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August 27 2010 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink +8 rate up rate down ReplyRegarding Saah Palin's background. Her parents are/were both teachers in Alaska. She enrolled in colleges in Alaska, Hawaii and Idaho, changing schools six times, before completing at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. She worked as a "weather girl" and sportscaster with an Anchorage TV station, before marrying "First Dude" Todd Palin, who has been a snowmobile racer, operated a snow machine store and shop, worked on the North Slope oil fields (Before turning over confidential company records to the state when Sarah was in her first term as governor), and been a seasonal stream and shallow water commercial fisherman with an open whaleboat -- not an ocean-going crew served 75-150 foot fishing boat. Including the time off for the GOP national election for V.P., she served a full term as governor, with a somewhat lackluster record, although with an obvious talent for jumping into a completed situation and claiming credit. She is a seriously talented self-promoter. After reelection to her second term as governor, Palin recognized the economic return from exploiting her new national fame, started a book with a co-writer, resigned and began developing the profitable oppotunities. With a FOX show, the book, and frequent $100,000+ speaking engagements, she is a profitable multi-million-dollar franchise, while expanding her political base with the conservative branch of the Republican Party and the Tea Party faithful. First Dude Todd apparently is now just a seasonal fisherman. [Ironically, this week the Tea Party has been exposed as having been largely organized and financed by the Texas Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers. The research published to date shows the Kochs could be 90% responsible for the Tea Party's growth. Much of the Tea Party agenda has been promoting programs to benefit the Koch's oil businesses.] The contrast between Palin's academic record, bouncing from junior college to four year college, to junior college, to junior college, to four year university for a "soft and fuzzy" broadcast journalsim diploma -- Compared with President Obama, honors graduate from Columbia (the top liberal arts university nationally), service as a community organizer rather than cashing in with a big money Wall Street job, and then the top Harvard Law School, graduating among the top of his class. Even Michelle Robinson Obama has a distinquished academic (Harvard Law Honors graduate) and professional record. Sarah Palin essentially had her varied collegiate career paid for by her parents and the state of Alaska. The Obamas had to earn their own way, no free rides. Joe and Dr. Jill Biden both came from working parent homes and earned their advanced educations, Joe in Law, Dr. Jill in education, where she had earned international recognition on her own. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, after earning the right to an Ivy League education out of Arkansas. Hillary Clinton had a middle-class upbringing and achieved the Ivy League law degree. George W. Bush, by his own admission, was an alcoholic from his teens into his late-40s, early 50s, and even with the family "legacy" and considerable tutoring was never more than a "C" student. John McCain, with two Annapolis-educated Admirals behind him, required Navy Academy Prep School training to get into the Academy and graduated at the bottom of his class, after compliling the worst discipline and conduct record in the history of the academy. Then getting into Naval Aviation and crashing three planes before being shot down over Hanoi. In the Hanoi Hilton, McCain made propaganda videos and gave confessions of value to his captors. Some years later, while "shacked up" with his blonde heiress mistress in her luxury Hawaian home, he flew to the mainland and while his faithful wife and mother to his sons lay in the cancer ward, McCain walked in with divorce papers. McCain then married the heiress and her wealth financed his political career. These histories are public record and available to anyone who wants to do the research via Google.
