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Palin to be No Show at Obama's Dinner for McCain
On the night before Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th President, his inaugural committee will host a series of dinners honoring public servants it deems champions of bipartisanship. To be feted are Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Colin Powell, and John McCain, whom Obama vanquished last November. At the McCain dinner, the GOP senator, who managed to suppress his bipartisan tendencies during the hard-fought 2008 campaign, will be introduced by one of his closest Senate confidants: Senator Lindsey Graham. But McCain's No. 1 booster during the last year will not be among those hailing McCain. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his controversial running-mate, will not attend the dinner, Bill McAllister, a Palin spokesman tells Mother Jones.
Can true tribute be paid to McCain without Palin's presence? Picking her for his party's veep nomination was McCain's most decisive and significant action of his campaign. And she spent weeks praising him as an American hero, a man the country desperately needed as president. True, the Palin and McCain camps have bickered with each other since the election about some of the campaign's miscues. But shouldn't she be part of any celebration of McCain?
According to McAllister, Palin will spend next week in her home state preparing for the legislative session, which begins on Tuesday, and for her State of the State address on Thursday.
Was she even invited? "I don't know if she was invited," McCallister says. Don't know? How could that be? It's hard to miss an invitation from a presidential inauguration committee. For its part, Obama's inaugural committee has declined to say whether an invitation was sent to Palin. Repeated phone calls to its press office produced no answer to this simple question.
The committee has announced that the McCain dinner will be held at the Hilton Washington and that Democratic Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will be the master of ceremonies. It notes that the attendees of all three bipartisan dinners will include "leaders in Congress from both sides of the aisle and Americans of both parties from across the country." Just not one particular American from up north.
If Palin was left off the guest list, it's not clear whether the snub came from McCain or the Presidential Inaugural Committee. But it's not terribly hard to imagine why she might not make the cut. There appears to be lingering bad blood between the McCain and Palin factions, over such issues as the profligate spending spree to attire the vice presidential candidate and her family (Silk boxers for the first dude?) and the McCain campaign's botched media roll-out of Palin. The Alaska Governor still appears to be holding a grudge against the McCainiacs, as evidenced by recently released excerpts from her interview with conservative filmmaker John Ziegler, whose forthcoming documentary explores the "media malpractice" that supposedly paved the way for Obama's election. In the interview, she lashed out at the media, but also criticized her McCain campaign handlers for allowing her to become a campaign punchline in multiple disastrous interviews with CBS News' Katie Couric.
Given that the McCain dinner will celebrate bipartisanship, not conflict-resolution, perhaps it's best for Palin to keep her distance. It may be that she and McCain still need some time apart.
Photo by flickr user sskennel used under a Creative Commons license.
She is far better of distancing herself from the non-stop lunacy and globalists that's been running DC for the last 20 years, and the incoming Der leader Chairman Maobama. There are so many cases of corruption already, from the inbound President, and I say give him a pass. You can't fix a free market with Socialistic solutions and you can't embrace "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness sucking on the tit of government! I have yet to met a Socialist/Anarchist that once has the facts can admit they are wrong, and so if you blame our economic collapse on Bush and Bush alone, you are a fool and deserve the bleak leadership that is spewing from Der Leader already. We are on the precipice that is leading us to communism and the Constitution will torn to shreds, and the piracy of elections will get worse.
Adam Weishaupt said: "Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth. The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men." He also said how it would be done "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always concealed by another name, and another occupation." But who cares how they do it as long as they are successful in taking power. "From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing." Illustrated Sunday Herald, p. 5?February 8, 1920 Winston Churchill. So you got to pay to play and obviously Sarah doesn't want to pay...
So let them say it's a Bamamiracle, that because of the election Global warming has ceased, there never was global warming from man's CO2, what we have is global cooling! So let them say it's a Bamamiracle, that because of the election that the price of Gas has come down and appoint a Czar's in charge of Energy, Commerce, and Manufacturing. The fact is the reason it's going to get worse is because of the incoming government and administration and may all liberals/communists give all their money to the IRS, for government knows better now that we have Der Leader. They soon will come after free speech that they find offensive, it's Ok to trash Christians and Jews and conservatives for it is their fault we are in this dire state!
