Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
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I had pretty much made up my mind that I wasn't going to grant Sarah Palin any more free publicity or waste any more stress-filled time reacting to the Idiot's Princess, but like the safety valve on a boiler, I have my set limit. Pop goes the weasel, or at least the blogger.
I read her garbled soliloquy yesterday, about how the immigrants who built this country up from an agrarian economy to an economic giant had a terribly hard time gaining entrance and getting citizenship and could not favorably be compared to those today who were raised in the USA from infancy, got an education and became part of our society only to be expelled on some error in their parent's papers. She's right, you can't. It took a matter of hours to go through Immigration in the Ellis Island days and if you weren't Chinese, you were all right. No English required, no guaranteed job, no nothin' -- and they came by the millions. Today it takes years, of course, but we're dealing with Sarah Palin, congenitally stupid product of a fourth tier higher educational system and a lifetime of reading nothing. She's dumber than a pre-schooler and she's a Republican front-runner.
My mother read me that Longfellow poem when I was little more than an infant and I don't think any of my contemporaries did not know by early grade school of that somewhat mythological event, but no, not Sarah Palin who seems to think that the famed Boston silversmith was a spokesman for the NRA and a right wing, saber rattling blowhard whose main concern was promoting gun rights in the American wilderness.
“…he who warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed.” You betcha, gol durn it!
The fact that this perky little peanut brain couldn't graduate 5th grade much less pass a citizenship test -- or even apparently, read a newspaper, isn't just obvious, it's horrifying and what these daily enormities we're subjected to say about her is still less horrifying than what this says about America.
The worst part is that she, like many so-called Christians, was home-schooling her kids. So a whole bunch of kids out there who will be spouting the same nonsense.
ReplyDeleteSee, Barack Obama is characterized by these people as a Kenyan, Indonesian furriner, but Palin, who the nuts on the far right believe is qualified to be president and who grew up in the USofA doesn't know the most basic American history. Who's the furriner here?
ReplyDeleteAnd where, in what passes as her brain, did she come up with the idea that Paul Revere rang bells?
Jabbering imbecile.
Well, I suppose Oscar Wilde would point out that Sister Sarah’s account of Paul Revere’s famous ride is admirably fact-free. Who needs history books? They’re worse than the lame stream media!
ReplyDeleteNo, he did ring bells -- I saw it in a movie. I think he was played by Charles Laughton.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile if any Democrat misstates a figure by .01% he's a LIAR!