Working Up a Sweat
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 in Uncategorized |
Sarah Palin poses for Runner’s World magazine. Your blogger can’t think of a thing to say about this which won’t somehow get him into trouble.
Sarah Palin poses for Runner’s World magazine. Your blogger can’t think of a thing to say about this which won’t somehow get him into trouble.
24 Responses
7/3/2009 9:54 am
Nothing to do with Palin, but this may be of interest http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/03/steven-soderbergh-brad-pitt-moneyball-mothballed
7/3/2009 1:54 pm
Nice shoes. Is that Russia in the background?
7/3/2009 2:49 pm
You’re funny, Richard. Nice non-comment.
7/3/2009 2:51 pm
My favorites are the bit when she says no one recognizes her when she’s running because she’s without the “full trough of make up,” then the bit when she has no idea what type of shoe she runs in (about which any serious runner will tell you more than you ever wanted to know), and the picture in which she’s holding two blackberrys (and has to my eyes slightly oddly colored legs).
7/3/2009 2:53 pm
the blackberry photo:
http://www.runnersworld.com/photo/sarahpalin/slide7.html
7/3/2009 2:54 pm
Career change? Or get out before Alaska economy really tanks so she can run for pres. in 2012. Here’s hoping.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-resigns-as-al_b_225515.html
7/3/2009 3:38 pm
Sarah Palin must have just had a nervous breakdown. Did you WATCH that press conference? Too bizarre to be anything else.
7/3/2009 3:58 pm
Weird. Must be an indictment coming down. She sounded like Levi’s mom put her onto some meth.
7/3/2009 4:56 pm
Probably what you just watched: she “explains” her reasons here,
http://bit.ly/169o3H
Hilarious, RT.
7/3/2009 5:34 pm
I agree with RT’s supposition that there must be an indictment coming down. Thanks, Beecham, for posting the video of Palin’s speech. Her intonation sounds horribly mechanical. And, as usual, her thoughts are so disorganized it’s hard to understand why anyone ever imagined that she had what it takes to be a candidate for high political office.
7/3/2009 5:55 pm
She picked the ideal weekday of the year (”Fourth” of July) for minimal reaction: Letterman’s on rerun, no Stewart, Colbert, Obelman, Maddow.
7/3/2009 5:58 pm
Olbermann, that is.
7/4/2009 2:31 pm
I have never been a fan of Palin’s, and think McCain had no business tapping her as a running mate. I didn’t find her speech that hard to understand…actually thought it was not bad considering she didn’t use a teleprompter. Much better than many of her speeches. That’s probably because I’m uneducated. She said two important things as far as I’m concerned. 1) the Governor’s office was spending too much state time and money dealing with attack Palin issues and not state issues, and 2) she didn’t like her special needs child being mocked. That sounds fair to me. I am a retired Canadian senior who has always been interested in politics and culture and never in my lifetime have I seen any politician trashed with such vitriol as she has been and I have never seen any politician’s children being attacked as viciously as hers were (and the latter, in my books, is unacceptable, always was). Nothing she ever did was as blatantly stupid as what Bill Clinton did…this Oxford educated President of the United States of America. Even he and his wife and child were never subjected to the beating she and her family took.
Happy Birthday America…
7/4/2009 4:41 pm
I like that photo.
7/4/2009 7:45 pm
I think my theory is pretty solid: Palin realized she was in the thirteenth minute of her allotted fifteen, and SarahPac is a failure. There are more ethics scandals on the horizon (probably) and no serious advisor can see her as a credible national candidate without a lot of hard work she doesn’t feel like doing.
Only one conclusion is possible: it is time to CASH IN before the fact that she’s done politically seeps out into the awareness of those 19% of Americans who love her to death (and see her more than justified defeat at the polls as some kind of victimization, as if everyone has a right to be elected to the vice presidency).
Look for an eight-digit book advance, six-digit speaker’s honoraria, and all kinds of status as a fundraiser for hire. None of these were allowed under the ethics rules the sitting governor of Alaska has to follow. And like most Republicans not named Huckabee with national ambitions, Palin is in public life not as a servant but as a bundle of appetites. She’s falling back to the profit motive, and people will in fact for a little while be lining up to write her checks. She just wants them to get started in August, before reality interferes.
Pretty confident that this explains her senseless resignation as well as her painful defensiveness about it (”I’ve given my reasons, I’ve been candid” — as if fielding hostile questions).
Mark my punctuation, er, marks: this is about $$$$$$$$$.
