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AGW: Caribou Barbie is Tweeting

R.Mackey

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Sorry if this is a duplicate.

Just reported over at CNN, Sarah Palin is all a-twitter about the Copenhagen summit:

"Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," Palin tweeted.

"Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng," the former Republican vice presidential nominee wrote.
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I can't figure which is more embarrassing -- the whole juvenility of it all, or the fact that she can't distinguish between "ions" and (presumably) eons.

Please Santa, bring me smarter politicians? :boxedin:
 
Not really relevant. But who started that, anyway? I understood that she took it as her own.
 
Heh, I'm just imagining her as President sending that out exactly as twittered as an official United States memo on the summit.
 
"Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng,"

This is why her book was written by a ghost.
 
I just wonder how it would be seen if Obama sent the same message. Clearly it would be perceived at what it probably is -- a typo in a hastily written note. But when it's her... ah, well.
 
Skeptic said:
I just wonder how it would be seen if Obama sent the same message. Clearly it would be perceived at what it probably is -- a typo in a hastily written note. But when it's her... ah, well.
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To be fair, she has demonstrated her lack of grasp on science and geography in the past. Obama had his what, 60 states thing or something? But not nearly as much evidence of mistakes of belief as Palin by mass. So her thinking an eon is spelled "ion" is more understandable as actually representing her real belief than it would be if Obama made the same mistake.
 
"e" and "i" are not close on any keyboard, and for darn sure there's no spell-checker working on those messages. But it could be an isolated incident, sure. Suuuure it could. :D
 
R.Mackey said:
"e" and "i" are not close on any keyboard, and for darn sure there's no spell-checker working on those messages
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Because we never write a more common, or a similar-sounding word, by mistake when hastily sending text messages, now do we?
 
R.Mackey said:
Not really relevant. But who started that, anyway? I understood that she took it as her own.
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I thought this was the dumbest thing I had read today.

Dragoonster said:
To be fair, she has demonstrated her lack of grasp on science and geography in the past. Obama had his what, 60 states thing or something? But not nearly as much evidence of mistakes of belief as Palin by mass. So her thinking an eon is spelled "ion" is more understandable as actually representing her real belief than it would be if Obama made the same mistake.
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Then I read this.

BenBurch said:
Caribou Barbie is probably the NICEST thing anybody ever called her.
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Then I remembered BenBurch hadn't commented yet.
 
Two days ago Obama said health care reform is at a 'precipice' of passing -- and called people to 'move forward' with it. This is a reenactment, in real life, of the old joke about the politician who said the country was on the precipice of disaster, but since then the took a big step forward.

Suppose it was said by Palin? (Or Bush?) It would be the end of what's left of her political career. She recreated an old political joke in real life, the dummy! In the same time, had Obama twittered this message, people would shrug it off as a typo.
 
Skeptic said:
I just wonder how it would be seen if Obama sent the same message. Clearly it would be perceived at what it probably is -- a typo in a hastily written note. But when it's her... ah, well.
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Do your posts have any point other than showing extreme hatred of the left?
 
Megalodon said:
Apparently holding that opinion makes you a republican-hating liberal elitist... or something :)
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Sarcasm aside, I fail to see why "republican-hating liberal elitist" would be seen as an insult by those towards whom it usually is made. Certainly they enthusiastically embrace each of the three adjectives individually. Why not together?
 
That's a funny thing to read first thing in the morning--an internet forum thread about someone's spelling.
 
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