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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My
goodness, Mr. Crabtree – your oversized ego has steered you wrong
again: it was Palin I was referring to, not you. During her confused,
nonsensical, and even cowardly “I quit” speech, she herself
said she’s not a quitter. That’s what I find hilarious –
that her intellectual capacity is so scandalously deficient she’s unable
to see why professing to not be a quitter while, in fact, actively quitting
just doesn’t measure up to any kind of higher office. Poor little Shotgun
Sarah just can’t see where she went oh, so wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And
then there are people like you, Mr. Crabtree, who think if they screw their own
eyes tightly shut the rest of us won’t see her glaring failures, either.
Lucky for this nation, most of us know better. You really are easy to
please, aren’t you? As long as she’s anti-choice, you’ll
willingly follow Palin into the fires of Liars’ Hell, all the while
trying to fault those of us who think truth, honesty, bravery, and integrity
are virtues. In your world, paying lip service to “family values”
trumps actually having ethical or moral values. How very sad for you,
although I do believe the willingness to swallow such double-talk is one of the
biggest problems this country has.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Take,
for instance, the shrill insistence of Palinbots – and of Palin herself –
that of <b>course</b> she’d be able to be an effective VP while also
being a wife and mother, and most especially a good mother to her special needs
infant Trig. Yet in her “I quit” speech, she specifically
cited Trig needing her as one of the reasons she was quitting being governor of
the great state of Alaska.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Would
special needs Trig have needed her any less if the Palin-McCain ticket had won
and Palin was VP? Of course not, but my hunch is she would have been
willing to continue to ignore his needs if she was the VP. Either that,
or she’d be quitting <b>that</b> now. As it is, all Palin
accomplished was depriving that precious baby of his particularly special need
for a 24/7 mother for the time she was on the campaign trail putting her career
aspirations ahead of her baby. That’s <b>not</b> what I’d
call “family values” and, frankly, it’s quite telling that you
disagree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I
can confidently say that if Hillary Clinton who had done what Palin did with
respect to her baby, you’d have rabidly attacked her for putting her
political aspirations ahead of her baby’s needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hypocrisy
doesn’t look any better on you than on anyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2009
through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt,
or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written
permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> g. crabtree
[mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 11, 2009 1:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Saundra Lund; 'the lockshop'; bear@moscow.com; 'Sunil Ramalingam'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'vision 2020'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Is Our City Council 'Pulling a Palin'on
Downtown Parking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>" Now, *that's* funny
coming for someone who says she's not a quitter."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>And
I said this where? I believe in a earlier post I made it abundantly clear that
I was disappointed in Ms. Palin stepping down from her post as governor and
that it would be hurtful to any future political aspirations. I
guess it must be much easier for you to fabricate a position for me and then
disagree with it than to deal with what I actually write.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oh
and by the way, being a "quitter" is a shortcoming, to be sure, but
it hardly qualifies as a scandal.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>g</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-----
Original Message ----- </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:
"Saundra Lund" <</span><a href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:
"'the lockshop'" <</span><a href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>>; <</span><a
href="mailto:bear@moscow.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>bear@moscow.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>>; "'Sunil
Ramalingam'" <</span><a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cc:
"'vision 2020'" <</span><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>vision2020@moscow.com</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:
Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:00 AM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:
Re: [Vision2020] Is Our City Council 'Pulling a Palin'on Downtown Parking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gary
Crabtree incredibly wrote:<br>
"Sarah Palin, married (once) mother of five, no affairs, no
abortions,<br>
***and no scandals***, promotes family values and is consequently fair game<br>
for critism."<br>
[Emphasis is mine. SL]<br>
<br>
Bwahahahaha. Thanks for the laugh -- it was much appreciated this AM
:-)<br>
<br>
To me, perhaps the biggest scandal is that Palin turned out to be nothing<br>
more than a quitter. By golly -- that's just exactly what we need in<br>
government's highest office! When the going gets tough, the tough run the<br>
other direction. Shoot -- even Bush 43 didn't tuck tail & run the way
Palin<br>
did, and he faced far more significant challenges than Palin ever has.<br>
<br>
Now, tell the truth, Mr. Crabtree: when Palin quipped at the RNC about<br>
lipstick being the difference between hockey moms & pit bulls, did you
think<br>
she was including herself in either tenacious category? Looks like the<br>
joke's on you & all the others who didn't understand the truth just wasn't<br>
in Palin from the get-go.<br>
<br>
Perhaps we all should be grateful we learned ***now*** that Palin can't take<br>
the heat without running from the kitchen & turning herself into a
"poor<br>
me!" victim whining about how the big bad media picked on her. Now,<br>
*that's* funny coming for someone who says she's not a quitter.<br>
<br>
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<br>
Saundra Lund<br>
Moscow, ID<br>
<br>
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>
nothing.<br>
~ Edmund Burke<br>
<br>
***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2009 through life plus<br>
70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside<br>
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