Congratulations to the Media, the Political Class, and the Obots!
By pm317 on July 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM in Current Affairs
You hounded another female politician out.
Palin, the quitter — that is what they say. Convenient, isn’t it when they are the ones who chased her out? Yes, I do mean chased, hounded her out. For all womankind, I hope it is a temporary retreat and she comes back to give them hell. I have my doubts but my gut tells me that she has a card up her sleeve. I hope that she gets her day in the court of public opinion absent the vitriol of the haters.
Let us not forget that she was a duly elected and popular governor of a state when she was brought on the national scene. Though I think she was prematurely thrust into it, she exhibited raw talent and good potential. We will not know for sure how she would have grown as a politician given a fair chance. It is a mystery to me why they could not let her fizzle out on her own flaws if that was their case. Did they fear that if they could successfully sell the unqualified and inexperienced Obama, someone else could perhaps do the same with Palin then and in the future, possibly as a credible threat to Obama’s second term? Would that explain why they hounded her, went after her family, even the little child? Viciousness seems to be the hallmark of the golden age of Obama.
As Stanley Fish put it, “The accusations had been coming from all sides, from investigators of her ethics, from Alaska Democrats and fellow Republicans, from officials in the McCain campaign, from scathing magazine articles, from what she termed the mockery and humiliation directed at her son Trig, from late-night comedians taking potshots at her daughters” and if they wanted to know why she resigned, they only had to listen to her:
Palin had barely finished speaking when MSNBC paraded analysts from both sides of the aisle (Matt Lewis and Chris Kofinis) who agreed that (1) it was a disastrous performance and (2) they couldn’t for the life of them figure out why she had delivered it. Kofinis: “It’s hard to understand why she’s resigning.” Lewis: “What she’s essentially done is guarantee that no pundit could make any intellectual defense of her.”
Later, Joe Scarborough pronounced in the same vein: “It’s hard to find a compelling reason.” The former majority leader of her own party, Ralph Samuels, chimed in, “I’ve had a million calls today from friends, all political junkies, and everyone is asking the same questions. Is it national ambition, or does she want time to write the book, or is she just tired of it. Don’t have a clue.”
Maybe he should look at the video and pay attention this time to the reasons she gives. It is true that her statement was not constructed in a straightforward, logical manner, but the main theme was sounded often and plainly: This is not what I signed up for. I’m spending all my time and the state’s money responding to attack after attack and they aren’t going to let up because, “It doesn’t cost the people who make these silly accusations a dime.” [emphasis added]
[snip]
She dated the beginning of her trials and tribulations from the moment in August, 2008, when “political operatives descended on Alaska digging for dirt.” She complained that “millions of dollars go down the drain in this new political environment.” She signaled repeatedly her weariness with the “superficial political blood–sport” politics has become. She returned to her own sport, basketball, to explain that because she had become a distraction she was going to do what a good point guard always does, pass the ball to someone (her lieutenant governor) in a better position to make the shot. [emphasis added] And in the end she earned the declaration that “I have given my reasons plainly and candidly.”
But the pundits didn’t want to hear them or, rather, they were committed to believing that the real reasons lay elsewhere, and were strategic. They couldn’t fathom the possibility that she was just giving voice to her feelings. It must, they assumed, be a calculation, and having decided that, they happily went on to describe how bad a calculation it was.
Just to keep the perspective, contrast how the gaffe-prone VP, Biden got treated all through the campaign and after the election. James Taranto at the WSJ calls it The Biden Curve, pointing out the disparate treatment of Biden versus Palin by the Leftist media, as one gets cloaked in subtlety the other gets accused of stupidity for saying pretty much the same thing.
Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against the Iranian nuclear-weapons program, the U.S. will not “dictate” otherwise. A reader points out that Sarah Palin, who ran against Biden in last year’s election, said much the same thing in a September interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson:
Gibson: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
Palin: Well, first, we are friends with Israel and I don’t think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.
Gibson asked the same question again two more times and Palin repeated that we should not second-guess what Israel does to defend itself. (Go on to Taranto’s article for a comparison of what Matthew Yglesias said about Palin then and what he said about Biden now about that statement on Israel.)
Hillary first, then Palin. If Palin was unqualified and inexperienced to the haters (a la Obama, let us remind them), what was their reason to go after Hillary? I know, I know. She was just not likable enough. Last two years have been rough on all of us. Where do we, women (and some egalitarian men) go from here? Will we ever see another female politician on a national ticket anytime soon? I fear the answer to that question will be — “yes, when the good old boys network decides when it is convenient for them.”
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GOP Palin-Hater Liz Trotta: Sarah Palin is Wacky & Crazy- Only Got Ahead Because of Her Looks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP99nNRDuyE
Well, they are preparing for the ‘Jeb/Mitt’ ticket while knocking Palin, using women like Trotta as ‘experts’, I imagine an expert on self hate as she looks like a woman.
We Must Divest From Misogyny NOW!
She’s not a rich woman, not yet. She’s a struggling middle class mother who buys generic diapers at Wal-Mart. The attorney costs were too much, plus the cost to the state. The people of Alaska and her family were more important to her than the political games.
I don’t know if she’ll be back as a Republican though. After listening to her talk again, the things they’ve done and said to her, I get the feeling she’s leaving the Republican Party.
Now she’ll make some money and then she’ll be back with a vengeance. I honestly believe we’re going to see a spike in 2010 with Independents and then again in 2012. Too many people are growing tired of the partisan division. I know I and my friends are. I’m proud to be an American first. I don’t need a D or an R to know where I stand. I want whomever is going to do the best they can for the American people, without all the BS.
I hope she does come back with a vengeance. She is not a shrinking violet and there is something refreshing about her courage even with this decision to resign (to say FU to conformists). But she will need outside support to spring back. We don’t know where that will come from.
The Palin family assets before her book deal top 1 million. That’s not middle America. Her book deal is said to be for 7 million: that’s less middle America still. It’s money they earned and are well entitled to, but it’s still not middle America. The average American household (averaging in the incomes of our 269 US billionaires) is around $50,000. There is no way of knowing average assets but it is surely not anywhere close to a million dollars. Get real.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/543404.html
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=average+us+salary&page=1&qsrc=121&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHousehold_income_in_the_United_States
You have a problem with her making money? I don’t-though our family’s income is just over $30,000.
Are we all supposed to limit our income to the national average, even if we work hard enough to earn more?
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
can you not read, moron? It says, highlighted, It’s money they earned and are well entitled to.
jeebus but you are stupid.
