Hmmmm....didn't your president start out as a journalist/TV presenter?CameronPoe wrote:
I mentioned she was governor of Alaska. I neglected to mention that she was also a sports presenter.FEOS wrote:
Don't know if you heard, but Palin had a job after mayor of Wasilla.
It's called governor. Of Alaska. One of the 51 executives in the US (50 states + President). Alaska has an economy, which the executive has a large part in managing.
FFS, it's not like she came out of the damn bush with a moose legbone in her mouth after a week of clubbing baby seals.
And chaos, you are certainly entitled to your view. But I am an American first and last. I am not a citizen of the world. I know my country has a place in the world, and I'm all for other countries' people doing well. But I will not put another country's interests before my own country's. I realize that it is in my country's best interest to have good relations with other countries. But I am not a citizen of the world. The world didn't give me the freedoms and opportunities I enjoy--my country did.
I did mention what kind of state Alaska was - it is reflected in your link:Dig, chop, fish, mine, extract. Simple as that.The oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy, with more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from petroleum extraction. Alaska's main export product (excluding oil and natural gas) is seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab.
Oh and personally I regard a decent tertiary (preferably beyond tertiary) education as an absolute must for someone who could potentially hold such a globally politically and economically influential role. She farted around several colleges - a semester here, a semester there- more concerned about winning beauty pageants than filling her brain with knowledge. When she was eventually done she had the grand sum total of a BSc in communications, with a minor in Political Science. So basically she learned how to shit talk to the masses.
She's a simple hockey mom hick, with little/no worldly experience and an infestation of the mind in terms of religion, from a wilderness state in the backass of beyond. She is a complete unmitigated doomsday scenario. I feel sorry for McCain because I actually have some respect for the man, although his choice of VP has raised some very serious questions about his intellect.
Oh and FEOS, the world gave your country half the shit you use in your everyday life through importation of goods - check your national balance of trade. And last I checked you guys imported a shitload of your transportation and electricity production fuels. I'm also fairly certain the major corporations and various businesses that provide you guys with jobs are counting on the external market of over 5.5 billion people to buy their goods. So yes you are a citizen of the world. Americans need to learn that fact. Check your national debt and who owns it.
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Even tiny green speck in the asshole of the Atlantic, Ireland, owns 0.71% of the $2.7trn of US debt held by foreign nations. I know it's not in my interests or in anyone's interests for the US to fail. Hence the reason I'm concerned that the US are going to fuck themselves and the rest of us to an even more extreme degree than possibly imaginable.
So I guess it's OK to just throw around unfounded cultural slurs now? So your drunken slut of a president spent her time in college blowing Protestants to piss off her Catholic family then decided she liked TV and then became a "presenter" which we all know requires no skill. Following that, she was a failure in running for public office with no executive experience before being elected President.
So...yeah. Irish have any room at all to bitch about Palin's background.
Oh, and Cam: Importing means buying things from other countries. Nobody gives us anything.
I'm a citizen of the United States--nowhere else. As such, I participate in the global economy. But I am not a citizen of the world.
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