Palin is someone who is not used to articulating her thoughts. She is also
someone who doesn't think very deeply and is also more interested in persuading
you to feel the way she does. This combination meets in a perfect storm of
idiocy.
--- On Fri, 8/13/10, Yifu Xero <yifux...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Yifu Xero <yifux...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sarah Palin's core beliefs
To: fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 9:16 PM
>From Newsweek, Aug 16, 2010, Palinism 101 by Jacob Weisberg: "Is her babble
>scary, or just funny?"
"As far as I can tell, Sarah Palin has four core beliefs:
1. Things go better with God
2. Yay, Alaska!
3. Let's drill that sucker.
4. Curse you, political establishment.
Palinisms occur when Palin expresses one of these views in her
idiosyncratically involuted syntax ("It is from Alaska that we send those out
to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia");
when she expresses two or more of them in combination ("God's will has to be
cone, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for
that"...or...."
Bushisms, which I collected for many years, often hinged on a single
grammatical or factual eror. Palinisms, by contrast, consist of a unitary
stream of patriotic, populist blather. I'ts like Fox News without the
punctuation".
End quote from Weisberg.
More quotes from the web from other sources:
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco (1932-????)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which
they avoid." -- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
...
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"1.2 billion - 1/5th of the world's population - live in poverty." -- UNICEF
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