Posted on 01/26/2013 4:34:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When the history of US politics in the early 21st century is written, two figures will stand out: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
The election of Mr. Obama to the highest elective office – the first African-American to win the presidency – did not necessarily signal a new era of post-racial politics. But coming just a generation after federal troops in the South (and a federal judge in Boston) were necessary to desegregate public schools, it was a huge milestone.
Sarah Palin was not the first woman to win a major political party’s vice presidential nomination; that was US Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale’s running mate way back in 1984.
But the presence of the former Alaska governor on the GOP ticket headed by Sen. John McCain in 2008 invigorated the party – at the time, at least. And although they lost to Obama and Joe Biden, it wasn’t the blowout that Mondale and Ferraro suffered against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Ferraro went on to relative political obscurity, twice losing Democratic Party primaries for the US Senate. Ms. Palin, on the other hand, was just getting started when the returns for the 2008 presidential race were being counted.
Over the next few years, she became a political force of nature – stirring a tea party base that thronged to her appearances, scaring GOP incumbents deemed too willing to find common ground with Democrats, and building a very lucrative business that included (for one season, at least) her own “reality” TV show while launching one of her five children – daughter Bristol – on her own entertainment career.
Meanwhile, as with some other conservative ex-elected officials like Mike Huckabee, Palin was given a sinecure of sorts as a commentator for Fox News...
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So you're saying that snow-machine racing doesn't support itself and relies upon "gifts"?
Call me ex and tell her I’m a “feminist true believer”, she ought to get a chuckle out of that. So would my wife, come to think of it! As for the “anti-Christian attacker” that’s been the excuse for millions of Christians killed by others of the same faith.
Call it anything that you like, but advertising sponsorships are what make racing possible.
Lance Armstrong appreciates your support.
You are revealing yourself today:
1) Feminist true believer
2) Anti-Christian attacker
I'm going by your own words on this thread. Your anti-Christian attack is shocking.
Lance Armstrong appreciates your support.
Barack Obummer appreciates yours.
Is humblegunner an "anti-Christian attacker" for calling someone a snake-handler or is that just me because I hurt your feelings?
I'd appreciate you showing an instance of that.
I don't think you can. I think that you ascribe
bullshit motives to anyone who doesn't agree with you.
Show my support of Obama. Show it, you snotbag.
You can't, can you? You can only show a differing opinion on an unrelated topic.
You are therefor and hereby declared full of crap.
Crap-filled, overflowing with crappage, a sewage outlet you.
You cannot back up your garbage and thereby are LESS that a faulty sewage line.
Cheers, punk.
So where are YOUR books and clownshows and races and stuff?
You have none?
Well then you aren’t qualified to opine about Our Sarah.
Works both ways, Budreaux.
Whole sandwich, made by someone who didn’t quit.
Clicking through channels, I briefly saw Carl Rowan discussing gun control. Isn’t Rowan the guy who shot a young kid who invaded his backyard swimming pool on a hot night way back when?
I’m here to tell everyone to read your horrible posts on this thread embracing Feminism and your anti-Christian spew.
1) Feminist true believer
2) Anti-Christian attacker
Have you alerted the mods to my crimes, yet?
Carl wasn't all liberal bluff and bluster. He was worth listening to since he had ACCESS to the big dogs and occasionally would pass on some necessary nugget of knowledge.
BTW, working in America's most thoroughly integrated institution ~ the postal service ~ i learned to just whiz on by the de rigueur black nonsense these guys spew ~ which i gather bothers a lot of people not used to that sort o thing.
Look, they don't all believe all the stuff they come up with ~ but there's this street cred problem. They know the producers want to think they have a real black man on board ~ so they do the act.
I don’t want your revealing posts deleted.
I want everyone to know you’re a TROLL.
Trying to get my mind around that one but it's slipping a cog. What in the H does that mean?
Where in my post did I use the word “deleted” Donna? When you see things that aren’t there and hear things that no one said you might want to have that looked at, hon.
Let's let the readers decide what kind of person you are.
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