Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2012
Thursday, October 06, 2011
The former Governor of Alaska said on Wednesday that "after much prayer and serious consideration", she had decided not to stand for the Republican nomination, but would increase her efforts to oust Barack Obama.
"Not being a candidate, you are unshackled and able to be even more active," she told a radio talk show. "I look forward to using all the tools at my disposal to get the right people in there."
Mrs Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, was once expected to run for the White House after becoming a figurehead for the anti-government Tea Party movement.
She has made millions of dollars from two blockbuster books, a reality television show and public appearances. Earlier this year she held a "One Nation" bus tour along the east coast of the US.
But it became widely assumed that she had missed her opportunity by repeatedly teasing voters about her intentions while several other Republican heavyweights firmly declared their candidacies. Continue reading and comment » | Jon Swaine | New York | Thursday, October 06, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The rumours, which have surfaced before and been furiously denied, were reported in the National Enquirer, which did not name its source.
The magazine claimed Todd Palin was "fed up" following the publication last week of Joe McGinniss's book The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin.
A friend reportedly told the magazine: "The final straw was McGinniss quoting Sarah's brother Chuckie telling a friend they don't have a marriage." » | Los Angeles | Thursday, September 22, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
A firestorm on the US right has erupted after the Guardian reported thatSarah Palin will be denied a meeting with Lady Thatcher on the grounds that it would be "belittling" for her to meet the darling of the Tea Party movement.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, devoted the opening section of his radio show to denouncing the "preposterous" Guardian report, as Palin supporters accused Thatcher's circle of disgracing the former prime minister.
The US conservative right reacted furiously after the Guardian reported that Thatcher's aides had decided it would be inappropriate for her to meet Palin, who is planning to visit London next month en route to Sudan. Palin has been touring US historical sites (an excursion that saw her slip up this week on the subject of Paul Revere, the American patriot who made a famous "midnight ride" to warn of approaching British forces).
One Thatcher ally told the Guardian: "Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts." » | Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent | Thursday, June 09, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The three surviving children of Ronald Reagan have rubbished efforts by Republican presidential hopefuls to claim his mantle as a conservative reformer, branding Sarah Palin "a soap opera".Celebrations to mark the centenary of the late president's birth have coincided with the need of what critics call a mediocre group of candidates to burnish their reputations to send Reagan-fever jumping to unprecedented levels.
Speaking at a dinner to honour the 40th president, Sarah Palin said she considered herself a "western conservative in the spirit of Ronald Reagan".
Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who is also considering a run for the White House, compared his Pennsylvania roots to Reagan's in a small town in Illinois and said [the] man who ended the Cold War would have handled the turmoil in Egypt with much more certainty than President Barack Obama. Other potential candidates have lavished praise on Reagan, who died in 2004, and cited him as their chief inspiration.
But asked what she made of Mrs Palin as a potential successor to her father, Patti Davis, Mr Reagan's only surviving daughter, said: "You've got to be kidding me."
Ron Reagan, her younger brother, scoffed: "Sarah Palin has nothing in common with my father. Sarah Palin is a soap opera." >>> Alex Spillius, Washington | Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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THE GUARDIAN: Sarah Palin Brands Media's Attacks Over Arizona Shooting as 'Blood Libel': Politician breaks silence on Giffords shooting and lambasts opponents with controversial choice of language >>> Matthew Weaver | Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Monday, December 20, 2010
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Nicolle Wallace, a former colleague of Sarah Palin, has become the latest senior Republican publicly to round on the darling of the Tea Party movement, saying that her opponents should avoid criticising her directly and let her expose her own multiple flaws.
Mrs Wallace, who worked closely with Mrs Palin on the ill-fated 2008 Republican presidential campaign, said the former vice-presidential candidate's weaknesses would be revealed by the rigours and demands of a long contest to secure the party's nomination for the next White House election. >>> Alex Spillius, New York | Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
MAIL ONLINE: U.S. launches criminal investigation into Assange / Australia looks into whether he has broken local laws / 39-year-old is already facing rape inquiries in Sweden
Sarah Palin has demanded that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hunted down like Osama bin Laden.
In an extraordinary outburst on Facebook, the former Alaska governor attacked the White House for 'incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.'
'First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months?.' she wrote.
'Assange is not a "journalist," any more than the "editor" of al Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a "journalist."
'He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
'His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban.
'Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?'
