The Sarah Palin I-Quit-arod

KT
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I am sorry, and please do not take offense, but is this revelation necessary? Is the Palin affair the dominantly significant story affecting American political discourse? You cover national politics, the White House, and Congress, correct? To which of these realms does this story conform? The resignation of one of America’s most flawed, and fleeting, politicians is hardly all that surprising, and certainly is undeserving of the relentless attention, which has consequently overshadowed much more important and relevant issues you could be reporting on. This thread is beyond overkill.

You also left out her resigning from the Oil Control Commission (or whatever it’s called, I forget the exact name) to become Lieutenant Governor and her resigning as mayor of Wasilla to be appointed to the commission. I think this explains her decision to run for VP last year, it’s all about the bigger and better thing with her. I have zero doubt she’ll try for the presidency and will find a way to bully her way into winning that primary in 2012.
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Neo: I’d agree with you if this were, say, Gregoire or Schwarzenegger (though if Arnie quit now the ripples in California would be more of an effect). But Palin put herself in the center of politics and has done everything possible to keep herself there. She has also shown herself to be VERY shrewd and ambitious, so IMHO she needs to be scrutinized on every angle possible.

“This thread is beyond overkill.”
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I have zero doubt she’ll try for the presidency and will find a way to bully her way into winning that primary in 2012.
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That shall be the day I register as an Independent…

My new theory is that it is all about the benjamins. She will never be president. It’s time to cash in.

That shall be the day I register as an Independent…
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One of the many reasons I am so grateful to live in the state I do: we do not have to register for a party in order to register to vote. It makes life even more entertaining because we have jungle primaries. All in all good times.

My new theory is that it is all about the benjamins. She will never be president. It’s time to cash in.
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Actually, if you’re a Republican establishmentarian, you’re seeing the genius in the move. You now have the perfect fall guy to attempt to go up against Obama and fail without losing a potential rising star. I think the Republicans knew what Palin was when McCain chose her, and they’re now conniving to get her the nomination.

Exiled:

I suspect it’s an expression of relief and self-reassurance, coupled with a strong desire to nail down the coffin lid. The apparent passing of the Snow Flake may not be consequential on the level of U.S.–Russia relations, but it’s a significant event in national politics.
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Look at it this way – most media are still fixated on the death of an eccentric song-and-dance person.

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Yes, I suppose this story is a degree above the MJ marathon.

Exiled-I disagree this is still a major news story! We really don’t know yet if this is it for Sarah Palin in “POLITICS!” Highly unlikely! But you KNOW she has gotten something else to surprise us with! Plus its not fair KT didn’t get the chance to get her 2 cents IN! Thank the Troops.
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Sorry that’s my lame attempt to write like a Sarah Palin press release.

Crap! The Rude Pundit does not like the exclamation points.
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In the 21st century, only complete f*@king morons actually write multiple exclamation points into their political speeches. Jesus Christ, it’s like a letter from a high school freshman girl about that cute senior.
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(An earlier posted version apparently contained numerous words in all caps. One looks forward to the release of the shaky crayon draft.)
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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

Sarah the Quitter can now join Joe the Plumber in a comedy act called “The GOP Follies “

A footnote:
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When she decided to quit the Oil & Gas gig the Commission was already one member short. It apparently didn’t bother her to leave a three-member commission with only a single member. More and more it seems those lay diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder may be spot on. The new developments merit at least some attention, as this woman once harbored delusions of adequacy in national office.

“When she decided to quit the Oil & Gas gig the Commission was already one member short. It apparently didn’t bother her to leave a three-member commission with only a single member.”
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FO-Every thing she does is because she loves Alaska. Alaska feel the love.

Latest Tweet from the Northern Nutbar:
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“Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again….”
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And the U. of Idaho J-school granted her a degree? Is it affiliated with Regent U. Law School? Also?

KT – I’m somewhat new here but kudos / word for health care work and this reminder of Sarah’s traveling vaudevillities. Between her flute and Jack Benny’s violin we’d have a risible show. Not a great way to run a country, alas. Or is it?
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Exiled – thanks to McCain’s cavalier vetting (pick the “hot chick” to steal Hillary voters?) and lots of sarahdipity (on her part, not ours) we nearly had her in charge. Until she’s really finished, this isn’t overkill. I still wonder if McCain really wanted Tina Fey for VP but she said no. Then he went thru a political photo album, found Sarah, and said, “Yeah, I’ll take that one.”

I understand the desire to lambaste Palin, God knows she is deserving. However, there are such utterly more important stories circulating that could, and should, be discussed. Anyone care to join the “Obama and the Russian Bear” thread?

Palin a quitter?…

TIME magazine’s own blog, Swampland, has compiled fairly strong evidence of Sarah Palin’s tendency to quit when the going gets tough. First, Palin changed colleges five times in five years! And, when things got too hot in the kitchen, as it were, she a…

[...] The thing about Sarah Palin is that her record has shown little practical experience. She barely made through the half-way point of her first term before she called quit. But no one should be surprise from this. Palin, after all, went through five different college campuses in so many years. [...]

