I know she's tough...and as much as I think she's politically savvy...I have a hard time believing she would allow what's happened to her daughter in the media...if she wasn't a little naive about the big boy game. The revelation was sooo poorly executed by the McCain camp. They should have told the delegates.
Top that off with MSM reports about hiring a lawyer for troopergate AFTER she was put on the ticket..knowing the investigation started at the end of July...well,
The Obama camp has run what some describe as the most disciplined campaign in history...without Karl Rove...actually in spite of Karl Rove...
So far...very poor judgment, very poor preparation...IMO
Guess we'll see,
I guess that depends on much one wants to dwell on "what happened with her daughter". To me, its life, nothing more. Like I said, it makes her more human, makes her more in touch with REAL Americans, makes her more "real" to me. I cant relate to the others, they cant relate to me. They can spout off about "understanding" my world, but they cant understand it...they cant begin to understand it.
Damn it All!!!!
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K HemingwayPosted:
Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:42 pm
woebedamned wrote:
I guess that depends on much one wants to dwell on "what happened with her daughter". To me, its life, nothing more. Like I said, it makes her more human, makes her more in touch with REAL Americans, makes her more "real" to me. I cant relate to the others, they cant relate to me. They can spout off about "understanding" my world, but they cant understand it...they cant begin to understand it.
I agree...and so far it's politically playing to her favor...I was thinking about what it must be like, as a mother, to see what the media scrutiny it's doing to her daughter and other family members.
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woebedamnedPosted:
Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:46 pm
K Hemingway wrote:
I agree...and so far it's politically playing to her favor...I was thinking about what it must be like, as a mother, to see what the media scrutiny it's doing to her daughter and other family members.
I dont imagine this is the first time, nor will it be the last. American's love a blood shed, no matter who is the one getting stabbed. In this case, it happens to be a teenaged girl...and Americans eat it up.
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:29 pm
Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention
By RACHEL D'ORO –
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family at the convention where Sen. John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president. The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant.
"This is just a bonus," Johnston said.
The young man's presence could set off a media frenzy around the young couple as photographers and cameramen scramble for pictures of the two teenagers. On Monday, Palin and her husband, Todd, said their 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, planned to have the baby and wed a young man identified only as Levi. The family asked the media to respect the young couple's privacy as has been the tradition with children of candidates.
Sarah Palin is scheduled to address the convention Wednesday night and traditionally her family would join her at the conclusion of her speech.
Sherry Johnston said she was worried about her son dealing with all the attention. She said it was difficult enough for teenagers to deal with any pregnancy, having the entire nation watching made it worse.
Levi Johnston, a high school hockey player for Wasilla High School, is not listed on the team roster for 2008-2009, and his mother wouldn't say if he graduated. She said simply he's no longer a student and any further information would have to come from him.
The intense media scrutiny has stunned this suburban community about 40 miles north of Anchorage, with reporters camping out near the Johnston home.
"This is out of my league," Sherry Johnston said. "I'm just a country gal and I want to keep it that way."
She spoke Tuesday while standing in the driveway leading to her pale gray, two-story home situated on a densely wooded country lane. The home, like many in Alaska is adorned with moose and caribou antlers outside.
Many social conservatives have rallied behind Gov. Palin and her family's troubles. The McCain campaign has said the Palins are like any other American family and that "life happens."
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that Palin's family and her daughter's pregnancy were not relevant to her potential performance as vice president. "I think people's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics."
Just days after she was picked as McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin has become a lightening rod for attention. Aside from her daughter's pregnancy, it was disclosed that a private attorney has been retained for her in a legislative ethics investigation for her dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner. It also was disclosed that Palin's husband had been arrested on a drunken-driving charge two decades ago.
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GeorgiaMomPosted:
Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:38 pm
I like her alot. She's tough and not afraid to go toe to toe when she finds members of her own party unethical.
As far as her teenage daughter being pregnant. It just shows me that she's in touch with reality as a mom. She's human and it happens to the best of us.
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resignedPosted:
Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:57 pm
Click your heels together...
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victims cryPosted:
Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:02 am
K Hemingway wrote:
McCain camp has just denied the Independent Party story per MSNBC.
Says thy have copies of her voter reg cards to prove she's been a Republican since 1982.
