The DaPalin Code

I thought being able to communicate clearly was something taught in journalism schools. It’s too bad that colleges can’t recall degrees. The good sisters who taught me in Catholic schools would have a heart attack over such mish mash in sentence structure.

Maybe samhiguchi , they are still talking about Palin because she’s still speaking nonsense from center stage.
If you don’t want to see comments on Palin, then don’t read blogs about Palin.

Oh Jake, you are obsessed with Palin LOL.
Dude, just leave her alone. You should move now to Biden as I am sure we’ll be enjoying all hiss gaffes and mistakes.
The campaign is over dude…

If this weren’t so sad it would really be funny! This is actually the person we almost ended up with in the White House having certain controls over our government and our lives. That should send chills down the spines of us all!!!

It’s always funnier to trash the losers that saying anything opposite of the winners. That’s the American way. After all, on everything, anything, there is only one winner, and we are all losers.

Jake can you have your expert translate this BO quote please? Thanks.
“What they’ll say is, “Well it costs too much money,” but you know what? It would cost, about… It — it — it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about — hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”
How many ridiculous things has Biden said?
You obviously have an interest in trying to destroy this woman and her future. What SP said above was clearly not well communicated but is it necessary for you to be waiting in the wings to catch every mistake that she makes and then write a “news” story to fuel the hate towards her? What purpose does this serve other than to advance an agenda?
You don’t do it to BO, you don’t do it to Joe Biden. What’s with the vendetta against Sarah Palin?

When she opens her mouth, nothing but B.S. So true, she rambles a lot.

I remember reading a 23-page statement by Sen. Kerry that could have been whittled down to
“Mr. President, either $*XX or get off the pot”
So why are you hammering her on this? Not enough political babble for ya?

All of you Sarah lovers this is to you.
Can you honestly say that statement of hers makes any sense? She is a politician, surely she should be able to speak so she can be understood.

PALIN DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND JUST GO AWAY. PLEASE!!!

The GOP guys are truly sick of the “nutcase” and the ego thing she has going on. However, they created the show and they have to man up and rid themselves of her! I thought the Press conference was soooooooooo funny especially when Perry stepped in….. I guess he said she is not going to destroy the Party any further with “run on sentences and no thought process”… Now that should be a part on “SNL” and the “America’s Funnies Videos”… I would buy… I nearly peeved on myself from laughing so hard and she stood there like a 1st grader not knowing what to do! Still Laughing!

So we need to treat her as if she were a person who thinks Africa is a country and doesn’t have a complete grasp of what actually comes out of her mouth? Ogh, wait…

The problem is the way this woman talks is the way she “thinks”. And that’s scary.

Ouch! My ears are bleeding!

What the hell is the matter with the Republican Party?
We used to be the party that valued education and clear thinking, and now we spend all our time defending idiotic “leaders” like this.
Since when were we the party of the dumbest America has to offer?

Rick Perry looked so ticked! Do you think she has finger marks on her arm where he grabbed her and pulled her to the microphone? And then the way he physically moved her away from the microphone and said the press conference was over! I guess for fear of looking sexist no one has the guts to just say it like they see it. They had a long meeting after the interviews and decided they had to shut her up…She destoyed the speech they put together… I was laughing too! She is a piece of work… She needs some help mentally! I see why they had her on the leash! The interviews and the media should be a shame of themselves. They knew she would not do well and they wanted to make a fool of her. They did! Bush Bashing and President Elect Obama Bashing made the GOP step in Fast.

Is it possible that this woman doesn’t know the election’s over?

She is so dense. How can anyone take her seriously>

Please make it stop.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who’s hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid.
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a ‘Post Turtle’.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘Post Turtle’ was.
The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘Post Turtle’.”
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she don’t belong up there, she don’t know what to do while she’s up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with.”

Posted by: UNLEARN | Nov 13, 2008 6:04:30 PM
ROTFLMAO…

Like an Eveready train wreck – it just keeps going and going and going. I agree with the poster who says the media is cruel to keep transcripting her remarks (hmm – spell check says “transcripting” is not a word, but “like in honor of Sarah”, I’ll make it a word). She makes Bush look like an oratory genius (ah – maybe part of why she’s still around is to help Bush’s legacy – I read his ratings are up a couple points).

Anybody who has ever raised a teenager can decipher Palinese. When they are basically telling the truth, they speak in monosyllables, or sometimes even coherent sentences which make sense. When they are either lying or haven’t done what they are supposed to have done (like, say, homework), they fill their sentences with nonsense in an attempt to distract you. It’s not complicated, journalists. You either say: “Nice try, but answer my question. Now.” or you say “You did not answer the question. Is there a reason you’re lying, or do you want one more chance to tell the truth?” Debaters are the worst.

The other poster gave me shivers – can you imagine this space cookie as VP. McPalin didn’t really lose by much popular vote.

A-hah! I always knew Palin was a ditz head. And this blog of Jake’s trying to decipher her finally proves it. Lawrence and Florey are right – she talks in just jumbles of words, similar to schizoid speech. Can you imagine if she became our prez, being a heartbeat away? Oy! And I thought Bush speak was bad.

I thought journalism is Sara’s major. English subject is a requirement when taking journalism. Somebody needs to KICK this woman out of politics, she just DOESN’T HAVE IT. By Sara staying in, she’s lowering the bar for the presidency and vp position. SHE’S MAKING A FOOL OF HERSELF. She should go back to school if she’s to continue to compete for the highest office of the U.S.

