Friday, November 14, 2008

Sarah Palin: A 2012 White House Contender Lacking in Basic Skills


Normally, I am not a fan of Fox News, an media outlet I consider to be little more than the propaganda organ of the Republican party. But even Fox News has a moderating commentator or two that found Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska to be awesomely lacking in depth. Take Greta Van Susteren for example. In an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, Sarah Palin said if there is an open door for her to run for the presidency in 2012, "Then I'll plow through that door."

Palin does not realize that even many Republicans consider her to be the national joke.

The word "palin," coined from the Alaska governor's last name, should be entered in the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary with the following classifying parameters:

  • An applicant lacking even basic job knowledge, skills, and abilities
  • Someone uniquely and supremely unself-aware or deficient in any relative sense of what he/she or does not know
  • A person who holds authority disproportionate to his/her ethics and qualifications
  • A singularly incapable person who has been appointed or elected to a position of great importance beyond his/her understanding

Examples of contextual usage:

  1. My new boss is such a palin! He took my deserved place because the chief executive officer is his personal friend.
  2. Bill sent me a real palin for the senior marketing analyst's job.

I invite your classifications and sentences defining palin.

10 comments:

  1. From another blog, PC writes regarding the lack of developments this week in the Bryan Kocis murder case "Quickysrt quotes Jim who comments,"'It may be nothing. If nothing happens by the end of the week, that's what it's likely to have been: a false alarm. We'll see.'

    'Ok, another false alarm I see. I guess the insiders are as inside as the rest of us.'"

    PC's response to Quicky and Jim: "[Judge] P[eter] P[aul]O[lszewski]'s been on vacation this week... nothing was going to happen. Now next week and beyond... well... guess we'll have to wait and see."

    It's a murder case PC. There will be periods where things seem to drag; whereas, behind the scenes, between the prosecution team and defense teams of lawyers much is being done. Yep, "next week and beyond" there will be developments. The lawyers on both sides will file motions and counter motions for which Judge Olszewski will make rulings. Ordinary business for a trial court. So, your "profound prediction" is full of sound, and like a dropped and rattling trash can lid, signifies nothing. Judge Olszewski said this trial would commence as scheduled in January. So far, there is nothing impeding that docket.

    Keep going back through your archives for past highlights.

    I do believe this was mentioned awhile back elsewhere, but it is worth repeating here. Quicksrt was an online alias of Harlow Cuadra. Makes one wonder why the current user of that alias took that identity.

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  2. My new boss is such a palin!
    Love It shall endeavor to use this at every opportunity!

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  3. Dewayne--

    In light of the record breaking 11 minute, live, national press corps news conference at the Republican Governor's Conference, in which Sarah Palin was flanked by several male colleagues who looked more like the dorky stag line at a high school dance, the following definition should be added:

    A self-important, cunning manipulator of his/her circumstances and others whose simplistic statements, delivered in a down home, used car salesman like sincerity, betrays his/her trailer trash designs for a position for which he/she would be a monumental disaster.

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  4. Will G, I asked this of you on Elm's blog, the Keith Olberman thread, but it does bear repeating here"

    "Will G--

    Thank you for the response.

    Now, a new question: What's in collaborating with Kent Barclay for Dexx Jones?

    Was this some trolling stunt to dredge up information on Kocis, Cuadra-Kerekes, or Sean and Grant? I do not ask this lightly because it is not readily discernible as to what the pay off would be for either Jones or Barclay."

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  5. Jim writes on another post, "And one other contributing problem, which NEEDS to be pointed out, and, well, quite frankly I am HAPPY to do so: The complete AND unneccessary exclusion of the ENTIRE county public defender's office, over some very picayune and hypothetical "conflict."

    This remark by the same commentator in addition to the previous one at the same place in a different comment:

    "What if at trial one of the Defense attorneys seeks to introduce something from Bryans past...

    Something hypothetically embarrassing to Flora? Well, seems to me we could have crossed that rather hypothetical bridge if (and only if) we came to it. Then some sort of removal would have been in order.

    If the PD was still on this case, think about it: there would have been no Bufalino-Galante disaster. The trial would have occurred in September. It would be over! None of us would be here!! WE'D ALL BE GETTING ON WITH OUR LIVES RIGHT NOW!!!"

    Pizzaman wrote a reply that I entirely agree with, that is, any appearance of conflict of interest should be dealt with. That Al Flora decided to recuse himself speaks to his integrity and sense of legal ethics. Regardless of the view of most of us that Cuadra and Kerekes, the bound over defendants awaiting trial, are guilty both men deserve a fair trial.

