Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page Fears For the State Of American Exceptionalism

by Frances Martel | 1:20 pm, April 16th, 2010

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Sarah Palin is back on her Facebook page (arguably the most newsworthy Facebook page of all time), this time calling out Barack Obama for reminding 47 foreign leaders that America could still turn their nations into a pile of ash 30 times over. This behavior is not hawkish enough, she argues, and threatens the health of “American exceptionalism.” 6,754 people like this post!

How Palin’s Facebook became the most influential policy blog in America remains a mystery, but it keeps throwing grenades into the national public discourse at a record pace. While her indictment of Obama’s “whether we like it or not comment” is not exactly new, she has now rejuvenated the issue and made it prominent to an entirely new set of actors. The comments on this post alone proves she is one of– if the not– most powerful blogger in America.

So why is the most powerful blogger in America willingly tethered to a frivolous social media site? Perhaps she’s trying to avoid being branded a member of that “media elite” that she loves to hate so much, though someone whose only employ is to make television appearances and write posts on national policy sure sounds like a member of the media to me.

Read her full analysis of the Obama administration’s diplomatic philosophy below:

Asked this week about his faltering efforts to advance the Middle East peace process, President Obama did something remarkable. In front of some 47 foreign leaders and hundreds of reporters from all over the world, President Obama said that “whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.”

Whether we like it or not? Most Americans do like it. America’s military may be one of the greatest forces for good the world has ever seen, liberating countless millions from tyranny, slavery, and oppression over the last 234 years. As a dominant superpower, the United States has won wars hot and cold; our military has advanced the cause of freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan and kept authoritarian powers like Russian and China in check.

It is in America’s and the world’s interests for our country to remain a dominant military superpower, but under our great country’s new leadership that dominance seems to be slipping away. President Obama has ended production of the F-22, the most advanced fighter jet this country has ever built. He’s gutted our missile defense program by eliminating shield resources in strategic places including Alaska. And he’s ended the program to build a new generation of nuclear weapons that would have ensured the reliability of our nuclear deterrent well into the future. All this is in the context of the country’s unsustainable debt that could further limit defense spending. As one defense expert recently explained:

The president is looking to eliminate the last vestiges of the Reagan-era buildup. Once the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are “ended” (not “won”), the arms control treaties signed, and defense budgets held at historic lows while social entitlements and debt service rise to near-European levels, the era of American superpower will have passed.

The truth is this: by his actions we see a president who seems to be much more comfortable with an American military that isn’t quite so dominant and who feels the need to apologize for America when he travels overseas. Could it be a lack of faith in American exceptionalism? The fact is that America and our allies are safer when we are a dominant military superpower – whether President Obama likes it or not.

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felixw

Fifteen million American are out of work. The nation is heading toward bankruptcy. The Chinese have cut back their holdings of US Treasury Bonds for the fourth month in a row, and won’t fund our spending any more. Home foreclosures are rising again, at the fastest rate in recent memory, Iran is close to developing a nuclear bomb….

But why worry about these things, when we can focus on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page?
roxsteady

Actually, the real story is that her post was bullshit and that, as usual, she didn’t write it.
Contrast this with every sentence you’ve ever heard her utter and try to convince me that that moron wrote this.
She’s supposed to have posted this?

From The Plum Line.

“Asked this week about his faltering efforts to advance the Middle East peace process, President Obama did something remarkable. In front of some 47 foreign leaders and hundreds of reporters from all over the world, President Obama said that “whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.”
Whether we like it or not? Most Americans do like it.”

Here’s what the President actually said:

But what we can make sure of is, is that we are constantly present, constantly engaged, and setting out very clearly to both sides our belief that not only is it in the interests of each party to resolve these conflicts but it’s also in the interest of the United States. It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.

Seriously, if you listen to her speak and you’ve got a brain in your head, you know damn well she doesn’t even write this neocon tripe. Just look at her latest speech and contrast it with that post. It’s truely laughable.
Jamestaylor

BHO’s record: 3 million jobs lost in 12 months, record foreclosures, 9.7% unemployment, 3x the deficit in 12 months, 24k more on unemployment in March, 2010.

