America’s Putin

This morning, athletic former elected official Sarah Palin showed participants in a “1/2 marathon” at Storm Lake, Iowa how to “run an unconventional race” by wearing a disguise and cutting across residential lawns.

Later today, she will compete in Iowa’s Extreme Scuba-Rules Dove Dynamiting Exhibition in celebration of the opening of the state’s dove-hunting season last Thursday.

[Original non-snarky story via GretaWire.]

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 09/04/11 at 12:07 PM • Permalink

Categories: Politics • Election '12 • Nutters • Sarah Palin • Teabaggery • Sports •

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1/2 Governor in a 1/2 marathon.

That is just too, too perfect.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 09/04/11 at 12:35 PM

Pardon me, HTP. I’m going to go out back and kick myself for missing that connection.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/04/11 at 12:39 PM

1/2 Governor in a 1/2 marathon.

So if she stays true to form, does that mean she’s only going to run 1/4 of a marathon?

Comment by Speedy on 09/04/11 at 12:40 PM

Pardon me, HTP. I’m going to go out back and kick myself for missing that connection.

Psst! If you delete your comment and the first half of this one, no one will ever know that wasn’t the joke all along.

—-Cut above this line——

So if she stays true to form, does that mean she’s only going to run 1/4 of a marathon

Awesome.

That would still be better than the new Palindigm: Talk about running shoes for months and then on the day of the race ... Talk about running shoes some more.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 09/04/11 at 12:48 PM

I seem to recall she did this once before but ran about five miles.

Love the shortcut she takes. Her philosophy in a nutshell.

Comment by elisabeth on 09/04/11 at 01:05 PM

Teh google informs me she quit a 5k in Nov. 2009 to avoid the crowds at the end.

Comment by elisabeth on 09/04/11 at 01:10 PM

Run, Sarah, run!

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 09/04/11 at 01:57 PM

According to Greta, Palin crossed the Quitting Line in 1:45.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/04/11 at 02:06 PM

1/4 of a 1/2 marathon? We’re venturing into Zeno’s paradox territory here.

Comment by Jewish Steel on 09/04/11 at 02:07 PM

What’s she wearing on her head, blinders?

Comment by Nellcote on 09/04/11 at 05:19 PM

Heh. Is it just me, or does this pic look horribly photoshopped?

Comment by YAFB on 09/04/11 at 05:31 PM

Heh. Is it just me, or does this pic look horribly photoshopped?

That was the first thing I thought when I saw it, Brit. She looks like a cut-out, and she appears to be levitating — but I didn’t want to get all “Polarik” about it.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/04/11 at 05:38 PM

She’s also apparently casting a ginormous shadow and nobody else is!

Comment by YAFB on 09/04/11 at 05:43 PM

Is it just me, or does this pic look horribly photoshopped?

She’s not America’s Putin, she’s America’s Mao.

Comment by MaryRC on 09/04/11 at 05:50 PM

I don’t think it’s photoshopped, but it was set up. She had a photographer at a specific location along the route ready to take the picture. I think she got out of the flow of people so she would be in the front of the shot. She also wore that red shirt so she would stand out.
There’s a woman in red shorts that seems to look right at the photographer.