OMG. Palin has no brain.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
OMG. Palin has no brain.
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Wed, 10-01-2008 - 8:09pm

Never - ever - have I heard more a vacuous, vapid response to a question from a major candidate for public office:


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/01/eveningnews/main4493062.shtml


Please, people.  Please.  You cannot put this bimbo in the White House.

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Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:30am
A few reasons.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:33am
You've offered an anecdote.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:36am
Yes, anyone can be killed in a robbery, but that's a rare event and not a major cause of death.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:39am
No, not really.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:44am
You don't need to be a lawyer or a political scientist to be interested in American History.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:45am
See, this is what I'm concerned about. He has had milignant melanoma like 4 times. My cousin has had breast cancer twice. She is 62. Now they have found she has mestasticies from this cancer in her ambdomen/kidney area. she starts Chemo on the 8th. I hope she will make this through, but SHE is also very concerned about McCain and his cancer, because of how often she herself has had problems with her own.
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:51am
Uh....probably because although it's literally true, no one considers Joe Biden unfit to become President in an instant, should the need arise due to assassination or heart attack or something equally sudden. People may not LIKE the idea of President Biden, but they don't have the same issues of "OMG, that would be a disaster" like they do with Palin. I have the same sense of "OMG!" that I would if I were to seriously contemplate the possibility of the guy who cuts my neighbor's lawn becoming President of the USA in a heartbeat.

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Registered: 08-21-2005
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:52am

>>No need to yell at me...if you don't like ther then don't vote for her. And I can't personally name any other than RvW <<


Here's a good summary of issues.


http://www2.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topic.htm


Look, even if you can't name the actual case name (since most are not nearly as famous as Roe v. Wade) you should be able to discuss SOMETHING the Supreme Court has debated if you say you are prepared to be the VP. These are things any high school junior should be able to discuss.


Katie Couric is NOT going to be the toughest person she'll face as VP. She should be able to scrabble together some thoughts more coherent than THIS:


"Palin: Well, let's see. There's, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but … "


Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today."


So.... basically, her answer is "Hmm. Maybe."


She couldn't even muster

Caroline

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 9:58am

No, it is statistically significant.

Any specific person MAY live to 105, or drop dead at 49....but that is statistically far outside the norm, both of those things. Right now, at 47, it would be very unusual for Obama to die of natural causes (not taking into account assassination here; I assume that risk is about the same for all Presidents). But McCain dying on inauguration day, for example, would be WELL within the normal range for US males.

To suggest the chances of Biden and Palin becoming President are the same due to natural causes death of the President is simply false, and I'm pretty sure you know it.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 10:07am
Sopal, my point is that ánything can happen to eiher candidate and 'death' doesn't 'select' on grounds of age


Yes...yes, and we might each of us win the lottery, simultaneously, as well. Because ANYTHING can happen!

Meanwhile, back here on planet Earth - you know, the one where both the US and the Netherlands are located? - the FACT of the matter is that while random death (car accident, violence, etc.) might be characterized as indiscriminate, it is also quite true that death most certainly DOES "select" on the basis of age: the older you are, the more likely you are to die within a finite number of years.

And, lastly, even if this were NOT true - which it IS - the reason nobody uses the "heartbeat away from the Presidency" language with regard to Biden is that he has demonstrated his fitness for the job, if necessary, for years, where Palin hasn't.

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