So smile and be happy, for we have kept the reigns in the hands of those who will defile us and our Constitution, or was it really us that elected them? Blogs like this serve as a listing of who is a stakeholder in the blame, when we as a nation can finally clean house and truly rebuild a Nation of the Free and the Brave again we may need lists!
Of course feel free to retain your blindness, you are entitled to the opinions that the government teaches you to have. Don't question anything, but if you do and you do not change your heart and continue to embrace Socialism and the heavy hand of government than you will likely be thanking Nixon, and the Bushes for their part in Government seizing your Constitutional rights for your Socialistic causes, because it can only be us and them? Have you got your brown shirts yet? Why do they say history repeats itself? Because it does and what part of history are we about to repeat, the story of Enoch, Rome, Sodom, or Zerahemla? Eat, Drink, and be Merry, because every day is a Bamamiracle!
TRUE CLASS!
JCCIC ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL PROGRAM
Line-up Includes Musical Greats Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman
WASHINGTON, DC ? Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, today announced the program for the 56th Presidential Inauguration, which will take place on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009.
"I am delighted to announce this superb line-up of participants in the 2009 inaugural ceremonies," said Senator Feinstein. "The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will be an event of historic proportion. It is appropriate that the program will include some of the world's most gifted artists from a wide range of backgrounds and genres."
The program participants were invited by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and chosen by the Chairman, the Presidential-elect and the Vice President-elect. In addition to Senator Feinstein, the members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies include: Senator Bob Bennett, Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer; and House Republican Leader John Boehner.
The order of the program will be as follows:
Musical Selections
The United States Marine Band
Musical Selections
The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
Invocation
Dr. Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA
Musical Selection
Aretha Franklin
Oath of Office Administered to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
By Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
The Honorable John Paul Stevens
Musical Selection, John Williams, composer/arranger
Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Gabriela Montero, Piano
Anthony McGill, Clarinet
Oath of Office Administered to President-elect Barack H. Obama
By the Chief Justice of the United States
The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
Inaugural Address
The President of the United States, The Honorable Barack H. Obama
Poem
Elizabeth Alexander
Benediction
The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
The National Anthem
The United States Navy Band "Sea Chanters"
Biographies
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. She is the author of four books and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. She has received many grants and honors, most recently the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954," and the 2007 Jackson Prize for Poetry. She is a professor at Yale University and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University this year.
Aretha Franklin is often described as "The Queen of Soul." In a career spanning more than 50 years, she has earned a reputation as one of the greatest singers of our time, with a repertoire that includes soul, jazz, rock, blues, pop, and gospel. Franklin has won 21 Grammy Awards, including the Living Legend Grammy and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy. In 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other awards include the National Medal of Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Center Honors.
The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, considered the dean of the civil rights movement, co-founded along with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and served as president and chief executive officer from 1977 to January 15, 1998. He served as pastor of Atlanta's oldest predominantly Black United Methodist congregation, Central Methodist Gardens for 18 years, and as pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church from 1986 to 1992.
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Anthony McGill is the principal clarinetist of the New York Metropolitan Orchestra, a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty in clarinet, and a much sought after soloist and chamber musician. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, he is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, a program designed to provide support for up-and-coming instrumentalists. He has performed at many music festivals, and appeared as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, New Jersey, and Hilton Head, and performed at Lincoln Center as a member of Chamber Music Society Two. McGill has also toured Europe and Japan with a chamber ensemble including Mitsuko Uchida and members of the Brentano String Quartet.
Yo-Yo Ma is a world renowned cellist, educator, and ambassador for the arts. His recordings are among the most successful recordings in the classical field, and reflect his wide-ranging interest in many musical genres and traditions. He began studying the cello at age four. He studied at the Juilliard School, and is a graduate of Harvard University. His awards include the Avery Fisher Prize, the Glenn Gould Prize, and the National Medal of the Arts. Appointed a CultureConnect Ambassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Yo-Yo Ma has met with, trained, and mentored thousands of students worldwide. In 2006, Secretary General Kofi Annan named him a U.N. Messenger of Peace, and in 2007 Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon extended his appointment.
