Sarah Palin: How the Left Liberals View Palin
Attack Sarah Palin!
The Left Fumbles for a Response:
Two Attempts
One messageboard, two comments: one point of view, two candidates.
How liberals view Sarah Palin–and her differences with Barack Obama.
From comment #121, TheBlueOne, a href=”http://www.qbn.com/topics/564038/?page=7″>QBN: Sarah Palin
Newberry said it better than me, so I’ll quote:
“Her politics don’t add up. She’s a free market socialist: her state lives on checks from oil socialism. She’s an anti-family June Cleaver, voting to slash funds for other people’s disabled children, even as she has ridden on Easy Street up the ladder. She’s an anti-choice libertarian: for a broad reading of the 2nd amendment, and a narrow reading of all the others. She’s small government on libraries, and big government on bridges and hockey rinks. Lower taxes on home owners, while she pries pennies from children for their afternoon snack. Palin doesn’t make sense as a politician. And it as a politician that she needs to be attacked.”
But she’s being attacked as a hockey mom who was a mayor of a podunk town with a pregnant teenage daughter and another kid with down’s syndrome. It’s just moronic. I keep saying this but the Obama believers keep pooh-poohing me but Palin was a pick of fucking genius for MCCain’s candidacy. But her politics just suck, but she will not be attacked on her politics because she offers of many other low-hanging sensationalist fruit targets that are honey to the media flies.
From comment #140, morilla, QBN: Sarah Palin
“1980 – 1984
Obama: B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from Columbia University.Palin: Wasilla High School, captain of the state-champion basketball team. Miss Wasilla, runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, also Miss Congeniality, although that is now disputed.
Him: Ivy League degree. Her: tiara.
1985 – 1990
Obama: moved to Chicago; became a community organizer as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization on Chicago’s far South Side. During his three years as the DCP’s director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization.
Moved to Boston to attend Harvard Law School. Selected as an editor and then elected president of the Harvard Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review’s staff of 80 editors.Palin: Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, with a minor in political science from the University of Idaho. Brief stint as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations; left to join her husband in commercial fishing.
Him: sterling legal education. Her: sportscaster.
1991 – 1995
Obama: graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School; received contract and advance to write a book (“Dreams from my Father”) as well as a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. Directed the Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain’s Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of “40 under Forty” powers to be. Appointed as a Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. Active in several community organizations, usually as a board member.Palin: member of the Alasaka Indepence Party which advocates “Alaska First”. Elected to Wasilla city council.
Him: Expert on our nation’s fundamental legal principles. Her: plotted to leave the Union; thinks Pledge of Allegiance was written by our founding fathers.
1996 – 2000
Obama: promoted to Senior Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Elected to the Illinois Senate. Sponsored more than 800 bills. In 2000, lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.Palin: elected as mayor of Wasilla (population 5,470), defeating the incumbent by a total of 616 votes to 413. Town budget, $8 million (3 millionths of the Federal budget), approximately 100 employees. Reduced property taxes but increased sales taxes. Fired the Wasilla police chief, citing a failure to support her administration. (He then sued Palin on the grounds that he was fired because he supported the campaign of Palin’s opponent, but his suit was dismissed when the judge ruled that Palin had the right under state law to fire city employees, even for political reasons.) Hired a DC lobbyist to bring $8 million in earmarks to the city.
Him: sponsored 800 bills. Her: swayed 616 voters.
2001 – 2004
Obama: reelected in 2002 and became chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
Publicly spoke out against the invasion of Iraq BEFORE the congressional authorization in 2002, and then again before the actual invasion in 2003.
Wrote and delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
November 2004: elected to the US Senate, receiving over 3.5 million votes, more than 70% of total.Palin: elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. Unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor, coming in second in a five-way race in the Republican primary, receiving 19,000 votes. Appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, served as chairman from 2003 to 2004 and also served as Ethics Supervisor. Resigned in protest over the “lack of ethics” of fellow Republican members. Exposed the state Republican Party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, for doing party work on public time and working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. Director of Ted Stevens’ 527 group.
Him: demonstrated the wisdom to oppose the Iraq folly before it even began. Her: hasn’t really though much about it – despite the fact that 17 Alaskans have died there2005 to present
Obama: Sworn in as the fifth-ever African-American U.S. senator. Worked with Republican Senator Lugar to author and implement a program to locate and dismantle stray Russian WMD’s. Designated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the party’s point man on ethics. Worked with Russ Feingold to pass a major ethics/lobbying reform bill. Cosponsored, with John McCain, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. Called for increased fuel efficiency standards (3 percent every year for 15 years). Assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Veterans’ Affairs, and Homeland Security. Chairman of the Senate’s subcommittee on European Affairs. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Waged a tremendous battle to become the Democratic presidential nominee. Currently manages 2,500 campaign employees and a budget of $40-$50 million/month.Palin: 2005: board member, Valley Hospital Association, which runs the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Wasilla.
Became youngest and first female Governor of Alaska, taking office in December, 2006. Auctioned off the Governor’s jet on eBay. Took on fellow-Republican Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings. Promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska. Helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits. Formed a sub-cabinet group of advisers to address climate change but does not accept that it is man-made. Objected to listing polar bears as an endangered species because it might hurt oil and gas development in the bears’ habitat. Was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. However, Alaska kept the federal money. Denied her daughter was pregnant before she confirmed it. Supported abstinence-only education.Currently under a bipartisan investigation for abuse of power for dismissing Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner. Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard, but has played no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. (The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.)Obtained her first passport in 2007 to perform visits to the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait and Germany. (Foreign experience so limited that a stopover in Ireland listed on her resume.)
