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Palin cover released
On Monday night, Harper announced that Sarah Palin’s memoir would be hitting the stores early, arriving just in time for Christmas.
By yesterday, the book, which was written with the help of WORLD senior writer Lynn Vincent, had already risen to the top of the bestseller lists at the two major online retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, with sales that skyrocketed so quickly, it led one publishing industry source to call it “truly unprecedented.”
And today, all those book buyers and book-buyers-to-be can now get a glimpse of what the cover of Going Rogue: An American Life is going to look like.
So here it is, coming to a bookstore near you on Nov. 17.
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I hope Lynn had her golden scepter with her for this job too.
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Yahoo! Go Palin!!!
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Nice cover – I look forward to reading her book.
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Yay Lynn, good job!
I wonder … if you go into a Barnes and Nobles will this book even be on display? They may leave it in boxes in a back room.
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Xion, they want to make as much money as possible – the stores have ordered it, so they intend to sell it.
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The cover looks cheap and generic.
Why no “with Lynn Vincent”?
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A Palin slimer chimes in at sixth place. Not to far back in the pack.
Blessings
Roger
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Mickey, are we going to get a chance to order autographed copies?
I know she will have book tours, this would be a good tip-off. Some of us would like to get autographed copies.
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CHAS: I can’t make any promises, but I’ll be sure to pass word along to Lynn.
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Me too Mickey, I would like an autographed copy.
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Her book will certainly bring much needed clarity and truth onto the political scene.
From the moment Palin became the VP nominee last year, almost before she could even say a word, the left began attacking and smearing her and her family with outrageous slander, mockery and damnable lies of the worst kind. Their lies were manufactured out of the sleaze of their own mental, political, and sexual practices, not Sarah Palin’s.
With this book we will get to see the real Sarah Palin, not some reflection of the left’s own slimy image.
What a cleansing breeze that will be!
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“I paid how much for what”?
Frankly, I think Lynn would make a better elected official than her contributing editor.
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Mynock (#6):
Why don’t you post a picture of yourself? Then we can all make an evaluation of what’s “cheap and generic,” you or Sarah Palin.
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MM: Clarity and truth, eh? We might even learn that despite what she said she really does read books and newspapers. Or which time she was lying about her position on the bridge? Or perhaps something about her foreign policy experience and philosophy BEFORE she came close to being a thready heartbeat from the ability to blow us all to smithereens?
Nah, my guess it it will read pretty much like your post.
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Michael,
I’m sure that if I put on a red track suit for a photo op in front of that grade-school-picture-day, washed out, romance novel, cloudy sky backdrop, I would look just as cheap and generic as Sarah does. Harper is going to make a fortune on this book; they could have at least had a real photo shoot. And we all know Sarah does have nice clothes!
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I can only imagine the fact that she is smiling and covering up probably disappoint you Mynock, otherwise I can see no reason for your same old attacks on anything that is not Barack Hussein Obama. Why is it that you libs don’t like Sarah Palin so much? Is it because she actually just sort of says what is on her mind? Or is it that she actually knows we have 50 states not 57 states. The President of the United States (that’s the guy with the button Mynock although he would probably only use it to nuke the U.S. since he just wants to play patsy cake with the rest of the world) is the guy who doesn’t know how many states we have, the guy who thanked himself on St Patrick’s Day for being such a gracious host, etc. That is the guy who has his finger on the button and you just continue to sing his praise. But what else would we expect from you Mynock?
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Sarah Palin is a dangerous threat to our friendly slimers. She embodies every thing good, healthy, kind, selfless and Godly. Everything our resident hatemongers are apposed to. We must take their trashing of good people as a revelation of their heart, for “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” From the Christ like heart, “…love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…” From the seared heart comes the works of the flesh which is “…Adultry, fornication, uncleanness , lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkeness, revelings and such like…” Pauls letter to the Galation Church, Chapter 5. Pray for them.
Blessings
Roger
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Old News MYNOCK #15
HELLO?! She returned the clothes.
Unlike all the other people on tour.
Maybe the women who complained about her got to keep the clothes.
She should have kept them because people like you and Letterman are claiming she still has them.
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MYNOCK –
The news channel that worked overtime to make her look stupid was
exposed on YouTube. It wasn’t an interview, it was an interrogation. They compared it with the “hard-hitting” chat that Obama had.
Someone interviewed people who were voting for Obama. All the people knew were the lies that the news reported and the stuff Saturday Night Live said she did. They even blamed her for stupid stuff that Obama and liberals have done. If it was stupid she did it. If it was bad she did it. That might also be on YouTube. Maybe you were one of the people they interviewed?