SE
7/4/2009 8:26 pm
I’d come to the same conclusion, SE. I think she sort of wandered into the national political game, thanks to Kristol’s discovery of her possibly being a blank slate in the way Bush was for Cheney, Kristol, et al. She clearly can’t manage being the CEO even of Alaska, and the dissing from the lower 48 Republican machinery showed her she wasn’t going anywhere.
No serious political advisor was involved with yesterday’s goose-honking, Trig-squawking show, so it must have just been on the advice of her agent.
She’ll pretend she’s still in the game till the book comes out (for Christmas) and she has racked up a bunch of LHS-level lecturing gigs.
I still don’t count out an indictment or two but those can be stalled and milked to keep her in sight through the next six months or so. I also would guess the resignation might help diminish the ethics probing in Juneau, maybe.
I bet the ghost-writer is skipping the fireworks tonight.
So yes, I agree.
7/4/2009 9:10 pm
I’m so glad I’m not that ghost-writer: it would be just too tempting to let the book turn into a parody.
7/4/2009 10:55 pm
And this will make a great LAST chapter TO her “BOOK”!?
**((Hell yeah!))**
7/5/2009 3:58 pm
Well, I bow to your collective superior wisdom. I have to admit, the money angle never occurred to me. And run for President? Why would anybody in their right mind want to do that? I never thought she was in her right mind when she wanted to run for Vice-President. Or that any Republican in his right mind would want her to. And it never occurred to me that it was fine to waste state money and time on Palin issues. Or that it was okay to have your family trashed, regardless of how dumb you are. Or that she would come back for more? No, I never thought of that.
7/6/2009 3:39 pm
lmpaulsen, you’re getting close to being somewhat Palin-like yourself with this passive-aggressive resentment and “people disagree with me because I’m uneducated” projection.
7/6/2009 7:22 pm
Here’s a totally wild idea that keeps popping into my head– but it’s doubtless quite off the wall. What I noticed in Palin’s speech last Friday was how often she used the words “Alaska” and “Alaskans.” To be sure, there was one moment where she talked about intending to do the best “for Alaskans–and also for Americans.” But the addition about “Americans” was in a quieter voice, and seemed almost like an afterthought. So here’s my idea, which I put forward at the risk of being blasted out of the water (and which I myself wouldn’t actually want to bet on): suppose she intends to join her husband’s erstwhile secessionist party and become some kind of leading figure in it?
7/6/2009 7:39 pm
Nope. Just being honest. You’re reading in passive aggressive resentment about the wrong thing. That’s how I honestly feel about it. I apparently got sucked in by Palin. You see I have this bad habit of expecting people to be honest and straightforward, so when they aren’t I resent that. What Standing Eagle and RT said really hadn’t occurred to me. I have the greatest respect for their education and knowledge and always enjoy reading their posts. I have been watching CNN today and hearing about all the things they think she might do…speaking engagements, and her book and how she could make millions, blah, blah. Or she may yet plan to run for the Presidency in 2012. I’m sorry, I’m amazed that Sarah Palin was ever considered for even the Vice-Presidency…and why she is still making news. Rather than resent education, I would expect…no, demand that a Vice President and certainly a President be as educated and intelligent as Barack Obama is…or at the very least, have the experience and education that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have. Why she didn’t just say no thank you and stay the Governor of Alaska in the first place, boggles my mind. Subjecting her family to more media abuse boggles my mind. The media abuse of everything and everybody boggles my mind. The First Amendment is meant to give every citizen a voice, and it seems to be used more often to behave like *holes. And everything is always about money, money, money which is how we all got in this mess in the first place, why I think you have to be a little nuts to run for public office, and I don’t think anybody has learned a damn thing. There…is that a little more aggressive for you?
7/6/2009 8:32 pm
My apologies Judith Ryan, I left you off the list of people whose education and knowledge I respect. I’m getting old and cranky and very world weary, and I’m sorry if you feel at risk of being blown out of the water. The foregoing should make clear how I really felt. There are people in this world, you know, who are honest, and expect honesty in return. There are people who don’t aspire to high office or power or fame or millions or recognition and who aren’t jealous of those who have achieved it. If those who have achieved what they want and the price is worth it to them by all means, enjoy. I just expect them to be worthy of it.
7/6/2009 9:05 pm
Impaulsen, I have a very positive impression of you. Your post of 7/5/2009 3:58 pm balances a range of different perspectives about Palin in a very thoughtful way: whether anyone would actually want to run for Vice-President or President; whether the Republican party showed common sense when they made her their VP candidate; whether state money should be spent on issues concerning Palin; and whether it’s “okay to have your family trashed, regardless of how dumb you are.” This is a savvy and perceptive combination of considerations raised by the Palin case.