Posted on 02/09/2010 10:25:06 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Can her fans really relate to quitting job, making millions?
It was nearly a year ago when I first saw "How's that Hope and Change Working Out For You?" on a bumper sticker.
As I said at the time, that's maybe the most cynical slogan of the century.
Of course it's legit to criticize President Obama and his policies, but there's something so snarky about that phrase -- as if to say, "You don't have a job? You're still without health care? Obama wasn't able to heal the sick, change water into wine, bring peace and harmony to the world? Hahahaha! How's that hope and change working out for you, SUCKER!"
Now we have Sarah Palin bringing her rodeo act to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville and cracking, "How's that hopey, changey stuff workin' out?"
Groan. Did she write that on her palm?
If you're in the audience and you hear that, how can you not feel as if your intelligence is being insulted? There's Sarah Palin, who walked away from her duties as governor so she could reap millions from a book and promote it with a rock-star bus tour, get a lucrative gig on Fox News, command six-figure speaking fees, charge In Touch magazine a hundred grand for a cover story -- and she's sayin' she can relate to the downtrodden and the disenfranchised? Give me a big fat break.
How's that hopey/changey stuff workin' out? Not so great for a lot of people -- but for Sarah Palin, quitting elected office and ripping on the hopey/changey stuff is working like a million dollar charm, baby.
*Programming note: Any time I criticize Palin, I hear from conservatives who ask, "Why are you so afraid of her?"
Huh? I'm not afraid of her. I just fear for any populace who would swallow her cynical, shallow act without questioning it.
mailto:rroeper@suntimes.com
Is there a site which lists Sarah’s upcoming appearances?
“But he doesn’t fear for the illiterate voters who swallowed Obama’s unicorns and ponies act without questioning it?”
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Whaaatt? I thought it was one or the other, I didn’t know he promised both! Waaahh, I want my pony!!!
It would be snarky if Obama hadn't actually promised those things. He and his minions did imply those things would come about, though, along with the water going down and "global warming" ending. The line is valid.
You got the unicorn? All I got was the pony. I haven't actually seen the pony yet, but I've seen a lot of manure all over my country since Obama took office, so I figure the pony must be galloping all over the place.
Josh Painter over at Texas4Palin keeps an unofficial calendar.
What’s “snarky” is this article by this ignorant jackass Roeper.
Well said.
“Obama wasn’t able to heal the sick, change water into wine, bring peace and harmony to the world?”
HEY, DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
“THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHEN THE RISE OF THE OCEANS BEGAN TO SLOW AND OUR PLANET BEGAN TO HEAL!” - bhs June 3, 2008
He had the gall to say it, he can own it.
She answered a more important calling and a chance to improve her personal revenue because of her HUGE popularity.
This guy is too stupid to realize that Palin after being cannibalized by the MSM ever since her acceptance speech never misses an opportunity to whip them. I love it! As an example, she appeared with the words HI MOM written in her hand after the latest MSM criticism of using cribbed notes for her Tea Party speech! Never heard the same drive by journalist complain about the Presidents teleprompters where he reads most of his speech.
Keep your eyes open Roeper; you will have a lot to write about in the coming months. She has barely hit full stride! If New Jersey, Virginia and that seat in Massachusetts is an indication; the storm is just brewing.
We don't even get cynical, but we get shallow. And hypocritical. It's so gauche to write notes on your hand, but their guy can't even talk to a sixth-grade class without a teleprompter. Imagine Bush on 9/11, reading a story book from a teleprompter when the planes hit the Twin Towers. I wonder what this guy had to say about that? Plus, their guy can't pronounce corpsman, but Bush never got away with saying nucular when he meant to say nuclear.
It's amazing, they love their high-tech teleprompter, but if you go back to the basics, like writing, they laugh at you. They say they want us to give up cars, but as soon as we start riding horses, they will laugh at us.
Their pain is delicious.
Yeah, I remember that. Dropped my jaw worse than anything the Slickster ever said, and that's saying something.
Did you send that to Roeper - he’d probably appreciate to getting his memory jogged.
Thanks, Al!
LOL! buh bye!
Amazing how the press is only interested in speaking fees when Republicans get them. Any interest in how Bill Clinton went from the lowest paid governor in the country to a bank account with over a hundred million?
Well, yeah. After eight years of having "Mission Accomplished," "Great job, Brownie," etc., thrown in our faces, I find it hard to care.
She quit a low-paying government job that wasn't even covering her bills, and went out on her own and made a success of it.
Next we'll be hearing that she complained to a group of women from families with a household income of less than $40K that Piper's piano and dance lessons were $14,000 the previous year.
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