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Palin On Not Revealing Whether She Voted For Ted Stevens: "I Am Exercising My Right To Privacy"

Sarah Palin, asked a few moments ago in Wasilla, Alaska who she voted for in her state's Senate race, said:

I am also exercising my right to privacy and I don't have to tell anybody who I vote for. Nobody does, and that's really cool about America also.

In other hockey-mom-related news, Paul Krugman shares this lovely sighting:

On my way to teach, this morning: "Vote for the hero and the hottie." Yes, it was on a pickup truck.

Deep thought: If Obama wins, we won't have to listen to hottie anymore.


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I can't wait for the clock to strike midnight on this lady.

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You and me both.

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You and me both.

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You and me both.

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I triple that emotion

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I'd be happy if she could find in the US Constitution the Right to Privacy. Because if she does, gay get married everywhere. If she does, abortion is legal and unrestricted everywhere. If she does, the state has no right in inquire as to your gender, so women finally have equal rights...

"Right to privacy" for Palin means "I don't have the courage or brains to stand by my conscience and explain myself." It only underscores that she hasn't explained herself in any way, to anyone, since being nominated.

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Beat me to it.

I love when GOP wusses suddenly discover their "right to privacy" when they are doing something fucked up, but never seem to find it when the courts want the government kept out of our bedrooms or out of womens reproductive systems.

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Holy feckless originalists, Batman! Where in the penumbras of the Bill of Rights is this right to privacy?!

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Didn't mean to post three times but it does highlight how much she sickens me.

If she such a reformer and a maverick, one would think that she would do the mavericky, reformery thing and vote against corruption.

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That's okay, Camus. The 3 posts are appropriate. You know the old saying - political deaths come in threes.

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I don't know. It's pretty Mavericky to not answer a basic question about who you support in another election... Ok, I just threw up on myself.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

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Not if her goal is to reform government so that corruption isn't corruption but standard operating procedure.

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I'm trying really, really hard to think of a humorously snarky thing to say about her, but all that comes out is how much I HATE this bitch. Deep cleansing breath. . .

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Co-sign...

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Thirded.

BTW, Nate has downgraded Mcnasty chances down to 1.1% today.

Go Obama and exile the hottie to the coldest place on earth.

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The nodes are working overtime! Nodes for Obama!

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Voted in Anchorage today. Did not vote for Stevens. Did not vote for Palin. Did not vote for Young.

I did my part.

I am sure that Palin voted for Stevens. She is hoping he will get elected, then step down, then she will be nominated to the Republican ticket as the candidate against Begich. She will then win by a landslide and become our next Senator for Life. At least that's the Republican plan.

You have no idea how it feels to live in Alaska where the majority of the people think Palin is fantastic. I get to look forward to at least two more years of her folksy "explanations" and leadership. I think she will be re-elected. That would be six more years of the Moose Whisperer.

All of you reading this, please, please, please NEVER let her run anything EVER. EVER....

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I thought with all the abuse of power issues she would have dropped in her popularity there.

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It helps to have paid off the populace by increasing their oil revenue checks by $1,000 per year per person. Fortunately that doesn't work on everyone, unfortunately, it works on most...

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A not guilty verdict by a Kangaroo Court of her own appointees has no legal footing or precedence.

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So a board filled with people she appointed says she did nothing wrong. How shocking!!

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Almost as shocking as a board of political opponents said the opposite.

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Now that oil is 63 a barrel and no more 1500 per person checks will be rolling out, maybe she won't be so popular in Alaska. And when they come back in January, the legislature will consider her guilt or innocence again... Palin's future is bleak in American politics but I wouldn't want her to be inflicted on Alaska either. Maybe someone will offer her a AM radio show or something to get her out of politics all together. Maybe I could fool her with a streaming podcast and tell her it's a big national radio syndicate? She is that dumb. She is so dumb, she says on the phone while the president of France (or so she think) gets off on some horny talk, smiles while the president of Pakistan fondles her hand... Alaska can do better. I bet she is out of politics entirely in a year.

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You mean the majority of Republicans on the panel who voted her guilty?

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So Palin believes in a "right to privacy?" The same right that serves as the foundation to the holding in Roe v. Wade?
She is truly incredible.

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repugs alway reinterpret the laws to suit their specific understanding of what the law actually means to them.

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Because every first year law student knows "Right to Privacy = Right to Kill Babies."

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Depends if you get your law degree from a honest university or a haphazard, calliope of a religious sect attempting reinterpret the law to suit the religious beliefs.

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The point is people can believe there is a right to privacy and disagree with Roe vs Wade. You can actually believe that abortion should be legal and disagree with Roe vs. Wade.

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But that's not what you said.

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Uh, no they don't.

