Sarah Palin needs to go far away

[Asher]

He's a gigantic douche. He was supposed to be a news anchor but he rambled on and on like an extended op-ed piece. Eventually they gave him one, and he's remarkably stupid on there too.

[KrazyHorse]

If you didn't hear the news, that show's gone too.

[Asher]

He's almost as annoying as that Mexican columnist on cnn.com that writes every column about Latinos or illegal immigration.

This douche: http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/navarett...ntary/archive/

[Ben Kenobi]

I think Drake is just irritated by the dig at Nebraska..

[Straybow]

[Q=Drake Tungsten;5709505]You know, if Palin can crank out one more bestseller in the next couple years, she'll be just as qualified to be President in 2012 as Obama was in 2008.[/Q] Obama is still claiming that he wrote those books himself.

[Drake Tungsten]

Why would he take credit for the books unless he really wrote them? It's not like Dreams From My Father is some literary masterpiece, considering it contains ridiculous passages like this one...

"The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn't work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle."

[Lorizael]

I'm thinking about banning Drake for posting that.

[Felch]

You're referring to the grotesquely long sentence?

[Felch]

Having gone back and read the thread I realize that I might want to smoke less weed. Or maybe more.

[Lorizael]

You're referring to the grotesquely long sentence?

Yup. Whether from Palin or Obama, it's ugly. *shudder*

[KrazyHorse]

It's not just long; it's melodramatic.

[Elok]

It's possible to write sentences that long and have them work; Alexandre Dumas did it all the time. I've done it a few times too. But it's generally better to break it down into separate sentences or at most employ a semicolon. The rhythm in that sentence is all wrong.

[Drake Tungsten]

Whether from Palin or Obama, it's ugly.

It's from Obama.

[ShaneWalter]

When he did the bait and switch on Slate, it could've been funny. It seemed like he released the gotcha too early though. On this board, I haven't really seen that anyone is rabidly pro-Obama, so I don't really see the point of the attempt. I mean, it'd be one thing if there was a poster on this board that was all "Obama's books are some of the best books ever written, Palin can never compare to that." If you could trick such a poster into believing that passage was from Palin's book, and have them state how terrible of a sentence it was, that'd be funny. That never occurred though.

It's kind of the equivalent of setting up a fake email to email your best friend. Saying "Hey, it's me Samantha from highschool. Remember we were in the same Biology class? How have you been doing all these years?" When he responds back "No, I don't really remember you, what was your last name? Do you have a picture maybe? It's cool to hear from an old classmate though!" responding with a "Hahaha! I gotcha! It's actually your best friend! I knew I could fool you!"

Really, up to this point, has anyone on this board really even said anything about Dreams of my Father?

[Lorizael]

Whether from Palin or Obama, it's ugly.

It's from Obama.

I'm aware. The point is, you didn't "gotcha" anyone on the board. It's ugly, and it's written by Obama. Okay. Now we know that Obama is capable of writing ugly prose.