The Debates and Sarah Palin

Many people were promoting the nonsense Obama "clearly won" last week's snoozefest at Ole Miss, and Bob Somerby tries to run down some of the most absurd analyses by columnists and members of the nutroots (HT to Cannonfire). My one-sentence summation I think was definitive on the godawful debate, which WAS a draw between two crappy debaters.

Via the article is this "analysis" by Dowd. She does make a few cogent points, though they are few and far between. Par for the course for this overpaid columnist.

And yes, Colbert King's column about Sarah Palin IS breathtakingly stupid, and full of double standard, sexist shit.

Because Sarah Palin has been married only once and has stayed with her husband, she is condemned while women like Obama's often-absent mother get all kinds of praise:

Sarah Palin gets a gold star for being a hockey mom. I don't believe I know any hockey moms or at least any mothers who wittingly bear such a title.

But in my life and work, I've come to know and identify with single moms who successfully raise families. They are, in my book, the real deal; they deserve applause.

If this isn't elitist shit, I don't know what is:

Those of us in my generation who were fortunate enough to attend college had to work our butts off to get our degrees, and get them on time.

What an ass. It took me YEARS to get a degree because I WORKED for a living. I seriously doubt Colbert King actually worked at a real job, 40 hours a week, with no handouts from parents or student loans or a spouse paying the bills, and graduated from college on time. It is almost the RULE nowadays to finish an undergraduate degree in more than four years. I went to a despised STATE school, a land grant school, mind you, and did not waste my money on a fucking Ivy League education. It took me YEARS to finish because I was self-supporting. As for Palin, this is what REALLY pisses him off--she didn't go to the Ivy League schools but to some no-name university in Idaho after going to other schools. Her husband is a nothing because he, like most people, not only is not a college graduate, he never went to college. For shame. Never mind he didn't need to and did well without a degree. It doesn't matter. The Palins have no right whatsoever to have any kind of high-profile life, let alone help run the country. They are little more than trailer trash, just like Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Besides, his hero, Obama, went to Occidental College before going to hoity-toity Columbia University, and he was not considered a top student. But that's different.

A number of us met our life partners on campus. Some of us went on to become commissioned officers in the armed forces. A large number pursued graduate and professional degrees.

King should know not only are college graduates NOT a majority of the population, let alone the voting public, comparatively few people have graduate or professional degrees. It's the elitism Obama appeals to that will be his downfall. King is the perfect example of an elitist.

No wonder Democrats lose presidential elections that weren't stolen.