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Originally posted by Sinnthia
Originally posted by pinchanze
So whats your point!
That entire post was nothing but a personal attack on someone else's intelligence level. If that is what you are going to attack, it helps to at least appear somewhat intelligent yourself.
A poorly worded, formatted, written, and expressed personal insult in empty defense of Sarah Palin hardly fits the bill.
That would be my point.
Let me try to be even more clear. Typos happen, I am guilty. Spelling seems to get more and more difficult as time with autocorrect word processors eats away at my brain, I am guilty. Saying stupid things happens, I am guilty.
Now. If you are going to go to the effort to post in words on a forum about a subject that involves some reading skills and all you post is a personal insult about someone else's intelligence, you should just try and appear at least slightly intelligent yourself.
Further, I did not attack anyone but I asked a question. Since the attack post was in reference to the poor performance of public schools, I wondered what kind of school produced the writer of said post. It actually seemed relevant to the topic at hand to me. See, if the poster went to a private school and cannot write a coherent sentence, then their disparraging of public schools would seem a bit empty. If said poster was an example of the poor education one gets from public school then I have to question the assessment offered by someone who is a product of such. Since we are discussing public schools and what they can and cannot or should or should not do in context of Michelle Obama suggesting something and people equating it to a bill they just imagined, it seemed like a relevant question to ask.
Can you tell me what kind of school the other poster went to or not?edit on 5-1-2011 by Sinnthia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by pinchanze
If he gets his point accross whats it matter.. You attacked his spelling and grammer! Are you not attacking his intelligence? Hypocrite!
Originally posted by Sinnthia
reply to post by pinchanze
Let me try to really nail it down for you, ok? Please take no offense, this is not an attack on you or anyone else. This is just my observation of the thread as a whole.
Michelle Obama suggests that you feed your kids food that is good for them. She then suggests public schools provide food that is good for them.
Sarah Palin, potential presidential hopeful in 2012, comes out against Michelle Obama suggesting that public schools should have healthier menus.
We come here to ATS and add a little hysteria and from out of nowhere, Michelle Obama and the food bill are somehow linked. This confounds me as she had nothing to do with any bill. The first lady has no such power.
It just seems to me that if this is some liberal, big government, indoctrination bill then Sarah should be going after the bill and the people that wrote and passed it. Instead she targets the lady that suggested maybe your daughter not have a half dozen glazed donuts for lunch at school? You cannot dance diabetes off.
See, that kind of crystallizes it for me right there. While Palin was decrying the "liberal agenda" of sex education while pushing her morally superior "abstinence only" her own daughter was magically impregnated by some low life high school crush. All I can think is, Sarah protected her daughter from learning about condoms. That worked out well eh? Now she wants to protect her daughter from nutritious suggestions? Well, I hate to be caddy but Bristol can take that on the chin a couple of times. See what I am saying here? Sarah has not exactly been betting on wining horses here.
Then I see the partisan hatred is so thick that people immediately jump to Palin's defense in this thread about this topic which is nothing more than the first lady suggesting a good idea: Your kids should get healthy food.
Do we really want to fight that? Is everything in the US going so well now that we have the time and energy to lash out against suggesting our kids eat healthy food? I cannot wait to see the signs at the marches.
It is not bad enough that Michelle suggesting your kids have healthy lunches at school with a bill she had nothing to do with, people need to make things up. You have to claim the law will prevent your kids from eating cheese puffs in school. It will not. It may prevent the school from selling cheese puffs but you can send them to school with a 5 gallon drum full if you like. Why the hell should the public schools not be providing healthy meals again? Make thatargument.
The idea that anyone is going to control what you eat is insanity of the highest level when rightwingers get ahold of this crap. The argument being put forth is that you demand that the government feed your kids but they do not get to choose what to feed your kids. Why do you not just feed your own kids? You had them, you get your ass to Wal-mart and buy those cheese puffs. That is what we do here.
So then when I see something that look to me like this-
Sarah Palin is an idiot and crappy politician
followed by something resembling this
Nu uh! Palin be smart use pretty words much good thinking public schools make stupid! gar gar gar gar
I think to myself - that is it right there. That encapsulates the argument completely. It was a great summary and I thought it looked nice as a bookend to the idea that Palin supporters should all be taken so seriously.
