Sarah Palin's ghostwriter finally got off her fat ass and wrote her something to say about Cuba.


The video starts off with these words:

"President Obama's recent decision to normalize relations with the oppressive communist regime in Cuba, it puts me in mind of how another president handled relations with the communists." 

And after that it is just blah, blah, Ronald Reagan, blah blah, cold war, blah blah, evil empire, blah blah.......Obama sucks.

It's almost Christmas and I have no intention of transcribing the entire seven minutes of this thing.

However the sycophants over at Breitbart were forced to transcribe a portion of her holiday babble so I will simply link to them and share some of it here for the mocking. (And don't forget every time you visit Breitbart.com an angel has its wings torn off. So think before you click.)

Let us begin: 

“I am so ashamed with what the Obama administration has done to Cuban people. I do not support it,” Palin, speaking in front of a lit candle, says in a video that will be seen on The Sarah Palin Channel. (Aww Sarah Palin is ashamed of the President. Well then you KNOW he must be doing something right.)“This Christmas eve, I intend to light a candle and put it in my window to show my solidarity with every brave Cuban fighting for freedom and every political dissident languishing in Castro’s prisons. 

“I encourage you to do the same. Let’s join together in this. Let’s show them that the light of freedom shall never be extinguished.”

Yes lighting candles. Such an effective method for overthrowing a government. 

(Actually the idea comes from a Reagan documentary that Palin pimps during this warm over serving of word salad.)

Palin contrasted Reagan’s “moral clarity” (She confused "moral clarity" with "ignorance about diplomacy.") during the Cold War against the Soviet Union with Obama’s recent appeasement on Cuba. She mentioned that Reagan knew that the Soviet Union’s economic model was “a total failure” but did not collapse only because the Soviets were able to manipulate Americans into propping it up with grain deals and technology exchanges. She blamed “naive diplomats” and “Wall Street greed” for combining to “prop up the most repressive regime in human history” that “would have crumbled so much sooner under the weight of its own incompetence if it were not for” the policies of appeasement. 

Reagan, Palin notes, had the “moral clarity” to call the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and declare that his strategy for the Cold War was simply, “we win, they lose.” (Yes and if Mikhail Gorbachev had not taken the initiative and reached out to Reagan then nothing would have changed on his watch. Reagan's so-called toughness did nothing except slow down the process by which the cold war ended.)

Palin urged viewers to contrast Reagan’s moral clarity with Obama’s decision to “spit in the face of every human rights activist in Cuba.” (Well according to Palin, the President has stopped shoving things down throats and is now spitting in the face. Is that progress?) She said Obama’s decision to reverse U.S. policy toward Cuba “enriched their oppressors and sanctioned their abuse.” (She does realize that we currently trade with a number of countries which have terrible reputations for oppressing human rights, doesn't she?) She said that “greedy crony capitalists are propping up a failing Communist regime” in Cuba, and Obama just gave the “Castro regime the hard currency and the economic boost to remain in power forever.” 

Palin said it is “ludicrous” to think that Cubans will enjoy democracy and human rights because corporations can sell products there. 

“Ask human rights activists in China how that’s working for them,” Palin said, noting that the Cuban government will pocket 92% of wages of their workers to empower the apparatus that controls them. 

She ultimately accused Obama of giving “away all of our leverage to fight for human rights” (And boy hasn't that leverage been working out well so far.) and betraying “the people who are courageously putting their lives on the line fighting for freedom.” She even said Obama was “spitting in the face of every human rights activist on the globe” before asking Americans to light candles to support the Cuban freedom fighters that the Obama administration betrayed.

 Palin also uses the President's middle name during the video which I am assuming she still considers an insult.

You know for fun I would like to ask Palin on video to point to where Cuba is on a map. Fifty bucks says she couldn't find it in ten tries.

Okay so after working on this for a couple of days, the best Palin's ghostwriter could do was to steal some tape from a Reagan documentary, string a bunch of words together that almost make Palin sound like she once read a book, and change the attack against the President from accusing him of "shoving things down our throats" to "spitting in the face" of human rights advocates.

Color me unimpressed.

But even worse than the actual words that the ghostwriter had Palin vomit forth, is the image that Palin presents in the video of a poorly bewigged mental patient, with too much lip gloss, the glow of a teleprompter reflected in her man glasses, and a hideous fur collared suit with shoulder pads left over from the eighties.

I mean is anybody even trying to make her look professional these days?

I think I probably spent more time typing this up just now, and trust me I went through it as quickly as I possibly could, then her team spent putting that whole video together.

I have half a mind to start covering Ted Cruz instead of wasting my time on Palin. I mean at least Cruz comes up with new crazy all the time instead of regurgitating the same old partially digested talking points over and over again.

You know I think it might be about time to have a glass of the Gryphen family's famous eggnog.

It's made from a recipe that my father came up with;  Six ounces of rum with three tablespoons of nog added to give it that holiday flavor. 

It doesn't really taste that good but typically I pass out part way through my second glass. So who really cares?


So according to the Republicans the difference between the best American President in history and the worst is..uh..is..uh..


Yep, that's confusing alright.

What is even more confusing is how the conservatives can deify a President who could not even get nominated in this new uber Right Wing Republican party.


Wonkette once again dips their little piggies into the Sarah Palin Channel cesspool, and discovers Palin giving a book report. Wait, what?


This courtesy of Wonkette: 

How did all this come up? Because one of Palin’s subscribers asked if she’d read Chambers’ 1952 best-seller Witness as an example of how all that has happened before will happen again, only this time it’s Barack Obama who’s the godless communist infiltrator, and this time, he’s also a Muslim! DUH, Palin has read the book, it was one of Reagan’s faves, and of course her favorite part involves Jeebus. 