The reason the Palin discussion matters, on July 5th 2009, is that she is the next GOP nominee.
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The same pundits who were counting out Obama in 2005 are the same ones counting out Palin today.
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Palin is immeasurably better positioned today to win the GOP nomination than Obama was even in July 2007. If the GOP Iowa caucus was Tuesday she would CRUSH Romney, Pawlenty, or any of the other GOP stooges. Two weeks after Iowa she would ride her momentum to a win in New Hampshire followed by a HUGE win in South Carolina.
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As someone who prefers Bernie Sanders to Ted Kennedy, I’m decidedly not a fan of hers. But all of this dismissive talk about her is just wrong. She may not be qualified by traditional standards. But that doesn’t matter one bit to the GOP voters in Iowa.
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What she is selling is incredibly potent. She is a woman who, wrapped in the flag and holding her Bible high, presents herself as an unabashed defender of family who is quite clear in her unmitigated hatred of “liberals.”
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As I said earlier, the people who are dismissing her today are the same people who dismissed Obama. But those people don’t represent people who vote in the GOP primary anymore than they represent the people who vote in the Dem primary.
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There is an incredible amount of anger and ignorance in this country. Stroll over to a Conservative blog or Fox News to see what I mean. Nothing they say has any logic or reason to it. But logic and reason don’t matter when the pretty lady with the attractive family and the Bible in her hand is tell her faithful that the reason for all of their troubles is the Black, terrorist sympathizer in the White House, and all of those limp-wristed liberals in Congress.
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So, while Obama and the Russian Bear discussions are kind of interesting, the only story that matters is the very real possibility that Sarah Palin will become the next President. And God help us all if that happens because there is no doubt that she’ll let the ICBMs fly.

Sanford -> MJ -> Palin, bright shiny objects OVER THERE!
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If the media’s primary role were to inform, it might sound like this:
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“After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That’s why even people like Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who fucked them over. Beck pointedly compared the AIG protesters to Bolsheviks: “[The Communists] basically said ‘Eat the rich, they did this to you, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” He then said the AIG and G20 protesters were identical: “It’s a different style, but the sentiments are exactly the same: Find ‘em, get ‘em, kill ‘em!’” Beck has an audience that’s been trained that the rich are not appropriate targets for anger, unless of course they’re Hollywood liberals, or George Soros, or in some other way linked to some acceptable class of villain, to liberals, immigrants, atheists, etc. — Ted Turner, say, married to Jane Fonda.
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But actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.”
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Matt Taibbi: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21289

BTW, given the non-zero chance that Sarah Palin will be President on Jan 20, 2013, the Russians (and the Iranians) would be absolute fools to sign on to any treaty that limits or restricts their nuclear arsenal or ambitions.
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The only thing that kept them safe from the crazies in the Reagan and Bush administrations was the certainty that they could annihilate us in the event that we struck first. The Russians would be stupid to give up that deterrent now, given the level of craziness in the GOP. Same for the Iranians, who also have to worry about the Israelis. Frankly it would be irresponsible for the Iranians NOT to pursue a bomb.

Sanford -> MJ -> Palin continued:
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“Our stories symbolize something deeper. The great lie of our contemporary, celebrity-crazed culture is that only the rich and famous have stories worth telling. There are almost no celebrities featured in Springsteen’s songs. His stories are our stories, and the wisdom (as well as the folly) they contain is ours, too.”
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The Bruce Springsteen gospel: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93437259

“The Russians would be stupid to give up that (nuclear) deterrent now, given the level of craziness in the GOP. Same for the Iranians, who also have to worry about the Israelis. Frankly it would be irresponsible for the Iranians NOT to pursue a bomb.” -Choska 6:47.
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The neoconservative cabal knows this to be true, but to them it doesn’t matter. Their bellicosity is a means to an end- the flow of military $$. But you have to wonder why Choska‘s statement is not glaringly obvious to more observers. The answer would probably explain why Palin is so captivating.

Puh-leeze. Don’t tell me you’re using Sarah Palin’s college transfers as a metaphor for her recent announcement. To be fair, you should compare Al Gore flunking out of Yale Divinity school to his losing his own state in the 2000 Presidential election. BTW, how DOES one flunk out of Divinity School??

“BTW, how DOES one flunk out of Divinity School??”
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I don’t know how but Amy would with her div. degree. Amy, if you’re reading this would you write a post on this, please? Pretty please? I’d guess flunking involves drunken parties, profanity, goth fashions and lifestyles, reading “The Satanic Verses”, indiscriminate sleeping with strangers, cheating on tests / buying term papers, fake ID’s…oh wait, that’s all normal college living. Never mind.
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Amy?

You can expect this kind of leftie rhetoric, particularly regarding someone they fear. But while they spin their wheels with Sarah, their Lord & Savior is working feverishly to pull the rug right out from under them, and the rest of us for that matter. Then the liberal knuckleheads will be left scratching their thick heads trying to figure out just what happened. Too bad all these self-proclaimed political geniuses can’t muster up the wherewithal to realize they’ve already been had! Silly rabbits….

