Purie asks her what she would do with India in regards to Pakistan. “We can’t go back to that hyphenated days of, no we need to and can work together in working with Pakistan, and we have our issues there, too, and in a sense we do, but we need to work with Pakistan, but that’s one of those issues that we need to work on, as we strengthen our allies, there…”

Seriously what the fuck does that word salad even mean?  What the fuckity fuck?  If anyone can translate that into English for me I would be forever grateful.

@Litlebritdifrnt, let me help you with the translation: I don’t know the difference between India and Pakistan, so I am just going to string together few random words in the hope that something will come out of it.

@Anya ~ pretty much.  :)

You would think someone would have thought to maybe, just maybe, give her some clue as to what a reasonable answer to a totally expected question would look like.

We cannot have her as president; we’re still trying forget the last dumb one.

I’m actually in Nepal right now visiting with my Nepali sister after an absence of twenty years. I passed through Delhi on my way through and have to pass through again on my way out. Even the elephant mahout in Jaipur gave Obama the thumbs up when he figured out we were American. Ok he wanted a tip but still. India must have been so impressed by her! Can’t imagine how they translated her fragmentary speech. Kathmandu has utterly changed and as for Delhi it’s like blade runner with more limbless beggars.

Aimai

@Elisabeth- A case can be made that she’s even dumber than Bush. I think she surrounds herself with individuals with an incredibly naive and parochial worldview. I am also guessing she’s not very bright and cannot retain information. It’s tragic that this woman has followers.

Woohoo! Next stop Israel! Wheeeeeeeee!!!!

Jeez.

Come on now, be fair. There’s no arguing with this:

We can’t go back to that hyphenated days ...

Nope. We can’t.

That’s it. I’m decided. I hope to hell she runs. Given the state of the world, we need the laughs.

Despite her protestations above, I’ve long been of the opinion that she’s no pretentions to being top of the ticket, that’s too much like hard work. She’s trapped in the past, and if she does decide to ditch her cushy Fox gig, hopes to be offered another crack at veep after sitting out the bloodshed of the primaries—she got an easy bye last time and dialed it in winky stylee during her one debate, when she wasn’t trying to incite crowds of the faithful to violence.

Then she can spend the next four years whining about how mean the media are to her. Only by then, I hope, nobody’ll be listening except her therapist.

*sigh* YAFB you mean there are people in this country who actually believe that the world salad spewed by Snowbilly Snooki puts her not only on a par with but above, intelligence wise, POTUS.  You got a room I can move into I have got to get out of here?

Oh, yeah—this is just genius material:

All those precious resources of their day: spices, pepper, silk, indigo - My country was essentiallly “discovered” in the age of exploration, because Western Europeans were looking for a route to your country to exchange & enjoy those resources!  (Yes, the connection between our two countries was there from the beginning!)

All great nations face the challenges that come with a changing economy, demographics, & new technologies. The nations that succeed in the face of these challenges are the ones that show innovation & ingenuity - & will empower a free power! These qualities are the hallmarks of the “American Experience” & the unique strengths of the American people.

My vision for my country is a strong America that unleashes those strengths & confidently engages in leadership in the world & can welcome the healthy competition & partnership of rising economic powers in a democracy, like India.

The relationship between our countries could shape the course of the next century! Tilting it in the direction of free people & free markets! The future lies with us!  We’re half-a-world apart geographically, but connected with much in common!

India Conclave:  the theme of this conference is the “Changing Balance of Power”. Well, the present day Tea Party is a perfect example of that!  It’s all about the empowerment of ordinary, everyday, independent patriots who are rising up & making their voices heard to positively change the “Balance of Power”! To protect our U.S. Constitution & live out our Declaration of Independence!

@YAFB ~ can’t go back to hyphenated days because we don’t know what they are.  “Halcyon” maybe?

Fuckin’ A yeah, sister Sarah of the very large and poorly aimed rifle. I’ve completely switched to the N–dash myself. Showoffs will prefer the M—dash to show, as we’ve recently learned to call it from Betty, our wedding tackle. The hyphenated days are well past. Also, too, underlining.

Also, also, too, the Indians must think of her as a barely trained circus animal. I’ve never known an Indian who didn’t craft their English very carefully. Now only to discover it doesn’t matter.

I’d dearly love to hear the audio on this one to see what the audience reaction was during this speech.

I too would dearly love to hear a bunch of people saying “WTF?” in unison.

If you bother to read the transcript, bear this fact in mind: Palin reportedly employs scriptwriters.

