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From: Hachiroku on 10 Feb 2010 09:24
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:17:45 -0600, dbu'' wrote:

>> Palin has all the answers right in "the palm of her hand" (;-P
>
> I give her an A+++ if she can make a detailed speech using only a few
> key words on the palm of her hand. Obama has to have three telepropters
> holding the entire speech. I thought this guy was so smart and had a
> photographic memory or was I led down the BS path about that. --

Everybody was. Some of us just woke up before election day...

From: tak on 10 Feb 2010 11:11

"Hachiroku" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:37:23 -0500, tak wrote:
>
>> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
>> news:hktf5f$ahp$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:58:15 -0500, tak wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Palin has all the answers right in "the palm of her hand" (;-P
>>>>>
>>>>> Low blow, tak...
>>>>>
>>>> Or this gem from "the Sarah": "if you can't ride two horses at once,
>>>> you shouldn't be in the circus".
>>>
>>> Hey, I never heard that before! I like it!
>>>
>>> James Maxton, to whom this saying is attributed (quot. 1935), was a
>>> British Independent Labour Party MP (1932-46). Denis Healey (see quot.
>>> 2002), another British Labour politician, was probably consciously
>>> quoting Maxton.
>>>
>>> Maxton made a brief intervention in the debate to say?that he did
>>> not believe it was necessary to pass a resolution for disaffiliation
>>> [of the ILP from the Labour Party]. He had been told that he could
>>> not ride two horses. 'My reply to that is', he said?'that if my
>>> friend cannot ride two horses-what's he doing in the bloody circus?'
>>> [1935 G. Mcallister James Maxton xiv.]
>>>
>>> A producer who 'can't ride two horses at the same time shouldn't be
>>> in the circus.'?Current affairs television should be both serious
>>> and entertaining. [1979 Daily Telegraph 15 Mar. 15]
>>>
>>> But politics is a practical activity, not an intellectual one. As
>>> Denis Healey once said, if you can't ride two horses at once, you
>>> shouldn't be in the bloody circus.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://kim327.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/trick-riding1.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.independenthorse.com/images/IMAGES/edridingdemo7.jpg
>>>
>>> http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/15035/wm/pd2181369.jpg
>>>
>>> so there.
>>>
>> Simply validities my suspicion: nothing new or original out of Palin's
>> mind or mouth. Thanks for the research (;-)
>
> So you'd never heard it before, either.
>
Nope


From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 10 Feb 2010 16:55
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:11:11 -0500, tak wrote:

>>> Simply validities my suspicion: nothing new or original out of Palin's
>>> mind or mouth. Thanks for the research (;-)
>>
>> So you'd never heard it before, either.
>>
> Nope

Honesty. I like that. Run for Senate.



From: Clive on 10 Feb 2010 20:20
In message <hkufj9$r0j$5(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Hachiroku
<Trueno(a)e86.GTS> writes
>On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:17:45 -0600, dbu'' wrote:
>
>>> Palin has all the answers right in "the palm of her hand" (;-P
>>
>> I give her an A+++ if she can make a detailed speech using only a few
>> key words on the palm of her hand. Obama has to have three telepropters
>> holding the entire speech. I thought this guy was so smart and had a
>> photographic memory or was I led down the BS path about that. --
>
>Everybody was. Some of us just woke up before election day...
>
Find me ANY politician that can talk for an hour without their speech
rolling in front of them and I'll find you a man with a secret earpiece
or something similar.
--
Clive

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 10 Feb 2010 20:37
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:20:08 +0000, Clive wrote:

>>Everybody was. Some of us just woke up before election day...
>>
> Find me ANY politician that can talk for an hour without their speech
> rolling in front of them and I'll find you a man with a secret earpiece or
> something similar.

Who anything about speaking?

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