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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:34 PM
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Voter to Palin: You sold out Alaska
Source: The Hill

As former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was filming an episode of her new reality show over the weekend, she ended up in a videotaped confrontation with a voter who accused Palin of abandoning the state for money.

It took place in Homer, Alaska, as voter Kathleen Gustafson was hanging a sign that labeled Palin the state's "worst governor ever."

According to New York magazine, the exchange was filmed by the owner of the property. Palin's husband Todd and another Palin handler can be seen attempting to block the camera's view.

When Gustafson tells Palin she's a teacher, the former governor's reaction is less than enthusiastic.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/113305-voter-to-palin-you-sold-out-alaska



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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:35 PM
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1. This is NOT true. She did Alaska a FAVOR by leaving! n/t
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 07:05 PM
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8. Stole my response!
:)
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:30 PM
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17. Homer is a great town at the tip of the peninsula that I live on. They
are eighty miles from my town in Soldotna and I used to live and work there. Jewel grew up there and its a kick ass lib town. Very artsy, very gutsy and very cool. Homer is a town with balls. :)
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:49 PM
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18. Homer is great
I had a cold beer and my bucket of halibut and chips and sat down at a picnic-like table facing south. So while I'm enjoying my fish, I hear an explosion that sounds like distant thunder, and in front of me a giant volcanic plume exploded over Mt Augustine. What a view. A volcano side show to go with dinner.

That was even better than the earthquake that almost shook me out of my Holiday Inn bed in Anchorage on another trip. Never a dull moment in Alaska.
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NYMdaveNYI Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:11 AM
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31. SHE'S FIGHTIN FOR OUR CONSTITUTION!!! REFUDIATE YOUR COMMENT!! |nt|
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:56 PM
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2. Back into your grifter bubble.
Real America knows you are a fake.

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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 11:30 AM
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42. Shades of Gucci
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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:58 PM
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3. Here's a link to the video...
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 05:11 PM
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4. And people here are actually worried about her becoming president??
She's on a completely different level of dumb than Bush was on. At least he had money and family connections. She can hardly form a sentence on the street except for "protecting the constitution" which she doesn't seem to know anything about.
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 08:28 PM
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12. No
I'm worried about my tinnitus worsening if her voice is to be broadcast nonstop over the next year and a half.
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cstanleytech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:01 PM
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14. That is a lie!!!
She can to form a sentence on the street.....it just has to be written on her palm clearly enough so that she can read it.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 01:35 PM
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47. and I remember laughing about Bush getting the nomination...
"he's clearly an idiot. No one would ever vote for him, especially in the general election", I thought. Of course that didn't matter in the end... voting, schmoting.
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 05:12 PM
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5. sabra
you Totally Rock!
peace, kp
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 06:12 PM
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6. Wouldn't she be the world's worst half-term governor? .
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 06:40 PM
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7. I think she managed to do a full term worth of damage in half the time. n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 07:07 PM
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9. Homer?
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moose65 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 07:08 PM
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10. This is so true..
I just took a trip to Alaska about a month ago. It is without a doubt the most magnificent, beautiful place I have ever seen. The people in Alaska were very friendly, and we talked to several Alaska residents while there. They ALL brought up Palin (we didn't even mention her name)! The consensus is that the people of Alaska can't stand her - they see her as a opportunist who ditched them for greener pastures down in the lower 48. Every town we went to had a T-shirt store that had caricatures of Sarah hanging in the windows with colorful slogans! It was a hoot!
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pjt7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 07:41 PM
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11. I never tire of the Fraud that is Sara Palin
getting exposed-
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:48 AM
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33. that's just it, failin quitter knows she's a fraud.
Have known people in my life who were in high positions but were as stupid as a mud fence. They are usually the screamers and the belittlers. They are so desperate not to be found out, that they do everything in their power to distract from themselves and focus on the other person as if it were their problem. Notice how the conversation goes from her being a failure to her having a botox malfunction.

The few media outlets reporting on this are are focusing on just that, not that the protester was correct in calling failin quitter a failure.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 08:44 AM
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29. they probably also see her as giving alaska a bad name.
i mean, if palin could be elected governor, what does that say about alaska. which may not be a fair assessment. she looks great until she opens her mouth. and on paper she probably sounded great too. like most politicians. they are like that used car that is all shiny and sounds great and you buy it and about a month later your engine starts having problems. you look close and see someone rigged it to work just long enough to get past the warranty period.

i still hear people say they LOVE palin and want her to be president. i honestly don't think they are really looking at her closely enough. from what i have seen, she doesn't even really seem interested in being president. she wants money and everything she is doing seems to be toward that goal.
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EJSTES2005 Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 08:56 PM
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13. When Gustafson tells Palin she's a teacher, the former governor's reaction is less than enthusiastic
Edited on Mon Aug-09-10 09:00 PM by EJSTES2005
Seemed more like total disdain. As someone regarded as unworthy or inferior. Made me want to puke!



"oh awe well" sorry for your fucking luck your a loser teacher is what I got from it.

