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Palin Resignation: Brother says Palin was tired of attacks
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:22 PM EDT
Article Source: The Hill's Blogadvertisement
Sarah Palin felt she was spending too much time defending herself from attacks and not enough time governing, the Governor's brother just told Fox News.
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{"commentId":8008532,"authorDomain":"americanspirit"}
So it's the medias fault? Good grief.
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- 10 votes
#1 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:23 PM EDT{"commentId":8008702,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
Wow, imagine how tough Washington, DC would have been for her.
If you can't take the heat, don't run for the office, Sarah.
{"commentId":8008702,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 16 votes
{"commentId":8008858,"authorDomain":"fadeplayer"}
Nothing like arrogantly starting a fight, getting your ass whipped, then claiming the moral high ground.
{"commentId":8008858,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"fadeplayer"}
- 13 votes
{"commentId":8008975,"authorDomain":"alexcroley"}
She's quitting? You betcha!
Thank goodness for this now maybe we can talk about serious politics instead of the stand up comic that tried to pass for the Vice President nominee.
{"commentId":8008975,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"alexcroley"}
- 11 votes
{"commentId":8009115,"authorDomain":"eric24"}
And Biden isn't a comic VP? Oh that's right... making racial jokes (7-Eleven all run by Indians) and stupid gaff's isn't comedy? Noted.
{"commentId":8009115,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"eric24"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8009392,"authorDomain":"americanspirit"}
The difference between Vice President Biden and Palin is that he admits he makes gaffs.
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- 9 votes
{"commentId":8009889,"authorDomain":"douglasq"}
Biden may not think before he speaks but Palin has shown little evidence of thinking before, while or after she speaks.
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- 9 votes
{"commentId":8010291,"authorDomain":"puffthedragon"}
puffthedragon
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Comment collapsed by the community{"commentId":8010417,"authorDomain":"VerbalBarb"}
The types of attacks thrown at her were vicious and highly immoral.
Please. She set herself up time and time again.
For instance, what adult woman with any sense at all carries on a public argument with the boy who impregnated her teenage daughter?
She's her own worst enemy.
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":8010484,"authorDomain":"kksfeather-1"}
If Palin had admitted her mistakes, I would have looked at her a second time. However, she just lied and blamed. When she could not say the name of one newspaper, if she had come back and said that she was so nervous that she could barely remember her name- I would have laughed and liked her. We all get nervous and we all goof. If she would have come back after saying seeing Russia made her an expert on foreign affairs and said that was a rather dumb answer to an important question and then preceded to say what might make her an informed candidate on foreign affairs I would have seen a candidate that was willing to admit mistakes, correct them and move forward. However, she just blamed and blamed and tried to make it into a 'good' answer when it was not.
However, to really be truthful she should have said rather soon that she had made a mistake and that the VP job required experience and knowledge that she did not yet possess. If she had stepped out gracefully instead of pretending she could do what she could not- I would have respected her.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":8010768,"authorDomain":"tyler"}
Nearing you are a dumb @!$%#. :)
I'm guessing this is part of your departure, puffthedragon. There is a 'delete your account' link if you click 'Account' on the black bar. Anyway, banned.
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- 12 votes
{"commentId":8010922,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
Thank you, tyler.
Happy 4th!
{"commentId":8010922,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 10 votes
{"commentId":8010972,"authorDomain":"cannae234"}
About freaking time puff got the boot, thank you!
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":8012831,"authorDomain":"TheObserver1"}
TYLER,
I don't think any Newsviner should call another Newsviner a dumb C*nt. But I wish NV would delete such words when used against Sarah Palin and other politicians as well.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8012849,"authorDomain":"lllllllll"}
So she is not only a liar and an ignorant but she is also a QUITTER
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8013044,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
TO, you can set a profanity filter under account settings.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":8013115,"authorDomain":"TheObserver1"}
Everyone should set their own profanity filter.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8014682,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}
tyler
Not my call, but thinking you shouldn't have quoted puffy above. Please change this immediately or face further action.
Best,
Team Newsvine
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8014824,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
schnoo:
Not my call, but thinking you shouldn't have quoted puffy above.
I have to agree.
I also think puffy's post should have been deleted.
{"commentId":8014824,"threadId":"618822","contentId":"2995294","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 7 votes
{"commentId":8014899,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}
It wasn't? I see it's been collapsed. See You next Tuesday is about the nastiest word in English. Next to Rush, of course.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8015958,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
It wasn't? I see it's been collapsed.
nope, it's still readable.
tyler?
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8016035,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}
puffthedragon Comment collapsed by the community
is what's showing on my screen. Except for tyler's comment quoting the original.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8016129,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
schnoo:
Comment collapsed by the community
you can still un-collapse and read it. click on the plus sign next to his name.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8016179,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}
You're right. Shouldn't be able to do that. Newsvine has been a little screwed up for me all evening. Lots of screwballs here tonight too. Must be the smell of fireworks in the air.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8016487,"authorDomain":"americanspirit"}
I think the Delete button vanishes on comments when they are collapsed or I would have also deleted it as the seeder. It's a glitch that needs fixing.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8024706,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
Once it's collapsed, I know you can't delete, AS, but tyler certainly can, that's what I don't get, he banned him but the post is still readable?
strange
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8009426,"authorDomain":"tappymcwidestance"}
I knew Letterman would have his revenge.
