:: who knew diagramming sentences could be this fun?

my least favorite part of english class, in all my years in school, has to be diagramming sentences. i hated it. i never really understood why you had to do it. i still don't understand why it was so important. i guess it was supposed to show me how to better construct sentences, but it really just irritated me.

something else that irritates me :: sarah palin.

i just can't stand her. i don't know why, but when she starts talking every fiber of my being starts to cringe. some people just love her to death, but since the first time i heard her speak, the morning after the dnc, when she was nominated, i disliked her. maybe it's because she came right out of the gate and lied about so many things (she said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere? really?). maybe her attitude gets under my skin. maybe it's the fact that she just re-treads every speech and every joke and just runs it into the ground. maybe it's the fact that whenever she gives an interview she just strings key words together into some poor semblance of a sentence that makes no sense whatsoever, and people dismiss her answer as the result of a "trap question". maybe because i see her whole candidacy as a ploy by the republican base to make mccain seem interesting and to grab those women who feel disenfranchised by the democratic party since the end of hillary clinton's campaign for the presidency. maybe it's all of those reasons. she just irritates me.

but when i found this article, i had to chuckle. it's the combination sarah palin and diagramming sentences. someone actually took some sentences from sarah palin's interviews with katie couric and charlie gibson and attempted to diagram them. you can read the full article at that link, but here is the jist.

here is a quote from sarah palin ::

It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where—where do they go?

and here is the diagram of that "sentence" ::


here is another quote from sarah palin ::

I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.

and here is that diagram ::


wow. she can seriously make absolutely no sense sometimes. i'm glad that the sentences i had to diagram in high school were nowhere near this bad. i'd have to kill myself. did she just spit these words out as they came to her? did she even think about the sentence that she was constructing?

to be sure, barack obama and joe biden have made there share of verbal gaffes. obama misstated the number of years he'd been married, saying 15 instead of 16. he also misstated that he'd visited 57 states instead of 47. biden recently said that theodore roosevelt wouldn't have gotten on the television during the depression, which is correct, essentially. mostly because roosevelt wasn't the president during the depression, and the television hadn't been invented yet. blast away at those guys for those mistakes. but it seems like every week, every chance sarah palin gets, she says something stupid. i think that's why i'm so anxious to see the debate tonight. it's like a little game :: "follow sarah palin's meandering sentence construction". i hope you'll be playing along with me.

more to come...