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Palin: Betcha I Can Beat Obama -- in a Race
June 30, 2009 4:55 PM
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Gov. Sarah Palin lost the campaign against President Obama, but she’s pretty sure she can win another kind of race.
“I betcha I'd have more endurance,” Palin, R-Alaska, tells Runners World, in a Q & A and photo spread in the new magazine.
“My one claim to fame in my own little internal running circle is a sub-four [hour] marathon. It wasn't necessarily a good running time, but it proves I have the endurance within me to at least gut it out and that is something, if you ever talk to my old coaches they'd tell you, too. What I lacked in physical strength or skill I made up for in determination and endurance. So if [it] were a long race that required a lot of endurance I'd win.”
Asked where the race should be, she responded: “I'd like him to come to Alaska so he can see the beauty of this 49th state.”
In an interview that’s going public the same day as a magazine piece recounts McCain aides’ frustrations with her, Palin voices some displeasure with Sen. John McCain’s aides -- for not allowing her enough time to run.
“Sweat is my sanity. A great frustration I had during the campaign was when the McCain staff wouldn't carve out time for me to go for a run. The days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat,” she said.
She also tells the story behind why she was wearing a bandage during her debate with Vice President Joe Biden.
“I went for a run at John McCain's ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden. My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don't get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb and my lungs were going to burn and that's what I crave,” she says.
“I like running alone and having the Secret Service with me added a little bit of pressure. I'm thinking I gotta have good form and can't be hyperventilating and can't be showing too much pain and that adds a little more pressure on you as you're trying to be out there enjoying your run. Then I fell coming down a hill and was so stinkin' embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me. My hands just got torn up and I was dripping blood. In the debate you could see a big fat ugly Band-Aid on my right hand. I have a nice war wound now as a reminder of that fall in the palm of my right hand. For much of the campaign, shaking hands was a little bit painful.”
June 30, 2009 in Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain, Obama Agenda, President Obama | Permalink | Share | User Comments (166)
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Is it any wonder that so many people hate Sarah Palin? She just will not sit down and shut up. She's giving interviews to Runners World and anyone else who will give her a nanosecond in the spotlight. What's next...Garden Gnomes World?
Posted by: whocares | Jun 30, 2009 5:37:25 PM
Could she be any more ridiculous?
Posted by: Terri | Jun 30, 2009 5:38:31 PM
...when the Dems are represented by an idiot like Pelosi, they sure can't say much about anything Palin does.
Posted by: Bill | Jun 30, 2009 5:40:58 PM
Yeah, I think we're done, Sarah. Go away.
Posted by: Mark | Jun 30, 2009 5:41:53 PM
could these people be any more jealous of Sarah Palin? She is definately giving less interviews than Obama who is supposed to run the country and fix the economy. Not a single day goes by without him being in the news. He is a spotlight junkee.
Posted by: You_are_jealous | Jun 30, 2009 5:44:54 PM
I think Palin wishes to get back to those $100,000.00 clothes shopping sprees and free plane rides.
Posted by: brecholle | Jun 30, 2009 5:46:24 PM
Great. She should become a runner and quit politics.
Posted by: Rahul | Jun 30, 2009 5:48:15 PM
"could these people be any more jealous of Sarah Palin?"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
What a ridiculous comment!
Obama is the PRESIDENT. Communicating with the American people is a GOOD thing. It's not like he's giving press conferences to pat himself on the back about what a great runner he is...he's talking about issues that concern all of us.
Posted by: whocares | Jun 30, 2009 5:52:29 PM
Obama is the president. He's supposed to be in the news shaping events, and pushing congress, talking to the muslim world, giving press conferences, meeting foreign leaders and issuing joint statements. Palin maybe if she had something useful to say and not something ridiculuous or chastising her grandson's father, or firing her own brother inlaw or campaigning against her mother inlaw as mayor?
Posted by: J. Richter | Jun 30, 2009 5:54:49 PM
It is so frightening to think that this woman has so much power. She's so creepy!
Posted by: marilyn | Jun 30, 2009 5:56:56 PM
Hi Palin, i love you
Posted by: Robert | Jun 30, 2009 6:10:52 PM
ABC -- Shame on you! You know exactly why you printed this story! It has nothing to do with politics or the Country's current situation -- it makes her an easier target -- belittling on the blogs continues. No problem reporting about how good looking Pres Obama is, the Vegatable gardens, Michelles wardrobe, etc... If it's about the Pres it's always pure ecstasy! You can't continue this forever, the gig is almost up!
Posted by: Michael | Jun 30, 2009 6:11:08 PM
I live in Fairbanks and even Alaskans wish Palin would just shut up. She's determined to prove that she's an idiot and she's doing a fine job. She's made our state a laughing stock and the more she talks the deeper she digs her hole. She was fooling a lot of Alaskans until she hit the national stage and so many of her dirty political secrets were revealed. She won't get another shot at being governor, you betcha'.
Posted by: Jenna | Jun 30, 2009 6:11:24 PM
OH MY GOD! AND TO THINK THIS WOMAN COULD HAVE BEEN SECOND IN COMMAND! SHE IS AN IDIOT WITH NO OFF SWITCH!!
Posted by: lp | Jun 30, 2009 6:16:01 PM
Omg. This is the stupidest thing abcnews has ever posted. Who cares if power-hungry Palin thinks she can out run Obama, she probably could simply due to the fact she has been able to spit out all those babies and kills large undomesticated animals. Does any one else think it is ironic that her 5th child has something wrong with it. She should be staying home taking care of those poor kids instead of neglecting them. Shame on her. It looks like she would acknowledge the signs and just give up this desire to become so famous/in charge. She is so anti-feminist it is offensive to the gender itself. Blah! Shame on abcnews for posting this waste of space. Shame on me for responding. I just think it's silly!
Posted by: andrea McClure | Jun 30, 2009 6:18:05 PM
Finally, she says something I can believe. Up till now I thought their was somebody pulling a string in her back like a "Chatty Cathy" doll. It is good to hear she is a real person.
Posted by: Moby | Jun 30, 2009 6:18:36 PM
Runners used to be cool.
I she ever sincere or is everything about her just for show?
Posted by: Mark B | Jun 30, 2009 6:30:23 PM
Obama couldn't run for a mile, he smokes in the white house every day
Posted by: jon | Jun 30, 2009 6:30:43 PM
C'mon folks. In this article, Palin does nothing more than discuss a sport she loves with a magazine devoted to that sport. She's a public figure, a successful governor, a former vice presidential candidate and a dedicated runner and she's still very popular in some circles.
My grandmother always said "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." If an article about Sarah Palin inspires you to hurl nasty insults, try avoiding those articles. Nobody will force you to read Runners Magazine just like nobody forced you to click on this story, read the article and comment about it. You made those choice all by yourself.
Posted by: Melissa | Jun 30, 2009 6:31:14 PM
How dare an avid runner like Palin agree to an interview in "Runner's World"? That's so outrageous, I can see why the liberals hate her so much. Good thing ABC News is reporting on this travesty instead of Obama's wonderful socialist agenda.
Posted by: Open-Mind | Jun 30, 2009 6:32:13 PM
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