Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor
Attorney · Raleigh, NC · Member since 2008 · 4k+ posts · 1k+ votes
No not because she had an affair, but because she's focusing full time on a Presidential run in 2012. She's burned her ships. There's something you need to understand about a woman like Sarah. When a woman like her gets attacked, she doesn't cower in hurt. She gets motivated. You can't win giving a person like this negative energy. They only convert it to motivation and the more you attack, the more you support them.
Happy Fourth of July!
Tim
I couldn't disagree more and I can't wait for the chance to see it. Obama is as big of a joke as this country has ever seen.
From bowing down to the saudi king, to declaring that we are "Not a Christian nation", to disarming our military, to not not doing ANYTHING about north korea etc.
This guy is more of a national security risk then Bin Laden because he is killing our country from the inside.
Jeff
I think the more you attack Palin the more she fights back....HARD! People shouldn't attack people's family values. Makes me think about David Letterman. Must be a liberal/socialist/communist thing.
Tim "The Genius of Bigger Pockets" Weinsteneke has spoken!
Wow, Tim has a disciple...
Hey Kirk, given this response, I now fully understand why you support Sarah Palin...thank you for making your point so clear!
Okay folks...it's clear that these threads are just degrading and wasting a bunch of time. Obviously a couple of us (myself included) are spending more time trying to be inflammatory than to try to actually have sincere political discussion.
While I'd love to have a civil political discussion, obviously it's going to be difficult on an Internet forum, where a single "obnoxious" comment can just cause the entire thread to spin out of control.
So, in order to give both myself and everyone else some to focus on the real estate aspect of this forum :), I'm going to reduce my reading and responses in the political threads from now on.
I hope I didn't offend anyone with any previous comments (though I probably did). That wasn't my intent, and I recognize that everyone has strong opinions, and there's obviously nothing wrong with that. Hopefully there are no hard feelings...
In fact, I have a feeling if we could actually have a civil discussion about some of these things, we'd probably find that we agree in as many aspects as we disagree (even Tim and myself! :).
I'll leave it at that, and wish you all a good rest of the weekend...see you on the other side of the forum...and when I make it back to these threads, I'll do my best to remain constructive... :)
Exactly my point!!!!! Because the schools of today do not teach the constitution, people do not have any idea of what it really is and why it was created.
As for children left behind, they should be!!!!
If they can not pass the tests they should stay there until they can. To do anything else is a disservice to those children. It almost borders on neglect. It certainly neglects their education. But that may be what was intended so as to "dumb down" the population so they do not understand what those in power are attempting to do.
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Exactly my point!!!!! Because the schools of today do not teach the constitution, people do not have any idea of what it really is and why it was created.
As for children left behind, they should be!!!!
If they can not pass the tests they should stay there until they can. To do anything else is a disservice to those children. It almost borders on neglect. It certainly neglects their education. But that may be what was intended so as to "dumb down" the population so they do not understand what those in power are attempting to do.
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But, hey. Look at the bright side. They took a day off to watch the Michael Jackson memorial (The whole four hours of it). They can name all the contestant on "American Idol" , "So you think you can dance" and they can name all eight kids of Jon & Kate... Now, That's the American spirit...
As Don King used to say... "ONLY IN AMERICA.....!!!"
You are very correct in these statements that almost every president works on correcting problems for the future years as it is the Congress responsibility to pass laws. And to do that there is always debate for a while before the laws enacted do pass. And then they do not take affect until the beginning of the next cycle of government usually.
This in effect has the previous Congress bills affecting the next presidency. This is the way it has always been. The tax cuts put through by Reagan and Bush balanced the budget of Carter who then push through many spending bills which took affect during Bush who also had to spend on a ground war.
Yes all too often the current president takes credit for things that were actually done by the previous Congress. Just like he gets blamed for their failures.
But with that all said and acknowledged, My statement about borders being secure was about Alaska where Palin was Governor and supposing that had she been in charge the same thing would have been true about the borders of the US instead of what we had which allowed the terrorists to accomplish their deed making it necessary for Bush to spend all that money in defense of this country as was his rightful roll.
The unsecure borders that started years ago and continued by these recent republican admin. is definately not to my liking as they are nothing more than paying for a vote.
Didn't mean to light up the fire again, but here it is. Judge for your self.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907
And I thought that being an immigrant, makes me somehow disadvantaged ...
Sorry Eddie, but I wont be goated by an edited speach!!!!!!!!!!
