Politico's article on Sarah Palin's "retirement" is one of the funniest things I've read all week...

[Bicoastal]

...even though most of the humor comes from her actual speech. Has she NO idea how ridiculous she sounds when she decides to speak off-the-cuff?

news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090727/pl_politico/25451

Plainly feeling liberated, Palin said that the freedom of the press was an important American right and one that members of the military died to protect.
“So, how about, in honor of the American soldier, quit making things up,” she said with an insistent voice, prompting loud applause and cheers from a mostly sympathetic audience gathered at a park here.

That's gotta be the lamest co-opting of a "Support the Troops" message for your own purposes I've ever heard. The press is unfair to you, so they hate the troops? What?

Some in this group, Palin said, “seem to just be hell-bent on maybe tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism and suggesting American apologetics.”As for the “starlets,” Palin seemed to be alluding to actress Ashley Judd, who targeted the former governor on behalf of an environmental group for supporting aerial wolf hunting.Warning of “anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from Hollywood,” Palin said advocacy groups “use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets.” She offered such individuals this message: “By the way, Hollywood needs to know: We eat therefore we hunt.”

Ok, everything in this paragraph is pure gold, classic Sarah. The first excerpt is pure gobbledygook, vintage Palin. The second--I'm mystified at her description of Hollywood celebrities as simultaneously being tiny and delicate and also very talented. What, are they ballerinas? Is this how they do sarcasm up in Alaska? And her final salvo, "we eat, therefore we hunt"--come on now, I've BEEN to Alaska. They have plenty of supermarkets up there, at least in the more populated areas.

“Some still are choosing not to hear why I’m charting a new course to advance this state,” she said, adding that “it should be so obvious to you. It’s because I love Alaska this much, sir, that I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical, politics as usual, lame duck session in one’s last year in office,” Palin explained, reprising some of the rationale she laid out in announcing her decision to resign earlier this month.

And that may be the LEAST obvious, oddest-phrased argument for quitting I've ever heard.

Don't leave the spotlight forever, Sarah-I'm gonna miss the laughs.

[HopeHoops]

1. I'd be happy if she just got lost hunting Putin's floating head.

She makes me want to puke.

[AndyA]

2. I'm confused. Is this for real, or am I stuck in a

Saturday Night Live time warp? Really, comedy writers can't make up better stuff than this.

Tina Fey needs to make another guest appearance. In fact, she could host the show. I'm sure there will be more material in the weeks ahead.

[malaise]

3. That so called farewell speech

was even worse than the retirement speech. CNN carried it live. Sarah Palin is bat shit crazy.

[Botany]

8. yes she is B.S.C.

[IDemo]

4. Hmm....who does this remind me of?

I believe the salmon and human beings can coexist peacefully.

We eat, therefore we put food on our families.

Yep.

[madokie]

5. Well since she's a woman

I can't call her a dickhead so I guess it's gonna be, what a pussybrained :-) brat

[hlthe2b]

10. I'd urge that you not...

[zbdent]

6. It seems that Repugniconvicts are their funniest when they're trying to be serious ...

and far from being funny when they're trying to be funny ...

[tanyev]

7. If only she'd started singing....

It won't be easy
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love
After all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see
Is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressd up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Don't cry for me....Alaska
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all I desired
They are illusions
They're not the solutions
They promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

[tomg]

9. " We eat therefore we hunt.”

I think she has it backwards. Shouldn't it be "we hunt, therefore we eat." Likewise, to follow her logic on being "a lame duck," it seems she should have resigned immediately after she was first sworn in. In fact, following her reasoning, all politicians should resign as their first - and only - act to "avoid the unproductive, typical, politics as usual, lame duck session."

[Javaman]

11. Well, considering that Judd's comment was in regards to the helicopter hunting of wolves...

failins reply makes it sounds as if she eats wolves.

there is so much stupid with failin, sometimes it's hard to know where to begin.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. The GOP's "Hunting" and gathering has about ruined the...

country.

I'll bet Putin is really Skeerd...

[Inuca]

13. "America apologetics"

Enough said.

[Orsino]

14. Alaskans need to rewrite their Constitution...

...to specify that the last, lame-duck year of a gubernatorial term will be served by the lieutenant governor.