{"id":3313,"date":"2009-12-04T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2009-12-04T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:31:40","slug":"after-this-im-going-to-need-a-moral-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"After This, I&#8217;m Going to Need a Moral Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3315\" title=\"sarah_pout\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sarah_pout1.jpg\" alt=\"sarah_pout\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sarah_pout1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sarah_pout1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah shows her true colors again.\u00a0 From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1209\/Palin_Obama_birth_certificate_a_fair_question.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Smith at Politico<\/a> (posted yesterday, December 3rd):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/recorded\/2703332\" target=\"blank\">Speaking<\/a> to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?&#8221; she was asked [ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don&#8217;t have a problem with that. I don&#8217;t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers,&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Palin suggested that the questions were fair play because of &#8220;the weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn&#8217;t my real son \u2014 &#8216;You need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he&#8217;s your kid,&#8217; which we have done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So because someone questioned whether Trig was your child or your daughter&#8217;s, it&#8217;s okay for you to whip up the birthers?\u00a0 Even though you know damn well Obama was born in the USA?\u00a0 Even though you remember, as I do, that during the campaign Obama stood up for you and asked his supporters to lay off Trig&#8217;s maternity?<\/p>\n<p>I see the way your mind works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> You&#8217;ve been wronged<\/li>\n<li> You must get even with those who wronged you<\/li>\n<li> Failing that, it&#8217;s okay to lash out at random targets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s shorten that up, Sarah.\u00a0 Two wrongs make a right.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re saying.<\/p>\n<p>Good Christian thinking, there.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t worry so much about this if it were just you, but your supporters love the way you think.\u00a0 They, like you, believe in getting even.\u00a0 They, like you, believe two wrongs make a right.\u00a0 They, like you, have the moral maturity of five-year-olds.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s a bunch of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>God help us all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/12\/4\/1254\/89949\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (posted today, Dec 4th):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just 15 minutes ago, Sarah Palin issued a press statement \u2014 er Facebook post (same thing) \u2014 backtracking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stupid Conspiracies<\/p>\n<p>Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I\u2019ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask&#8230; which they have repeatedly. But at no point \u2013 not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews \u2013 have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t sound like much of a backtrack to me.\u00a0 Actually it sounds like more of the same.\u00a0 Sarah is not one to change her mind.\u00a0 Sarah is really pissed about that Trig stuff.\u00a0 And Sarah is still all about getting even.<\/p>\n<p>Or is getting even all that Sarah&#8217;s about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah shows her true colors again.\u00a0 From Ben Smith at Politico (posted yesterday, December 3rd): Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate. &#8220;Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?&#8221; she was asked [ . . . ] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}