Sarah Palin Quotes

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Everyone knows that Sarah Palin's number one attraction is her appeal to the common man and woman. In fact, she has made her stump speeches a referendum on the everyday Joe and Jane, saying recently that she reaches out to those in small town America.

It’s true, she does seem to strike a chord with us where the Washington elite seldom dwell. Moms love her feisty approach; hunters adore her direct, ambitious and strong words; everyday people connect with her appeal to a more gentle time. Only these people have the perchance to read real news, know geography and do not take the law into their own hands.

How many people find it appropriate to take their boss' money and spend it until the courts stop them? Or implore God, taking the Lord's name in vain, to justify a war hell bent on losing to win a few meager votes? The answer is, not many. These are but a few of the many quotes the GOP Vice Presidential candidate has uttered in her few weeks. Surely, the great John McCain could have found a candidate with a better ability to speak for herself. No wonder she has been hidden away by his campaign, as we already know.

Palin has effectively shot herself in the foot with such quotes as:
"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008

or:
"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

and:
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

or these choice words:
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

Sarah Palin is the Achilles heel of the McCain Campaign, especially in light of her recent ethics violations, and it seems all the "Straight Talk Express" can do is to focus on Obama's supposed weaknesses to cover their own. Unfortunately, for the GOP, the American public is tired of the constant intrusion of crap sandwiches and Cheney-like statements.

With McCain moving away every day from his once middle stance as a reformer to nothing less than another George Bush, the attacks on Obama will get worse. Luckily, this will only further ensure true change in the form of a new direction.

Please vote Obama and we can rid our country of the Cheney politics that have dominated the last eight years.

Palin, Queen of Mediocrity

The bootstrap was once an American icon. Now, it’s a (laughable) punch line.

Whatever happened to the nation that our forefathers, our grandparents, or values once built? Weakness is more than a personal affliction today as many allow the reduced meritocracy to cave-in on itself.

So many people hoped and prayed for redemption but what they got was much more of the same. Now, today, a new dawn arises, however Palin is not the one who ushers in the next generation she is the one to kill it. We have become a nation emancipated from slavery, so why do we allow those in power to separate us from our profits?

Four decades ago, the late Sen. Roman Hruska of Nebraska defended an unqualified court nominee by saying, “There are a lot of mediocre judges and people out there. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they?’’ Hruska was mocked for his comments, but it turns out that he was just a little ahead of his time.

Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, even Ronald Reagan, all united our country in times of duress and under the name of the great American experiment. Winston Churchill, after the battle of Midway, was quoted as saying the American race, "was the greatest race of all." However we face a time when this great democratic endeavor, this great American experiment, is infected with half-truths and misquotes, intended to strike fear in the hearts of the most loyal.

What about you?

Vote Obama.

Palin Exposed

Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah (Barracuda) Palin has often and regularly touted herself as a "maverick" and "reformer" - having stood up to special interests and corrupt politicians. Then today, she was found to have "unlawfully abused her power" as Governor when she attempted to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper because of a family grudge. To some this might be a glaring contradiction.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report produced by an Alaskan bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found that Palin was in direct "violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain." Further, in an apparent effort to enact a personal vendetta on a public official who stood in her way of firing her ex-brother-in-law, the Alaska governor violated her oath to office and her promise to the people of her state. The fact that she let a "family grudge" dictate her professional behavior smacks of the same kind of decision making that the world has seen from our current failed administration. Is this the beginning of the end of her run as the GOP grand savior?

Many people must ask themselves how they truly feel about a potential VP who has blatantly disregarded her charge as a public servant. Sure, no one is perfect but certain behavior is inexcusable if it happens even once. It is important that our leaders exhibit a particular moral platitude. It is important that they hold themselves to a higher standard, that they represent the best of all of us. Palin has now shattered her image as such a leader before she has even had a chance to prove otherwise.

Troopergate has been upgraded to more than just a distraction for the GOP Presidential hopeful. Gov. Palin's apparent contempt for the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act is not exactly the first indication of her weakness as a possible Veep. Palin's interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric also displayed a glaring disparity between who Palin is and who she is being sold to be to the American public. No wonder the McCain camp has gone to great length to keep her out of the public domain since the Republican convention. Her qualifications, already suspect, took another major hit today with this new information. One can only imagine how much the panel's findings will affect McCain's bid for the Oval Office.

The McCain campaign will now have to work that much harder in the coming days to sell their image of being mavericks and reformers. The brash political move to invite Palin as his running mate was an easy sell at first, wooing the interest of many but now it seems as the package he is offering is a bit dented.

Is McCain's campaign trying to sell America damaged goods?