Big Yes,Your the Only One with the Backbone to stand up and speak the Truth; As one of many Army Vets and as one of many who lived and worked up on the North Slope durning your time and a little before I know how much better you can make this Great Country we love and live in. I know in my Heart that the only reason you ran for Vice President was to do your Best to Help this Great Nation before Its too late. And its not going to be very much longer before it will be too late. We need you Sarah !
I would never vote for Palin for President after she walked out on Alaska because she became money hungry just shows ya what she finds important, she should have finished her term as Governor. She is too scary to be running this country.
WOWEE! WOWEE! WE DONT LOOK SO STUUPIID NOW THAT SARAH PALININSKI HAS ADDRESSED THIOSE PEOPLE IN NASHVILLE FROM THE GRAND OLDE OPREEY WITH SWAMP MUUSICC IN THE BOOCKGRUND. WHAT ALIFFFEEEE….. I AM GLAD I’M HEAR TO SEE AND LAUGH AT ITTTT ALLLL!!@!!
Yes please run in 2012 Sara. And run as an independant. I never thought I would see in my lifetime, our way of life and Constitution be trashed and disrespected as much as I have seen over the years. I am afraid of the future, rather what future we may be allowed to have. I believe in God and that the right things will happen for us if we have faith. Please shake the tree and make the rotten apples fall. I dont like the europeanization of our home and way of life. I would be in prison if I did some of the same things that these so called leaders do and it is absolutely shameful that theye get away with it. It makes me very fearful of how our future is being shaped.
My advice for the leeches on the left, if theye really would love to find the perfect society and mirror a european model? My suggestion would be to visit the closest airport, most of them have international flights leaving at regular intervals, and buy a one way ticket, and have a nice life. We dont need them here or want to have a socialist/marxist way of life. Also I do believe it should be considered treason against the people for not living up to the oath theye took to defend our Constitution and way of life.
Again thank you Sara for being out there, and please please please run in 2012.
May the Lord bless and keep you and your family.
I masturbate to u frequently. I hope you will put your picture all over the place in 2012 so that I can pleasure myself everywhere I go. I look forward to your lovely face and plenty of fresh targets!
Hello Sarah
I am just finishing your book “Going Rogue” and am amazed at how well you handled all the abuse they gave you while campaiging for Vice President.
Please really pray about running for President in 2012. We need you. Run the campain as you have your other bids and you can’t go wrong. I and this country are in great need for someone like you. With God all things are possible and you have my support and prayers. Here is praying that the Lord will guide you to this make this decision.
Phyllis
Hello Sarah
I am just finishing your book “Going Rogue” and am amazed at how well you handled all the abuse they gave you while campaiging for Vice President.
Please really pray about running for President in 2012. We need you. Run the campain as you have your other bids and you can’t go wrong. I and this country are in great need for someone like you. With God all things are possible and you have my support and prayers. Here is praying that the Lord will guide you to this make this decision.
Phyllis
I’m sorry, but are out of your freaking mind?? How can you even know what Sarah Palin will do? You could see various times during the her VP campaign that she lied to reporters, so she is not the truth-teller you want her to be… furthermore, she just told so much bull**** during the campaign… common, that was no abuse! She bought clothes for more than 150,000 dollars! Abuse??? She told the media dumb things about her political experience and about everything… How can you possibly vote for someone like her? I dont’t believe this. How can you say she’s gonna be a good president? She has no experience, even less than Obama had (and Obama was at least a US Senator before, not just one lousy governor from a state that has more whales than people…). I just don’t know where this enthusiasm comes from. She has no concept except “small government”, no profile and no skills. You can say what you want about Obama, but at least he had a pretty elaborate concept!
Please think about this for a moment.
Sarah is our voice, whatever you do Sarah we will backyou to the hilt. Dont ever take a backward step to the loonies in the press, we admire you and all you stand for? Go Sarah Go, we only wish we could be over there to support you more effectively, Love and safe journey for all who love freedom and fairplay
Should Gov. Palin run in 2012:
She should run as VP with Mitt Romney and run in 2016 for the top spot.
I am an Independent and I will never forgive McCain for not standing behind her. It does not matter if he hated her guts – it was his duty support her, which to me just shows that he would have been a lousy Prez.That woman went through the ringer and Conservatives just like with Prez. Bush stood on the sidelines and let it happen. Shame on all the Republicans. As for the Democrats – I sincerely hope that you all remember that you are Americans and this kind of conduct is deplorable. To the AMerican People – remember waht has been going on in November – both Parties need a serious overhaul.
Gov. Palin – you need a new look. Professional hair style and so on. Bouncy and perky won’t cut it – don’t take this wrong – I am a supporter but also a realist.
Your gook was amazing, and in 2012 I will be allowed to vote and you will be my first pick. You have inspired me in so many ways, and exemplify many of my beliefs! What a great leader you are, and way to stand your ground. Just remember nobody hates you Mrs. Palin, it’s just the left side is VERY afraid of you (:
May God bless you and your family! You’ve got my vote!!
I believe this past election has made a huge effect on my life. I am 15 years old and will be able to vote in the next election, will you please run, you truly are a remarkable person. I would have done anything to have gotten you in office this past election. I serve as a state officer for a student organization in Georgia and I know what pressure there is while serving in a political office, but I believe you can handle it.
If you run, you will have my vote no doubt in my mind! I will be proud to represent who I’m voting for in the 2012 election (and for the first time I’ll be able to vote). I also want to thank you for writing such an amazing book you are more interesting than I had thought! I can’t put down your book…thank you Sarah! Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Years!
My once political opinions have been catapulted into full on passion for our country doing the right thing…thanks to your words and example in Going Rogue. If God leads you to the presidency, you have this mom of 3 in my 30s full support to lead a revolution in my small extremely LIBERAL town in Oregon. Thank you for being you..open, honest, passionate and bold…my kind of girl!
I pray that Sarah Palin will be the next President of the United States in 2012! Ever since she was discovered by millions of Americans and her book, ‘Go Rogue’, she has deeply inspired me and made me stand up taller and stronger and work harder as an proud American! Go, Sarah Palin, and be the change America needs!
She has the steel spine just like Ronald Reagan had. She CAN do it with God’s strength, power, and guide!
“Lord, please guide her, give her all the strength she needs, and make her the most powerful president of all in your Hands. Fill her with wisdom, and walk with her each step of the way. Thank you, in Jesus’ name amen.”
Dear Sarah,
I’m very satisfyed that you are infact a true
christain and american , constitution oriented . Your family
background and values place you and yours as representative of
what is right and best in this God ordained country. Thank you
for your courage in speaking out for our God given and American
flavored rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Please, do not listen to the winds of change… things will be
be better in 2012. You have a wonderful family with many diverse missions upon you, As it says in the Bible, there will be
a one world gov. with a leader from the arab world . . so, pre-
pare those close and asist some deserving of support along the
way. . yet, don’t let the system drag you away from our immediate call to intoduce many to jesus christ.
Hi, Sarah I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. I hope that your son will be home to celebrate your grandson’s first christmas. I’m writing to you because I have a son that want to serve his country I’m proud of him for waiting to serve but I’m afraid that he might not come back home? I think the reason I like you so much is that your family comes that why I support you have the same values I have I also think you would be a great Presidnt. What ever my son’s decide to do I will support him but I hope we someone like you? giving the commend’s thank you Sarah I’m also proud of being a American woman and that’s because of you.
She is JUST what we need!!!! A non-lawyer, with moral values and a steel back bone. She is and Condelisa Rice are the ONLY two women I would ever vote for for president.
After reading your book “Going Rogue” I am absolutely convinced you should run for President in 2012. You are what this country needs!! Besides who in that Eastern Snobby Elitist group could clean fish!! You are down to earth, just regular folk like the rest of us. How refreshing! God bless you and your family!
You go girl!! I turned 14 on on Dec. 7th and recieved your book “Going Rogue” from my parents. I am so inspired by you and your family and I think you are just what this country needs. Thank you so much for all you are doing! God Bless!
Abby
As a German I really really hope that Sarah will be running for president in 2012 and hopefully winning it.
That would be the best for my country and for the EU.
Then we Europeans might have the chance to loose our ties with the USA and redefine our relationship to that of an equal faction with less chances that the USA meddles in our own affairs.
Obama on the other hand is so popular over here that any such attempt is next to impossible.
no you shouldn’t run for president, you can’t even keep an eye on your own kid from getting pregnant what makes you think you can run the GOV. you should fix your problems at home first than think about running the country, this is one that will not vote for you,letting my friends know not to vote for you, there are no room for people with skin color other than white in your cabenet
You are ridiculous . Just because your racist to white people doesnt mean white people are racist to you . get your facts straight then make a smart ass comment . Ighhhtttt brotha ?
