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Media simultaneously savaged Sarah Palin, protected Barack Obama
The Augusta Chronicle ^ | March 6, 2011 | Lee Benedict

Posted on 03/05/2011 10:07:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin was the only major party candidate on the 2008 ballot with executive experience.

Palin was the chief executive of a state canvassing more than 586,000 square miles -- Texas has 269,000 -- that borders Canada and Russia, with a budget of $6.6 billion. Approximately 85 percent of Alaska's budget hinges on oil production. Her resume includes being chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Soon after becoming governor, Palin sold the state's private jet for $2.1 million that her predecessor purchased and billed Alaskans for. She defeated that sitting Republican governor in a primary.

Palin used the line-item veto to quash $260 million of Alaska's proposed budget for capital projects -- pork -- to which the Anchorage Daily News said, the cuts "may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history."

The media never reported her stewardship. It did, however, deploy a brigade of investigators to Alaska to search for proverbial dirt, finding none. They attempted to create a national controversy over the origins of her campaign clothing. The Republican National Committee purchased designer clothes for her since she is neither ostentatious nor vain, and did not possess $600 shoes or $2,500 dresses as Jill Biden and Michelle Obama have long demanded.

PALIN'S WARDROBE was more vital to the selection of the free world's leader than the Democratic nominee's history and close personal relationship with Bill Ayers, Larry Sinclair, Donald Young, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and others that the media spun away, if reported at all.

President Obama lived part of his life as Barry Soetoro, and reportedly used more than a dozen Social Security numbers. Obama claims to have been born in Hawaii of two U.S. citizens -- we know they were not -- but has refused to prove he is a natural-born citizen.

He and his campaign has spent approximately $2 million fighting to keep this matter out of court. But Palin's clothing and foreign policy experience took center stage.

For a certified copy of vital records, according to the Hawaii State Department of Health, one must submit an application and pay "$10 for the first copy of each certificate, and $4 for each additional copy of the same certificate ordered at the same time."

Granted, spending $2 million and counting, vs. filling out an application and cutting a check for $10, may seem normal for Democrats. But the media harangues the Palins to this day, yet refuses to report truth regarding Obama.

Moreover, three years of Obama's life are unaccounted for. The media fix was in from day one. For confirmation, compare the media's treatment of an executive seeking the office of vice president to its treatment of a U.S. senator of 138 days seeking the office of president.

The horrible shootings in Arizona prompted the media and others to literally blame Palin for an unstable individual's actions. Soon after that tragedy, on Jan. 23, the Missoula Children's Theater in Montana was performing The Mikado. The director added a scene calling for Palin's beheading.

I once thought that the media has a seething hatred for this woman. Now I am convinced that those who are obsessed with her demise are afraid of her resolve and character, which causes her to be a positive role model.

PALIN HAS A STRONG executive record of nonpartisan governance and doing what she believed to be right, from which Alaska benefitted, thereby making her a threat to those who make their living and receive gratification by controlling others.

She has endured some of the most heinous media attacks in history, and I ask: Why? What has she done to warrant any of it? Who in all of recorded history has received such unwarranted or warranted venomous attacks? Eliot Spitzer gets a television program. Jim McGreevey is forgotten. Ted Kennedy is idolized. Sarah Palin? Demonized. What is the media's true objective?

Media reports labeled her "unqualified." This mother of five, bottom line, is a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense, commonsense American who has governed honorably America's largest state.

Palin hunts and brings food home, and with four generations of Heaths and Palins, prepares the bounty for storage.

Palin is pro-life, and proved it when she did not murder her unborn son via an abortion after doctors claimed he has Down syndrome. She walks her talk, and the Sarah Palins of the world rely on themselves, not government programs, and their happiness and prosperity is not mandated by Washington, D.C.

She is a strong woman with convictions and a belief in the U.S. Constitution, and the American will and spirit of the Founders that cannot, and will not, be broken -- regardless of what the bitter media sends her way.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; freepressforpalin; hightechstoning; msm; naturalborncitizen; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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Hear, hear!
1 posted on 03/05/2011 10:07:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PING


2 posted on 03/05/2011 10:12:21 PM PST by USSR Didnt Fall
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BRAVO ZULU!!!


3 posted on 03/05/2011 10:12:30 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is incredibly accurate and shows that our Media is a bunch of lying Marxists sympathetic to anything anti-American.


