Sarah Palin prays for audience with Obama, favors the stimulus package
How many conservative bloggers noted this?
From Fox News "Palin Comes to Washington in Hopes of Talk with Obama":
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she will attend an exclusive club dinner in Washington this weekend because it could offer her an audience with President Obama.
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Palin said she is participating in events -- like Saturday's Alfalfa Club dinner in the nation's capital -- to promote Alaska's interests as its governor. Obama is expected to also attend the elite gathering of Washington's political and media establishment.
"How often will I get an opportunity to have dinner with the president? I will take up that offer to do so," Palin said.
So after attacking Obama's patriotism for months because he, in your words Governor, "palls around with terrorists," now you want to pall around with him. Under your own guilt-by-association scheme, doesn't that make you as bad as claimed Obama was in the campaign?
Now, the prospect of her having an audidence with Obama are slim. They're attending the same dinner, but it's not like she's going to be seated anywhere near the President. However, if he does meet with her, I hope he tells her to go pound sand.
A dinner Friday night at the home of financier Fred Malek also will give her a chance to lobby congressional leaders, like Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., about Alaska issues regarding the federal stimulus package, she said.
The package calls for quick starts on construction projects, but Palin said Alaska will likely require an exemption to the strict timelines proposed because of the climate and shorter construction season.
Again, Sarah Palin was against the "Bridge to Nowhere," right? Yet at the first chance she gets, she's on a flight to Washington to beg Democrats for federal money for infrastructure. I wonder how many conservatives are catching that Palin is implicitly supporting the stimulus plan. I mean, if she's going to be the de facto leader of the party by 2012, shouldn't she have some comment on one of the most talked about legislation currently being debated other than to say, "What's my cut?"
Sarah Palin... wants to buddy up with Obama and gete his stimulus package signed into law to improve her State's economy. And not one of the fauning conservative bloggers around here are willing to publicly admit it.
I've never said Palin should go away. I think she's a big reason Obama is President. I'm not willing to dismiss what she did as "Campaign Rhetoric" because many of her supporters still think Obama is a terrorist-loving socialist.
She's never expressed any regret or apology for her overcharged partisan rhetoric of the campaign, nor the continued damage it has caused. And to excuse the line she crossed as nothing more than campaign rhetoric is nonsense. Her stump speeches crossed the line of what has traditionally been acceptable campaign rhetoric and she crossed it repeatedly and all-too-willingly.
Also, regardless of whether others want Palin to go away or not, she isn't. She's worth talking about. If you don't like that, or don't like how she's not given a pass, too bad.