I think Palin uses a different language when she addresses her most loyal supporters vs. the public as a whole. Just as you might not want everybody to hear some derogatory remarks that you reserve just for your closest associates. Like using the "n" word strictly in private.

She has a different language and presentation for her core believers, and these don't play well in the national media.

If she doesn't know how to address liberals and others who are not in her personal camp, this will have serious repercussions for her future in politics.

It amazes me at how people will take and distort all sorts of things, invoking their own conspiracy theory. And Sarah Palin seems to be a favorite target of all. (As all who are dangerous to the opposition's cause.)

First, it wasn't Palin who requested no cameras or recording devices, it was the sponsor of the event. Again, it was the Wisconsin Right to Life that requested no recording devices. Why? Duh, I dunno know. Maybe they might want all rights to the speech and not have someone posting it on YouTube so no one would purchase it from them, taking away a much needed revenue. Good judgment if you ask me. But anyway, she was just respecting their wishes.

Now the coin. Oh the urban legends that have run around this coin! How many times I have returned emails to those who send them out showing them that the phrase "In God We Trust" wasn't even there! I point out that there was a batch that was minted on accident w/o the phrase and now those are worth a lot of money!

Palin was using the coin as a visual metaphor. Ever hear of that? A metaphor via a visual prop, in this case, is when you use an object to show a comparison. Psychologically, we tend to remember what we see more than what we hear. Therefore, using a visual prop will get the point more instilled in the psyche than just saying something outright. Here's a quote from her Facebook notes page:

It is stunning to read and hear about this “coin controversy.” At a recent speech in Milwaukee I discussed the troubling fact that we too often move God to the side in our public life, and gave as an example the shift of the words “In God We Trust” to the edge of the dollar coin. My comments were not about this President or this Congress – this change predated them. I was merely making a point about a disturbing trend in our country, after which I moved on to discuss some encouraging trends. People who try to read more into such straightforward comments are working hard to find a controversy where there is none.

- Sarah Palin

My mom used to use a rose as a visual metaphor for how we waste our lives before committing ourselves to God, pulling a few petals off as our years pass. Now she wasn't saying that a rose was a waste of life for God as you all would seem to take it. So, sharpen your brains a little and think about that one and see if you can determine what she was trying to point out. Hope you all can think a little deeper than what you've shown thus far.

She says in God we Trust shouldn't have been moved to the side of the coin.

In God We Trust - shouldn't have been on the coins AT ALL.

What does God have to do with money - or the country?

Separation of Church and State. Separation of Church and State.

i think the best thing the democrats can do is actually send her money for her 2012 presidential run. the more money she got, the more absurd she'll sound. send in disinfo plants into her rallys and have them call for another armed revolution while holding up antique long rifles, and wearing george washington hats. this will get the nutters fired up and rolling into action.
maybe, just maybe...this has already happened with the new conservative party vs. the republican party.....dick armey has probably been supplied money from the democrats, along with the tea party money, and the GOP has been supplied money from the christian right, along with wall street money.

Originally posted by spinkyboo
What does God have to do with money - or the country?

If memory serves me well, Jesus was not into money. He might have hated money alright. And now he may see this inscription on money as an affront.

The fact that dimwits like Palin bring it up at all speaks volumes.

She's trying to use this as a metaphor for putting "God" back into the center of our lives. Well, no thanks. How about putting reason back into our lives? And maybe someday we could elect reasonable politicians, lol, yeah right!

Why is it people like Ron Paul, who is very religious, can go out there and promote intelligent discussion against very real problems going on in our government and economy without resorting to God talk, while Palin has to resort to "putting God back into the center of our lives?" Maybe because she doesn't have a grasp on what's really going on and has nothing of substance to say about the things Paul touches on.

Originally posted by spinkyboo
She says in God we Trust shouldn't have been moved to the side of the coin.

From what I've read, not what she said. She said we were moving God to the side of our lives, just like it is on the coin.

Separation of Church and State. Separation of Church and State.

Tell me, where is that written? I know, but do you? It wasn't in the Constitution or any other government documents. It says in the Constitution that Congress shall not establish a religion or prohibit anyone from exercising their religion. And if Congress said we could have it in 1864 & again 100 years later, who are you to say they got it wrong?

If you believe so, then fight it through the legislative branch of our government. But then you're pushing your religion on us. The belief in no God is just as much as religion as the belief in God.

Originally posted by DiabolusFireDragon

Why is it people like Ron Paul, who is very religious, can go out there and promote intelligent discussion against very real problems going on in our government and economy without resorting to God talk, while Palin has to resort to "putting God back into the center of our lives?" Maybe because she doesn't have a grasp on what's really going on and has nothing of substance to say about the things Paul touches on.

Sarah wasn't talking to the nation. She was delivering a speech for the WI Right to Life supporters who tend to be religious. She was asked to speak there.

Originally posted by willow1d
From what I've read, not what she said. She said we were moving God to the side of our lives, just like it is on the coin.

I think the notes are pretty clear -- she demands to know who proposed to move the location of the inscription from the center of the coin to its periphery. I personally find it mind boggling that she would attach any importance to that.

That's the thing about America today -- people care about non-issues and often listen to people who claim they are very concerned about these non-issues. It's like a bad dream. Take "birthers", for example -- they are willing to scrutinize Obama's birth certificate, but I bet you anything none in that crowd demanded hard evidence of Saddam's having obtained WMD. Same with Sarah -- economy is in the ditch, and she worries about religiously correct ways of minting coins.

Originally posted by buddhasystem

I think the notes are pretty clear --

Whose notes? A reporter? Someone who heard secondhand?

she demands to know who proposed to move the location of the inscription

Demands? Absolutely inappropriate word. She was talking abt a discussion w/a friend where she had asked the question. Just 'cause she's talking w/a friend (per FoxNews commentary) and asks a rhetorical question, that's "demanding"? If it wasn't rhetorical, the she "demanded" from that friend that they, the friend, MUST find out who does such a thing? Hmmmmm? I think a lot different inferals here are more logical.

I personally find it mind boggling that she would attach any importance to that.

Once again, it was used as a visual prop, a metaphor, a comparison. It's a very common use in speeches. Check it out.

It isn't Sarah who's placing such IMPORTANCE to it. It's the reporters, the MSM, and other people who are making SUCH a big deal because she used a coin for a simile. I see no big deal there either. Place the emphasis on the people who are emphasizing, not on Sarah.

And didn't the coin have a date on it? Yeah, I think so. I think they were dated 2005. So there's no way she could have been placing the blame on the Obama admin. That was just a really big HUGE purposedly misleading reported statement. There's no way around that one.

And as for the coin, I even have one where the "In God We Trust" was printed the wrong way on the coin. Some money to be made there for my grandchildren. (That should pay abt .000000000000000005% of the national debt owed by them.)

That's the thing about America today -- people care about non-issues and often listen to people who claim they are very concerned about these non-issues. It's like a bad dream.

Ay, ay, ay!! I absolutely agree. I just wish people would stop playing this childish game and trying to feel better about themselves by belittling someone else.

Take "birthers", for example -- they are willing to scrutinize Obama's birth certificate, but I bet you anything none in that crowd demanded hard evidence of Saddam's having obtained WMD.

Not a birther, [sorry off topic here!] but I did have my own opinion of Saddam's WMDs. He was given no less than 30 days warning that we were going to come in. They are satellite images, lots of reports, etc talking abt large trucks going from Iraq to Syria and another country or two. What were on those trucks? I can't say for sure they held WMDs, but no one can say for sure that there weren't any on there either.

So, it's actually more possible that Iraq did have WMDs since there was enough reports that convinced more countries than just the US that he possessed them, than not, since he had so much time to move these weapons and there is evidence he was moving something.

Same with Sarah -- economy is in the ditch, and she worries about religiously correct ways of minting coins.

Alaska's economy wasn't in the ditch when she was governor and if I remember right, she had a large part to do with that. And again, the coin was just an example for her, not a conspiracy that the reporter started.