Palin supporters all seem to offer a version of the following message:
You libs are all scared of Sarah. Go, Sarah, go.
Okay, I’m reducing the Palin support message to essentials, but for a point. My question is this, what makes us seem “scared” of Palin? Most anti-Palin posts seem to either express exasperation at her antics or schadenfreude that she is eviscerating the Republican Party from inside. I don’t get where the “scared” is in evidence. But I sincerely believe that a Palin supporter will reply to my post that I’m only saying this because I’m somehow scared.
I think the worst you could say of me is that I’m addicted to Palin and anticipate watching a long, slow, downward spiral, culminating in celebrity television appearances where she wrestles Tonya Harding, long after her political aspirations have been throttled by fiscal conservatives who, if they must have a social conservative at the top of the ticket, will insist on a more predictable one.

samhiguchi, I’ll answer your question as to why all the interest in Palin. It’s because she is trying to rehabilitate her image this week [after the Gibson and especially the Couric interviews she is trying to eradicate]. By continually speaking, she hopes that the electorate will not hold those FIRST IMPRESSION interviews AGAINST her or possibly even forget they even exist. She can then promote herself as our next POTUS [God Almighty have mercy on us] or possibly our next Alaskan Senator.
How would that affect our country? It would be a NIGHTMARE and make FREDDY KRUGER look like a love story!

Republican governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii receives little or no media coverage, yet she has a great record. She seems to be more intelligent than Sarah Palin and speaks a lot better.
Maybe she can be one of the new leadership faces at the GOP.

Not that I’m a Sarah Palin fan, except in the looks department, but this is pretty atrociously unfair. That’s a verbal transcript, done by a bad transcriptionist who doesn’t know how to punctuate and more likely than not missed a few words. All it needs is a little tidying up, to wit:
Blitzer: Do you have any new initiatives to introduce to the Republican Governors’ Association to help the GOP out of its rut?
Gov. Sarah Palin:
“[Not while we're s]itting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing. But in working with these governors, who again [are] on the front lines [and] are forced to – and it’s our privilege [and] obligation to – find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day. [It's] being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while. We don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets, and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.”
Poetry? I don’t think so. But as an extemporaneous answer to a stupid question she had no real answer to it wasn’t so bad. She brought it home into an attack on her opponent while bragging on her own job. A standard politico answer and you see lots of politico answers just as stupid or more so every day. The only reason you folks are ragging on it is because somebody threw it out onto the interwebs with bad punctuation, no ellipses, probably with missed words, etc.

I think I just figured out how McCain was going to find Osama Bin Laden. He was going to replay the interviews Palin had 24/7 over a loudspeaker and Osama would surrender.

Posted by: Trickster | Nov 13, 2008 7:23:14 PM
Just listen to any video of her it’s exactly what she says. Why do you people continue to defend this twit?

I wonder if the Republicans are letting Palin make an even bigger fool out of herself so that Bobby Jindal looks even better by comparison if/when they promote him heavily on the national stage.

Jake, is there absolutely nothing else for you to write about today?
Posted by: Tired of the Drama | Nov 13, 2008 7:35:26
This is a woman that some people think should run in 2012. Why not cover this silly twit. If she would shut up and go away there wouldn’t be negative press about her.

This is wonderful. Palin is the best thing that has ever happened for Democrats. She is guaranteed to keep Democrats in power. What a twit. You know it. I know it. Her English teachers know it. She’s obviously very poorly educated, and it shows. You thought Bush was bad? Palin makes Bush look like a Rhodes scholar. Just like Bush, she’s oblivious to it all. She thinks she’s all that and more. Sad.

Sam – She’s self promoting. We’re going to talk. Especially when she seems so bad at it.

This is pretty funny!

Sure, Palin could be seen as a radically postmodernist politician, deconstructing language while she speaks. Derrida is easy reading compared to a Palin interview.
Camille Paglia on the other hand compared her “style” of talking to bebop. That made me blush, in remembrance of the sheer brilliance of Parker and Gillespie.
I think it’s safe to say that Palin cannot think clearly and therefore cannot construct sentences that grammatically and/or semantically make sense.
I think it’s safe to say that being a mayor of Wasilla was already far above her IQ.
And I still would like to see a medical document that shows us that she herself gave birth to Trig. Journalists, except for Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, has let that issue go way too easily. She was NOT pregnant, you know. ALL reports indicate that NOBODY around her noticed anything about her being pregnant, and Palin continued to work and travel, till the very day that Trig – suddenly! – was born.

Palinonics aren’t too hard to decipher in writing. But to develop an ear for her
embedded meanings would be another matter. What Palin needs is a good dubbing which eliminates the unnecessary words when she speaks, and perhaps adds a connective word, like if, here and there: For instance, this is what’s embedded in her Charlie Gibson interview:
(If) we are blessed with the vote of the American people and elected to serve, our top priority is to defend the American people.
Tipper Gore should have some expertise in Palinonics after her experience in the 90′s of exposing embedded words in music.

If the Republicans are truly placing their bets on Palin for future party leadership, do they realize that each day she continues to crash the national stage and consume the limelight unnecessarily, is a day that future voters are repeatedly reminded of her intellectual bankruptcy and a day that reduces the distance between when Palin was stupid way back in 2008 and when Palin was still stupid in, say 2012?
Continuing at this rate and in consideration of any future run for elected office, the portion of the oppo file labeled “substance” is going to be huge, thanks to these little memorialized “gems” by Palin.

Palin is like a word dumptruck. She just backs it up, throws the lever, and drops off a great big load of disorganized parts of speech.

