This will scare the SH!T out of you

[liberal N proud]

Found this on MSNBC web site:


Is Sarah Palin the next Barack Obama?
'History does not repeat itself,' said Mark Twain, 'but it does rhyme'

By Robert Schmuhl

When Sarah Palin takes the stage in Des Moines on Friday night to keynote the Iowa Republican Party's Reagan Dinner, she'll send the clearest signal so far that she can see the White House from her home in Wasilla, Alaska.

Video: Values Voter Summit
With C-SPAN planning live coverage of her speech (at 7 p.m. Central time), the former governor has a chance to woo not only Hawkeye voters who will be involved in the first nominating caucuses for 2012, but also a national audience curious about an intriguing figure's future.
For someone who tries to follow and make sense of American political trends, the now-probable run by Palin provokes some questions: Have we seen this movie before? Will the upcoming presidential campaign look strangely like the last one? Not to be impertinent or impolitic, could Sarah Palin be the next Barack Obama?

"History does not repeat itself," Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, "but it does rhyme." Look closely and the rhyme scheme for Palin and Obama is stunningly similar — despite their continent-spanning differences on issues and ideology.

Both figures emerged quickly on the national scene and used their considerable charisma to become media-magnified political celebrities.

Both were tapped to deliver major speeches at national party conventions — Obama's keynote address to Democrats in 2004 and Palin's acceptance of the GOP's vice-presidential nomination in 2008 — and in each case Americans at large took notice of their rhetorical abilities and other qualities.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39230166/ns/politics-politics_daily/


It goes on trying to make Palin the next Obama

:wtf:

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Too much sexism, still, in the US. Especially among the demographic she will court.

They like her as RW cheerleader, but they want a chief executive with a dick.

[Brickbat]

4. VERY true. So many right wingers and Republicans were pissed off when McCain picked her. They voted

the ticket anyway, telling themselves they were voting for McCain, but if she tops a ticket, I think that would provoke or continue the split that's growing in that party.

[uncommon]

9. Agreed.

[JonLP24]

11. Actually

My fundy uncle & aunt voted for Ron Paul (they voted for Bush twice) because they felt Palin should be at home taking care of her children.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Doesn't scare the shit out of me

It just tells me that MSNBC occasionally hires idiots.

[wtmusic]

3. Obama IQ: triple digits. Palin: "I can see Russia from Alaska".

The next Obama, except for one minor detail. :rofl:

[OHdem10]

7. Did you miss it???? Education and IQ are disqualifiers.

Come out from under that rock--just teasing.

[Art_from_Ark]

21. Well you CAN see Russia from Alaska

if you're standing on Little Diomede Island, looking over at Big Diomede Island.

[dkf]

5. People don't look for governance nowadays. They just want to vote for American Idol.

Weird thing is you would have thought the Internet and alternative media would have made the intellectual deficiency mode obvious but it actually allows the weird attraction to obfuscate it.

[RKP5637]

13. One thing to vote for American Idol, sadly another to be voting for American Idiot. n/t

[Rex]

6. Fluff piece from the drooling dittoheads at msnbc.

Sorry but one small problem presents itself with this line of reasoning - Obama has probably read a lot of Mark Twain, where as Sarah has no idea who he is (runs the train station down on 13th street?) and never will.

And when Sarah gives her speeches they end up being (sometimes) a flop or she exposes her stupidity on her hand. Obama hasn't acted like an idiot, publicly, that I have seen in any speech given. Obama also has a very sophisticated lexicon that just cannot be taught to Sarah no matter how many times she reads the teleprompter. 'Donchaknow' is not presidential material and never will be.

Sorry, but Quitter Sarah has nothing on President Obama. They ain't even in the same league.

It is like comparing George W. Bush to Richard M. Nixon.

[classof56]

8. Now there's a real head-shaker. Palin the next Obama?

How odd that Schmulhl (not a name I'm familiar with I must admit) makes this comparison when the Love Palin types hate Obama so very much. I'd think they'd want Palin to be anything but like Obama. Go figure...

WTF indeed!