Palin claimed that the administration's inability to hunt down Assange showed a lack of effort. Read on and comment >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Julian Assange has done us all a big favour by publishing this information, more especially by exposing the hypocrisy of those at the top. If those at the top had behaved properly, and with integrity, then they'd have nothing to fear. The so-called élite seem to think that they can keep information from the "little people". Well, they can't anymore! The internet has changed all that. Now we can look forward to more open journalism. I applaud Julian Assange for this. Sarah Palin, as usual, doesn't know what on earth she's talking about. In actual fact, Julian Assange has done the USA a great favour too. By showing us that China favours a re-unified Korea, and Iran weakened by the Ayatollah's cancer, we might well be able to avert two wars. Now wouldn't that be a good thing? Hats off to Julian! – © Mark
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
LE POINT: C'est le vote le plus important de l'année. Toute l'Amérique - ou presque - est suspendue aux résultats du scrutin de mardi soir qui doit couronner ou non la célèbre Palin. Non ! pas Sarah, mais Bristol, sa fille ! Rappelez-vous, c'est celle qui a avoué, en 2008 pendant la campagne présidentielle, qu'elle était enceinte, à 18 ans, et dont le petit copain l'a lâchement abandonnée, se répandant dans tous les médias en disant pis que pendre des Palin, avant d'annoncer dans un tabloïd leur mariage, puis de prendre à nouveau la poudre d'escampette... Entre-temps, Bristol a été recrutée comme ambassadrice pour une association qui prône l'abstinence avant le mariage. Mais elle est surtout devenue cette saison l'une des concurrentes de Dancing with the stars, un show très populaire dans lequel danseurs professionnels et célébrités souvent has been dansent le tango ou le cha-cha-cha. Le plus doué gagne. Du moins en théorie. Cette saison, même si Bristol Palin se meut avec la grâce d'un crapaud arthritique, elle est la star de l'émission. Toutes les semaines, cette fille un peu ronde écope des plus mauvais scores décernés par les juges et, toutes les semaines, elle est immanquablement sauvée de l'élimination par le vote du public. À tel point qu'elle a réussi à atteindre la finale. >>> De correspondante du Point à Washington, Hélène Vissière | Lundi 22 Novembre 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Bristol Palin receives death threats ahead of Dancing With The Stars results: Bristol Palin received death threats ahead of the final results show for Dancing With The Stars in the US on Tuesday. >>> Nick Allen in Los Angeles | Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Palin Pantomine goes on! – Mark
Monday, November 22, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Two of Sarah Palin's daughters used expletives and homophobic slurs during an online argument over their mother's reality television show.
Willow, the former vice-Presidential candidate's 16-year-old middle daughter, called a critic of 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' a "faggot" and told him he was "so gay".
In a posting on Facebook, the social networking website, a boy identified only as Tre, who is believed to have gone to school with the Palin sisters, said the programme was "failing so hard right now".
Miss Palin commented: "Your [sic] so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting." She added: "Quit talking ---- about my family." Accusing him of being jealous of her family's success, she added: "Your [sic] such a faggot". >>> Jon Swaine in New York | Wednesday, November 17, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Sarah Palin finally says she is considering White House bid: Sarah Palin has finally confirmed she is considering a bid for the US presidency in 2012. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Can’t Americans come up with someone more suitable, more sophisticated, more worldly, more intellectual, more educated to run for president than Sarah Palin? Surely the Republicans can do better than this! – © Mark
Saturday, November 06, 2010
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: WASHINGTON - Two years of retirement haven't dulled George W. Bush's political zest - and President Obama and Sarah Palin are among his under-the-radar targets.
The 43rd President has told friends the ex-Alaska governor isn't qualified to be President and criticizes Arizona Sen. John McCain for putting Palin on the 2008 GOP ticket and handing her a national platform.
"Naming Palin makes Bush think less of McCain as a man," a Republican official familiar with Bush's thinking told the Daily News.
"He thinks McCain ran a lousy campaign with an unqualified running mate and destroyed any chance of winning by picking Palin."
As he prepares for the Tuesday launch of his memoir, "Decision Points," Bush scrupulously gives his successor a public pass - a statesmanlike stance urged by his father, President George H. W. Bush.
"I want my President to succeed because if my President succeeds my country succeeds, and I want my country to succeed," Bush typically says when asked about Obama.
"He won't call Obama by name but he won't trash him," a confidant noted, referring to Bush's comments in post-presidency speaking appearances, which have netted him millions, often at $100,000 or more a pop.
Still, he thinks Obama has failed as a President - a judgment supported by this week's robust Republican gains. >>> Thomas M. Defrank, Daily News Washington Bureau Chief | Friday, November 05, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Karl Rove, the former senior adviser to George W Bush, has cast serious doubt on Sarah Palin's viability as a White House candidate, questioning if the American people thought she had the "gravitas" for the "most demanding job in the world".Expressing the strongest public reservations about the conservative star made by any senior Republican figure, Mr Rove said it was unlikely that voters would regard someone starring in a reality show as presidential material.