I am so glad that we live in the greatest country in the world. Yes, my whole family loves Sarah Palin and will vote for her if she runs in 2012. I think that will be aboout 50 votes, we do have a lot of friend that is sick an feed up with the same people telling us the same old lies year after year. It is so good to see somebody with the same values as the rest of us just plain common people. Keep it up girl an remember there are a lot of Americans that will support you. Oh, yes i guess you do not have any children.. Think you can watch your children 24/7?
You have to pity people like Lizzie for their extremely narrow views. Understand, the vast majority of the democrats in this country are high-school dropouts, minorities, or illegal aliens which some states allow to vote. They are cradle-to-gravers who refuse to accept responsibility for themselves or their familes.
Please explain to me why, instead of getting a job, they spend their days on their backs producing more kids for taxpayers to take care of?
The unemployment rate, AT THIS TIME, is 15% for dems. Almost TWICE the percentage of republicans. Why? Refer back to para 1 above.
These people become democrats because the democrat heirarchy can lead them around like the sheep they are. They simply don’t know any better.
Please run for President, I think you are exactly what this country needs. I am so tired of the Liberals! Also, Letterman is making a complete ass out of himself, I feel like you are handling it good and America notices that.
THE OTHER ISSUES THAT NEED YOUR ATTENTION REGARD THE LACK OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXIT STRATEGY FOR COMBAT VETERANS SUFFERING PTSD.
THERE IS NO PROGRAM IN THE MILITARY OR VETERANS ADMINISTRATION THAT ACTUALLY TREATS PTSD.
“AFTERMATH A WAR OF MEMORIES” ADDRESSES THAT ISSUE DIRECTLY. IT ALSO ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM THAT AMERICA HAS IS THAT THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT AT THE CDC IN ATLANTA OR NIH IN BETHESDA.
YOU ARE THE ONE TO FEARLESSLY CHALLENGE THOSE AGENCIES AND UNCOVER THE INEFFICIENCY AND CORRUPTION THAT HAS EXISTED SINCE THE INCEPTION OF BOTH INSTITUTIONS OF THE MILITARY AND NATIONAL HEALTH.
LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING FOR YOU IN ’12 ELECTION.
RONALD M. CHASE, M.D.
REFLECTIONS ON PTSD: THE ROAD TO FT. HOOD
I have been involved with the psychiatric treatment of combat veterans for over 40 years now. It was the tragedy at Ft. Hood that compelled me to express some realities that capture the moment for me.
In March, 1968, I entered the Bethesda Naval Medical Center to begin my residency training in psychiatry. It happened that Tet was announced in Vietnam. The air evacuation of casualties had begun from the theaters of combat in Nam. My first patient still smelled from Napalm, fresh off the C-147. I expected to experience a first patient as someone that was having marital problems or was obsessed with a movie star. This never happened. I was met with the rude awakening that some guy was going to talk about death and dying and I had to pry every last word out of his mouth. There was no expectation that following World War II or Korea that battle fatigue or shell shock existed and there was a way to treat it besides R&R.
I became creative and designed the first treatment approach to traumatic neurosis at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1968. I extracted a pound of emotional pus from a group of newly arrived Marines who sat in a group with me for two hours every other day for several months. They had group catharsis and abreactions until they stopped having the symptoms that are now known as PTSD by everyone in the civilized world. When a Chaplain, Capt/USN, asked to observe one of the therapy groups I obliged. After about ½ hour of his sitting there in his dress whites he abruptly ran out clutching a laundered handkerchief to his mouth. I knew I had accomplished my goal with the 14 combat veterans and corpsman seated in that group therapy circle. It was possible to get the suppressed and repressed emotional feelings and thoughts of those combat scenes verbally expressed in a supportive atmosphere of camaraderie with Marines of similar traumatic exposures. As the emotions and thoughts that accompanied the experience of the veteran spewed out the symptoms: fear, numbness, night mares gradually abated in the veterans of the enlisted unit. I learned in later years that this acute phase of trauma was easier to treat because the symptoms were still raw and accessible to retrieval and expression.
In 1984 I was recruited to develop programs in PTSD to treat veterans at the Lyons, VAMC in New Jersey. There were no established programs specifically for the combat veteran, The usual individual counseling, group therapy, and medication treatment was the order of the day. Emphasis on issues such as pension, compensation, alcoholism, and drug addiction were the topics of the day. Agent Orange was gathering attention as many Vietnam veterans complained of undiagnosed illnesses and birth defects in their children. The VA system was understaffed at the hospital and there was no way to make any changes to implement a program for the treatment of PTSD. Administrative meetings were called on a daily basis to address problems of drinking and violations of the hospital rules. Veterans acted out their disgruntlements concerning their service in Vietnam, the treatment of their return home without welcome, unemployment and conflicts with the world in general. They were attention seeking at every turn and had no way to voice the collective group experience of combat 10 years after Nam. The administration was pitted against the veteran, the enemy. Few of the staff members were advocates of the Vietnam veteran as they were seen as trouble. There was no compassion for the families of the veterans who suffered as much. There were no resources to treat and limited the motivation to go beyond the burden of every day employment to reach out. When the official designation of traumatic stress or neurosis became PTSD some physicians refused to acknowledge the condition and continued the tradition of viewing the combat veteran as alcoholic, drug addicted, or a pension seeking malingerer. The discovery of HIV complicated the treatment picture for veterans that year.
It was pretty difficult to treat a single combat veteran that may have suffered PTSD let alone one that had alcoholism, drug addiction, and AIDS all in the same person. The development of a program for PTSD was problematic as to what constituted therapy. It all had to be done as a comprehensive program lest the veteran be divided into 4 parts having to give a piece to one therapist then to another and so forth.
Next came the problem of staffing. There was not enough staff to have a program and the budget earmarked for the program never arrived. The hospital administration was insensitive to the problems of the veterans. When the vets became more vociferous about their needs in a newly compassionate milieu the administration retaliated harshly. The staff that was dedicated to the mission of care were intimidated and harassed by the administration that wanted no part of these outrageous veterans. The veterans went out on strike to protest the lack of care and abusive treatment they received over the past 10 years.
Professional staff members quit or were forced to retire leaving another void for the veterans. Whistleblowers were treated even more harshly for being advocates of the veterans and being a threat to the System. The proposed PTSD program was disbanded about a year later.
Twenty-four years later, in 2008, I was interested in learning how the combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were being treated for PTSD. My first call went to Ft. Bragg where I was told that there was no PTSD treatment there at the base. The cases were sent to the Veterans Administration where programs were supposed to exist. Yet, as it was for the Vietnam combat casualties, there was no psychological exit strategy, no philosophy of treatment for PTSD or comprehensive programs in the military. These soldiers would return to the home base from the theater of combat unlike the Vietnam experience where they flew into California and found their way home in a hostile land, America.
The emergence of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, computer simulated warfare exposure therapy, Seroquel, and other pharmaceutical products reflect the lack of consensus, therapeutic understanding, philosophy, and varied styles of treatment. And, still the casualties mount after the return to base with suicides predominating. The widespread use of questionnaires to triage for PTSD and Suicidal behavior was testimony that there was insufficient staffing or expertise to treat the numbers affected by PTSD, or symptom complexes that were even more deadly to individuals and society. There were no lessons learned from the Vietnam experience to impart to Iraq/Afghanistan combat veterans. Overwhelmed by the sheer number of those affected by TBI and PTSD, the military retreated to the position that these assets were not going to return to active duty so they were expendable. The military bases did not have the manpower to devote to treating combat veterans en mass. Those cases that needed hospitalization for grave symptoms were placed in the reassignment unit awaiting medical boards pending discharge from the military. Other emotional casualties of the war were redeployed a second or third time. Others were retained in a holding unit in uniform pending discharge from the military. The burden of treatment for these combat veterans fell on the weak shoulders of the Veterans Administration or other places that had little or no hands on experience in understanding what was required. The Seroquel shuffle became evident and quickly replaced Thorazine of the Korea and Vietnam Eras. The Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) continued to experience recruitment problems for psychiatrists that had an understanding of PTSD treatment. The ranks of pill-throwing healers swelled as the expedient way to treat symptoms without grasping the underlying dynamic of PTSD. The hand off of veterans from the military to the VAMC was unconscionable and wrong. The VA system was as inadequate and corrupt in the Gen. Shinseki era as it was in 1983. The scandal ridden Veterans Administration had become a worthless tool that did more damage than good by setting the standard of care very low. The DVA served best to facilitate pensions and benefits, and it did that poorly too. The National Center for PTSD, underlings to the Veterans Administration, was another failure in recommending a list of sanctioned approaches for the treatment of PTSD without considering the effectiveness, cost of implementing these therapies to large numbers of veterans, or the abilities of the health care providers themselves. Treatment without an understanding of the dynamic formulation in traumatic neurosis*, based on psychoanalytic precepts, would never work in the military or Veteran Administration hospitals. *(nosology before PTSD, circa1983).