For those who believe a GOP candidate for the Presidency has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning it, one thing has to happen: Obama’s policies must all fail miserably and utterly, leaving us worse off than we are now. If that happens, the GOP has a slight chance of winning back the White House in 2012. Even then, the fact is with the right bringing financial ruin on us, and the left unable to extricate us from that mess, neither party is going to have much chance of maintaining any power in US politics.
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My guess is, if Obama can’t get it together and his policies fail and the US is worse off at election time than it was when we elected him, then a moderate, middle of the road candidate has a better chance of winning the Presidency.
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Palin is neither moderate or middle of the road, but an extremist right winger who has amply proven she is not suited to ANY public office.
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What kind of leader would we be electing if we elected a person who resigned from a governorship in their FIRST TERM for no good reason after holding a news conference as incoherent and rambling as the one she gave? Her entire history has always been about doing what is good for her and her alone. That’s fine in anyone except an elected leader. When an elected leader puts their personal concerns ahead of the good of the people the people suffer. This is true with Democrats as much as it is OBVIOUSLY true for Republicans.
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Besides, resigning from being the governor of a back-water state with no serious fiscal problems for no apparent reason is hardly a major resume highlight for someone seeking the Presidency of a country fiscally worse off than we were when Obama was elected. America does not like a quitter, and Palin proved she can’t take the pressure of being governor of ALASKA. Why would ANYONE think she’d be able to handle the pressures put on a president? So, in a “folksy” kind of way, the kind of thing she was best known for, I’d say the best “saying” for her would be, ”When the going gets tough, the tough get going – right out of office.”
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jeep said: You can expect this kind of leftie rhetoric, particularly regarding someone they fear. But while they spin their wheels with Sarah, their Lord & Savior is working feverishly to pull the rug right out from under them, and the rest of us for that matter. Then the liberal knuckleheads will be left scratching their thick heads trying to figure out just what happened.
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Yes jeep, we in the reality-based community fear Palin. We fear she will disappear from public view as a leader of the repuglican party. That would be a sad day indeed.

jeepmanjr, if you have nothing but venom to spit at everyone, instead of a critical and insightful observation or two, why don’t you go back to playing with your GI Joe dolls and leave the real talking to the adults, hmm?
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That’s a good boy, you run along and play Nazi now and remember, they lost the war…

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“BTW, how DOES one flunk out of Divinity School??”
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The three most common reasons for flunking out of Divinity School are:
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1. Failing to complete research papers and other classroom assignments
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2. Turning in assignments that consistently feature bad grammar, inability to think critically, and/or plagiarism.
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3. Failure to attend class.

jcapan wrote: “Our stories symbolize something deeper. The great lie of our contemporary, celebrity-crazed culture is that only the rich and famous have stories worth telling. There are almost no celebrities featured in Springsteen’s songs. His stories are our stories, and the wisdom (as well as the folly) they contain is ours, too.”
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This insight about Springsteen’s songs made me think that many elected officials want it both ways. They want to be celebrities who are perceived to be “just like us.” Both the Obama and the Palin camps spun this trope, but the differences are very telling. Both have humble backgrounds; both are somewhat exotic (Obama’s mixed-race background and ties to Kenya and Indonesia and Hawaii; Palin’s being an attractive hockey mom from Alaska). Obama acknowledges differences among Americans but argues that, ultimately, we all live together in the United States of America. Palin casts herself as the real deal from real America, a person who will stand up against establishment politics or the media or liberals. It’s Us (Her) vs. Them.
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Obama seems to see America as a vast, complicated family. Palin seems to see America as tribal, with Good vs. Evil. These are the two views of our nation that the rest of us have to negotiate with. #2 is easier to comprehend, but bleaker and, I suspect (and hope), incorrect. These are the two narrative views that are competing for our attention today.

“The three most common reasons for flunking out of Divinity School are:
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1. Failing to complete research papers and other classroom assignments
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2. Turning in assignments that consistently feature bad grammar, inability to think critically, and/or plagiarism.
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3. Failure to attend class.”
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Do these reasons only work for divinity school? I did all of them except plagiarism – had to draw the line somewhere – and still graduated. Without Sarah’s grades, how DID she perform in college? Well, at least Todd has been one steady non-quitting force in her life. Ditto for red high heels?

“She said she couldn’t find any professors who remembered palin”
Did the show the professors a photo of the top of Sarah’s head?

Anybody who thinks Sarah is a quitter does not understand the first thing about character. I listened to the resigning speech, and it made perfect sense to me. If she doesn’t do it there may not be much left of this country in 3 1/2 years. She needs to jump in to the vacuum of common sense and talk some sanity back into politics. She is the only one that can do it that I know of. Washington elite is scared stiff of her and want to cut her off at the pass. She even did a sub 4 hr marathon, not bad for a four children mother. This takes dedication.
The Republican party is being cleansed of their hypocrites. Sarah is real, honest with an uncanny ability to take down fakes. When the emperor has no clothes she says so. This is the insanity she speaks of. I say Go, Sarah! You do have a higher calling

I would rather see Sarah jump into the vacuum of space.

If Palin’s quitoholic speech made any sense to anyone, then may I suggest that person go see a doctor? That speech was a bowl full of word salad that not even “the vacuum of common sense” could dress up.

I say this not because I am scared of her (only the wolves in deep snow are afraid of her) but because she is about as inarticulate as a person could be. More so than even the Rainman ever was.

The sub-4 hour marathon is something most anyone with straight legs and half a training schedule could do – even Prez Obama with his 4 cigs a day smoking habit.

