Sarah Palin explains the debate over raising the Debt Ceiling

[realthog]

Speaking on Sean Hannity's FOX News program:

"We cannot default but we cannot afford to retreat right now either. Now is not the time to retreat, it's the time to reload. And we reload with reality by giving facts and numbers to the American public so that those of us across the United States can start chiming in and letting our representatives know that we will not capitulate, we will not hand over more power, which I believe is unconstitutional, to President Obama to further manipulate our economy."

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[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

That woman is insane. Why anyone would pay attention to her is beyond me. The media hounds like her, though, because she's a train wreck; Fox News loves her because she makes them look smart(Fox News is disgusting).

Michelle Bachmann is another hate mongering looney-toon. The Republicans are just plain insane in the membrane. I don't think we need to worry about Obama's re-election. I was unsure about him when he took office, only because my faith in humanity in general is gone and I wasn't altogether sure we'd find someone decent; but I have grown to like and respect him more and more. He's a good president.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

As I've just been saying to La Marquise above:

There's an interesting monograph by Harry G. Frankfurt you may have come across called On Bullshit (it's published by the Yale UP or the Johns Hopkins UP or someone like that). Frankfurt makes a useful distinction between the liar and the bullshitter: the liar is aware that some things are true and some lies (and grey areas, etc.), but chooses to tell lies if they're more useful than the truth; the bullshitter has no interest in the truth or falsehood of what s/he's saying, so long as it serves its immediate purpose.

This I think is the big difference between Palin and Michele Bachmann, IMHO. Palin is a bullshitter; Bachmann (unless completely loony, which is also a possibility) chooses to use lies for her personal political gain.

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I have grown to like and respect him more and more. He's a good president

I like the man, but I could give you a very long list of the bad -- and often illegal -- things he's done as US Prez. As a single example, he's in breach of both international and US law in his refusal to bring charges against those who authorized torture during the horrific Bush years. I can understand his political reasoning here (he follows the law, and then his own and every future Dem administration will, when succeeded by a GOP one, find this used this in tantrumming-toddler fashion as precedent to gum up the courts with idiotic accusations against them), but I don't think that's sufficient cause to shirk this legal obligation.

I also think he should have scrapped the Patriot Act rather than strengthened it.