Bob Herbert: Palin’s Alternate Universe

[cal04]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/opinion/04herbert.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Sarah Palin is the perfect exclamation point to the Bush years.

Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan. He had warned that if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

What Ms. Palin didn’t say was that the menace to freedom that Reagan was talking about was Medicare. As the historian Robert Dallek has pointed out, Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Alternative Universe, Bizzarro World. THAT is where these folks live...doncha know.

[ixion]

2. so instead Ray-Gun set us on down the road to fascism

f'ing brilliant. :grr: :puke:

[jpertello]

3. This is an excellent article

The "gosh darns" "you betchas" and other bizarre idiomatic speech hides a mind devoid of ideas and solutions. In 2000 the Supreme Court handed a stable economy, budget surplus and country at peace to a colossal moron. This time the American people need to be made aware that they would be handing over an economy in meltdown, 2 wars, and a country on the cusp of complete collapse to a bigger moron.

[NoFederales]

4. BH has it nailed. But wasn't Reagan just a "paid" actor's VOICE at the

time? Was Reagan actually involved politically in the early 60's?

NoFederales