You betcha!

 UPDATE: Due to a huge public backlash, Palin's fundraiser will no longer benefit Hamilton's hospitals. Instead, the cash will go to the Charity of Hope.

I have my own feelings about this, but I'm curious to know yours. Are you disappointed that hospitals will miss out? Impressed by the power of public opinion? Or do you think this whole Palin thing is overblown?

Like it or lump it, Hamilton's going to get a dose of Sarah Palin next spring. 

I thought it would be worth posting the Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin from this summer. If you haven't read it, take 15 minutes or so and check it out. Some say this article was so scathing that it led to Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska. You can find it here.

So, let's hear it folks - what do you think about the big-haired, moose-hunting, pitbull with lipstick coming to town?

Comments

[craig duvall]

WHO CARES>

[Ed]

Funny how we have such distain for someone who mearly said some things we didn't like but, to the people here that routinely lie, steal and waste millions upon millions of our tax dollars we let off the hook.
Tell ya, we deserve everything we get.

[Bill O]

I was going to go listen to Palin and support health care in our community. But now that the organizers have changed the cause, succumbing to group pressure, it makes them look weak and indecisive. Not that helping children is unimportant, it is very important. But the organizers now seem more interested in bringing Palin in to speak than they are of supporting an unshakeable cause. I am rethinking my attendance and will find other ways of supporting our hospitals and our children.

[Michelle Hruschka]

It is simply amazing that the people of Hamilton spoke up to defend our health care system from the likes of this corporate trollop.

Way to go Hamiltonians!

[Tom Robertson]

They should have changed the speaker not the charities

[Benny]

To Bill O: It is not the organizers fault that the charities were changed. Did you ever think that the hospitals didn't like the negative attention they were getting? Or that Sarah Palin herself did not agree with whats been printed in the newspapers? It is the publics fault for the charities being changed.

[Bill O]

To: Benny,

Benny, apparently 'the public' was 70 people some of whom might have been minor sponsors as well. I would hardly define that as 'the public'. The decision was the organizers to switch charities. Good luck to you; all I'm restating is that it made the organizers look weak and indecisive. I stand by that. Palin isn't my cup of tea, but she is the 'flavour of the month' celebrity and I would have paid money to see this novelty item for myself if it was in support of a good cause. Now, I'm not sure because the organizer's good cause seems also to be 'flavour of the month'. Good luck anyway, but count me out.

[Ricko]

Bill and Benny are both correct.

Carmen's planned the event to sell tickets. The Charitable donation was their choice to make. Not the publics.

There never was a connection between Palin and HSS. The presupposition made by the "public" insisting otherwise, was simply spiteful and ignorant of the facts.

I can understand Bill's point. I too was angered by the change, because it was made in haste solely due to busy bodies who would never go to such an event, regardless of who is the on the ticket.

I simply fail to see how a speech from someone like Palin would have any effect on our Healthcare system Michelle. The cash would have been put toward the welfare of those in need of special assistance.

Standing up for principle is a good thing, but not when people in need are hurt by it.

Oh well, what is done is done.

[Michelle Hruschka]

Ricko: You are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine.

Maybe you should put thought into what dollars are going out of the community, as the HHS pays mega salaries to the "bureaucrats" at the top instead of healthcare!

I would pay to see this guy though, he makes much more sense.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/12/23-1