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Hope Springs Eternal, But I Am Reliably Informed That Hope Is For Chumps

And once the media is no longer acting as Obama’s Praetorian Guard, Palin won’t be subjected to this relentless slagging. ~Robert Stacy McCain In other words, shortly before the end of time Palin will start getting more positive coverage.  It’s not clear to me why the following anecdote is supposed to persuade skeptics that Palin […]

And once the media is no longer acting as Obama’s Praetorian Guard, Palin won’t be subjected to this relentless slagging. ~Robert Stacy McCain

In other words, shortly before the end of time Palin will start getting more positive coverage. 

It’s not clear to me why the following anecdote is supposed to persuade skeptics that Palin is a phenom:

Palin and her husband Todd came out on stage and the governor had changed into a T-shirt with the Shippensburg University joke slogan, “Ship Happens.” I jotted that down on my notepad.

When she’d finished giving her short speech, the crowd rushed the stage for handshakes and autographs and I pushed forward to get some photos. Palin worked her way toward where I was standing. I figured, “What the heck? Why not?” and handed up my notepad for her to sign. She looked at the pad, saw where I’d written the T-shirt slogan, then looked at me and with a laugh pointed to her shirt, saying, “Ship! Ship!” — just to make sure I had it right.

Think about that. Amid a madhouse of fans and autograph-seekers, after a day of campaigning, she deciphered my scrawled note, recognized the potential misunderstanding, and cheerfully played it off. A minor incident, but displaying a keen perception that some others who’ve met her have likewise noticed.

Unless I am missing something here, this means that Palin’s ability to read his handwriting and recognize the potential confusion created by the not-so-subtle pun is proof of her keen perception.  Maybe his handwriting is particularly hard to read, in which case it’s clear that Palin is the next Catherine the Great.

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