Boots on the Ground on Long Island – Palin & Hannity
Mudflatter Merry Prankster was our boots on the ground at the Sarah Palin appearance on Long Island yesterday, including the IGHL (Independent Group Home Living) fundraiser, and the Sean Hannity interview. Many thanks to Merry Prankster for this entertaining and interesting report!
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by Merry Prankster
The fundraiser included three events – the actual fundraiser, a meet and greet for SarahPAC, and an interview with Sean Hannitiy that will appear Monday on his show. The first two events where held at a separate cottage on the grounds and were obviously politically sensitive. Here is a breakdown.
4:30 – 4:50pm
I am actually impressed with Sarah’s advance man Tim (?). In a previous life I worked for rock bands and he reminds me of a good band manager – calm on the outside but aware of every detail and treats everyone nice. Local donors that paid $5,000 a ticket start showing up. Don’t worry, if you did not pay in advance. Sarah PAC has donation sheets and they do take all major credit cards.
4:50 -
Everyone is a-flutter when Hannity shows up with the Fox News team. Hannity is obviously ecstatic about interviewing the Governor, but bitching about the “visceral” reaction the governor received on the campaign trial. I guess he missed how visceral her tone was (“palling around with terrorists”). The local donors are star struck when they see Hannity. He is just as much of an ass in person as he is on TV.
5:10 – Team Sarah arrives. Todd is first out of the car and gets the low-down. He seems very protective. Once he is clear about the arrangements, the governor gets out. Being a man, I am not very observant about clothes, but the one thing I notice is the shoes! Sarah is wearing red sandals whose heels are 5” tall… She has trouble navigating the uneven walkway. She reminds me of the ditzy aunt at the barbeque with the crazy shoes and the loud outfit. At a barbeque we would just roll our eyes, but she could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency. Fifteen minutes later Willow comes out – short denim shorts & tank top and baby on her arm. Can’t figure out who the baby was. Definitely too big to be Tripp, but Sarah said that Trig did not make the trip. Being a former soccer coach, I can’t help noticing her legs. She looks like she could kick a soccer ball through a wall.
5:25 – Sarah comes back out for an outdoor interview with Hannity – black dress, shirt with a button-up sweater over it.. Again, she has 5” heels on. How can she stay upright? Instead of a sit-down, they do a strolling interview. Before the interview, Sarah asks many questions about the camera angles and marks, definitely a beauty show contestant. I can’t catch all the words, but it is a love fest. They are running late – but the love fest continues. Get a room for god sakes! The Fox News producer and Meg Stapleton try to give the “hi” sign. Todd walks over and finally gives the signal and they are done
5:45 – Sarah does a very quick meet and greet (and photo-op) with the local donors. She does not have time for all the photos so they arrange for a separate photo shoot in the “chocolate room” at the IGHL fundraiser All the donors seemed to be Sarahsized! I am not as interested in meeting the governor as finding out where the chocalate room is!
6:30 – Sarah makes her appearance at the IGHL event. She does a quick photo opportunity for those in the cheap seats (separate rooms) and on to the main hall. I am interested to see what local politicians show up. Congressman King, one of the two remaining NY congressman (and possible Senate candidate) is the most visible. He has a seat at Sarah’s table and does an interview for CNN. In the main hall I see NY State Senator Flanagan, Assemblyman Fitzpatrick and former County Executive Gaffney. An uninspiring turn-out, but thanks to Sarah, Rush and Sean, the northeast Republicans are a dying breed.
7:30 – Sarah goes on – Christ, didn’t one of the five colleges teach her how to use verbs and pronouns?! She begins the speech with a bizarre story about blue star families and gold star families. Since Track is serving in Iraq , the Palins are a blue star family. She was very fortunate to meet a gold star family member, whose son paid the ultimate sacrifice. She almost sounded envious! Sarah then proceeds to a word salad that included precious in sanctity in every sentence. She was careful to make sure she thanked the important people and said serving children with special needs could be a non-partisan issue that the country could rally around. If she only used verbs and pronouns it would have been a fine speech for this audience; something you might expect from a small town mayor.
8:00- Hannity is back in the building! He comes up and promises to give a non-partisan speech and then immediately points out that Sarah does not use a teleprompter. What is it with the wingnuts? They would be better off attacking Obama’s policies, the guy can give a speech, teleprompter or not! Hannity then tells an unfunny story about giving Colmes a free hunting trip with Cheney. He wraps telling everyone about growing up on Long Island (don’t remind us) and thanking what’s left of the Republican Party (don’t let the door hit you in the ass). He closes on how he always support pro-life issues.
8:30 – On to the bar for some serious sedation!
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Great report!
Hannity’s glowing orange eyes…..a trick of the camera, or a window into his soul?
Here’s a little sneak peek at the interview which will air tonight on Fox.
HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now…
PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole’
Palin continues:
“America is digging a deeper hole and how are we paying for this government largesse. We’re borrowing. We’re borrowing from China and we consider that now we own sixty percent of GENERAL MOTORS – or the U.S. government does… But who is the U.S. government becoming more indebted to? It’s China. So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.”
HANNITY: You know but it goes back – It does go back a little to the campaign. I mean, ‘spread the wealth, patriotic duty…’
PALIN: Kind of a ‘we told ya so’.
HANNITY: Well, is that how you feel?
PALIN: That’s how I feel! I feel like… and I think that more and more constituents are going to open their eyes now and open their ears to hear what is really going on and realize ok… Maybe we didn’t have a good way of expressing that, or articulating that message of ‘here is what America could potentially become if we grow government to such a degree that we cannot pay for it and we have to borrow money from other countries, some countries that don’t necessarily like America.
And this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth of government. Instead Sean it is the complete opposite. It’s expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize.
HANNITY: Socialism?
PALIN: Well, that is where we are headed. That is where we have to be blunt enough and candid enough and honest enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads… nationalizing many of our services, our projects, our businesses, yes that is where we would head. And that is why Americans have to be paying attention. And we have to have our voices heard. And ultimately it need to be our will, the American people’s will imposed on Washington, instead of the other way around.
So, go back to the first answer up there, where Palin says, “it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college.” So sayeth the woman who got a “D” in Economics in college.
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This is quite a newsday… Reports popping up all over, “Is she or isn’t she coming to the EVENT tonight”. You know she’ll be there gushing over Newt, the media wh**e that she is. At the appointed table……
What great coverage we’re getting thanks to AKM and the boots in the field.
It is too doggone early to drink!!!!!!
Good Grief…what else can one say…..Sarah, bring some relevant content to the discussion, please!
Thanks for that! I can imagine Hannity drooling over Palin again. Watching his interviews with her during the campaign was quite entertaining. No doubt it will be the typical softball interview from him yet again when it comes to the Governor.
Everyone forgets that last fall, the entire economy was going DOWN in a spiral and needed to be stopped. And that the economy needed stimulation to start up again.
Her whining about spending is just stupid.
“Local donors that paid $5,000 a ticket start showing up. Don’t worry, if you did not pay in advance. Sarah PAC has donation sheets and they do take all major credit cards.”
Someone needs airfare. That is be all TACKY as GAWDY as those red strap ho shoes.
Yes Lilubart – It is with dismay that all I hear from the Repukes are harsh criticisms of the spending/stimulus. Do they think ANY of us like this? Have they ever considered WHY the Govt. MUST step up to provide funds when the private sector no longer can/will? Have any of them studied basic Keynesian economics? Worst of all, I have not seen ANY of them offer an alternative solution to the mess that their Party got us into (with de-regulation and unbridled capitalism). NOT ONE of them has offered up a viable, alternative plan to fix the economy. I read much of the transcript of GINO’s interview with Hannity, and much of it is focused on the economy – of all the issues for SP to pretend to be an expert on! Her simplistic critique of the spending is making me want a drink – and I have not had one in 17 years.
I believe the American people’s will was “imposed” on Washington on November 4, 2008!
