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McCain camp occupies Alaska
Palace coup leaves RNC in charge here
Published Sunday, October 5, 2008
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Stumble It!In a recent column, conservative Pat Buchanan describes a battle for Sarah Palin’s soul in terms of a struggle between “true conservatives” and “Bush neo-conservatives.” Buchanan identifies two agents of neo-conservative darkness in particular: Randy Schuenemann, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, and Steve Biegun, former member of Bush’s National Security Council. These men are assigned as Palin’s policy tutors. Biegun’s assignment, according to Steven Clemens of the New American Foundation, is to “ … turn (Palin) into an advocate of Cheneyism and Cheney’s view of national security issues.”
When CBS News anchor Katie Couric pressed candidate Palin on whether she would support Israel if that country decided to attack Iran, Palin kept repeating the Cheneyesque mantra “The U.S. shouldn’t second-guess Israel.” She is heeling to a short neo-conservative leash.
Buchanan frets about Sarah Palin’s radical policy implant by the neo-conservatives; so should “true conservatives” be distressed by the McCain campaign’s political makeover of the woman many Alaskans once believed was a reformer. Transparency has been replaced by secrecy; bipartisan cooperation has been replaced by stonewalling; and rule-of-law is being compromised for political expediency.
For most of our recent history, Alaska has been a virtual political colony of the Republican National Committee. Add to that the presence of an Alaskan on the Republican national ticket, and it is not surprising that the McCain campaign decided that it is the natural law right to occupy and use Alaska any way it sees fit.
Sarah Palin, who believes her destiny is divinely guided and shares a messianic zeal with many of her core supporters, has virtually turned our state government over to the service of her political mission. Alaska’s Department of Law is now under the apparent direction of an outside alpha-dog attorney, Ed O’Callaghan, who was parachuted into Alaska by McCain’s national campaign to scrub the Palin dirt from the national lens. One big piece of that dirt is the so-called the Troopergate inquiry, with which we are all familiar. O’Callaghan reminds me of the Wolf, Harvey Keitel’s character in the movie “Pulp Fiction,” whose job was to clean up the blood and ditch the body for the employer of a couple of careless hit men.
Alaskans have watched helplessly as Attorney General Talis Colberg subverted the authority of the Legislature in Troopergate. Specifically, Colberg counseled state employees to refuse to testify in the Troopergate inquiry after they were subpoenaed. This advice is contrary to his duty to the people of Alaska.
The McCain camp has not only taken over the Department of Law, but it has hijacked the governor’s office as well. As of this writing, the governor’s press office routinely refers outside press inquiries to the McCain campaign. Moreover, at least one person from the battleground state of Florida claims that official letters from Gov. Palin are appearing in mail boxes in that state.
Local media and the principals involved in a legislatively sanctioned Troopergate investigation have become targets for attack by the national McCain campaign’s so-called “Truth Squad.” There are reports that the Carrs-Safeway stores in the Palmer-Wasilla area pulled all of their copies of the recent issue of the National Enquirer that featured critical articles of Sarah Palin. I was able to locate copies at our local Fred Meyer stores, however.
As an admirer of Gov. Palin’s bipartisan success on oil tax legislation, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act and ethics reform, I have been stunned by her transformation into a polarizing, negative partisan by McCain campaign. As I watch her performance on the national stage I feel a mixture of embarrassment for her and anger that she allowed herself, and our great state, to be used like this. While Sarah Palin may have received prayerful protection in her church from a witch doctor-battling missionary, she is clearly not protected against the Voldemort-like forces now controlling the John McCain campaign.
If the voters of America want to know what life will be like under a McCain-Palin administration, they need only to look at what is happening here in Alaska. If voters in Alaska want to send a meaningful message to political thugs like Ed O’Callaghan, then vote with a vengeance. If enough of us do so, we might just save our governor’s political soul.
Elstun Lauesen, of Anchorage, is a community development specialist and former Fairbanks resident.
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Is a 'community development specialist' anything like a 'community organizer'?
Glad you found your weekly copy of the Enquirer.
Too bad you can't see beyond your egregious bias to see the many excellent points that Mr. Lauesen made, Toni. It makes it harder to baa baa along behind your chosen "leaders" if you allow alternative perspectives to penetrate your thick skull.
Good perspective, Elstun - the ol' girl's true colors are showin' now that she's been taken out of the cold dark of Alaska and exposed to a little national spot light. It's one thing to be the Judas goat for a small flock of sheeple, but a whole different game when you're expected to lead a whole nation of sheeple to the slaughter.
