Boots on the Ground in Fairbanks – Sarah Palin’s Quitspeech
27 07 2009
I was very pleased to have some great “boots on the ground” in Fairbanks for Sarah Palin’s big Quitspeech at Quitfest on Quittyday. Thank you to Mudflatter Alaska Don who did a fabulous job reporting! There are also more pictures coming to entertain you later from other Mudflats “photobloggers.” Truly this was a day and a speech that will live in infamy.
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July 26th, 2009. Abdication Day.
The sun rose north by northeast of Fairbanks today at 4:30 AM, having set in the north by northwest last night shortly after 11:30 PM. It was mostly clear, with billowing dark clouds of smoke from forest fires burning a quarter-million acres 45 miles to the west. The wind could shift and bring it here. So far, so good. We spend a lot of time noticing the physical world up here. It’s often said we’re a Land of Extremes, and it’s true. Light and Dark: 22+ hours of sun at Summer Solstice; 3 hours and 42 minutes of official daylight on December 21. Hot and Cold: -60°F, sometimes for two or three weeks running; +93°F last week. The political geography tends to the extreme as well.
Today is Abdication Day and Sarah is stepping out at 3 PM this afternoon. 5000 of us will line up for the annual Governors Picnic because we are hardy individualists opposed to Socialism and Communism, like our Governor, but love free food and money. Last year Palin added an extra $1200 on top of the $1900 Permanent Fund Dividend. $3100 plus in cash, to every eligible man, woman and child. She knows us well, and is more than willing to spread it around, even when it becomes rather circular. She put out a half-billion dollar bonus incentive to build the gas line. which the largest gas field leasee, Exxon Mobil, recognized as free money and got in line to share as largess with TransCanada. We all talk a good game of capitalism around here until the free hot dogs are distributed.
Driving over to The Event I noticed a lot of traffic headed north on the Steese Highway, out of town toward the river and wilderness. Maybe locals were passing on the Transfer of Power? No such luck. Getting closer on the Peger Road approach where the park and the river meet, cars were lining the shoulders, LOTS of cars.
1:07 pm Walking under the bridge from the Riverview neighborhood, remnants of the Red Green duct-tape flotilla, held this morning, were hauling their ships ashore at a point 150 yards/meters from where they usually serve the public picnics–but not today. A harbinger?
Out near the front of Pioneer Park, a.k.a. Alaskaland, there were long lines for the free food, especially for the one where Governor Palin and Lt. Governor Parnell were all smiles, passing out hot dogs and tiny sacks of chips. Lots of tourists snapping photos.
Whoops! Suddenly the Guv left and the line shrank instantly. People in that line jumped to other, shorter ones. Bun on a plate, a cooked wiener, a bag of chips and a plastic cup for water, (but the water tanks were empty). Move on. I asked a fellow in line at Big Daddy’s Barbeque wagon for a $7 pulled pork sandwich why he wasn’t in the free hot dog queue adjacent and he said the food was better and the wait shorter. You get what you pay for.
2:20 PM Sections have filled in with Pro’s and Anti’s. Crowds are now thick in front of the prow of the Riverboat Nenana and splayed forward and to the left. At 2:30 PM Governor-in-Waiting Parnell and entourage walk a pathway sliced and guarded from disrupters to a ramp up into the decks of the riverboat. A twitter of anticipation ripples through the crowd. Behind me a woman grasps my shoulders and asks to look past. She says she used to live in Fairbanks but has moved to Palmer. “Fairbanks has too many of those, you know, who, who…” “Like those over there?”, I point to the group on the hill waving signs like, “Proud to be Palin-free” and “Sick of $arah”. “Yes”, she snaps. “You know she visited the flooded villages this spring and they LOVE her. She’s so nice.”
2:50 PM Ralph Seekins, local car dealer and Chairman of the Fairbanks Republican Club, takes close-up photos of his friends with a camera with a 14″ lens. It must pick up all the moles and warts? A former State Senator who was defeated by an ex-labor leader, he waits to leap into the throng of governor wannabees come next year, (or maybe sooner?). The Army band plays patriotic melodies from the top deck of the landlocked riverboat. Representative John Coghill, son of a former Lt. Governor and another possible candidate, walks up and back with his wife on the magic pathway, finally locating a pair of seats in the chosen ground away from unfriendly fire. Lots of tourists and out-of-towners in the crowd. An attractive woman in a stunning yellow and green silk dress rises from her seat in the roped off middle sector, walks around to visit and returns to her chair. “Another Democrat on welfare, NOT”, quips a bystander.
