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She just won't go away peacefully into the night
Palin says she'd be honored to help Obama
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that she would be honored to help President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration, even if he did hang around with an "unrepentant domestic terrorist." The Alaska governor said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that she would be willing to help if Obama asked her for assistance on some of the issues she highlighted during this year's campaign, such as energy or services for special-needs children. "It would be my honor to assist and support our new president and the new administration," said Palin, whom Sen. John McCain chose as his running mate in August. "I speak for other Republicans and Republican governors, also," she said. "They would be willing also to seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, in a united front." Watch CNN's Wolf Blitzer interview Palin » But asked moments later about some of the tough rhetoric she hurled from the stump, she said she was "still concerned" about Obama's ties to former Weather Underground member-turned-Chicago college professor William Ayers. "If anybody still wants to talk about it, I will," she said. "Because this is an unrepentant domestic terrorist who had campaigned to blow up, to destroy our Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/palin/index.html |
It's the polite thing to do, as part of the losing ticket, to say she would like to help Obama. I'd like to think a lot of people, not just Palin, have realized that we need to put political parties aside and unify as a nation.
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yes...it's called the Warmup Round for 2012
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You talk shyte about me last week and now this week you want to be my friend..... Hand out ready to be shaken but I need to be prepared for the dagger behind your back....as it were. |
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lol! all that mud...:)
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Yea.. I have a feeling Mr. Obama will not be needing her services.
Bless her heart! |
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This is my complaint with American politics....we need a viable 3rd party. I'm not 100% dem, I'm not 100% republican. We need a middle of the road party. Who's with me?;) |
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Or do you mean middle-of-the-road on social issues? |
i thought the republicrats has the third party locked down? lol!
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I'm so far gone it's ridiculous. I think I need to start my own party. Pro: -choice(but not for myself or late term) -social programs (to an extent - but not lifers on things like welfare etc...) -taking care of our vets -having a standing army, but of highly trained individuals - a la special forces, etc... -improving public education (intelligently) -flat tax -personal responsibility (I know, libertarian here) - gun control, to an extent (my husband would want to shoot me here :)) - sustainable energy -civil unions/ gay marriage -capital punishment -harsher living conditions in prison (for the real baddies, I mean really, do they need cable tv and to be able to work out daily?) -marijuana legalization (for small amounts only, not pounds of the maui wowee) -harsher punishment for sex crimes and crimes against children -caring more about people in the US (i.e. Katrina, poverty, homelessness, inequity in education) and helping us truly become a "super" power -stem cell research -health care for all citizens -mandatory foreign language education starting in elementary school -English being the national language against: -giving money to other nations (14 billion a year may not seem like a lot, bit still)when our people are going to bed hungry or dumber than the rest of the world -retarded amounts of defense spending on weapons that no one can fight or have the need for anyhow -lobbyists -religion influencing govt. -amnesty for those who came here illegally, many come legally, and yes your country might suck, but you know what? My grandparents, my husband's grand parents and other members of my family did it legally -govt. snooping on personal stuff (big brother) -pork barrel bulls--- -frivolous lawsuits (coffee is hot, don't stick it between your legs...and yes, peeps lots of mcdonalds makes you fat...your bad for eating it all the time.) -inflated pricing for things we overproduce like milk, etc... -genetically engineered food/people -ridiculous standardized tests for students who are not the same -voting in languages other than English. If you have the right to vote, you should be able to read and write English. I don't know...that's a lot, but not even the half. I should probably shut up now since I'm so far off topic and will probably get flamed to all hell. :) |
Well, what exactly is she supposed to say? Should she go the Kerry model, and continue to be an attack dog for the party? Wouldn't it be a little weird for the VP candidate to essentially go into seclusion, especially when she still holds a leadership post in her state?
I mean, I am by no means a Palin fan, and I hope beyond hope that she fades from the picture before 2012. But, I think most of the comments in this thread have more to do with people's distaste for Palin than they do about the reality of the situation. |
Palin did say she wasn't going away and that she was going to be a white Oprah if she didn't get in the White House.
