Sam Harris on Sarah Palin

[_LifeOnaPlate]

But your assessment would be proved foolish since this woman, contrary to what you've been saying about her, hung in there with Washington's more experienced veteran and earned her spot.

Maybe to the true believer. ;)

[_dartagnan]

I just got a kick out of knowing where you've been all this time. You've been banging away at the ZLMB search engine trying to quote mine the past. That tells me plenty about how you think you can handle the present. I could be wrong, but that is a reasonable assumption. Calling me a brick wall doesn't make much sense because of the two of us, I'm the one who is known to change his mind.

And you seem to deny that numerous anti-Palin sentiments had been disproved after just the first few days of her nomination. Just check out fact check article on her that was posted less than a week afterwards. It debunks about a dozen I think, and I recall a few of them appeared on this forum almost immediately after they were invented on the left wing blogs.

[_dartagnan]

McCain Camp Finally Expose Obama Ayers Connection, Media Quick to the Rescue

By John Stephenson (Bio | Archive)
October 5, 2008 - 17:35 ET

Obama’s unbreakable friendship with the unrepentant, America hating terrorist William Ayers of the Weather Underground is probably one of the most important things America needs to knowabout Barack before voting day. The media have done well in pretending this is not an issue, and acting as if this does not bring serious questions about Obama’s judgement. The media want this controversial relationship to be swept under the rug.

Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, finally played the Ayers card. CNN were quick to the defense in what they had the gall to call a “fact check”.

Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now “palling around,” or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.

Of course CNN ignores the entire point. Obama had a long history and friendship with Ayers, and still refuses to repudiate this friendship. The point is not whether Ayers is involved in terrorist activity today, but that he remains proud of his past terrorist activities and believes they were not enough. This reflects a character that hates America to its core, and has displayed this hatred on a magazine cover stomping the American flag back in 2001, the same time Obama served on the Woods Fund with him. Obama’s insistence to remain friends with someone of such radical character reflects poorly on Obama’s judgement and his own character. This is the point the media are trying to ignore. Furthermore, their is a long list of radical friendsand associates that Obama has and still does keep company with. There is a pattern of repetative poor judgement that exposes bad character the media want ignored.

Meanwhile, despite Ayers posing for a magazine by stomping on the American flag as recent as 2001, ABC have headlined him as a “former radical”. However, Ayers has never renounced his past actions, and has said he wished he would have done more. There is nothing “former” about his radicalism.

Meanwhile, the AP have pulled the race card out in defense, claiming that Palin’s words carry some kind of racial tinge. The facts are out there, but of course the media can’t be bothered with facts when their is an agenda to follow.

—John Stephenson is editor of Stop The ACLU.

[_Enuma Elish]

From the article:

The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth's surface (she didn't have a passport until last year), or that she's never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her. There is nothing to suggest that she even sees a role for careful analysis or a deep understanding of world events when it comes to deciding the fate of a nation

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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

Ralph Nader for President!

[_moksha]

Hmmm, statistical analysis versus anecdotes. Which to choose? Perhaps these pundits were witnessing it with their political eyes.