And she DOES sound more Cheneyesque as time goes along. Maybe she's drank too much kool-aid... she's even starting to have the same look in her eyes that Cheney has.
You can put lipstick on a pitbull, but it's still a pitbull. Who are in the news attacking kids and helpless people. The Palin emerging from secrecy, deceit, and manipulated data and people, shows nothing more than a Neo Con Parasite, and or Republican Mushroom, and or Religious Idiot.
Why has the Republican Administration of the "Pitbull" abdicated their duty to the Alaskans? The greed and avarice of the Neo Con led Republican Party has led them to pass laws financially benefit their Corporate Pimps and ultimately themselves. To the tune of the up to 53-54 trillion American Taxpayer dollar deficit they foisted on us. Legalized Collusion and Conflict of Interest all the way up to the Neo Con United States Supreme Court Justices.
How long has this trooper thing been in the Alaskan news? Didn't the guy resign?
The message Elstun Lauesen is atempting to send: McCain=Bush and so therefore Palin=Cheney. I am sure that Gov. Palin has studied the Cheney doctrine diligently in the last few weeks so she can easily replace him as Vice President. Yeah, right...
How can Obama and Biden claim to be the "agents of change", when in fact they have been in the senate and are unable to provide for universal health care? I suppose that Obama will sign a Executive Order forcing free health care. Now to me that is scary.
Did Obama and Biden take large sums of money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Did that Senator Dodd get money from Countrywide. That is also scary.
For a moment there I thought that I was reading another AP article, or a DNM article. Then I scrolled back, and it was an opinion, written by a partisan Democrat activist.
Nothing the matter with that. Mr Lauesen is entitled to his opinion. As full of bad information as it is. I could just as easily proclaim that the former community organizer Obama had "invaded" Alaska, with his army of muckrakers and willing accomplices in the AP.
Sure had me fooled for a minute there, though.
It is really a clear choice, the Obama path to socialism or the McCain capitalist economy of America that has its ups and downs but never gives up fighting. And did I mention the safety and integrity of our brave troops abroad and the protection of the second amendment?
Why doesn't the Newsminer have a story about the Obama rally that was held yesterday in downtown Fairbanks? Rallies were held statewide. Channel 11 ran the story on their evening show.
akjak, what egregiuos bias showed? I asked a question and gave the author a thumbs up for being able to find a copy of the Enquirer. Why the heightened sensitivity?
Sarah Palin is now attempting to trash Barack Obama with an old discredited story about aleged 'ties' to William Ayers--an ex-Weather Underground member (who was active when Obama was 8 years old).
If Sarah wants to play THAT game then here is the counter-move on the board that the Obama camp could play (per Paul Baglia)
"...And I think Governor Palin here is making a strategic mistake. This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites...”
I give Sarah Palin credit for the passage of both the Petroleum Production Tax increase and the Alaska Gas Incentive Act. Both the PPT and the AGIA are, at heart, assertions of state constitutional authority over oil and gas, not simply as a regulator but as an owner-participant. Prior to Sarah Palin’s ascent into the governorship, the oil companies controlled, through the Republican Party, both the legislative and regulatory agenda pertaining to those resources.
Sarah was smart enough to act upon the advice of some excellent people and both the PPT and AGIA became reality because of her. In order to support those measures, Sarah had to fight her own party machine and the Oil Companies and withstand their scurrilous flak. It was precisely because of her folksy, unsophisticated, salt-of-the-earth manner that she was able to martial the conservative grass-roots and carry forward what has been a progressive and liberal policy position pushed by the Democratic minority in the legislature.
My dismay toward Sarah is that she took the McCain bait, abandoned us and proceeded to do what the oil companies could not do—polarized her coalition and undermined her ability to lead up here in America’s Energy Colony. Barack Obama will win this election and Sarah will return to a state divided.
Meanwhile, the work of oil and gas reform is not finished and the challenges to state sovereignty in areas like Pt. Thomson (an oil-rich estate that we are trying to evict Exxon-Mobil from) and the TC-Alaska Gas Pipeline project (which the state is building because the producers refuse to) are still ahead of us. The McCain campaign has put all this at jeopardy.
The only beneficiaries of Sarah’s polarizing candidacy are the oil companies. And maybe THAT was the whole point of her selection by McCain in the first place, given that lobbyists like Charlie Black are advising McCain.