4 posted on 03/05/2011 10:16:49 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm tempted to send this to Canadian "friends" of ours who became naturalized 10+ years ago, have lived in the US over 40 years....but, voted for Obama...and derisively laughed at Palin....and tell them...

You weren't born here....so you probably do not understand the true American resolve...which so characterizes Palin, AND many of US.

But, my husband would probably be really mad at me.

5 posted on 03/05/2011 10:18:13 PM PST by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; pissant
She is a strong woman with convictions and a belief in the U.S. Constitution, and the American will and spirit of the Founders that cannot, and will not, be broken -- regardless of what the bitter media sends her way.
The bitter media and bitter li'l pissants
6 posted on 03/05/2011 10:43:18 PM PST by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She has endured some of the most heinous media attacks in history, and I ask: Why? What has she done to warrant any of it?

Just ask the Pisser, Pissant. If Sarah even changes her clothes this “conservative” will find a million ways to trash her on Free Republic.

I am sick of it. right here on the greatest conservative round table we have to tolerate such blatant stupidity because ???

I too love Michelle Bachmann but do not need to trash every other conservative. He seems to do it only to protect what seems to be nothing more then his lust for Michelle.

They're both gorgeous. So what.

7 posted on 03/05/2011 10:47:37 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: liberty or death; pissant

You take the jester way too seriously. Screw him, he is just a pissant.


8 posted on 03/05/2011 10:50:34 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other news, water is wet, and hippies reek of bacteria and patchouli.


9 posted on 03/05/2011 11:02:09 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The MSM is the Fifth Column. They are enemies of our republic.

Sound like wild-eyed hyperbole? Then explain what they've been doing.

10 posted on 03/05/2011 11:02:44 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: liberty or death

I hope they both run. It will turn the primaries upside down. I’ve always thought that Palin was Bachman’s stalking horse.


11 posted on 03/05/2011 11:03:50 PM PST by des
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Either would be great. I’m just sick and tired of Idiots attacking true conservatives over manufactured issues. The same tactic could be used on Bachmann but there’s no one like pissant on here who is small minded enough to attack his new pet. It’s just getting so old having to tolerate infighting that has zero purpose. I can see going after the MittBotts and HuckFools because neither is a freedom loving conservative. But! both Michelle and Sarah are so take the battle elsewhere.


12 posted on 03/05/2011 11:15:13 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: going hot

It’s why I call him the pisser. But every now and then his blind attacks on anything other then his pet just pisser me off. It was Hunter last cycle and now its Bachmann. Who I guarantee I gave more to in $$$ then he or she did.

I love the Bach. But I absolutely hate people like Pisser with 1/4 inch tunnel vision.


13 posted on 03/05/2011 11:22:49 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the sky is blue...


14 posted on 03/05/2011 11:24:29 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: des

Either way, we will demand a TRUE CONSERVATIVE from the GOP in 2012, no RINO country-clubbers! I LOL at the thought of stupid Commies trashing Palin, while Bachman winds up winning the election! Either way, the Communists are THROUGH!!! We would be well served by Secretary of State Palin, IMO:)


15 posted on 03/05/2011 11:28:20 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: liberty or death

To: 1rudeboy
Unless the last name is Thatcher, slim chance I’d be pushing a chick for prez.

11 posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 1:17:04 PM by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: 1rudeboy
Since I don’t think they should even be able to vote, what makes you think I’d want one as CIC.

13 posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 1:20:02 PM by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2557810/posts?page=13#13


16 posted on 03/05/2011 11:32:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great article. I agree with it wholeheartedly.

But let’s get her a speaking coach, so she can get through an unscripted interview without stumbling and bumbling. It’s unfortunate that people make snap judgements based on things like that, but they do. It won’t do us any good if we can’t get her elected.


17 posted on 03/06/2011 12:22:49 AM PST by Scutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin was the only major party candidate on the 2008 ballot with executive experience.

This simply isn't true. John McCain, like him or hate him, was a Captain in the United States Navy and was the commanding officer of the Navy's largest squadron of aircraft. By any definition of the word, a Military Command is 'executive experience.'

18 posted on 03/06/2011 12:28:37 AM PST by freedomwarrior998
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I think that’s already happening. Noticing a big improvement from month-to-month. Did you see her interview with Ted Baxter?


19 posted on 03/06/2011 12:28:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: freedomwarrior998

Many don’t count that, who knows why?. Heck, my time as a section and squad leader in the military, as well as vice president of a medium-sized company in the private sector means I have Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden beat.


20 posted on 03/06/2011 12:31:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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