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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As the self appointed sentence/grammar/etiquette champion, do you stil have time to argue anything of merit?
Will do. Keep me in the loop for the queen’s coronation. Thanks
ok...start a Bachmann thread...go for it.
The day can't come soon enough.
I’ve posted probably more Bachmann threads than anyone here in the last year. Amazing how often the cultists show up praising Precious.
Some people just don’t get it Onyx....they leave a trail of stench just posting on Palin threads....wearing a Bachmanns mask doesn’t cut that.
You're the one who started all of this with that patently absurd, cobbled-up-out-of-whole-cloth "So Sarah agrees with savaging them relentlessly?" foofaraw, kiddo. Ask an intelligent question, and I'll happily endeavor (as always) to answer in kind. Like a fairground's caricaturist, I can only work with whatever it is I've been provided.
... and "self-appointed" is a hyphenate, incidentally. ;)
Do you remember the last time a congressman was elected president? Hint: He wore a stovepipe hat, grew a beard just before swearing-in and oversaw the civil war...
“People are even calling for pissant to be banned from FR.”
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No, Piss himself is doing that.
He is determined to undermine Jim’s authority by using Jim’s good nature against him, and against the dignity of the forum.
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Try grasping the gist of the posts you respond to, and it will all make sense.
The union thug took on a lady, but Sarah’s a lady with the face of an angel who knows how to fight and win.
Like you said, Sarah “needs doesn’t need a writer, and easily commands the situation with impromptu commentary.”
Trumka was out-matched.
Try grasping the gist of the posts you respond to, and it will all make sense.
... annnnnnnnnnnnnnd: point proven. [:bows to rapturous thunder of applause from audience::] Thank you... yes... yes... ah-ha-ha... yes... and thank you, ma'am...
Call me when you get some new material, kiddo.
Bored now.
[:EXEUNT::]
It's gotten so that we can't even discuss the articles that are posted any more. After about the 5th post, Palin's detractors come along and taking the thread off topic.
Will be nice to get back to discussing the intended reason the article was posted. :)
A valid point. The answer, of course, is that we should shun the 'media-chosen' Republican nominee with extreme prejudice.
As to Palin, the media is doing everything in their power to prevent her from being chosen as the Republican nominee for 2012. In her case, she's actually got the necessary level of support from the voters to be chosen, which is how it should be.
” ‘Congressman’ is the proper salutation”
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Congressman covers both representatives, and senators.
Representatives serve in the “House of Representatives.”
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Thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnk YOU! ;)
You should probably pay closer attention to the subject matter at hand..... That way you won’t post irrelevant statements quite so often.
LOL. Motormouth sloganeers rarely pay attention to basics like honesty or spelling. Fortunately most are neurotic libtards, but we have a few similar nuts here too :).
You’re too far removed from reality, you’re not worthy of a serious reply.
In fact, you’re one nasty, deranged poster.
Troll.
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