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Sarah Palin Watch: Hair is 20 Years Out of Date

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Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reacts as she arrives to speak at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 3, 2008

Palin Derangement Syndrome has spread to her hair (via MM).

Yes, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has a lot on her plate: a pregnant teen daughter, a son on his way to Iraq, an infant with Down syndrome and a looming national election.

But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.

“It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.”

Wow. The snobs of the hair world have spoken.


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  • John Chalus

    Even if her hair was twenty years out of date, which it is not, it wouldn’t matter. What really matters is that the Democratic Party’s platform is out of dat, out of touch and so far out in left field that is does not even make good science fiction. It is total BS. Palin and McCain are the real deal. B. Hussein Obama is a media celebrity with no loyalty, no depth and not real accomplishments. Joe Biden had cancer and beat it. He has had some serious problems to deal with in his personal life. Many people have had cancer and beat it. We have all had terrible things to deal with. I’d say being a guest of the North Vietnamese in one of their infamous POW facilities trumps anything that Biden or Obama has ever done. Not to mention flying through AA gunfire and SAM missles. What has Biden ever done but sit on his butt for 36 years in congress. Neither one of those jackasses knows what a real fight is like. John Chalus Vietnam Vet SEAL Team ONE 1970-1973

  • Liz

    What the hell is wrong with you? “McCain and Palin are the real deal.” What does that even mean? Yes, I suppose they are “real” about wanting to continue the war in Iraq indefinitely and cutting taxes for the WEALTHY (ever read about trickle down economics. As a teacher, I would expect you have. Yeah–it doesn’t work.) Did you know that Palin is a REAL nutcase? She thinks climate change is a hoax. She thinks abortion should not be allowed in ANY case, even if it would only be 1 week after a 13 year old girl is raped by her father. Did you know that her 1st child was born 8 months after she married her high school “sweetheart”. Yes, her family is a prime example of the family values Republicans always talk about – both PALIN AND HER DAUGHTER CONCEIVED A CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK. In the wonderful little Repub convention video on how John and Cindy McCain met, they neglect to mention that when he first approached Cindy at a party to court her, he was married to ANOTHER WOMAN.

    ALSO, answer me this. WHY does being a tortured POW make you more qualified to be President than Obama? And don’t you dare come back at me with the “you’re not patriotic” rebuttal that Republicans love to use. WHY? Yes, it means he’s tough, yes, it means he has great resolve, yes, it means he withstand extraordinary amounts of physical pain. But why do those things make him more qualified to be PRESIDENT? I would argue that there are many other men and women who have similarly been tortured and survived but that doesn’t make they qualified to be president. So please don’t use that argument. If anything, maybe it traumatized him and made him a nutcase like you seem to be.

    I’m scared of what you’re teaching your students. The fact that you think that abbreviating Obama’s first name and spelling out his middle name is effective for your cause or even relevant, makes me think you are a Muslim-hating fascist, or incredibly stupid, or both.

    But I do sincerely thank you for serving our country.

  • John Chalus

    Liz, McCain had the courage to face the enemies of freedom at the sharp end. He was captured and could have had early release but refused it. That proved he was a man of principal. Please don’t bring up infidelity on the part of candidates. Bill Clinton is probably one of your heroes. The people that support the democrats like the Hollywood elites are prime examples of infidelity and having children without being married. John McCain put his life on the line. What did Obama ever do? Community organizers take huge risks. NOT. What exactly did he organize. What has he ever risked. Biden is no better his service in the senate has benefited him a great deal. He too has never put himself in danger for anyone line in combat, or anywhere else. Please don’t use the word facist since you obviously don’t know what the word actually means. Lefties like to throw that word around anytime you talk about someone you don’t agree with. Obama keeps a picture of Ernesto Che Guevera in his office. Some role model. A murdering Marxist and close friend of Fidel Castro. I am not a racist. I fought side by side with courageous men of color. Some of mentors were black men and Navy SEALs. I would follow those men to hell. I wouldn’t follow Obama across the street. I teach Math and Reading and I leave my politics at home.

