Both purplewolf and cyrena-just to name a couple-have put some EXCELLENT links to sites with proof of palins activities…i.e.-wolf kills-criminal records-political favors-library books-vindicative bitchy bahavior-yet SOME still think she is a PEACH…..just goes to show ya…....

This here small mined idiot person wonders how ole “moose turd” likes it when people are OUT TO GET HER????sorta a “sauce for the goose,sauce for the gander” situation….sorta “for all the folks she bad mouthed and tried to ruin” situation…SORT OF FAIR DONTCHA THINK?????

OzarkMichael—It’s a fair comment to question anonymous sources for most news stories, but this is a case where you have Republican-assigned handlers and organizers speaking candidly about their own party’s vice presidential candidate. The only reason they don’t want their names mentioned is because they don’t want any retribution and would like to have a future in the party. They’re really in a ‘damned if you do-damned if you don’t’ situation. They can keep quiet and allow a total incompetent to gain credibility in their party, or they can speak up at some risk to themselves to expose the charade. Personally, I’m glad they’re talking. Palin would destroy whatever is left of the GOP.

By all means, let’s not give any President a free-pass and question them about their policies and proposals. I’m sure Obama expects that, as he should. But, since he was elected by an 8,000,000 vote margin and an electoral landslide, it might be a good idea to attack him AFTER he had made some mistakes, rather than before he’s even inaugurated.

As for his Nancy Reagan comment, Washington DC insiders are all fully aware of her behavior as First Lady and the fact that she brought a well-known astrologer into the White House to do a reading for her husband. These were allegely Born Again Christians, and were not supposed to believe in astrology. Anyway, it would have been better if Obama hadn’t made the “seance” reference, but everybody in the room knew exactly what he was talking about. And Nancy Reagan never made any secret of it.

Yeah cyrena, minority rights should NEVER, EVER be put on ballots for a majority vote.  One of the founding principles of this country is majority rule, but minority protection.

Small minded, petty, bitter people talk about and/or put down other people.

Average minded people usually talk about themselves.

Great minded people talk about the goals they want to bring about.

Where do you think Sarah fits in?

OzarkMichael,

Sour grapes becomes you.  Actually some of you comments raise my eye brow also, concerns of hope and change only becoming a nod and a wink.

Palin, is not smoke and mirrors, she aggravated the ignorant masses under a banner of hate, we should be watching her closely, until Alaska succeeds from he Union or she pulls herself out of the limelight, with some sort of integrity like McCain, but I will not hold my breath.

Her delusions seem those of a mad person who does not have a clue.

Per a typical Truthdigger: These are attempts, good attempts, to drive a stake though the heart of her political future. Her moment has passed.

Notice that there are no sources for all these ‘good attempts’. It is all ‘someone says that someone else says’. Oh but when it comes to Palin rumors have to be reported by the wolf pack and the implications of the rumor need to be talked about, and then astute guesses must be made and discussed, jokes and skits made… for days! Not just on ‘shows’ either, but on ‘News’ programs. After awhile it becomes a “fact” in the public mind. What do we call that process? What do we call that process when it is not an accident but done with purpose and intention? For the empowerment of one party… or one person?

“Attempts, good attempts” indeed.
The media has portrayed Obama as messiah to Palin’s clown. “Oh, see how great the difference is between them!”  She has to be the national joke so that no one studies the real goals of the person who they just elected.
I have just listened to a tape where Barack Obama says, “the constitution has too many ‘negative liberties’ and not enough about the things that government must do for the people.”  What does that mean exactly? The media didnt bother to report about this and they wont bother to ask him about it. Why not?

So what does ‘good attempts’ mean? It means we have “News” that doesnt need to be true, it just needs to serve the Purpose. And if truth hurts the One who will fulfill the Purpose, then it isnt news. 

I am sorry, but I will not be signing on for ‘Unity’ and ‘Change’ at this price. I do not think that this is how to bring about a bright new morning in America, though i dearly want that new day.

To further ‘good attempts’, one should expect some new restrictions on free speech to be implemented by Democrats. It could come from Obama trying to placate the OIC, or it could come along the lines of limiting a conservative stronghold such as talk radio.
I say its time to begin poking fun at the new boss while we can. I dont care what color he is. Or how grand he supposedly is. He is President and we Americans make fun of our Presidents. Or are we supposed to stop doing that now? hahah. Anyway, these are all original ideas:
Obama celebrated his first press conference with a slur at the expense of an old lady(Nancy Reagan) in hospital with a broken hip. I believe he doesnt like the Reagans, and clearly he enjoyed his joke, but I see he apologized anyway. Its “just words” after all. 

