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Palin to step down as Alaska governor (Roundup)
Jul 3, 2009, 20:40 GMT
Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks to a gathering of the press after voting at the Wasilla City Hall in Alaska, USA on Election Day 04 November 2008. Palin announced that she will resign as Alaska\'s governor at the end of this month according to reports. According to a Palin spokesman Lieutenant Governor Sean Paul will be inaugurated in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA at the end of the month. EPA/CARL AUER
Washington - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was catapulted to national prominence as the Republican vice presidential candidate last year, will resign later this month, she said Friday.
In a televised press conference from her home in Wasilla, Alaska, she said she would hand over governing duties to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell on July 26 and instead work to 'affect positive political change outside of government.'
The move shocked national political commentators and raised questions about the reasons behind the move and her political future.
'I'm determined to take the right path for Alaska even if it's not conventional,' she told local reporters while surrounded by her husband, five children and members of her cabinet.
She said she had determined not to run for reelection in 2010 and thought it best to hand over power to Parnell rather than continuing in office for the remainder of her term.
Palin has remained in the national political spotlight since serving as running mate to Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Her name has been frequently mentioned by political commentators as a possible candidate to challenge President Barack Obama, a Democrat, 2012.
In the press conference, she detailed her administration's accomplishments but said the state had become distracted by outside attacks and ethics allegations against her that though proven false have cost the state thousands of dollars.
She also said the dialogue had become one of the 'politics of personal destruction' against her and her family.
Palin became a favourite of much of the Republican Party's conservative base, but also became a frequent subject of comedians. She was derided for lack of experience and her poor performance in a series of interviews before the election and attacked for her personal life, including the pregnancy of her unwed teenage daughter.
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She reportedly asked her kids :
- ''Hey, you want me to make a positive difference and fight for all our children's future from outside the governor's office?' It was four yeses and one 'Hell, yeah!' And the 'Hell, yeah' sealed it.'
This sounds exactly like a question any normal person would ask, don't it?
Sure it does.
Looks like Sexy Sarah finally managed to learn how to bridge that credibility gap that she kept widening every time she opened her mouth.
Look out for 'Palinator 12 : Rise Of The Morons' !
Spitfire
Maybe now Palin will have time to preach 'family values' to her own family, instead of to the rest of us. Goodbye 'Hillbilly From Wassila'. You won't be missed!
Yes out with you Palin, you religious whack-job!
Heck I feel so emboldened now, I might find courage enough to defame that other religious nut-case, what-ziz-name ... Orbarma.
Not running for a second term is dumb, not completing a big share of the first term is stupid, and explaining it in her hyper gibberish is insane.
Gibberish ?She was speaking in tongues,only SP4 seems to understands it,perhaps he will translate into plain english .
I think that Sara is not qualfied enough for any office of the us. She is more of a house wife. That is what she needs to focus on. Her children need her more than a career.
..after all, let's look at the president and what he ahs done with his extensive 149 day portfolio of experience:
9.5% unemployment, after he publicly stated his $3.4 trillion stimulus would cap it at 8%.
The Government Motors fools errand, cost Amerca at LEAST $75 BILLION, so far, with absolutely zero to show for it.
Kim, Chavez, Castro, President alphabet soup of Iran all crapping in his face on world TV.
Rising interest rates(people KNOW when your money is being devalued), falling currency values, a bond market voting with it's feet, dried up foreign investment.
No Marcum, the press is finally starting to measure this neophyte with LESS experience than Palin and the measuring stick is going to be brutal.
what does that have to do with Palin giving her latest hyper speech? Is she pg, did she finally realize she can't govern, is she starting a campaign for the next Presidential election, is she confused? Stay tuned for the latest in the Pathetic Palin saga.
Hey, Sh*t Pile, this site is not a bank where you deposit your crap. Leave it on Palin's doorstep, you sloppy wanker.
The perfect attire in which to give a resignation speech - a Carhart jacket!
What speech?Nobody could make sense of her ranting .Maybe SP4 did.
Hey SP4 did what she say make any sense ?Probably as little as your own rantings about Obama,Chavez and Clinton.
Go ahead SP,translate her speech in neocon english for us....if you can !!!!!!
