During his speech to Congress on healthcare last night, Barack Obama called out Sarah Palin for what he called irresponsible rhetoric about his healthcare plan. He then called her a liar. Of course, she had to respond to such an allegation and of course, she did.
Sarah Palin
It seems so odd that the left is so intent on discrediting former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. They dismiss her as being irrelevant, stupid, silly, ignorant, a ‘hillbilly’, ‘white trash‘ and just about any other negative adjectives they can toss her way. However, even as they say out of one side of their mouths that she’s unimportant, out of the other side of their mouths they do all they can to attack her. To use the President’s own words, ‘it would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, pure and simple.’ Truer words haven’t been spoken about this President and the left.
As a quick aside, it’s also laughable that the President is so quick to call people ‘liars’ (ie: Bill Clinton) while feigning outrage that someone had the nerve to call HIM a liar. I guess in his world what’s good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander. Either that or his supporters think he’s so weak and hapless that he can’t take the same critic every other politician is subjected to. If they really thought he was so wonderful and such a great leader, they’d have a little more confidence in his ability to take the heat.
You can read Palin’s response to the President’s healthcare address to Congress on her enormously popular Facebook page.
The fact that her term ‘death panels’ has become part of the current lexicon when referring to the panels the President is proposing that will make decisions regarding ‘end of life’ care for the elderly and infirmed along with the fact that the President of the United States feel compelled to call her out at every opportunity speaks to the power she has. It also speaks to her popularity and her relevance. Sorry lefties, she’s not as irrelevant as you want her to be!
It’s what I refer to as ‘Palin Power’.
Go Girl and keep the heat turned way up!
Here’s what some others are talking about today:
Barack Obama’s favorite community organizing group, ACORN, has been caught on tape pimping and prostituting (say it ain’t so!!!) - Gateway Pundit
Sarah Palin: Barack Obama’s Nemesis - Urban Underground
Notes on Sarah Palin’s response to Obama - Another Black Conservative
Video: Glenn Beck Interviews Hannah On ACORN Corruption - Nice Deb
Sarah Palin Calls Out the President on His Health Care Speech - Motivation: Truth
Obama Fatigue Syndrome - Wizbang
Obama Dragnet (Video) Joe Friday vs. Obama - The Admonition
Foxes & henhouse: DOJ to probe New Black Panther Party case - Michelle Malkin
Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way - The Pirate’s Cove
On 9/11, We Remember Vincent Princiotta - Southern Sass on Crime
Eight Years After 9/11 - Michael Yon
the lefties can dish it out but they can’t take it - blatherings blog
Carlson: When did the Hopemeister turn bitter? - Hot Air
9/11: The Injustice Still Grates - Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Check out dadoughkids blog. She has an incredible list of all who died on 9/11/2001. She also has remembrance posts of numerous people who died that day. Excellent work! As Stalin said, ‘One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.’ Remembering each individual helps us to see the tragedy instead of the statistics.
Okay, so that’s your reading assignment today. Let us know in the comments if you have a must read article. We’ll be letting you know of more great articles we find along the way. In the meantime, don’t forget to check out Sarah Palin’s response to Obama’s healthcare speech on her facebook page. That woman is writing the book on how to field dress a donkey! Heh!
Palin’s response to Obama - Video
Photos: www.wenn.com
September 10th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Biden and Pelosi look seriously bored in the background there. The thrill is gone I guess.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
You are a liar too, Beth.
Death panels. Tell us all, right now, RIGHT NOW, the evidence you have for “death panels,” other than the fact that someone has invented it.
I am listening. Remember, evidence means facts, not conjecture.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Wow Klo - that really got under your skin didn’t it.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
defensive much?
September 10th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
A runner-up in a beauty contest a few decades ago, Sarah Palin is now a Facebook spokesmodel, with a ghost writer to write her “speeches.”
September 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Mary! Surely you are joking! She has much more experience in management, administration and government than the current president. Surely you aren’t trying to downplay her experience, that just makes your guy seem all the worse.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
That just shows what a threat she is to the left.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:10 am
That just shows what a threat she is to the left.
Sarah Palin absolutely is a threat, to anybody on any side who cares about the proper role of government. She is a populist; she focuses exclusively on a culture war to position herself for potential voters. She uses the media to build up her personality, primarily by focusing on the negative coverage she receives (the old any publicity is good publicity angle). Rather than putting aside immature bickering and working toward positive policies, she lives for that bickering.
Palin is pure lowest common denominator; a woman who prays on — and encourages — the fears and misconceptions of the common American without ever actually addressing any problems. She’s not someone any of us need running the country.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Hey, Mary B, “a ghost writer to write her speeches”! Are you serious?! You actually think any of them write their own speeches? You are completely clueless.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Rhayader Says: Palin is “a woman who prays on”. So what is wrong with that?? You better go back to you high-quality, government-run school and figure out how to actually type what you mean. Or is your brain trying to show you the truth?! Hum, food for thought….
palin is
September 11th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Huh? Are you trying to point out a spelling error? OK, you got me, my bad.
I humbly offer the following correction:
Palin is pure lowest common denominator; a woman who preys on — and encourages — the fears and misconceptions of the common American without ever actually addressing any problems.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Rhayader - you are confusing Palin with Obama again! Sheesh. Your description is a perfect description of BO’s methodology. Plain, on the other hand, has no resemblance whatsoever to what you describe.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:35 am
‘a ghost writer’? What a hoot. You think BO writes his own speeches? He can’t even deliver his own speeches - his teleprompter has to do it for him. He’s the robot President - he just stands up there and reads what the TOTUS tells him to say. Empty. Suit.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I know you guys love to pose everything as somehow relevant to Obama, but I wasn’t saying anything about Obama one way or the other. I would even tend to agree with you, although Obama seems to have a much better grasp on public persona than Palin does.
