Sara Palin....Ugh

[101]

Good way to start off your speach by referring to it as "Grand Rapids".

She can't keep Cedar Rapids straight from Grand Rapids, but she can handle foreign policy. Clueless.

Then, on top of it all, she talks about how she and McCain are going to put government on the peoples side. Too bad they weren't interested enough in the flood situation to even go see it. Nope, land, do their stump speach and off they go. Yeah, that gives me a sense of concern on their part.

[ignatiusreilly]

Boy even a pro wrestler I saw in CR got the name of the town right when he was insulting us. Even Paul Stanley got it right when he screamed "Cedar Rapids show us your boobies!"

I can't stand this bimbo and anyone who actually thinks she would be good for this country.

[thunderhawk]

She should never say anything that isn't on a teleprompter.

[NotMyKid]

Sept 18, 2008 10:14:13 GMT -6 101 said:

Good way to start off your speach by referring to it as "Grand Rapids".



Then, on top of it all, she talks about how she and McCain are going to put government on the peoples side. Too bad they weren't interested enough in the flood situation to even go see it. Nope, land, do their stump speach and off they go. Yeah, that gives me a sense of concern on their part.

Grand Rapids, 57 states

What's the difference?



Whoops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Republican presidential nominee John McCain, second from left, and his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, second from right, tour flooded areas of Northwest Cedar Rapids after a campaign rally at the Cedar Rapids Airport on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Walking with McCain and Palin are, from left, Cedar Rapids council member Brian Fagan, John Smith, owner of CRST trucking and member of Economic Planning and Redevelopment Corporation, and State Rep. Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha).


www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS/809189987/1002/NEWS


edit: for some reason the photo is showing up but follow the link for the pic.

[101]

Very interesting that they changed their minds at the last minute and decided to see the flood damage in Grand Rapids after all. Without regard to what they did, it's pretty telling that they weren't going to until they got some pressure from local officials.

Welcome to Grand Rapids Sara Palin. Dork.

[GhostMod 5000]

Caribou Barbie makes another mistake?

News came out today as well that her first townhall meeting with Senator Abe Simpson was the first townhall of the campaign to prescreen the crowd. They had to make sure an invitation only crowd was there so Caribou Barbie wouldn't have to wow all of us with her vast knowledge.

[101]

Caribou Barbie....I like that. Much better than Hockey Mom.

[Gumbyhawk]

Sept 18, 2008 15:11:39 GMT -6 101 said:

Caribou Barbie....I like that. Much better than Hockey Mom.

How bout MILF??

[101]

Oh yeah, that works.

Sept 18, 2008 15:26:11 GMT -6 Gumbyhawk said:

Sept 18, 2008 15:11:39 GMT -6 101 said:

Caribou Barbie....I like that. Much better than Hockey Mom.

How bout MILF??

[socal]

Sounds like a blast:

McCain was almost upstaged at the rally here by Palin, who drew rapturous applause from the crowd with her bubbly declaration -- twice -- that she and McCain were "going to Washington, D.C., to shake things up!''
McCain recited a speech he had given earlier in the day about the need to reform Wall Street. A slow but steady trickle of supporters began to file out after Palin's speech introducing McCain.

voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/16/mccain_mocks_obamas_fundraiser.html

The Top Gun soundtrack began playing just about the time McCain's plane arrived. Shortly after 11 o'clock (an hur late), McCain and Palin took the stage as the Garth Brooks song "Standing Outside the Fire" played and the crowd cheered.
"We want Sarah," the crowd began chanting as Palin said, "Thank you," to begin the rally.

"Thank you so much Iowa, it is so good to be in Grand Rapids," Palin said. OOOPS. She's in Cedar Rapids.

.....
I look up, about five minutes into McCain's address and see a steady stream of people walking out of the rally. They just came to see Palin apparently.

learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2008/09/mccainpalin-ral.html

After Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his running-mate, riveted the overflow crowd at an airplane hanger here for 16 minutes, it was McCain's turn, and people in his audience began murmuring and drifting away midway through a 14-minute speech that was flat and cheerless. When McCain made his first appearance without Palin, on Monday morning in Jacksonville, he faced an arena that was one-quarter full.

www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/us/politics/19mccain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


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And a funny one on her actual speech:

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) – Sarah Palin likes to tell voters around the country about how she “put the government checkbook online” in Alaska. On Thursday, Palin suggested she would take that same proposal to Washington.

“We’re going to do a few new things also,” she said at a rally in Cedar Rapids. “For instance, as Alaska’s governor, I put the government’s checkbook online so that people can see where their money’s going. We’ll bring that kind of transparency, that responsibility, and accountability back. We’re going to bring that back to D.C.”

There’s just one problem with proposing to put the federal checkbook online – somebody’s already done it. His name is Barack Obama. ...

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/palins-transparency-proposal-already-exists-in-dc/

.....and the punchline from CNN:

UPDATE: A campaign spokesperson insisted that Palin was referring not to that specific proposal, but rather to "that kind of transparency in general."