Palin: Obama Is Leading America Towards Socialism (VIDEO)

In her appearance on "Hannity" on Monday night, Sarah Palin claimed that the country was headed towards socialism.

And she explained her decision not to take stimulus money, "buckets of money" with 'strings attached," as she described it.

She said that she vetoed a "bucket of money" because it was tied to "universal building codes" (requiring the state to adopt federal energy-efficiency standards) which she felt wouldn't work in Alaska - "We don't want those fat strings attached, where centralized big government is going to tell us what is best."

Hannity, who bragged that he was interviewing her near his New York home, asked Palin about the country's debt and Obama's federal programs, prompting Palin to outline her fears.

"Our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize, certainly that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us."

Hannity interrupted her: "Socialism?"

To which Palin responded: "Well, that's where we are headed."

Watch the video:

Comments

[Danny Bronson]

06:46 PM on 06/12/2009

Only on Fox News....[snicker]

[MarsAmbassador]

07:52 PM on 06/10/2009

I couldn't get past the first minute. Listening to her talk about spreading the wealth ala oil money, after listening to her attack Obama for planning to 'spread the wealth' during the entire election simply proves too much for my b_lls__t detector to handle. Do they not see their own hypocrisy?

[ReedYoung]

01:27 AM on 07/06/2009

They see it, and they love it. Their ambition is a new form of government: hypocracy, dictatorship by the hypocrites.

[psychologist]

07:08 PM on 06/10/2009

Sarah pointed out where this country was headed during the pre election speeches. she has been proven true in every respect and can easily show she was right about her assessments of the Obama camp. Many Democrat friends are telling me they wished they had never heard of Obama and that Sarah and John should have been elected. I truly think and predict that Obama will be impeached by his own party to save it before the next election. If not Sarah and the Republicans will sweep into the white house with an overwhelning mandate from the people.

[ReedYoung]

01:34 AM on 07/06/2009

"Sarah pointed out where this country was headed during the pre election speeches. she has been proven true in every respect and can easily show she was right about her assessments of the Obama camp."

For example?

[thepoliticalcat]

03:24 PM on 06/10/2009

If this sadly ignorant b. in t. had the first clue about the meaning of that big word, she would realize that Jesus Christ was one of the early socialists.

[Rain-man]

09:31 PM on 06/09/2009

Is it me or does it look like Hannity is meeting his high school crush for the very first time?
It is funny, Hannity tries to be all hard and rough when he talks to or about people on his show, but with Palin it is kind of sickening.

[juliaizen]

09:01 PM on 06/09/2009

If there had been more support for public education for special needs children ("socialism"), Sarah Palin would be fluent in English.

[tunnellight]

01:29 PM on 06/10/2009

If that is how you define socialism, someone has snowed you big time. Mission accomplished, I guess.

[Cubanmom]

07:23 PM on 06/09/2009

Please BOYCOTT ALL FOX MEDIA!

[ReedYoung]

01:32 AM on 07/06/2009

Yes, all -- including National Geographic Channel and MySpace.com!
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[Cubanmom]

07:22 PM on 06/09/2009

I am old enough to remember that the GOP has been crying wolf and fear-mongering for a very long time!

In the 50's & 60's (let's not forget the McCarthy Hearings!) they cried "the communists are coming!"

In 2004, they switched to the "the terrorists are coming!"

And now they are crying "socialism!!"

I just hope that Americans do not fall for their LIES!

[BIG JOHN]

06:50 PM on 06/09/2009

THINGS I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT PALIN:

WHERE ARE THOSE CLOTHES?

HOW DID YOU GET THAT HOUSE?

IS THE FIRST DUDE STILL ATTENDING THOSE CLOSED DOOR MEETINGS?

IS BRISTOL GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?

[sippewissett]

06:34 PM on 06/09/2009

Palin has already been caught in the lie about those "strings" attached to energy conservation. Her own legislature said they could not find any strings she is claiming. However, like Cheney on the topic of WMDs, Palin marches on with her own truth about the stimulus package. She HAS to perpetuate her lies because she grand-standed against accepting stimulus monies, only to be greeted by large bipartisan opposition in AK. The amount she was "rejecting" went from half down to 3%.

She is also perpetrating a lie about socialism, which is apparently different from the Alaska Permanent Fund that issues annual checks to AK residents and different from the pork sent to AK annually, thanks to D.C. The key point is that Alaska couldn't survive without the "socialism" from the oil companies and from the federal government, but don't look for truthfulness from Palin on this topic. I'm waiting for a so-called journalist/reporter to ask her if she knows what socialism is.

Hannity is the perfect foil for Palin: two dumber-than-dumb speakers.

[psychologist]

06:26 PM on 06/09/2009

Sarah is in the cat bird seat now as her statements concerning Obama has turned out to be true. Obama is a failure as a president and causing more harm each day. I predict that his own party will impeach him to save face before the end of his first term

[sippewissett]

06:37 PM on 06/09/2009

Oh, puh-lease. Obama has been in office for four-plus months, during which time he has gotten major legislation off the ground, traveled internationally in the name of peace with other nations and to bolster our standing in the world, and you talk about impeachment. Very brash and uninformed about impeachment, and woefully unsupportive of a man who is trying his best to dig us out of eight years of malfeasance, ineptitude and ideologically-driven government. Or have you forgotten already?

[JoJo54]

07:09 PM on 06/09/2009

Major legislation? Can we add the disasterous to that sentence?

[JoJo54]

07:08 PM on 06/09/2009

LOL, the Dems are too morally bankrupt to impeach him. The will stick by him even as they get slaughtered in the 2010 & 2012 elections.

[Freesia2]

04:01 PM on 06/09/2009

Leading us toward socialism? Well I think if we wanted socialism , we could just head straight to Alaska, wheel in, park and socialism our little hearts out.

I was just reading over at Andrew Sullivan's blog and he had a bit of transcript from an unaired part of this interview. Money quote:

"Palin: There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived."

There is a total disconnect between her brain and her mouth. And she also doesn't seem to know what it is that she does up there in Alaska.

Eejit.

[psychologist]

06:22 PM on 06/09/2009

there seems to be a disconnect between your brain and mouth as her statement is true. She took on the big OIL and Big boys politics and won. the statement is 100% correct. She then rewrote and resubmitted the bill that was passed

[goldiekins]

06:33 PM on 06/09/2009

Are you still believeing that?

[inmyopinion]

01:42 PM on 06/10/2009

Oh Psychologist, you are so wrong, I don't know where to begin.
I assume you are not an Alaskan. And I really doubt you were there during the oil-tax drafting and debates, as I was.
Palin did advocate for higher production taxes, what she called "Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share." But she didn't write squat. The bill she submitted was written by staff members of the Department of Revenue. Then the heavy lifting was done by legislatorswho rewrote the Palin administration bill -- specifically Hollis French and Beth Kerttula, both of whom Palin threw under the bus after swooping in and claiming credit for their hard work (very typical Palin M.O).
Palin also takes credit for the federal investigaiton that resulted in convictions of former legislator, as if she were some great corruption-fighter. She had nothing to do with that investigation.
Now she comes along, after making all kinds of speeches and pronoucements about how Alaska needs to get its fair, clear, "equitable" share of revenues from the state-owned oil, completely changing her tune. Now she says she wants the state to take in LESS oil revenue. If that's not a disconnect from her past claims -- and a complete dereliction of her duties to the citizens of Alaska -- I don't know what is. You can rest assured that Alaskans are right now very upset at that comment.

[mamarsha11]

07:24 PM on 06/09/2009

"we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived."

Sounds like socialism to me. Does she even know what socialism is? Or can she see it from her house?

Had a conversation with a co-worker who's convinced Obama's turning America socialist. Asked him what evidence he had supporting that claim, he had none. He just "knew". Socialism is just the buzz word rethugs use like fairy dust -- if they throw it out enuff, maybe it will magically give them the 2012 election. But most rethugs can't even tell you what socialism means.

[RileyMendez]

02:55 PM on 06/09/2009

I tried! Just couldn't click it on. Really don't feel like throwing-up this a.m. They both disgust me! I do hope she's running in 2012, what a joy that would be! Especially for John, Stephen, David,Conan etc.
I do have to say tho' that when she first hit the political stage, as a woman, even a hard leaning lefty, I was excited! Then I saw the first interview and I was very afraid! If she had never had to open her mouth, she might now be V.P. Nah! I take that back. Jesus Christ could have been the Rethug nom and would have lost. The country just couldn't take 4 more years of the GOP!!!!!!!

[lisaman]

01:25 PM on 06/09/2009

Sean and Sarah need to get a room!

[Unrepentantliberal]

01:23 PM on 06/09/2009

Sara, I don't think the word socialism means what you think it does. Oh, another child left behind all grown up.