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Hilarious!
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10641495
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beat me by seconds.
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This has to be fake.
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It's not.
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A TRUE TALE!
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But I don't know about the Pres stuff. Why would you RESIGN from the job, rather than just announce you aren't running for reelection. Something smells fishy...
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She's not the sharpest arrow in the quiver.
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What the fuck? Her term expires in 2010 and... that's kinda perfect for 2012... right?
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plus why not keep the job? be governor and run for president... this doesn't make any sense... why is she really resigning? is she fucking an argentinian too?
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this bizzo is nuts, just another reminder
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The title of this thread is wrong. There's been no official claim that she's running for president. This is why you should leave this kinda stuff to me, old man.
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This is super weird
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Well bloodface, we shall see my tiny little boy. We shall see.
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A few places are just reporting that she won't run again, but most say she is actually resigning.
Quitting the job won't help her run for president.
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bf, you will have to accept zom's premise or else go back and TDTT for your Senator Al Franken thread.
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Anyone read that Vanity Fair article? some bad stuff, but nothing really new.
I wonder if something REALLY bad about her is about to come out
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"She didn't take any questions," in making the announcement in Alaska, Andrew Wellner, a reporter for The Frontiersman, told CNN.
"She did say in her speech that she feels she can be more effective working outside of government."
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or that she doesn't want to make the budget decisions that she'll have to make this year/next year.
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I guess you could argue that if she is not in public office she will have a lot more control over the media's access to her and be able to manage/resurrect her image as a dingbat.
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This would be terrible for a 2012 run, you know? that's why it seems so weird.
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Maybe she got a Reality TV Show.
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zom-zom posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 03:06:34 pm
Maybe she got a Reality TV Show.
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This is why you should leave this kinda stuff to me, old man.
do you have an official badge that proves you are the sheriff of the internet? 'cause if you did that would be kind of cool actually
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there actually WAS talk of her doing a reality show about being governor
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I'm sorry, but quitting your job in the middle of your term to run for president makes zero sense. And in fact, is political suicide. You're forever from then on branded as a quitter. This will effectively end her ability to serve in government. There will be no presidential aspirations tied to this.
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It's a crazy world, don't discount anything.
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Posted: July 3, 2009 03:18 PM
Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska's Governor
After Sarah Palin's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks. In a press conference call this morning, Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin has announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.
She had a brief statement. She took no questions.
Her commissioners and Lt. Governor were with her at her home. Palin did not relinquished the reigns of the state to the Lt. Governor while running for vice president.
Lt. Governor Sean Parnell will step in to the roll as governor at the end of the month. He was defeated by Congressman Don Young in the Republican primary last year.
Rumors of an "iceberg scandal" have been circulating.
Resignation is certainly out of character for Sarah Palin. Senator Mark Begich had a meeting with Sarah Palin two days ago with no mention of her leaving office. Palin's press secretary, David Murrow had posted on his facebook page Wednesday, "David Murrow is considering life's ironies." He was hired less than a month ago. Yesterday he wrote, "There's gonna be some fireworks this weekend!"
Palin's brother, Chuck Heath, told Fox News he thought her resignation was due to the negativity from the media. According to Heath, the governor was unable to be affective while she was constantly having to defend herself against ethics complaints and the media.
You betcha!
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That's what i mean, bloodface-- imagine the primaries: "You walked away from your state when they needed you, Sarah. I'll never quit on America if I'm President"
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Yeah, some huge scandal is coming. Mark my words. Nothing else makes sense
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There is no presidential running here. This thread is out of order.
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I agree. I think this is political suicide. If she is planning on running, I think she has just made a fatal mistake. I never thought she would make a good candidate in 2012, but this crystalizes why she should not be President. This is a terrible decision because it introduces the issue of being committed to your constituency. If I were an Alaskan who had voted for Palin, I would be pretty upset that she was checking out of office for any reason short of her actually being elected President or Senator.
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Are we already supposed to know what the "iceberg scandal" is?
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zom-zom posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 03:09:28 pm
It's a crazy world, don't discount anything.
