Watch Sarah Palin’s Full CSU Speech – UPDATE: Speech is now much better quality

Here is a better copy of her speech.

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/06/24/1473006…

Thar's the same as one I posted. Hopefully RS will link to that copy.

An open request…

If anyone finds a transcript of the entire speech, please link to it in the future here on TheRightScoop.com.

Thanks…

Sarah Palin is articulating the fundamentals of American freedom and honor and common sense. She reminds me of President Ronald Reagan when he articulated the yearning for freedom in the human heart with the words, “… Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

Art

Hamid Shirvani, President of Cal-State Stanislaus, introduced Sarah in a very complimentary fashion. He must really admire & respect her. She is a great lady & a powerful speaker. Nice video!

wow great speech! I am glad those fools made their stupid comments so I went and found the speech and watched it! never would have otherwise!

I would say that volunteering for the military and desiring to “defend freedom” are occasionally, but not always, and certainly not necessarily linked.

I legitimately do not think that Sarah Palin could be trusted to delineate what freedom and exceptionalism actually mean though. She speaks of both like common platitudes, and her invocation of the first amendment in this speech is pathetic.

“Don't use your right to protest to protest me, use it to protest the President, who I disagree with ideologically.”

If she doesn't believe the first amendment ought be used to “shut people up” then perhaps she should have been more vocal during the town halls last summer when people disrupted civil democratic discourse by calling the president a nazi (ironically, the nazis, a “groundswell populist” movement itself, got its start by… well, disrupting the 1910s/20s German equivalent of the “town hall”, but we shouldn't get into that).

But hell, if you're convinced you've got the absolute truth, then debate be damned, right?

Wrong…

Accuracy in commenting would be helpful in continuing a point-counterpoint dialogue, but emoting is only conducive to emoting.

So, here is an emotive response.

You emoted in a theatrical manner very well in your last paragraph, “But hell, if you're convinced you've got the absolute truth, then debate be damned, right?”

Wrong… not if the true facts are on your side, right?

Art

Yes. I'd like to help.
How can I reach Sarah, Michele, and Meg? I need their help!

If I may I'd like to offer my take on national service,whether military or otherwise. I was raised to revere and respect our Constitution along with Bill of Rights,I and my siblings were taught about our rights and freedoms and that they were the things that made this country unique and special, like no other country in the world. I was also taught that with these rights and freedoms comes a great responsibility to respect these rights as they are not endowed to just a few but are the birthright of every American.That these rights and freedoms are precious and can require a terrible price to preserve them for all Americans, not just those you happen to agree with ideologically,but even those with whom you may disagree with. Yes we all have the right to free speech, its not something that applies to this group but not to that group,however it comes with the responsibility to not knowingly defame or slander,rights come with the responsibility of respect.
Getting back to “National Service”, I was raised in a family that has a tradition of service,predominantly military with some non-military service,our point of view being that service to your country is a duty and a privilege,a small price for our freedoms that we enjoy. The day I took that Oath, not only was I swearing to protect our Constitution,I was swearing to protect the rights of every last American and do to so with my life if necessary. This is not an “occasional” reason as some would cynically suggest, but a predominant one. Are there those that join for other reasons ,yes certainly, but to suggest that it is otherwise, do so out of ignorance and to me seems disrespectful of those that paid those terrible dues for their fellow citizens. There is nothing unclear about the possible consequences of putting on the uniform of your nation to those who choose to do so. Trust me it is made abundantly clear and understood. As you have said before Danny, you and I are miles apart ideologically, but we have found common ground on a couple of points. However I was prepared then as,I still am, to defend your rights to the death thats the oath I took and the oath many of my family members took and some of them paid that “ultimate price”. Some one once said ” A Veteran is an individual who at one time wrote a blank check to his Nation for a sum of up to and including their own life”. In closing I would add this as well,when it comes to serving your nation there is no shame in choosing to serve in organizations like Peace Corps, Vista or even Americorps, the only shame is when these organizations along with our Military are used to further the political agendas or careers of those who are also supposed to be serving our country.

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.” Thomas Jefferson

Excuse me, but I think your statement regarding the desire to defend freedom and its connection to enlisting in the military might need to be fleshed out just a bit…..if not a desire to defend freedom what then motivates young people to enlist and risk their lives? If your stance includes the desire for a steady paycheck based upon pre-2001 enlistment, then I'd have to agree with you however, post-2001, after our country was attacked in an act of war albeit in the form of terrorism, any young person enlisting chose to defend freedom in their choice to present themselves to our government as soldiers in battle and not just in name.

What is your definition of American Exceptionalism since you don't think Palin is qualified….? And using quotation marks on your free speech point is disingenuous since its not a direct quote but your paraphrasing of something said that you disagree with. Palin doesn't make policy; she doesn't write laws; she isn't in charge of cleaning up the oil spill, protecting jobs and environment on the Gulf Coast….that is the job of the Obama Administration and students protesting a speaker at a fund raiser does nothing to further the issues that are most important to our country at the moment.

The First Amendment is to stop the government from being able to “shut people up” it is not about the citizens being able to shut each other up. Any one who desires to peacefully gather and protest or speak out against the government is entitled to do so – it is one of the freedoms our military stand up for……the protesters at the college have the right to protest and Palin has the right to state that their protests would be better served against the government then against a private citizen's speech making.

The Town Halls are exactly the place to question those who are public servants. Provide video or transcript of a Town Hall in which the people called Obama a “Nazi”….you are perhaps confusing a fringe element at a Tea Party gathering with the Town Halls……a fringe element is present at every protest on either side of any issue….and may I ask how vocal were you when protesters were burning Bush effigies?

And I especially find your last statement disingenuous……if the protesters had been allowed to “shut up” Palin…..then where was the debate? If Palin had “shut up” those who attended the Town Halls, then where was the debate? That's the issue with most liberals – they defend freedom of speech but only when it is their speech that is allowed to be heard.