If you're not a journalist, whatever you are, you're the best, Kate!

If you're not a journalist, whatever you are, you're the best, Kate!

I genuinley like palin i am just not sure i would like to see her run america but i know she would be a great vice president ...sarah palin is an awsome woman and if the lftist man hater want to know what real feminism is all about sarah palin is an proper ,and,excellent example of that !! just my opinion. while the u.n. suggest that by having fewer kids the west could reduce global warming so they are now handing out free condoms ....you have palin who is pro life just one perfect example of why i like her as a person ,as a political figure ,as a woman ,a mother,wife ...all of it . And besides anything is better than the paper tiger they have now or have had for the last 16 years..lol. Just my opinion

Paul in calgary

Her book is good, not earth shattering, but pretty good.
It will help her out quite a bit I think.
It goes a long way to dispelling the outrageous lies the media told about her.
The CBC must think so too since they pretty much quit covering it now that it's out.

Her fight with the old boys club in the Republican Party and the oil companies in Alaska is very interesting.
The kid's got moxie!

One point she makes is that the reason the left act so deranged and attack so visciously is because that's all they can do, they can't successfully debate ideas.

Margaret Thatcher said it best: "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Yup. she's just a joke. So the Obamites say, while piddling away in their shorts all day.
Mockery as cloths at her feet thrown laid. In hearts black elitists fear away . That one day she will put paid to them for their evil ways. While cut off from ill gotten aide, from the people they stole from in a tax raid.
JMO

"When I consider someone to be inconsequential, I don't write any at all."

This sums it up completly.
Rush Limbaugh says the left always let you know who they fear. The demonic remarks, AP fact checking and copycat book, show they are terrified of her appeal to "normal" Americans.
The big OWE is going down faster than a hooker on the Titanic.

It would not be the first time in the history, especially on the outset of turbulent period, that a person is first ridiculed, then play a major social/political role.

btw...by 2012 most people should figure out the Obama hasn't got qualifications to be the president, yet has been elected.

Perhaps the most telling aspect of the article you linked to is the title at the bottom of the page:

"Other entertainment news..."

"Other entertainment news", Obama bowed to the Japanese Emperor.

I too like Sarah, but I would really like to see her pull out of the political arena until her son is maybe in his mid to late teens. He is a pretty special little fella' and really needs his mom.
I think she should pull the pin and wait. This would bring so much more credibility to her and her political career.

A beautiful looking apple picked too soon will be great for the eyes but not be nearly sweet enough for the palate. So too with Sarah. She will make a great president, but let her ripen, not jump the gun and I believe her to be someone who will prove to be the right person for the season ahead.

Picked too soon, she will not be ready and neglect the one that needs her the most in these formative years. Do it for your son, Sarah!!!

What they think of Palin is merely the projection of their deepest feelings regarding the average American person. You disgust them, you with your tawdry and pathetic lives and loves, your concerns and cares.

So, when your "betters" loath a normal woman, don’t you think its time to reteach some old lessons?

Well she increased Oprah's slumping ratings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/arts/television/19arts-SARAHPALINGE_BRF.html

That must just give Oprah the chills. Her baby boy Obama is tanking and Sarah is rising.

While Sean Hannity on FOX was interviewing Sarah Palin this evening, at the exact same time slot Marcia MacMillan at CTV was interviewing and gushing over a pair of Palin bashers who had written a "fact check" book as they called it.

Needless to say I didn't listen long enough to even catch their names or where they were from, but Palin hatred in MSM in Canada is obvious and blatant slobbering does not become Marcia or CTV for that matter.

The vicious attacks of the left must be difficult
for Sarah Palin to take - they are difficult for any fair person to read - but they have made her.
Wasn't it Ann Coulter who said that without the leftist frothings Sarah Palin
probably wouldn't have been seriously considered for high office for another eight years or so?

And, of course, what media people find is that Sarah Palin is *very* photogenic. One can't take one's eyes off her, and cameras love her.

After seeing her on a few interviews where she can "go rogue" she still comes across as smart and like-able.

However, she isn't Presidential material at this point. She is holding up the empty bag ... much like Obama. The only difference being that Palin could have easily been a great VP and learned on the job whereas Obama would have probably sucked as a VP too.

It appears at least one poster would prefer Hugo Chavez or the big "Nothing".

"The left always let you know who they fear." (11:33)

Verily. On Monday I bought the Edmonton Sun (not a lefty newspaper). Here's the opening line of a Canadian Press "news" story therein - strain your eyes as hard as you can to see if you can spot any bias:

"WASHINGTON - She's easily one of the most famous politicians in the world after her cringe-worthy debut on the international stage last year..."

And that, folks, is the news. Problem: along with, oh, millions of other people, I watched the historic speech at the convention where she made her "debut." For an accurate, non-editorializing descriptor of the speech, find the antonym of "cringe-worthy" and multiply it by ten.

The appellation "inconsequential" is frankly laughable, a transparent, king-sized klieg-light straight up the utterer's own motivated arses.

"The left always let you know who they fear..."

Consider yourselves fully informed...

Palin pisses off all the right people. For that alone, she does a great service.

" ... the Lame Stream Media.."

" "Of course Fort Hood was an act of terrorism"

"Political Correctness run amok"

This is war ! Tomorrow, at dawn, the media will launch an all fronts attac.., no, a character assassination attempt.

It would seem that nominating Palin for VP was the one thing the Republican elites did without consulting the Democrats. It seems everything else they have done lately is that way....including picking RINO McCain.
Senator Keith Davies (aka the rain maker) the great LIBRANO campaign guru---was spurned by John Turner.....after Turner lost big time---Davies quipped:
"Canadian voters are not stupid----if they have two conservative parties to chose from--they vote for the real one."
Using that as a template:
"American voters are not stupid----if they have two Democrat parties to chose from--they vote for the real one."