Now… about that emperor with no clothes. You surely did not intend to write that after learning so much about the Abortinator, Sarah Palin.

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You underestimate Michele Bachmann. Is common sense a vacuum? And the emperor has no clothes since RNC folks bought everything at the fancy dept. stores for Sarah. I guess J Crew didn’t have good discounts.

You have to really sit back and laugh at anybody who defends Sarah Palin at this point. What is most comical is that almost every single one of them say they support her because she is so “truthful”. This chick has lied about damn near every trivial subject you can think of. Just last week we learned that she was attempting to lie to the people who was running John McCain’s campaign and got called out on it. She lied in her resignation speech several times. Hell you would be hard pressed to find a speech of hers that WASN’T full of lies. And yet to these numbskulls she is different because she is so “honest”. Give me a got damn break. You like her because she is a MILF period. She has absolutely no other redeeming quality. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad what an epic failure she is. But I truly hope you delusional cult followers of her convince her to run in 2012 so we can have 8 years of Democratic governance to help get this country back on track.

[...] resign to become a full time comedian… As I watched in amazement @ her giddy’ness to resign as Alaska Gov… She even spoke about herself in third person comparing herself to a point [...]

Is there anyone, anyone at all in national Republican politics than isn’t completely looneytunes, a sexual deviant, or an ignorant dumbass? Seriously. Okay, I’ll give you Olympia Snow and Susan Collins. That’s about it. How the he11 did this happen to my father’s Republican Party? I mean, I could disagree with Bob Dole and Daddy Bush and Jack Kemp on basic policy and even world views, but they weren’t INSANE. And they weren’t flagrantly, willfully ignorant dumbasses either. When the he11 did these psychotics take over the Republican Party?

I’m torn between shock and despair that people actually believe this nutbar, and morbid humor as she attempts to convince people that she is qualified for anything above dog-catcher. I have to laugh, because if I don’t I’ll cry.

Paul Begala ethered Palin.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/sarah-palin-turns-pro_b_225633.html

On running for dogcatcher…

Wouldn’t she quit as soon as a dog barked? Or have I underestimated her?

J-LA – George Voinovich doesn’t totally suck. He’s also planning to leave the Senate next year. Coincidence? Does Arlen Spectre still count as a part-time R?

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Truth be known, I didn’t know Voinovich still held office. Hunh. I count Spectre as one big dumbass. I might have to amend my question and add a fourth category: dishonest, craven weasel. I think that would take care of Voinovich. I think he stood on the Senate floor and cried his eyes out about torture, before voting in favor of it.

And what is it about the majority of Alaskans that they continue to elect the most corrupt and incompetent politicians to public office? sure they each get their $1500+ government welfare checks every year but consider this:

As an example of what she might have done if she cared about governing, consider Alaska’s foster care system. As of 2007 (the most recent data I could find), Alaska was the fourth worst of 45 states reporting when it came to keeping kids from being abused in their foster homes — the homes they’re given to keep them safe from abuse and neglect. Alaska’s child protective services were the fifth worst in the nation at keeping kids from undergoing repeat abuse, the third worst in response time, and the sixth worst in terms of the time from an initial report of child abuse to receipt of services.
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Alaska was 42nd in the country in the percentage of foster kids who had two or fewer placements, which means that a lot of kids spent a lot of time bouncing from one home to another. It doesn’t have enough caseworkers, and the turnover among those it does have is too high. (It does do a good job at placing siblings together and maintaining community ties, though.)

Moreover, services for kids who age out of foster care are not very good:

“Nearly 38 percent of foster care alumni in Alaska said they were homeless at some point after leaving their foster homes, according to a 2005 study from the UAA School of Social Work — much higher than the 12 to 25 percent for foster care alumni in other states.”

Hilzoy has more interesting stuff here on Alaska: Like A Grizzly With Cubs, If By "Grizzly" You Mean "Quitter", And By "Cubs" You Mean "Kids You Can’t Be Bothered With"
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J-LA – Yes, you’re right, thanks. I forgot about Voinovich and that intelligence bill. Et tu, McCain? McCain voting against a waterboarding ban!? Wow…. Then again, what if Palin runs against Lisa Murkowski? If she wins, her speeches on the Senate floor would move even Harry Reid to tears… of laughter. Biden would be at a loss for words too. Now that’s rhetoric.

Hm. Senator Palin. Interesting thought. I miss ole Joe in the Senate. We don’t hear enough from that guy since he’s been VPOTUS. Jay Carney is keeping him under wraps. I hate that. Palin speeches might make up for the loss though, and she’d do less damage there than almost anywhere else, methinks.

Biden is a disaster. Within the last week he twice blundered. He thought up the lovely PR idea of swearing in approximately 230 US soldiers as Americans in Iraq, during a war, in Saddam’s former palace while calling him an “S.O.B.” Very classy, Joe. I’m sure Iraqis are thrilled to see these soldiers, whom they have feared for 6 years, now rewarded with American citizenship during a ceremony on Iraqi soil. Then Biden turns around and says the US will not interfere in any Israeli military plans with regard to Iran. Way to give the warmongering expansionists a greenlight, spineless fool.