Does Palin have a dyslexic speaking pattern? Is there such a thing?
This would explain her rambling thoughts and disjointed sentences.
It would also explain her lack of knowledge since she would have trouble reading and understanding the written word.
Where else would you find evidence to corroborate this theory?

George Orwell had something to say on this topic. This is a problem with ‘new speak’. Florey has it about right, there are some phrases that are familiar to right wingers that she recites and it doesn’t matter what order they are in or if they make sense at all. The functionally fascist will hear what she says, and think ‘she’s saying all the right things’. What does it say about our society that this kind of groupthink gains any adherents at all? There are millions of people who voted for this woman. Scary.

Scared of Palin? Sure, when there was a chance this nutcase could be a 72-year-old heartbeat from ruining what Bush is leaving of our country. Now I’m afraid she’ll go away. Beyond the entertainment value, she could be the utter ruination of the right. I can’t wait until she decides to go on a Sunday talk show. I just have one request: please, press corps, start asking her more policy questions. Try, say, regulation of mortgage default swaps or hedge funds. Can you imagine? Who needs Tina Fey when you have the real thing? As to those who say we’re picking on her, she’s doing this to herself. We’re just pointing it out.

Trickster,
Thanks so much for trying to talk sense about the Palin transcription. Not that many will listen– they have their cherished belief that the woman is a drooling idiot and they will not allow facts to stand in the way of their preconceptions.
As you pointed out, part of the reason this statement sounds garbled is bad transcription. I saw the interview when it aired and I remember this answer. Wolfe asked her if she had a Palin policy she wanted to outline. She was scheduled to speak the next day at the conference, where she was going to lay out her vision and he was, in effect, asking for a preview. She declined, saying something along the lines, “no, not sitting here in these chairs. That I’ll be proposing…” and then she started talking about what she and the other governors do. She was saying, no, I have nothing to announce here and now, but I will be talking about my proposals later on. The transcript could easily be punctuated to reflect that.
In addition, if you look at the transcript of the entire interview, available, for example, on the Halperin page of the Time website, you will quickly notice that Mr. Tapper helpfully chose the most rambling answer the woman gave. She made tons of easily understood, completely coherent statements, but none of them seem to draw much interest here. I’m not surprised.
Finally, I would point out that this is an interview, and she is not speaking from a script. Therefore it is not surprising that some of her responses do not flow out in complete, perfectly formed, easily diagrammable sentences. That is the nature of extemporaneous speech. I am a college professor, and when I am lecturing, I sometimes wind up starting a sentence going in one direction and wind up moving in some other direction and getting tangled in my words. The students understand what I am saying. But even after decades in the classroom, I do not speak without notes the same way I do when I am wedded to a written text. But overall, my teaching is more effective when I do not stick to a script. So its a trade-off I make. I would hate to think anyone would ever post a transcript of one of my lectures. There would be plenty of sentences that would make me hang my head in shame, even with my degree in English. And yet my students, by and large, love my lectures and learn from me.
I am more interested in the points Palin was making– like the fact that governors have to balance budgets and manage employees. I thought she had useful and thoughtful things to say.

Dyslexia would explain why Palin could be intelligent and yet still sound like she has no depth of knowledge on any subject.
It would also explain her rambling speech patterns. The way she talks is really the way she thinks.
How does she deal with her governorship?
Todd Palin helps her. He isn’t called the “shadow governor” for nothing.

Palin is not an idiot, she is handicapped. She will not be able to rise above where she is now without being exposed for what she is – dyslexic.

Escaflowne:
Well it’s because she keeps talking and doing ‘big time’ interviews. Put yourself in the public eye and you’ll get public response.
If she went away – I would leave her alone and pretend to believe she’s the best speaker and thinker I ever met.
It’s not to be forgotten this is a woman they ran for vice president – and to many people that was indeed scary.

If Sarah Palin was Samuel Palin, would the male version be as popular?

Didn’t I read about this in that book “Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus”? Daniel Larison is showing his youth with this post; the older men in his life need to take him aside and explain the differences between men and women.

“See? If you just cut out about 60 percent of what she says, it hangs together nicely.”
So like a man to say that! LOL!

seemstome: Obama is handicapped himself because he is a know nothing, do nothing and says nothing. Any time he reads a script he is reading the words of RFK or JFK and adding additional wording of his own. I wonder what he thought of William Ayers interview since they are excellent friends.

seemstome: I believe your don’t have any religion at all and you don’t believe in God. No matter what is said about separating church from state God is everywhere and always will be. Try going to church you may learn something.

Seriously, how do you explain the rambling, disjointed thoughts Palin utters? Wait and see, she is hiding some basic learning handicap.
No one questions her skill in manipulating people through their emotions, prejudices and fears.
Where she falls short is appealing to their reason.
She is an incomplete politician.
She will never be up to the level of Hillary or Obama.

Peter: If I remember correctly, Obama said we had 57 states. The last time I counted there were 50. What happened to the other 7? And what about the depression of 1929? Biden was wrong about FDR. And what about that crisis coming as soon as Obama is in office that will take six months for the public to test Obama. I thought he didn’t need testing. The other president’s didn’t. Oh I know why, he doesn’t have any experience to run this country and it will take six months to train him.

When Palin runs for president she will win 47 out of 57 primaries. When she reminds Republican voters that Milt Romney has insurance on his $5,000 hair transplant they will howl with laughter.

Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School with a doctorate degree. He graduated Magnum Cum Laude.
Sarah Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a B.S. in B.S.
Any questions?

Palin’s detractors are like a John Deere with no antlers.

