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[...] has taken to liberal Web site The Huffington Post to respond to an op-ed by Palin published Tuesday in the Washington [...]

[...] energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices," Palin writes. Palin takes aim at Obama over energy Wow. McCain was right. Palin does know MORE about energy than anyone else in the [...]

I will be waiting breathlessly for her to tell us how.

And this woman's opinion is credible because...?

I haven't seen much evidence that she's knowledgeable about much of anything. It's hard to consider her as an expert aside from attack skills.

"So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class" ?. As far as I'm concerned Palin is nothing more than the "Chattering Class"!!!!

Have not we had enough of this woman of few neurons. If the republicans were good we could have stayed wiith Bush who surprisingly has more neuron in his head than hers. I guess Palin sells and sure I am too falling for this making commnets. It has become liek arguing with a fool scenario.

Why is anyone listening to this woman? She's quit every elected post to run for the next one.

It's a shame, really.

There is no doubt that the opinion of an individual who quit her job in public service in order to cash in on the private sector will be vital when considering how to funnel money to Haliburton, Chevron, etc, etc, etc.
Sarah – Please, Just Go Away. Seriously.

I don't get this deal. For someone to hate and talk so much about the national media it sure loves beeing in the media. Now more then before.

I'm sorry. The resigning governor of Alaska does not qualify to criticize officials who stick to their jobs. She demonstrated during her run for VP that she didn't have the depth to handle policy decisions.

Well we need a solution which does not use carbon based fuel. If Ms Plain is going to use the oil under Alaska for the energy usage then we are going the wrong direction.
We need to use energy that is carbon free. Lets use Wind Solar and waves as energy sources to solve our problems.
Ms Plain needs to get some concrete ideas before some of us will listen with interest. Right now her chat is like a Gnat's buzzing in our ears.

I'm not sure why anything Mrs. Palin says could significant to our country. It is very clear where her loyalties lie, especially considering how she simply gave up trying to be governor of Alaska to focus on becomng ever more popular (how could this happen?), hoping to run for President in 2012. Anyone who believes she is making comments/statements in order to better our country is simply fooling themselves. She is not qualified to comment on any legilation any President would offer.

Nut Job, You Betcha!

Palin didn't write anything, and CNN knows that. She let her name be stuck on a position paper written by some anonymous hack from the oil lobby.

Furthermore, cap-and-trade started out as a Republican alternative to actually forbidding dangerous industrial practices. And now, even this compromise doesn't suit them.

Ah well. She'll be our president soon enough.

Didn't you quit? Don't you have a game of maverick basketball to play?

The whole country needs to reject this "cap & trade" tax. It is just Al Gores revenge on America. You can tell he is a communist since they awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize like they did for Yassir Arafat.

"kill" and "clobber" defines Palin's approach to politics, to her opponents, to the media and ironically to her own character and career.

This "quitter" has the unmitigated gall to call out President Obama when she is relinquishing her position as Governor of Alaska, where she could have had a bully pulpit to express her views, in order to fill her own personal coffers is the height of hypocrisy. Go away Sarah! Your 15 minutes are over!

Sarah please go enjoy your retirement, stay out of federal government politics, and stay out of sight and sound too. Its still apparent and has been apparent since last year that you don't have the first inkling of what is going on in this country. Instead of attacking the opposite party, why don't you try questioning the deviant behavior that your own party has done and the damage that they've inflicted on our country. Such as, why did they sell our souls to China, a Communist/Socialist country???

Go away already

She couldn't handle the resposibilities of her elected office so she quits and thinks she can now just fire missles from the sidelines? She wants to spend more time with her family but says she will campaign across the country for other candidates? Please Sarah just go away already, the adults are trying to have a conversation!

She comes from a state whose largest industry is oil and gas. What else would we expect her to say? My comment isn't Palin specific. An ex-governor from and oil and gas state isn't going to promote alternative energy.

How can the press print this woman's comments. How many universities did she go to? What a farce! She needs to focus on being a mother. She sure hasn't done a very good job of that. In fact, she is like George W Bush. He lost all the businesses his father bought for him and likewise Palin is a quitter. Give me a break. Lets focus on healthcare and other important issues rather than Palin.

If Palin is so above the "political gossip of the day" then she should stop commenting on everything that is said about her and ignore it. She's not above it, she's part of it. And her career was built on it.

Sarah, what data do you have to support your argument?

You go girl! If the democrats and environmentalists would have let the country do what needed to be done regarding drilling and nuclear power since the 70's we would be in no trouble at all now.

This woman was NOT elected in 2008. She has resigned as governor of her state this month, why are we listening to her and making her thoughts newsworthy. You do not see John McCain making headlines and if I am correct he is still a senator. Her 15 minutes of fame should be over.

Soona s this QUITTER refers to her PRESIDENT properly then maybe I will read what someone else wrote for her

It is obvious that the GOP is writing her speeches for her

Did someone write these comments for her? She needs to go out and accept live interview and states what is her policies and the difference between her policies and Obama's. Critizing is always the easiest part. Coming out a solution that majority agree upon is always the hardest work.

Go Sarah!! The liberals are terrified of you and they should be! Obama wants to kill us with Cap and Trade that will do nothing but create crushing taxes and increase the cost of everything from a dozen eggs to a new car .Millions of us support you and your following is getting bigger by the day.

Palin 2012!!!

Dumb Palin is just dumb. I will never forgive John McCain for thrusting this dumb, uninformed shill for old energy into the public spotlight.

The national media? Like the one that just gave her a voice in the Washington Post?

This woman is deranged.

As an Alaskan, anything that our soon to be ex-gov says is moot. Our little princess has taken her crown and left the stage. All she has to offer is rhetoric, with no subtance and no counter plan. I believe that soon people will ask her what have you done lately and the answer is I've quit.

Please stop covering this imbecile of a person. She has absolutely no political clout and is name dropping to get the press interested in her. Put Rush Limbaugh in a dress and you get this moron.

Sarah just needs to go away and shut up. Once she is out of politics, she no longer has a right to take shots at the current administration. Neither does Cheney or Bush, or any other outsider for that matter.

Goodbye Sarah and good riddance.

The only economies alternative energy will affect are fossil fuels and those whose income is based stritcly on keeping with the status quo, and that's okay because they're so last millenium. It'll also affect the budgets of states that rely solely on gas & oil for industry dollars. The best time to start moving away from this filthy, environmentally damaging scorge, and into cleaner, renewable alternatives is before there's none left to fight over. Only ignorant fools would disagree. Granted, people who work in the oil and gas industry will be required to retrain for other jobs, but we've all had to do it.

Doesn't this woman have a state to go run? O wait, she ran away from that job. What do we care what she thinks?

Why would anyone care what a quitter thinks about anything? If she wanted her opinion to matter, perhaps she should have stayed in office.

Palin has no place to discuss what the White House is doing. She can't handle the pressure of being Governor of Alaska.
CNN-Please stop giving this moron press....She contributes nothing to society.

Sarah, nobody cares what you think except for a handful of backwoods regressives.

Why don't this woman go away? Didn't she resign? Ms Palin you don't need to be giving your opinion on anything. Lay low for the moment and handle your family finances and issue problems.

as a citizen I want to be prominently displayed like Palin, she is no longer news and no longer a governor

you continue to put this bafoon out there for having nothing other than a small fan base and a PAC

is it because you are waiting for her on coming trainwreck?

regardless, STOP putting her out there, she is a normal citizen and you are inviting bad comments about her and giving her more coverage than she deserves

She knows nothing about energy or the environment. She needs to just go away and take care of her family.

we now have the new E.F. Hutton, "when Sarah speaks" I have no problem with a disagreement over policy and effect it may have; the question I have is will she only speak out when she disagrees with a policy? in other words, what does she think about Obama's support of the community college system which he is touting today? good idea?if so, speak out and support it; I am sick and tried of all the talk about failed policy; given we haven't been attacked, wall street didn't go into the great depression, some folks are still getting benefits while being out of work, everything hasn't gone to hell in a hand basket; this guy hasn't even been on the job one year;

Maybe now that she's left office, she will make an effort to educated herself about issues. Sadly, people don't change; Palin has never interested or curiosity in the rest of the world She in attention and power. So tacky to leave the people of Alaska in the the middle of her term. I think they will be better off without her. I know the wolves will be.

She didn't write this! Look @ her resignation speech and this one. Definitely a ghost writer. MSM need to stop accepting materials from Palin without any details. She attacks and, sprout out things that she doesn't have a clue about... This is one Republican that can do w/o Palin.

I thought she was quitting to take care of her family. Another lie as usually.....

Soon to be ex-Goveror Palin: Don't you realize that people don't care what you have to say anymore? (If anyone ever did).

How can politicians say this is a jobs bill? Yes, I guess if they want to say creating Green Jobs, but you can't ignore all of the other ones that will be lost. The only other industrial nation with a huge green economy is Spain, and they've lost 2.2 jobs for every green job that has been created, and that's the system that Obama has said is the model for where we want to go.

Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of the idiots who voted for this are doing the equivalent of pi-ng into the wind. China and India, who emit far more 'greenhouse gases' than the US have no intention of doing anything similar or anything to curb their usage. And we can't harp on China because, once again thanks to Obama, Pelosi, and the same bunch of idiots, the US needs China to buy its debt. We're screwing ourselves royally, while AlGore the Hutt laughs all teh way to the bank.

Hopefully by the time enough people wake up and realize this is all one big myth, there will still be enough of America to recover.

The New Obamamerica – Work hard so you can pay money to take care of people who don't want to work!

Digging up Alaska oil won't work. US oil companies base their prices on the international market and have zero obligation to sell their oil to us. In fact, many of them export oil today that could have been used domestically. Bush Jr.'s own energy department found that at peak capacity the ANWLR oil production would be a mere 1 million barrels a day, which is puny even compared to the over 20 million barrels per day we consume today. And in the international market that'll make for jack squat! The only way to reduce our energy costs is to just use less energy! Not more oil drilling, not solar or wind energy, not ethanol. Those will just fatten the pockets of companies that rob us!

Read the whole piece by Gov. Palin- way to go!! You hit the nail on the head- reducing resources increases costs which will cripple the working and middle classes. What she should have also mentioned is that CO2 is not a pollutant, but is necessary for life. See "photosynthesis." The Gov. knows energy and the needs of Americans. Wake up Obama!!!!

Didn't Palin tell Hillary Clinton to stop whining about the media during the Presidential campaign?

Like anyone wants to hear what this quitter has to say. She is done, stick a fork in her.

A bachelors degree in journalism (?), 2 years as governor of an oil proudcing state and suddenly she's an expert on energy. Does Palin even understand that Obama's energy plan isn't just about tomorrow, but it's dealing with 10 years or more from now?

Palin's best is an idiot.

Given Mrs. Palin's lack of economic credentials, I don't understand why anyone would or should care what her opinion is on cap-and-trade.

New technological advancements = more job creation

I would not expect fear mongering from a biased Palin to understand with her interests in Big Oil and the status quo. New energy legislation challenges us to accept responsibility towards more energy indepedence going forward. It is long overdue.

Our soldiers are making sacrifices overseas for us. It is the least we can do at home to advance better, cleaner energy for them. These efforts will not only create more jobs, but it will also help minimize funding hostile regimes our valiant soldiers are fighting.

It is a shared responsibility to benefit ALL Americans.

Sarah Palin does not believe in climate science. The best science tells us that global warming is happening now, that it is largely human caused, and that we can do something about it, but we need to act NOW. Because she does not believe this, she does not compare the cost of inaction to the cost of proposed action, so of course she thinks it will cost America money. I find it unfortunate that this article did not point out that fact.

If you don't fix a leak in your roof because it is too expensive to fix without comparing that cost to the cost of rotted rafters and other water damage to the house's infrastructure, you will end up with a far larger financial bill than you would have had by biting the bullet and paying to fix the roof.

This is what is known as ignorance, and one ignorant administration has already been far more than America can afford, and has almost brought this great country to its knees. Fortunately, this fact was finally realized by the majority of the electorate in the last election. I've had enough of Sarah Palin.

"energy scarcer"? How about "more scarce"? This woman is a grotesque illiterate.

WHY DOES ANYONE CARE?? SHE IS A QUITTER!!! After mouthing off and being EXTREMELY negative while on the campaign with Senator McCann. SHE force more attention to be brought upon herself. SHE paraded her family with her everywhere. SHE answered questioned in a manner that made her sound ridiculous. And then when she returns to Alaska she finds some people are hostile toward her, the PRESSURE builds, and SHE QUITS!!! If it were a man the reaction would be TOTALLY NEGATIVE and no one would be making excuses for him...
SHE'S A QUITTER!!! let me say it again...SHE'S A QUITTER and what she says or does should no longer matter!!!

Ms. Palin proved to be ignorant about most issues during her bid as the vice-presidential candidate, even when prepped.

So, is she expecting to be some type of watchdog on our behalf for the next 3 years while she prepares for her presidential campaign?

If so, I find this humorous. if not, then what is she trying attempting to do? I see no value coming from this extreme right-wing, hypocritical individual. She will blast the media for focusing too much on her life, but will adroitly use it to her advantage to keep her in the limelight.

Please wither away.

Maybe she could resign in protest.

hmmmm...energy policy....sarah palin....barack obama...scarcer and more expensive....maybe that's why we need renewables....

She is right about this issue. The tree huggers need to stand aside and we need to get drilling to produce our own oil reserves. This green crap is getting old. DRILL BABY DRILL.

Same old, same old. No answers, just criticism and doom and gloom...PATHETIC

Why do you continue to report on Palin's comments so much? There are many other more informed voices out there who would bring so much more to the conversation.

I love taking advice from quitters. They know better than the rest of us!

This LITTLE GIRL needs to go back home to mommy for nurturing and soothing. PERHAPS someday she will grow up and stop whinning like a child. She is much too volitle to be in ANY political office

pls pls pls we don't care what this women thinks.she doesn't have the iq to be a presedent.her opions on the job mean not.

Op ed piece? Are you sure this wasn't in the funny pages?

I thought Palin wanted to stay out of the media's limelight. Why does she keep talking if she wants to be ignored?

She needs to shut up and go away.

She just doesn't get it. The idea is to wean ourselved from oil, foreign and domestic.We will always need oil for many other things besides burning it. So we need to conserve what we have, including Alaska. Let's face it we are the worlds biggest pigs of oil. Even the ones with lipstick.

