Palin Pushes Cookies to PA Pupils While Talking Presidential Run
- Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:11am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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During a speech at a Pennsylvania school on Tuesday, Sarah Palin continued hinting that she might run for president, and delivered a glancing blow to the current lady occupying the White House by passing out sweet cookies at the event.
After one student finished a performance Palin asked if he would like to sing at an inauguration. “Not necessarily mine!” she shouted. The crowd cheered.
Later, Palin said that she is considering a presidential run, but that she’ll decide “after prayerful consideration and a survey of the political landscape,“ because she ”would be in it to win it,” CNN reports.
But the most memorable part of the event might be Palin’s hands-on shunning of government intervention.
“I heard that there’s a debate going on in Pennsylvania over whether public schools were going to ban sweets,” Palin said. In response, she brought cookies for students she met with earlier in the day. “I wanted these kids to bring home the idea to their parents for discussion. Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents.” The crowd cheered again.
“I look at Pennsylvania and I think of sweets — I think of Hershey. Then I think, how dare they ban sweets from school here,” Palin added.
Palin made her intentions clear earlier in the day via Twitter:
The local debate Palin refers to comes from a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. That story said that Pennsylvania schools are considering banning sugary drinks foods. However, the state education board said that the characterization of the proposal by Palin and paper isn’t true: it is considering guidelines, not a ban.
Accordingly, the paper ran a correction:
A story on page B1 of Monday’s Tribune-Review incorrectly portrayed the Pennsylvania State Board of Education’s proposed nutrition guidelines for school parties. The board is examining regulations to encourage schools to serve more nutritious foods. There are no mandates to do so.
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Comments (155)
keaton
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:10amMaybe Michelle Obama should come out against smoking. Palin seems to have the ability to see to the heart of the matter in issues.Man I miss comon sense like hers.
Report Post »Sinclare
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:05amLook out Elmo, I hear Cookie Monster just turned conservative :)
Report Post »ObammysMammy
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:02amI love this woman!!
Report Post »GeeWhiz
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:01amIf you can‘t eat a cookie when you’re a kid, WHEN can you ever eat a cookie? “I fondly remember my mother and me, making tofu and kale health bars when I was a child….” Puhleeze.
Love this from Palin, cracks me up. If you ever need a subversive in your kitchen cranking out some Tollhouse for the cause, count me in.
Report Post »popeyebedford
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:01amThe idea of Sarah Palin in the White House just makes my day…
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:57amPalin / West 2012…Hmmmm…;)
Report Post »mamawalker
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:01amlike it :-)
Report Post »johnnyfive
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:56amNO! We do not need any more puppets in the WH! You people are fools that think she is legit!
Spookytruck
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:22pmI guess you have a fear of real people and common sense.
Report Post »mamawalker
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:55amI very much want Sarah to be our first woman President, but she will have to carry the independent, female, and Hispanic voters in order to win. I think many women won’t vote for her out of shear jealousy! It is also obvious from the double-standard all women had to endure these last two voting cycles, including Hillary, that many men do not think a women is capable of being President. I would love to see a Palin-Rubio ticket in 2012 and will work tirelessly for her if she decides to run – Go Sarah!
Report Post »1911VALOR
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:51amThese are the little things that lead to statism, and she gets it like no other.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:49amSarah Palin !!! AHHHHH!!! Big Candy is behind her! AHHHHH!!!
Report Post »Give it a rest Libratards… I’d like two please Sarah.
Dstarr55
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:45amI’m with Palin on this one – I think encouraging children to have healthy eating habits is important but I am not for banning food. If parents don’t like the lunches served in school, pack their lunches. I would also prefer if Michelle Obama focused more on exercise and getting kids away from video games rather than body size. Kids get teased enough – they don’t need the First Lady saying they are too fat. When I was in school and I know it was there when my daughter was in school, the kids competed for the Presidential Physical Fitness Award. On a proud note, my daughter received it every year except one, the year she broke two of her fingers (I was not so athletic and never even came close). A program similar to get kids more engaged in sports or activities outside would do more than banning sugary treats – once something is banned it becomes more enticing.
Report Post »Andy_B
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:52amI agree
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:01pmOne of the school systems in our state went on high alert and actually suspended a student for having some kind of candy on the school grounds. Major lawsuit.
Our District was actually considering banning sugar containing products, but then the PTO pointed out that one of their key fund raisers was selling cookie dough. A student would actually be courting suspension for bringing home the frozen cookie dough his parents purchased.
