I watched Sarah Palin's address to the Tea Party today. I am going to post both the video and some criticisms, my criticisms wont make sense unless you watch the video, so if you are ready for some brain numbing pain. Watch.
1/2. People paid $500 each to see her? wtf?
1.DO YOU LIKE YOUR FREEDOM AMERICA? - Yes, this is a stupid question, and it's not under threat, so leave it be.
2. Scott Brown was just a guy with a truck... - NO he was an established real estate lawyer who went to Tufts and Boston College. Sounds like he was pretty well established. He also posed nude for cosmo in his 20s, not that I care, it just seems strange that the republican/tea party wouldn't
3. Sarah Palin refers to the economic idea that competition is good for production, getting things done and innovation. Not in politics, this is an economic idea, not a political one. They can't just be applied to whatever you want.
4. She says that the U.S. troops we have overseas now are protecting our constitution from terrorists who hate our consitition. Pretty sure they hate both our involvement over seas and the questionable basis for it, whether it be for oil, or to establish a Christian nation (something Bush may have wanted to do)
5. She says the Obama and Pelosi have blamed the Democratic party for the problems and that Rahm Emmanuel blamed a pollster. That seems blatantly untrue, while the democratic party and a pollster may have been given some blame, I am 100% certain that all the blame has not been placed on them. This is a complicated issue, not one person is to blame. They have blamed the republicans far more often, and this idea of winning for your party in the government rather than compromising for the people.
6. The whole Christmas day terror attack, first off, it was a failed attempt, not because of the governments quick intervention, but because of the help of passengers, still it needs to be truthfully told as an attempt. second, he didn't walk on to the plane with a bomb, he had explosive undergarments that in no way appeared to be a bomb. I would say that nobody could screen for explosive undergarments. ALSO one big thing, that I believe Obama's foreign policy will establish is that even thought we now have bumped up security, maybe people won't want to bomb us anymore.
7.Saying we need to give this terrorist military tribunal type trials is just inhumane. Say we are at war, and an American attempts to run in and throw a grenade into a bunker but is captured. How would we want him to be treated? They may say, "hey, he's a terrorist" but to the american, he was just fighting for what he believed in. I think I'd want the american to be given rights, not tortured and interrogated in reasonable ways. Opening up our interrogations to somewhere outside the field of normal law is dangerous, especially when justified by him being a "terrorist" That is how the bush administration started torturing all sorts of innocent americans and foreigners for being potential "terrorists"
8. She claims we need a Commander in Chief rather than a professor of law. Yet, he party and other conservatives have criticized him for telling the military what to do. HMMMMMMMM pick one here. And I don't know about you, but I'd always prefer to have a law professor to a warlord.
9. Administration cut support for "Democracy programs?" wtf is a democracy program besides a way of generalizing another programs so it sound like when the Gov't cuts support for it they are stopping democracy.
10. Obama talking to hostile nations, how the hell else will we eventually get them to become non-hostile?
11. Iran revolts. Yeah, Obama was kind of a puss there.
12. Democracies don't go to war with each other? I seem to remember a war of a civil nature in which a democracy split and went to war with one another. hmmmmmmm. She talks about how they can talk and settle their differences, why can't a democracy like the U.S. talk to a not-so democracy like Iran, to settle differences?
13. Talking about JFKs quote that all of his problems are not his predecessors fault.
In Obama's case, the destroyed economy, transit from a surplus to an extreme deficit, 2 wars in the middle east, THAT is all his predecessors fault.
14. There's a quote in there somewhere about how America is great because we accept specially challenged children. This is a cheap sympathy card to pull and what kind of country would we be if we didnt? I mean are we just going to throw them in the gutter? What type of inhumane nation would not accept and raise special needs children? Why does she think the US is incredible for this? That's basic humanity.
FINALLY Palin is just a poor speech giver, she talks to the crowd as if they are children who need to be babied, but still sounds incompetent herself.
It frustrates me to my limits to watch these videos and not be able to go on stage and just call her out on all of this. AND that there are people out there who hear this and stand up to cheer.
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