Guess we'll see how it all plays out....
Welcome to the BIG BOY'S game, Sarah!!!
The mccain camp didn't look far enough. Her husband registered in 1995 for the AIP and then in 2002 registered as undeclared. oddly about whenshe started to be moving in politics. considering one pt of their charter is to infiltrate the repub party it won't be pretty imo
No wonder she hopped an 11 hour flight with a premature baby and amniotic sac leaking so he could be a "native born alaskan"..
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annie13Posted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:54 am
September 3, 2008
Hot mic catches GOP strategists trashing Palin pick
Posted: 09:00 PM ET
I didn't see this anywhere, if's it's already posted, please delete.
I don't know if anyone has posted the video it but I did see a column by Peggy Noonan the next day saying how it had been taken out of context, etc. She was pretty much twisting herself like a pretzel trying to weasel out of it. I only quickly skimmed through it because to tell the truth I don't believe these people when they say this stuff happened by accident. They must think we all just fell off the turnip truck.
Who in their right mind would be so dumb to say anything so stupid when there are microphones - even many other people - all over the place? Whenever my husband and I had made a sales call together he would not allow any discussion of it (even if were alone in an elevator) until we were back in the car. One must always assume that someone might overhear. If these people are really that stupid then we should demand new pundits.
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ElizaPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:28 pm
Ultra left wing radical militant liberals are scared to death of Mrs. Palin.
She's the real deal and a successful strong woman. A middle class woman. A tough hard working woman. A Cinderella storay!
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KatiePosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:39 pm
Eliza wrote:
Ultra left wing radical militant liberals are scared to death of Mrs. Palin.
She's the real deal and a successful strong woman. A middle class woman. A tough hard working woman. A Cinderella storay!
keep dreaming, she is a poor excuse as a mother and a slap in the face to any parent with a special needs child, she only got the ticket because she was an evangelist with stronger views than MC Cain.
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gwenPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:55 pm
Here is a thought-provoking matter to ponder over about Gov Palin. In Alaska there is a Statutory Rape law on the books that says that if an 18yr old has sex with a 17yr old it is a felony, and this law is implicit. Though I personally don't agree with teens having sex because of what can possibly happen, as in the case with Gov Palin's daughter. However, my argument is not whether an 18yr old should be arrested for having sex with a 17yr old, which I am not all that crazy about, but the law is the law. It can also be argued that Gov Palin has been an irresponsible parent for allowing it to happen, by not taking a stronger stand in educating her daughter about what can happen if she makes the choice to date and have sex, not to mention his age. This has more to do with Gov Palin being an irresponsible elected official, for not upholding the laws that she took an oath to uphold. Gov Palin along with others are treating this only as a personal matter, while totally disregarding its legal implication. I know this has caused personal embarrassment for Gov Palin, and I can sympathize with her for the embarrassment it has caused. Yet Irrespective of your differences with my opinion on this matter, I am sure we can all agree that we need someone in the Whitehouse that would implement the laws that they are entrusted to uphold. Because when we take a closer look at this matter, without any doubt there is a double standard being applied in this case, while many youngsters around the Country are serving jail time for commenting this same offense? After all, isn't the Republican the ones that are always saying building more prisons, is what this Country needs? How can we allow Gov Palin to govern America, with this type of mentality? I HOPE THIS IS NOT WHAT SHE MEANS WHEN SHE SAYS THAT SHE IS A MAVERICK!
keep dreaming, she is a poor excuse as a mother and a slap in the face to any parent with a special needs child, she only got the ticket because she was an evangelist with stronger views than MC Cain.
Katie! That is an excellent observation! All I can add to that is AMEN!
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gwenPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:33 pm
DocTar wrote:
Katie! That is an excellent observation! All I can add to that is AMEN!
Agree. I have yet to understand why everything thinks she was so great the other night. So she did a great job of reading from a teleprompter, but that doesn't make her qualified to be Vice President, IMO.
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K HemingwayPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:34 pm
I think she's a skilled politician. That's all. And that's not saying much.
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gwenPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:37 pm
K Hemingway wrote:
I think she's a skilled politician. That's all. And that's not saying much.
It sure isn't.