Alaskans who don't understand this have 'eyes but cannot see; ears and cannot hear"
My choice is the same as my wife's, kids, co-workers, & friends. A vote for McCain/Palin is best for Americans. Obama/Biden socialism isn't going to help us or the world.
Wow, EOD_Dave, that's interesting, but doesn't say squat.
My choice is the same as my wife's, kids, co-workers, friends, and EVERYONE ELSE THAT I'VE TALKED TO IN PERSON. A vote for Obama/Biden is best for Americans. McCain/Palin war mongering and more of the exact same not only WILL NOT help us or the world, it will actually continue to make things worse, both here at home and across the entire globe.
There, I can go on with my opinions just as well (if not better than) you.
Perhaps on November 4th we'll see the "November surprise" with a loss for the McPalin ticket here in Alaska. That would be sweet. Given that 1200+ just showed up for a Pro-Obama rally in Anchorage, and only 300 showed up for McCain (including Todd & Piper and Sarah's dad), maybe there is hope yet for the Last Frontier.
I find it interesting that Govenor Palin brings up the the old William Ayers relationship in a speach in TN. This is a very old, and tired, arguement.
Did Senator Obama know William Ayers? Yes, they were both professors at Chicago University. HOWEVER, at the time that Ayers was supposedly a "Terrorist" and wanting to "Blow things up", Senator Obama was only 8 years old, hardly in a position to do anything about it.
However, when Mr. Ayers past was brought to Senator Obama's attention, he imediately spoke out about it and dis-associated himself from Mr. Ayers.
According to Governor Palin, Senator Obama and William Ayers were "Pals". According to FactCheck.Org, They both ran in to each other at the University, and at functions that instructors and Professors are required to attend, but did not socially mingle. I guess this could be stretched to mean they were "Pals"?
I did not vote for Sarah Palin when she ran for gov. I have apologized to her for that oversight. As a 27 yr member of the AIP, I was wanting Ron Paul for President, but seeing how America thinks he is a kook, they are going to get what they pay for. As a vet, I respect the hell out of John McCain, but did not want him for President. After he chose Sarah for running mate, I thought, Wow!! How cool is it going to be to have a REAL MAVERICK in Washington...one with Alaska's best interest at heart. How mistaken I have been. I will NOT be voting for McCain/Palin. I am disappointed and angry at Sarah for swallowing the McCain/Bush/Rove/Cheney Neo-Con hook. I think we have lost a real champion, but at least it will be good to have her back home next month to take care of Alaska issues.
Yukonjohn, that was a pretty good post, and I guess, a good personal reason for not voting for Senator McCain and Govenor Palin.
Having been a registered Republican for 39 years, a Vietnam Vet, member of the Calif. Republican Central Committee, BeverlyHills Republican Club and the Commitee to Elect and Commitee to Re-elect RR, I wish I could give you a compelling reason to support the McCain/Palin ticket, but I can't.
I have worked on many elections, but I'm skipping this one, mainly due to the fact that my job has kept me so very busy, I couldn't take time off to devote full time energy. Also, the John McCain of today, is not the man I met, and got to know, in 2000 and 2004.
Now I'm writing from California, as I'm TDY out here from my duty station at Buckley AFB. (I'm a IN, CI, AT Security Specialist).
I follow things in Alaska, as my job takes me to Fairbanks and Anchorage for about 4 months every year, and I have many friends there, specially in Fairbanks. I also plan to retire to the Fairbanks area in a couple of years.
From what I have read, and from what friends of mine have told me, Govenor Palin has apparently done a good job in Alaska, and that's where she needs to be. Get a little more seasoning, experience and travel more outside the U.S., and she could be an up and coming politician on the National level, but not now. The Old Boys, both Republican and Demmocrat, would eat her alive back in Washington, and if she ever had to deal with Putin, the former head of the KGB, she would be toast, because he is a very ruthless and able world politician.
I think you're right about the "November surprise" wildvisions. There is a serious possibility that Alaska may turn blue and our gidget-in-chief will return to a state divided before we get to vote her out of office in 2010.
And shame on the DNM for not mentioning any of the Obama rallies held statewide yesterday. All you kooks who are blasting the DNM for being too left have nothing to complain about. We all agree that the DNM is a rag of a paper but unfortunately every city can't enjoy high quality journalism. Sad, I know.
McCain camp occupies Alaska!! PLEASE!!!!!!! There are more Democratic liberal idiots in Alaska trying to dig up stuff on Sarah than there are people in Fairbanks!
Why was this "letter to the editor" elevated to a Community Perspective?!