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I suppose there’s no cover that would please everyone and true, she is an “outdoor” type and wanting to appear casual and approachable, I guess the track suit works, but in fairness to MYNOCK, my initial reaction to the cover photo was that it appeared more contrived than natural.
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Going Rouge indeed! She looks blazingly hot in red.
Oh, sorry it’s “Going Rogue“.
I stand corrected. Still, ‘hubba hubba’.
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Michael,
How can you know that the book will bring “clarity and truth” to light about anything. Or do you merely judge truth based on the source, instead of on whether it squares with objective facts. Sounds like you’re a post-modern relativist, after all.
Also, the media treated Palin with kid gloves until she gave two abysmal interviews–interviews that even led many GOP partisans to call for her to exit the ticket. By the election, her only supporters were conservative evangelicals. And conservative evangelicals don’t love her because she’s a fantastic leader; they love her because she’s one of them.
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Yawn.
Yes, Sarah is just such a rogue.
What makes America great is democracy and the professional soldiery we send around the globe to deliver it to the benighted. (To say nothing of continued war in the Middle East to defend Israel and the free flow of oil at market prices.)
Just so out of step with the
two-one-party Republicrats we get every four years.You had your chance to “go rogue” last year, Christian voters … but you blew it.
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(Given her slant toward global belligerence and her knack for butchering the English language, I’d swear she was GWB in a pantsuit.)
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RSD writes (#22):
“How can you know that the book will bring “clarity and truth” to light about anything. Or do you merely judge truth based on the source, instead of on whether it squares with objective facts. Sounds like you’re a post-modern relativist, after all.”
Oh, I don’t KNOW what she will write any more than the next person. From where we sit, that is still something future, and no one can KNOW that in the absolute terms you suggest. The gist of my comments in #11 was that a book like this will give her the opportunity to define herself, to tell her side of the story. I am confident that Sarah Palin’s story from Sarah Palin will be far more accurate and truthful than what the main stream media printed about her and her family. Anyone with any sense of objectivity must recognize that the people of the MSM were her enemies and would print any and everything negative about her that they could find—neither were they above outright lying and fabricating the most vile stories they could make up out of their own sordid imaginations.
So, until I know better, I will place my confidence in the source that I know to be the most trustworthy. That’s all anyone can do. At this point, Sarah Palin wins that contest, hands down. When the objective facts of both sides are known for all to see, then everyone will will have the truth and the clarity to judge for themselves.
And no, RSD, that is not post-modern relativism. It’s making evaluations by God’s standards of truth, at each point in time, with the facts as you have them. Sarah Palin’s story finally needs to be told and America needs to hear it, not just the smears and lies of her enemies.
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“Is it because she actually just sort of says what is on her mind?”
She does indeed. In fact, I doubt that there is much that crosses her mind that she doesn’t say out loud.
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The clouds are over the top. My rant still stands:
The Palin Paradox
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It’s a great cover. The red, white, and blue color scheme will capture attention and are obviously symbolic. It’s the clouds that make it all work; a plain blue background would not have. Certainly it will appeal to all patriotic Americans. Her choice of a ordinary, everday outfit is precisely the kind of thing that people found so appealing in her to start with.
By the way, it was because she did not have a lot of fancy clothes that the Republican National Committee spent so much on her wardrobe. In other words, she is the real deal. That’s why so many people like her.
Oh, and she really did (does?) spend a lot of time under an open sky, so it is fitting to have an outdoor shot under beautiful billowy clouds. Nothing insincere about it!
She may not know everything, but she knows the most important things. She knows the things that count and has her priorities right.
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Hi Everyone,
I like in the UK and am French; I follow quite closely the political news in the US. I like Sarah Palin for her values and belief. She is a true Leader. My definition of a leader is someone who stands firm and show the way when everyone else would have fallen under the same amount of pressure and adversity.
From my point of view (from the other side of the Atlantic), it is quite obvious how most of the media have a clear agenda and lack of objectivity towards Sarah Palin. Fortunately, people in the USA have a common sense and understand the media game. That is probably why I believe they will buy the book, in mass, in order to make their own judgement on the politician Sarah Palin.
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Sorry for the mistake, I live in the UK
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It’s probably the Alaskan sky, no?
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Maybe the should have asked Tina Fey to stand in for the cover.
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The slimers are having a field day, Yes?
Blessings
Roger
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Funny how a lot of people will attack Lynn and yet no one seems concerned that Ayers, a known terrorist, co-authored President Obama’s book about his Father.