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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:23 PM
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15. Sarah doesn't have much use for readin' and writin'
That's all that edumucation stuff.......she's a pretty girl who's gotten by on her looks all her life. *wink*
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RufusTFirefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:23 PM
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16. Her father was a teacher, and her mother was a school secretary....
Methinks, she's got some unresolved "issues."

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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:51 AM
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35. "Methinks, she's got some unresolved "issues."
She has so many issues she should start her own subscription. LOL
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 08:26 AM
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28. That was quite a moment. No "thank you for your service." //nt
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:50 AM
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34. of course failin quitter treats teachers with distain...
She didn't learn a thing from any of hers! LOL

Remember, you can't fix stupid. LOL.

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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 03:48 PM
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49. Both of them! Bristol did it too!
It was very shocking.
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Marie Marie Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:59 PM
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19. Seriously I am asking.
At this time and place in the universe, is there ANY woman more annoying than this screechy bitch from up yonder? Anybody?
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:52 AM
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36. maybe sharon angel.
Hard to choose.
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 10:32 PM
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20. The Wasilla Hillbillies
Come listen to the story about the Palin clan
Mamma Grizzly wanted out of her governor scam
Then the day came - she didn‘t blink twice
When the telephone rang someone asked her to be Vice

President that is, of the United States.
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 10:36 PM
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21. This was "shot of the day" at the end of AC360 just now
Cooper even commented on her "rolling her eyes" when the lady told her she was a teacher.

Apparently Bible Spice is in defense overdrive on her Facebook group, I haven't looked but I'll take his word for it.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 08:45 AM
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30. that reaction makes me think maybe she didn't have a great educational career in her
formative years. maybe some teacher made her wear her gum on her nose or something.
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:33 PM
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22. Make Your Displeasure Known by Boycotting Advertisers
Edited on Mon Aug-09-10 11:33 PM by Anakin Skywalker
of this moronic TV show!
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LostinRed Donating Member (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:46 PM
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23. Her daughter was the worse
I don't which one it is I think it's the one that pretends to believe in abstinence for pay. She's really snarky, she doesn't do her mom any favors.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:55 AM
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37. bristol is certainly not the "go to" person. LOL
Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 09:55 AM by Javaman
dumb to dumber.

And when you think about it, it's pretty sad. A 19 year old has to jump in and defend her moronic mom who is, supposed to be, a well informed political celebrity.

Kinda puts a fine point on it all.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:56 AM
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39. Leave the kids alone! Bwahahaha! But seriously, she turned my stomach when
she said "She represents all of America!" and motioned with her hands as if translating to a child. What a condescending little brat. She will make her mom proud one day.
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Axle_techie Donating Member (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:57 PM
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24. Wow, Palin was being
a complete condescending bitch
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:56 AM
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38. alas, she knows nothing else. the great oz is a dickhead. LOL nt
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:58 PM
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25. k/r
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Shining Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:53 AM
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26. K&R
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 01:20 AM
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27. Sarah Palin is so ill at ease. Listen to how her voice rises in pitch.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:56 AM
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40. yeah, she goes into whine mode.
that always works!
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jeremyfive Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 09:27 AM
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32. The Resign-a-Nator
I suppose you could be considered a "governor" even if you served only one day.

Sarah Palin, THE RESIGN-A-NATOR, certainly made her place in history--for what she CAN'T do.
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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 10:39 AM
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41. This backdrop
is right up there with the Thanksgiving turkey massacre.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:04 PM
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43. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, sabra.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:18 PM
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44. The 2 events that stick out: in the video:
the utter disdain she has for teachers, and the little dance she did when sayin' she's perteckin' the constitution and representin' America. Little balled up fists and sort of punching the air.
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:18 PM
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45. AGAIN THANKS for NOTHING MCCain!!!
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 12:22 PM
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46. NO SOUND on video,,,
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South End Liberal Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 02:36 PM
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48. Apparently Kissinger's puppet can't speak w/o her handlers.
I watched the video and it shows just how inept Palin is without her handlers. I'm still trying to figure out why, in the last election, Henry Kissinger was trying to sell the Wasilla Witch to world leaders as the next great peanut butter & jam sandwich.

Wanna bet Palin's fan club will stand on their heads trying to spin this?
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 05:52 PM
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50. The racist populist match this woman has thrown
into the oil-drenched pustules of the already soaked and sick American body politic is UNFORGIVABLE. SHE is the CURRENT source of making overt bigotry acceptable. "That N****R PALS AROUND WITH TURRISTS." And today every AMERICAN of Muslim faith is under threat of being shot like a wolf from a helicopter... :puke:
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 06:15 PM
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51. Another republicon who hates teachers. What's new?
next thing you know we'll see a story about a republican who hates gays, or mexicans, or blacks, or jews, or muslims, or hindus, or poor people, or handicapped people, or children, or social workers, or community organizers, or peace activists, or artists, or musicians, or.. anyone who isn't white, rich, hetero and christian.
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