I know I know I know I know I know I know I said I wasn’t going to get into the political arena here
BUT
this is totally relevant to my favorite hobby: comic books). Strewth! Hayden Panettiere of Heroes (see?) did a PSA telling Americans they should “…smoke, vote for John McCain and not wear safety belts.” Really, I could also say here how much I admire her ability for parallelism. It’s the English nerd in me.
I swear I would post something bi-partisan if the GOP came up with something just as funny and true. Oh, and related to comic books.
I had decided to leave political musings off the website because there was too much going on changing form day to day, and by the time I thought to put up news it was already olds. Not only that, but that’s not what I want to do with this blog. There are plenty of other places to get wry political insight.
HOWEVER
The English nerd in me loves this and can’t resist posting it. From 236.com, I give you
Diagramming a Sarah Palin sentence broke our heads in half
Easy, girls, bad grammar ain’t contagious.
Sarah Palin’s command of the English language is suspect. Her unscripted answers to Katie Couric’s questions suggest the she has memorized 15-20 prepositional phrases, and is only capable of repeating them in no particular order. But, ya know, incomprehensible run-ons are her style. At a debate during the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race, one opponent, Andrew Halcro, called her responses “political gibberish.”
Exhibit A: After Halcro asked how she would pay for health care, Palin said this:
“I can’t tell you how much that will reduce monetarily our health care costs, but competition makes everyone better, it makes us work harder, it does allow reduction in costs, so addressing that is going to be a priority.”
Whoa. After watching about five videos by Yossarian the Grammarian, we diagrammed that Sarah Palin sentence. Gibberish or an endless parade of subordinate clauses? You decide:
In other Diva news, the spiritual mother of all gay men, Lynda Carter, had some choice words for Philadelphia Magazine about Sarah Palin this week.
Okay, last question. I’m sure you’ve seen all the comparisons in the media and among Republicans of Sarah Palin to Wonder Woman. How do you feel about that?
Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?
No one has the right to dictate, particularly in this country, to force your own personal views upon the populace — religious views. I think that is suppressive, oppressive, and anti-American. We are the loyal opposition. That’s the whole point of this country: freedom of speech, personal rights, personal freedom. Nor would Wonder Woman be the person to tell people how to live their lives. Worry about your own life! Worry about your own family! Don’t be telling me what I want to do with mine.
I like John McCain. But this woman — it’s anathema to me what she stands for. I think America should be very afraid. Very afraid. Separation of church and state is the one thing the creators of the Constitution did agree on — that it wasn’t to be a religious government. People should feel free to speak their minds about religion but not dictate it or put it into law.
What I don’t understand, honestly, is how anyone can even begin to say they know the mind of God. Who do they think they are? I think that’s ridiculous. I know what God is in my life. Now I am sure that she’s not all just that. But it’s enough to me. It’s enough for me to have a visceral reaction. And it makes me mad.
People need to speak up. Doesn’t mean that I’m godless. Doesn’t mean that I am a murderer. What I hate is this demonization of everybody but one position. You’re un-American because you’re against the war. It’s such bullshit. Fear. It’s really such a finite way of thinking about God to think that your measley little mind can know the mind of God. It’s a very little God that way. I think that God’s bigger. I don’t presume to know his mind. Or her mind.
–via tygrlad on the GLA Yahoo! group
Whereas I can’t disagree with anything that Ms. Carter is saying, I’m beginning to think that with all the picking on Palin going on (fish in a barrel, to be sure; one might even say “a red herring”), that there’s some surprise out there that’s going to gobsmack the more progressive side of the political spectrum. She’s too easy a target, already wounded prey, if you know what I mean.