Then the District considered banning all drinks containing sugar and all sodas, which left everyone with water, milk, coffee or tea. Since elementary school students aren’t supposed to be drinking coffee or tea, their choices were water or milk. The kids have my sympathy here, since I am lactose intolerant and would have been limited to water, which I don’t mind, but gets kinda boring day after day. If the high school students actually did manage to get coffee or tea, they’d have to drink it without that poison, er, I mean sugar. See how crazy it can get???
Report Post »mark t
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:42amSara has the intestinal fotitude(ball’s) that we need in the whitehouse!!!!!!
Report Post »more than anyone else that I can see on the conservative side!!!!!!
she get’s my vote!!!!!!!!!!!!
NickDeringer
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:33amABC News has jumped on this story and called it a “controversy.” They are so afraid of this woman they must crush her at all costs.
Forget what the pundits bloviate about, Palin is the only candidate who can generate the energy needed to defeat Oblame-a in 2012.
Report Post »1911a1
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:32amRight On Sarah !!!
Report Post »SND97
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:32amThe slogan for 2012 should be “2012 Restore America To Greatness”
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:28pm….and cookies!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:30amWhat ‘lady” in the White House?
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:56pmThe “living thing” that was NEVER PROUD OF AMERICA?????
Report Post »Pawsupday
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:30amTake two cookie’s now and vote for me in the morning…..WILL DO!!!! She’s just what this country ordered :))) LOVE PALIN !!!!!!
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:15pmWhoo hoo!!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:48pmPalin is a “real” mom/woman … pass the cookies ….! MO is a mean old crone.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:29amI’ll take a cookie! Yum.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:29amThe more serious aspect of this story is, for years now the Liberals have slowly at first and now steamrolling the nanny state mindset. The attack on smokers, booze, salt, sugar, McDonalds, trans fat etc. It was simply a trick to see how long and how much the American public would let those idiots take away personal freedoms. Now they think they have grown enough balls that they can do anything they want. I just hope it’s not to late to reverse this.
Report Post »Promotefreedom
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:41amAnd the thing is: They couldn’t care less about the health of anyone. Michelle pounds in the burgers, Al Gore churns out massive amounts of carbon, and then they push carbon trading and restrictive food laws “for the good of the people.”
Unfortunately, I fear MANY citizens will not see what is happening until the US military is taking them to internment camps “for the safety of all.” Perhaps they will not even get it them, until they are lined up to be shot “for the good of the ‘green’ planet.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:26amFrom the look of Michelle’s backside, she’s not afraid of cookies.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:54amShe loves her cheeseburgers, fries and ice cream, that’s for sure.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:21amGONZO quips, “From the look of Michelle’s backside, she’s not afraid of cookies.”
Michelle Obama is the Cookie Wookie.
I have an endearing cookie rhyming nickname for Sarah but Blaze bosses are so psychotic neurotic about censorship I would crisp their cookies should I dare share.
Okpulot Taha
Report Post »Choctaw Nation
InGodWeTrust
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:48amThat is one BIG ASS!
Report Post »red penny
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:50amWho in the world would want to look at Princess Michelles’ rear end?
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:15amRED PENNY asks, “Who in the world would want to look at Princess Michelles’ rear end?”
Carnival Syndrome.
This is much like looking at a bearded lady on display at a carnival freak show. You really don’t want to pay a dime to look at this bearded lady but you just have to look. Same is true for Michelle Obama’s circus wagon backside; you just have to look and end up wishing you had not looked.
How many of you remember when entering a carnival freak show tent only cost ten cents? Seemed so very expensive back then. Today, a dime will not even buy you time on a payphone. I figure Michelle’s backside is worth about as much, a dime.
Okpulot Taha
Report Post »Choctaw Nation
neverending
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:53amthat broad is as big as a house – no – a duplex!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:34amBristols backside matches – too many cookies also!
Report Post »snowcloud
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:03pmSure SHE likes them, it‘s just that she doesn’t want the peasants to have them.
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:50pm… looks to be about the size of a roto-tiller plus 7 axe handles wide to me…she must inject clarified butter into her buttcheeks so all that lobster will slide out nice and easy…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:46pmHi agree with HIGHLAND … she eats everything she wants …. maybe if Michele ate some cookies she could go some boobs! . that’s what she lacks along with empathy and brains.
Report Post »CM Sackett
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:24amDear Sarah,
As you “check the political landscape”, be sure to keep your eyes on ALLEN WEST.