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plhtx1Posted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:49 pm
gwen wrote:
Agree. I have yet to understand why everything thinks she was so great the other night. So she did a great job of reading from a teleprompter, but that doesn't make her qualified to be Vice President, IMO.
I agree, not much difference between her and Obama, except Obama is running for president.
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KatiePosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:55 pm
gwen wrote:
Agree. I have yet to understand why everything thinks she was so great the other night. So she did a great job of reading from a teleprompter, but that doesn't make her qualified to be Vice President, IMO.
she's not and Mccain knows she's not, he brought her in because she was full of scandal, he loves to play fowl because he wants it to work in his advantage and it did for awhile
he is no fool .
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gwenPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:57 pm
Katie wrote:
she's not and Mccain knows she's not, he brought her in because she was full of scandal, he loves to play fowl because he wants it to work in his advantage and it did for awhile
he is no fool .
You're right - it did for a while...
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gwenPosted:
Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:49 pm
From Anchorage Daily News...
Previous engagement
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 - 12:38 PM
From ADN state/local news editor David Hulen --
One aspect that hasn't gotten much attention in the Palin media flood (I saw it described as "Palinpalooza" in an e-mail just now) is the rift between the governor and some fellow Alaska Republicans that existed before the big announcement. The New Yorker takes a swing at it in a "Talk of the Town" piece that focuses on Senate President Lyda Green.
Excerpt:
The animosity became public last January, when Palin turned up on an Anchorage shock-jock radio program, “The Bob and Mark Show.” Bob Lester said that he knew Palin believed Green was “a bitch” and “a cancer.” Palin laughed at the comments... Green was devastated. “I worked through it,” she said. “The difficult thing about it was when my children read about it online. They were dumbfounded, because they had known Sarah. I had breast cancer in ’97 and had a radical mastectomy. Sarah certainly knew I had breast cancer, because she sent me flowers when I was ill.”
Green insists that she’s not the only Republican who is stunned by McCain’s decision; she’s just the most vocal about it. Privately, she says, many other Alaskans are as critical as she is. That’s not how it looked down on the floor among her state’s delegates the night that Palin spoke in St. Paul. The Alaskans, who earlier in the week had undergone media training to learn how to stay positive when talking to reporters about Palin, raised “Palin Power” signs and chanted “Drop the puck!” (something to do with hockey). When Palin walked onstage, they yelled, “We love you!” Asked what he thought of Palin’s speech, Lyda Green’s husband, Curtis, said that he and his wife didn’t see it. “No, can’t stand to watch her,” he said. Lyda was more diplomatic. “I had a previous engagement,” she said. “I was watching the U.S. Open.”
I liked Jon Stewart's take on Palin's daughter being pregnant. No attack on the teen or Sarah Palin. But, an array of pundits commenting on Britney Spears little sister as opposed to Sara Palin's daughter. The funniest was Bill O'Reilly.
Bill Maher was pretty funny, too.
I felt sorry for the teen Father. He did not seem comfortable being there at all. Compounding the problems of teens raising a child with forcing the teens to marry is just WRONG. Doing it for the good of the election =is even more WRONG. Where are his parents? Why are they not supporting their son?
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K HemingwayPosted:
Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:04 pm
PALINTOLOGY
Who John McCain chose to out a heartbeat away from the Presidency...
Mother, moose hunter, bridge to nowhere supporter before she was an opposer, Abramoff associated earmark lobbyist hirer, more earmark pork barrel money than any other state getter, ethics committee dodger, media dodger, Alaska secession booster, would be hypothetical book banner, loyalty test wholesale staff firer, 527 of indicted Sen.Ted Stevens Director, Seeker of 15 million dollars from Washington to build a train from her town to Ted Stevens ski resort, Alaska Nat'l.Guard not a single order issuer, sermon about Israel having terrorism because Jews won't accept Christ Attender, Vendetta w/ official powers pursuer, and poor ebay seller...
Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
September 5, 2008
by Charley James –
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.
But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.
No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.
Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.
On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.
“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”
“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”
Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.
Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.
Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a recall campaign.
“People who fought her attempt to oust the librarian are on her enemies list to this day,” states Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla resident and one of the few Alaskans willing to speak on-the-record, for attribution, about Palin. In fact, Kilkenny actually circulated an e-mail letter about Palin that was verified and printed by The Nation.