Oh wait, that was Tina Fey who said that. :p :D |
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I mean, the people that believe her as "gospel" clearly aren't smart enough to think critically on their own, according to what you're implying here, so sacrificing her own credibility for (an apparent) holistic or 'greater' good seems like a no-brainer if she ever wants to run again (since she's not really sacrificing anything). She kind of has to say this, both for her political and patriotic well-being, doesn't she? Besides this, as much as Palin is indeed awkward, stilted and lost, I don't consider it disingenuous in the slightest to say that you'd work with someone who you feel is a poor choice because it's for the best to do that rather than continue fighting . . . it's somewhat like staying together for the kids. |
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and i second the fact that she needs someone like Obama...desperately! |
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Apply that logic to Obama / Palin...the only difference is...the 'kids (us) are grown and have an idea of what we see and what we are willing to tolerate from the 'parents'. That is, I think the idea that now Palin saying that she wants to work with Obama after just weeks ago smearing him, is not such a good idea IMO |
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I thinks Gov. Palin has overreached a bit with this latest statement. Most politicians will "embellish" on the campaign trail. We don't really know the extent to which Palin really felt Obama "palled around with terrorists" and was bad for the country, or if she was following the McCain campaign attack points...we'll probably have to just wait for her book. She'd have been better off in this instance just saying she wished the new president well, and was hoping for the best, not saying that she was "proud" of him. That strains the credulity of even the most casual political observer, never mind people who really follow the political process. |
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I don't know what's next just yet. I'll have a glass of wine and get back to you both. :) |
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I think she's prepping for 2012 in any way possible because, as they say in Alaska, there's more than one way to skin a moose. |
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But... People can vote in the US in a language other than English right now, or is that something being proposed? Bad business.... :mad: |
I will personally pay everyone one dollar to just not say her name again. Let's just let her fade back into the wilderness. Please. Pretty pretty please. Big old heaping lump of sugar on top.
Last time I even want to approach mentioning her -- I will look forward to the 2012 GOP primaries -- Pawlenty, Crist, Jindal, Barbour, they'll destroy her. I believe it will be enjoyable to watch. |
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Still :D:p:D at the top. Nittany, she'll eventually fade away...unless she wants to be like Oprah for real and be "UNLEASHED!" Damn it, she might even make it to Oprah now that the election's over. *sigh* |
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And I'm with nittany... I can't wait for 2012 and see Crist and Jindal, Barbour and Romney wipe the floor with she-who-will-not-be-named. |
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That gives a LOT more context to the quote - she's at least making an attempt to jump in line, and the current party line is "we're on the boat and not thinking about 2012, we have a lot of problems before then, blah blah blah." Not that the quote is a great one even then, but it's at least not as selfish or self-exalting as it sounds out of context. |
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I think it would be helpful to have everyone move on here and get down to the serious and substantive issues facing our President-elect. He needs the support and best wishes of all Americans and I choose to believe that Palin made her remarks in that spirit. Anything else is negative energy on my part. Many things are said in a campaign, and things Gov. Palin said regarding William Ayers weren't without some basis in fact. I am of that era when Bill Ayers and his compatriots were blowing things up - uh, just buildings, eh? I don't think so. I wonder what Mr. Ayers would say if someone just took radical exception to his positions here and now and just "blew up a building" - his house, for example? Sort of like the residence of the judge? |
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Charlie will NOT be a contender. Romney won't either because he is a Mormon and that was already apparently too much for some ultra evangelicals and now with Prop 8 hanging on the Mormon Church in Cali, they won't forgive OR forget, so he's between the proverbial rock and hard place. I am becoming more and more of a Jindal fan everyday. But whether or not Gov. Palin sticks, no one will wipe the floor with her. I find it so amusing and amazing that she engenders so much vitriol from the left. She who will not be named is apparently also she who must be destroyed. Why is that? Is it because she is also one who must not frighten the left anymore? Just asking. She's not my number one, but it is an interesting phenomenon. |
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While the US has no official language, something I understand as an educator and an intelligent citizen, it doesn't mean that the VAST majority of the population shouldn't speak and read English. If I moved to pretty much any other country where English wasn't the main language and became a citizen, there would be language requirements to do so. If I wanted to vote in those countries they wouldn't be providing me with a ballot in my own language. I'm a foreign language educator, and while I have no problem with people speaking and reading other languages English should be the national language. What is wrong with this? French is the official language of France, German is the official language of Germany, English and French are the official languages of Canada. What's the problem? I'm entitled to my opinion, and my opinion is that people should be able to read the ballot in English if they are to vote in the USA. |
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