Not only will I purchase a copy of Going Rogue, but I am also going to purchase Lynn’s book: “Donkey Cons”
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Ziz…(#29):
Welcome to WMB!
We are always glad to hear from new people, especially someone like yourself. Feel free to comment as you like, within the rules of course. WMB has some rules which you can find under “Website Policies.”
Additionally, there is a section called “Meet The Regulars” where you can read about some of us. If you like this site and plan to be around for a while, I would encourage you to compose your own 150 word entry on yourself so that we can get to know you a little better—in the “boxing” matches that occasionally go on around here, it’s always helpful to know where your ally or opponent is coming from.
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Palin is wearing RED, my all-time favorite color. I knew there was a reason I liked her!
Ziz — what Michael Martin said. Welcome. It will be nice to have an “un”American point of view.
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Got that right, Frank in Spokane!
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I know she has a lot of appeal for a lot of people, but it’s inexplicable. She represents the lowest common denominator, her intellect is virtually nil, she shows little insight and no self-examination, and she’s all style and no substance. Even her “style” contrived and painful.
One can’t lead the nation on a bumpit and a prayer. Someone who can’t tell an interviewer what she reads to stay informed is probably reading nothing. Throw in the numerous scandals and failed policies as governor and one is left with little more than a hollow shell.
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JOE B @ 34: It is possible that the Palin haters are more comfortable in the presence of people such as Ayers. Birds of a feather…you know. However it is good to know the opposition, is it not? But I still pray for them as Jesus commanded. Palin stands tall, it is the responsibility of the those who hate Godliness to try and take her down. How sad!
Blessings
Roger
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THOMAS1, surely you jest when you say she’s “all style and no substance”, a “hollow shell”. The epitome of that sits in the White House.
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@DEET – actually, no.
What Obama has to do with Palin I don’t know. (And I’m sure that if he has anything to say about it, he will have as little to do with her as possible.)
There’s simply no comparison between Palin, whose struggles to remove books from public libraries and failed abstinence-only sex ed program are well-documented, and Obama, who has attempted to clean up the economic disaster he inheirited from Bush and to make sure that all Americans have health care.
Well, at least people aren’t running about comparing Palin to Hitler and questioning her country of origen. Perhaps that’s because Hitler was intelligent, albeit evil, and somepone of Palin’s limited intellectual capacity could only come from America’s backwoods.
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GAH – typos!
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They say you cannot know a book by it’s cover. Fair enough, but it sure makes me want to know more–and I mean that in all respect as a potential supporter.
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Myrrh (#27):
I read your piece and the linked piece to the “NY Times.” Neither of them was a rant and both expressed good points in a thoughtful way.
As a conservative Christian, I have wrestled with the paradox you described. How can I support Sarah Palin’s run for a national office and still support the traditional Christian view of the “stay at home mom?” Both jobs make tremendous demands upon even the most talented individuals. I’m sure that her book will give us insight into how she finds that balance in her own life. Then the individual voter can decide how much weight to put on this issue when they pull the lever come some future November.
From my own experience, here are two points. First, any spouse, male or female, must balance home responsibilities vs. outside responsibilities. I served 20 years in the military and then had a flying job for another 15 years after that. So, for 35 years I was gone a lot and missed many things at home. A horrendous crime was committed against my family that I wish I had been there to prevent. My son could have benefited more from my presence—and I could have benefited more from his presence in my life as well. On the other hand, I had a duty to my country that had to be fulfilled—who was going to do that? As a Christian my preferred priority arrangement was God, family, country. But sometimes, in the inevitable juggling match, it had to be God, country, family.
Each individual and each family must work together as a team and figure out how to put all these pieces together in a way that best suits them and which still honors God’s directives on how a family should function. Inevitably, mistakes will be made and your life often then becomes a process of recovery. But, that’s the same for all of us in this fallen world.
Second point: the “stay at home mom” is not an absolute in terms of biblical commands, it is a preference, and there is a significant difference. By biblical command, the wife is a helpmate and there is a chain of command in the home. By biblical command, the husband is to exercise his role in a way that honors the wife and puts her needs and the family’s needs above his own personal needs. By biblical command, the wife is to honor her husband and, when all is said and done and the debates are over, she is to submit to his decision on what is best for the family. Then they all pull together as a team to get the job done.
