O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game

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Registered: 10-08-2008
O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:40pm
That's gotta hurt (video).

Especially since it occurs to me that this won't run in the "politics" or "national" section of the paper (though it may run there as well, after getting this kind of attention), but in the SPORTS section, where typically not-very-political folks hang out alongside their more-political brethren. The injection of this story into the sports world may be one of the few glimpses of politics that some segment of the electorate which doesn't bother reading those stories usually will get this season. And it wasn't pretty.

Especially when you consider some of the write ups. Here's Forbes, not exactly a buncha commies:

Palin Gets Booed in Philly! This is sure to be the headline splashed across television and newspapers Sunday morning, the day after the Republican Vice Presidential candidate and hockey mom from Alaska drops the puck at the ceremonial face-off for the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener on Saturday night at the soon-to-need-a-name-change Wachovia Center. What will be missing from the news: the jeers were deserved.


Ow. That's gonna sting. Even the AP, while not identifiable as a conservative or pro-business outlet in the way that Forbes is, said the following...which (unlike Forbes) will be read in dozens of papers around the country tomorrow:

Palin was booed when she first stepped on the ice before the Flyers' home opener against the New York Rangers to drop the ceremonial first puck. Palin, the Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom," is trying to turn Pennsylvania into a red state.


Someone not long ago wrote up a post here about the "bloom being off the rose?"

I think they were right....just not about the right candidate.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:12am
You will persist in your odd version of reality. Have fun with it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-10-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:34am
Unfortunately for libs...my "odd" version of reality...is reality. ; ) Try it some time.
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Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:35am
Why should that surprise you, considering what has been stated on here?
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:46am

((She was with her two girls and how awful for them to be with her during that.))


I haven't read through yet, but did anyone else think that Sarah took her daughters out with her for sympathy...David Shuster thought she did it to "mute" the boos? Are we cynical or do you think that Sarah uses her children as political shields?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 3:22am
Not really, but like I said, have a nice time with it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 6:14am

((Yes, then imagine being a teenage girl that the left has decided to say that you fathered your little mentally handicapped brother.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 7:33am

">> It's easier for Palin and her supporters to focus on other things.

Like Barry's terrorist and racist friends? Yeah...let's focus on the things that really matter."

You are repeating the hate lines from the campaign - like Palin saying Senator Obama "palls around" with terrorists. America is rejecting the hate. We've got real things to worry about which Bush, McCain and the Republicans should be accountable for:

1. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression (no, sorry the economy is not fundamentally sound as McCain told us about two weeks ago and we are not a nation of whiners in a mental recession as his chief economic advisor who was largely responsible for the disastrous deregulation told us).

2. Two wars without end.

3. Public enemy number one still on the loose more than seven years after he and his gang perpetrated the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor.

4. Runaway debt and deficits. Bush and McCain, with their imprudent tax cuts coupled with increased spending, doubled our national debt from 5 trillion to over 10 trillion in just 8 years. Now we are ill-prepared for the economic crisis and spending needs ahead.

5. Helping the middle class they have neglected and who have not benefited from any supposed trickles down from the massively wealthy Republican beneficiaries.

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Registered: 07-25-2006
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 7:36am

I haven't read this entire thread, but are you saying Dems hold themselves to a higher standard? I will fully admit that some on the right can be abusive, ugly and cruel, but Dems hold themselves (always?) to a higher standard.


The Higher Standard....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI



iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 9:22am

Yes, much higher standards from the right!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFokenPInk

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 9:26am

Oh, goodness, yes....shouting "boo" and "wake up."

How awful! Maybe, as a result, some "hate"-crazed liberal will offer McCain a cup of coffee or a No-Doz.

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