Another side of Sarah Palin: financial guru

http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/10/08/another-side-of-sarah-palin-financial-guru/

http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/surprise-billionaire-obama-supporter-keeping-levi-johnston-in-the-spotlight/

Clone this woman please. I want 2 copies.

johnnyU on October 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM

Why stop at two? How many people are in the Senate and House of Representatives? You need at least that many plus two for the White House and Veep’s residence.

http://www.timhawkins.net/

Click-on “The Government Can”

This video needs to go “viral!

Also, hate to say it, but it might be necessary to control the oil companies as public utilities. They are spending little for new oil exploration here (because of the Ecos/Libs, and partly maybe to inflate prices), so are riding a profit wave.

Dr. ZhivBlago on October 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM

No, No, No, No, No. Even thinking that having the government take over any company or industry for any reason is very bad thing. It IS the regs and dhimmis that are keeping us from Drilling here, now, and offshore. What are you thinking?
Name a single public utility anywhere in the “57″ states that is profitable and has reduced customer pricing EVER. I dare you.

Right and spot prices are based on what supply will be left. When futures contracts are high it looks like there will be less supply, so the spot price is influenced. Besides, you’d then have to attribute the rise in prices to either demand or dollar depreciation. Since demand dropped, you would have to explain the price increase with only dollar depreciation.

The Calibur on October 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM

Last year’s oil price spike was caused by one thing: Decreased supply.
The Saudis started it (remember NObama bowing to their King?
Wonder why he did that?) and because the Sauds control OPEC, they got the rest of the oil producing members to cut supply as well.
The dollar had nothing to do with it.
It wasn’t Sarah who got the D in Macro(Economics; it was The Calibur.
The Calibur of what, exactly?

BTW, for those who are fond of calling Palin an economic illiterate, she said she got a D in Macroeconomics; that means she’s got one or more Econ courses under her belt. Nobody can say the same for Obama.

SilentWatcher on October 8, 2009 at 2:06 AM

I’ll believe this alleged “factoid” when Sarah’s transcripts confirm that she did, in fact, get a D in Macroeconomics.
For now, it’s an unattributed statement that goes back to one (1) ABC news story from before the election, but has been widely circulated on Leftoid blogs as “truth”…
Funniest thing.

We deal in reality, not utopia.

This may be slightly off the topic but bear with me:

If you examine history you will be able to cite several examples of where decisions were made that became watershed moments and which directly affected the future of an individual, group, society or country. Sometimes these decisions were made in advance of the reality or evidence and based more on potential and gut feeling.

Several year ago in the world of sports a coach of a team had a huge decision to make. At that time the coach was viewed as a perennial loser, his personality was too serious or dour, he was vilified daily by the press, there were rumors his players hated him, his strategies, on the field and off the field were being constantly questioned by the pundits and it was predicted he would be fired at the end of the season as he had been a few years before. Certainly he was not considered a genius.

This coach finished in the cellar in his first year as coach. The predictions for the coming season were no different.

In the third game of the season after losing his first two games and after his key veteran star player went down in the second game he was forced to turn to his untested backup to carry the ball. The backup was a virtual unknown who had received little fanfare from being on the team. Even the coach probably did not how good the backup was.

To the surprise of many the backup performed admirably (he set a record of performance from the beginning of a career) and led the team to several victories, although the conventional wisdom was that once the starter was ready to come back he would get his job back. At 5-5 the starter was ready to come back.

The coach had a decision to make that in historical terms came to define his entire career and the future of the team that he led. What he had to determine was whether he was going to bank his future on the growing potential of an unknown that he had come to appreciate or would he revert back to the veteran who had a proven record of accomplishment whose paycheck was evidence of that.

He decided to go with the unknown backup for the remainder of the season. The understudy went on to win the last 9 games of the season and against all odds won the championship of that sport.

That folks happened in 2001. The coach was Bill Belichick and the unknown backup was Tom Brady.

Bill Belichick is now considered a genius and Tom Brady went 162 passes from the start of a career without throwing an interception to set a NFL record and won the Super Bowl in 2001 and two more SB’s after that and has more than fulfilled the promise his coach had in him in 2001.

Folks, Sarah is now Tom Brady before Belichick dubbed Brady his starter. She has definitely shown promise: her convention speech, her debate with Biden, her post-campaign speeches, her speech in HK and her Facebook entries.

Sarah Palin can one day become the fulfilled Tom Brady,if the American people allow her the opportunity to fulfill her talents. But for that to occur like Belichick who did not listen to the media critics in choosing to go with Brady in 2001, the millions of folks who oppose Obama and believe in a conservative view of life and politics must decide to go with Sarah, despite the media narrative that she is “damaged goods” and “unelectable” and bank our future on her POTENTIAL as she goes forward over the next 1-2 years.

