SubscribeSarah Palin used to travel to Canada for icky, awful government health care
Former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in Canada speaking to a bunch of Canadians when she admitted to the crowd of listeners that as a child, she used to partake of the awful icky socialized Canadian medical system. From The Globe and Mail:
PALIN: We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?
No, that’s not ironic. It’s hypocritical.
Sarah Palin has long railed against health care reform saying that if we reform health care in this country, it will lead to socialized medicine. Like they enjoy in Canada.
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.
Why wont Sarah Palin admit she doesn’t like Asian people?
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.
Sarah Palin will tell you what you can do with your fact checking
Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s new book is coming out tomorrow. A lot of people, including those that worked in the McCain campaign, have taken exception to some of the contents of the book, specifically the parts she evidently just made up. The AP have been going through the book and have been writing about the factual errors the book contains. Palin has a problem with this. So much so that she wrote about it on her Facebook page:
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.
She refers to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as though Sheik is his title, like the Iron Sheik. It’s not his title, it’s his middle name. Maybe she just likes to refer to people by their middle name. In that case, I’m going to start referring to her has Louise Palin. That’s her middle name.
Louise Palin also wrote the following:
We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.
I couldn’t disagree with her more. If Americans want objective reporting, why do so many of them watch Fox News? On the contrary, a good many Americans want non-objective, biased reporting. They not only want their news to be biased, a good many of them will simply reject anything that doesn’t embrace their particular bias.
I also think Louise Palin is dead wrong about the AP. I think the AP is very serious about getting the facts right. Back when I found a t-shirt at Wal-Mart with a Nazi skull on it, I was interviewed by an AP reporter for an article they published about the controversy. When the article first appeared online, it incorrectly stated that I’m a veteran of the U.S. Navy. I’m not. I’m a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, not that it mattered.
I didn’t really care, because to me, it didn’t make a difference. I didn’t think my military service pertained at all to the article. About 20 minutes after reading the article, the reporter called me. He asked me whether I had said I was in the Navy or the Air Force. I guess he was going over his notes and noticed that I never said I was in the Navy. I told him that I was in the Air Force, but that I don’t think it mattered. He disagreed. He said that the mistake would be fixed immediately. He said the AP cared a lot about getting facts, all the facts, correct.
Sure enough, the AP quickly corrected the article.
I was impressed by this. I didn’t think it really mattered, but they went to the trouble of fixing a mistake anyway.
So when Louise Palin implies that the AP shouldn’t be trusted with the facts, I couldn’t disagree more.
Who knew losing paid so well?
Word came out yesterday that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was paid a $1.25 million advance for her memoir, Going Rogue. Being that she was still the governor of Alaska when she received the payment, she had to report it on some kind of official state form. If it wasn’t for that, I guess we wouldn’t have found out that she cashed in to such an extent.
If it didn’t appear on an official government form, who would have thought publisher HarperCollins would have paid so much for Sarah Palin’s memoir? Not that fudging an official government form would be something Palin wouldn’t do. She is after all a Rogue. It’s just that when people falsify financial forms, they generally under report, not over report.
I think it’s remarkable that Sarah Palin would get paid so much for writing a book that chronicles so little. After all, it’s her memoir, right? What has she done in her life that would be interesting enough to require a book? She was governor of Alaska, but she quit her before her first term was complete. She ran as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, but she lost.
Sarah Palin’s new book: ‘Going Rogue: An American Life’
Former vice-presidential candidate, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has picked a title for her upcoming memoir. It will be called, Going Rogue: An American Life.
On first glance, it seems like an incredibly silly title for an autobiography. Then again, perhaps the word rogue means something different to me than it does to most people. Having played Dungeons & Dragons in my youth, I identify the word rogue with the player character class that engages in sneak attacks. In the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons, a rogue is a thief. They pick locks and discover traps. They prefer to attack their opponents by stabbing them in the back.
In all the years I played Dungeons & Dragons, I don’t think I ever played a character that was a rogue. A rogue always seemed to me to be, I don’t know, a dick. A rogue was just not something I even wanted to pretend to be in the make-believe magical fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons .
Can the word rogue be used without a negative connotation? No, I don’t think so. Merriam-Webster defines the word as a vagrant or a tramp, or a dishonest or worthless person.
