Excellent description, Peter. Also, Alaska has the population of a mid-sized city - 670,000. With so much money that they give our tax money to there citizens every year -- and continue to accept pork money to re-distribute to Alaskans. Now there's a good model of fiscal responsibility with public money.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's easy. > > Ms. Palin is a very good example of a number of people I've met over the > years (often of the non-denomiational variety, but hardly exclusively) who > simply cannot differentiate the notion of public service from their concept > of personal existence. Not a full blown sociopath, but simply do not > understand the concept that other's have any real existence at all, or that > their actions might be in conflict with someone else's beliefs and that > others might have a right to disagree or be correct in that disagreement. > > As stated by an Alaskan newspaper reporter, when he asked a fellow political > reporter if Palin had trouble with determining the difference between her > official duties and her personal life, got the answer, "you don't understand > -- for her there there IS no difference". She is very sharp at discerning a > way to make a distinction difference between herself and someone else, but > there is no philosophical or ideological basis for that distinction, she > will use whatever works and blithely discard it when it no longer works and > simply refuse to acknowledge that she had any particular stance or made any > particular statement. She operates solely on pure personal loyalty, and has > been known to savage "friends", political or personal, who fail to support > her unquestioningly, especially when she makes one of her about-faces on > policy. > > I've taught some University classes, and you run across this type pretty > often. They are both male and female, appear quite bright, but usually only > memorize words and word patterns. They are quite good at memorizing > scripts, but have serious difficulties with synthesis (that is, > understanding a concept and evaluating the dynamics of problems, > troubleshooting, or producing solutions to problems that are not examples in > the textbook, as they don't really understand things). They can appear > quite articulate until you carefully analyze what they are saying, at which > point it often becomes either circular logic or variations upon a set group > of catch phrases. A pattern of tossing out jumbled ideas in conversation is > typical, and when you appear to agree with something partially, that phrase > or idea will be modified to suit what appears to be your interpretation, > although what gets repeated or passed on will not be the same. > > A great deal of hot air has been passed around about her intelligence and > perspicacity, but I suspect she just memorizes well, and in fact is doing a > very poor job as Governor of Alaska. Easy state to be Governor of -- awash > in money, with more readily available at any time by raising oil royalties > and taxes. No State income tax, low sales taxes, no real reliance on the > population for financial support, and a population who doesn't really care > what the state government does so long as it doesn't impinge much on the > citizens life much except in terms of services received. Alaska is the > recipient of vastly more Federal money per capital than any other state, and > I've not seen Palin say anything about that -- I'm sure she would have some > nasty smart-alec comment that other states should just do as good a job at > lobbying as they do. > > Very poor choice for a Governor, let alone President. > > Peter > -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." - Ernest Hemingway '90 300D (Rattled), '92 300D (Saber), ''97 Ply Grand Voyager (Vincent van-go) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