Really ugly reply there, NOM– “moron” and “stupid” — how old are you? Your previous post indicated criticism of Palin for not being middle-class and PamFlorida was responding to the spirit of your post. I agree with PamFlorida — your post sounded like sour grapes to me, too. What was the point of discussing Palin’s income in comparison to the national average? No point? Just commenting? Yeah, right.
“Your previous post indicated criticism of Palin for not being middle-class…”
Incorrect: I said very clearly & once again for the hard of reading: It’s money they earned and are well entitled to, but it’s still not middle America. There is no criticism against Palin at all, it is a criticism of falsely portraying her as something she is not: middle America.
“What was the point of discussing Palin’s income in comparison to the national average?” Uh, how about because the national average defines what middle America is??
And if you don’t want to be hit back, respond, preferably sensibly, to the actual post and not the one you imagined in your head.
I disagree, if you’re talking about total assets, which includes her home and their business assets. Over 1 million in total assets, including a house, a business, cars, etc. does not a really wealthy person make, especially if the bank owns more of the assets than the family.
They’re not poor, but they are not upper class by a long shot. They are the first very successful generation in their families, and if you compare that to the generational wealth of most of our current crop of senators, the Palins are not even in the same league. That’s probably one reason why most of the “villagers” hate them so much.
Are they Gates’ or Rockefellers? Not even close. Are they in the top 10% of Americans? Yes, well within.
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/retirement/20071101_American_wealth_a1.asp
I agree with you that they are not “upper class” in the sense of social class; but the post was not about social class, it was about financial status, and they are in the upper tier of income in this country. A majority of Americans still do not have college degrees. They are both quite successful.
You must be a coaster. Here in the fly over country we have a saying about people who are in the agricultural business: “Land rich and money poor”. On the books my family business is worth several millions but we also pay enormous property taxes, payroll taxes for the 10 families we fully employ plus their benefits, like vacation, sick leave and health insurance and we don’t get to set the price for our products like those in retail do, we are at the mercy of the middleman buyer. Our annual take home earnings are often less than $60,000, most of our workers drive newer model cars than we drive because we put most of the profits back into the business.
And I consider being in the fishing business as agriculture because it is providing food for the population.
So I consider your comment completely clueless.
No, I am myself from a farming background. I understand the land rich money poor concept quite well. What you conveniently ignore is that in the event of a catastrophe you have major assets that can be used to bail yourself out and against which you can receive credit: something those who are land poor and money poor can’t do.
I have said it before and I will keep saying it this is exactly what the world speaks about the “Ugly American”, I have never seen a society that seems to take so much pleasure in destroying their own its really unbelievable.
I agree, we’ve come to the point in this country we’re hell bent on destroying anything/anyone we can. That we take great delight in doing so. Where so many are so miserable in their own existence that they have to make everyone else around them as miserable was they are. When 90% of it is in their own minds. I told my children repeatedly when they were young, “No one, nor anything is responsible for your happiness other than you and you alone. You can choose to be happy, to change your circumstances or you can choose to wallow in your own misery.” It seems far too many have chosen the latter.
I’m sorry that should read as they are, not was they are.
You are so right. The “Ugly American” looks down on people with cultural values that are different from their own. With the superiority complex shown by Sarah’s critics, it’s not a stretch to call them Ugly Americans. Their attacks have certainly been ugly.
I was stationed in the what was West Germany in the 1970s and they took a dim view of most Americans, primarily for our collective penchant for employing a dogmatic approach to every problem and resorting to the big stick fallacy when the dogma wasn’t convincing. While Americans may be very good at solving technical problems, they are woefully inadequate at solving problems involving nuance and at embracing compromise. The big stick only works when the adversary has something to lose.
My beef with obots was persecuting Clinton supporters in this forum. The economy would be well on its way to health if she’d been elected. And good, strong healthcare would be in the works.
Palin, you can skewer and roast. She’s pathetic.
Have said it before, in the immediate aftermath, and will say it again.
Her colors don’t run and neither does she.
Stay tuned.
[Note: Contributions to SaraPAC and the Alaska fund (for legal costs) INCREASED after her announcement. Does that tell you anything about the vacuousness of the punditry? The pundits have ceased pundit-ing at all. Now they only opine what they want the truth to be. Sort of like predicting their own opinion. How enlightening.]
Indie— i love your catchy phrase about Sarah running TO the fight.
Great stuff!
Misogynist men are terrified by Palin. They perceive her to be the most dangerous of kind of female: intelligent, beautiful, courageous, hunts, fish, and consistently multi-tasks, the classic pioneer woman side by side with her pioneer husband who is not afraid of a strong woman. She also shows up those women who think they have to necessarily abandon family life in exchange for a successful career.
I hope she will have enough support to spearhead and form the nucleus of a middle part with the American Eagle as its symbol.
She isn’t saying anything much different from many Dem politicians in many regards. She should preface and say, “Well I agree with (insert Democrat) and first, we are friends with Israel and I don’t think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.”
And “Say it ain’t so, Joe” vs. the complete trashing of Clinton for Kyl-Lieberman.
First they harrassed our first bonafide feminist President, Bill Clinton, to the point the Clintons left the White House in debt. It took a couple of best-selling books for them to get out of debt. Then you have 18 months of harrassment with Hillary then worse harrassment against Sarah because she’s working class and not connected like the Clintons. This is similar to Iran cracking down on the women-lead opposition and their first feminist candidate, Mousavi. Leftist and conservative men worldwide are the same. Women threaten them more than anything.
Then we have Sarah with as many frivolous lawsuits as the Clintons writing a book to recoup the losses. Sexism was behind the suits against both the Clintons and the Palins. Hopefully, the Republican Party can recoup her losses.
Anyone see the pattern here?
Yup, its the pattern of misogyny and society afraid of strong women. NOW, the Democrats, have control of the Senate and the House and Obama is POTUS, but they say they can’t pass Health Care Reform with a public option? Single Payer NOW!
I was JUST GONNA SAY!!!!!! Fauxgressives should STFU about Republicans because Obama is the problem, not Blue Dogs, not Republicans, not 54-dimensional chess. Obama himself us a conservative. He only cares about the bankers, the insurance companies. He DOESN’T CARE about job creation BECAUSE HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU. He only cares about himself and marginally about his family because they are props to get him the only thing he cares about. Power for himself. We told you he was a conservative 14 months ago. If he wants a public option, we’d have a public option. If he wanted single payer, we’d have single payer. It’s that simple but he’s a Republican.
Sarah Palin is not dumb any more than Bush was dumb. He spent every week of his Presidency hoarding the money for his Republican friends. That’s competence. Obama has the White House, Congress, Senate, the good will if the world and can’t get universal health care.He’s dumb and incompetent.
