tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post6989280825938396237..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Sarah Palin and Hashem, keeping notes on their hands?joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-24002637721964604422010-03-09T19:13:14.801-05:002010-03-09T19:13:14.801-05:00How did this turn into a political argument?!
I l...How did this turn into a political argument?!<br /><br />I like the way you turn this into a shtikkel Torah.Yosef Greenberghttp://blog.yachdus.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-54028673224824974862010-03-09T17:33:43.164-05:002010-03-09T17:33:43.164-05:00The hatred for Sarah Palin is down right pathologi...The hatred for Sarah Palin is down right pathological. It is not hard to tell when people have completely lost a grip of the issues. As soon as people try to demonize someone that is when you know. Someone could disagree with Sarah Palin, I really have no problem with that. In fact, there are plenty of things that she believes which I disagree with. I understand though, that shes an accomplished woman with a great deal of intelligence. To call her an idiot is without a doubt proof that it is something more than a disagreement.I see a similar sentiment when it comes to Israel.Yeshivishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-50658677037308785752010-03-09T14:15:30.905-05:002010-03-09T14:15:30.905-05:00"I think she's mocked because typically o..."I think she's mocked because typically only people who wish to cheat use crib notes."<br />except that who says we should cast this as crib notes? if she were not on camera at the angle she was at, she might well have had a sheet of paper in front of her. this was a way of looking pretty without being without notes.<br /><br />"Using them is not a respectable act."<br />but this was not a "test". i don't really see anything not respectable about what she did. i <b>do</b> see a bunch of folks jumping at every chance to mock, whether or not it is warranted.<br /><br />"Also, she's opened herself up to it by being a leading critic of Obama's teleprompter. Sauce, goose, gander, etc."<br />i mentioned this point in the post. this is a non-starter. there is a vast difference between the two. why was she criticizing Obama for this? the idea <b>seemed</b> to be that he was not really a good speaker with original ideas. rather, he delivered ideas and phrases crafted by his paid word-smiths, verbatim. thus, mocking (incorrectly) him for not being able to speak to elementary school students without his teleprompter. she did <b>not</b> have all her prepared remarks on her hand. she had a memory aid to the specific talking points she wished to address, and then she spoke at great length about all those points, NOT reading from a text, but speaking as a normal, articulate, geniune person would speak.<br /><br />thus, it is only "Sauce, goose, gander, etc." if one does not think carefully about the implications of each respective charge.<br /><br />the rest is petty politics.<br /><br />kt,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-86915859914151712322010-03-09T14:02:36.210-05:002010-03-09T14:02:36.210-05:00Despite all this, I think that it is misguided to ...<i>Despite all this, I think that it is misguided to mock Sarah Palin for having notes inscribed on her hand.</i><br /><br />I think she's mocked because typically only people who wish to cheat use crib notes. Using them is not a respectable act. Also, she's opened herself up to it by being a leading critic of Obama's teleprompter. Sauce, goose, gander, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com