In two weeks the former governor of Alaska launches a cable television series exploring her home state's wilderness.
"With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office'," said Mr Rove, who remains a considerable force on the US political scene.
He added that the promotional clip for "Sarah Palin's Alaska" could be especially detrimental to any political campaign. It features the mother of five in the great outdoors saying "I would rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office" [sic].
Mr Rove also implied that Mrs Palin lacked the stomach for the rigours of a presidential primary campaign, which will begin early next year ahead of the first polls in early 2012.
Asked if Mrs Palin, 46, who is among the front-runners for the next Republican nomination, would be a wise choice if the party wanted to seize the White House from Mr Obama, he told the [sic] Daily Telegraph: "You can make a plausible case for any of them on paper, but it is not going to be paper in 2011. It's going to be blood, it's going to be sweat and tears and it's going to be hard effort," said Mr Rove. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
THE GUARDIAN: Attendance at Republican dinner in key state is seen as biggest sign yet that Sarah Palin aims to take on Obama in 2012
There are boxes that US presidential hopefuls have to tick early. They have to start building a campaign team, albeit discreetly. They have to set up a fundraising machine. And they have to visit Iowa, the small but politically crucial state that traditionally kicks off a White House run.
Sarah Palin has ticked the first two and on Friday will tick the third when she is the main speaker at a $100-a-seat Republican dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. The party's sole superstar has not yet said whether she will seek the nomination to take on Barack Obama in 2012. But all the indications point to a run, and Friday's visit is the biggest sign yet.
Democrats may detest her, and so does the Republican establishment, for her perceived lack of sophistication and polarising effect on the electorate. But neither will make the choice in the Iowa caucus. The party activists will, and they are shifting behind her. Long before the contest has formally begun, Palin is fast on the way to becoming unstoppable. >>> Ewen MacAskill in Des Moines, Iowa | Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.The Reverend Terry Jones abandoned his "international burn a Koran day" in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday but there were isolated instances in Tennessee and New York of the Muslim holy book being set alight.
"What has happened is that [..] certain politicians decided that this project would be very useful for their political ambitions," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, adding that this had prompted a "growing Islamophobia" in the US.
Imam Rauf's proposal for an Islamic Centre, containing a mosque, two blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, has become embroiled in controversy.
Mrs Palin was the first major national figure to get involved in what had been a localised dispute when she sent a Twitter message in July stating: "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."
Imam Rauf said Mrs Palin's intervention had been "disingenuous" and played a part of the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.
In Springfield, Tennessee, the Reverend Bob Old and the Reverent Danny Allen, both evangelical pastors, burned Koran to coincide with the anniversary of the September 11th atrocities.
"It's about faith, it's about love, but you have to have the right book behind you. This is a book of hate, not a book of love," said the Rev Old as he held up a Koran. >>> | Sunday, September 12, 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
MAIL ONLINE: Presidents of Indonesia and Pakistan condemn church / British Muslims to burn flags at U.S. embassy in protest / Downing Street 'strongly opposes' Koran-burning / Obama: Burnings a 'recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda'Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has slammed the leader of a tiny U.S. church's plans to burn the Koran on September 11.
The conservative leader, who is the darling of the Right-wing Tea Party movement, slammed Reverend Terry Jones' plans as 'counter-productive'.
She added that the plan was 'insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.'
Her comments came as the presidents of Pakistan and Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim nation - added their voices to world-wide condemnation of the event.
Downing Street also entered the row today, with a spokesman for the prime Minister saying he 'strongly opposed' any attempt to offend members of a religious group.
The spokesman said: 'Primarily this is an issue for the US, but clearly the government's view is that we would not condone the burning of any book.
'We would strongly oppose any attempt to offend any member of any religious or ethnic group. We are committed to religious tolerance.'
Addressing the pastor directly on her Facebook page last night, Sarah Palin said his plan would 'feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance.'
'Don't feed that fire,' she urged him.
'If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.'
'Book burning is antithetical to American ideals,' she wrote. Read on and comment >>> Mail Foreign Service | Thursday, September 09, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
THE MONTREAL GAZETTE: 'This is not above your pay grade,' ex-Alaska governor tweets
WASHINGTON - Republicans pounced Sunday on U.S. President Barack Obama's comments supporting the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero, painting him as out of touch less than three months before key mid-term elections.
