Sarah Palin's Hand Notes

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Sarah Palin's Hand Notes
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Tue, 02-09-2010 - 8:53am
She certainly is a piece of work, our Sarah. There she stands making a snide remark about the president's teleprompter speeches (what's unusual about that?), while she herself has notes etched into her hand like a 10th grader cheating on a science test.

She's the biggest piece of phoney-baloney to ever make it in front of a camera. 


 


Palin Hand Notes Are Alarming, Embarrassing
February 08, 2010 04:36 PM ET

By Mary Kate Cary, Thomas Jefferson Street blog


Take a look at Sarah Palin's hand here, on which she apparently wrote notes on in anticipation of being asked at the Tea Party convention what the priorities of a Republican congress should be. Her hand read: "Energy ... Tax cuts ... Lift American spirit." A few thoughts:


If she had written "bread ... milk ... eggs" on her hand, or even a phone number, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. And if, say, a congressman had written "pay the electric bill," we would have thought it was charming, like Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life tying strings on his fingers to remember to make the bank deposit. We're all forgetful, we all have a million things to do, and sometimes we write reminders on our hands. I understand that.


Unfortunately, Mrs. Palin didn't write down a reminder for an everyday errand. Instead she felt she had to write down basic political priorities, core issues for the GOP. That's the problem. Imagine if President Obama were at a similar Q&A session and the camera caught the words "Hope ... Change" on his hand.


At a certain age and at a certain professional level, it's really not cool to write the big stuff down on your hand. Yellow stickies, maybe. BlackBerry, maybe. But if you were sitting in your doctor's office after an exam, and saw that he'd written on his hand: "Diagnose Illness ... Write Prescription," you'd be more than alarmed.


If Sarah Palin was nervous about taking questions, she had a lot of options: She could have sat at a table with notes in front of her, stood at a podium with an outline, or even sat on the couch like she did, but with index cards in her hand. People do that all the time in panel discussions and ask-the-candidate forums. Like the Tea Party keynote speech she gave and her book before that, this incident shows that she doesn't care to take the time to be prepared, to engage in serious policy discussions, or even to rely on issue briefing materials before speaking. She booked this appearance months ago and knew that both her speech and Q&A would be highly anticipated by the media and voters. I'm not sure how many more times she can get away with it. But in the mean time it's embarrassing.

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Registered: 02-20-2007
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 11:03am
That's the Sarah "Failin'" we're used to seeing. A phoney from the git go, and a nightmare to even consider leading a state, much less an entire nation. Her elevator certainly doesn't go to the top floor.
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Registered: 08-30-2002
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 12:45pm

If she runs in 2012, and actually wins, America gets what it deserves. A cheerleader, mean girl, who let's her jock boyfriend help her decide what to do. I am truly amazed by the following this woman has. But then again, I'm amazed by the following Rush has too.


Teachers are calling the kids they teach now The Twitch Generation, because they have such short attention spans, and can't stay focused. They need to be constantly refocused onto something new, or entertained, to keep them interested. (You gotta admit Sarah is entertaining, if nothing else, in a kind of



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Registered: 01-22-2010
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 1:29pm

The Twitch Generation. That's interesting. I guess it's because everything around them moves so fast - TV, computers, video games, even for many kids their very lives are unstable and constantly changing.


When I was little my parents made a yearly trek from Maryland to Florida (before we moved there) each summer to visit friends.

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Registered: 02-20-2007
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 1:30pm
The Twitch Generation......now THAT'S a new one. I agree with everything you said.
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Registered: 08-30-2002
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:15pm

I remember those car trips too. I actually did some of my best imagining on car trips.


We don't have a TV, so dd has learned to entertain herself really well. We do have a computer and netflix. We have let her have some NickJr and PBSKids, so she wouldn't be a complete freak when she started Kindy. LOL. She at least knew who Dora, Diego and the Backyardigens were. She only gets 1/2 hour a day.



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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:16pm

My DD & I were laughing about this last night.


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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:31pm

Yep.


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Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:36pm

 

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Registered: 02-20-2007
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 2:55pm

After reading how a lot of you restricted the TV time for your kids to almost nothing, I feel a little strange. We monitored what our kids were allowed to watch, mind you, but as long as their chores and homework were finished, I didn't put limits on how much TV they could watch. They turned out just fine, so I have no regrets about how we raised them. I guess as long as the parents are happy with the final product, it doesn't really matter how we got there.


Both of them love to read, and are techy freaks. I agree with those not in favor of DVD players in cars......totally unsafe IMHO. Music to listen to, and the landscape outside to gaze at, make for a great ride.


Did anyone used to play the "love bug" game? Whoever saw a VW first got to slug the other people in the car......


Growing up, we played outside each and every day....rode bikes everywhere, played hide n seek, kick the can, played a game called "grass tag" that I invented......:) One person was "it", and everyone else took off running....they had one minute.....and then the person that was "it" had to find them anywhere within the entire square block of our house.....you were eliminated if you were caught with your feet touching the grass or tagged while on concrete or dirt, etc. We would play that game for hours on end. We all turned out pretty good....well, according to my DW, everyone but moi!

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Registered: 11-17-2009
Tue, 02-09-2010 - 3:46pm

Hand notes? That's a problem now? Oh, please! What do you care?

Wow...she is such a threat to liberals. How ridiculous to make an issue out of her jotting notes on her hand. Who cares?? Really, who?

I guess liberals are frustrated that people actually gather around to listen to her. She is listening to the people as well (unlike our current administration).

Obama and the democrats should take a few pointers from her. It isn't about Obama. It's not about Pelosi, Reid, and any other democrat. It isn't even about Sarah Palin. It's about the people and what they want.

Obama and congress have failed (and continue to fail) to listen to the people. Instead of listening, they have ridiculed, mocked and insulted people opposed to their far left ideology. People don't want the 2000 page trillion dollar healthcare reform fiasco. They didn't want the $700 billion "stimulus" (pork) spending bill. They don't want cap and trade legislation.

Dems had better start listening....or November will be a rude surprise.

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