posted February 29, 2012 03:42 PM              

i have been reading labels for probably as long as you have been alive. the first on the list is the largest OF ALL THE LISTED INGREDIENTS. that means there is MORE OF IT THAN ANY OTHER ONE INGREDIENT. however, since you are smart enough to do the math, if there are 40 other ingredients they can easily swamp that one "most prevalent" ingredient just as 3 million campaign donations of 3 dollars can swamp ONE donation of a million.

in the case of baby formula there are a slew of "small factor" ingredients if you take them individually, and quite a few more significant-sized ingredients before those on the list. put these together and milk is no longer the "most prevalent" ingredient in relation to the WHOLE. which is what the baby gets!

as i said, WATER is the most prevalent ingredient, and the list says so, but jwhop thinks water is just liquid, with no actual content of its own. i disagree...the content of water varies considerably depending on the source and contains a good deal more than "empty" liquid.

posted March 08, 2012 06:49 PM            

Perhaps you don't know that I really enjoy jousting with you...but, you disappear at the most inconvenient times.

I don't know what's going on in your life but if you could spare a few minutes of your valuable time to answer some questions which puzzle me, I'd be appreciative. I need and would value a woman's perspective on why Sarah Palin who is as anti-establishment as they come is ripped by women whom themselves come across as examples of anti-establishment women...with yourself being one of the best examples here.

The ball...as they say...is in your court!

posted March 10, 2012 11:14 PM            

Our Warriors Deserve Better
Sarah Palin
Monday, March 5, 2012

Every American should be alarmed at Barack Obama’s priorities, which are illustrated starkly and astonishingly in his cuts to national defense. Those of us with family members in the military, especially, cannot help but be shocked and disappointed by the Commander in Chief’s decision to cut our troops and the benefits they have earned. It’s amazing when you consider all the government waste and the fact that the compensation and benefits of politicians (including the President) only increase, never decrease.

In a recent newsletter, Congressman Allen West points out:

The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. As well, we are looking at cutting close to 130,000 uniformed troops, but cutting only 7,000 Department of Defense civilians.

In addition, the Obama administration is looking to create a BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) commission to examine changing the military retirement system. If you do the analysis, you find that less than one percent of the American adult population draws a retirement from serving in the United States Military. The idea of taking out the United States economy budget woes on our military is despicable.

The most alarming points about the healthcare plan include:

- Increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in TRICARE annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan would impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent. That's more than three times current levels....

- The new plan also hits active duty personnel by increasing co-payments for pharmaceuticals and eliminating incentives for using generic drugs.

- Veterans will also be hit with a new annual fee for the TRICARE for Life program, on top of the monthly premiums already being paid. In addition, some benefits will become “means-tested,” making them similar to the welfare system than as a benefit for Military service.

Congressman West is right. This is “despicable.” Instead of reforming our insolvent entitlement programs (which the President’s own debt commission recommended) and instead of taking a cleaver to all the waste, fraud, and abuse of our tax dollars perpetrated and perpetuated by the crony capitalism of the permanent political class in DC, this administration makes our brave men and women in uniform bear the brunt of our deficit woes. It’s shameful. The President’s actions are shameful!

For all his talk about slashing troops in the name of making the military “more efficient,” I believe Barack Obama will find these numbers will fall on their own. I predict our troops will cut their own numbers by not voluntarily enlisting at the levels we’ve previously seen or by getting out of the service as quickly as possible because of their Commander in Chief’s lack of support and lack of a clear mission for them.

After watching the administration “tsk-tsking” the conditions our brave men and women in uniform fight through everyday and listening to the apologizing for our troops’ actions in war zones, I stand amazed and impressed at our military personnel's loyalty to the office of the Commander in Chief. I understand and am thankful for that loyalty. They deserve better. They watch the President’s complacency as the media seems to forget our fallen by choosing to give more ink and airtime to a phone call the President makes to praise a 30-year-old college student’s “courage” in publicly speaking about her birth control desires than they’ve given to any of our recent soldiers’ ultimate courage and sacrifice on battlefields far from home. Has he made as great an effort to personally encourage the families of the fallen? His priorities are skewed.

