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Is Sarah Palin sending mixed messages in her Newsweek article?
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 11, 2011 | Linda Feldmann

Posted on 07/11/2011 8:22:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Just when you thought Sarah Palin was fading from view, boom, she’s back. On the cover of Newsweek. Looking distinctly unpresidential in a gray hoodie that says “Edge Fitness,” hands on hips, hair blown back.

In a Newsweek interview, the former governor of Alaska says she believes: that she can win a national election, that the field of GOP hopefuls should be bigger, and that she still has months to decide if she wants to enter. So what will she do? “I’m still thinking about it,” she told Peter J. Boyer.

“I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around,” Palin said. “But I do believe that I can win.”

Palin has a ready-made reason not to run – her family. Three of her children are still at home, including three-year-old Trig, who has special needs.

Says Palin: “If it came down to the family just saying, ‘Please, Mom, don’t do this,’ then that would be the deal-killer for me, because your family’s gotta be in it with you.”

We already knew all of that. What’s striking about the Newsweek feature is the photographs – not just the cover, but the two-page inside shot of Palin standing in a field of flowers, hair down, wearing a pink hoodie, hands in the pockets of loose-fitting work pants. It’s the Garden of Sarah.

Maybe the photos are Palin’s way of saying, “I’m not running.” Time was when a politically ambitious woman would agree to be photographed only looking “dressed for success” – usually in a suit, à la Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Newsweek cover earlier this year. Or the way Palin usually dresses on Fox News.(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: newsweak; palin; palinoia; pds; sarahpalin
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To: Oztrich Boy
Take away the podium, the suit, and Obama looks like a little man ...

That picture of Obama reminds me of the one in the situation room where they are watching communications during the Osama raid. Same jacket, I think. In that photo, Obama looks like he's on the pot having a bad BM.

21 posted on 07/11/2011 9:02:03 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Ben Chad

I LOVE THAT ANALOGY.......


22 posted on 07/11/2011 9:03:23 PM PDT by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics.)
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To: youscreamIscream99

oh gawd I am going to be crucified

Can’t deal so I am quitting this thread


24 posted on 07/11/2011 9:12:56 PM PDT by youscreamIscream99 (q)
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To: youscreamIscream99

Bye, bye newbie. IBTZ


25 posted on 07/11/2011 9:16:27 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: youscreamIscream99

please post your frivolous claims and I will ignore them

I need a break from fighting all alone :(


26 posted on 07/11/2011 9:16:36 PM PDT by youscreamIscream99
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To: CedarDave
Take away the podium, the suit, and Obama looks like a little man ...

He looks like a cross between a Scrawny Metrosexual of Color (SMOC) and a p*ssy-whipped Chicago thug.

That picture of Obama reminds me of the one in the situation room where they are watching communications during the Osama raid. Same jacket, I think. In that photo, Obama looks like he's on the pot having a bad BM.

Why is there what appears to be an orange soda in the bottle immediately in front of the ManChild?

Cheers!

27 posted on 07/11/2011 9:17:05 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: CedarDave

Keep dreaming cedar dave

the 51 percent of those who don’t pay taxes will vote for Sarah-you betcha


28 posted on 07/11/2011 9:17:55 PM PDT by youscreamIscream99
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To: grey_whiskers

wow barry IS photoshopped in there - even the edge of the wall on the left is fuzzy

damn!


29 posted on 07/11/2011 9:19:56 PM PDT by youscreamIscream99
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To: youscreamIscream99
youscreamIscream99
"Since Mar 7, 2011"

Cheers!

30 posted on 07/11/2011 9:21:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How does one square so many strong personal attributes with the notion that personality politics is to be avoided? I tend to think SP is aware that true Authority ultimately extends from above, and the she is willing and able to be an instrument under that Authority as needed.

There is an element, however, and a very large one at that, whose trust is in anything but God. They think princes and princesses will save them. Too bad.

31 posted on 07/11/2011 9:23:05 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (minds change)
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To: youscreamIscream99

Zot!


32 posted on 07/11/2011 9:23:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: grey_whiskers

Yup, been flushed!


33 posted on 07/11/2011 9:24:08 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Baynative

those breasts look rather female-ish...


34 posted on 07/11/2011 9:28:15 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: youscreamIscream99; darkwing104
Photobucket

Photobucket

35 posted on 07/11/2011 9:31:20 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: CedarDave

Airbrush or a lot of plastic surgery!


36 posted on 07/11/2011 9:45:32 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: grey_whiskers

It also looks like Obama is holding a cigarette in this picture.


37 posted on 07/11/2011 9:49:59 PM PDT by Britt0n
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To: Upstate NY Guy

looks kind of like what rocky was wearing.


38 posted on 07/11/2011 10:04:05 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry Linda, it’s called “not telegraphing your punches”. Look it up. She’s keepin’ them guessing. LOL! You better learn to live with it. You all laugh and make fun of Sarah but she’s more intelligent than all of you “journalists” put together. Deal with it!


39 posted on 07/11/2011 10:11:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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To: youscreamIscream99

you scream ,I Scream...get it?

(Prolly not.)

40 posted on 07/12/2011 1:04:46 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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