But nowhere is there a biblical command that says the wife must stay at home. I would prefer that and I think that is the ideal, if at all possible. I would rather live many notches lower on the economic scale than have my wife work outside the home. I would almost rather live in the “poor house” than have her work outside the home. After all, I was gone enough and how could my home function with both of us gone the majority of the day? I know families today in the military where both husband and wife are in the military. That would be intolerable from my point of view and I would not allow it. But that is not my decision to make for any family other than my own.
There are times when nations face extreme difficulties and many personal preferences must be set aside. We have seen that illustrated in the Bible when wives and daughters, with God’s approval, stepped into leadership and even combat roles when there was great necessity for their service. Is that the case today? Is someone like Sarah Palin needed outside her home because of the urgent needs of this nation? I think that may very well be the case. She obviously thinks so. A female president or vice president is not my preference, but at this time and place in our country’s history, I would make an exception for someone like Sarah Palin.
When we read her book we will get a better insight into how she and her family address these issues and their degree of success in balancing all these sometimes conflicting needs. The bottom line for me as a voter is if I think she can do the job for the nation. How she and her family handle their own affairs is none of my business, UNLESS I see it as adversely impacting how she handles her elected job.
In my opinion she did very well as Alaska’s governor, while at the same time they worked together as a family team to take care of each other. The daughter’s out of wedlock pregnancy does not necessarily mean that her governor duties led to that family difficulty. Many families with “stay at home” moms have had the same problem.
Also, considering where she now seems to be headed, I think she did the right thing in turning over the governorship to a politically like-minded ally. The voters of Alaska still have politically what they voted for in Sarah Palin.
She has shown that she can successfully do two things at once: be a governor and take care of her family. But can she do three big things at once—the previous two plus pursue a national office? Apparently not, and so she made a good decision, all things considered.
She feels that she is needed at a higher level and I agree. The national need is urgent and I believe that she is a patriot responding to a greater call than her own personal ambition. So, to prepare for that, she needed to give up the governorship—good decision. Is my assessment right? Many will agree and others will disagree.
But, let’s read her book and we will gain more clarity and truth to make those voter decisions. I am not about to form my views of Sarah Palin based solely on the garbage generated by the MSM.
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“There’s simply no comparison between Palin, whose struggles to remove books from public libraries and failed abstinence-only sex ed program are well-documented,..
Since Sarah Palin did not attempt to remove any books from public libraries, especially before some (such as a Harry Potter book mentioned in the early rumors) were even written, and never supported abstinence only sex-ed programs, and these facts that refuted the early smears are well documented, you either are limited and careless in your reading (which newspapers do you read?)or are smearing her with deliberate deceptions.
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If Lynn wrote it, be assured it’s excellent writing — worth the read whether one likes Sarah or not!
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Ken, you could not be more wrong if you tried.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/01/1320417.aspx
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1117009
I will not accuse you of being deceptive regarding your beloved Sarah’s record and policies, but you are shockingly ill-informed.
Which of course, is what people like Palin count on.
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MICHAEL @ 44: Thank you. Nothing more can be said except – thank you.
Blessings
Roger
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I, too, am drawn between the working mom and the stay at home mom. But she can’t win either way. If she didn’t work, the liberals would rant on her for that. The government has made it as difficult as possible for families to have a stay at home mom. Only Christians are railed at for not staying at home and taking care of their children. But they shout out for the liberal mom who can do it all.
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Thomas1
You call yourself an educated person, yet you missed the blatant videos of Bush and other Reps. calling for the Dems to clean up the Economic problems the Reps saw coming as far back as 2002. There is more than one video with the favored Dem Barney Frank loosing the financial reigns of Freddie and Fannie. Listen to them ranting on the regulator.
You also forget the Dems were in control during Bush’s terms.
Just because it wasn’t on ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
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@ NEWS2ME: I am indeed an educated person, and I work in finance, so I know who was responsible for the deregulation of our financial institutions. If Democrats are to be blamed for anything, it’s failing to stop Bush and his cronies from gutting the SEC and all the other fun things they pushed through.
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THOMAS1 #41, just out of curiousity, how are you making the determination, there must be a comparison somewhere?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not championing Palin’s political ambitions. My misgivings from the beginning have been similar to MYRRH #27. Competency remains an issue but I’m not convinced those currently in office have proven they possess it either.
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Well, you know, guys, you ASSUME that because someone doesn’t have a fancy education that they can’t understand what’s going on. How often have you learned something valuable from an oldtimer who just has insight.
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@ DEET – it’s very simple. Palin is not a leader. Her tenure as governor was rife with scandal and corruption. She supports policies which fail, and those failures impact a lot more people than those in her immediate circle. She’s inarticulate. She can’t or won’t tell us what she reads. Her family is a mess, which would be irrelevant but for the fact that she trotted them out in front of the world like they were some sort of overachievers.
