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Sarah Palin: Mr. President: Please Try, "I'm Listening, People," Instead of "Listen Up, People!"
Sarah Palin's Notes ^ | January 25, 2010 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 01/25/2010 6:37:44 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner

We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.

Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.

Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.

Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.

Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.

More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?

Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.

- Sarah Palin


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010; bho44; bhofascism; bhotyranny; donttreadonme; obama; palin; sarahpalin; wethepeople
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; LibLieSlayer

The premise that only big names from the last Presidential election have a chance in the next one is what got McCain the nomination.


81 posted on 01/26/2010 4:53:52 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
0bama's first year has been one "Blame Bush"..."the situation we inherited"..."when we took office"...exercise in scapegoating and ducking responsibility.

To be blunt...If I wanted someone to complain to me about the past, I would have voted for my ex-wife.

82 posted on 01/26/2010 5:12:37 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

“Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation.”

Ouch... that had to hurt! :)


83 posted on 01/26/2010 5:22:05 AM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Dr. North
Then name someone who even comes remotely close to matching Sarah and Romney's sheer horsepower. Huck? Pawlenty? DeMint? Pence?

Not even close.

84 posted on 01/26/2010 5:22:42 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Horsepower?

You are approaching it all wrong.

Again, the approach that you advocate is what got McCain nominated.

No doubt people attributed ‘horsepower’ to him.


85 posted on 01/26/2010 5:24:46 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North; Virginia Ridgerunner

Just name some up and comers then. Can’t be that hard?


86 posted on 01/26/2010 5:43:47 AM PST by sarah fan UK
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To: sarah fan UK

I have.

Mike Pence.


87 posted on 01/26/2010 6:32:50 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North

LOL...Great conservative...

Not a chance to be president.

It’ not rocket science...It’s going to be Palin or Romney.


88 posted on 01/26/2010 6:39:21 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll support Romney : He sucks but he's better than Obama.)
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To: rbmillerjr

Why not a chance?

Lack of national name recognition?

If so, that is a daffy way to select a nominee.

Once things get rolling, whoever the nominee is will have all the publicity in the world.

Nmae recognition will be guaranteed for them.

And other than name recognition, what are you attributing to Sarah and Mitt that inspires you to annoint them now?


89 posted on 01/26/2010 6:48:38 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: DJ MacWoW
I don’t like that she supports McCain. At all. But I’ve got news for you, if you agree with another person 100% of the time, it’s because you’re looking in the mirror when you’re talking.

Right on. Right on.

90 posted on 01/26/2010 6:50:27 AM PST by NeoCaveman (usually clean, often articulate, only a slight Cro-Magnon accent except when I want to have one)
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To: Dr. North

Thank you.


91 posted on 01/26/2010 6:54:29 AM PST by sarah fan UK
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To: NeoCaveman

:-)


92 posted on 01/26/2010 6:59:54 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

BURN!


93 posted on 01/26/2010 7:00:06 AM PST by Hotmetal (Lead,follow,or get the Hell out of the way.554th REDHORSE)
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To: Dr. North
Mike Pence.

If he runs for Senate and beats Bayh, maybe. Maybe. And even then, he'll be pulling an "Omaba" to do so.

But no U.S. House member has ever won the Presidency, and for good reason -- people expect at least a statewide office, specifically governor or U.S. Senator, before promotion to the "big time".

94 posted on 01/26/2010 7:01:27 AM PST by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: kevkrom

The phrase “no _________ has ever won the Presidency” doesn’t really hold water these days.


95 posted on 01/26/2010 7:03:43 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: sarah fan UK

You’re welcome. Who do you want to be the nominee?


96 posted on 01/26/2010 7:04:59 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North
The phrase “no _________ has ever won the Presidency” doesn’t really hold water these days.

Yeah, well good luck with that. Talk to the Duncan Hunter supporters about how well that went for them. They were all saying the same things.

97 posted on 01/26/2010 7:06:58 AM PST by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: kevkrom

You write as though every Congressman was the same.


98 posted on 01/26/2010 7:15:01 AM PST by Dr. North
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To: Dr. North

They’re the same enough, in terms of this discussion.

Let me turn the question around on you — what advantages does Pence have that Hunter didn’t? (Or, looking at the opposite side of the aisle, how about ill-fated runs such as Dick Gephardt’s?)


99 posted on 01/26/2010 7:18:25 AM PST by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: kevkrom

Charisma, ability to handle the media, ability to draw a big fan base, ability to communicate a good agenda in a way that resonates with the American people.


100 posted on 01/26/2010 7:21:33 AM PST by Dr. North
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