  • Woman4Palin

    Sarah is HOT and they can’t take it! I love her AND her hairdo. Please Sarah don’t listen to these freaks who would want you to look like Hillary or Madonna. Be yourself! Everyone I know loves her hair and it’s driving the dems NUTS!! lmao

  • Liz

    Hi John,

    Thanks for your reply. I know the detailed story of John McCain’s capture and torture. So, you’ve told me that McCain’s service proves that he is principled and willing to risk his own life. I do not dispute that. But you still have not answered my question. Why do those characteristics qualify him to be president of the United States? Also, are the only “risks” that are worth anything to you those that endanger one’s life? I recognize that not having ever served in the military I have a huge dearth of knowledge when it comes to knowing what it’s like to be in combat, to rely on your fellow troops for survival, how that affects you afterward, etc. BUT, I do know that apart from having principles and a willingness to take risks (yes, I would include risks that do not necessarily involve stepping in the line of fire) there are other important characteristics and abilities I want to see in our president. If you’re going to support McCain, don’t you think you should have some reasons besides the fact that he is a veteran???

    And yes, I am a Clinton supporter. I brought up infidelity to point out the hypocracy of the right and their notion of family values. They are eager to point fingers at and scold liberals who have children out of wedlock or have affairs, but when it’s one of their own it becomes a “celebration of life”, or they simply gloss over it and look the other way. I don’t want to turn this into a discussion about Palin’s daughter, who never asked to be in public life, but rather wanted to point out the selfish convenience with which conservatives often treat social issues.

    Similarly, take McCain’s position on offshore drilling. Just a few months ago his position was as follows when asked about offshore drilling: “With those resources, which would take years to develop, you would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels.” And now? Now he fully supports offshore drilling. Is THAT a man of PRINCIPLE????

  • Liz

    Also, you need to get your facts straight. Regarding the Che Guevara flag: Obama does NOT keep this flag in his office. An office in Texas, funded by volunteers, had the flag up on their wall. The office was not even a campaign headquarters, let alone Obama’s personal office. Obama, in fact, called the flag inappropriate. If you want to make an argument, make it with facts, not inflammatory lies.

    Lastly, did you know that Obama has been a state and national Senator, and has a law degree? I ask this because you seem only to mention his experience as a community organizer. (By the way, in that role he was out on the streets, working with real people.) McCain went to the naval academy, right? Do you know what his rank was? 894 of 899. 5th from the bottom of a class of 900 students. Now, I’m not going to say intelligence is everything, but Bush has shown us that it’s certainly worth something—and that ranking is a little scary.

  • John Chalus

    Liz, Given that Obama has been a state senator and national senator from Chicago gives me a great deal to worry about. I know that he went prestigious schools and that he is a lawyer. Washington is full of lawyers and look at the shape this country is in. There are 535 members of the House and Senate and I truly believe that they are the ones who are at fault. What risks did Obama take. Did he go into flood ravaged New Orleans and give aid and comfort? Did he do Peace Corp work? What did he risk? Men like Albert Schwietzer, John Kennedy and Neil Armstrong took risks. Florence Nightengale and Harriet Tubman took risks. Father Damien of Molakai risked his life to help lepers. As soon as Obama’s Pastor and church became a little to inconvenient he abandoned them. He threw Wright and Pfleger under the bus. I would say that he clearly demonstrated that he is just another politician who will say whatever it takes to get elected. I’m not wild about McCain but as for character he is head and shoulders above Obama and Biden.

  • fran

    THANK YOU LIZ, YOU NAILED IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD! Where were Ms Suzie Homemakers values of teaching sex education to her daughter??? Guess it didn’t matter being she set the example. So Liz I guess what the country is saying is, it’s ok to elect a VP with a daughter pregnant, however, but the affair B Clinton had was not acceptable.

  • John Chalus

    Bill Clinton is not running for office. He is however a dispicable human being. He dodged the draft, cheated on his wife on more than one occaision and is probably a rapist. Remember Juanita Broderick?. He also tried to take advantange of a Mrs. Wiley after her husband died. He is a serial sex offender.He also failed to do anything about Bin Laden even after it was acknowledged that Al Queda was the prime mover behind the attacks on the USS Cole, and the US embassies. He also helped the wrong side in the Kosovo debacle. And don’t forget his total screwup in Somalia. Bill had control over all of these issues. Sarah Palin like any other parent can’t be with her kids 24/7. Any parent can tell you that. So what if her daughter is pregnant. Her daughter isn’t running for VP

  • John Chalus

    The fact that the liberal left democrats are so upset that Sarah Palin is a VP candidate is great. The democrats thought that Obama was a shoe in and now they are starting to worry. She doesn’t have Obama’s baggage. She doesn’t have 36 years in the senate and nothing to show for it. Her hair is much better than Biden’s. She doesn’t have Hillary’s major problem because she is married to a decent man. I know that she doesn’t have Hillary’s combat experience or investment savy but we’ll just have to live with that. Since the Democrats are trying their darndest to dig up dirt on her they must be very nervous. Isn’t it enough that we finally have a sort of Black Man running for president to show how far America has come? Does he have to be elected to satisfy the white guilt trippers?