What law school did you go to?

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The first one was sarcasm, the second was my legal opinion.

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You can try to believe that there is a Right to Privacy that doesn't' extend to Roe, but it's a logical breakdown, Wallace.

Privacy is privacy. A right is a right - and either women in this country have an equal right to privacy in their bodies as men or there is No Right to Privacy.

D'oh!

You can't do that, either.

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I can explain why if you like - it's because the Constitution isn't read in discrete pieces - it's read together.

Equal Protection says that if there is a right to privacy in this country it extends to everyone.

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Sorry, but when something isn't spelled out explicitly in the Constitution (and even when it is now that I think about it...look at the 2nd Amd.) it's subject to interpritation. You, and a lot of others, have an opinion on where the Right to privacy stems from and to what it extends, other honest and intelligent people can have differing opinions. That's why there are ballot iniciatives and legal challenges and lower court rulings and courts upholding or over ruling challenges. Just because it's the pervailing opinion of the day doesn't mean it will remain so, or we'd still be living with Plessy vs. Fergeson.

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So is she saying that there is a Right to Privacy. The Supreme Court used this to legalize....abortion and gay sex in Texas, and it could be used to make warrant-less wiretapping illegal.
That's the beauty of stupidity, its consistently inconsistent.

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No, she's saying SHE has a right to privacy. What makes you think these rights you speak of apply to anyone but the Chosen Ones?

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Some are more equal than others.

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Yup that applies to pro-America areas only.

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deep breaths! It's just Palin opening her mouth.

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Then for Heaven's sake don't recommend deep breaths! Won't her exhalation be poisonous to humans?

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warrantless wiretapping IS illegal.

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So, yes, she voted for Stevens.

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She hopes Stevens gets elected so she can take his Senate seat when he has to resign and get into Washington. There would be a special election held to replace Stevens, but I think Palin would be a shoo-in to win it. She's going to be bored and unhappy up in Alaska after living the celebrity life the last two months and being a real Washington power player. As Senator she could start building/padding her resume for a run again in four years.

If she's up in Alaska, she's out of Washington and missing out on all of the backroom power plays. She'll also be out of the National media eye - I wonder how she plans to keep a national profile. Probably a lot more State sponsored trips to Washington and Fox News interviews.

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Hopefully all of this becomes moot with a Begich win today.

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I love how she (being stupid) thinks we are stupid as well. You know when a kid does something they know they aren't supposed to do and you ask "Did you do this?", and they give you the "I don't know.", or the out and out lie? The Republicans always go with the "I don't know." It is easier to drum up privacy or ignore things all together and hope it goes away. Right to privacy...what joke. This will be her next argument about her medical records and why the full medical records only show she had 4 children.

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SHE.MAKES.ME.SICK.

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I'm so looking forward to her not being heard from again.

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On my way to teach, this morning: "Vote for the hero and the hottie." Yes, it was on a pickup truck.

You know, Joe Biden seems like a swell guy, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he's a hero.

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Maybe not, but Obama is certainly a "hottie".

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No, Obama's the hero. Biden's the hottie. (Well, I'm sure at least Jill thinks so.)

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Well that would make it two losers that she voted for...

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Surprised she didn't call it "Executive Priviledge" for her and the Toddster!

Hey, if you ask her questions like that, she'll threaten to pull your license (like she did to NBC on SNL last night)!

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I suspected as much on the prank call when they clued her in she had just been pranked and she demanded to know their station's call letters.

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Of course, she needs to be reminded that she has no power to do just that. I know she was kidding, but I just would not be surprised if she did think a President or VP has that power.

She reminds me of a female John Hurt in V FOR VENDETTA!

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Seeing how the Alaska Constitution and the Legislature is so porous in legaleze, she probably doesn't have the power to shutdown a radio or TV station on a whim.

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Three words for the not-so-hottie:

Dustheap. Of. History.

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"Nobody does, and that's really cool about America also."

You know what else is really cool about America?

It doesn't like you.

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Sorry, I have to amend that:

It doesn't like you, also.
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There is this right, you know, a fundamental right, we have as Americans also, to do this what we have is a right to privacy in America, this great country, also. So, I don't have to disclose this information that I'm protecting even though you coveted it also. Therefore when you ask for the information, I have to say, you know, I'm not going to tell you.

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She's going to get to exercise that right to privacy in a Big Way starting tomorrow.

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Three words for the not-so-hottie:

Dustheap. Of. History.

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In a strange and ironic way, the resounding defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket may prove the existence of God. You know, delivering us all from evil.

Or, something…

/snark

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The word from SRV, my prophet: The Sky Is Cryin'. A perfect song for Ms. Suino Volto Senza Scrupoli.

