Sarah Palin, in Iowa, attacks President Obama and ‘crony capitalism’

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Sarah Palin delivered a populist broadside here Saturday against President Obama, professional politicians of all stripes and what she called the “crony capitalism” that she said is destroying the country. But she offered no fresh clues about to whether she will seek the presidency in 2012.

The former Alaska governor used a tea party rally to chastise the president and a “permanent political class” that she said has protected their powers and enriched themselves, their friends and their contributors at the expense of ordinary Americans and the country’s well being.

“There is a name for this,” Palin said. “It’s called corporate crony capitalism. It’s not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. No, this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts…and influence peddling and corporate welfare.”

Palin has said she will announce by the end of this month whether she will join the race for the White House in 2012. On Friday night, she told reporters “there’s room for more” candidates in the GOP field and when she arrived to greet supporters at a local restaurant, she was greeted with chants of “Run, Sarah, run.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sarah-palin-in-iowa-rails-on-president-obama-and-crony-capitalism/2011/09/03/gIQALlrizJ_singlePage.html

[bemildred]

1. Hmmm ...

:popcorn:

[ixion]

2. the only "broadside" Palin "delivers" is her enormous ass

and she wouldn't know a free market if it bit her there.

[Andy823]

3. The whole thing was pathetic!

Very few people, and there were some chanting for her to run at the first, but it seemed like they weren't so energetic after listening to her for a short time, and at the end only a few chanting for her to run!

I heard that fox news didn't even run the event today. 71% of republican polled don't want her to run. I mean how pathetic does it have to get before she admits she won't be running? Could it be a last desperate attempt to make a few bucks?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. They were telling her to run all right...

run away.

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[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Please join the circus Sarah! As much as I despise her, I think

it would be a good thing if she runs.

[applegrove]

31. I agree. The more nutbombs on the slate the better. Though I do think Palin is getting

better advice here. She actually sounds coherent.

[onethatcares]

5. exackery who did build her house in Wasilla?

was it a crony or something else.

[BNJMN]

6. Pot, meet kettle. (nt)

[madrchsod]

7. oh no! sarah learned a new term--"corporate crony capitalism"...

does she know the meaning? does she realize the left has be saying this for years?

[ixion]

24. does she realize she's one of them?

doubtful.

[onehandle]

8. STFU and go look for the next idiot to stuff cash in your garter.

We know what you do in the 'Champagne Room.'

[patrice]

10. You got that right. nt

[SnakeEyes]

19. sex based attacks have no place on DU

[patrice]

9. Completely predictable. Capitalism is fated to feed on itself & the Derivative Crash of '08 was just

the latest dinner bell.

So, the question is which capitalists are "ours" and which are the Quitter's.

[otohara]

11. Not A Day Goes By

something ugly is said about this president.
make that fugly

[Bigmack]

13. First thing that fasshole...

(new word I just coined... female asshole) and I have agreed on.

Corporate crony capitalism. Has a ring to it.

A former student - teabag type - used that term on me and I led him around the ring and over to the Socialist corner with it.

He was nodding his head and saying the big corporations are getting bailed out and tax breaks and outsourcing jobs... etc.

He was stunned when I informed him that the left has been saying this for years.

[patrice]

17. That's the way to do it, the Socratic method. nt

[SpiralHawk]

21. Sarah Pale Horse (R) certainly articulated all the Socialist points in her speech

RepubliBaggers are clearly supporters of Republi-Socialism.

[Shining Jack]

14. Palin?

She didn't get the memo or what? Her 15 minutes are over. Get lost.

[ck4829]

15. Sounds like someone's not getting Koch money this time around

[oldhippydude]

16. that was my thought too..

the whole right wing is financed by "crony capitalists" all those think tanks to the john birch society wouldn't exist without cash from corporations..

[saras]

18. If you shoot into a crowd for long enough, you're bound to hit a criminal eventually...

The "capitalism" part she got right. Everything else - she farts in her own general direction.

[cstanleytech]

20. I wonder, has sarah been checked out recently for a brain tumor?

It would explain alot if thats what she has.

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. Note that she also attacked Republican candidates

"To be fair some GOP candidates, they also raise mammoth amounts of cash and we need to ask them too, ‘What if anything do their donors expect in return for their investments?’" Palin said during the Tea Party of America's "Restoring America" event. "We need to know this because our country can’t afford more trillion-dollar thank-you notes to campaign backers."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/03/7591372-palin-in-iowa-warns-tea-party-of-crony-capitalism-by-both-parties


I don't know if she's trying to appear above partisanship or if she's reinforcing her "Tea Party" (as opposed to Republican) branding.

[Imajika]

23. Poor Palin...

2000 people drove from all over the country to hear her say......effectively nothing. Her 15 minutes have long ago expired and the only way she can keep the charade going is by teasing an announcement for President. The minute she finally grudgingly concedes she is not running, the press will no longer care about her and she'll lose her spotlight. Oh, it's not that she doesn't want to run, she does - she just knows she'd spend whatever political capital she has left and lose badly to Perry or Romney, and then be virtually irrelevant from that moment on.