[Winterblues]

10. When did Obama quit right in the middle of his public service?

They are not even in the same ball park. Obama can tell you what newspapers and magazines he reads. He also knows History and can demonstrate competence. Like I say, not even in the same ball park..

[Courtesy Flush]

12. Yeah, and my haircut is similar to Obama's

I'll start packing now!

[Raschel]

14. Justin Bieber the next Michael Jackson?

[sofa king]

15. Do they mean if she had an education, a record of competence, an ability to empathize...

... and command of the English language?

Yes, once she gets all of those things, she might bear comparison to President Obama. But if she did, she wouldn't be a Republican anymore.

[Spike89]

16. Aside from the whole competency issue...

The circumstances are incredibly different. Obama was coming in on the heels of a tired and failed 2-term presidency with the repugs totally discredited. Palin faces an incumbent president from a party that still has a real advantage over the repugs. IF they were equal, Obama would still win easily with his advantages. They are NOT even close to equal.
If the repugs have a chance, they would have to nominate either a left-leaning "centrist" (or at least someone they can package as such) or a total cypher that doesn't have a record and thus can be whatever voters are looking for. Palin won't even come close to the nomination.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Wow. That's a leap. So let me see if this works.

I'm the next Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Hey, I SAID it, so it must be true!

Except I'm not 7'2", I can't sky hook, and Bill Clinton was president the last time I played basketball.

SarUH Palin doesn't seem to get that leaders don't quit when shit gets hard.

SarUH Palin's voting block doesn't seem to get that you cannot just be enamored with the idea of John Wayne or Barbie as president. It's a far more difficult position than that. It requires diplomacy, intelligence and an open mind. It requires foresight, learning from mistakes and improvement. It demands that one can tackle the challenges that our world faces on a daily basis.

These are all qualities that someone like SarUH could never possess. She's a mere entertainer. She chickens out when things get tough. She didn't want to do an actual debate against Joe Biden . . . what's going to happen when she's up against a master? She's nothing but a folksy cornpone, tell-the-hoi-polloi-what-they-want-to-hear spokesperson.

America already HAD a "leader" like this. Look where it got us.

I've always said America is going to pay a grave price for being sloooooooow learners. If a fraud like SarUH is elected to the highest office . . . is the nail now in the proverbial coffin?

[old mark]

18. The good ol' "values voters"....words fail me....nt

[Newest Reality]

19. I think we are witnessing

social engineering and manufacture of consent at its finest.

The focus tends to be on the results, i.e., the people who fall for it and the overall impact and mass effect. I think that is similar to how the Class War is fought and won since the tendency is to look up to the wealthy and down on the poor when it is clear that one group has the power to create and control and the other group tends to suffer the results of subjugation.

When you look at the Simulation machine and how people are both plugged into it, (as if it were a legitimate forum for our needs and concerns) and effected as a body politic by it, then it can become more clear the direction in which the manipulation flows and from whom. We could spend less time being flabbergasted by the glimmering spectacle -- acting so confounded and dismayed by those who fall for it most -- and put the spotlight on the movers and shakers pulling the levers and pushing the buttons that bring us this unmitigated bullshit.

The methodology is a science and the media, political instruments, think tanks and even the philanthropic foundations are shaping the results quite effectively. Meanwhile, little attention is given to this highly influential, cultural mechanism. It has never been about the Great Oz Head and those behind the curtain have reinforced it brilliantly and effectively with cunning and precision. It is difficult to find amidst the sound and the furry of a whirling, churning, 24/7, reality-shaping Carnival of Influences.

[progressoid]

20. What a steaming pile.

[disillusioned73]

22. We should be afraid...

but not for the "reasons" the MSM gives us. But for the sole reason the corporate controled media will push for her nomination........ it will become a bigger horse race than Obama vs. Clinton. And IF she is able to become the nominee - all bets are off, and as entertaining and hilarious as it would be to watch from a liberal/progressive standpoint.. I dont think the risk of the ignorant in this country putting her in office is really worth the entertainment value.

I no longer click on stories about this women, whenever I see her name in the title I just move on. So you got me on this one..It's exausting avoiding it though - even here on DU we get flooded with this continuous obsession of covering her every tweet.... is anyone else tired of it??? Or am I in the minority??:think: