By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Sarah Palin says she's waiting for a sign from God on whether she should run for president in 2012. Dear God, please tell her to do it.
After all, Palin's run for the vice presidency on the ticket with John McCain was an extremely entertaining albeit scary ride for the entire nation.
She became a national celebrity in late August, then spawned thousands of articles, Saturday Night Live skits and, yes, plenty of outrage at her lack of qualifications for the actual job of vice president.
Now that Palin has returned to Alaska as a defeated candidate, however, she apparently believes what she's hearing from large numbers of GOP conservatives -- that she could be a candidate for the presidency in four years.
She said in an interview broadcast Monday:
"I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. And if there is an open door in (2012) or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door."
I'm not sure whether God will listen to Palin's request. But if He has a sense of humor, God will open that door for Palin, and America will have another riveting presidential campaign in 2012.
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Palin is Still Faliin!
Palin just wants to keep her name in the news. She is interested only in herself, not our country. She is uneducated, inexperienced, unread, untrustworthy and worse. Only about half of her home state voted for her and McPain. Over 200,000 joined WASP...Women Against Sarah Palin. Our friends in England, Germany, and Sri lanka emailed us asking why she was allowed to be even considered for gevernmental posts! The world laughs at her and us! NO MORE FAILIN. I've lived in Alaska and if she was interested in fact instead of fame she'd see the glaciers ARE retreating. Get on with important issues for our country, let the little cry baby go back to obscurity.
Palin
I'm Australian and like much of the world became entralled in the election. Having researched the candidates I CANNOT understand why anyone would support Palin. Besides being ablt to spit out age old GOP rhetoric the woman is vacuous, harpy and embarassingly ignorant. She has a verifiable history of machiavellian behaviour and offers nothing but the brain dead mind set of the christian right. Her answers to interview questions show that she is intellectually clearly out of her depth. She is an insult to independent thinking women everywhere.
"Fame is fleeting"
The world changes at wharp speed and Governor Palin will become just a footnote to history as the next four years rolls by. Rudy and Hillary are proof positive that the past is not a prelude to the future. Some unknown figure will come out of the shadows and, if the economy is still in the doldrums, become the next president. I doubt , however, that it will be any of the present cast of characters.
Proud. Very proud.
I have no doubt that the publisher and the owners of the Kansas City Star are proud of efforts of their editorial board columnist to get additional traffic and thus ad dollars from this site. Job security being what it is.
Joe McGuff, God rest his soul, is more than likely disgusted and relieved he is no longer alive to see what has happened to this paper.
Yael T. Abouhalkah's column and Sarah Palin
If you dislike Sarah Palin and enjoy making fun of her, then Yael T. Abouhalkah's column (and many of the reader comments) is definitely the place for you. Has this guy ever written anything positive about Sarah Palin?
"And you're a dumbass too"
If you decide to call me on my incessant typos. Nice try.
"Sarah Palin is a dumbass."
I can say that with a high degree of confidence, accuracy and conviuction.
Sarah Has Breached The Confines Of Her Handlers
Ms. Palin has bolted, running free of her oppressive managers.
Republican supporters are saying that she has time to learn about the constitution and international affairs before the next election…. Are you kidding? She is not hoping to be the Prom Queen. If that is all the Republican party has to offer..
A snappy speaker and a pretty face...
Good Luck.
I have a request to the people that are interviewing her… Please
JUST LET HER TALK. Talk Talk Talk.
Give her enough rope…
and some people
might think "Joe the Plumber" is a good choice. I'll feel free to ridicule such silliness.
Thank God we've actually got a smart person headed for the White House again.
Good grief, will all you
Good grief, will all you people grow up! When will the people of this country learn to respect the other persons point of view?
Some people believe Sarah Palin was a good choice, I am one of them. Just because you don't agree, the insults and bemeaning attitude is ridiculous.
Maybe, you're right.
Let's rewind all of your conversations for the last 2 years for our first lesson in humanitarian respect.