You and Tom should get together and run a politics/sports consulting business where everyone does the opposite of what you tell them.
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I mean, she could very well announce she's running for president, but that would just defy all political logic. I don't discount that. And right, we all know she would never win. But doing this will effectively halve the votes she would get in the first place. She won't even make it out of the early primaries over doing this. This is absolutely batshit crazy.
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Does "iceberg scandal" mean the kind of scandal that could take her career down like an iceberg did the Titanic?
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she stuffs lettuce into her vagina to keep it moist.
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Michelle Obama stuffs arugula.
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(Barack likes a spicy nay-nay)
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I'm looking for Palin scandals and the only thing that I can find is there is discussion about her taxes... like that she charged the state for per-diems when she stayed in Anchorage and even at her home in Wasilla. For a total of 16,000~ and didn't declare it on her taxes as income. There's also something about a 140,000 dollar home loan (mortgage) that she got from some kind of trust that was somehow forgiven.
None of this seems career-ending. To me, maybe I'm wrong.
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whatever it is, isn't known yet. Maybe that wacky -the-baby-wasn't-hers thing is true! Doubt it.
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There's also something with the state owned dairy operation that was sold off somehow... but that doesn't seem too bad either. The most speculation is taxes, taxes, taxes.
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that would be fucking nuts if that baby was her daughters!
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Not paying taxes would seem to be pretty in character for her. If it was some of that "I don't pay taxes 'cuz I'm a sovereign citizen of the U.S. because there's no comma in the Constitution" shit (which is probably a direct quote from the platform of the Alaska Independence Party), I could see that being game over. But you'd think that would've already turned up.
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If it is a scandal, it's still batshit to step down now. Does she think doing something that nutso would DECREASE media/investigative scrutiny? Though if you're gonna do something *twirls*finger*around*ear* you may as well do it the Friday before the 4th.
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Yeah, the timing of this is all about burying it in the holiday weekend newscycle.
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yeah... this is a good news dump
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I think she just did this to take the heat off of Bill & Tom Sullivan
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This does reinforce one thing: John McCain is one hell of a (terrifying) maverick
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burgerdog posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 03:50:30 pm
I think she just did this to take the heat off of Bill & Tom Sullivan
HAHAHA
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Now I'm starting to get nervous, the timing-July 4th weekend with all the Tea Baggers & unemployment news.
This could be a premeditated move to damage Democrats nationally & paralyze a health care plan. We need Obama to react to this asap.
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it's kind of amazing that the most important decision of McCain's career was also easily his worst
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Maybe she's the unnamed partner who is taking over the 400 Bar?
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Me and amh just watched that video. Truly incredible next level shit.
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Maybe she's been fucking Mark Sanford, too?
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That would be something...from the Aleutian Islands to Tierra del Fuego...
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HA! Now the lt. Governor of AK! just recently admitted to an affair and there were currently calls for him to resign according to that YAHOO! link.
so nuts. this makes no sense. there is something huge behind this!
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omg... her speech was 100% bullshit. kinda like her.
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Just watched the video. Makes way more sense now. This is simply a strategic pass in order to achieve victory against the media's full court press.
Nothing more to see here.
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maybe she's going to strap a bomb to her chest and walk into an abortion clinic
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the way this country is goin, that is
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She's been carrying on a torrid affair with Katie Couric.
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She says that she gave her reasons but her reason is that she doesn't want to be a lame duck? So she thinks that every President should step down as soon as they win their second term?
I'm really confused by her reasons... and even more confused that she says that she told me what her reasons were. Then again... not my state.
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holy shizz... I just saw the end when the camera panned the crowd and no one was there.
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Is this the apocalypse that the 2012 end of the mayan calendar suggests????
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i was listening to npr when this broke. it sounded like the npr reporters were having a hard time not making fun of her.
"this is supposed to be a ... um basketball analogy...."
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how bad could she have cheated on her taxes? I mean plenty of politicians are tax cheats and it's shitty but they live to fight another day.