How much did SarahPAC haul in?
thanks to yet another brave mudpup!
In the orange eye photo I couldn’t help to notice the glowing exit sign floating by his head.
How exactly?
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I’m confused……was this a fund raiser for Sarahpac or Independent Group Home Living or both?
$5,000.00 tickets?
“Local donors that paid $5,000 a ticket start showing up. Don’t worry, if you did not pay in advance. Sarah PAC has donation sheets and they do take all major credit cards.”
Compared to last year when you can practically taste the depression, the disillusionment and general heart dropping worry for our country, today there is hope, some sun through the clouds, a possibility that WE can succeed but it will be hard. THAT is what Palin doesn’t get.
We still have a hard road to go and there are tons of people out of work and struggling but there is hope. Palin’s hate and stirring up trouble doesn’t help anyone. Yes, we know that going into debt isn’t the best of solutions but it is geared to bring us back up. GINO is …. AHHH!!!! Frustrating.
How is that legal? Someone call the IRS! You can’t do political fund raising at a tax exempt charitable event.
They were separate events. AKM
Doggonit Says “How is that legal? Someone call the IRS! You can’t do political fund raising at a tax exempt charitable event.”
Seriously, this has got be shot down.
she’s refining her rhetoric………
“It feels like home, the spirit of Alaska feels like it is here, in these gardens,” she told the group at Seward House. “Such a patriotic corner of this great, great country that we share.”
What is it with these people? Bush and his gang ignored all domestic issues during his 8 yr. reign and now all they want to do is bring back the dead — Reaganomics.
Thanks for the critique of this upcoming interview. I was debating whether to watch it, but I am now convinced my time will be better spent doing anything else.
Love the report !!
Oh no! Now TWO village idiots are on the loose!
hmmmm, this is on Fauxnews….that’s our Scarah, she’s a unpredictable swooper, look out.
“We don’t expect her,” said a Republican source familiar with the dinner. “But with (Palin), you never know. She may just show up.”
However the source, who spoke to FOX News on the condition of anonymity, said that if the governor did attend, she would be recognized, but not speak.
“We’ll say nice things about her,” said the source. “But she’s so unpredictable. She just thought she could swoop in.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/08/mixed-signals-palin-try-upstage-gingrich-gop-dinner/
Just a clarification… it was two seperate events. The Sarah PAC fundraiser was in a different building and cost $5,000 for a photo with Sarah. That money went to the Sarah PAC,
The IGHL fundraiser was at the main catering hall and was much more moderately priced. The people at the IGHL fundraiser were there to support IGHL, not the Sarah PAC. IGHL is a very reputable organization that provides services to handicapped people.
Doggonit Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 10:56 AM
How is that legal? Someone call the IRS! You can’t do political fund raising at a tax exempt charitable event.
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Haven’t you learned by now that everything Palin does is “legal”.
Merry Prakster Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:06 AM
The Sarah PAC fundraiser was in a different building and cost $5,000 for a photo with Sarah. That money went to the Sarah PAC,
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…I guess SarahPAC isn’t doing so good after all if they feel the need to charge that much for a photo with Sarah!
Just saw on C4P that they are urging locals to protest at the Republican National Congressional Committee fundraiser tonight because they “disinvited” SP to speak. Anyone who has organized anything knows that you go with the person or group you KNOW will show up, not the diva with a poor attendance record.
Hilarious. America is moving towards socialism but the people’s republic of Alaska isn’t? Government ownership of GM is very bad, but the permanent fund and loan guarantees from the feds for the gasline are okay? Luckily for Palin wingers don’t read much.
Merry Prakster Says “a clarification… it was two separate events. The Sarah PAC fundraiser was in a different building and cost $5,000 for a photo with Sarah. That money went to the Sarah PAC”
Pretty tight quarters. Was there intermingling between the two buildings?
How many lunatics paid 5 grand? $5,000 to knock boots with Palin, for 3 seconds…hope Meg, is skimming off the top. Palin, would never know and Todd, cannot seem to count.
Oh you are going to love this:
More excerpts from the Hannity Interview;
On whether or not she misses being in the “spotlight” since the end of the campaign:
“I love my time in Alaska. At the same time though I crave, if not my voice, other voices out there being bold, being strong letting Americans know that those that are concerned about the growth of government and about national security issues, they’re not alone. There are others who are empathizing and more than empathizing are wanting to take action to make sure that economically and physically that our homeland is safe and secure.”
http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-palins-interview-with-hannity/
Has anyone else here wondered why on earth the governor of Alaska is in NY celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alaska statehood? This seems beyond strange to me.
The other question that nags me is the whole “giving people the opportunity to succeed or fail” idea. Who among us relishes the opportunity to fail? Too also, success or failure is not totally up to the individual. Many factors play into a person’s success or failure. There is inherited wealth. There is disease. There is accident. There is an economy that tanks. There is inherited smarts, or not. I guess this might be OT, so I’ll quit now.
Thanks Merry Prankster for the report!
Question – SarahPac is different from the Alaska Trust Fund? (snark) I thought SarahPac stopped taking $$ or at least directed folks to the Trust Fund? So SarahPac is for her 2012 campaign and the AFT is for her legal fees? Oh so tangled……and not like we’d receive an honest answer anyway….
lol, Eye! Making up for lost time now, she is.
I guess Seward does have something to do with Alaska, but not very much in the grand scheme of things. Celebrating that connection while ignoring everything that came after that really made Alaska seems sooo strange. Disrespectful of Alaskans besides.
Hannity licks his chops.
Sarah lifts her skirt a bit.
Todd approves.
The kids stay in the car.
gosh, we still think Levi has more original thought…
It’s so nice to have these reports on SP’s latest ventures, so I don’t have to watch Fox News myself. I did go to the link provided by Say No to Palin in Politics (#20). Interesting stuff, including some of the comments. I think some of the republicans are starting to get it where she is concerned, while others refuse to see beyond the short skirts and red shoes.
And so what’s with Willow wearing shorts to something like that? Isn’t she a bit old to show up dressed that way? And who was the baby? I wish Palin would get a clue about what is appropriate dress for herself and her family.
It’ll be interesting to see who paid for Todd, Willow and whichever baby that was to tag along with the gov. The state of Alaska? SarahPac? Surely not the gov herself.
OH MAE!!!! LOL
If she goes to Gettysburg today or this afternoon, she is only a short hop to DC. I think she’s waiting for them to ask her to come again. Kind of ready to run to DC. Kind of hard in them red shoes. Love the description of themn in the report above.
My experience with conservative, old money folks, (rather limited) is that clothes help make the person, hence the wardrobe last year. Red shoes belong in the bar or the bedroom!
I’m sorry, but I’ve had enough…Sarah Palin, AK. gov or not is a MORON! AND, she’s just egged on by the Fox news dweebs that come out to ‘support’ her..what a joke. She’s still relying on catch phrases and bullet talking points that bear NO relation to reality.
Let’s take one simple example…General Motors.. Sarah now thinks it’s one of the worst things she’s ever had to experience that the Fed. Govt. now owns 60% of GM. How frightening…what this bozo DOESN’T mention, is that WITHOUT THE FED. GOVT. there would be no GM to own !!!
That’s what I love about these sleaze bags is that they tend to forget that every story has two sides…not just their side. These folks are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for people to make a public face if they are depending on this twit.
I’m sure Sarah volunteered Bristol to babysit someone elses kid (I’m sure it wasn’t Tina Fey’s daughter this time.) Just a guess but I’m sure the Palins being true to form the infant probably wasn’t in a carseat.
This is custom tailored for SP, Hannity and other “dunderheads” who can’t grasp the fundamentals of macroeconomics.
Rachel Maddow – Economics 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMHYtECOzuE
Fabulous report, Merry Prankster! Very informative and spiced with intelligent and humorous observations.
Hope you’re still as “merry” as ever after such a harrowing and visceral tour with the “People of the Gut.” Haha. So glad our president is a “Person of the Brain.”