It reminds me why I always correct those who describe me as a "citizen journalist". I don't consider myself a journalist, never have, and this post illustrates the distinction very well.

How 'bout this then?

Kate = Renaissance Woman

I mean in a most positive sense, of course!
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Okay everyone posting who claims Palin isn't qualified, please post your creds. Include the town or city where you were mayor and the state or province where you were the head honcho! Yeah, right, thought as much.
Point of fact! Even Obama lied, by ignoring her record as govenor, when talking about Palin's street creds. You people should know better!
Why would more experience with the corrupt DC crowd be of any benefit? Palin isn't a bootlicker and that scares the hell out of the left! It seems that it scares a few of you as well!

apologies, "governor" too many stella's!

The Palin interview on Hannity showcased two fine, kind and caring individuals having a discussion. She was very relaxed and easy on the eyes to boot. Isn't it amazing how many pertinent issues can be discussed by two talented people when one does not have their gaurd up. When she is interviewed by the angry faced lefties she has to constantly answer smear questions and garbage Maury Opera type crap. Nice people both of them, that'll blow some leftie loser heads tonite, Letterman will order up a threesome with his staff.

Glen Beck and Sarah Palin both alerted the American people about the crisis the people and nation would be engulfed in should a Marxist and his 'pals' become President of a free, powerful nation. Communists hate the idea of Liberty and Justice for all citizens, they hate the thought of prosperity for individuals - they are fanatics - people should read about the thugs that gave the thug Lenin power in the old Soviet Union. The Russian people wanted a democratically elected parliament and a vote to choose the leader - they did not want whole sale slaughter, midnight arrests, an inhuman agenda jambed down their throats...The Russian people were war weary and broke when that coup d'etat took place. The agenda of Mr. BHO seems to be to produce the conditions of Russia in 1917, in the USA. If the American citizens do not stop him soon America will wind up like Cuba and Venezuela. I pray that Americans will listen to Sarah and Glen and wake up and do something before it is too late.

I'd start by demanding that birth certificate.

glacierman - perhaps Obama should have waited until his daughters turned 18 before he became politically involved, after all, girls need their Fathers. Sara's hubby is perfectly capable of looking after her youngest while she runs the country. No more double standards.

All politics aside, am I the only red-blooded male here who doesn't think that Mrs Palin is sexy? Give me Laura Bush any day...

The mainstream media will also write 4,600 stories when Brittany Spears takes a fart. Coverage doesn't mean she's relevant. I know you probably embody the ridiculous and favorite mantra of the right which goes something like, "the only poll that matters is the one on election day (yeehaw, where are the grits!?)" but regardless, you'd do well to take note that nearly half of REPUBLICANS say they wouldn't vote for her.

I pray everyday that this woman gets the nomination. Remember "Stay Stephan Stay", well now it's "RUN SARAH RUN"!

Jim writes:

"All politics aside, am I the only red-blooded male here who doesn't think that Mrs Palin is sexy? Give me Laura Bush any day..."

Dear lord... Laura Bush!? I can't think of anything that makes me shudder more. She's second to Bush's mom in flaccidity inducement. Both of them would make most men smaller than an hour in the water off of Baffin Island. Give me the would-be VPILF any day.

You don't write about people you think are inconsequential?

A bit disingenuous, Kate. After all, you've written about Monsieur Viande de la Chat, Count Iggy, and various other non-entities at length. I understand your point, though.

Sam is making lots of fruedian slips again....

Typically leftie----the amazing thing is that women EVER vote Democrat. Oh yeah, It was that wierd charisma of Obama....must be a chick thing...

The Democrats wanted McCain on the Republican ticket but then absolutely flipped out when Palin gave her speech....like totally screaming panic...it's a wonder they didn't shot her....the Secret Service must have been having kittens.

Let's juxtapose:

Results 1 – 10 of about 21,291 for palin

Results 1 – 10 of about 278,979 for obama

Inconsequential is relative.

Palin, history's greatest example of the Peter Principle, is only in the news because she's a train wreck that can happen at any time.

What ARE the 'creds' for a competent President?
In the past, military service was a given. That experience seems to have been relegated to history.
What else? A term or to as a Senator, or Congressman, with a Bill or two taken credit for.
I'd have thought a stint as Governor trumped those. Leaving mid-term counts as as an own-goal though (critics would say that shows poor character).
Proven economic accumen, for sure. In the US, religiosity is a must, seemingly.
Any one feel like adding to the list?

Sasquatch and Jema54 touched upon something but didn't explore it fully: I heard some discussions today of another possibility for Sarah Palin:

If the GOP (aka the Republicans) continue to be dominated by corrupt, RINO-like higher-ups then fiscally responsible, small government folks will continue to have no natural home.

So is it possible, the discussions suggested, that Sarah Palin and possibly Glenn Beck may form a new Conservative Party?

This probably sounds ridiculous & improbable to most, but weren't the sentiments the same with respect to the Reform Party, before it came into existence?

Quite frankly, I think Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Eric Holder, and other Radical Leftists are inadvertently Sarah Palin's best friends.

Margaret Thatcher said it best: "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
Posted by: Stan at November 18, 2009 11:31 PM"

I could have told you people that.

huge tally of attacks against me PERSONALLY because my posts hit a nerve.

Or, alternatively, george, it could just be because it is fun.

I followed the Google link and saw that the National Post had one near the top of the listing with: “Why I love Sarah Palin”

Is Diane Francis going through “the change” or has she always been this loopy and hysterical??

