunt.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
No, it’s long looked like a rightwinger idiotista making a completely baseless comparison between Palin, a empty-headed beauty queen who couldn’t hack it as governor of a nearly empty state, and President Obama. You gave up trying to defend her and you last best shot was an angry liberal who emphatically disagreed with Obama’s detention policy. Now you’re blowing off anything I give you and pretending it’s my fault.
Hate or love what he’s doing, but there’s no way to seriously pretend he isn’t intellectually or mentally capable of doing the job.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 am
Not to jump in, but Scott never really came to her defense. The only thing Scott said about her was this:
“I’m not particularly enthralled with Palin other than the fact that she is from Alaska”
I’m pretty sure he made a dig at her in that sentence not a supportive statement. You have read pretty far into that for a huge lengthy haranguing about how the cunt is most evil woman in the world right now.
Now don’t mistake me either, I’m no Palin supporter, her hardcore fans are stupid and can’t tell their collective asses from a hole in the ground. Much like the hardcore Obama fans I’ve met. They’ll probably drag down the GOP from infighting, but I’m hopeful that they’ll see she isn’t ready for national level politics.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
“…a huge lengthy haranguing about how the cunt is most evil woman in the world right now.”
I assume this is for effect, since no such thing was said. The point is that nobody in that video is much less intelligent than Sarah herself.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Your response to him just seemed like overkill. Jumping into “Oh, so he’s defending her,” mode when he wasn’t. But it’s your blog so your free to go off how you wish.
December 4th, 2009 at 1:24 am
See, I’d like you to actually say what you think instead of speaking for effect.
Equating Obama to Palin is a defense of Palin as much as it is an attack on Obama. My point is that the comparison breaks down once you try going beyond the fringe, because the fringe is running the GOP right now. There is no sane defense of Sarah Palin as presidential material anymore. She’s only spoken of as somebody who has rightwingers in such a misguided spell she might actually win the primaries and become the candidate in 2012.
Yes, there are some idiots who like Obama as well. This goes without saying. On any larger point, Scott completely failed. I addressed his suggestion that intelligent praise of Obama’s skills would also be hard to find with the appropriate level of ire. It’s a patently uninformed and foolish suggestion.
You are once again playing the enabling concern troll. Scott’s wrong, but the liberal’s a meanie!
December 4th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
It should be worth noting that I agreed with pretty much everything you just said about her there.