Comments on: Sarah Palin & the Democratic Ideal

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:20:25 +0000

The point is practical experience in the fields they are effecting. Not just policy.

With the Justice Dept, are these people coming straight out of school or having they been practicing law for awhie?

By: ACG

ACG — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:13:27 +0000

Mike – unless I’m badly mistaken, most Obama admin people have histories that either begin or include “X of X, 1992-2000.” Clinton administration jobs are real jobs, believe it or not :).

AND, for a comparative perspective, look at Department of Justice hires between 2000 and 2008, and check for this: how many come from top-25 law schools, as compared to previous administrations, and how many come from Christian “diploma mill” schools like Ave Maria or Liberty?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:29:37 +0000

And I don’t see where you get the idea that “reason trumps experience” is the basis for liberalism. I can’t imagine a fact set anywhere that bears that conclusion out.

Have you looked at Obama’s administration and what jobs they previously held?

By: Anzezzle

Anzezzle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:58:56 +0000

Replace “was” with “were”, and the internet would be better with the option to edit for grammar.

By: Anzezzle

Anzezzle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:49:02 +0000

Less “education” and more “science”, but her (and McCain’s) disparaging remarks on spending money on bear and fruit fly research was just offensive.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:31:47 +0000

I think the classical Enlightenment-based strains of liberalism, as well as the now deprecated Modernist strains of liberalism, definitely had a strong element of holding that reason & analysis trump experience, conventional wisdom, and people’s feelings. I agree with you, though, that “basis” doesn’t seem right. That implies, at least to me, that technocracy is an end unto itself, rather than the means for rebuilding the world in a utopian manner.

By: ACG

ACG — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:13:09 +0000

OUCH. Hmm, I’ll go a little less and say, I understand how some on the far, far, almost Christian Identity right wing would find her “intelligent,” because for them, her faith substitutes for any objective measurement of intelligence. But other than that, I don’t see it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:27:37 +0000

Sure. Wait – What? When has she displayed intelligence? Certainly not on the earthly realm. Perhaps you mean that she inhabits simultaneously the plane of existence we mortals experience, where she displays anything but intelligencce; and another one visible only to conservatives swooning over the size of her tits?

By: ACG

ACG — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:52:11 +0000

Jello beat me to it. It’s hard to spin Palin as having either reason OR experience. I’m sure being a hockey mom is tough – being a mom, period, is tough already – but I don’t see how that relates to governance at all.

And I don’t see where you get the idea that “reason trumps experience” is the basis for liberalism. I can’t imagine a fact set anywhere that bears that conclusion out.

By: Jello

Jello — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:39:36 +0000

Given Palin’s glaring lack of both reason and experiance she was in no place to critisize anyone.