  • Liz

    You seem to have trouble understanding what I write, so for your benefit, I’ve included a question following each of the FACTS below about Palin to enhance your comprehension and reflection.

    A few facts about Palin:

    – She claims to have killed the Bridge to Nowhere project whereas Congress had already pulled the plug on the project BEFORE she became governor. She never had an official say in the matter. Is that an honest way to campaign?
    – After inquiring if books could be banned from the local library and learning that this was not allowed, she fired the librarian. Does that make you at all uneasy?
    – As mayor of Wasilla there was a citizen’s movement to remove her from office because she was driving the town into debt. She was permitted to stay in office only because she agreed to hire a professional city manager to run the town for her. Does that inspire confidence in you?
    – When she became mayor, the town had a surplus; when she left it was several million dollars in debt. Does that mean she can be a responsible and successful executive?
    – She would not allow abortions even in the case of rape or incest. Do you agree with that?
    – She wants creationism to be taught in every school alongside evolution. Do you agree with that?
    – When discussing an oil pipeline to be built in Alaska, she said it was the “will of God” to build it. How do you feel about that?

    I noticed you made no response to my correction of your false claim about the Che flag. I assume that’s because your MO is the same as the rest of the Republican party: throw lies and when the facts disprove you pretend it never happened and hurl more lies and hyperbolic claims. I honestly don’t understand why people like you aren’t open to reasoning and an honest debate. If you put forth any fact-based, intelligent argument as to why I should vote for McCain I would consider it. But you have not done so. Do you teach your students to think critically?

    Something else for your consideration:

    * If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.

    * If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you’ve got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.

    * If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “token hire.”
    * If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “game changer.”

    * Black teen pregnancies? A “crisis” in black America .
    * White teen pregnancies? A “blessed event.”

    * If you grow up in Hawaii you’re “exotic.”
    * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you’re the quintessential “American story.”

    * Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you’re “unpatriotic.”
    * Name your kid Track, you’re “colorful.”

    * If you’re a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you’re “reckless.”
    * A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”

    * If you are a Democratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an “arrogant celebrity.”
    * If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are “energizing the base.”

    * If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are “presumptuous.”
    * If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a “shoot from the hip” maverick.

    * If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are “an elitist-out of touch” with the real America .
    * if you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Annapolis, with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a hero.

    * If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an “empty suit.”
    * If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an “experienced executive.”

    * If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are “extremist.”
    * If you believe in creationism and don’t believe global warming is man made, you are “strongly principled.”

    * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a good Christian.
    * If you have been married to the same woman with whom you’ve been wed to for 19 years and raising 2 beautiful daughters with, you’re “risky.”

    * If you’re a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you’re an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
    * But if you’re a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you’re spunky.

    * If you’re a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you “First dog.”
    * If you’re a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you “beautiful” and “courageous.”

    * If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
    * If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

    * If you’re a Republican senator who solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom, you get to return to your job in the Senate and are encouraged to run for re-election.
    * If you’re a Democratic Senator who is out of public office and have an affair, your political career is over and your wife who has terminal cancer is to blame.

  • John Chalus

    Here it is in a nutshell. Nobody gets to run for President, VP, Senator, Representative or Governor in this country unless they have been vetted by big business. No matter who wins they will owe a whole lot of people big time. It just comes down to what candidate you like better.

  • Liz

    John:

    I’m not sure I understand your point. I guess you just decided to write something irrelevant to the points I was making… Are you coming at this debate from a different angle by simply saying that you’re going to vote for your favorite personality? Do you really think that’s a responsible and adult approach? If you do, I suppose McCain would be the best choice for you, because as he has proclaimed himself, he’s not a “policy guy” either.

    Flap, I’ll have to get back to you – don’t have time now. But a quick note: at most there are two statements (out of dozens) on those pages you sent me that say anything at all relevant to my statements. And those 2 are wrong. I’ll send citations.

    P.S. Did either of you know that McCain has informed the American people that he is wholly illiterate when it comes to computers and email? Guess he’s not a “modern technology” kind of guy either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9wnMVZE_Q&feature=related

    P.P.S. John, you might enjoy that clip because it asks the candidates some fun “personality” questions.

