Palin holding anti-Obama rallies on military bases
by charcharczar
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Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 12:31:43 PM PST
Isn’t it illegal for anyone to hold anti Commander-in-Chief rallys on a military base?
Not only is she going to hold a book signing at Fort Bragg, she is also going to hold one at Fort Hood, Texas.
What is she doing on military bases in the first place? She is not in the military, she is an unemployed ex-gov. SHE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE ON THE BASE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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Army officials plan to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin’s appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday, saying they fear the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Obama, the Associated Press reports.
Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum tells the AP that Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin’s book promotion at the North Carolina base.
Other members of the public would be permitted to attend.
McCollum says the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.”
Palin is on a book tour this week to promote her memoir Going Rogue. She is scheduled to visit Fort Hood, in Texas, on Dec. 4.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Would Michael Moore ever be allowed to hold a book signing on a military base? What about John Edwards, Al Gore, even Colin Powell would not be allowed to have press conferences. Who ever approved this should be FIRED, Palin is going to hold an anti-Commander-in-chief rally on a military base. That is complete craziness. It may also be against the law…Sarah Palin is a civilian, she should not be allowed onto a military installation.
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Khirad
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javaz
Another politcal cartoon comment on Sister Sarah
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Try this Palin cartoon on for size!
See Cartoons by Cartoon by Pat Bagley – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon
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Great cartoons, Monk!
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Thanks, javaz, they’re off of http://cagle.com/politicalcartoons/ Cagle himself wasn’t right wing last year but Ive seen more than a few of his own cartoons that are not pro Obama this year.
also, try this one from the Arizona Daily Star cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons
See Cartoons by Cartoon by David Fitzsimmons – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon
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Looks like the teabaggers aren’t very happy with Sister Sarah quitting them!
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/video_of_angry_wingnuts_booing_sarah_palin_calling_her_a_quitter_chantin/
Oh, it doesn’t get much better than this!
(I wish I could watch the vid!)
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I was laughing a little while ago as one of our favorite HP crazies, AnnFromCA, was telling me how Sarah Palin is a fiscal conservative. My God, Palin has no idea about who runs the Senate and she thinks she could submit a budget to Congress? How many millions for guns and churches would be in her budget? These people are beyond ignorant in the negative direction.
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I read on the mudflats.net (I think) that when she was first elected Mayor, the debt for Wasilla was $0. When she left, It was $20 million. This in a town of 5-6000. Not a new road, not the water or sewage system they needed, but $15 mill on her sports building. Fiscal conservative, my “butt.”
“Mom, The John is backed up again” “Hush, –Go play hockey at the new sports building Sister S’arah built for us!”
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Oh, that’s one of Big Dog Mom’s favorite people, besides Sister Sarah!
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Pepe’: 72 hours? Gee. That hardly counts! Now when I was blown out of the water I received no notice at all, and had given them an honest e-mail contact point. Not any more. Socks are expendible and I won’t waste emy time on a real contact point.
I suppose next they’ll go after those Latin speakers we had the other night, too.
How about a sock called “RobS_is_the_Man”?
While I demonstrate my true skills and knowledge here, HP is now just a recreational paintball camp.
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Internet paintball camp. I like that. That’s pretty much all it is.
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Afternoon Monk, how’s everything, just stopping by to see if anything new was up. Talk to you later.
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Reasonable. Still finding the HP environment to be worsening by the day. Dogs are doing well, but need to get their shots updated. Sunny, around 70 today. Planning on getting out and enjoy it before tonight’s little thing here.
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Excuse me if I am repeating anyone, but:
Seems to me that her whole purpose is clearly political, and that I understood that politicking on military bases was illegal.
I am glad that she was denied publicity, yet the general public was permitted, such that citizens can call out her lies.
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I still remember the Landstuhl tempest in a teapot. Curious.