She is still a quitter and needs to shut up. She has no brains or plans on how to do anything except enrich her own personal agenda. She certainly hasn't the right to "take aim" at anything in the Obama administration.
How do we finally make her go away?? That's what I'd like to know!

Does this woman not get it . Palin LOST the election and has resigned as Govenor of her State. No political clout = who cares what she has to say. We can not continue to rely on oil and carbon based fuels to be our main stay for home heating, Auto fuel, Electricity, ect, ect. We as a generation are destroying our planet as we know it due the greed of many involved in BIG OIL who fear the potential loss of revenue will drive down profits and the same goes for Alaska which is one our great states, but would significantly suffer loss of money if its oil didn't bring in profits that it survives on.
We as a society must move on to the future of enviromently safe sources of fuel and energy !

I was struck by her quote, "Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy". When you look at her approach to energy in the state of Alaska, it appears that she has taken what was once the very foundation of the economy there and pummeled it into a deficit that equals to twice as much per capita as California. And now she is leaving the state, after handing over $500 million to a Canadian pipeline 'study' with no concrete results and oil companies that are still smarting over the big tax increases she levied in order to pass out checks to Alaskans. Now the Permanent Fund is in trouble, the oil companies are balking at her pipeline and the state is in debt. It is contradictory of her to criticize anyone for energy issues as related to the economy.

Palin's alternative: Do nothing.

Why is she still talking...

Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy." To those of you that wish she would shut-up, go stick your head in the mud if you don't want to hear from her because she is right about this. Alaska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and a lot of other states are full of the resources that would supply the US such as fuel and natural gas and supplying people with jobs. Also the people that own the land that companies would have to lease from would benefit and then that would help boost the economy. It is a continual thing. You pay Paul and Paul is going to spend and spending what you make here in the US helps the US.

You quit because your job was too hard so stop talking! Quitters don’t get to judge and criticize hard workers; particularly those trying to rectify the “permanent damage” caused by Bush, Cheney, Rove. et al. News outlets MUST stop giving her air time just because they think we want to hear from her. We do NOT. Now that she is no longer a politician leave her to oblivion!

With all this heat on Obama, maybe he should just quit and make a bunch of money off reality television shows, and poorly written books and rambling speeches. That's the Sarah Palin way!

700-word commentary...698 more than I thought she had in her total vocabulary! As the governor of the state with the largest energy reserves in our country, she could legitimately comment on the energy policy for our country. As either a quitter who can't handle the pressure of public life, or a money hungry obsessive publicity seeker, not so much!

typical GOP. Forget everything people, its about your money. Who cares if the earth is rotting. Miss Palin, what's your solution?

"...let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be."

Clear? Focus? That would be a first. I am consistently amazed by these so-called Christian Politicians who value our economy more than the Earth (God's Earth) itself. Does anyone really believe Sarah Palin understands these policies? Why doesn't she just muster up all the nuance she can so she can adequately describe her focus: Drill, baby, drill.

The joke is on Sarah... the majority of us "normal" Americans do not care what this narcissus, uneducated, ignorant, self righteous women has to say. Her kind are in the minority, thank God.

Nice to know Palin has someone to write for her. The woman can't speak in normal sentences. Can you imagine trying to read something she actually would write for herself?

She's a joke, an idiot, and an embarrassment to me as a US Citizen.

If Sarah had wanted credibility with the American people with this or any other issue, she should not have resigned her position! I will tune her out on anything she has to say, she is a quitter, no ifs, ands or buts about it. If my child had quit in the middle of accepting a post as his/or hers class president position, I would go on a tiarade about not being a quitter. Same thing here. This gal is running for future offce, make no mistake about it. If we decide to put this lady into office, we need our heads examined. Why would she not step down if things got too rough for her?????? she can't handle the poltical scene. Go away Sarah, you were handed a golden opportunity from Sen. McCain and made a mess of it. We don't want to listen to you anymore.

"Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy." Sorry Princess...Consevatives have had time to deal with this and didn't.

Dear Mr. President,

You have a tremendous opportunity here to do what you did with Hillary Clinton. After you defeat them, invite, persuade, insist, guilt trip, coerce, whatever you gotta do...get them to join you. Palin should be a much easier target since she's such a publicity fiend and opportunist. Much less integrity than ms. Clinton. Bait her in, request like five meetings with her, and tell her you want to make her a personal advisor or give her some form of non partisan position in which she can still be a Republican, but also be on your team. Her political capitol is enourmous, and far surpasses her actual dedication to her principles. Therefore it would be in the best interest of the polls, pundits, press, political parties( or at least yours, republicans would be extremely blindsided by this) and most importantly your leadership ability to rope in Palin and turn her into an asset.

Yours truly,

your neighborhood Jr. Advisor.

I wish this moron Palin would just go away. But I fear that she's headed to the Fox Network in some show where she can rant & rave her extreme & uneducated views at will. Perhaps she could join the "Red Eye" team on Fox– what a bunch of ignorant narcisstic bigots! She'll fit right in.

To talk policies, one must get an education first, and Palin does not have one. Please go to school first.
For those who compare her to our President, only lawyers can understand what a Law Degree from Harvard means. Palin can now afford a tuition at Harvard or Princetown. I'm sure that she will do well if she retakes her SAT.

Palin specifically attacks the "cap and trade" proposal in the White House-backed legislation, under which companies would be required to buy and sell emissions credits.
From who? Al Gore?
I really cannot believe that even liberals think that is a good idea.
Has America's brain turned to jello?
Now I know many of you will say the republicans have no plan, which perhaps they do not, but simply saying "Alternative Fuel" doesn't really sound like a plan either. What are the specifics to this "Alternative Fuel"? And even more important what does it look like 5 years down the line?
Will food cost too much to afford? Will these "Alternatives" be efficient?
Or does any of that matter, just as long as we are doing something?

Is that there pipeline built yet? Last August I could have sworn that a certain Gov. was taking credit for the building of the pipeline...

Why doesn't she just go away? The more she opens her mouth the more confusing she sounds. Vote for her to run our country? NEVER!

I'm sorry...why are we listening to someone that can't handle her job and her life at the same time? She can't handle her own job but she thinks she can tell the President what to do?

If she can't handle the pressures and demands of being a Governor, a wife and a mother how can she handle being PRESIDENT, a wife and a mother?

I'm worrying about delusions of grandeur!

The Americans hit hardest will be those already struggling to make ends meet. As the president eloquently puts it, their electricity bills will "necessarily skyrocket." So much for not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
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No quite, Sarah. But when did you ever let facts get in your way? This isn't what Obama said.

I almost felt sorry for her because I do believe she was under a great deal of stress this past year.

However, now that she has willingly become the fall guy for the GOP, easily dooped into a repeat performance of last summers speeches filled with untruths, innuendo's, and fear, she deserves what comes her way.

Is she still talking?

She couldn't even finish out her term as governor, and she wants to pretend she has some sort of intelligent insight into energy policy matters? Please, just go away.

Sounds like Ms. Palin is only proving that the "Party of No" is also the "Party of No New Ideas." The prattle that she is spewing about the "devastating" consequences of cap-and-trade is just a retread of the same tired arguements also used against the sulfur dioxide C&T legislation of years past........arguements that were based more on kowtowing to the status quo rather than embarking on a new solution to a dangerous problem.

All she is proving is her inability to think out of the box and come up with 21st century solutions to problems.