But lets talk about SP
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-A-Cohen/1421861353 Jonathan A Cohen

“JT”-Someone seems to have forgotten about Bush I & 2. Hummmm
Jamestaylor

Bush unemployment- 5.0- 7.8% BHO 9.7% -10%

Bush deficit in 2008- $489 Billion BHO- $1.5 trillion

Bush in 8 years lost 2 million jobs- BHO in 12 months- 3 Million

You were saying?
roxsteady

The problem with that argument is that’s it’s bullshit! Appropriately enough, this is from Crooks and Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/tea-party-contract-for-america-fiscal-suicide

Jon Perr, from Crooks and Liars

For starters, the Bush tax cuts the Tea Party wants to make permanent are largely responsible for the expanding deficits in this decade and the next. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) detailed, the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 accounted for almost half of the mushrooming deficits during his tenure. And as another recent CBPP analysis revealed, over the next 10 years, the Bush tax cuts will contribute more to the U.S. budget deficit than the Obama stimulus, the TARP program, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and revenue lost to the recession – combined. (Ending the so-called “death tax,” which impacts only 1 in 500 estates, will drain billions more per year from the U.S. Treasury.) An AP chart last fall of data from the Congress Budget Office show the explosion of federal debt that will ensue if the Tea Baggers and their Republicans get their way

We’re still paying the price for the idiots in the Republican party. Perhaps we should just stick to the topic posted?
felixw

Maybe if they took down Sarah Palin’s Facebook page it would fix the economy and end the nuclear threat in the Middle East.

Every day the left needs a new diversionary story to distract attention from the disaster caused by the Democrats. Welcome to the newest one. Tomorrow it will be some sign at a tea party or a guy in Wisconsin who wrote something politically incorrect on a blog. Yawn!
Jamestaylor

Sorry Johnathan, I underestimated BHO:

Obama Presides Over Most Jobs Lost Since 1940

By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
1/8/2010 11:03:00 AM

Unemployment shot up in 2009 from 7.7 percent in January to 10.1 percent in October before settling at 10 percent in December. Behind those percentages were more than 4.1 million people who lost their jobs during the year. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s the most job losses in a year since 1940. (BLS could only provide data from 1940-2009)
roxsteady

By the way, those Bush stats are more bullshit.

Salon.com

” We all remember that the last Democratic president left a projected $5.2 trillion dollar ten-year budget surplus in 2000, which was squandered by Republicans on a tax cutting, overspending bender in the last eight years. We all know 22.3 million jobs were created during the Clinton administration, compared with 5.3 million during the reign of George W. Bush.”

The problem is that Bush lost 7 million jobs. Care to recheck you’re math?
roxsteady

BLS also reported that since 1959 private sector job growth under Democrats is 11.7% while under Republicans it’s 5.4%. As I’ve previously stated, I don’t know why anyone would vote Republican on just that stat alone. Actually, I do.
felixw

Roxsteady, if you need to go back to 1959 to defend the Democrats, you must be hurting for data. By the way, why skip the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s or that great burst of growth (I am being sarcastic) under FDR in the 1930s?

The bottom line on Obama is that he is attacking and penalizing the only people who have money to invest in businesses and create jobs. The left is daydreaming if they think you can create wealth while destroying the wealth creators. It’s dangerous when people who understand so little about economics make policy, but at least after November most of them will be out of work themselves.
Jamestaylor

Poor rox- Obama Presides Over Most Jobs Lost Since 1940

I’ll trust the Govt. entity that follows unemployment, and not the leftist rag Salon.

Unemployment shot up in 2009 from 7.7 percent in January to 10.1 percent in October before settling at 10 percent in December. Behind those percentages were more than 4.1 million people who lost their jobs during the year. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s the most job losses in a year since 1940. (BLS could only provide data from 1940-2009)

February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion, includes a big jobs program and rolls back Bush-era tax cuts for high-income Americans. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.”

And on deficits:

February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion, includes a big jobs program and rolls back Bush-era tax cuts for high-income Americans. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.
Jamestaylor

Roxy, I forgot this on BHO’s deficit:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html

As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. That is more than the entire accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of U.S. history. By 2019, the interest payments on this debt will be larger than the budget for education, roads and all other nondefense discretionary spending.
Rogue-Comic

Facebook worked pretty well for Obama during his Presidential Campaign; perhaps Palin or someone on her staff noticed . . .
Jamestaylor

Roxy- We all remember that the last Democratic president left a projected $5.2 trillion dollar ten-year budget surplus in 2000….”

LOL

A projection isn’t money- it’s a guess.

I bet you believe in the Easter Bunny too!
Jamestaylor

roxy, I project I will earn $10 million this year.

hahahahahaha
Jamestaylor

One, last thought, roxy- The BHO admin. PROJECTED that unemployment would not exceed 8% if the Stimulus bill was passed.

How did that work out?
pcbedamned

America – A legend in its own mind…