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I mean... if there's one she SHOULD know? *head thunk*

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tricksterquinn.livejournal.com

One would think! No matter WHICH side one comes down on!

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Ooh, excellent one! I hadn't even thought of that one!

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maybe1ce.livejournal.com

Marbury v. Madison: Establishes judicial review.

Maybe she just wants to overturn that one -- bim bam boom, get rid of both those pesky "liberal activist" judges and the need to learn about the Supreme Court all in one fell swoop!

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YIKES. That's a sobering thought, eh?

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dwivian

Didn't happen.

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Uh...

Is there a joke I'm missing?

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dwivian

She didn't say, or didn't NOT say, what people are claiming. That's my point.

BvG did happen, and was (unfortunately for my candidate) well decided -- stupidity on the part of both the major parties gave rise to a problem that couldn't be resolved in the federally required timelines for the calling of the Electoral College without violating Equal Protection.

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I thought that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education) (1964) was about de-segregating the schools, not about teaching creationism.

I would think that she'd be aware of Edwards v. Aguillard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._Aguillard) (1987), though. That occurred the year she graduated from college, and she was supposedly studying journalism. Not to mention Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District) (2005), even though that one only got to U.S. District Court.

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In my haste to post, I had the Scopes trial in my head, but typed out Brown V. BoE.

And honestly, i'm not surprised she doesn't know a single case. She's an uneducated blow hard.

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Yes, she is. And she's going to win, if this guy is right (http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/05/24/justice-department-scandal-greg-palast/).

My faith in the system is somewhat nonexistent.

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And here I thought you were being cerebral by citing Brown v. BOE, relating creationism and scientific racism (The Brown Court rejected the argument that scientific racists made for the need for segregation in school).

Plessy v. Ferguson is also a biggie. The constitutionality of racial segregation being upheld? The doctrine of Separate but equal?

I know she doesn't have a legal background, but my god, someone should have shoved an abridged version of the legal history of the US into her hands for shits and giggles. To be able to discuss american history intelligently is impressive to anyone.

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There are a handful of cases that we all learned in school, and it's scandalous that she has such a profound lack of knowledge. Didn't we learn enough from Dubya's "aw shucks!" mentality?

(And ha, I love your vote of confidence in me. *G*)

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This resulted in great discussion between my mother and myself today.

What got me was that when Katie asked her what newspapers and magazines she read before becoming the VP nominee, she said "most of them" and when probed further, she went completely off topic about Alaska not being a foreign country. WTF?

My god, can she not name Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post? People magazine? Vogue? Guns and Ammo? Yahoo News?

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You're presuming that she can read.

Snark aside, I think that Palin fits Terry Pratchett's description of Sergeant Colon in The Fifth Elephant, p. 95:

"It wasn't that he was illiterate, but Fred Colon did need a bit of a think and a run-up to tackle anything much longer than a list and he tended to get lost in any word that had more than three syllables. He was, in fact, functionally literate. That is, he thought of reading and writing like he thought about boots--you needed them, but they weren't supposed to be fun, and you got suspicious about people who got a kick out of them."

Edited Date: 2008-10-02 11:10 pm (UTC)

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I had to Wiki The Fifth Elephant, thinking that I was unfamiliar with a great literary piece of genius (that's a great quote). I had to laugh at the description. I've never heard of this series. I must live under a rock.

The fact that you know what page that quote is on is fantastic. I am impressed.

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*cough* I have all the Pratchett books in .pdf and .txt form...

Preference?

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Do you really? Start me from the beginning!

I'm a huge .pdf fan...

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Oh, that KILLED ME!! She was so ready to say "Marie Claire, Better Homes and Garden's, oh, that Paula Dean's magazine, and Twilight! I just love that Edward Cullen. He's dreamy and moral."

*tongue firmly in cheek*

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She was actually asked if there was another Supreme Court case she disagreed with.

prolix_allie says it better here (http://prolix-allie.livejournal.com/52535.html?style=mine), in a reluctant defense of Palin's 'lack' of answers.

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