Gabriela Montero is a pianist known both for her impeccable classical playing and her improvisational gift. Montero gave her first public performance at the age of five. At age eight she made her concert debut with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra, and was granted a scholarship to study in the United States. At twelve she won the Baldwin National Competition and AMSA Young Artist International Piano Competition. She won the Bronze Medal at the 13th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1995, and since then has played at recital halls and festivals around the world. Her recordings include both performances of well known classical compositions, as well as improvisations on themes by Bach and other classical composers.
Itzhak Perlman is one of the greatest violinists of our time. Following his training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and the Julliard School, Perlman won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in 1964. Since then, Perlman has performed with every major orchestra throughout the world. He has also conducted orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. He has won 15 Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, and numerous other awards including the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Medal of Liberty, presented by President Reagan in 1986 to honor the nation's most distinguished naturalized citizens during the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty. Perlman is also an educator, teaching at the Perlman Music Program and the Juilliard School, where he holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair.
Dr. Rick Warren founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, in 1980 with one family. Today, it is an evangelical congregation averaging 22,000 weekly attendees, a 120-acre campus, and has more than 300 community ministries to groups such as prisoners, CEOs, addicts, single parents, and those with HIV/AIDS. He also leads the Purpose Driven Network of churches, a global coalition of congregations in 162 countries. TIME magazine named him one
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of "15 World Leaders Who Mattered Most in 2004," and in 2005 one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World."
John Williams is one of the most successful and best-known composers of our time. He studied at UCLA, Los Angeles City College, and the Juilliard School. Williams has composed the music and served as a music director for more than one hundred films, has received forty-five Academy Award nominations, and won five. He also has been awarded seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty Grammys, four Golden Globes, four Emmys, numerous gold and platinum records, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Williams has written many concert pieces, and special compositions for events including the Special Olympics, and the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. From1980-1993, Williams conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra, and assumed the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor after retiring in December 1993. Williams also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood.
The San Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) was founded in 1948 and has become an internationally acclaimed Grammy-award winning organization. The chorus has over 240 singers from 50 Bay Area cities and more than 120 schools at three Bay Area campuses. SFBC has toured in four continents where they performed for dignitaries such as: Pope John Paul II, HRH Queen Elizabeth II of England, King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, HM Prince of Wales, the President of the former Soviet Union, and U.S presidents. SFBC celebrated their 60 year anniversary this year.
The San Francisco Girls Chorus (SFGC) is comprised of more than 300 singers, ages 7-18, from 160 schools in 44 Bay Area cities. SFGC was founded in 1978 and has become a regional center for choral music education and performance. The Chorus can also be heard on several San Francisco Symphony recordings, including three Grammy Award-winners. In 2001, SFGC became the first youth chorus to win the prestigious Margaret Hillis Award given annually by Chorus America to a chorus that demonstrates artistic excellence, a strong organizational structure, and a commitment to education.
The United States Marine Band, founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, is America's oldest professional musical organization. Also called "The President's Own," the Marine Band is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public performances. The Marine Band performs a varied repertoire including new works for wind ensemble, traditional concert band literature, challenging orchestral transcriptions, and the patriotic marches that made it famous. The band frequently features its members in solo performances that highlight their virtuosity and artistry.
