There were some positive comments about her and against him in the tweeted responses. Most of them leaked out the tangential things they are really upset about.
@ Eric Blair - agreed. We have forgotten how much of Hillary's unlikability was her voice, and what an advantage that was for Trump. Conservative radio shows and podcasts should be having her on to gently debate her. Even-tempered people with mellifluous tones asking her to explain herself and asking difficult but not antagonistic questions would be doing the Republicans a favor. I'm not up to it myself. Too irritable. I take the bait too often.
I wonder if that's a chicken-and-egg problem. I don't find her voice especially awful, but I also don't find her especially awful; she seems sincere to me, just utterly wrong and foolish and unprepared. But she's like 28.
Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar has a very nice voice -- she sounds like a number of highly-educated women I know whose first language was not English -- but I can't stand to listen to it because of the horrible things she uses it to say.
I don't buy as an excuse. When I was 28, I was the director of radar operations for the then-largest Wing in the USAF. You were similarly situated at that age, as were most of the (ex-)military members of the Hall, and, I suspect, a significant fraction of the rest of the Hall's members.
Ocasio-Cortez is a BU graduate. She is sincere, but her ignorance is both willful and the product of her laziness.
Omar is just a straight-up bigot. The melifluosity of her voice is buried under that.
It's a different way of life, but the level of accomplishment is the same. If one human can accomplish that much, it utterly destroys any excuse made about why others "can't" reach the same level. Certainly that will be easier for some and harder for others, but the simple fact that one person does it demonstrates conclusively that any person of average or better intelligence can do it.
The sole differences of import are degree of interest and degree of effort.
Maybe, but the old conservative view is that institutions are important to character development. Pity the girl; she was never a soldier, and she never went to sea.
I'd even throw in, she was unduly influenced by bad actors (professors) who firmly believed in the rightness of "the cause" they themselves had taken up at the behest of agents of the Soviet bloc. And yes, I speak literally. The Leftist causes of the 60's were funded by, and encouraged by agencies like the KGB. This is not speculation or conspiracy theory. One of the benefits of the collapse of Communism was the opening of many KGB operations to public scrutiny. One of those being Soviet support of the anti-war movement where many modern US professors found their cri de coeur, and took part in the Grammacian march through their particular institution. No doubt few (if any) of them knew they marched at Soviet orders, but it still makes it no less true.
Pity the girl; she was never a soldier, and she never went to sea.
Rather than pity, I sympathize with those who do not for any number of reasons.
I have, though, no pity at all for those who've claimed an inherent superiority, and then fail even to try to achieve, who choose instead not to wallow in their failure but to tout it loudly for all to hear.
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There were some positive comments about her and against him in the tweeted responses. Most of them leaked out the tangential things they are really upset about.
She is godawful. And that voice.
@ Eric Blair - agreed. We have forgotten how much of Hillary's unlikability was her voice, and what an advantage that was for Trump. Conservative radio shows and podcasts should be having her on to gently debate her. Even-tempered people with mellifluous tones asking her to explain herself and asking difficult but not antagonistic questions would be doing the Republicans a favor. I'm not up to it myself. Too irritable. I take the bait too often.
I wonder if that's a chicken-and-egg problem. I don't find her voice especially awful, but I also don't find her especially awful; she seems sincere to me, just utterly wrong and foolish and unprepared. But she's like 28.
Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar has a very nice voice -- she sounds like a number of highly-educated women I know whose first language was not English -- but I can't stand to listen to it because of the horrible things she uses it to say.
But she's like 28.
I don't buy as an excuse. When I was 28, I was the director of radar operations for the then-largest Wing in the USAF. You were similarly situated at that age, as were most of the (ex-)military members of the Hall, and, I suspect, a significant fraction of the rest of the Hall's members.
Ocasio-Cortez is a BU graduate. She is sincere, but her ignorance is both willful and the product of her laziness.
Omar is just a straight-up bigot. The melifluosity of her voice is buried under that.
Eric Hines
Yeah, 28 is an old man in the military. It’s a different way of life.
It's a different way of life, but the level of accomplishment is the same. If one human can accomplish that much, it utterly destroys any excuse made about why others "can't" reach the same level. Certainly that will be easier for some and harder for others, but the simple fact that one person does it demonstrates conclusively that any person of average or better intelligence can do it.
The sole differences of import are degree of interest and degree of effort.
Eric Hines
Maybe, but the old conservative view is that institutions are important to character development. Pity the girl; she was never a soldier, and she never went to sea.
I'd even throw in, she was unduly influenced by bad actors (professors) who firmly believed in the rightness of "the cause" they themselves had taken up at the behest of agents of the Soviet bloc. And yes, I speak literally. The Leftist causes of the 60's were funded by, and encouraged by agencies like the KGB. This is not speculation or conspiracy theory. One of the benefits of the collapse of Communism was the opening of many KGB operations to public scrutiny. One of those being Soviet support of the anti-war movement where many modern US professors found their cri de coeur, and took part in the Grammacian march through their particular institution. No doubt few (if any) of them knew they marched at Soviet orders, but it still makes it no less true.
Pity the girl; she was never a soldier, and she never went to sea.
Rather than pity, I sympathize with those who do not for any number of reasons.
I have, though, no pity at all for those who've claimed an inherent superiority, and then fail even to try to achieve, who choose instead not to wallow in their failure but to tout it loudly for all to hear.
Eric Hines
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