Sarah hears voices all right but the voice she loves to hear...
the most is her own and she loves what she sees in the mirror when she looks into it. The Sarah Palins of the world are a pain in my butt and there is no way that I want to see this women again on the campaign trail or anywhere else but it doesn't sound like I will be so lucky when you see how she is already on the trail for her next sideshow. The saddest part is that there are people here in U.S. who would vote for this 5 cent politician.
Tax cheat
So far what I've learned about Sarah Palin is that she hears voices and cheats on her taxes. The gift tax on $200,000 worth of clothes (that's the new figure) for herself and her family, the travel expenses that she deducted for her kids and not claimed as income on her Federal Return (not allowed by the IRS, no matter what Alaska says), and it appears that there is some malfeasance surrounding the property that she and Todd own in Alaska...these three issues should put her in the same league as Joe the Plumber - delinquent. Just like ordinary Americans, huh Sarah?
You Liberals Ever Get Bored???
My God, you people are like you are in an echo chamber with Sarah Palin... You must be scared too death of her is all I can figure....
Enjoy your two years in power and give it a rest...
Burton Mack a Southern Baptist Author?
Burton Mack is about as Southern Baptist as Barack Obama. Please, what did he ever do to you, Ottothewise, that you would impugn his intellect so?
Sarah is qualified
cmsix
Those who think she isn't qualified to be VPOTUS are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game. Do you think she's really any less qualified than Dan "potatoe" Quayle? And what about Penis Cheney - at least when Sarah goes hunting she shoots the game instead of her hunting partners.
Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president because it's a job for know-nothings and if there ever was a know-nothing Sarah Palin certainly is one.
The problem is she isn't qualified to be President. She could do Joe the plagiarist's job of vice president just fine. She doesn't need to know whether Africa is a country or a continent either. If they send her there for something they'll buy her a ticket from someone who does know the difference. Heck, VPOTUS was the perfect do nothing job for Sarah. Now she's running around loose and someone somewhere will be dumb enough to put her somewhere she might do some real damage.
cmsix
"Waiting for a sign from God"
It doesn't appear that Palin ever used the phrase "waiting for a sign from God" or even "sign from God" in her Fox interview, nor does it appear to me that such is an even remotely fair characterization of the words she did use. Instead, it appears that the attribution of this phrase to Palin is largely a creation today of the liberal blogosphere, as best as I can tell from a few Internet searches. I am no Palin fan. I am not a conservative nor a republican, not to mention that Palin (same as Obama) had no business being on a national ticket due to her lack of credible experience. But I digress: Your column is symptomatic of the sort of thing that simply enrages many of us Independents with respect to the media and the two political parties that control our country -- the exaggerations, distortions and downright disingenuous characteritzations of other persons' words and records. We watch political ads from these two parties that insult our intelligence 99% of the time and just reinforce why we cannot trust these two parties or their candidates. We watch a biased, slanted and likewise dishonest media (mostly to the left, but with a significant remainder slanted to the right), which only reinforces why we cannot trust the media. You're a part of the problem, Mr. Abouhalkah. There are plenty of things that can be said critical about Palin, so why do you need to resort to twisting words into something they are not? Any credibility you might ever have with me is now gone. Tell me, was it worth it?
Your Rant is Hilarious!
Gee MU_Dylan, now you're the one with egg on your face. Any credibility you might ever had with any of us is now gone. Tell us, was your little rant worth it?
Here it is straight from Fox
Yep, she did say it. This Real Republican is not fooled by Grandma Sarah.
"Your life is an open book and you open yourself up to criticism and you'd better be ready to take that criticism," Palin said. "In other words, don't run for office if you can't handle it."
Palin, who could seek re-election in 2010 or potentially run for president in four years, said she will rely on faith.
"Putting my life in my creator's hands -- this is what I always do," she said. "I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door ... And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/10/sarah-palin-defends-criticism-post-election-interview/
Evolution
Sarah "Joe-sephine" Palin is the perfect Republican presidential candidate for 2012. She's walking proof that the Holy Roller core of the GOP is right to question the wisdom of secular science. After all, can any one look at Palin and still contend that evolution is a reality?