I am firmly convinced if American conservatives and anti-Obama advocates make that decision that will be the turning point in the resurrection of America as Tom Brady’s legitimacy as a full-time starter took the New England Patriots to the heights of victory that few teams have ever known.

It would be so easy to go with the status quo, but to make a decision like Belichick made takes faith and guts. I pray that American patriots have the faith and guts to eventually to embrace Sarah as well.

technopeasant on October 7, 2009 at 6:05 PM

+1,000,000

What’s wrong with AP? Is he deathly ill?

How do you make plastics?

I’m pretty sure at some point around 10 percent of the country will be saying this:

F*ck the penguins
F*ck the polar bears
F*ck the caribou
F*ck the leftists
F*ck Obama
F*ck the unions
F*ck the environmentalists
and a big F*ck you to Pelosi and Reid.

I WANT MY JOB!

Chaz706 on October 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM

you forgot

F*ck Al Hypocrite Gore

Like someone said last night on a Palin post…..

Sarah Heath Palin
mmmmm…mmmmm…mmmmmm

shomegirl on October 7, 2009 at 4:29 PM

Megadittos to that! How can I help C4P? Gotta go to site see what I can do to help.

There’s a lot of oil beneath us, but even then we’d have to tighten our energy usage belts, augment with alternative energy sources, pay more for petroleum-based products…above all expand our nuclear power industry.

Also, hate to say it, but it might be necessary to control the oil companies as public utilities. They are spending little for new oil exploration here (because of the Ecos/Libs, and partly maybe to inflate prices), so are riding a profit wave. More exploration/development would threaten their profit margin, so they’d charge more.

Oh, and kick out the illegal immigrants, and control immigration. More people = more energy consumption, usage of resources, etc.

It would seem Gov. Sarah Palin was ahead of the curve negotiating the largest private infrastructure project in North American history, and indeed put Alaskans first as the state seems poised to survive the global recession, and grow oil and gas sector jobs.

For the first time in over 8 years, Alaskan unemployment is below the national average: 8.3% v 9.5%. Quite striking when you consider Alaska had the highest national unemployment rate in 2004 with 7.5% followed by Oregon at 7.4%. Let’s give a shout out to number 3 on the list–Michigan, currently, June 2009, the highest unemployment in the nation:

Unemployment national average: 2004, 5.5%
-Jun09, 9.5% -Jul09, 9.4% -Aug09, 9.7% -Sep09, 9.8%

1. Alaska 2004 7.5%-Jun09 8.3% -Jul09 8.2% -Aug09 8.3%
2. Oregon 2004 7.4%-Jun09 12.0% -Jul09 11.8% -Aug09 12.2%**
3. Michigan ’04 7.1%-Jun09 15.2%* -Jul09 15.0%* -Aug09 15.2%*

* = Highest in the nation.
** = State historical high.

With tourism always the first to take a hit in a recession, car rental taxes down that offset property taxes, hotel staff reductions, and the passenger cruise lines reducing trips to the Alaskan market for 2010, I would say Gov. Palin brought new energy and jobs to market for Alaskans further diversifying the state economy for future generations, and increasing high skilled jobs vs. services oriented. (No SEIU dues for you!) Well done, Sarahcuda.

I disagree. The moment we announce a change in policy regarding harvesting our energy resources, oil prices will drop. Given any set of circumstances, any given price level, any level of demand, the price will drop when the market realizes that new supply is being added.

Red State State of Mind on October 7, 2009 at 4:57 PM
This happened just last year when congress APPROVED off shore drilling, prices dropped from 4.50 a gallon to 2.00 a gallon in California until congress staethilystealthily changed their minds again to outlaw off shore drilling.

VOTE THE DEMS OUT ON THEIR ASS in 2010.

dthorny on October 7, 2009 at 6:59 PM

I disagree. The moment we announce a change in policy regarding harvesting our energy resources, oil prices will drop. Given any set of circumstances, any given price level, any level of demand, the price will drop when the market realizes that new supply is being added.

Red State State of Mind on October 7, 2009 at 4:57 PM

This happened just last year when congress APPROVED off shore drilling, prices dropped from 4.50 a gallon to 2.00 a gallon in California until congress staethily changed their minds again to outlaw off shore drilling.

VOTE THE DEMS OUT ON THEIR ASS in 2010.

Taking fuel buring vehicles off our streets will not replace these items made from oil:

http://www.anwr.org/features/oiluses.htm