These things, coupled with the competency issue, cost her and McCain the election.
As for those currently in office – it’s too soon to tell, but I’m willing to give them a chance.
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Michael in #44:
Thank you for reading my post and taking the time to give such a thoughtful and heartfelt reply. I wish I could respond point by point (including where I agree) but as I’m in the midst of our homeschool morning, that’s not gonna happen. However, I did address some of what you brought up in further posts on my blog which I didn’t link to here. If you plug “Palin” into the search button on my blog, you can find them.
I’ve got math questions flying at me right now from my girls, so I’ll just say that I was not trying to use the Bible to say women should stay at home. That is a personal value and it comes with exceptions (single motherhood, husband unable to work, etc.). I was more pointing to the doublemindedness of saying that women cannot lead/teach men in their homes or church settings, but they can lead an entire country! My belief is that women actually can (and do, whether it’s admitted or not) teach men, so it’s not her leadership I have a problem as much as her more responsibility to her chidren, especially considering their numbers and special needs, and the magnitude of the office she was undertaking (not just working outside the home, but in a role that doesn’t leave room for much parenting to go on). And I had said somewhere that I would be saying this same thing if it was Todd Palin seeking high office, though not as impassioned, since as a woman, I do recognize our innate nurturing which I believe God put there for a reason (lots of them actually and not just for our kids, but that’s a big one).
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Yikes, please forgive all the typos (and rambling style) as I struggle with multi-tasking, even after all these 7 years of having to do it!
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Thomas1 – You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Your posts are nothing short of slander. Your assertions have been debunked many times, notwithstanding your misleading links in #47.
Palin not an abstinence-only supporter
Other smears debunked, including the smear about attempting to ban library books
Pay more attention. Or quit lying.
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Unlike Obama who never put his family out for every one to see?
What candidate has not brought their family with them?
Palin brings her family and suddenly she is prideful? GAH!
I wish Obama’s kids were teens or older. Of course, if either got pregnant, he could have it taken care of with no one knowing. Although… isn’t that supposed to be the death penalty in the Muslim community?
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THOMAS1, time will indeed tell.
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Did you know that there is a Palin calendar?
Some comments I found in response to those who go where they can to say bad stuff about Palin–even if it is just about a calendar.
“Buy yourself Obama-fest and his followers pinup callendar . . .”
“Right next to my Obama pinup. And we will all be taking Archery Classes once he takes our all our guns and ammo. And wont you just be soooo happy. Till they come for you that is…..”
“Never happen.. at least not under this pres. Gun and ammo sales have never been so high. Ammo.. h*** i can’t find any.. it gets sold as soon as it’s delivered to the store.. Do you hear anything from his administration about that? NO…”
crack me up!
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NJL #36
Ziz – dittoes on the welcome!
It looks like you get to be the conservative non-US citizen voice at Worldmag.
HRW, our resident Canadian poster, has long been the liberal non-US citizen voice here.
Beware that in the past, some have told HRW he has no place weighing in on US politics or policy because he’s not a US citizen. Hopefully, no one will say this to you.
Personally, I find it refreshing to hear what those outside this country think. Agree or disagree, they bring a unique perspective to the table. I am often humbled by how much more my foreign friends know about this country and its politics than we seem to know about theirs.
By the way, has anyone seen or heard from HRW recently?
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Matt Y., the grunge band Spin Doctors hasn’t had a hit in a long time. Thanks for bringing them back to my memory.
I’m neither ashamed nor a slanderer. Like many bullies, Palin tests to see what she can get away with.
The undisputed fact is that she asked about removing books from the library, didn’t like the librarian’s answer, fired her and then rehired her when publicly called on it.
As for supporting abstinence-only sex ed (I thought evangelicals LOVE this), she did. http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/01/palin-s-record-on-family-issues.aspx
There’s a Biblical Commandment with which neither Palin nor you seem to be familiar. I believe it’s #9.
Of course, that approach did not bode well for Bristol.
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I don’t need an autographed copy, I will settle for cheap in a year or two. But if I find one, I suspect I will enjoy a good read about a woman I respect and cowritten by another.
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You must be referring to Q and A #3 from your link:
Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools? Sarah Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.
I’m familiar with the 9th commandment and I’m not the one violating it here. Did you even read my links? From the first one, here’s the relevant portion:
Running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin filled out a questionnaire that asked if she’d support funding for abstinence-until-marriage programs instead of “explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?”
Palin wrote, “Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.”