For good measure, Palin booted the Wasilla police chief from office because, she told a local newspaper, he “intimidated” her.
Running on Extreme Fringe Evangelical Views
Sarah Palin drew early attention from state GOP apparatchiks when, during her first mayoral campaign, she ran on an anti-abortion platform. Normally, political parties do not get involved in Alaskan municipal elections because they are nonpartisan. But once word of her extreme fringe evangelical views made its way to Juneau, the state capitol, state Republicans tossed some money behind her campaign.
Once in office, Palin set out to build a machine that chewed up anyone who got in her way. The good, Godly Christian turns out to be anything but.
“She’s doesn’t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,” Kilkenny notes. “When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t hers. Worse, ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.”
Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate.
Something else has a familiar Republican ring to it: Her tax policies, and a “refund surpluses but borrow for the future” attitude.
According to Kilkenny and others in Wasilla as well as Juneau, Palin reduced progressive property taxes for businesses while mayor and increased a regressive sales tax which even hits necessities such as food. The tax cuts she promoted in her St. Paul speech actually benefited large corporate property owners far more than they benefited residents. Indeed, Kilkenny insists that many Wasilla home owners actually saw their tax bill skyrocket to make up for the shortfall. Two other Wasillian’s with whom I spoke said property taxes on their modest, three bedroom homes rose during the Palin regime.
To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?
For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.
Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.
She also worked hard to get voters approval of a $5.5 million bond proposal for roads that could have been built without borrowing. Anchorage may not be the center of the financial universe but, like good Republicans everywhere, Sarah Palin knows how to please Alaskan bankers and bond dealers.
For good measure, she turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.
Sarah Barracuda
En route to the governor’s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.
“She hated the job,” an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. “She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn’t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski” and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pissed off they didn’t get appointed.
But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished – despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a “reformer.”
But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.
“She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,” said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. “I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it’s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.”
Not surprising since some of her high school classmates still openly call her “Sarah Barracuda,” Kilkenny insists.
Still, as a Republican Party hack Palin managed to get herself elected running under the false flag of a “reformer.”
And what did she bring to the job? No legislative experience other than a city council of a village of 5,000 people, which is smaller than some high schools in Chicago. Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; after all, she needed to hire a city administrator to run Wasilla. No executive experience, except for almost being recalled as mayor. A philosophy of setting public policy based on one word: No.
And what has she done since winning the job?
According to Kilkenny, nothing. Well, nothing other than suggesting the state’s multi-multi-million dollar, oil-generated surplus be distributed to residents and finance future state needs by borrowing money. Gee, doesn’t that sound precisely what George Bush did with the surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton in 2001 and we all know in what great shape Bush’s economic policies left the nation.
It may explain why, when asked by reporters, including me, what she thought about Palin being picked to be McCain’s running mate, her mother-in-law replied with a sardonic, “What has Sarah done to qualify her to be vice president?” Of course, when the woman – said by many I spoke with to be well-respected in Wasilla – was running to succeed Palin as mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her, so that may explain the family tension.
As Governor, Palin gave the legislature no direction and budget guidelines, according to the chair of a legislative committee. But then she staged a huge grandstand play of line-item vetoing countless projects, calling them pork. “They were restored because of public outcry and legislative action,” the aide said. “She vetoed them mostly because she had no idea what they were or why they were important.”
But it was enough to get the McCain, who is mostly unobservant of the world around him anyway, to think Palin has a reputation as being “anti-pork”.
In fact, Juneau observers note that Palin kept her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork ladled out by indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. She only opposed the “bridge to nowhere” after it became clear that it would be politically unwise to keep supporting it, these same insiders assert. Then, Palin fell back on her old habits and publicly humiliated him for pork-barrel politics.
As for being “ready on day one” to be commander in chief, despite the repeated public claims she’s made, the Alaska National Guard commander said that, “she has made no command decisions, other than sending some troops to help fight a few brush fires and march in parades at county fairs.”
“Sambo Beat the Bitch”
“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.
“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.
“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”
“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.
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SavannahStarPosted:
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:20 am
Holy cow!
Thanks, annie!
(Good to see you again!)
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