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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Actaully, Congressman pertains to both, and JFK was both a Senator and a Represetative.
Obama is the first since JFK, that is correct.
You promote Bachmann in some threads, but you disparage Palin as a woman in others, for being a woman.
Nothing to do with being an sensitive (or even insensitive) feminist. That is simply flip-flopping duplicitousness.
These are not conservative values, and downright disrepectful to those on this forum that take politics and this country seriously.
And holding up Bachmann instead of your favored chick as the type of woman I’ll support might crash your feminist sensibilities, but it sure as hell has nothing whatsoever to do with not “taking politics and this country seriously”.
The arrogance of you cultists knows no bounds.
With like-minded Palin haters.
Yes, both houses constitute Congress, but House Members are known as “Congressman” or Representative So-and-so, whereas Senators are called such. President Lincoln was the last House Member with no other experience elected to that high office.
I am watching! I love Phillip Rivers!
You're jealous.
Leadership means developing a message, articulating the message then creating enthusiasm around the message. Sarah Palin has done all three. Duncan Hunter has not. There is a reason she gets the attention and to minimize these three dynamics only makes you look small minded. I have no doubt that Mr. Hunter is a fine man and and exceptional legislator, but in the critical elements of leadership he has failed. He certainly would be a tremendous asset to a president, but he has not demonstrated that he has the qualities that rally people around him. That is not Governor Palin's nor any of her supporters on this boards fault.
Your not addressing my point pissant. You make a mockery of these forums, again.
How do you explain your flip-flopping duplicitousness? We could pull out some of your quotes, but they are so bad, I’ll spare you that.
And we've had about 4 presidents in 150 years since that have been worthwhile. So your point is?
me too!
I’m jealous? ROFL.
I’m just stating facts. I could say very similar things about Newt. He’s damn near in the media as much as Palin.
And you keep pulling Hunter up. I have no idea if he intends to even run. But I do have a good notion that DeMint will. And that will be perfectly satisfactory to me.
So you and your fellow cultists mocking all other potential rivals is OK. We need a special category for yours?
Last time out Rush/Levin/FR were pushing Fred (then Mitt), Medved was pushing McCain, Hannity was pushing Rudy, Hewitt was pushing Mitt, the evangelicals were pushing Huck, etc etc.
I'm not at all convinced that most talk radio hosts are as far to the right, or are as conservative as the base is. Even El Rushbo is mild, compared to a lot of posters on this forum.
I've heard enough of them indicate support for Republicans that I can just barely tolerate, for me to be wary of their endorsements.
I think I speak for most conservatives when I say that I'm not interested in having the Republican nominee 'chosen' by major media, be they right, or left.
All that said, I can understand their support of Gov. Palin. She's doing a better job of bruising the left and getting conservative candidates elected, than any other nationally known Republican. They can 'push' her candidacy for the 2012 nomination if they like, but the people will be the reason she captures the nomination - not them.
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You're jealous. Leadership means developing a message, articulating the message then creating enthusiasm around the message. Sarah Palin has done all three. Duncan Hunter has not. There is a reason she gets the attention and to minimize these three dynamics only makes you look small minded. I have no doubt that Mr. Hunter is a fine man and and exceptional legislator, but in the critical elements of leadership he has failed. He certainly would be a tremendous asset to a president, but he has not demonstrated that he has the qualities that rally people around him. That is not Governor Palin's nor any of her supporters on this boards fault.
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Absolutely spot on. Pissant and others are concerned about their own preferences getting oxygen, so they try to pull Palin back to the crowded 1%'ers pack.
They should be promoting their own candidates without resorting to anklebiting and sloganeering. If their picks are good enough, they will emerge on their own merits. They need to show that they can rise above the pack, even if they have the right principles.
In the meantime, the quality of the forum here degenerates into a joke with flip-flopping deceit and hypocrisy by people with too little brains and too much time.
Palin's a target, of course....but Michelle's a bit of an easier bullseye. Hate to say it, but we delude ourselves when we 'dismiss' the MSM...........they still wield the big sword, and they know how to Quayle 'em both.
Don't pin your hopes on either of these two women, unless you have a disappointment fetish thing going on, like you did with Duncan ("Who??) Hunter.
Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960
‘President Lincoln was the last House Member with no other experience elected to that high office.’
Actually Lincoln left the House in 1848, and was definitely a former Congressman by 1860. The one and only Congressman directly elected President was James Garfield.
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