“She (Palin) is the reigning queen of the political freak show where candidates are ogled, ... by a public hungry for human train wrecks.…… her narcissism, loopy religious beliefs ….. is the best "news" to come along for months. ...She will lead the fanatical lemmings over the cliff so that the United States can avoid being governed by people who are superstitutious, ignorant and intolerant.“

The democrats are koo koo for coco puffs. America will correct their mistake at the first opportunity.
Palin will win in 2012. All she has to do is run.

Stan said re Sarah Palin:

"One point she makes is that the reason the left act so deranged and attack so visciously is because that's all they can do, they can't successfully debate ideas."

In Canada's left-liberal MSM, Susan Delacourt/TORedStar is another prime example, in addition to Diane Francis.

Here is Delacourt with her fear/loathing.

Delacourt's proof? "I am told".

Headline:
"Another story from the PM's India trip

Delacourt: I am told that refusing prasad and langar is somewhat like shoving a communion wafer in one's pocket, but that's another story."
(nnw)

Cal:"Is Diane Francis going through "the change" or has she always been this loopy and hysterical"?
That's a pretty outrageous attack/rant on Palin and the public. Wonder if it's litigious, Palin is now a private citizen?

I really don't know what Francis' agenda is,stopped reading her stuff some time ago.

[deleted - off topic and incomprehensible. ED]

I really get irked at those who trot out Sara Palin's looks as if beauty was the sole requirement for being president. Personally, Palin is a complete package as to who would make a great president. Real leadership experience in government at both municipal and state level. Business sense to a level that her negotiating with big oil resulted in more money in taxpayer's pockets and a family values based outlook. She walks the walk and talks the talk and parks any ego at the door.

For the record I do think she is especially attractive and I'm waiting for Amazon.com to deliver her book. Also, juvenile references to the "hitability" of former First Ladies is uncalled for.

The MSM has written over 4600 articles on Palin in order to point out what a right wing-nut this woman really is; and how she is so overwhelmingly ill-equipped to ever hold the office of vice president let alone President of the U.S. One can only hope she decides to run again in 2012; the Democrats won't even have to campaign to win and the press will have a field day with this bimbo.

Palin has 4,600 articles and counting about her because she's a threat.

Having said that, Palin is the wrong candidate for the 2012 White House, that's for sure.

Kate = Renaissance Woman
I mean in a most positive sense, of course!
~martywd

The way this are going in the world, we could use a Renaissance.

I believe that it is a commentary on the present stage of civilization that nobody seems to enumerate the most important qualities we should be looking for in a leader.
Honesty, strength of character, courage.
These are what gives one the true measure of a person.

I hope that anyone here stating that Palin isn't qualified would at least try reading her book or watching the policy-based interviews (try rush, oreilly or hannity instead of oprah or barbara).

I am about a third of the way through and I am enjoying it. Her understanding of resource issues and demonstrated commitment to reading and understanding the constitution and bills is impressive. What she accomplished is inspiring.

I am not a religious person, but it is clear from her record and writing that she a strict constitutionalist and believes in religion as a free personal choice. She is a very far cry from the theocratic-wannabe that she had been portrayed as. She also addresses the abstinence/contraception issue - clearly stating that she is definitely not against contraception.

glacierman: If you read her book, you will discover that she campaigned and governed with young children during every role she has had. You will also discover what a wonderful man Todd Palin seems to be -with a quiet intelligence that was discounted as much as hers.

Caught her interview on Hannity last night. Her sparkling eyes, warm smile, and down home manner of speaking make this woman simply electric, which just drives the feminazis crazy.

When she came right out and stated that she is fine with profiling if it means a safer society, I just knew that there would be leftie heads exploding this morning.

I will be watching O'Reilly for the next three nights for his interview with her and it is guaranteed to blow MSNBC off the map in the ratings race.

Sarah Palin may never be President but she is sure to have an enormous effect on American politics for a long time.

Palin is the best thing to happen to the American right since Reagan. As has been written many times before, she energizes the base and is a fund raising giant. Her ability to draw out the left's worst traits is far more valuable. Every attack on her, her family and her values shows the left's ugly side - elitist, intolerant, sexist and vicious. This alerts voters to left's contempt for not just Palin but, by extension, the entire middle class. The left's M.O. is to fake concern for the poor while impeding any advancement beyond working class. The social justice crowd will attend benefit balls for the disadvantaged while making sure the 'help' do not rise above their station.

OTOH, I don't see Palin as POTUS or VP candidate anytime soon. Her talents work best when unconstrained by political shackles.

For all those who say that Sarah Palin is not ready to become president, I scratch my head in wonderment. She was the only one of all four candidates who had both legislative AND executive experience (town councillor, mayor and governor). Furthermore, for those who say she doesn't have any experience with foreign policy...what?!?!? Did you notice that the pipeline that she got going is to be built by TransCanada and will go into Canada (a foreign country)--as the governor I would assume that she would have to be cognisant of Canada's laws and policies on this matter as well as the diplomatic process which her state would have to take part in. Her state houses 4 major military bases with the express purpose of intercepting or fighting the Russians should they decide to ever go the northern route. Finally, as the governor she was the "commander and chief" of the Alaskan National Guard, which operates a launch site for an anti-missile system (who would launch a missile towards N. America--if not another country--as a corollary, this system would also protect Canada). Finally, she is a part-owner of a small business (commercial fishing venture).

Contrast this with B.H. Obama...who never had to make a decision (until now) as part of his actual job description (even a mayor of a small town has to make decisions). He never ran anything except for office.

I'm Canadian, so I don't "have a dog in this fight." However, as a Canadian, I'm also cognisant that 75% to 80% of our trade is with the U.S....and if they do badly...Canadians are worse off. A president that allows for free trade and lessening the tax burden on small businesses allows the U.S. to buy more of the stuff we produce. A president who closes the borders and enacts a "U.S. only" law for goods and services sticks a knife in the back of every Canadian (and that's what Obama has done).