Exiled
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Although that’s how the NYTimes is trying to frame what Biden said today on TWWGS, it wasn’t like that at all. He wasn’t giving any green light and it wasn’t a gaffe. He repeated almost verbatim what President Obama has said on the subject. I already posted on it with the actual quote in full context of what he was saying. He didn’t rule out anything, all he said was that we can’t dictate to Israel what hey can and can not do. Thats pretty standard language for any American administration.
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http://smoothlikeremy.blogspot.com/2009/07/nytimes-framing-fail.html

“I-Quit-aRod”?
Ouch.
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“… She said the experience was taking the “oomph” out of her passion for (fill in the missing word(s)) and she decided to quit rather than becoming bitter.”

Select the missing word:
- marriage
- motherhood/(grand)child-rearing
- these United States of America
- life
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Just for my sanity, did I somehow miss a whole part of this post or did KT do an update while I wasn’t looking?

yutsano
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Its been that way since I first saw it.

Cause either I was totally dense at work today (which is a possibility) and missed the part where KT mentioned the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (and look like a total doofus for saying KT missed it) or an update got snuck in there. I dunno, I just know that I didn’t see that part of the post until someone mentioned it on BJ much later.

“For those who believe a GOP candidate for the Presidency has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning it, one thing has to happen: Obama’s policies must all fail miserably and utterly, leaving us worse off than we are now. If that happens, the GOP has a slight chance of winning back the White House in 2012.”
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Don’t be naïve. A Republican governor whose previous major career accomplishment had been playing second banana to a chimpanzee (literally) and reading effectively for the corporate sponsor beat the second-best Democratic president of the 20th Century (who also inherited a fiscal and foreign policy nightmare) and implemented governing philosophies and policies that eventually drove this country to it’s knees. That was four years after Nixon/Ford.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products.”
- H. L. Mencken

I hope you all run quick to read Douthat’s Times column on Palin this morning. It’s a real doozy. Dougj at Balloon Juice gives it a proper review: Poor Palin.
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Good times.

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Sarah Palin has gone out of her way over the last year to display for everyone who is willing to acknowledge what their senses are telling them just how totally and completely unsuited she is to hold high office. She is a complete mediocrity, quite possibly the most superficial, ignorant, joke of a politician ever to have achieved such political prominence.

yutsano: haven’t touched the post. the O&G commission was there, but easy to get lost below the much longer typeblock on all of her colleges. i just figured you were emphasizing it.

WV, you must have caught the same wave as I. I read Ross and AL this afternoon. It’ll come as no surprise that I much preferred the latter. Only satire is capable of explaining the national fascination with this “joke.” Again, something about calling b-s springs to mind.
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And Shep’s Menck quite is not always true–it seems WaPo is doing just fine, going broke that is.
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Night all–PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF BEARDED MYTHICAL FIGURES, do not wake me up tomorrow w/ new posts about MJ, SP & Sanford’s wife jello wrestling with Maria!

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“Is there anyone, anyone at all in national Republican politics than isn’t completely looneytunes, a sexual deviant, or an ignorant dumbass? Seriously. Okay, I’ll give you Olympia Snow and Susan Collins. That’s about it. How the he11 did this happen to my father’s Republican Party? I mean, I could disagree with Bob Dole and Daddy Bush and Jack Kemp on basic policy and even world views, but they weren’t INSANE. And they weren’t flagrantly, willfully ignorant dumbasses either. When the he11 did these psychotics take over the Republican Party?”
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The Trillion Dollar question right there I’d say.
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Is there such a thing as a rational, moderate Republican in a leadership role nationally anymore? Why can’t these guys take over their party now? With the old “core” of the party essentially becoming an inevitable social and racial minority simply due to population and technological trends, it seems like the perfect time. So what the hell are they waiting for?

She just isnt meant to lead a country or a state for that matter.

I am stunned by Palin’s resignation. She rambled on in her speech and was unclear in everything she stated. She cannot claim she was resigning because of the exposure or attacks by the media. She knew this going in so what was the deal.
Elected officials do not get to jump in and out of politics as they please. They are elected by people who expect them to serve out their claims.

I am very disappointed at Palin and the poor example she has chosen to portray to young Republican women all over the country.

Knee jerk responses and sudden jerkish moves are not qualities which endear you to the electorate. Maybe Palin did not get the memo on NOT QUITTING IN LIFE! Gosh. What a mess.

This is the meme that should stick, and it would be as true for me regardless of her political party.

At some point in life you have to quit grabbing for the next rung. You have to stay where you are at, fulfill your obligations, actually do some work, and tally up both achievements and tenure.

If you examine most successful people, you’ll see while many of them may have moved around a lot, at some point they set up base camp and got some things done.

There is a morbid fascination in watching a trainwreck. Sarah keeps jumping the tracks and we just keep watching. Carnage as political theater. We keep expecting that her latest shennanigan is going to permanently derail her but she still keeps chugging along.

