VIDEO: Sarah Palin Secedes From Office

Is It Possible? (0.00 / 0)

I have a hunch that those waterbirds in the background may be loons.  I know the ones around the microphone are.

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by: prince nekhlyudov @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 17:42:59 PM CDT

Heh. (0.00 / 0)

Maybe she should try seceding from YouTube, too. If she's thinking of running for shit, that speech wasn't the way to start.

Man, what a heifer.

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by: Bouldin @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 19:10:10 PM CDT

Channeling Tedisco? (0.00 / 0)

The basketball point guard stuff is way out there and very reminiscent of many a Tedisco NY-20 campaign speech.  Then again, it's also reminiscent of the equally wierd Tracey Brooks NY-21 basketball campaign ad.  

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by: teaparty2 @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 19:28:49 PM CDT

RUMOR CENTRAL.. (0.00 / 0)

Sarah Palin, etal...to be indicted, federally, for stealing materials from the Wallesa Civic Arena construction project and using them in her home....

You heard it here first..

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by: hawkny @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:40:01 PM CDT

Quitter (4.00 / 2)

What a way to show your patriotism for independence day-- finking out on your elected leadership position with no warning or prep.  Hey, what if those Ruskies take advantage of the fact that she is not watchin' 'em from her house?

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by: robinia @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:43:23 PM CDT

..and... (0.00 / 0)

it sure is not "politics as usual" for a Governor to make a major career decision based upon a poll of his/her children's opinions about the matter.

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by: robinia @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:53:46 PM CDT

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She tried to make her resignation... (0.00 / 0)

Sound heroic, as if she was doing Alaskans a favor by stepping aside to avoid "politics as usual", which apparently includes lame duck governors making trips around the country and world.

But there is nothing heroic about her. The people who drooled over her and hailed her as a champion of the middle class and as someone who lives up to their anti-politician and anti-government sentiments need to realize that is very much a politician (an opportunist, actually) and very much a lover of government, who certainly used her status as governor to her advantage.

There is more to this story. She isn't resigning to do a favor to the people of Alaska. Anything Sarah Palin does is for Sarah Palin. So I suspect there is an investigation somewhere that is damaging enough for her to step aside.  

Support our troops, not the war.

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by: robert.harding @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 10:00:18 AM CDT

You should be happy (0.00 / 0)

You and your lib blogger thugs have managed to drive out a person out of office who truly was 'one of the people'.  Alaska is NOT Albany/DC/NYC.  Real people very often get elected to office there.

Liberal thugs attacked not only her, but her husband and every single one of her kids, including her youngest, Trig.  All because she was against abortion.

"So I suspect there is an investigation somewhere that is damaging enough for her to step aside."

And you would be wrong.  Like you always are.  

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by: Who Watches The Watchers @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 11:07:32 AM CDT

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Again with your real name (0.00 / 0)

If your going to call out people like that, tell us who you really are.

Coward...

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by: daniel.jones @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:23:12 PM CDT

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Again with your real name (0.00 / 0)

If your going to call out people like that, tell us who you really are.

Coward...

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by: daniel.jones @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:23:12 PM CDT

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You should be sad... (0.00 / 0)

Because you are wrong. We didn't "drive out a person." She quit on her own. She chose to quit because, apparently, her family put it to a vote, decided she should resign and she told her family "you betcha."

And I didn't attack her because she was against abortion. I criticized her because we already had the village idiot from Crawford, Texas as our president. We didn't need Wasilla's village idiot to be our vice president. I could think of several Republicans who would be better qualified than Sarah Palin, including a few Republican women who would make better VP candidates than Palin.

And I'm not wrong. There are reports that federal indictments are just around the corner and that her resigning was a way to avoid any calls for her resignation once these indictments are unveiled.

Best of luck on that one. This was never about Alaska. This was about the Palins. They are in some REAL hot water. Too hot for Alaska, that is.

Support our troops, not the war.

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by: robert.harding @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 21:48:32 PM CDT

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Keep spouting lies (0.00 / 0)

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."  

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by: Who Watches The Watchers @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 23:24:29 PM CDT

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...and may God have mercy on your soul (0.00 / 0)

Thru-You

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by: dereau @ Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 12:44:04 PM CDT

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"One of the people" (0.00 / 0)

I want my elected representatives to know what it's like to have to decide which bills can be paid on time this month, and which ones can slide, because there isn't enough money for everything.

I want my elected representatives to know what it's like to do their own grocery shopping, their own cooking, their own cleaning, and their own laundry.

I want my elected representatives to have sent out their own resumes, gone on job interviews, and perhaps interviewed people they might hire.  I want my elected officials to have held at least one job where they had to shower after their shift.

I want my elected representatives to take positions on issues not out of dogma but because they truly understand the real-world implications and consequences of those positions.

I also want my elected representatives to have done some serious, intelligent thinking about issues large and small, to have been challenged on their positions -- and occasionally to have modified, or even outright flip-flopped, on issues when they learned things they hadn't thought of before.

I want to believe that my elected representatives know at least as much about any given issue as I do, or on those issues where I consider myself to have special knowledge because I have studied it extensively, to be willing to listen to me or someone as knowledgeable as I am and learn.

I want my eleced representatives to be eager to learn as much as possible, to get all the facts, to delve into causes and effects, to understand consequences, and to reach decisions based on these criteria.

Sarah Palin, from the research I've done, does meet the first few criteria listed above, but fails miserably on the latter ones, and to my mind the latter part of the list is more important.  George W. Bush failed on all of them, and look what happened.

I don't know if Sarah Palin is a crook, as some seem to be intimating, and I don't believe that she means harm to people, even as she knocks down those she deems to be in her way.  But I am convinced that she is unfit to be an elected representative of "the people" because she lacks the intellectual capacity, and the desire, to understand the true consequences of her public, political actions.

So good riddance -- and please, Governor Palin, stay away.

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by: Dan Jacoby @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:52:07 PM CDT

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Is she preparing for 2012 presidential elections (4.00 / 1)

She must be really fed up with government work. Seemed like she's got a pretty good image to build upon for the 2012 elections.  She giving up a lot now by stepping down.

1and1 Review  

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by: jilljosephsen @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:10:06 PM CDT

Maybe (0.00 / 0)

She's prepping for an "Oprah" type show on Fox.  Anyway, she did get some more undeserved attention.  She's a lousy speaker and a worse thinker-- shoulda stuck to beauty pageants.

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by: robinia @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:35:58 PM CDT

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Caught in a lie? (0.00 / 0)

In her speech, Gov. Palin says she polled her children on whether to resign, and they all said yes, except for one who said, "hell, yes!"  (She didn't say which one.)

But the Post Chronicle article states that, "Her resignation was said to be so sudden that her own children were not aware she was resigning until they heard her speak the words."

"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice."

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by: Dan Jacoby @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:55:31 PM CDT