The United States Navy Band "Sea Chanters" is the official chorus of the United States Navy. In 1956, Lt. Harold Fultz, then the Band's assistant leader, organized an all male group of singers from the Navy School of Music in Anacostia for the State of the Nation dinner. The group was an instant success, so Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, transferred them to the Navy Band, named them the "Sea Chanters," and gave them the mission of carrying on the songs of the sea. Women joined the "Sea Chanters" in 1980. The chorus appears throughout the United States and has also sung with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
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MB: Wasilla had the rape kit policy while Sarah was mayor and there is no record of her speaking out against it and, as mayor, she indirectly endorsed it by approving city budgets that relied on the revenue. Lets look at the people Sarah pals around with, Thomas Muthee, a woo woo priest and exorcist, Mark Chryson former chairman of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, who played a pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor and along with Chryson shaped her political agenda afterward. How about her close ties to the AIP, really close in terms of her husband. Of course Pelosi is on a power trip, that's the job, she hasn't even come close to Gingrich yet but give her time. I don't think Sarah is dumb because she talks different, I think she's dumb because of what emits from her mouth when she opens it. Barack is well versed in international affairs and served on the Foreign Relations committee in the US Senate. Did you watch that portion of the debates? McCain was supposed to walk away with that one and, well? he didn't. Michelle NEVER said she wasn't proud to be an American, go look it up and read what she did say, read her apology and her explanation of what she was trying to say. Please provide the lies Obama has told about his past and lincs to refuting evidence. Please do not provide all of the lies that have been told about his past by haters. I based my opinion of Sarah on her debates, interviews and campaign speeches not on the evil media. She proved herself to be uneducated, uninformed, unable to form a complete sentence, rude, obnoxious, judgmental, arrogant, and a basic opportunist. She DID NOT wait until the election was over to start her whining - another reason I found her unprofessional and not up for the task. I'm sure she loves this country, so do I, but I'd make a lousy VP too!! Lastly I believe Obama avoided the racist angle as long as he possibly could. Nothing good comes from stirring up that hornet's nest so I think it's foolish to think he'd see it as an opportunity. I admire him for facing it head on when he felt he had to.
Perhaps I witnessed a different long, drawn out campaign season than Daniel did. My take was that, despite the apparent brilliance of the Palin choice, it actually alienated moderate voters in a year that was definitely a middle to left swing. Certainly McCain can have a dinner honoring his bipartisanship without Palin. In fact, if bipartisanship is what is being honored, it makes perfect sense that she would be excluded, as she represented only rabid "right"eousness and not inclusiveness. An amazing question. The McCain-Palin ticket represents the Senator at his worst, especially in the context of the honor.
HAHA, I'm loving it. Palin invitation was lost in the mail.
Maybe she's not up to par on dinner etiquette and the McCain campaign isn't there anymore to pay for her lessons?
What will come first? The day that she stops whining or the day the media stops paying attention to her whining?
So right brother.
Or maybe she did get invited but didn't want to be seen palin' around with terrorist, worse, breaking bread with them, wouldn't be good for her 2012 commercials.
Will Sarah be bringing the turkey to the McCain dinner party?
Maybe the common denominator for the guest list is the ABILITY to be bi-partisan when the circumstance calls for it. Palin doesn't make the grade. She's inflexible and uneducable.
Ummm..both sides won't say if she was invited speaks volumes! And this is the one that excited the base and the Repubs choice for 2012..haha
Tom Payned, I believe your statement WINS. I wouldn't doubt it one bit.
It does some rather odd that she wouldn't be there but I can certainly understand why she wouldn't be invited. Since the dinner is for McCain why have Palin there and the circus atmosphere that follows her. I bet McCain has had enough of that to last a lifetime.
Maybe she's afraid Katie Couric will be there and start asking her questions.
I say she crashes the dinner.
I bet she'll show up anyway, with her kids in tow, and then write off all the expenses to the Alaska Governor's office.
Of course Palin was NOT invited!
SHE WOULD NEVER, NEVER miss this...it would be PUBLICITY.
If they are being QUIYE about it, she wasn't invited, period.
she doesn't have any thing to wear.
Trust me, if she wasn't invited, we will be hearing more whining about her not being treated fairly.
I believe Obama's dinner to honor his election opponent McCain is unprecendented, and as none other than Pat Buchanan said on MSNBC, it confirms that Obama is a "class act". I can see why Palin would not be included in such an event, though I'm sure she was invited, unless McCain told them to leave her off the list.
If it were me, I would not invite a person that called me "a socialist that pals around with terrorists, the most liberal member of the senate, and lacking in experience" to any dinners. It's not so much what was said, but how.
McCain's attacks on Obama were more like the kind of rhetoric I expect during a campaign. Palin's attacks were over the top.
I would not invite her. Just sayin.
I can't believe that this media whore would pass up an opportunity to be on TV. She must have some other gig lined up.
This article is hilariously understated. In a time of too much over the top slant, I appreciate it.