“Andrew(Halcro), I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I’m amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, ‘Does any of this really matter?’ ” Palin said.
Spoken like a true demagogue.
Palin preys on the emotions. Fear, Hatred and Predjudice are her tools.
For her, religion in government trumps reason in government, every time.

Hey Tappy, I have another one to crack down… This one is from Obama:
Question: Will you raise taxes?
Obama: “Eh, uhm… hm… ehh..rghh.. aghh.. frrr… uhmmm… hm.. hm…”
What does it mean?

I used the suggested decoding method on one of Palin’s infamous responses from the Couric interview. I’ve set off the only meaningful words in capital letters:
“That’s why I say I, like every American **I’M** speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade – we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, **SCARY** thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.”

Ann, is that a Palinese dialect you’re speaking? Just curious.

Ann, is that a Palinese dialect you’re speaking? Just curious
Posted by RUdy
Have you ever herd Obama speak without a telaprompter. he is a bumbling moron. He gets so nervous he talks about speaking to dead Presidents, then attacks 80 year old women, or he thinks we have 57 states or calls whites typical whites when refering to racist views. That guy is the real joke, lucky for him all he had to do this election was say George Bush over and over but that wont work and either will his majic Telaprompter.
This recession is being fueled now by investors that are scared by what Obama will do to our economy

I don’t put much stock into what Palin says, which is often contradictory:
1. Today Palin said to the Republican governors “Let us resolve not to be the negative party,” but she’s clearly the smear expert and queen fearmonger. Just yesterday she attacked Obama about Bill Ayers again!
2. She also said “The campaign is over, let us look to the future,” but at her keynote speech went back over her campaign adventures (including Joe the Plumber), sounding like a broken recording of her campaign speeches.
3. She’s clearly plotting to run for president or VP or senator, but all the while saying “I’m going to serve the people of Alaska best by being governor!”
4. Many times after bitter complaints about media maltreatment she’ll turn right around, “And I say that not complaining about it, just facing reality the way that it was on the trail and the treatment by the media. And I’m not complaining about it.”
Sarah Palin is an oxymoron, with delusions of grandeur. She thinks she’s God’s gift to America.

I’m an English professor and I don’t EVER sit around diagramming other people’s sentences. This is why this egotistical delirium over Governor Sarah Palin is called “Palin Derangement Syndrome.”
The media didn’t ask GWB enough questions to keep us from invading Iraq.
But the media knows enough to tell us that we can’t possibly vote for someone who speaks off the cuff in sentences they can’t diagram.
Sarah Palin is here to stay.
Get use to it.

In order to progress everyone’s understanding of Palinese, here are examples of how Sarah Palin is trying to progress the English language.
With Greta Van Susteren:
We had to be able to put up with that and take that in order to progress the message.
…somebody very, very committed to policies that I believe will progress this country in the right direction.
With Matt Lauer:
We tried to articulate, that we were the true change that would progress this nation.
With Wolf Blitzer:
Seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, a united front.
Make sure that all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation.
Now is the time to move forward together, start progressing America.
With Larry King:
…reaching out to Barack Obama, in order to progress this nation
Work in bipartisan manners in order to progress this nation.
I will do anything and everything that I can to progress the great state of Alaska

Now that the people of Alaska knows how dumb and stupid their governor is, they won’t vote for her again if she runs for a position.Never ever!!! She has to shut up her big mouth and just take care of her kids and her first dude.

During the CNN interview, Wolf Blitzer read off a string of questions from viewers who voted for Obama.
Unable to handle the pressure, Palin asked,”Got any questions from anybody who voted for McCain?” (Read: Wolf, I’d like to use one of my lifelines.)

Poor Sarah……..she needs to go home to Alaska and work on the oil pipline…….that will help the American people………

Sarah Palin is now the face of the GOP.
An ignorant and intellectually challenged woman is now the face of the Republican Party.
Each time she talks, she gets me confused. Its always as if I am listening to latin or greek.
You know, as they say,”in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Isn’t that ridiculous?

michael,
Don’t be judgmental bro, it’s purely politics and you need to refresh yourself knowing the world of politics.
You cannot please everybody and of course we have our own like and dislikes especially choosing our candidate and other related matters.
Respect is the best understanding to know more about Gov. Sarah coz’if you rely more on mass media you will not be matured knowing the real world of politic.

demayumo,
Your sentences are as disjointed and confusing as Sarah Palin’s.

I cannot understand the press coverage this woman gets. I guess it’s true that good looking people get ahead faster than others just because of their looks. She is out for herself…she has had a taste of Washington and wants to get back. Her opinion of herself is so inflated that she even thinks she should lead the republican party. Wow what an ego. There are many others there who are far more qualified and should be considered. She cannot even come up with any new ideas. She thinks the way she campaigned is the way of the future….well she is wrong. If people wanted her for v.p. they would have voted for her. People could see through her and her weakness on policy and knowledge of the Constitution became so apparent that people turned off on her. Let’s get past this person who professes such strong family values but cannot spend on week with her family after the election. She will go on any show that will have her.

Dare Nigeria,
In laymans word, people always arguing in many things coz’they are not a good listeners but hard headed and confused.
Gov. Sarah speak loudly and clearly based on her experiences and desire of her heart to explain in layman’s word the truth of her vision and conviction to serve the people.
But knowingly, several people doesn’t like her coz’they are worried to have a lady President to be or either VP in this generation. In short, lack of trust to women capability and leadership.
Remember, Iron Lady and Golda Meir legacy!

Dare Nigeria,
Confusing of what? Accepting the truth of Sarah Palin’s charisma!
Pls. tell me right now, what is the National laguage of the United Stated of America?

