It's scary!

“Bloviating Ignoramus”
—what the guy on the left called the guy on the right

NOTE: the dictionary defines “pompous ass” as a “person who seems full of themselves and who grabs every opportunity to let others know of their feelings of superiority”. My experience with reading, writing and the English language leads me to say —unequivocally— that the phrase, “bloviating ignoramus” takes the aforementioned phrase to a whole new and ultimate level. Kudos to George Will!

I’m pretty sure you recognize both of these faces. But —just in case— the guy on the left is, indeed, renowned ABC politico George Will. Politically speaking, he is —clearly— quite to the
right.

Last Sunday morning, Will appeared on ABC’s “This Week”. When asked by moderator Jake Tapper, what he thought of the Donald’s endorsement of Mitt Romney —vis-à-vis voters taking him seriously— Will replied:

“I do not understand the cost benefit here. The costs are clear. The benefit — what voter is gonna vote for [Romney] because he is seen with Donald Trump. The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me."

Then … brilliantly … George Will continued:

  
Holy mother-fu*king sh*t!!

I thought I was depressed before today. Then, while browsing on “HUFFPOST Aol News.”, I read a piece of news from Reuters, the second oldest news “wire service” reporting in the American press.

The headline began “Elderly Woman Robs a Longboat (Colorado) Wells-Fargo Bank”.

It was the first word of that headline that beckoned to me … and I promise … the only reason I turned to the story was to see how old this “elderly” woman was. You see, since my 65th, I have been a bit overwhelmed by the concept of “age”. I like the thought of “forever young”. And —by the way— I have never referred to anybody as “elderly”.

Paragraph one picked up the headline theme. The first 3 words were “An elderly woman…”

In the second paragraph …hyperventilating … I found my answer …

  
Just incase you didn't know ... and FYI ... Sarah Palin doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground.

Way back, she made it clear that up until she was selected to run for the Vice Presidency, she knew diddlysquat about what the VP does.

Since then, she's been faced with the same question at least two more times: "What does the Vice President do?"

Each of those times she has apparently given the same answer. Here's  a video of a live interview with an NBC affuliate in Colorado, yesterday. The question came from a third grader, named Brandon. I think Brandon knew the answer and was merely testing her.

CLICK HERE FOR THE QUESTION & THE ANSWER ... LIVE AND IN COLOR!

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NOTE: LATER, HARRY REID'S OFFICE
PROVIDED A SUCCINCT AND ACCURATE RESPONSE:

"This comment is all the more puzzling
because this is at least the 2nd time she has said this.
Gov Palin needs to re-read or perhaps read for the first time the Constitution.
While the Vice President presides over the Senate,
he or she is not in charge of it.
Article 1 says ...
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate,
but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. "

  
Speaking for his wife, Ann, and himself, at a campaign stop in Windham, New Hampshire, on December 4th Mitt Romney said, “I am going to make sure when in the White House that we don't do anything to embarrass the American people." 

Apparently, recently, in Iowa, he made similar comments.

When questioned about these comments on CNN this morning, the ex-Governor blubbered the following:

"We'll try and represent ourselves and our nation well … also to our kids … because I think … I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House … if you go back to the Clinton years and recognize that … that I think had an enormous impact on the culture of our country. And we'll do our very best, our whole family will … to … well … if we can't be perfect … we'll do our best to uphold and to be a good example for the kinds of values I think people expect from our leaders."

And then, non sequituriously, he added that he was "not referring to anybody, referring to ourselves. We will do our very best to uphold the kind of values that people expect of a White House couple."

It has been speculated that he was, in fact, referring to how he and his wife would behave during invited White House sleep-overs to visit the Democratic first family in 2009.

RonP—January 2nd 2007
  

TO BE A REPUBLICAN, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE...

1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred for homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
     
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him ... a bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him ... a good guy when Cheney did business with him ... and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
     

“We cannot let terrorists and
rogue nations hold this nation
hostile or hold our allies hostile.”—Aug 21, 2000

“[My critics] misunderestimated me.”—Nov 6, 2000

“The illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Jan 23, 2004

“[Our enemies] never stop thinking  about 
new ways to harm our country and our
people, and neither do we."—Aug 5, 2004

“It was not always a given that the United States
and America would have a close relationship."—June 29, 2006

  
If you think he sounds dumb most of the time, when you read back a transcript of our President speaking—not of a speech, but of him “speaking”—the dumbness gets even clearer. And you clearly realize, that he thinks it is we, who are the dumb ones.

Yesterday was his first news conference of the new year. It was about Baghdad, the coalition forces, Maliki, the surge, suicide bombers, Congress, General Petraeus, North Korea, the E.U.-3+2, ethanol, illegal immigrants, No Child Left Behind and Politico.com. It was definitely not about Scooter Libby. During the Q and A, the President managed to get a few laughs, as always. Credit where credit is due: he is good at that! And sometimes the folksiness of it all kinda, wanna, makes you forget—for a moment—how dumb as dirt he really is.

THE ‘SPLAINER

Those of you who remember the originals or have seen reruns of “I Love Lucy”, might remember Desi regularly saying, “Lemme ‘splain it to you, Lucy…”