I wouldn't worry too much about the disparity of articles. It has been my experience in life the left piles on as a state of unaccountability. The 'oh well someone else said' thingie. See I'm part of the group, I belong. Kind of an instant support group for the thinking lite. I have read some of the letters of why Sarah is bad. They all follow the same MSM mistruths but with bad grammar. Parrots. I don't think she should be with either the Dems. or Reps. but wait until asked to run a Conservative ticket. Frankly I think Americans should be pretty sick of both major parties about now.

the loopy left or any other critics of the left. Instead of just bashing us for no apparent reason. You could start answering questions directly.

My question is related to this post. Why would Sarah Palin make a good president: she's really stupid and ignorant: Afghanistan is our neighbour?? Getting duped by a couple of Franch language radio hosts from MOntreal (didn't hurt their career though), and can't even answer a simple question like what does she read?
Went to five or six different colleges? Why? She flunked out?
Shouldn't a world leader of a super power have education, be well read and know their geography and history?

Your tax dollars at work.
This vile filth was originally posted by Mallick on the CBC though either shame or public pressure forced them to remove it:

http://www.heathermallick.ca/cbc.ca-columns/a-mighty-wind-blows-through-republican-convention.html
"Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a f***in' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter? "

favill and lc bennett - I agree with both your comments - very nice.

I think that Palin is more important to America and Americans in her current role outside of office and candidacy. She's moved to representing America - the constitutional America, small business America, everyday Americans.

She doesn't represent the Republican Party, or the Democrats or any partisan group. She's speaking out for 'just folks', for Americans. This is vital.

The socialist democrats, and Obama, who lives in his own totally virtual world of unreality found only in his rhetoric...they don't represent America or the real world of America. They live in a floating world of unreality, made up only of their words. Truly, they fit in with: " Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Palin is astonishing in her open frankness. She doesn't speak in 'political-ese'; she doesn't say something that sounds, at first, as it does slipping from Obama..OK, and then, when you parse it, you find it is utterly meaningless and floats in the air distant from reality.

Her words are 'concrete'; they are attached to reality.

I think that Palin's role in the next two years is to speak, everywhere, in public, representing the American people. Not a political party. The people.

The Democrats and left are going to go apocalpytic.

Elizabeth,
I have no doubt that she "could" do a great job running the country, but if we could fast forward to the end of Sarah's life, I believe that if she is really serious about her stance on the family and her relationship with God (just like my father nearing the end of his life at almost 80) she wouldn't be wishing she would have spent more time at the Oval Office but spending time with her family.

This issue is where true conservatives may not be in favour of Sarah Palin being the POTUS. This is more of the "you-go-girl" attitude which most conservatives find repulsive. Knowledge and wisdom are two different things. Does she have the qualifications?-Yes! Would it be wise to abandon (not totally) her newborn and attempt to run the world's greatest superpower, that is the real question?
I challenge you to find and ask anyone with a special needs child what it would be like to be doing what Sarah Palin is doing. Look them straight in the eyes and read their soul. You may not be so quick to get behind her and push!!!

T

If I made a derogatory statement about BO's race, say calling him the N-bomb you'd agree that the statement ignorant and hurtful. Yes?

So, surely you can see that calling a woman a "bimbo" is every bit as ignorant and hurtful. Agreed?

Politics aside T, if or when you become a parent I believe you will be embarrassed by the derogatory statement you said today. I’m not preaching, we all say stupid isht; but I’d like you to consider what you’d say to your daughter if she read your comments. There is plenty of meat on the bone if you’d like to argue the merits of her views. JMO

glacierman: She has a huge family and obviously her special needs son is well taken care of and she loves him dearly.
Why do you ignore the father's role in all of this? Should Obama leave the oval office solely because his kids are under 18?
ps her youngest is not a newborn - he is 1 and a half.

by using the phrase "true conservatives" - are you implying that those who think that it is perfectly fine for women (and men) with children to run for office or anything else are not real conservatives?

Of course the attacks are personal.

Her principle message is that out of control government and its spending is hurting America. A point that simply can't be argued with. A point that is virtually self evident to an increasing plurality of Americans.

What's remarkable is how the sinking ship media thinks attacking her wardrobe and looking into her dauther's sex life will somehow invalidate this basic message.

My copy of "Going Rogue" just arrived. It reads well.

It is listed as #1 book on Amazon!!!

Re "glacierman"s comment about running the world's greatest superpower: we'll see how long it remains
a superpower. The mills of the gods are already grinding. American military thinking is based on
absolute aerial supremacy. I have read somewhere that the last time an American soldier was killed
by an enemy aircraft was in 1956. The F-15 is
a great aircraft, but it is obsolescent, and has
not fared well in mock combat with the latest
Russian fighters in the Indian Air Force (this
Sarah Palin knows well, because the commander of
a USAF squadron based in Alaska complained about
it in the Anchorage Daily News). Yes, the F-22
probably can handle the Sukhoi adn Sukhoi/HAL aircraft in the works,
but the unspeakably obscene
present US administration is going to shut down
the production line. Not only won't there be enough F-22s,
but it won't be quick and easy to get the production line going again. What will happen to the F-22 design team is anyone's guess.

I know she was only on the VP ticket but consider the job Obama has done domestically and internationally and then consider if Palin had been President for the past year.
Would the US be in a better place or a worse place?

CK,

On your post about knowing geography and history:

Geography:

B.H. Obama: "I've visited 57 states"...

Palin:

1) The rumour that Palin didn't know that Africa wasn't a country...was a lie (it was fiction)

2) The comment "I can see Russia from my house" was made by Tina Fey (an actress) in an SNL skit
--just for clarification Sarah Palin mentioned in a news interview that there is an Alaskan island from which you can see the Russian mainland.