2:59 PM A file of principle players and honored guests emerges, striding down the ramp to the raised speakers area. The platform is flanked by banks of loudspeakers which also block the view of the recessed podium for many. North Pole Senator Gene Therriault, who lives in a safely gerrymandered election district and is NOT likely to run for governor next year, serves as emcee. The reverend Eleanor Rule (sp? they handed out programs only to the select few in the roped off seats in the sector where I stood so I don’t know how names were spelled), gave a bilingual invocation in Inupiaq (northern Eskimo) and English; it did not sound like local Athabaskan. Then Sarah came to the podium to give her valedictory. She warmed up with a remark about sunny Fairbanks and how some of the most patriotic people and some of the strongest supporters of our military live here. That sparked the crowd, ready for Pure Palin. She spoke about Denali, the mountain, and our famous cold and how it splits up the Cheechakos (newcomers) from the Sourdoughs (old timers), then launched into one of those roaring run-on sentence speeches about “merciless rivers rushing and carving and reminding us here Mother Nature wins and the rest of America sees in the Last Frontier hope and opportunity and country pride and it is our men and women in uniform securing it and we are facing tough challenges in America with some being just hellbent on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting that our best days were yesterdays, but as other people have asked, how can that pessimism be when proof of our greatness and our pride today is that we produce the great proud volunteers who sacrifice everything for country”. Applause from the crowd. Her entire speech is on YouTube HERE.
I paraphrase her continuing remarks to include references to “what you get to see everyday and North to the Future and our brave military and by God’s Grace and I promised to be fiscally restrained and hold schools accountable and elevate vo-tech training and manage our fish and wildlife and defend the Constitution and those Outside special interest groups still just don’t get it and you see I know that it is your money and you know best how to spend it.” It is difficult to comprehend how her unique combination of hot button words and phrases that blend across issues and categories make any sense but her followers believe they know what she is saying even when speaking in tongues. What she says may transcend English but no matter, they are certain they know what she means.
In the battle of signs, her supporters outnumbered her opponents. “Quit Baby Quit”, “Happy to Be Palin-Free” and “Quitter–You Betcha’” are
overshadowed by “We Love You Sarah” and “Great Job Sarah” and “Thank You Sarah”. The adulation that she seeks continues. Her supporters feel a bond and heartfelt emotion toward her. “O Beautiful for amber waves of grain” wafts over all as the new Governor-appointed and the temporary substitute Lt. Governor sign their oaths of office as the now ex-Governor disappears from view. Exit stage right.
So how many showed up? The Governor’s office claims 5000. We’ll leave it to experts in crowd estimation. It was several thousand. 50%, perhaps 70%, were supporters–not all by any means. Many were undoubtedly curiosity seekers, wondering if this was really a noteworthy moment in history. Temporary substitute Lt. Governor Campbell gave a lively but mostly forgettable speech aimed toward Governor-appointed Parnell that seemed a shot across the bow for the next governor’s race, (”I worked with your father when he was on the Anchorage Assembly”, with “little boy” seemingly implied and silent inside his remark). Parnell’s speech was bland by comparison, very sincere and predictable and basically boring. How well will they work together? Next year’s Republican primary for governor will have a cast of a dozen or more.
And Sarah? Whither Sister Sarah and why?
She shouted out to a heckler who questioned why she resigned. She said “he didn’t get it”, that not serving as a lame duck and not doing politics as usual and saving us millions of dollars and we are proud of our patriotic troops explains it. Talking in tongues again. He didn’t get it but her followers seem to or at least won’t admit to doubt. Like, do YOU get it? It must be the $11 million book offer, the TV talking heads show possibilities, the cashing in of those once valuable chips before they become worthless. Did sparing her family from the bloodsport of politics and media really have anything to do with resigning with a year and a half remaining in her term of office as Governor of the State of Alaska?
What it comes down to is in the eyes of the beholder: Either Sister Sarah the Divine is saving all by leaving it behind, or Sarah Palin is a Quitter. You Betcha’.
~~~Jason Jones of The Daily Show interviews Fairbanksan Lisa Peger, who hasn’t a clue how he is leading her on by seeming to agree.
Submitted by:
Boots-on-the-Ground-Fairbanks, Alaska Don.
26 July 2009
July 27th, 2009 at 10:25 PM
To those who braved the alternate reality that was yesterday in Fairbanks…good on you! You are far better than I. I would have been screaming and coming totally unglued. RRH: I love the little old lady in the lobby of your ex-hotel. Don’t blame you for leaving. There are quite a few places in Fairbanks that allow dogs. I’m sure that you found another one.