Well garshdangit. Willow and Piper just love to help mommy by writin’ those there speeches that they write for her to speak, also.

Check out this video.  Says all you need to know how they feel about Palin’s “inetellect’

BTW—that “hyphenated” thang she mangled so mercilessly (there, there, poor English language)? It’s common jargon in discussing what was historically dealt with as “India-Pakistan,” Snooki just didn’t quite manage to nail it on the volley…

Well, that’s a relief, actually: At first I thought she barely remembered herself before spitting out Standard Wingnut Talking Point #13, which is to decry the concept of “hypenated-Americans” (e.g., African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc.) because we’re all Americans, goshdarnit, which would have been inappropriate before an Indian audience.

Christ, Betty—she practically rubbed their faces in American Exceptionalism, so “inappropriateness” was pretty much the theme of the evening.

She did, however, repeatedly compliment the Indians on how nearly like Americans they are…which now that I think of it was also pretty goddamn condescending, especially the parts about Alaska and the American Pioneers.

That the nicest thing she could say about a culture that’s older than Time is that it has great hospitality, treats its women (some of them) pretty well and knows the value of a Quick Buck is just breathtaking.

@ Strange—I read the speech, and you’re right. That Nikki Haley? What a credit to her race!

I’m generally impervious to feeling vicarious shame for any arrogance and stupidity displayed abroad by my prominent countrymen (a crucial survival skill or else I’d have died of cringing embarrassment decades ago). But yeah. Embarrassing.

I assume the speech was transcribed onsite rather than being supplied by Team Palin due to the presence of British spelling conventions. Also too, it had the most exclamation points I’ve seen in any political speech.

@ Aimai—Nepal! How cool! RE: Delhi being like “...blade runner with more limbless beggars”—that’s kinda how I pictured it. Did you ever read “A Fine Balance”?

Having watched a bit of the excerpts of the Q&A, I have to admire Palin’s proficiency at the rhetorical backflip:

We Americans don’t criticize our prezzydint when abroad, but can I say DITHERING?!!!

We need to get away from hyphenating India-Pakistan, but here I am in an Indian conclave, and I’ll tell ya we need to strengthen our ties with Pakistan.

Shame she always fluffs the dismount.

Oh, and to assuage Palinbot Jethro above’s curiosity, the audience reactions in the Q&A clip are hysterical. Purie himself looks like he’s trying not to burst out laughing, Todd looks like he’s in the final hour of a requiem mass, various women are craning forward in their seats like “WTF?!”, and one guy executes a nicely understated facepalm.

Soz, it’s me again, but this is such a rich vein!

Over at Tammy Bruce’s dive, you can’t pull the wool over the eyes of ecu22331963, mainly because of his tinfoil hat:

Dingdang it.  She’s running.  And, an unhealthy portion of ‘Murikans will vote for her. And, I will once again wonder what the Hades is wrong with this fusilli country. 

I’mma crawl back into my hole now.  DITHERING?  What. The. Fu Schnickens????

And, she’s not even trying in that video clip LTMidnight provided.  She sounds disinterested and tired.  As I am in listening to her.

Betty,it is very cool. I did my fieldwork in eastern Nepal twenty years ago and never made it back. I decided to take one of my children back with me to meet a Nepali woman who adopted me as her sister twenty three years ago when I washed ashore young, naive and friendless. We’ve stayed in touch and she has risen in the world so it’s not like I’m back in my gaon sleeping with the pidgins and bathing with the buffalo under the public water tap.  But Kathmandu has utterly changed, and so has Nepali society. Its like china, India, and also new York city at the height of immigration and growth in the sense you get of thousands of people coming unmoored from the land and from ethnic tradition. the pollution is unbelievable and the hustling non stop.  I’ll look for the book you mentioned.

Aimai

@YAFP ~ watch for Palin to say something really outrageous during her visit to Israel to capture the headlines.

@YAFP ~ watch for Palin to say something really outrageous during her visit to Israel to capture the headlines.

*shudder*

I await with bated breath to see how Ha’aretz reports it!

OMG, did she burp as she said this?  In some coreners of Alaska an inadvertent belch is called a Palin.  Dear Lord, does she have central auditory processing disorder?  I am sure the Indian interviewer was pleased to hear that she apparently (subject to interpretation) prefers Pakistan as an ally.

“We can’t go back to that hyphenated days of, no we need to and can work together in working with Pakistan, and we have our issues there, too, and in a sense we do, but we need to work with Pakistan, but that’s one of those issues that we need to work on, as we strengthen our allies, there…”