She is like an annoying gnat that keeps buzzing around. I would
like to swat her to get rid of her and her need for publicity.

What Sarah Palin fails to understand is that without some type of legislation to force the oil companies to seek new forms of renewable energy they'll just sit back on their fatcat butts and "drill baby, drill" til there ain't nothing left.
When fossil fuel prices reach a certain point it will become economically feasible to build up the solar, wind and other energy technologies to finally get us off oil. President Obama is hastening that eventuality, I thnk it's the right way to go, oil and gas WILL run out someday, what do we do then Sarah?

Who really cares what this has-been wannabe thinks any more?

And we are supposed to believe that she developed this position and statement on her own? This level of comprehension escapes her. But I guess being able to read a script does not.

Palin is so right. China and Japan are not going to follow the Cap and Trade bill so the US will be penalized and our businesses will suffer. All Cap and Trade will do is increase what the consumer pays and we are already hurting tremendously. Obama says this will create jobs. Who is he kidding? Just like his health program. Isn't it funny that the Congress and Senate will not have to sign up for Obama's plan for five years. Where is that fair. Plus I am sure if a person is wealthy, they will not have to wait in line or go months waiting for a procedure or be told that you cannot have the procedure at all. We are headed toward England and Canada. I guess the people in the US have to suffer before they appreciate what they have. Once the program is in place, we will be stuck with it forever.

She didnt' win the vice-presidency. She's resigned her position as govener. As best I can tell she holds not standing other than private citizen with an opinion. Can we please stop getting so much coverage from her aleady? If she really believes any of this she should stay on an work the issues. Otherwise she's just another heckler in the crowd.

WHo cares what this woman thinks. IF she was so concerned about Obsama's energy proposal then she would have stayed in laska as governor to assist her state. I am so sick of this wannabe polotico that doesn't seem to have a clue as to how ridiculous she really appears to me and others as well. Sarah, your 15 minutes is way way past

Palin's approach to energy is myopic and the furthest from forward thinking. Oil is a finite resource, and it is imperative that America and other nations start to plan for the post-oil world.

Drill, baby, drill was a cute little campaign battle cry, but will do absolutely nothing for us when the wells dry up.

Palin needs to stop acting like a petulant politician on the campaign trail. Wait, that's all she is now. Leaders think toward the future.

Will someone PLEASE shut this woman up. She established herself as a national embarrassment last year. She does not have the intelligence to know the runnings of the various branches of government, she doesn't have the intelligence to realize that her own state would never have voted for her if they know she would jump ship on them and she doesn't have the intelligence to know when to keep her mouth shut. Why there continues to be coverage of her, I have no idea. Even her own party wishes she would keep her mouth closed. If the republican party were ever to embrace her as a possible future candidate, it would without a doubt, be most damaging mistake they could ever make to the future of their party. Please, Please, Please CNN, STOP covering this insignificant person and move on to printing some real news!

Ms. Palin,

You've failed your party by detracting from their message (albeit a very confused, idiotic message) and helped only to lose the November election (Thank God for that!). You've failed your state because you committed to serving a full term when elected and now are quitting for the sole reason of furthering your political ambitions. Your foreign policy views are for the most part nonexistent. Those you have expressed are simply retarded. Your position on most every domestic issue you've spoken out on have only served to demonstrate that you are either grossly misinformed or you are just acting as the mouthpiece of whatever portion of the Republican Party accepts your kind of garbage.

Your 15 minutes of fame expired long ago. You'd serve this country far better if you had a recurring role on "Deadliest Catch" instead of the nightly news and this country would be so much better for it.

If you do get that role, please find a place for Rush Limbaugh on your boat. He needs a new job too...

I believe Sarah Palin is a very smart woman, I also believe she has a goal and that we need more leaders willing to speek up and do what is really best for our country , this is what she does. The dem. have been trying to destroy her because they are afraid of her, she is a leader that scares them.

I can't shake the feeling that Palin is a female George Bush. Just listen to her ramble.

Who cares what "The Quitter" has to say about economics and energy policy? She has no credentials or credibility in either area. Empty talking points from an attention starved pretender.

Best thing gov. Palin can do is to get her own political talk show at the same time as the Oprah show. That forum will send a clear message to some people that they are not the center of the universe and another America, the original America is still very much alive and kicking.

That platform will earn Mrs. Palin a hefty sum of money and to become quite powerful. Real power in this country is not held by politicians, they are simply puppets and Sarah Palin is not a puppet.

This woman has no credibility at all. She is strictly party line all the way.

Palin please!!! For the love of your Gold if you really love this country like you claim you do, then you would go shoot yourself in the head. But don't worry though; since you have nothing in your head anyways, shooting yourself in the head wouldn't really hurt you much. It might actually make you smarter

Who are you Sarah? You lost the election and soon you will be known as x- governor. Dont you understand that people do not listen to anyone who has no title or position!

700 words commentary !!
who wrote it?

Bless her heart. Ms. Palin, you are a nice person with a beautiful family, but your political viewpoints are deplorably disastrous. We are tempted to think that you just seem to have a smattering sense in all and sundry.

Your progressively pugnacious push against your opponents with regard to a panoply of issues, make us gag and we do not want you to be one among the pantheon of poor performers, such as the
ultra-consrvative right-wingers.

This woman needs professional help.

Please go do "home" work.

If Palin couldn't handle the pressure of her job as Govener in Alaska because of all the other distractions in her life...... then what makes her think she is even capable of telling the President what to do, and how to do it.......she needs stick to something she knows and that being getting pregnant again and staying in the kitchen cooking Moose Stew......

Let's just get this out of the way.....Nobody cares what this airhead has to say or what she thinks. Enjoy your retirement in peace.

Who actually wrote her column? She's not smart enough to string two sentences together.

Maybe she'll get a legal job as a lobbyist for big oil instead of getting paid under the table.

What an ignorant and insulting comment, I guess designed to appeal only to the Republican base of uneducated morons. First of all, there is no such thing as "God" and such nonsense has no place in a discussion about energy. Second, we do not have a responsibility to "tap resources." Just the opposite, we have a responsibility to preserve and protect our precious resources and to find alternatives to pillaging the planet. Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully she is going to be out of our lives for good.

Bye Bye, Soon-to-be-Ex-Gov.

Palin should spend more time trying to promote her upcoming celebrity boxing match-up with Levi 'I'll knock your daughter up and knock you out' Johnston, than continue to jump up and down vying for the national attention not unlike 'Brittney Spears stepping out of a car on the day she forgot to wear her undies'.

Palin embodies a pathetic high school ‘bridezilla’ mentality coupled with some good old fashioned racial and religious bigotry.

So what do you propose Palin? Using prayer to stop global warming? Oh, wait, she doesn't believe global warming is real. With all of her edumacation she is the authority, not the climate scientists who have spent their lives researching this.

This Lady is a Distraction and a disgrace to everything America Stands For Please CNN Stop Highliting her,, who is paying you to do so anyway? Must be Mccain, he still has a grudge

If this is the best that the conservatives can come up with, its no wonder they are in trouble. People like Palin and that drug addled ex used car salesman Limbaugh lead me to believe that we are truly doomed.

Sit down and shut up. You quit, remember?

Palin need to go home and shut up.