I decided to vote for McCain-Palin ticket when she was chosen for the VP position and I was very exited about it. But I can see that the McCain and the evil Neocons are brainwashing her. She is not the same Sarah that we knew. So I will vote for Chuck Baldwin.
I'm in Indiana and I've been reading comments sections from different states just to see what people think and why. When I hit on this one, I just had to comment. I've never been to your state, but my daughter visited a couple of years ago and called us, very excited. "MOM! Remember when you said there used to be people who read, thought things through and decided things for themselves? And you said how sad it was that they were all gone? Well, I FOUND THEM." You know, I really think she did. Sarah Palin is your ambassador to the lower 48 and sadly, many here believe your state to be populated with uninformed, ill-read, sarcastic people. I see here that it is not true. I do support the Obama/Biden ticket and would love nothing better than to see Alaska go blue. Please read his website...and think it through. And Wikipedia is a good source for information on Bill Ayers (the horrible bad bad bad person that Barack supposedly pals around with). I suspect you won't hate him as much as Mrs. Palin thinks you should. Meanwhile, got room up there for a radical old lady who thinks you should do as you please as long as you don't please to shoot me?
HEY NEWSMINER:
Newsflash! 300 people attend pro-Palin rally in Anchorage yesterday but 1,200 people attend a pro-Obama rally in Anchorage held at the same time. Didn't even see a mention of either rally instead you chose to mention some lame football pick gidget made in Colorado the other day. I saw signs all over town about the Obama rally downtown yesterday...did you give your staff the day off?
The Anchorage media wins on this one...
For those of you who want the scoop here it is:
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9...
I think this opionion piece has more truth to it than we care to admit. Too bad Sarah chose to sell her soul, so to speak. However, can't stomach Obama either. For those who think he is some kind of savior, you've really been sold down the river. Either way, this country is headed for tough times. Too bad the country didn't wake up and recognize the wisdom of Ron Paul. I guess I'll be voting Chuck Baldwin as well to make a statement - no more voting for the lesser of two evils!
We should ALL be concerned that information on how to recall the governor (or any other elected official for that matter) has been removed from the state website. I checked and information was available a couple weeks ago...it is now gone. Check it out for yourself:
http://ltgov.state.ak.us/petitions/recal...
Is this some kind of sick move from the McPalin campaign to block information? Recalling the governor is a serious possibility and the mvoement has started. Email Sean Parnell and demand this information be reposted.
Check the State of Alaska website. It's there. Search "recall" and you should find the info.
Truthminer, you are so right. It is such a shame that Americans did not see the wisdom and knowledge of Ron Paul. In his latest book he outlines ALL of the problems we are encountering in the economy. He has answers, but our country thinks he is a Kook!! Well, Americans are going to get what they pay for!! I am just glad we are almost far enough away from the mess that they are going to have down there. It is surely going to be ugly.
The Presidential election is about one thing...the ability to nominate Supreme Court Justices. The real power, the power of the purse, belongs to the idiots in Congress. So if you want liberal Justices vote for Obama, if you want conservative Justices vote for McCain.
If your worried about the things that really matter (the economy, funding the war, energy policies, education and pollution) then you should be spending time debating/eviserating the House & Senate candidates instead the VP candidates. After all, these are the pin-heads who will be creating the bills (like the $700 billion bail out oops sorry "economic recovery plan") that will truly impact your life.
Less time should be spent punking our Governor and more time watching those in Congress who are picking your pockets.
Sorry for the rant.
Lauesen's piece helped me understand what the heck has happened to my state governor. When Palin first came on the scene, though I am a radical/liberal Indie, I begrudgingly admired some of what she did. In particular, when she took on Murkowski, even when he was the incumbent, I thought, wow. Gutsy. And then when she refused to veto the same-sex partner benefits legislation, I thought, this woman really does stand up for justice, even against her own party. So you can see why I've been confused by the Palin I'm now seeing--the one who stonewalled the legislature, installed secrecy, lies, takes tainted money, etc. etc. This was not the Palin I thought I was seeing earlier. But this article has explained how that might happen. And perhaps once Palin loses the VP election, she can come home to us. Enter treatment, maybe get reblessed against the evil neo-con spells that had been cast upon her, and maybe remember who she really is. Maybe we can really get "our Sarah" back. She had a lot of good ideas for Alaska. If she comes back to us and is willing to make amends, I'm certainly willing to accept her heartfelt apology, with a promise of no winks or otherwise objectionable flirtiness.