So why then would Sarah Palin use the word to describe herself in her autobiography? Maybe, just maybe it’s because it she knows the word fits.
Sarah Palin exploring legal options against those who try to guess why she is resigning
Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, doesn’t appreciate people guessing why she is resigning.
From the Associated Press via MSNBC:
The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.
“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.”
Shannyn Moore maintains a blog over at WordPress.com, entitled “Shannyn Morre: Just a Girl from Homer“. On this blog she writes about politics in Alaska, including the soon-to-be former governor Sarah Palin. She also appears somewhat regularly on MSNBC. Evidently it was one of her TV appearances that raised the anger of Team Palin, not her actual blogging.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
Van Flein, asked why he singled out Moore, said it’s because she went on national television and talked about it. Moore was on with MSNBC’s David Shuster on Friday, the day Palin said she will resign.
“There is a scandal rumor here that there is a criminal investigation into some activities and that’s been rumored for about, I don’t know, probably six weeks or two months,” Moore told him.
She said she’s never seen Palin appear as nervous as she did at the press conference announcing her resignation and “I think she was actually doing damage control for news that’s coming up later.”
Moore said that there was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation into some activities involving the Palins. She did not say that there was a criminal investigation. She only said that was a rumor that there was a criminal investigation. She also followed this up with what she thought Palin was doing by resigning. She used the word “think” which means that it was merely her opinion.
You can’t sue people over their opinions. At least not successfully and not in the United States of America.
The problem with what Sarah Palin did by annoncing that she was resigning as governor of Alaska is that it makes absolutely no sense. A lot of people are trying to come up with a reason why she would do what she did.
I’m going to miss Sarah Palin.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin quits
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced today that not only would she not be seeking a second term as governor, she will be stepping down in a few weeks.
Huh?
This makes no sense and that’s saying a lot for someone such as Sarah Palin. She didn’t step down when she gave birth to a special needs child. She didn’t step down when she ran for vice president of the United States. If she was prone to quiting, you would think she would have done so when either one of these two events took place.
This makes absolutely no sense.
David Letterman learns that some people do not appriciate jokes about 14-year old girls having sex
David Letterman has found himself in a bit of hot water over a joke he made concerning former Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. For whatever reason, Governor Palin was in New York doing something or other. While she was there, she and her 14-year old daughter Willow attended a Yankees game. Letterman used the occasion in his opening monologue on Monday night to make a joke.
This is what he said:
One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.
Letterman later claimed he wasn’t referring to 14-year old Willow Palin, the Palin girl that was actually at the game, but to 18-year old single mother Bristol Palin. The Palin girl that recently appeared on the cover of People magazine in her high school graduation cap and gown while holding her baby.
How classy.
Sarah Palin has done a series of interviews where she claims that the 62-year old Letterman is cracking jokes about her 14-year old daughter being raped. She doesn’t believe Letterman’s excuse and has stated that anybody that does is being “naive”.
I don’t know who to believe, nor do I really care. What I do know is that Sarah Palin has seeming never missed an opportunity to parade her children out in the public spotlight. During the 2008 Republican National Convention, she not only put her pregnant 17-year old daughter Bristol on public display, but also Levi Johnston, the 18-year old high school drop out that knocked her up. Can Letterman (or the writter who penned the joke) really be blamed for getting the daughters confused?
The one person in this whole mess that really has a reason to be angry is Alex Rodriguez. Say what you will about A-Rod, he doesn’t have a history of inpregnating teenage girls, especially during a game.
Investigation finds that Sarah Palin violated ethics laws
The report filed by Steve Branchflower, the investigator looking into Troopergate was released yesterday afternoon by the Alaska Legislative Council and it doesn’t look very good for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. From the Anchorage Daily News:
Branchflower’s report contains four findings. The first concludes that Palin violated the state’s executive branch ethics act, which says that “each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
I think it’s important to point out that it differentiates between “personal or financial interest”. Some Palin supporters are evidently saying that Palin was not using her power as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired for financial gain, so there was no ethical violation. While that’s true, she was trying to use the power of her office to settle an old score with her ex-brother-in-law. That is just as unethical as skimming money.
The report also paints Governor Palin in a poor light for seemingly unable or unwilling to reign in her husband Todd, the “First Dude” of Alaska. Often times it was the First Dude that was running around exerting pressure on state officials to get Sarah Palin’s ex-brother-in-law fired.
