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Palin Skips Another Speech, Denies Accepting Invitation
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has told the Alaska Family Council she will not speak at its event Thursday night in Anchorage, which has been heavily promoted as her first appearance since she left the governor's office. It is the fourth time in several months that Palin has backed out of an event at the last minute, saying she had not accepted the invitations to begin with.
The same thing happened in early August, when Palin declared herself unable to attend a California Republican women's event, adding that she had never accepted an invitation to speak and had requested her name be removed from the program several weeks earlier. Palin also backed out of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in February after confirming her attendance, citing the "duties of governing."
Organizers for the Family Council event, a kickoff for Alaskans for Parental Rights, are left scratching their heads over what appears to be a failure of communication. Palin spokeswoman Megan Stapleton said, "This is the first we have ever heard of a speech." She said the former governor acknowledges receiving an invitation and "had hoped to be able to attend," but says she didn't know she was supposed to speak. The group's invitation stated only that Palin and conservative author Star Parker would be "joining" them for the event, not that they would be speaking. Maybe someone just assumed if Palin were in the building, she would naturally want to say a few words?
While it seems plausible that such a misunderstanding could happen once, it hardly seems likely to have happened twice, and certainly not several times.
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David Sessions is a journalist based in New York who covers politics, religion, and the arts. He is the founding editor of patrolmag.com. ...more
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John Stow
4:36PM Aug 27th 2009
Why does anyone care what she does or doesn't do. She is so over it is not funny. If she runs against Obama in '12 Obama would win in a landslide. That's how unelectable she is. Her 15 minutes of fame is over.
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doverjwlpn
5:36PM Aug 27th 2009
Wade your a crybaby!!!
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(-1) richardfusilier
4:43PM Aug 27th 2009
With that, Palin goes off my list.
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(-4) ProPalin
5:06PM Aug 27th 2009
Oh dear, I fear she will never recover from that.
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(6) Tammy
4:51PM Aug 27th 2009
How about the "slant" revolving around other people's errors and assumptions? Blaming the victim is so "leftwing."
When are they going to start paying the rest of us for our comments? That's what we're all doing anyway here at Politics Daily. Most of these articles are not in the realm of accurate reporting, but rather glorified opinions. These reporters aren't Scarlett O'Hara dressed in regal gowns, they're Carol Burnett wearing curtains.
When are they going to start paying the rest of us for our comments? That's what we're all doing anyway here at Politics Daily. Most of these articles are not in the realm of accurate reporting, but rather glorified opinions. These reporters aren't Scarlett O'Hara dressed in regal gowns, they're Carol Burnett wearing curtains.
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(7) kathy
4:56PM Aug 27th 2009
Tammy, how is your day!? The Scarlett O'Hara crack, makes me LOL.
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(-2) ProPalin
5:03PM Aug 27th 2009
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa good one Tammy!
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(1) MAJOR
4:57PM Aug 27th 2009
MAYBE SHE WANTS TO STAY OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT FOR NOW. MAYBE HER FAMILY IS MORE OF A PRIORITY THAN POLITICS. SHE CAN ALWAYS START THE "CIRCUIT" OF TALK SHOWS AND SPEECHES IN 2010. WHATEVER HER REASONS... RESPECT THEM.
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(-2) ProPalin
5:00PM Aug 27th 2009
Must be a slow afternoon, Sessions. This is all you can come up with? Everyone is scratching their heads wondering where the heck Gov. Palin is. Oh puleeze. Perhaps these groups had hoped she'd come, told people she'd be there without confirming with her office? Perhaps her own office dropped the ball? No, I can just SEE Sarah...sitting and planning whose get-together she can screw with next. Since she is SUCH an evil wicked woman, I'll just bet that is what she's doing! Man, don't you people ever give up? You actually took the time to scratch this crummy idiotic article out to TRY and besmirch Gov. Palin yet again? Pathetic! All you low-classed no-talent "writers" of Politics Daily are obssessed with Palin! Give it up! She is above you and nothing she does will placate you so please give us all a break and write about else. Why don't you write yet another story about the golden couple's stay on Martha's Vineyard, some drivel about happy fun in the sun. urrrrrrrp!
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(3) j4poets
9:30AM Aug 28th 2009
you talk trash about politics daily articles yet you still read them. Who's the hypocrite now? And as far as Martha's Vineyard goes; I live here so leave us and the Obamas' alone. What don't you understand about vacation?
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(-4) norfwest
5:05PM Aug 27th 2009
If she never entered politics, what would she be doing? I know she was a sportcaster prior to exploding onto the political scene in Alaska. It just seems like national politics may be a bit more than she imagined it would be.