Just because the former community organizer Obama denies a connection to Ayers doesn't debunk the story. Obama has tossed other former allies under the bus. That Obama was 8 years old means nothing. Nobody is accusing Obama of participating in the bombings. He's accused of hanging out with radicals.
Obama and Ayers have both sat on the board of the Woods Foundation, and given grants to radical groups like ACORN and a PLO veteran (Khalidi?). These are legal, but radical causes. Not causes that most Americans want their president to be involved with.
Nobody knows much about Obama's years at Columbia (the most radical campus in the nation) and Harvard. Why the secrecy?
I am glad that Palin has brought it up. Somebody needs to.
A vote for Chuck Baldwin is a vote for Obama. Don't hide, just vote Obama and don't be scared. Jump in with all the other sheep.
Les, you are really reaching, in fact, your articles are getting border line.
What the hell to you know about Columbia and Harvard?
I've known you for many years, and never once do I recall you attending Columbia or Harvard.
Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD!
BigDan - A vote for the twin party is a vote for the banks and the powers that control this country and the ones that are destroying our currency in favor of one world monetary system. You have been indoctrinated and are alienated to think that only Reps and Dems can win. If people vote their conscience and stop voting for the ones that they think that have a chance to win, then we can have a change that we believe in.
Regardless of how you try to tie Obama to Ayers, the bottom line is that Obama was not a member of the Weather Underground, but McCain was one of the Keating 5.
Bill Ayers has siad many times that he wishes that he could have blow up more things and caused more ruccuss then he already did. The connection is more than just professors meeting with eachother. They have had fund raisers at the Ayers home.
If that is not enough we have the Rezco connection. I know a good friend from Chicago and gutter politics are the norm, but do we want to elevate someone who waded through that to national office.
And of course last but not least Reverend Wright, he attended the church for 8 years and never heard anti-american/ anti-white things said. Was Obama asleep during the sermons? Even Bill Clinton could not answer what the difference between someone siding with David Duke and someone siding with Rev. Wright. I know you will say he disassociated himself from him but I am sorry you don't get a free pass on that.
People, Wake up and Smell the Communism!
If you want to find out what history thinks of McCain's Veep pick, check out http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/54623.html...
Why can't the Office of the Governor speak, instead of Senator of Arizona John McCain's Presidential Campaign answer questions?
"McCain camp occupies Alaska"
That's true. But the following is also true: Obama's camp occupies Alska.
She took the state a big step in the wrong direction. TransCanada and too high of a tax on the oil. There is no vision in a pipeline heading out. It is the best way to minimize what we can do in the long run with our gas. Too high a tax on our oil? I know it is hard to feel sorry for the oil companies. If they are taxed too high it is relatively easy for them to curtail investment in exploration and development. And they have. And they will continue. This is money in our pockets that we don't get. One heckuva a lot more than a PFD payment. Jobs. We want jobs. Jobs with a future. Jobs for our kids. The Republican Party as running for office now are part of the Problem. Time to clean house and put in the Party that seeks Solutions. The Democrats. One of the beautiful things about the
Democratic Party is that if you get in there working for great solutions they will listen. The Republicans only respond to their own
ideas and desires period. I have no respect for them as they are now.
It is time for them to be the hard working underdog for a good long while.
Marlo---
I repeat, nobody is accusing the former community adviser Obama of being in the Weather Underground or participating in any bombing. He's accused of hanging out with anti-American radicals, and many of us do not want people like Ayers, or Wright, or Pflager, or Farakhan on the president's Christmas card list.
I haven't been to Annapolis, but I know that it's a naval academy. I'm from the 60s, and although I never went to Columbia, I did visit Berkeley on several occasions. Birds of a feather then, birds of a feather now. I'll exclude Harvard from that level of radicalism, but they have drifted farther and farther left. Also, their influence is deeper in government.
Dodge and divert...the McPalin campaign talks about they economy and they'll lose. They're gasping...having to actually defend Nebraska and North Carolina. People: We want change. Ask yourself...how will John McCain change our country? How will John McCain change our economy? How will John McCain prevent 4 more years of the same? I, along with millions of other Americans, don't see it. On November 4th vote for real change...Barack Obama.
We should not send this piece of work back to Juneau......
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27054958/
Whos "we"?
Dig for dirt on Palin? You don't need to dig far. I will not support a Governor who lies as much as she does. Just do a search on videos of her, it's embarrassing and ridiculous. She is NOT VP material! She has no integrity nor honor. She appoints people and the only qualification is absolute loyalty at all costs. All her wrongs don't make her right. And now she wants to play the smear tactics game. I bet you all think she is middle class, joe six pack with a net worth of 1.2 mil too. Do your homework and quit believing all you read. Palinbots and GOP operatives are going to say whatever it takes to help her make VP. All I can say is they have no conscience.