History:

B.H. Obama: is enacting legislation and policies much like those enacted by FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)--which historians now claim PROLONGED the Great Depression. Is acting like Neville Chamberlain (PM of Britain who appeased Hitler's claim to Czechslovakia's Sudentenland)--by pandering to all the world's dictators.

Sarah Palin: wants to enact policies and legislation like Pres Reagan did, which started the greatest sustained rise in the US economy. Policies which brought about the demise of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism in Europe.

Does being well read mean reading Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", Plato's "Republic", Sun-Tzu's "The Art of War", Machiavelli's "The Prince" and the Bible? Or does it mean reading and inculcating Marx's "The Communist Manifesto", Keynes' economic theories, subscribe to the multi-cultural dogma that all cultures are the same and Hitler's "Mein Kampf"? So just for the lefties who probably never heard of the first set of books...these books have proven over the course of history to actually work. The theories and ideologies in the second set of books again proven by history do not work.

Ulianov,

comparing Obama's newshits to Palin's and declares newsworthyness is "relative".

Correct you are. Comparing a man with his hand on the levers of the world's greatest power whose decisions directly and indirctly affect billions, with a private citizen who holds no position of power whatsoever, speaks volumes about her "relative" strength....and her potential to gain that power.

I find it funny. Some people have made comments about Palin's church.

Yet just look at Obama's.... I mean REALLY.
God Da*m America.
Nothing more needs to be said.

Obama said judge me by whom I associate with. THAT says it all, too.

I wonder how many independents are wishing they could change their vote right about now.

Nice summation 'ET'. SP is talking to the average person about the common sense issues.

"I will buy her book, read it and pass it around".

You are right 'Elizabeth'. The baby is not going to be forgot about, has a father, older brother and sisters, grandparents and uncles/aunts.

"You don't write about people you think are inconsequential?

A bit disingenuous, Kate. After all, you've written about Monsieur Viande de la Chat, Count Iggy, and various other non-entities at length. I understand your point, though.
Posted by: KevinB"

I was thinking the exact same thing. I'd challenge that a large portion of what Kate writes is about characters she would deem to be "inconsequential".

I don't believe in coincidences.

6:00pm Obama ends his feud with FOX News and grants Major Garrett an interview.

9:00pm Sarah Palin is interviewed by Hannity on FOX News.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Mark Peters @ 8:27 a.m.: "Having said that, Palin is the wrong candidate for the 2012 White House, that's for sure."

Maybe . . .

But also for sure is that Obama's "the wrong candidate for the . . . White House" and that's right now!

Political candidates are usually not the best of the lot. That considered, I'm willing to give Sarah Palin a lot of slack. We could do FAR worse: in fact, we are, as we endure the Obama trainwreck.

Go, Sarah, go!

John - yes, that was interesting. The Hannity-Palin interview was talked about as forthcoming for days and days. And then, suddenly, Obama, on his Asia trip, drops his feud with FOX News and sits down for an interview.

To be aired on the same day as Palin-Hannity. Heh.

The White House is worried; they are getting a LOT of criticism...

How about Obama suddenly talking that 'debt reduction is the most important agenda'? How's that from someone who is the greatest cause of deficit production in the history of the US?

Palin-Beck 2012 ? "Lame Stream Media"? . You have to admire her for not being afraid of playing the game hard and playing well.

John Lewis

Don't despair about the F22 (a costly interim design).....OBOZO had only one option to end that program and that was to fund the next edition...the F35.
In the interim, don't despair....a good man can work well with any tool....it's the talent pool that counts. In any engagement, many factors arise which decide the outcome more than just hardware....such as circumstances and tactics.

Late 1930's...The Flying Tigers with P40's decisively triumphed over A6M's(zeros) despite massive performance and logistic differences.
1939, over Poland the Polish Air force exacted an exchange rate of over 1.5/1 against the Luftwaffe---despite being out numbered vastly---the factor which decided the matter.
1940, out numbered, facing fighters which out-performed and out-gunned them the RAF exactely a terrible toll.
1944-45, the Luftwaffe lost many ME262 jets to Spitfires, Tempests and Mustangs......Chuck Yeager bagged one...
1950, the USAF achieved a satisfactory exchange rate against an enemy deploying a faster, better armed, better rate of climb and higher ceiling fighter......the Mig15.
1956, the IDF defeated Eygptian Mig 15's and Vampires handily with obsolete French Ourigons with NO LOSSES.
1967, the IDF whacked Mig21's with F86's in air-to-air.
1965-70, the NVAF successfully engaged F4 Phantoms with Mig17's over North Vietnam.
Churchill's remark---"It's not the size of the dog in the fight but rather the size of the fight in the dog."
I do despair that under the OBOZO regime the USAF could lose that decisive sharp edge talent pool or be stupidly deployed/supported.

"When I consider someone to be inconsequential, I don't write any at all."
Except for the few thousand posts about how inconsequential the newspaper industry is...

One thing has come to my mind. Her looks are not inconsequential either. Her presentable image, reserved yet classy charm, and of course femininity are in striking contrast with most politicians . Would that be Harper, Obama , not to mention British politicians look like bums wearing a suit. The wardrobe doesn't fit them nor they look like being comfortable with own outer skin. I know, I know my subjective perception is superficial.....or perhaps today's politicians are only the display of decay of an era.

I felt Hannity's pain!
Keep chuckling, watching the poor sod's repeated attempts to get big name pols and operators to agree with his (obvious) assertion that Obama is a socialist. LOL.

Palin-- like so many -- did venture to admit that a lot of his associates and appointments are "radicals" but she demurred from tagging Obama with the obvious label. This is all starting to sound like Fawlty's "don't mention the war ...". Would Reagan have so demurred?

