# Sarah Palin Knew That The USA's Credit Rating Was Going To Be Downgraded; What Else Does She Know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265 "2011-08-10T23:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/1 "2011-08-10T23:24:48Z")
Today Sarah Palin told the world that she tried to warn the world about the coming downgrade, and how she saw it coming from a mile away, saying “One doesn’t need a Harvard Law degree” to have foreseen the impending credit crisis. ## She talked of learning all about micro and macro economics at the University of Idaho, and wonders why Pres. Obama obviously didn’t get clued-in while he was studying at Columbia and Harvard… Any ideas on what else she knows is going to happen in the future? What other knowledge did she pick up during her educational pursuits? Finally, if she has such amazing foresight and intelligence, how cum she didn’t know her darling, morally upstanding Christian daughter liked to get blackout, falling-down drunk and have lots and lots of unprotected sex when she was only a tender 17 year-old? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/2 "2011-08-10T23:27:58Z")
Whatever. I stopped listening to anything she said a long time ago. I wouldn’t hear her if she was next to me in a building telling me it was on fire. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/3 "2011-08-10T23:53:07Z")
“How’s that burny-smoky thing workin’ out for ya?” ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/4 "2011-08-11T00:02:14Z")
She knows where Russia is… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/5 "2011-08-11T00:05:25Z")
As it turns out, Palin is credited with getting Alaska a AAA bond rating from those agencies. How did she do it? _By raising taxes on the oil companies_, among other measures. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/6 "2011-08-11T03:57:42Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Finally, if she has such amazing foresight and intelligence, how cum she didn’t know her darling, morally upstanding Christian daughter liked to get blackout, falling-down drunk and have lots and lots of unprotected sex when she was only a tender 17 year-old? [Because it was a setup](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20516756,00.html). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/7 "2011-08-11T04:05:43Z")
Is she quoted anywhere as actually predicting this beforehand, or is this _ex post facto_? > [@RickJay](#): > > “How’s that burny-smoky thing workin’ out for ya?” Nice one! Sounds just like something she would say. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/8 "2011-08-11T04:25:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > As it turns out, Palin is credited with getting Alaska a AAA bond rating from those agencies. How did she do it? _By raising taxes on the oil companies_, among other measures. So did Alaska get downgraded to AA+ like the sovereign rating? That’s the way theoretically these things should work out. Is it just me, or is her heinous pretty quiet lately? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/9 "2011-08-11T04:28:30Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > So did Alaska get downgraded to AA+ like the sovereign rating? That’s the way theoretically these things should work out. > > Is it just me, or is **her heinous** pretty quiet lately? Was this a typo or just being really clever? ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/10 "2011-08-11T11:55:04Z")
She’s a slave to her ideology. Ideologues are usually dim people who think they know everything. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/11 "2011-08-11T12:33:59Z")
Everyone knew that the downgrade was a serious possibility, except for the Tea Party – some of Palin’s staunchest supporters. Obama clearly did – he spoke about it several times. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/12 "2011-08-11T13:14:21Z")
Why does she keep getting attention? Why can’t she just be abducted by aliens and put out of our misery?? ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/13 "2011-08-11T13:58:06Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Why can’t she just be abducted by aliens and put out of our misery?? Aliens have standards. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/14 "2011-08-11T14:08:29Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Why does she keep getting attention? Why can’t she just be abducted by aliens and put out of our misery?? > [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Aliens have standards. And those standards came from _somewhere_. I think the aliens tried, and threw her back. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/15 "2011-08-11T14:36:25Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > And those standards came from _somewhere_. I think the aliens tried, and threw her back. Perfect fodder for Berke Breathed right there. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/16 "2011-08-11T14:51:40Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Is it just me, or is her heinous pretty quiet lately? If only. Guess who’s coming to our Iowa State Fair ('it’s a great state fair") this Friday? Just ahead of the big Ames straw poll on Saturday? I can hardly wait. :rolleyes: Although her presence at the fair just means one addition to the carny folk, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/17 "2011-08-11T14:56:13Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > So did Alaska get downgraded to AA+ like the sovereign rating? That’s the way theoretically these things should work out. > > Is it just me, or is her heinous pretty quiet lately? I don’t think so. The Alaska Permanent Fund hit a record $41 billion earlier this year, although it’s down $2B from the recent downturn of the market. They’re operating at a surplus, in other words. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/18 "2011-08-11T14:58:48Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Finally, if she has such amazing foresight and intelligence, how cum she didn’t know her darling, morally upstanding Christian daughter liked to get blackout, falling-down drunk and have lots and lots of unprotected sex when she was only a tender 17 year-old? What the fuck has that to do with the subject? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/19 "2011-08-11T14:59:36Z")
Will nobody rid us of this turbulent MILF? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265/20 "2011-08-11T15:44:11Z")
I am more interested in Timothy Geithner (US Sec. of the Treasury and admitted tax cheat). He said (last week) that there was “no chance” of the US credit rating being downgraded. Maybe Tim knew something we didn’t. but of course, S&P is not the world’s most rel;iable rating agency-they gave Lehman Bothers a clean bill of health-one week before it went bankrupt. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-knew-that-the-usas-credit-rating-was-going-to-be-downgraded-what-else-does-she-know/592265.md?page=2)