Thread: Sarah Palin

Originally Posted by panama hat

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What rubbish, Earl = the McCain camp is salivating in their criticism of Palin . . .

Au contraire, MSM is pilling on the Palin criticism hoping something sticks. They're still terrified of her. She's the great white hope for the GOP come 2012.

That ignorant god-fearing country pumpkin is only fit to serve in a MILF movie.

The amount of money spent outfitting her for the presidential race is reportedly higher than the $150,000 revealed in party accounting, as campaign sources said this week that Ms. Palin instructed aides to purchase some items on their personal credit cards.
One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported sum, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband.
Ms. Palin's seven-year-old daughter, Piper, was also photographed during the campaign carrying a $790 Louis Vuitton bag.
But the former VP candidate has not just been accused of fashion crimes. Her critics have unleashed an array of bizarre and damning charges against her, painting her as volatile, unreasonable and grossly ill informed.
One story suggests Ms. Palin met with high-ranking campaign officials in her hotel room wearing only a towel, while another reports that she refused to accept help preparing for the disastrous interview with Katie Couric of CBS.









read more about the republican sadness

globeandmail.com: McCain aides let loose on Palin's 'Wasilla hillbillies'

Morning after tabloid drivel.

Finger pointing by low-level functionaries who had dreams of six-fig salaries and a five-bedroom house in Foggy Bottom.

This OP should go in the Sarah Palin threads.

There are too many redundant threads.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Morning after tabloid drivel.

Finger pointing by low-level functionaries who had dreams of six-fig salaries and a five-bedroom house in Foggy Bottom.

It is much more than that and you know it - Palin is a political leper, no prominent GOP leader would hook up with her
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Anyway, one week is a long time in politics . . . let alone 4 years

Originally Posted by Texpat

Finger pointing by low-level functionaries who had dreams of six-fig salaries and a five-bedroom house in Foggy Bottom.

Yeah maybe, except now she is getting called out by the Secret Service, a damning indictment if there ever was one:

Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama (Telegraph UK)

The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.

Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

That claim is part of a campaign of targeted leaks designed to torpedo her ambitions, with claims that she did not know that Africawas a continent rather than a country.

The advisers have branded her a "diva" and a "whack job" and claimed that she did not know which other countries are in the North American Free Trade Area, (Canada and Mexico). They say she spent more than $150,000 on designer clothes, including $40,000 on her husband Todd and that she refused to prepare for the disastrous series of interviews with CBS's Katie Couric.

In a bid to salvage her reputation Mrs Palin came out firing in an interview with CNN, dismissing the anonymous leakers in unpresidential language as "jerks" who had taken "questions or comments I made in debate prep out of context."

She said: "I consider it cowardly. It's not true. That's cruel, it's mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news that's not fair and not right."

She was not asked about her incendiary rhetoric against Mr Obama. But she did deny the spending spree claims, saying the clothes in question had been returned to the Republican National Committee. "Those are the RNC's clothes, they're not my clothes. I asked for anything more than maybe a diet Dr Pepper once in a while. These are false allegations."

Speaking as she returned to her native Alaska, Mrs Palin claimed to be baffled by what she claims was sexism on the national stage. "Here in Alaska that double standard isn't applied because these guys know that Alaskan women are pretty tough, on a par with the men in terms of being outdoors, working hard," she said.

"They're commercial fishermen, they're pilots, they're working up on the North slopein the oil fields. You see equality in Alaska. I think that was a bit of as surprise on the national level."

Originally Posted by foreigner

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Originally Posted by panama hat

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What rubbish, Earl = the McCain camp is salivating in their criticism of Palin . . .

Au contraire, MSM is pilling on the Palin criticism hoping something sticks. They're still terrified of her. She's the great white hope for the GOP come 2012.

she has not denied any of the 'hillbilly shopper or Africa is a country' allegations .. "I will not comment" is not a response.

she is an 'evangelical genius' (in the style of hukabee) that makes W look competent.
my hope is that she splits the GOP between thinking conservatives & the noah's ark bunch.
she & her knowledge of geography is representative of the evangelical home schooled.

i did not say she was home schooled, but that she meets the 'informational competence' required by the '2 kangaroos got on the ark' bunch.
education & data determined in the past 2100 years is meaningless to the 'grand canyon was formed by noah's flood dopes' that is HER base

IMHO, evangelicals should be barred from public office .. too F'n crazy.

I am sure you will have to admit all that rubish about evangelicals is strictly opinion

This is an open forum and I am offering my opinion, in the case of these rabid bible-thumpers, however, they lay their ignorance openly on the table, which, therefore, is no longer opinion.