Great job. Thanks.
Black Manolo pumps. they are all she needs. I cannot believe she thinks those stupid S&M sandals are appropriate.
Shucks! Sure wish I hadn’t trashed Palin while she was running for Mayor of Wasilla.
As a seamstress, I can make a insulated mini skirt for Palin to wear and promote. I can even put the word “abstinance” across the butt, in different colors or languages…
SarahPac raising funds at IGHL event?
Under federal law tax-exempt charitable organizations are prohibited from endorsing any candidates, making donations to their campaigns, engaging in fund-raising, distributing statements, or becoming involved in any other activities that may be beneficial or detrimental to any candidate. Even activities that encourage people to vote for or against a particular candidate on the basis of nonpartisan criteria violate the political campaign prohibition of section
501(c)(3).
Best line of PALINESE in the interview:
“So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.””
Huh? What an imbecile.
Oh lordy Mae, I just had me a vision of dogs at adoption meet & greets wearing little jackets with “Abstinence” embroidered across their butts. . . after all, why spay/neuter when we can just teach them “no” (as in “no no bad dog”)
How about a insulated mini skirt with the words “screw politicial correctness” across the butt? Seems to me that is a better choice of words.
Palin is so over her head. In many many ways and forms.
Isabella. 1,500 dollars, after expenses, I’m sure. Mitt Romney had a fund raiser in april, where he netted 2.0 million. Guess his folks have jobs.
Had to look it up, since SP going on about National Debt & Obama. As of today it’s $11.4T. Was a hair under $1T at the end of Carter admin. Increased $1.5T under saint Reagan. Bush I added $1.5T. Clinton added $1.5T. (insert glorification of choice) Bush II added $5T. So all told, those supply-side, fiscal conservatives account for $8.2T or 72% of our debt. How about we make a deal with SP. She and her followers can pay of the R’s debt, and the rest of us will pay off the D’s debt.
Well heck, if sex sells…. How about a insulated mini skirt that says “hungry markets” across the butt?
okay, time to get off the internet and stop the jokes… But I might add that living north of Wasilla does have its moments… Mudflats makes it better… allows me to get some things out of my mind… but at the end of the day, I just want you all to have good days…
Eyeonyou. As a conservative republican, I will gladly take the yoke and mantle from Sarah and wear it for myself. Therefore, her voice can now be still and quite, and my voice can ring loud and clear. My first shout out?
SARAH, GO HOME. YOUR NOT WELOME HERE.
Was that loud enough for ya sarah?
GOP Leader Working Behind Scenes To Get Palin Reinvited To Big Fundraiser
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/gop-leader-working-behind-scenes-to-get-palin-reinvited-to-big-fundraiser/
Sorry to keep you so busy today AKM.
Is there really no set days a week Palin, has to actually be working?
Great report! I don’t think I could handle the racing thoughts that I’d have being that close to Palin and Hannity at the same time.
Also, posted this on the earlier thread but it fits here too:
From Time Magazine online –
>>How in the world is the Republican Party going to orchestrate its comeback if it’s having such a tough time organizing the seating chart for one fundraising dinner? That, at least, is the question being posed by many amused spectators of the GOP’s puzzling game of musical chairs it appears to be playing with Sarah Palin.<<
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1903421,00.html
CONFIRMED ON MSNBC: She WILL be there tonite.
Hopefully, she has something in her suitcase that is both Gov and Event appropriate. INCLUDING shoes that don’t make her look like a 2-bit whore. If Willow is also attending, I hope she doesn’t show up looking like the teen slut she appeared to be earlier.
You guys really should have MSNBC on right now… they are trashing her left and right. And then they get the Repubs on to defend her and say that she is a viable 2012 candidate. Just amusing!
Best example: It’s like she has to sit at the kids table, where she can be seen, but not heard!
Trust me Doggonit, IGHL would not her endorse her … Suffolk county is not really home to that many conservative Republicans. In fact only two of NY States 31 congressional seats is held by a Republican. With the exception of Congressman King, NY Republicans have stayed away from the National Party and the National Party was the reason that the Republicans lost the special election for Gillderbrand’s seat. Rumors have it King is going to run for Senator because he doesn’t like the odds for being re-elected in his district. If he is going to lose, he rather lose going for the Senate seat.
Very few people at the IGHL function were hard core Palin fans and most would have come regardless of the speaker. Palin was invited to draw curiosity seekers, which it did. The Sarah PAC event was added later and was in a different building organized by the Sarah PAC staff. While Sarah’s speech to IGHL certianely was confusing, it really was not a political speech.
hey did Scarah advocate any of these events in AK, surely she did.
http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/040109/new_295454996.shtml
“As the calender flips to April, Tonja Updike of Soldotna is hoping people will take time to learn about autism — a brain development disorder typically characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, as well as restricted and repetitive behavior.
“Some families with autistics feel like they don’t belong, and we want to break that and show this community cares about them,” said Updike, the mother of three children, one of whom was diagnosed roughly three years ago as having autism.
To accomplish this, Updike and others have planned numerous events over the next 30 days.
“April is Autism Awareness Month, and we’re kicking it off on the Kenai Peninsula by celebrating World Autism Day, (Thursday), at River City Books in Soldotna,” she said.”
hey sarah, make sure you report those Yankee tix from yesterday.
BTW: As a proud Detroiter, I take STRONG offense at her dissing GM.
In her snarkiest voice, she says “Anyone need a car?” (or something to that effect) while whining about a LOAN (NOT BAILOUT) to GM.
Please understand, folks, this is TEMPORARY. If GM takes the LOAN $$ to re-tool, it only stands to reason that the Gov’t should have a stake in the situation.
Who loans without collateral? Certainly not banks!
Nor should the government.
GO RED WINGS!
I haven’t heard one single word out of her about REAL issues. Not one. How is she supposed to be President with nothing more than an ANTI-CHOICE stand?
What a fascinating, detailed and witty report!
The ADN – reprinting releases from the friggin’ Drudge Report (so sad!)
The Mudflats – giving up-to-the-minute coverage (almost live) from the Anchorage PAC on Wednesday to Upstate NY on Saturday to Long Island on Monday (so vibrant!!!)
Great job, Merry Prankster!
So is Scarah going to snub Begich and Murkowski since they aren’t going by HER playbook? oh to be a fly on the wall for this one………..
Latest twitter.
# In DC, will meet w AK’s Washington office (John Katz) re: natural gas pipeline & readying AK for good movement on huge project for us & U.S.8 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
When, exactly, does she govern? And Alaska is all right with this?
Oh, they are actually letting comments through.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/06/08/newt-gingrich-vs-sarah-palin-in-an-early-2012-skirmish.html
Do we have anyone on the ground reporting today’s events? this is run reading hot off the press AKM insider reports.
run for the fun, lol
Thanks Merry Prankster for the report. Poor Sarah; there is nowhere she can go where there is not a Mudpuppy to report in full!
46 leu2500 Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:47 AM
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Hey, leu…..great post! Do you mind if I post it on the HuffPo article (about Palin’s criticisms of Obama) with credits going to you?
Sarah has accomplished what few others can do. She has managed to keep her name in the press (media) and people talking about her all day without having to pay a high powered team of publicists to do it. The latest version of the Sarah’s Going To The Dinner/No She’s Not Story is that she was simply asked not to speak, but she took it to mean that the invitation was withdrawn. Maybe she just got in a snit; maybe she did it for the attention that it seems to have generated. Seems to be an internal GOP thing between Sessions and Cornyn, and the reports go back and forth between two credible sources in Washington DC: Politico and The Hill. Sarah will no doubt play the victim, wear another pair of outlandish shoes and the party will talk about party unity when they must be thinking to themselves, “Gee, I gotta talk to some of the McCain people and see what we are getting ourselves into with this girl.” Good Luck, GOP, she’s all yours!