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in VP Debate
Former Saturday Night Live head writer returned to the show last night to once again play the part of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Even though she is a tree hugging liberal like me, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tina Fey secretly wanted McCain to win next month. Not only as a millionaire would she be getting a massive cut under a McCain presidency, she would never have to worry about not having anything to do on a Saturday night.
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is comedy gold.
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
Former Saturday Night Live writer Tina Fey made a return visit to her old show last night to help with the opening monologue. Those that said Tina Fey looked an awful lot like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were exactly right. Tina Fey did a dead-on impersonation of woman Republicans want to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
Wasilla rape victims were billed when Sarah Palin was mayor
What exactly does Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate have against women who are rapped? Not only does she think that a rape victim should be forced to have a rapist’s child even if her rapist is a blood relative, Wasilla rape victims were sent a bill to cover the cost of their own rape kit. A rape kit is used by law enforcement to collect physical evidence from a rape. They cost anywhere from $300 to $1,200.
The Wasilla police department would first try to bill the victim’s insurance company and if they refused to pay for the cost of the rape kit, the victim herself was sent the bill. I’m not really sure why an insurance company would pay for the rape kit. They are intended to gather physical evidence, not to treat injuries.
The state of Alaska had to step in and create a special law that forbid the practice from happening. [Anchorage Daily News]
How Sarah Palin fleeced the Alaskan taxpayers
The Washington Post reported today that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Plain bilked the state of Alaska for the nights she stayed in her own home in the bustling metropolis of Wasilla:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
I realize that the state of Alaska is rife with corruption, but claiming a per diem for the nights you stay in your own home seems too much even for Alaska. I also have to wonder just how much work she did as governor when for the first 19 months of office — roughly 570 days — she spent more then half that time not in Alaska’s capitol of Juneau, but 600 miles away in her home in Wasilla. It’s no wonder she was able to keep her pregnancy a secret. She was evidently AWOL a good majority of the time.
Does she know that if she is elected vice-president, she will be expected to live in Washington DC? If reporters were allowed to ask her questions, that could be something to ask her about.
Sarah Palin: “So Sambo beat the bitch!”
According to a waitress that served Alaska governor Sarah Palin and five or six of her political colleagues, Palin referred to Barack Obama as a “Sambo” and to Hillary Clinton as a “Bitch”. It was a few days after Obama locked up the nomination. She reportedly said, “So Sambo beat the bitch!” Evidently she got quite a chuckle from everyone sitting at the table.
Maybe this is just the way hockey moms talk.
Too bad she wont allow anyone from the news media to interview her or ask her questions. This would be one of the many things an interviewer could ask her about. [LA Progressive]
When will Sarah Palin sit down for an interview?
If you thought the McCain campaign would quickly get Sarah Palin out on the Sunday morning talk show circuit to explain in her own words why she should be our vice president, you thought wrong. In fact, she might never sit down and answer questions from a reporter. That’s what McCain campaign strategist Rick Davis told Joe Scarborough on yesterday’s MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
I’m somewhat surprised by this. One of Sarah Palin’s many qualifications for vice president is that she won Miss Congeniality in a 1984 Miss Alaska competition. The dictionary defines the word congenial as having a “pleasant disposition” and being “friendly and sociable”.
It doesn’t sound very sociable to me to refuse sit down with a reporter and answer questions.
So what exactly is a ‘hockey mom’?
I can’t remember if I’ve ever heard the term “hockey mom” before Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin entered the public consciousness last week. Palin refers to herself as a hockey mom quit a bit. In fact, she even mentioned it in her speech last night. She even worked it into a joke involving lipstick, a bulldog, and (I think) a transvestite.
I might have thought the joke was funny if I knew exactly what a hockey mom was. Then again, maybe I wouldn’t.
As a kid growing up in the high desert of southern California, youth hockey was something only the rich kids played. The cost of all the gear coupled with the cost of rink time made hockey the most expensive sport a kid could play. I realize that Palin is from Alaska and I am from California, but it’s not like her kid played out on the frozen tundra and she made all of his gear out of discarded elk bones.
Hockey is expensive no matter where you live.
When Sarah Palin refers to herself as a “hockey mom”, she might as well be referring to herself as a “polo mom” or a “fox hunting mom” or some other kind of mom that involves a really expensive sport that only rich kids play.
