[Vision2020] 30 ways to a most powerful constabulary

[g. crabtree]

Really? So what was it that BHO ran or managed that you believe would have provided the experience to run this country? Feel free to use the dictionary of your choice. The guy never ran so much as a pop stand before getting his current gig. Perhaps he absorbed whatever management experience you claim he has via osmosis, sucking it up along with the hard earned tax dollars of people who had actually earn them and, earlier in his career, gorging on them at the public trough. 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Campbell 
  To: g. crabtree 
  Cc: keely emerinemix ; vision2020 
  Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 30 ways to a most powerful constabulary


  Palin has, or had, more executive experience than Obama!?! Only a geek holding on to a dictionary definition would pretend that Palin had more experience than Obama, relevant to the offices for which they last ran.


  She could not hack Alaska!


  You've been critical of Palin and I'm sorry for not noting that, but you're more defensive than you should be.


  Joe Campbell

  On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:37 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:


    1. How amazing that you should have such a blinding insight concerning this post and yet were completely oblivious for the run of 'Pulling a Palin' and "Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed."

    2. As to your silly assertion concerning experience, Governor Palin had far more executive experience at the time of the election then BHO did. Along with that she also had experience as a small business person, something the golden one has yet to know and almost certainly never will.

    3. Please point out where I might have said anything about Ms. Palin being a serious future contender for the position of POTUS? 

    4. What post is it that you imagine that it was that I criticized? If you are referring to Ms. Mix's post of 03 July, I pointed out that here was no evidence for the assertion that she made and requested a cite. No criticism and, from my perspective, nothing to apologize for. Not every error calls for sack cloth and ashes. This said, Ms. Mix did show uncommon class. Kudos to her.

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      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Joe Campbell 
      To: g. crabtree 
      Cc: keely emerinemix ; vision2020 
      Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:59 AM
      Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 30 ways to a most powerful constabulary


      Is Palin running for anything at the moment? Is she running against Sotomayor? I'm not really sure why we're comparing them.


      For the record, the reason I didn't vote for her had to do with her lack of experience not her misuse of language. But it's pretty much a done deal since she can't even stand the heat of being Governor of Alaska, so she is not a serious candidate for President of the US. But keep thinking she is!


      By the way, what conclusion should we draw from this little exercise? Are malapropisms relevant or not? I think not which means this post of yours is just as bad as the one you criticized (which by the way was followed by a retraction AND an apology). On the other hand, if this kind of crap is relevant, then you have no complaint.

      Sent from my iPhone

      On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:06 AM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:


        For those on the list  who found Governor Palin to be a less than stellar intellect because of a totally unsubstantiated assertion that she once confused succeed with secede, and that wise latina Sonia Sotomeyor the paragon of the well educated women...

        From the Weekly Standard, 20 July edition:

        If Sarah Palin Had Said It . . . (Update)
        Ed Whelan writes: 


          Judge Sotomayor says “eminent” when she means “imminent,” “providence” instead of “province,” “story of knowledge” instead of “store of knowledge,” and so on. Does the fact that she is a Latina immunize her from attention to that sort of (admittedly not uncommon) foible?


        To answer Whelan's question: These malapropisms would only be noteworthy and revealing if they were spoken by a certain country bumpkin Republican governor of Alaska. When a wise Latina accidentally says "vagrancies of ... the moment" instead of "vagaries of ... the moment" during the oral argument of the Ricci case, we're supposedi to ignore the slip-up, as the Wall Street Journal did, but make sure to inform readers that they should be impressed by the fact that "The Catholic-school-educated judge clearly knew the Latin plural of 'forum.'"

        But enough about her errors of diction. I wouldn't want to get Sotomayor's reputation for writing pieces "that didn't distinguish between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather than focusing on the core analytical issues."

        Update: Allahpundit has the video and a choice Sotomayor quote: "each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister."

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