Look at it with me, please?
PersonA: Public schools are a disgrace to this country. Michelle Obama is dead wrong on this and Sarah Palin knows what she is saying.
PersonB: Why do you say public schools suck?
PersonA: Because all they do is indoctrinate you to be a brainless liberal and hamper critical thinking. They just pump out stupid people, believe me I know. I went to a public school.
PersonB: Then wouldn't that make you too stupid to make that call?
Yeah, so Michelle thinks that if you are too lazy to feed your kids and they are too dependant to feed themselves, schools should probably have stuff that is good for them on hand instead of cheap crap.
Sarah Palin thinks that is a bad idea?
Originally posted by pinchanze
Read who instigated the design of the bill and the response from Obama after he signed the bill into law what would happen to him if he did not sign it. Read his quotes about Michelle if he did not sign it! It's indirectly her bill!!!!!! I do not need the goverment telling me what I should feed my kids.
The goverment is telling me that they know what is good for my children!!!!!PLEASE.Who has funded the school food programs up to this point? The state and federal goverment. Who oks the nutritional standards set in our schools? The goverment. So my question is then. What the hell have they been doing for the last gazillion years? Feeding our children crap food? If that is so I want all my tax dollars back for a crap job. They haven't been doing their job right in the first place and you want me to have em do it again. bull#! Don't fall for this crap healthy food my ass!!!!!!
Originally posted by Sinnthia
Originally posted by pinchanze
If he gets his point accross whats it matter.. You attacked his spelling and grammer! Are you not attacking his intelligence? Hypocrite!
because he did not get his point across. I attacked nothing. I noted that the post as a whole was nothing but a poorly written personal attack in defense of Sarah Palin on the topic of intelligence. All that together is not exactly going to get youn inot MENSA now is it?
AGAIN, SLOWLY
poor spelling + bad grammar + NOTHING BUT personal attacks about intelligence + blind defense of Sarah Palin all add up together. The post highlighted how the partisan logic is eating iteslf. I am sorry you did not catch that.edit on 5-1-2011 by Sinnthia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by zuul000
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
I disagree with Sarah on this issue. She's trying to pit herself against Michelle for the upcoming election because she has no chance if she runs against Barack.
I disagree.
Her job in 2012 is to run, motivate the evangelical wing of the GOP, then drop out and transfer her endorsement and treasury to the actual candidate.
She just needs to keep her name in the news for another year so she can complete her finish her assignment. Ergo, occasional statements like this designed to motivate the left into the hysterics she can so ably and easily provoke from them, and motivate the evangelical right into the militant defense of her she can likewise provoke.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
This thread is amazingly revealing. It leads one to wonder why people who are so in favor of government control, even to the level of dictating what we eat, would have any interest in a site like ATS? The last place on earth you would expect to find those who are FOR government control.
Originally posted by orwellianunenlightenment
Originally posted by zuul000
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
I disagree with Sarah on this issue. She's trying to pit herself against Michelle for the upcoming election because she has no chance if she runs against Barack.
I disagree.
Her job in 2012 is to run, motivate the evangelical wing of the GOP, then drop out and transfer her endorsement and treasury to the actual candidate.
She just needs to keep her name in the news for another year so she can complete her finish her assignment. Ergo, occasional statements like this designed to motivate the left into the hysterics she can so ably and easily provoke from them, and motivate the evangelical right into the militant defense of her she can likewise provoke.
Bingo, we have a winner. That seems the most likely scenario of all. Very well thought out.
Originally posted by Ghost374
Sarah Palin must've been dropped on her head as a baby multiple times. I can't believe millions of people take her seriously. Really? She never makes any goddamn sense. Michelle hasn't done anything different from previous first ladies. They all act like spoiled rich ladies because that's what they are.
I have no problem with Palin's policies but she is as dumb as a rock. She's just like the rest of America! Perfect fit for president.
Did she completely forget that the government is in charge of our public schools? The government has been teaching us for almost a hundred years.
edit on 3-1-2011 by Ghost374 because: (no reason given)