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Robert Schlesinger

Sarah Palin Quitting Shows She's No Ronald Reagan

July 04, 2009 02:07 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

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check her records as governor

Itis not right or fair to have expressed your bad and untrue opinions about Palin. Check her records as governor. She had done more good for her state and its citizens in two short years than those beford her in 20 years. You either don't know what you are saying or were being used to had said what you had said abouy Palin.what our country is faceing now, we must put politic aside, come 2010 and 2012, elect those who has America at heart so we can be the great nation she once was. OK?

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when Palin quited her job as governor, only to be freed to fight harder.

Sarah Palin

I hope Sarah Palin poses nude for Playboy now she has quit as governor. She is hot!

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yUPnBd

"Support our troops" became sad reversal of intentions

After Congress was WMD'd into attacking Iraq, Cheney's Halliburton Corporation got no-bid contracts and dug into the national treasury like a tsunami flooding out the surplus. Congress borrowed money for the war so we're PAYING INTEREST on every dollar spent on destruction--and RE-construction. The motto "Support our troops" became demands to "stop complaining" that by March 2008 the Iraq war was costing 9 billion dollars a month--said the Congressional Budget Office. When the government becomes the biggest borrower, lenders say they're running short of funds, so they demand more interest. After WW1, Marine Commander Butler wrote a book called "War is a Racket." He said he was sent overseas to places where "Americans interests" had invested in money-making businesses. He said our soldiers were fighting to protect the value of those investments and were not fighting to protect America itself. Hussein nationalized Iraq's oil fields so foreigners could not invest in them. Oil-investors Bush, father and son, used soldiers in Kuwait and Iraq to go after oil profits. Horror includes need to spend trillions as time goes by, to help the war wounded.

Why Palin Quit

I posted a Top Ten Reasons why she quit at http://www.liamsgrandma.typepad.com Read with a sense of humor, please....

Jo Jo blames "liberal left"--but Far Right did it

Jo Jo says the liberal left created dependent families. Jo Jo didn't say they're poor because they have BIG families, but most of them are. When they go on food stamps, welfare, Aid to Dependent Children and subsidized housing, that makes taxes go higher. In fact, the Far Right runs Pro-Life. It bans abortion and makes even crazy women bear children. The Far Right, not the Left, creates big poor families. The Far Right says "God will provide," but we tax payers lose our assets while we're forced "to do God's work." It's a scam that churches are "non-profit." They ask for income tax exemption--which means they have income. They ask for real estate tax exemption and that means they own real property. Do they get personal property tax exemption for the enormous amount of stuff that's used for worship? There are too many CONSUMERS in the world--razing forests, emptying fisheries, paving over farmland, polluting, etc. Far Right propaganda never tells people to do the work of studying hard sciences of biology, geology, astronomy, anatomy, psychology, etc. It tells them to limit their reading to Scripture.

Maureen's inferences based on misreading my input?

I read and quoted Palin's statement where she said "the world needs more Twigs." She said her family "learned things from having Twig." I didn't say that--it was reported that SHE did. Washington State's Department of Health publishes a list of reportable congenital diseases. As for tax costs to support people who are born with the diseases, lawyers remind parents they are eligible to collect millions of tax dollars. Try Googling for "fetal development" or mitosis. After sperm gets into egg, there are two cells called the zygote. Then the blastocyst fastens to the uterus lining. At four weeks, half of the cells are part of the placenta and amniotic sac. At two months, the cell collection is the size of one Beluga caviar egg. At 3 months, the abortionist deals with one ounce of cells. At 4 months, cartilage is turning to bone. If Ban-Abortion churches are not interested in "potential tithes-payers," do they expect to be paid to run shelters for tax-supported people who have reportable inheritable disease? Do other commentators care whether I offend you or are they interested in getting diseases out of the gene pool--plus saving taxes?

Palin?

I guess the GOP figures, hey we snuck Buffon Bush by em', wait till they get a load of Palin! Palin is Bush with Breasts and Lipstick. She is a manufactured candidate. She needs to hone in on the truth or get better at lying. She does not command either.

She will never make it through primaries. She actually has to know something, or to at least BS people, she sucks at both. I think that it speaks volumes, that she was picked by the GOP. She is an insult to the American peoples problems.

She is a Quitter

She costs McCain the election, her folkyness, accent and winking do not ring true, her intellect is below par (our vivid memory of the last one who delegates and follows because of their inability), but lets face it with the right marketing it can be sold to US, history tends to repeat itself. God help us!

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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