There are 2 beautiful write ups over at ozmud.wordpres.com. Sorry, I still don’t know how to get a link here.
Just a snippet:
“Sarah Palin’s nastiness is surpassed only by her overly-elevated sense of importance. I’m happy she’s no longer in office. I hope the good people of Alaska, especially the ones who have suffered hunger, sickness and great personal loss at her neglect in rallying to provide for them during times of crisis can one day forgive her incredibly uncaring decisions to refuse federal aid.
And most importantly, I hope people all across the country will one day soon figure out that government, in a democracy, is made up of ordinary citizens. It’s made up of ‘us’. Some of us are assholes, sure, but most are not. This constant Republican Party battlecry which infers the federal government is a separate, foreign entity that needs to be stopped in it’s tracks – is worse than ignorance personified. It’s Madison Avenue hype deliberately injected into politics so you’ll buy their brand. It’s just wrong.
The federal gvernment is not your enemy. If you don’t like the way it’s being run – vote to change who’s running it. But for God’s sake, stop letting people like Sarah Palin point a gun at Washington, screaming shoot!”
I have to feed my dogs and check out Letterman. Be back later.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:30 PM
@RubberRoom: I feel you completely. I have family members who I love dearly whose minds are completely closed to anything negative about Palin. “Everybody is just jealous because she is so beautiful.”, ” Everybody is jealous because she is such a strong women willing to stand up against the status quo”. Everybody is afraid of a woman President because she is more qualified than most men”. On and on and on. We have ended up in screaming matches and I decided that I had the power to walk away from their shallowness and blindness. So, I did. We rarely speak and sometimes I feel as if I have lost something major, but I know that staying away is the best.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I have worked as an election official in my small community for many years.
I always get kind of sick when counting up the votes at the end of an election day. This year we had 39 votes for McCain, 9 for Obama, It was 32 for Stevens and 9 for Begich and you had a good bunch that would have rather voted for anybody than a democrat. Several people voted absentee though I can be pretty sure what way they voted.
I am pretty used to not agreeing politically with my neighbors, and have had some mostly good natured grousing matches with them. Palin and frankly Obama changed all that. Some of it stopped being a friendly disagreement to down right ugly anger.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Great report, Alaska Don! I’m especially impressed by your amazing paraphrasing of the Quitter’s final run-on rant. Hope it didn’t scramble your neurons completely.
Also, thanks to Rubber Room Hotel’s added commentary. Very interesting, RRH.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Not saying in anyway that it was Obama’s fault it is the down right predigest behavior that made it get so bad and that Palin just seems be able to feed there appetites for reasons to hate.
It is like all these people who sat on there hands during the Bush years but now want to protest Obama and the Feds with this Tea party nonsense.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:47 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#32177164
Did anyone watch Hardball 7/27/09? Start watching the above video at about 5:30. Chris Matthews asks Pat Buchanan what has been said by the media that is not true about Sarah Palin.
Pat Buchanan said the allegation was floating all over the place reported by the media that Bristol’s child, or rather the child she was born with down syndrome was actually Bristol Palin’s.
This is the very FIRST time I have heard anyone mention the “allegation” on television, and bless his little black conservative heart, it came from Pat Buchanan!! Sort of like a Grandpa Heath moment with the water breaking! ROFLMAO!
July 27th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
93 Mac Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Thanks for the report Don – well done!
Saw the Daily Show and the Colbert Report tonight and the were fantastic! If you missed them, do yourself a favor and watch the repeat or look it up on line. Well worth your time. Bill Kristol was on the Daily Show and Jon Stewart skewered him nicely! What a twit he is! But even he won’t vote for her if she runs in 2012…
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I know, wasn’t it great! Stewart has a way…a very intelligent way! Love the palin photo with ‘quitter’ as Twitter logo under her pic…also too.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:57 PM
RE: the Hardball video I posted above, I hope the MSM will use this prime opportunity to discuss babygate now since, as they say in court proceedings, Pat Buchanan “opened the door”. Keith? Rachel? Shannyn? Anybody??? Go for it!!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:04 PM
TheRubberRoom: Those people already harbor those deep set feelings. They just cannot wait for someone like Palin (of like mind) to come along and stoke them to get the hate fires going.