The man who ran Fannie May and began the process of concealing its massive losses, which eventually led to the financial market collapse, is not going to jail. Instead he is going to…  the White House! as Obama’s Chief of Staff! Obama called it “CHANGE”, but Rob Emanuel calls it “BILLIONS” with more to come!
A woman said she is so glad that Obama won because now she “wont have to worry about house payments and trying to make ends meet.” She must figure that if Moses got manna to fall down from the sky, Obama can make the money rain down from heaven. Being inclined to guess where it will really come from, I plan to make less money next year.

Did I really just see Sarah Palin say in an interview that some of the leaked information about her behavior during the campaign was “cruel and mean-spirited”? Is this moron kidding? The same person who suggested that a sitting U.S. Senator “pals around with terrorists”, is a “socialist” and maybe a “communist”, and doesn’t “look at America like most of us do”? The same person who put on a pretty smile as she lied and distorted the facts every time she opened her mouth during the campaign? As I listened to her talk to the CNN reporter, I realized that she sounds like a high school kid, rarely finishing a sentence and resorting to cutesy phrases whenever she loses track of her own train of thought. The ignorance was embarrassing to watch. She also mentioned that she knows the difference between “Africa the continent and the country”,  which means that she still doesn’t realize there is no country named Africa. If the 220,000 voters in the state of Alaska want this total ditz to be their governor, they can keep her. I guess she can’t do much damage in a state with less people than most cities, and a pipeline of revenue coming in from the oil companies. Unless she tries to shoot down Putin the next time he comes flyin’ over this great country of ours.

The stories emerging about Palin serve a purpose. Many Republicans were put off by her and want to make sure that she and what she represents do not come back to haunt them election after election like a herpes outbreak on a date. These are attempts, good attempts, to drive a stake though the heart of her political future. Her moment has passed.

ZachP writes/asks

”..I’m new to this site, so can someone tell me how to get the oldest comments to appear at the top, not the bottom?”

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Hi Zach,

I don’t think there’s a way to do this, as there is on other sites. They experimented for a time, at allowing comments and replies directly to those comments to be grouped together. But, that didn’t last. So, we’re pretty much stuck with having to read them backwards…not unlike emails that have a ‘history’. It takes a little getting used to, but you will.

I’m so sorry (though not surprised) to hear your story. Things are pretty jacked up with the laws would rather put you back on welfare/medicaid than allow for the domestic partner health benefits. That’s an indication of the direction of the ideology of NOT (in this case) the ‘government’ as in the Thug regime we’ve had in place the last 8 years, but rather our OWN fellow citizens.

THAT’S what scares the living shit out of me. I’m still in shock that we’ve done the same thing in California. These are US citizens eliminating rights for themselves, via some legislation, and then they’ll turn around and holler that nobody should receive public assistance because it’s Marxist.

Don’t you get tired of Palin’s double standard?  When she took Mr. Obama’s or Mr. Biden’s comments out of context or misrepresented them, it was fine, but when someone allegedly took her comments out of context, they were “immature”, “unprofessional”, “jerks”.  It was okay for her to be mean-spirited, but when she gets treated the same way, she squeals like a pig - with lipstick.

According to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, Joe the Plumber has been on welfare twice…how delightfully hypocritical. Didn’t he call this stuff Marxism?  Also, according to the tv show, he said ‘he deserved it because he paid into the system’...but has a $1400 tax debt?

On a personal note, my family has been on welfare, and is still on it, my mother is on Social Security Disability due to various illnesses, so is my brother.  Oh, and thanks to Amendment 2 passing in Florida, she will likely soon lose health benefits from her domestic partner/bf and be forced to go back on Medicare…even more welfare.  God bless the USA eh? 

I’m new to this site, so can someone tell me how to get the oldest comments to appear at the top, not the bottom?

It makes me sick to my stomach that John McCain put our country at risk of possibly having a commander and cheif that is not even aware that Africa is a continent. The single most important decision of McCains political career was the selection of the person that would be his 72 year old heartbeat away from becoming leader of the free world. What did John McCain base this decision on??.....Political gain, not our country. It was blatantly obvious to Americans that the selection of Sarah Palin was designed to sway Hillary voters his way,and had nothing to do with the intrest of our country, just his political campaign. This makes me truly beleive that if John McCain thought a Chimpanzee would get him elected, then he would have picked one for his running mate. His decision to pick such an inexperienced candidate was such an utter disreguard for the well being of our country that words cant do it justice. How do people like this even get into the position to possibly become our next president???

