I apologise for not mentioning the fact that government spending is going UP.

I have mentioned it on other threads – but you are quite correct, it is something of such fundemental importantce that it should be mentioned on EVERY relevant thread.

Again – I apologise for failing to mention, on this thread, that government spendin is going UP.

The rats are already starting to leave this sinking ship of a nation.

lucklucky – I don’t hold Palin to a different standard, and I’m not particularly opposed to her. I think she performed woefully in the 2008 campaign, but find it hard to blame her too much for that as she was thrown in at the deepest of ends. I’ve seen little evidence that she’s particularly smart (though she’s certainly ‘canny’), but neither have I seen much that shows she’s stupid; mostly she seems to be quiet good at (often correct) soundbites, but rarely provides any depth to back them up. But the question in the original post was why she’s called stupid, and I pointed out something she said that (even while it could theoretically be true), would make her appear stupid to many reasonable people.

*My tip is to be insured by a religious organisation; I worked for the insurance division of a church that had a member reach their lifetime limit ($2million, iirc). I presume they took a look in their religious book of choice and had a think about what the limit would mean to the person, because they promptly doubled it.

Maybe a month ago Cameron said the UK Government was reducing debt…seems he doesn’t know that reducing deficit it means there is still deficit, and deficit implies increasing the debt… anyone called him stupid?

And PaulH’s chiding notwithstanding, I mostly agree with MO’s comment about Palin. (And making purely factual statements about Biden hardly counts as “invective”!) But PaulH is absolutely wrong about Obamacare: it does explicitly set up committees which can legitimately be called “death panels”, and there is no analog to them in most private insurance plans (although HMOs might be different).

PaulM, if you believe that anything published in the Washington Post constitutes “debunking” your sceptometer is seriously out of alignment. 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (and they’ve bought several hundred million more rounds since that figure was released) is equivalent to over 22 years’ worth of the ammunition we used in the Iraq war at its height. It’s a staggeringly immense amount, more by orders of magnitude than they could possibly use for “target practice”. It’s so much more than ordinary government bulk purchases that, as has already been noted, it’s making it difficult for ordinary citizens to buy ammo. Visit your local gun shop or Walmart and take a look at the bare shelves. And of course the price for what remains available has skyrocketed.

If you want a conspiracy that is less insanely dystopian then I can remember a comedian once saying the way to reduce the use of guns to commit crimes was to increase the price of bullets. This could be what they’re doing!

There’s an excellent case to be made against Obama. There may be a good case to be made in favor of Palin, though I’ve yet to hear it. But moving from argument to invective rarely helps create anything more than an echo chamber.

Palin did make some major league errors of being a naif when it came to the media and the disgusting politics of the national GOP. But she’s been correct about the cronyism and corruption of the O admin that we’ve maybe NEVER seen in this country, was right about “death panels”, which will be the inevitable outcome of the NHS…oh, I mean, Obamacare…and she has hit the nail on the proverbial head about a great deal else.

I’m not a Palinista; I recognized she did have some major problems as a candidate, but I still wish she were President and not the Leftist lying SCOAMF we have in office now.

Precisely. The way that the tosser also tried to throw the First Amendment under the bus rankled, too.

That said and with due deference to GaryS’ “stopped clock” comment, they do, on occasion, hit one out of the park (as I believe they say in relation to the American version of Rounders).

Case in point: An email recounting proceedings at one of that Feinstein woman’s hearings, which contained this gem: “Then, to the regret of every civil human being in the room, came Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)”.

llater,

llamas