phyllis:   Obama

The man is shrewd in many of the same ways as Sarah Palin is.  He can or could manipulate a crowd.  He has street smarts and he is quite intelligent in the things that are necessary to his survival, most of us are or we wouldn’t be here to talk about it.  Those who are wary/weary of him do not underestimate him at all.   

Maggie:  Odd that you have not heard of any of those magazines.

I’ve heard of the magazines, but I don’t read them except for TIME.  I’ve since dropped the TIME subscription so I guess I must have missed "The Meaning of Michelle."  

SURA:  Or perhaps shrewdness is a better choice—the ability to use and persuade people, find suitable, supportive lackeys, and who knows, perhaps the population voting for her didn’t demand intelligence, only  personality.

I agree with you 100%.  Worked for Obama.

deber:  Laura Bush was such a wonderful First Lady…

I agree, but by God the Dems will find something, or make it up if they don’t. 

Margo:  …all the news organizations who picked up Levi’s piece.

Problem is I don’t read the tabloids, not even while waiting in line to check out at the grocery store.  I don’t do Vanity Fair or Cosmopolitan or Elle.  To me, the Palins are passé.  How long can you gleefully trample the same family?  When you have to resort to reporting on the pajamas they wear, there is nothing worthwhile to say about them.  Give us a new subject.

Maggie:  Try to stay current!

I have a feeling we don’t read the same magazines or newspapers, or watch the same news programs on TV.  I never see her on C-SPAN or C-SPAN2, and rarely on PBS.  What is she up to these days? 

elle:  …when can we expect an article on Larry Sinclair’s book?

Whoa !!!   Now, that won’t happen any time soon. 

Margo:   "Clawing My Way to the Middle."

LOL.  You’re a funny lady, but you’ve got to come up with a new subject.  The Palins are passé, really they are.  Pick another Republican, but please not Sanford—he’s a bit overdone, too.  How about Laura Bush, other than the accident she had many years ago, we haven’t heard everything about her, yet.

Maggie:  …diss Michelle for wearing shorts

Did someone diss Michelle for wearing shorts?  You mean to say someone really cares what Michelle wears?  Or even about Michelle?

Walter:  Just like the Kennedy’s except they have actual jobs instead of trust funds.

The Kennedys, now there’s a tiresome lot.  I hear young Joe Kennedy isn’t going to run for his uncle’s Senate seat…  he’d rather do his oil thing. 

I say, Thank you Joe, and hurray for Massachusetts. 

phyllis:  I can well understand why someone like Marjorie feels frustration at yet another piece about the Palin problems, but then she does such a good job of dissing Obama it all kind of evens out, doncha think?

I’ll leave the dissing of Obama to the Blue Dog Dems.  And the Independents.  And the Conservatives.  And the Republicans.  There’s nothing I can add of anything new on the subject.  Unless you want to discuss Van Jones.     

Elizabeth:  …your infalliable hero, Sarah Palin?

Do you realize how many times Sarah Palin has been discussed?  Truly, there’s nothing left to say.

canuck:  a Mayor or Governor (yikes old age) asked some union workers to take a day without pay to avoid lay offs …

That would be Governor Carcieri of Rhode Island.  He is a Republican governor in a heavily Democratic state.  Need we say more other than the municipal unions are pretty much bankrupting this state.

deber:   God Bless America!

Amen.  God Bless Conservative America. 

I like fantasy as much as the next guy, but I don’t like it in my government.  Too dangerous.