For our courageous men and women in uniform and for the security of our nation, November can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150598917423435

posted March 11, 2012 12:21 PM              

while as far as i can see NON military FEDERAL premiums are already well above that...perhaps the idea was to equalize the burden somewhat?
http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/rates/nonpostalffs2012.pdf

posted March 18, 2012 03:15 PM            

Palin skewers O'Bomber like an Entomologist skewers a bug on a pin before mounting it on his wall.

The reason I keep posting Palin's comments on this thread is that it must be becoming crystal clear to even the O'Bomber Kool-Aid drinkers and O'Bomber Mushrooms AND the starter of this thread that...Sarah Palin's intellect overshadows..by orders of magnitude...the mid-double digit IQ of our Community Organizer in Chief and everyone who is advising him.

One other thing. I asked what members here really had against Sarah Palin. I made the point that many here are anti-Washington and anti-establishment who don't like the direction in which our nation is going. I made the point...and it's a valid point, that Sarah Palin is and has proved to be, a true revolutionary. That's she's is dedicated to the overthrow of the Washington Political Class. Those who have been screwing up America for more than 50 years. Members of both political parties whom she has fought and fought, none harder than her own establishment Republicans. Then, I invited what you thought were valid criticisms of Sarah Palin, the woman who seems to be in total agreement with what some of you say here about government. I even "promised" to withhold any pithy critical responses to whatever you said...and I meant that because I really wanted to know.

There were no takers. I really have to wonder about that...since many here have attacked Sarah Palin.

Is it because you don't believe I will keep my promise?

Obama’s Anti-American Energy Policies Invite the Next Crisis
Sarah Palin
February 24, 2012

President Obama doesn’t have an energy plan. He has an energy speech that he continues to give regardless of the facts or his obvious failures. He likes to take credit for actions initiated by the last administration (without telling you that he’s reversed or stymied many of those successes).

We should not be surprised by his detached attitude about America’s pain at the pump. He’s not interested in lowering the price of gas because exorbitantly high gas prices are one of his campaign promises. In September 2008, candidate Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That’s one campaign promise they’re working hard to fulfill!

President Obama notes that instability in the Middle East causes short-term spikes in the price of oil. But that is precisely why we should take every opportunity to drill here and drill now to lessen our dependence on these dangerous foreign regimes. President Obama’s lack of action simply invites the next oil crisis. It’s as if the White House is purposefully making us more dependent on foreign countries – from running up an unsustainable debt that must be financed by foreign debtors, to constantly apologizing and walking on eggshells around dictators who control oil supplies.

When it comes to our energy security, the only thing holding us back is the lack of political will. We have the resources, the ingenuity, and the manpower. And we need the jobs! Any economic recovery will be hampered by these rising gas prices. And I guarantee the rising prices will only get worse and will halt job growth further.

We must never forget that energy development, job creation, and national security are inextricably linked. Access to affordable and secure energy is the key to economic growth, which is the key to job growth. Securing a stable domestic supply of energy will lead to a more peaceful and prosperous America – an America that’s not subject to the whims of dictators who can cut off energy supplies or shut down the Strait of Hormuz to exports passing through.

President Obama repeatedly claims that there is no “silver bullet” to lower gas prices. But, in fact, we do have proof that the promise of future drilling does lead to immediate price relief as oil producers plan to expand their production.

So what are Obama’s solutions? As luck would have it, they coincide with subsidizing his friends and campaign donors. What a fortuitous coincidence in an election year! While you’re paying $5-a-gallon for gas, President Obama has been picking “winners” and “losers” in the free market. He’s decided that conventional resource development that produces the fuel we use to drive our cars and power our economy are “losers.” His “winners” are the bankrupt green energy companies that his campaign donors invest in. Unfortunately his real “losers” are the American public who are once again hit with massive gas prices (at least those who can’t afford luxury electric cars like the Obama-subsidized Volt that gets 40 miles per battery charge, or like the Obama-subsidized Tesla that turns into a “brick” when the battery completely discharges and then costs $40,000 to repair.)

What are the real solutions? Well, whether you support Newt in 2012 or not, he makes a lot of sense in this video, which is why President Obama targeted it for mockery yesterday. Newt is right that we need to “stop bowing and start drilling.” And not only can’t a gun rack fit in a Volt, but the government will take away our pick-up trucks when they pry the steering wheel “from our cold, dead hands.” Newt explains in this video some commonsense, pro-American solutions to the problems President Obama causes with his terrifyingly naïve assault on U.S. energy production.