Can we please refrain from referring to Palin as a “two-bit whore” and her daughter as a “teen slut.” I find Palin’s politics offensive and her intellectual abilities about 1 inch deep, but as far as I know, she and her daughter don’t deserve to be called such incredibly misogynistic names. If you want to attack her, please discuss her complete inability to put forth any new ideas or constructive policy making.
Thanks.
Yes, thanks JRC. AKM
61 Isabella Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Oh, they are actually letting comments through.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/06/08/newt-gingrich-vs-sarah-palin-in-an-early-2012-skirmish.html
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I’ll say………you are over there kickin’ some serious ASS !!
Dang girl !!
67 JRC Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Can we please refrain from referring to Palin as a “two-bit whore” and her daughter as a “teen slut.”
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They certainly dress that way. But you are right , never judge a book by it’s cover.
“….we consider that now we own sixty percent of GENERAL MOTORS – or the U.S. government does… But who is the U.S. government becoming more indebted to? It’s China. So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.”
Do we own sixty percent of GM or does the Government? And which of the two cases would be preferable?
Although China is the largest foreign holder of US debt it currently accounts for 24% of foreign ownership. So it’s a bit premature for Palin to go all “racist Pat Buchanan” on those infernal foreign orientals. Besides they were very handy when it was time to finance God’s work in Iraq, and even more so in financing the GOP tax cuts for Bush, Cheney, and McCain’s wife.
@67. I agree. I think if SP just chose better footwear she would enhance her professional look many fold. But for a questionable shoe choice on Auburn parade day I liked her outfit.
Ans: probably Meg’s baby – a two year old girl.
Just heard on MSNBC Malek just called SP a ‘great speaker’!!!
Chris Matthews is having fun with all of that!!
Great report, Merry Prankster! Mae, I love the insulated mini skirt idea.
73 Just Had To Jump In Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Just heard on MSNBC Malek just called SP a ‘great speaker’!!!
Chris Matthews is having fun with all of that!!
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Saw that. Malek is kinda creepy looking. Talks funny too.also.
There are going to be a lot of people at the dinner tonight who are smiling through gritted teeth. Never a good look IMHO.
Palin may think she has won this round, but they are old hands. They will get revenge. i would think that much more of this upstaging and McCain will be forced to blow the whistle, even at a cost to his reputation. Meghan McC will probably do the job for him, she has a book coming out too remember.
Austintx Says I’ll say………you are over there kickin’ some serious ASS !!
Dang girl !!”
Are you there? Loving the forum.
*head-shakery* here. I can’t read what she says. I feel like my brain falls to mush.
Great report on the ground. Excellent work!!
Merry Prnkster WTG…Best one aLL DAY…lmao…hANNITY Is such a tard..He’ll be all starry eyed over SP..
Samper, you think she’s trying to drum up tickets for tomorrow’s game? I’d love to see her get booed at a Stanley Cup game. Especially by all the players from ‘socialist’ countries that make up the RedWings.
I hope they school those boys again tomorrow. Go Detroit!
Ha! After being “adored” by the “throngs” who came out ONLY to see
Sarah this weekend, she ends her jaunt to the lower 48 going to a major
RNC fundraiser to receive only a mere “shout out”. Love it ! !
>>After a little hoopla in the last 24 hours or so, it does appear that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and perhaps her husband, Todd, will drop in with little advance notice at tonight’s annual big Republican fund-raising dinner here in Washington, D.C.
We’re told she won’t have a speaking role — the program has long been set. But Republicans said officials would introduce her to the mega-donor audience and give her a shoutout at the event<<
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/palin-to-attend-gop-dinner-without-major-speaking-role/
UK Lady Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 1:22 PM
There are going to be a lot of people at the dinner tonight who are smiling through gritted teeth. Never a good look IMHO.
Palin may think she has won this round, but they are old hands. They will get revenge. i would think that much more of this upstaging and McCain will be forced to blow the whistle, even at a cost to his reputation. Meghan McC will probably do the job for him, she has a book coming out too remember.
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I am inclined to agree with you. I think that eventually he will spill the beans. It is either that or he goes down in history as the man who put his own interests before the public interest.
IMO, many male politicians’ clothing/shoes could be described as “hooker” grade. But commenting on the male variety doesn’t get the laugh and admiration one gets for labelling a female.
Thank you Merry Prankster— we heard it here first!
This is great another on the ground report
Thank you Merry Prankster
I believe that we mudpups maybe should rename ourselves the mudbugs
Insidious little anklebiters taking over the world (in our Pj’s)
Kind of like the invasion of the bedbugs
Certainly know she has her crackberries with her. Guess she has time to file until the dinner as she’s tweeting.
Canadian Neighbour Says “know she has her crackberries with her. Guess she has time to file until the dinner as she’s tweeting.”
Someone has been posting with all sorts of shout outs to AK the past hour.
I am a daily reader but a rare commenter…..BUT TODAY MERRY PRANKSTER… your play by play was so awesome that i could not get on here fast enough to say how much you made me laugh and at the same time try to keep the contents of my lunch where it belonged!!!! I am also listening to Chris M. and love that he is accusing her of the black helicopters coming, along with all that gloom and doom they love to talk about……so scarry for all those weak kneed (unless they are wearing 5″ red shoes) wingnuts!!!! Thanks so much!!!
Right, bedtime for me….I will be very interested to know what is going on as I sleep.
Is’t it funny how she complains about federal money but is holding her hands out for President Obama to give Alaska more. Not that I don’t think Alaskans deserve help but her complaining than asking for a handout beats all. I read the link about her speaking or not speaking at the event and I have to say good for John Cornyn I wrote him about something going on in his home state and he answered me
Way to go, Merry Prankster!
If she goes on a national stage, the hate/haters that she engenders will send the FBI into overdrive and will be disastrous for our country. PO is so brilliant and forward-looking and has such a tireless staff that she, the red-shoed one, makes me deeply sad and angry. She simply must be brought down before a national run and she bilks ppl silly, or let the media have at her. She just doesn’t get it; she contributes nothing to the national dialogue and her posturing is hollow and shallow, and her experience is negligible and simplistic compared to the vortex of knowledge and depth of intelligently timed and deeply understood actions by our president. It’s just ridiculous! But Bush’s two terms has me very scared.
Yeah, she got that D … is that what makes her so D-licious to all those hormonally-struck GOP’ers?
austintx Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
67 JRC Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Can we please refrain from referring to Palin as a “two-bit whore” and her daughter as a “teen slut.”
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They certainly dress that way. But you are right , never judge a book by it’s cover.
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Yeah, even if it looks like a playboy mag, just sayin’
Merry prankster very good report and good to know mudpups are every where and I have to say even in red states
merry prankster- that was really good.felt like i was there….b
As previously suggested, I have already started on my “adult beverage”. I still have 2 hours to go until Hannity, and I’ll need all the fortification I can get to program the remote to that channel.
My remote has integrity – it might even refuse to go to that channel!
75, UK Lady: “There are going to be a lot of people at the dinner tonight who are smiling through gritted teeth. Never a good look IMHO.”
Yes, I agree with you -especially in light that they paid a whopping $150,000 for her wardrobe and make-up etc, and the FEC ruled it was legit for them to have their hard-earned $$$ wasted on that! They have set a precedent, and just wait what they will have to pay for if/when she runs in 2012 – most likely as a VP again, but this time with a more favorable/popular guy, maybe Mitten…
Does Palin think she can make a presidential run without answering questions during interviews or debates? I would like to see her try to have a serious discussion about Reagan’s policies or international trade relations,etc. She stands up and makes a lot of statements about the current policies not honoring the principals of Economics 101, but could Sarah answer the question, What ARE the basic principals of economics 101?
Hint: The answer is NO.
She never puts herself in a position where she has to answer any questions or give any details to her policy plans. Notice how she only does interviews with her “friends” at Fox. Can she do this during a Presidential run?
Wow, hilarious! Inappropriate words and footwear (and skirt length) for an elected official. All these months after her introduction to us I’m still stunned at her inability to formulate coherent sentences. Poor Tim Pawlenty, he doesn’t stand a chance against Palin’s colorful, entertaining three ring dysfunctional circus. When did idiocy become okay?