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Hey, I'd LOVE to vote for a "hero and a hottie"! Someone let me know when Ralph Hinkley and Jessica Biel run for office.

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Hey, I'd LOVE to vote for a hero and a hottie. Someone let me know when Ralph Hinkley and Jessica Biel run for office.

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Just heard on CNN in my car that some 86,000 voter complaints have hit CNN so far this morning, some about voter suppression, but most about the voting machines malfunctioning.

How f***ing hard is it to have a normal election day??? I'm sooooo glad most of the states are solely using scanned ballots today, but most battleground states are still using the malfunctioning machines. GRRRRR!!!!

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Perhaps the next Congress will take the time to establish voting standards for all state to adhere to so people and machine fuck-ups will become a thing of he past.

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Just do it like SAT's are analyzed - use a #2 pencil to darken the circles, scan the paper and voila...DONE! You get a papertrail and very, very little chance of machine malfunction.

But, you see, that's too easy for most states, so they prefer the "convenience" of voter machines that have just worked to such perfection each election cycle so far!

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And don't forget the cost for the new technology too! How else can they justify the increase in taxes to pay for the equipment, software, technical servicing, and program analyst if they use old antiquated technology that requires little to no upkeep or expense?

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Had trouble in San Francisco of all places. Got ahold of a local place to call and reported the problem, they were right on it. I even called back and she assured me it was being addressed.

Virginia machines were malfunctioning and there were no printed ballots which is required by law. And I might add, at none of the places I have heard about (SF included) were there any attorneys nor was Obama's site any help. The line went dead when I called.

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Yeah, Virginia poll workers were asked earlier why there were no paper ballots - one said they didn't anticipate that much of a crowd today.

WHAT??????

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I noticed in the video of her voting this morning that she was back to her jeans and Carhart hoodie. It's probably not politically correct for her to wear those pricey designer clothes in Wasilla today.

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She'd get mugged by the local Lady's Auxiliary Club in a heartbeat!

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I voted in Wasilla today at Palin's precinct, I wore my designer winter coat without shame - she's disingenuous. No women should be 'ashamed' to be who she is and wear what she would normally wear - Palin is a sellout.

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I'm going to bounce and run errands. so I can get back here and stay. I don't know if this site will still be operating when I get back - it's wacky already.

Later.

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Just ran across this Obama ad from yesterday.  Paul Simon sings a stanza from his American Tune...


I don't know a soul who's not been battered.
I don't have a friend who feels at ease.
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees.
But it's all right, it's all right,
For we lived so well so long.
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong.
I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong.

Seems appropriate to the last eight years.

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The pickup truck comment gets my goat! This is the second time I have had to defend pickup trucks today. I have a Harley sticker on my pickup right next to the Obama Pride sticker.

Queers(*) for Obama!

(*) Don't get your undies in a bunch... it's like the n-word, we can call ourselves that if we want! :-P

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For anyone who cares - I am a male and I don't understand Palin's rep as a "hottie". If she has some sort of female charms, I am immune to them. Even if I had never heard her voice or her inane babblings, her countenance gives me the creeps. Bad vibes!

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This has been one of the ongoing mysteries of her candidacy to me. Setting aside the shrill voice, the fakey accent, and most of all, the totally repugnant politics, she's still—at best—an entirely ordinary looking woman. And there's something very pinched about her facial features. She's certainly trim and physically fit, but all those Repugs going on about how "hot" she is makes me think that they just don't get out much.

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Perhaps she's a hottie by the standards set by the typical Republican woman, which ranges from cute local weather girl to Margaret Thatcher's ugly sister.

We non Relpublicans apparently have a natural resistence to it.

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RedMolly:
The Thrilla from Wasilla is now the Disaster from Alasker.

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Now Michelle Obama is a hottie

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If you guys aren't on msnbc.com's live feed yet, do so - Virginia's voting machines are running amuck and the lines are growing while they try to keep things running smoothly.

Ironic, this is all happening in the one state Obama needs right off the bat to clinch early.

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If the landslide is in the cards, as everyone seems to feel, it won't matter. I've been looking at various 270-wins and think Obama can still hit the magic number without Virgina, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida. Just have to shift priorities.

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Look for Obama to win the following: Mi,NH,VT,Ct,RI,Ma,NY,NJ,De,Md,DC,Oh,Mi,Il,Wi,Mn,Ia,Co,Nm,Ca,Or,Wa,and HI for 272 electoral votes. So if there are any major fuckups,like Florida in 2000, Obama can still slide to victory without them.

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Hey, you forgot Maine. We're' doing our part here.

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Read it without the "also"s. It sounds like English.

Her syntax is the most annoying thing to me. Well that and her arrogant lack of intellectual curiosity.