The next month, Palin clarified “explicit,” on a radio debate. Asked if “explicit” programs include those that discuss condoms. Palin said no and called discussions of condoms “relatively benign.”
“Explicit means explicit,” she said. “No, I’m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids. I don’t have a problem with that. That doesn’t scare me, so it’s something I would support also.”
Whatever you think of abstinence-only education, it’s clear that Palin supports a more “comprehensive” approach. What did she mean by not supporting “explicit” sex education? She already said that contraceptives and condoms do not fall under that category. More from the link:
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@Matt Y: she did clarify her position later, and it’s one with which I happen to agree. But the initial question was clear (”instead of”) and so was her answer. Consider who was asking the question, too.
None of this changes the fact that she’s a blithering idiot who can’t get booked for lectures. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/us-lecture-circuit-believes-sarah-palin-is-a-blithering-idiot_100254237.html
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They say you cannot know a book by it’s cover.
Here’s a guy who doesn’t judge a book any other way:
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/
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Moth (#66):
I browsed your link. It seems irrelevant to this discussion. What’s your relevant point, if you have one?
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All of us like JOEL #43 have been trained not to judge a book by its cover. This is a thread about a book cover. The link I provided is a blog that does nothing but critique book covers. My deepest apologies if this is not relevant to Palin’s book cover, a subject from which we must not stray. She lucked out with a witty book designer, BTW. A book jacket calls attention to the contents of the book. Sarah’s bright red jacket calls attention to the person inside. Neat!
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Thomas refers to several “scandals” and a term “rife with corruption” surrounding Palin’s term in office, and also accuses others’ of being ill-informed….
Pardon me (or not) for pointing out that, as far as I know, every lawsuit against Palin for supposed corruption and scandal has been handily won, or totally thrown out. And many of those lawsuits have been filed by a single, vindictive party…..
The insinuations that Palin was a corrupt politician have no basis in fact, and are perpetuated by those who have an axe to grind and have no interest in the truth.
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Moth (#68):
You still haven’t told us your point. You supply a link to the blog of a guy who critiques book covers. He says nothing about Palin’s book cover. Then you tell us that its “neat” that Palin is wearing a red jacket. You are just talking a lot of nonsense here.
I guess this is just your version of being cute. I think I was correct in #67, you have no point.
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I made two points. In response to another poster, I pointed out that judging books by their cover is actually a flourishing subject of informed discussion. Secondly, the photo of a subject wearing a jacket on a book jacket is a visual trope.
I refuted your suggestion that my comments are irrelevant to a thread about a book jacket design.
Hope this helps.
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Michael,
For what it’s worth, I side with Scroop on this one. I didn’t check out the link he posted, but if I had posted it and pointed out that covers are actually taken very seriously by publishers because they greatly affect whether or not people buy a book, you likely would have accepted that link. (I’m in publishing and have occasionally had some say in cover design–rarely, but occasionally.)
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P.S. Re book covers, some funnies: A publisher I used to work for once had to send a cover back to be redesigned because somehow the tentatively approved mockup failed to include a very important element: the author’s name. It was caught before press, but embarrassingly late in the game nonetheless.
Another time, a book I was editing had its title changed midway through the process. One title used a sports metaphor, and one did not. When the cover mockup went by me, I ran to my boss’s office and insisted on a redo . . . and kept the cover for my personal “funnies” file. Why? The cover writer had written the copy based on the first title (a basketball metaphor), and with a new title and new cover design, a mini-essay about basketball simply made no sense.
But I think my all-time favorite was one in which the editor’s input could have saved a lot of grief. The marketing team put a very expensive cover on the book. It was embossed and die cut, with a printed cover underneath the dust jacket that peeked through the die cut, and overall beautiful. But the title used the word “heart” and the front cover was beautifully designed to appeal to any woman within 100 feet, and the back cover was filled with endorsements by “men’s men,” Promise Keepers dudes and the like, but no endorsements by women. The front cover promised a book for women; the back cover promised a book for men. Probably both genders were thus turned off (and indeed the book was not a good seller in spite of having a well-known author–something this editor predicted in 30 seconds of looking at the cover). Furthermore, this beautiful, expensive cover actually went to press totally loaded with typos.
So yes, you certainly can judge a book by its cover. And smart marketing people will look for the input of editors in cover design, because we may or may not have any design skills or training (I do happen to have some), but we are readers and we’re thus experienced in judging books by their covers.
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The book cover for Palin’s book is terrific – Red is one of her fav colors.
