who says she's not a woman of words? she knows the word "betcha"

BookNinja pointed me to a frown-making New Yorker piece about an apparent Republican campaign shift from maligning certain words (ie "liberal") to battling against "all 'words' in a quest to discredit Obama". GOD. (Here's the BookNinja item; here's the New Yorker article.)

That's right, them word users, they're bad folks. Not like the rest of us.

(We're fighting the same ridiculous arguement right now in Canada during our election, btw, except here it's "artists" vs "ordinary people", not word-users vs. Phyllis Schlafly.)

I was pleased, therefore, to see this piece: The poetry of Sarah Palin (as mined by Slate writer Hart Seeley from various interviews, speeches, etc.)

FRINSTANCE:

"Haiku"

These corporations.
Today it was AIG,
Important call, there.

(To S. Hannity, Fox News, Sept. 18, 2008)

Balm, I tell you. I mean, schadenfreude, too, but still, balm.