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Sarah Palin assails Obama at 'tea party' gathering

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Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea party" activists that America is ripe for another revolution.

Noting his party's dismal showing in elections since Obama moved into the White House a year ago with talk of hope and promises of change, Palin asked the gathering: "How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?"

Her audience waved flags and erupted in cheers during multiple standing ovations as the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee gave the keynote address Saturday at the first national convention of the "tea party" coalition. It's an antiestablishment, grass-roots network motivated by anger over the growth of government, budget-busting spending and Obama's policies.

Palin's 45-minute talk was filled with her trademark folksy jokes and amounted to a pep talk for the coalition and promotion of its principles.

The speech also was rife with criticism for Obama and the Democrats who control Congress, but delivered with a light touch. Aside from broad conservative principles like lower taxes and a strong national defense, the speech was short on Palin's own policy ideas that typically indicate someone is seriously laying the groundwork to run for the White House.

Indeed, Republican observers say she's seemingly done more lately to establish herself as a political celebrity focused on publicity rather than a political candidate focused on policy.

Catering to her crowd, Palin talked of limited government, strict adherence to the Constitution, and the "God-given right" of freedom. She said the "fresh, young and fragile" movement is the future of American politics because it's "a ground-up call to action" to both major political parties to change how they do business.

"America is ready for another revolution!" she told the gathering.

Palin suggested the movement should remain leaderless and cautioned against allowing it to be defined by any one person.

"Let us not get bogged down in the small squabbles. Let us get caught up in the big ideas," she said, though she offered few of her own.

The former Alaska governor, who resigned from office last summer before completing her first term, didn't indicate whether her political future would extend beyond cable news punditry and paid speeches to an actual presidential candidacy.

All she offered was a smile when a moderator asking her questions used the phrase "President Palin." That prompted most in the audience to stand up and chant "Run, Sarah, Run!"

But, given the plethora of attacks that Palin leveled at Obama, she seemed like she was already running against him. And, perhaps, as an independent.

She talked little about the Republican Party and encouraged "tea party"-aligned candidates to compete in GOP primaries.

Palin ribbed Obama for Democratic losses in New Jersey and Virginia governor's races last fall and in a Massachusetts Senate race last month, saying: "When you're 0-3 you'd better stop lecturing and start listening."

On foreign policy and national security, Palin said he had "misguided thinking" and a pre-Sept. 11 mindset.

Her fee was $100,000 for the appearance at the for-profit event.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALINS_PEOPLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME...
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  • Blkwdw
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      Blkwdw  

    • Ugh! Keep us blinded to the real truth. Water is running out, oil reserves are being depleted, deforestation is ravaging the planet more and more people around the world are becoming poorer, money in the U.S. really has no value never did, and the dems and racists oh i mean republicans are fighting like siblings, which they really are... more alike than not.

    • 2 years ago
  • alexandrek
  • SleepDirt
  • bike10
  • SleepDirt
  • bike10
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      bike10  

    • Fox News will report there were over 100,000 there to listen to Saturday Night Comedy Hour. They will have the video to prove it.

    • 2 years ago
  • lucasives
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      lucasives  

    • I just can't respect someone who says something like, "How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?" Sarah, you sound ignorant.

      And you want to rebuke the president for going "0-3" since being sworn into office? Did you forget, he was 1-0 for the election in which you both participated. Maybe you weren't listening.

    • 2 years ago
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  

    • Though I don't doubt that Palin believes, or perhaps a better way to put it is supports, what she is saying, I also think that her constant ridiculing and contradicting Obama is an attempt at a misplaced revenge for her devastating embarrassments while campaigning in 2008.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • Varex_Sythe:

      Good point. Palin had her ass handed to her. I believe they call it a landslide?
      I guess the American people didn't accept race-baiting and inciting violence as leadership qualities.

    • 2 years ago
  • ChunkyCheezes
  • cztheday
    • +5
      cztheday  

    • While I agree with the sentiment that Palin SHOULDN'T be newsworthy -- on Current or anywhere else -- the fact is that politics and political power often have little to do with logic.