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Thank God, only a few hours remain between Palin and Obscurity.

Oh, did I mention?

I voted for my president today.

That's right. Not just a president but my president.

It feels like Ice Running Down My Spine. Pretty Special.

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Yeah, I just watched Nanooki of the North say, "..and that's what's really cool about America, also."

Nah..what's really cool about America is that they're going to consign this refugee from a really bad Archie comic to the ash-heap of history, where she belongs.

All over soon. I can stop chain-smoking and biting my nails. In fact, I haven't got any nails left to bite so I've been biting the cat's nails, after my wife refused to co-operate. Women...I'll never understand them.

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When Obama wins let's hope we hear LOTS MORE from The Hottie, in Jesus Name we pray...Amen

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Too close to Halloween, she'll be baaaacckkk....

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I am also exercising my right to privacy.

So Sarah believes in a right to privacy, as long as it ends at the doctor's office???

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Also....she says "also" a lot...

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Palin uses 'also' to mean: "..and in addition to the meaningless, uniformed drivel I've already spouted, I'd like to add some even more insipid, ignorant drivel. You betcha."

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I drove to the polls in my pickup in TEXAS and voted for Obama this morning. So, let's not dog on appearances.

I can't wait to celebrate a new day and the end of the Palin era, also. I don't know if I'm more excited about having an extraordinary person in the highest office of the land or that the politics of enforced stupidity will be repudiated (for the moment). I'm pretty sure it's the former with the latter being a lucky strike extra.

Tomorrow we get to tell the Joe the Plummers, the phony heroes, and the hockey-pitbulls that we appreciate their energy, but we'll take it from here. And before too long, you'll be glad we did and will want to pitch in. Call me a romantic, but this is what it's about. We must unite and we must learn to like each other even when we can't agree.

This is a momentous day and I've been on the verge of tears for hours. When they announce Virginia and Pennsylvania for Obama, they'll come rushing forth.

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Video of her interview.

Check out that body language of failure: shrug, shrug, shruggy, shrug, shrug...

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Wow, she looks beat.

She looks like she can't wait for it to be all over so she can go back to bein' Alska's Redistributor in Chief, also.

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Right to privacy? You mean that made up right fabricated by an activist SCOTUS and used to legislate legal abortion from the bench? That right to privacy?

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"I'll always be Sara from Alaska" WTF? Is that like Jenny from the 'hood?

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I'm from Alaska and the way she said that sounded like she wished she could say she was "Sarah from somewhere else".

Most Alaskans have a love/hate relationship with their home state, (the long winter wears on one's soul after a decade or so) - as a lifelong Alaskan I will always be extremely proud to be 'from Alaska' even when I don't live here anymore =-).

Sadly, the kind of Alaska I grew up in seems to be sailing away, with Sarah at the helm of that ship. The true independent spirit sprinkled with mutual respect has been overshadowed by bizarre and creepy loyalist rhetoric simply because someone running for VP happens to be from here - used to be we supported people who deserved it for reasons more substantive than a local address.

Her only accomplishment was to give $500 million to a Canadian gas line company to build a Canadian gas line meant to employ Canadians - Alaska first my ass. No one is even doing the most minimal of paperwork on that project - leave it to the big oil companies to actualize a project of that importance with the Denali gas line project.

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It is too bad that she won't really be gone. Just this morning I read that one of her supporters predicted that she would "at least run for President". It was the "at least" part that made me shiver--is she aiming for something more powerful than President?

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She will run for President like Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan, as a gimmick to get broadcasting or speaking jobs. First she has to learn to speak.

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Passive aggression is annoying behavior in 5-year-olds. In adults, it's just plain unbecoming. Not a great faith-builder in her leadership abilities.

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Upon further reflection:

Palin was pretty quick to share her views on Prop 4 right before her nomination.

Prop 4 being the anti-mining initiative that she came out 'against'? So much so they used official state websites to promote her opinion, (the whole thing caused a lot of uproar, very unseemly for a sitting governor to come out for or against an initiative - let the voters decide is the usual course).

Funny in a not-so-ha-ha way that she was happy to share her views on that when Alaskans were about to vote on it and her opinion could sway so many.

She's not a leader, she's the worst kind of follower.

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amazing... all you americans with guns and noone seems to know how to use one properly :D

ohhhh RELAX! im JOKING - i would never suggest seriously that palin ought to be shot... sheeeesh!

car bomb would be way better....

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A cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.

Palin may fade from view after tomorrow so be careful what you wish for, people, you might get it (and think of all the entertainment valus that would disappear with her).

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Palin will resurface as the successor to Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy and the Far Right crowd. People like SFC Wallace and the Tim McVeigh crowed will continue to believe in her, that's about it.

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