<< October 2, 2008 >>
tales from robert's homeland

if you thought that fidelity bailout plea was tough reading, i've got another one for you.

the news hour has been slumming it in florida this week, and the results are even more distressing than i could have imagined:

I mean, you can go back to Abraham Lincoln. He came from a farm. What's the matter with her being the governor of Alaska?

well, let's see what the online pedier has to say:

In effect he was self-educated, studying every book he could borrow. He mastered the Bible, Shakespeare, English history and American history, and developed a plain style that puzzled audiences more used to orotund oratory. He avoided hunting and fishing because he did not like killing animals even for food and, though unusually tall (6ft 3.75in or 1.925m) and strong, spent so much time reading that some neighbors thought he must be doing it to avoid strenuous manual labor.

i am not quite sure how you get from there to palin without resorting to the word "not."

She's honest, and she just says what she is, doesn't try to say what you want to hear.

while i agree somehwat: she certainly doesn't go out of her way to say what i want to hear, it's sort of refreshing to see that in this day and age, a wink can still hold its own against a nod.

however, what really took the cake was this quote from a clinton supporter:

I feel, if [Obama]'s elected, we will have a socialist, welfare-dominated state, and we don't need that in our country.

her occupation? "retired."