      About a month ago, I saw a guy pick up her recent "I Love Me" book at the local Costco store and put it in his cart (you know, the one with that subtle little picture of her on the cover?). My mouth being quicker than my brain (as usual), I asked, "You need somebody to read that to you?" (yeah, I felt badly about being such a smartass the moment the words were out of my mouth). But far from being embarrassed, he puffed out his chest with pride. He told me he felt sorry for people who just didn't "get" Sarah Palin -- as if she was just so complex that non-conservatives could not hope to comprehend her particular genius.

      I don't think she has a prayer of being elected President. But I DO think that she and her following are going to get some really creepy anti-environment, anti-education, anti-compassion, anti-open-minded Republican candidates elected to Congress. I also think that she is going to be able to mold the 2012 Republican platform and that any Rep. candidate for the presidency is going to have to court her favor if they are going to have any chance of becoming nominated.

      She is kind of a perfect storm: ignorant, unintelligent, rich, powerful and evil. People who disagree with her can ignore her all they want, she has too much support and too much money to just go away. We underestimate her power at our own peril. She has to be fought...and any candidate for whom she indicates support is immediately more formidable and needs to be stopped.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • Now I see why they nicknamed this bitch "a pit bull/pig" with lipstick. For once the camera actualy captured her true face. The gaunt look, the lenched teeth. Fugly is the word for this half witted, sleezy opportunist. Palin reminds me of Oscar Wilde's book: "The portrait of Dorian Grey" In that novel, the main character struck a bargain with the devil to always appear young & good looking to others, but his soul in all it's ugliness was captured in his portrait which became uglier with each evil act of depravity he inflicted on others. You always see Palin posing for the cameras like the milf pornstar whom others and her husband fantasize she is. Lias Ann and her porn movie Who's Nailin' Palin solidified that immage.The pictures I've seen of her make her look like a fish with it's mouth open ready to take a hook, or some adult child looking up from a sitting position smiling wide eyed like someone asked her to dance. But beauty is as beauty does. With all the ugly ad hominem personal attacks she makes on her opponent, and without any constructive suggestions to better the lives of lower and middle class Amercians...Substituted for solidifying the stranglehold the Big Oil Monopoly has, and her religious delusions...I would only vote for her as Ayatolah of Iran. I would never vote for her as even President of Iran. Mostly because she's a religious nutcase, and
      because I pity the Iranians plight.

    • 2 years ago
  • versasrev
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      versasrev  

    • You gotta love how she's pandering to her cronies. A leaderless movement would be so easy for her to exploit for financial gain. It's hilarious how these people are being taken advantage of, and how they don't seem to know or care.

    • 2 years ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  

    • Run Forest Run. It would be a good thing if she ran in 2012. Let's get this over with and draw out the pus to see how bad the infection is. America needs to make a decision between the GOP wolves dressed as independent sheep or try to bring government back towards the middle. Either way we will have the government we deserve.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • SleepDirt
  • mindcruzer
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
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    • In its adulating report on Palin's speech, National Review -- whose Rich Lowry and Jonah Goldberg both bitterly complained about the waving of Mexican flags on U.S. soil -- also proudly noted: "On her lapel, Palin wore a small pin with two flags -- for Israel and the United States." Along with the fact that she remains deeply unpopular with most Jewish-American voters, Palin's flamboyant display of her so-called love for Israel -- she previously boasted that the Israeli flag was the "only" one she kept in her Gubernatorial office -- is almost certainly grounded in her creepy desire to mold America's foreign policy to fit her evangelical belief that God demands that "Israeli land" be unified under Israeli control in order for Jesus to return and sweep all the good Christians up to heaven in Rapture (while banishing everyone else -- including the Jews she loves so much -- straight to hell forever). That's one major reason why neocons such as Bill Kristol love her. Led by Joe Lieberman, neocons have repeatedly shown their willingness to cynically exploit extremist Christian Rapture dogma for greater American fealty towards Israeli actions, and Palin reliably spouts neoconservative dogma on virtually every issue. Almost every one of her national security pronouncements sounds exactly like Dick Cheney and The Weekly Standard (though her call for expanded Israeli settlements go beyond what even most neocons are willing to advocate openly).

