Palin in 2012
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"Couric asked her about foreign policy. To that she gave a vague, rambling answer and brought in the fact that you can see Russia from Alaska. That was a totally different thing."
She said that one can see Russia from Alaska.
It was Tina Fey who said that one can see Russia from Sarah Palin's house.
Easy to see the difference, but it obviously escapes those with an inborn blind eye (heck, two blind eyes) to the truth.
She said that one can see Russia from Alaska.
It was Tina Fey who said that one can see Russia from Sarah Palin's house.
Easy to see the difference, but it obviously escapes those with an inborn blind eye (heck, two blind eyes) to the truth.
And what does that have to do with anything? Joan of Arc said that Russia can be seen from Alaska in response to the foreign policy question. For that she received well deserved ridicule.
"And what does that have to do with anything? Joan of Arc said that Russia can be seen from Alaska in response to the foreign policy question. For that she received ridicule."
Russia CAN BE SEEN from Alaska, except for those who refuse to see reality. It is no different than seeing Niagara Falls from Toronto, except for the doubly blind, who deserve the ridicules they so freely dispense.
Russia CAN BE SEEN from Alaska, except for those who refuse to see reality. It is no different than seeing Niagara Falls from Toronto, except for the doubly blind, who deserve the ridicules they so freely dispense.
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Again, how is that relevant when she is asked a question about foreign policy? Her vacuous answer to the foreign policy question caused Tina Fey to make fun of her.
Indeed, if a Canadian politician is asked about Canada’s relation with USA, would he be well advised to mention that you can see Niagara Falls from Toronto? He would be ridiculed, made fun of. Where is the relevance?
Burlington is not Toronto, and Niagara on the Lake is not Niagara Falls.
In case you weren't aware.
Quite so. Besides, both Burlington and Niagara on the Lake are in Canada, so I don’t see the point of such a statement. Toronto is in Canada and Niagara Falls (at least a part of it) is in USA, so one could perhaps argue that it may be analogous to Joan of Arc’s claim that you can see Russia from Alaska.
But where is the relevance of the statement that you can see Niagara on the Lake from Burlington?
And neither have anything to do with Alaska or Russia. The fact is that you can see Russia fron Alaska.
But again, how was that relevant to the foreign policy question Couric asked her?
None, and about as irrelevant as the question Couric asked. I just recieved the following which is relevant.
"The Facts on Sarah Palin by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started... This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025.. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.
So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.
I rest my case.
Only FOOLS listen to the biased media."
I think you (or somebody else) already posted this ironsides, I do remember reading it before. But that is not really relevant to her interview with Katie Couric, is it?
Couric asked her simple question, like foreign policy, or what magazines, periodicals she read every week etc. When she could not give coherent answer to such simple questions, that really sealed her fate.
Couric asked her simple question, like foreign policy, or what magazines, periodicals she read every week etc. When she could not give coherent answer to such simple questions, that really sealed her fate.
