Maria Shriver on Palin: "You can be a lame duck...or inspirational, empowering''

[Kadie]

Maria Shriver on Palin: "You can be a lame duck...or inspirational, empowering''

California First Lady Maria Shriver -- asked her reaction to Gov. Sarah Palin's suggestion that "lame duck" governors "milk it" and don't serve their states -- said it's all a matter of choice.
"I don't look at the term 'lame duck,'' Shriver told the Chronicle today in response to Palin's explanation for her resignation as the Alaska governor, which will be effective later this month. "You are governor, you are Senator, you are president, and you make what you want of that.''

"You can be a lame duck..the entire time -- or you can be inspirational, empowering, focused,'' Shriver said.

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Shriver, asked what she thought about Palin's resignation, was measured. "I've come to a place where I don't judge people's decisions,'' she said. "Everyone has their own road -- and for whatever reason, she made that decision. And however she wants to explain it, that's her decision: God bless.''

And Shriver said she was sympathetic to the pressures under which Palin finds herself.

"It's really hard to get up to public life as quickly as she's been asked to do -- and people don't have a clue what that's like,'' said Shriver, one of the Kennedy clan. "Had I not grown up the way I did...if I'd had to go through the (2003) recall...my head would still be on the floor,'' she said. "People have to find their own way.''

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[JuniperLea]

1. I wish she were my governor...

Rather than her husbandnator.

[goclark]

2. Why did she marry her husband?

She is so wonderful.

:shrug:

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Palin's reasons were wrong but she was right about the outcome..

Having her in office is a huge waste of taxpayer's money