Sarah Palin Farewell Speech

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivered a farewell speech as she stepped down as governor on Sunday, July 26, 2009. Some felt the speech was a bit confusing, for example, when she mentioned the cold separating the "cheechakos from the sourdoughs."

Some felt the entire speech was poorly constructed.http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907?currentPage=1 Others noted the apparent poetic-pattern of some of Palin's speech. William Shatner read the speech as a poem on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

"Let me tell you, Alaskans really need to stick together on this with new leadership in this area especially, encouraging new leadership... got to stiffen your spine to do what's right for Alaska when the pressure mounts, because you're going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood and here's how they do it. They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use Alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes. Stand strong, and remind them patriots will protect our guaranteed, individual right to bear arms, and by the way, Hollywood needs to know, we eat, therefore we hunt."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/sarah-palins-farewell-add_b_245215.html

"And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/sarah-palins-farewell-add_b_245215.html