I found that a bit unsettling, conflicting as it does with her admission that the McCain/Palin campaign failed the American people by not being a lot more aggressive about uncovering Obama's unseemly past which clearly disqualified him from being prez. At one point in that campaign, I even came to wonder if McCain was "throwing the fight".

I didn't think she needed to be so nice about Obama's gifts (?!!!), his eloquence (?!!!). That reminded me of the bullshit from both McCain and Bush about his being a "good man". No he ain't. He's a psychopathic lying thug. Fine, if you can't say that, say NOTHING.

If someone asked me in an interview if there was anything I liked about Obama, I'd say something like (and mean it!): "He has an absolutely beautiful SMILE ..." and therefore damn him with faint praise.

I found Hannity's FULL HOUR with Sarah Palin most unfulfilling. I don't know if that's Palin's or Hannity's fault.

Me No Dhimmi ....you are wrong, Obama ain't psychopath. He has Borderline Personality Disorder with narcissistic cluster most present. It is a serious medical condition often arising from childhood emotional and/or physical trauma. His relations with others are most revealing. He will never take responsibility for his action and wait when his anger gets flying when he will start to blame everything and everybody, but himself.
I can agree with Obama that American Mental Health System is failing him.

Is that YOUR diagnosis xiat?
Or one you read in an article in which a psychiatrist, at a distance -- and unethically I should add -- diagnoses him? Are you privy to a formal diagnosis from a one-on-one clinical setting?

That last line's a joke, right? But I would certainly say that government "affirmative action" policies failed him. He's out of his depth!

While these at-a-distance diagnoses ring true for me, I have to admit to a bit of discomfort considering soviet-style pyschiatry!
I read recently that over 1000+ psychiatrists, again at a distance, "diagnosed" Barry Goldwater as a paranoid schizophrenic (sp?).

Recently LameStreamMedia had a pow-wow about the mental pathologies of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh.

He's a marxist, tho, right?

If, indeed, Sarah Palin is unremarkable then there really is no need to write about her constantly. She is the embodiment of what the left fear. Whether as president or a lone political voice, she still is a reminder of how the intellectually and morally lazy made an atrocious mistake voting for an empty suit, someone who shouldn't even have made it past the primaries.
Besides, who would better serve Canadian interests- an empty suit whose proposals would bankrupt Canada or the former governor of a "freak state" (RE: the Simpsons) who understands the importance of trade and life along the border of this grand country?

No, I am not in position to diagnose, however I had experience with close relatives who has suffered from bpd. Marxism fits Obama because people with bpd while highly intelligent, often successful they lack insight. They operate on rigid preconceived sets of values which in politics translates into demagoguery. Applying this values to reality looks to others like delusions, where the person with bpd will find everything and anything to justify own actions. One feature of bpd that has been not present in Obama is anger, so I may be wrong or his public persona has not displayed it yet. What points to bpd is that many people notice narcissistic behavior, "dryness", hiding behind teleprompter, playing victim, you don't need a psychiatrists.
Schizophrenic? That's absurd unless some else hears voices in his head.

> When I consider someone to be inconsequential,
> I don't write any at all.

Well, you'd be taking work away from Jay Currie if you did. Every week you can count on going to his blog and finding him pointing out something stupid Dr. Dawg has said. Hello, it's Dawg: Everything he says is stupid. Might as well just have a blog post that says "Sky still blue" instead.

"When I consider someone to be inconsequential, I don't write any at all."
Except for the few thousand posts about how inconsequential the newspaper industry is...

Posted by: Knight of Good Mr. Iron Man at
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Homerun!

Heh, reading comprehension isn't some people's strong suit.

A blogger maintains a blog. A journalist, once upon a time, worked for a journal, but now the more appropriate use of the term would be understood if we pronounced the term "urinalist."

Don't know of anyone here saying the media is inconsequential.

On the contrary, as a consequence of their insane promoting of the global warming cult thing, they have caused the world much unnecessary angst and wasteful financial harm.

But hey, if they continue they WILL become inconsequential.

It is not bankruptcy it is suicide .

[ With news dinosaurs Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report all suffering massive drops in advertising pages and circulation, the folks at Small Dead Animals are waiting for the asteroid that will put MSM out of its misery.]

Kate !? Yes, another one from Kansas .

She makes the point I have been making for years now:
"When you read the news online, additional information is just a mouse click away. When you read it in a newspaper or magazine you’re not just subscribing to their publication but to their political biases as well."

click click click ....

The sound of Palin's facebook pages and the sound of heels rushing to her book tour. Not inconsequential.

I challenge you to find and ask anyone with a special needs child what it would be like to be doing what Sarah Palin is doing. Look them straight in the eyes and read their soul. You may not be so quick to get behind her and push!!!

Posted by: glacierman at 10:55 AM

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run that one by Stephen Hawking

glacierman has only ONE argument, and he's sticking to it, and to it, and to it.

The child isn't hidden away; he's embraced by everyone. Maybe that's the real gripe.

Sarah would make an excellent President. She may not get the opportunity, because her most significant opposition lies unfettered by partisanship in the old boy network of Washington. Obama is the old boy's useful idiot. That he was a setup by the DNC should be, and should have been, clearly obvious to everybody.

There are no "qualifications" for being President (other than birth). The position is a reactionary one requiring an individual to draw on their life skills to implement and problem solve. To make quick, sure decisions and ride out the consequences. The office of Vice-President is the show-and-tell flag-waving oratory position, and that's where Obama should have wound up. (Please, I'm not suggesting Joe should have got the Big Chair...)

Many of you consistently confuse the legislative branch of government with the executive branch. A senator brings almost nothing to the executive branch. A non-voting senator brings even less, whereas, that is a specific skill set that Palin brought. As to oratory, she clearly demonstrated she was able to deliver an audience. Being a good president is more about what you do, than what you say.