Look at Geithner? It came out a week before his committee hearings and he still got through. I'd be amazed if taxes brough Palin down.
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No way is this about taxes. Either it's some really really bad scandal, or she's got some crazy political instincts
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"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose," Palin said in a statement released by her office.
haha, wtf??
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Yeah that is just "let me chuck out the whole civics 101 thing for political gain" nuts.
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Somthin is up, many Republicans have been unusualy silent the past 2 weeks. I hope the press promptly attacks her.
That smug smile realy bugs me.
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Affair.
With a moose.
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There are reports that state troopers blocked reporters who were late arriving to this because she called the press conference so last minute and then when the camera panned the crowd at the very end... seeing that nobody was there was beyond weird. Obviously she didn't want any real media at this.
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WizzyDreview posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 06:11:11 pm
Somthin is up, many Republicans have been unusualy silent the past 2 weeks. I hope the press promptly attacks her.
That smug smile realy bugs me.
pitpat posted this on Jun 19th, 2009 at 09:13:19 pm
are you one of piggy's fake accounts?
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What could be big enough to do this...
She was having an affair and flying to see he/she on Alaska dime. (maybe not big enough)
She had not paid taxes in like ten years and had falsified records when she applied to run for offices. (that would be big enough probably)
She is on the take from large corporate or wealthy donors, and it's very linkable and obvious. (probably big enough)
She fucked John McCain to get the VEEP candidacy. (but why isn't McCain doing something)
Sarah Palin affair... SEX TAPE!
Trig is her daughter's baby
hired a family member for a made up position and paid them a lot of money to do nothing. (is that big enough)
I dunno... I'm just brainstorming... whaddaya guys think?
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Can someone give me a link to the video of her full press conference? I'm only finding 30 sec clips.
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She pals around with terrorists.
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Tim Wink posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 06:28:44 pm
She pals around with terrorists.
Of course, we already knew this, having seen the McCain / Palin rallies.
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i heard about her resignation on mpr a couple hours ago and thought it might be because she wants to run for prez, but really?! not really, right? anyway, in the bit of the press conference i heard, she sounded completely idiotic and fony
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Yeah, I just watched the whole "press conference" and it's all one big victim complex cry for help. Pretty sure she thinks she's some kinda hero/martyr for doing this. Totally bizarre.
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agree w/ groovy
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The way she and others around her are already beating the unfair media drum would seem to lend creedence to the brewing scandal arguement.
Or maybe she's just that cheesed off about the Vanity Fair article? Seems kinda far-fetched though.
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bye-bye
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what a bizarre move.
the whole press thing is bizarre if she's going to set up a presidential run...like you can't take the press hounding you as governor of alaska so you want to be PRESIDENT?
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Yeah. I mean the Letterman debacle was final proof that her skin is way too thin to play in the big leagues. She just keeps driving the stakes into her own evil heart.
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Ha ha! Pawlenty got snubbed for this.
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this is good news for T-Paw right... I mean... one of the biggest candidates that he will be running against just pretty much blew her political brains out.
T-Paws gotta be gettin' closer to the top.
Romney
Pawlenty
Jindahl
Palin
is that the correct ranking?
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As silly as it sounds, Huckabee is prolly #2 now behind Romney.
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Tim Pawlenty and Bobby Jindahl are only marginally less buffoons than Palin. They have no chance, anymore than Palin does or did.
Romney has his $$.
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Shaitan posted this on Jul 03rd, 2009 at 08:27:29 pm
Ha ha! Pawlenty got snubbed for this.
TAI of the week.
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Huckabee is impossible to elect though... would the Republicans put up somebody that everyone knows is impossible to elect? I mean Obama would have to have like 20% approval rating to get beaten by a evangelical minister, right?
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I agree, Killer, but in Repub preference polls he was right there with Romney and Palin. Then Gingrich, then Jeb Bush. Pawlenty and Jindahl didn't register yet. It's waaaaay too early though, obv.
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Prominence does not equal viability.
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Doy.