With just the stroke of a pen, President Obama could lead us in the direction of real energy security and reduce our oil imports threatened by Iran’s threats to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Here are just a few commonsense measures we can do right now, and most of them don’t require any new legislation or regulations:

Open Alaska to drilling. Billions and billions of barrels of U.S. crude (and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean natural gas) sit untapped up here in the far north, my friends. We have the TAPS pipeline and infrastructure; we invite the development! Open ANWR. Think of how much safer and secure we would be if we had done this decades ago.

Build the Keystone Pipeline. President Obama doesn’t understand we live in a land woven with untold miles of pipe to carry safe energy supplies to protect and prosper America. Common sense dictates we need another one now to secure our energy future. It is key. It is the Keystone. If we’re worried about instability in the Middle East, it makes no sense to shun safe and reliable oil from Canada. Obviously, China understands this, and we should too.

Drill for natural gas. Natural gas is the future. It’s clean, it’s green, and we’ve got lots of it. Whether we use it to power natural-gas cars or to run natural-gas power plants that charge electric cars – or ideally for both – natural gas can act as a clean “bridge fuel” to a future when more renewable sources are available.

There are many more steps we need in order to establish a true energy plan to secure our future. But these three steps, plus increased resource development in the Lower 48 and reversing President Obama’s nonsensical, knee-jerk, anti-American energy shut down of off-shore developments would create hundreds of thousands of jobs as millions of barrels of oil every single day would flow under American control, and lessen our dependence on the Persian Gulf.

It’s time our country had a real energy plan that includes a genuine all-of-the-above approach that doesn’t ignore conventional resource development. We need the jobs, we need the energy, and we need the security.

posted March 18, 2012 07:05 PM              

- jwhop

oh dear the little laugher didn't make the copy...but he was essential. because "intellect" is not a word i even associate with palin, in fact i agree with shura, ditz of the year.

sure she is anti-establishment, except when it comes to mouthing the name of god whenever she wants to justify herself, or when she insists that america MUST be TOP DOG in the world for all to be right in god's heaven...

her deal with the oil companies in alaska was a good show. but she negated that by protesting the removal of SUBSIDIES to those very same companies from the national budget, all the while saying the feds should get out of everyone's business.

as i said, i respect her more now than i did before. she had the sense to back out of the presidential race. perhaps she knows what would happen to her if she actually tried to wrestle washington to the ground. or perhaps someone had a word about how certain incomes might disappear if she didn't back off. or maybe she just did her books and realized how much more she can make as a fox personality and opinion spouter to the converted...who knows?

she contradicts herself on almost every turn. intellect? mostly used to dance around those who point out her mistakes.

posted March 19, 2012 08:31 AM            

The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all every day and must be addressed.

Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)

Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s policies. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.

This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.

They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.

posted March 19, 2012 08:49 AM            

The Obama re-election campaign has released an internet ad targeting Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and Breitbart.com. Coming up short in the fundraising department and under fire for President Obama’s longtime association with the radical ideas of Professor Derrick Bell, the Obama campaign video features the McCain/Palin logo, and claims that right-wingers are dog-whistling racism.

The video opens with words flying in, white on blue, with the trademark McCain/Palin yellow stripe. “MORE THAN FOUR YEARS LATER,” the ad proclaims, “SARAH PALIN AND THE FAR RIGHT SAY PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL BRING BACK RACIAL DISCRIMINATION … AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.”

The video then cuts to Palin on Hannity stating, “Barack Obama has never been seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who would describe a man of valor … And his profession as a community organizer, what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism … He is bringing us back, Sean, you can hearken back to days before the Civil War ... What Barack Obama seems to want to do is to go back to those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin, why are we allowing our country to move backwards?”

“THESE ATTACKS ARE WRONG AND DANGEROUS,” the ad shouts. “IF YOU’RE TIRED OF IT, DO SOMETHING. DONATE TO THE TWO TERM FUND.”

