Posted on 08/27/2010 11:49:37 AM PDT by onyx
It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and Governor Palin of Alaska.
The leader of Big Labor went to Anchorage to give a speech and attacked Mrs. Palin, accusing her of doing everything from writing notes on her hands to coming out with conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “death panels” to getting close to calling for violence. “Sometimes — about Sarah Palin — you’ve just got to laugh,” Mr. Trumka said. “ . . . But it’s not really funny.”
Mrs. Palin turned around and gave as good as she got, or better, in one of her patented Facebook postings, a demarche headlined “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” She wrote as a one-time card-carrying sister of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Steelworkers, cards she held by virtue of her husband’s membership in the two unions.
She asserted that it was “kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence,” particularly in light of what she called the “violent attempts” by the Service Employees “to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls.”
She argued the real jobs problem was being caused by the policies of President Obama. Suddenly the Internet came alive like the silver screen, so much so that a columnist of the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, issued a long complaint.
Seems that Mr. Trumka can’t get anyone to listen to, let alone write about, his usual speeches about what Mr. Dionne characterizes as “social CONTINUE
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Completely off topic and totally unnecessary. Possessed.
You knew it was and I knew it too. Ditto for others. It’s your pattern.
Well, we’ll use it! We’re a force of two!!!
Michele is another great lady. Sarah and Michele will be together in DC tomorrow. Isn’t it delightful that they are great friends and fellow patriots?
Seriously, sheesh, what is her or his problem?
Sorry, you outed yourself with your own posts. You had every opportunity to walk them back, but you chose to double down and post all that crap about how women shouldn't be anything other than home makers.
You had about a month's worth of post in mouth disease on the subject, and a lot of us remember.
Give it a rest.
Can't people enjoy Sarah without you pissing down our leg and later try to weasel out by claiming First Amendment Rights.
I like them both, but this post is a celebration of Sarah.
So beautiful, so classy, so smart, such a true American patriot. I love Sarah!
Oh please, I don’t deify anyone. I like Sarah. I have only one God unlike the libtards who have their half black Messiah.
We’d need an entire thread of it’s own and researchers to compile a list! One guy, not a fan, wrote a column today, that begrudgingly said, she’s the best he’s ever seen for surviving everything he and the news media have thrown at her since ‘08.
No, you are just a few little girlyman pissants on the political scene looking for attention.
The majority of Palin supporters here are just that, those that appreciate her for who she is and what she does for the conservative movement.
Are you part of that group that said all free republic posters werer slobbering all over Bush a few years ago?
Thanks goodness small minded people don't support her.
I love Palin, but I am really worried about the way many people here deify her.
It’s very Obama-like.
Speaking of Obama like, don't you mean you like Obama?
Who you "love" sticks out like a sour thumb.
Bachmann is off topic for consideration of woman of the year? I think she wins hounds down. For not only what she has done, but for what she hasn’t done.
I reckon if some half baked editorial (in August, no less) named McCain the “Man of the Year”, you’d complain when 163 freepers had other ideas?
I love Bachmann, but I also love Sarah.
It truly is both amazing and remarkable.
She's a force of her own and some of the hatred is starting to turn into admiration. She's triumphed against all odds and she never backed away.
Or you could start another thread on the subject and begin with a clean slate.
Your choice.
:-)
In the VERY thread that you and Rintintin and the other worshipers grab the quote about no chic CIC, was the very thread I made an exception for Thatcherites. Carry on with your fantasy.
Sarah deserves consideration for her attacks on the Obama admin. I think Michele wins by virtue that she is in the trenches in Congress fighting these marxists AND is making time for rallies, tea party events, and excellent editorials.
It's no made up fantasy of hers, it's your own words and links that are there.
Nice try though.
I hear you. It’s gets awfully damn tiresome.
It’s a him. Jim told him to seek help.
"The world is her oyster" - Michele Bachmann, speaking about her friend, Sarah Palin
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