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I remember reading that the legislature felt she was a ridiculous pain in the ass to work with. I bet money someone in the state republican party got sick of her, found a bunch of dirt (tax evasion, use of state office finances that amounts to fraud etc) that could have her sent to prison and blackmailed her into resigning.
The presidential primary is gonna be between Pawlenty, Huckabee, and Romney. I'd put my money on either Pawlenty or Huckabee; everybody knows Mormons aren't real Christians, and I think the plutocrats wouldn't really care between him and TPaw.
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so maybe imbezzlement from building materials?
so if it is this... why wasn't she outed during the '08 campaign? People couldn't figure it out? Couldn't get proof? wtf?
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Anderson Cooper facing her spokeswoman on CNN a minute ago was fucking awesome.
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Whatever happened to Jeb Bush? Wasn't he supposed to be the 2008 golden child?
Does he know anything about ninjas?
TAI
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ra-di-o-ac-tiv
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Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
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Jeb Bush is probably an impossible candidate at this point. It would be like Germany's party running Rolf Hitler on the "I Knew Nothing" platform.
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If his name wasn't Bush, he'd be a front runner. Maybe The frontrunner. Popular former governor from the state of Florida is not a bad thing to be in a campaign
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yeah fellah, that's already in the right Palin thread.
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What's this I hear about a possible federal indictment.
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Of Ricky Rubio.
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rumors, speculation. I think it might be in the "right Palin thread"
I guess maybe she had the same people who built the Wasilla Ice Hockey rink build her house with the same materials or something. There's also rumors that the IRS is looking closely at her.
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boris parsley posted this on Jul 04th, 2009 at 10:50:07 am
What's this I hear about a possible federal indictment.
Come join us in the thread which doesn't have an absurd title.
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I wouldn't be surprised if yesterday was the first any of Palin's family had heard about it.
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No doubt she has had secret meetings with the new neo-con right. They must have told her to just drop out and be anything but "politics as usual". It's just a popularity contest to the Republicans.
She pull a crazy move soon to distract the press from her criminal past. Just wait 'n see.
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@jayrosen_nyu: My take: to Palin, making sense is like backing down. She won't give you the satisfaction.
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Listening to her speak is very similar to my experiences with panic attacks.
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"...in the works for a while."
Yeah, about 4-5 months, by the looks of it!
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^^^^^ lol's, nice PS work!
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The FBI has come out to say that Palin is NOT under any kind of investigation. It is rare for them to do something like that.
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Part of the deal made if she steps down? I hope the press does thier job for a change.
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In a new interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin left the door open to running for national political office in the future.
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Bump--I believe this is the most accurate thread title at this point.
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Bloody got all cheesed off that I got the Palin resigns thingy on here before he did, for he is The Most Trusted Name in MRMB News.
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Bump--I believe this is the most accurate thread title at this point
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This should be the proper thread for the next 2 years.
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he can't post here and defend himself, but i bet he is rolling in his grave.
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Is bloodface on vacation or something? I missed it.
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he's banned!
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Whoa. I always miss this shit. Is this what the PM thread is about?
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nah.
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I would like to point out that I wasn't taking a shot, just the "possible scandal" thread title was making me crazy.
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Well shit. It's not like I feel that I NEED to know what happened. But I can't deny I'm not curious. Oh well..
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It is a shame that I actually agree with something SoapyKittens WizzyDreview has to say here.
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bloodface is banned??
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What? What happened?
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Remember when we all killed Michael Jackson? It's just like that.
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I thought he was quite informed with most issues. Seemed very educated,
he will be missed.
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Quiet, Weezy.
Say Weezer, you only post in political threads. This isn't really a political board.
Tell us about what music you like. What bands you go to see. Where you live. What you eat.
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Huh, when I click on the old thread link, all I get is an ERROR: Sorry 1000000 is not a valid thread id.
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Subject: TOM appreciation thread
On: Jul 22nd, 2009 at 06:47:27 pm
bloodface posted this on Dec 29th, 2006 at 03:02:53 am
I could see him murdering somebody, for reals.
Oh, noooowwwww I get it.