Let’s parse this for a second. Palin was talking about the Derrick Bell story when she said all of this. Here’s the actual transcript, unspliced together by the Obama campaign. Here’s the “man of valor” clip – she was clearly talking about how Obama was accepting campaign cash from Bill Maher, a man who had called Palin a “c---“:

I don't know how anyone can sit in the audience of a commentator like Bill Maher and chuckle and laugh and think that that's entertaining. I think it's disgusting and it's dirty money that he has now provided Barack Obama's campaign, and I don't know how Barack Obama can sleep at night if he really thinks about Sasha and Malia and the treatment of some women today, how he can accept that dirty money. And granted Barack Obama has never been, I think, seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who would describe a man of valor, so it shouldn't surprise us that Barack Obama would accept that dirty money and try to get re-elected with it. But I think it does not bode well for our president's character to not speak out against that dirty money.

So she wasn’t saying anything at all about race.

As for the rest of this, she’s talking about Professor Derrick Bell. But the Obama campaign splices the footage so you have no idea what she’s talking about. The purpose is to avoid any association between Obama and Bell, of course. Here’s the full context of what Palin said:

It is a tragedy that the media did not do its job in vetting Barack Obama in 2008. Here, this is belated vetting of Barack Obama, but it must be done. People must be aware of his radical past, his radical associations … He has chosen these people because what went into his thinking through those college years, through years probably before his college years and his profession as a community organizer, what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism, based on the people whom he chose to be around. He has chosen now to help lead this country more of these radicals.

So far, uncontroversial stuff. Obama’s past matters, and his philosophy matters.

But what about those Civil War comments? Again, roll tape:

He is bringing us back to days, you can hearken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth that here in America, yes we are equal, and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of your skin, you have equal opportunity to work hard and to succeed and to embrace God-given opportunities to develop resources and work extremely hard and as I say, to succeed. Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand the gravity of that mistake that took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with that understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally?

In other words, she’s opposing Obama’s attempt to divide us along racial and class lines. Which is what Critical Race Theory is all about – it suggests that our charters of liberty are fundamentally corrupted and there is no possibility of true change so long as they hold sway.

posted March 19, 2012 09:58 AM            

After noting how the Obama campaign used her in an ad as if she were a political candidate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin challenged the president to a debate, "anywhere, anytime" according to The Hill.

Human Events thinks that the idea of an Obama/Palin debate is excellent. The theory is that if Obama is going to treat Palin as if she were his political rival in an attack ad, he might as well go all the way and meet her one on one to discuss the issues of the day.

Of course Obama will no more debate Palin than he would play a one on one basketball game with her. She would beat him in both contests.

The Palin haters, whose sole knowledge of what she is like comes from Julianne Moore's caricature of her in the HBO movie "Game Change," will no doubt guffaw at the idea of the person whom they consider a ditz going up against President Spock. The president's campaign advisers are not among the people who think this, if they are worth their salaries. All anyone has to do is to remember how she took apart Joe Biden in the 2008 debate as a grizzly bear takes apart its prey to recognize the danger Obama would face getting into any arena with her.

One of the sorrows of Palin not getting into the race is that the American people will be denied the spectacle of our president being humiliated at the hands of a Wasilla hockey mom. Such an event would be far beyond their capacity to understand. For them it would be as if Sheldon Cooper met Penny from across the hall in a Physics Ball competition and gotten beat.

Of course, if the president or any of his supporters think this writer is wide of the mark, then let the debate happen. The most powerful male politician in the world against the most powerful female politician in the world with, while not the presidency, at least bragging rights as the prize.

Or maybe they could play one on one basketball, perhaps for charity. The president fancies himself a wizard beneath the hoops. But Palin was a basketball star in High School. Saracuddah vs. Obama. Who would win, one wonders.

Sources: Sarah Palin challenges Obama to debate, Alicia M. Cohn, The Hill, Mar 13, 2012

posted March 19, 2012 11:06 AM            

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posted March 19, 2012 12:20 PM            

Palin memo to O'Bomber:...fictional

Dear Mr President,

It's highly unusual for a President to target private citizens in any form or forum and most certainly, it's even more unusual to target private citizens in opposition campaign advertising.

Perhaps you haven't heard the news yet but I'm not running for any elected office including the race for the Republican nomination for the general election in November.