The popularity of Sarah Palin’s new book:
1.5 million copy first printing
“Going Rogue” the number one best selling book on Amazon.
The cover has great appeal – a courageous woman wearing red, not to mention a book which will be read as fast as it can be shipped or purchased.
Palin takes her own counsel, hence the red jacket. No one knows better how Palin should look than Sarah Palin.
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Red is an OK color, but I find it very strange that when I was a child “red” referred to Communism and “pinko” to “fellow travelers” and now “red states” are conservative states.
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Red is an OK color, but I find it very strange that when I was a child “red” referred to Communism and “pinko” to “fellow travelers” and now “red states” are conservative states.
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@ MAKEITMAN – Palin’s story, and your defense of it – absolutely reek.
Sarah Palin is a national joke. We all know it. The question then becomes – is Lynn ashamed? Obviously not. Money, money money money – MONEY!
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Much to your chagrin, Sarah Palin isn’t a joke, she’s the real deal, thats why thousands upon thousands want to know more about her.
You haven’t even read the book and you think Lynn Vincent should be ashamed?
Jealousy and envy are easily spotted -
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Thomas, “we all know it” and insinuations that someone we respect wrote a book about someone of which she is probably privately ashamed just for greed “reek” in a way that Make It Man’s defense do not. Answer him, if you can. Otherwise, you’re casting aspersions on good people while not adding anything to the discussion.
For the record, I’m only a lukewarm defender of Palin. I think she’s probably overall an honest person of integrity and skill who got on the wrong side of the wrong enemies. But I also think that a wife and mother of four or five kids, including a pregnant teenager and a special-needs child, should not be seeking the second-highest office in the land (with the possibility of ending up as the highest). I know that Dick Cheney repeatedly refused to consider the presidency, and I wonder if he actually had some sort of plan in place to choose a vice president and then resign if something happened to Bush. Such a plan should never have been declared publicly if there was one; if Palin were seeking the VP office with such a contingency plan, it would bother me less, but I saw no hint of such a thing. So I’m not a gung-ho supporter of hers, and I wouldn’t even dream of voting for her for the top spot. But I haven’t seen any credible mark on her integrity or abilities (not exactly being quick to believe media smear campaigns), and I think MIM’s post has more meat than your own.
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Victoria – you are similarly a joke on this site, with your constant bolding and italics. It’s easy to see why you’d find Palin appealing – she’s your id in a JC Penney suit.
For the record, Lynnj should be ashamed of this project for the same reason she wrote Donkey Cons instead of Elephant Cons: carpal tunnel syndrome hurts, but that’s no reason to be a lying, pandering shill.
Cheryl – an argument can be made that Palin’s qualifications as a mother are her best political asset. This woman (I cannot say “lady”) has shown that she can handle domestic chaos, even if it was brought about by her own inattention.
Unfortunately, her inarticulate speech, her ugly totalitarian politics, and her idiocy have been her downfall – no matter how shiny she looks to fundagelicals, the rest of the country thinks she’s a ding-dong.
Find another rep. And – lose Michelle Bachmann while you’re at it. Pretty morons don’t advance your agenda at all.
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Your reading comprehension is lacking – I almost NEVER use “italics” but how would you know? – perhaps you don’t know the difference. I haven’t used BOLD in this thread, but JUST FOR YOU I will this time –
Palin doesn’t wear JC Penney nor do I – you’re wrong again!
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This is a personal attack against Lynn - she is a senior writer for World, and has been a great contributor World Magazine and to this blog.
YOU have a lot of nerve Thomas, and YOU should be ashamed!
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Here are my theories, based on very little evidence.
1) Lynn Vincent, an intelligent, strong, capable conservative, pro-life woman welcome the opportunity to work with a similar woman. As I’ve pointed out, such women are feminists unless people insist that feminists are liberal, sexually libertine, and pro-abortion. I fail to see why those are inherent in being a feminist. I see a feminist as being a woman who is intelligent, strong, ambitious, independent, and a person who does not take crap because of her gender.
2) Lynn Vincent, like most of the rest of us, needs to make a living. She saw an opportunity to use her skills to make money. There is nothing wrong with making money in such a way.
3) My most controversial speculation is that Lynn Vincent, who strikes me as a woman of good sense, even temperament, and good self control got sick of dealing with the prima donnas, narcissisic personalities, drama queens, and generally irritating people who congregate at worldmagblog. I am not the worst culprit in the bunch.
Given an opportunity with benefits 1 and 2, Lynn said to herself, “I am so out of here,” and seized the chance to make hay while the midnight sun shone.
Good for her.
