Sarah Palin Remains Unfocused, Unskilled In Speech Before Audience

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In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.

And are hardly "newly minted," having been in circulation since — Well, well. Look at this. Went to get facts & exact dates on circulation & what should we find but:

These coins feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions of the year of minting or issuance, "E Pluribus Unum" and the mint mark.  "In God We Trust" will appear on the face of the coin starting in 2009.

It would appear that another of the truly important symbolic issues of our time has been dealt w/, no doubt in response to an angry forwarding of said email to a drooling old fool in Congreƒs from a righteously outraged & doddering constituent.

Were there an editorial policy at Just Another Blog (From L. A.)™ it would support the immediate ("Right fucking now, baby!") hedonistic satisfaction & aesthetic amusement of the editor here. Lacking even that, we are spared having to torture something out about how disturbing a trend it is that reactionary discourse is being driven by forwarded emails about the shallowest of symbols, or that this symbology is on a par w/ the "sanctity of human life." Typing this has already put a dent in our cheap thrills time.

But on we go.

Two other actually "disturbing" trends:

That "In God We Trust" was ever put on our $acred American money in the first place.

That Palin & the other "pro-life" hypocrites still can't distinguish between embryoes, fetuses & living adult humans, & compound this by projecting their inability to figure it out on people on the science side of the aisle. And do they all believe that the huge demographic bolus of soon-to-be-seventy boomers that is slowly being digested by the American sytem will put up w/ reductions in its Viagra/Cialis intake, let alone allow "death panels" to shorten its newly minted boner time?

We don't care one way or the other (higher spritual plane than that nasty yet boring sex stuff) but it was already fairly obvious that the post-WWII generation was not going gently or otherwise into anything, w/ its refusal to grow up (cases like us) or to act its age (most of the rest of the scum). We'll be hanging on like Queen E to the II while Gen X or whatever they call themselves will be like Prince Charles, hanging around & waiting in vain for abdication, while hoping for death. Don't hold your breath, Children of The Boomers. (Or do! It's still a free country.)

Bloom Off Rose?

The event and the enthusiastic response were a vivid reminder of the following she commands. But her remarks also illuminated the mix of assets and limitations she would possess if she seeks to become a 2012 presidential contender.

Palin had remarks prepared but frequently wandered off-script to make a point, offering audience members a casual “awesome” or “bogus” in discussing otherwise weighty topics.

As in: “It is so bogus that society is sending a message right now and has been for probably the last 40 years that a woman isn’t strong enough or smart enough to be able to pursue an education, a career and her rights and still let her baby live.”

Other Palin touchstones included: praise for the military, jeers for the “the liberal media” and a general manner of speaking that often veered into rhetorical culs-de-sac.

While she drew applause during her remarks, Palin’s extemporaneous and frequently discursive style was such that she never truly roused a true-believing crowd as passionate about the issue at hand as she. Not once during her address did they rise to their feet.

In a closing exhortation, she urged the audience, “Don't ever let anyone to tell you to sit down and shut up.”

She then got a standing ovation from most of the crowd, but a few had begun to leave before she even finished and within seconds of her concluding, scores more got up and put on their jackets as they walked away.

Sweet Polly Purebred: Awesome, or bogus? Either way, please do not sit down or shut up.