The matriculation of Sarah
By David Shapiro
I don't know about you, but I'm getting mighty confused about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's well-traveled college career — especially the part of it that occurred in Hawai'i.
According to an AP report when Palin ran for vice president last year, Palin attended six colleges in six years, starting with brief stops at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and Hawai'i Pacific University, before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987 after two stops there plus stints at North Idaho College and Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska.
But Palin's autobiography, "Going Rogue," suggests it was only four colleges, apparently leaving out UH-Hilo because she was there only a few weeks and may not have officially enrolled.
AP cited a biography by Kaylene Johnson, "Sarah," that said Palin and three friends went to Hilo after graduating from high school in Alaska in 1982 and Palin ended up with a friend at HPU for a semester.
The Johnson book said she left Hilo because of the constant rain there, but in her autobiography, Palin offered an opposite reason for leaving Hawai'i: “Hawaii was a little too perfect. Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.”
I guess that contrary to Dylan, some people do need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows.
According to the authors of yet another book on Palin cited by the New Yorker, "Sarah From Alaska," Palin's reasons for leaving Hawai'i may have had more to do with brown and white than wet and dry.
Authors Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe say Palin's father, Chuck Heath, said his daughter was uncomfortable with the heavy presence of Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i.
“They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home,” Heath was quoted as saying.
My guess is that Palin is too out there to ever be a serious contender for the White House, but that very quality will keep her in our consciousness for a long time with a devoted minority following among the GOP faithful and the endless fascination of the public at large.
Volcanic Ash
December 8th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Aloha ~
Since we're a nation of the lost - having completely lost our minds in this comedy of the absurd - I have initiated the Palin-Beck 2012 presidential campaign. Please submit donations through my website.
You are aware of my affinity for Coach John Wooden. In Sarah's book, Going Rogue, the epigram to Chapter Three, which is titled, Drill, Baby, Drill, borrows a quote from my legendary hero:
Our land is everything to us ... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
As a player who listened to Coach Wooden for years this surprised me - it is so out of character. "Be quick but don't hurry," Coach would remind a player executing a crossover move.
He constantly focused on character, "What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player."
And he never hesitated to scold a cocky player, "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
Remember on our land??? Possibly Coach was talking about the proper execution of a jump stop. Drill, baby, drill ... was Coach trying to motivate players to work harder on fundamentals?
WRONG! Unfortunately for Stink Eye Sarah, as Geoffrey Dunn writes in the Huffington Post, this isn't a quote from Coach Wooden. Also!
Although Sarah is able to see Russia from her front porch this quote came from John Wooden Legs, who is a left-leaning Native American political activist. Whoops!
The full quote:
Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Drill, baby, drill ... No listen to dat lolo tita, she say any kine, brah.
Sarah Palin - Glenn Beck for President 2012. Donate today at scottgoold.org!
A*L*O*H*A
December 8th, 2009 at 7:44 am
What a great country! McCain plucks an obscure first-term governor to be his running mate and Palin is now a multi-millionaire, the darling of the right and on a short list of presidential candidates for 2012.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:01 am
According to Palin's father, Sarah was uncomfortable with so many Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii: “They were a minority type thing, and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”
Where did she enroll after she left HPU? North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the white supremacy capital of America.
She's tweeting about Montana this morning: "In Big Sky country,Montana!Get2 see hardworking Americans who love the West,have healthy suspicion of anythng "Big Govt"&dearly love the USA." Her kind of people. Not many minorities in Montana, either: 90.5% White, 0.07% Black, 0.06% Asian, 0.01% Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders.
She'll be signing her book (parody: http://twitpic.com/pt22s) in Coeur d'Alene on Dec. 10.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:26 am
joe biden is counting his blessings.
December 8th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
The link above to my parody cover, "Really Going Rogue," doesn't work with cuz it picks up the closed paren ")". Try this: http://twitpic.com/pt22s
December 8th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I wouldn't belive anything i read in the Hufington Post. If she is a nonentify why do you people hate her so much? You afraid of her. I have never seen a polictician treated as badly as she has been.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Aloha HItaxpayer ~
I for one do not hate her ... what a waste of good emotion. I'm just sad that our society throws so much money at her. There are many, many good people on both sides of the isle and Sarah really doesn't have much going for her. She's a simpleton who has a million-dollar marketing campaign holding her up.
