Palin used to sneak across the border to access Canadian health care!

[Spazito]

"The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse.

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” she said. “And I think now, isn't that ironic?”"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sarah-palin-sees-eye-to-eye-with-albertans-in-calgary-speech/article1492634/

Wow, just :wow:

[wtmusic]

1. Ironic? Fraudulent? Hypocritical?

I like ironic! *wink*

[Mithreal]

30. +1

[happygoluckytoyou]

57. what are those.... just 3 more words sarah doesn't understand

[HopeHoops]

2. Weird, but only one word came to mind when I read the OP....

"abortion"

[KansDem]

3. WTF??!!!

:wtf:

What fucking hypocrites!!!

Haven't these people any shame?

[Fumesucker]

24. No, they have no shame and no self awareness..n/t

[Amonester]

49. No. All they want is POWER, and the $$$$$ that come with it.

And once they get that POWER, they feel like they can do whatever they want with it, even to destroy the planet all they want, just for the fun of it.

Hypocrites and sociopaths all.

[salvorhardin]

4. Good find!

What a freaking hypocrite.

[Oilwellian]

5. "Ironic" or just plain hypocritical

The woman's hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

[progressoid]

29. Someone needs to quote Inigo Montoya to Sarah,

" I do not think it means what you think it means."

[HughMoran]

6. Ummm, yeah, just a tad ironic. Good thing we know you have no principals

...or we'd possibly be shocked. But we know you're no longer a politician, just an entertainer for the right-wing trolls.

[tammywammy]

7. Possibly another one of her lies (hat tip to The Immoral Minority)

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/03/palin-invades-canada-in-retaliation.html

From Immoral Minority

She said the other day: "My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not – this was in the ‘60s – we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.""

Previously the story was: "In the above link Palin claims that while living in Skagway her brother was burned and they took him to the town of Whitehorse, in Canada, for treatment. However in an article written in the Skagway News around May 0f 2007 (Using the guilty plea of the VECO executives as a reference point), Palin tells a completely story: Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital."

[HughMoran]

8. I'm really not sure she knows the difference

Can she tell the truth?

[tammywammy]

16. Doubtful she can

Has she ever? I don't think she'd know the truth if it smacked her upside the head.

[HughMoran]

21. She's been bagged lying/stretching the truth what? like a dozen times?

Clearly she is beyond the level that is typical for a politician. I know her supporters enjoy her promoting some righty issues and name-calling, but would enough of them be able to vote for her when her lies are broadcast daily before an election? I think enough would turn away form her own side, nevermind independents who will desert her in a heartbeat.

[Demeter]

10. Ronald Reagan Syndrome?

Anecdotal insanity.

[Winterblues]

19. Depending on when in the sixties but the ferry system didn't start until 1965

I would believe the train to Whitehorse story completely because that was/is very common practice for not just Skagway people but many from Juneau as well. Especially for Dental work. People can save thousands of dollars..

[tammywammy]

23. So she lied before or is lying now

Or her brother burned his ankle/leg twice. I tend to think she's lying with the recent version. It conformed to her audience so she changed it.

[Fuzz]

31. Post that on this freeper thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466501/posts

You'd make some heads explode even more than they are already. ;)

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Paling around with socialists?

[flamin lib]

11. I did some checking around and found two other sources

for the quote. Love the 'net but never take one source as gospel. For me it has to be at least two different and distinct sources, not just one quoting the other. Three is better.

http://www.660news.com/radio/article/32911--sarah-palin-in-calgary

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hvMMcuuUOV53vHs0bJD-meBNuecQ

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2652828

[annabanana]

36. my my my. . . . .Ain't that sumpin' now?

I have never SEEN a less self aware human being in my life.

[Bluebear]

12. Yah, ya know, "health care" is another term for 'I was knockened up and schwingle', you betcha.

[FourScore]

13. K&R

[saltpoint]

14. Doggone it, "ironic" almost doesn't cover it, Sarah.

[liberal N proud]

15. I hope the Palin "hustle" hypocrisy gets some legs

[wtmusic]

17. Sarah 2012

please...please...please...

[Beetwasher]

18. Is That Where She Got Her Abortions?

Just wondering.

[upi402]

20. Thank you Calgary Herald

http://communities.canada.com/CALGARYHERALD/blogs/insidealberta/archive/2010/03/07/sarah-palin-heads-north-er-south-er-to-calgary.aspx

...and Palin's lack of a frontal lobe.

[mod mom]

32. maybe they can charge her w interest!

[upi402]

33. She should be charged

if hypocrisy were a crime!

chutzpah also hutzpah n. Utter nerve; effrontery: 'has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality'
:kick:

[11 Bravo]

22. "Hustle" describes this cheap-ass grifter twit's entire political career.