However, should you, your staff and/or your surrogates continue to run against me, a non-candidate, by targeting me in your campaign advertising while ignoring the 4 actual candidates; be advised that, in a basketball metaphor you should appreciate, I have very sharp elbows.

~Saracudda

"I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about."...Sarah Palin

posted March 19, 2012 04:28 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
I would love to see a debate between Obama and Newt. Newt would decimate him.

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Any of the Republican candidates would decimate Obama. Any of the past ones too except for Perry, maybe, but all the rest would.

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posted March 19, 2012 10:57 PM            

Sarah Palin makes perfect sense. That's the reason leftist fear her. That and the fact Palin connects with her audiences.

More than any other person in the Republican Party, Sarah Palin was responsible for the seating of more than 60 new Republicans in the US House. The success rate of those she endorsed approached 80%...and that, with some of the idiot establishment RINOS attempting to work against the candidates she endorsed.

posted August 12, 2012 01:01 PM            

Sarah Palin congratulates Romney on Ryan
Dylan Stableford

After being conspicuously absent on Twitter, Facebook and Fox News for more than 24 hours, Sarah Palin, former Alaskan governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, finally weighed in late Saturday on Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate.

Here's Palin's Facebook note, which mentions President Obama 26 times, Romney and Ryan three apiece:

Congratulations to Mitt Romney on his choice of Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. President Obama has declared that this election is about "two fundamentally different visions" for America. Goodness, he's got that right. Our country cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama's fundamentally flawed vision. We must now look to this new team, the Romney/Ryan ticket, to provide an alternate vision of an America that is fiscally responsible, strong, and prosperous--an America that understands and is proud of her exceptional place in the world and will respect those who fight to secure that exceptionalism, which includes keeping our promises to our veterans.

When I think about the direction our country is rapidly drifting in, I can't help but look at California as a cautionary tale. The Golden State once boasted the entrepreneurial innovation of Silicon Valley, the American creative engine of the arts, economically powerful and beautiful cities from San Francisco to San Diego, and fertile farmlands that helped feed the nation. Now it is descending into financial ruin accompanied by an exodus of middle class Californians leaving for other states. As one writer put it, California's "fastest-growing entity is government and its biggest product is red tape."

Obama's vision for America will make the rest of the country look like California, minus the beautiful scenery and warm weather.
Obama's America is today's California--complete with $100 billion taxpayer funded bullet trains to nowhere; out of control environmental extremists who have destroyed family farms and left some of the most fertile farm land in America fallow in order to protect a three inch fish; permanent high unemployment; government policies hostile to small business job creators; crippling high taxes; an abysmal real estate market; bloated government that wastes taxpayer money; endless budget shortfalls due to massive unfunded liabilities; city after city declaring bankruptcy; and a state government run by, in the words of one Wall Street Journal writer, "a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums."

We can't afford Obama's vision. Our children can't afford it. Today we are over $15 trillion in debt and running up trillion dollar budget deficits year after year for as far as the eye can see. And our "leaders" have no plan to stop it! President Obama and this Congress don't even have the fundamental blueprint—a budget!—to outline where they intend to take us as they merrily roll along with their out of control spending and constant increases of our debt "limit." Our debt to China alone is more than we can ever hope to pay off in multiple generations. Such debt and dependence on foreign nations weakens us in countless ways. And yet our government keeps on spending despite the risks and despite conscientious, hardworking citizens telling them to just stop it. Our debt is growing by $3 million per minute. This debt, in conjunction with Obama's massive government over-reaches like Obamacare, has strangled the private sector, which in turn has stifled job growth and slowed all economic growth. The only way to get our country moving again is to get back to basics like normal people do with our home and small business budgets! That means we must live within our means, get government out of the way of our job creators, develop the God-given natural resources we have been blessed with to provide real jobs and real energy security, and stop growing government and wasting taxpayer money on D.C. cronyism and useless stimulus kick-backs for favored donors.

Barack Obama's record is one of dismal failure, which is why he isn't talking about it. He would rather spend his time demonizing his opponents. The simple fact remains that Mitt Romney is not responsible for the dire state of our economy or the corruption and incompetence of the current administration.

Over the next 86 days, Barack Obama will try to distract us from his record. Many in the media will roll along with him in this mission. We must not let them continue the deception and distractions, and we must not be afraid to call the President out on his lies. His entire record in office exposes the false promises he made four years ago. So, let's take a moment to remember what candidate Obama said just four short years ago.