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(0) S321Saint
5:58PM Aug 27th 2009
Pathetic liberals, lets see..she isnt running for VP, she isnt gov of Alaska, so you need to find SOMETHING to whine about her..so you follow her around and whine about things or places or events she did NOT go to. She also didnt address the latest meeting of the NAACP, she also isnt giving one of the eulogies for Teddy, she also isnt throwing out a pitch in the a baseball game....she also isnt meeting the the UN on climate change, she isnt in Africa trying to divert money to combat AIDS.... did I leave anything out? Pathetic.... also I've been very careful to avoid the mainstream media since Teddy went all Chappaquiddick on us... I already know about Teddy's life and accomplishments...I dont need to watch people make lies about him to feel good.
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(0) j4poets
9:36AM Aug 28th 2009
back off! Teddy Kennedy was ten times better a human being than any of you. The man is dead for crying out loud. Let him rest in peace. Does anyone really know the whole story of Chappaquidick? I live here and can't say as I do. I'll never understand why people have to denegrate the dead to make themselves feel better. It's almost childish.
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(1) Tawny Jones
7:50PM Aug 27th 2009
Sarah is a private citizen now. She isn't running for office. She isn't sucking up to gain political favors, yet every puffball group in the country are circling like piranhas, wanting a bite of her. Let her chill out for awhile, and communicate through the internet, from home.
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(1) oregonbird
7:19AM Aug 28th 2009
Oh no, she can't do that -- that would be blogging, and you know how Sarah feels about bloggers! They are absolutely the worst people in the whole world! I know she does that face thing, but she isn't going against her standards at all, because she just has someone else who knows what she would say if she did go on and blog, but she doesn't because she wouldn't be a blogger for anything! I know she was using that twiter, but she didn't know it was just like blogging, and when she found out she stopped right quick, and I bet she felt bad because she said she'd be doing lots of twitering, and I was disappointed she didn't like she just stopped and now we only know she's not doing stuff much or in Alaska, I guess. But we can wait til she comes out, like a finished hibernating big bear, and she'll tell all those media people how to do their jobs, because she's got all that experience, and has sorta been blogging, but not hardly since she knows blogging is all wrong to do, y'know?
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(-3) norfwest
8:18PM Aug 27th 2009
WOW! More powerful stupidity. If she is so sharp, why would you rank brains after beauty? Furthermore, why brains before morals? It would seem to me that looks have nothing to do with being a worthy leader. And being just and smart are tantamount. No wonder the republican party is in the dumps. They have philistines like you representing the party.
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(-1) buster
9:23PM Aug 27th 2009
the key problem here is that palin had to READ the invitation.
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(1) sablbona
10:31PM Aug 27th 2009
Stupid, dumb Palin.
Current Health Insurance is a Biblical Harlot riding on Americans.
They (Harlot and Republicans) descriminate sick , poor and old. And
you have to buy Afflac too!! But when you get sick They-Harlot
supported by Republicans cancel Insurance and Americans 1.6 Million
per year getting bancropted!.
So now is a time for Insurance for all Americans! let us stop
monopoly of Harlot and Rpublicans support of it.
God bless Obama and all Americans!!!!!!
Republicans are more conservative until conception, but after that
Democrats getting all responsibilities for the rest of the life of
new conception (person), so in conclusion -in Gods eye Democrats are
far more conservative than Harlot-Republicans!!!!
Current Health Insurance is a Biblical Harlot riding on Americans.
They (Harlot and Republicans) descriminate sick , poor and old. And
you have to buy Afflac too!! But when you get sick They-Harlot
supported by Republicans cancel Insurance and Americans 1.6 Million
per year getting bancropted!.
So now is a time for Insurance for all Americans! let us stop
monopoly of Harlot and Rpublicans support of it.
God bless Obama and all Americans!!!!!!
Republicans are more conservative until conception, but after that
Democrats getting all responsibilities for the rest of the life of
new conception (person), so in conclusion -in Gods eye Democrats are
far more conservative than Harlot-Republicans!!!!
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(-2) danielcyoung1
11:15PM Aug 27th 2009
Who the hell says "ilk?" As far as I can tell, only people who spend the majority of their days watching Fox and posting repititions of what they just heard on Fox. Get a life, and some facts.
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(0) danielcyoung1
11:24PM Aug 27th 2009
I'm pretty sure "WADE" sits in his moms basement in his underpants clutching his gun in one hand and typing self promoting comments into every space provided on the internet with the other. He rattles off the same unintelligible catch phrases heard on Fox every day, and then proceeds to link to his own blog. Hey WADE, look over your shoulder, we're all out to get yououuuuu...Booooooooo!
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