"shapely syncopated syllables?"

camille? do give it a rest.

this totally reminded me why i can't stand to read you, and my best guess is those who do read you have no idea what you are talking about.

"hot quivering jello adolescence?"

"i can scorn yale because i have my advanced degree from there ?" camille - you are a best selling widely respected (emperor's new clothes) author, who can really "turn" a phrase. umm, how did yale screw you over again? oh wait. they didnt. nice university dropping, though.

articles like this are EXACTLY why many americans foolishly feel that to be intellectual is bad. they mistakenly think this is what passes for intellectual. in fact, it is a bunch of pretentious, self-important, convoluted drivel.

As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor?

We all know this Camille? The editing given to the Gibson interview was merciful to cut back on Palin's tendency for rambling incoherence. And calling Couric a "viper" for asking such softball questions about publications Palin (who graduated with a Journalism major) reads or Supreme Court cases? Oh the nerve!

If Palin can't handle milquetoasts such as Gibson and Couric imagine how she'll do on the world stage when confronted with foreign leaders without Hannity or Hugh Hewitt to hold her hand.

Has Paglia become so much of a contrarian that she has thrown all sense of sanity out the window?

Paglia is an incompetent buffoon whose only purpose in existing is to perpetuate her own legend of how awesome she is. Her attempt to paint Sarah Palin as some kind of feminist icon is so absurd that it only makes sense on the other side of the rabbit hole, which I must assume is where she lives. Every time I think that I've just read the dumbest thing ever, another Paglia column comes out and plumbs new depths of stupidity.

Hey Camille, give it up. Your column sucks and no one likes you.

Or you're so desperate for attention, you'll say absolutely anything. Take this little gem:

"As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor?"

It is, of course, the absolute lowest form of argument to cite conspiracy theories when there is no evidence to support an outlandish claim. Nevertheless, to answer your question: "no", I did not know Ms Palin was the victim of some media hit job. I guess I naively attributed her nonsensical answers to plain (palin?) ignorance - ignorance of foreign affairs, of domestic issues, of life in general (save for moose-hunting and beauty pageants).

And as for this primordial image of Ms Palin as a "force of nature" and an "amazon warrior" (Jesus, are you seventeen years old?), let's get this frontier-living-ruggedness bullshit out of the way. First, it does not seem that Ms. Palin has had that much wilderness exposure given the fact that it probably takes her the better part of the day to put on her make-up. Second, my grandmother (now dead), who was born and raised in a small Romanian village (no plumbing, no sewage), arrived in Montreal in 1927. She had to deal with all manner of privation in a country that was strange and indifferent to her. In spite of that, she went on to raise, in that very same city, highly successful children. She shut her mouth and, with a dignity that eludes Sarah Palin, never muttered a word about her obvious accomplishments.

Therefore, I don't want to hear another word about the purity and sanctity of rural life. Most of the time it's just code to denigrate people who have made their lives in cities and are from stock other than the Anglo-Saxon variety.

P.S.: Madonna can go fuck herself for all care....

I know in my soul : Obama is the man.

He speaks with conviction-he speaks with promise-he speaks of truly changing the tone of politics - for ALL of us! He speaks of making things more fair and just, he speaks of schools, health care for our elderly, pensions, taxes, reform - BUT most of all he speaks of PEACE.

He speaks of PEACE throughout the world - and the one word we should all be screaming is PEACE.

Obama has tried and tried to keep us talking about the issues. All Palin/McCain keep saying are really ignorant things.

It’s really shameful.

And WE, the American public, we deserve better!

We Deserve Presidential and Vice Presidential Nominees who are charismatic, intelligent, sober, dignified and above all, honest.

McCain left his wife, who was quite ill at the time, to marry his mistress. He was almost ejected from the Congress for his complicity in the Keating 5 Affair, and MOSTLY because he did NOT stop Bush from entering into this god awful war.

Palin believes dinosaurs and man walked the earth together. Her church believes in speaking in tongues. Her Husband was a member of a right wing secessionist group for 7 (SEVEN) years, which still seeks to secede from the Union. She’s tried to ban books out of a library, she was for the bridge before she was against it. She is under investigation and could be impeached in Alaska, by the REPUBLICAN party - in her own state! (It was not the Democrats who called for the special investigation!) She knows nothing of foreign affairs or domestic policy. She only received her passport last year! She believes in teaching Abstinence, and yet she must not have been home for the lessons too often, because it didn’t work in her own family.

Don’t you feel the anger/fear which comes from Republicans? Any of them? Just look at Ann Coulter and Babe Buchannan!

We can see this anger in John McCains face. He’s angry about something. I think he’s angry his country lied to him about the war in Vietnam? - and yet, he’s turned around and done the same thing - ALL FOR POWER!

Invading Iraq will be recorded as the worst mistake America has made in the past 80 years(the other was to believe in Reaganomics!)

But this is essential to understand, The Republicans have held a majority of Power for the past 20 years of our lives.

And it was the Republican led congress, White House and Senate which slam dunked us, in our fear, after September 11, into a false war with a country which posed absolutely NO threat to America.

Not one terrorist on those planes which hit the world trade center on that awful day was from Iraq.

In fact, they were all from Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan.

The reason we invaded Iraq was because Saddam Hussein was THREATENING (and actually negotiating with France) to trade his oil in Euros! and George Bush could NEVER let this happen, because they all knew if he did in fact begin trading in Euros then this “current” economic mess we are in now would have bubbled up much earlier! Further, the vast oil pipelines which his father was brokering thru the Carlisle group would have been wiped out - and the second more profitable pipeline - running thru Afghanistan, ( why did we pull out of Afghanistan?

Dwight D. Eisenhour warned our nation on his departure from office to BEWARE THE INDUSTRIAL MILITARY MACHINE! Well, the Bushes and McCain have their hands red with blood. Their fathers and their grandfathers were instrumental in setting up of this “industrial machine”

John McCain said last night in the Debate, “he knew how to win a war, he knew how to catch Bin Laden, I will do it” Well, he’s a Republican and the President is a Republican, so why didn’t he call a meeting 4 years ago and tell the President this secret. And if he’s the Maverick who keeps breaking from his party, then why didn’t he go scream it from the White House Rooftop when Bush ignored him…???. Why is he waiting until now to do it when for the past umpteen years he’s been one of the most accessible Senators in Washington? Granting more interviews than ANY other Senator besides Hillary Clinton.

And yet for the past year, he’s been closed lipped. And so the story goes, that now, the person whom he’s chosen to be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office has/can’t/won’t - tell the American Public her “philosophy “ of how we are to be governed.

THIS SHOULD MAKE US ALL SHAKE IN OUR SHOES!

Barak Obama may lack some experience ( but he’s got Biden behind him, with lots of experience in Foreign knowledge ), and in less than 2 years, he’s managed to change the tone of our talking. He’s speaking of Health Care, Pensions, Schools, Peace and Hope - in less than 2 years!

John McCain has had 28 YEARS - and look where we are, and, if “the Maverick”, as he’s now labeled himself, knows the answers and knew about all this economic mess long back (after all, Phil Graham is the architect of this mess and is his Economic Advisor!!!), why did it take Barak Obama, to bring the Maverick to the podium to tell us he knows how to change Washington?

Sounds like a sack full of shit………and Sarah Palin is just the rank smell as the sack collapses.

It’s a shame that for all his wanting and desiring of the highest office in our Nation, John McCain is sinking to the lowest possible terms and loosing the integrity of which he speaks so highly.

Everyone should Pause and think about the consequences of voting Republican on November 4th……