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Sarah Palin's Haiti Visit: Blink and You'd Miss It (No matter what, attack Sarah Palin!)
Time Magazine ^ | December 12, 2010 | Jessica Desvarieux in Port-au-Prince

Posted on 12/12/2010 11:14:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's visit to Haiti was over faster than you could say cholera. Palin spent less than 48 hours in the earthquake-ravaged nation that's currently facing a growing cholera epidemic that has already killed more than 2,000 people, and mounting political unrest due to a contested election. Palin was accompanied by her reality-TV-star daughter, Bristol, and her husband, Todd. And she mostly remained off-limits to media organizations except for Fox News, the network on which she serves as a news analyst.

The trip to Haiti had been planned a month in advance, and was hosted by the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and founder of humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse. During the weekend, Palin visited a couple of cholera treatment centers in the notorious slum area of Cité Soleil. Palin made herself briefly available to the media on Sunday at the headquarters of Samaritan's Purse, alongside a depot with temporary-shelter materials — the organization has built about 10,000 temporary shelters since the earthquake.

Haiti is the fourth country outside North America that Palin has visited, and she said her impressions of the poorest country in the western hemisphere were "much harsher" than she had expected.....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; franklingraham; freepressforpalin; greta; haiti; johncoale; jourbalists; msm; palin; presstitutes; sarahpalin
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To: Clyde5445

Yes! I see Greta, too.


21 posted on 12/13/2010 12:01:13 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Syncro
RIGHT and odumbo didn't see Harzai - the weather, ya know?

If you read GretaWire, you know that Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse is giving out 8 million presents in 110 countries to kids this Christmas. But for the generosity of Rev Graham and Samaritan's Purse and the thousands of volunteers and contributors, the 8 million children would not get gifts. I went to Haiti this weekend to be part of that gift give away (and to check on the cholera situation and the aftermath of the earthquake) and brought my husband with me. Check out below the pic of the excited kids about to get gifts. In this pic my husband is the one distributing the gifts.

Here's a few pictures from my trip to Haiti with Rev. Franklin Graham...we're here to give out gifts to children through Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.

Gov. Palin is also here to help Samaritan's Purse.


22 posted on 12/13/2010 12:07:26 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: toldyou

Nope, I’m sure they meant Bristol’s stint on Dancing With The Stars where she and Mark Ballas won Third Place, much to the lamestream’s anger and disgust...lol.


23 posted on 12/13/2010 12:11:01 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
- Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti was over faster than you could say cholera.

I tend not to care what people who need 48 hours to say “cholera” have to say.

24 posted on 12/13/2010 12:11:53 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Syncro; 2ndDivisionVet
Or put in Clinton's pocket

You remember the Clintonists taking over the Haitian long-distance telephone service? The head of DNC paid hundreds of thousands a month as lobbyist for the Haitian government?

25 posted on 12/13/2010 12:45:56 AM PST by marron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OH MY GOD!!!!! Obama spent ________ hours there and this is all Sarah Palin could afford? How dare she even show her face in public? Reallllllly


26 posted on 12/13/2010 12:54:17 AM PST by tinamina
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To: ReneeLynn

Obama and FLOTUS have been AWOL on Haiti!

God bless Sarah Palin and Franklin Graham for their efforts to bring hope and relief to the suffering Haitians!

LSM is bitter because that’s the truth.


27 posted on 12/13/2010 12:57:24 AM PST by sarah palin rocks
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To: onyx

“Nope, I’m sure they meant Bristol’s stint on Dancing With The Stars...”

OMG! I watched the youtube video of their Argentine Tango around five times tonight...I love it!


28 posted on 12/13/2010 1:05:56 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: sarah palin rocks

Obama and FLOTUS have been AWOL on Haiti!

God bless Sarah Palin and Franklin Graham for their efforts to bring hope and relief to the suffering Haitians!

LSM is bitter because that’s the truth.
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Nailed it!


29 posted on 12/13/2010 1:30:47 AM PST by toddausauras
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To: onyx
Was Sarah Palin expected to stay a week? Maybe a month?

No...just until she caught cholera

30 posted on 12/13/2010 1:53:46 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (Lock & Load-Coming to a Neighborhood near you)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

48 hours? That is a long time for something like this, especially considering who she is, how long Obama spent talking to Karzai (on the phone 15 mins) when he was in Afghanistan, and how long he spends on vacations and golfing.


31 posted on 12/13/2010 2:51:45 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d say 48 hours is a long time to stay in a country which, Time admits, has civil unrest and cholera.


32 posted on 12/13/2010 3:21:49 AM PST by syriacus (ObamaCare: Helping millions through hurting millions)
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To: syriacus

How long was Obama and families vacation on the Gulf Coast of the US?


33 posted on 12/13/2010 3:50:34 AM PST by ehvsteve
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has anyone from Time Magazine been there? Im sorry I havent seen Obama there either?


34 posted on 12/13/2010 4:36:57 AM PST by GoCards (Why me? Why not me?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She spent 45 hours more there than Zer0 spent visiting the troops in Afghanistan last month.


35 posted on 12/13/2010 4:56:54 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: onyx

Onyx
I truly admire you and your husband for your service and devotion.

Hope you get a Cabinet post. :)

(Sure as heck beats Martin Sheen’s sleeping on a sidewalk grate to ‘help’ the homeless)


36 posted on 12/13/2010 5:12:40 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why hasn’t Obama cured all the cholera there?


37 posted on 12/13/2010 5:30:18 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: The Cajun
<>And that's what pi$$ed them off more than anything else, they were denied a "got-ya" moment!

What really irked them is that Mrs. Palin did not catch cholera and die.

38 posted on 12/13/2010 6:33:53 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: trumandogz

What about all of the horror the Haitian people have experienced since independence? That’s the kind of third world basket case that just keeps on giving!


39 posted on 12/13/2010 6:36:51 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: smokingfrog; antceecee
You think that's bad,

Just google the phrase "tightly stage managed"

10 items on the first page - "yes we are all individuals"

40 posted on 12/13/2010 6:36:55 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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