Sarah Palin

Thank heaven

And yes, it is all about me.

Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.

Multiple news sources are reporting now the shooting in Tucson this morning involving Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Reports are 12 persons injured, and the shooter is apparently in custody. Condition of the Congresswoman and others is not known, although one newspaper is reporting that she was shot in the head at close range.

I’ve done my share of Obama bashing. He has driven me nuts in his total unwillingness to protect and defend reproductive freedom—a core value to his political base. But, enough is enough.

The alternative, my friend, is sheer insanity. Just check out the winner of last night’s Republican primary in Delaware to see for yourself.

Obama is far from perfect but he has delivered and it’s time we amplify his wins, especially for women.

Before Palin’s mama grizzlies, I always thought of myself as a mama bear when defending my young. So, I’ll match her grizzlies any day with my North Carolina black bear mama self and tell you why as a mother I am thankful to President Obama for health care reform.

We decided on high card. There was no disagreement between us. We shook hands before and after.
—Andrew Borasky, who won a Republican county commission primary by card draw last week. State law mandates that primary ties be broken by a lot draw.

He was kind of uncomfortably dancing.
—Matthew Jentgen, who watched John Edwards dance to "Rump Shaker" at the West End Wine bar in Durham in April.

We're struggling here.
—Rod Blagojevich, from an FBI wiretap. It was disclosed this week that him and his wife spent over $400k on clothing in 6 years. Blogojevich spent $1300 on ties in just one day.

I know it's really gonna upset a lot of gay men—I'm sure hundreds of 'em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge—but I ain't available. I ain't gay. Sorry.

At approximately 11:04 Eastern Standard Time, the American news media finally realized they kind of sucked.
—Jon Stewart on Michael Hastings' scoop of Stanley McChrystal.

And as a freelance reporter, Hastings would be considered a bigger risk to be given unfettered access, compared with a beat reporter, who would not risk burning bridges by publishing many of McChrystal’s remarks.
—Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee on Politico, admitting the American news media sucks.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.
—CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan, defensive that she's part of the American news media that sucks.

Was Rod Blagojevich unavailable as a character witness?
—Frank Rich on Hamid Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali Karzai's defense of McChrystal.

The ACLU has a long and proud history of defending the First Amendment, and while I haven’t seen polling on this, I’d bet that most Americans are fairly pro-First Amendment. But, thanks to a generation of conservative activism, the ACLU is now best known as “those guys who hate Christmas.”

—Sen. Al Franken (D, MN)

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Uh, heh, first of all, you mention the name Eric Odom. I had to pause and think, who is that?

—Rep. Charles Dijou (R, HI) when asked by Think Progress about the Tea Party leader who flew to Hawaii to help get him elected.

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Last week, Republicans came out full force to blame the BP oil spill cleanup on Barack Obama. Newt Gingrich went on Greta Van Susteren to say it was Obama's "dereliction of duty." Karl Rove wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal calling the disaster "Obama's Katrina," where he played footsie with his teeth again. Sarah Palin inferred that the President dragged his heels because he had been bought off by campaign donations from the oil companies. I think that one got a different reaction than Palin had anticipated.

Over the past week, Sarah Palin encouraged Tea-Party candidates to make energy issues a central part of their campaigns. "There's nothing stopping us from achieving energy independence that a good old national election can't fix," she said.

Palin's full of surprises, but this piece of campaign advice caught me off-guard. After all, a recent poll found that energy is the issue that inspires the most faith in Democratic lawmakers. Since President Obama made clean energy a central part of their campaign in 2008, this poll suggests that this is what the majority of people want. Therefore, Democrats AND Republicans should all be running on clean energy.

Here's a take on what's being said about the nuclear "treaty" Obama made with Russia recently. I am surprised it has yet to be a topic of discussion here:

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It has Sarah Pagan Palin in it.

Any thoughts?