ProChoiceGrandma: I saw ” Hardball ” and that is what Buchanan is feeling for Palin X’s two. He threw out the Babygate theory because he felt it was the lesser of all the lies that Palin has told. He has the hots for Palin while he keeps his hand on the Bible. The hypocrit!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:07 PM
PtoChoiceGrandma: Yeppers! I think that that is a door that Keith, Rachel, Shannyn etc. can plow right on through. Uh hum!!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:15 PM
I think the MSM will keep mostly away from the babygate story. No matter what the truth is I don’t think people will want to touch it and it has to potential to backfire very badly it is like poison and they will stay away mostly and use it only to defend her.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:30 PM
OMG on Connan tonight he has William Shatner doing the Palin speech with bongos as poetry (the part about Alaska and Denali) Oh man that was great.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Rubber Room Hotel, I respectfully disagree. I feel it is important to bring light to Sarah’s deep dark secret because it displays the incredibly bad judgment she used to conceal the embarrassment she felt because her 16 yr old got pregnant. I also feel Bristol was abused terribly by the fact that she had to remain in hiding during the later stage of her pregnancy with Trig and still have to maintain this lie for her mother’s political career. If Sarah was so easily influenced by an idea from Desperate Housewives, what would she do to cover up any perceived embarrassment in a national government position? It tells a great deal about her character, or lack thereof.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:40 PM
The baby scandal is in the same category as birthers. Other than some pictures of questionable value there is no proof. There is plenty of credible evidence of how bad Sarah’s character and behavior are without dragging her children into it.
She is just daring you to try. Don’t.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:43 PM
@RubberRoomHotel: I totally agree concerning babygate. It’s a very touchie subject and no one wants to end up up with egg on his/her face on National TV. On the other hand, if they had substantial and supportive evidence that SP lied about giving birth, then that would be huge breaking news. Touche’. Anyway have a fruitful conversation. I am out!!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:45 PM
@SameOld: You hit the nail on the proverbial head. I’m out!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Lani, I loved it with the bongos and the cadence. Maybe sarah can pick up some clues there!
July 28th, 2009 at 12:23 AM
No matter what Palins deceit is I feel that babtgate it is still a taboo subject and even if the truth does come to out as being other than what Palin says it is I don’t really think it will hurt her. They will spin it in a see she is so great raising this special needs child as hers, or it will be spun as attacking the child and not Sarah. Even people who would be appalled normally will find ways to defend her.
The information about the special needs baby and the long labor flight has been out there for a long time now and people are leaving it alone mostly.
I will say that if Palin runs for president then opposition from her own party might use it effectively, but no MSN will go with it right now I think.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:50 AM
The state legislature really blew it when they did not impeach Palin for her abuse of power over troopergate.
If that does not warrant impeachment in Alaska, what does?
What does a governor have to do? Murder a baby at high noon in front of the state capitol buildings?
Not even a single sanction.
The legislature gave her the green light to carry on and did she EVER!
In my humble opinion, Alaskans should hold this legislature responsible for all Palin’s actions after The Branchflower report.
What a waste of time and money for nothing but, MORE abuse of power.
They say that there was “no political will”.
All that means is that, not a single legislator, had the intestinal fortitude to protect the people of Alaska from a governor who THEY found to have extensively abused the power of her office.
By doing nothing, the legislature made itself irrelevant to the people of Alaska.
I know just how difficult it is to keep up with governor grifter.
But the responsibility and blame sits directly at the feet of the legislature who knew better, and whose JOB it is to protect the people of Alaska.
In fact the legislature should have been the first people to look at the legality of the Alaska Fund Trust and SarahPac.
If the legislature did it’s JOB there would be no need for citizens to file so many ethics complaints.
I think it is the untold story, as everyone focuses on what scam Palin will come up with next.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:51 AM
RE: The photo link caligrl put up:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0gyg8cMgOf6v1.
Man, Todd looks worn out here, doesn’t he?
July 28th, 2009 at 4:47 AM
120 tigerwine Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 3:51 AM
RE: The photo link caligrl put up:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0gyg8cMgOf6v1.
Man, Todd looks worn out here, doesn’t he?
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Is that Bristol in the background ?!?!? If so , she looks FRIED !! Aged 10 yrs.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:05 AM
Sameold, I understand the traps in the babygate story, but I have been on it for months and here are the two pieces that just don’t add up and have no easy explanation (and the photo evidence is enough for me, but this is fishy):
1) ADN tried to do a story to put the rumors to rest for good. They WANTED to help her make this go away. They couldn’t do the story in the end because Palin would not cooperate. Friendly reporter, friendly paper trying to end the rumors, and they refused to participate. The reporter could have been shown the hospital bracelets, photos, birth cert in private, and then testified they were real and that would have been enough.