Calling others jerks on TV when she was interviewed by Gary Taubman is not exactly classy nor professional, Palin ! But then you wouldnt exactly know what classy or professiona mean. You know exactly what you are getting into, you lobbied for ythe nomination. So dont act like you are being victimised. All those private plane rides, gifts, $150,000 (or more), etc, for you, first dude and your family surely should compensate for the self-perceived media biasness and attacks. For all those who think Couric’s interview was biased, just think how much worse Palin would come across if she was let loose immediately after the convention without the campaign aides stepping in to say she is NOT ready for press interviews. Yeah sure, let Sarah be Sarah. In hind sight, maybe the campaign aides should have done that. Then she would have combusted immediately and we wouldnt have to put up with her for so long.

For the Republicans who thinks she is the future of republicans 2012 campaign, think hard - we have a long memory !

I find it ironic that Sarah Palin is whining about comments ‘taken out of context’—hateful and nasty etc…
Would someone please send her clips of her personal attack campaign containing lies against Obama’s character? 
“You shall reap what you sow.”
What planet is this woman from?

AnotherFloridaDemocrat—I beg to differ with your description of Sarah Palin, even though it does underline her ‘style over substance’ performance in the campaign. Never in my life have I seen such a grossly incompetent, unaware candidate for vice president. Her selection as McCain’s running-mate actually put the nation at risk. If John McCain had been elected and then died before the end of his term, we would have had a president who eschews the scientific method, has no knowledge of world events or national issues, and is only good at reading a teleprompter and winking.  The misogynist leaders in the Middle East would have chewed her up. We came far too close to an unprecedented debacle, no matter how witty or charismatic you may have thought she was. The electorate was misled about Palin’s inadequacies by John McCain because he knew that her background could not stand up to any scrutiny. So he hid her from the press. Even then, she managed to say things like “I have foreign policy experience because you can see Russia from Alaska” or that “the Vice President runs the Congress”. This country cannot afford to have anything but the best minds sitting in the Oval Office. Having the best smile is a no-qualifier. This is not about being cruel. It’s about letting politicians know that we’re not going to buy this kind of cynical politics ever again.

Our great Abraham Lincoln accepted his victory after the Civil War had ended “with malice toward none, and charity toward all.” Our liberal fellow citizens, even though you have been out of power for so long, might consider Lincoln’s greatness of spirit after overcoming a trial much greater than you have undergone.

Gov. Palin burst on the national campaign scene with incisive wit, impeccable delivery, confidence in her cause, and charisma that drew people to their feet applauding wildly. No wonder Democrats knew they had to discredit her immediately, or their campaign would suffer.

But, are you still afraid? You succeeded, and we have a new President-elect, President-to-be Obama. Can’t you show some fair play now, and accept success; or, have you lost common sense in a love of cruelty? After all, there are more important things to do now. The Democrats have to run the country.

Sarah Palin and her operatives are trying to revise history and repair the damage she’s done over the last two months to her future in national politics. Campbell Brown on CNN says that Palin doesn’t deserve all the attacks, but I disagree. She earned every single one with her behavior since being picked to run for vice president by William Kristol, Fred Barnes, Dick Morris, Robert Bjork, and Dick Bolton back in 2007.

Palin wined and dined these Republican operatives at the Govenor’s mansion in Alaska, where she convinced them that she had the same “outsider”, down-home appeal that George W. Bush offered to the Republican base in 2000. She never told these men, nor did they ask if she knew anything about national or global affairs. They never asked her if she knew what the job description was for vice president. And they never gave her a pop quiz on world geography or U.S. history. She was a purely political choice, and she knew it.

The hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on clothes, hair and makeup are the least of her problems. At the top of the list I would put her demonstrated inability to put two coherent, complete sentences together. This is a person who has been in public life for decades, beginning as a television sportscaster and beauty pageant contestant. If she can’t speak intelligently by now without the aid of a script or a teleprompter, no amount of re-education will rehabilitate her.

I must admit that Palin is right, though. I am a little bitter about her candidacy. She wasted our time and, more importantly, she divided the country with her strident, incendiary rhetoric. To this day, she does not understand the damage she did during that despicable campaign. There are still many people parroting her discredited attacks on many blogs.

Yes, and I will not going to give up or quit making those small person bitter type comments either.

Kill the messenger.