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Sarah Palin: Mr. President: Please Try, "I'm Listening, People," Instead of "Listen Up, People!"
Facebook ^ | 1-25-2010 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 01/25/2010 7:01:47 PM PST by DB9

We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.

Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.

Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.

Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.

Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.

More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?

Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.

- Sarah Palin


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: government; healthcare; mccainpalin; obama; palin; politics
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To: rbmillerjr
Are you still on that Paul kick?

Ron Paul's importance is he exposes the neo-con’s lies about wars and massive welfare being free. That is where I agree with him. Neo-con's bankrupted the country and called the debt 'economic growth'. This is the real reason he is hated, he exposed the lie. He is not my saviour or someone I would expect to be President.

He is not (to me anyway) a divine Saviour from above like you Palin-ers see her as. So when you go after him pinging me it's not the same as when we question palin. That kills you because she is your ‘The One’.

61 posted on 01/26/2010 10:16:00 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Robbin

“And you are so out of touch with the current climate that you don’t have a clue?”

Uh huh. My 35000 posts prove I am a Duncan Hunter backer/ conservative, and if I don’t like Palin running numbers for the devil(McCain) that is MY business.

“Why am I not supprised....”

LOL!


62 posted on 01/26/2010 10:19:05 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: sickoflibs
the neo-con’s lies about wars

You might want to elaborate on this so us unenlightened masses can understand what you are saying.

63 posted on 01/26/2010 10:22:40 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: sickoflibs

If you shill for Paul, you are a Paulist.

Not difficult.


64 posted on 01/26/2010 10:30:29 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll support Romney : He sucks but he's better than Obama.)
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To: Lakeshark

Your question to the Paulist will either not be answered or it will be evaded.

If he answers truthfully, he exposes himself as a wack a nut Ron Paulito.


65 posted on 01/26/2010 10:33:45 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll support Romney : He sucks but he's better than Obama.)
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To: sickoflibs

Is rbmiller right? You won’t answer my question? He’s implying you won’t because you can’t.


66 posted on 01/26/2010 10:38:39 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: rbmillerjr; Lakeshark
RE “If you shill for Paul, you are a Paulist.

Really? A Paulist? Paul is talking about the Federal Reserve. How does that fit into the bigger Palin picture? Is she a fed reserver?

What kills you is I don’t have a human saviour like you do.

67 posted on 01/26/2010 10:53:34 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: sickoflibs

I’m still waiting for an answer to my simple question. I guess you are incapable of an answer.


68 posted on 01/26/2010 11:01:15 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark; rbmillerjr
RE :” the neo-con’s lies about wars. ...You might want to elaborate on this so us unenlightened masses can understand what you are saying.

No I didn't post that, I posted this:Ron Paul's importance is he exposes the neo-con’s lies about wars and massive welfare being free.

Free? Actually they said we could have tax cuts too. It was all a lie.

69 posted on 01/26/2010 11:08:21 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Lakeshark

LMAO, I told you he wouldn’t answer.
He’s a RonPaul nutcase.


70 posted on 01/26/2010 11:11:05 AM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll support Romney : He sucks but he's better than Obama.)
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To: sickoflibs
And I've asked you to elaborate on you statement "the neo-con’s lies about wars" and you haven't. Are you capable of answering that simple question?
71 posted on 01/26/2010 11:11:43 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Wisconsinlady; Bahbah

Small world. De Pere here...


72 posted on 01/26/2010 11:21:27 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Lakeshark

‘simple’ question means ‘got-ya’ question. But you don’t got me because unlike you no one(person) person owns my
soul.


73 posted on 01/26/2010 11:28:45 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: sickoflibs
Rbmiller was right, you can't answer. You do nothing but evade, and you're not even good at that.

Got ya? I just want you to explain your statement, but you simply can't.

74 posted on 01/26/2010 11:38:13 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Robbin
I support Sarah Palin and I'm one of her strongest backers, but we just won a big court case against McCain/Fiengold. If now until the mid term election McCain had better not vote to put in new laws to “ they say”fix want the court did last week.
Palin had better speak up against any new election laws, whether McCain Is for it or not.
If she remains silent she will lose my support!

Check my other posts if you don't believe me.

75 posted on 01/26/2010 11:38:13 AM PST by factmart
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To: rbmillerjr

I think you’re right.


76 posted on 01/26/2010 11:39:56 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

Another simple question?

Already did. Because I didn’t post that so I can’t answer that.


77 posted on 01/26/2010 11:44:41 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: Lakeshark; http://www.freerepublic.com/pe
I did answer. I did post what you are asking me about. I posted :#69

Any disagreements with what I really posted? Is that all you Palinistas got?

78 posted on 01/26/2010 11:48:03 AM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: sickoflibs
You posted it originally in # 61, I asked you to elaborate about an hour ago, and you're still incapable of answering.

I've pretty much decided Rbmiller is correct, you're just a nut case. You can, however, try to defend your statement by explaining the neo-con lies about war. Maybe you'll change my mind.

79 posted on 01/26/2010 11:53:42 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper; Wisconsinlady

I’m feeling like I’m back in the neighborhood :)


80 posted on 01/26/2010 11:57:13 AM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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