2) All photos and videos from the legislative session of Jan -April 2008 are gone from the ADN and the Governors website. WHY? She lives for photo-ops. This is the time when all the work of the legislature happens and yet the photos are gone, excpet a few that were saved by bloggers.
Those two oddities don’t prove anything, but what other explanation is there?
July 28th, 2009 at 5:08 AM
REL: babygate and Levi. Why does Levi travel with a bodyguard and sometimes two?
Why is Rex Butler footing the bill for Levi’s travel and bodyguard? Levi is a celeb but he is not THAT cute and might get a TV reality show, but why would his book be of interest to anyone unless HE KNOWS SOMETHING JUICY THAT IS WORTH MILLIONS.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:41 AM
Lilybart –
Hell yeah Levi knows something juicy. He is holding some seriously good cards in this little game. He is good hands with Rex and Tank. Go Team Levi !!
July 28th, 2009 at 5:43 AM
the Shatner video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdqRbWYWbU
July 28th, 2009 at 6:07 AM
I still think that something forced Palin to make this choice..at this moment.
I don’t know what it is, but something made her quit on short notice.
Has anyone seen Bristol (standing) lately? She wasn’t by her mother’s side during the quitting speech and hasn’t been on-stage since. Is she hiding another surprise?
Maybe she is pregnant again and Palin thought she should get out of office before the firestorm hit. ie: Before Bristol started showing.
Just a thought. I’m still searching for a good reason for that last minute quitting speech before the holiday weekend.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:50 AM
Alaska Don….GREAT JOB!
I have sometimes wondered what it would take to be able to be a guest contributor at the Mudflats….and now I know.
I would have to learn to write! And write well! Very impressive, Don….
July 28th, 2009 at 6:52 AM
The Rubber Room Hotel Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 11:15 PM
I think the MSM will keep mostly away from the babygate story. No matter what the truth is I don’t think people will want to touch it and it has to potential to backfire very badly it is like poison and they will stay away mostly and use it only to defend her.
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I could not beleive ole Pat buchanan trottin’ out the babygate story as one of the lies…! Its is probably the only “Lie” that hasn’t been proven against her!!! I saw on one of the tabs a story that she quit b/c of the Brad hansen story. LOL! These are all old news red herrings to deflect from the BIG, BIG news we are about to hear. With Palin TRUTH is a lie, and her lies are Truth!
Can’t wait till the big one hits
July 28th, 2009 at 7:16 AM
#102 & #103 I lost friends and got in heated disagreements with family during this past election. I’m not sure what fanned the flames, I’ll always believe that many try to portray themselves as open minded and tolerant when it comes to race. In reality many people hold a deep seated bigotry that surfaces when it’s in their life, the thought of a man of color being in charge is not acceptable to these people & they will use a million excuses why they have such animosity towards President Obama. In their hearts they truly do think they’re better and brighter than a person of color. As far as the babygate story goes, I say leave it alone. If it’s true it will come to light, but being such a critic of the birthers, I can’t in good conscience go along with it.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:25 AM
for Austintx:
you asked if that was Bristol in the background in the photo above of the praying Palin couple. I believe that is Bristol’s cousin, I forget name. But from a blurred distance she looks a great deal like Bristol; similar hair coloring and style, wih widow’s peak, face shape similar. I think sometimes Sarah uses her to “stand-in” for Bristol, or maybe just for the folly of confusing people. (many think she may account for the few public sightings of Bristol during those mysterious months around spring ‘08)
I believe it was the REAL Bristol seen holding Tripp at the first picnic in Wasilla. And she still looks great; svelte and fresh.
I don’t think the Palin parents (Sarah & T) look so ragged either, considering. Somewhere there’s a mirror that’s taking a hit for all of this, a la Dorian Gray.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Excellent Job Alaska Don!
July 28th, 2009 at 7:46 AM
Palinbots like to compare Palin to Richard Nixon, but there are several inconsistencies in even comparing Palin to Richard Nixon.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
HEY HEY HEY is that Dennis Zaki at minute 8:37 calling Jon Stewarts guy a
P R I C K? LOL.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/daily-show-bids-farewell_n_246065.html
July 28th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I just saved the poetic text of the QuitSpeech to a Word file, and noticed it looked wrong in Arial or any simple and clear font. But discovered it reads
much better in Lucida Handwriting.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Yeah, Nixon actually had a functioning brain. She, otoh, has some kind of mental disorder.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:25 AM
crystalwolf aka caligrl Says:
These are all old news red herrings to deflect from the BIG, BIG news we are about to hear. With Palin TRUTH is a lie, and her lies are Truth!
