... it was a comment on your irrelevant statistic.

Short of what?
Three dictators are not representative of an extensive
statistical review. Except for some propagandists.

Indeed ...

Napoleon was short, Hitler was short, Bush is short.

Yep, I see your pattern there.  Maybe height is a good criterion.

Interesting thought - and question.
Could voting via the direct influece of one´s libido put the
USA in a worse situation than it is already in?

Height. The only factor that statistically separates those
selected from those not selected. Not honesty. Not
intelligence. Height. The taller are typically selected.

The male libido is accused of being behind many bad decisions ... but VOTING with your dick??  This is a scary thing ...

As cousin Zeb up in the Appalachian Hills said after watching Miss Sara on tv.

“Gawd, I wish I was a couple of weeks younger. I’d sure like to…..”

Cousin Zeb is 82 years old. So much for the rogue broad, hey?

Mundt, you are the 2nd commenter to whom I have directly
responded.

The precision and conciseness of your summarization is
remarkable. Peace, dr.b_helthi

To men who are not virility-challenged, to ladies who aren’t dismayed by the mirror & the scales; regal, ravishing Sarah Palin is a woman to be admired, emulated…and followed.

Wow.  I just realized, Ms. Palin is like the little “Energizer Bunny”.... remember that…?  Sure, I tried the things too… I mean I’m only human, right?

But everyone knows (at least those of us who’ve had to TRULY rely on a flashlight…. ) YOU DON’T buy “The Energizer”, you buy DURACELL.

drbhelthi,

“They know they will never get into her pants.” 

Now really, I don’t know your situation but you should know that “getting into pants” generally involves at least some degree of talking and discussion.  I’m pretty sure there are very very very few men who would be willing to put up with inanity.  Maybe you need to think of another reason why she is criticised.  Could it be her?

As for her being opposed by the Military Industrial complex ... I can’t see why, she is exactly what they want.  She’s ambitious and has no idea or preferences what policies she might enact.  I’ve no doubt they could fill in the gaps for her in ways that line their pockets handsomely.

What’s the worry…. I mean besides having to watch a grown woman use 666 “bumpits” and a can of hairspray to pull off that “intelligent look”.  (which btw, SCREAMS male tv evangelist).  It appears you have entertain “history” and recall the last time watching someone barf was….um…. entertaining.

Yes, I think the scariest thing is the hair.  I’m very serious….... It’s the hair.  Don’t laugh.  Think about this seriously… bizarre haired people (somehow) grasp “audiences” and those with funny little mustaches too, but that’s off topic.  Yes, the hair is the problem.
 
That’s why I think Ms. Palin should keep on talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking….. whew, I’m beat….. but you keep going Ms. Palin.  Truthfully, just keep going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on…  btw, we’ll save the country while your “running along”.

Ms Palin got me thinkin’ though, she did.  I started thinking about the anti-smoking SCREAMERS and the anti-alchohol SCREAMERS….and then I was thinking about the fact that smoking has increased AND the cocktail hour has lengthened. 

I say keep on TALKING Ms. Palin, and we’ll keep on doing the EXACT OPPOSITE.  Oh… you too, Mr. O’Really (I always get myself into trouble by forgetting who should be on the “guest list” and who shouldn’t).

I wonder if Bill called her after the show and talked dirty to her.

I’m sure he got his verbal lap dance.

Sarah Palin is the former governor of Alaska, who
accomplished numerous benefits for Alaskans during her term
of service.  She is a mother of five children who has had
similar family problems with similar American families, at a
similar stage of familial development. She is a very
attractive woman, who was selected by her political party for her
femininity and spontaneity, in an attempt to offset the
military-hawk characteristics of the presidential candidate.
With her spontaneity and feminine vivaciousness, she may have
overplayed her role a bit.  Perhaps she did too much of what
her selectees wanted her to do. Perhaps?  Due to her
femininity and attractiveness, she has become the pun of many
men, who have subverted their erotic attraction to her into
suppressive criticism.  They know they will never get into
her pants.

Comparatively speaking, Mrs. S. Palin is not characterized by
the dishonesties that describe the leadership and vast
majority of the Reprobate (republican) and Demogogue
(democrat) political parties.  Nor does she espouse the
religious beliefs that would accrue support of the allegedly
“jewish” block. The NAZIamerican military-industrial-
political machine would counter her candidacy.  A review of
“regimes” that have occupied the US Presidency, beginning
with oil tycoon Lyndon B. Johnson, suggests an unfavorable
prediction, should Mrs. Palin become a genuine candidate for
the US Presidency. She would receive similar “assistance” to
that provided by GHWBushSr to various persons, as reported in
the Chronicles of Chip Tatum, and other former CIA agents. 
Another long-term-faithful agent of the CIA, such as Lee
Harvey Oswald, would be scapegoated.  Again. Nowadays,
the MOSSAD might be appointed to do the job.