Oh, lordy ….. I just don’t think I can watch Palin on Hannity. I guess going to a few community colleges in the 1980s and getting a “D” on Economics all of a sudden makes Palin smart enough to discuss American’s economic policy?
It sort of feels like those Holiday Inn Express commercials, doesn’t it? “You know, I hardly know the difference between a debit and a credit and think “Checks and Balances” is the new Fall Line from Dior ……. but I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night, so I’d like to share my understanding of economic policy with the WORLD.” Aarrgghh.
I agree with JRC @66.
I would go like to go further and say I found the comments (on another thread here, I think) about SP not wearing nylons/pantyhose/whatever to be snarky as well. I haven’t worn pantyhose since the 60s or 70s because I hate them. Michelle Obama doesn’t wear them, she also prefers bare legs.
And, as someone who took three universities and two colleges and 12 years to get my BA in media communications/journalism (and then another 4 years to get my MA plus 32 hours in English & American lit) because I paid for my education myself when ever I could afford classes (and I moved through three states during that timeframe), I would appreciate not snarking people who take a long time and several institutions of higher learning. Every time I hear a snark about SP’s college career, I feel that my academic career is not valid because it took me more than 4 years at one university.
/off my rant now, thank you for listening…off to get a beer now…/
Rent the movie “Bob Roberts” sometime. I would imagine that any possible Palin run for national office would be a really sick & twisted sequel to that film, which is already sufficiently sick & twisted for my taste.
R.A. Mansour from Cee4pee will be on the Eddie Burke Radio Show on 7.45 EDT, in about 20 minutes.
Feel free to call in! I am still searching for the number to call in to KBYR AM 700…
Will post it later!
R.A. Mansour doesn’ t really like “Trig Troofers”…she called me a “sick motherf+++++” recently…just for being a “Trig Troofer”…
R.A. Mansour from Cee4pee will be on the Eddie Burke Radio Show on 7.45 EDT, in about 20 minutes.
Feel free to call in! I am still searching for the number to call in to KBYR AM 700…
Will post it later!
R.A. Mansour doesn’ t really like “Trig Troofers”…she called me a “sick motherf+++++” recently…just for being a “Trig Troofer”…
This is supposed to be the call-in number for the Eddie Burke show:
1-866-610-5297
This is supposed to be the call-in number for the Eddie Burke show:
1-866-610-5297
justafarmer,
The difference between your education and life and hers is that she’s a public figure running a state in charge of making decisions for people’s lifes. It is also the fact that her obtaining a degree in journalism, having held employment on TV, having appeared nationwide giving speeches, having been on the ticket for election for VP of the US — yet talks like she failed Hooked on Phonics.
I agree with many that her appearance is unprofessional. She would not have made office manager where I worked.
She’s a public figure.
GINO from hell: another scary movie is A Face in the Crowd, with Andy Griffiths. He is Lonesome Roads, a hick with a radio show and he wants more fame and he works that hickness and goes into politics, well, it;s not pretty.
And the classic, Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here.
Wow, thanks Merry Prankster! I hope you found that “Chocolate Room” and the bar quickly!
And she says: “it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college.”
Unless Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman is your professor (or any other serious economist who doesn’t think the Obama Administration has spent enough!).
thanks for that Canadian Neighbor, but it really does hurt me when her academic career is brought up and smashed with a broad brush. And I’m not the only one who took the long hard road for a degree. Matter of fact, I eventually became a university professor and most of my students were 30+ years old, established in their careers (both public and private), and they were taking the long road to a degree as well.
Maybe I’m just too sensitive, but this has bothered me for months and months now because the connotation is that because it took me so long and so many universities/colleges, my degree lacks validity because of her, and ONLY because people smack SP’s higher education because of how long/number of universities, as opposed to what did she LEARN and to what use did she put her degree.
People snark about the number of colleges and how many years and that bothers me a lot.
I shall open another bottle of beer now and await KO and Rachel and Jon and Stephen…
need…need…need…something fun….and popcorn!
Oh, please, please, please let SP come to LA so I can be a boots on the ground! I’d be honored and I have a little videocam, and I know how to be taken for a right-winger. I come from a conservative family (in MASSACHUSETTS!). I can walk the walk and arouse no razzing.
Trisha @ 2:50 pm: It doesn’t matter that SP doesn’t know anything about economics or anything else. It just doesn’t matter, for the reason you point out: she has a protective moat around her sloshing with friends, cronies, likeminded lunatics like Hannity, and, yes, let’s be blunt, all the men who have hard-ons for her and the women who love them (the men, maybe the hard-ons, but ick, how could you with such nitwits). There’s no predicting where idiocy can take someone, and it’s idiocy that surrounds SP and makes her so f’ing entertaining that even HuffPo and Keith can’t resist her for the ratings. And it’s idiocy that makes us have to take the whole bizness very seriously. Please do not lose hope or interest in babygate. SP insists on perpetrating the lie of her 2008 pregnancy in building her political persona. Granted, for the wingnuts not even that revelation will matter. But it will to anyone with a lick of self-respect and to the ‘pubs who will run against her in a primary. She must never make it past primaries.
Ok, now huffpo has a shot of her decorated toenail. Yes, not only is she wearing ridiculous shoes, her big toe is decorated.
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
I just posted on the HuffPo, Do you know the difference between Sarah Palin and Smoky Daniels, one goes to work everyday and the other goes out to dinner with republicans.
and one has people skills…….
110 lilybart Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Ok, now huffpo has a shot of her decorated toenail. Yes, not only is she wearing ridiculous shoes, her big toe is decorated.
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Hoochie mama.
austintx Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 4:11 PM
110 lilybart Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Ok, now huffpo has a shot of her decorated toenail. Yes, not only is she wearing ridiculous shoes, her big toe is decorated.
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Hoochie mama.
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Gramma.
lilybart Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Ok, now huffpo has a shot of her decorated toenail. Yes, not only is she wearing ridiculous shoes, her big toe is decorated.
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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Thought about it…………the toe ring is next.
Re: justafarmer@100
AMEN! It shouldn’t matter how long one took to earn a degree, or the number of colleges attended. I applaud and encourage people who keep on learning and don’t give up- as should we all. I think all of us are frustrated that GINO doesn’t seem to demonstrate any knowledge of that degree she brags about. Even more importantly, she doesn’t seem too interested in continuing to learn. I can overlook a D in Econ from 20 years ago. I can’t ignore dumbass comments about the economy this morning! THAT is unacceptable. (Though I will say it makes for some pretty funny speeches!)
GREAT boots on the ground post!!!!
thank you HistoryGoddess!
Just watched some pics from autism walk. Comments about what’s painted on her toenails. Like this one best: little mirrors so you can look up her dress!
Yes, she is a governor of a state and has responsibility for people’s lives, but she sure dresses and acts like something else. I don’t think anyother woman would ever get away with what she does anywhere without a lot trash talk said against them.
@justafarmer:
I ditto HistoryGoddess. I am also long time educator; many students of mine were on the 5-6 year high school plan, others took time off before deciding on college, some kept plugging away until they had that hard-earned higher ed degree. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, as long as one values the accomplishment and (more importantly) uses it. You are a success- one that should be held up as an example to high schoolers to show it can be done.
Unfortunately, Palin not only doesn’t use her education, she downplays it- preferring to be one of the good ol’ boys. We should demand intelligence and
expertise of all our public officials, especially our governors- not just winks and tired slogans.
Oops- I forgot to thank Merry Prankster for the awesome, insightful report. Bravo!
nebraska mudflatter “Wow, thanks Merry Prankster! I hope you found that “Chocolate Room”
Was there chocolate or just brown nosers?
GINO finally got one thing right.
It is the will of the people that has been imposed on Washington.
The will of the people said “Change We Can Believe In” is better than a continuation of the fear-mongering, word salads, and mindless exploitation of dirty un-renewable resources as proposed by McCain/GINO.