Regarding the Ft. Hood Army base massacre and the psychiatrist that allegedly treated PTSD. A trained psychiatrist learns early in his career about transference issues in treating patients provided his training included psychoanalytic technique or a personal analysis. To avoid transference isssues, i.e. to deal appropriately with one’s own feelings and thoughts toward the patient, counter transference; and not be swept away by the cause or plight of the patient, or his thoughts and feelings about the psychiatrist, requires a neutral distance be taken by the therapist. Identification with the veteran’s cause e.g. death to the infidels, is an issue that a psychiatrist must consider if he himself is Muslim. He must recuse himself if he cannot be objective or identify personal bias, as would a judge in a case broaching conflict of interest. If the basic underlying philosophy of the psychiatrist reflects a negative expression toward the patient, or group he represents, the psychiatrist must evaluate that bias. This doctor had no apparent conflict with the religious mantra or he would have walked away, not treating the patient. To invoke PTSD as the cause of this outrageous act is ludicrous. Hearing the accounts of tragedy on the battle field is the job of a psychiatrist in the military. If the therapeutic distance was lost by the psychiatrist, or the margins were blurred between patient and personal boundary, he was no psychiatrist to begin with. He was an impostor. He may try to excuse his behavior with a plea of dissociation reaction from overwhelming stress of listening to horrific tales of war and atrocities, but then again that was his job to listen. He was never the direct subject of any traumatic event. By that reasoning we are all secondary victims of “media terror.”
Hasan’s stress was his conflict of anti-Islamic expressions coming from combat veterans who voiced in confidence their hatred of the enemy combatants who killed in the name of Allah and Jihad, and the psychiatrist’s Islamic roots. Their voices echoed an enmity that emboldened this coward to act upon his true feelings and beliefs.
Respectfully submitted,
Ronald M. Chase, M.D.
Author, “Aftermath A War Of Memories” Amazon.com
Tavares, Florida
If people think Palin is unqualified to be president, then what are BOs qualifications? What are his accomplishments and experience and track record? What did he do for his state as a senator? How is he better then Palin? BO has a undesirable background, with undesirable friends.. He has spent over a million dollars hiding all his records..He can’t speak without a teleprompter…He wants to reform our heath care system and he and the entire gov are exempt from.
Under the Electoral College system, the president is elected by state representatives called electors. The American people do not vote for or elect the president. The legislature of each State is authorized by Article II, Section I, Clause 2 of the Constitution to prescribe the mode for appointing its electors. At the present time, that method is a general election in each state. The electors chosen to vote for each State are those of the political party that wins a plurality of the popular vote within the State. For example. If the Democratic Party candidate, Barack Obama, wins the popular vote in Pennsylvania by one vote, then his party’s slate of 21 electors are elected to cast 21 votes for the State of Pennsylvania. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I&feature=player_embedded
After the clown we have now in office is through making a Mess of things, we are going to need her or some one like her to clean-up the MESS!!!!!!!!!!!
I havent voted since Reagan cause ive found no candidates worthy of the presidency, and i still stand by that, but what ive heard and seen of Sarah Palin…so far…im likely to register and vote for Sarah Palin for president. Ive taken notice that she’s stepping on alot political toes…Sarah, I salute you, its about time. You definately have my vote for president…..PALIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!! Bring it on!!!!!
Some one has to stand up and save this country. You are the one! Your principals are the foundation of your soul. Do not be deferred. Stand up strong and take the opportuinity that has been available to you in your life. This country is worth saving. You can do it. I didn’t know that you needed to be a community organier to have a place of freedom to sustain. I will send you money, spend my time getting you elected. Do not think twice about not being a sophiticated government agent. Think about this: I am a sinner and may not be forgiven, “BUT I AM NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENT”. Do not be deterred, move forward, think positive, and look to your self, your soul, for the answers. God bless you Sarah Palin.
Lordie, lordie you people should watch Idiocracy….. it depicts a world that is the result of people like Sarah Palin running the country. Of course, it is you supporters who make her who she is. She represents to callousness and stupidity of the Republican party and the right wing fundamentalist buffoons.
Lizzy – my my – talking about fundamentalist buffoons – you must be talking about that superfical Pelosi,HER MAJOR PUPPET Reed, queer Barney, TAX EVADER Geitner,TERRORIST RELEASER AG Houlder, and those dimwitts obama appointed to his cabinet without even vetting them.Look how many of them have such a checkered past! We are of a geneation that has never seen the likes of the ruin he is bringing to this country. It is not just the democrates but the republicans as well, so much corruption in both parties. But this last election has been so corrupt right up to all the LIES obama and his czars tell with the taxing and spending as democrates are known for. Just his being from such a state as Ill. should tell you where he got his training from the top Daily moffia! Those of you who like to throw stones at Sarah Palin should get to the truth to see that she has more experience then our so called Commander & Chief who takes longer to make decissions then choosing his dog! Those who voted him in will be to BLAME for helping to DISTROY this country and bring us all down!! Only time will tell if you are smart enough to know the difference. Maybe Sarah isn’t ready to be President yet but neither is obama and wouldn’t she be GREAT to REPLACE Pelosi!!!
I say go Sara. From Memphis Tn . I love your values. I will support you in every venue to replace the present establishment.
repubs need to pair you with someone worthy of what america stands for. I would love to have a bumper sticker(Palin for Prez 2012)has to be kinda small , so to fit on my Harley also. Harley Riderrs Love you too.Please Run for It. You have already gone through the B.S. that the Demos threw @ you. Go Girl and dont settle for VP. N0 ONE ever remembers who the V.P. was.
Ill support you in 2012. Appears you will need all the help you can.
GO Girl GO…..
P.S. protect our gun rights
I have always been in sarah Palins corner,I firmly believe she
is truely what america needs.News media,as well as others are
simply afraid of her.Simply cause she is very strong person,
its time we put her in the Whitehouse get rid of all these old
ass wimps.If she runs in 2012 I WILL VOTE OR HER.
Yes, Sara Palin should run, but only as a Republican nominee. If she runs as a third party candidate, than all she is doing is shooting herself in the foot, and therefore giving the white house right back to Obama. Any republican who runs as a third party candidate should stay home insyead of splitting up the vote. The Republican party as the great Ronald Reagen once said “needs to be retaken” by the conservative movement, and splitting the vote is not the way to do that. The republican party should nominate someone who their base i.e. conservatives can rally around, and shut down this new phase of FASHISM or Socialism or Obamism, and someone like Sarah Palin would do that.
Republican OR independant, all it will do is ensure 4 more years for Obama. When will you people realize and McCaine committed SUICIDE by having her as his VP?????? In the name of all that’s holy, RAISE THE BAR PEOPLE!! It takes more to run the most powerful cabinet in the world than being a conservative, a mom of five and a nice ass!! Good lord!!
When you compare Obama resume to Sarah’s it doesn’t stack up very well. Funny how you libs have two standards for your own candidates.
He has no international experience and was a sophmore Senator with no “executive” experience. I don’t know about your mom but I think mine could do a better job than 90% of the fools we have in congress and would make a damn fine president (in her prime).
This is not about her ass. This about Freedom, Capitalism, and truth. If you are not a capitalist, and are just some one wanting to get by and have a fair shake at life, you are a conservtive. By supporting conservatism and capitalism, you will find a job. Not a job that requires a four year degree, or any previous skills, but a willingness to work. Capitalism creates jobs, government creates debt. If you go the government route, you may experience a short term gain, but you have killed the future, for your children,and your friends, and your enemies. To have a future, you need to be a player. That isn’t someone looking for a paycheck from the government next week. A player is a citizen that is willing to work and save and make their future happen. Don’t be a succer and let the government take control of your life.
see what happens to you republicans when you cater to the dumbed down far right fundamentalist christian masses???? You LOSE and will again and again. There is still some sanity left in this country and it does not belong to the republicans. BRAVO go for it SCARAH…. may you get what you deserve. If we get you as a candidate, the republican party is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dizzy Lizzy – let He or She, without SPOT or BLEMISH cast the first stone!! You sound like one of those ignorant lazy liberals who believes in Socialism, and NOT having to work to your own success! Would be interesting to know what degrees you hold!
You may just be in for a BIG SURPRISE in 2010 when the Conservative Republicans regroup and retake AMERICA BACK!! Don’t think we are all sitting back silent!! People are wising up to these CROOKS in our Government!!
You’re the AMERICAN DREAM holding to our founders principles! We desperately need a person who loves our America, loves our Soldiers who are fighting for FREEDOM and believe in the right of the pursuit of happiness. Lead us! Right now we are being undersieged by a very well organized plan to change the America as you and I know it. This plan included the destruction of people like yourself who tried to run against the Obama machine. You were the only person running for the Presidency that had real leadership qualities that spoke for we the average taxpayer who is not being represented by our congress. The GOP and Independants have no one to lead us. Don’t run as an Independent! RUN FOR THE GOP and take AMERICA. Russia is warning its’ population not to forget JOSEPH STALIN who murdered, killed and destroyed its’ own population. Russia fears the present generation has forgotten the horrers of yesteryear. Hold up our Constitutional rights and fight off this communistic socialistic movement. Run, RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
God sent me here.It’s time for a third party.Let’s take the House and Senate members to the wood shed.We need Gov.Palin as President.We cant demand she be perfect. Every one carries some baggage,even Ronnie.Let’s get past the hate and bickering that only divides us. An honest and capable President is all the people want.Our next President will be a woman and she will be called Sarah.It is written. JMJ
SARAH PALIN WILL RUN AND WIN IN 2012! SHE MUST NOT APPEAR ON OPRAH OR ANY OTHER LEFTIST, RADICAL, SOCIALIST, LIBERAL, MARXIST, EXTREMIST OR CHICAGO THUG PROGRAMING WHOSE ONLY MOTIVE TO SPEAK “ON AIR” WITH HER IS TO BELITTLE AND OR MINIMALIZE HER! OPRAH IS AN OBAMA ZOMBIE AND A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THE WORD “BITCH”! SHE ONLY CHOOSES TO PROMOTE OPRAH OR HER MASTER OF THE LEFT AND HER PRESIDENT,AND CLOWN, B. HUSSEIN OBAMA.
HEY JUDY, ALL FORMER OFFICE HOLDERS KEEP THEIR TITLES, PRES. CLINTON, PRES. CARTER, ETC.
THATS HOW SMART YOU ARE.
SHE DOES SPEAK ACCURATELY, THAT’S WHAT BOTHERS EVERYBODY.
IT’S BHO, WHO SAYS ONE THING AND DOES ANOTHER.
Everyone i know is behind Sarah Palin. I’m still behind Sarah Palin. I also support Mike Huckabee. We need lots of people with common sense and strong moral values in our government. We need to get these straight-jacket recipient’s out of office.
Sarah Palin should head the Department of Energy. Sarah knows energy/oil. We have 400 years of oil reserves in the ground. Sarah has the intelligence and the know how to start an aggressive drilling incentive that would save our country and the economy. Why waste her talent on President? Sarah should be invited to Washington today to start a discussion on drilling NOW. If this President is bi-partisan, he should prove it and invite Sarah to Washinton. News Flash…Sarah won’t need a Czar.
I have said before, if Sarah had been running with someone besides McCain…she would be V.P. now. But don’t settle for VP, go for the Presidency, where we need an honest American. I just hope our country will survive the next four years. For those that said Sarah lacked in political savy are really reaching. Do they actually think that what we have now shows political savy? You’ve got to be kidding if you said yes. To judge someone’s intelligence by their way of speaking is totally biased and narrow-minded. Most likely illiterate themselves. Those that try to impress with their trained speaking techniques are the ones to watch. Nothing they say is truthful, or genuine. Please run Sarah…you do have a chance at this.
We don’t have to have to have 4 years of obama. Go to impeachobamacampaign.com and get on board to get him impeached. Please send this link to everyone you know. The sooner he is out, the better off America will be!!! Thanks to everyone and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Riiigghhhttt. Get palin to run in 2012, and THEN tell me we won’t have another 4 years of Obama!!
You people are fools. Find a GOOD CANDIDATE, and you can get Obama out of office. All you try to justify underqualified candidates which not only makes YOU look bad, but makes the republican party look like a ship of fools.
S. P. is pretty, sexy and smart. She is however, totally unprepared for political office on the world stage. She is a bully, lacks good judgement, and is veryyyy uninformed. Her lack of political savy is apparent! She uses her personal feelings to dominate her work, and lacks finesse. Her big mouth and her ability to sway a crowd is not the basis for world politics!!!! Go back to the bush where you can shoot off your mouth and a gun!
Substitute “Her” with “Obama’s” in you statement below and you have my sentiments.
Her big mouth and her ability to sway a crowd is not the basis for world politics!!!!
And because a woman can fire a weapon and hunt doesn’t make her unintelligent. Becoming the Governor of a state, even Alaska, is no small task and should be respected. Your comment about shooting guns is reminiscent of Obama’s infamous statement about conservative Americans who “clinging to guns and religion”. He was much meligned for this. Congrats on toteing the party line and sounding like the ubiquitous Elite Liberal Democrat.
This is not about being a smart politician. This is about good judgement and a commitment to freedom. The CHANGE has been acknoledged and been rejected. The new President :”Barrck Hussien Obama”, MM,MM,MM, is a Marxist. His policies will destroy this country and take away freedoms we have experienced for 232 years. Wake up! Obama is a bad leader, of a bad group, of a bad idea. He will transform this country into a banana republick. The frightening thing is that he and his Marxists, can do this in a very short period of time. Even the 2010 elections may not stop him, only slow him down. YOu must vote for FREEDOM, You must vote for survival, you must vote for sanity.
After seeing the results of the Values Voters Summit and hearing many of the speeches, it has become clear to me that we need to stop Mike Huckabee now so he doesn’t run for president at all because he talks way too many of the voters that should be voting for Sarah!
Thanks, but no thanks. The president should be intelligent and speak intelligently. That is a talent you are very much lacking.
Anyone holding an official office position should be able to accurately and intelligently comprehend what he or she reads or hears before they make comments to the people. So far, She hasn’t got anything right yet. Oh and by the way you are no longer the governor, so stop claiming the title. You’re just a nobody trying to some get attention. Go put some lipstick on your pig and be happy.
If anyone needs to go back to school it is Obama. He is the most unqualified person to ever serve as president.
Sarah Palin’s qualifications put Obama to shame
AGREED. THANKYOU!!! The problem with our politics has nothing to do with the candidates…. but to do with the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Democrats are busy trying to justify obama, after 8 years of american conservatives trying to justify Bush, just to have candidates like PALIN running for office.
It’s time to “Raise the bar” people. Americans deserve higher standards, and better candidates. By trying to justify underqualified politicans, all people are doing is “enabling” having boneheads (including Palin) running for office.
Do i need to send you a huge clip of Obama gafts and mispeaks.
If making speaking errors disqualifies you from public office, neither Obama or Biden should be with-in 100 mile of Washington.
If Obama doesn’t have a teleprompter he is lost. There is a reason why he won’t go on FOX!! No softballs. This is the biggest running joke in Washington. And Biden,… don’t even get me started, this knucklehead asked a quadeplegic to stand up on national T.V.!!!! His gafts are endless and this is the second biggest running joke in WA. It’s amazing how libs are blind to the follies and shortcomings of their own candidates.
Actually, (speaking as a independant), i’m in high hopes of her running in 2012, and certaintly don’t think that she’s all that truthful.
Having her run for the presidential ticket will guarentee Obama another 4 years. Hell, she’s half the reason why the majority of republicans became independants. This woman is dumb as a box of rocks and an epic loser on virtually every topic imaginable.
Run Sara Run Run as an independant blow the dust off the constitution and say here is the ticket to prosperity. Promise to cut the federal govt in half. Tell the people to throw out the incumants. Eliminate all the $$$ for Acorn, aclu, bug studies, swine smell & excessive pensions etc. Cut taxes in half (tax code should be 1 page not 60,000), eliminate capitol gains . Stop all the intrusive business regulations. Send us back to the 50′s. You know the people will vote for you. John McCain is an idiot and did not have the message Americans wanted to hear. Education needs competition not beaurocrates.
1st, tell us what you would do about every problem this country faces.
Please stand up and call it like it is. Bold faced Marxism. Everything both parties have been doing for the last 45 years has been deliberately spending us into poverty.
Barry Goldwater was right.
Say something specific on the issues. Please!!!!!!!!!!
Big Yes,Your the Only One with the Backbone to stand up and speak the Truth; As one of many Army Vets and as one of many who lived and worked up on the North Slope durning your time and a little before I know how much better you can make this Great Country we love and live in. I know in my Heart that the only reason you ran for Vice President was to do your Best to Help this Great Nation before Its too late. And its not going to be very much longer before it will be too late. We need you Sarah !
President Sarah Palin?? England, can I come live with you?
I would never vote for Palin for President after she walked out on Alaska because she became money hungry just shows ya what she finds important, she should have finished her term as Governor. She is too scary to be running this country.
WOWEE! WOWEE! WE DONT LOOK SO STUUPIID NOW THAT SARAH PALININSKI HAS ADDRESSED THIOSE PEOPLE IN NASHVILLE FROM THE GRAND OLDE OPREEY WITH SWAMP MUUSICC IN THE BOOCKGRUND. WHAT ALIFFFEEEE….. I AM GLAD I’M HEAR TO SEE AND LAUGH AT ITTTT ALLLL!!@!!
Yes please run in 2012 Sara. And run as an independant. I never thought I would see in my lifetime, our way of life and Constitution be trashed and disrespected as much as I have seen over the years. I am afraid of the future, rather what future we may be allowed to have. I believe in God and that the right things will happen for us if we have faith. Please shake the tree and make the rotten apples fall. I dont like the europeanization of our home and way of life. I would be in prison if I did some of the same things that these so called leaders do and it is absolutely shameful that theye get away with it. It makes me very fearful of how our future is being shaped.
My advice for the leeches on the left, if theye really would love to find the perfect society and mirror a european model? My suggestion would be to visit the closest airport, most of them have international flights leaving at regular intervals, and buy a one way ticket, and have a nice life. We dont need them here or want to have a socialist/marxist way of life. Also I do believe it should be considered treason against the people for not living up to the oath theye took to defend our Constitution and way of life.
Again thank you Sara for being out there, and please please please run in 2012.
May the Lord bless and keep you and your family.
Sarah,
I masturbate to u frequently. I hope you will put your picture all over the place in 2012 so that I can pleasure myself everywhere I go. I look forward to your lovely face and plenty of fresh targets!
Love,
Bob
Sarah, You are one REAL RETARDED BITCH!! Go back to hell where you came from,CUNTBAG!!
Hello Sarah
I am just finishing your book “Going Rogue” and am amazed at how well you handled all the abuse they gave you while campaiging for Vice President.
Please really pray about running for President in 2012. We need you. Run the campain as you have your other bids and you can’t go wrong. I and this country are in great need for someone like you. With God all things are possible and you have my support and prayers. Here is praying that the Lord will guide you to this make this decision.
Phyllis
Hello Sarah
I am just finishing your book “Going Rogue” and am amazed at how well you handled all the abuse they gave you while campaiging for Vice President.
Please really pray about running for President in 2012. We need you. Run the campain as you have your other bids and you can’t go wrong. I and this country are in great need for someone like you. With God all things are possible and you have my support and prayers. Here is praying that the Lord will guide you to this make this decision.
Phyllis
I’m sorry, but are out of your freaking mind?? How can you even know what Sarah Palin will do? You could see various times during the her VP campaign that she lied to reporters, so she is not the truth-teller you want her to be… furthermore, she just told so much bull**** during the campaign… common, that was no abuse! She bought clothes for more than 150,000 dollars! Abuse??? She told the media dumb things about her political experience and about everything… How can you possibly vote for someone like her? I dont’t believe this. How can you say she’s gonna be a good president? She has no experience, even less than Obama had (and Obama was at least a US Senator before, not just one lousy governor from a state that has more whales than people…). I just don’t know where this enthusiasm comes from. She has no concept except “small government”, no profile and no skills. You can say what you want about Obama, but at least he had a pretty elaborate concept!
Please think about this for a moment.
Sarah is our voice, whatever you do Sarah we will backyou to the hilt. Dont ever take a backward step to the loonies in the press, we admire you and all you stand for? Go Sarah Go, we only wish we could be over there to support you more effectively, Love and safe journey for all who love freedom and fairplay
Should Gov. Palin run in 2012:
She should run as VP with Mitt Romney and run in 2016 for the top spot.
I am an Independent and I will never forgive McCain for not standing behind her. It does not matter if he hated her guts – it was his duty support her, which to me just shows that he would have been a lousy Prez.That woman went through the ringer and Conservatives just like with Prez. Bush stood on the sidelines and let it happen. Shame on all the Republicans. As for the Democrats – I sincerely hope that you all remember that you are Americans and this kind of conduct is deplorable. To the AMerican People – remember waht has been going on in November – both Parties need a serious overhaul.
Gov. Palin – you need a new look. Professional hair style and so on. Bouncy and perky won’t cut it – don’t take this wrong – I am a supporter but also a realist.
I’ll vote for you for sure if you can only answer one question.
Is the human race 6000 years old?
By the way…
Sarah you are suffering from bipolar demented delusional hysteria.
Your gook was amazing, and in 2012 I will be allowed to vote and you will be my first pick. You have inspired me in so many ways, and exemplify many of my beliefs! What a great leader you are, and way to stand your ground. Just remember nobody hates you Mrs. Palin, it’s just the left side is VERY afraid of you (:
May God bless you and your family! You’ve got my vote!!
I believe this past election has made a huge effect on my life. I am 15 years old and will be able to vote in the next election, will you please run, you truly are a remarkable person. I would have done anything to have gotten you in office this past election. I serve as a state officer for a student organization in Georgia and I know what pressure there is while serving in a political office, but I believe you can handle it.
Thanks, Austin
If you run, you will have my vote no doubt in my mind! I will be proud to represent who I’m voting for in the 2012 election (and for the first time I’ll be able to vote). I also want to thank you for writing such an amazing book you are more interesting than I had thought! I can’t put down your book…thank you Sarah! Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Years!
Merry Christmas Sarah and family,
My once political opinions have been catapulted into full on passion for our country doing the right thing…thanks to your words and example in Going Rogue. If God leads you to the presidency, you have this mom of 3 in my 30s full support to lead a revolution in my small extremely LIBERAL town in Oregon. Thank you for being you..open, honest, passionate and bold…my kind of girl!
I pray that Sarah Palin will be the next President of the United States in 2012! Ever since she was discovered by millions of Americans and her book, ‘Go Rogue’, she has deeply inspired me and made me stand up taller and stronger and work harder as an proud American! Go, Sarah Palin, and be the change America needs!
She has the steel spine just like Ronald Reagan had. She CAN do it with God’s strength, power, and guide!
“Lord, please guide her, give her all the strength she needs, and make her the most powerful president of all in your Hands. Fill her with wisdom, and walk with her each step of the way. Thank you, in Jesus’ name amen.”
Dear Sarah,
I’m very satisfyed that you are infact a true
christain and american , constitution oriented . Your family
background and values place you and yours as representative of
what is right and best in this God ordained country. Thank you
for your courage in speaking out for our God given and American
flavored rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Please, do not listen to the winds of change… things will be
be better in 2012. You have a wonderful family with many diverse missions upon you, As it says in the Bible, there will be
a one world gov. with a leader from the arab world . . so, pre-
pare those close and asist some deserving of support along the
way. . yet, don’t let the system drag you away from our immediate call to intoduce many to jesus christ.
I personally believe in Santa,the Tooth Fairy and Bigfoot but I keep those beliefs to myself.
Hi, Sarah I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. I hope that your son will be home to celebrate your grandson’s first christmas. I’m writing to you because I have a son that want to serve his country I’m proud of him for waiting to serve but I’m afraid that he might not come back home? I think the reason I like you so much is that your family comes that why I support you have the same values I have I also think you would be a great Presidnt. What ever my son’s decide to do I will support him but I hope we someone like you? giving the commend’s thank you Sarah I’m also proud of being a American woman and that’s because of you.
She is JUST what we need!!!! A non-lawyer, with moral values and a steel back bone. She is and Condelisa Rice are the ONLY two women I would ever vote for for president.
I hope she is guided to choose to lead us!!!!
Sarah,
After reading your book “Going Rogue” I am absolutely convinced you should run for President in 2012. You are what this country needs!! Besides who in that Eastern Snobby Elitist group could clean fish!! You are down to earth, just regular folk like the rest of us. How refreshing! God bless you and your family!
You go girl!! I turned 14 on on Dec. 7th and recieved your book “Going Rogue” from my parents. I am so inspired by you and your family and I think you are just what this country needs. Thank you so much for all you are doing! God Bless!
Abby
Hi, my name is Gracie I’am 12 years old and I want to say that.YOU GO GIRL!And I hope that you get to run for President in 2012.
you are right!
As a German I really really hope that Sarah will be running for president in 2012 and hopefully winning it.
That would be the best for my country and for the EU.
Then we Europeans might have the chance to loose our ties with the USA and redefine our relationship to that of an equal faction with less chances that the USA meddles in our own affairs.
Obama on the other hand is so popular over here that any such attempt is next to impossible.
Christmas with Palin, what a great idea. Is there a web-site yet? RSVP
no you shouldn’t run for president, you can’t even keep an eye on your own kid from getting pregnant what makes you think you can run the GOV. you should fix your problems at home first than think about running the country, this is one that will not vote for you,letting my friends know not to vote for you, there are no room for people with skin color other than white in your cabenet
Johnson. ,you are a dope
AMEN. He is a dope
You are ridiculous . Just because your racist to white people doesnt mean white people are racist to you . get your facts straight then make a smart ass comment . Ighhhtttt brotha ?
I am so glad that we live in the greatest country in the world. Yes, my whole family loves Sarah Palin and will vote for her if she runs in 2012. I think that will be aboout 50 votes, we do have a lot of friend that is sick an feed up with the same people telling us the same old lies year after year. It is so good to see somebody with the same values as the rest of us just plain common people. Keep it up girl an remember there are a lot of Americans that will support you. Oh, yes i guess you do not have any children.. Think you can watch your children 24/7?
You have to pity people like Lizzie for their extremely narrow views. Understand, the vast majority of the democrats in this country are high-school dropouts, minorities, or illegal aliens which some states allow to vote. They are cradle-to-gravers who refuse to accept responsibility for themselves or their familes.
Please explain to me why, instead of getting a job, they spend their days on their backs producing more kids for taxpayers to take care of?
The unemployment rate, AT THIS TIME, is 15% for dems. Almost TWICE the percentage of republicans. Why? Refer back to para 1 above.
These people become democrats because the democrat heirarchy can lead them around like the sheep they are. They simply don’t know any better.
Please run for President, I think you are exactly what this country needs. I am so tired of the Liberals! Also, Letterman is making a complete ass out of himself, I feel like you are handling it good and America notices that.
THE OTHER ISSUES THAT NEED YOUR ATTENTION REGARD THE LACK OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXIT STRATEGY FOR COMBAT VETERANS SUFFERING PTSD.
THERE IS NO PROGRAM IN THE MILITARY OR VETERANS ADMINISTRATION THAT ACTUALLY TREATS PTSD.
“AFTERMATH A WAR OF MEMORIES” ADDRESSES THAT ISSUE DIRECTLY. IT ALSO ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM THAT AMERICA HAS IS THAT THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT AT THE CDC IN ATLANTA OR NIH IN BETHESDA.
YOU ARE THE ONE TO FEARLESSLY CHALLENGE THOSE AGENCIES AND UNCOVER THE INEFFICIENCY AND CORRUPTION THAT HAS EXISTED SINCE THE INCEPTION OF BOTH INSTITUTIONS OF THE MILITARY AND NATIONAL HEALTH.
LOOKING FORWARD TO VOTING FOR YOU IN ’12 ELECTION.
RONALD M. CHASE, M.D.
REFLECTIONS ON PTSD: THE ROAD TO FT. HOOD
I have been involved with the psychiatric treatment of combat veterans for over 40 years now. It was the tragedy at Ft. Hood that compelled me to express some realities that capture the moment for me.
In March, 1968, I entered the Bethesda Naval Medical Center to begin my residency training in psychiatry. It happened that Tet was announced in Vietnam. The air evacuation of casualties had begun from the theaters of combat in Nam. My first patient still smelled from Napalm, fresh off the C-147. I expected to experience a first patient as someone that was having marital problems or was obsessed with a movie star. This never happened. I was met with the rude awakening that some guy was going to talk about death and dying and I had to pry every last word out of his mouth. There was no expectation that following World War II or Korea that battle fatigue or shell shock existed and there was a way to treat it besides R&R.
I became creative and designed the first treatment approach to traumatic neurosis at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1968. I extracted a pound of emotional pus from a group of newly arrived Marines who sat in a group with me for two hours every other day for several months. They had group catharsis and abreactions until they stopped having the symptoms that are now known as PTSD by everyone in the civilized world. When a Chaplain, Capt/USN, asked to observe one of the therapy groups I obliged. After about ½ hour of his sitting there in his dress whites he abruptly ran out clutching a laundered handkerchief to his mouth. I knew I had accomplished my goal with the 14 combat veterans and corpsman seated in that group therapy circle. It was possible to get the suppressed and repressed emotional feelings and thoughts of those combat scenes verbally expressed in a supportive atmosphere of camaraderie with Marines of similar traumatic exposures. As the emotions and thoughts that accompanied the experience of the veteran spewed out the symptoms: fear, numbness, night mares gradually abated in the veterans of the enlisted unit. I learned in later years that this acute phase of trauma was easier to treat because the symptoms were still raw and accessible to retrieval and expression.
In 1984 I was recruited to develop programs in PTSD to treat veterans at the Lyons, VAMC in New Jersey. There were no established programs specifically for the combat veteran, The usual individual counseling, group therapy, and medication treatment was the order of the day. Emphasis on issues such as pension, compensation, alcoholism, and drug addiction were the topics of the day. Agent Orange was gathering attention as many Vietnam veterans complained of undiagnosed illnesses and birth defects in their children. The VA system was understaffed at the hospital and there was no way to make any changes to implement a program for the treatment of PTSD. Administrative meetings were called on a daily basis to address problems of drinking and violations of the hospital rules. Veterans acted out their disgruntlements concerning their service in Vietnam, the treatment of their return home without welcome, unemployment and conflicts with the world in general. They were attention seeking at every turn and had no way to voice the collective group experience of combat 10 years after Nam. The administration was pitted against the veteran, the enemy. Few of the staff members were advocates of the Vietnam veteran as they were seen as trouble. There was no compassion for the families of the veterans who suffered as much. There were no resources to treat and limited the motivation to go beyond the burden of every day employment to reach out. When the official designation of traumatic stress or neurosis became PTSD some physicians refused to acknowledge the condition and continued the tradition of viewing the combat veteran as alcoholic, drug addicted, or a pension seeking malingerer. The discovery of HIV complicated the treatment picture for veterans that year.
It was pretty difficult to treat a single combat veteran that may have suffered PTSD let alone one that had alcoholism, drug addiction, and AIDS all in the same person. The development of a program for PTSD was problematic as to what constituted therapy. It all had to be done as a comprehensive program lest the veteran be divided into 4 parts having to give a piece to one therapist then to another and so forth.
Next came the problem of staffing. There was not enough staff to have a program and the budget earmarked for the program never arrived. The hospital administration was insensitive to the problems of the veterans. When the vets became more vociferous about their needs in a newly compassionate milieu the administration retaliated harshly. The staff that was dedicated to the mission of care were intimidated and harassed by the administration that wanted no part of these outrageous veterans. The veterans went out on strike to protest the lack of care and abusive treatment they received over the past 10 years.
Professional staff members quit or were forced to retire leaving another void for the veterans. Whistleblowers were treated even more harshly for being advocates of the veterans and being a threat to the System. The proposed PTSD program was disbanded about a year later.
Twenty-four years later, in 2008, I was interested in learning how the combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan were being treated for PTSD. My first call went to Ft. Bragg where I was told that there was no PTSD treatment there at the base. The cases were sent to the Veterans Administration where programs were supposed to exist. Yet, as it was for the Vietnam combat casualties, there was no psychological exit strategy, no philosophy of treatment for PTSD or comprehensive programs in the military. These soldiers would return to the home base from the theater of combat unlike the Vietnam experience where they flew into California and found their way home in a hostile land, America.
The emergence of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, computer simulated warfare exposure therapy, Seroquel, and other pharmaceutical products reflect the lack of consensus, therapeutic understanding, philosophy, and varied styles of treatment. And, still the casualties mount after the return to base with suicides predominating. The widespread use of questionnaires to triage for PTSD and Suicidal behavior was testimony that there was insufficient staffing or expertise to treat the numbers affected by PTSD, or symptom complexes that were even more deadly to individuals and society. There were no lessons learned from the Vietnam experience to impart to Iraq/Afghanistan combat veterans. Overwhelmed by the sheer number of those affected by TBI and PTSD, the military retreated to the position that these assets were not going to return to active duty so they were expendable. The military bases did not have the manpower to devote to treating combat veterans en mass. Those cases that needed hospitalization for grave symptoms were placed in the reassignment unit awaiting medical boards pending discharge from the military. Other emotional casualties of the war were redeployed a second or third time. Others were retained in a holding unit in uniform pending discharge from the military. The burden of treatment for these combat veterans fell on the weak shoulders of the Veterans Administration or other places that had little or no hands on experience in understanding what was required. The Seroquel shuffle became evident and quickly replaced Thorazine of the Korea and Vietnam Eras. The Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) continued to experience recruitment problems for psychiatrists that had an understanding of PTSD treatment. The ranks of pill-throwing healers swelled as the expedient way to treat symptoms without grasping the underlying dynamic of PTSD. The hand off of veterans from the military to the VAMC was unconscionable and wrong. The VA system was as inadequate and corrupt in the Gen. Shinseki era as it was in 1983. The scandal ridden Veterans Administration had become a worthless tool that did more damage than good by setting the standard of care very low. The DVA served best to facilitate pensions and benefits, and it did that poorly too. The National Center for PTSD, underlings to the Veterans Administration, was another failure in recommending a list of sanctioned approaches for the treatment of PTSD without considering the effectiveness, cost of implementing these therapies to large numbers of veterans, or the abilities of the health care providers themselves. Treatment without an understanding of the dynamic formulation in traumatic neurosis*, based on psychoanalytic precepts, would never work in the military or Veteran Administration hospitals. *(nosology before PTSD, circa1983).
Regarding the Ft. Hood Army base massacre and the psychiatrist that allegedly treated PTSD. A trained psychiatrist learns early in his career about transference issues in treating patients provided his training included psychoanalytic technique or a personal analysis. To avoid transference isssues, i.e. to deal appropriately with one’s own feelings and thoughts toward the patient, counter transference; and not be swept away by the cause or plight of the patient, or his thoughts and feelings about the psychiatrist, requires a neutral distance be taken by the therapist. Identification with the veteran’s cause e.g. death to the infidels, is an issue that a psychiatrist must consider if he himself is Muslim. He must recuse himself if he cannot be objective or identify personal bias, as would a judge in a case broaching conflict of interest. If the basic underlying philosophy of the psychiatrist reflects a negative expression toward the patient, or group he represents, the psychiatrist must evaluate that bias. This doctor had no apparent conflict with the religious mantra or he would have walked away, not treating the patient. To invoke PTSD as the cause of this outrageous act is ludicrous. Hearing the accounts of tragedy on the battle field is the job of a psychiatrist in the military. If the therapeutic distance was lost by the psychiatrist, or the margins were blurred between patient and personal boundary, he was no psychiatrist to begin with. He was an impostor. He may try to excuse his behavior with a plea of dissociation reaction from overwhelming stress of listening to horrific tales of war and atrocities, but then again that was his job to listen. He was never the direct subject of any traumatic event. By that reasoning we are all secondary victims of “media terror.”
Hasan’s stress was his conflict of anti-Islamic expressions coming from combat veterans who voiced in confidence their hatred of the enemy combatants who killed in the name of Allah and Jihad, and the psychiatrist’s Islamic roots. Their voices echoed an enmity that emboldened this coward to act upon his true feelings and beliefs.
Respectfully submitted,
Ronald M. Chase, M.D.
Author, “Aftermath A War Of Memories” Amazon.com
Tavares, Florida
If people think Palin is unqualified to be president, then what are BOs qualifications? What are his accomplishments and experience and track record? What did he do for his state as a senator? How is he better then Palin? BO has a undesirable background, with undesirable friends.. He has spent over a million dollars hiding all his records..He can’t speak without a teleprompter…He wants to reform our heath care system and he and the entire gov are exempt from.
Under the Electoral College system, the president is elected by state representatives called electors. The American people do not vote for or elect the president. The legislature of each State is authorized by Article II, Section I, Clause 2 of the Constitution to prescribe the mode for appointing its electors. At the present time, that method is a general election in each state. The electors chosen to vote for each State are those of the political party that wins a plurality of the popular vote within the State. For example. If the Democratic Party candidate, Barack Obama, wins the popular vote in Pennsylvania by one vote, then his party’s slate of 21 electors are elected to cast 21 votes for the State of Pennsylvania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I&feature=player_embedded
After the clown we have now in office is through making a Mess of things, we are going to need her or some one like her to clean-up the MESS!!!!!!!!!!!
I havent voted since Reagan cause ive found no candidates worthy of the presidency, and i still stand by that, but what ive heard and seen of Sarah Palin…so far…im likely to register and vote for Sarah Palin for president. Ive taken notice that she’s stepping on alot political toes…Sarah, I salute you, its about time. You definately have my vote for president…..PALIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!! Bring it on!!!!!
Some one has to stand up and save this country. You are the one! Your principals are the foundation of your soul. Do not be deferred. Stand up strong and take the opportuinity that has been available to you in your life. This country is worth saving. You can do it. I didn’t know that you needed to be a community organier to have a place of freedom to sustain. I will send you money, spend my time getting you elected. Do not think twice about not being a sophiticated government agent. Think about this: I am a sinner and may not be forgiven, “BUT I AM NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENT”. Do not be deterred, move forward, think positive, and look to your self, your soul, for the answers. God bless you Sarah Palin.
Lordie, lordie you people should watch Idiocracy….. it depicts a world that is the result of people like Sarah Palin running the country. Of course, it is you supporters who make her who she is. She represents to callousness and stupidity of the Republican party and the right wing fundamentalist buffoons.
Lizzy – my my – talking about fundamentalist buffoons – you must be talking about that superfical Pelosi,HER MAJOR PUPPET Reed, queer Barney, TAX EVADER Geitner,TERRORIST RELEASER AG Houlder, and those dimwitts obama appointed to his cabinet without even vetting them.Look how many of them have such a checkered past! We are of a geneation that has never seen the likes of the ruin he is bringing to this country. It is not just the democrates but the republicans as well, so much corruption in both parties. But this last election has been so corrupt right up to all the LIES obama and his czars tell with the taxing and spending as democrates are known for. Just his being from such a state as Ill. should tell you where he got his training from the top Daily moffia! Those of you who like to throw stones at Sarah Palin should get to the truth to see that she has more experience then our so called Commander & Chief who takes longer to make decissions then choosing his dog! Those who voted him in will be to BLAME for helping to DISTROY this country and bring us all down!! Only time will tell if you are smart enough to know the difference. Maybe Sarah isn’t ready to be President yet but neither is obama and wouldn’t she be GREAT to REPLACE Pelosi!!!
I say go Sara. From Memphis Tn . I love your values. I will support you in every venue to replace the present establishment.
repubs need to pair you with someone worthy of what america stands for. I would love to have a bumper sticker(Palin for Prez 2012)has to be kinda small , so to fit on my Harley also. Harley Riderrs Love you too.Please Run for It. You have already gone through the B.S. that the Demos threw @ you. Go Girl and dont settle for VP. N0 ONE ever remembers who the V.P. was.
Ill support you in 2012. Appears you will need all the help you can.
GO Girl GO…..
P.S. protect our gun rights
I have always been in sarah Palins corner,I firmly believe she
is truely what america needs.News media,as well as others are
simply afraid of her.Simply cause she is very strong person,
its time we put her in the Whitehouse get rid of all these old
ass wimps.If she runs in 2012 I WILL VOTE OR HER.
Yes, Sara Palin should run, but only as a Republican nominee. If she runs as a third party candidate, than all she is doing is shooting herself in the foot, and therefore giving the white house right back to Obama. Any republican who runs as a third party candidate should stay home insyead of splitting up the vote. The Republican party as the great Ronald Reagen once said “needs to be retaken” by the conservative movement, and splitting the vote is not the way to do that. The republican party should nominate someone who their base i.e. conservatives can rally around, and shut down this new phase of FASHISM or Socialism or Obamism, and someone like Sarah Palin would do that.
Republican OR independant, all it will do is ensure 4 more years for Obama. When will you people realize and McCaine committed SUICIDE by having her as his VP?????? In the name of all that’s holy, RAISE THE BAR PEOPLE!! It takes more to run the most powerful cabinet in the world than being a conservative, a mom of five and a nice ass!! Good lord!!
Really john,
When you compare Obama resume to Sarah’s it doesn’t stack up very well. Funny how you libs have two standards for your own candidates.
He has no international experience and was a sophmore Senator with no “executive” experience. I don’t know about your mom but I think mine could do a better job than 90% of the fools we have in congress and would make a damn fine president (in her prime).
This is not about her ass. This about Freedom, Capitalism, and truth. If you are not a capitalist, and are just some one wanting to get by and have a fair shake at life, you are a conservtive. By supporting conservatism and capitalism, you will find a job. Not a job that requires a four year degree, or any previous skills, but a willingness to work. Capitalism creates jobs, government creates debt. If you go the government route, you may experience a short term gain, but you have killed the future, for your children,and your friends, and your enemies. To have a future, you need to be a player. That isn’t someone looking for a paycheck from the government next week. A player is a citizen that is willing to work and save and make their future happen. Don’t be a succer and let the government take control of your life.
see what happens to you republicans when you cater to the dumbed down far right fundamentalist christian masses???? You LOSE and will again and again. There is still some sanity left in this country and it does not belong to the republicans. BRAVO go for it SCARAH…. may you get what you deserve. If we get you as a candidate, the republican party is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dizzy Lizzy – let He or She, without SPOT or BLEMISH cast the first stone!! You sound like one of those ignorant lazy liberals who believes in Socialism, and NOT having to work to your own success! Would be interesting to know what degrees you hold!
You may just be in for a BIG SURPRISE in 2010 when the Conservative Republicans regroup and retake AMERICA BACK!! Don’t think we are all sitting back silent!! People are wising up to these CROOKS in our Government!!
You’re the AMERICAN DREAM holding to our founders principles! We desperately need a person who loves our America, loves our Soldiers who are fighting for FREEDOM and believe in the right of the pursuit of happiness. Lead us! Right now we are being undersieged by a very well organized plan to change the America as you and I know it. This plan included the destruction of people like yourself who tried to run against the Obama machine. You were the only person running for the Presidency that had real leadership qualities that spoke for we the average taxpayer who is not being represented by our congress. The GOP and Independants have no one to lead us. Don’t run as an Independent! RUN FOR THE GOP and take AMERICA. Russia is warning its’ population not to forget JOSEPH STALIN who murdered, killed and destroyed its’ own population. Russia fears the present generation has forgotten the horrers of yesteryear. Hold up our Constitutional rights and fight off this communistic socialistic movement. Run, RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
God sent me here.It’s time for a third party.Let’s take the House and Senate members to the wood shed.We need Gov.Palin as President.We cant demand she be perfect. Every one carries some baggage,even Ronnie.Let’s get past the hate and bickering that only divides us. An honest and capable President is all the people want.Our next President will be a woman and she will be called Sarah.It is written. JMJ
YES! I would love to see her run for PREZ. More good news for sat. night live. What a JOKE! VERY HILLARIOUS
I believe in you,. I saw where you will appear with Oprah. Please be careful. She’s totally two faced and will try to make a fool out of you.
SARAH PALIN WILL RUN AND WIN IN 2012! SHE MUST NOT APPEAR ON OPRAH OR ANY OTHER LEFTIST, RADICAL, SOCIALIST, LIBERAL, MARXIST, EXTREMIST OR CHICAGO THUG PROGRAMING WHOSE ONLY MOTIVE TO SPEAK “ON AIR” WITH HER IS TO BELITTLE AND OR MINIMALIZE HER! OPRAH IS AN OBAMA ZOMBIE AND A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THE WORD “BITCH”! SHE ONLY CHOOSES TO PROMOTE OPRAH OR HER MASTER OF THE LEFT AND HER PRESIDENT,AND CLOWN, B. HUSSEIN OBAMA.
short and sweet girl, you got my vote
HEY JUDY, ALL FORMER OFFICE HOLDERS KEEP THEIR TITLES, PRES. CLINTON, PRES. CARTER, ETC.
THATS HOW SMART YOU ARE.
SHE DOES SPEAK ACCURATELY, THAT’S WHAT BOTHERS EVERYBODY.
IT’S BHO, WHO SAYS ONE THING AND DOES ANOTHER.
HE FOOLED ALOT OF PEOPLE.
Everyone i know is behind Sarah Palin. I’m still behind Sarah Palin. I also support Mike Huckabee. We need lots of people with common sense and strong moral values in our government. We need to get these straight-jacket recipient’s out of office.
Sarah Palin should head the Department of Energy. Sarah knows energy/oil. We have 400 years of oil reserves in the ground. Sarah has the intelligence and the know how to start an aggressive drilling incentive that would save our country and the economy. Why waste her talent on President? Sarah should be invited to Washington today to start a discussion on drilling NOW. If this President is bi-partisan, he should prove it and invite Sarah to Washinton. News Flash…Sarah won’t need a Czar.
I have said before, if Sarah had been running with someone besides McCain…she would be V.P. now. But don’t settle for VP, go for the Presidency, where we need an honest American. I just hope our country will survive the next four years. For those that said Sarah lacked in political savy are really reaching. Do they actually think that what we have now shows political savy? You’ve got to be kidding if you said yes. To judge someone’s intelligence by their way of speaking is totally biased and narrow-minded. Most likely illiterate themselves. Those that try to impress with their trained speaking techniques are the ones to watch. Nothing they say is truthful, or genuine. Please run Sarah…you do have a chance at this.
We don’t have to have to have 4 years of obama. Go to impeachobamacampaign.com and get on board to get him impeached. Please send this link to everyone you know. The sooner he is out, the better off America will be!!! Thanks to everyone and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Riiigghhhttt. Get palin to run in 2012, and THEN tell me we won’t have another 4 years of Obama!!
You people are fools. Find a GOOD CANDIDATE, and you can get Obama out of office. All you try to justify underqualified candidates which not only makes YOU look bad, but makes the republican party look like a ship of fools.
Please send me the link.
S. P. is pretty, sexy and smart. She is however, totally unprepared for political office on the world stage. She is a bully, lacks good judgement, and is veryyyy uninformed. Her lack of political savy is apparent! She uses her personal feelings to dominate her work, and lacks finesse. Her big mouth and her ability to sway a crowd is not the basis for world politics!!!! Go back to the bush where you can shoot off your mouth and a gun!
Betty,
Substitute “Her” with “Obama’s” in you statement below and you have my sentiments.
Her big mouth and her ability to sway a crowd is not the basis for world politics!!!!
And because a woman can fire a weapon and hunt doesn’t make her unintelligent. Becoming the Governor of a state, even Alaska, is no small task and should be respected. Your comment about shooting guns is reminiscent of Obama’s infamous statement about conservative Americans who “clinging to guns and religion”. He was much meligned for this. Congrats on toteing the party line and sounding like the ubiquitous Elite Liberal Democrat.
This is not about being a smart politician. This is about good judgement and a commitment to freedom. The CHANGE has been acknoledged and been rejected. The new President :”Barrck Hussien Obama”, MM,MM,MM, is a Marxist. His policies will destroy this country and take away freedoms we have experienced for 232 years. Wake up! Obama is a bad leader, of a bad group, of a bad idea. He will transform this country into a banana republick. The frightening thing is that he and his Marxists, can do this in a very short period of time. Even the 2010 elections may not stop him, only slow him down. YOu must vote for FREEDOM, You must vote for survival, you must vote for sanity.
i admire Sarah Palin because she had done a lot in the area of politics. she has also a good track record when she was still the governor of Alaska.
After seeing the results of the Values Voters Summit and hearing many of the speeches, it has become clear to me that we need to stop Mike Huckabee now so he doesn’t run for president at all because he talks way too many of the voters that should be voting for Sarah!
Thanks, but no thanks. The president should be intelligent and speak intelligently. That is a talent you are very much lacking.
Anyone holding an official office position should be able to accurately and intelligently comprehend what he or she reads or hears before they make comments to the people. So far, She hasn’t got anything right yet. Oh and by the way you are no longer the governor, so stop claiming the title. You’re just a nobody trying to some get attention. Go put some lipstick on your pig and be happy.
GO BACK TO SCHOOL SARAH
If anyone needs to go back to school it is Obama. He is the most unqualified person to ever serve as president.
Sarah Palin’s qualifications put Obama to shame
AGREED. THANKYOU!!! The problem with our politics has nothing to do with the candidates…. but to do with the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Democrats are busy trying to justify obama, after 8 years of american conservatives trying to justify Bush, just to have candidates like PALIN running for office.
It’s time to “Raise the bar” people. Americans deserve higher standards, and better candidates. By trying to justify underqualified politicans, all people are doing is “enabling” having boneheads (including Palin) running for office.
Judy,
Do i need to send you a huge clip of Obama gafts and mispeaks.
If making speaking errors disqualifies you from public office, neither Obama or Biden should be with-in 100 mile of Washington.
If Obama doesn’t have a teleprompter he is lost. There is a reason why he won’t go on FOX!! No softballs. This is the biggest running joke in Washington. And Biden,… don’t even get me started, this knucklehead asked a quadeplegic to stand up on national T.V.!!!! His gafts are endless and this is the second biggest running joke in WA. It’s amazing how libs are blind to the follies and shortcomings of their own candidates.
Democrats and Liberals are afraid of Sarah because they no she speaks the truth.
Actually, (speaking as a independant), i’m in high hopes of her running in 2012, and certaintly don’t think that she’s all that truthful.
Having her run for the presidential ticket will guarentee Obama another 4 years. Hell, she’s half the reason why the majority of republicans became independants. This woman is dumb as a box of rocks and an epic loser on virtually every topic imaginable.
Please check you spelling the next time you post something for all the world to see.
Run Sara Run Run as an independant blow the dust off the constitution and say here is the ticket to prosperity. Promise to cut the federal govt in half. Tell the people to throw out the incumants. Eliminate all the $$$ for Acorn, aclu, bug studies, swine smell & excessive pensions etc. Cut taxes in half (tax code should be 1 page not 60,000), eliminate capitol gains . Stop all the intrusive business regulations. Send us back to the 50′s. You know the people will vote for you. John McCain is an idiot and did not have the message Americans wanted to hear. Education needs competition not beaurocrates.
dennisfleming, you are correct sir. Bravo. Till God returns, Gov.Palin will do. 10-4
1st, tell us what you would do about every problem this country faces.
Please stand up and call it like it is. Bold faced Marxism. Everything both parties have been doing for the last 45 years has been deliberately spending us into poverty.
Barry Goldwater was right.
Say something specific on the issues. Please!!!!!!!!!!