GOWEST 2012!
http://gowest2012.wordpress.com/
Respectfully (and thankful for all you do NOW!),
Report Post »CM Sackett
lainpa
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:24amhow about a west/palin or palin/west ticket?
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:50amI think Col. West has a terrific future, by which I mean, Oh Yeah, White House! However, I’m afraid it is too soon for him to lead the ticket, lest we be ourselves vulnerable to the charge of inexperience and pushing a “quota hire” over his head –and you KNOW the lefties will have no shame when it comes time to start with the racial insults. And as appealing as Sarah is on many counts, I’m also afraid that she has lost the credibility necessary to be on the national ticket, at least with the huge swath of “decider” voters out there. Also, with the Tea Party having lost significant face in this recent election (with a write-in beating out Sarah’s T-Man for Senate right in AK), that may be a sign that the Rs should aim slightly more to the mainstream for 2012 — though not as far as McCain, of course! It will be an interesting two years…..
Report Post »C0ncerned Citizen
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:17amTo TheGreyPiper: Are you serious? Are you saying that the 20+ years that LT. COL. West spent in the military, leading our soldiers, being promoted, being stationed overseas, etc. is not experience?? I think you need to rethink your requirements.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:03amChristie/ West/ Palin ….crap this is going to be good we are starting to get some choices.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:04pmTheGreyPiper,
I’m with you. I like West as much as everyone else does but its too soon. We need to see if politics is a good fit for him.
PatriotShops.com
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:21amThe kids will never want a cookie when faced with the awesome choice of cookie versus arrugalla. It will only cost you 4.5 Billion on the kids credit card Muchelle says.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:14amIf Michelle gets her way, kids like mine are going to starve to death. He wants fries with his burger, he wants Oreos with his milk and he wants dessert after dinner. I guess for that he deserves to be punished. Oh govt, please take away all my choices so I can be a better parent.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:43pmPlease note that liberals only want to take away cookies from others … they enjoy their cookies, but NONE FOR YOU! Good for Sarah … she supports FREEDOM (from cookie snatchers!)
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:19amYou go girl.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:47amI’m with you! Every time I hear Mrs. O spew her crap, I want to scream. Kids deserve to be kids while they can–look at the first daughters, they are treated as if they were not kids–missing far too much of the formative years and the fun that goes with that! It is bad enough being on display as a child, but we have a WH couple who seem to believe how important that is to their well being! Let them play, get into activities and be kids instead of the prima donnas they have been made to be!
Report Post »BocaBaby
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:17pmAmen, and amen! I am so glad that we are finally finding our voice. Cheers to you all, and cheers to Sarah!! Run Sarah Run!!!!
She is saavy, and while no othe person (well, other than Glenn) is taking on the feds. Sarah once again is being the leading voice…..she has my vote.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:55pmCheering on the lie? The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review retracted the allegation. Another oopsie :)
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:19amLOL, how’s that for sugar coating a heated debate? A good sense of humor will do wonders for a campaign. Good thing conservatives have a good sense of humor.
http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com/
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:34amNext thing the Progressives will accuse Ms Palin of being in cahoots with the ‘destructive forces of the right wing Candy Manufacturers who dare to oppress healty foods grown by the farmers of the other world nations as our own EPA and administration has turned off water and threatened all of the farmers in the nation.”
Report Post »snowcloud
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:54pm@snowleopard
LOL!! I can see it now…..”Palin is in bed with Big Cookie!!! She’s an extremist, I tell you!!!”
Report Post »wendio
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:16amI’ll take 2 cookies please!
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:19amMMMMM cookies …. the HORROR!
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:24amI’ll bet that in Alaska, they still let kids play dodge ball after they eat their cookies. Sounds like fun (and darn good exercise) to me.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:32am(Radio/TV announcer “My God, the horror going on here before the world! I cannot believe this, it is just too terrible to show or even describe…
(Scene: Kids munching on cookies, M&M’s, and Hershy bars; while running around at play and having fun (with excercise at the same time)
Progressives, Americans are taking the nation back.
Get over it.
Steve Smith
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:06amI‘d love some of Sarah’s cookies… (did I just type that out loud?)
ClassicalLiberal
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:11am“Nannyism is fascism with training wheels.” — R. L. Root
http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/09/fascism-keynesianism-socialism.html
Report Post »TheSlugbuddies Dotcom
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:21amWe would eagerly consume anything this woman cooked. The byproduct would then be deposited on Tina Fey’s front yard.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:25amdid she make the cookies herself?? If so what kind? Holidays are coming need some idea’s..