But to Tom Payned, why wouldn't she attend? After all, per her interview with Ziegler, she would have been the belle of the ball among Dems and Libs if only she had been on the Obama ticket. Perhaps the funniest political line ever when juxtaposed with her comments about Obama from St. Paul on.
Their serving crow for dinner.
I never on earth thought there would be anyone more moronic than George W. Bush. He has met his match for stupidity in Sarah the Moron Palin. How McCain picked that idiot is beyond me. It shows you what a horrendous president McCain would have been if the choice of Palin for No. 2 of a 72 year old guy with cancer would have been. I shudder to think of it.
The first reason Obama and McCain would not want Governor Palin there is because nearly all politicians fear someone that is open and truthful. I wonder why commentor Kate calls it a "circus" atmosphere when Governor Palin's supporters enthusiastically turn out, but doesn't see the messiah following throngs panting after the socialist Obama the same way. Most of the people that defame Governor Palin's good name by making negative statements about her education will never achieve even 10% of what she has achieved in life. It bothers ultra liberal people to see someone that is openly in favor of defending freedom, as she does. It also bothers them because she is a strong country woman from rural America that doesn't have to rely on social programs to feed her and her family. I am sure seeing her with a Remington 30-06 standing over a dead caribou scares the male wimps in liberal America to death. It is easy for McCain to be bipartison since he is mostly a liberal Democrat posing as a Republican. That is what defeated him. Had the Republicans ran a staunchly conservative candidate and not allowed Democrats and liberal independents to cross over vote in the primaries, there would be a Republican taking the oath of office on January 20th. Obama will endanger and ruin America with his wimpy socialist agenda.
Sarah doesn't want to break bread with someone who pals around with terrorists, her choice of "pals" are drug pushers....
There is no reason for anyone to expect that she would be invited. The dinner is to honor "champions of bi-partisanship." McCain has a long career in the senate that, pre-Bush administration, has many instances of bipartisan activities. Palin never showed an interest in bipartisan activities.
IN fact, the Whole Point of selecting Palin as VP was that her inflexible, far right-wing ideology canceled out that bipartisan McCain record, a record his advisers saw as a liability in re the conservative Republican base. She had no interest, ever, in bipartisanship which McCain astutely evaluated as the contribution she had to make to his campaign.
This "issue" seems to me to be manufactured. There is lots going on and no reason to create a snub when one has not happened.
Hey Georgie boy i bet that crow would go down a lot easier with ketchup
My guess is McCain didn't want her there, so Obama didn't invite her. Nobody's going to say outright she wasn't invited because: a)McCain doesn't like her but doesn't want to be further saddled with her publicity-seeking at his expense, so he's not going to comment on her absence; b) Obama's not going to address her non-invite in deference to McCain (the dinner is to honor McCain, after all); and c)Palin's not going to admit to no invitation because that's a pretty epic diss, and even she, a major league publicity hound, knows it's a poor idea to draw attention to such a putdown by just about everybody who matters.
It's telling Republican power brokers don't seem to be distressed by this near-ostracism. They must really dislike her.
HEY--TeamSarah--here's something to get your panties in a twist about! BOOHOO!
"It also bothers them because she is a strong country woman from rural America..."
...who can't stop whining that everything bad that happens to her is someone else's fault.
Just grow up, Sarah.
McCain may have shown some common sense and grace every once in a while when he stopped wild attacks on Obama. However, just picking Palin as his running mate indicated clearly: Country Last. And together they told lies and warped history and fanned the flames of class warfare. Can you imagine them stepping up to the plate of crises that Barack will be facing. We were lucky. The dinners seem like a nice gesture, but the fact is they won't be appreciated by the likes of McCain or Palin. Sign of weakness, you know.
I think, Sarah Palin does not deserve being part of that dinner. There is no record that shows she works across pary line. In fact, in my view, she was the most divisive every nomintated vice presential candidate to run a major political party in the USA.
On a significant note, I must commend the inaugural committee for the selection of John McCain, Colin Powell, and Joe Biden for their bi-partisanship. I feel it is worth noting that these guys are good citizens who really love thier country(America).
George Douglas--put the Palin bikini photo away and go wash your hands!