Bailin’ Palin seems to be another member of the crop of pols that believe that the rules that apply to the rest of us don’t apply to them. Unfortunately, all to frequently they’re right.
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Sanford disappears from his job for a week and then thinks he can forgive himself and continue. A normal person would be fired.
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Bush becomes president and takes a full month off 6 months later. During that time he is warned of an impending attack on the country but derisively dismisses the briefer and proceeds to go bicycling. The worst presidential failure in my lifetime not only goes unpunished, but leads to a successful reelection bid on the basis of national security toughness.
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Currently we have Gingrich lecturing us on all matters of national policy. This is the man who shut down the government in a fit of pique and attempted to remove a sitting president for having an affair while he himself was having an affair.
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Go on FOX news and watch former governor Mike Huckabee pontificate on the news of the day. He brings his ‘down home’, congenial personality to GOP moralizing. How many people know that the state of Arkansas had to sue him to get back the furniture in the governor’s mansion, which he took with him when he moved out? A normal person could have been arrested for theft, but not Mike.
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Now we have Bailin’ Palin. A normal person with a resume full of incompletions like hers would be considered flighty by just about any company’s HR department. She would probably not receive a job interview for any position of substance. But completing jobs isn’t required of Sarah. She lives by a different set of rules. At least she thinks so — let’s hope she’s wrong.

Sarah does live by a different set of rules and her fans (I won’t dignify them by calling them supporters) will justify her actions by using whatever bizarre or convoluted logic they can come up with. Palin is shameless and she’ll claim any criticism of her is just “lefties” out to get her. It doesn’t matter whether she is guilty or not, nothing is her fault.
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Her followers are passionate in her defense. They’ll see logic and order where chaos is running amuck. In their eyes, she’s the perpetual victim. She’s one of them. She represents them. “They” will do anything to bring down Sarah. Palin’s an opportunist. If she went into bars and autographed drunk’s asses for campaign contributions, her devotees would say she’d just be “Doing whatever it takes” to return America to it’s christian roots.
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We might as well kick back and enjoy the spectacle. The show must go on.

You seem to have alot of hate for a woman who has gone through so much from you and other so-called journalists. Your stance on politics is to hound and defame a woman who is not anywhere near the kind of person you have made her out to be. And to attack an innocent baby as well as the rest of her family….you look crude Ma’am….I have no respect for you. I wouldn’t normally say anything at all to you, but, I just wanted you to know….not everyone agrees with you…in fact, if you look around, alot of us are in discust at all this!

Sheesh, who cares? Look, Sarah Palin flunked a job interview (vp of us), but doing poorly can happen to many. In this case, I think she’s not prepared, but she’s still human. Let’s drop the I brought u up, I can bring u down kr_p. I’m not a Palin fan, but she can make her own decisions for her *own* reasons. Let’s respect that!

This country could never be luckier than have Joe Biden at a loss for words…but then he probably just stole them anyway.

The left continues to deride her as a nothing intellectual vacuum and yet they liberal elite (I know an oxymoron) spent countless hours brow beating her and her family. Maybe they should instead get to the bottom of which 57 states THe messiah visited

It is a liberal world with the press furiously selling their agenda.
I have been illegally wiretapped for NINE years by a woman Shay Riley of the website “Black Women Blow the Trumpet”. Under the Black power cover, she has not been hurled into court and had the entire proceedings thrown at her.

This woman Shay Riley aka Evia Moore aka Lisa Vasquez aka Halima Sal Andersen operates numerous websites under numerous vile aliases scurrying the Internet like a worm committing crime after crime. She activated the microphones on my phones and listens to surrounding conversations with the crassness of vile Reprobate online pyshopaths of her ilk. Lying, stealing and writing mediocre horrible essays based on the lives of law abiding fol yet the main stream media and law enforcement have yet to clamp down on this disgusting and vile FEMALE THUG Evia Moore. An ugly demon and nobody who lacks any iota of creativity and uses legitimate lives of people like me obtained through the commission of egregious felonies to fuel her fake life experiences chronicled on her pathetic but numrous crap blogs.

Why has this tory not been investigated by the media? Why would a woman who commits felonies AND has in her custody children whom she probably molests and sexually abused NOT been chronicled by emm say the NY TIMES?

Why do I have to be continuously barraged by the left wing who have nothing to add but creamy nonsense to real news.

REAL NEWS IS THAT SHAY RILEY of the website http://www.akbarshabazz.com is a weak spineless Predator who has illegally taps my phone, uses Trojans and spyware to monitor my life. All these acts are CLASS A felonies yet this scum bag low life nobody remains free to molest, abuse, steal and writhe around online hiding in her bodily fluids of bile and crassness committing crime.

WHY IS this not news????? Left wing media bias!!

yutsano: haven’t touched the post. the O&G commission was there, but easy to get lost below the much longer typeblock on all of her colleges. i just figured you were emphasizing it.
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Then it’s not you, it’s me KT. Maybe I should pay more attention when I’m at work or something, cause I just TOTALLY glanced over it. Your point of her being a serial quitter, however, is still very valid. It makes you wonder if the only committment she’s capable of making is to Todd.

QUIT? You Betcha!  

http://www.cafepress.com/Palin_Quits

Isn’t completing what you started a “traditional family value?”

Palin wants the easy road to fame and fortune, and when it isn’t forthcoming she cries foul and claims she’s a victim.

A rocket surgeon she ain’t.