One might as well say "in a Washington Post op-ed piece ghost-written for Palin," for the editorial doesn't resemble any thought or sentence she has cobbled together in public in her inarticulate, undereducated way. Palin's 15 minutes are up, for all her self-promoting histrionics. Let's get back to real politics now.

Bye Bye, Soon-to-be-Ex-Gov.

Palin should spend more time trying to promote her upcoming celebrity boxing match-up with Levi 'I'll knock our daughter up and knock you out' Johnston, than continue to jump up and down vying for the national attention not unlike 'Brittney Spears stepping out of a car on the day she forgot to wear her undies'.

Palin embodies a pathetic high school ‘bridezilla’ mentality coupled with some good old fashioned racial and religious bigotry.

Those words definitely do not sound like they came from Sarah Palin. She is a fraud beauty contestant and now she wants to be an outspoken lobbyist. This op-ed peice was not even written by her. She needs to show that she can finish a term in office and not succumb to the pressure and go after money. Fulfill your own duties before you tell people how to fulfill their's!!!

Heh! It's like grade-school-level writing - the kind of contextless swill my English teacher would say is all surface and no depth. As for her saying..

"...if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil..."

...it's not too surprising given that this would greatly increase the Alaska Permanent Fund annual payments given to every single Alaskan based on the amount of produced oil in the state. Of course, I wonder how Palin's husband, the one who belongs to the Alaska Independence Party whose chief goal is to unpatriotically sucede from the U.S., would feel about the wife saying "American" in a favorable light.

We need Sarah Palin in the White House instead of the brain-dead community organizer.

Listening to Sarah Palin for policy is like asking a street bum for investment advice. What's her qualification? Extensive education.. great intellect... foreign policy experience... oh i forgot she's a hockey mom she knows everything. Come on people would you take advice from her?

I wonder who were ghost writer was? I'd ask her but I suspect she'd say that as a good christian, she doesn't believe in ghosts.

There's no way she could ever compose such complex sentences.

So she quit as governor and on the people of Alaska to spend the next few years sniping at Obama? Give me a break!

I mean, who cares what this wingnut says anymore? When is she just going to go away?

It is time to shut your mouth. You are such an irresponsable person who wants to be famous and makes lot of money by resigning your governorship. Who cares about what you have to say.

The status-quo is not how this country will move forward and regain prosperity. Bold action such as the proposed energy bill, including the cap-and-trade provision will provide incentive for the development and implementation of cleaner energy and reduced emissions technologies. This is the kind of balance between government regulation and market forces that we need in order to solve our greatest problems.

Sarah needs to get her own life and family under control before continuing as an attack dog. Her problem is she does not have the intellectual capacity to understand the problems she is commenting on. She is a joke.

Who cares, Palin you are no longer revelent!! Shut up!!! Go back to Wasilly and be good little homemaker and mommy.

Is this view surprising coming from the Alaskan governor who has been in the pocket of the oil/gas industry? Whose husband works for one of them? Very good Governor Conflict of Interest. What other pearls of wisdom do you have?

"Many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges," writes Palin.
****************************************************************************** In the true spirit of the 'always find somebody else to blame' party, Sarah Palin takes us all for fools if she believes we haven't noticed that she is the one who will not let the drival of political gossip die, but continuously bringis it up herself by sending out endless statements.
Unfortunately she probably can't help herself, she is just too caught up in her own celebrety to allow herself to be out of the spotlight for more than a day or two.

"several moderate and conservative Democrats have indicated that they received heavy constituent pressure to vote against the legislation."

in other words oil lobbyists are "making donations" to these idiots.

What an ignorant and insulting comment, I guess designed to appeal only to the Republican base on uneducated morons. First of all, there is no such thing as "God" and such nonsense has no place in a discussion about energy. Second, we do not have a responsibility to "tap resources." Just the opposite, we have a responsibility to preserve and protect our precious resources and to find alternatives to pillaging the planet. Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully out of our lives for good.

She is correct....too bad our all-knowing and all-seeing president doesn't understand Economics 101..........because of obama's LACK OF KNOWLEDGE we all will suffer under cap and trade

How can her focus be on policy, when she is leaving a position where she can make the difference about a policy that she disagrees? Even Bush 2.0 didn't quit, even though he much harsher critics than Palin.

If we're not supposed to pay attention to "the personality-driven political gossip of the day" why does anyone care a whit about what Sarah Palin thinks about anything?

And she is again spot on. You do not put up road blocks to the economy when its in poor shape.

Obama wants us in a deeper crisis so more people will be so scared that they will hand over all of their liberty and freedom to him without giving it a second thought.

This is how Dictators take power and hold onto it. We are seeing our country go from a great Republic to a Socialist Nation under the heavy hand of Dictator Obama!

Yes people may laugh at this but the sad part is when its over they will say they wish someone would have warned them about what he was going to do to our country but by then it will be too late!

she is so irrelevant. why does she continue to receive press coverage?? go away!!!!!

Ms Palin, please find a nice far right radio show where you can make some big bucks peddling your martyr/rock star complex and pander to the "real Americans" and leave the rest of the world alone.

What is her plan? Specifics!

She's a QUITTER. I have no respect for what she does or what she says!

Sarah Palin – you GO girl!!! I know plenty of people who are hoping for her to run in 2012. She gets our vote! She might stumble on words every so often but she isn't stumbling on her teleprompter at least. I like her even more than I did a month ago. I hope she makes a trip to my state – I will drive wherever it is – I know it's a huge state but I'll still go to see her and cheer her on. She really seems to know what's going on unlike the many lemmings currently on Capital Hill.

Please, please, please stop posting Palin stories. This is not news. It's drivel.

What is her plan??????? Specifics!!!!!!!!!

Scare tactics and fear mongering.. not much has changed.

In the 700-word commentary, Palin also takes a dig at the national media and says her focus going forward will be on policy matters.

But this woman can not stop giving interview and writing story to the media. SHE IS A BIG JOKE AND A BIGGER THREAT THAN ANY OF THE PRESIDENT POLICY. It had that change to shape of your policy with your governor job, but you quit. Your opinion doesn' matter becasue you are seen as a quit when it get to hard.

Palin would be more credible if she came up with a credible, workable energy policy, besides the "drill, baby, dill" battle cry. We can't continue with our oil dependence .
What is her vision for our country, say, in 2050? What will be our sources of energy/

She is going to be a thorn in the side of Obama as long as he is in office. My initial reaction when she announced her resignation was that she was going to badger him on anything and everything.

She took one for the team. She's crazy like a fox.

The only commentary I want from Palin about cap and trade is for someone to cap her and trade her off the the Iranians. She would fit right in with their philosophy of freedoms for women.

Rubbish. If you think you are well informed about economic matters, why are you running away from Alaska.

Don't even criticize any body let alone a guy who is by far not in your dumb category.

I hate to say that your critics are as good as nothing

This woman is ridiculous. She's comparing Obama's emissions plan to resource development. Once again, Sarah has no idea what she's talking about. And, yeah, right, "God" put all that oil under America so we could tear up the earth to get it, and with it dominate the rest of the world. Sure. This can mean only one thing – Sarah Palin is the GOP candidate for president in 2012. They just haven't announced it yet. "God" help us all.

its so funny. she blasts the media for attacking her and now she is going to become part of the media and blast the left. WATCH. shes gonna give it a few months to make it look like she didnt leave public office to make money in television and then she will come out and say something like "ive seen enough its time for someone to stand up to the LEFT with my new TV show.." (cue the music).....and shes going to make silly statements like these to give herself credibilty until she drops the bomb. shes a joke.