Palin definitely puts her nutcase biblical beliefs into policy

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said

Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative.
going to war with Iraq, the United States is "on a task that is from God," the Associated Press reported.
Mrs. Palin's brand of evangelical Protestantism is especially well-disposed to the preservation of Israel for biblical reasons

on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
>March 2007 interview with Alaska Business Monthly<

can colonize specific geographic areas and individuals, and that “spiritual warriors” must “battle” them to assert God’s control, using prayer and evangelism.
>Ms. Palin delivered an enthusiastic graduation speech for a class of young spiritual warriors in June at the Wasilla Assembly of God<
>assertive and urgent brand of Pentecostalism known as “spiritual warfare.”<

members pray in undecipherable sounds or "tongues." The denomination's Web site says some scholars believe that the "end times" foreshadowing the end of the world was confirmed in 1948, with the founding of the state of Israel, marking the Jews' return to the Holy Land, fulfilling a Biblical prophecy. The Assemblies of God is part of a Pentecostal movement that numbers 80 million people world-wide.

As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state

Palin uses her elected office to promote religious causes, at times with public money
As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

Religion and Politics 2008: Sarah Palin

She needs to shut up.

^ au contraire, she is saying a lot of interesting thing

yeah, and she has all that 'executive experience', remember?

Originally Posted by Bexar County Stud

Originally Posted by Texpat

Finger pointing by low-level functionaries who had dreams of six-fig salaries and a five-bedroom house in Foggy Bottom.

Yeah maybe, except now she is getting called out by the Secret Service, a damning indictment if there ever was one:

Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama (Telegraph UK)

The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.

Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

That claim is part of a campaign of targeted leaks designed to torpedo her ambitions, with claims that she did not know that Africawas a continent rather than a country.

The advisers have branded her a "diva" and a "whack job" and claimed that she did not know which other countries are in the North American Free Trade Area, (Canada and Mexico). They say she spent more than $150,000 on designer clothes, including $40,000 on her husband Todd and that she refused to prepare for the disastrous series of interviews with CBS's Katie Couric.

In a bid to salvage her reputation Mrs Palin came out firing in an interview with CNN, dismissing the anonymous leakers in unpresidential language as "jerks" who had taken "questions or comments I made in debate prep out of context."

She said: "I consider it cowardly. It's not true. That's cruel, it's mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news that's not fair and not right."

She was not asked about her incendiary rhetoric against Mr Obama. But she did deny the spending spree claims, saying the clothes in question had been returned to the Republican National Committee. "Those are the RNC's clothes, they're not my clothes. I asked for anything more than maybe a diet Dr Pepper once in a while. These are false allegations."

Speaking as she returned to her native Alaska, Mrs Palin claimed to be baffled by what she claims was sexism on the national stage. "Here in Alaska that double standard isn't applied because these guys know that Alaskan women are pretty tough, on a par with the men in terms of being outdoors, working hard," she said.

"They're commercial fishermen, they're pilots, they're working up on the North slopein the oil fields. You see equality in Alaska. I think that was a bit of as surprise on the national level."

October 17
Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded

By Andrew M. Seder aseder[at]timesleader.com
Staff Writer

SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.


The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him."

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.
Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”
Hackett said he did not hear the remark.

Slavoski said Singleton was interviewed Wednesday and stood by his story but couldn’t give a description of the man because he didn’t see him he only heard him.
When contacted Wednesday afternoon, Singleton referred questions to Times-Tribune Metro Editor Jeff Sonderman. Sonderman said, “We stand by the story. The facts reported are true and that’s really all there is.”

Slavoski said the agents take such threats or comments seriously and immediately opened an investigation but after due diligence “as far as we’re concerned it’s closed unless someone comes forward.” He urged anyone with knowledge of the alleged incident to call him at 346-5781. “We’ll run at all leads,” he said.

^^And she's getting more every minute.
At least she isn't preparing an invasion of Fukwitistan.

^^ All of that is a crock and it's already been discredited. Yes, I just love it when Obama gets up and announces that his main aim is to "KILL" Osama or at least capture him.

The Yanks love a good "killin". With a fair trial first of course.

Originally Posted by Panda

With a fair trial first of course.

She is an ignorant jerk. Claims she is qualified in foreign affairs because Alaska is close to Russia. Did not know that Africa is a continent. She thought it was a country. Believes in demons and is active in a sect that is in a mortal fight against them. Thank God she lost.

^ Believe everything you read, then? You'll get along well with some brethren here, Bill.