Posted on 07/11/2011 9:16:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As celebrity glamour shots go, Sarah Palin’s cover photo on this week’s Newsweek is danged good! The best-selling author and reality-TV star looks young and vibrant. Her devil-may-care countenance aided and abetted by the wind conspicuously blowing hair back. And while her outfit might be laid back, there’s no doubt she’s in total control. But when Palin’s cover shot is viewed through the prism of presidential politics, it’s a dud.
Folks want to be able to envision someone sitting in the Oval Office.
They don’t necessarily want to envision them in the pages of Esquire magazine’s “Sexiest Woman Alive 2011” or Maxim. She can’t possibly be taken seriously as a presidential contender dressed like that, especially since this is the second time she has graced Newsweek in a less-than-presidential pose. But let me move away from the superficial to the substance of what the half-term governor has to say in the Newsweek interview. I’m particularly incensed by the lunacy of her comments on the impending default of the United States.
“It is not the apocalypse,” she said, and questioned the need for the urgent negotiating sessions Republicans and Democrats were conducting in search of a debt-limit agreement (ongoing at press time). “The fact is that we have $2.6 trillion in revenue coming in, and if we just use some common sense there — take that revenue, service the debt first, take care of national priorities — we don’t have to increase debt.”
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IMHO, the left-wing slant is not about her picture, but the headline above it: “Murdoch’s Watergate”. Could the lib media be trying to link Palin with popular (negative) attitudes about Watergate? Maybe, just my 2$ (inflation and all).
His article is stupid, no doubt, but the photo shoot WAS designed to show Sarah anything but Presidential. As I mentioned on an earlier post there is not one photo in a suit, in a meeting or, quite telling, with any other people. We may enjoy the beauty of the pics, but make no mistake, Newsweek was not trying to make Palin look like a serious candidate.
I wonder if this might be part of Newsweek’s agenda? Portray Sarah in such casual settings that it’s hard to picture her sitting in the Oval Office. I thought it was a little strange that there were no photos of her looking more official or “Presidential”, unless not all photos have been posted online.
It’s nothing new that libs are, in fact, racists and sexists.
She doesn’t always wear it. Go back and look at the Rolling Thunder photos; didn’t have it on then.
Someone has a thread that has other pics from the photo shoot (2 different outfits). The other photos when she’s wearing the cover outfit don’t show a wedding band either.
I wonder if, in fact, other photos were taken, but these are the ones Newsweek decided to include. I don’t know if she was given any approval rights regarding which photos were chosen and which was on the cover. I have personal experience of dealing with these types of people, only to have my words twisted to mean the opposite of what was said. In my case, I didn’t have any rights at all, but maybe Sarah did. Or not.
I remember hearing her say that Todd had it in his pocket because sometimes it hurt when she was shaking hands with people.
I do realize, before you point it out, that she was not shaking hands in these photos.
Newsweak put that over-sized picture there for people who despise Palin and for people who are undecided about her, not for her most fervent supporters.
I think they put her on the cover because they know she sells magazines. They can’t sell them with the content they have, so they put Sarah on the cover in hopes some people with pick it up and actually buy it.
Newsweek website shutting down next week.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/newsweekcom_will_cease_to_exis.html
No worries then.
I don’t wear mine while doing a brake job or wiring.
Just checkin’ the media.
Well, I never knew that. Thanks!
Monica’s view from under the desk in the Oval Office.
Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world.
Xxxxxxxxxxx I had to deal with facts, even unpleasant ones. I dealt with the world as it is, not as I wished it to be. The “elite” political class in this country with their heads in the sand had better face some unpleasant facts about the world as it is. They’ve run out of money and no amount of accounting gimmicks or happy talk will change this reality. Those of us who live in the real world could see this day coming.
Back in January 2009, as xxxxxxxxxxxx, I announced: “We also have to be mindful about the effect of the stimulus package on the national debt and the future economic health of the country. We won’t achieve long-term stability if we continue borrowing massive sums from foreign countries and remain dependent on foreign sources of oil and gas.” Then I urged President Obama to veto the stimulus bill because it was loaded with absolutely useless pork and unfunded mandates. Everyone knows my early and vocal opposition to that mother of all unfunded mandates known as Obamacare starting back in August 2009, and many recall my objections to the Federal Reserves’ inflationary games with our currency known as QE2 from November 2010. It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add.
