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Palin: 'Barack Obama, You Lied!'

'Now step away from the teleprompter and do your job'

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by Lisa Fine

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin offered a feisty, scathing review of President Barack Obama's leadership in a made-for-TV-quote-filled-speech that appeared to dazzle the audience at a conference of conservatives.

Palin accused Obama of a lack of transparency, being in constant campaign mode, trying to take away Americans' guns, not producing a budget, and a failure to lead, as she sipped a Big Gulp soda (in a nod to NYC Mayor Bloomberg's failed ban on large soft drinks) at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

"Obama promised the most transparent administration ever. Barack Obama you lied!"

She said Obama can't stop campaigning:

"Mr. president, we admit it, you won. Accept it. Now step away from the teleprompter and do your job."

She offered a harsh assessment of the Senate's failure to pass a budget in four years:

"It's not just bungling. It's the government refusing to declare what it intends to do with the people's money. Never before have our challenges been so big and our leaders so small."

She took on the media for writing stories about conservatives trying to rebrand themselves:

'We are not here to rebrand a party, we are here to rebuild a country"

She gave some advice to young conservatives:

"You gotta be thinking Sam Adams, not drinking Sam Adams."

Palin, once a rising conservative star following her nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, has had an uncertain role lately. She lost her most recent platform as a Fox News contributor earlier this year when her contract was not renewed.

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  • Dan_Tien
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    I wonder who wrote her speech. It surely wasn't her. Since she didn't have enough room on her hands to write it all down, she must have had a teleprompter too.
  • marine1
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    The Obama administration is like a swarm of termites. They naw and chew at the foundation of a solid structure untill it starts to crumble and when discovered, they are hard to get rid of and the repair of their damage is always costly.
  • cayjr1
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    @Dan_Tien As an Alaskan I think I know of Sarah's abilities a lot better than you do. I must because you sure got that wrong. Sarah Palin is a very bright and energetic person willing to stand up and take the hits while she fights to help save our sinking nation. You should be ashamed of yourself for disparaging remarks against a true patriot.
  • Dan_Tien
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    @cayjr1 As an Alaskan, you are prone to defend another Alaskan, even if she was born in Idaho. I'm not at all ashamed of my remarks about her. If she is an example of a true patriot, then patriotism is in real trouble. Did she serve in the military? Hmmm... no. Did her husband? Hmm... no. But they have a good Christian family with strong moral values? Hmm... daughter had a baby out of wedlock. Conservative who opposes socialism? Hmm... slipped across the Canadian border to take advantage of Canadian socialized medicine. Strong law and order governor? Hmm.. used her position to punish her ex brother-in-law. Took federal funds to build a bridge, canceled the project, didn't return the funds. Granted big money single bidder pipeline contract. Bailed out of 2nd term as Governor, due to "frivolous" ethics complaints. I would trust the captain of the Titanic to save our sinking nation before I would trust her.

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    Sonny
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    No when Joe Wilson shouted that he was just being rude and ignorant.....And it the Speaker of the House had any backbone at all---He would have had the Sargent at Arms escort this rude ass out the back door...
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    Sonny
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    @RollinPapers Nope---he was indeed, ignorant, rude...and a bold-face liar..."Several fact-checking organizations wrote that Wilson's views were inaccurate because HR 3200 expressly excludes undocumented aliens from receiving government-subsidized "affordability credits"."......Furt her..."The non-partisan Congressional Research Service agreed that people would need to be lawfully present in the U.S. in order to be eligible for the credits.." And finally---Why would anyone take the word of some obscure backwoods southern wanna-be politician ---over that of the President of The United States of America anyway......He was rude, ignorant and he should have been removed from that event...Forcibly is necessary...
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    Sonny
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    Yep----That's why she takes care to ONLY make appearances at tea party and extreme right conventions.....And she knows that, at any other kind of event--someone might ask her a "real" question.....Then you would see her standing there like a "deer who just got caught in the headlights of an oncoming car"..She has been reduced to not much more than a political punch-line and nothing more.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    She would never make it past the fronth door at a real political leadership convention. Exactly, that's what qualified her to be republican nominee for vice president!
  • morphine-bunni
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    normally, i hate Sarah Palin, but she did do a pretty damn good job summing up Obama here. although, saying that he is continuously campaigning would be slightly hypocritical, she seems to love attention too.
  • Thegrif
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    Lol... But the difference is Palin is out there talking for a pay check. Personally I agreed with every word she said, 100%.
    Obama on the other hand really is campaigning. Campaigning for the Democratic party. Obama has said he wants to bring down the Republican party. I think what he really wants is to ensure Dems win the House and keep the Senate, to give him total power once again. Then we will see Obama's true colors, in my opinion.
    I realize he had a filibuster once before, in his first two years, but he was even to radical for some of the Dem party back then, not that Obama has changed his ways, but he has swayed the Dem party to believing in him.
    IDK WHY OR HOW HE DID IT, BUT HE DID.

