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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-is-poised-to-trump-her-opponents/ The US is fighting three wars – give or take Libya. Unemployment just ticked up to 9.1 per cent. In coming weeks, the nation faces a critical decision to raise the $14 trillion debt ceiling. So why is America’s political class still squawking over Sarah Palin? Last week, the former Alaska governor threw the 2012 Republican primary race into chaos - not by announcing her candidacy, but simply renting a bus and hoiking it on vacation. She rode in a bikie parade. She made a cameo at the National Archives. Like the garden gnome in Amelie, her cherubic face popped up in a reel of happy snaps from Gettysburg to the Liberty Bell to New York’s Ellis Island. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-is-poised-to-trump-her-opponents/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-is-poised-to-trump-her-opponents/#item6010 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-reasons-obama-will-be-reelected/ They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-reasons-obama-will-be-reelected/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-reasons-obama-will-be-reelected/#item4951 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-and-obama-respond-to-arizona-shootings/ On Tuesday we published this piece by columnist Andrew Bolt. It criticised some on the left in the United States, and Australia, for blaming the rhetoric of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin for the massacre in Tuscon Arizona that killed six people and left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a critical condition. The issue of whether right wing rhetoric played a part in the shootings generated considerable heated discussion on The Punch, as it has throughout the United States. Today Governor Palin has responded in a video (above), attacking her critics for attempting to manufacture a “blood libel” against her: “Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies.” “Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.” penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-and-obama-respond-to-arizona-shootings/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/palin-and-obama-respond-to-arizona-shootings/#item4886 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lost-words-the-death-of-meaning-in-language/ Recently, much has been said about the death of the book. Perhaps more accurate though, is the death of words themselves. Not that this is anything new. Oscar Wilde lamented Victorian England’s loss of meaning through an obsession with politeness, appearances and crustless sandwiches. However, the difference now is that the meaning of words is decomposing because people use inappropriate synonyms to feel better about their insufficient vocabulary. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lost-words-the-death-of-meaning-in-language/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/lost-words-the-death-of-meaning-in-language/#item4761 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/did-sarah-come-between-bristol-and-her-levi/ Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson have hit the rocks (again) after announcing their second engagement in July this year. Bristol claims she dumped the “fame obsessed” Levi after he “played her” and admitted to fathering another baby with ex-girlfriend, Lanesia Garcia. And while Sarah Palin didn’t condone the engagement between the pair back in July, a recent statement given to People magazine shows she’s in full support of her daughter’s decicion to call it quits: “I wish for Bristol to be able to move forward in life with her same forgiving, gracious, optimistic spirit, but from henceforth she’ll know to trust but verify. Bristol is strong, she is independent, and she knows what is right for her son,” she said. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/did-sarah-come-between-bristol-and-her-levi/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/did-sarah-come-between-bristol-and-her-levi/#item3711 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-almost-happened-was-no-game/ There’s a very thin line in picking winners at the horse races and on political election days, and the Americans must be eternally grateful Sarah Palin never did become that heartbeat away from the world’s top job. Well some Americans, anyway. Since Barack Obama was handed the keys to the White House, red neck America has been in full flight – not only is the President a Democrat, he’s a black Democrat. Let’s have a Tea Party, um, party, and see what we can do, cried the masses. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-almost-happened-was-no-game/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-almost-happened-was-no-game/#item2948 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-r-word-sarah-palins-war-on-retarded/ Sorry Sarah Palin – in the war on the “r” word, you can’t have it both ways. The foxy Fox News contributor and former 1.3-term Governor of Alaska kicked off a skirmish earlier this month when she called on the president to sack his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, for using the word “retarded” during a strategy meeting. According to the Wall Street Journal, Emanuel, a famously aggressive pit-bull among Obama’s inner circle, called some at the meeting last August “F-ing retarded” for saying they were going to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who weren’t supporting the president’s health care plan. In a typically folksy post to her Facebook page, which has 1.4 million fans (frightening, but less than Obama’s 7.6 million), Palin responded to a “patriot” from Massachusetts who alerted her to the Journal article. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-r-word-sarah-palins-war-on-retarded/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-r-word-sarah-palins-war-on-retarded/#item2448 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-goes-large-in-ohio/ Must-watch video of the day.  A passionate crowd of supporters gathered at Sarah Palin’s book signing at Borders bookstore in Columbus Ohio over the weekend. Intrepid reporters New Left Media took a video camera down to meet some of the people who consider her (among other things) “the rock star of the conservative party”. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Lightweight http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-goes-large-in-ohio/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-goes-large-in-ohio/#item1818 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-Levi-johnston-style/ Levi Johnston might be my favourite “baby daddy” since Kevin Federline. The one-time almost son-in-law of Sarah Palin made headlines – and centrefolds – this week with a secret shoot for premier willy-wagging mag, Playgirl. His management has let slip a couple of details on the hush hush pictures due out next week: 19-year-old Johnston won’t be going full monty, but there will be a hockey stick involved. Pity poor Sarah Palin. With her already best-selling book, “Going Rogue,” hitting US bookstores this week, her daughter’s wayward beefcake ex is stealing her promo thunder. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-Levi-johnston-style/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/going-rogue-Levi-johnston-style/#item1795 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-end-to-what-sarah-palin-has-to-offer/ Sarah Palin said goodbye overnight to the governor’s mansion (barely halfway through her first term) with a picnic in an Alaskan park. Hello, to what? Well, who knows? The self-described moose-hunting Rottweiler with lipstick didn’t want Alaska, or Russia’s ‘close neighbour’, to be stuck with a “lame duck” chief executive. So, she flew out of office, and into private citizenship. The decision has left America largely confused. Critics interpret the hockey mum’s resignation as an antecedent to a move from Wasilla to Washington DC to take on Obama in 2012. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-end-to-what-sarah-palin-has-to-offer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/theres-no-end-to-what-sarah-palin-has-to-offer/#item734 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 They say a week is a long time in politics, so the two years until the 2012 US presidential election is practically an eternity. However, even a casual glance at news from Washington proves the race to the White House is already well under way. Former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Barack Obama last week, explaining why he believed Obama will be a one-term president.