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Sarah Palin at the Gridiron Dinner. Excerpts, Photos
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 9, 2009 9:25 AM | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 12/09/2009 8:01:29 PM PST by pillut48

...Palin shared the bill at the black-tie dinner of the 124-year old club with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She was joined by her husband, Todd Palin, and her parents.

Palin -- a potential 2012 presidential candidate -- is touring the nation promoting her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, just published a biography titled Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman.

At the reception, Palin mingled and posed for pictures. She told me, when I asked, that her purse was made from otter. Todd Palin explained to me his cummerbund was based on the Big Dipper and North Star in the Alaskan flag.

Palin's speech was loaded with zingers -- aimed at her and the journalists. Palin, John McCain's running mate, had some interesting help in crafting her speech, enlisting Eric Schnure, a former speechwriter for former Vice President Al Gore...

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: barneyfrank; gridiron; palin
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To: pillut48

Bawney thinking: "My Gawd, she'th beautiful. I think it moved. Have I been scared thwaight?"

21 posted on 12/09/2009 8:35:34 PM PST by hattend (Who wants to be insured by Mutual of Obama?)
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To: Gone_Postal

Barney Frank has that constipated look now, wait till she gets elected POTUS. hehe guess he’ll have to quit the day job.


22 posted on 12/09/2009 8:40:00 PM PST by make no mistake
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To: pillut48

The beauty and the beast!


23 posted on 12/09/2009 8:44:04 PM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: Aria
[The women behind her are looking at Sarah’s otter purse. I have to admit it’s quite weird]

I wondered if anyone would bring it up.


24 posted on 12/09/2009 8:44:29 PM PST by potlatch (ACTIONS - Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: hattend

ROFLMAO!


25 posted on 12/09/2009 8:47:35 PM PST by XenaLee
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To: hattend

Nah —

Barney: How dare the doorman ask me to arrange for HER driver to go to the front of the line.


26 posted on 12/09/2009 8:47:52 PM PST by carolina71
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To: carolina71

Uh oh — purse alert !

It’s one thing to be funky, it’s another when it’s fugly.


27 posted on 12/09/2009 8:49:09 PM PST by carolina71
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To: potlatch

Maybe it’s an early Christmas present from her husband’s side of the family? It takes guts to wear real fur around those rabid lefties though. You know how they are.


28 posted on 12/09/2009 8:49:50 PM PST by XenaLee
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To: XenaLee
[Maybe it’s an early Christmas present from her husband’s side of the family?]

Maybe it is. It's unusual, but who knows.
If those “rabid lefties” can wear their leather boots, belts and purses, than we can wear out furs, lol.

29 posted on 12/09/2009 8:59:14 PM PST by potlatch (ACTIONS - Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

The woman in the background looks like it could be Tim Russert’s wife, Maureen Orth. I hope she’s just inspecting the otter purse. Who wouldn’t look at that?


30 posted on 12/09/2009 9:03:16 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: ntnychik

Maureen’s Google photos. What do you think?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=Maureen+Orth&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=


31 posted on 12/09/2009 9:06:25 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Maureen Orth’s Google pics. What do you think?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=Maureen+Orth&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=


32 posted on 12/09/2009 9:23:09 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: pillut48

The Big Dipper -- is that Sarah's pet name for Todd?

33 posted on 12/09/2009 9:24:05 PM PST by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: pillut48

Sarah always has a smile, and Fwank always has that unpleasant scowl.


34 posted on 12/09/2009 9:31:28 PM PST by GoodDay (Palin for POTUS 2012)
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To: XenaLee

Those rabid lefties never lived in Alaska, either. It is such a geography over ideology thing: think of all the Soviets, men and women, ALWAYS wearing fur. And even in NYC you see a good bit of fur stil, because it’s so much colder than DC. I’d rather see them all freeze.


35 posted on 12/09/2009 9:32:28 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Gone_Postal
I just realized the Bawney is looking at her cross. I'm surprised he didn't
have a heart attack right there.
36 posted on 12/09/2009 9:39:01 PM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: EDINVA

Hell, our whole country was founded by fur-wearing folks (Davey Crockett?). It’s part of our heritage too. And Alaska is the last frontier.

I just keep seeing Elaine going after a fur-wearing female and I figure, as much as they hate Sarah, it’s just a matter of time before Sarah’s in a Seinfeld scenario with one of the jealous harpy liberals.


37 posted on 12/09/2009 9:40:01 PM PST by XenaLee
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To: AZLiberty

I think I would call him Mister Todd....hehe.

Ok. I gotta stop thinking about him now....(whew...getting awfully hot in here)...


38 posted on 12/09/2009 9:42:18 PM PST by XenaLee
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To: pillut48

WAIT...BARNEY FRANKS IS JEWISH??????


39 posted on 12/09/2009 9:56:52 PM PST by Hildy
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To: GoodDay
Sarah always has a smile, and Fwank always has that unpleasant scowl.

There are two likely reasons: Sarah sleeps with the "Big Dipper", who knows where to go, hence the smile; and Bwarnie Frwank, who's little dipper does not, hence the grumpy look for the "Old Girl" from MA.

40 posted on 12/09/2009 10:02:35 PM PST by jws3sticks (Sarah Palin forever!)
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