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- 10 votes
#2 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:59 PM EDT{"commentId":8009447,"authorDomain":"tappymcwidestance"}
If Sarah was tired of being attacked, she should have stopped making them and concentrated on doing her job.
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- 10 votes
#3 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 5:00 PM EDT{"commentId":8010405,"authorDomain":"cannae234"}
Oh Boo hoo hoo for Sarah Palin, politics is rough ain't it? This would-be VP of the United States of America, who thought she could handle Washington's politics, can't take a little name-calling. Go back to your sewing circle, and leave government to the big boys/girls.
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- 5 votes
#4 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 5:42 PM EDT{"commentId":8010875,"authorDomain":"kathekollwitz3"}
Palin has no heart and no brain, so how could she get tired of anything?
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- 2 votes
#5 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 6:01 PM EDT{"commentId":8011859,"authorDomain":"georgeviking"}
She sounded @!$%#y and arrogant and yet at the same time she seemed weak and rattled.
She is not VP or Prez material, period.
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- 6 votes
#7 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 6:47 PM EDT{"commentId":8011927,"authorDomain":"ScienceGuy"}
For Palin to leave before the end of her term without explanation to her constituency is extremely self-serving, no matter how she tries to spin it.
Bottom line: nobody likes a quitter.
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- 5 votes
#8 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 6:51 PM EDT{"commentId":8012655,"authorDomain":"ghall1950"}
Here's her "spin", someone else to blame for HER ignorance! It's not that she spent SO MUCH TIME defending herself, that she couldn't govern...............it's because she spent so much time running around the Country campaigning, that she couldn't govern! But she will never admit that. Sad woman!
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- 4 votes
#9 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 7:32 PM EDT{"commentId":8012763,"authorDomain":"americanspirit"}
Hypocrites never fare well in media coverage ; )
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8012756,"authorDomain":"slincoln-wx"}
Or maybe she was tired of the ethics complaints.
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- 3 votes
#10 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 7:37 PM EDT{"commentId":8015428,"authorDomain":"transfer"}
I'm just wondering why Jesus never protected her from those...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8012794,"authorDomain":"dkemmerer"}
Geez, if she's that thin-skinned, she certainly made the right choice to resign.
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- 5 votes
#11 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 7:39 PM EDT{"commentId":8015490,"authorDomain":"transfer"}
She is truly emblematic of all the right wing, cry-baby-pee-pantsery.
Maybe will get to see Dick break down next. With all the guilt and sorrow locked in that man's heart, he'll make Glenn Beck look like an Amateur.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8015861,"authorDomain":"ghall1950"}
He doesn't have a heart...................it's a pacemaker! (and lest you think I don't know the difference, my mom had one), just a rude comment. :-)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8016857,"authorDomain":"transfer"}
I'd forgotten about that GH. Gee, I sure hope he doesn't attends any violent protests where the National Guard has to use that crowd control microwave weapon on him...
:)
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8013146,"authorDomain":"stevencwatts"}
I suppose it remains to be seen if this ends up being seen by most as "the reason" she resigned. If so, she can say goodbye to her political asperations. While it effectively plays the sympathy card with her conservative base - which she's been doing for some time now - it will do nothing for her with the independents where she really needs it. They'll see it as a sign of weakness and inability to deal with criticism. If she tries to run in 2012, and this is the accepted reason behind her resignation, her critics will have a field day.
I maintain that it's too early to call it, but something like this is going to be pretty damaging. If it sticks, and causes her to fail in 2012, I get the feeling there will be some icy Thanksgiving dinners with her brother.
"Could you pass the stuffing?"
"I hear they have great stuffing at the White House."
"Knock it off, Sarah."
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- 7 votes
#12 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 7:56 PM EDT{"commentId":8014523,"authorDomain":"SuperSaiyan"}
I personally doubt this explaination since be criticized is a part of the territory when someone is a public official.
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- 2 votes
#13 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 9:07 PM EDT{"commentId":8015297,"authorDomain":"wendy-notarnicola"}
Interesting. She campaigned on nothing but attacks against Obama, but she can't take that treatment herself. Wow.
It's a good thing she didn't win. Obviously her skin isn't thick enough.
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- 2 votes
#14 - Fri Jul 3, 2009 9:48 PM EDT{"commentId":8015305,"authorDomain":"vaca50"}
She can't handle the attacks as Gov of Alaska, why in the world did the GOP think she was qualified to be in the White House?!? I hope and pray she's on the next Repub ticket for Prez. Will sink that ship for sure! Her closet was just cracked open and the skeletons starting pushing out from the inside.
She's cute, winks and smiles nice but hasn't got what it takes to even run a state of disarray!
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- 3 votes
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