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(taps)
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O God, ease our suffering in this, our moment of great dispair. Yea, admit this kind and decent woman bf into thy arms of thine heavenly area, up there. And Moab, he lay us upon the band of the Canaanites, and yea, though the Hindus speak of karma, I implore you: give her bf a break.
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Panel of DEATH! Good band name!
The truth is that many insurance companies & hospitals already have to make life & death decisions based on profits. There will have to be certified experts in the Govt. run system to make these decicions too. Distributing care equaly & saving $ is the whole point, thats why we need it now PALIN.
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I was looking for some good new Palin news to cheer me up & I found this:
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan
from "conservatives4palin"
How dumb can she be? America voted to move away from big oil & invest in alternative energy, & use the $ to fund health care? Funny! I would just wind up in Shell Oils pockets. Just another weak attempt to attack Obama & deflect attention away from the fact that she quit. More!
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remember when we couldn't use this thread because it wasn't right.
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Step 1: Get interviewed by Oprah on 11/16/09....
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Make that step 3.
Step 1: Quit governorship.
Step 2: Write book.
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I hope Palin calls Oprah the "media machine for Obama" and accuses her of being such "because she's black."
I just really want/hope to see Oprah slap Palin. Please.
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Or maybe Oprah could just calmly lean over and say, "I could buy you."
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Having already forgotten the Couric interview, she is probably thinking Oprah is a lot like Couric.
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seriously
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haha! Her answers were still terrible despite having notes. She sounds like the average american trying to answer a question while watching trying to watch TV. Maybe it is a new method that seems to be effective in winning over the people the GOP constantly con to vote against their own self interest.
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The Gaylord Opryland featured in that video is where my brother got married in 1990.
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Sarah Palin, 2008:
PALIN: That’s why I say, I like ever American I’m speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout.
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy–
And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation.
This bailout is a part of that.
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And, as I implied with starting this thread, she is still seriously considering running for Lady President.
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She was on Fox News yesterday, and she was asked about her call to have Rahm Emmanuel step down over calling ideas fucking retarded. The interviewer brought up Rush Limbaugh's usage of the word, calling kooky Democrats retarded. She said that she agreed with Limbaugh, the ideas were kooky and that Limbaughs use of the word was satire, therefore acceptable.
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Kind of silly, but honestly I don't think the hand thing is that weird or big of a deal. Makes sense if you need a reminder of certain talking points you want to make sure to mention or pivot to.
I thought the content of her speech, at least the bits I heard about, was super annoying. Devoid of actual content. Raw meat for morons
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Yeah, before I wasn't sure but now it seems pretty likely she's going to run.
Also, I forgot how awesome this quote is: "what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy"
Like a broken Talking Point Robot
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Kind of silly? Find me another adult who writes sub-inane speech notes on their hand.
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SHE LOOKS LIKE A 'TUTE
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The hand thing would make more sense if A) she wasn't criticizing Obama for using a telepromter in the same breath and B) if they were slightly less obvious than fucking "tax cuts." Really, a Republican needs a note on her hand to remember she's for TAX CUTS?
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she speaks like a spanish-to-english babblefish translation
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Also, in reality this is a GENIUS PR move. You know what she "stands for" now, don't you?
Yup.
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Yeah she said if she deems it "right for the country" and for the Palin family...how in the world would this Peggy Hill lookalike know what is right for the country if she is obviously such a fuck-up?
She knows she is...the writing's all over her hand.
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I feel kind of silly defending Palin on this, but it's possible it was just an outline for the order of the speech or something like that. ie, not "don’t forget tax cuts!' but, 'pivot to tax cuts after you discuss liberal media'
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SHE REMEMBERS HOW TO WORK THE CORNER....KNOWHATIMSAYIN?
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SHE WROTE DUMB WORDS ... ON HER HAND.
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i hope she gets "TAX CUTS" tattooed over her bellybutton in olde english font like tupac's thug life tattoo
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coach, you're one step ahead of me. I was going to bump one of these Palin threads simply to ask, "Really? Are we really going to go through this shit again?"