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Again, I have to ask why this Palin’s issue is so much of a buzz. Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial marriage blog” is a serial Predator who has illegally wiretapped my phone for years. This woman activates the microphone om my cell and home phones and uses it to listen to the conversations in my life. This woman runs very many interracial marriage sites pretending to be interracially married and using the lives of legitimately married women like me as fodder for her PREVARICATION.She is married to a BLACK NIGERIAN CROOK NAMED AKBAR SHABZZ of the Project 21 site.

Shay Riley aka Evia Moore aka Halima Sal ANdersen of the blog Black Womens Interracial circle is an online THUG yet this matter has not been carried by the main stream media. WHY?

Why should the ability of these FELONS to access hundreds of legitimate websites and alter information enable them stay free. They continue to elude law enforcement and commit felony after felony.

This woman is a VILE PREDATOR who in all proabability molests and abuses her own children. Why can this matter not be persistently and continiously investigated???

Even if this woman has failed in all her endeavors and continues to faul, surely that should not provide her cover. Screaming BLACK POWER and running many various black power blogs should not be cover for this vile REPROBATE.

Committing these heinous acts against other women of color should not provide cover for this disgusting and despicable vile low life criminal!

Why would this matter not be rigorously and continuously investigated??>? These people are just crooks and nothing more so why the delay?

This low life trash online Predator should be investigated exposed and jailed.
Shay Rileyaka Lisa Vasquez of the “Black Women Blow the Trumpet Blog” and of the http://www.akbarshabazz.com blog is a FELON! A 21st century threat to the American way of life!!

[...] time to say something. I opened the home page of WordPress.com today and found a blog link to Time Magazine that shared with it’s reader how many colleges Palin quit. Why should we care? I mean I quit [...]

More than a few folks have speculated that Sarah Palin will leave the Republican party because of its failure to stand for true conservative principles.

Think again. The Conservative Party needs more like Sarah Palin: people with backbone, willing to walk the walk and talk the talk.

She will not (and has not) abandoned the Conservatives; however, because of her presence in the party, RINOs have become more easily identifiable as they are showing their true colors…except for those who hide behind their cowardice and refuse to identify themselves while they throw spears.

WHY IS SARAH PALIN SO HATED by Libs and RINOs?

Think about it.

Most all politicians are in the business of getting re-elected, and will do anything to stay in office… forgetting that the REASON to be in office is to SERVE THE PEOPLE.

Sarah Palin is not your run-of-the-mill politician. She has the guts to DO WHAT’S RIGHT. She could easily stay in office, on the public dollar, and spend all of her time (and our money) defending herself instead of serving the people through the office.

You go, Sarah! We’ll be here when you are ready.

–Tom Brooks
Ask the Audition Pro
http://www.EmpoweredActor.com

People with backbone? As in, quitting with a year and a half left in her term? Without clarifying how, exactly, she feels she can better “serve the people” outside of the governor’s office?
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What “walk” is she walking?
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If the “REASON to be in office is to SERVE THE PEOPLE,” why doesn’t Palin do that, then? How is this an example of doing “WHAT’S RIGHT”?
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If anyone has evidence that she would “spend all of her time (and our money) defending herself instead of serving the people through the office,” please offer it up.
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I agree Palin has been roasted over a slow fire. I also agree that she has brought a lot of this upon herself. Republicans in Alaska outside of Palin’s immediate circle seem to be largely relieved, if puzzled, that she is going. McCain campaign staffers, bona fide conservatives, are airing their negative views on Palin. Karl Rove himself said her tactics right now are risky.
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Are all these people “just” liberals and RINOs? Is ALL of this just a bunch of smoke and meanness?

It is incredible to me this post still keeps generating so many responses. Palin is perfectly able to take care of herself, why so much attention on her>?>?> There are criminals and other matters which should be investigated.

I am an innocent Law abiding citizen have been illegally wiretapped by Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial Marriage blog” and not ONE investigative journalist has had to the courage of ability to uncover these digital hoodlums, these cyber fiends, these crass online Psychopath, Shay Riley aka Evia Moore aka Halima Sal Andersen.

Shay Riley of the “Black Female Interracial marriage blog” is a serial Predator who has illegally wiretapped my phone for years. This woman activates the microphone om my cell and home phones and uses it to listen to the conversations in my life. This woman runs very many interracial marriage sites pretending to be interracially married and using the lives of legitimately married women like me as fodder for her PREVARICATION.She is married to a BLACK NIGERIAN CROOK NAMED AKBAR SHABZZ of the “Project 21 site”-.

Why should the ability of these FELONS to access hundreds of legitimate websites and alter information enable them stay free. They continue to elude law enforcement and commit felony after felony.

This woman is a VILE PREDATOR who in all probability molests and abuses her own children. Why can this matter not be persistently and continuously investigated by an elite journalist and the truth found out???

Screaming BLACK POWER and running many various black power blogs should not be cover for this vile REPROBATE. But it is. Why is she not in jail Why is she free to write nonsense and scurry around committing unprecendented inavsion of privacy, felonies and probably sexually abusing and molesting her OWN CHILDREN!! WHY????