President Obama won by a wide margin, the widest of any first-term President in the modern age of elections. The will of the people is abundantly clear – and there will soon be a complete mandate when Al Franken is sworn in.
We must not fear the GINOs of the GOP, but we must remain diligent and assist President Obama, the Administration, and the new Congress to work together while they have this mandate to enact The Change We Believe in and Now Expect.
Please remember to contribute to the campaigns of those running against Senators McConnell and Grassley in 2010 to facilitate The Change and get rid of the more blatant uncooperative asshats that still remain!
I just finished listening to Hannity’s interview with palin, she’s little taking parrot with lots of word salad. OMG she’s not the smartest person around, maybe that’s why the Repubs want her. =) She said nothing much, except reguritated salad. What is really good at? Avoiding answering the questions given her.
justafarmer, it is particularly commendable when someone who can’t just drop everything and plunk down the cash to enroll full-time to get a degree perseveres and does what it takes to earn one, however long it takes. Good for you!
Canadian Neighbour has pointed out the key issue, which is that while SP has a degree, she doesn’t seem to have picked up commensurate knowledge along the way. That brings up the “why” question, which makes people curious about whether the frequent transfers had something to do with it.
Palin’s circumstances while going to college would seem to be fairly fortunate, but maybe looks are deceiving. I am curious as to whether she has ever directly addressed the reasons why she transferred so much.
In any case, please don’t take it personally. It is clear you put your education to good use.
she’s just unsophisticated, backwards, and ignorant…has no business coming out of the woods.
She has ugly feet. The shoes are hideous and they don’t even fit…her toes are hanging over the edge.
Gross
justafarmer, your posts and your thoughtfulness indicate that higher education was not “wasted” on you. I certainly recognize that GINO may have had to work her way through, as you did, and as probably most students do (I had p/t jobs all the way through, including teaching undergraduates, but scholarships were what made it possible for me to finish three degrees in the “normal” timeframe.) That does not mean that the extra time was spent wisely or productively in her case. The results speak for themselves.
wes_ben Says “She has ugly feet. The shoes are hideous and they don’t even fit…her toes are hanging over the edge. Gross”
I know, how freakin insane. She has $135,000 a year job. Buy something decent, good grief.
I betcha Palin, is pissy right now with Newt’s, GIGANTIC screen tribute right now.
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3
lee323 – sure, post away
Merry Prankster: I recommend you take a large dose of antibiotics…. just in case.
This just in . . . another Palin book in the works . . . continuing the victimology and martyrdom theme:
http://washingtonindependent.com/46046/weekly-standards-continetti-writing-bio-of-sarah-palin
109 justafarmer Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 3:44 PM Re: college
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Just my perspective:
1) Even without knowing you or your background, your posts are always articulate, educated, and intelligent….unlike Palin who sounds inarticulate, uneducated, and mediocre. Various educational pathways can be taken but it’s the student’s passion and dedication for learning that makes the difference….and it shows, either impressively or not.
2) Palin is aspiring to the top leadership positions in the country. Her educational background is entirely fair game for scrutiny and, even, criticism.
3) Palin clearly has the very unprofessional habit of padding her resume and credentials ( such as her foreign policy experience or economics acumen) which is an additional reason to challenge her credentials and educational claims.
4) The modern world is so complex socially and politically. Most people don’t want a President of this country who has the academic background and, maybe more importantly, the obvious lack of continuing intellectual pursuits, discipline, and curiosity, that Palin has thus far demonstrated.
5) Criticisms of Palin’s academic record are valid within the framework of all the points elucidated above…. but would not necessarily be valid if extended to others simply because they share a superficial commonality with her (such as the period of study to attain a degree).
thank you, also, ValleyIndependent and the problem child.
I’m heartened tonight with the affirmation from both of you and others tonight.
It’s hard enough for those of use who have to take the long road. SP made it an easy joke. All of you tonight on the various threads responding to my original angst have been wonderful and having said that…
Go Nan! At your own speed, in your own time, and go for whatever your interest/heart/soul leads you in any future formal academia or informal learning.
Learn and enjoy!
Oh paaaa-uke!! Newt is enough to gag a maggot!! Where were these “great” ideas and concern for the last eight years as they repugnants sucked their thumbs? Where was the outrage?
HuffPo has a new post– she did go to the dinner– with some snarky comments and the sea4peas are there, also, too. Not terribly well-received I might add. Best one so far: “Like taking candy from a Barbie”
Oh, the decorated toes hanging out over the red high heeled strap on shoes… kinda porno, with nasty feet. UGH (shaking image from head real fast. Spit, gag, gulp. Okay, got my breath.) Has she ever heard of panty hose? Or shoes that FIT?
Hey there farmer, glad to see you out!
Justafarmer,
I also waited until I was 28 to begin my college career. I’m now 48 and working on my 4th degree! I’m also bothered when people mention her college career, but only because it just doesn’t add up to me.
1. Her syntax and grammar. I can’t see how she could have received a degree in journalism. She has similar language deficits that I see in my special education students.
2. None of the students or professors at her last college remember her at all. She’s not the type to hang out in the back of the room!
3. All of her current buddies are from High School. While you might remain friends with some from HS, most people who have college degrees have at least a few friends from college.
4. Wouldn’t the school she graduated from ask her to be a commencement speaker? Or in some way use her for PR for the college?
I always wondered if there wasn’t some college-gate around the corner. Maybe that’s the iceberg?
Newts talk is GROSS!!!! I had to turn it off!
Justafarmer, and all, the discussion is pretty clear about her education, but
Also. too, people learn from their experience in life and work and raising a
family, even without any formal education. [One of the most intelligent ,sensitive,
strong people I ever knew left school in 4th grade, and eventually forgot how to read
because she was always working. She knew the Bible word for word from listening
so closely.]
But the Twit-in-chief sounds just as she did as a twenty -something sportscaster,
stumbling and vapid. With or without 5 colleges, she should have more sense by now.
Here is the who thing from hannity:
http://www.foxnews.com/hannity/index.html
She is in a “adderall cloud” as Shannyn said last week. Just watch those hands, can’t keep ‘em still!
I don’t think I have had CNN on for about 2 months now (gave them up when they let Cheney mouth off) but I tuned in since I figured A Cooper would cover the GOP speech/fundraiser.
They had a GOP strategist talking about the ‘ Palin fiasco’. She ended up with a remark saying they wish they could have resolved the issue ….
‘ like NORMAL people’.
Palin… NORMAL..? That’s never going to happen.
Thanks for all the kind comments. I can’t say I am not enjoying the Republican meltdown. I wonder how low they will go before the adults in the party retake control. Unfortunately for them, they are stifling moderate voices. Even worse, they are trying to put other faces aside from old white men front and center. However, the do not have a deep bench and many of the minorities and women in the party are moderates (e.g. Powell, Snowe, Collins, etc.) As a a reult they have Palin, Steele and Jindhal front and center. All of them are only one very small step up from Alan Keyes.
WakeUpAmerica,
I only caught the last 5 minutes of Newt and wanted to gag. I didn’t realize it would be on CSPAN as it’s not something I was aware of until the dinner with Wanda Sykes. Maybe catching only the last 5 minutes was a good thing thought!!!
Corrupt Government — He was one of them!!! Fortunately you can’t reach through a monitor yet to strangle someone!!!
