One would think such a headline would push the Michael Jackson insanity aside long enough for some news to leak through, but although Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has just announced that she will resign from office within the next few weeks, further explanation seems elusive.
Can we start singing the Wicked Witch is Dead song, or is it too soon? Is she resigning because Pastor Muthee told her the Rapture is coming? What will this mean for Michael Jackson, the patron Saint of Pop?
It's very tempting to speculate, but perhaps we'll just have to wait for the hysteria to abate before the networks can spare any personnel to find out what's happening outside the world of Michael Jackson - and that could take a while.
I blogged briefly about this too. I read on the CNN report that it could be to make room for her run in 2012.
ReplyDeleteI'm too old and cynical to think it's not some publicity stunt. I'm afraid you're right and this is a way for her to avoid any further and possible embarrassing duties as governor so that she can portray herself as the self sacrificing, suffering servant of the people.
ReplyDeleteSure would be nice if it were about some boyfriend in Argentina though.
Just more proof of another self-serving polician.
ReplyDeleteShe's the reason I didn't vote for McCain.
That's a good reason, but telling us the economy was just fine when it was mortally ill, insisting everyone who warned us was a liberal and therefore a liar, singing about bombing Iran, lying about Palin's record with earmarks and bridges and airplanes? There are no end of reasons.
ReplyDeleteI supported him over George Bush in 2000, but I knew far less about him back then and I thought he had some integrity.
I listened to her speech earlier today. It was meandering and shrill … having the same impact on me as chalk screeching on blackboard. But there is one quote that stood out:
ReplyDelete"I polled the most important people in my life, my kids, where the count was unanimous," she said.
A conjecture: "Beaucoup” family problems. Her youngest child is handicapped. Her older children have been under a media microscope … subject to gossip, jokes, and ridicule.
There is also this question: Why do teenage girls have early pregnancies, end up in early marriages, or become runaways? Answer: Parental negligence, parents too preoccupied with themselves and/or their careers; not spending enough time with their families. Teenage pregnancy is the price a parent pays for not paying attention to signs and symptoms ... or living up to one’s responsibilities at home.
Palin has never been presidential material nor will she ever be; she has become a media product … nothing more. Perhaps she knows this … in a combative and begrudging sort of way.
I found her speech utterly baffling. I was transfixed in a stupor - bewildered - confused - waiting to understand....
ReplyDeleteAnd she ain't got nothing on R. Maddow when it comes to CLEARLY using sports analogies. She totally lost me there.
Can anyone explain what she was saying? Meaning? And they say she going to get big bucks for speaking engagements??!!!
In a way, she has scored another victory for the stupid and those devoid of any talent. We pay attention to her. Much the same as we payed attention to the billboard queen, Evangylene, or whatever her name was. Or washed up celebrities on reality shows.
ReplyDeleteHer personal strength is astounding!
ReplyDeleteQuitter!
But I thought she quit to show she wasn't a quitter.
ReplyDeleteOh well, I agree with you Octo, but I can't get rid of the suspicion that we have something nasty to expect from her before long.
Yes, her little talk was rambling, convoluted, self-contradictory and full of self pity. My favorite Palinism was her mention of the "politics of personal destruction."
I wonder how she thinks of her personal attacks on Obama, because that alone cost her a lot of support.