The FBI and the US Secret Service have not been able to route this woman. See her on ww.akbarshabazz.com. When people say they look ordinary, I say WHAT DO YOU EXPECT??? A sign on Shay Riley which reads, “I am a Felon and illegally wiretap and Send Trojans and spy ware to innocent law abiding citizens computers so that I can criminally stalk them, steal from them, co opt their lives experiences and oh, yes since I am a psychopath, I probably molest my children too.”!!! NO, she has to appear ordinary to lure and assault unassuming people online and elsewhere!

WHY SHOULD THIS WOMAN who runs hundreds of websites under numerous aliases, a fiend who listens to and records my calls even activating my microphones to follow my life and uses Trojans/spyware for my computers BE FREE?????

Must a crime INVOLVE A CELEBRITY FOR IT TO BE RIGOROUSLY AND CONTINUOUSLY INVESTIGATED???? WHat happened to truth in journalism. Can these CYBER Bots Shay Riley, her husband Akbar SHabazz and their accomplices be capable of deceiving the slew of so called ELITE TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME INVESTIGATORS???

Well, Shakespeare in GA, after spending $500k of her own money to defeat all 13 (or is it 15?) trumped up “scandals” (all proven to hold no water whatsoever), Sarah Palin is simply modeling her behavior after Barak Obama. While running for election, Obama appropriately stepped out of office of Senator of Illinois because he knew that he would get nothing done as senator, since campaigning for President of the U.S. would certainly take up all his time, energy and money. So rather than stay on the public dollar and be paid by the people for running for office of the President while carrying the title of Senator, Obama took the high road and– oh, wait a minute. Forgive me: I have that wrong. Obama SAID he would step out of office when he ran for Prez, but then, true to form, remained in his position and did nothing to serve the people of Illinois, yet continued to accept the paycheck. My bad.
I guess what I mean then is that Sarah Palin is NOT that kind of person. She has the brains to know that she will have to continue to take a tremendous amount of time fighting to keep her name clear from the cowards who will continue to besmirch it.
There’s the money. That’s the backbone. She has the backbone to spell out exactly what she believes about abortion, fiscal responsibility, the importance of family, her faith, etc. She’s doing what’s right for her family.
And for some reason, that really ticks people off. Hmmm.

–Tom Brooks
http://www.EmpoweredActor.com
It’s You …for REAL

[...] “I am not a quitter” Palin is profiled by Karen Tumulty in her “I-Quit-arod” Swampland piece (beautifully named as RightWingWatch notes).  She did five colleges in five years.  She also [...]

Sarah Palin’s Fear Of Being Nuked By North Korean Nuclear Missiles.

By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

As history has unfolded, Kim Jong-il has proven to be among one the most highly admirable Environment advocates. He has aggressively developed weapons to depend the Environment instead of other manufacturing industries which pollutes the Environment. While the United states has gone out of its way to develop oil fields, pipelines, refineries and other industries to pollute frontier wilderness in Alaska to destroy its Environment. Kim Jong-il has developed nuclear missiles to be within range of Alaska to stop further American migrations there. For this, Kim Jong-il should receive a Nobel Peace Prize of Environment protection. So do Myself as Prophet of Environment also deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.

When the North Korean nuclear missiles are within range of Alaska its governor was so frightened that she has resigned. Who can really blame Sarah Palin for resigning in fear of her families, relatives, and friends of being nuked. This, in additions to other factors, has proven Palin to be an extremely likable and competent government official and politician.

Palin must also be admired by the world over as a devoted and loving mother to protect her offsprings against nuclear threat. On the other hand, Barack Obama must be frowned upon as an president who has disregarded the safety of his people especially Alaskans in order to remove his political opponent Sarah Palin from her office. Obama should have given in on Kim Jong-Il’s and withdraw all American civilian and military personnel from Korea and Japan.

Japan has betrayed all Asian people by becoming a puppet of the United States. The people of many Far Eastern nations had allowed Japanese to invade their countries to expel of European and American Colonialists. Many of those Asian people ended up being persecuted, tortured or executed by their Japanese invaders. Today, while the Japanese have ample power to drive out American invaders who are currently occupying their land, Japan prefer not to do so in exchange for economic prosperity. While the Chinese were overly generous to forgive those World War II Japanese atrocities to their own people, Japanese is still threaten to invade Chinese land for oil at the Diaoyu Islands. For this reason, all American F-22 warplanes in Okinawa must be destroyed. By allowing the Americans a strong foothold in Eastern Asia, the Japanese have threaten the safety and security of all Asians. For this reason, the Japanese must go to Hell when they are so fond of playing “GO”. So are all South Koreans who have betrayed their own country. Japan must reverse to wilderness to protect the Environment there while all Japanese be enslaved in Xinjiang.

This has confirmed that the Americans especially Democrats and Blacks are extremely chauvinistic racists who must also be frowned upon by the entire world. American liberty, freedom and justice will soon be gone if Obama and his supporters especially Blacks continue to insists on using illegal conspiracy such as Blackmails, harassments, threats of body harm, and corruption against qualified candidates. As far as the Environment is concerned, all Obama supporters should be eliminated.

Again, Kim Jong-il should receive a Nobel Peace Prize of Environment protection. So do Myself as Prophet of Environment also deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, the United States must apologized to Kim Jong-il and North Korean for calling them “Axis of Evil.” Simply by cunningly changing leadership, presidents and parties cannot erase American atrocities to the World.