I have no idea who and where you come from, but even your attempt to articulate excuses for a completely uninformed, unprepared, lacking any intellectual capacity type pereson that Sarah Palin was....is disengenuous and dishonest. Her being where she is poorly reflects on the citizens of Alaska that voted her into her position. It also speaks volumes about your intellectual capacity. Sorry but it is sad.
I totally agree with you. Palin personally attacked Obama and there were practically race riots at her rallies. If I were Obama I would have left her off the list but I think he is to classy for that. Instead, I think it was more John McCain per Cindy McCain's, choice to leave her out.
She won't attend probably because the planners informed her they would not authorize the cost of her wardrobe or travel expenses for her family.
.. and then complain about media picking on her family, when she uses them for stage props. ufb
If she had been invited you can be sure she'd have accepted.
I'm sure we'll hear her whine about it in the future- all spun up in typical Palin fashion!
drinking the koolaid
@George Douglas,
Sore loser, much?
Just teasin' big guy. I sincerely believe Seera Peelin should be the head of the Ragepublican party. Do what you can to get her to run in 2012, possibly with a KKK member as her Veep. Go, Seera, Go!
p.s. She does "rely on social programs" which may stick in your craw so much that you have to deny it, and less than ten percent of US voters are actually rural, but, hey, facts have a liberal bias so f* 'em.
Perhaps the easiest answer is that she would gain nothing by attending and McCain could see her as a distraction from the purpose of the dinner and asked that she not be invited. She is, after all, still stuck in the past, while most -- including McCain -- have moved on. I remember the body language and seating position of Palin and IN Gov. Mitch Daniels as they sat at the Governor's conference when PE Obama was speaking. Most telling.
Ooooh, now she'll get to play the victim card even more now.
Don't you people realize that Conservatism is dead in this country? Obama won because people liked his message and voted for it. There were many people who voted for Bush who weren't strict "Conservatives," and they voted Democratic this time. Only the die-hard conservatives voted for Republican and, obviously, they are declining in number.
george Douglas, Stop using the term "messiah"; no one voting for Obama thought of him as "the" or "a messiah". You can stop with the other name calling also, and that includes all the alcolades given Sarah Palin.(Achieve 10% of what Sarah achieved! It won't be difficult for anyone to achieve that and MORE.)
George Douglas...I am surprised by several points that you made. First...I believe that holding public office is perhaps the closest thing to being a Socialist there is. You are on the Government dole, relying on the electorate to wipe your ass for you! Secondly...it was Rush Limbaugh that was calling for Republicans to cross register to try to stack the primary deck. Maybe you missed that broadcast while you were polishing your Nazi commemorative plate collection. Just as Democrats have to accept that they lost conrtol of Congress in 1998 (and the Gore vs. Bush election) because of Clinton's behavior...Republicans are just going to have to admit that George W. caused the 2006 turnover and the loss of this presidential campaign. Open your mind and your eyes and see reality. Then you could see that Palin is an embarrasment to any party she would be a part of.
Heard through the grapevine...Palin doesn't have a thing to wear to such a fancy occasion...so she declined.
Mr. Douglas:
Are you (as an Enron worker asked Kenny-boy Lay) on crack? Because that would explain a lot about your posting. I could respond for days about the fallacious arguments in your letter, but will limit myself to one: you say she's so independent she doesn't need "social programs" to feed her family. No she doesn't, as long as she draws a civil servant's salary, she's living off the government teat the old-fashioned way--and, if she can graft per diem money while working at home, so much the better. Here in Chicago, we call that a crime.
I believe it would have interrupted her reading program devoted to the U.S. Constitution. I understand that she has mastered Article I and is now on Article II, which is far more complicated.
If Palin is not attending, it is because she does not want to be or McCain did not invite her. Obama's team would not have excluded her if she was on the list received from McCain's team.
Palin should rethink her positions. It is not smart to be whining in public. She should go on a weekend with 2 girlfriends and explode...get it all out. Then come back, shut up and do her job. Period. Whining and blaming anyone, especially the media will not get her anywhere. It would not work for any candidate Dem or Repub. The scrutiney and criticism comes with the job of a public official. GET OVER IT.