    There is nothing in the previously quoted Citizen's Voice article that indicates that Menn is resigning as Cuadra's counsel in the murder case. Menn is resigning from the conflict counsel pool of attorneys, effective at the end of the year.

    It would be folly to delude oneself into thinking that Judge Olszewski will allow still another delay. He decreed a January trial and thus far, a January trial it will be.

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  6. In the previous comment, regarding Cuadra defense attorney Menn's decision to withdraw from the Conflict Counsel Attorney Pool at the end of the year, a development has taken place.

    From the "Times Leader" it is reported that

    "At a pre-trial conference held before Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr., attorney Stephen Menn said that because he is resigning from the county’s team of conflict counsel attorneys, he wishes to withdraw as co-counsel for murder suspect Harlow Cuadra."

    This statement confirms that originally all Menn wanted was to resign from the Conflict Counsel pool. He knows he would be in an ethical breach if he tried to resign as Cuadra's representation at this point. Menn broached this subject in person, in Judge Olszewski's chambers.

    Judge Olszewski denied that request and states that he has decreed a January 5 trial starting date and that he not tolerate any further delays. Something I pointed out a couple of times previously. The last time here.

    So there is no mistake as to Judge Olszewski's view on this matter, PC's survey of bloggers notwithstanding, the judge's own words are “I will try this case in a timely and competent manner,” Olszewski told Menn. “Any motion (for withdrawal) is denied. I am not stopping this trial from happening on Jan. 5. … I have an obligation to this case, the defendants and the commonwealth.”

    There we have it the definitive word on Judge Olszewski's decision that this trial is on track for a January 5, 2009 start date. Clear, concise and not open to interpretation or obsfucation.

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  7. Hey Rob

    Blogger now has Wordpress style commenting! No more separate comment pages, comments are at the bottom of the original post and the preview function (missing from Wordpress) is still there. Check it out on my latest post, its very easy to implement.

    This is called intentional Spam ;) means I am leaving this on all the blogs!

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  8. In Re: "Judge to Rule on Kocis Evidence," as relayed in copyrighted stories by reporters for THE CITIZEN'S VOICE and THE TIMES LEADER and reported at PC's blog in which he wrote "interestingly, there are two different dates on [the warrant] . . . ."

    Not a surprise in light of the reported testimony of the Virginia Beach police officer. The Virginia Beach Police Department was working in close cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Police so this is not a shocker. Judge Olszewski closely questioned the VB officer, and it does look inevitable that Judge Olszewski will be suppressing the evidence from the BMW, that is, the boxed knife and other materials because VBPD did not have probable cause to pull the Cuadra-Kerekes BMW over.

    However, it should be pointed out that the testimony makes very clear that Cuadra and Kerekes were on close watch on returning first to VB prior to San Diego and Crab Catcher and Black's Beach and the return from San Diego to Virginia Beach.

    Dewayne comments "[PSP Det. Cpl. Leo] Hannon seems to have been frustrated as well [with the weak and inconsistent Virginia Beach police efforts]" to keep tabs on Cuadra and Kerekes.

    It is quite clear that Dewayne believes that a conviction can be had without the evidence seized from the "bad" traffic stop in Virginia Beach.

    I do agree with Quicksrt's observation that the defense needs to put on some sort of credible defense. What is truly hazy through the information to be had so far is the defense side of the story. I do not believe that their story changes that Cuadra and Kerekes face a tremendous hurdle in not being convicted on the other evidence.

    The penalty phase will be the interesting part of this trial. Any number of approaches to gain sympathy with the jury is to be expected.

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  9. At Jim's blog "Will g said...
    As BB has very helpfully pointed out to me earlier, I am SO confused. DeWayne says that BB denies Bryan hired Kent to go and harass Brent at Mickey's, yet BB has said that he never HEARD of Brent before the murder (didn't you BB??), so how in tarnation could BB know ANYTHING about that?"

    And BB was asked to explain himself by Jim.

    I told you guys before that BB and Robert Wagner are one and the same. And subtle Wagner is. He uses Ben, his boyfriend, for most remarks and others when the situation fits. Wagner is a liar and he played in this from before his boss and lover's murder.

    Make no mistake. If anyone has wanted Sean Lockhart to fail in any fashion, slink off the stage, fade into obscurity, and even leave this mortal coil, it would be Robert Wagner.

    And Wagner danced, the dance. He's got a credibility problem.

    Do the math boys.

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