Simply put, she just babbles! How the hell did she ever get elected…is Alaska the real Babylon?

Mitch,
BREAKING NEWS!!! When the President fails, the whole nation fails; so becareful what you wish for.
GWB’s last seven years is an example of a failed leadership and I don’t think any sane Citizen of the World, would wish for such an experience in the next four years.
Campaigns are over; the Presidential election is over; A winner has emerged and he will, in the next four years, determine the fate of Americans, be you Reublican or Democrat.
The least anyone can do is to pray for his success so that the world could succeed.

Dare Nigeria said:
Can you imagine “President Sarah Palin” in a discussion with Vladmir Putin or President Medvedev?
Yes, I can. She is a strong leader who has a set of core principles that guide her actions. I cannot however imagine Barry Obama because he lacks that foundation. He was brought up in the Saul Alinsky school of blame America first and cave into the bullies of the world or the might be mean to us. Well, the thugs of the world that want America to fail are going to be “mean” to no matter what we do. I would rather have someone in the white House who understands this and leads accordingly. The world loved Jimmy Carter but how well did that turn out for us? Foreign nations that compete with us will always love a week-kneed president – they got their guy when we elected Barry O.

Sarah Palin has said nothing that was racist, nor unfair. She has said nothing that cannot be supported by evidence or by genuine disagreement. You want to define any political opposition to Barry O as racist which is in itself racist. If the opposition cannot criticize the ideas, associations, and core beliefs of a black president then we are doomed as a nation. NO ONE is above criticism, especially our political leaders. The fact that you would try to quell political dissent by falsly charging racism is pathetic.

“Now be the judge, can you in good conscience, say that Sarah Palin, the same woman that couldn’t earn the respect of her handlers in the McCain Campaign, the woman who has been so vilified by the same Campaign that thrust the Veepee post on her few weeks ago, can earn the respect of her Secretaries and Advisors, if the McCain ticket had won?”
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The dissention is the act of possibly only one anonymous person, who is proving to be not only petty but also cowardly. I imagine that this person finds it hard to get along with everyone else in life as well.

Mike anb Mitch,
The elections are over. The President of the free world has emerged and he is President-elect Barack Obama. So get used to it.
The beauty of democracy is that not everyone is expected to vote for the Winner but once a winner has emerged, everyone is expcted to jettison all their differencies to give the winner all the support he would need to succeed.
I implore you to do just that
2012 is another year.Until then, can we stop politiking and get down to brass tack?

This is fantastic! Sarah really has a lot of people scared (mostly media, dems, and rinos). She is going to help lead the republican party back to its election winning conservative traditions. That is why she is being attacked so viciously. Palin/Jindall 2012

mitch:
re: “Unfortunately, people don’t understand that someone’s ability to articulate is unrelated to their ability to think and lead. ”
‘W’ seems to prove that your theory is wrong…. the correlation is quite profound and measurable with ‘W’s [and Palin for that matter],
inability to articulate policy with precision and clarity.

Exactly Michael, people around the world are worried to Gov. Sarah’s beauty. They never STOP critizing her and also wanted to destroy her political will in serving the people.
She is like a rising sun that needs to enlightened the whole world.
I meant, she is a young and energetic public servant…not tainted in any wrongdoings, but full of compassionate and inspiration to help the needy and broken-hearted.
Give her chance to nourish herself to become an effective and effecient public servant, and political leader.

Finally, we find out that the whole supposed attack on Palin from within the McCain campaign was a lie. For the open minded out there, what does this tell you. The media establishment has gone out of their way to attack this woman with things they had to have known were lies. They quoted bloggers as a source in questioning whether her own child was REALLY hers. Now they admint that someone who purposely set out to make fools of the media by startign false rumours about Governor Palin succeeded because the media WANTED the falsehood to be true. Compare this to the fawning treatment Baryy O has received. To the Barry supporters, do you really feel comfortable with a media that is become so biased? Is that really good for our country? Is it even good for you supported candidate if he feels he can now get away with anything and the press will cover for him?
A lot of people owe Governor Palin an apology, starting with Jake Tapper.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6250151&page=1

jennie, I agree our country is in trouble however now is not the time to stop questioning our leaders. Now more that ever, we as citizens need to speek up. We need to stop bad policies, whether from Democrats or Republicans. That is the motive behind critical statements made agaist Mr. Obama. I think the Palin supporters are simply looking for a little bit of balance in how their candidate is treated. If we are to pull ourselves out of the difficult situation we find ourselves in then we will need proven leadership such as that provided by Governor Palin in the state of Alaska.
There is a real question mark around Mr. Obama because the press did not properly vet him. They followed up on every possible negative comment against Sarah Palin but ignored or openly tried to defend Mr. Obama against any throrough inspection. This has caused a lot of concern over how he will govern and what he truly believes.

Mitch, hold your horses and read that story again. It’s not saying that the attacks from within the McCain camp aren’t true; only that the parties who claimed responsibility the other day were hoaxers.
It’s like when there is a terrorist bombing and all sorts of terrorist groups come forward to claim credit. Just because they didn’t do it, doesn’t mean the bombing never happened.

Someone has serious case of Palin-envy.
You can’t find anything else (that’s not made-up), so now you’re ripping her for the way she talks? Why not make fun of the accent why you’re at it?
For all the journalism majors out there, there is a distinct difference between the way people talk and how things are supposed to be written…the clue should have been the word “journalism”.
We should all have our answers prepared for us so they can be read off a teleprompter. Or, are the words “uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh” supposed to be used when speaking in public?
There is one part of her statement that you refused to look at: “not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.” What she is trying to say is: Governors make touugh decisions and are held accountable. Senators and community organizers can pick an choose which items they want to address, and aren’t held accountable. Obama’s talking points and rhetoric won’t get him very far.

