Get the smelling salts…
…Sarah Palin used crib notes she wrote on her hand during a post speech question/answer session at some place.
WE. ARE. SO. DOOMED.
Seriously, if you had any doubt that the United States has become a permanent high school in which we are all perpetually trapped, this should be the final proof. I haven’t seen people so upset about inked hands since… well, since I was in high school and some kid got caught looking at the test answers that he’d Bic’d onto his knees in Geometry I. I mean, I write stuff to jog my memory all the time onto the palm of my hand, though I have been informed that that is sloppy and I should carry around a pack of index cards at all times. Index cards that I can drop or forget. One thing about your own hand, it usually remains attached to your body.
Really, I can’t believe that people are freaking out at this. There is just something about Sarah that sends people off into the stratosphere that I just don’t get. Reagan apparently had the same thing. I recall at the time (when I was much, much more liberal than I am now) he sort of mildly irritated me and I still don’t get the adulation but I thought that many of the jokes at his expense (not to mention the masks and the puppets and so on) were in bad taste. There’s just something about people taking politics so personally that I don’t get. Somewhere someone is developing a fine case of acid reflux because they can’t stand the way Palin parts her hair. Anyway, if you want to get the full flavor of “Sarah Palin is going to lead us into DOOOOOOOM” paranoia, feel free to visit the Fark and Huffington Post threads. (Yeah, this all comes from those RELIABLE two sources.) And here is my tribute to palm-of-the-hand note-takers everywhere.
Update on another yet somehow related (as I am too lazy to write a new post) topic: get a load of the compassionate and concerned lefty side of the blogosphere as they basically accuse Jim Treacher, who is still being treated for his broken knee, of lying about what happened when he was hit by a van driven by a government employee. Yes, I really want my future in the hands of people like these.
By kae on Feb 7th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Gosh, Andrea.
You have the same philosophy as I do with regards to writing important notes.
When I start to write on my hand someone will invariably say “I’ll get a piece of paper”, and I say “I can lose that, but I’d have a bit more on my mind if I lost this note…” and hold up my hand.
By JonathanStrange on Feb 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
I’ve an uncle who practically foams at the mouth in indignation whenever he hears or see something about Palin. And he assumes everyone agrees with him about her when, at least in my case, I just don’t him spraying me with his insanity.
I don’t know. There’s plenty of people in politics that I think are, at best, contemptible. But I can’t see myself becoming apoplectic about them or constantly making snide remarks about them. When my aunt or uncle would make sneering remarks about wanting GWB assassinated, I’d just roll my eyes thinking “If their candidate gets elected, they’d turn someone in for such an asinine comment”.
By kc on Feb 7th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
My personal credo “People. Are. Dumb.”
Never fails me.
By Brett_McS on Feb 8th, 2010 at 7:44 am
Perfect response – “Hi Mom!” – from the Palinator.
Now if she’d just stop riding the retard horse…
By McGehee on Feb 8th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
No, middle school. Late 6th grade, early 7th, unless I miss my guess.
By Susan B. on Feb 8th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Okay, so Obama needs a teleprompter everywhere he goes, but Palin can’t refer to a few notes on her hand? I can’t believe these people are serious!
The way Jim Treacher is treated by those compassionate lefties is beneath contempt. These people show every day that they are the ones who are full of hate. BTW, that “matako” person once called me a liar too (on another blog), so I guess I’m in good company.