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07-05-2009, 01:08 PM
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#361 | | Senior Member
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According to Huffpo, she's is threatening to sue a blogger for reporting rumors of an investigation into Housegate. Where is Steve Schmidt when he's needed?
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07-05-2009, 01:15 PM
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"Trading in public service for wealth is not a "higher calling."
It is if you were part of the GDP. Though the two don't have to be in conflict.  | 
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07-05-2009, 01:20 PM
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#363 | | CC College Counselor/Musical Theater Counselor
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I don't see how Palin can run for public office again. She complains of being picked on. That goes with the territory. She threatens publicly to sue others for defamation for reporting rumors and speculation. That goes with the territory. She quits before her term is up saying that to stay on is being a "quitter" and "going with the flow" and she doesn't want to be a lame duck.
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07-05-2009, 01:22 PM
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#364 | | CC College Counselor/Musical Theater Counselor
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One reason for the rumors and speculation as to why she resigned suddenly is because her own explanation was incoherent, illogical and not explanatory at all which left the door open for everyone to wonder what is going on.
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07-05-2009, 01:24 PM
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Ok, this is from the Huffington Post, so take it how you will:
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07-05-2009, 01:45 PM
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if she's trying to protect her family, she has already done them so much disservice by putting them in the spotlight to show herself as a family-values mother.
she paraded her daughters and newborn son out on the national stage instead of keeping them out of this mess and now she's angry that letterman's joking on her (which was indeed unacceptable, but by no means beyond belief)?
Obama didn't put his kids out for this. He and Michelle put themselves out on the national stage, and when he claimed that attacks on his wife were unwarranted and unfair, he was mistaken because she made herself a spokeswoman for his campaign. But he didn't put Sasha and Malia out there very much (not nearly to the extent that Palin did), and thus their behaviour hasn't been called much into question.
Palin abandoned her state on this one. How would she ever be able to take this scrutiny in the presidency?
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07-05-2009, 01:46 PM
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#367 | | Senior Member
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In solidarity with my friend and fellow Alaskan blogger, may I be the next to report to the team of Palin-Van Flein, and to the entire blogosphere at large:
THERE ARE RUMORS.
There. I said it.
Sue me.
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This about sums it up.
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07-05-2009, 02:01 PM
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#368 | | Senior Member
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If everybody writes "there are rumors," will everybody be threatened to be sued?
There are rumors.
There. I said it.
Sue me.
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07-05-2009, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by geeps20 I find it ironic how so many, both rep and dems, despise career politicians..yet Palin gets destroyed because she is just a "normal' person...and lacks experience. So, we will continue to vote in these career politicians that talk the talk but do squat for our country. | The problem for me with Palin is not that she is a "normal" person, it is that she is ill-educated, inarticulate, has an established track record of treating any office she holds as a personal fiefdom for the handing out of goodies and settling of personal scores, and I strongly disagree with virtually all of her positions on issues of substance (that is, when I can discern what that position is).
Is that a "normal" person? The "normal" citizens I know are generally better educated, more articulate, more honest, and more thoughtful than she gives any evidence of being. Maybe I know the wrong people.
BTW, in what way is Palin "destroyed"? If she turns out to have no political future--which I strongly doubt, because her effrontery is apparently boundless--it will be because SHE chose to resign rather than finish the term to which she was elected.
I would suggest that a career politician such as Olympia Snowe--my senator, with whom I sometimes agree and sometimes disagree--has done a whole hell of a lot more for this country than Sarah Palin, whose major contribution seems to have been to debase the level of political discourse even further.
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07-05-2009, 03:53 PM
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She just realized that the current ruler installed himself in W DC for next 12+ years and there is no reason to continue to be smeared by Obama-press, aka mainstream media for that long. They will do it to the next one, I am sure, just to make him/her unelectible.
Palin has enough debt to pay, nowadays anybody can smear somebody for free, why they would not continue doing it?
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07-05-2009, 03:57 PM
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She just realized that the current ruler installed himself in W DC for next 12+ years and there is no reason to continue to be smeared by Obama-press, aka mainstream media for that long. They will do it to the next one, I am sure, just to make him/her unelectible.
Palin has enough debt to pay, nowadays anybody can smear somebody for free, why they would not continue doing it?
| Do you think that what happened here is not shady/weird? If she really wanted to just get out of politics without scandal, she could simply have announced that she would not run in 2010 and 2012. And if she really cared so much about Alaska, she would be happy to run for re-election and forget about the White House.
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07-05-2009, 03:58 PM
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Sarah Palin is someone I believe I could enjoy a glass of wine with. She's interesting and bright, albeit no more articulate than I am in expressing herself. Nonetheless, we might debate hunting (she's pro, I'm con), choice (I'm pro, she's con), and God (she's devout, I'm agnostic), after which we could discuss our love for our families and our country. I could have similar conversations with many people I know in real life, but that doesn't make them presidential material. I really think I'd like Sarah Palin, the person, but I don't much care for Sarah Palin, the potential leader of the free world. ...
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07-05-2009, 04:02 PM
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Miami--What do you mean "the current leader installed himself in DC for the next 12+ years?  | |
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07-05-2009, 04:09 PM
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hindoo,
my statement in not a riddle, I meant what you read.
lockn,
Did you listen to her speach? She said she did not have a chance to do her job anymore, she was spending most time and a lot of money on answering various alegations and it is not what governor's job is meant to be. There is no reason to continue to be smeared and just go along with that.
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07-05-2009, 04:10 PM
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hindoo,
my statement in not a riddle, I meant what you read.
| You're getting Obama mixed up with Bloomberg. Common mistake.
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