I don’t think that is her intent.
Sarah Palin slashed funding for teenage mothers
You simply can’t make this stuff up. Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin used the power of a line-item veto to drastically decrease state spending for programs that help single teen mothers. In other words, girls just like her own 17-year old daughter Bristol Palin.
So not only does Sarah Palin believe that abortions should be banned except only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk, she withheld money from a program that helps young girls that decide not to abort their pregnancy and instead have the baby. She is also against sex education being taught in public schools.
Again, you simply can’t make this stuff up.
Palin: “I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq”
Andrew Sullivan found an interview in Alaska Business Monthly with Sarah Palin where she admitted that she hasn’t really focused on the Iraq war.
Alaska Business Monthly: We’ve lost a lot of Alaska’s military members to the war in Iraq. How do you feel about sending more troops into battle, as President Bush is suggesting?
Palin: I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe. Every life lost is such a tragedy. I am very, very proud of the troops we have in Alaska, those fighting overseas for our freedoms, and the families here who are making so many sacrifices.
Worse then being for or against the “surge” in Iraq is to not even know about it. That’s what it sounds like with Palin. Who would have ever thought John McCain would choose a running-mate that didn’t know anything about the surge?
She wants to know that there is an exit plan in place? I might be wrong, but it seems to me that Palin’s desire for an exit plan is 180 degrees out-of-phase with McCain’s strategy for Iraq.
By admitting that she has not really focused much on the war in Iraq, she is all but nullifying the claim to fame because as the governor of Alaska she is commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard.
Comparing Governor Sarah Palin’s pregnancy photos
Both of these photos are of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s when she was seven months pregnant. The one on right was taken in in 1989 when she was seven months pregnant with son Track. The one on the left was taken in 2008 when she was seven months pregnant with son Trig.
Maybe it’s just me, but in one of these photos, Palin looks to be pregnant. In the other photo, not so much. Could the rumor that Sara Palin is Trig’s grandmother and not his mother have any truth to it?
I think something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Rumor: Governor Sarah Palin’s baby is really her grandson
Daily Kos currently has a blog post — they call them “Diaries” — up that claims that Governor Sarah Palin’s 4-month old baby with Down syndrome might be her granddaughter grandson. Evidently there is a rumor going around that the baby is Palin’s teenage daughter’s child, not the Governor’s.
They linked to an article in the Anchorage Daily News published this past March that broke the news that Palin at the time was 7-months pregnant. The problem was that she didn’t look pregnant. Supposedly her own staff was caught off guard by the news.
It states on Daily Kos that Palin’s teenage daughter was out of school and unseen by anyone for months because she had mono.
I’m somewhat surprised that this story would appear over on Daily Kos. I highly doubt the mainstream news will touch this, unless you consider the National Enquirer to be a member of the mainstream news media.
I’m not sure how Republicans or conservatives will respond to this rumor. Palin is extremely anti-choice. While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin stated in a debate that even if her daughter became pregnant in the result of a rape, she would “choose life”. I believe that is code for forcing her underage child to have her rapist’s baby.
That’s just plain nuts.
How would Governor Palin and her husband respond if their teenage daughter became pregnant? Would they hide the fact that their teenage daughter obviously had unprotected sex and became pregnant?
John McCain picks Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
It appears the Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has decided to throw a curve ball at Obama Nation. He has done the one thing Barack Obama refused to do, he has chosen a woman to be his running-mate.
So who is Sarah Palin? I did some looking into her background. By that I of course mean that I looked her up on Wikipedia. What I found was interesting:
- She is 44 years old
- She is married to a Yup’ik Eskimo named “Todd”.
- Her oldest son enlisted in the U.S. Army last year and will be deploying to Iraq next month.
- She is staunchly anti-abortion.
- She is a life-time member of the NRA.
- She recently gave birth to a child with Down syndrome.
- She enjoys killing and eating defenseless animals.
- She owns her own float-plane.
- She finished in 2nd place in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant.
- She admits that she used to smoke marijuana when it was legal in Alaska.
So there you go. That’s pretty much all you need to know about John McCain’s running-mate.
She reportedly will be joining John McCain in Dayton, Ohio to officially make the announcement. If it was me and I had to go to Dayton to become Vice-President, I would turn down the offer.
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