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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
I will take the middle ground here. I think that many people on this board have as much intellectual capacity as Ms. Pallin. At the same time, she is not dumb or she could not have fooled as many good people as she has. My feeling is she was rather insular, having spent many years in a small town in a very small state which is isolated from the rest of the U.S. geographically. She did not, in my opinion, posess the gravitas to be the Vice President of the nation. I think calling her dumb is not giving her enough credit for the things she has accomplished, but did she have enough intellectual capacity, or the ability to work through the kind of weighty issues a President would have to handle, not close in my opinion. (I'm guessing this will elicit several responses as to the current POTUS's intellect, experience, etc. so knock yourselves out).
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Hold on now...I think your post is pretty much on very solid ground.
I am however, very touchy on this subject. This woman AND HER ENTIRE family has been maligned over the years to such an extent it borders on inhumane. I have two problems with this subject...I dont like the personal things that are said about her and her family in anyway, and I had to add this just so you would not think I have lost it totally by agreeing with you....I wish the media had done half the looking into Obama as they did with her.
BUT, on this subject, I think your post hit it on the head...folks on this forum are over the top with Palin. I am really tired of the calling people stupid and being so doggone personal. I criticize Obama a lot but never ever personally and never his family. I just wish that the same respect was shown to others.