Christine O'Donnell is just...wow...

[WillieW]

Article from the Washington Post.



Christine O'Donnell is just...wow...
Christine O'Donnell is that person who thinks she can say things she doesn't really know as long as she does it without a hint of doubt. That person in high-school debate who manipulates her audience with stage presence and an inventive approach to fact.

The Delaware Republican Senate candidate debated her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, live on CNN Wednesday, and I'm disgusted. It wasn't just her surprisingly aggressive and tellingly vague claims that Coons is a Boss Tweed-style cronyist, or her dismissive, mocking laughter during Coons's answers, or her frequent interruptions. No, what really upset me was the content -- if you can call it that -- of at least half a dozen of her answers. Here are just a few:

Moderator Wolf Blitzer asked O'Donnell about how she would cut federal spending -- with specifics beyond just saying she'd slash "waste, fraud and abuse." She talked about things such as canceling what hasn't been spent of the stimulus, halting federal hiring, freezing domestic discretionary spending -- that is, proposals that, realistically, don't get anywhere close to fixing the country's long-term fiscal outlook. But that's okay, because then she talked about cutting, uh, waste…fraud…and, um, abuse.

Her lack of a credible plan, though, didn't stop O'Donnell from attacking the Democrats on the deficit, making the wild claim that the deficit "is almost becoming equal to our national GDP." Alarming, if true. But, yeah, not at all, even remotely, even a little bit true. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the national debt could reach 90 percent of GDP by 2020. The deficit is something like 10 percent of GDP.

[Ian David]

1. You forgot the link.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/10/christine_odonnell_is_justwow.html


Also, only use four paragraphs.

[Leftist Agitator]

5. And you forgot Poland.

Also, only use four of something. Not three, certainly not five, only four.

[Junkdrawer]

6. And six is right out. n/t

[WillieW]

8. ???

[Betty Karlson]

15. The reference is to Monty Python's film

Where a holy handgranade must be thrown after counting to four. "Only four". The movie characters read from a rather elaborate manual, where four is explained by such phrases as "and six is right out."

[Junkdrawer]

19. Youtube of Monty Python - Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk

[WillieW]

7. thanks

Thanks for posting the link.

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[lunatica]

3. I agree. It is a farce

A very badly played one at that.

Sometimes we have silly season, but this isn't one of those times. Right now we're knee deep in stupid season where it seems to be cool to be stupid and to out-stupid the last stupid. It's like someone unleashed Pandora's sister's Box, Stupid Box.

[monmouth]

4. I didn't realize CNN had broken away before it was over..Wow. Wolfie

must have been crushed.

[WillieW]

10. O'Donnell

Blizter was quite frustrated with O'Donnell. He instructed the audience to go to CNN.com to watch the rest of the interview.

[flamingdem]

9. She's a teaparty cluckpuppet nt

[subterranean]

11. Her non-thinking followers don't care.

They don't know the facts either. And if she confidently says she'll balance the budget by cutting "waste, fraud and abuse," and that the deficit is equal to our GDP, well, they'll accept that. Most of them are not going to go do a fact check.

[mrcheerful]

12. I kind of enjoyed the wing nuts trying to defend O'Donnell performance at the debate

awww aint it cute she wants to stop waste unlike those evil tax and spend Dem's. So the nit wits rather have charge it to the credit card spending of the R's? One nit wit even went so far as to say that Reagans tax cuts saved the country, guess mr nit wit forgot that Reagan raised taxes the next year or the fact Reagan started taxing tips that food service workers got for good service to customers or the fact that Reagan also taxed the kid on the block that sold lemonade in front of his/hers parents house. Stupidity on parade.

[Javaman]

13. She puts the "e" in stupid. nt

[liberal N proud]

14. She is a clone of Sarah Palin

Voice is not quite as nauseating but I am sure it will become just as puke-worthy.

[femrap]

16. She is such a

total embarrassment to political women everywhere. I wish she had a penis.

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Bitwit1234]

18. Well at least some of the media is truthful CNN thinks she was wonderful