  • John Chalus

    I think that you are convinced that Sarah Palin and John McCain are the two worst things that could happen to America. I happen to believe that Obama is looked upon as the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ by the Media.Once he is elected (although I’m not so sure that is going to happen) everything will be better because he is for change. As for his accomplishments I am not enamored of Ivy League institutions. As for lawyers there are far too many. Joe Biden is just another Washington Politician who has spent 36 years in congress without doing much. McCain may have been a legacy but he risked his life for something he believed in and did not abandon his fellow POWs or his beliefs when it got tough. As soon as Rev Wright, Rev. Pfleger and his church became inconvenient Obama threw them under the bus. His association with Louis Farakahn is another example of something that he would like us all to forget. Barry just doesn’t do it for me.

  • Liz

    Flap, AM I MOCKING HIS WAR INJURIES? Can you please tell me what lead you to believe that I was doing that?

    John, it’s not possible to argue with you. I have tried to present facts, and all you do is sling back irrelevant or incorrect information. Why? I really don’t understand and I’m so dismayed. And if you can’t see that you’re not even making a reasoned argument or if it doesn’t matter to you if what you’re saying is factually correct or not, I honestly don’t know what to do.

    It’s as if you were to say “water doesn’t freeze at 32 degrees; it freezes at 15 degrees” and I said “no, evidence has conclusively shown that water freezes at 32” and you respond with “you hate water.”

    I urge you both to read this New York Times article. There’s even some positive stuff in there about Palin. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?bl=&_r=1&ei=5087&en=46ea589c255511cb&ex=1221451200&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1221404578-u+Kd1rmPQSsOCLTL5jwfTA

  • Flap

    @23 Liz,

    This is what you said earlier:

    P.S. Did either of you know that McCain has informed the American people that he is wholly illiterate when it comes to computers and email? Guess he’s not a “modern technology” kind of guy either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9wnMVZE_Q&feature=related

    Did you even read my piece here: http://flapsblog.com/2008/09/12/barack-obama-mocks-john-mccains-vietnam-war-torture-injuries-with-cant-send-an-e-mail-ad/?

    Read the comments too.

    Why, of course you are mocking John McCain. It is painful for him to use a keyboard because of his Vietnam War injuries and has his wife help him.

    Big deal.

    So, Obama’s commercial is a LIE and it denigrates McCain because of a disability he received in the service of his country.

    For shame.

  • Flap

    @24

    So, you are saying that John McCain was wrong about the SURGE?

    BTW that video is over ten months old and the Surge has created a ore peacefully stable Iraq.

  • Flap

    @23 Liz

    I have written about the New York Times piece in my daily links. Typical New York Times “hit piece.”

    Liz, check out my site’s main page at http://flapsblog.com or click home above for up to the minute posts. Also, many follow me via my RSS feeds and/or Twitter.

  • Liz

    Flap,

    I did look at the video you sent the link to but didn’t realize there was a piece as well (it just looked like blog comments to me). But I’ve read the Globe piece and according to that article the fact that McCain doesn’t use a keyboard is because of his war injuries. So I stand corrected on that matter. However, it’s odd then that in his interview he did not say that that was the reason. Please note, though, that that Youtube clip was NOT put out by Obama’s campaign.

  • Liz

    John: You’ve mentioned Clinton a few times. No, I don’t love Clinton but he sure looks awesome now after the last 8 years of Bush.

    Bottom line is that McCain’s campaign of lies makes him MORALLY UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT. It seems to me he is someone desperate to win at any cost. What lies? – I’m sure you’ll say. Well, for example,

    (1) the sex ed ad accusing Obama of wanting to teach sex ed in kindergarten (in fact, his bill called for age-appropriate lessons in schools that ALREADY had sex ed programs in place. For elementary school children, this meant teaching them how to avoid sexual predators. Were you not taught not to take candy from strangers?);

    (2) the assertion that Obama wants to raise taxes when the truth is that he wants to raise taxes on those earning $250K or more a year and for everyone else EXTEND tax cuts for everyone else, and;

    (3) saying that he called Palin a pig when in fact Obama was using a common political phrase that Rove and McCain themselves have said to refer to McCain’s notion of “change”. He did not utter a word about Palin nor can anyone with a brain argue that that’s what he was trying to do.