Sarah Palin is presently getting the best education a future presidential candidate could ask for. She has the ability to deliver policy statements, revise them, test them, all outside the position. She has the opportunity to refine her presentation, to refine her ability to think on her feet and handle her critics, without any of the pressure associated with performance. She has the opportunity to move smoothly about the national constituency without all the pesky baggage of being in an elected position.

She is beholden to no one. Her book sheds the baggage of the McCain campaign and will provide her with the revenue to do the international meet and greet, again without any of the politcal baggage.

She is well known around the world, captivating to many foreign leaders (chauvinists or not), and possesses what every sales manager lusts for: a good looking dame able to carry herself in public and make you believe.

The Democrats need to be scared.

I'm not a Democrat, but I'd vote D if I were American. Oh...and and I'm not scared in the least. Sarah Palin is a blessing. In a sense I'm on your side. I pray that she runs. Every day. I pray that she gets the nomination, every day, because it will be a fatal strategic error for the GOP. Terrrust meeee. Republicans will get slaughtered in 2012 if they put this ditsy woman on the ballot. Y'all may like her, but thankfully y'all are an increasing minority.

That said, if there's anything I can do to help get her on the ballot, please let me know. I would be more than happy to offer my assistance. ;)

related?

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/11/19/oprah-to-end-show-in-2011-focus-on-cable-channel-reports.aspx

Palin would be smart to keep her powder dry until after the 2012 convention. She can contribute by running for the senate when the opportunity presents itself. Get herself some creds and hang loose for 2016 or 2020. She's young enough to still be relevent then. 2012 is gonna be a GOP victory as Chimpy McBama will have shot his load by then and blown all his cedibility to govern.
Palin could run as VP in 2016 and grab the brass ring in 2020.

I see that the liberal Palin haters and myth believers are out in full force today.

Is Palin getting her "creds"?
Is she getting her "creds"?

What's "creds"? Rhymes with breads.

Critics say, surveys show, Palin's got "creds".
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"Going Rogue:An American Life -- 300,000 Copies Sold on the First Day!

Hey, remember that story last week about how she’d have to sell a whopping 400,000 copies for HarperCollins to break even?

I think it’ll be okay.

There’s a rule of thumb in the industry that publishers net about $10 per hardcover sold, after expenses, but before the cost of the advance. Once she’s sold 700,000 copies, then, HarperCollins is in the black. And what of that 1.6 million printed? An ideal “sell-through” rate is about 75 percent, which means HarperCollins thinks it’s going to sell about 1.2 million copies. At that level, Palin will have made $7 million and HarperCollins $5 million of its own.

A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon, ahead of both Stephen King’s new novel, Under the Dome, and Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.

The latter sold 1 million copies on its first day, but that figure included the UK, and top fiction generally trumps non-fiction. Any way you carve it, Going Rogue looks to be a $12 million goldmine."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390284/posts

"It would not be the first time in the history, especially on the outset of turbulent period, that a person is first ridiculed, then play a major social/political role....."

Could Palin be America's Churchill?

"....btw...by 2012 most people should figure out the Obama hasn't got qualifications to be the president, yet has been elected."

Have not most people figured this out already?

There are midterm elections on the horizon and this is not going to be a pleasant experience for any Democrats.

I don't see Palin as President. Yet. By this I don't mean that she's 'not ready'. But that she has at the moment a more important role to play than campaigning for President.

I'm going to leave out any comparisons with Obama, who is completely unqualified in intellect, knowledge, experience and agenda, to be President.

What I'm trying to say about Palin not campaigning for President, and her more important role, is that the American people..the everyday working family and individual, the small businessman, the entrepreneur, the average American has lost their voice within Congress and the Executive.

The Democratic Party has become a radical socialist elite sect, confined to the big cities, to bureaucrats, academics, the sophistry of the country. It is alienated from the average American and in actual fact, despises them. We see that in the Democratic (and Obama) contempt for the Tea Parties, the Town Halls, and any dissent.

The Republican Party has equally become alienated from mainstream America, confined to Washington big government agendas.

Both parties have lost touch with America and the American people. Palin is their voice. This is vital.

As Governor of Alaska, she couldn't represent them. Even as VP candidate for the Republicans, she couldn't represent them. Now, she can, and that seems to be exactly her agenda.

I've heard her on Hannity, on O'Reilly - and she is actually saying 'I'm just an average American'..and openly saying that she is speaking as such. Not as a Republican. As an American.

This is a vitally important role. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this; a politicl figure who has moved out of politics, to speak for and with, a general population.

The Democrats are going to go apocalyptic; it's hard to attack someone who is 'moving in' so to speak, on the turf that they consider is theirs and theirs alone..the right to 'speak for' America.

So, they are going to try with personal attacks, which they've already done. And, I suspect they'll try to remodel Obama! Watch for it. They'll try to present him as 'speaking for America'. Heh. He can't do it; his rhetoric is pure fiction, abstract metaphors. Palin talks down to earth.

The Republicans will, I suspect, sit back and watch. But above all, hopefully, they'll reform themselves to follow her agenda...i.e., representing small businesses, and the average American...rather than big Washington govt.

I'd suggest that Palin should, after it has become clear that the average American is not a Democratic socialist...become the leader of the Republican Party. That is, not a candidate for President or VP. Not yet. But someone who can help pick candidates, support them, guide the policies of the party.

[quote]Both parties have lost touch with America and the American people. Palin is their voice. This is vital.[/quote] ET

That is so true.. I see Palin as a KING MAKER in 2010.. She will carry every State Republican "slate" were she makes a personal appearance. she is worth >10 points...

philip shaw - exactly. BUT, only if the Republican Party recognizes that they must reform and move to represent ..the American people as they are. At the moment, the Republican party is totally isolated as a 'set' in Washington; they don't represent Americans.

