{"id":185122,"date":"2011-10-05T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/05\/all-praise-be-to-god-for-that-which-he-has-granted\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:40:00","slug":"all-praise-be-to-god-for-that-which-he-has-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/05\/all-praise-be-to-god-for-that-which-he-has-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"All Praise Be to God for That Which he Has Granted\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-10-05\/palin-decides-against-2012-run.html\">Sarah Palin has declared that she will not run for President in 2012<\/a>, which means that I can add her to my list of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/They%20Who%20Must%20Not%20Be%20Named\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Sarah Palin said she won\u2019t seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, ending a lengthy and attention-grabbing political flirtation that kept voters and potential rivals guessing while buttressing her public profile.<\/p>\n<p>The former Alaska governor and her party\u2019s 2008 vice presidential nominee &#8212; more recently a reality TV star and cable-news commentator &#8212; said she opted against a White House run because she believed \u201cthat at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office &#8212; from the nation\u2019s governors, to congressional seats and the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her announcement, in a statement sent to supporters today, removed a major uncertainty surrounding the Republican presidential race while raising questions about how she might use her celebrity and political following to shape the primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for president,\u201d Palin\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing\u201d President Barack Obama, keeping Republican control of the U.S. House and helping her party win a Senate majority, she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that I never have to write about her, or read about her, again.<\/p>\n<p>While we are at it, let me add the following people to my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John and Kate Gosslin.<\/li>\n<li>The cast of <i>The Jersey Shore<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Real Housewives&#8221; of <b>anywhere<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Grace.&nbsp; (If she flips out on national TV, or is tried for a crime, this is suspended for reasons of schadenfreude)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, let&#8217;s say that it includes pretty much <b>any<\/b> reality TV star.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Sarah is now done.&nbsp; She&#8217;s made her bucks off of her 15 minutes of fame, and she was a springboard for Michelle Bachmann to become a viable (?) presidential candidate.&nbsp; (The Republican Crazy Bitch Babe is the genre that she created.) <\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the fact that Sarah Palin has declared that she will not run for President in 2012, which means that I can add her to my list of They Who Must Not Be Named: Sarah Palin said she won\u2019t seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, ending a lengthy and attention-grabbing political flirtation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,977,1082,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-presidential-campaign","category-they-who-must-not-be-named","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}