You're right. It was described earlier as gibberish, which seems more appropriate. She talked in circles reminiscent of her campaign.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/04/AR2009070401452.ht ml
PALIN: 'I thought about, well, how much fun some governors have as lame ducks,' she said. 'They maybe travel around their state, travel to other states, maybe take their overseas international trade missions. So many politicians do that. And then I thought, that's what wrong . . . . They hit the road, they draw a paycheck, they kind of milk it, and I'm not going to put Alaskans through that.'
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That is a fundamental misunderstanding of the responsibilities of governing. Every president becomes a lame duck in their second term. The same for governors, since many are term-limited. Do they 'milk it,' as Palin put it, or do most continue working hard to the end to finish off their terms with real accomplishments?
Palin need only look back at the GOP's favorite president for an answer. Some of Ronald Reagan's most significant foreign policy accomplishments came in the final two years of his presidency. Most politicians would find offensive her description of how they spend their final year or two in office.
Palin is entitled to resign the office. But in disparaging others to justify her course, she has left herself open to legitimate criticism that she is walking away for the wrong reasons.
'One of the worst things a politician can do is reinforce the rap against her,' Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, said today in an email message. 'Resigning before her first terms is up gives ammunition to all her critics.'
Palin also cited the toll that life in the spotlight has taken on her and her family, and certainly it has been substantial. She talked about the relentless digging by political opponents and by the news media. She said she and her husband have accrued personal legal bills of half a million dollars from what she called frivolous ethics charges and 'silly accusations.' She said the state has spent millions on these probes.
Virtually all those complaints have been dismissed. She agreed to repay the state about $10,000 for questionable expenses involving trips with her children that were initially paid by the state. She was cleared of violating the law in the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, in the 'troopergate' investigation. But a special counsel found last October that she violated a state ethics law.
Palin hopes her resignation will bring all these investigations and questions to an end, and perhaps that will be the case. But is fear of frivolous accusations justification for resigning her office? If she decides to run in 2012, be certain that her rivals will question why she walked away when things got uncomfortable.
(She is a complete phony - a walking photo-op designed to appeal to the idiot-fringe on the right. Shame on McCain for falling for this ploy!)
Obama is diligently working through all the crap left on his doorstep.
Clinton left Bush a surplus, and Bush left Obama a starting deficit of 1.3 trillion.
Why not celebrate the 4th by sticking a rocket up your behind, and giving us all something to celebrate?
Judah whatzis can also just go away quietly.
Don't let reality hit you in the ass on the way out ...
OK 'King of all Liars lets look:
'9.5% unemployment, after he publicly stated his $3.4 trillion stimulus would cap it at 8%.'
Left to us by the worst administration in the last 70 years, got us in two unjust wars, sacrificed 4,000 US soldiers for nothing, created the biggest debt in the history of our country, let the banks do what they wanted without any oversight for 8 years, tried to take away the rights of everyday citizens, stepped all over the constitution and wiretapped US citizens, put all US soldiers in jeopardy by torturing POW's, etc., etc. Pretty hard to screw up things much more than when the Republicant's left.
'The Government Motors fools errand, cost Amerca at LEAST $75 BILLION, so far, with absolutely zero to show for it.'
Stupid, god you are stupid. It failed under the Republicant's, now they have to be saved by someone with a brain. Braid dead Republicant's could not figure out that one plus one is actually two.
'Kim, Chavez, Castro, President alphabet soup of Iran all crapping in his face on world TV.'
What exactly are you trying to say here? Not only can you not spell you can't put together a intelligent statement.
'Rising interest rates(people KNOW when your money is being devalued), falling currency values, a bond market voting with it's feet, dried up foreign investment.'
Foreigh inventment? In what you pinhead. Nothing left to invest in, the Republicant's lost everything when they hocked the country to China and outsourced all the good jobs to India. Friggin idiot!
'No Marcum, the press is finally starting to measure this neophyte with LESS experience than Palin and the measuring stick is going to be brutal.'
Palin was a loser when she was introduced, she is not only still a loser she is a quitter. She does not even have enough brains to know when she is hurting herself. Elected by people she claimed to want to serve then quit after two years---should have loser tattooed on her saggy chest.
