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Post by webrunner on Jul 3, 2009 15:35:20 GMT -7
So, Sarah resigns and Franken is a senator. Sounds about right. DC is a frikkin' circus right now, might as well send a clown, 'cause that's all Franken is. In the meantime Palin gets blasted every frikkin' day for the clothes she wears, the voice she has, the religion she practices, the daughters she has, and values she has the audacity to speak on. It's crap and I don't blame her one bit for quitting. Now cue up the liberal press to blast her for not being tough enough.
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Post by rosa on Jul 3, 2009 18:06:25 GMT -7
cheer up Web, Obama is making liberals shake in their booties.....now he's militarizing the border and selling it hard--it'll only be a year. Or so.
one more step closer to being every bit the fraud you called him
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Post by webrunner on Jul 3, 2009 18:39:24 GMT -7
Why, Rosa, I do believe that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. ;D Sorry. I heard about Palin's resignation on the Sean Hannity show. I'm not even so much a supporter of hers anymore but, at the same time, it just seems crazy that Palin needs to leave for the harassment while someone who has a picture of himself in bunny ears and a diaper gets sworn in. Can you imagine if Palin had a picture like that of herself out there? It would be published all over everything. Hell, she didn't even have to have embarassing picture taken of herself. Folks were quick to photoshop her face on bikini clad bodies. It's a double standard and it ain't right.
BTW it also ain't right that Mark Sanford is still in office and Palin won't be.
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Post by rosa on Jul 4, 2009 6:25:23 GMT -7
I'm not up on the latest with Palin and although I did skim a story on her resignation, you'll have to educate me on her stated reasons for resigning....the last I read was her challenging Obama to a foot race, with some sort of something on what good shape she is in so, I kind of and went over to the real news.... as for Franken, I agree, and as to the good guv, well now I really don't see a whole heckuvalot that distinguishes him from the others, to be honest what he should have done was say: "from here on in, whenever I'm forced to make an admission, take it as a given that I am lying"
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Post by rosa on Jul 4, 2009 7:18:48 GMT -7
Okay, I got caught up on the Palin thing, and am not buying that she's been stymied by all the criticism--what's coming at her now pales in comparison to what she put up with during the campaign; I am surprised she's opting out of performing her duties as she's been elected to do and I'm not convinced that the "I hate quitters---I'm no 'lame duck', I'm quitting because I can do more from the outside" is any "explanation" for her decision
one of the things I never liked about Palin was her propensity for babble and the hasty news bit she provided to reporters was just that (for me); only she buys her own image still holding fast on the cross and frankly, she reminds me of an individual I used to read on another board
he was very good at buying into his own self-worship and artifice as he accuses others (essentially, anyone who disagrees with him) of buying into right-wing spin at the break-neck speed provided by credible news sources such as FOX and CNN
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Post by rosa on Jul 4, 2009 7:21:41 GMT -7
this is from the "Firedog" blogs--they do love to speculate, I must say
just doing the messenger thing, Web, in pointing to the straw-man building from the other extreme.....from what little I've seen from the right, they're still trying to figure it out too, although her loyalists-again-seem to want very much to keep her in the role of victim
you cannot imagine how this chafes....I haven't even seen the feminist blogs yet-not sure I want to go there....
My "official" position on Sara Palin is this: Why is this woman still such a focus of attention? I do not understand what she has done, is doing, which credibly merits my attention; there are so many more important things going on in the world
Is Sarah Palin Making a Sacrifice Play? By: Jane Hamsher Saturday July 4, 2009 4:29 am
Boy you go to Sweden and all hell breaks loose.
I said yesterday that nobody pulls something like Sarah Palin just did unless it was part of some deal with a prosecutor who is trying to get them out of office.
Max Blumenthal speculates that it stems from Palin's relationship to SBS:
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin's snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few "buddies," according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Whether the alleged federal investigation into the Palins and SBS prompted her resignation could not be confirmed.
But if there is indeed a legal imbroglio going on, she'd have many more rights in office than she would on the outside, just ask Rod Blagojavich.
So why would she abruptly resign?
And how could an investigation with so much salacious tabloid appeal remain secret for so long?
John Aravosis and I were chatting about it on the plane from Visby to Stockholm this morning. I mentioned that SBS was also the subcontractor on Ted Stevens' house in the VECO investigation, and that there was speculation that this was an offshoot of the Stevens investigation.
John said that the prosecutors in the Stevens case were no doubt still pissed that their Stevens conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, and that they might want something like this to be able to demonstrate that their work was valid and it hadn't been for naught. Getting Palin out of office so they didn't have to swim upstream and fight against someone with the power of the governor's office behind them would certainly be a top priority.
But even then, why would she deal at this stage of the game? And why would she resign? She wouldn't -- not if she was going to fight it. Being in office is one of the most powerful tools you would have in that situation. Which would indicate that if this long trail of purely speculative connections is valid, she's not going to fight.
A deal -- if there is one -- was probably made to save someone else.
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Post by webrunner on Jul 13, 2009 16:35:59 GMT -7
Here's an article about Palin's departure and the thing that strikes me most about it? Despite being on the MSNBC website and in the New York Slimes, it's surprisingly, relatively even-handed. Who knew they had it in 'em.
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