Republican firebrand Palin takes on Obama on energy ("stall, baby, stall")

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/9/10 | Steve Holland

[NormsRevenge]

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Republican firebrand Sarah Palin fired up party loyalists on Friday with a biting critique of President Barack Obama's new plan for offshore oil and gas drilling as nothing more than "stall, baby, stall."

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska, did not say she planned to run for president in 2012 but did nothing to discourage speculation in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

A polarizing figure in American politics, Palin found a hearty welcome from several thousand conservatives who stampeded into a hotel ballroom to grab seats for her speech and filled every one of them within minutes.

And they cheered her on, particularly when she outlined some proposed slogans for bumper stickers to reflect their disapproval of the ruling Democrats: "Repeal and Replace," referring to a law that overhauls healthcare, and: "How's that Hopey, Changey Thing Working Out for You?"

[NormsRevenge]

Time for a beer summit yet?

[Lakeshark]

AP - Sarah Palin polarizing. Barack Obambi not.

It's almost funny.........

[Lakeshark]

Du-uh, that would be Reuters.......

[Pearls Before Swine]

Meanwhile, President “above it all” manages to grab the TV time with a pair of meaningless announcements while she’s speaking. Am I the only one who doesn’t think it a coincidence?

[outinyellowdogcountry]

One thing is obvious: Yahoo is for Yayhoos! Those comments and the like buttons show robot like following.

[Sarah Barracuda]

LOL yeah I highly doubt that is gonna happen. Now if Sarah represented Iran, Obama would have apologized already and kissed her feet, but since Sarah is an American, Obama will never want to have her over for a beer

[NormsRevenge]

Tea Partiers everywhere will be deeply saddened..

.. not to mention a brewery or two. ;-)

A Republican holds Sarah Palin's book as he waits to hear the former US vice-presidential candidate speak at a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada in March 2010. Republicans from around the country have poured into New Orleans for the annual Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SLRC), eager to reclaim the White House in 2012. (AFP/File/Robyn Beck)

[Panzerlied]

“A polarizing figure in American politics...”

Is it just me, or do I sense a tad bit of bias in Reuters?

[Pit1]

A polarizing figure in American politics. WTF

Love her putting the pressure on Obozo. If it was a warbling repub, no one would hear that, but with Sarah, you bet cha they do. Sarah and Michele were great on Hannity.

[barbarianbabs]

Sarahcuda

[Tarpon]

Moose on the loose, in his shorts.

I think Obama has a real problem with uppity white women.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The media in this country is a joke!

[Lakeshark]

An unintended joke......but a joke nonetheless.

Repulsive is more like it.

[onyx]

Damn right.

We’re a divided nation.

His Marxist side and our Sarah America side.

We win, they lose.

[MattinNJ]

Sarah simply rocks. My admiration for this woman knows no bounds.

[demsux]

Obama, in a rare response to Palin, told ABC News: "The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues," prompting a sarcastic rejoinder from Palin that "all the vast experience he acquired as a community organizer" made him a nuclear expert.

LOL

[Qwackertoo]

I agree, doesn’t matter which side either, look how he was with Hillary and flipping her the bird and such.

[jonrick46]

I also thought it was more than a coincidence to announce John Paul Steven's retirement at just the time Sarah Palin was speaking. The media even said that it caught the Obama Regime off guard. For instance, the Los Angeles Times reported, "The timing of the news is a surprise: Stevens, 89, was expected to wait until after the Supreme Court's oral arguments conclude this month."

I say this announcement was well planned. Zer0 has just returned from Prague after signing the nuclear arms reduction treaty. This announcement was scheduled like you would schedule a TV lineup.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It is no more a coincidence than he almost always times his inane appearances to make an announcement for exactly when Glenn Beck is going on the air.