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I'd like to think she'll get destroyed if she runs, but this country has done dumb things before.
I don't think I can fathom how depressed I'll be if I wake up on November-whatever 2012 knowing that Sarah Palin is our next President.
She honestly would be, like, a lot worse than Bush even
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How's that "quitty cunty" thing workin' out for ya, Sarah?
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Srsly, going back to her unveiling in St. Paul, it seems the only thing she has going for her is that she's comfort food for scared crackers. Taking obvious joy in laying into Obama for a friendly audience is not a substitute for leadership, lady.
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Guys, she gave a speech to over 600 people last week! Clearly she is a powerhouse.
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There are so many freakin idiots in the U.S. Wouldn't surprise me if she got pretty far along. Her sentences have absolutely no coherent substance.
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I know, but for some reason I have to take the bait every single time.
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Soapy Kittens posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:19:10 pm
Sarah Palin, 2008:
PALIN: That’s why I say, I like ever American I’m speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout.
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy–
And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation.
This bailout is a part of that.
please, Sarah, by all means, run, run run!
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Is there any reason to think that the Tea Party doofuses won't just drain votes from the Republicans?
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Soapy Kittens posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:43:38 pm
Guys, she gave a speech to over 600 people last week! Clearly she is a powerhouse.
I realize that her popularity could be overstated and that it is complicated to measure. But that 600 people event was a group of people that paid over $500 to be at the event. Also, she gets to be broadcast all the time.
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J Low posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:50:21 pm
Is there any reason to think that the Tea Party doofuses won't just drain votes from the Republicans?
It's likely they would also create a lot of voters. But yes, they would def draw away more Republican voters. BUT, they could draw away those "independent" voters that voted for Obama. These are the people that are really just about voting people out of office.
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chinaski posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:44:50 pm
There are so many freakin idiots in the U.S. Wouldn't surprise me if she got pretty far along. Her sentences have absolutely no coherent substance.
Seems to me there was another guy with a similar problem....also appealed to idiots who wanted to have a beer with him....served 8 years as POTUS....
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I think she'd lose. She'd have to face actual questions, and would do poorly (See: September and October, 2008). Plus the whole quitting governor thing.
BUT: don't underestimate what she's selling in this kind of environment.
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She would have to face hard questions, but she seems to have found a pretty good tactic to deflect those by claiming that she is being picked on by the media.
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When it comes down to it, the vast majority of the Teabag dudes won't vote for her because she's a chick.
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I don't think that is true, zom.
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That's because you're a liberal pussy.
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Right now I'm more worried about 2016 than '12. I really think Obama will rock the socks off anyone given the chance to do a face-to-face campaign. Palin is just a liability for the GOP in so many ways. But then, I think the Tea Party bullshit is a liability for them as a whole.
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Stu- Yeah, but I think that strategy works well on the Tea Party crowd but would ultimately turn off independents.
Zom-- I bet that's totally wrong
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mumblecrust posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:58:52 pm
Stu- Yeah, but I think that strategy works well on the Tea Party crowd but would ultimately turn off independents.
For the most part, but I think a portion of that crowd that says they hate both parties and don't trust politicians also thinks that the media can't be trusted either.
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"Energy"
"Tax"
-something crossed off
"Lift American spirits"
I am NOT fucking joking. That's what this infantile, off-brand, low-rent, RUBE had written on her palm for the Tea Party speech. THAT'S what she looked at over, and over, and over throughout the speech. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
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Wait, she wanted to remember to steal American Spirit cigarettes??
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Energy tax! Yay!
Cut American spirits!
Yay!
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I know somebody on this board who has kept a near-4 gpa through 3+ years of high school using the scribbling on her* hand method.
A proposition: Sarah Palin will never hold elected office of any kind ever again. Action welcomed.
(I used "her" to throw you off.)
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J Low posted this on Feb 08th, 2010 at 01:50:21 pm
Is there any reason to think that the Tea Party doofuses won't just drain votes from the Republicans?
Totally. C'mon, Teabaggers, give us another Ross Perot.