She should be scolding her children, not the POTUS.
Palin, take a long walk off a short pier, you nimrod.

And we're paying attention to a quitter with so little experience in shaping national policy because.....?

You want to go away, then go away!
All she does is whine about the media. If she cares so much about energy policy and using resources from states like Alaska, perhaps she should not have quit her job, the job that enabled her to actually get stuff like that working.

Sit down and shut up!

How is that Alaskan pipe line coming Governor?? Oh I forgot its like that bridge to Nowhere.

Where does Mrs. palin and Rush Limbuagh propose to get enough energy supplies to support global demand and still have our own domestic sources?

She's right. Say what you want, but she is right.

In a radio address hours after the bill's passage, Obama hailed the legislation as a "jobs bill" that will "lead to the creation of new businesses and entire new industries."

While destroying industry at the same time. We don't even know how many new jobs these "new industries" might create. Pickens already pulled the plug on one project because of cost.

Nuclear power would produce the most energy and create the most jobs, but you don't see them pushing for that.

I wonder who wrote the op-ed for her?

I think Palin gets more coverage on this ticker than Obama.

The Cap and Trade scheme the democrats is trying to force on us is not about energy, they could care less about that, it's biggest con job ever pulled by politicians to rip more money off the American people.

Ms. Palin, please go away and leave the making of policy to people with brains and experience, not just a love of the spot light.

I guess since she reads "all of the" major US newspapers, magazines and periodicals she would know all about the media and how they "play games". Plus since she's just abandoned the people of Alaska I guess she has a lot of time on her hands.

Palin, need to go mute for a while

Poor Sarah. I wonder how it feels to go from media darling VP candidate to having her butt kicked around the hockey rink by a 19-year-old?

Sarah Pailn has no room to criticize anybody, she is a quitter plain and simple. She can say as much as she wants about how she was wasting Alaska's time, but the fact is she simply let her constituents down. I'm not a Sarah Palin fan, but I'd be mad as hell if I was an Alaskan who voted for her. It is also unrealistic for her to deny the media frenzy around her, she created it herself. So Mrs. Palin, please for everyone's sake, come back down to Earth, crawl into a hole and start planning for 2012 I guess.

sanity palin insanity obama . This administration is attempting to turn this country into a welfare state.

Why does CNN continue to give this woman exposure? She lost her Vice Presidential bid and has subsequently resigned her post as the Governor of Alaska so therefore who and what is she?

Does Palin take aim at leaving her state during her term??? And if she does that to 1 state what stops her for being inresponsible to 50 states???????

Sarah Palin may be set to resign her post as governor of Alaska, but the former Republican vice presidential candidate is signaling she has no plans to retreat from publicly taking aim at the Obama administration.

Do you really think any body is surprise that she was going to retreat to publicly taking aim at President Obama and his Administration. One thing for sure I don't seen any of Obama or his Administration quitting their jobs behind any of the Republicans daily attacks, but I can not say that about quittier Sara Palin who did just that. Oh, the media and the liberals are out to get me and I can not take it any more so I am quit my Governor job to go on an attack on a daily basic against President Obama. What Sara Palin seems to forget, it didn't work in Nov and it will not work now. She is a waste of American time. She is one of the biggest threat to the USA.

let me see....

cost of oil & coal... utility charges+ pollution+ dependance to other nations+ ever scarcer oil deposits+ cost of environmental cleanup+ cost on human health.....

cost of sun and wind.... utility charges+ free+ clean

I don't know, I think the only one who loses here is people like her who make millions out of our pockets on the price of oil

I am not a huge fan of Palin but she is completely correct on Obama's energy policy – its horrendous. For his rich buddies Cap & Trade may be a great way to go green but for the working poor it is going to decimate this country. Give some incentives to oil, gas and nuclear along with solar and wind. Get rid of the ridiculous ethanol credits – its cost more than the benefits. Obama needs to get his act together or we are even deeper trouble than we are already in.

I don't want to hear how bad President Obama's plan is
I want to hear what Sarah Palin and the republican plan is.

"An enormous threat to our economy" that would "inflict perminent damage."

Ms. Palin is absolutely correct and she is one of a small group of us thar understands that is what the obama administration has in mind. They, ROPE will do what ever is necessary to achieve their goal of setting up a dictatorship. Removing obama from office in 2016 is going to require the military.

Rope.....Reid-obama-Pelosi-Emanual.

Palin, you aren't even part of the Feds anymore. Shut your trap.

Who wrote this for you Ballin Palin....cus we know your low IQ can't take you further than moose hunting and fishing. I guess America really loves to watch a spectacle and that my friend is what you are!

Who cares what Palin takes aim at? She is BOTH unqualified and unable to hold ANY office. She might out to take aim at her own family and spend her time with them instead.

"In the 700-word commentary..."

I wasn't even aware that Palin had 700 words in her vocabulary to string together.

Sorry. Cheap shot.

In a radio address hours after the bill's passage, Obama hailed the legislation as a "jobs bill" that will "lead to the creation of new businesses and entire new industries."
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This comment shows how out of touch with economics President Obama is. These are non-productive jobs and non-productive businesses that do absolutely nothing to improve US competitiveness in the world. Now I see how he is confinced that the "Stimulus" bill was a good idea. Either he has no clue or doesn't really care if it works or not. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and say he doesn't have a clue.

How cares what this QUITTER even thinks? How is she to say anything? She can't take care of 1 state, so she has no room to talk about someone trying to run a whole country.

Just take your money and fade away woman!

Seems that Palin's first forray into policy discussions is clear, cogent and convincing.

Sure as snot the Liberals are going to come out of the woodwork attacking her now (not on her Op-Ed…it's foolproof).

A 3,000 mile pipeline, Nuclear power, using our own Oil...why can't the Libs get behind that?

When the message can't be denied, then attack the messenger, that's just good 'ole fashioned Liberal politics, but with the messenger being Sarah Palin, they're gonna be going GA-GA.

"...chattering class..." this, from a woman who just won't shut up, and then cries all the way to the microphone about the media attention?

Palin, in her usual short-sided and self-serving (read: republican) approach, ignores the fact that unless they are forced to change, the energy companies will NOT change. Obama is forcing them to change by altering the business model.

The tired old conservative mantra of "drill more, drill now" is a canard that has been disproven several times over. Not that we won't do it, but it won't suffice on it's own in a business-as-usual context. Hence, the Obama energy legislation seeks to change the game. Is it perfect? No. Will it do the job? Probably not without more changes. Is it better than simple-minded republican let's-do-the-same-but-more "plans"? By lightyears.

Here's an advice for Palin: Shut up! Your 15 minutes are up. Take care of your personal problems, which you have plenty of in your plate.
Why are we covering her stories so much anyway? No one outside of Alaska did before McCain got her in the national spotlight.

SARA,

What do you know about economy or about anything else, you did not know what Doctorine meant when you were asked about it, now you think by openning your mouth you are going to get somewher, go away and let people with smarts do their work, nobody wants to hear your stupid remarks.

Palin is in Exxon-Mobil's back pocket. I don't trust her as far as I can throw her. She needs to cease and dissist.