Grandma Sarah - The Female Ed Flanders
Nothing at all wrong with being Christian. In fact, I am a Christian.
The problems come in when mixing religion with politics. A believer understands Jesus' statement, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
Mixing her religion with politics is only a half step away from the Taliban and America should not tolerate it!
This Republican will be fighting to kick Tax and Spend Grandma Sarah out of the GOP. Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney will be much better leaders for moderate, fiscal conservatism.
We don't need "Pinky", we already voted against "The Brain" and allowed Obama to win. NARF!
Wow.
And I'm like, 'Dear God, please let that open door hit Sarah on the arse on the way out.'
Good heavens...
I don't know if I can stand another campaign with Sarah in it. Looking back it's pretty funny NOW..... God does indeed have a wicked sense of humor!! Just keepin' us on our toes. You betchya!
Mr Abouhalkah I can see
Mr Abouhalkah
I can see where you think Palin and God are funny since you do not have a god of your on
Heathens will suffer the wrath
Palin's candidacy not a blessing for freedom
The invitation to the Divine Person to call Palin to the 2012 is not as happy a thought as the author hopes.
1. Only 61% of USA adults voted.
2. That means 39% did not vote, and those people could elect anyone, Palin included.
Its about registration and turnout. I assure you all, having Palin as a candidate with two years to strum up registered Christians is not a prospect I look forward to. The Taliban and the Christian fundamentalists share many traits. I dont want our national discourse to be about the Bible or whether to go to war with Russia over issues that are glossed over with religion. The Georgians are Christians and they attacked ethnic Iranians in South Ossetia. Georgia fired the first shots. She SAID she is ready to lead the USA to war over that sectarian mess.
Let's hope that she is a loser in the early primaries, because, you can rest assured, she is going to be a candidate.
Read www.pocm.info for a feel for what that election will be about. Its not a pretty sight. Think Snopes trial writ large.
If you talk to God you are
If you talk to God you are spiritual. If God talks to you, you are delusional.
I just love the way Christian fundamentalists complain about Muslim fundamentalists. I also love that an irrational belief system like Christianity can counter logic, reason and intelligence.
Thank you Sarah Palin for accepting the VP slot under McCain and helping insure an Obama presidency.
logic and reason will not prevail
the ENTIRE premise of Christianity is that the Christ is one whose death buys us eternal life. it was a story told about Alexander the Great, that he could walk on water and that his death Saved us all.
Also that Christ story was associated with Appolonius of Rome.
And if you read a Southern Baptist author Burton Mack, his book
The lost Gospel, the book of Q, shows that the Christ stories associated with Jesus were not in the first editions of the New Testament, which archeology has INCONVENIENTLY turned up, after Constantine tried to have the older, real versions ALL BURNED.
No facts are sufficient to deter faith based operatives. Faith based operatives have been programmed since they were sing-songing about Salvation at their mother's knee. NO FACTS MATTER.
So dont say, BRING ON THE Southerners and Plain states. The uninformed all vote, same as we do. And no appeal to logic has anything to do with it. WWW.POCM.INFO
pffff
To: otto thewise <----(wow thats funny)
Oh No!! some website said something, quick everyone renounce their faith!
book said something too
Read THE LOST GOSPEL, THE BOOK OF Q.
You might like it. Q is the original un-retouched WORD of Jesus, as kept by the Samarian Jews. Many of its quotes made it into the N.T. we use.
You can also read the evil that the illusionists who passed on the fake book did.
PS. The website didnt invent that information. It is a collection of information. CONSIDER IT.
My high school history teacher taught us about Alexander the Great being called the Christ prior to Jesus
before there were personal computers.
SOME people actually can read and learn.
Dear God-while you're at it.
Like, please, lead Sarah to a good book on English usage.
Palin Won't Be A Factor
Palin (SarahSixPack.com) may be the GOP's standard bearer in 2012,but Obama (ObamaAgain2012.com) is a shoo-in for re-election, as he will effectively use the power of his incumbency to win a second term. Palin’s star power won’t survive into 2012. Many brighter (!) GOP stars will emerge during the next 8 years.
