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Sarah Palin is a profoundly stupid woman.
The First Amendment is actually not that complicated. It can be read from start to finish in about 10 seconds. It bars the Government from abridging free speech rights. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether you’re free to say things without being criticized, or whether you can comment on blogs without being edited, or whether people can bar you from their private planes because they don’t like what you’ve said.
If anything, Palin has this exactly backwards, since one thing that the First Amendment does actually guarantee is a free press. Thus, when the press criticizes a political candidate and a Governor such as Palin, that is a classic example of First Amendment rights being exercised, not abridged.
If there was one thing that the McCain campaign did well, it was keeping her from talking to the press early in the campaign. Someone should have told her, "No. No. You’re prettier when you don’t speak."
She would have bought that.
And a matching jacket.
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Between this and her three-strikes-and-you’re-out performance on the duties of the office she is running for, it is now incumbent on Sarah Palin to prove that she HAS read the Constitution, not on us to prove that she hasn’t.
Even I am kind of amazed at how completely the wingnuts projected their failings onto us: They think First Amendment rights are just some kind of warm, fuzzy blanket that lets you say anything and nothing ever happens to you. Granted, given the last 15 years it may have seemed that way.
One more reason why I favor citizenship tests for everyone, not just immigrants. The average immigrant, no matter where she comes from, knows more about America and what it’s about than Queen Sarah of the Oilfields.
The First Amendment. My favorite amendment. It guarantees the right to say shit like this right out in public, in front of everybody (via WaPo):
“We are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you’ve seen since John McCain won the primary,” his campaign manager, Rick Davis, said in a conference call with reporters, adding that when it came to the electoral votes needed for victory, “We believe, with the combination of our base states and the states we’ve been able to put into play this week, we can achieve 270.”
I’m sure they meant to put Arizona in play.
T! You made the big time:
Alec Baldwin said on “The Late Show with David Letterman” that while Sarah Palin was “very nice,” he didn’t want her a heartbeat away from the nuclear button. He also called her “Bible Spice.”
They’re quoting you in the celebusphere now. Woo hoo!
Oh, great. And you thought it was hard to get a table here before…
Ah, but on Sarah’s home planet, Bizarroworld, EVERYTHING is backwards! The Bizarro Constitution’s First Amendment (except they call it the Last Amendment) says, “Congress shall make lots of laws abridging the freedom of the press, especially when they say mean things about Bizarro Sarah.”
This might cheer you up
Proclamation for Nov 4th
http://coudal.com/nov4/
I sense huge celebrations coming such as we’ve never seen. These will be global.
Everybody wants “that guy” – poor poor McCain.
For Bible Spice and those who don’t know:
Amendment 1 to the Constitution Of The United States Of America
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
why can’t the stupid bitch just READ the thing?
Or CAN she read?
Ooooh, that sounds SEXIST.
Call in The Mods……I dare ya! I’ll sue your ass for breach of First Amendment, you betcha.
Since she obviously hasn’t read or can’t read the Constitution, I’m going to have to assume the worst: Dubya really did use it as toilet paper.
NO, No ,No; for goodness sakes. She is PROUD to have not read the first amendment, gosh golly, or any thing else. And her brethren, are just as PROUD that they have not read it either, or any thing else. So what ever it did say, it is now what they say it is, because they make reality, you know, you betcha.
Go Phillies in Pittsburg Pirates land (the example of the WORST staff ever assigned to a VP candidate [could that have been deliberate?])!!
And meant to see Obama’s lead actually expand just 4 days before the election. Besides her complete terrifying ignorance, there’s the even funnier element that she endlessly drones on about how “America is free” and if that pinko Obama gets in office we’ll be “socialist and not free”.
Funny, I think many socialist countries enjoy far more extensive civil liberties, including a much freer press. But then, she is the same stupid bitch who quooted Reagan as HE argued that medicare would destroy our “freedom”.
Obviously she can’t comprehend our constitution or its amendments—she doesn’t even understand what freedom is!
They kept the moron from speaking to the press with few exceptions. That Palin was nominated for any office, let alone VP is an index of the mass stupidity of this country.
When you see the sacks of shit gathered at a Palin rally, you realize how many cubic miles of mushbrain there are in this country.
Too many damn babies born to too many damn imbeciles.
On the plus side, Myth Alaska’s been looking a tad careworn and frazzled at her appearances lately, I’ve noticed. Considerably less of that sparkling smile and many fewer violent homecoming-queen waves. Probably for the best — Lowry would be waist-deep in . . . er, um . . . starbursts by now.
She can never remember if she’s supposed to say ‘thanks’ or ‘no thanks’ for anything that sounds like “a bridge”.
Jesus H. Christ, just how freakin’ stooopid do you have to be to want this woman anywhere near the White House?
I have two politically active nieces (volunteered for Hillary) in high school, and they giggle at the gaffes that Gov. Barbie has made during this campaign. They aren’t even old enough to vote, and they know more about the U.S. government, courts, and the world than Sarah. The pubies truly scraped the bottom of the barrel with this one.
The “socialist = not free” crap always entertains me. Let’s see; my good friends in Canada have health care they can count on. It makes them less tied to a job since the health care isn’t attached to it; end result: MORE freedom. My Canuckian buddies all seem happier in their jobs too since moving on to a better one is not a scarefest about pre-existing conditions; they are more able to take risks with a startup, etc. Here? Not so much.
That pesky 1st amendment. Just another part of that, “…Goddamned piece of paper.”
Exactly. How many people have ideas for new businesses or want to change to a better job but can’t afford to because of their existing health benefits? They may be velvet-lined handcuffs, but they bind just the same.