The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.
This debt ceiling debate is the perfect time to do what must be done. We must cut. Yes, I’m for a balanced budget amendment and for enforceable spending caps. But first and foremost we must cut spending, not “strike a deal” that allows politicians to raise more debt! See, Washington is addicted to OPM – Other People’s Money. And like any junkie, they will lie, steal, and cheat to fund their addiction. We must cut them off and cut government down to size.
To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We’ve been slowly going broke for years, but now it’s happening all at once as the world’s capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone’s door anymore. And we don’t have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We’ll be Greece before these D.C. politicians’ false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.
We can’t close our $1.5 trillion deficit overnight, but we must get as close as we can as soon as we can. Little nibbles here and there over 10 years (spun to sound like they’re huge budget cuts) aren’t anywhere near enough. I know from experience that cutting government spending isn’t easy. As xxxxxx, I made the largest veto cuts in my state’s history, and I didn’t make many friends doing it. But we will never recover, we will never get free of devastating debt, unless we make tough choices now. We don’t hear talk like this from leaders in D.C. or from those running for office because they say what they think we want to hear rather than what must be said.
We are in desperate need of real leadership, but President Obama’s solution to everything is to grow government by borrowing more money, spending more money, printing more money, and taxing our job creators. He once said that he “believes in American Exceptionalism…just as the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.” Well, the path he has us on will make us just as “exceptional” as Greece – debt crisis, stagnation, permanent high unemployment, and all.
As we approach 2012, there are important lessons we can learn from all of this. First, we should never entrust the White House to a far-left ideologue who has no appreciation or even understanding of the free market and limited government principles that made this country economically strong. Second, the office of the presidency is too important for on-the-job training. It requires a strong chief executive who has been entrusted with real authority in the past and has achieved a proven track record of positive measurable accomplishments. Leaders are expected to give good speeches, but leadership is so much more than oratory. Real leadership requires deeds even more than words. It means taking on the problems no one else wants to tackle. It means providing vision and guidance, inspiring people to action, bringing everyone to the table, and with a servant's heart dedicating oneself to striking agreements that keep faith with our Constitution and with the ordinary citizens who entrusted you with power. It means bucking the status quo, fighting the corrupt powers that be, serving the common good, and leaving the country better than you found it. Most of us don’t see a lot of that real leadership in D.C., and it’s profoundly disappointing.
But let me tell you where real hope lies. It’s not the hopey-changey stuff we heard about in 2008. Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it. We have been blessed with natural resources, hardworking entrepreneurs, and a Constitution that preserves the greatest form of government ever devised by man. If we develop those natural resources, allow our entrepreneurs to keep and invest more of what they earn, and adhere to the time-tested truths of our Constitution, we will prosper and endure.
But first and foremost we must tackle our debt. We don’t have the luxury of playing politics as usual. We need real leaders who will put aside their own political self-interest to do what is right for the nation. And if they don’t emerge… well, America has a do-over in November 2012.
LOL Pointing that out didn’t occur to me. I could probably come up with half a dozen good reasons for it not being there, from she was a bit bloated that day to it was at the jewelers for cleaning/repair.
Exactly what leapt to my mind. Especially the Gore cover with carbon credits stuffed in his shorts to create the illusion he has a penis.
Certainly she had the right to decline the shoot. She has enough money to hire her own photos and send them to Newsweek.
By now she should know that everyone outside of a few folks at Fox are Democrats and are not going to do anything that’s in her best interest. Did she think she was being photographed by impartial photo-journalists? McCain did that and he ended up getting a monkey taking a dump on his head.
I love the photos. She makes a great pin-up girl. And isn’t that just the way they’re treating all the female Republicans, lovely bubble-heads?
Jon, you’re big boys and girls. You have a free choice of news to cover. And you choose to cover Governor Palin. And this is her (or our) fault how, exactly?
Wasn’t there some bathing suit shot of 0bama that had the left swooning? For all their pretty words the left are the most sexist people on the planet.
Cindie
She sure can!!!!
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