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I am attractive, witty and intelligent; there are definitely men who think I'm sexy. I have excellent people skills and I can read people fairly easily. I can be bubbly and extroverted; people often find me charming. I'm also much more complex and insightful than I first appear to be.
Wow!
Okay then!
The LW is probably a nice person....but very, very, very immature and obviously has some self esteem issues that she is trying overcompensate for.
Any time a college kid self-identifies themselves as charming, bubbly and as someone that can "read people easily" is (to be blunt) somewhat delusional about their own sense of self.
"I know people! I know people think I'm sexy and I know people really, really enjoy being around me!"
Sure, honey. Sure.
Sarah thinks she was set up by the press because she was "poor" and only made a few million dollars a year.
(eye roll)
That little girl couldn't name a single newspaper she read!
So, yeah, we made fun of her because she was breathtakingly stupid.
And how classless of Sarah not to admit to a single failing of her own!
She still thinks she is a genius of "humble" origins with little money!
How delusional is hse?
Deemed community organizers in her acceptance speech?
Was Sarah displaying "working class values" when she said Obama was a terrorist who hated America?
Was Sarah exemplifying "core American values" when....oh never mind.
This is like analyzing Paris Hilton's thoughts on anything!
Sarah Palin is functionally retarded.
The woman got elected to her current position because she had a little bit of money, a few connections and big tits in a very small community. She wasn't competing against 20 Ivy League intellectuals for the job, now was she?
Sorry! Someone has to come out and say it!
She is (as someone already pointed out) The Paris Hilton of politics.
Ann Coulter (forgive me) is actually smarter than Sarah Palin!
So no, Sarah, the reason you became an international laughing stock wasn't because of "the media" chopping up your interviews and making you look bad.
You are an international laughing stock because you said really idiotic things every single day for several months.
There was never going to be enough room for all those people.
So maybe they thought it would be safer and easier if they just choked the whole thing up...and thousands of people would just give up and go away? Maybe the big mistake was not understanding how committed these people were?
I don't think they really wanted ALL of those people crowding in around close to Obama (anywhere close to Obama) because it would make it that much harder to provide security. Can you really scan the crowd for snipers or terrorists if there are MILLIONS of people there?
Was it really poor planning or maybe it was (somewhat) intentional to thin out the massive crowds?
Season 2. The King was bored with Queen Ann so he rounded up a bunch of dudes and accused them of "high treason" by having carnal knowledge of the Queen -- thus providing grounds for him to divorce her.
They denied it.
So they tortured them until they admited the truth. (This must be were George got the idea.)
It was disturbing watching some dude ripped apart on the Rack.
But he confessed!
Even though he didn't actually do anything.
How far we've come since the 1500's!
At long last the subject of Family Planning is being dealt with by mature, intelligent adults and not zealots and the lunatic fringe.
Thank God for Obama!
If China or Iran captured 50 of our soldiers and ass-raped them for 6 years....would these pro-torture advocates still be insisting that it's perfectly legal and moral?
Of course not.
If you are a white, Christian American that you get treated by one set of Rights....if your a brown-skinned foreign devil (and not Christian at that!) then it's okay to do whatever we want to them.
"C'mon! It's not like Iraqi's have souls like regular white Christians!" so explains the pro-torture advocated. "You can beat them as much as you want and it's perfectly okay!"
The double standard here is very revealing.
Let's just be blunt: If you think torturing an Iraqi is okay and that torturing an American is not okay....you're a no different than any other goose-stepping Nazis in 1940.
We have to be honest and call these people out.
Would the Nazis have ever thought it was okay to treat their aryan brothers and sisters in the same manner as they treated the Jews? Of course not. "Jews aren't human like us," the Nazis would rationalize.
Two seperate standards then, two seperate standards now.
White Americans get treated one way.
Brown skinned Muslims get treated by a radically different set of standards and a totally different "morality."
I don't see how any neocon could spin this reality.
But then again the pro-torture advocates know this.
This isn't about anything other then a small portion of the American populace that is, frankly, so full of xenophobica hatred that they simply cannot see straight.
It is unthinkable to these people that we shouldn't "punish" them....even if a lot of them are later released because (oops!) they didn't actually do anything.
"Make'em suffer! Make'em bleed! The only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi!"
Um...yeah. There is a healthier way for the pro-torture advocates to work out their personal demons than in sexually assualt/torturing POW's at GitMo. I would suggest these people seek out professional help (or maybe crack open a history book and learn that randomly torturing 14 year old boys turned over for bounty to US troops isn't exactly an "effective" military strategy for safeguarding the homeland)
It's time for us to hose the blood and fecal matter off the walls of GitMo and restore some honor to this entire operation.