Certainly this" brilliant "and "highly educated" lady from Alaska is just the one to be telling Obama and his capable team how and what needs to be done to get the economy going again ....NOT!!!!!
Can we not go a single day without a story about Palin!!!!! Please CNN , please news media .....let this lady stay in Alaska !
And this is the last time I will comment on anything Palin , so maybe others will join in and ignore this publicity hound !

she needs to sign each letter she writes as

Sarah the Quitter Palin

Palin as usual has no clue as to what she is talking about. If you make something more expensive you don't make it more "scarce" you make it less scarce. She should take a basic economics course. Second if we do nothing to address the environment we are going to see cataclysmic rises in sea level, massive changes in storm activity, and the end to arctic ice that will destroy not just thousands of species but the way of life of arctic people. Add to that the loss of coastlines everywhere and its not going to be very fun at all. Then again I'll have cheap gas while I'm living underwater. Sounds great!

Palin Should go away. She is most worst person who as a big mouth and make a jump conculsion. She should not be in 2012. Period. President Obama is doing great. He is honest with us what is going on. I like his way. That is all matter.

The only groups opposing cap and trade are the major corporations and those politicians in the pocket of the lobbyist for the big corporations that won't be able to pollute at will any longer.
The scare tactics by the GOP are greatly exagerated and unsubstanciated.
The claim that curbing green house gases will cut into the mega profits of the same big corporations is more than likely true.
The question to the American public is, Are you willing to let these mega corporations continue to pollute our enviroment in the name of their corporate profits?

700-words? I can't stop laughing.

Why report on her? Who cares what she thinks? She's an ex-governor. Oh, yeah, I forgot, her state has oodles of oil. Carry on. Have a nice day!

Go Sarah!

Palin is easily smarter than Obama. Obama is still "learning" how to be President. Unfortunately, the Presidency is not the place for on-the-job training.

Heaven help the United States during the reign of this current Idiot-in-Chief!!

This woman is a nut case. Her opinion really doesn' t matter any more. She is also one of the biggest liar becasue we all know she did not write the article becasue it was too well writen. I just finished reading it in the Washingon Post. It was a well writen Republican talking point. I guest I like I seen earlier that she will become the Repubicans Full-Time Attack dog againt any thing President Obama do as if we needing any more Attack dog coming for the Party of No and No plan to get us out of this mess. JUST THE SAME OLD TALKING POINTS.

I am suprised this woman can sting 700 words together in any form of coherent thought!

A "serious threat to our economy"? Are you kidding me? Because he wants to find alternatives to Oil? Of course, we have to consider the source... The would-be VP who can't handle criticism and thus is quitting the Governorship she has been abusing since she was sworn in...

Sarah, If you want to make logical, well thought out arguments, go for it. But if you want to make stupid, insipid remarks in order to paint the administration as incompetent, go date Jon Voight. The two of you were made for one another.

I can assure you, now that Ms. Palin has no public office she will lob attacks on policies. However, she will not, because she cannot address any of these subjects with substance. Therefore, you will not see here on any news shows being interviewed by anyone on the these topics. Her lack of knowledge would become immediately noticeable.

All this from a woman who doesn't believe in climate change. Please crawl back in your hole.

Please "Soon To Be Ex-Governor Palin" go away!

Hee-haw. She is not going away. I really do not think anyone has been any crueler to Sarah P. than other politicians. I think it only appears that way because this is the first time a true conservative has been attacked in the same manner that neocons have typically gone after perceived liberals, such as Hillary C., John Kerry in 2004, and even McCain in 2000. However, having said that, I do think it is time to put on the brakes because: 1) Sarah Palin is so over-reacting to everything that she is doing a fine enough job of making herself look ridiculous. 2) I do not think liberals should go around using neocon’s tactics. Yes, I’d like to think that now that the conservatives have gotten a taste of their own medicine they would learn, but I think it will probably only make them angrier.

Could we please go one day without having to hear more drivel from this crank pot. I'm really tired of the circus she claims to be a victim of yet perpetuates.

When does Palin's reality show start. Only in America can someone of very limited skills and intellect have other Americans thinking that she actually has something to say. The woman is a sportscaster for heavens sake and people care that she has an opinion on policy that affects all of us. Give me a break.

The woman is an idiot. There's no way she wrote this – her crayons aren't sharp enough.

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah....For God's sake and the future of this country – PLEASE GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your 15 minutes of fame are long over and you've proven time and time again that you aren't skilled to mingle with the mighty politicos. Go home, write your book, star in your own Springer-like reality show, make your money and leave the country's policy making decisions to the big boys who have been doing this since you were in diapers.

Can she PLEASE get some help with her grammar? Clobber....who uses that word.................she is a JOKE.............

can some one please shut her up already.

While I am not a fan of Palin, I do agree that Obama's cap and trade energy plan is a huge mistake . . . just another plan that will cause higher taxes on middle and lower class families among other things.

if its not someone talking about her.. its her talking...................talk about sustainable wind power..hehe .. couldnt resist.

if we drain the planet of all its natural resources, i wonder if our planet will collapse in on itself... just wonderin'

This lady must think that our memories are short. She is not fooling me. She supported cap and trade during the vp debates.

Palin/Biden debate on October 3, 2008:

IFILL: We do need to keep within our two minutes. But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?

PALIN: I do. I do.

I guess she will blame it on that gotcha media again.

I'm also guessing her supporters won't let facts get in the way of their opinion of her. They haven't so far.

Palin is a quitter and could not even handle finishing out a first term. I am hearing absolutely nothing she has to say to criticize anyone else. She hasn't earned a drop of respect from me.

Again I ask....what qualifies this woman to even speak on National matters? During the campaign she couldn't even name a single Supreme Court ruling!!??? She blasted Katie Couric for asking hard questions. She sided with McCain's take on the economy as "the fundamentals of our economy are sound". AND she fully supported the Bank bailout and now says it was stupid idea.

OK ok ok....why would anyone take any of her opinions as sound advice?!?

I think I understand now. It's not The People of the United States that is so obsessed with Palin, it's the media. Pundits love her because THEY find her entertaining. She is their break from the norm. She is the medias 5 minute mental vacation from the sharp political intellects they deal with on a daily basis.
Now that Palin does not hold an elected office, she will fade into obscurity, but not before the media works her out of their system. That's why we are continuing to see articles about Palin.
They keep trotting her out, not because she is relevant, not because We The People think her views are imortant, but because they just can't let her go. It's hard for them to say goodbye.
So go ahead media. Have your catharsis. get her out of your system so we can move on.

Does Sara Palin really think we want to hear anything she has to say about this country? Who is she to criticize anyone job performance, when she quit her job as governor? When did Sara Palin become knowledgeable about politics, when she never read a national news paper? Lastly, Sara Palin is only concern about Alaska..The new energy bill will slow down oil drilling and focus on natural resources and job creation in other states...

Sara Palin should take the money she has raised from her political foundation, the money from her book deal and the money from her speaking engagements to help the people in her state re-train for green jobs...They are going to need it...This country is going green!

Wow....she's strange in every way now....she amazes me with nothing but more stupidity every time she opens her mouth! Words from a quitter....I fault McCain for creating this monster!!!

Does Hillary agree with this ?

The only reason Palin has her little soap box is because of "personality-driven political gossip of the day ".
I agree with her, let's not pay any attention to this type of "trivial gossip news" that has brought provided her notoriety, but my intent would be that then she would then disappear.

