Don't get on your high horse if you don't know how to ride.

I was at an Albertsons getting some food with a friend and, as I am wont to do, chatted about political things. I was talking with her about some of Sarah Palin's weirdness and mentioned the Saturday Night Live sketch with Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton. One of the things I brought up was the "Bush Doctrine" joke in the sketch, where Clinton opposes the Bush Doctrine and Palin mouths, "I don't know what that is!"

A minute or so later, a guy who's also in the line pipes up, "Do you know how many people the Bush Doctrine has killed? 1.2 million. But Saturday Night Live thinks it's funny!" He then invokes Godwin's Law in real life by saying, "I wonder if in [Nazi] Germany if they had a Saturday Night Live if they'd think it was funny?"

Please. First off, the brilliance of satire in a free country is that we can joke about the problems that our country faces without threat of reprisal from our government. We still have that, you know. The Nazis didn't allow that and that's where his silly liberal invocation fails.

Secondly, the joke was about how Sarah Palin had no idea about the Bush Doctrine was, so he was railing against something that he didn't even understand.

Finally, stop your liberal garbage by maintaining how much the Bush Doctrine has killed so many people (which it hasn't, the high numbers are 650,000 and even that's very disputed). It's clear that his pre-emptive self-defense idea was a hideous one. Our job as voters is to make sure that philosophy does not continue, and to inform us of this, we should use every means to learn about the beliefs of our potential leaders, even if that means is through satire.

Think before your knee jerks.