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Roland S. Martin: Palin’s just another empty politician [Fear her, they do]
The Capital Times ^ | February 13, 2010 | Roland S. Martin

Posted on 02/13/2010 7:03:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Welcome to Roland S. Martin's

41 posted on 02/13/2010 8:08:23 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, you’re wrong Martin.

It comes down to wisdom vs foolishness—understanding that there are external truths we can’t change with thoughts, or with language.

Palin understands this. You don’t.

Karl Marx didn’t. Machiavelli didn’t. The object of Alinsky’s book dedication didn’t.

You better straighten up.


42 posted on 02/13/2010 8:18:39 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Hey you noble leftists. If what you are doing is worth anything, it should be worth saying out loud.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Roland S. Martin is a CNN contributor and a talk show host for WVON/AM in Chicago.

That says it all, he’s a die hard LIBERAL TWIT.


43 posted on 02/13/2010 8:20:38 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: NoRedTape

Dennis Miller Press Secretary . . . now THAT would be fun!


44 posted on 02/13/2010 8:21:32 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better to expend a Gallon of Sweat in training than a single drop of your soldiers blood in war for not training.


45 posted on 02/13/2010 8:28:44 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Juan Medén
"Dennis Miller Press Secretary . . . now THAT would be fun!"
Sure would be. (btw, 2012 is the year we'll resume the GOP in the White House. I'm just overly anxious :>)
46 posted on 02/13/2010 8:42:29 AM PST by NoRedTape (DRILL HERE....DRILL NOW....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Roland who? =.=


47 posted on 02/13/2010 8:45:19 AM PST by cranked
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sarah Palin has, learned from experiences that perplexes and frustrates her opponents. Experiences such as hunting, fishing, gardening, playing team sports, being a student that graduated from college, bachelor’s degree in journalism, television sports reporter, wife, mother, mayor, chaired the Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Governor, and first Republican woman Vice Presidential candidate.

She did all these things and her critics say, “she not smart enough.” So, all the people who hired her, voted for her, worked with her, did it because she wasn't’t smart enough! Her experiences of just being a woman and doing what she has done, makes her smart enough!

Some people think she is not smart enough ... they think that no woman is smart enough. Neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton can match her experiences.

No one in politics today can match her in the most important qualities that Jefferson said George Washington had. "
He administered the government with fairness and integrity, assuring Americans that the President could exercise extensive executive authority without corruption. Further, he executed the laws with restraint, establishing precedents for broad-ranging presidential authority. His integrity was most pure”, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motive of interest or consanguinity, friendship, or hatred, being able to bias his decision”.


And yes I think Sarah Palin has these same qualities that Jefferson said Washington had!

48 posted on 02/13/2010 8:57:59 AM PST by factmart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One thing I’ve noticed in every lib article slamming Palin, never once do these clowns bother to discuss issues. They’ll pick on some trivial thing and blow it up. In short, they’re afraid to discuss the real meaning of why Palin is so popular. My guess is that, the statists that they are, they want to keep the real issues from the public.


49 posted on 02/13/2010 9:00:56 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"You want a media darling politician with substance?"

Obviously the man could never imagine, net even for a moment, that most of his rhetoric fits Obama to a T.

50 posted on 02/13/2010 9:10:13 AM PST by Red Dog #1
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Right, which is why she was defeated when she ran for reelection.


51 posted on 02/13/2010 9:42:26 AM PST by dominic flandry
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To: SandRat
Better to expend a Gallon of Sweat in training than a single drop of your soldiers blood in war for not training.

"I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, that I may save their blood tomorrow." -- Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, 1862

52 posted on 02/13/2010 10:08:50 AM PST by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

And Roland S. Martin is just another loud-mouthed, racist, Black man. The dude is the Black version of David Duke.


53 posted on 02/13/2010 11:00:45 AM PST by no dems (If you think Obama is a better President than Sarah Palin would be, lay down the crack pipe.)
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To: Clyde5445; 2ndDivisionVet
Why is it 95% of the articles you post are critical or down right negative towards Sarah Palin.

F.R. is a PUBLIC DISCUSSION FORUM.

It is not a BACK PATTING SESSION.

Were we all to be of 'one' mind, and were we to only post articles that everyone agreed with, THIS WOULD BE THE MOST BORING WEBSITE ON THE PLANET.

However, what we have done for years is post articles with various points of view.

Then we all have a chance to either agree, or disagree with the author.

Articles like this, most of of enjoy RIPPING TO SHREDS.

DON'T TRY TO TAKE AWAY OUR JOY!

54 posted on 02/13/2010 11:30:37 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought Rowan & Martin were dead. Who knew he had a new gig as a jurinalist?


55 posted on 02/13/2010 11:33:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for posting the article.
My rebuttals....


“So why haven’t I cottoned up to Palin?”