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I disagree. She is pedaling her book which is not political at all; just petty gossip that cannot be substantiated which happens to take place in a political environment. Actually the more people who read it the better, but I hope they pass around their copies instead of putting dollars in her pocket. I think the supposed millions she was supposed to earn for speaking engagements has been vastly overrated. Maybe she saw what Bill Clinton was getting and thought she could compete.
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She is tedious, any way you figure it.
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Why is the military going along with this??? It’s like they’re colluding with the enemy!
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Hey FoM…I mean Pepe!
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Sssssh!
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Sorry Pepe. We figured you out back on the thread.
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Bah.
Pepe got sent to the penalty box, finally! I got 5 minutes for fighting.
Je ne regrette rien!
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Pepe got banned or sent to timeout? Who were you fighting?
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Kalima — Ramirez’ politics don’t bother me. I can’t stand his sanctimonious, self-righteous holier-than-thou blather about how he’s somehow more moral than all the other posters. It’s like he’s appointed himself the “hall monitor” of HuffPost. I see it as him being some kind of weird Internet control freak.
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And oh yeah, if you used musical notes, that would have been a giveaway.
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Actually, Kalima, Ramirez doesn’t bother me. When I first showed up most often this past July, he was a little more feisty, but now he’s like entirely Republican, but not obnoxious about it.
Makes me wonder though, if a few of our A-list trolls (you know who) develop socks just to dish out their more vile crap.
Good to know that foreign words are verboten. Verdammt noch mal! Chutiya!
Phew, I hadn’t even thought about the last names thing. In fact, quite frankly, I’m still not really comfortable with it if trolls are goin’ to be privy. Not a bad idea, but I’ve sort of tried to guard a separation between the huffworld and my personal life, I don’t want this to compromise that.
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Pepe, nellie has removed all the surnames from the Planet’s Facebook Page, just click on my link and you will see it. I think we are all safe with just our first names on display if you change your mind that is.
I doubt her intentions were to become a fan of our site but thankfully nellie has set it up so that no one can comment. Great idea.
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Pepe, I have my doubts about Ramirez and AC being the same person, he was already on Huff known to everyone there when I joined in June 07.
There was a time when you could have decent conversation with him, believe it or not.
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KevenSeven, here’s the e-mail:
“Hello:
I’ve suspended your account based on your comments in french. I’ve noted your account. I will reinstate it Monday, if I have a chance.
You’re behavior is way out of line and if I get another complaint about you, I will ban you permanently. I hope that’s perfectly clear.
Rob S.
Moderator
Huffington Post”
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Kalima, yes, I saw that. She’s no fan — just doing it to be a jerk.
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Yeah, I figure the pattern is 72-hour timeout, then banishment follows soon after because then you’re on their radar screen.
PepeLepew is probably a short-timer on HuffPost.
I’m not really that angry about it because I was posting some FOUL stuff in French. Really foul… I just thought it was hilarious I got away with it for weeks.
Oh, and PS, I’ve become increasingly convinced Ramirez and AC are one and the same, too…
Yup, Kalima, that’s her…!
See why I didn’t want to sign up for the Facebook page with my real name…?
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Are you talking about this Andrea person because she has signed on as a fan on our Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PlanetPOV/152219465752
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Pepe,
C&P the e-mail from Huff to us here.
I can use the laugh.
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What hypocrisy. RonPaulWasRight was posting some really vile junk yesterday. I agree it’s AC. It was calling women murderers and evil for being pro-choice and writing gory descriptions of abortions. Really sick stuff. She also must have some obsession with John Stossel.
Your musical notes gave you away, btw.
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Seventy-two hour time out?
Next is final banishment. Did that asshole Ron S write to tell you how naughty you had been?
And it was AC in particular that got me fried Jebus, I just can’t stand that ignorant tramp.
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72-hour Time out … Get this, for using foul language in French!
Gringo, Flossy, AC and even Ramirez again — all four (three? two? one?) of them at once. It was epic. I outed and blew up a stupid AC sock “Ron Paul Was Right” and she got upset. I don’t know why she would even care that we found out. I don’t care that people figured out Malkin. It’s not important, but I was just cracking up that she was wigging out so much out over it.
