The Great Coin Conspiracy & How Palin Helps the Democratic Party
10 11 2009
Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe has been outspoken lately about former VP candidate and almost-one-term governor Sarah Palin.
Last week he recounted that:
“Obama and I had a long talk late that afternoon to evaluate Palin. ‘I just don’t understand how this ends up working out for McCain,’ he said. ‘In the long term, I mean. The short term will be good for them. But when voters step back and analyze how he made this decision, I think he’s going to be in big trouble.”
A very cool and analytical response from Barack Obama. I like to think that after all the dropping of coffee cups and the scraping of chins off the floor, and the ripping out of large clumps of hair, that’s how Alaskan Democrats felt too.
Yesterday, Plouffe spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“I think she’ll be most helpful to the Democratic Party with a high profile,” Plouffe quipped. “I hope her book tour lasts two years.” Palin’s book hits shelves Nov. 17.
Palin case in point: Over the weekend, Palin appeared at an anti-abortion rights fundraiser in Wisconsin. She banned media — or even anyone from bringing cell phones or other recording devices inside. Nonetheless, Politico snuck a few reporters inside the old fashioned way: By paying the $30 entry fee. Their reward? The Rogue gave them some fresh material.
Mudflats’ Boots on the Ground reporter “E” was there too, taking notes and getting out the first report on the event right here, including Palin’s recounting of a story cited by Plouffe in which she talks about a dollar coin.
I looked at it for a long time and then compareed it to another original coin and noticed that the words “In God We Trust” are pushed to the side, off to the very edge. Who makes a decision like that? It may be irrelevant to lots of people, but it’s a sign of a disturbing trend to me. It worries me … Because it is in God we trust. That’s the basis of our country.
We are led to believe that somehow the Democrats and Obama are to blame. A quick fact check tells us that no, in fact it was then-President George W. Bush and the Republicans in Congress who literally marginalized God in 2005.
That’s why Plouffe said that when Palin is carrying the GOP banner, the party appeals to a smaller slice of the USA. “This is not where Middle America is,” Plouffe said.
[h/t Ink & Snow for the great cartoon!]
UPDATE:
Wow. Even Fox News is fact-checking and correcting Palin’s coin conspiracy!
November 11th, 2009 at 10:48 AM
“Because it is in God we trust. That’s the basis of our country”
If our country started in 1864 when it first appeared or in 1956 when it was called our national motto. How can someone who thinks the earth is a few thousand years old think US started in 1956.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
To whom asked about an Alaskan “putting a stake through Palin’s heart”.
First off she is no longer Alaska’s problem, perhaps you can find someone in New York, Hollywood or whereever her $7 million advance gets her. I certain hope that America is wised up enough that her sales don’t garner her more.
Second, good luck finding a heart to stake it is more elusive then a brain in that woman.
There is even more of a Palin coin story that never got covered. While governor she had a choice of the art on the Alaska statehood quarter: 1. There was the dog sledder in the foot hills of Denali 2. There was a polar bear. 3. And a grizzly bear.
With Alaska being the only state to have polar bears I thought it obvious which to choice. But Palin in her denial of the plite of the polarbear choice not to bring any attention to this dieing Alaskan mammal and of the equally vanishing polar ice.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:37 AM
To whom asked about an Alaskan “putting a stake through Palin’s heart”.
First off she is no longer Alaska’s problem, perhaps you can find someone in New York, Hollywood or where ever her $7 million advance gets her. I certainly hope that America has wised-up enough that her sales don’t garner her more.
Second, good luck finding a heart to “stake” it is more elusive then a brain in that woman.
There is even more of a Palin coin story that never got covered. While governor she had a choice of the art on the Alaska statehood quarter: 1. There was the dog sledder in the foot hills of Denali 2. There was a polar bear. 3. And a grizzly bear.
With Alaska being the only state to have polar bears I thought it obvious which to choice. But Palin in her denial of the plite of the polar bear chose not to bring any attention to this dieing Alaskan mammal and of the equally vanishing polar ice and chose the grizzly. Wonder art but less of a statement about Alaska then the polar bear would have been. And like I said that why she chose it.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:56 PM
‘Cause she’s the mother grizzley fiercely defending her cubs and protecting Alaska citizens! Raarrrghhh!