In reply to the comment by Mariann Pepitone “seemstome: Obama is handicapped himself because he is a know nothing, do nothing and says nothing. Any time he reads a script he is reading the words of RFK or JFK and adding additional wording of his own. I wonder what he thought of William Ayers interview since they are excellent friends.”
JFK and RFK were good American men, patriots. They may have never faught in a war, but remember who handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Republican? Oh wait, that’s right. They were both DEMOCRATS! Remember who lead our country to ruin? Oh, that’s right, the Republican. Bush. I feel sorry for Lincoln, the greatest Republican to ever live. As for all these attacks on Obama about being a terrorist… DO YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SPOON FEEDS YOU? Palin aside, in debates, all McCain did was point fingers at Obama, at least Obama can answer the question at hand! I refuse to ever call the Republican party the GOP until they get someone who is articulate. Yes, obama said “uh” a lot when speaking off the top of his head. HE WAS SPEAKING FOR OVER A MILLION PEOPLE TO HEAR HIM!! If you could speak off script to all of America and not say “uh” once, I would gladly vote Republican the rest fo my life. The problem is that the last say, oh I don’t know, 4 Republicans placed in the spotlight have all either had articulation problems, or shot their buddy on “accident”.
George W. Bush has muttered his way into disgrace.
John McCain (the Republican for whom I hold the utmost respect for as a soldier to a veteran) could hardly keep a train of thought going, due in part to his age. He also pointed fingers the entire time. God Bless McCain, but notice how the Republican party posted commercials trying to attack Obama’s charcter, while the Democrat comemrcials were about Obama’s stance on the issues. He used his position as a veteran to ensure no attacks could be made on his character, somehow I doubt the Democrats would have.
Finally…Palin. What to say about this woman? Firstly, she is an embarassment. If that is what all Alaskans are like, the Army can forget about stationing me there. You would think Alaskans, especially one as conservative as Palin, would want to preserve the natural beauty of the state. Isn’t she like…Pentacostal or some other legalistic denomination? They don’t believe in dinosaurs. She votes against gay rights for the reason of “the bible says it’s a sin.” Well guess what, Palin? When God said that man held domain over the beasts of the earth, he meant to TAKE CARE OF THEM! Surely, if she is so legalistic then she would want to PROTECT the beautiful things her God has created. She speaks a bunch of fluff. I watched the VP debates, and all that came out of her mouth was a bunch of fluff bunnies.
Mariann Pepitone, how ignorant can you be? You gladly point fingers at the President Elect, but remember that every time you point a finger at the other party, three more point back to you. Your own party has done nothing but ruin our nation and it’s economy. The Nations of the world are laughing at us, but not anymore. The laughing has stopped, change has come. If you don’t like that, no one’s asking you to stay.

Republicans are “morons for supporting her”.
Let’s see: Palin is the Governor of Alaska. She has cleaned-up corruption in her state and has made deals with foriegn contries. She is an expert in domestic energy. However, the MSM, bloggers, and “anonymous” McCain insiders fabricate stories about Palin’s family, her clothes, and not knowing countries in Africa and North America. Liberals only believe the stories and call her an idiot.
Joe Biden, in his only debate, tells at least 15 blantant lies. He claims to have watched video (presumably beta) of FDR from 1929, and likes to eat in a Wilmington restaurant that’s been closed for over 20 years. He voted for the Iraq war, but claims that he never thought Bush would actually do it. His plan (The Biden Plan) was to carve up Iraq into 3 distinct and separate nations. Liberals support Biden, calling him an expert in foreign policy.
So you tell me: who are the morons?

The media need only roll tape to expose Gov. Palin’s ineptitude. It might only be ADD and there are meds for that. She should look into it. But the steams of consciousness that spill from her face betray far more than a cognitive disorder. The political touch stones to which she variously refers and randomly blurts out are all without exception superficial television references. No one other than that 27% of Bush dead enders believes she reads anything. She has no understanding of America’s current condition or it’s history let alone the wider world’s. She represents her constituency well.

People, this woman is an absolute idiot.
If you persist in supporting her-that makes you idiots as well.
Someone please trot her back to the tundra.

Here’s one for you, carlyonsue. And when you decode it for us, no fair leaving parts out.
“Oil of coal, of course, is a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, ya know, the molecules where, where it’s going to, where it’s not, but and in the, in the sense of the Congress today they know our very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So I believe that what Congress is going to do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here; it’s gotta flow into our domestic markets first.”

Oh please. Just hire the Hansard people in the UK who have been dealing with former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott for years. Palinese is nothing compared to Prescottese.

Let her keep talking! She’s making remarkable strides for the Democratic Party!

Gov Sarah Palin is no liar.
She believes that government should work for the people and not the other way around way like it is now. We work for our government and this will get even worsen when Socialist Obama takes office.
Enough with the negative comments! What has she ever done to you and why do you still worry about her? What are you afraid of exactly?

What’s wrong obamamama if Gov. Sarah P. continuously takling in good governance and unity of their party?
In a free society, anyone has right and civil liberty to express, to talk and to fight for their rights.
So, i may right yah!

Sarah ‘Pants On Fire’ Palin said the legislative Troopergate investigation cleared her of any hint of wrongdoing. That was a bald faced lie.

