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Obama Benefits in Having Palin as His Foil
New York Times ^ | 1/18/11 | Matt Bai

Posted on 01/18/2011 8:13:57 PM PST by Nachum

There was Sarah Palin again Monday, assuring Sean Hannity on Fox News that she was not going to be silenced, no matter what abuse might come her way. “Other people are facing much greater hardships and making greater sacrifices than I am in just engaging in debate,” said the woman who reportedly made $250,000 per episode of her recently concluded reality show.

She added, several times, “This isn’t about me.”

A lot of Republicans in Washington certainly wish that were the case. But as the new House majority begins its push this week to scale back the Obama agenda, it seems that the president now has, in Ms. Palin, something he badly needed after a punishing election season: the ideal political foil.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benefits; foil; freepressforpalin; obama; palin
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1 posted on 01/18/2011 8:14:02 PM PST by Nachum
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dream on Obama


2 posted on 01/18/2011 8:16:42 PM PST by ak267
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For Obama and the liberal democrats, Palin IS Goldstein. The ref is Orwell’s “1984”.


3 posted on 01/18/2011 8:17:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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This website republishes more articles from Liberal than conservative sources. Why do you think that is?


4 posted on 01/18/2011 8:17:14 PM PST by devere
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Until he is squealing like a stuck pig.

She had many an opportunity to really sock the guy, but didn’t because she has class.


5 posted on 01/18/2011 8:18:36 PM PST by dila813
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To: Nachum
Ms. Palin represents exactly the kind of culturally conservative critique of Mr. Obama that her Washington colleagues would like very much to play down at the moment. Her grievances are based less in the particulars of policy than they are in the caricatures and cultural divisions of the last political era — effete Easterners versus rugged Westerners, wine-drinkers versus beer-pounders, Ivy League lawyers versus Bible-brandishing activists.

I have to wonder, when was the last time the author of this piece visited flyover country? Or even ventured outside of Manhattan? Never?

6 posted on 01/18/2011 8:19:23 PM PST by Huntress (Who the hell are you to tell me what's in my best interests?)
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Sarah Palin should announce her candidacy for President and officially request Secret Service Protection ... this would put the crazy leftists in a tizzy...


7 posted on 01/18/2011 8:19:31 PM PST by ICCtheWay
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To: Nachum
...it seems that the president now has, in Ms. Palin, something he badly needed after a punishing election season: the ideal political foil.

that's what a President needs? a political foil? Not the country doing better?

the Libs don't even try to pretend anymore that they want the country to do better.

8 posted on 01/18/2011 8:19:37 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Oh, yeah let’s all listen to the NYSlimes.


9 posted on 01/18/2011 8:19:58 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm.)
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To: devere
This website republishes more articles from Liberal than conservative sources. Why do you think that is?

The people here are interested in the comments and analysis from FReepers. It puts things in perspective.

10 posted on 01/18/2011 8:20:48 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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"I'm Matt Bai, and I'm kind of dumb. But on the whole, I'm very pleased with myself."


11 posted on 01/18/2011 8:21:16 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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dream on Obama

As well as the NYT

12 posted on 01/18/2011 8:21:29 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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What is it Rush says . . . Sarah Palin living rent free in the liberals’ heads.


13 posted on 01/18/2011 8:22:57 PM PST by chickadee
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The nyt is continuing its slobbering sloppyness. Given the fairly even divide in the USA, the reverse is also true: Palin benefits from having brack obama as a foil.


14 posted on 01/18/2011 8:23:01 PM PST by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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To: Nachum; devere

Also, know your enemies.

You can’t fight them if you don’t know them.

(Am I allowed to say that?)


15 posted on 01/18/2011 8:23:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Nachum

16 posted on 01/18/2011 8:23:57 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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It laughable how they always have to include how much money she makes. Do they do that for anyone else? Yeah I didn't think so. Personally after what she has put up with from these bottom-feeders I hope she makes lots of money and rubs it in the face of every liberal (and barbara bush) pondscum she runs into. But hey thats just me.

Actually if you think about if she gets $250,000 per episode and over 3 million people watch it and just 1/3 of the people buy a product that was advertised they made a killing uh oops I mean alot of money by advertising on her show.

17 posted on 01/18/2011 8:24:06 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: devere
This website republishes more articles from Liberal than conservative sources. Why do you think that is?

Because, to get intellectually stronger, you must consider your opponent's arguments and see if they have merit. If the buffoons at the NY Times are the cream of the crop of our opponents, we have nothing to fear.

18 posted on 01/18/2011 8:25:30 PM PST by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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She’s irrelevant. She’s unelectable. Her political career is over. She’s not too bright. She needs to bone up on policy. Her reality show isn’t very Presidential. She needs to tone down the hateful rhetoric. She injected herself into the Arizona shooting. In short, she continues to live rent-free in their heads...I love it!


19 posted on 01/18/2011 8:26:00 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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I bet the fairy has never ventured beyond the upper westside, much less manhattan.


20 posted on 01/18/2011 8:26:12 PM PST by Vision Thing (He has a white house, and he wants to paint it black.)
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