At any rate, yes Palin absolutely is a vacuous populist.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I’m really confused over if she is running or not, because I have no clue I really can’t tell. I mean if I was her only a dude I would be writing cheap books and going on interviews making millions of dollars. Now I’m sure she’s making money off this, but still there’s a lot of interesting things here. I mean I knew she was running until she resigned, because if you ask me that was a political suicide for her. And I really don’t think she’s experienced enough, because 2 and a half years a governor isn’t enough. Yet looking at there’s a high probability that a governor will get the nomination I’m going to advise David Patreaus as the VP.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Rhayader:
I think your to hard on Palin, because although I disagree with her populist beliefs I still think she would make a good VP if not president. Granted if you put a list of ten republicans who would run it would turn out like this.
1. Gary Johnson because he turned a small repair company into a business with a thousand employees and he leans Libertarian.
2. Mike Huckabee because he’s a good man,good governor, and supports the income tax.
3. Fred Thompson because he’s a very smart man and a strong conservative.
4. Bobby Jindal because he’s a young conservative who will bring in the Asian vote.
5. David Patraeus because he’s a war hero and liked by both Republicans and Democrats.
6. Rick Perry because Texas holds a very deep spot in my heart.
7. Kay Bailey Hutchinson because I like her a lot yet I’m upset with her going against Perry.
8. Alan Keyes because I agree with him 99.9% of the time yet he’s a bit of a religious nut and I hate that.
9. Sarah Palin because she was a great governor yet resigning to me was stupid.
10. Mitt Romney because he’s a flip flopper and his healthcare plan destroys medicine,increase the deficit,has a thousand mandates, and increase the price of care 35%.
So Palin really is not my preferable choice, but if I had to pick between her and Romney.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
First of all, Gary Johnson is the man. If somehow you GOP folks could whip up some real support for him, you’d have me on your side. Unfortunately I think the guy simply tells the truth too much to have a snowball’s chance in New Mex– I mean, hell.
There are plenty of names on that list I don’t know much about, and plenty who follow the big government, neocon power grab that I detest. So I’m not going to comment on any other names there.
I will ask this though: what happened to Ron Paul? I think the freedom-loving members of the right had a golden opportunity; I’m 26, and I can tell you he really made some noise among people my age — he was basically an internet celebrity for a while there. Unfortunately, the GOP is full of internal fractures, and he said plenty of things that the social cons weren’t happy about.
Conservatism is fine, but stagnation means death. People like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson would be the savior of the Republican party, if only Republicans could see it.
September 11th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Rhayader:
Well I was going to put Paul somewhere on the probably number 3 or 4, but he’ll be 77 years old and I don’t think he’ll run do to that reason. Also if Paul ran than Johnson who would be the likely to be his VP pick wouldn’t run. So it’s kinda of a choice between Paul of Johnson and to me Johnson seems like the better candidate. Now you can agree with me that Alan Keyes and Mike Huckabee aren’t for big government. Mainly because the both want to get rid of the income tax and a couple of other programs. Now I don’t know why we never took a serious look at Alan Keyes, because just go on youtube and tell me what you think about him. So I would advise voting red in 2012, because anything is better than what we got going for us now.
September 11th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I don’t know much about Keyes, I’ll check him out. The same basically goes for Huckabee, although I do have this vague troubling notion that he slants toward the religious angle. Might be wrong about that though.
And hey, there’s a perfectly good chance I’ll end up going red, but it all depends on the candidate. I can only swallow so much social conservatism before the old gag reflex kicks in.
If that happens, I’ll probably go with whatever libertarian they throw out there so Obama doesn’t get my tally.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Rhayader:
Listen I hate social conservatism just like you even though I’m pro-life, but I really hate those God squad republicans. Now I was to young to vote in 1992, because I didn’t like the idea of Bush 41 raising taxes so there I would of voted libertarian there. Now I never settle for less than what I want, but in this case it’s either a guy who’s pretty much destroyed are country or a republican who can at least cut the deficit a little. Yet if your against the religious than your not going to like Huckabee or Keyes. Yet Thompson doesn’t seem that into the God squad crap.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Palin is at least a patriot. She just had the misfortune to run with that disgraceful John McCain. I thought the little sh*t had some guts but, in the end, he did not.
There is no republican worth a damn on the horizon, maybe one will emerge. Until then the republicans should just shut up and let the peeps take on the dems and Obama. They seem to be getting a lot of traction lately.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:07 am
If Obama adds citizenship verification to the health care bill, will he be eligible to receive it?
September 12th, 2009 at 6:35 am
You know when the trolls come out in force they feel threatened.
Palin is the best thing to ever happen to the GOP.
BTW - I think Mary is another poster who changed her handle.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:07 am
“There is no republican worth a damn on the horizon, maybe one will emerge.”
Palin/Nugent 2012
Yeah, I gotta go with Rhayader on the thing with Huckabee. I want all my reps to have faith but I’m not really crazy about then wearing a huge band of thorns on their sleeves. Faith is great to have as a moral directive but it shouldnt be made too large a precense to the point it looks like timid zealotry. Being a politician and a Christian, or member of any faith at the same time is already a huge oxymoron as it is so please spare me the holy roller act.
Besidesthat, the “Little Rockers’ most certainly do not rock
September 12th, 2009 at 8:11 am
re 23. Gee, Michael, I wonder what an alternate handle for mary could possibly be? First Tina calls her out at the old site, then bjg today lets her have it. Luckily for her, we’re all too stupid to catch on to her.