Lynn, of course, can show up here again, tomorrow, and make me look like a complete fool. That plays to my talents, anyway.
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Conservative Evangelicals were not the only ones left supporting Palin. In fact, many of us were disgusted with McCain’s cheap pandering choice right out of the chute.
Palin appeals not so much to conservatives, but to moderates and feminist-lites.
Yes, Obama is the most repugnant candidate perhaps ever propped up for office in this great nation. That’s no excuse for the GOP to try to foist a fraud like Palin on the electorate.
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Thomas1 – Baseless hateful attacks and name-calling don’t advance your agenda at all. You have lost serious credibility on any other subject that you may post on.
Don’t be such a sheep of the media. Yes she was inexperienced, but her supposed “idiocy” and “extremist” politics (”totalitarian”? How can you look at yourself in the mirror?) is a media narrative created completely out of whole cloth. She’s a conservative, but she governed from the center-right.
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Cheryl D (#’s 72/73):
You make good points, and so does Moth (to some extent). However, what irritates me (and I admit it’s just a personal irritation) is all the criticism of the cover just because of the personal dislike of Palin by her critics. If an Obama book had exactly the same cover with him in a red warm-up suit, the same critics would be gushing about how wonderful the cover was.
For me, I don’t really care all that much about the cover one way or the other. What I care about is Palin’s politics and her character. Her book will give us some insight into those things that we would never hear from the MSM. Clarity and truth is best served when one knows both sides of a story.
For my purposes as a voter, all this hoopla about the cover strikes me as kind of petty. Although I do recognize the importance of an attractive cover from a marketing standpoint, I’m more interested in the information inside the book than anything else.
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Michael, I gave no thought to the red ‘warm up’ jacket until the complaining began – I am interested in what Palin has to say. I agree with you when you posted: …. “I’m more interested in the information inside the book than anything else.”
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“MAKEITMAN – Palin’s story, and your defense of it – absolutely reek.”
Your weak argument refutes NOTHING of what I said. In fact, it’s not a refutation or argument at all. It’s nothing but ad hominem. I’m supposed to believe you….. WHY? My defense of Palin is based on fact. What’s yours based on?
“Sarah Palin is a national joke. We all know it. The question then becomes – is Lynn ashamed? Obviously not. Money, money money money – MONEY!”
I think you’re the one who should be ashamed… One, for naively believing every hateful thing published about Sarah Palin. Two, for your pathetic attempts to defend your position by attacking others.
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Guys, face it – Palin is a bigoted, utterly corrupt moron. She’s incapable of stringing together a sentence. Lynn wrote this book to make cash quick, not to be a literary hero or genius. I hope – for her sake – that she got paid up front.
There’s enough truth about Palin out there to make her hateable. No one has to make anything up.
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Good post Make It Man. Predictably, the response is more of the same. It always is. It’s silly.
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MIM and Matt – we might have a repeat poster from another era – sound familiar?
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Well, Thomas 1, as someone who makes her own living partly by writing, I have a hard time understanding why what Lynn did is wrong, even if it’s partly to make money. Your judgment of her is a whole lot worse than her writing a book, in my mind. I’m sure she’s not trying to be a “literary hero”; she’s writing a book, probably about someone she admires, and getting paid to do it. And yes, I’m sure she probably did get paid some money up front (the publisher, not the author, would pay in this case, in case you’re hinting that Palin would stiff her), but she also deserves royalties on a book destined to be this big a seller. (Sometimes writers get paid ONLY “up front,” and then if the book does really well, they reap no particular rewards for its success. Lynn has done enough experience to have been worthy of a contract giving her royalties, in my opinion.)
But it’s not worth discussing this with you. Your strong language has said a whole lot more about you than about Palin. (”Hateable”?! Wow.) On another thread I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you were a Christian in spite of some differences. But this is not the kind of stuff a Christian says, so I’m speaking to you as a “so-called brother,” but I’m thinking that you really aren’t. If by chance you are, remember what Jesus said about unbelievers knowing we are Christians by our love. That really is a bigger issue than politics, and I’ll say farewell.
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Thomas,
I’m totally underwhelmed by your response.
Is your name really RPN?
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MIM, …. I wonder?
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Myrhh C, I vote for you to receive the prize for best username!
I think the cover’s dull, but I look forward to getting the book out of the library. Sarah has followed a much different path than me, but I really respect her for not killing Trig, when most people do kill children like him these days. For that reason alone she will always have my admiration, and if Lynn runs for President with Sarah as VP,I’d vote for them.
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Thanks Contented-Joy. I like yours too!
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