      Is there any other nation in the world where a leading politician can appear in public -- without controversy -- wearing the flag of a foreign country? It was a huge scandal on the Right when immigration reform marchers waved Mexican (along with American) flags in order to display cultural solidarity with Mexican immigrants who were being demonized and living in wretched conditions, as non-persons, in the U.S.; isn't it obviously more significant when someone who recently wanted to be Vice President and is now the leader of this Fox-News-sponsored political movement appears at events in the U.S. wearing an Israeli flag melded to an American flag, as though the two nations are joined as one entity? Why should an American political leader be wearing an Israeli flag?

      http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/07/palin

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • I'm all for a third party, be it the Tea Party or not. The Republicans play to the far right, the Democrats play to the far left, and then both try to move to the center to get enough votes from independents, who decide every election. How about we have a party from the middle that plays to the American people? We replaced a right-wing ideologue in George Bush with a left-wing ideologue in Barack Obama, and what has changed for middle America? Not shit, nothing. Neither has any concept of a balanced budget and both keep escalating war. It's bullshit. We need a party that represents those of us that live in the middle.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • JohnA:

      You started off fine and then you lost with 'the Democrats play to the far left'. Not even close. Then you said "...left-wing ideologue in Barack Obama". LOL. Not quite.

      If you crash into a 'left wing idealogue' or a 'left wing Democrat' in traffic I'll be happy to help you identify them because I am fairly certain you couldn't do so on your own.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  
    • SleepDirt:

      That's a good one SleepDirt, Obama isn't even close to being a leftist. Try and remember all the nimrods that call him a commie, socialist a stalinist are just replacing the word nigger that they are really thinking. They are nothing but mindless idiots that when we hear one of them say such lies call them out.

    • 2 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  
    • JohnA:

      There are FOUR "third" parties. Take your pick.

      And the Democrats are too separated on the issues to be any one thing. They are mostly centrists and doormats to the strong Right movement with members scattered from liberal to conservative. However, they can't stop disagreeing long enough to get anything done. Meanwhile, the Right has solidarity in taking this country straight into the toilet while they profit from it.

    • 2 years ago
  • chinese_democracy
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      chinese_democracy  
    • JohnA:

      You're almost right. Except that the Tea Party does not represent the middle ground....they are just impressionable idiots who just want to shout at things because they don't know how to express themselves through mindful dialogue.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • lifestudentno83:

      Those third parties have their own agendas, too narrow for any base to get behind. I'm taolking about a viable third party. And if you don't think the Democrats have their own toliets they profit from, you're not paying attention.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  
    • chinese_democracy:

      Maybe they aren't the solution, but they could be a start. Represent me, the American worker, the American taxpayer, do what I voted you in to do. Stop ignoring me. They are mad as hell at government doing what they want with no regard to us that voted them in and us that are paying the bills. I don't want Sarah Palin to be President, but I do want a government that cares about the American people for a change.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • JohnA:

      A *short* list of progressives in the Democratic Party-

      Anthony Weiner
      Dennis Kucinich
      Russ Feingold
      Howard Dean
      Barbara Lee
      John Conyers
      Donna Edwards
      Marci Winograd
      Barbara Boxer

      ...to name a few.

      Just because some asshole on the radio claims that Obama is a 'far-left idealogue' doesn't make it so.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • cztheday
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      cztheday  
    • SleepDirt:

      For the most part I agree with you, SleepDirt. IMO, it is easier to list the Democrats who are, in general, to the RIGHT of Obama because it is a much shorter list.

      The only reason I qualify that response at all is because the question is fundamentally flawed. Only truly mindless idealogues can be described in the terms John suggests because his question assumes that every member of both major parties is in exactly the same place along the political spectrum on every issue...and that every issue is subject to a simple, two-dimensional, left-right analysis. That is, of course (and as you know) a gross oversimplification.

      There are, for example, Democrats who are quite "progressive" on most social issues but who are more "conservative" on fiscal policy issues or on one or more "hot button" social issues like abortion, the death penalty or medically-assisted suicide. In my view, to the extent Obama could be defined in such simplistic terms, he would be considered by most Democrats as a pragmatic centrist.

      Like most presidents of both parties, he moved closer to the center during the campaign and even closer after his election. One tends to see presidents drift back towards their roots when their popularity soars (we saw that with Nixon, Reagan and Bush II, for example).

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • kennymotown:

      kennymotown

      Exactly right. These are all just epithets to substitute for 'nigger' as they have been all along.
      The right has been playing the victim card when their racism is called out, but the teabaggers movement is 90% outrage over a black man being in charge of the nation.