Democrats and Republicans squared off on whether it was appropriate for Obama to wade into the fray over the Islamic centre, which would include a mosque and would be built two city blocks away from the site of the former World Trade Center.
At a Friday Iftar dinner at the White House to mark Ramadan, Obama said Muslims "have the same right to practise their religion as anyone else in this country," including by building a mosque in lower Manhattan.
But the next day Obama appeared to dial back from his support, clarifying that he was commenting on rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and not on "the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there," a location he acknowledged as "hallowed ground."
Conservatives swiftly seized on Obama's comments, which came after the White House had for weeks declined comment on the controversy and deemed it local issue, and several prominent Republicans hammered home the message on Sunday political talk shows.
"This is not about freedom of religion, because we all respect the right of anyone to worship according to the dictates of their conscience," U.S. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Fox News Sunday. "But I do think it's unwise ... to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that Washington, the White House, the administration, the president himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America." >>> Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse | Sunday, August 15, 2010
POLITICO: The harsh Republican response to President Barack Obama's defense of a mosque near ground zero marks a dramatic shift in the party's posture toward Islam — from a once active courtship of Muslim voters to a very public tolerance after Sept. 11 to an openly aired sense of mistrust.
Republican leaders have largely abandoned former President George W. Bush's post-Sept. 11 rhetorical embrace of American Muslims and his insistence — always controversial inside the party — that Islam is a religion of peace. This weekend, former Bush aides were among the very few Republicans siding with Obama, as many of the party's leaders have moved toward more vocal denunciations of Islam's role in violence abroad and suspicion of its place at home.
The shift plays to a hostility toward Islam among many Republican voters, and it fits with traditional Republican attacks on Democratic weakness on security policy.
"Bush went against the grain of his own constituency," said Allen Roth, a political aide to conservative billionaire Ron Lauder and, independently, a key organizer of the fight against the mosque. "This is part of an underlying set of security issues that could play a significant role in the elections this November."
Obama's remarks provide a clear, national focus for the simmering question of Islam in American life, and Republicans showed every sign Saturday of beginning to capitalize on it, with Republican candidates in New York and Florida seeking to inject the issue into local races as Democrats largely held their silence.
That stance in the GOP — both in terms of political strategy and policy views — appears to be carrying the day. Most of the potential Republican presidential hopefuls, led by Sarah Palin, came out sharply against the mosque.
And while most of its opponents note that they aren't opposing Islam, just this project, Republican attempts to build bridges with Muslims are few and far between — although some say that's because early post-Sept. 11 efforts were met with deep resistance. Republicans have stopped winning the Muslim votes they once split with Democrats, and largely stopped seeking them.
The spectrum ranges from silence on the issue to politicians and groups, like Keep America Safe, led by Liz Cheney and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, gearing up to engage the battle over the mosque and the basket of other issues involving the Obama administration's relationship with Muslims at home and abroad.
"The president supports a mosque at ground zero led by a man who blamed America for 9/11, his top intelligence official preaches the true meaning of jihad, and his attorney general can't even say the words 'radical Islam,'" said Michael Goldfarb, an adviser to Keep America Safe. "You start to worry they don't understand who the enemy is, and so Republicans might understandably feel like they have to spell it out for them." Continue reading and comment >>> Ben Smith & Maggie Haberman | Sunday, August 15, 2010
It is heartening to read that Republicans are now starting to take a harsher line on Islam. So they should. Islam has been given a pass for far too long. It's high time that Westerners woke up.
The fact is that this should not be a left v. right issue. The harsh reality is this: Islam is not compatible with democracy. The separation of church and state, mosque and state in the case of Islam, is the sine qua non of a democracy. Without that separation, no democracy can function. Islam categorically does not recognise such a separation. In Islam, religion and politics are ONE, and utterly inseparable.
If we in the West wish for our civilisation to survive, then we shall have to take a harsher stance on Islam, for Islam has snuffed out all the cultures of the countries it has been allowed to enter.
As for this cultural center / mosque so close to Ground Zero... It is an outrage to build such an edifice so close to where all those poor people perished.
Faisal Rauf, the imam behind this project, says he wants to build bridges between the faiths. He'll never build bridges this way; on the contrary, building this cultural center / mosque in that location will only fan the flames of Islamophobia in America. It will have the opposite effect.
Muslims should show some sensitivity towards the people that suffered directly as a result of 9/11. The fact that they can build this center doesn't mean that they should. They should back off. That way they will gain in acceptance. The fact is that by far the majority of New Yorkers do not want this center to be built. Muslims should respect their wishes. To build this structure is nothing short of an act of provocation. – © Mark
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