Candidate Obama promised us fiscal prudence. But President Obama's reckless spending and lack of fiscal leadership has led to the downgrading of our nation's credit rating for the first time in history.

Candidate Obama decried reckless spending and promised to cut the deficit. But President Obama and those in Congress who control the purse strings and "go along to get along" have tripled it. President Obama's proposed budget was so absurdly and wildly irresponsible that not one member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, voted in favor of it. And yet the Democrat controlled Senate still refuses to pass a budget itself, and this refusal has been going on for years now. That is irresponsible and, much more, it's unconstitutional.

Candidate Obama promised us a "smarter government," but President Obama has created a government that's not too big to fail, but too big to succeed.

Candidate Obama promised us a plan for American energy independence. But President Obama has forced American taxpayers to subsidize bankrupt green energy companies with ties to his campaign donors. And when it comes to the energy we actually use to fuel our economy, President Obama's administration blocks drilling and drags its feet on the permitting process. Meanwhile, he supports foreign energy developments, but not American made energy development. His administration opposes everything from drilling in ANWR to building the Keystone Pipeline to coal plants, but he's all for subsidizing offshore drilling in Brazil and sitting back on his thumb while China moves in to pursue oil deals with Canada because his administration blocked responsible energy infrastructure development.

Candidate Obama promised us "the most transparent administration in history." But in addition to refusing FOIA-requested documents, President Obama's administration regularly holds meetings outside the White House and off the official White House visitor list with lobbyists and corporate interests they don't want us to know about.

Candidate Obama promised to unite all America, but President Obama has cynically divided us again and again in his efforts to win reelection by playing identity politics and class warfare and pitting one group against another.

Candidate Obama promised us a "fundamentally transformed" America, and that is the only promise he's delivered on. We can see now what his idea of "hope" is. Now we want change. He has failed to lead, so We the People must lead. And our leadership starts at the ballot box on November 6th.

Please continue to focus on the presidential race and on helping Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, but it's also imperative that we get involved in the nation's important House and Senate races. These candidates need our help to ensure that our next president has a responsible and ethical Congress that actually gets things done for America. Now on to November!

- Sarah Palin

As a guest on Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday, Palin said her first choice for Romney's running mate would have been Florida Congressman Allen West.

"The liberal left is absolutely terrified of Allen West and what he represents," Palin said. "A war hero who honorably served our country continuing today in his official capacity as a representative."

posted August 12, 2012 11:51 PM            

Whooopsie, something else you don't know anything about katatonic.

Highest gas price in Alaska.....$4.39 http://alaskagasprices.com/GasPriceSearch.aspx

Highest gas price in Hawaii.....$4.59 http://www.hawaiigasprices.com/GasPriceSearch.aspx

Highest gas price in California.$5.19 http://www.californiagasprices.com/GasPriceSearch.aspx

Don't you just hate it when you get caught bloviating katatonic?

posted August 13, 2012 03:11 PM              

i live in california and the bay area where gas is as high as any in the state. it just shot over $4 in the wake of our local major refinery going up in smoke, but last week i was paying $3.50.

and you quoted me over $5/gal in florida some time ago when i was paying well under $4.

but as far as my point goes, high prices in cali are in line with what i said...cali being a major source of oil, you would think from the DRILL crowd it would be cheaper, wouldn't you?

but alaska isn't even what you would call a leftist state, is it?

posted August 13, 2012 06:23 PM            

Now, I showed you and everyone else what the highest gas price was in Alaska, in Hawaii and in California. Gas prices in California are higher than in Alaska.

And here you are trying to argue with me about your bloviating misstatement.

posted August 13, 2012 06:33 PM              

You don't get out much do you katatonic?

this is the nonsequitur of the year. to what does it refer? nothing in my post, that's for sure, since

on the contrary, lambchop, i don't spend all my time online looking for backup, but get my info from real life. i buy gas 2 or 3 times aweek in general. and i don't have a pump in the basement!

OH AND BY THE WAY, were you to look at the LOWEST gas prices (i buy regular not premium) CALIFORNIA is across the board CHEAPER THAN ALASKA...

which will skew the averages quite a bit.