so much for the hockey mom label

beachdweller

chromiam wrote:

I was at the game and there were just as many people standing and clapping as there were boos... but of course that doesn't make a great story.

stories I saw said the same, but also said the boos were the loudest

beachdweller

I'm curious, did her son play hockey? Cause to be a hockey mom, you actually need to have one of your kids play on a hockey team, you can't just label yourself blindly...oh wait, this is politics, yes you can.

sweetpotato

beachdweller wrote:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/palin-booed-at-nhl-game-in-philadelphia/

October 11, 2008
Palin booed at NHL game in Philadelphia
Posted: 09:28 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town's NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the arena, drowning out most of the cheers in support of the Republican vice presidential nominee.

As Palin stepped onto the ice before a capacity crowd to drop the puck, joined by her daughters Willow and Piper, the arena's jumbotron flashed a futile message to the thousands of notoriously harsh Philadelphia sports fans in attendance.

"Flyers fans, show Philadelphia's class and welcome America's #1 hockey mom, Sarah Palin," the massive electronic message board pleaded, to little effect. Booing quickly erupted when the smiling candidate emerged from a tunnel leading onto the ice, muffling the applause of any Palin supporters in the crowd.

Some in the audience simply gave her a thumbs down gesture. Others called her names.

Palin spent about a minute and a half on center ice, posing for pictures with Flyers captain Mike Richards and New York Rangers assistant captain Scotty Gomez, an Alaska native. The crowd commotion was sustained for her entire time in the rink.

Palin's showing did not appear to help the Flyers, who looked hapless in the first period, giving up four goals to their rivals from New York. The governor stayed to watch the first two periods with family and staff in the box of Flyers owner Ed Snider, and by the time she departed the Wachovia Center for her hotel, the Flyers had narrowed the lead to 4-2.

maybe the crowd was looking for a pit bull in lipstick, hoping it would have a better grasp of the issues than she does.

sweetpotato

cincybearcat wrote:

...What exactly is the mother of the year anyhow? Do you have to stay home with your kids?

not at all. but you can't USE them to further your career then expect them not to be fair play. THAT'S what disqualifies you, putting them in that position to begin with.

don't look into the camera at the RNC all cross-eyed holding little baby Trig or Turnip or Truck or whateverthefuck the child's name is, and claim that a mccain administration will "fight for special needs kids" - when in reality mccain has voted countless times AGAINST more funding for special ed programs- and then expect that people aren't going to question why YOU'RE not giving little Troll more TLC yourself. it's disingenuous, cheesy and condescending. like everything else about her.