The objection to Sarah’s educational background is that it stopped someplace around high school. She may have complete college, but none of it shows. My husband made the same observation about GWBush, who had the luxury of Ivy League Top School undergrad and graduate schools. None of it seemed to rub off on him except for the partying. My husband’s theory is that although Bush claimed to have read almost a book a week while he was in office, just his manner of speech showed that the books had no effect on him. One of Bush’s great faults was that he was incurious. He didn’t want to hear any ideas that didn’t agree with his own. And, he excused it all as being directed by a “higher power.” Sarah balked at Katie Couric’s question, “What do you read to inform your world opinion etc.” but it clear that it was Sarah’s lack of reading that was the problem. It showed in her poor speech, her defensive reaction to any criticism, and lack of curiosity about the world. (No jokes about Russia!) Someone once pointed out that when Sarah learned that there would be a Downs Syndrome child in the family, she had no idea what to expect. She didn’t even read about something so close to home. So, Dear JustaFarmer, it’s not where you went to school nor how long. It’s that you continued learning and growing throughout your life, and you took advantage of whatever education had to offer you. Far more so than our past president or a current governor.
justafarmer
(I love that, did I mention? lol)
thank you and bless your heart. BTW, when I *do* get that degree, I’m going to follow your footsteps, and hang it proudly in the W.C.
Nan
hey Mudflats! You got a shout out on Fox today! I heard Shep Smith say ‘a blogger even said that Palin plagarized Gingrich’. He did not say your name, but I knew who he was refereing to
I am totally amazed at the ignorance of some people in your country. For these people to actually think Sarah Palin is even closely qualified to even be a candidate for President is beyond believable. This woman in’t even qualified to run a Sidewalk Lemonade Stand let alone be the rule of the free world. She talked about making america weaker and she doesn’t know the first think about National Security. Where are her credentials for this? Please, someone, anyone out there, explain that to me? The she complains about teh stimulus money and how America is being spend into a hole it will never get out of. Where is her degree in Ecomonics. Anyone? Where is her her knowledge of foreign affairs? Someone? I am not believe Sarah Palin is stupid,however, the questions one the Supreme Court decisions
showed America she appeared to have no knowledge of the subject. Palin made herself an expert on energy issues. Where would this expertize coem from. Being governor of a state that produces oil does not make you an Energy Expert.Does Sarah Palin have a Ph.D. in energy management and policy or maybe she was a professor in the Energy and Resources Group of some university, like maybe Berkeley or the UC Davis’ Institute.. This woman is a fruad, liar and her ego is what drives her. She cares for one thing only and that is Sarah and be damn who she has to step on to do it. I am Canadian and I thank God Almighty that more and more Americans have enough intelligence to see what this woman is all about. The U.S. of A. would be the laughing stock of the world with this woman in office. God, what a National Disaster America would become with her and her clan in control. Talk about the “REAL ARMAGADON in our life time.
Sorry for the mispells.. I need a drink. I think this woman makes me drink even more. Its the only way to understand some of the word salad that comes out of her.
John(Canadian MudPuppy)
You are not alone in wondering how in the world that person got as far as she has. and I can’t explain it to you, either. It’s just nuts.
As for the drink – good point, but are you sure you really *want* to understand that word salad? lol
Nan
“She’s the hood ornament on one jalopy of a party”.
I saw this and just had to share it with Mudflats – it’s one of the best descriptions I’ve seen yet. It says it all – lol.
LMAO,,, NAN, just enough to numb my brain. That woman makes my head hurt.
Priceless wrote:
“hey Mudflats! You got a shout out on Fox today! I heard Shep Smith say ‘a blogger even said that Palin plagarized Gingrich’. He did not say your name, but I knew who he was refereing to”
Not to put your comment down, Priceless, but AKM didn’t write that Palin plagiarized from Gingrich. Her headline “Pailn Pals Around With Plagiarists?” contains a question mark. So does Shannyn Moore’s on the same subject. Gryph’s post at his place starts by asking a question, but answers with a “You betcha!”
My only post at PA on this doesn’t state that she plagiarized from NG, but my DailyKos diary clearly headlines her as a plagiarist.
I can’t wait to see What Do I Know? weigh in on this. We’ll all learn from Steve. The reality, though, seems to be to me, that had she done this the way she did in some circumstances (as a student, academic, author or technical writer), it would have clearly qualified as plagiarism.
Apparently, though, politicians are held to a far, far lower standard than others in this regard.
Hey Phil…nice job on the Eddie Burke show. Wonder why Van Flein refused to answer your question. You made them both look like idiots! Nice Work!
John(Canadian MudPuppy),
If she ever won, I want a separation between Canada & U.S. — like an ocean!!! That, or I’m moving north which doesn’t sit well as I don’t like the cold or snow!!
Hey Mudpups — Remember this — there is almost as much land in Canada as the U.S., so lots of room as we don’t have the population you have!!!
Credibility is an issue where some common sense has to come into play. I personally despise SP- but at the same time- feel that suggestions like a question of whether or not Hannity’s eyes (sparking red) were a result of a camera issue- or a glimpse into the soul? I assume a demon was the projected analogy?
Give me a break! I Hate Hannity- but I take alot of pictures and edit them as well- and know a red eye flare when I see one.
It is over reaching like that, that totally saps any energy from a decent political argument or stand.
Just use some common sense and don’t obliterate the message with uneducated tainted garbage comments like that- that are about as stupid as anything SP has said.
That is the position right? That we ARE for the people- and she has failed us?
Um…I didn’t ACtually think that it was a window into the soul. I think we’re all familiar with red eye. It was something called a “joke.”
AKM
there is almost as much land in Canada as the U.S.,
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Canadian neighbour – for shame. There is MORE land in Canada than in the U.S. Canada is the 2nd largest county in the world (Russia is #1).
palin & hannity sittin’ in a tree….
that guy trips over his tongue over her…it’s amusing (in a sick way)
Canadian Neighbour Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 7:37 PM
John(Canadian MudPuppy),
If she ever won, I want a separation between Canada & U.S. — like an ocean!!! That, or I’m moving north which doesn’t sit well as I don’t like the cold or snow!!
Hey Mudpups — Remember this — there is almost as much land in Canada as the U.S., so lots of room as we don’t have the population you have!!!
Canada – The Second Largest Country in the World.O Canada! Our home and native land
Canada, a member of the Commonwealth, is the world’s second largest country (after Russia) with a land mass of 9,093,507 square kilometres. Located on the North America Continent, Canada shares its southern border with the United States (the total length of the Canada-United States boundary is 8890 kilometres), is bordered in the west by the North Pacific Ocean, in the east by the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north by the Arctic Ocean. Canada’s geography is diverse, including large mountain ranges, lakes and rivers, fertile agricultural plains, wilderness forests and arctic tundra. It includes 10 provinces and 3 territories with a total population of over 33,000,000. The median age is 40.1 years and the life expectancy at birth is 81.16 years. A multicultural society, there are two official languages, English (59.3%) and French (23.2%).
So yes,,, Come on over neighnors. We got room for most of you and your would all be welcomed.
AlaskaDisasta
The site I did a quick search on showed the US having more area than Canada so I guess it’s wrong!! I don’t remember my geography class!!
So — that means all the more room then!! We’ll just unzip the border and let the U.S. sail off if Palin is ever in office!!
What really scares me is that a lot of people out there think she’s the best thing going…Pyscho Sarah is nothing but a racist…All she wants to do is get the crowds worked up ..All the while preaching hate..I would be so ashamed if she was a member of my family..I hope she crashes andburns soon…
158 Canadian Neighbour Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 7:54 PM
AlaskaDisasta
The site I did a quick search on showed the US having more area than Canada so I guess it’s wrong!! I don’t remember my geography class!!
Not even close Canadian. You could set the USA in the middle and still have room on all sides, lmao. Hell, we can open the border for all those who would escape the Holocust that would eventually begin with Sarah and her clan in power.
@swe123, thanks for the affirmation.
@interested person, I also know and work every day with people who achieved a sixth grade or less formal education, but they are some of the smartest people I know and, as a farmer, have been privileged to work with them year-round.
@Nan: I’ll have to take a photo of the awards wall in the bathroom for I Heart Mudflats. Trust me, if ya want to show something off, hang it on the bathroom wall!
@John the Canadian.. My husband say’s the same thing everytime Gino opens her mouth.
Oh he’s 1/2 Canadian.. time for Tylenol!