Now thats what I was expecting to hear from someone with close ties to ExxonMobil and other companies that are out to soak the American consumer for their own gain.These energy companies need to be nationalized now.Here in Texas the cost of electricity has gone up 65% in 5 years since deregulation,which we were told would reduce costs not increase them.Who do you believe,the companies and their paid shills in government, or the people? Shes a paid liar,just like Rush Limbaugh and TCM,the street teamer on here.

I agree with the President. We need to move forward and get out of the "dark ages". It may cut off Alaskans multi-thousand dollar per year "gift", but that's tuff. We carry the costs and they profit.

Who cares what this bimbo thinks. She took 5 years to get one of the easiest degrees you can get. What authority does she have to criticize a sitting President?

What a joke. You might as well post the opinion of phoenix or Mississippi joe, or joe the plumber. All losers that don't have a clue how to manage a country.

And why should we listen to a quitter?

Oh and I am sure he cares...Go serve your higher calling you useless idiot!

In a radio address hours after the bill's passage, Obama hailed the legislation as a "jobs bill" that will "lead to the creation of new businesses and entire new industries."

Hopefully this "jobs bill" creates more "jobs" than his "jobs stimulus" which has been a total disaster...

"the chattering class"???

Dear lady, you are the leader of the chattering class.

I noticed she criticized this plan, but omitted providing an alternative plan. But then, she is a Repug and is not capable of giving an alternative plan. To do so would require courage and intelligence.

Sarah's mad at everyone!

I wonder who wrote that for her

The words 'written commentary' and Palin don't go together; as we all have been privy to, this woman cannot string together a complete sentence– so we know that someone 'wrote' it for her. As for her saying anything against the Obama administration–well, it is a joke. I wish people would stop reporting on this woman. She is a nothing where politics are concerned. If governing a state with a few hundred thousand people stressed her out what business does she have commenting about any political issue.

"Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy." In other words, we should drill, in her opinion, for oil that will directly benefit her financially while furthering our nation's dependence on the very thing that gives her money. Disgusting.

Cap and Trade is just a bad idea. It does not work, just ask Spain.

You like 9% plus unemployment, well you're going to love 18-20%.

For the first time in my adult life, I'm afraid for my country.

Governor Palin has never ignored climate change and was, in fact, one of the first Governors to appoint a cabinet sub-committe on climate change. Last March the Palin Administration published an energy plan which envisages Alaska's reliance on renewable sources rising to 50% by 2025. This is the most ambitious target in the US, and unless I am mistaken, it is the highest in the world. Palin's simple point is that since we will be burning oil during a transition period better that it be American oil as far as possible.

Hey Palin, you lost, so get lost!
Wonder who wrote the piece for you...

I will never believe Palin wrote this herself because she will never show up (except on Hannity coached world) to expound on her thoughts. She has lost the little credibility she may have had & thinks she can scam her way to prominence. What think tank has she ever been involved in?

There are places she wants to drill that are protected which only proves that she is for the almighty buck instead of whats good for the earth. This lady is a walking eco -disaster area.

Sarah Palin wrote a 700 page document. I will believe it when I see it.

If you take Palin's comments and replace "energy" with "fossil fuels" you will understand exactly where she is coming from.

There is no doubt in my mind that when Sarah Palin says "energy" she isn't thinking about solar panels and windmills, two industries that don't pollute the atmosphere and would therefore be greatly helped by a cap and trade system.

Of course, Palin's husband didn't use to work at a windmill factory.

Your link falsely attributes 'Clinton' to the criticism of Obama....you need to correct this; this is CNN not phoney fox 'news'.
When are the daily Sarah Palin stories going to go away....if wants to be 'left alone' why won't she shut up?

Blah, blah, blah, blah. Shut up Sarah and go away. We Alaskans will be better off when you are gone. Do you hear that fizzle? It's your fifteen minutes ending.

Thank God Palin is speaking out in support of policies that might actually work, and against the failed policies of the Obama administration. The loser Dems can blame Bush all they want but the reality is, this country was great until they took over the Senate. Now that Obama and his clan of liars and thieves has taken over, the country has gone to pot and you can't blame anyone else except the failed Dem policies. It is so sad that so many were conned into believing that Obama was what this country needed. He is nothing more than a liar and is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. I pray that people will turn from the wicked Obama administration and give the true conservatives such as Palin a chance to make things right in the future.

Did "those who understand the issue" write the op-ed for you?

Palin-Bachmann 2012

why oh why would ANYBODY listen to or care about what this dingbat says?

Peggy Noonan said it best. " Palin does not know enough to know that she is not a deep thinker, because she is not a deep thinker.

She also says that Palin is of the high self esteem generation. She can not recognize her own inadequacies, because she thinks wrongly that she is somehow capable or intelligent enough..

Obama has no clue about how the energy markets work, what needs to be done and most important, the ramifications of his "green" wish list on individuals.

Who is listening to sarah when she herself donot know what she is talking about she is topsy tervie all the way-she needs to get a grip and learn the policy's of the U.S. when she has no idea of nothing,she can't talk about any plan of energy or any thing else when she doesn't know what she is talking about just words-she needs to just stop all together from politics-she is not poilitics material believe that. What can she possibley say to the american people that we don't already know and not from her. She is not ready for the political race.

Again no substance.

Nothing on how she would decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Hey Sarah who wrote that for you???? Lol

Sure Palin,
Let's continue to exploit the natural resources of your state, be dependent on non-renewable energy sources, kill off species, and destroy the planet, whatever gets more money to Alaska, a state about which you don't seem to care anyway, you quitter... Seriously, who wants to listen to Sarah Palin on any subject that requires in depth, critical analysis? It's like listening to a muppet, the woman is an idiot.

Such a bright woman...NOT.

Sounds to me like she wants to keep the checks rolling in to her and other Alaskans from oil revenues at our expense.

Thanks but no thanks. I have a hybrid and will buy electric as soon as they can travel a longer range on one charge. To hell wth OIL. It WILL run out and I don't want to get stuck with the high gas prices in the meantime.

Of course Sarah Palin wants us to look to domestic oil reserves - she stands to make an enormous chunk of change if the government restrictions on drilling in Alaska are changed. This is nothing but a selfish endeavor on her part.

Not to mention she really doesn't seem to understand Cap and Trade...

At least someone has a brain, and uses it, when it comes to energy. I have never supported a presidential candidate. Palin may be the first.

This womens point of view of anything is a JOKE! She's trying tooo
hard to look polittically anything......
Go fish some Russians from your window instead!

[...] Awww.  Cute!  Sarah Palin has a column in that stark, raving, liberal Washington Post.  Whodathunkit?  And I bet she wrote it ALL by herSELF!!! [...]

Palin is obviously Cheney's new puppet.

Sarah, just take the money you're planning on making off books, reality show, talk show ,or whatever and leave the country to be run by intelligent people. If you can't take the stress of governing a state that has more caribou than people, how in the world could you govern anything?

She just needs to fade away.

You already polluted your own state, itch. Now, you need to sit yourself down and shut up.

awsome blog

You go girl.

Why doesn't she just go somewhere and shut up? She has no credibility and is not important.

I have no intent on "quitting" complaining...I'm just quitting my job because I'm a quitter when things become hard.