I was taking a few (merciful) hours off yesterday, so missed Ms. Palin’s farewell, as she completed her first term gubernatorial abortion to become America’s premiere celebrity community organizer. But if you, as I, missed her speech, AKMuckraker kindly provides the transcript (Immoral Minority offers the video, if you prefer it) reinforcing the old saw about the ‘difference between George W. Bush and Sarah Palin: Lipstick’. Oh, and speech writers.
Much of her theme throughout the weekend’s “word salad” speeches, was the old “support our troops” strawman. She repeated over and over, that our military protects our freedoms. It is, perhaps, futile to point out, yet again, that our Military does not protect our freedoms. Our Constitution does. Our Military is supposed to defend it. So are folks like Palin, Bush, Cheney, Obama etc. who swear an oath to do so, but too often end up doing just the opposite.
Suffice to say, Washington’s Farewell Address — which, as EarlyAmerica.com describes, extolled the benefits of the federal government; noted the necessity of taxation; warned against the party system, permanent foreign alliances and “overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty” — Palin’s long “goodbye” was not.
Of the passages which jumped out at me for various, sometimes inexplicable, reasons:
- “Together we stand.”
- “It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.”
- “I remember on that December day, we took the oath to uphold our state constitution, and it was written right here in Fairbanks by very wise pioneers. We shared the vision for government that they ground in that document.”
- “[W]e have done our best to fulfill promises that I made on Alaska Day, 2005, when I first asked for the honor of serving you.”
- “Don’t forget Alaskans you are the resource owners per our constitution and that’s why for instance last year when oil prices soared and state coffers swelled, but you were smacked with high energy prices, we sent you the energy rebate. See, it’s your money and I’ve always believed that you know how to better spend it than government can spend it.” (Ed Note: Why do Sarah Palin and the wingnuts applaud such socialism in Alaska, but nowhere else? Why does nobody in the media seem to point that out?)
So with another thanks to Mudflats (and sincerest apologies to our own Jeannie Dean), here are a few priceless photos for the scrapbook from Saturday’s Governor’s Picnic in Anchorage, one of the last stops on her Farewell-for-Now Tour…
And one more thought for “the road that is north to the future”. This, courtesy of LeftWingConpiracy.com…
As usual, Shannyn Moore is out in front of everybody on this one (did some friction develop between these 2 blogs over the reporting on her sudden abandonment of her duties over 4th of July weekend?)
This is a MUST READ analysis (by an attorney) of a breaking scandal – the misuse of a trust.
It seems likely that palin has violated the spirit and letter of the trust laws – essentially perpetrating a fraud to raise money using the advantages of trust status without providing any accountability for where the money goes.
This would be a HUGE scandal if the mainstream media would follow up on it – intentionally deceiving people to raise money through a trust fund and then using that cash for other perposes.
So, does the Republican noise machine talk ino her ear the whole time she is making her speeches?
Just before she starts bashing Hollywood in her rant she says “got it”
I don’t see the video link here but it must be somewhere.
Floridiot, you mean like chimpy?
Yup – she’s a tool. I hope no one kids themselves.
If the criminal cabal that hoisted an AWOL abusive alcoholic/cocaine addict into the White House via 2 stolen elections as a “war president” decide they want her in the White House – it will happen by hook or crook.
Until folks are held accountable, nothing will change.
And remember – it is the DEMS that are selling us out on accountability, not the repugs.
oh, but I am glad he didn’t post a link to her speech. Can’t stand to watch or hear here anymore.
Personally, would rather she genuflected, raising her left thigh and buttocks, and tooted a parade of flatulence greater than any thunderstorm the world has ever experienced while spraying the crowd with a fine mist of hershey-squirts goodness.
I would find that much more tolerable than here speeches.
Problem is, we have chickenshit leadership Joe.
I think they must have Stockholm Syndrome.
I know for a fact that they are afraid of getting beat down like they did after going up against big tobacco.
AJ – We covered the defend fund business (albeit, a slightly different angle thereof) the day after the “probable cause” finding came out. Thanks, in any case, for linking to Shannyn’s coverage of it. We hadn’t gone into detail (AKM and Celtic Blue Diva and the others up there, also had excellent coverage) on that item because, really, no kidding, not interested in piling on and, for the moment, it’s best left to the “locals” to unpack the specific nonsense of Palin/Van Flein’s silly rebuttal.
Though I did touch on it a bit with AK Muckraker when she was my guest on the Malloy Show last Thursday (which also kept me from getting into too many written details here on the blog).
As to the video of the speech, yes, it’s linked in the original post above. First graf.
Floridiot – to be a little more precise, the “leadership” we have just doesn’t work for us.
They are wholly bought and paid for by the same corpocracy and their “leadership” role is to distract and divide the rest of us.
OK, I found the “got it” at 8:23 mark on Brads video link…orwellian
Goodbye for now Ms Palin,
Being a Republican, I think she is very qualified to speak for the Republicans, however she is sorely unqualified to run our country.
I still the she is hot in a milfy way.
She is qualified to run our country….into the ground.
Sorry. I couldn’t hep it.
Joe, what they’re not used to is all of the scrutiny that the intertubes gives them…a chance to look under the curtain.
I’m sure they hate it, lol
Part of me thinks that Sarah Palin is the greatest performance artist of our time. A disciple of Andy Kaufman, and a rival of Sasha B. Cohen, we will one day find out this was all a bunch of performance art.
Floridiot, your on to something there – did you see these clips, GOP congressmen run from reporter asking ‘birther’ questions
Mike Stark of FDL & Huffington Post tries to ask republicans congressmen about the birther questions – insane the extent they will go to avoid answering!
One old man runs and runs, finally telling the questioner that he is the “scum of the earth”.
Their base is insane and they think the rest of us are stooooooooooopid.
AJ, the reason why they don’t want to admit to the birfers that it’s nonsense is because they’re going to use it to run in ’10 & ’12 as part of their ad campaign I’m sure.
They can’t run on the merits, only fear works for them.
Sarah Palin “I Feel Quitty”
Right, floridiot – they are going to run some of the dirtiest campaigns you have ever seen. The congresscritters, however, want to appear “above the fray” and only use outrageous lies and innuendo in front of their ignorent base.
Sounds insane, but it can work – Remember: THEY ONLY NEED TO CREATE THE LIE OF A “HIGHLY ENERGIZED BASE” and the can steal elections.
Soul, shes not done yet, shes going to be the main fundraiser for the Puke/birfer party these next few years
8:23 mark
wow…that quick ‘got it’ says it all doesn’t it?
BREAKING NEWS: Palin has expunged ALL her responses to ethics complaints and to bloggers!
http://omfgalaska.blogspot.com/
I deliberately ignored any and all ‘palin’-related news over the past four days, boy what a relief to see sarah barracuda (aka caribou barbie) has moved on. Don’t ever darken our news cycles again!
Now if only the birther/teabaggers could also get over it.
I love her picture, waving to the crowd with he wrinkly white glove and stubby little fingers.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars on wardrobe and she wears $1.99 Chinese dress gloves.
She does live where it’s cold right?
Ya just cant take the trailer park out of the girl can ya!!!