i know you are, but what am i?...

okay...first of all, it's been a bit of miserable week thus far... my heater broke, during a sudden chill forcing me under the covers... the weather in the Bay Area has been up and down. last week it was hot and sunny and this week it's lookin' overcast and chilly again. brrr... and during one of the few days that it was raining hard a little while ago - i managed to slip and fall on a crooked slab of cement right outside my apartment complex. ever since then, i've been feeling like the universe put out an invisible banana peel for me to break my "coccyx" on... ;D so sue me, i'm a bit grumpy...

but this story did make me laugh a little... (if you know Tucker Carlson, he's a right wingnut who often has trouble making coherent arguments himself, so i thought it was a bit of a pot calling the kettle black...)

Tucker Carlson apparently wasn't impressed with Palin's - um - verbal skills. On Slate's forum, The Conservative Crackup, he wrote:
After the (Republican) party has settled on what it believes, it ought to go shopping for a leader. I recommend someone who speaks fluent English. This matters, it turns out, and not just for aesthetic reasons. In a democracy, eloquence is a basic condition of leadership. A president has a moral as well as a political obligation to explain his program. His constitutional powers are limited to just a few (war, the veto). His real authority comes from persuasion.
It helps if you can talk.

Ouch. Bush set the bar really really low. Put Palin still managed to sail right under it... :P