Ignorant ThugliKKKan b*tch: Palin gives a third-grade answer to the role of VP (Updated)
When a third-grader askedGovernor Palin about the role of the vice-president, she responded by saying:
“[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom,” she said.
Obviously, this is an over-statement of the role of vice-president to the educated media and most educated people. This is what she apparently should have said:
The comments have drawn criticism from Democrats and liberal blogs which note the actual role of the vice president when it comes to the Senate is simply to cast a tie-breaking vote in the event of a stalemate. According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the vice president is the “President” of the Senate, but has no executive position when it comes to presiding over the chamber.
Donald Ritchie, a historian in the Senate Historical Office told CNN that Palin’s comment was an “overstatement” of what her role would be.
“The vice president is the ceremonial officer of the Senate and has certain ceremonial functions including swearing in new senators and can vote to break a tie,” he said. “It’s a relatively limited role. It’s evolved into a neutral presiding officer of the Senate.
This is why we need to vote for Obama. He will prevent persons who have the ability to relate and explain things on a third-grade level from over-simplifying government and turning it into an institution accessible to the public. What third-grader should be trying to understand politics anyway? They should just learn to listen without question to their Dear Leader. Without elitists socialists overlordsour educated political guardians, how would this country ever have survived past the first colonies? Vote Obama-Biden. Because they know better than you how to run your lives.
Update:
Hot Air has more.
Update 2: Jack M. at Ace of Spades has an analysis and example of why, actually, Palin was correct and the MSM and Leftist bloggers have it wrong…I’ll be damn. So does that mean the the 3rd grader, who learned from the Moose-hunter, is actually more intelligent than the elitists…hmmm….
