Category: Sarah Palin

Palin tells teabaggers that Obama’s budget is ‘immoral’

Speaking at the 2010 Tea Party convention in Nashville, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told the nearly 600 teabaggers in attendance that the Obama administration’s 2011 federal budget was “immoral” because it increases the national debt.

Instead of just criticizing the Obama administration’s 2011 budget, maybe she’d like to share with everyone how she would balance the 2011 federal budget. The New York Times has an interactive chart that shows were all the money will go.

What exactly would she like to cut?

How about the $738 billion that we will be spending on defense? The thing is, most of the yearly federal budget isn’t up to the president. Most of the budget is controlled by existing federal law. Other then military spending, not much can be cut by whoever is sitting in the White House. If Sarah Palin would like Obama to make drastic cuts to the military, maybe she ought to tell everyone.

2 Comments by Rick on February 7, 2010
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Looks like Sarah Palin is still not reading newspapers

Professional Facebook blogger Sarah Palin is calling for President Obama to fire his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The reason? Because he referred to some of us on the left as “retarded“.

From Palin’s Facebook page:

Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?

I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic.

The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F—ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.

A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?

I think Sarah Palin needs to learn that people aren’t necessarily talking about her kid when they use the word retarded. To equate the word to an ethnic or racial slur is absurd.

It’s just a word.

What I really find to be funny about this is that she had to be told about the incident from a “patriot”.  It was reported in the favorite newspaper of all conservatives, The Wall Street Journal, and Sarah Palin didn’t know about it until someone told her. If she’s not reading The Wall Street Journal, she’s probably (still) not reading newspapers.

1 Comment by Rick on February 2, 2010
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Sarah Palin finally gets a job she’s actually qualified for

Shocker of all shockers, the “Fair and Balanced” cable news channel Fox News Channel has hired former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a contributor. She will appear on the channel on a regular basis.

Fox News Channel is a cushy landing spot for failed Republican candidates. Mike Huckabee has his own show on Fox News Channel. When RNC chairman Michael Steele finally gets fired, I’m sure he’ll end up on Fox News Channel too.

They most interesting thing about Palin getting this gig is that she will finally be putting that five school, six year Bachelor’s degree in communications to good use. Unlike the job John McCain asked her to run foe, she’s actually well qualified to be a talking head on TV.

1 Comment by Rick on January 12, 2010
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Why wont Sarah Palin admit she doesn’t like Asian people?

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In the New Yorker review of Going Rogue, Sam Tanenhaus writes that Sarah Palin’s father said she left Hawaii Pacific University after only one semester because she didn’t care too much for Asians. From the review in the New Yorker:

Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not. But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.” In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, “because it was much like Alaska yet still ‘Outside.’ “

I don’t know what I find to be more troubling: that Sarah Palin doesn’t like Asians or that she won’t just come out and admit it. If she had or has a prejudice against people of Asian decent, why can’t she just admit it? Where’s the harm?

I think secret racism is much worse than open racism. When a person is openly racist, at least you know who they are and where they stand. A person who is secretly racist is just as likely to discriminate against someone because of their racial background than someone who is openly racist.

It’s not as though Sarah Palin belongs to a political party that places a high importance on racial sensitivity.  Coming out and admitting that she doesn’t care for Asian people wouldn’t prohibit her from ever seeking her party’s presidential nomination.

Who knows, it might even help her score more votes.

4 Comments by Rick on December 6, 2009
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Sarah Palin becomes a Birther

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared on the Rusty Humphries Show yesterday and the topic turned to President Obama’s birth certificate. No really, it did.
From DailyKosTV:

HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?

PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. 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 there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.

HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?

PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, 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.

HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?

PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And 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.

I just don’t get the strategy of attacking Obama’s nationality. It’s been established that he was indeed born in Hawaii, which I guess technically makes him as American as Ronald Reagan or Thomas Jefferson. I just don’t understand the idea of attacking Obama for something he has no control over. Like every other human on this planet, he didn’t choose where he was born.

I think Sarah Palin needs to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Does she want to be taken seriously as a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or does she want to be the leader of a fringe movement that questions Obama’s nationality? I don’t think she can be both.

by Rick on December 4, 2009
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Sarah Palin meets her doppelganger

13832_185006248587_24718773587_2840850_8261234_nSarah Palin was signing copies of her book Going Rogue at a Borders in Noblesville, Indiana when she met a woman that looks just like her. I haven’t seen something this amazing since that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where a transporter malfunction created a second Riker, Lieutenant Thomas Riker. It’s one of the reasons to this day I refuse to use a transporter, and instead use shuttles.

The photo appears on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. It doesn’t identify who this woman is, but it states that the photograph is the property of SarahPAC, Sarah Palin’s official political action committee.

Is this a book tour or is it a touring political rally?

I thought it was a book tour. She’s been appearing at military bases, something she would not be able to do if she was campaigning.

by Rick on November 24, 2009
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Sarah Palin fans stiffed at book signing

Hundreds of fans in Noblesville, Indiana lined up all day in the cold and rain at a Borders bookstore for the chance to meet Sarah Palin and get their copies of Going Rogue signed by the former Alaskan governor.  The first 1,000 people in line that bought a copy of the book were given a colored wristband. This was supposed to ensure that they would get their book signed by Palin. The problem is that Palin left the book signing before everyone that had a wristband could get a signature.

Is it so hard to believe that a person who quit in the middle of her term as governor would also quit her own book signing? I say no. This is what makes her the lovable  that she is. You think she’s going to do one thing, but she does the complete opposite.

These people that walked away from the book signing without a signature should not be sad or disappointed. They should be happy. They’ve been rogued by Sarah Palin. They should display their colored wristband and their unsigned book as a shrine to Sarah Palin and the complete rogue that she is.

Granted, she could have stayed at the book signing and continued to sign books for everyone that stood all day in the cold and the rain, but that would have been inconvenient for Sarah Palin. She’s not particularly found of doing things that are personally inconvenient for her. For example, finishing her term as Alaska governor.

5 Comments by Rick on November 21, 2009
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