A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
by Sarah Palin on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 5:46pm
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…
Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.
Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.
If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)
“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Sarah Palin
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Whning Will Get You Nowhere Mr. President
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A Very Obama Thanksgiving
November 1621: Governor Obama of Plymouth Colony prepares for the first Thanksgiving with his scribe, the boy Robert.
"How are preparations for our Thanksgiving Day feast proceeding, young Robert? I am eager to share the blessings wrought by hope and change, and the bounty that I have brought to this needy land and its humble yet dignified people."
"Yes, Governor, about the feast. I'm afraid we don't have much in the way of food."
"But I decreed a feast."
"Yes I remember the speech. One of your best."
"And we have just been through Recovery Summer. Vice Governor Biden spoke at length about it."
"At great length, yes, sir."
"What of our stimulus measures, our grain giveaway plan, our venison buyback program, tax breaks for low-income quarter-acre subsistence farmers, the tree sap initiative, cash for carp?"
"None of that really had an impact, Governor. Most of the programs were too complicated for people to understand, and for those who did, the benefits were only short-term."
"What about the goat path widening project? The Plymouth Rock demolition plan?"
"Those projects are still going on sir, and are way over budget. But they did not help us produce any food. As it is, most of the colonists can barely provide for themselves, and a large number are in need."
"Where's my Turkey Czar?"
"I think he's under indictment."
"And the produce from Lady Obama's garden?"
"We bought those vegetables at Whole Foods, they were just for the photo-op."
"I sent four men on a fowling expedition days ago, what happened to them?"
"They ran into insurgents and got bogged down on Cape Cod. They will need a surge force of at least two more men and should be back with some fowl by 1625. But the good news is that Chief Massasoit and the Wampanoag are bringing five deer to the feast."
"No, that would look like tribute. We need to apologize to the Wampanoag."
"Again?"
"For all the Europeans have done to the Native Americans."
"It's 1621, we haven't done anything yet."
"I can't believe that our programs have not produced the bounty we promised ourselves we would have. Of course, we were digging Plymouth out of a very deep hole. Our predecessors drove this colony into a ditch."
"What predecessors?"
"That and the unpredictable fluctuations of the shilling against the doubloon."
"Which reminds me sir, the Chinese pirates are scheduled to stop by on Friday to discuss all that gold you borrowed from them that you want to pay back in notes written on birch bark."
"OK, well, get Mayflower One ready for my trade mission."
"You're leaving?"
"Yes, we need to move this colony into the mid-17th century. I have important meetings scheduled in the south of France with European royalty. I am bringing them bound volumes of my collected speeches as a gift."
"Sir, couldn't we just privatize the farms, let people keep what they grow, end all these make-work projects, start trading with the Indians, allow hunters to hunt, educate our children, honor our families and work according to God's plan? Wouldn't that produce the bounty we seek?"
"Robert, let me be clear. Ye have a lot to learn about government."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/24/a-very-obama-thanksgiving/?page=1
"How are preparations for our Thanksgiving Day feast proceeding, young Robert? I am eager to share the blessings wrought by hope and change, and the bounty that I have brought to this needy land and its humble yet dignified people."
"Yes, Governor, about the feast. I'm afraid we don't have much in the way of food."
"But I decreed a feast."
"Yes I remember the speech. One of your best."
"And we have just been through Recovery Summer. Vice Governor Biden spoke at length about it."
"At great length, yes, sir."
"What of our stimulus measures, our grain giveaway plan, our venison buyback program, tax breaks for low-income quarter-acre subsistence farmers, the tree sap initiative, cash for carp?"
"None of that really had an impact, Governor. Most of the programs were too complicated for people to understand, and for those who did, the benefits were only short-term."
"What about the goat path widening project? The Plymouth Rock demolition plan?"
"Those projects are still going on sir, and are way over budget. But they did not help us produce any food. As it is, most of the colonists can barely provide for themselves, and a large number are in need."
"Where's my Turkey Czar?"
"I think he's under indictment."
"And the produce from Lady Obama's garden?"
"We bought those vegetables at Whole Foods, they were just for the photo-op."
"I sent four men on a fowling expedition days ago, what happened to them?"
"They ran into insurgents and got bogged down on Cape Cod. They will need a surge force of at least two more men and should be back with some fowl by 1625. But the good news is that Chief Massasoit and the Wampanoag are bringing five deer to the feast."
"No, that would look like tribute. We need to apologize to the Wampanoag."
"Again?"
"For all the Europeans have done to the Native Americans."
"It's 1621, we haven't done anything yet."
"I can't believe that our programs have not produced the bounty we promised ourselves we would have. Of course, we were digging Plymouth out of a very deep hole. Our predecessors drove this colony into a ditch."
"What predecessors?"
"That and the unpredictable fluctuations of the shilling against the doubloon."
"Which reminds me sir, the Chinese pirates are scheduled to stop by on Friday to discuss all that gold you borrowed from them that you want to pay back in notes written on birch bark."
"OK, well, get Mayflower One ready for my trade mission."
"You're leaving?"
"Yes, we need to move this colony into the mid-17th century. I have important meetings scheduled in the south of France with European royalty. I am bringing them bound volumes of my collected speeches as a gift."
"Sir, couldn't we just privatize the farms, let people keep what they grow, end all these make-work projects, start trading with the Indians, allow hunters to hunt, educate our children, honor our families and work according to God's plan? Wouldn't that produce the bounty we seek?"
"Robert, let me be clear. Ye have a lot to learn about government."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/24/a-very-obama-thanksgiving/?page=1
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