Palin says she considers herself intellectual

[marmar]

:spray:



via the Detroit Free Press:



Palin says she considers herself intellectual
ASSOCIATED PRESS • October 22, 2008



Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin consider herself intellectual? You betcha!

“And you have to be up on not only current events, but you have to understand the foundation of the issues that you’re working on,” Palin said in an interview with People magazine. “You can’t just go on what is presented you.”

Although Palin didn’t name a single newspaper or magazine when CBS News anchor Katie Couric asked where she got her information, the Alaska governor told People that she has always been a “voracious reader” and named reading — anything from biographies to historical works — as her favorite thing along with her children and sports.

Besides author Lawrence Wright’s terrorism history, “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” Palin said she’s reading a lot of briefing papers.

“I appreciate a lot of information. I think that comes from growing up in a family of school teachers,” she said. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20081022/NEWS15/81022041/1215

[Fleshdancer]

1. well she does read ALL and ANY newspaper, right?

:rofl:

[lpbk2713]

10. Just ask Katie Couric .... LOL

[luvspeas]

12. Palin's impressive education - proof of her intellectualism

Cheese and Rice on a stick! From wikipedia -

Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, located 44 miles (71 km) north of Anchorage.<8> She was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school and the point guard and captain of the school's girls' basketball team.<9>

Palin attended several colleges and universities. In 1982, she enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College but left after her first semester. She transferred to North Idaho community college, where she spent two semesters as a general studies major. From there, she transferred to the University of Idaho for two semesters.<10><11> During this time Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant,<12><13> then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant,<14><15> at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.<16> She then attended the Matanuska-Susitna community college in Alaska for one term. The next year she returned to the University of Idaho where she spent three semesters completing her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.<10><11>

[endarkenment]

2. I consider myself a Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Only thing is, I'm not.

[notadmblnd]

3. Was that satire? Well at least we found out the answer to the really big question

her sixth child will be named Zamboni. :rofl:

[WarbirdForObama]

4. If She's an Intellectual

I am an Ascended Being.

Geebus, this she-thing is like a bad Sci-Horror creation from the DNA of Dubya, Dan Quayle, Michele Bachmann, and Katherine Harris.

"Igor, which brain did you give me"

"Abby, Someone"

"Abby Someone?"

"Oh, that's right, Abby Normal"

[saltpoint]

5. Yep. And my dog can perform root canal.

Open wide.

[MarianJack]

6. Yes, she is...

...and I'm going to win 9 gold medals for swimming in the 2012 Olympics and break Michael Phelps' record, too. I'll start training after I win my Oscar next year.

[Loge23]

7. I'm an astronaut

After all, I used to get pretty spaced out. (key phrase: used to!)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. She might be when compared to most of the people I've seen interviewed in Wasilla!

ie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=220873

:rofl:

[sickinohio]

9. I'm going to be VP

we have a nuclear power plant about 5 miles down the road. And we have a Burillium plant across the river. Also, Canada is right across Lake Erie. I'm an expert on EVERYTHING!!

[Turbineguy]

11. Only in America!

:silly:

[DS1]

13. And I consider myself tall

even if I am below average height :eyes:

[liberalhistorian]

14. Well, goody-two-shoes for her!

We all have our delusions, I guess, some just more public than others. I consider myself a millionaire; unfortunately, reality hasn't quite caught up to that "consideration." :evilgrin: :bounce:

[jcla]

15. An intellectual?

She couldn't carry on a decent conversation with Katie Couric.... \
Obama is an intellectual, Frederick Douglass was an intellectual, West is an intellectual..
the only intel she has is given to her. My dogs are smarter than Sarah Palin but then they are spayed and neutered and obey about half the time.

[krispos42]

16. And Bush considered himself a compassionate conservative

a reformer with results.

McCain consideres himself a Maverick®


Howabout an outside evaluation, hmmmm?


MY outside observation is as follows:

Palin is an intellectual lightweight with a serious lack of intellectual curiosity. This lack of intellectual curiousity is driven by her deep, almost fanatical, acceptence and adherence to fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. In her framework, when reality chashes with the Bible, reality loses.

She has authoritarian personality tendencies, which means that her craving for simplicity and black-and-white answers to difficult real-live situations and in politics. Modern Republicanism gives her that simplicity: America is always good, and those that oppose it (foreign or domestic) are bad. Jesus is good, non-Jesus is bad. Tax cuts are always good. The free market is always good. Social programs interfere with the free market and must be cut whenever possible. The only way to cut social programs is to "starve the beast", which massive defense spending helps to do. Cutting taxes, in addition to being conductive to the free market, also helps to starve the beast of social programs. America is and always has been a Christian country, full of Christians, founded by Christians, and formed from Christian priciples. Science disproves the Bible; since the Bible is God's Word, science therefore is wrong when there is conflict. We are in the Biblical end times with the creation of the Jewish state (according to the Bible) and since the Bible is always correct, Jesus' return is imminent and therefore worrying about long-term problems like Social Security, the ozone layer, global warming, etc., are really not worth worrying about, especially when it involves futzing in the free market. People that study stuff and form non-Bible-based opinions and produce non-Bible-based scientific studies, theories, and other university-level work think that they know more than Our Lord God and are elitists and unknowingly in the employment of Satan.

[cliffordu]

17. If intellectual means stupid as a bag of hammers, then yes, I agree.

[riona]

18. I did not know that

:wow:

[auburngrad82]

19. Frankly, I'm impressed that she can actually pronounce "intellectual"

I had her pegged as more of a "smart" kind of person. You know, one and two syllable words.

[ArmedAmerican]

20. and I consider myself lucky she'll lose

go back to Alaska, and thanks for playing! /wink!

[Ikonoklast]

21. Of course she does, bless her heart.

And I'm the Queen of England.