Player Hatin' Palin Is Back At It With Her Attacks On Michelle Obama

There has been no shortage of talk about quitter former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ridiculous and misguided comments attacking first lady Michelle Obama who is leading a national campaign to combat obesity among young people.

You will hear a lot of people say a lot of things about what Palin is doing, but before I get to that lets get to some of what she had to say via Roland Martin on CNN who cited Huffington Post:

"Take her anti-obesity thing that she is on. She is on this kick, right. What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat.

"And I know I'm going to be again criticized for bringing this up, but instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions and then our country gets back on the right track."

I really think this comes down to one thing: the blind-rage hatred that people like Palin and others on the right have for the Obamas.

This is a reckless and ignorant attack on Palin's part. Part of it is she is selling a book, but another part of it shows how pathetic it is that people would actually vote for her to be president of the United States.

Palin is driven by blind-rage hatred of anything that does not fit her world view and right-wing self righteousness.

A VERY large number of these extremist right wingers, tea baggers, birthers, truthers, etc. flat out hate President Obama and have ever since summer of 2008 when he emerged as the front runner to represent the Democrats in the presidential election.

CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/24/martin.michelle.obama.palin/index.html?hpt=T2

Did Bush and Cheney Punk Out On Handling the GM Mess?

Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney (who personally is on the Save-My-Legacy tour) had an opportunity to deal with the crisis General Motors is now in, but may not have had the guts to do what needed to be done.

The Dick Cheney Save-My-Legacy tour scheduled a recent stop with Fox News to go On The Recordwith increasingly conservative host Greta Van Susteren.

CHENEY: Well, I thought that, eventually, the right outcome was going to be bankruptcy. … And the president decided that he did not want to be the one who pulled the plug just before he left office.

VAN SUSTEREN: Why?

CHENEY: Well, I think he felt, you know, these are big issues and he wouldn’t be there through the process of managing it, but in effect, would have sort of pulled the plug on GM and that was one of the first crises the new administration would have to deal with. So he put together a package that tided GM over until the new administration had a chance to look at it, decide what they wanted to do.

VAN SUSTEREN: But it’s cost us billions to get — I mean, you know —

CHENEY: It has. … And now the government owns a big chunk of General Motors. That bothers me. I don’t like having government own those kinds of major financial enterprises. I think it’s — it does damage to our long-term economic prospects when we get government involved in making those kinds of decisions.

In other words: Bush-Cheney punked out to avoid another stain on its already-tarnished legacy.

Said former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum:

SANTORUM: President Bush blew it. You know, he went out and convinced the Congress to give him a bunch of money to save the financial sector and then decided to take a little piece of that and give it to General Motors and Chrysler. Why? He punted. He basically said, I don’t want this failure to be on my watch. I want to let Obama deal with it.And we all knew at the time that letting Obama deal with it means the government’s going to come in and run the show, and that’s exactly what’s happened.

What is even more sad is how Cheney wanted nothing to do with solving the problem with GM and the auto industry in genera. Then he says, “And now the government owns a big chunk of General Motors. That bothers me.”

It doesn’t bother you nearly as much as things you and your administration were responsible for during the prior eight years. Perhaps if Cheney and Bush had the guts to deal with these issues earlier then we would not be in the mess we’re in right now.

It’s easy to criticize someone else for missing the last big shot. But, it’s shameful to do so when you passed the ball because you were too much of a coward to actually take it.

Check out the entire Think Progress story. It’s some compelling stuff.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/03/cheney-bush-gm/