Sarah Palin isn't representing any political party. That's vitally important. She repesents Americans.

The Democrats are going to try to break her from this contact..by accusing her of running for Republican office and saying she's 'not ready'. She can ignore that, I think by repeating her statement that she's a voice for average Americans.

Then, I suspect they'll try to set up Obama as 'representing Americans'. heh. No, he's lost it. That's going to be an interesting phase. Obama can't handle concrete reality; he talks in amorphous generalities.

But I think it's important for the Republican Party to realize that they've got to connect with real America..and get out of Washington. And allow Palin a hand in choosing candidates. And campaigning for them.

I'd like to see her replace Michael Steele..next year. I don't want her to campaign as a candidate herself yet because I don't want her to be partisan or bound in a geographic region. She has to be the voice of America.

You spoke for me, ET. And hopefully that's what she will do.

She reminds me of Kate: a straight shooter!

Roger @4:42, Knight of Good mr. Iron Man @whenever - re. "When I consider someone to be inconsequential, I don't write any at all."

"Except for the few thousand posts about how inconsequential the newspaper industry is..."

"Homerun!"

My take on that would be that the inaccuracy and sloppiness and bias of the Mainstream Media is very important and worth pointing out.

re KevinB @3:18AM - And mocking Catsmeat the Canadian Machiavelli is just fun. Lord, everyone needs a hobby. It can't all be about the schnauzers.

"Roger @4:42, Knight of Good mr. Iron Man @whenever - re. "When I consider someone to be inconsequential, I don't write any at all."

"Except for the few thousand posts about how inconsequential the newspaper industry is..."

"Homerun!"

My take on that would be that the inaccuracy and sloppiness and bias of the Mainstream Media is very important and worth pointing out."

So is exposing Sarah Palin for the intellectually challenged individual that she is. ;)

Look at it this way. You guys all think the mainstream media is out to vilify her, so at least you'll have someone to blame when she runs in 2012 and loses miserably. Isn't that who you blame for, well...everything?

"It's raining today!! Curse you mainstream media!!" lol

The prefered route to the US Presidency since the 20th century has been through the Governor's office. By my rough count since T. Roosevelt, 8 out of 17 Presidents have been Governors. Five have served as Senators. Being a Govenor is belonging to one of the most exclusive clubs in the US. Out of about 300 Million citizens, 50 can call themselves Govenor. It's worth noting that Sarah Palin until recently was a club member. If she was as dumb and inarticulate as portrayed, she could never have been elected to any office.
I think it was a mistake for her to resign, if she is interested in running for national office.
We will have to wait and see, in the meantime she certainly knows haw to attract attention.

The idea here, sam, is that the MSM position is that Palin is a "politically inconsequential" idiot. Well, idiot schmidiot; if they really believed she was politically inconsequential, they'd shut up about her.

Obama, for example is a "politically consequential" idiot, so unfortunately we can't ignore him.

A little bit of history here, folks. When Ronald Reagan was nominated by the GOP to run for president in 1980, the Democrats cheered assuming that he would get mightily trounced. He didn't. And the rest is history...That's why leftists CANNOT stand history and are attempting to either change it or forget it, because history is replete with their ideologies' failure (Socialism=FAIL; Communism=FAIL; Fascism=FAIL).

All the best to the U.S. and all the best to Sarah Palin.

Here's some history for you. Sarah Palin was on a presidential ballot and got mightily trounced. You can't win elections solely by appeasing the Sarah Palin voter demographics (e.g. you people). There simply are not enough of them, and they are in fact, in decline because of immigration trends and birthrates, like it or not. Therefore, any presidential candidate (D or R) has to win over some people from the middle. Palin cannot and will not be able to do this. I wouldn't be surprised if her nomination splintered the GOP into two.

sam = squish

I noticed a lot of young girls have no real heroines to look up to anymore. Except the lies of Paris Hilton with the Hollywood "hookers" of screen.
I think seeing a real rebel that is everything the progreesives revile. This what attracts so many young Ladies to her I do believe.
You can't go wrong emulating smart ladies like Kate, Kathy & most of the Female bloggers on-line, with Sarah Palin. Who refuse to be pigeon holed.
This is going to be important as Islamic sharia becomes like a hammer on Canadian society. By the Jihad law fare crowd.
I liked her comment about having to stop being Governor because of the cost to the State by the Obamites constant legal attacks: "I just stopped to re-load"!!!!
JMO

sam,
20% liberal 40% conservative. That is how America described itself recently in the last Gallup Poll on the subject.

You 20% are loudmouths though.

Sam,

Here's some history for you. Until Sarah Palin showed up on the ticket, it was a foregone conclusion that B.H. Obama was going to win the presidency with a landslide. It was only because of her, that the Republicans did much better than anticipated. She energized the GOP's base of conservative voters. It was the McCain Team that didn't take advantage of what she brought to the ticket. It was McCain's handlers that lost the presidency (I believe that they never had any intention of winning). See my earlier post about Leftists and their desire for revisionist history. I have a lot of faith in the American people...

Check this out, it's pure classic:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/11/20/bloviating-dick-cavett-bashes-know-nothing-sarah-palin-obsesses-over

"When mainstream media declares someone to be inconsequential, they write over 4,600 stories about them."

Nobody things she is inconsequential. That's conservatives whining about how nobody cares about them.

In fact most people care about Palin. Especially the fact that she's a dangerously stupid egomaniac who might kill us all with her stupidity.

This woman lies time and time again, couldn't be bothered to finish her term at gov, and still you guys kiss her ass. Talk about a cult of personality. Sheesh

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!