The Coulter Files

So I just discovered someone named Ann Coulter.

Preface: I don't know much about her, or who she is. I just skimmed her website, saw she has a whole lot of books, and read two of her columns.

Wow.
She practically convinced me to vote for Senator Obama with a column in which she tried to make fun of him. I say tried, because while trying to make the presidential candidate sound foolish, she just made herself (and by extension, all the right-wingers she claims to represent) sound stupid. Pitifully so. She even made a point of referring to him as "B. Hussein Obama", as though his name has anything to do with his qualifications as a candidate.

This is why people are afraid of the right wing. Because people like her and Pat Robertson are its most vocal members, and they don't have any common sense between them. I started to say they don't have any rhetorical ability, either, but I realized I'm not familiar enough with Mr. Robertson to say that.

When people let their personal or party positions dictate their responses, instead of thinking through things rationally and actually evaluating the merits of the candidate, argument, or evidence in front of them, they remove themselves from the discussion. Because no one who does do that thinking will take the time to listen to them.



Incidentally, I think it's strange that Sen. Obama's "inexperience" is being focused on so much. Whether he is or is not experienced, shouldn't his positions, plans, and ideas be more important? I seem to recall another Illinoisan politician with little or no experience in national-level politics who did a pretty good job at being president.