So is Sarah Palin now a community organizer with no actual responsibilities?

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has now officially become former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She had announced her resignation last month.

She stepped down yesterday, in a very fiesty and somewhat angry speech which vigorously defended America's men and women in uniform (although she didn't really mention from whom she was defending them), and attacked all the not real Americans out there, especially those in Hollywood or in the media.

Kada nai kumuentos Si Palin, guaha taotao gi i media, pat giya Hollywood ni' ha kehahayi, lao ai adai, ti nahong este na klasin kuentos kontat ya-na na u Presidente un diha! Ti nahong i taotao ni' sina un pugi ni' este na klasin kuentos. Hunggan guaha meggai gi entre i "manmagahet na Amerikanu siha" ni' sina mansinehyo ni' este na lalalu na setmon siha, lao put hafa i otro na taotao? Gi i fino' Ingles ma sasangan na guaha Agaga na States yan guaha Asut na States, yan este na klasin kuentos mafa'tinas para i Managaga na taotao siha. Lao mas meggai i Manasut na taotao, yan mas meggai i Manasut na States siha. In fin, kalang klaru i inatan-na Si Palin yanggen para u President i minalago-na. Ti hinassosso-na put taimanu na sina ha puga' i hinasson i otro taotao.

For all the "Palin posts" that I've written over the past year, you can click here. I should be grateful to John McCain for picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, because last year, during the election, I talked about issues of gender and feminism far more than the rest of the years combined that I've had this blod.

The title of this post however comes from one of the first taklalau posts that I wrote about Sarah Palin. Titled "Why Obama Has a Vision, While Palin Doesn't...Or Why I'm (sort of) a Community Organizer," it was written in anger and frustration just moments after hearing Palin's acceptance speech for the nomination of VP for the Republican party. She made alot of strange statements in that speech, none more so then her bewildering and unnecessary attack on community organizers.

In an effort to boost her own credibility (when so many were saying she had no experience) but also tacha or attack Obama at the same time, she made the following statement, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." This was just one of so many, what comedian Edward Izzard calls "pearls of nutcaseness," that have "clunked" from the mouth of Sarah Palin since her appearance on the American national stage.

In honor of her most likely temporary departure from limelight, I thought I'd post below some of the more memorable pearls that Palin has given to us over the past year. This list came via the blog Perrspectives, and is titled "A Look Back at the Sarah Palin Hall of Shame."

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"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out." (July 3, 2009)

"I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." (July 7, 2009.)

"It's all for Alaska." (Asked by Time why she resigned, July 7, 2009).

"In what respect, Charlie?" (Asked by ABC's Charles Gibson if she agreed with the Bush Doctrine, September 11, 2008.)

"Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that's with the energy independence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy..." (Misunderstanding Alaska's 3.5% share of U.S. domestic energy production, September 11, 2008.)

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America." (October 16, 2008.)

"A task that is from God." (On the war in Iraq, June 8, 2008.)

"I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." (June 8, 2008.)

"To me, it motivates us, makes us work that much harder. And it also strengthens my faith, because I'm going to know, at the end of the day, putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4. So I'm not discouraged at all." (Asked if she was discouraged by polls showing the McCain-Palin ticket trailing, October 22, 2008.)

"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" (August 1, 2008.)

"That's something that Piper would ask me!...[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." (asked by third grader Brandon Garcia what the Vice President does, October 20, 2008.)

"I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks' on that Bridge to Nowhere." (September 13, 2008.)

"Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy- Oh, it's got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions." (Asked by CBS' Katie Couric why it makes more sense to give the $700 billion bailout to big financial institutions rathen than struggling families, September 25, 2008.)

"Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." (Asked by CBS' Katie Couric what newspapers and magazines she reads, September 30, 2008.)

"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." (Asked by ABC's Charles Gibson "what insight into Russian actions" the proximity of Alaska provides her, September 11, 2008.)

"Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of... We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state." (Asked by CBS' Katie Couric to explain her foreign policy credentials, especially regarding Russia, September 25, 2008.)

"John McCain and I, we love you and thank you for spending a few minutes to talk to me." (Talking with Canadian radio prankster posing as French Presideny Nicolas Sarkozy, November 1, 2008.)

"I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." (Asked by CBS' Katie Couric to cite "specific examples in his 26 years of [John McCain] pushing for more regulation," September 24, 2008.)

"Well, let's see. There's, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others..." (Asked byCBS' Katie Couric what Supreme Court decisions besides Roe v. Wade she disagrees with, October 1, 2008.)

"Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it...When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn't do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don't think it's, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that...It bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level." (On Hillary Clinton's complaints about her treatment by the media, March 2008.)

"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make." (July 4, 2009.)

"I want to make sure that Americans do understand that there is a little bit of disappointment in my heart about the world of journalism today...And I don't want any individual journalist to take it personally but--I have such great respect for the role of the media in our democracy, it is a cornerstone, it allows the checks and balances. But only when there is fairness and objectivity in the reporting." (November 5, 2008.)

"For the most part, absolutely, media persons, reporters, have been absolutely right on and there has been fairness and objectivity. There have been some stinkers, though, who have kind of made the whole basket full of apples, once in a while, smell kind of bad." (November 7. 2008.)
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." (Misunderstanding the First Amendment, October 31, 2008.)

"I respect Carrie [Prejean] for standing strong and staying true to herself, and for not letting those who disagree with her deny her protection under the nation's First Amendment Rights." (Misunderstanding the First Amendment again, May 13, 2009.)

"Letterman certainly has the right to 'joke' about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction. This is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America's Right to Free Speech - in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect." (Still misunderstanding the First Amendment, June 16, 2009.)

"This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law." (Not understanding the First Amendment via lawyer Thomas Van Flein, July 4, 2009.)

"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America...Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." (On Barack Obama, October 4, 2008.)

"There's no question that Bill Ayers via his own admittance was one who sought to destroy our U.S. Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist. There's no question there. Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that uh, it would be unacceptable. I don't know if you're going to use the word terrorist there." (Asked by NBC's Brian Williams, "Is an abortion clinic bomber a terrorist?" October 23, 2008.)

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." (September 3, 2008.)

"God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family." (November 5, 2008.)

"I say God bless George W. Bush." (November 13, 2008.)