Beside that no one said that an immigrant is disadvantaged in any way!! We all came here as immigrants for the advantages this land offered. It is the ILLIGAL immigrants that should be at a disadvantage because they by defination are breaking the laws of the land by being illegal.
Which is consistent with my theory that she is probably pretty average intellectually, in general...
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Good lord is the best they can do play Jr. High English teacher? Having spoken to crowds of merely 100-200, I would like to see a single editor try speaking to a crowd.
Public speaking is nothing like sitting at a desk and writing it out. Everyone makes grammar gaffes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
By the was Jason, if that was evidence that Sarrah's communication skills were "average"....what does this say about Barrack's?
First, my comment was kind of a joke, but to your point that "we all came here as immigrants"... Well, not really. You can argue that most of us are descendants of immigrants, however, some of us are descendants of slave and the rest are actually real immigrants.
With regard to the illegal immigrants, well, for the most part I agree with you but it's a whole different issue and I don't want to hijack this thread.
Oh, Tim. You are smarter than that... Are you comparing Joe Biden to the thrrilla from Wisilla? Puhhlease...
Very nice, I just discovered a political section on these boards. Is this where we can get away from ROI, NOI, 1%, 2%, 50%, etc...?
People have very strong feelings about Palin, Biden, Obama, McCain and just about everyone else in politics. To me, Sarah Palin was such a breath of fresh air compared to all these Lawyers and Liars in Washington. I wouldn't trust our current president to run a Cub Scout group or little league team. Although, he might be able to run a ghetto basketball team, I hear he plays a mean game of BBall.
I have asked many, MANY folks to name one thing the current president did, before he won the Oval office, that PROVES he will make a good president? You got it, SQUADOUCHE. An Empty Suit. People say W was incompetent and he raised the National Deficit $5T in 8 years. The current president raised the National Deficit $1T in just six months! He is giving "incompetence" a whole new meaning.
It's just too bad that we did not have a qualified person running for president in 2008.
I hope Sarah Palin goes on the speaking circuit and makes more money in a month than the current president makes in a year. She is not as well versed in many areas of World Politics, but the current president isn't well versed in the every day life of the average American. Palin is. Teenagers rebel, wow, there is a news bulletin! I have six kids, taught them right from wrong, and guess what! Thats right, they still had a bit of rebelliousness. So before you cast stones at Palin, you had better look in the mirror.
I would LOVE to see Palin in the Oval Office. For one thing, she would have highly intelligent and highly experienced people around her, unlike the tax cheats around the current president. For another thing, she would root out a lot of the corruption in DC. The current president is being bought by Wall Street, Investment Banks and the Auto Industry.
Let's just hope that we have a country left worth saving in 2012.
Hmmm, I say "ghetto" and YOU think "black". Did I say "black" anywhere? Who is the racist here? The last time I checked, around the world, there are "ghetto's" that are caucasian, oriental, hispanic, black, italian, irish, british, etc....
The reason I used "ghetto" is because of the lack of organization needed to set up a team. I could have said "sandlot" baseball team, "park" flag football team, "street" hockey team, etc...
If you think BLACK every time you see the word GHETTO, then it is YOU who is racist.
My point is that I am "racist" against liars, cheaters, lazy folks, welfare mentality folks, entitlement folks, politically correct folks, etc...
On a side note Jason, did you make it to the WSOP this year? Eva and I made it there for the first few days. Got a chance to see Doyle, Daniel, Phil, Scotty, Gavin, and a few more. Even got to watch a little of the Final Table of the Champions Tournament. We have a cousin who made the final table at the second largest WSOP tournament in 2008, and we watched him play a bit this year.
I am not good enough to play tournaments. I would put me somewhere between a "fish" and a "donkey". I have about 2,000 "Sit and Goes" online right now, so I am slowly, ever so slowly, improving my game.
Again, I am not racist, have never even been accused of being racist by any one that knows me. But what really angers me is that because I am against the current president, people that do not know me automatically accuse me of being a racist. I am against the current president because he is totally clueless.
Once there was a French philosopher name Jean-Paul Sartre who said that everyone posses a degree of racism, the good ones just know and fight it within themselves.
... And by the way, J, haven't you heard about the fabulous Chinese Ghetto basketball team?
Mike M,
J Scott called me a racist too! Apparently, anyone that disagrees with him is a racist! Welcome to the club!
Mike