Can’t wait till the big one hits
Do you something your not sharing with us pups? Come on and fill us in pleeeese.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Sorry , Know something
July 28th, 2009 at 8:31 AM
“Yeah, Nixon actually had a functioning brain. She, otoh, has some kind of mental disorder.”
Yup!
July 28th, 2009 at 8:36 AM
MeAgain (133)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/daily-show-bids-farewell_n_246065.html
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Thank you for posting that link!
What made me lose it was the exchange with the older woman right after that 8:37 spot that ended with:
“…and when they write down her words and repeat ‘em verbatim – they make her look like an idiot!”
“Right…” agrees the Palin supporter, all unaware.
Loved it.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
@Alaska Don
Thanks. I love it all–but most especially this paragraph:
“Today is Abdication Day and Sarah is stepping out at 3 PM this afternoon. 5000 of us will line up for the annual Governors Picnic because we are hardy individualists opposed to Socialism and Communism, like our Governor, but love free food and money. Last year Palin added an extra $1200 on top of the $1900 Permanent Fund Dividend. $3100 plus in cash, to every eligible man, woman and child. She knows us well, and is more than willing to spread it around, even when it becomes rather circular. She put out a half-billion dollar bonus incentive to build the gas line. which the largest gas field leasee, Exxon Mobil, recognized as free money and got in line to share as largess with TransCanada. We all talk a good game of capitalism around here until the free hot dogs are distributed.”
July 28th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Great “boots on the ground” coverage of the event.
She may be out of office – but she is far from being down and out (yet?) — I still worry that she can rile up the wingnut base in ways too horrible to imagine and the violence that could be the result could be dangerous in many ways — we all still need to keep an eye on her.
Any one know her new twitter account? For comedy value alone – it could be fun to read once in awhile
July 28th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
@ Rubber Room Hotel Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I am experiencing this also in my own rural Alaska community. We all got to know each other a lot better during the 2008 election and some of it was not very pretty.
“I am pretty used to not agreeing politically with my neighbors, and have had some mostly good natured grousing matches with them. Palin and frankly Obama changed all that. Some of it stopped being a friendly disagreement to down right ugly anger.”
July 28th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
@mudkitten wrote
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It’s like Peggy Noonan, Jack London, and William Faulkner wandered into the woods with three buttons of peyote and one typewriter, and only this speech emerged.
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This is simply one of the funniest lines I’ve EVER read! Love it! LOOVVE it!
July 28th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
80 sally Says: July 27th, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Alaskans, do you feel ashamed and embarrassed for our state? I sure as heck do and I’d like to travel outside and say “I’m from Iceland in instead of Alaska.”
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Naaahhh…
Ya alls ought to be proud. Enough of youse stood up and got rid of the worst governor in the country. There’s plenty reason to be proud to be Alaskan. I’d shake yer hand anytime.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Mudkitten,
“It’s like Peggy Noonan, Jack London, and William Faulkner wandered into the woods with three buttons of peyote and one typewriter, and only this speech emerged.
…. she composed a resignation speech by throwing culture war stock phrases into a hat and dumping it upside down on a copy of The Paranoid Style in American Politics.”
Beautiful! I love it!
Rubber Room Hotel, you have my respect and sympathy. It’s hard when people you know and respect have swallowed not one lie, but an alternate reality. They are ego- invested in the whole world-picture, and won’t give it up until the opinions of those around them change. Eventually, the lies will do it. I remember Nixon, how all the Republicans defended him, Watergate was a “third-rate burglary” that the liberal media had blown up into a scandal to bring him down. When the tapes showed he had been lying about the Watergate cover-up, it was over, and the Republicans abandoned him. I think people will accept graft — in effect, being stolen from — much more readily than being lied to about something important.
There are a number of lies that have been made public, but they haven’t been the big ones that slap people in the face. The big lie that’s out there waiting is that she wasn’t pregnant with Trig. I find the photographic evidence convincing beyond a reasonable doubt, her story is unbelievable. If the MSM can get over their queasiness and take it on, it will bring her down.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:22 PM
In the picture of SP on stage from the side, the dude in the red tie is sleeping.
July 30th, 2009 at 12:04 AM
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