She traipses around fulfilling these people’s delusional beliefs in her because she believes in them too. Now she’s out on Long Island where I grew up and lived for 30 years, with that other closeminded freak Hannity. I could never understand how he came from a town that is so progressive. Huntington, Long Island is such a great community on the North shore of Long Island, and yet he is from there. Who raised him?!?! lol. Same with Bill O’Reilly. He is from another Long Island town. The one thing Hannity and O’Reilly have in common about being from Long Island: They are both very arrogant and cocky. I don’t miss that aspect of living on Long Island.
Now I live in RIchmond, VA, but she’s been to the Richmond International Raceway and a local High school near me both during the 2008 campaign. People showed up at her events thinking she could save our country, but she is a cardboard cutout. Let her be President for a day and see how she would crumble.
All she goes on is her extreme religious beliefs and her ignorance of things outside her realm of understanding.
Lawrence O’Donnell on Sarah Palin:
“She is a bridge to nowhere for the Republican Party, and there isn’t a thinking Republican who does not know that right now.”
zing!
honestyinGov Says: They had a GOP strategist talking about the ‘ Palin fiasco’. She ended up with a remark saying they wish they could have resolved the issue …‘ like NORMAL people’.
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Oh, like Democrats resolve their issues, it will never happen….not when one of the resolvers is still [brain wise] in high school..
Anyone know why Sarah & Todd are refusing to wear an American Flag pin at all these events? Didn’t Sarah claim President Obama wasn’t a real American for not wearing one?
I see over at that “other website” they are telling their bloggers to “Freep” the KTUU poll that is going on tonight. They are working it hard as her percentages are going up. They do this to every poll. Why do they do this……it is not REALITY. They are only kidding themselves by rigging the vote. It really is quite sad that they have their eyes on every thing…they are paranoid. Same as Palin. Pathetic and desperate.
166 BooBooBear Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I see over at that “other website” they are telling their bloggers to “Freep” the KTUU poll that is going on tonight. They are working it hard as her percentages are going up. They do this to every poll. Why do they do this……it is not REALITY. They are only kidding themselves by rigging the vote. It really is quite sad that they have their eyes on every thing…they are paranoid. Same as Palin. Pathetic and desperate.
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Livin’ the LIE.
i think this article sums it up the Hannity interview nicely: http://gawker.com/5283939/sean-hannity-interviews-sarah-palin-in-the-woods
I managed to make it about 7 minutes into the interview with Hannity, and then I did a spit take when Sean Hannity asked her about the price of oil going up, and wouldn’t it be good for Alaska if it reached $140 a barrel? Her answer:
“Thank god it’s not at $140 [a barrel]. You know people say, “Hey, Alaska, 85 percent of your state budget is based on the price of a barrel of oil. Aren’t you glad the price is going up?. I say no! The fewer dollars that the state of Alaska government has, the fewer dollars we spent. And that’s good for our families and for the private sector.”
I think every single Alaskan needs to watch her say that. As an example of her grasp of economics, I think it says everything we need to know. We may wish it were otherwise, but the fact is this state would be dead in the water without the oil industry. For her to openly celebrate having less money in state coffers is unbelievable. The problem of how you spend it is entirely different (and why God invented politics).
Her pandering knows no bounds.
Does Palin even know what “socialism” is? Given she is Governor of Alaska.
I am surprised she avoide “also, too.”. It’s her trademark. Do you think she’s picked up on the fact that it’s used to make fun of her?
Just curious, why does this report say the fundraiser was for SarahPAC? It was for IGHL.
@Canadian Neighbour #154
I’m ready to be your neighbor if something traumatic happens down here…in 2012. :O
@Lori in Los Angeles #163
I saw Lawrence O’Donnell say that too…I like him…he’s so articulate and factual…he’s quick with his answers.
@BooBooBear #166
It only makes for a bigger let down when she fails miserably in the actual voting booth.
@mlaiuppa #169
palin should know what Socialism is…she runs her own state with distribution of wealth, right? She lies so much, she can’t keep it straight.
BooBooBear Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I see over at that “other website” they are telling their bloggers to “Freep” the KTUU poll that is going on tonight. They are working it hard as her percentages are going up. They do this to every poll.
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KTUU is completely aware that their ‘polls’ are spammed – and by whom. It says something about KTUU that they persist in putting these ridiculous things on their site.
Canada has a really nice national anthem.
…its all about ad $$, another example of GiNO being used while her flock think its more than the media using her to make money…
I’ve been involved with a little twitter exchange with Sarah’s favorite radio ‘host’, Eddie Burke, for the last day or so.
Seems Eddie learned nothing from his suspension for publicizing the personal info of the anti-Sarah protesters last year. Oh, and he still has disparaging names for them.
http://bit.ly/3v3uvq
Phil-when it comes to wing nuts and the foxes who feed on them there are no standards, except a rush to the dark recesses of the Id of the clueless.
How can the party of Lincoln have devolved to this?
Nasty, petty twits with the intellectual depth of a slug.
And aside, your rock garden is lovely. god compensates with your Summer and Spring what he inflicts on you the rest of the year.
Vidomnia
There was one for each entity, SarahPAC and the IGHL. They were almost piggybacked, I believe.
Jicker,
I don’t know how I missed your comment, but I’ve read it now and am gobsmacked.
I can see saying “Yes, to a point… but then it becomes a hardship for people” or almost ANYTHING other than “no, because then we spend it”
On the other hand, why should she worry; she can always hit up the hated “Feds” for a real emergency.
GreatGrey Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I notice that Eddie is repeating the LIE that Palin has been cleared of all ethics charges, but that is not true and everyone knows it. She is REQUIRED to pay back the State nearly TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for trips she charged for her kids that she shouldn’t have.
Merry Prankster, excellent reporting!
VidOmnia Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Just curious, why does this report say the fundraiser was for SarahPAC? It was for IGHL.
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You need to read the first sentence. Just the very first sentence.
Perhaps your omnia needs a trifle more vid.
101 justafarmer Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
“I agree with JRC @66.”
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Agree with you both.
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140 swe123 says: “4. Wouldn’t the school she graduated from ask her to be a commencement speaker? Or in some way use her for PR for the college?”
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They have, after a fashion.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-gop/2116852/posts
http://www.uidaho.edu/features/alumni/sarahpalin.aspx
heres the thing.
BHO has speech writers..and has had praise from everyone for his speaking ability..
G.W. was not a great talker,but you know when he said something important..oh like keeping the United States safe from terrorist attacks..He meant it.
People will complain about the Iraq war with regards to the GWOT (Global War on Terrorism) and how we didn’t need to blah blah blah.Saddam was captured and killed and we’re making small inroads in Pakistan..
What they don’t complain about is how Freddic Mac and Fannie Mae have almost gone under,but heavily supported BHO.
“A review of Federal Election Commission records back to 1989 reveals Obama in his three complete years in the Senate is the second largest recipient of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae campaign contributions, behind only Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the powerful chairman of the Senate banking committee. Dodd was first elected to the Senate in 1980.”
“In contrast, McCain warned of the coming mortgage crisis as he pressed in 2005 for regulatory reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
VidOmnia Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Just curious, why does this report say the fundraiser was for SarahPAC? It was for IGHL.
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Here’s a cookie Viddie sweetie. Now run along and let the grown-ups talk.
189 ak Says: June 9th, 2009 at 4:16 AM
G.W. was not a great talker,but you know when he said something important..oh like keeping the United States safe from terrorist attacks..He meant it.
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Do not make me spit my coffee all over you. Bush kept us safe from terrorists.
Right.
Tell that to Rob Schlegel and Candy Williams and Billy Kelly and Chuck Jones and John Jenkins and CeeCee Lyles and Mark Bingham and Tom Burnett and Todd Beamer and Steven Bates and Mike Horrocks and Ace the hockey player and nearly 3000 others who died on 9/11.
Fact is, Lyles, Bingham, Burnett and Beamer did much more to protect our country from terrorists on board Flight 93 than Bush did during his entire 8-year term.