What a surprise: one more for the list of areas in which Sarah Palin is absolutely useless. According to Politico, when asked about Supreme Court decisions, Palin was unable to name any decisions other than Roe v. Wade. (Note that the mistake was made in VP Questions, not in the Couric interview as reported.)
So...how many Supreme Court decisions can you name?
How about:
Marbury, Eisenstadt, Fletcher or Scott
Griswold or Bowers, Plessy or Brown
US v. Nixon, McCulloch or Gregg
New York Times, PP (Danforth/Casey)...
Korematsu or Miranda
Or Heller, Lawrence, Morse
Furman, Tinker, TX v. Johnson,
Daubert, Lochner, Mapp, Romer, Engel...
Gideon, Loving, Schenk, Charles River Bridge
Bush versus Gore, or Dartmouth - there's more--
Bakke-UC Davis - all except Roe--
Cases she don't knoooooooooow!
(Sing to the tune of "Jingle Bell Rock," if you didn't pick that up. A large number - the cases, not the arrangement - off the top of my head, with some refreshers from Pandagon commenters or Wikipedia.)
Via Pandagon. (beware spambots)
Edit: Video! And Biden proving himself competent, God love him.
(Unrelated, but it's one of my pet peeves that everyone thinks Mr. McCain is good on foreign policy. He thinks Iraq and Pakistan share a border, doesn't know that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country, couldn't recognize the name of the president of Spain and assumed that "Zapatero" was a Latin American leader, doesn't know that Spain is an American ally, and conflated Karzai and Zardari as the president of "the Pakistanians." I propose an information campaign.)
Ukraine Holds First Gay Pride Event
45 minutes ago
Wow, the list of cases you know off the top of your head blows my list away. After I heard Palin couldn't name any case other than Roe v. Wade I searched my brain for how many I could name. I came up with Brown v. Topeka, Plessy v. Ferguson, Boumedienne, DC v.Heller, Gideon... that's it. I suck. I have since vowed to commit at least a hundred of them to memory. I don't want to be like Sarah.
ReplyDelete-arrived here via feministing
But hey, you're not running for Vice President.
ReplyDeleteIt frightens me to think that not knowing any cases will actually endear Palin to people. Because while you go "wow, that's scary," there are some who will go "she's just like me." (And think that that's a good thing.)