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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Look at my challenge again. Repeating JR’s admonishment to me is a non-sequitur.
You can take your case for anti-freeper, whatever that is, with the folks in question. There are tons of anti-Palin freepers of all stripes. Some have been browbeaten into silence by your fellow cultists.
Ok sorry.
I’m sure the list is not yet complete.
I'm sure we've missed a few as it is - and just today, I thought of including relevant fictional characters. :)
It's true that pissant and I - like most thinking people - don't always agree. Although we do agree on the silliness of the Cult of Palin - and - on a positive note, Dashing Dasher. :)
B4l8r
Did any of the lawsuits against her from your side amount to anything?
You said you were going to ‘bow out’ for a while. Why are you back already?
Who are these cultists that you speak of? List them.
My side did not sue her. My side is pretty much your side except we believe inconsistency and therefore don’t worship any politician.
I can’t type that fast. Just look at most Palinista threads at FR.
Our next President, beautiful, as always. :-)
inconsistency = in consistency
There were more, but those were some of the better ones.
You see a lot of the same behavior as you do with obama’s lemmings.
Doubtless.
Make it a great day!
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