On The Contrary,

Wyoming man steals bottle
of schnapps, flees into nearby
building… a police station.

On the contrary, Sarah, while you have said it would be absurd not to consider running for President, I would suggest that the very idea that you either would or could run for President of the United States is what is absurd. By what conceivable stretch of even the most vivid imagination would make you a serious candidate for President? First, you would have no chance of winning. Second, you are completely unqualified. Third, you couldn’t even manage being Governor of a relatively small (in population) state, Fourth, you quit in mid-term because it was too difficult, Fifth, your husband, with no qualifications whatsoever, was intimately involved in making important decisions in Alaska, Sixth, you were widely regarded as not even being qualified to be Vice-President, Seventh, you are an absolutely know-nothing ignoramus, eighth, You have offered absolutely nothing in the way of a platform, ninth, you couldn’t even remember your three major talking points without writing them on your hand, and tenth, you are an absolute insult to anyone with even half a brain.

What infuriates me is that although I know you are ignorant almost beyond belief, when it comes to what it might take to become President, and although I know you have no chance of ever being President, and in addition you are no more qualified than virtually any woman in the U.S. picked at random, you are still getting all this media attention. Who, besides a small cadre of no-nothing idiots even cares what you say? What credentials do you have to criticize the President? You know nothing of foreign policy, nothing about the economy, nothing about health care, nothing about anything else above and beyond what the ordinary American citizen thinks they know, so why do you pretend otherwise? You are, in short, an absolute phony, enjoying the limelight only because John McCain expressed his utter contempt for his country and its citizens by picking you to be his vice-president running mate. What you are doing by continuing to bask in the spotlight, pretending to be something you are not, is simply continuing this contempt for our country and its citizens. I confess I am not at all certain you are even being serious. Either you are so stupid you actually believe you are qualified, or you are merely using your fifteen minutes of fame to make as much money as possible, in either case the very idea that you seem to believe you could be a viable Presidential candidate, in and of itself proves you are too stupid to be one. There is such a thing as reality. You seem to be unaware of it, along with your small following of absolute nitwits that are making a mockery of our (what’s left of it) democracy. Do us a favor, take your money and run before you make an even bigger fool of yourself. Why am I so upset about you? The truth is you remind me of my aunt Mamie, you even somewhat resemble her. She was an uneducated, ignorant woman who had strong opinions about everything but knew nothing about anything. I suffered her for many years. You said “they” (apparently the current administration) want you to shut up and sit down, so do I.

I saw somewhere the other day the Pentagon is now changing their overall strategy. Instead of planning for two major wars at the same time they are going to plan for many small encounters here and there. I find this fascinating. I always thought the two war strategy at least sort of made sense, after all I thought it might be at least theoretically possible that we might be attacked by both Russia and China at the same time, or maybe Canada and Mexico, or perhaps even Luxembourg and Lichtenstein, so I didn’t question too carefully this strategy. But is there any chance, even theoretically, that we might be attacked by a number of countries at the same time? This seems unlikely (in fact it seems unlikely we will be attacked at all by anyone ever these days). So why would we embrace this new strategy? The only reason this new strategy makes any sense at all is that we are going to continue to meddle in everyone’s affairs all around the globe and will be met with some resistance here and there. After all, the rest of the world did not appoint us to be the world’s policemen, and they might very well object to our trying to manage their affairs for them (while, of course, stealing whatever resources they have we might want). Apparently this is a strategy to insure that our “empire” remains secure, except that it won’t in the long run, as empires always inevitably fail, and ours is about to run out of funds. You might think a smart guy like Obama would realize this, but apparently not. Just as Churchill said he would never preside over the end of the British Empire, Obama seems to eagerly embrace the end of the American Empire. Granted we are not going to the moon again, we are apparently going to Mars, if we can borrow the money.

LKBIQ:
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

TILT:
During World War I, Charles (Charlie) Chaplin presented himself for service but was rejected because he was too small, 5’ 5” and not in good health.