Sarah Palin
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.
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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.
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ally says:
As an American living in Australia, I am constantly amazed by how much Tom Mcilroy knows about American politics. I would consult your column from anywhere in the world. re the SOTU address: did it bother you how competitive Obama is against other nations? I quite prefer politics.tom as our… Read more »
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AussieJazzman says:
I think one of the biggest mistakes of the first two years of the Obama campaign was his handling of the health care bill. The bill contained some very substantial provisions to lower the cost of health care to Americans and broaden the coverage they are offered. However, these positive… Read more »
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.”
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Balderdash says:
Greg Troll jewish extremist websites much? Read more »
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Greg says:
Why should everybody be so hyper sensitive to Jewish feelings, when they go un-criticised in our Big Media for saying things like Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4006385,00.html Which comment is really offensive, as opposed to just an alleged copyright infringement on an exclusive victimhood statement? Read more »
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.
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Tracy says:
Hello Retired Soldier. I just wanted to say I enjoyed your earier post. I also want to thank you for fighting on our behalf and all of your years as a great Aussie. When younger people call our senior and highly respected citizens “old man” or “old woman’ they usually… Read more »
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Tracy says:
Thanks I Wish I’d Said That for making me spit my coffee out with your second comment about forgetting the end quotation mark…very funny! With reference to other comments from people about the annoying “must of” instead of “must have”; I think it might have come about because people read… Read more »
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.
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iansand says:
Palin is significant because she is one of the leading intellectual lights of the Tea Party sect. Tea Party ideas are leaking into the ranting lexicon of the Australian rabid right. Read more »
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Macca says:
@Peter, Clarkson wrote about it in one of his books. He was speeding down a highway with nothing for hundreds of kilometres and he got pulled over for exceeding the speed limit. He asked the Cop to show some sympathy and a bit of common sense. The Cop responded “Sir,… Read more »
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.
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MB says:
lol, the tea party asks for lower taxes and the reduction of the deficit at the same time? they ask for the reduction of the deficit without touching defense spending or medicare, well thats 80% of federal spending lol. No the tea party is a bullshit scared WASP middle class… Read more »
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Ziggy says:
Obamas academic records have been sealed for years. So don’t assume he actually did graduate top of his class. When will people learn that lack of factual knowledge is easily fixed by learning but leadership capability is another thing. Palin has it in spades. All she needs is a swift… Read more »
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.
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Tom says:
Eric, yes I realise that was a Tina Fey quote, it doesn’t change the fact that her original quote was irrelevant, and that she is completely unfit for any public office, much less control of the world’s most powerful state. Here is the quote, by the way: “GIBSON: What insight… Read more »
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James says:
You can believe whatever you like Jay, but we all know that Palin’s “son” was actually her grandson and they covered up her daughter’s first pregnancy by saying it was Palin’s. Just like Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, and George Bush worked for Halliburton while he planned the 9/11 attacks… Read more »
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”.
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David C says:
Huh I just posted a video that shows the same ignorance as is being shown in the video above, and you want to attack me ?? Who’s ignorant now? Read more »
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John Ryan says:
David C you would not be a Beck supporter by any chance,the junior Goebbels of FAUX NEWS,just Palin and Beck backed up by Limbaugh what a team for President,that should ensure the Republicans stay out of office for the next 20 yrs. Palin dumb, thick, brainless,stupid and unintelligent,matched with Beck… Read more »
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.
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Eric says:
Bec, where are the public records showing Sarah Palin voted to make rape victims pay for their own forensic testing and ban books? Read more »
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Dan says:
Eric, trust me, nothing I say to you is ever a compliment. Read more »
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.
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James says:
I dont think Della B was scarified this much even though he was busily bonking a 26 year old. Is Dylan going to question his use of condoms ? As Health minister one would hope so. After a piece like this the left media then wonder why the GOP went… Read more »
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Public Speaker says:
Sarah Palin is not thought of highly here in Texas, as most think of her as being a bimbo, especially for stating things like we can see Russia from here. She does have following though, but will not ever be a threat. Read more »
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