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
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
“It may be unlikely that the Trumka-Palin feud will have what they call a Hollywood ending”
Thank goodness the editorial ended with this disclaimer. I feared the writer was going to somehow concoct a scenario in which (the lovely) Sarah Palin falls into arms of (the fugly) Richard Trumka.
There are folks here that do.
If you’re not one of them, don’t worry about it.
You didn’t need to post at all. But no, you’re possessed. See how that works? Now, you’ve had your attention fix. You really need to take Jim’s advice. He leveled with you.
The irony of you posting anyone as “woman of the year” isn’t lost on anyone here...........
Yes, he has. He can also ban me at anytime. Think of the fun you’ll have dancing on my FR grave.
Hilarious.
Your screen name is synonymous with disruption.
No sane person could see your first post and see it as anything else...and your subsequent posts bear it out.
"Chick Of The Year?" Flamebait...and disrespectful...but who would expect anything else from you...the guy who doesn't think women should have the right to vote?
Did you know Michele Bachmann calls herself congressman, not congresswoman. Interesting, huh?
The point is, there’s no need to worry about Sarah either.
Chick is now disrespectful? ROFL
With your hate-filled vitriol, most here would be pissing on your FR grave! LOL
List 'em.
Gonna support the Mittster again when Sarah drops out, MENSA?
I really don't wnat you to be banned.
Being put in the FReeper museum might be a better place....
:-)
LOL. Right, and no “may be unlikely” = Not a chance!
It's absolute baloney.
And you're a Concern Troll.
Show me where I said that. Might be a long search.
Stop playing victim. I don’t want you banned. Just calm the hell down and get real.
Dear Jim,
Please follow through and remove pissant and his can of black spray paint.
Please.
LOL, pissy - you are livin’ in one demented world.
Joe Biden, is that you?
LOL!!!
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