    ALSO, let’s compare senator McCain with candidate McCain:

    – SENATOR McCain opposed offshore drilling, opposed Bush’s tax cuts, and called extreme Christian rights agents of intolerance.
    – CANDIDATE McCain supports offshore drilling, support Bush’s tax cuts, and now is cozying up to the far Christian right.

    One more thing about Clinton, John, since you’ve mentioned him a few times:

    HOW WOULD YOU HAVE REACTED IF BILL CLINTON….

    * made US taxpayers subsidize a huge, private, mercenary army, controlled by one of his closest and most fanatical liberal-democrat supporters?
    * then lavished more tax dollars on that crony-contractor, for him to lure top soldiers out of the Army and Marines, into that private force, instead of using a fraction of the same taxpayer money to simply make re-enlistment palatable to those highly skilled men and women?
    * then signed documents making that liberal mercenary force immune from any law, American or foreign?
    * then let those leftist mercenaries exonerate themselves from cold-blooded murder, by allowing them to ghost-write a “report” under US diplomatic letterhead?
    * while also using tax dollars to create many more secret liberal groups, to perform intelligence-gathering, interrogation, kidnapping and international “operations” without even a figleaf of supervision by the CIA?
    * then ruined the effectiveness of one of the best of those groups, by leaking its methods, simply to make a minor political point?

    Guess who did those things.

  • Liz

    Flap, regarding the New York Times article, can you point out anything in it that’s not true? Enlighten me.

    Also, this is the same NYT that supported the Iraq War and in 2000 loved McCain, correct?

  • Liz

    Regarding the Surge, I’m not saying it was wrong. Show me where I said that. I presented evidence that McCain was grossly exaggerating and misleading when he proclaimed to have walked through a safe neighborhood while in fact he was preceded and followed by dozens of soldiers, a tank and Apache helicopters, and a reporter who had been in Iraq for 4 years said he’d “love for McCain to show him where those ‘safe neighborhoods’ are”.

    Stop being a coward and flinging false accusations at me.

    If you want to argue my points, fine, do it. If you want to have an argument about the surge or the Iraq war, fine, let’s do it. But don’t accuse me of saying things I don’t fucking say.

  • Flap

    @30

    I am not hear to waste my time to vett the New York Times. In local politics, in which I have participated in California for a long time you are bound to make enemies, particularly from your beaten opponents and their friends.

    And, you reward your friend with positions of authority because ultimately they are the ones you can trust to get the jopb done.

    The NYT wanted to do a “hit piece” and your Obama “talking points” say to call McCain dishonorable and a liar.

    Let’s move on to another thread.

  • Flap

    @ 28

    The ad was produced and paid for by the Obama campaign.

    You are incorrect.

    Please click through and read all of the links from more recent posts.

  • John Chalus

    Liz, How would you react to a white candidate who belonged to a church that said Blacks kept white people down. That Blacks invented AIDS to wipe out white people. That black Americans were the cause of all of the problems in the world etc. Obama gets a pass on that as well as his association with unrepentant domestic terrorists. He also gets a pass on his association with a criminal like Tony Rezko. His association with Louis Farakahn is worrisome as well. Sorry but Obama has left too much racist baggage to carry around for me. If I attended a church that preached the BS that Rev. Wright preached about blacks or whites I would have left long before 20years.

  • Liz

    Yes, well perhaps if McCain was dishonorable and a liar we should call him so.

    John, do you want to explain what you mean by “association”?

    Flap, are you saying you would put friends in positions of great power regardless of their qualifications?

    Well, as I see it, I’ve won this argument. I’ve made dozens of points, only a couple of which either of you has successfully rebutted, and I have addressed or refuted each one of yours. I win. You lose. I prevailed and came out victorious. A greater power is on my side and so Obama/Biden are destined to win the election. As Palin said about the Alaska pipeline, it’s God’s will.

  • John Chalus

    Liz, Obama’s church gave an award to Farrakhan the “Reverend Wright Trumpeter Award” because he “epitomized greatness.” Farrahkan is anti-semitic bigot who practices a crackpot version of Islam. Since Obama is/was a prominent member of the church that is what I mean by association. We are not going to change one another’s minds on Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin. My guess is that the McCain/Palin ticket has got the democrats worried and so now they will promise the American people more pie in the sky. Like eliminating taxes on fixed income seniors. They already pay nothing. The fact that Obama is the nominee of the party who kept the black man down prior to and for sometime after the Civil War as part of their policy is historic enough. It doesn’t guarantee him the White House.