So where is Parnell? He's turned into the invisible man, or so it seems.
What change is Obama going to make? I hear the mantra, "vote for change, vote for Obama." But I have yet to hear any substance to these allegations that the Obama/Biden ticket will make any changes that will improve the lives of ordinary Americans. Obama will threaten your 2nd amendment right and add taxes - if he is to implement a national health care plan amongst other negative changes. A vote for Obama is a vote for Socialism. More government involvement is not the answer and never was. Individual effort is what will continue to keep America great. A vote for Obama is a vote for change alright, a vote for negative change.
She drank the cool-aid. I voted for her, now she's a puppet. Just a show piece making Alaska look like a bunch of rubes to the outside. AIP here I come. Down with the polarizers.
www.infowars.com
Well, we only have to deal with this for another month.
newsreader - Obama promises to pursue war in Afghanistan and into Pakistan if it suits U.S. interests. In your book, is Obama a warmonger?
Well he lost me as soon as he indicated he put any credence at all in the National Enquirer! That's a great place to get the truth - NOT! I'll stick with Palin.
bobones83, 1) Ayers has NOT said that he wishes he could have blown up more stuff and caused more ruckus than he did. 2) Communism? Where did that come from?
glacierles, Annapolis isn't a naval academy, it's a city with a naval academy in it. They use the Severn River to practice sailing, and probably a few others as well. But why shouldn't they? Annapolis is a large city and the Severn is a very nice place for learning how to sail. There's at least three kids' sailing schools on it as well. It also opens up to the Chesapeake Bay, for longer trips and rougher sailing. ...I really don't see what Annapolis having a naval academy in it has to do with anything.
Okay, a few general questions for people: What's wrong with ACORN? Why are people saying voting for Obama is voting for socialism? What's wrong with the less radical branch of socialism, anyway? And why do people WANT to continue the war in Iraq?
The last simply because I can't see anything good about the mutilation and/or death of mass amounts of people, U.S. and Iraqi citizens alike.
As for Sarah Palin... I hate to say it, especially because my dad was so happy about someone from Alaska being on the ticket, but everyone around me, even the people whose conversations I've just happened to overhear, consider her to be a joke. I don't think she's doing well at all on the national stage. I'm glad to hear she's done some good things in Alaska, but I have to say I think she should stay there. I grew up in the Washington D.C. area, and politics is an area rife with corruption and filled with metaphorical pit bulls. If she's already changed this much on just the campaign, I can only foresee a downward spiral in which she becomes one of the worst VPs in history, not only policy-wise but ethically, as well. Considering she's known for her ethics and that they are Very Bad things to lose, I hope she loses the election, because if not I'm afraid she'll lose herself.
A lot of information about McCain's legendary temper has been coming out from reputable, attributed sources at great length. After watching Cindy McCain's behavior following that last debate where she faithfully follows behind her hubby with her hands clasped behind her back was quite the contrast to watching Michelle Obama greet the audience warmly, shaking hands and having photos taken with them. Cindy does not look like a happy camper. She looks like a dog on a leash. I'm tempted to send her domestic violence hot-line information. McSonginist is on record for lashing out at her with words I'm not able or willing to post on this site. McVolatile is a powerful, powerful person and is known for his vile attacks throughout his life, before and after his Vietnam experience. Nancy Reagan hates his guts for what he did to his first wife. If Obama had done that to his first wife, he wouldn't even have made it to dog catcher.
I worry that McSonginist choose Sarah because his temperament couldn't handle having an "equal" on his ticket, who might challenge him, because he hates when people do that, unlike Obama, who got Joe Biden, a seasoned Senator who challenges and compliments his strengths and weaknesses. I have the gut feeling that McNasty chose this young, wet-behind-the-ears, female for the same reason older men marry younger women, so they can train them to be submissive to their abuse from the git-go. Oh wait, didn't he do that with Cindy? Is it coincidence or what?
One more point: If Michelle Obama had stolen pain pills from one of her charities like Cindy McCain has, the corporate media would have run the couple out of town on a proverbial rail, plus, she'd be in jail, but for some reason, Republicans like Rush and Cindy are above the law, not beholden to it like the rest of America. Honestly, I'd probably have to do a LOT of drugs if I were married to Mr. McCaniac!
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