Quotes from a fictional conversation between The West Wing's President Jed Bartlet and Barack Obama:
...Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it...
...You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard and thinks devotion to your country and lapel pins aren’t the same thing and you’re in a statistical tie with a war hero and a Cinemax heroine...
Want to read more? See Maureen Dowd's New York Times column called Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet.
Thanks go to Ben for the link to this article.
4 comments:
Not exactly!
This is a shot at her purportedly being a "creationist".
Now there are SOME who bear that label-- though I know of no statement by Palin about HER specific beliefs on this point-- who believe the earth is very young and that dinosaurs and man co-existed. In the Flintstones, of course, the two are found together. Even then there is not any basis to suggest folks with such a view regard the Flintstones as in any sense "historical" -- that's just a jab.
So the Dowd column assumes that Palin holds the 'young earth' view, then brings the Flintstones in as a way to mock them.. and her.
In any case, please note that the column's purpose is to take shots at Palin, not much caring what the truth of the matter may be -- on this or just about anything point.
Well, we don't have much of an idea of what Sarah Palin believes until she is allowed to talk freely to the press...
Then, and only then, we might be able to make our own decisions as to "the truth of the matter."
You are absolutely right, Clariz! What we really know about Palin we could put in a thimble and have room for an ox and they might make a good pair. As for Dowd's column, she surely doesn't say anything worse than republican columnists or Fox news and Rovians say about Obama.
Sylvia, love your thimble and ox statement. Now if we could just work in a little moose stew...
(Just trying to rile you up, Bruce J.)
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