Does Yael know how to start
Does Yael know how to start a thread or what? Sarah Palin is good for business. The very mention of her name lights up the web page. And for those of you who are getting all snarky about the Star's circilation? You're looking at the future. Every web hit is Cha-Ching! So you're helping generate income anyway - and working on your anger management skills. Win-win
So true.
Seems like Yael thought it was good for a giggle to make fun of Sarah Palin's belief in God. Not surprising really since this is the kind of stuff that keeps him employed. Maybe if things get really bad at the Star he can take this stuff and land a gig at a big boy blog.
Meanwhile the left continues to battle the religious right for the hate and intolerance mantle. Love the "new" politics.
And if this is the future, well, I guess as I've said along.....the death of journalism is complete.
Sign from God.
Constitution no other writings. If Sarah Palin is true to her belief, then she is really ignoring her God's answer to her prayers "No, stay in Alaska!", Sarah doesn't realize that "hell hasn't frozen over". Those GOP conservatives are really devilishly questioning and second guessing their God's wisdom and directions. They have a preemptive answer. Of course, they could follow and live under the Constitution.
God told me to... squawk...
God told me to... squawk... God told me too... squawk... Christians are destructive morons.
gerald clough
http://www.savagerun.com
Another of Gods sheep speaks
There is no God.... baaahhh There is no God.... baaahhh
How can you be sure your not the moron?
P.S. your website is terrible, please drag it out of the 90's
Dear Sarah Palin, This is GOD....
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah...What do I have to do to get you to stay home & raise your family. First I send you a special child, one that needs your extra attention & love, then I bring together your daughter & her boyfriend & allow them to consumate their love. I thought these two signs would have been enough to let you know that I wanted you at home to do my will. Finally I had you lose the election. (Sorry Mr. McCain, you were justa pawn in my grand scheme) I don't know what other signs you need from me. Please don't make me resort to nasty plagues.
Your friend & creator,
ME
the comeuppance
Our hope for riddance of Palin will be if she runs for office in Alaska and loses there.
NO, my child...
1. Your formatting is the work of Satan and I damn this website for being wacked out.
2. No, Sarah Palin, I do not want you to be President. I want you to be a cleaning lady at the Super 8 off of I-35 in Deluth.
This is God's plan.
Dear God
2. No, Sarah Palin, I do not want you to be President. I want you to be a cleaning lady at the Super 8 off of I-35 in Deluth.
This is God's plan.
I always knew you had a sense of humor
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
Finger on the pulse of America's heartland
Obviously Mr. Abouhalkah has his finger directly on the pulse of America's heartland. So, how is the Star doing lately?
Oh, right.
I'm a female republican, and
I'm a female republican, and yet this woman scares me. It was embarrassing to watch her attempt to charm people with her 'down home' euphemisms, when all she really did was display her lack of curiosity, shallow pool of knowledge and poor temperament.
Yes, it would be funny to have her for a political punching bag in the next election, but we can do better.
Bless her heart...
I LOVE that she takes the GOP conservatives seriously. I can only assume they are joking. They are joking... right?
If they are indeed serious, then by all means have her run in 2012. Tina Fey could use another season of guest appearances on SNL (someone hand that woman an Emmy!), and Lord knows we could all use the laughs.
Oh, what a fun time to be interested in politics! You betcha!
Yael
How's the paper's circulation?
Has anyone ever noticed...
That liberals always seem to manage to stoop to a new low, no matter what the circumstances? I guess I shouldn't be suprised. Liberals are bad losers and seem to be very bad winners too. For some reason they just can't seem to keep from being nasty no matter what. Too bad this Christian hating bigot isn't one of the commentators the Star fired this week.
God and Sarah Palin
She said in an interview broadcast Monday: "I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door."
I'm like, if she wants to, I mean, you know, God wouldn't ask her to run if He didn't - besides, all that stuff about the $150,000 wardrobe and Africa's a country, who cares, because, so why shouldn't she?
lame
That was a rather lame read. Guess I will go clean the catbox for entertainment.