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Palin: I sneaked to Canada for healthcare [her family took bro to hosp, she was age 5]
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Posted on 03/08/2010 9:42:11 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Edited on 03/08/2010 1:01:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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To: Sub-Driver; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
What??? Something doesn’t sound right here... I don’t believe Sarah said this.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:50:59 AM PST
by
nutmeg
(Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
To: Sub-Driver
Cmon, SD. That was from a SNL Tina Fey sketch.
To: Sub-Driver
If true and accurate its not a parallel. She was in a remote town in Alaska which hardly has comparable medical resources as most major American cities in the lower 48.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:51:42 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: truthkeeper
Argh, on this I have some trouble believing it. I think I will wait on this. LOL
I am sure this sounds like something Biden would say.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:51:53 AM PST
by
dforest
To: Sub-Driver
Why in the world was it necessary to share this tidbit?
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:52:07 AM PST
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat veteran)
To: Lancey Howard
Maybe you are thinking Robert Zimmereman? aka Bob Dylan? Just guessing here.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:52:38 AM PST
by
byteback
To: Sub-Driver
A. Did she really say this?
B. Is it possible that her small Alaskan town didn’t have a doctor?
To: Sub-Driver
Waiting for some further corroboration and context. As presented, it sounds like a ridiculously, jaw-droppingly idiotic thing to say.
To: Sub-Driver
No results for Weigel or a said story about Palin on the source website.
Sounds bogus.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:52:50 AM PST
by
dasboot
To: AppyPappy; Sub-Driver
I think it is ironic because the Canadians are coming over here to use our health care systemI read it the same way: When she was growing up, Canada didn't have the socialist healthcare system it has today. Now they do.
But, her words will be twisted. I'm not a big fan of Palin, but she isn't treated fairly.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:53:01 AM PST
by
Tired of Taxes
(Dad, I will always think of you.)
To: indylindy
Rahm and his `creative team` have been busy... Last Friday, Chief Justice Roberts, today, Sarah P...
Better than a soap opera
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:53:05 AM PST
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: pgkdan
It was a joke, and the Left fell for it. She does this all the time just to keep them “wee-wee’d up”.
- JP
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:53:31 AM PST
by
Josh Painter
("We cannot spare this woman. She fights" - David Karki, regarding Sarah Palin)
To: Sub-Driver
I’m not a Palin fan, but I don’t buy this.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:53:47 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Sub-Driver
Smells like moose shit to me.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:54:22 AM PST
by
montyspython
("I don't believe in 'no win' scenarios." - James T. Kirk)
To: Sub-Driver
Sarah Palin’s family didn’t have to pay a dime in taxes for the Canadian healthcare system. Mexicans come to the United States for free medical care too.
To: Sub-Driver
This was probably before Canada’s world-class medical system was put into practice, if she was a child at the time.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:55:11 AM PST
by
redhead
(ALASKA; Step out of the bus and into the food chain.)
To: Sub-Driver
Yeah, she is approaching the Pope and the Vatican for being mis-represented. I would like to see the context of this.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:55:29 AM PST
by
ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
(To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
To: Sub-Driver
"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," she said, according to Medicine Hat News (via Dave Weigel.) "And I think now, isn't that ironic."
Palin has always struck me as an instinctive politician, not someone given to shooting herself in the foot. If she really said this, there's a smoking hole in her sneaker right now and she needs to clarify quickly.
To: indylindy
From "The Washington Independent" (Dave Weigel):
UPDATE: The Calgary Herald has a fuller, slightly different version of the quote:
"My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not this was in the 60s we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isnt that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
End of quote.
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:55:57 AM PST
by
truthkeeper
("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
To: Retired Greyhound
At the link from the link, it explains that she was living as a child in Skagway and that it was about 6 hours from there to Whitehorse in Yukon. One mention was for her brother who had burned himself. IT is a similar distance to Juneau from Skagway, but perhaps the terrain makes it more interesting to travel that way...
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posted on
03/08/2010 9:56:19 AM PST
by
stefanbatory
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