I have a feeling she won’t stay out of the arena, much to the dismay of her detractors. No matter what form her political participation takes, we can expect more of the same from her enemies though. That she’s such a target speaks to the monumental threat she poses. It’s been mentioned recently that Roger Ailes salvaged Nixon’s political career — maybe he has something in mind for Palin. I no longer watch much TV news but it’s telling that FOX is gaining ground. Stay tuned.
BTW, the latest Rasmussen poll has Obama at 52/48.
I wish her the best,whatever she decides to do,
Hmmm… Palin leaving conventional politics, Hillary on her way out (if she’s smart) of BO(zo)’s administration in the next six months. BO(zo)’s ratings tanking as the cheap plastic veneer wears off…
Every one in the country disgusted with Demmicans and Republicrats alike…
I smell a 3rd party with an interesting ticket: Clinton/Palin in 2012…
From your words to God’s ears. That would absolutely make up for the hell we are suffering now. Imagine Clinton/Palin! they would be unstopable!
W0000000000000T!!!!
I”m glad SArah wised up. After the Republicans did that to Bill (over and over as nothing got done the last few years) It was disgusting then and it’s disgusting now.
bogus charges and wasting tax payers money on frivolous lawsuits used to be the venue for the RICH but as Sarah mentioned it doesn’t cost some of them a DIME if they know how to do it and they learned from the best and now it’s pay back time
I hate when people act all OLD TESTAMENT eye for an eye!
How far can you realistically go back in time to BLAME someone???? Bush has my pet goat, harriet meyers, katrina, gonzalez & the attorneys, cunningham, delay, foley, Iraq “mission accomplished”, etc, etc.
We never imagined we could find “again” such an idiot run the country
we did
and we walked right OVER the only qualified person at the time (hillary)
Americans in MASS are ignorant. Yet they keep picking our winners for us? ARGH!
It’s a media driven, entertainment worshipping mass of American voters who didn’t really look at what they were getting. Couple that with the Obama gang behind the scene mustering Acorn etc. to illegally get voters and you have the perfect storm for a politician with a bit of charisma. Many Americans are very stuck in their own little boxes and are what I call “headline readers”. Whatever the headline and first sentence is that’s what they believe is the truth.That’s if they read at all. They never look at the details because they are too “busy” or not focused enough to go beyond the first line. They believe the media manipulation without questioning it. Hence, we are stuck with this nightmare until at least the 2010 elections.
Who stood up for Palin before, during and after the election? Not the mainstream media who went after her like wolves, not McCain’s handlers nor his staff, not the Republican party. And then the constant ethics violation charges. I have not seen one male poltiician treated in this way–for god’s sake Spitzer, ensign,sanford–the only thing they got was some ‘bad press.’ And now she makes a decision to leave her post because of the millions spent by the state to defend against bogus charges and she’s crucified for that when a male politician would be given kudos. This is too much and the very worst part of all of this is the female journalists, pundits and op-edsters who acted worse than any male misogynists. I don’t think they deserve to be in the same country as Palin. Go Sarah.
I’m surprised at the amount of hate that spews out of the mouths of men AND women when a woman seeks a position of power in this country. First Hillary, then Sarah; different scripts, same hate. Why do so many Americans hate white women in power? What are they afraid of?
Women across America, by sabotaging Hillary and Palin, just strengthened the narrative that women are bitter conniving creatures who will stop at nothing in order to trip up another female.
Congratulations America….Mean Girls 101!
TOP Mean Girl has to be HOFF and PUFF ‘Dalin’…who’s site attacked both Hillary and Palin and is still making money of Palin (just look at the side line with all the Palin stories).
Also CNN is still going with the meme of some ‘possible’ Palin wrong doing with Wolfe Blitser (gossip).
Sarah Palin is authentic and genuine…she isn’t contrived…she threatens the MSM and this version of the democratic party…she has outfoxed the media and they cannot control her - hard as they try - insult and ridicule after more insults - and the dems are playing chicago style hardball with her…
…the saddest thing the democratic party revealed in the last year is that they are no party for women…they have they special interest women agenda and that does not include all women…maybe if you live in iraq or iran…but not all AMERICAN women…if you don’t tow their line, you will be destroyed in the most sexist terms…
hypocrisy revealed at its worse…
That was certainly the rudest awakening for me about the Democrat (I can’t bring myself to say Democratic in relation to them) party. I found myself looking back across the years, suddenly realizing how they duped us.
My daughter found it amusing that I finally became a feminist via Hillary and Sarah. I did not find it amusing that she, along with others in my family, did not take the time to research the truth about Obama and fell for every lie and smear about Sarah. I was and am still mortified and shocked that all it took was her anti-abortion personal rather than legislative stance to turn them into lunatics. Maybe it is as much declaring independence from Mom as anything else…Now I stay quiet until they are ready to scream “Uncle”…not too far away. Then we will talk turkey. I have faith that they are intelligent enough to recover.
Spammy likes me today…keeping my posts to itself.
I have heard it all now. Someone called into the Al Sharpton radio show and linked Sarah Palin with being involved with Micheal Jackson’s death. I just can’t stop laughing at the absurity of some people and their Palin hate.
“But, I think maybe she did something to Michael Jackson. Maybe there’s a scandal there. Maybe she’s stepping down because something’s about to come out. I don’t know, but I’m gonna just put it out there on your show so we’ll see.”
http://www.breitbart.tv/caller-to-al-sharpton-radio-show-links-sarah-palin-with-michael-jacksons-death/
Now that truly takes the cake!
If she has truly left politics then great! Her policies and politics would have been a disaster for this country. Her evangelical far right-wing politics are not what this country needs or wants.
As for quitting her job in Alaska to chase the national spot lite, that is a disgrace. The people of Alaska and her supporters deserve better. I suspect she had no stomach for the job, to do the hard slogging required in Alaska now that the oil revenues have dried up. How the hell can she be trusted to do the larger job of running the country and facing off against guys like Putin and taking on the much larger and more serious problems of the country when she does not even want to do the much simpler job in Alaska, and makes up every excuse in the world why she quite?
Using the media or her critics as an excuse for quitting is a joke. She is a hypocrite. She has no problem throwing the particularly vicious mud, as she did during the campaign, but “apparently” develops a thin skin when the critics attack her and her hypocritical or none existent positions, policies and solutions. She also has no problem putting her child on the cover of People magazine or letting her daughter go on CNN to hypocritically talk about abstinence, opening her up to scrutiny and critism. Or she has no problem booting out Levi Johnston once he was of no political use to her (his tell all book should be explosive). By the way she lied about saying that the ethics complaints were costing the state of Alaska millions, try $300,000 and 2/3 of that was from Troopergate, which had two simultaneous investigations thanks to Palin’s own actions. See here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907070023 About $40 million was spent chasing Clinton, so $300,000 is a bit of a joke to say you are quitting the job that the people of Alaska had entrusted to you. By the way Troopergate was not frivolous, she did not even cooperate with the investigation. Troopergate alone should disqualify her from public office. She says she does not want to be a lame duck, so what she is saying is that all politicians should quite before the end of there term and the job is done.
All she had to do was go back to Alaska and do her job. If she did a good job and got some more experience and a proven track record then come back to the national stage. It seems like she was not interested in doing her job (apparently she became too big for the job) and was off signing $11 million book deals and talking to CNN about doing a show. This has all been staged managed. She will be in the lower 48 raising money and making money after abandoning the people of her state.
“Her vice presidential run — and the circus of Troopergate — changed her life and changed the political landscape in Alaska. Relations with the Legislature, never ideal, grew worse. She was often described by lawmakers as “disengaged.” She seemed to keep looking south even after returning north in November, and she was a more fierce partisan of the Republican right.”
“But we thought she’d finish her work on the home front first. She hasn’t made clear why she won’t.”
http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/852900.html
Give it a rest, boob.
Not when you’re being hounded to the point that you can no longer perform your function as Governor. What you looney-tune leftists are doing is to Palin is analogous to what the right wing AND left wing did to the Clintons. She can’t do her job and fight these vindictive, baseless accusations.
You Obamatron lackeys come here spouting your pre-programmed talking points put together for you by the other bots higher up in the bot organization. The trouble with that scenario is that you cretins only have those points and nothing else with which to argue. A Powerpoint presentation does not make you world-class debaters and your current comment only serves as documentation of that simple truth. Go argue with a teenager–they might actually buy your crap. No adult will.
Who exactly was hounding her when she went back to Alaska? Complete BS. Where is the proof that the hounding she supposively had in Alaska was so bad that she had to quite? It seems like it was more like she had no appetite for the job. A cop out! or more likely her national exasperations were better served without having to full fill here allegence to the state of Alaska.
Crickey, what a dim bulb!
I’m not going to do your research for you, drip. The evidence is as plain as the word “stupid” that is tattooed to your shrunken forehead.
Palin probably knows how to spell “supposedly”…..
-As for quitting her job in Alaska to chase the national spot lite, that is a disgrace. -
How long did Obama serve his constituents in Washington before chasing the national spotlight and going out on the road campaigning with no time to meet in…which were the committees….EU and Afghanistan…for starters.
And he NEVER held a subcommittee meeting on Afghanistan, either. Gee, he was a quitter before he started.
To this day he does not understand Afghanistan and it is why he did not send ALL the troops he was asked for.
His indifference has gotten people dead.
Can the same be said of Gov. Palin?
Ferd, you could say this about Obama as Senator. All he did was run for POTUS as Senator.
zzzzzz, you’re putting me to sleep with your interminable hysterical rant.
zzzz. What a great descriptive moniker. More like asleep at the wheel. Go back to HuffPo. No patience for you here.
Well, my heart broke when Hillary was demeaned by Obama and his bots. My heart breaks to see another woman treated the same way - good old Salinsky/Chicago style tactics.
I say we stand stronger, and if Sarah does run - fight with everything we have to get her elected.
She has my vote!!!
I’m glad you wrote this article. From the beginning, I had no problem understanding Palin’s reasons for resigning her post as she gave them (and without a teleprompter!). Most in the media just can’t understand a person with integrity who says what they mean and mean what they say.
I think you’re on to something there. She didn’t equivocate and those of the bot persuasion just have a dickens of a time with that. They’re so busy looking for hidden meanings and code words, such as when That One off-gasses, that they completely overlook the obvious–she said exactly what she meant.
Wow, what a unique concept.
Earlier, I made my first post here since shortly after the election–guess it was too long for the moderator. It contained my analysis of why Sarah Palin resigned at this point.
Basically, you can figure it out on your own if you read Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War. Reference his advice on what a commander should do to avoid leading his (in this case, her) forces into a trap; check out the term “desperate ground” and its modern modification, “death ground.”
The Obama sycophants are disgusting, especially in their abysmal treatment of women in politics. This is why I left the Democratic party, and won’t be back until the scourge of Obama is cleaned up and eliminated.
Oh, and this is funny. Snopes, always in the back pocket of Obama, was caught red-handed fudging the “truth” –at least as they claim–about the place of Obama’s birth. Snopes is a joke, and of course we have always known Obama is a joke. Read this article at WND, and see how quickly Snopes acted to try to cover their ass.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103306
There was two parts to what happened. Frost Gov. Palin was not going to run for reelection and the second was the stepping down. The stepping down was exactly as Gov. Palin stated. The gridlock and the ethical motive of not being a “lame duck”. She knows the book and I am not talking good book. Gov. Palin needed away to counter the book and she found it by stepping down. Now she will go on the attack against O and the immoral spending and other issues.
“One other thought about Alaska that just about everyone in the tradmed seems to be missing. Sarah Palin did have a job in between being mayor of Wasilla and Alaska Governor: she was chair of Frank Murkowski’s Oil and Gas Commission. How long was she on this Commission? Less than a year… until she quit in January 2004 with a big public huff (leaving the Commission in the lurch with only one member), saying “the experience was taking the ‘oomph’ out of her passion for government service and she decided to quit rather than becoming bitter.” She publicly cited her frustration with being unable to be all straight-talky and mavericky about the corruption and backbiting on the Commission, but the resignation also came at a very convenient time for switching over to lay the groundwork for her successful 2006 gubernatorial run.”
http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/5222/ssp-daily-digest-76
Palin also quit four different colleges before getting a degree in journalism. Palin has clearly learned that quitters always win.
Go back to Snoozeville. You’re boring.
How do you live on five dollars an hour?
How do you live on five dollars an hour?
As detailed above, Obama is dumber and less competent than Palin or Bush. If we don’t get universal health care, he’s a one-termed.
They say Ramen every day will kill you in the end.
Clearly it starts with brain damage…
One of the pieces of the puzzle thaat I wonder about is the oil of Alaska and BO’s energy policy.
The Lt. Gov;
Both he and Palin served on the Energy Council.
So I can’t help wonder if oil had anything to do with the assault launched against her.
I see many a person rail against Palin, my sane half included and it is a viseral dislike that is based in emotionalism. Lizard brain Politics.
Just before taking to the the podium to anounce her resignation, Palin handed off a baby bottle.
What ever your opinion is of Palin, that told me all I need to know.
H/t PM317
Thank you, PM317, well said!!!”
Camille Paglia offers advice to Sarah Palin:
She also needs a shrewder, cooler take on the mainstream media, with its preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags. The Northeastern media establishment is in decline, and everyone knows it…
The vicious double standard is pretty obvious. Only the tabloids, for example, ran the photos of a piss-drunk Chelsea Clinton, panties exposed, falling into her car outside London clubs a few years ago.
Camille Paglia would be an interesting media advisor for Palin.
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jul/07/palins-office-details-complaint-costs/
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin’s office has released a nearly $2 million cost breakdown detailing what the resigning Alaska governor says the state has paid tackling ethics complaints against her.
The spreadsheet compiled by the governor’s office totals more than $1.9 million reportedly spent by various state agencies to handle the complaints as well as public records requests.
Palin, who steps down July 26, has racked up more than $500,000 in personal legal debts on top of that.
A couple of great comments from your reference article.
“Show me the spread sheet! It includes troopergate and probably the salaries of those who work in the former Gov.’s office - salaries that would be paid regardless. Does it show the “quoted” prices for the records requests? The records requests are paid for by the people requesting them. No cost to AK. Show me the spread sheet. Don’t just take their word for it.”
“So the state had to go out and hire new people to answer the complaints? Weren’t these people going to get paid anyway? What important tasks were they not able to complete in their normal work day because they were researching and responding to ethics complaints? Sarah says she spent 90% of her time with staff working on these complaints? She needs better staff members if that is the case. Millions? Not even close. Still waiting for the those emails you hid from Alaskans Sarah. Also, still waiting for you to release your testimony to the personnel board that you promised. Oh yeah, that was the ethics complaint you fired against yourself because you didn’t like the independent finding of the legislative investigator that you abused your office. How much of those millions were because of that? Open, transparent, ethical, “hold me accountable”. You’re a liar, and now you’re a quitter. Goodbye and good riddance. I hope the rest of America never falls for your shtick like Alaskans did.”
Wow, she had 80% plus approval ratings before she made note that those Obamopolis pillars were really made of styrofoam… which they were. That was a fitting an analysis of the man as I have heard to date.
Hey Doc,
Sarah is going to be the big surprise!
I can just feel it in the air..
Today I saw two Palin bumper stickers up here in Latte Land..
One of them is mine!
Seattle, I think Palin is very underestimated by our enemy… our enemy being the status quo of the current two party system. Obama might just bring about change, but it might not be the change he wanted. We have a pro Palin household here. We need somebody to speak up for those who are for now forgotten… Americans.
This has got to be the most delusional pandering post I’ve ever read here.
“…hounded her out”???
As John McEnroe might say,
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS
NO, there’s no bad publicity as long as they spell your name right. And virtually no one is misspelling Palin.
While everyone’s waxing over insults, why, really, did Palin quit; that’s right, I said QUIT?
Answer; the media/publicity machine named it’s price, and Palin not only took it, she LUNGED at it. Why give a rats ass about the AK governor’s term, when you can be a ***STAR***?
With all the free publicity, upcoming book(s), speaking and the like, she stands to haul in more cash than Davy Crockett, as Forest Gump might say.
Of course, not all the publicity is free. A savvy finincial advisor might look at money spent defending ethics complaints as a wise career investment.
I do agree with one sentiment; we most certainly will be hearing more from Palin in the future. She will become the golden goose of the fund-raising circuit.
What’s that sound; I think I hear a 3AM phone call from Karl Rove.
So, all of this, running for Mayor, for Governor, and then getting tapped for VP, was all about the money. And based on your logic, all of the insults to her and her family, the ridicule, the baseless ethics complaints, etc., was all a big, money generating, publicity stunt. Do think that Palin is Machiavellian enough to have planned all of this? Or did it just sort of fall into her lap? And if that is the case, do you think that Palin has enjoyed the national abuse that she and her family have experienced for close to a year?
As a country, we can no longer imagine a politician of national stature that isn’t stinking rich. When the founding fathers created the machinery to run this country, they envisioned that the elected representatives would be bright public servants drawn from the general populace, not necessarily elite and wealthy dandies drawn from Ivy League snob factories. Ronald Reagan was the last President that came from a truly modest, middle America background, and attended an unremarkable college, yet only a fool would deny that he was one of the most effective leaders of our time.
The basic irony regarding Palin is that it is the fact of her middle class status that made her vulnerable to attack. Do you think that if she was as wealthy as a Kennedy, Kerry, or Romney, that she would have been assaulted with endless ethics charges? Wealthy politicians have armies of lawyers that swat such irritants like flies. Those people attacking Palin were trying to win through attrition, they knew that endless legal battles would drain Palin of resources and drive her into financial and political bankruptcy. Sadly, in our political culture, a commoner like Palin, regardless of talent, drive, and popularity, cannot survive if the entrenched aristocracy wants them off the Polo Field.
If Palin and her family somehow profit from the assault on their lives and reputations, terrific. After what they’ve been through, they deserve all they can get.
“So, all of this…a…publicity stunt”
I doubt if anyone goes into public life with a guaranteed master plan. The point is, despite the characterizations as eccentric, she’s definitely not dumb enough to pass up this high-paying opportuntity.
“founding fathers…envisioned…bright public servants”
This is a little off topic, but they probably didn’t dwell too much on the relative brightness of public servants. More likely bigger fish to fry, like representative accountability and tyranny of a majority.
“Ronald Reagan” was a successful actor, no matter what his occupation. Get used to it.
“…assaulted with endless ethics charges”
You don’t really think Palin is the first person this ever happened to, do you? Ethics complaints come with the territory, as any governor will tell you.
Meanwhile, beyond litigation, what do others do when assualted?
Kennedy - Chappaquiddick
Kerry - Swift Boat
Whatever else they did, they didn’t quit.
Romney, in a class by himself, will go down in animal abuse history as making the news by strapping his dog to the roof of his vacation-mobile, and only stopped when the dog shit all over the windows. Miraculously, Romney survived.
“…cannot survive if the entrenched aristocracy wants them off the Polo Field”
Presently, Palin cannot NOT survive. Far from being off the field, she will be paid very well to be in the announcers box over the field, just to talk like she already talks anyway.
It’s a very disturbing phenomenon when people like you chmoore see life only through the distorting lens where money is the paramount measure of a successful life. Your whole attitude seems to be that no matter what abuse the Palins have suffered, it’s OK because they’ll profit from what must be a painful episode in their lives. When all of the lawsuits are settled, I’m sure that the shamefully defamed Duke lacross players will also be wealthy. But, I’m sure if you asked them, they would probably tell you that they would rather not have gone through their ordeal in the first place. I’m sure the Palins have similar sentiments. Sarah was a popular and effective governor, and she seemed very devoted to the citizens of Alaska. However, fighting ridiculous charges on a constant basis put her in a position where she had to cover her own ass instead of serving the needs of her constituents. Again, a wealthier person could have absorbed the attacks, or nobody would attack in the first place knowing that it would be futile. Palin had few options, and she chose the needs of her family over serving any longer as an unfairly compromised Governor.
Kennedy was guilty of at least negligent homicide, he should have been given jail time. The fact that he didn’t pay dearly was due to his wealth, and supports my claim that money is a good protective shield. It’s a shield the Palins don’t have, even to fend off spurious assaults.
Kerry is a pathetic weasel. According to ALL accounts, his service in Viet Nam was less than stellar, and upon returning home, he rather publicly trashed the men he served with, and snobbishly spit on our country. Again, his wealth seems to be the only thing that elevates him above a life of obscurity. Without his $$$ we would never have heard of him.
“”Ronald Reagan” was a successful actor, no matter what his occupation.”???
Well, as I wrote, only a FOOL would deny that he was one of the most effective leaders of our time. He is actually considered one of the greatest World leaders in recent history. The world would be vastly different without his input, and not different in a good way. Perhaps “fool” isn’t strong enough, drooling cretin would be a better description of the kind of person that would minimize Reagan as simply a good actor.
Apparantly, we agree to disagree. From my view, you are only seeing what you want to see; and of course, I would guess you probably think the same of me.
But still, if your cat has kittens in the oven, you wouldn’t call them biscuits, would you?
Let’s see what happens next year, during congress elections, and their fundraisers.
If my cat had kittens in the oven, I might call them crispy critters. Sorry, but I’m not quite sure where you were going with that sentence.
Just substitute Sarah for GWB
If George Bush had…
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a t houghtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky ?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potato e as “proof” of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day”, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually “get” what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again 10 times within years, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 5 months — so you’ll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
That’s an excellent start tzada! Let’s also not forget how Bush would have been ridiculed if he had:
Claimed that 10,000 people died in a Kansas tornado.
Thought that the Great Lakes were in Oregon.
Claimed to have visited 57 states.
Aknowledged that raising capital gains taxes lowers revenue, but it is still the fair thing to do.
Spent millions trying to keep broad swaths of his past secret.
Attended an anti American, racist church for 20 years.
You know tzada, most of the contributors at NQ seem to be well aware of ALL of this nonsense, and could keep this list going endlessly. I’m beginning to get the feeling that the toxic levels of frustration created by trying to convince blind obamabots that their god is a fraud, may cause insanity. No matter how compelling the evidence may be, it may not be possible to deprogram a full blown Obama kool-aid chugger, so maybe we should just stop trying. Maybe they’re not even worth the effort, they’re already on the well greased tracks to Hell. Let ‘em slide.
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Palin already faced down 15 false ethics charges, at great expense time and money wise. Next year, there would have been 150, the year after 300, there would have been no limit to how many charges the Palin haters would throw at her.
It was a game she couldn’t possibly win, so she changed the game. Simple yet brilliant
Palin stated a major reason she was QUITing was to alleviate the cost to Alasks for defending her from lawsuits. Actually all those legal fees get paid out whether they are defending her or just pushing paper around a desk. The money spent by Alaska on lawyers will not decrease when they are no longer defending Sarah Quitter Pailin. The only thing those lawsuits are costing the people of Alaska is it’s making a handful of overpaid lawyers work a little harder for the money they are already guaranteed.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jziegler/2009/07/09/the-truth-about-sarah-palin%E2%80%99s-resignation/
But those weren’t the only breadcrumbs Palin left in the weeks leading up to her “Independence Day.” I found it particularly amusing that when Palin said in one of her post-resignation interviews that “If I die politically, I die, so be it,” this was breathlessly reported as Palin admitting her resignation had hurt her chances of ever being President (as if she was too stupid to know that obvious reality when she made the decision). What the ignorant/lazy media hoards failed to realize is that Palin had made almost the exact same statement in a public speech in the weeks leading up to her resignation.
In short, Palin’s resignation has been misreported and misperceived because of the horrendously biased and incomplete coverage of her over the past ten months. It’s not just that a completely phony narrative has been created by the media which makes it easy for people to think of her as stupid, incompetent, overly ambitious, diva-like, nutty and capable of massive lies (the LA Times and NY Times published rumors she faked the pregnancy of her down syndrome child!!). If possible, it is actually even worse than all of that.
Even if they were capable of seeing through the obviously grotesquely flawed media created caricature of her, the vast majority of the public simply doesn’t have enough information to connect all the dots themselves and put her move into its proper context. (I must state here that while in a rational world this should have been taken care of by the news media, Palin and her people should have realized this was not going to be the case and made more of an effort to lay the educational foundation for the resignation to be properly interpreted.)
For instance, how in the world can anyone fully understand why Palin took this action unless they know this is not the first time she’s done something like this? How many people are aware that in 2004 (almost exactly the same amount of time before her election as Governor as there is now before the 2012 primaries) Palin put her political career in jeopardy and resigned out of principle from a cushy government job as the chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission? My guess is very, very few.
I’m sure most members of the news media know nothing about this basic and relevant fact from Palin’s background because I’ve done my own “poll.” Every time a media inquiry to discuss Palin’s resignation came my way I made a point of asking the reporter if they knew about this episode. So far I have yet to find even one who had a clue, and this sample includes a writer from The New York Times!!
As maddening as this kind of incompetence is, the most insane element of the reaction to Palin’s resignation is the complete inability of the vast majority of the press — and at least some of the public — to even comprehend the possibility that she just might be telling the truth about how and why she came to this decision.
This will evidently come as a complete shock to nearly every member of the media elite, but not everyone in public life is a manipulative and cynical liar, and not every person who has a shot at being President must live their lives to pursue that end no matter the costs to the public good, their family and their personal sanity. The Sarah Palin I know is at least one person in that position who is sufficiently well-grounded and secure enough in themselves and their values to not succumb to this illness of hyper-ambition. She is more than capable of putting something else above her own selfish, short-term political self-interest. You would think that a just society might reward that kind of person and not crucify them, but it has been long since clear that we don’t live in that kind of place.
The bottom line is that Sarah Palin resigned simply because she was no longer allowed to do her job in a way that benefited her state and family. She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources and doom it to gridlock. She knew that it would also continue to cost her family hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend against false and maliciously filed ethics complaints. And she had simply had enough of her children being fodder for inappropriate public attacks.
That’s it. Those are the facts and I’m positive there’s nothing else. There is ABSOLUTELY no hidden scandal (or as CNN’s hack Rick Sanchez “reported,” an unplanned pregnancy) and this was NOT a poorly executed ploy to ignite a 2012 Presidential run. Sarah Palin simply came to the “remarkable” conclusion that stepping down was the right thing to do for the greater good. How sad is it that so many in media (including a whole lot of “conservatives”) can’t even begin to see this obvious reality.
I know that whatever I say is discounted because I created a film largely about Sarah Palin, and I have made it clear that I have personal admiration for her (I guess I would be more credible if I was a liberal who didn’t know anything about her), but I have never been more confident in any public declaration I have ever made. The media-created perception of this woman is the most corruptly inaccurate I’ve ever seen, and their attacks on her and her family are the most outrageous and dangerous I’ve ever been aware of.
Every single American, regardless of their politics, should be frightened by what’s happened to Sarah Palin. I truly believe that if they knew just how false the impression of her is they’ve been spoon fed for the sake of ratings, political agenda and, as she herself said, “blood sport,” there would be an uprising.
There’s a lot of blame to go around for how and why this has been allowed to happen, but I want to make special mention of some my conservative media “friends” (that is just an expression, I don’t really have many friends in the media) who have once again revealed just how weak, shortsighted and willing to sell out they really are. Regardless of what you think of Sarah Palin, every single conservative who attacks her by buying into media-created falsehoods so they can curry favor with the media elite should be seen as traitors to the movement. You have been duped and used as cover for a public lynching.
The latest to fall into this trap is CPAC’s Chairman David Keene who ripped Palin (mimicking a false claim put forward by several prominent conservative commentators) for “whining” about press coverage and declared her unfit for a Presidential run. Could someone PLEASE show me just ONE legitimate example (no one making the claim has even bothered to try) of where Palin has “whined” about something that has been said about her publicly?! Are these people saying you can’t set the record straight about lies? Are you not supposed to fight back against illegitimate attacks? Gee, that strategy worked so well for President Bush. And these are the so called leaders of the movement? No wonder we are where we are.
Along the same lines, I have been astonished that a majority of conservative media members have completely skipped over an incredibly important phase in the process of accepting that Palin is not likely to be elected President in 2012…
Outrage.
Are we really so numb that we jump right from shock to acceptance and even criticism of the victim without bothering to express outrage over the crime itself?!! Have conservatives really become that wussified? Can you imagine how the left/media would react if one of their stars had been taken out in such a vicious and unprecedentedly inappropriate manner??! Michael Jackson’s funeral might have even been preempted!
For all the left’s many flaws, you have to give them this, they play for keeps. They understand this is a war. If the apparent destruction of Sarah Palin doesn’t make conservatives wake up and realize that they’re bringing butter knives to gun fights and must start protecting their warriors, there simply won’t be anyone left standing to carry the flag.
As for what the future holds for Sarah Palin, I honestly don’t know (and I don’t think she does either). My personal belief is, barring a catastrophe, that the only person with the potential to beat Obama in 2012 is Tiger Woods, but he’ll be doing more important things. I told Palin after my first interview with her that I hoped she held her fire until 2016 when the Messiah was no longer a factor and the media narrative would be all about her comeback. I still believe that scenario is more than viable.
I do know that what we’ve learned about Sarah Palin over the past ten months has proven that she’s a remarkable person. It just saddens me that the real story has not been told. I wish we lived in a country where character like this was rewarded or that we even deserved a leader like her. Unfortunately, I fear we do not.
However, I take solace in the knowledge that Sarah Palin disagrees with me on this point, and that she doesn’t need her ultimate reward to include living in the White House
Well said. I believe “the real story” will get out there, despite the media’s suppression of the truth and I hope the American people surprise (shock) the smug media who have assumed they could make or break any politician with their comments.
Since so many on this site seem comfortable with spouting unsupported opinions, here’s mine:
Sarah Palin in one of those people, like George Bush, who thinks it’s possible to “fake it” when it comes to leadership. Without expertise, intellectual curiosity, integrity, they think that putting on the suit and looking the part is all that is required. At least George Bush had some experts surrounding him; Palin has her old school chums from high school in top state jobs in AK. With oil prices sliding, AK is facing some rough patches and we’ll see how well that works out. Of course, Sarah will be long gone when crunch time comes and won’t have to face the music.
Actually, I hope she’s going to “take the money” and tend to that sweet, troubled family of hers. But if she wants to run for President, I welcome the very easy win for President Obama.
Now, you may begin the insults. I’m out of here.
Obama is a douchebag. How about that?
ROFL!!!!!!!
More lying by Palin on the supposive costs to fight the ethics charges against her.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/310/story/71675.html
She is good at playing the vicitim. Have all you NQ bots convinced.
Lost in Translation
Why Sarah Palin really quit us.
When America is finally ready to reckon with the phenomenon that was Sarah Palin, I suspect we will discover that whatever she represents actually had less to do with her gender, class, or ideology than we now believe. It’s easy to look at the soon-to-be-former governor of Alaska as an iconic feminist, a path-breaking working mother, or noble rabble-rousing populist. But when the dust settles, the lesson may be that she was simply a woman who made no sense. Her meteoric rise and dubious fall will say less about America than you think, beyond the fact that America likes its politicians to communicate their ideas clearly. We will someday come to realize that while it’s all well and good to be mavericky with one’s policies, it’s never smart to be mavericky with one’s message.
Whatever you may think of Sarah Palin, she’s widely celebrated as a rare and perhaps raw political talent. She’s gorgeous, charismatic, warm, and funny. She has a remarkable ability to connect with her listeners. But—with the exception of a well-scripted performance at the Republican National Convention—it’s tough to find an extemporaneous Palin speech, statement, or tweet that contains a coherent message. From her acceptance speech last August in Dayton, Ohio, when McCain first tapped her as a running mate, to her circular and swooping prime-time interviews, Palin’s political skill lies in selling a persona but not a message. And in the end, this may explain why she quit.
Palin’s completely inscrutable resignation speech last week was only the most recent example of a lengthy political communication from her that explained nothing, clarified nothing, and expounded upon nothing, save for the fact that she speaks in riddles and koans. Watch it as many times as you like; you still come away feeling you’ve been treated to a cozy chat with the Mad Hatter. The media are bad. Those ethics complaints are expensive. Alaska was a great idea. She is not a dead fish. Put it all together and what do you get? A born fighter who has given us no sense whatsoever of what she’s fighting for.
Had Palin simply quit without giving a press conference, there might have been a lesson in this exercise. Feminists would be free to say there are double standards for women, and conservatives could argue she was too visionary for her time. But Palin’s act of explaining her resignation to us in a torrent of unconnected sentence fragments left everyone wondering, What was the point of Sarah Palin? If she cannot even communicate a simple idea (”I’m quitting because …”), why should we care that she’s quitting?
That’s why the strangest part of the Sarah Palin saga will always be her loathing of the media. She never failed to remind us that she didn’t like being “filtered.” She only wanted to talk directly to us, her listeners. Yet the reason Sarah Palin continues to have any kind of political force at all in this country is because of the media “filter.” The media helped refine and define her Dada statements and arguments into something that briefly sounded like a coherent worldview. Yesterday morning, Gov. Palin excoriated Andrea Mitchell for “not listening to me” in an NBC interview. You have to go back and watch the clip before you can apprehend that Mitchell was indeed listening. It was Palin who was speaking in half-expressed thoughts and internal contradictions.
It’s too easy to characterize Sarah Palin as an irrational bundle of bristling grievance. But I think it’s more complicated than her simple love for playing the victim all the time. If you think of Palin as someone who never felt herself to be fully heard or understood, not truly politically realized in the eyes of the American public, her rage toward the country, the media, and those of us who fail to love and understand her is easier to comprehend. Think of an American visiting France who believes that if he just speaks louder, he will be speaking French. Palin has done everything in her power to explain herself to us, and still we fail to appreciate what she is all about. I’d be frustrated, too, if I thought I was offering up straight talk and nobody was getting the message. Especially if I held a degree in communications.
Once you understand that Palin’s only actual message is the importance of loving and understanding Palin, it becomes easier to understand why she quit. The more Palin tries to explain herself, the more we all fail to get her. Every time she goes off script, she makes less sense. No wonder she didn’t want to do debate prep or be coached by the McCain communications team. Instead of thanking those who packaged, explained, and spun her, Palin resents them. And because she believes she has been crystal clear all along, she’s come to resent us, too. The enduring political lesson of Sarah Palin may simply be that for most of her political career she’s been lost in translation, without fully appreciating that only in translation was she ever, briefly found.
http://www.slate.com/id/2222523/
Why didn’t you just link the article rather than pasting it without quotations, I might add. Don’t you have any original thoughts or are you waiting for the teleprompter to come online?
Isn’t it strange that the Almighty Spam Filter allows this essay to go through while routinely rejecting brief legitimate responses to comments?
Come on, you know better than that. Spam filter does not know one thing from another. If this got caught in the filter, someone must have rescued it, since we don’t believe in censorship or suppression.
But I have to say more hogwash from the slate guys, in a nutshell, they shake their head and say “we don’t know what she is saying because it is all so Palin.” Fools.
pm317–I was not implying “censorship or suppression,” particularly not on the part of the administration of NQ. I do know that the activities of the spam filter have gotten to the point where they are so aggravating and so unpredictable that posting on this site has become, for me at least, more trouble than it’s worth. I’ve been here a long time, and it’s definitely gotten worse.
Really, I have been cleaning the spam the last couple of days off and on. Not many comments in there, less than 5 that are meaningful. Anyway, as you know we are all volunteers here and we will try and do our best. Leave a comment and the writer of the post should be able to rescue it. But I agree, it does throw a wrench into the continuity of the conversation.
pm317, I have written a general analysis of the spam filter problem, and I will post it on the next open thread. I appreciate the work that you and the other administrators have done in trying to deal with this frustrating situation. Thank you.
oowawa Pm317 ; gday to ya both…
The spam filter does seem very strange and picky. That being the case perhaps there is a way of having a ‘pre-approval- list’ so regular posters at NQ are not thwarted in posting comments.
Since the filter is most likely overflowing with filth, (if the one I use at work is any example), I would think doing so would keep the hardworking staff at NQ from having to swim in the muck.
On that note just wanted to say I very much appreciate the staff at NQ and the insights of people who post at this site.
It is very poor form what K did posting the drivel and making a fool of “itself”.
Peace to you both.
Every time one of my comments has gone into that singularity, it has been duly extricated. That tells me something is definitely amiss. Perhaps it was programmed in China or else it is one of Gill Bates useless applications in its perpetual beta-testing phase that has all the work done by unpaid volunteers, i.e., those who shelled out good money for a product that had no quality assurance built into it up front and zippo in the way of requirements management documentation written for it. Trust me, I work with much more sophisticated applications than the stuff being foisted upon an unsuspecting public and it works right out of the box.
Windows 2008 R2 RC IIS 7.5 has no WebDav extenions currently, which I spent yesterday “finding out”…
Technology, eh!
I was only saying it is a “time dilation”, time that otherwise would be better spent than dumpster diving.
I just wish the “unsuspecting public” worked “right out of the box”.
Palin “lies”? Ha, that’s a laugh. Please, Obama is the king of the liars. He has gone back on so many campaign pledges we have lost count. The guy is a douchebag, and a usurper to boot. Please read this. The cover-up regarding Obama’s alleged birth in Hawaii is falling apart. Obama’s eligibility to be POTUS is the biggest lie of all. Please note now that representative Neil Abercrombie has completely removed the image of the alleged letter he received from the White House on Jan. 24 where Obama states he was born in Kapiolani hospital in Hawaii. They had proudly displayed this letter for months until WND discovered it was not a letter at all but written in HTML on the web. Please compare in the link below how the representative’s web page looks now compared to how it looked just yesterday from the screen shots provided by WND.
http://www.house.gov/list/speech/hi01_abercrombie/nb09kapiolani_hospital_message.shtml
I tell you what, here is the next course of business. Abercrombie should be bombarded with requests to produce the alleged letter from the White House. I mean, really pursue this thing. I hope WND or someone else is working this angle right now. Sometimes such seemingly innocent slip ups turn out to be major breaking points. In time, Obama and all his minions will be brought down.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Brushing aside the criticisms of pundits and politicos, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans to jump immediately back into the national political fray — stumping for conservative issues and even Democrats — after she prematurely vacates her elected post at month’s end.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/12/palin-stump-conservative-democrats/?feat=home_cube_position1