What is really unfortunate here, is that the PitBull will continue to get a bad rap.

The PitBull is affectionate, very intelligent, extremely friendly, loyal, brave, and
very focused on completing an assigned task.

None of the above qualities describe Palin.

Unfortunately that mind of her own has very few relevant facts in it.  She may or may not be intelligent enough to fulfill the positions she seeks but she surely doesn’t have the background or knowledge to do so.

Clearly six universities were not enough.

Sarah made a very impressive & credible debut on FOX. She would not allow Billo to coax her into calling Nancy Pelosi a “kook”, nor goad her into approving a war of aggression against Iran. She has a mind of her own, and is no radical.

As bad as things are, we are a long ways from the bottom.

Republicans will take control of the House in 2010.

Petreus/Palin defeat Obama/Biden in 2012 as Obama’s disillusioned 2008 supporters stay home.

States privatize virtually all functions and assets.

Police state continues to develop.

More war.

Social Security privatized.

Still not the bottom.

obx1212 and other humorists:  I so hope you are right, but—meantime who is going to educate the vast number of simple-minded enthusiasts on the Right(along with their media power) and the anti-intellectual soothsayers on the Left? What will prevent the rising number of white supremacists, Fundamentalists, gun-toting cranks and vengeful hate-mongers from hitching their wagons to this winking wild-life killer from the “working class”? Populism turned sour can be a vicious political instrument.

Has anyone else noticed what incredible arrogance Sarah Palin has demonstrated regarding her selection as John McCain’s running mate and her own future as possible President of the United States?
She claims that this is all “God’s plan”. She apparently believes that she is the newest anointed savior of humankind. Never mind the right wing nonsense about Obama being “The One”. Let’s all prepare to genuflect before the Holy Mother from Wasila. Are shrines and statues to follow? Perhaps the republican faithful will want to change the holy trinity to a foursome?

george mendelson
kill devil hills, nc

Well put Hank.

I preferred General Paul Vallely:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/how-deep-the-rabbit-hole-goes/

Why the fascination with Palin?  She is out there to get exactly the reaction this post exhibited.  There is nothing crazy about her, or about the direction of O’Reilly’s questions.  She diverts attention and eventually makes all the other more subtle right-wingers seem mainstream.  She may even end up with a position in the new Republican administration in 2013 to keep her many fans happy.
In this sense, she is a threat.  She is ambitious, she has a large fan base, and she will be part of the Republican strategy to regain political power in Washington. 
Realistically, she would not be a serious threat if the Democrats had not been equally bought, lock stock and barrel, by the many corporate interests that really drive government policy.  Sarah Palin is a side show in the corrupt political process that will probably return Republicans to the White House.  But isn’t the real cause of the Republican revival Obama’s fraudulent election win?  Progressives need to finally admit that Obama talked up a good progressive game, but he has no apparent intention of doing anything other than what the corporations who funded his ascent paid him to do. 
At the superficial level that matters for the average voter, Palin sounds no less sensible than Obama declaring war on the world before his uniformed West Point audience, defining war as peace at the Nobel ceremony, and imposing exactly the global environmental policy of “everyone for themselves” in Copenhagen that George Bush couldn’t get through the Bali climate summit two years ago. 
Let’s worry about how we will survive Obama, Reid, Schumer, Nelson, Baucus, and all the other corporate Democrats.  Palin is the least of our problems.

I know it is easy to make fun of Palin and her group, but unless the Left gets serious about promoting change and not just depending on suits like Obama, her side in the right-wing gallery of nutbags will manipulate the working class and begin recovering ground in Congress.

When one reviews the current status of the US, and traces it
back to the point at which the “movement” was accelerated,
one logically concludes that GHWBushSr is exceedingly clever
and successful beyond boundaries. His tenure as chief of the
CIA, for several years, while denying it, reflects his
dishonesty. His letter to J. Edgar Hoover shortly after the
JFKSr murder, stripped his secrecy. That Junior Bush occupied
the presidential position while his sire´s appointees
continued to run the US gov. for eight years is further
evidence of GHWBushSr´s cleverness. Such dishonest cleverness
is not found among stupid persons.

Comparatively speaking, Mrs. S. Palin is too clean to be
elected to the US Presidency. Her behavior suggests that she
is not a puppet of the military-industrial complex. Thus, it
is not predictable that this military-industrial, satanic
coalition would permit her to be elected to the US
Presidency. Only Bush and Obama-types fit the puppetry slot.
Mrs. S. Palin certainly does not fit the puppetry slot.

BR549, try http://www.tomflocco.com/Docs/63/BushJfkBookDepo.htm

a threat?  Really?  can’t it really be as simple as the fact that she is stupid, ignorant and a zealot.

She is almost as stupid as bush; maybe not.  Geez, anything to bring this country down.