[jaysunb]

25. Mercy Me ! I actually agree w/ Palin.....

Casting herself as the ultimate outsider, the former Alaska governor used a tea party rally to chastise the president and a “permanent political class” that she said has protected their powers and enriched themselves, their friends and their contributors at the expense of ordinary Americans and the country’s well-being.

.“There is a name for this,” Palin said. “It’s called corporate crony capitalism. It’s not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. No, this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts . . . and influence peddling and corporate welfare.”

I don't know who's writing her speeches these days but, I'll be damned if she didn't this one right. Unfortunately, her and her sheep are not the ones to solve the problem, especially since they (Republicans) are the culprits for the most part. :evilfrown:

[AlbertCat]

46. It’s not the capitalism of free men and free markets,

IOW.... more deregulation!!!

Part one of her sentences do not agree with part two of her sentences.... which she didn't write in the 1st place, and does not understand anyway.

[JJW]

26. Her books on sale for 30 cents

I saw this the other day at Borders going out of business sale. Her books were in the 99 cent bin and everything was marked down an additional 70%. Even with this, no one was buying her books.

[ScottLand]

27. Let me guess - if she gets in the race, she'll go right to the

top in the (Republican) polls. The fact that anyone on the right want to see her in the race should give you a good indication of how divided the Republicans are. They don't have anyone they like.

[southmost]

28. you mean, that assh*le still has diarrhea of the mouth?

eom

[unkachuck]

29. "No,

...this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts…and influence peddling and corporate welfare."

....sounds very good to me....her solutions will be diametrically opposed to ours but her populist theme hits a resonant note across the entire political spectrum....

....let the Dems touch Social Security and Medicare, palin and bachmann will then become strong defenders and champions of Social Security and Medicare, and we will have a fascist woman for president....

....does Obama care, I doubt it....he already has what he wanted, to be the first African American president....

[left on green only]

30. Run Run, Oh Please Run!

[SemperEadem]

32. aren't her financiers the koch brothers, who are corporate crony capitalists

their picture is in the dictionary next to the phrase.

this thing (spalin) is so pathetic... nothing is worse than someone who doesn't get it that the party is over and the hosts want
to go to bed already.

[JJW]

33. She should know crony capitalism

As Gov of Alaska, she handed $ 500 million to TransCanada to study building a pipeline to transport natural gas from the Alaskan North Slope to the continental US. The oil corporations that own the natural gas could easily have told her the project was a no go because the price of natural gas is not high enough.

[blkmusclmachine]

34. Pot calling the kettle black.

n/t

[Zambero]

45. Projection

Accusing your political rivals of the very thing you're guilty of is a longstanding practice, used for the purpose of "innoculating" oneself or one's political allies agaist being called out for particular misdeeds, policy blunders, or extremism. Glenn Beck's misuse of the term "fascists" or "Nazis" as applied to progressives is a case in point. He's fascist to the core, but most of his (shrinking number of) low info followers are not likely to make that association since they heard it first from him. Also, the right's labelling Obama a "reckless spender" is cover for what went on the previous administration -- leaving a huge tab for trillions in war debt, an unfunded presciption drug entitlement, and tax policy that cause a massive revenue shortfall.

[BeyondGeography]

35. Sounds like Larry Flynt warning about the perils of pornography

[Democat]

37. Sounds like she might actually be attacking Perry?

Maybe she's angry that he's getting all of the attention now?

[No Elephants]

38. Sarah who?

[mwb970]

39. Endless projection from right-wing extremists.

They serve their corporate masters while accusing us of serving our corporate masters. They suppress free speech while accusing us of suppressing free speech. They lie constantly while accusing us of lying constantly.

And on and on and on and on and on....

[JJW]

40. ex-Gov Sarah Palin who quit

was the recipient of the largest amount of pork, thanks to Sen Ted Steven. She became known nationally for the getting over two hundred million to build the bridge-to-nowhere. That never got build but she kept the funds. During her two short years as Gov, half of which was campaigning out of state, she received close to a billion dollars each year in pork.

Sen Ted Stevens was found guilty of federal corruption in court. Later his conviction was overturned by Obama's DOJ, based on what they claimed where legal technicalities.

[icnorth]

41. Before she can offer a "fresh clue" she has to have one. n/t

[BlueMTexpat]

42. Buh-buh-but, I thought Sarah was among those who said that Obama

is a "socialist."

Did the script just change? Or is "corporate crony capitalism" the Palin definition for socialism? :crazy:

Whatever ... it's certainly projection of the highest order because Sarah herself mastered "crony capitalism" during her time as an almost-half-term Gov of AK!

It's about the only thing that she did master. :evilgrin:

[high density]

43. So when does speech from Palin about "totaler krieg" come along?

She seems to be getting close.

[Zambero]

44. The Paris Hilton of politics

Irrelevant would be too kind a term.