Him: Impressive figure on the national stage who knows how Congress works and is engaged with foreign policy issues. Her: small state governor for 21 months; “next to Russia”, but that is just 1 of the 190 countries in the world she has never been to.
Conclusion: the word “executive” is not some kind of magic force multiplier when placed in front of the word “experience”.
Readers are left to supply their own context and make their judgments as to validity of the above.
All liberals don’t view Sarah Palin like the two above: those who work the MSM shift of the Obama campaign aren’t as articulate as the two forum commenters above.
by Mondoreb
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FEAR! No matter how they say it, liberals are so afraid of Palin, you can almost smell it.
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Great site. It’s true…the libs fear Palin, which is why they’re attacking her more than McCain. What’s great is those attacks have no substance whatsoever!
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So there is a huge comparison between the democratic Presidential nominee and the republican Vice-Presidential nominee.
Why?
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Couple things I found that are slightly off: Palin didn’t actually auction the plane off E-Bay. Yes, she listed it, but it didn’t sell. It was actually sold through an aviation auction company.
I didn’t see any mention of the Matsu Dariy fiasco.
She slashed the budget for “special needs” programs.
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No, y’all are wrong. Liberals are not afraid of Palin – we’re cackling away cuz she is such a disaster. You wait until the National Enquirer gets done with her. You think I’m joking? Just wait.
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“…with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants’ rights organization.”
WOWIE-ZOWIE!!! Elect this man President NOW!!!
Lib R L: “You wait until the National Enquirer gets done with her. You think I’m joking? Just wait.”
OK. Waiting…
Still waiting…
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Still waiting…
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Still waiting…
BTW, relying on the National Enquirer to rescue Obama from Sarah Palin does not smack of desperation. Really, it doesn’t.
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Snoop,
Be careful what you wish for.
There were some people (me included) who couldn’t wait for the Enquier to dish on JE. Some of you too, I reckon. Now that the shoe is on the other foot re Palin, NOW the brickbats fly.
This is what I know: I stumbled upon something this week from an Alaskan blogger. If I discovered it,so will the NE. In fact, I was told this was common knowledge in their hometown.
Would it make a difference? I don’t know. My gut feeling is it would be a huge negative.
Is it relevant? Again, I would usually say no, except that Sarah Palin herself made it relevant by some of her choices.
It may not even be true. If it is true, McCain should learn from his errors and get ahead of the story before someone else does.
Now, I’ve heard some so-called Hillary supporters say that the media should ask Michelle Obama how many abortions she’s had. Has she had even one abortion? Not that I know of. This is kind of like asking a guy how many times he’s beaten his wife. But once it’s out there, it soon morphs into hey, did you know that Michelle Obama had a couple of abortions and she’s covering it up.
Is this relevant? I would say yes if Michelle Obama was a rabid pro-lifer who would deny women the right to an abortion under any circumstances. Otherwise, no. It’s her business.
Some of the bretheren on my left keep bringing up the canard that John McCain cheated on his first wife. Look, we know he did, he admitted to his affairs, and it was 30 years ago. If McCain is cheating on his wife now (or in the very recent past) then I’d say yes, unleash the hounds of hell on him.
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Liberals aren’t afraid of Palin, were afraid of the half of America that continues to blindly follow the trail of lies the republicans feed them without question and votes them into office> there are serious issues on the table and we need represenitives who fully understand them (without needing to be coached on topic). I was at many of the west coast caucus and more then anything else the Democrats wanted real change from what we currently have. Leadership based on lies and smoke screens> Yes we were divided up to the DNC… because we had 2 great choices with similar plans of action. Action and teams made up of real working people, students, labor workers, stay at home moms, and corp. executives. Young and old, black brown and white… they were all there together all asking questions and committing to service. Committed to participating in the change. WE need real leaders NOT another puppet administration that mouths the words of others. Ones who think for themselves and act with the interests of others, who are always willing to stop and listen to what the other side has to say. Palin isn’t a Maverick or Barracuda she is a pawn, being dressed up for a role that will make half of America feel that the Republicans are just like them. These are people who twice voted for Bush ( another dressed up puppet and pawn ). We need leaders who make choices based on logic and knowledge not emotion and self-serving policy. I don’t fear McCain/ Palin, I fear those Americans who instead of knowing the facts or issues follow blindly down the red road thinking Gods going to fix it and the military will support it and everything else will be ok. God doesn’t punish or reward us, those are things we each do for ourselves based on the choices we choose>
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Loving how the biggest stain that stuck was that the eBay sale didn’t actually complete and that it went through a business broker.
Yes, compared to selling out the Democratic Party to a bunch of Trial Lawyers who inserted their personal Manchurian Candidate into the highest level of politics twice, that is nothing.
Not a moral dilemma, not an ethical dilemma, not a criminal matter… just a plane that someone backed out of the sale of on eBay.
Democrats are quaking in fear of Palin and rightfully so. She turned this election completely around in under seven days.
Just think how much good she can do in four years.
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“…NOW the brickbats fly.” What’s a brickbat?
“In fact, I was told this was common knowledge in their hometown.” Note to the New York Times: go with this on page 1. My cousin’s brother’s ex-girlfriend’s mailman says he’s heard of it, too.
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That’s cool, Snoop. We shall see what we shall see.
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“That’s cool, Snoop. We shall see what we shall see.”
That’s a big ‘negatory’, Sweetie. I was simply referring to the NYT’s propensity for running National Esquire-esque exposes on (insert un-democrat) based upon the flimsiest of evidence.
change.
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LOl!!! yep…our sad little left wing-ers and our ‘friends’ at ACLU are running scared! Palin is their worst nightmare come true… I love it….
yeah snoop, Im still waiting too….. zzzzzzzzz.
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