I think I’m going to write a post about the ultimate futility of tangling with trolls, but dammit, they’re the online equivalent of schoolyard bullies and bullies make me crazy.
That being said … It was worth it!
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Fan, I mean Mum is the word, Skunkworth…
~snark~
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Regrettably, she is a citizen….
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Yeah, I know…
…. but there are a lot of things that the military doesn’t allow on its bases because they are deemed “inappropriate.” This seems like it should be in that category.
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She is not the “enemy”.
She is a citizen, as tedious as it is.
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A citizen in the State of Insanity.
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Won’t hear any arguments from my corner.
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Perhaps I was not clear. That’s the point, Pepe
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K7, Find me an ex-politician, selling a book, alllowed to sell on a military base. Now find me of ANY book tour on a base. c’mon scour your brain. was it Al Gore? Michael Moore? ah, Bill or Hillary?
Private citizen!
BS
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I’m not arguing with you.
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Excerpts from the intro of:Going “Rouge-An American Nightmare”
In my small mind the REAL book.
“Palin is a bona fide celebrity. She transcends politics. As New York Times columnist Frank Rich puts it, Palin is “not just the party’s biggest star and most charismatic television performer; she is its only star and charismatic performer.”
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. Her name instantly conjures up a pungent brew of images, phrases and associations: just an average hockey mom of five, a pit bull with lipstick, beauty queen, moose hunter, long-distance runner, sexy librarian, winker, rogue—you betcha! But for those who care to look, beneath these shimmering surfaces there lies both a crude ideology and an alarmingly potent strategy for selling it.
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. Its genius rests in its ability to magically absorb inconvenient facts and mutually contradictory realities into an unassailable personal narrative. In the Palin universe, her unwed pregnant teenage daughter Bristol is somehow a poster child for abstinence- only education; hence criticism of Palin’s sex-ed policies is an attack on her family.
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Chew on those thoughts, kids.
G’night.
bit
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That book is a great companion piece to Max Blumenthal’s Republican Gomorrah. Very insightful.
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He is in the book, nellie
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Sarah Palin is like a shiny pocket watch swinging back and forth. It has no direction. It has no ideas. But weak minds become mesmerized.
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Ohh, I like that.
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Except she serves no purpose and is not sparkly. People do like to look at her though. Freak show.
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I think she is sparkly, in her own strange way way. I don’t see why people are so bowled over by her looks, but she is pretty. Without that, the right wing wouldn’t give her the time of day… to continue the metaphor !
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She is perceptively a deceptive person, and I will never be able to get past that–it is ugly and so is she.
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I have no fondness for Sarah, but I think it’s important to understand her effect on certain people. Maybe she’s deceptive. I don’t know. I don’t think of her has having that much brain matter. It’s really hard for me to take her seriously. I just think she’s a narcissist.
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She reminds me of a breathless, teenaged cheerleader as depicted in your films of the 80’s. All that is missing are the braces and the odd pimple on her chin.
My apologies to all breathless, teenaged cheerleaders with braces or the odd pimple on their chins.
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I don’t find her cunningly deceptive as much as manipulative.
More like the Heathers than a breathless cheerleader sometimes.
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I know, I’m practicing a quick get away, but they were in many movies made in the U.S. that were so popular back then, not really all my fault.
Hi nellie!
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LOL! They would get you for that!
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I prefer to think of Sarah as a piece of fools’ gold dangling from a string. People will fight for it but in the end it has no value.
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OT: Was it on Countdown or Rachel Maddow last night that someone talked about the fact that the US Army barely has the forces to meet McChrystal’s troop request with available troops and then have no reserves at all? I’m wanting the source of that info.
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Yes, I forget who it was. It wasn’t that we don’t have the forces, but that it would leave us strapped with virtually no defense or disaster relief capability (you know, what those National Guard guys were so supposed to be about).
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