The Legend of Sarah Palin

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502471.html

Running on a Lie
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By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, September 16, 2008; Page A21


What kind of person tells a self-aggrandizing lie, gets called on it, admits publicly that the truth is not at all what she originally claimed -- and then goes out and starts telling the original lie again without changing a word?

Sarah Palin is beginning to seem like quite an unusual woman, and I'm not talking about her love of guns and "snow machines," her faith, her family or any of the presumably non-elite attributes that we in the "elite media" are accused of savaging. Wrongly accused, I should add; reporters are doing nothing more sinister than trying to find out who she is, how she thinks and what she has done in office.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. "What kind of person ... ?" A sociopath, that's what kind of person!

[lamp_shade]

2. She did the "thanks but no thanks" thing again yesterday, but

I sensed some discomfort in her voice. She didn't say it loudly. She kind of said it in passing.

[San_Antonio_Guy]

3. Sincerity must show..

Sarah Palin may have been a political figure but not a very good political speaker, She needs to show sincerity with her words.

[lamp_shade]

4. It was as if she'd been TOLD to say it, and said it reluctantly. n/t