SP4, to stupid to know when to STFU.
who claimed Palin would make a better president because she has more executive experience ?Turns out she quits because she can't handle being the governor of ,well....Alaska ?And then the speech she delivered,here is the recipe:take a lot of words,give them to a class of toddlers,have them glue it on a piece of paper in random order,empty your mind (piece of cake for her ),deliver the result to the audience.Now stand in the limelight as the lunatic fringe of the GOP marvels in delight at her so called courage.
Good riddance Palin,you outperformed even Nixon.
I love you liberal scum, you fight for nothing, but throw crap on a brave women. Now you have the spear point of liberal scum, Pelosi, Frank, and obama. Get what you deserve and you will. The jackels of the world are lining up to feast, NK is launching misslies, Iran is pissing on you, Sudan is killing Christians like its going out of fashion and you think you have won something. Sad little lib scum bags.
The world isn't any different than it's ever been - just different names.
Bush had a low of 4.7% unemployment, record tax receipts, record houseold wealth, freed 50 million from the worst chains of totalitarianism, all while the left undermined the mortgage market(read below..again). Now I will be patient, but the yardstick that measured Bush is coming to Obama and soon. When it is held up, just how do you think he's going to measure up?
Yes monkey boy you have backed a president and his minions who want to strip you of your search and seizure rights, feed corporate welfare on a scale that, compared to Bush has at least 5 more zeros in every figure ($75 bill for Gov't Motors...so far), and state that, if you're anything but black, the government can deal with you in bad faith. He has 5 unreturned serves with Iran, N. Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and is fast becoming the laughing stock of the world, a stinging lesson in the mistake of the libnazi to confuse love with respect. His promise to close gitmo was irresponsible due to his utter misunderstanding of the law.
This is the train you climed on Monkey boy, no surprise, since the concept of you actually having an opinion that is defendable is laughable.
Now run along and think about the yardstick coming. I can't WAIT for a Sara Palin or Joe the Plumber's next speech!
Oh yeah and this:
This was preventable.Sep 21st, 2008 - 01:59:13
John McCain predicted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crises, pushed 2005 legislation to prevent trouble:
The 'FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005' would have headed this off but it was killed in the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs by Chris Dodd who recieved the most money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
President Bush sought to rein in Fannie and Freddie in 2003.
The Democratic response to Bush in 2003:
“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
“I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.
The idiot SP4 breaks out his old lies to back up his 'made up' quotes, So sad old man that you are a like a lot the soldiers your administration sent off for no purpose---you don't have a leg to stand on. So sad....
I would rather see Judah Ben Hur Ambassador to the American Republic run for President in 2012 than former governer Palin..who should go back to being a small time mayor. Her ego is bigger than her daughters breasts!!!
Palin was given a little notoriety, and she ran with it. It went to her head bigtime, and she thinks she can play with the big boys. Well, she's in for a rude awakening.
To be fair, I must point out that Palin and her bunch, though retarded, are probably not any more corrupt than most politicians in the rest of the USA. It's only the isolation of Alaska that has led to her demise.
In any other state, most scandals just don't happen or there would be ten scandals a day. That's because in any other state, you know that if you blow the whistle on A, A will probably bring down B with him, who in turn most likely will bring down C.
C often happens to be someone who could bring YOU down, or one of your cronies, so the whistles remain, for the large part, unblown. That's in the contiguous US.
Not so up Alasky way, though! Palin is the Alpha Barracuda in those waters. There's barely a B and nary a C that might get pissed off at you and bring you down. Blast away!
As those scientologist assholes would say : Palin is 'Fair Game'. THe only game in town.
Spitfire
...it weeds out the weak...unless you're african american.
If Palin tries to run for President, it will be the biggest circus the US has ever seen with her hysterical theatrics and talking in circles without ever saying anything. People will fall for it the same as they did last year - for awhile. If all this nonsense was clothed in a different form - homely and overweight, she would get no where at top speed. Since she isn't, it will just delay her getting to the end a little longer.
'SP4: the best apert about US politics'
At least he can spell you bigot POS.
she is quitting to finally get an education. Maybe then she can understand how to speak, quit lying, raise children with a real set of values, and pass a third grade grammar test.
One less idiot to compete with HIS mouth
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JakeJul 3rd, 2009 - 22:18:58
By resigning,she's 'determined to take the right path for Alaska' - no truer words were spoken!
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