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I'm consistently floored by the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin in particular.
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(referring back to this. . .)
35. Teabaggers
Charges: America’s dumbest and most racist citizens finally found a cause they could all get behind that isn’t pro wrestling or NASCAR. The Lolcats of protest sign grammar, they think scare quotes actually make things scary (e.g. ‘Obama is a “communist”’). They don’t understand that they’re duped showpieces for billionaires who threaten their freedom and prosperity far more than their beloved nemesis, Big Gubmint. And their instant escalation from complacent couch potatoes to rhetorical revolutionaries just happened to coincide with the election of a black Democrat with the middle name Hussein. What are the chances?
Exhibit A: They called it Teabagging first.
Sentence: To star in an extremely patriotic, live ammunition reenactment the Battle of Bunker hill.
21. Sarah Palin
Charges: In a dignity contest between her and grand-baby-daddy “Ricky Hollywood,” the winner would be Tom Delay. This Mujaha-queen quit being Alaska governor, because she’s “not a quitter,” she’s “a fighter.” Yeah, she battled all year for the freedom to watch a homophobe author her memoirs while spreading death panel lies on Twitter. Sarah’s broadcasting career has now come full circle, thanks to Australia’s most venomous snake, Rupert Murdoch, who has her penning demonstrable falsehoods about global warming and health care in the Wall Street Journal and batting at sycophantic beach balls from Beck and O’Reilly on Fox. If dumb were a crime, she’d be doing time.
Exhibit A: “They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.”
Sentence: Death Panel.
and finally,
6. Dick Armey
Charges: Phonetically, the former congressman’s name is poetic. As head of the lobbying firm Freedomworks, he played Teabag Patton this summer, riling the dimmest patriots to storm town halls nationwide and ordering them to “Be Disruptive Early And Often,” and to “Not Have An Intelligent Debate.” Dick’s just another propagandist fighting the class war by exploiting the reptilian brain of America’s self destructive middle class.
Exhibit A: “Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.”
Sentence: Teabagged by a shark.
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huffington/krugman tag team:
Indeed, at times in her speech, Palin sounded like the second coming of Huey Long.
"While people on Main Street look for jobs, people on Wall Street -- they're collecting
billions and billions in your bailout bonuses," she said. "And everyday Americans are
wondering: Where are the consequences? They helped to get us into this worst
economic situation since the Great Depression. Where are the consequences?"
I was within an inch of singing along: "Yeah, where are the consequences!? You tell 'em, Sarah!"
It's ironic: Democrats have been waiting 30 years for a populist movement to counter
the Reagan Revolution. And now that it has, Democrats find themselves the targets of
that movement, caught in flagrante delicto with the big banks -- and more in
thrall to the deficit hysteria sweeping Washington instead of fighting for an aggressive,
comprehensive plan to rescue the middle class.
"Washington now has its priorities all wrong," writes Paul Krugman, "all the talk is
about how to shave a few billion dollars off government spending, while there's hardly
any willingness to tackle mass unemployment. Policy is headed in the wrong direction
-- and millions of Americans will pay the price."
And more and more of them, frustrated and convinced that their leaders don't have any
empathy for their situation, will increasingly turn to movements like the Tea Parties.
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In advance, I'm sorry donnny
but
I totally own the Gasp...LOL...hand clap that I just did from under my headphones in the library.
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The fact that she wrote on her hand is embarrassing not because she needed notes, not because she completely forgot to hide it from view, not because she was so obvious about reading off of it, but really because the idea that memorizing "Energy, Tax Cuts, Lifting The American Spirit" was apparently beyond her ability.
If she had like some stats/names/dates on there, you know stuff she doesn't talk about every day, that would make sense to me. But "Energy, Tax Cuts, Lift The American Spirit," you can't remember that without props?!
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I like that she couldn't decide whether to cut the budget or cut taxes.
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It's mainly the criticism of Obama's teleprompter in the speech that gets me with the hand.
