The Sarah Palin Thread: 'Controversial Controversy' Edition

[Hobgoblin]

I think the writer moving in next door IS A LITTLE MUCH, AND do not fault her on those complaints....

Her and Obama seem to be cut from the same cloth when it comes to criticism....neither of them seem to take it very well. As President, IMO, you better have thick skin, neither of them do...

Agreed. She always seems to be in the news for being angry at someone. She should know that people are provoking her to gain attention to themselves.

 

[Franklin Richards]

She needs to smack her kid for being a potty mouth.

 

[Prison Mike]

Which kid has a potty mouth?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Willow. Didn't you read about all that gay bashing she did on Facebook?

 

[Schlosser85]

And then Willow said the uproar was about "people wanting to destroy Sarah Palin by any means necessary".

Apparently Sarah has passed down to her children the lesson of dodging responsibility.

 

[AG1973]

What exactly did Michelle Obama mean by her statement, I've never heard her explanation....

When I first heard her statement, my perception was that she wasn't proud until our country got to the point that it would elect a black president...it wasn't that big of a deal to me...but that is how I took it.

My wife is black and she never thought she would live to ever se a black person elected to the Presidency. Michelle Obama's Comment was not about hating whites or contempt for the U.S.A.

Her comment was about our nation moving closer to someone being judged by the content of their character not their skin tone.

Although I feel latent racism and intolerance based on color has become more apparent since President Obama started running for President and even moreso since he won.

But we have moved forward color based hostility is not as accepted as it once was but people who have those views have more mediums to express their hostility and or intolerance.

The First Lady's comments was a statement of how far we have come not the hatred that Sarah Palin asserts that it was...

 

[Marx]

Willow. Didn't you read about all that gay bashing she did on Facebook?

And then Willow said the uproar was about "people wanting to destroy Sarah Palin by any means necessary".

Apparently Sarah has passed down to her children the lesson of dodging responsibility.

Yeah. It was absolutely sickening.

 

[Kelly]

My wife is black and she never thought she would live to ever se a black person elected to the Presidency. Michelle Obama's Comment was not about hating whites or contempt for the U.S.A.

Her comment was about our nation moving closer to someone being judged by the content of their character not their skin tone.

Although I feel latent racism and intolerance based on color has become more apparent since President Obama started running for President and even moreso since he won.

But we have moved forward color based hostility is not as accepted as it once was but people who have those views have more mediums to express their hostility and or intolerance.

The First Lady's comments was a statement of how far we have come not the hatred that Sarah Palin asserts that it was...

Just because your wife doesn't feel that way, doesn't mean that is not what Michelle Obama meant.

I'm glad that your wife is a woman that has stepped above those things, doesn't mean Michelle Obama has...

 

[Franklin Richards]

So how bout giving her the benefit of the doubt?

 

[Kelly]

So how bout giving her the benefit of the doubt?

I have, I am simply speaking to the other side of the issue...and she has not done or said anything since that quote that has really changed anything. BUT, honestly.....the quote wasn't that big of a deal to me at the time, Kerry's wife's quote about teachers held far more water with me, and cost him my vote.....Michelle's quote didn't even make me think twice. But, I can make the point to the other side of the view, which I did. I can multi-task quite well....give a view, and think about that view AT the same time.

 

[Matt]

Why should she be given "benefit of the doubt?" She said what she said. "I've never been proud of my country until now." There really aren't many ways to take that. Its not a big deal, not as much as her husband's opponents make it out to be, but still, she said it. Odds are she meant it. She's gonna get criticized for it. BFD. Deal with it.

 

[Kelly]

Yeah, kinda the way I looked at it.....just wasn't anything I thought too much about.

But teachers stick together....lol

 

[imdaly]

If she had said "I've never been more proud of my country as I am now" or "This is one of my proudest moments as an American" that'd be one thing.

But she said "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country...".

 

[Franklin Richards]

For someone who was a child during the Kennedy Assassination,Watergate Scandal, and the Civil Rights Era. It's prolly not that big a stretch.

 

[Marx]

BARBARA BUSH: I HOPE SARAH PALIN STAYS IN ALASKA
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/20/barbara-bush-to-palin-stay-in-alaska/

 

[Hobgoblin]

Well, one thing about Barbra Bush, she doesnt hold back.

 

[StorminNorman]

So how bout giving her the benefit of the doubt?

Then you have to ignore Jeremiah Wright's sermons as well.

 

[Franklin Richards]

That's a horse of a different color.

 

[Prison Mike]

Willow. Didn't you read about all that gay bashing she did on Facebook?

I don't know what she said specifically but I do remember reading the headline...and not caring.

 

[Kelly]

BARBARA BUSH: I HOPE SARAH PALIN STAYS IN ALASKA
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/20/barbara-bush-to-palin-stay-in-alaska/

Well, one thing about Barbra Bush, she doesnt hold back.

I'm so glad she lives in my city......I feel safer, lol

 

[Holiday]

And then Willow said the uproar was about "people wanting to destroy Sarah Palin by any means necessary".

Apparently Sarah has passed down to her children the lesson of dodging responsibility.

That was Tammy Bruce, actually.

 

[Kelly]

As a teacher, I hear this type of talk from teenagers constantly, the use of the word f***** and *a*....are used just like B***h and ****e, ****, etc...

I am not saying that it is right what she did, not by a long shot, nor am I saying that it is right for ANYONE to call someone those words, I don't like the use of any of those words.....

But, would she have gotten as much attention if it were a girl that she called a ****, ****e, or used a racial slur other than n*****... doubtful.

I just see more emphasis of disgust on some words that are used as racial slurs as well as gender slurs.....IMO, all of those are just as wrong, yet only three of those words get any kind of anger from most, including on this forum. Simply shown by the fact that some are censored and some aren't. That is something I find quite distasteful...

 

[DACrowe]

PALIN SAYS SHE WILL NOT DO ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH KATIE COURIC BECAUSE OF CORRUPT MEDIA BIAS....ON SEAN HANNITY
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/11/22/sarah-palin-katie-couric-will-not-do-interview/




I really hate this woman. She is completely unrepentant in her blatant hypocrisy, double standards and downright lying to the point of being nearly irredeemable.

RUN SARAH RUN! THE GOP NEEDS YOU IN 2012! GO FOR IT!

 

[Schlosser85]

People think she's some honest, upright, straight-talking idealist, when she's really a whiny hypocrite.

 

[DACrowe]

Why should she be given "benefit of the doubt?" She said what she said. "I've never been proud of my country until now." There really aren't many ways to take that. Its not a big deal, not as much as her husband's opponents make it out to be, but still, she said it. Odds are she meant it. She's gonna get criticized for it. BFD. Deal with it.

But to still be talking about it over two years later and being so patronizing towards Michelle Obama about it...I see Dubya get more "benefit of the doubt" in his thread for the Mission Accomplished sign on this board. And that is kind of ridiculous.