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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Well, what can I say? Among everything else...this is MCStupid's doing so let him wallow in his own creation.
John McCain has just created a monster beyond his own imagination. Whatever happens, BLAME MCANCIENT - but for all our sake....let this Palin curse be brief and so we can all go back to our normal lives.
Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
This is just laughable. How about how Obama got his start?
He went back on a promise to the politician who gave him his first break --a woman, so who's counting- and then quite summarily destroyed her. You can google the whole sordidly dishonorable mess.
If you are going to have to reach to write this kind of Obamistic PR, what you end up with is propaganda, instead of objectivity.
I am not voting for either one,--I am writing in my choice- but I am really getting disgusted with all the endless propagandizing from Obama.
At this point the only difference between two utterly unsuitable candidates is the number of delusional Obamabots spewing Kool-aid all over the Internet.
God forbid, we'll all get just what you deserve.
-gala1
Is Norman Blashka noticing this outpouring of amazing non-journalism? Jezebel's more investigative than David Talbot.
Listen to Sarah Palin and her laughing as Lyda Green (cancer survivor) is called a cancer, a b*@ch and fat
http://sarahpalinexposed.com/?p=20
Based on her track history, and the fact that she's already calling it the "Palin-McCain Administration," we can all expect that she'll throw John McCain under the bus. Should they win, McCain will need a food taster present or Palin (as the sitting VP) will challenge the incumbent President McCain in 2012.
Where's the line?
Remember the argument that McCain showed a clear lack of decision making ability by selecting Palin as his VP candidate?
I assume the editorial staff at Salon thinks otherwise. What else would they write about had McCain not picked her?
1) Maybe Charlie Rangel's IRS problems? . . . did you see that he paid his back taxes, less the fines and interest that ordinary Americans would have pay in similar circumstances? If Charlie can't understand the tax code, why is he given the job of writing it? Is that an example of Pelosi acting as an effective manager? Give the job to the crook?
2) Maybe Salon could write about Biden's opinion regarding obama's recent ads attacking McCain. Biden said they are terrible.
3) Maybe Salon could write about Hillary's recent comments about Iran. She sounds tougher than Winston Curchill. Let the bombing begin.
Nah, stick with Sarah Palin. I don't expect honesty from Salon, and I'm happy to see these attacks working against your end goal.
Unlike many of the armchair analysts here who have never been to Alaska, I do know Sarah Palin. And I am stunned at the way the Sarah I know -- the nonpartisan, working-with-Democrats, best-friends-with-Beth Kerttula Sarah -- instantly changed into an attack dog when it suited the McCain campaign's needs and her political ambitions.
As governor, Sarah Palin focused on two major agenda items -- increasing oil-production taxes (our version of a windfall profits tax) and pushing for a natural gas pipeline plan that would result in a system owned and operated independent of the oil producers that dominate Alaska. Her stances on the social issues never affected policy; it was all about oil and gas. Reasonable people can disagree about whether it was a good thing to drastically increase oil-production taxes and forge an independent (non-producer) policy for the gas pipline. Generally, Republicans in Alaska and elsewhere staunchly opposed these ideas. But Democrats favored them. Essentially, Palin signed on to causes that have been pushed by Democrats for years, especially the oil-tax increase. Those causes got nowhere under Murkowski, they went through with a coalition comprising legislative Democrats, a few legislative Republicans and a Big Oil-battling governor (Palin). Ditto for "her" ethics reforms. The wide-ranging ethics bill that she signed was a compilation of previously introduced Democratic bills that had stalled under Murkowski.
While many Republicans question the tax increase and the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act license for TransCanada, you will notice -- if you bother to look up the votes and listen to the recorded debates -- that the biggest champions in the legislature were Democrats. Especially powerful Democrats like Hollis French, now in charge of the legislature's Troopergate investigation. Legislative Democrats and Palin's oil and gas team worked very, very hard on these agenda items (though in retrospect, the governor probably didn't work so hard, but she sure did share in the glory).
Until Aug. 29, in fact, Sarah Palin was not only extremely friendly with her Alaska Democratic allies -- and much in their debt -- she was also saying many nice things about Barack Obama, who was making a good run in Alaska and who was at that point nearly tied with, or even ahead of, John McCain in Alaska. Palin, on the record, praised Obama several times for his attention to Alaska energy issues and for his high-road approach to politics. Many of the people close to Palin declared that they planned to vote for Obama, and even Wally Hickel, perhaps Palin's mentor, wrote a glowing column about Obama in the Anchorage Daily News.
But on Aug. 29, Palin changed. The governor who made a point of being nonpartisan, who forged alliances with Democrats and had better relations with Democrats than she did with Republicans, all of a sudden became a partisan pit bull.
Many Alaskans, myself included, are stunned. And we are wondering if this is part of a career pattern.
And a correction to the writer who asserted that Palin won with 80 percent of the vote: No, she did not. In 2006, she won something like 48 percent to Knowles' 42 percent, and Halcro got about 10 percent. Not exact figures, but close.
Her approval rating had been around 80 percent -- largely due to the oil and gas policies I tried to explain to you non-Alaskans -- but it is widely expected that they have fallen significantly, due to her transformation into a partisan pit bull and her backtracking on her "open and transparent" pledge. She was popular in large part because she was seen as nonpartisan. Now several people I know who voted for her enthusiastically, and who just adored her (including members of my own family) feel enormously betrayed.
But. . .in Sarah's defense, I don't blame her for not contacting Vic Kohring, as he is a pain in the butt and a total idiot.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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