The Mouth that Roars

Boyfriends pays more attention
to his Shiba Inu than her, she tapes it
upside down on refrigerator.

I don’t know why I should bother even mentioning this but as it has upset me somewhat I cannot resist. If you look on the internet you can actually find people who believe that Sarah Palin could become the Republican nominee for President in 2012. You can also find others who regard this as an impossibility, but still others who insist that no one knows and it could possibly happen. This possibility I find both frightening and depressing, but given that George W. Bush made it to the Presidency I fear anything might happen. Personally, I believe this would be proof of a Republican death wish, but there are obviously others who think it might be fine.

How can this be? Here is a woman plucked out of relative obscurity by John McCain, who hungered for the Presidency so greatly he was willing to sell his country under the bus with this strange selection of a running mate. It’s true she was Governor of a small (in population) state, with a citizenry probably more interested in their next moose kill than who was governor, but this was not a serious prerequisite for the potential Presidency of the U.S. Having thus obtained some notoriety she quickly gave up being Governor for the far more important and lucrative book and lecture circuit. Now she has become the mouth that roars, and it roars almost non-stop these days. Remember, this was a woman who thought Africa was a country, who suggested that because she could see Russia from Alaska that constituted foreign policy experience, could not answer even the most basic questions put to her by interviewers, and quickly proved to be completely unqualified for the position of Vice President, let alone President. I do not believe she is unusually stupid, but there is no doubt she is seriously ignorant of basic things one would need to know to become President. She seems to know virtually nothing of Foreign Policy, not much more about how our government actually works, and is basically a kind of religious wacko (the MSM tend not to dwell on this). Some say she is just in it for the money, which she is certainly raking in at a steady pace and no doubt laughing all the way to the bank. Others say she is serious about the Presidency, and of course the truth is no one seems to know for certain what she’s about (I’m not certain even she knows what she’s about at the moment, except that it really pays very well). She has apparently surrounded herself with advisors who tell her what to say and now has the temerity to actually challenge the President at every opportunity, not only on foreign policy but on economics, health care, immigration, and other topics as well. She has, it seems, become an instant authority on things she really knows little or nothing about. This is, to me at least, utterly ridiculous, and anyone who believes she is Presidential material is even more ridiculous. But such people actually do exist. There are, it seems, a few Republicans who think she is completely unqualified also, but the lunatic fringe has been culling them and their voices have virtually disappeared. In other words, the lunatics, egged on incessantly by the big talk-show lunatics, are attempting to take over the asylum. I guess these people are not content with the almost irreparable damage done to the country by Bush/Cheney, they want to repeat it in spades. Do not forget the words of our great sage, H. L. Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

President Obama has apparently given in to Israel again. He seems to not realize that Bibi speaks always with a forked tongue and has no serious desire for peace or a Palestinian state. So Obama says we will never do anything to harm Israel and at the same time promises the Palestinians a state. Can the Palestinians be given a state without in some way harming Israel (at least by reclaiming some of their stolen land and water)? Obama, too, has a forked tongue, and as long as the U.S. uncritically supports Israel there can never be peace in the Middle East. Israel wants the question of Jerusalem to be left until the very last during negotiations. Of course this means that no matter what is agreed upon previously it can all be undone at the last minute by Israel. The difficult decisions should be made first, they will not get any easier at the end. Their position is disingenuous at best and potentially outright sabotage.

LKBIQ:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

TILT:
The Chinese invented the stirrup in 300 A.D.