August 26 2010 at 2:20 PM Report abuse Permalink -5 rate up rate down ReplyResponders here continue with the fiction that President Obama is solely responsible for the current $14-Trillion national debt. Fact, GHW Bush piled up more national debt than all previous adminstrations combined. Clinton/Gore balanced the budget, eliminated the deficit and reduced the debt by a $500-Billion. They left the program in place to eliminate the remaining debt of less than $4-Trillion by 2010. G. W. Bush took the less than $4-Trilion debt and left office with more than $11-TRILLION in existing debt, to grow to at least $12.5-TRILLION wiithin months. Bush/Cheney left two drastically mis-managed wars. Instead of concentrating upon the job of wiping out Al Qaeda and totally disarming the Taliban in Afghanistan. They lied to the world about WMD and Sadaam Hussein/Taliban links. [Reality, Hussein and Bin Laden were total enemies. Sadaam was totally anti-religious, strictly ethnically oriented as a Sunni. Bin Laden was a complete conservative religious fanatic._ Bush/Cheney eliminated all controls they could and simply left many others unenforced -- so advising their business friends. [i.e.-BP's Gulf deep water disaster was largely the result of NO FEDERAL drilling permit enforcement and oversight, and no safety enforcement. BP did not secure the required drilling permit.] The increased national debt since January 2009 are directly attributable to costs of stopping the slide into total economic depression, jobs creation, unemployment costs, subsidizing state and local governments, the massive bank, insurance and auto industry bailouts started in September 2008 and ongoing costs of the two wars-- Iraq and Afganistan. President Obama has been left with pulling the nation and world out of economic colllapse largely caused by Bush/Cheney policies, regrouping to win two ":LOST" wars, actually rebuilding Louisiana and Mississippi coastal areas from Katrina, overseeing the BP gulf disaster, the Haitian disaster and now the Pakistani flood disasters. All this in the face of the most concentrated personal villification campaign in U.S. history. For example, he is the first president within the past half-century to expand rights for gun owners, making it legal to carry firearms for protection into national parks. (With parks budgets cut drastically after 2000, assaults with guns and other weapons became much more common against park visitors.) G. W. Bush was on vacation at his Crawford, TX, Maine and elsewhere about one-fourth of the time during his first two years in office -- or six months total. Pres. Obama will not total two months TOTAL vacation within two years. Plus, about half of his "Vacation time" has been used for official duties, as in promoting safe use of Gulf Coast beaches last week.
August 26 2010 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink -10 rate up rate down ReplyAll that is wonderful, but it still stands that you cannot get out of debt by spending astronomical amounts of money. This is true with any president; as well as the current one in office.
August 28 2010 at 12:05 PM Report abuse Permalink +7 rate up rate down Replyeverytime I see BIDEN in front of a mike,I feel like I'm watching the show last comic standing,and the comic is bombing
August 25 2010 at 10:16 PM Report abuse Permalink +12 rate up rate down ReplyYou guys are really funny. You actually think a person who left before HALF of her first term was over could run the country? She can't even manage her own family. If President Obama's daughter had a baby out of wedlock, what do you think the 3 stooges who actually run the GOP (Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck) would have said? The fact of the matter is President Obama has done an outstanding job correcting the mess W left the country. Do you really think McCain/Palin white house would have the country further ahead? You really don't think that do you? I think Republicans/Conservatives are smarter than that. Or maybe you aren't.
August 24 2010 at 10:03 PM Report abuse Permalink -21 rate up rate down ReplyEric...Please clarify what was the country of your origin? When actually did 'the country of your origin' start looking different. Your comment is somewhat vague and lacks definition...pretty much like the 'game plan' of the GOP is vague and lacks definition. So if you could humor me and take a few moments of your time to clarify what you mean, I would greatly appreciate it.
August 24 2010 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink -13 rate up rate down Reply"Right" on! Sara isn't in office now, she QUIT! Why wouldn't she? 25% percent of American's think she is the second coming. All the money the Republicans spent dressing her up does show you can put lipstick on a pig and get her a prom date. And deficits? Are you kidding? George "what, me worry?" Bush bankrupts us, and we blame the messenger. What a world, what a world!
August 23 2010 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink -17 rate up rate down ReplySara Palin falls so far short of what is needed for out government that it can't be believed. To think that anyone takes her seriously in any way is amazing. Just amazing. What is going on with the people in our country? Are they that stupid? I can't say what I want to about Ms. Palin. We need things with politicians that reflect wisdom and strength. Huge and powerful wisdom and intellect. These politicians need to stand huge and tall with unbelieveable greatness. They must understand economics at a PhD level. Finance at a PhD level. They should not be playing one upmanship with political offices. It is about helping all of us out. It is not about making our party the rulers. It is about helping all of us out with proper government. Intellect properly applied. What is actually the best for us. What is actually the best solution without stupid party politics. The hell with politics. How can leaders make the best things happen? That is what matters.
August 23 2010 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink -19 rate up rate down Replypalin,s book profited 30 million before being publish.president pays 450,000.mrs.palin left alaska 13billion surplus.and president obama a country with a 14trillion deficit .now whos stupid.
August 23 2010 at 4:52 PM Report abuse Permalink +30 rate up rate down ReplySARA PALIN ROCKS!
August 23 2010 at 4:49 PM Report abuse Permalink +16 rate up rate down ReplySara Palin has repeatedly stated that she will not run for national office. The "Tea Party" is not a political party - just a diverse conglomeration of folks that are dissatisfied with the direction our country is moving in.
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