Palin cancels trip to Sudan

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

ormer Alaska governor Sarah Palin has canceled a trip next month to war-ravaged Sudan, one of the most unstable nations in the world and the focus of passionate advocacy within the U.S. evangelical community.

Palin scrapped her visit to the North African country for scheduling reasons, several sources close to her said. She was planning to travel with Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical leader Billy Graham, as well as Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren, to the July 9 independence ceremony of South Sudan, the sources said. Van Susteren also canceled her trip. Graham said on Wednesday that he still plans to go.

Palin’s decision comes at a time when speculation is mounting about whether she will seek the Republican presidential nomination. Her weeks-long silence since the end of her One Nation bus tour along the East Coast has prompted a raft of questions about whether there will be a second or third leg, as advisers initially said there would be, through the Midwest and the South.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/palin-cancels-planned-trip-to-sudan/2011/06/20/AGhV3CgH_story.html

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Maybe they could have gotten her a cardboard cutout of Margaret Thatcher?

[Botany]

1. Ms. Palin is bailing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1343240

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't blame her.

Even she knows better than going there. I bet she booked it by accident.

[Journeyman]

12. She thought it was a trip "in a sedan". . .

[DesertFlower]

13. lol. nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. ...

:spray:
I'll bet you're right!

[Renew Deal]

22. lol

:rofl:

[crim son]

27. Excellent one! n/t

[damyank913]

3. There are no voters in the Sudan...

...and they're brown people. Palin doesn't want to work that hard.

[CreekDog]

4. she found out most of them are poor

:eyes:

[Very_Boring_Name]

20. and black

[wizstars]

5. "Rolling Blunder" had a flat.......

(edited for typo)

[kestrel91316]

6. Somebody must have broken the news to her that there were, ahem,

BLACK people there. And that it wasn't part of the USA.

[hay rick]

7. She found out they don't have a Neiman-Marcus.

[itsrobert]

8. I wonder if some 'bad' (juicy) news is going to break?

? I like a good scandal.

[marions ghost]

25. makes ya wonder

she seems to be hunkering down somewhere near Siberia.

Ah, wishful thinking.

[JJW]

9. She thought it an abreviation

for the Sundance Film Festival.

[Scottybeamer70]

10. How dare Mrs. Obama go to that continent before the

yellin' palin got there.

[tomm2thumbs]

11. she thought she was going for a ride IN a Sedan.... finally figured it out, poor dear

someone needs to let that lil' thing have some warmie milk and go to bed nighty-night like.

[SoapBox]

14. The QUITTER keeps on Quit'n!

...just keep QUIT'N CrazyPalinMcMoneyWhore...just keep QUIT'N!

[slay]

19. It's the only thing she's good at

i mean really - the lady is a walking nightmare - she's even making that crazy lady michelle bachman look good in comparison. sarah palin - what a selfish greedy joke of a person.

[nichomachus]

26. But this time

She quit before she even started. That's a new record for her.

[truthisfreedom]

15. Wow, she sure is making it easy to ridicule her!

What a lousy politician. Even her own followers have to be raising an eyebrow or two at this point. She's too damned predictable.

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[No Elephants]

17. Someone please remind me why anyone is supposed to care if Failin cancels a trip.

Usually, I post only "Sarah who?" on these threads, but this one is about even more of a non-event than usual.

The media keeps pretending that everything about this idiot never was is newsworthy. Here's a thought: It isn't.

[groundloop]

21. She couldn't find it on her map, so she therefore couldn't go.

And besides that, her book sales were slow there so she figured there wasn't much opportunity for fundraising.

Oh, and I don't understand why the M$M keeps tagging the former Alaska half-term governor's actions as "news".

[LibertyLover]

23. This may be the most intelligent thing she's ever done -

which isn't saying much, I'll grant you as even thinking about making a trip to Sudan in the first place was pretty stupid, even for Sarah.

[Blue_Tires]

24. Translation: Her people were told she wouldn't get the red carpet prestige

reserved for visiting heads of state...

[NoGOPZone]

28. "You mean it's a COUNTRY?" nt

[ej510]

29. Palin did not know where the Sudan was, because she thinks Africa is a country,

after all it is a continent full of dark people. Obviously they think, speak, and act alike.