But, actually, I regret the way I posted that. My reference to donny was an attempt to be light-hearted but I realize it may not come off that way. I don't really condone calling people "retarded" and understand the implications for the people it's meant to reference. However, from a rhetorical perspective I don't think any person could have done that skit but Colbert and as a dissection of Palin's political messaging I think it is a thing of beauty. It's not about the word, it's about the way she used it.
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Just a bunch of hypocrisy all around. Criticizing Obama's teleprompter but having notes on her hand, criticizing Rahm but O.K. with Rush both saying "retard" but saying in a NON-satirical way...
Did NO ONE POST THIS YET??:
Palin suggested that if President Obama "played the war card" by declaring war on Iran in the next two years, the political landscape would change dramatically in his favor. "There wouldn't be as much passion to make sure that he doesn't serve another four years," Palin said.
Different thread? No?
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I sense a pattern.
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criticizing Rahm but O.K. with Rush both saying "retard"
while she is wrong to say Rush was using it 'satirically,' i do think there's a big difference between those two using that word. Rush is a radio show host. Rahm is White House Chief of Staff. Those jobs entail vastly different responsibilities to the public.
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What about the private versus private aspect of where it was said? Who's more influential to the public?
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Yeah, we need to hold our fascist propaganda pushers to a higher standard!
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I think it'd be different if Rahm had been giving a speech, or talking to kids in a classroom
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you know perfectly well that's not what I meant at all, Soapy.
I don't see any difference in the way Palin used that word when referring to Limbaugh or Rahm. In both cases she was endearing herself to her audience. In both cases she was using it as political currency. In both cases she was talking out of her ass.
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Oh no, I didn't mean to imply - it was a non sequitur.
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That word is basically like "idiot" at this point. When it's used, the person probably isn't thinking of, or intending to compare the subject to, a retarded person.
Palin was being stupid in both cases
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mumblecrust posted this on Feb 09th, 2010 at 10:51:38 am
That word is basically like "idiot" at this point. When it's used, the person probably isn't thinking of, or intending to compare the subject to, a retarded person.
i'm pretty sure that's why it is offensive.
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Christ O Fire posted this on Feb 09th, 2010 at 10:37:04 am
criticizing Rahm but O.K. with Rush both saying "retard"
while she is wrong to say Rush was using it 'satirically,' i do think there's a big difference between those two using that word. Rush is a radio show host. Rahm is White House Chief of Staff. Those jobs entail vastly different responsibilities to the public.
TOTALLY agree. But her kid is "retarded" which is why it is supposedly offensive. It shouldn't matter who says it, if she has a problem with it she has a problem with it.
At least condone Rush's usage of it. You can;t say "fire THIS guy, but THIS guy is funny" At least say something like "Fire this guy, and this guy is an asshole, but it's his job."
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As much as I disagree that this particular word is really like those other words people use, it's pretty easy just to not say it. Plus Rahm Emmanuel is a moron and I like it when he's made to look bad.
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So... did you all already fume over this?
Palin suggested that if President Obama "played the war card" by declaring war on Iran in the next two years, the political landscape would change dramatically in his favor. "There wouldn't be as much passion to make sure that he doesn't serve another four years," Palin said.
HAHA because I would argue that this is more offensive than anything about the word "retard"
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Or scribbling on her hand
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I wouldn't call that offensive so much as baseline Palin-moronity.
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But you all can argue about her scribbles on her hand for days. MAN I don't get you people.
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dawgmask,
i agree, she's wrong to condone Rush's use of it. (i think this is what you meant)
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Heh. I wasn't offended by her handscribblies either!
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the hand thing is funnier. more visceral.
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Yeah, COF, that's what I was sayin'. TEVS. We're all screwed.
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Sarah Palin is too terrifying to take seriously.
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palin is the symptom not the syndrome
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Yup.
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I dunno guys IM SCURRED
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daydreaming: inky palin hando.
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The Fox News spin is that she wrote dumb stuff on her hand to point out that Obama uses a teleprompter.
Seriously, that's what they're saying.
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watching that Colbert clip reminded me why I sometimes miss cable. Then I remember I was never able to stay up late enough to watch it anyway.
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