Sarah Palin's 'America's Enduring Strength' statement was broadcast Wednesday morning the 12th of January, what did you think of it?
I know what my personal opinion is, but I am quite interested in what my respected peers here on Mahalo thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPVZFs8Ua4
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And duels were not common among in America, especially among politicians. There is only one famous political duel, Hamilton-Burr, and Hamilton died and Burr's reputation was ruined.
Flint-hearted killer President Jackson fought some but they were not political. And the landed wealthy Southerners dueled because they thought they were aristocrats but not over politics.
Palin loves talking guns but I read she even needed help aiming and shooting an unarmed animal on her reality show.
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Extremely insincere people NEVER think that others can see through their incredible hypocrisy. In Sarah Palin's case, even the most naive and uneducated person can see through her 'attempts at sincerity.' There are people who refuse to see it, because they align with her daily 'hate speech' and love kicking and screaming and whining about every little thing that doesn't follow their agenda. They also don't have any problem with other people dying if their ideas differ, and in some cases, they actually go about calling such 'extreme terrorism' as 'shock and awe'.
'Shock and awe' was the campaign of the previous administration, as they dropped bombs on thousands of innocent people who had done absolutely NOTHING to America, and still today, this same small country has never been the same. People are displaced, their lives are in turmoil, and some of them will never recover.
All the people who agree with this behavior, including Ms. Palin, need to think of what would happen if another country decided they didn't like us, and put together their own 'shock and awe' campaign. And one morning, they just started bombing California, Nevada, Utah, and states where you live, and we were forced to find places to live in a city that was totally devastated, without adequate water, contaminated food and no medical services. Just put yourself in their shoes, and imagine how that feels, for you and your family.
This video is an obvious attempt at 'cleaning up her nonthinking, hurtful speech of the last few days.' And she hates it when the media talks about how Obama's speeches brings people together, and tries to top that (like she could) with these insincere attempts at 'doing something similar'.
People who dress up their speeches with 'terminology and language' to make you believe they're like you (when they're not) are an extreme danger to us all. When I was growing up, this was called LYING and it didn't involve putting our lives and freedoms, at risk!
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After reading your answer the only thing I would point out, you did realize that Palin posted this statement on the morning prior to President Obama's address at the Tucson Memorial?
So I wouldn't agree that she was doing something 'similar' in an attempt to top what the President said.
Preemptive? in an attempt to make political hay? Absolutely no doubt in my mind that was a factor in her wording, timing and staging.
I am now more than ever convinced that all Palin really cares about is herself. A patriotic and forward thinking American politician must deliver a more thoughtful speech in a time like this, a speech about healing and perseverance. Not a political spiel laden with doublespeak that barely even addresses the victims, the causes of the tragedy, or ideas on how to prevent this sort of event in the future.
Clearly, Palin is a failure as a public servant. Instead of publicly addressing what people have been saying about how she and her party bear some (however indirect) responsibility for the shootings, she defends herself in a backward way by suggesting that the rhetoric of anti-Palin pundits are evil.
A good politician confronts the real issues and tries to settle them. Palin avoided speaking much about the shootings and the victims, avoided plainly discussing the controversy surrounding her, and ultimately just spun a strange web of patriotic remarks into an only vaguely coherent, and almost wholly irrelevant and impotent statement.
At least there was that entertaining bit in the middle where she mentioned how politicians used to settle their disagreements over policy in a gun duel. I'm not a political scholar, but I seriously doubt that staging duels with guns was ever part of official political discourse in America.
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Interesting point you bring up about duels in our history.
Palin's remark caught my attention as well so I started researching dueling in America and have found that it was much more prevalent then I had previously known.
There seem to only be a few rare accounts of politicians actually dueling in America after the Revolutionary war. I guess it was still viewed by a small minority as a fair way to solve a disagreement! Haha. But it was likely perceived as archaic and outdated by almost all of the founding fathers.
My point was just that ultimately, the separation of church and state brought about the end to the age of duels, and that dueling was always fundamentally un-American and should not be construed to be an 'American custom'. It was appropriated from Europe, and from a less civilized time, and was quite quickly abolished by the newly formed American Republic. Let's not try and spin the truth and make a handful of high profile duels appears as though they are building blocks of the nation. They so aren't.
I watched her show and being an accomplished and seasoned hunter myself, it was quite evident that Palin was not at all comfortable with handling a high powered hunting rifle.
I was surprized at this as its been one of her main points, how she is a hunter and kills her own meat.
After the various displays of firearm handling in her show I would suggest that she refrain from calling herself anything but a novice hunter.
I, personally would not feel comfortable around her with loaded guns in hand, unless she had a qualified instructor right with her.