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Facts: Dr. Laura Schlessinger holds ACTIVE license in Marriage and Family Therapy from the State of California. Dr. Schlessinger earned a post-doctoral certification in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy from USC. Dr. Schlessinger's Ph.D. is in Physiology from the Medical School of Columbia University in NYC.

Tripp, I think he was being snarky.

And I'm with you on "Dr." Laura...there should be a special place in hell for the likes of her.

Funny, I don't recall Palin

Funny, I don't recall Palin ever telling us just what exactly her "higher calling" is. Unless you count "Victory," but she never gave specifics about how her resignation would further that goal.

Or, in underpantsgnomespeak:

1) Palin resigns.
2) ????
3) Victory!

Ahhh, To Dream

Many of us expect yours to be an optimistic vision, but thank you for the fantasy. There is hope.

Palin criticized Hillary harshly for whining about the media

Let's add hypocrite to the other adjectives used to describe Palin. Before she got a taste of it, Sarah Palin was highly critical of Hillary Clinton's complaints about harsh treatment by the news media.

I really hope that was sarcasm

Dr. Demento never pretended to be anything associated with the medical profession.

"Dr." Laura's schtick is hectoring people while calling it counseling, and she claims to have a post-doctoral license in counseling. While technically true, her Ph.D was in physiology, and her counseling license is long expired. After a wild childhood, including posing nude, and cheating on her first husband, she decided she liked scolding people and being a modern day 'prophet' on talk radio was the best way to do it.

Like "Dr." Phil, she is nothing but an entertainer with a huge ego pretending to be a counselor.

If Dr. Laura had much to do with your childhood I pity you.

Tripp

You're completely full of s*** and completely offensive

God**** it Tripp, I have been calling Barret Hansen Dr. Demento for almost 40 f****** years and all he has is a masters in folklore and ethnomusicology.

As far as I'm concerned, she's Dr. Laura, and don't you go messing with my childhood.

This is starting to remind

This is starting to remind me of the story of Laura Schlessinger, who saw Schindler's List with her son, began weeping, decided to embrace her Mother's Jewish heritage, and proclaimed that she had been called by God to be a Prophet!!

I refuse to call her by her stage name Dr. Laura, since her Doctorate was in cellular biology and had nothing to do with Psychiatry or even psychology.

Anyhoo, the delusions of grandeur seem to be similar in both cases. Palin seeks a way to fail upwards. Will she become a TV mensch, hectoring the lowly rest of us from her perch on high?

Time will tell.

Tripp

E.L.'s scenario is quite

E.L.'s scenario is quite plausable.

Palin

I think she's trying to pull a W on the Republican faithful with this stunt. Remember that poor George told his buddies that God told him to run for President. You know, he answered to a higher power.

Actually, Condoleezza Rice

Actually, Condoleezza Rice did receive a great deal of hate from the left back in the day. Similar to what, say, Nancy Pelosi was and is getting from the right. As to differences in severity - I suspect they are in the eye of the beholder. I am neither left nor right, and let me tell you, the two sides look grotesquely similar from the middle.

2012

All I can say is that a Palin - Huckabee ticket is about as likely as the rest of the drivel in your prediction. Spend a little more time thinking instead of posting things on multiple blogs.

I don't like calling troll,

I don't like calling troll, but first of all, when shift in position is taken into account as well, the vitriol against Hillary Clinton was far more pronounced on left wing sites than right wing sites, and secondly, there is no vitriol here, Kevin is spot on, there's a huge difference in quitting for no reason whatsoever and resigning to take a position at the President's request.

Goon squad.

Just two days after her press conference (intended to, you know, get attention from the press), Ms. Palin is siccing her legal goon squad on the press for writing about her.

I have no idea what underlies this weekend's events, but I bet it's amazing.

par4 In a functioning

par4 In a functioning democracy she would have been out of office as Mayor of Wasilla during the sports stadium fiasco let alone becoming a Governor or VP candidate.