Because they offered you a big check to write a negative article?


“Because she desires to portray herself as a straight-talking politician, but she is nothing more than a political celebrity willing to cash every check she can grab.”

I see, but there is nothing wrong with Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, or any other Democrat doing the same thing.


“When it was reported that President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told a bunch of liberals that they were “retards” for threatening to run ads against fellow Democrats who weren’t jumping on the health care reform bandwagon, Palin demanded his resignation.”

Rahm said they were ‘f***ing retards’. He holds a high position in the current administration. He should have a better vocabulary, and he represents the President of the U.S. DEMOCRATS demanded DAN QUAYLE be removed as Vice President for simply using the word POTATOE. Talk about being overly hypocritical!


“As the mother of a child with Down syndrome, Palin has often used her bully pulpit to demand respect for the mentally challenged. Nothing wrong with that. It is an issue that is close to her heart and she should be a fierce advocate.”

True. Kinda ruins most of the ‘line’ of your discussion here.


“Yet when one of her biggest supporters, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, also castigated liberals by calling them retards, Palin provided him cover — even trying to explain away his comments.”

Rush didn’t prefix the word ‘retard’ with a profanity such as ‘f****ing’, and he didn’t say it in anger, when he thought he was ‘off-mike’ and could get away with it.


“In an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, Palin said Limbaugh was using satire, while Emanuel was blasting those who disagree with him. But anyone who can read or listen could understand that Limbaugh did the same thing as Emanuel.”

How can one understand the ‘liberal thinking (and current LAW)’ that one black person can call another ‘niggah’, but a white person doing so would be promptly arrested?????

If it ‘depends’ on ‘who’ says it, then why doesn’t that apply to Rush vs. Rahm?


“Emanuel and Limbaugh used retard to describe folks they disagree with, but only Emanuel was wrong?”

Emanuel is a foul-mouthed, power-mad individual, and it wasn’t his display of disagreement, it was his display of ANGER that was apparent.


” Yep, that’s how it is in Palin’s world. She was quick to pounce on someone she disagrees with politically, but not her patron saint, Limbaugh.”

Again, this is PROJECTION to the Nth Degree.


“Sarah, if you were true to your cause, you would have demanded an on-air apology from Limbaugh and scolded him for using the word. Instead, you showed your true colors.”

Context is important. Is this why you haven’t put the context of Rush’s remarks in your article?


“I haven’t bought into the fake “I’m a real American” persona you are trying to portray, Sarah. You slam the president for using teleprompters, but write crib notes on your hand to remember basic beliefs that should be easy to regurgitate.”

No. She (we) slam the President for making it obvious that he is totally dependent on teleprompters. That when without them, he is an EPIC FAILURE.

The assertion that Sarah wrote those few words on her hand “to remember basic beliefs that should be easy to regurgitate” is again, total projection. Even if true, the fact that she used 4-5 words on her hand to make a FLAWLESS 45 MINUTE SPEECH should be considered a MIRACLE.


“You decry the “lamestream” media, but you bask in its glory and have now joined its payroll as a Fox News contributor,”

Most of us don’t consider FOX NEWS to be so much in the LAMESTREAM category. I guess you only consider FOX NEWS to be LAMESTREAM, but that says more about you than Sarah.


“even having them build a studio in your home (talk about media elite!).”

But it is OKAY for the other major LAMESTREAM media to have a studio built IN THE WHITE HOUSE?


“You give a speech riddled with falsehoods about the president and national security,”

FALSE, in what way?


” and then try to shrug them off as the “lamestream” media attacking you.”

OK. You jumped the shark. The second part of your sentence doesn’t even refer to the first.


“You don’t fool me, even as your legion of fans considers you the second coming of President Ronald Reagan.”

Doesn’t fool you, yet it is obvious IT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF YOU!


The rest is meaningless drivel, and I have gone on too long anyway.


56 posted on 02/13/2010 12:12:49 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So why haven’t I cottoned up to Palin?

you know..I was up the other night wondering the same thing..typical lib thinking the world revolves around them..

57 posted on 02/13/2010 2:43:11 PM PST by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: Candor7
Guess Who?

Let me see, now...don't tell me...could it be...Hollowman?

ChurchLady

Well...isn't that special!

58 posted on 02/13/2010 9:52:48 PM PST by SlightOfTongue
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To: UCANSEE2; Clyde5445; 2ndDivisionVet
Why is it 95% of the articles you post are critical or down right negative towards Sarah Palin.>>>>>>>>>>>.

Because he is either gay or is otherwise completely afraid and paranoid of smart pu$$y.

Some folks are simply misogynists.


59 posted on 02/13/2010 10:03:22 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: Candor7

Are you really calling me a homosexual or a sexist? Really?!
Or were you referring to Roland Martin?


60 posted on 02/13/2010 10:07:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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