I long for a return to the "hyphenated days".

[Contrary1]

I think I must have slept through them, but if Palin says we can't go back, I figure they must have been good.

“We can’t go back to that hyphenated days of, no we need to and can work together in working with Pakistan, and we have our issues there, too, and in a sense we do, but we need to work with Pakistan, but that’s one of those issues that we need to work on, as we strengthen our allies, there…”

Take my hand, loyal DUers; we shall turn back the clock together.

[senseandsensibility]

1. Wow. Speechless.

Is that a direct quote?

[Contrary1]

8. Sadly, yes, From her speech in India.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-india

[tanyev]

2. Holy crap, that's migraine-inducing.

With a hypen. Even. Also. Too.

[Jamastiene]

27. Instant-Headache. n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

37. Not an exaggeration.

[Raven]

3. What??? Did she mean halcyon days? Strengthening our allies?

Is that like toning up our abs?

[Bluerthanblue]

6. jinx-

'great minds'-

:hi:

[petronius]

22. I think she means the opposite of halcyon - she's referring to past conflict

If this was a written speech, my bet would be that she decided that something like "divided" was too common, looked for a synonym, and came up with "hyphenated"...

:shrug:

[BanzaiBonnie]

35. OMG, she really is the female version of George Bush

And she knows she's a smart as he is, so no reason why she CAN"T be president.

[Denzil_DC]

28. See my explanation of "hyphenating"

below.

[Bluerthanblue]

4. uhhhh.... did she mean halcyon days?

... I don't understand.

there's a pretty big difference between hyphenated and halcyon.

:crazy:

[tanyev]

7. You'd better refudiate that, or you're going to get a Twitterific smackdown.

[Cleita]

5. So many grammar errors in one sentence.

How did she get her degree in communications, journalism, or whatever degree it was that required her to have a working knowledge of putting words together? I mean I have a problem with grammar because I was raised in a house with one parent who never made it past the fifth grade and the other one an immigrant for whom English was not a first language, but I thought her father was a teacher.

[Maru Kitteh]

39. You found a sentence in there? Wow. I bow to the master!

[Cleita]

40. Not really. I'm sure she thought it was a sentence.

:eyes:

[Cass]

9. People actually pay her to give speeches like this.

It just boggles the mind.

:crazy:

[Maru Kitteh]

10. God she's a dumb-ass.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. I have no deception what she's incinerating.

[Divernan]

12. An Alaskan reporter I know said of interviewing her: Word salad

[Warpy]

20. Yeah, and I think it's pathological

I think the woman is hypomanic. It would explain so much about her whole life as well as her word salad and inability to see anything through to completion.

Her talents have exceeded those of Mrs. Malaprop by enough that it's evidence of illness.

BTW, live blogging of that speech is at http://punditcommentator.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-holi-live-blogging-sarah-palins.html

[PfcHammer]

34. Word fart

"This is what one hears, when Palin assaults English." :evilgrin:

[1776Forever]

13. 2 people just unrec'd this! ROFL! I wonder if they are related to Palin?? n/t

:rofl:

[CrispyQ]

14. Try diagramming that sentence!

:crazy:

[Jamastiene]

25. It would look like the frame of the Winchester Mystery House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

:silly:

[myrna minx]

42. I followed that hyphen up a staircase to nowhere.

:D

[Urban Prairie]

41. Is diagramming sentences even taught/tested in grade schools any longer?

[xchrom]

15. um -- what? wow.

what the hell is she talking about?

no -- don't tell me -- i don't want to know.

:crazy:

[liberal N proud]

16. I hate to ask what hyphenated days is really supposed to be

:crazy:

[Denzil_DC]

17. "Hyphenating" has a specific meaning in the context of India and Pakistan

See Google.

Palin obviously remembered it from the Cliff Notes she was given, but not only did she do her usual grammar-mangling, she "hyphenated" India and Pakistan all over again (linking them together in US foreign policy terms) in the accompanying word salad, which probably went down well with the audience.

[IcyPeas]

29. thank you for this explanation.

[NoTimeToulouse]

18. Without George W. Bush there would be no Sarah palin.

Without his butchery of the English language and all-around (pardon the hyphen) ignorant absurdity she wouldn't have stood a chance at her notoriety.


Inheriting down "dumb" is the best way I am able to parlay that in SarahSpeak.

[IDemo]

19. Every day is "Stupid-day" on her calendar..

[Ship of Fools]

21. If you want to see something really remarkable,

Check out the emcee's speech introducing Palin. IT IS A SCREAM. He completely eviscerates her. You will laugh out loud until tears roll down your face. Sorry, I'm not tech savvy, but you can find it on Gryphen's Immoral Minority site. DON'T MISS THIS!!!!

[Desertrose]

23. How in the world could you translate THAT into Hindi/Urdu?

...and why would you even bother?

[Jamastiene]

24. WTF does her speech writer do?

Write random words beside each other on the page and call it a speech?

Reading anything that woman says is almost as bad as hearing her say it. It's always a bad mind fuck. Excedrin, here I come.

[bluestateguy]

26. There are no perfect good ole days

For example, I hear a lot of DUers celebrating the 1950's and 1960's as a time of a rising middle class and strong labor unions. Fine. That's true.

But then there was the glass ceiling for women (and a good many women and girls were still discouraged from even working at all), discrimination against blacks (no, it did not magically end after the civil rights act of 1964 and the VRA either). And MUCH MORE homophobia than exists today.

[AsahinaKimi]

30. SOMEWHERE ....

Hillary Clinton is doing a FACE PALM....

[madinmaryland]

31. What is a hyphenated day? Fri-Day, Sa-Turd-ay, or Sun-Day??

I confused.

[Smarmie Doofus]

32. Did she speak that or write it? n/t

[northernlights]

33. those won-der-ful days of hy-phe-na-tion

or is it hyp-hen-a-tion?

Ne-ver mind. :argh:

[ehrnst]

36. Did she crib something that Willow wrote in a book report?? (nt)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

38. Is that like a womans lib thing

Where they keep their name and hyphanate their husbands last name?
i'm old and confused. I can' t keep up with this shit.