"It’s the part where [Chambers] describes the critical moment when he began his break with communism, when he saw the light. It was the moment when he first realized that God exists. Ah this is, this is awesome and inspiring to me, how it happened. It happened while he was doing something every parent here has done — he was watching his baby daughter sitting in her high chair eating her breakfast. And as he looked at her intricate and perfect little ears, he suddenly realized that those ears could not have been created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature, which was what the communists believed. No, he knew they had to have been created by an immense design, and that design presupposes God!"

Is anybody else having a weird out of body experience while listening to Palin blabber on about God and ear design?

Especially considering the mystery surrounding the ears of a certain child whose auditory receivers seem to change shape as often as Sarah Palin's bustline:

There is a saying that criminals often return to the scene of the crime, but it is also true that liars often revisit their fabrications, just to see how well they have stood up over time.

As we know Palin is constantly bringing up Trig's crazy birth story, almost begging people to call her out on it. And now it seems that there are other deceptions that she is equally proud to remind people about.

By the way as Wonkette points out there is quite a lot of evidence within the fossil record to explain the evolution of the mammalian ear.  None of which I would assume would make any sense to a person of Sarah Palin's intellectual limitations.

Though it is interesting that Palin so readily dismisses the evolution of the ear, when there is ample evidence that Trig's ear continued to evolve even after his birth. (Eventually of course returning to its original form.)

Speaking of limitations, does anybody really believe she actually read that book?

Cause I don't.


If we impeach Presidents for using executive privilege to alter immigration laws, then how did these avoid a similar fate?


Courtesy of Pensito Review: 

Pres. Dwight Eisenhower: 

1956 

By executive order, circumvented immigration quotas to allow 900 orphans to join their adoptive families in the U.S. 

1956-1958 

By executive order, allowed 31,000 Hungarian anti-Soviet insurgents to emigrate. 

1959-72 

By executive order, allowed 600,000 Cubans fleeing Castro to emigrate. 

Pres. Gerald Ford: 

1975 

By executive order, allowed 360,000 refugees, mostly from from Vietnam, to emigrate. 

1976 

By executive order, allowed 14,000 Lebanese nationals to emigrate. 

Pres. Ronald Reagan: 

1981 

By executive order, allowed 7,000 Polish anti-Communists to emigrate. 

1982 

Allowed 15,000-plus Ethiopians to emigrate. 

1987 

By executive order, rescinded deportation of 200,000 Nicaraguans. 

1987 

By executive order, deferred deportation of undocumented children of 100,000 families. 

George H.W. Bush: 

1989 

By executive order, deferred deportations of Chinese students. 

1989 

By executive order, reversed visa denials of 7,000 Soviets, Indochinese. 

1990 

By executive order, deferred deporations of previously amnestied citizens’ 1.5 million spouses and children. 

1991 

By executive order, deferred deportation of 2,000 Gulf War evacuees. 

1992 

By executive order, deferred deportations of 190,000 El Salvadorans. 

George W. Bush: 

2002 

By executive order, expedited naturalization for green-card holders who joined military. 

2005 

By executive order, deferred deportation of students affected by Hurricane Katrina. 

2006 

By executive order, enabled 1,500 Cuban physicians to seek asylum at US embassies. 

2007 

By executive order, deferred deportation of 3,600 Liberians.

Strange but I remember hearing nothing about impeachment, or the threat of impeachment, concerning any of these "amnesties." 

Is it just the fact that they are Republicans that protects from conservative anger at their "shredding of the Constitution?"  Or is there another differnce that I just can't quite put my finger on right now that sets President Barack Obama apart from his predecessors?


President Obama. Sometimes it is just the small things that signify his courage.


Courtesy of Slate:  

Barack Obama displayed inspiring leadership on Friday. He also promoted public health, fought bigotry, and helped calm raging paranoia. His heroic act? He hugged somebody. 

Nina Pham, the first person to be infected with Ebola within the United States, had just been declared disease-free and discharged from the National Institutes of Health. Obama is a rational, science-friendly guy, so he knew she wasn’t any danger to him. It didn’t take courage to hug her. 

And yet, another modern president failed a similar test. Facing the greatest public health crisis of his administration, Ronald Reagan was not heroic. He was a dithering coward. 

The hateful, homophobic, racist response to the AIDS crisis is one of the most shameful episodes in recent American history. Within a few years after the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, scientists knew the disease was transmitted primarily by sex, blood transfusions, and shared needles.

The article goes on to revisit the fear mongering and hatred displayed by the conservatives, while others worked diligently to provide accurate information to help put American minds at ease.

Sadly when the country needed a strong leader there were none to be found.  

But Ronald Reagan? He didn’t do a goddamn thing. He was president when the first cases were reported. He was president when Congress, the National Academies of Science, and anybody with a sick loved one or a conscience called for the federal government to do more to fight the medical and social crisis. 

Reagan could have spoken out against panic and called for compassion; the man knew how to give a powerful speech. He could have hugged an AIDS patient, or at least shaken hands. He knew (or should have known) that wouldn’t have been dangerous—just as well as Obama knew hugging a recovered Ebola patient wasn’t dangerous. It would have made a difference.

I love pointing out all of the ways that Barack Obama is a better President than Ronald Reagan. Partly because it drives conservatives crazy, but mostly simply because it's true.

Thankfully we have a leader like Barack Obama in these troubled times and not a "B" actor playing the role of a leader like we did back in the 80's.


 

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