Yet that's America - where the absurd can dominate headlines while our Keiki are banned from school.
While I do not regularly agree with your points, you are clearly brighter and more capable than Ms. Sarah. I would prefer society send some of their money your way. Better things would come from that investment.
Something is terribly amiss with America's priorities, my friend ...
A*L*O*H*A
December 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Sarah Palin: a lethal combination of ignorance and arrogance. Casually educated, blithly uninformed, reciting right-wing cliches, making millions from her ghost-written book, but still raising money in Alaska to pay for legal costs of defending her against ethics charges while governor ... That's the best you Republicans can offer??
December 8th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
What's with the statement "waiting for moderation" in a blog?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Capitol -ist, you get the "waiting for moderation" if the WordPress spam filter doesn't recognize your IP. Once you're cleared through moderation once, it should recognize you in the future and pass you right through. I don't see anything waiting for moderation in mine.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
i like sarah.i like her because feminists,intellectuals,psuedo-intellectuals,academics,the belt-way crowd (in our empire's capital) and the main stream government lap-dog media celebrities and their groupies despise her.i also like sarah because she's for drilling for oil in ANSWR in north slope alaska.i like her because she thinks ron paul is "cool", "independent type" disowned by the gop.that warms my heart and raises my hopes.a little bit,anyway.and she's agood looking middle-aged woman. and if she fibbed alittle in her books,well she's got good company,with our very own nobelpeace prize laureate lying thru his teeth in his auto-biographies.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Going rogue in British slang has a number of meanings. None of which I would associate with a future POTUS. Current Republicans and Sarah might want to do some research as to what Sarah is boasting about.
Of a kind with shaftalley?
December 8th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
It was in Jerry Burris' blog - cannot understand why.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin.
The new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows Palin now at 46% favorable, just one point below her fellow basketball fan., President Obama.
Here is the link to the LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/sarah-palin-barack-obama-poll-gap-narrows.html
The notorious Right Wing zealots at CNN and the Fascists at the LA Times once again are lying to besmirch the One, the Anointed and Luminescent Barak.
Gov. Sarah Palin is within One percentage point of favorability of Obama.
Feast on it haters and moral degenerates!
December 9th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Aloha ~
@ Capitol -ist/WassupDoc: Good to hear from you. We've missed you. Jerry Burris only allows right-wingers to post on his blog.
@ Fluffy: Hitler was extremely popular with Germans in the late 30s. The reason I make this comparison is I grew up in Idaho. My parents and extended family live there today.
I hope you reread the posts from Greg Knudsen (my grandparents' last name - wonder if we're related?). Northern Idaho is a sad stain on the Great State of Idaho. The people hiding out there are:
* predominately White and generally racist
* extremist fundamentalist Christian
* intensely libertarian
* anti-abortion
* anti-tax
* anti-government
* anti-education
* anti-gay
* pro-gun, including all types of assault rifles and other anti-human weapons
I don't consider Sarah Palin a leader but she obviously is an excellent spokesperson for America's neo-Nazis. From what you've written in your various posts I can see why you adore her so much.
Thankfully I'm just a moral degenerate.
A*L*O*H*A
December 9th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Capitol-ist - - I happen to think Jerry only wants to hear his own voice and not be bothered actually interacting with our little political blogging community. We're obviously all idiots to him.
Forget it. Move on.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
A lot of effort just to pass along a triple hearsay rumor that hints at racism by the left's latest demon.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
a lot of people in leadership positions in republican party and the vulgar intellgensia in conservative circles do'nt like her either.don't trust her.good!
December 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Scott Goold is continuosly violating the Godwin's Law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches". This "reductio ad Hitlerum" is extremely common among Liberals.
The corollary to the Godwin's Law, as applied to the internet forums, is as follows:
"For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress."
Scott Goold is therefore is a pathetic Liberal looser. QED