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    RealHonesTruth
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    Words that come out of the mouth of someone, that claims to have foreign policy experience via the ability to view another country by standing outside, are garbage.
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    KyleMFb
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    Palin is an idiot she's just jeluouse that Obama is president and the only thing she's has managed to do is kill her and Johns political careers
  • RoyFloyd
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    Palin's 15 minutes were mercifully up long ago. She ought to find a gig at a casino lounge in Vegas with all the other aging, talentless one-hit wonders. Her handful of fans could all be happy singing the same song over and over again...and leave the rest of us alone.
  • frigginhell
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    Kind of puts her oath of office into perspective as well. When she took it she was lying. Of course, that's pretty much words coming out of her mouth at this point. We know Palin is a liar. Then again her saying she would agree to cooperate with investigators into the whole troopergate thing and then did the exact opposite including ignoring subponeas, Said she sold a plane on ebay when all she did was list it on ebay and then sold it very cheaply to a campaign donator. Claims to be against earmarks and while in office continually used them and requested nearly half a billion dollars worth as governor. Including funneling 130m worth of earmarks towards the industry her husband works in. Funny the way she mentions a teleprompter after she claimed hers broke so that she could take credit for a speech she read off of one herself. It didn't break. She lied again to try and make it look like she improvised it. She lied about foreign policy experience and negotiating trade missions with Russia. It never happened. There's no record of it. The russians even think she's stupid for saying it. Or that she was cleared of any wrong doing and ethical questions or abuse of power over troopergate. The report said the exact opposite.
    So takes one to know one? That's the best light we can put on this tired dog and pony show. Palin is an inatriculate moron who is unable to answer even the simplest of questions. This is why she doesn't take questions. She makes prepared statements by her handlers, something she can even blow from time to time by going off script. Seems she by and large stuck to the script last night and her teleprompter didn't "break". Sarah Palin is a sad case of the dumb leading the retarded.
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    S-N-A-F-U
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    Sarah Palin would eat this impostors lunch in a head to toe discussion with out his electronic crutch. She's right about the empty suit!

    During the primaries in 2008, O'Blunder's, in-the-tank-media put forth a concerted effort in using the politics of personal destruction on Palan, simply because they feared her more than McCain.

    Let me give you an example of how leftest propaganda works on low-information voters ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch...
  • mimi57
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    He did lie, he is the President, and at some point he will have to Lead. Maybe, if he
    ever stops blaming the republicans he can start... He doesn't want to end ONE social
    program, is unwilling to work with the Reps. and then blames them for this mess. No,
    HE's the President, and the buck stops with him. Time to lead Mr. President...from the FRONT and not the rear, it ain't working.
  • Thegrif
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    That's right, he attempts to play leader from the rear. Just like his budget, suppose to be done by the first week Feb. Obama now says will be done in April. Republicans and Democrats both saying if that is when Obama finishes it then it will be insignificant, to late. I think this is on purpose. If Americans are unhappy with the budget, Obama can always say," well I tried to purpose a better budget, but they didn't want to use it."
    In my opinion the biggest waste of tax payer money is the check we write Obama
    The guy refuses to do his job.
  • Renegade98
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    Destroyed Obama? Not even in the realm of possibilities. As Palin continues to age and her looks fade, so will her appearances at CPAC.
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