HuntingtonNews.net (WV): Palin's lack of control demonstrates why she is not presidential class

[Amerigo Vespucci]

COMMENTARY: Palin's lack of control demonstrates why she is not presidential class

Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 09:25 By Joseph J. Honick

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/838

Showing just how thin her skin really is, and how faulty is her sense of understanding what flies uncontrolled from her lips, she reached a low even for her with accusations that journalists and pundits were committing “blood libel” against her by trying to blame her for the shootings in Tucson on January 8.

To be sure, it is at least a stretch to note that Palin had showed the district of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords through crosshairs normally associated with a gun sight. And she never suggested that Giffords’ opponent might have avoided his use of photos showing him in mysterious dark glasses and holding a machine gun. But using one of the basest anti-Semitic charges known in history to characterize critics left Ms Palin in a class by herself…a very low and unchallenged class, tainted by how much she even understood the implications of the term that flew out of an intemperate mouth.

For those unaware of what “blood libel” has meant in history, in brief, it is the term that was blasted at Jews hundreds of years ago by even church officials asserting that the blood of Christian children was used to make matzos (unleavened breads) for ceremonial use.

So, in a fit of unbridled and uncontrolled thinking, the woman who would be leader of the world’s greatest democracy may well have revealed her basest instincts as well as her inability to deal with conflict.

[somone]

1. She's the ideal RW fringe kook - impulsive and stupid

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Tina Fay displayed all the many reasons why this woman needs to stay out

of government period.

[dkf]

3. It is highly ironic that the term blood libel refers to the practice of making crazy accusations

She is the queen of this type of thing yet she cries that she is a victim of it

[Donnachaidh]

4. she comes across like that family member who just shows up, even when they are NOT invited

Every family has one -- the crazy, ignorant and flat out rude member that everyone avoids. But they somehow manage to find out about gatherings, and shows up (usually in a grand entrance) and the room goes silent. Then everyone finds themselves checking their conversations, and try to avoid having to interact with the nutcase.

John McCain was the one who invited this walking black hole to the party. And now we can't get rid of her. :grr: