Sarah Palin resigns as Governor

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It's phony and calculated to present a certain image when it's not reality. I don't care if she luxuriates in a 24 kt gold throne on her Gulfstream while Todd feeds her chocolate covered cherries. Just don't pretend.

"What's wrong in this instance is the apparent fakery created and sustained for the sake of building pseudo-populist appeal--and selling books. Sarah Palin and HarperCollins have consciously tried to give the impression that she is doing her book tour by bus when the evidence suggests she is not. At every stop, she's been filmed getting off Big Blue looking rested and radiant. She dazzles onlookers and interviewers with her seemingly bottomless reserves of energy. And no one suspects she may secretly be hopping on and off her main means of transport, UJT750, and resting up in hotels."
 
Well in her defense she did send me this email today:

Hello Dave,

Can you believe it?

It’s really comical at this point! Despite all of the important events happening in the world today – the president’s speech tonight on the strategy in Afghanistan, the Senate debate over health care reform, the disturbing details of the “Climategate” scandal, the continuing challenges facing the world economy – the media is concerned about my travel and lodging arrangements on my book tour?! Does this sound familiar? It should. The media showed the same out-of-proportion obsession with my personal arrangements, clothes, and hairstyles last year instead of focusing on the crucial issues involving the election.

So what is this news “story”? That I fly on an airplane to complete some of the stops on my book tour when it’s impractical or physically impossible to reach the next event on time by bus. Some news outlets are behaving as if my travel was a secret that they didn’t know about – despite the fact that I’ve tweeted about my flights and at least one local newspaper reported on the arrival of my flight into Rochester, NY. What’s even funnier is that these same media outlets think it’s shocking that we stay in hotels. I guess they expected us to pitch a tent alongside the road. We love the great outdoors, but such an arrangement is hardly practical for a book tour. Using common sense, it was determined that traveling by plane between some stops would save time and energy and allow me to go to more events. Economically speaking for HarperCollins, it’s more efficient to travel by charter, and I am very grateful to the publisher for providing my family and me with this incredible opportunity to shake hands with as many Americans as possible on this book tour.

If you’re scratching your head wondering why my flight and hotel logistics warrant news coverage, join the club. They can, of course, report on whatever they like, but in my opinion CBS loses whatever professional integrity it still has when it links in its report to a website devoted to the bizarre conspiracy theory that I’m not the real mother of my son Trig.

I’m truly humbled by the response to my book tour by everyday Americans, and if traveling by plane means that I can meet more of these wonderful people, I’ll travel by plane (or bus or train or canoe or dog sled or whatever it takes). Please enjoy the photos below!

Sarah
 
She calls you Dave and not <> :eyebrow:

Yeah and with all of these important things going on in this world she says she won't talk about the father of her grandchild then she says in the same breath that he calls himself Ricky Hollywood and says he wants to be a porn star :shrug: And she's out promoting her book instead of focusing on those issues. She thinks the media reads her Tweets? I never saw anything about her plane on the news-maybe she was looking for it.

She should go by dog sled, that would be awesome. I don't like to see dogs pulling sleds but Sarah is so pro animal that I'm sure it'd be ok.
 
Aerial view of a Palin book signing:

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how is anyone NOT terrified by her?

honestly. the whole thing is incoherent, batshit crazy.

SHE DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

(my head is going to explode)
 
I think INDY was talking about his other head exploding...
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No, some of us just love to sit back and watch otherwise pretty intelligent people... just go bonkers at the mere mention of her name.

48 pages and counting. Almost as good as a bug-zapper in July.
 
And no one here went "bonkers" over the mere mention of Hillary's name-there were multiple pages and threads about her and how "scary" she is. I remember several threads in particular. So at least we can have all the Sarah stuff contained in one thread rather than have several started. It's better for the environment. I'm not going "bonkers" at all-I just find her musings to be entertaining (and sometimes scary and sometimes bat shit crazy).

Huffington Post

Sarah Palin declared on Thursday that the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate is "rightfully" an issue with the American public, and that it is "fair game" for politicians to question Obama's citizenship.

The comments came during an interview with conservative radio host Rusty Humphries, who asked Palin whether she planned to "make the birth certificate an issue" if she runs for president in 2012.

"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue," Palin said. "I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers."

Humphries -- who began the interview with a rendition of the song "Sarah, Queen Of The Wild Frontier" -- followed up: "Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?"

"I think it's a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game," Palin responded, adding that "the McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area. We didn't call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don't think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we're seeing manifest in the administration."

Palin later referenced "that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn't my real son, and a lot of people that went 'Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid,' which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one."

UPDATE: At 1:16 AM ET, Palin posted the following on her Facebook page:

Stupid Conspiracies


Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I've pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point - not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews - have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.
 
I had to Google it, this is one version I found. kilt? :lol:



The Ballad of Sarah Palin


Born on a mountain by the Yukon Sea
Oiliest state in the land of the free
Raised with a gun so she knew philosophy
And kilt a caribou when she was only three.

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Queen of the wild frontier!


She fought single-handed in the beauty pageant war
Till the blondes was whipped and big hair restored
And while she was handling this 'permanent' chore
She made herself a brunette forevermore.

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Dressin' for com-pa-ny!


When her child had Down's, her grief was gall
The Dems said Sarah, just abort it all
And lose yourself in the glacier tall
But she answered instead the motherhood's call.

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Spirit of democracy!


She went to the capital and served a spell
Pluggin' up the pork and corruption as well
Took over Juneau so we hear tell
And told the Bridge To Nowhere to go to hell!

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Servin' her country well!


John McCain called and said you ain't done
This here election has just begun
So she packed up her laptop and her virtual gun
And lit out a'smilin' for Washington.

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Leadin' the blogoneers!


Her land is biggest, and her land is best
From grassy plains to the mountain crest
She's ahead of us all in meetin' the test
We're followin' her legend right out of the West.

Sarah, Sarah Palin! Queen of the wild frontier!
 
Some of us :heart: that about Sarah.

Well, I didn't find it incoherent. I think it made perfect sense--if we're talking about, say the ancient nation of Israel, which was a theocracy.

She makes several assumptions in her statement and the reason I disagree with her is because I question those assumptions. Did God choose our nation in some special way, above all others? Are we a specifically Christian nation? Are we--or should we be--a theocracy?

What Palin and many Conservative Christian mourn for in our country, is the days when Christianity was kind of the "default" religion in our country. The reason people like Abraham Lincoln and the founding fathers referenced God and did things like asked the citizens to fast and pray was because in those days, it was just assumed that pretty much everyone in America was a Christian or believed more or less in the Christian God. They kept their statements "denomination" neutral but it didn't occur to them that they needed to go any more "neutral" than that.

Today's American society is far more multi-cultural, multi-ethnci, and multi-religious than it was in the days of Lincoln and Jefferson. Many cultural conservatives are disturbed by that change--they want to go back to the days when their culture was the one in societal power, and if they deigned to allow a few Hindoos or Mohammedans to do their thing off to the side then fine, but everyone understood the the majority of the country was on their page.

Speaking as a conservative Christian myself, the problem with all of this is that has nothing whatsoever to do with actual Christianity. There is no Biblical support--none--for this kind of insistence on a Christian nation; nothing to support demanding that our God be honored in the public sphere. Jesus said my kingdom is not of this world. Paul said pray for your leaders (NOT pray that one of our guys gets to be the Roman Emporer). God said "Why do the nations rage, the Lord in heaven laughs, he knows what is to come." This tells me that God doesn't "need" this nation. He doesn't need us to "take it back for Him." Christians of the early church understand REAL persecution (and by that I don't mean that the nation didn't give God a sufficient tip of the hat) and you know what, they REJOICED in it--they didn't whine about it. In fact, there are Christians in other countries that are experiencing REAL persecution for the sake of Christ, and I find it a bit insulting to their sacrifice to suggest that Americanism and Christianity are somehow one and the same.

Sarah Palin doesn't drive me crazy. . .I always get a sense of deep cyncism about her whenever I hear her speak. What drives me crazy is the people who buy into what she's selling, not least because she's ripping them off.
 
no, i agree with you. a huge part of her appeal is that she drives people like me crazy.

It's a kind of an immature reason to support someone though isn't it? I hope we won't see a lot of voters going to the polls to vote for someone just because he/she drives the other side crazy.
 
It's a kind of an immature reason to support someone though isn't it? I hope we won't see a lot of voters going to the polls to vote for someone just because he/she drives the other side crazy.

Didn't say I support any or all future political aspirations she may have, only that I :heart: how she drives elites and liberals off-the-wall insane.
 
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