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:49amHalf a dozen cookies for me. :-D
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:33amI just took some butter out of the fridge, I’m going to make my kid some cookies!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:15pmPlease stay the hell home, Palin!
I am NOT voting for Palin for President. Where are the conservative men who want to get our Republic back?
And she quit her job as Governor!
Spookytruck
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:38pmDamn. I just had some milk and cookies after my ten mile run. Think I am hurting my health? I can do over 50 push ups in under a minute. My cholesterol is 132 and I can out run most people half my age. I’m 64 years young and have more energy than the average 15 year old. Have you noticed how wide the health guru, Michele Obama’s hips are lately? Someone take those veggies from her and give her a damn cookie. We love you Sarah. You are a real person.
Report Post »longhorn mama
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:52pm@doctor’s labor
Report Post »What are you talking about? I always enjoyed your comments before. What is that sexist crap? And we all know defending the frivolous ethics attacks were bankrupting her and Todd. They have to provide a nest egg to support Trig his whole life. Palin has boundless energy and spunk and in no way reminds me of a quitter.
waggie
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:53pmTo SpookyTruck: Not only are her hips wide, but when she can talk her husband out of his cigarettes then maybe she’ll have a leg to stand on!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:42pm@ LONGHORN MAMA,
Please understand that I mean no disrespect, but you have to understand that men and women are not built the same. We have different proclivities – that’s just the way we are, it’s our identity, which is why certain kinds of roles are more befitting of men than women, and the other way around.
I see Feminism as extremely destructive to not only the male identity, but the female identity, so to the extent that gender defines us is the extent to which this issue concerns me.
When you get the chance, will you please read this article? It helps explain what I’m talking about, though it was written for a different reason:
The Meaning of Same-Sex Attraction
Report Post »http://www.narth.com/docs/niconew.html
Jimt
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:49pm@A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Sarah didn’t “quit”; she reloaded in order to fight for what is right on a fairer battlefield.
She promised to keep the frivolous anti-Palin law suits away from the Alaskan people ( saving tax money and time) and to be more effective on the stump ( supporting candidates , fundraising, etc)
Sarah Palin was truthful on both accounts!!
In an article Sarah Palin said:
“I said, ‘Enough. Political adversaries and their political friends in the media will not destroy my State, my administration, nor my family. Enough.’ I knew if I didn’t play their game any longer, they could not win. I would not retreat, I would instead reload, and I would fight for what is right from a different plane.”
Sarah Palin resigned because she recognized the cost that the frivolous ethics complaints were having on her state , and she saw how much of her staff’s time and her own time were forced to deal with those issues. She wasn’t able to effectively fulfill her role as Governor, so she passed the reins onto someone who didn’t have to be concerned that if he sneezed in the Lower 48, an ethics complaint would be thrown at him.
Palin’s entire administration was paralized by those frivolous complaints, only an idiot wouldnt be able to see or admit that.
She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would continue to cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources to defend against false and maliciously ethics complaints and doom it to gridlock.
Report Post »Sarah had to step down for the better of her state and it was the honorable thing to do.
She promised that she would “effect positive change outside of Government”, and she has most definitely done that.
Sarah has been able to speak more boldly for both Alaska and all Americans for the conservative principles this country was founded on now that she is outside of office and without the concern of a possible ethics violation been thrown at her.
Sarah Palin told us all why she resigned when she resigned. If some people still don’t get it, well, that’s their problem
jzs
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 5:17pmThis is the kind of silly nonsense that obscures any kind of adult conversation about the subject. Not mentioned above is that the proposed ban is the school SELLING candy. Parents can still send their kids with a one pound bag of chocolate if they want. Parents can send their kids with any food they want. You just make or buy whatever you want your kids to eat, put it in a lunch bag, and send them to school.
You’ve missed the point, the “government” isn’t telling kids what to eat. The argument taking place on this irrational thread is that we should REQUIRE schools to sell candy. That’s a real government takeover. Why not hold parents responsible for what their kids eat? Why make it mandatory for the schools to sell junk food? That’s your case?
Report Post »longhorn mama
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:26am@ doctor’s labor
Report Post »I am a big fan of NARTH but I do not know where you are going with this. Women and men are obviously different and have different goals in life. But that does not mean God will not call a woman forward to be a leader. Yes, her family might suffer. But, don‘t you think Ronald Reagan’s kids suffered, too, and that is why most of them turned out so bad. I am glad Palin and her family are praying about it and will try to follow God’s will for their life.