Posted on Sunday, 22nd November 2009 by Glenn D. Frankovis
Since I couldn’t find any links to this story, I decided to just print it out as I read it on page 6A of today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It’s too bad I can’t provide the obviously photo-shopped A.P. picture (read sarcasm) which accompanies the article and shows what the caption reads as: “A large crowd waits in line to have Sarah Palin sign her book ‘Going Rogue’ at a book signing at the Sam’s Club warehouse store in Washington, Pa., on Saturday.”
“Paling book-signing attracts attention in battleground states by Kate Zernike of the New York Times
Fort Wayne, Ind. – When tickets to see Sarah Palin in Michigan ran out, people drove to her appearance here, three hours away.
Thousands had lined up overnight, starting nearly 24 hours before she was to begin signing books, camping out in 39-degree weather for a moment with the woman many see as the great conservative hope, a role model, ‘one of us.’
They brought their sleeping bags, their children, homemade chocolate Cheerios bars, and balloons to twist into animal shapes and hats for the crowd. And they brought anger – about bailouts, jobs and health care.
Palin’s tour to promote her book, ‘Going Rogue,’ has led to reams of publicity and high-profile television appearances, including interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. But Palin, the former Alaska governor, has skipped the big cities that authors usually visit in favor of smaller places in areas, not coincidentally, where she and Arizona Sen. John McCain performed well on last year’s Republican presidential ticket.
As the tour stopped in the political battleground states of the Midwest, including Washington, Pa. Saturday, – aboard a campaign-like bus emblazoned with a billboard-size picture of her – it has rekindled much of the political rancor of last year.
‘He isn’t governing, he’s still campaigning,’ said Joe Miller, a lab technician who had taken a vacation day to wait in line Thursday at a Meijer superstore in Fort Wayne, referring to President Barack Obama. ‘He’s trying to convince us that he’s doing a good job. He hasn’t done anything, except spend money.’
As she signed a book in Grand Rapids, Palin told one man that Michigan was ‘ a microcosm of America.’
The places that she visited also were ones where unemployment runs high, and many in the crowds that have turned out to see Palin said that they had lost jobs, knew someone who had or were working two or three jobs as they looked for one good one.
‘There’s a lot of talkers out there, that’s what we’re seeing now,’ said LeAnne Knudsen, 41, who had waited since 5 a.m. with her 10-year-old daughter. ‘This hope and change, hope and change, what hope? And if this is change, God help us.’ “
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
Seek and ye shall find a link to the story.
Wish I could help you with the photo.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Thanks a ton Steve! That link is much better than what the Journal printed. What stands out to me in these two versions of the same article are the statements of REAL Americans who are true representatives of mainstream America but are being ignored by the elitist political (so-called) “representatives” who “know what’s best” for us. Of course, the fact that they are willing to come out in Tea Party-like numbers for these book-signing events is also very encouraging and a clear indication that 2010 and 2012 will be the end for the elitist Democrats, the RINOs and the Marxist Obama administration. They are in kamikazee-like mode and either don’t care or are simply too arrogant/stupid to recognize what the result of their actions will be.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 am
The real worry, Glenn, is that they DO know ‘what the result of their action will be’ and are doing it anyway.
That, my friend, will be the effective end of the Rule of Law in this country. And the results from that will be far less palatable than anyone may anticipate.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
Well I won’t just stand by and watch the Dems and limpwristed RINOs destroy my Country, and there are millions of others like me who believe we can turn this around in 2010 and 2012.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Links:
http://www.apimages.com/Search.aspx?st=det&sort=date&id=Palin%20Book%20Signing&showact=events&prds=10092&intv=3d&sh=10&kwstyle=and&adte=1258870855&pagez=20&cfasstyle=AND&
http://www.daylife.com/photo/00gNgDX6fSeDF?q=palin
http://www.daylife.com/photo/06LggOi7VFbyE?q=palin
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Let This Be a Warning to Sarah Palin Fans
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/11/let_this_be_a_w.html#comments
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Jaeson, that just might get them a free colonoscopy without the benefit of anesthetic.