LeaveSarahAlone,
Her critics are lonesome die-hard followers of their own imagination.
In a real world, everything are possible if whoever wanted to enrich their whole being.
It’s Gov. Sarah Palin the shining morning star in the wilderness of confused mind.

Well TV, it’s not our fault to discuss about Gov. Sarah P. issues, but joining in this battle of mind of uncertainties we are all learning and growing beyond our expectation.

Correct Jeff….Gov. Sarah is not a laughing duck, she’s an adorable person, being a conservative and God-fearing public servant.
She is a whole-some Mom…. a perfect example to the young one who aspiring to have a family and a role model in their community.
Nobody can STOP her to do good to her constituents and let her to exercise her free will to serve the country.

Governor Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with!
And I look forward to her successful leadership!
The Republicans will get their act together with this happy, gracious, honest, strong, courageous and likeable charismatic who has a record of authentic reform! :)
Remember Obama’s ah – ah – ah – ah and his early gaffes and naive statements. He has improved since he started to use the teleprompter.
Sarah’s speech yesterday was excellent because she stuck to her script/notes!
But you democrats/liberals need to keep your eye on Obama! His application criterion is so rigid no one could possibly pass it – not even him, and he owes a great many people! :)
This Independent/conservative is enjoying the show!

STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!!
Since McCain introduced Palin on the national scene, she has proven in EVERY way that she is NOT qualified for the Presidency.
And if she does finally go and learn something about the U.S. Government it’s quite obvious to know that some high school student knows more than she does about leading the country.
See you in 8 to ten year Palin. Then the obvious reason why everyone is soooo gaga over you will be gone. Hint: it is not her intellect.

Doesn’t she have a corrupt state to lead.
Since they are on the verge of re-electing a covicted felon for the Senate it is quite obvious that Alaska has deep seeded problems.
Can the succeed from the union PLEASE. Then Palin could be the wacky leader of Lower Russia.

It is incredible any reasonably intelligent person would buy Palin’s rhetoric. If we are silly enough to elect Palin to lead America, we are too daft to keep America in the position as world leader. Let’s keep smart people in charge of America. Was Bush not enough of an example to show us we need to elect brains, not just personality?

Sarah Palin is very eloquent when speaking HATE, CRITICISING, CONDEMING etc. It is when she has to deal with other stuff that she is short on coherence. Such is the true sign of a BIGOT. Why? Because ignorance breed prejudice and prejudice produces ignorance. Remember people are at their best when they are passionate…HATE is a profound passion albeit Negative passion. The Republican Party needs to do some Spring cleaning or the Klan and other such extremists will become their base and structure of the party and the Nation could become like Lebanon, Bosnia, Iraq or worse…non productive but immersed in self-destructive racial and civil conflict.

I don’t doubt that Palin has charm. That has been proven. But the trick to understanding why she is scary to so many is to read her quotes, not listen to her. I think David Brooks got it right – Palin is a cancer to true conservatism. Her speaking is meant to emote not provoke thought or ideas. Peggy Noonan was right… she says things, but doesn’t actually say anything. I really hope the Republicans find a thoughtful, introspective, eloquent person to fight the Dems. They need a worthy opponent. It sharpens both parties and makes them better for our country.

Have they put Palin in the belly of the plane and shipped her back to Alaska yet? If so, oh the joy, you betcha!

Palin left out of RGA leadership.
Hallelujah! You Betcha!

Sal I don’t know how you point your finger, but when I point my finger there are only three pointing back at me, not four. And if you were an American I would say that you must be one that clings to your guns and your god in times of sorrow.
As far Palin (whom I can’t stomach) gets it more so than you. This woman is on a power trip. She came out of the gate orally excreting the diatribe that she had been fed. If she wants to run with the big dogs, then she has to take it as well as give it. And she damn well was given it. Too bad for her, she and her first dud are not qualified for the highest office of the US.
And hey Sal its not just the Dems and liberals that feel that way.

Being able to communicate clearly is something that we as Americans should look for in our leaders. Palin speaks with a lot of words that really have no place in the sentences she is forming, her thoughts are so abstract at times. As an American English speaker, I have a hard time following what she is saying and I am sure that a foriegn leader would have a double hard time because this person would have learned proper English, jargon and slang is not included. She needs to really hit the books for the next two, three years and then come back and see if she can present a better package. I have nothing against her, she just needs to learn a few things before she jumps back on a national stage. ;-).

Jake, you didn’t put in the pauses or punctuation of her conversational flow. Try this: “Sitting here in these chairs, I’m going to be proposing: In working with these governors who, on the front lines are forced–and it’s our privileged obligation–to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day, being held accountable (not being just one of many casting votes or voting present every once in a while–we don’t get away with that). We have to balance budgets, and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.”

STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!!
Since McCain introduced Palin on the national scene, she has proven in EVERY way that she is NOT qualified for the Presidency.
And if she does finally go and learn something about the U.S. Government it’s quite obvious to know that some high school student knows more than she does about leading the country.
See you in 8 to ten year Palin. Then the obvious reason why everyone is soooo gaga over you will be gone. Hint: it is not her intellect.
Posted by: Oval Office Upgrade
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See might want to talk to Dan Quayle for starters

Looks like journalism school isn’t what it used to be.

jiaenglish,
You removed words from the quote. That’s not sporting.
I dare you to turn the following response from the same interview into real English, without removing or changing words:
“It would be my honor to assist and support our new president and the new administration, yes. And I speak for other Republicans, other Republican governors also, they being willing also to, again, seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, a united front.”

jiaenglish,
Not only are you removing words again, you’re adding them also. Additionally, she didn’t use the word “progress” as a verb, she used it as a transitive verb. “Progress” can only be used as an intransitive verb according to any English dictionary I’ve seen.

just leave the lady alone !

