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I love watching Sarah Palin's fans try to spin this latest demonstration of her irresponsible, capricious nature and her illiterate mangling of the English language. But even by Paglia's standards, it's hilarious to see her, in the same column in which she defends Palin, still calling Obama's highly effective Cairo speech "first draft material." (Okay, I know that technically it was a "letter writer" who wrote that, but we all know perfectly well that Paglia writes those letters to herself). Tell me, Camille, in your immense experience and wisdom as a teacher, if Obama's speech was a "first draft," what was Palin's statement? It sounded to me like a petulant little kid whining that she was taking her dollies and her dishes and going home, but then, I'm less susceptible than you to a student who flashes pretty legs while spouting b.s.