[City Lights]

25. OMFG!

:wow:

I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless.

:wow:

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Oh the hypocrisy just drips...

[Maru Kitteh]

27. WOW. I'm speechless. WOW.

[Javaman]

28. only further proving the woman is a hypocritical moron. nt

[polly7]

34. Hypocritical Byatch.

She was speaking at an even sponsored in part by the Fraser Insititute, one of whose main goals is to privatize health care to "emulate that of the U.S."

What a complete, sickening fool.


From an earlier post:

Sarah Palin gives speech to packed Calgary crowd

Palin spoke at the city's BMO Centre as part of the Fraser Institute's influential speakers program, where about 1,200 people shelled out for the talk.

http://www.nupge.ca/node/2533

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fraserinstitute /

The Fraser Institute - Canada's Disgrace

Every citizen of this nation should feel disgust that the Fraser Institute calls Canada home.

The Fraser Institute is dedicated to attacking publically funded health care, education and insurance. It now also is disseminating propaganda intended to minimize the effects of global warming.
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/fraser-inst...

[icnorth]

45. "Canada's disgrace...

Geez, Polly just because we won Olympic gold you don't have to hit below the belt. :hurts::pals:

[polly7]

47. LOL

cute. :hug:

[icnorth]

48. Because I didn't practice "due diligence"

and made an assumption I'll save you the trouble and take myself out to the woodshed...:spank:

[Cass]

35. Is it legal to do that?

Can Americans just sneak across the border and take advantage of the Canadian health system?

[polly7]

37. No, it's not legal but was done so often in Ontario they had to

issue a whole new batch of OHIP cards to replace those that were lent out or stolen. I don't mind paying for poorer people from the U.S. who see no alternative, but not that lying grifter!!!!!

[Cass]

38. Thanks, polly7. You have a good system and its a shame it is abused

by people, especially a slime like Plain who has the nerve to say it ought to be dismantled.

[polly7]

41. yw ......I don't think there's a single Canadian (well, maybe the 'me,me'

me type in Alberta and the Harperites who think the Fraser Institute's 'conclusions' should have been included in the Bible, but most Canadians just believe the sick need help, no matter where they're from. Palin is completely stupid in saying what she did. I hope the Fraser Institute folks were embarrassed.

[valerief]

39. I guess she's telling us that that's what we should do instead of get universal healthcare here.

Or maybe we should all become senators.

[Barack_America]

40. Of course she did.

Classic Palin.

[rpannier]

42. But then she found God and that makes it okay

Like Ensign and Sanford have recommitted themselves to the Lord and so everything they have done is okay

[polly7]

43. She may have recommitted herself to the Lord, but obviously

skipped over all the truthiness entries.

[Canuckistanian]

44. Hey, we don't allow "hustling" here in Canada

And expecially by Alaskan trailer trash like Palin.

We have our standards.

[DebbieCDC]

46. LOL -- the freepers are saying it's something TINA FEY said

Not the grifter queen :rofl:

[edwinmathews]

50. There was no

Government health care in the Yukon in the 60s .

[itsrobert]

53. Palin probably doesn't remember too much about the 60's

She was born in 1964, she would have much better memories of the the 1970's, early 80's.

[earth mom]

51. With each passing day, Palin is proving herself to be a low down dirty sleezy lying corrupt pig.

:puke:

[Imagevision]

52. Everything this Broad says is BS.!!!

[Synicus Maximus]

54. To be fair, she didn't "sneak across the border". Her parents

took her when they lived near Whitehorse.

"My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not -- this was in the '60s -- we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/palin-says-she-used-canadian-h.html?hpid=news-col-blog

[Maru Kitteh]

55. I forgot to K&R this earlier, so there ya go, you betcha!

[alp227]

56. So Sarah Palin has many silly personal secrets just like water is wet!

I've seen enough revelations now. The Republicans obviously need to distance themselves from that health care border jumper if they want us off their backs.

[demi moore]

58. fishy....

no one else thinks this is a weird time to mention this.. who gains..
i am seriously wondering if her role is reverse phycology.

maybe this heath care bill is exactly what the republicans want? i cannot see the entire chess board here. i wish i could stop being botherd with american politics. its a bad habbit

[DisgustedInMN]

59. Meh...

So Caribou Barbie is a liar and hypocrite.

Like that's some kind of news flash.

:boring:

[upi402]

60. Old news to us. But it needs to be a 'news flash'

:nopity: for Palinistas

[independent voter]

61. Palin is a pathological liar

It's like the GOP went out had tried to find the most moon-brained nutjob they could find.

A vote for someone like that is essentially a vote for WW3. Yay, the Rapture! Jesus will come down and kill us all! Woo-hoo!

[sixmile]

62. kicking

keep kicked