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President Obama v. Sarah Palin--As Different As Hawaii and Alaska

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Jamie. Your article about Sara Palen is very sad and giving her more space that our president is also sad. First you comments about a quitter are in very poor taste. True Politian’s and other hard working elected officials should get top billing while the others fade into the dust. Sara will be one of them who should just fade away. Quitters should never win.

Clark Dodge of HI 9:58PM November 24, 2009

PaLin will be POTUS and Obama goes to first and last status.

jp spears of IL 2:56AM November 22, 2009

Your,re right it would have been an impossible journey in
any other country for obama.But why did he go around the world
apologizing for his country?The rest of you article is just
"WHITE GUILT" that I got rid of 30YRS ago !
JAB4

NIPPERS & RULE of NY 3:55PM November 20, 2009

It's very clear where the writer is coming from and I'm totally sick of this cr&p!
As someone who is REALLY from Hawaii, I resent the use of Hawaii as the state that produced Obama and comparing to the state of Alaska that produced and formulated Sara Palin's ideas. Sure, it sounds cute "as far apart as Alaska and Hawaii".
Obama does not stand for ANY of the things independent Hawaiians love and hold in sacred regard. He's NOT a true Hawaiian may any stretch of the definition.
How about being realistic and saying as far apart as Wasilla and Chicago. Now that's the real comparison -- one from a real American town and one from the most corrupt inner city in the country!

NJGuardian of NJ 2:26PM November 20, 2009

You are another reason why women are their own worst enemies! Why should Palin be gracious to the media or anyone else? She has been treated by them with nothing but contempt! Your article is a joke and so are you. Im not sure what Obama has done to deserve such accolades....I am a woman that is neither a republican or a democrat. I prefer to think for myself. Women like you let this Obama get away with everything. I find his past and many of his statements to be shameful! You people treat Palin as if she is a criminal. Women like you are the reason that our sex gets a bad name. Even if you are not a fan of Palin's politics you cannot deny that her story is interesting. She is the essence of what being a feminist is about. She is a woman who is a mother and a wife....and, she is also successful! How dare you belittle someone who has come so far without coming from money or politics. If you are a liberal you should be celebrating her. Isnt that what you are supposed to be about.....

concerned woman of NY 11:23AM November 20, 2009

Great commentary from you Californians. Just don't come asking the Federal Government (and us taxpayers) to bail you out. Live within your own means and stop trying to build utopia.
I do agree that the deregulation failed. What was (and still is) needed was to maintain anti-trust rules and not allow big financial firms to ever get too big to fail. That was one of the few really prudent things to come from the New Deal. Keep banks and security firms separate and above small (no interstate banking allowed). Instead both major political parties sold out (remember that Clinton also presided over those same ever expanding banks) to big business and stopped looking out for the folks.
Angry Taxpayer who attended a Tea Party because he loves his country

Angry Tax Payer of CT 9:14PM November 19, 2009

HL Menclen put the Kool-aid down and back away slowly before you hurt yourself and others.

david of ID 7:01PM November 19, 2009

HL Menclen's granddaughter: Agree 100%!
I don't fit the typical mold of a Democrat in that I am a white male with a college education, from the south, with a degree in Business and Economics and am a Former Republican.
Bush, et al, took ALL the reigns off business, and business took America for a 'ride'. Doubt me? How do you explain the biggest downturn since the Great One, or the decline in home values, or the decline in market, while at the same time the executives get bail outs and the ultra-rich only richer.
I know all about Reagan, Trickle-Down Theory and Adam Smith's Invisible Hand of the free market..
What has trickled on me has not been $$ and the hand is slapping me, too. We don't need to encumber business, but some business can't regulate itself: What happened to the SEC and where have the Repbulicans been for the last 8 years as the cost of insurance has sky-rocketed?

Paul of CA 6:08PM November 19, 2009

California is the 8th largest Economy in the WORLD..we will be fine. When we have a negative budget, and most states do: it is 'news' due to the size of our state in economic terms and also due to sheer number of people here. 1/4 U.S. patents are issued to a company in California..must be doing something correctly. My comment had nothing to do with where I live..but good to see the Republicans still see everything as "you" versus everyone else. Keep being negative and divisive and your party will cease to exist. Tea baggers, birthers, death squads...all a pack of lies and distortion to detract from the HORRIFIC rule of King George. Don't forget his role in this deficit. An by the way, Palin WAS a weak canidate..find a better one, perhaps you will have some hope. Bush WAS a poor President...when was the last time a SITTING Prez did not speak at his own Nat'l convention? That says a LOT!

Paul of CA 6:01PM November 19, 2009

You tea baggers can only cry "wolf" so many times before even FOX "News" will get the idea that you're nothing but a lame joke. Well, if they want to be taken seriously by intelligent people anyway. First, the president was a Muslim, then he was born in Kenya, then what's the latest lie you people are pushing around? Oh yeah, that he's running the co0untry into the ground. Well I have news for you: it was run into the ground when he took office - when you people were getting your way by deregulating everything that was "too big to fail", or on the way to becoming so.
That;s right. The mess we're in is the product of your success since Reagan. Th3e idea that there is no place for regulation, even when the lack of regulation puts the entire world economy at risk. And gu3ess what: Evan Alan Greenspan has had to admit that deregulation had backfired. Alan Greenspan, who was Ayn Rand's biggest fan.
So now you're looking to pin your hopes on somebody who is an embarrassment to women in politics - not because of her ideology, but because of her dishonesty and incompetence. But all you see is her ideology, and the illusion that she's "just like us". Well as a small town girl myself, I don;t want her held up as a poster girl for the "real America" I come from. We are better, more intelligent, and most of all far more diverse than anything she could even imagine as the "real America."

HL Menclen's granddaughter of 5:06PM November 19, 2009