      When they chant 'We want our country back', they mean from visible minorities and gays.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
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      SleepDirt  
    • JohnA:

      Well, I have news for you. You are not the only one who is living under a taxation without representation regime. In reality, the left right paradigm is a ruse and politicians intentionally fuel division amongst the electorate using hot-button issues like cultural differences to divide us, because they know that divided we fall and they win.

      Aside from the evidence of racist issues amongst the tea partiers, I can appreciate why they are pissed off, even if they can't articulate it clearly.
      But it's a group that lacks organization or cohesion that is being covertly financed and led by the very people they oppose.
      Its all about taxation without representation and it didn't begin or end on January 20th, 2009 and it transcends party affiliation or cultural beliefs.

      The real battle is the Beltway vs the rest of us.

    • 2 years ago
  • mindcruzer
  • bailey78
  • chinese_democracy
  • SleepDirt
  • SleepDirt
  • device80
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      device80  

    • this lady is a fuckin travesty, who would cheer for her, did I see her quoted as saying "hope-y, change-y stuff" that is something a teenage girl would say, but I guess you have to dumb it down in a room full of fucking retards...

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
  • snarly
  • randomly
  • chinese_democracy
  • panichead
    • +1
      panichead  

    • The only house she is qualified for is a pictorial in "Penthouse", buck naked on a bear skin rug from one of her cabins she doesn't pay taxes on, rolling around in the money she robbed from a bunch of un-informed people who would believe anything they are told, while her husband "the first dude" directs the erotic poses showing her insides then half way through......quit!

    • 2 years ago
  • chinese_democracy
  • jubal
  • razoronline
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      razoronline  
    • jubal:

      Before watching coverage of the convention, my gut reaction to your response would have been, "No, they're not completely funded by closeted bigots, blatant racists and homophobes."

      None of the panelists, none of the speakers really wanted to go beyond the bumper-sticker talking points and criticize specifics found in the Obama administration's policies. Instead, they focused on Obama, the "socialist." They focused on creating the most despicable caricature of a president who has been in office for a little more than a year.

      It's one thing to disagree with the president. It's another to base the entire debate on who he is as an individual. That's where the bigotry comes in. The preclusion of everyone outside of Palin's "real America" appeals to not only racists and homophobes, but right-wing elitists who cannot coexist with a dissenting point of view.

    • 2 years ago
  • Progresshiv
  • xiola
  • SleepDirt
  • xiola
  • JanforGore
  • thedirtman
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      thedirtman  

    • Run Sarah! I will vote for you in the primary. Sarah Palin will do more for third-party candidates than any third-party candidate could possibly do for themselves.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • Well just about any nut would listen to Sarah spouting her lies and half truths. I am dreaming she runs in 2012. The great depression or as I like to call it the second great republican depression is well underway and the noisy backers of tea or Sarah don't have a clue who the enemy is. More and more people are waking up too the fact they were led down the path by tax cuts for the wealthy as being some kind of job creator.

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • kennymotown:

      KennyMotown, you sure hit the nail on the head when you asserted that no jobs
      were created during poser Bush's regime. Cause dat's the fact-jack. As in zip, nada, zilch. Current.com featured a news article from one of our contributors proving that in his 8 years of substituting for an honest, competent President, which Al Gore would have been, 0 jobs were created. That's scandalous because while Bush was out to make himself and Cheny Billionaires with their
      planned pipeline across Iraq and Afghanistan to replace the crumbling Alsakan
      pipeline by starting foreign oil wars disguised as terrorist counter strikes, the USA
      fell into ruin.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
    • +1
      kennymotown  
    • PressCore:

      Thanks for the backup PressCore, redistribution of the wealth from the bottom half to the top 5% in this country is exactly what happened. I love how they talk about you don't want too raise taxes on the rich now during the recession, cause that will kill any recovery. What the hell would we want to recover too what we had just a few years ago, we need real fucking change too correct the loss of wages in the middle and bottom class workers who's wages have remained stagnant for decades. Oh and my favorite one is are you trying to start class warfare with higher taxes on the people who made out like bandits during the Bush crime administration......FUCK YES!

    • 2 years ago
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