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Sarah Palin does Oprah Winfrey

I watched Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin and I thought she sounded good. Sarah Palin that is. She didn’t sound as clueless as she did during the 2008 campaign, but then again, how could she? It was almost hard to believe that this was the same woman that couldn’t name a single magazine she reads.

Almost.

The most interesting part of the interview was when Oprah asked her why she resigned as Alaska’s governor. Palin said it was because she had already decided that she wasn’t going to run for reelection and she felt like she was a lame duck. She also said something that sounded really odd. She blamed the reason for stepping down on Barack Obama. She said that people from the Obama camp were coming up to Alaska to do “opposition research.”

Watch it here:


I understand there are some on the right that want to blame everything on Obama, but this? I have a hard time believing that after winning the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama really cared about Sarah Palin. Why would he send people up to Alaska to do research on her?

I think the reason she quit was so that she could cash in on her sudden fame. If she resigned as governor, she could go on the paid lecture circuit and write a book. Instead of just admitting to this, she instead blames Obama.

She should have just said she wanted to make money.

2 Comments by Rick  /  November 17, 2009  /  Posted in: Politics
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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.

3 Comments by Rick  /  October 28, 2009  /  Posted in: Politics
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Sarah Palin’s new book: ‘Going Rogue: An American Life’

rogueFormer 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.

1 Comment by Rick  /  September 29, 2009  /  Posted in: Sarah Palin
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