Margaret Thatcher Refuses to Meet with Sarah Palin Because She’s “Nuts”

[99th_Monkey]

Source: FireDogLake

Apparently, The Quitter — who’s going to Sudan in July to see the Sphinx in the great country of Africa and generally bolster her learnin’ about furriners – also wanted to sneak in a photo-op stop with the Iron Lady.

PALIN: "I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her."

No such luck.

THATCHER (paraphrased): "Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."

Read more: http://firedoglake.com/2011/06/07/margaret-thatcher-refuses-to-meet-with-sarah-palin-because-shes-nuts/

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Would that American M$M would be so astute and selective of their coverage, rather than incessantly pandering to the attention whore named Sarah Palin.

[RandomThoughts]

Or she is playing you like a fiddle.

She knows a misquoted fact will get the news coverage for days, and even if it does not help her, it does not hurt her, and guess what, someone else does not get the news cycle.

You being played.

:rofl:

Love your style Sara Palin,

:loveya:

Hammer Fall - Hearts on Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25X8RAjJ00

[AlbertCat]

17. Love your style Sara Palin,

Making a fool out of yourself in public is a "style"????


Whatever.

[RandomThoughts]

20. The media spent headlines about two people.

Both that are said to not be serious about running for president.

Eating a pizza.

Who is the fool?

And what kind of system must we have for real news to not be available to the population.


And a guy on MSNBC just took a quote from my last post, maximum damage, why do you think that happened, and pointed it at someone else.


And what will be the result of that action.



Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Dire Straits - Walk of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CknuCTRAW_I

[LanternWaste]

32. Those who think Palin had a chance at VP...

"Who is the fool?"

Those who think Palin had a chance at VP... :shrug:


The rest is a delicious and savory dressing for a very crazy salad that gets harder and harder to defend from even its most rabid defenders.

[ixion]

1. *snicker*

well, I'm not sure what Mooseburger expected. Outside her echo chamber she's just another raving idiot.

[oberliner]

2. Thatcher didn't actually say that

You make it seem like a quote from her, when it isn't.

[99th_Monkey]

6. My bad. correction made. ~nt

[elleng]

14. Exactly, was gonna say she'd never say in such a way,

tho I don't care for her or her approach to things.

[bahrbearian]

3. Pot meet Kettle

[Me.]

4. Margaret Or Sarah?

IMHO, either could apply

[liberal N proud]

5. You beat me to it

And besides, it's just not very nice of that mean old British lady, How rude!

:rofl:

[intaglio]

7. I suspect that the veto was Margaret Hilda's care givers

It has long been rumoured that she is suffering from Alzheimers

[TheeHazelnut]

21. it's not even a rumor...

Her daughter wrote a book which discussed it in 2008. Google "Thatcher dementia."

[intaglio]

24. Sorry, should have added the words "the degree of..." n/t

[laylah]

34. As much as I have always

disliked her, and her politics, I am very sorry to hear about her condition. In this instance, I wish her well.

[tpsbmam]

36. Actually, based on the description and the cause...multiple small strokes

it's probably multi-infarct dementia. Similar but also a little different from Alzheimer's. It's also consistent with what appears to be a more stepwise progression in Thatcher's case just based on her daughter's descriptions.

[Demeter]

8. Let Elton John have the Last Word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMNqSoHHhQ

[whosinpower]

9. Is that a "gotcha" question? nt

[LeftishBrit]

10. Wow. She must REALLY be nuts if Thatcher and her entourage say she's nuts!

[JJW]

11. The British are coming?

As former quitter governor of Alaska didn't she need to keep an eye out for Lady Thatcher rearing her head into Alaska air space?

[mfcorey1]

12. Isn't Ms. Thatcher experiencing some dementia? nt

[TheeHazelnut]

19. Yes. Her daughter wrote a book about it three years ago...

Thatcher no longer knows her husband is dead, apparently. So this story kind of seems like a crock. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7579352.stm

[orion007]

29. lol...that was my first thought too n/t

[damntexdem]

13. Hey, maybe Revere HAS warned the British.

;-)

[Lars77]

15. Ms. Thatcher was an awful politician but she had some zingers

Like when Germany beat England at football (as usual) and the German chancellor said "We beat you at your favourite game!" and she said "We've beaten you at your favourite game twice.."


Still, parts of the country is still reeling from the old hags draconian policies.

[nxylas]

49. Not heard that quote attributed to Thatcher before

I'd always heard it came form the late Victor Mulchrone in the Daily Mail on the eve of the 1966 World Cup ("We should not be too upset if the Germans beat us at our national sport; after all, we have twice beaten them at theirs").

[Lars77]

50. maybe my source is wrong

fine by me, she never really looked like she had a sense of humour.

[DutchLiberal]

16. Wow. And this coming from the woman who palled around with Gen. Pinochet all the time...

... calling him her dear friend and singing his praises...

This really means something.

[99th_Monkey]

40. It means RWers are disowning their own, which makes me somewhat happy, actually. ~nt

[Gman]

18. That from Ronald Reagan The Great's English counterpart

I guess they'll want to change Thatcher's Wikipedia page.

[rooboy]

22. Real fishy. I doubt Thatcher knows who Sarah Palin is at all.

Margaret Thatcher is not in good mental shape these days.

[AlbertCat]

26. Margaret Thatcher is not in good mental shape these days.

So... the "she's nuts" could mean either of them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Well, the word 'paraphrased' is made up

It doesn't actually appear in the blog, and Thatcher hasn't, as far as I know, reached the stage of talking about herself in the 3rd person (though she did refer to herself as 'we', as in 'we are a grandmother', once). It was a quote from an 'ally' of Thatcher, which you'll see if you follow the links through to The Guardian, but the blog didn't make that clear. That's the trouble with a pseudonym on a blog being used as a 'news source'.

[TheBigotBasher]

37. You may indeed be hitting the nail on the head.

Linked to the story are Tim Montgomerie and the Thatcher foundation. Even in the days before dementia she would not have been meeting the opposition to elected Heads of State. Certainly not Primary candidates. Blsir does not do it. Major does not do it and Thatcher will not do it.

There was a polite refusal last year. C4P were tripping over their white sheets in excitement of the Screeech meeting the Thatch on the 100th birthday of St Ronnie, it did not happen. It will not happen.

Screech thought putting it in the paper would make it happen. It doesn't work that way.

Palin team crass.

De Klerk is still alive from that era, although I'm sure the screech, aka Bible Spice would have preferred to meet Botha.

[AlbertCat]

23. as I so admire her.

How embarrassing! For both of them!

[Raine]

35. I doubt she even knew who Thatcher was till someone told her. nt

:silly:


edit: changed one word

[Dutchmaster]

25. It's the KKK protesting Fred Phelps all over again ;)

[baldguy]

27. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

One thing Maggie ain't is stupid.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Did Paul Revere...

warn the Brits that Sarah is coming?

[avebury]

33. LOL!

K&R

[LetTimmySmoke]

31. I didn't know Margaret Thatcher was still alive.

[RainDog]

38. LOL

Thatcher was also smart enough to recognize, long for the Bush I admin., that the cold war really was over.

why would she want to associate with the idiotirodder Palin?

[TrollBuster9090]

39. It's not much of a contest, but at least Thatcher is showing more common sense than Henry Kissinger

Also, I don't think Thatcher was looking forward to being called "Yer MAJESTEE," or "Lady Di," or having to explaining why she can't dub her "The Duchess of Dumb" just fer fun, or show her Jeffrey Howe's penis.

[and-justice-for-all]

41. Why the fuck is Falin going to Sudan???..nt

[chknltl]

45. To find Mitt Romney's real birth certificate of course!

(what?).....

[TrollBuster9090]

48. I thought Trump's birth certificate supersleuths were already on that...

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. It'll be Southern Sudan, for a fundamentalist grandstanding opportunity

The largely Christian south of Sudan is getting independence in July from the rest of Sudan (which is largely Muslim). It's been a cause celebre among American fundamentalists for some years - see eg http://cambridge.academia.edu/JonathanAgensky/Papers/316779/Evangelical_globalism_and_the_internationalization_of_Sudans_civil_war .

The south was pretty hard done by, but there's no doubt that certain American evangelical churches gave their support there rather than elsewhere in Africa because one side was Christian, and the opposition was Islamic.

So Palin is forcing herself on the newly-independent nation, to get a photo-op to burnish her fundamentalist, anti-Islamic credentials. That is, if full-scale war doesn't break out first:

South Sudan death toll tops 1,500 - UN

More than 1,500 people have died this year in violence across southern Sudan, the United Nations said, ahead of the region's independence in July.

The underdeveloped region, roughly the size of France, has been beset by violence since southerners voted overwhelmingly in January to separate from the north and form their own nation.

The independence vote was the climax of a 2005 peace deal that ended a civil war which killed about 2 million people. North and south Sudan have fought for all but a few years since 1955 over ethnicity, religion, ideology and oil.

The threat of renewed war grew last month when the north used tanks and troops to seize the contested Abyei region that straddles north and south, overshadowing political instability within south Sudan.

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE75608Y20110607

[yurbud]

54. to study a model conservative government?

[Historic NY]

42. Thanks Lady Maggie.....if you think she is a nut so would Raygun.

[BDavinciNY]

43. The Iron Lady is never made with tin!

Say what you can say about Margret Thatcher the most divisive and despised politicians in Britain and possibly the world but she knows an idiot and a quitter when she sees one! Lady Thatcher for once is right about this. I guess Sister Sarah is going to the Sudan to see how well a "smaller government" is working out:sarcasm: Gee, If Sarah Palin had an actually functioning brain she would go there to help the people of Darfur not to show off. I guess Europe was out of the question because they kick her out with that fake tourbus BS she pulled last week.

[BlueMTexpat]

44. Of all the countries in the world, SP chooses to "grace" Sudan with her presence!

That poor beleaguered country already has enough problems: Ms Dysfunctional Personified visiting an example of epic dysfunctionality.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/TW%20Archive/TW%20Archive_934.html

... If you are a U.S. citizen traveling or residing anywhere in Sudan, you should exercise caution at all times and closely monitor local and international news from reliable sources. Violent flare ups break out with little notice between various armed militia groups and Sudanese military forces, particularly in the Darfur region, along the border between Chad and Sudan, and in areas of Southern Sudan. You should avoid all public demonstrations and political rallies, as even demonstrations that seem peaceful can turn confrontational and become violent with little or no notice. Anti-U.S. and European demonstrations occur periodically, mostly in Khartoum. You should keep a low profile, vary your time and routes of travel, exercise care while driving, and ensure that your passport and Sudanese visa are always valid and up to date.

... The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum provides services to U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Sudan. However, our ability to provide services to U.S. citizens in emergency situations outside of the Khartoum area is limited, and is dependent on security conditions. The ability of the Embassy to provide assistance to U.S. citizens is particularly limited in Southern Sudan and in Darfur. ..."

If anyone thinks that federal resources are being expended on her "family trip" in the US, just imagine what the cost of US Embassy and military resources would be for having to "keep her safe" in Sudan.

That is, if she's able to get a visa in the first place.

"ENTRY / EXIT REQUIREMENTS FOR U.S. CITIZENS: The Government of Sudan requires you to present a passport, and an entry visa or entry permit, upon arrival at a port of entry. Most U.S. travelers must obtain an entry visa from a Sudanese embassy before arriving in Sudan. There are two exceptions to this requirement: first, U.S. citizens possessing a Sudanese national identification document (such as a Sudanese passport or national identification card) may apply for an entry visa at Khartoum International Airport. The second exception is for travelers with a sponsor (a business or organization) that has obtained an entry permit for them in advance from the Sudanese Ministry of Interior. ..."

See http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1029.html#entry_requirements

The fun thing is that even if she is allowed to enter, she may not be allowed to leave. What a wonderful thought for us all!

From the same source: "... You must obtain an exit visa before departing from Sudan, as well as pay any airport departure tax not included in the traveler’s airline ticket. Travelers with expired entry visas or residence permits are regularly refused exit visas, absent a written request from the Sudanese sponsor of the visa. ..."

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Perhaps she meant "Sweden." But nah - Sweden is a country that actually functions.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. South Sudan, I bet - see #44 (nt)

[whathehell]

51. Whatever...

"Would that American M$M would be so astute and selective of their coverage, rather than incessantly pandering to the attention whore named Sarah Palin".

They have their own "attention whores" to pander to and they do it well.

[cyberpj]

52. Boy, those PAC funds sure do come in handy, don't they? nt.

[yurbud]

53. The original source was THE GUARDIAN

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jun/07/margaretthatcher-sarahpalin