So, all of you that voted for this excuse for a “lady”, please take an introspective view for once and look at yourselves. Ask yourself why you would have ever elect someone as blatently stupid as this woman. It’s not that the media is being “cruel, or unfair” or even “sexist”.
If Hillary for example, started talking like this, I would have been worried of her suffering brain injuries, because no one with an IQ higher than 110 and a college degree should speak like this.

Can anybody tell me what is Palin’s IQ???

Bea, evidently Palin has enough smarts to be elected governor to one of our fifty states. How about you?

women against Palin,
Where are you getting information on Sarah Palin’s GPA? I thought that information hadn’t been released.
BikernAZ11,
Read the first sentence of my last comment again. It may progress your understanding. Or not.

Take a hint Sarah, those of us in the lower 48 do not like or want anything to do with you. You lost, now just go away!

Yawn, There is nothing in that first sentence to indicate that what follows will be a feeble attempt at humor.

Bea, Bea, Bea, You presented, I simply interpreted and handed it back. Maybe you should work a bit on your delivery? But, nonetheless, both you and I know were you were going with that query, now don’t we?

Ha ha, good one Yawn, I got your joke (the first time I read it).
Wink, wink!—————————–
Ah Ha! The facts are now becomming evident, Stringer. There are now two of you traveling on the same cosmic wave length. Careful there, you could collide with a planet.

“She is a politician, surely she should be able to speak so she can be understood?”
Of course Jwench, simple arithmitic yah…. if you can not understand her, it’s better for you to draw it by your imagination and you will understand what she’s talking about.
If you’re not convince in her flattering words, it’s up to you but never under estimate her IQ.
If you are expert in drawing, you’ll understand the world of politics. This is like a showbiz, you can not please everybody!

Yap DeAndria Mitchell,
Sarah P. is like an Obamamometer to measure uncontrolled abnormally elevated blood pressure of a person who cannot control their temper and emotions.
Sometimes it will become difficult to use it if a person doesn’t know a technical know-how to handle this equipment.
She’s like an Obamamometer with simple spec’s, but full of usefullness in patient care facilities.

To be or not to be! Asking a person IQ Bea, really is a prostrated action and unknowingly ignorant in up-to-date circumstances.

You know DeAndria Mitchell, i’m not a partisan but i’m only curious about how the print and mass media practitioners had been so obsessed to Sarah Palin.
You know what i mean, they can fabricate things out of context and put it in a front page newsbulletin so those ordinary folks can read it clearly.
In fairness to Sarah, her critics and mongering minds still alive and kicking in order to destroy her innerself and dignity.
Of course, those concerned who loves and believe with Gov. Sarah still and have faith with her longing. Her vision to put the Oval Office in a prosperous and respected household of around 301,139,947M (July 2007 estimate)Americans is a dream come true.
2012 is a reckoning day to her destiny and legacy to rule the broken-hearted and less fortunate fellow man!

Beg you pardon, my typing lesson almost expired now so i need someone to help me to refresh the key words in every tips of my fingers.
Good day folks time to relax and to unwind my overloaded borderline IQ! God Bless.

seansatx: Every word that Sarah Palin said about Obama associating with thugs like Bill Ayers and Louis Farakkhan is true! It’s also true that he sat and listened to his racist pastor Jeremiah Wright every Sunday for 20 years and claims he didn’t hear his sermons! So exactly what did Sarah Palin say that wasn’t true? And as far as all of us Sarah Palin supporters being idiots, according to you, we are not! My own IQ is 129! I am no genius, and I don’t claim to be, but I am above average and not a idiot! I also carried a B GPA in high school and an A in college!

The woman can ramble on and on without ever answering the question.
BLITZER: Should the U.S. government, the federal government bail out the Detroit — the big three automakers?
PALIN: Oh, that is the discussion of the day. And there is going to come a point here where absolutely the federal government must play an appropriate role in shoring up some of these industries that are hurting and will ultimately hurt our entire economy and the world’s economy if there aren’t some better decisions being made.
But we also have to start shifting some debate here in our country and start talking about personal responsibility and responsibility of management in some of these corporations and companies so that from henceforth it’s not assumed that the federal government is going to be bailing out everybody who is going to soon line up, Wolf, for more taxpayer assistance.
And I’m talking about personal responsibility too in terms of homeowners and in terms of folks who maybe have extended their own credit. Sure, predatory lenders are to blame in all of this also, but we have got to make sure, for instance, we’re not talked into buying a $300,000 house, because really we know we can only afford a $100,000 house.
And we’ve got to start living those lessons that we try to teach our children in terms of not living beyond our means and extending our own personal credit to the point of not being able to pay our monthly bills and then expecting government to grow and be the answer.
BLITZER: So, sorry, I’m still waiting for the answer, should the government bail out the big three automakers?

…raided your 401ks and your IRAs and deposited your money in a government fund and left you nothing for your retirement…
Posted by: carlyonsue | Nov 15, 2008 10:26:08 PM
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News flash, George Bush did that already. That’s why the majority of Americans are begging Obama to take over.

Stringer you think it’s bad now but it’s nothing compared to what it’s going to be when Obama implements his spread the wealth program! You won’t have anything left at all for your retirement! It’ll all be in Obama’s government fund and everyone’s 401ks and IRAs will be cleaned out and the accounts closed! 401ks and IRAs will be things of the past!