# Sarah Palin: Obama "pussyfooting" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 4, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752 "2011-05-04T21:21:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/21 "2011-05-04T23:00:01Z")
Best Palin rant in a while. Of course she’s not alone: Beck, Limbaugh, and all of the other usual fuckheads are criticizing it. The crazy thing is that I think some people who are ordinarily fans may actually be seeing this as “uh… yeah, but he killed bin Laden”. I’ve no delusions the moment of clarity will last, but it’s nice to see the masses of asses not jumping up and down echoing them for once. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/22 "2011-05-04T23:04:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > According to Sarah Palin, Obama is “pussyfooting” for not releasing pictures of bin Laden. Would she be satisfied with a Certificate of Live Death, or is she insisting on the long form? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/23 "2011-05-04T23:13:03Z")
The thing is, I’m sure (and I expect everyone else is too) she had an alternate criticism prepared if he’d _released_ the photos. The _important_ thing is to criticize the “other side.” ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/24 "2011-05-04T23:13:09Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Which “C” word? Which do you think? > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Chuck? > Cooler? > Concur" > Civilian? > Corner? No x 5. I think the point has been gotten across. I would still like to come right out and say it, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/25 "2011-05-04T23:16:49Z")
Maybe they will and maybe they won’t is a bit wishy-washy. And the administration has said both. I know they can say it both ways, but they can’t not release the photos once someone sneaks them out. That bell cannot be unrung, so they had best control how and when it is done because it will be done sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/26 "2011-05-04T23:17:22Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > It’s allowed in EVERY forum - you just can’t call another poster a cunt. Somehow I missed this. U no hu’z a cunt? Sarah Palin, thazz hu. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/27 "2011-05-04T23:17:27Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > Moderators: Is the c-word allowed in the pit? > > Please gimme a yea or a nay ASAP. Maybe I misunderstood. Were you asking permission to say “cunt” in regard to Palin? I thought you were objecting to the OP. My apologies if I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/28 "2011-05-04T23:25:48Z")
Let me reiterate that this kicks ass, but there is a bad typo in it. > [@RickJay](#): > > Yes, the guy whose administration ACTUALLY FUCKING KILLED BIN LADEN by authorizing a raid so fucking daring and badass Chuck Norris would’ve taken a pass, who in fact had the armed forces prepared to go to war with Pakistan if need be **to get Obama** and get all his people out doing it, and whose team pulled it off in such a sweet manner that every special forces soldier in the world, including dead ones in their graves, got a woody, and who dumped the world’ #1 wanted terrorist into the goddamned ocean so fish could eat him.. whoops. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/29 "2011-05-04T23:30:19Z")
New thread-to-come. How would Tea Partiers (Teabaggers) spin Sarah Palin’s words on Fox News (Faux news) to make G. W. Bush (Shrub) the hero because Obama (B. Hussein Osama) has a funny name and is the black-muslim-antichtist not born on the USA? Copious group wanking expected so, please, no sandals. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/30 "2011-05-04T23:30:31Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Maybe they will and maybe they won’t is a bit wishy-washy. And the administration has said both. I know they can say it both ways, but they can’t not release the photos once someone sneaks them out. That bell cannot be unrung, so they had best control how and when it is done because it will be done sooner or later. I was kind of “meh” about whether we release the photos or not, but I’ve heard several talking heads say the same thing, and I’m leaning that way myself now. If photos exist, they will probably be released somehow. And we’ve already seen bloody photos of the others who were killed. Panetta was right. They will have to release them at some point. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/31 "2011-05-04T23:34:20Z")
Where you people are all unfairly criticizing former Governor Palin is that she had the courage to commit in writing BEFORE this Obama guy announced what his policy would be. You’re all acting like she waited to see what Obama would do, and THEN picked a position to take on releasing the photos, whereas she announced her own position immediately (while Obama was making up his so-called mind) and got it out for everyone to see in advance. Give her a little credit for her courage and her bravery and her leadership and her avoidance of partisan politics, please. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/32 "2011-05-04T23:35:49Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Maybe I misunderstood. Were you asking permission to say “cunt” in regard to Palin? Yes. > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I thought you were objecting to the OP. I approve! > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > My apologies if I was wrong. No problemmo. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/33 "2011-05-04T23:35:50Z")
> [@colonial](#): > > Moderators: Is the c-word allowed in the pit? > > Please gimme a yea or a nay ASAP. Oh, shoot. You’re making me almost remember a quote. Mind like a steel sieve. Got it. A book-signing insult from Amy Sedaris on the [Insulted by Authors blog](http://insultedbyauthors.com/blog/2010/12/amy-sedaris-nyc-reading/). “I’d call you a cunt but you lack the warth and depth.” Wonderful quotation. And a very good rant **RickJay**. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/34 "2011-05-04T23:36:43Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > New thread-to-come. How would Tea Partiers (Teabaggers) spin Sarah Palin’s words on Fox News (Faux news) to make G. W. Bush (Shrub) the hero because Obama (B. Hussein Osama) has a funny name and is the black-muslim-antichtist not born on the USA? > > Copious group wanking expected so, please, no sandals. Ummm, I fail to see your point. Unless I’m mistaken, this thread is about actual words, not hypotheticals. Which were indeed predicted by the previous threads. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/35 "2011-05-04T23:38:55Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Where you people are all unfairly criticizing former Governor Palin is that she had the courage to commit in writing BEFORE this Obama guy announced what his policy would be. You’re all acting like she waited to see what Obama would do, and THEN picked a position to take on releasing the photos, whereas she announced her own position immediately (while Obama was making up his so-called mind) and got it out for everyone to see in advance. Give her a little credit for her courage and her bravery and her leadership and her avoidance of partisan politics, please. But seriously, folks, what she doesn’t seem to get is that Obama can always release the photos later, and I believe he will, at a time when say some Al Quada idiot has the stones to claim that Osama isn’t dead, or that he was beheaded or that he took out a dozen Seals before they got him or some such shit. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/36 "2011-05-04T23:42:36Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > New thread-to-come. How would Tea Partiers (Teabaggers) spin Sarah Palin’s words on Fox News (Faux news) to make G. W. Bush (Shrub) the hero because Obama (B. Hussein Osama) has a funny name and is the black-muslim-antichtist not born on the USA? > > Copious group wanking expected so, please, no sandals. Easy. Bush, in his divine wisdom, initiated the protocols and Obama merely implemented them. There is some truth to that, though. Too many people view the office of the President as the person itself - it’s not. The policies of one administration to the next actually don’t change that much in situations like this. We can’t have the Executive Branch, one third of the government, entirely re-invent itself every four years. That would be chaos. My personal view is that it’s not Bush or Obama that got Bin Laden, the credit needs to go to the CIA and the Pentagon. And Seal Team Six of course. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/37 "2011-05-04T23:44:57Z")
Maybe Obama could post them on his Facebook page. Am I a genius or what…? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/38 "2011-05-04T23:48:07Z")
Sarah Palin is retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/39 "2011-05-05T00:05:47Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Ummm, I fail to see your point. Unless I’m mistaken, this thread is about actual words, not hypotheticals. Which were indeed predicted by the previous threads. What did the predict? “Sarah Palin will say something dumb”? I’m calling the thread yet another self-congratulating circle-wank. Carry on dudes, it’s your own fucking thread. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752/40 "2011-05-05T00:13:47Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Seriously, she’s as worthly of attention as some ranting homeless person standing on a street corner in downtown Newark. “I don’t know where Palin is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not my priority.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-obama-pussyfooting/580752.md?page=3)