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CLEARWATER -- Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around.

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"Many Americans apparently believe the nation saw the real Sarah Palin last week and, by gosh,
she is just like us. Which means she's no more qualified to be a national and world leader than you or I.
It boils down to intellect, one of the most important requirements for effective world leadership.
The next two on the list are intellect and intellect, followed by everything else.

Among many reasons that televised debates are poor devices for deciding who will lead our country
is the fact that personality, style and stage presence all can be manufactured. Intellect cannot be.

Reading the debate transcript -- Palin's words stripped of the superficialities, smiles, winks, nods
and by-gollies and gosh-darns -- reveals the low quality of her thought processes, her shallow
understanding of issues, and a lack of clarity of expression. In the cold light of day, the transcript
reraises the question of what John McCain and the people advising him could have been thinking
when they picked her. Clearly, they were not thinking about the future of the country should some
unwelcome tragedy befall McCain."

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Megalomaniac Palin Puts Herself at Top of Ticket!


Now it's a Palin-McCain Ticket. Listen to her say it her self here You may wish to hurry on over there. sometimes the YouTube doesn't work but it could be it's getting millions of hits.





Megalomaniac Sarah Palin has rearranged the order of the GOP presidential ticket and put herself at the top!

Poor 72 year old John McCain is just a stepping stone for this wildly ambitious, former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to reach the presidency.

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DAR
PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified.
Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding
the voting with YES votes.

Here's the link:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

Currently it is 49% - 49%

D.

I was told about this poll several days ago and it was 49-49 then, too.

(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report that, when released Friday, could prove embarrassing to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

The report focuses on whether the first-term Alaska governor abused her authority by firing a state commissioner to settle a family dispute. But it is also expected to touch on whether Palin's husband meddled in state affairs and whether her administration inappropriately accessed employee medical records.

The inquiry, approved by a legislative committee's bipartisan vote, began before Republican presidential nominee John McCain named Palin his running mate. Since then, the case has been dogged by accusations of political influence.

At their meeting Friday, lawmakers planned to vote to release the estimated 300-page report and some of the 1,000 or more pages of supporting documents. The 14-member legislative panel could recommend that the case be closed, that another committee continue to investigate, or that the matter be referred to criminal investigators.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

The panel found that Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. "I feel vindicated," Monegan said. "It sounds like they've validated my belief and opinions. And that tells me I'm not totally out in left field."

Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

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See the 263-page report here.

"I'm not a fundamentalist hoping for the end of the world, a raving lunatic unclear on the concept
of science, or a certified moron who claims to read every newspaper in the country but reads and
knows essentially nothing. In other words, I'm not Sarah Palin...I'd be the last to question the
moronicity of George W. Bush, but Sarah Palin is substantially dumber, bizarrely crazier, and
dangerously and arrogantly less aware of her own shortcomings."
-- David Swanson



Overheard:

"Hey Sarah, think Alaska is going to be biting off big chunks of federal tax dollars next year with Obama in the White House? After you called yourself an anti-earmark Maverick and Obama a terrorist, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Obama administration nationalize the Alaska permenant fund and give it to “community organizers.”

JUNEAU, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives.

Rhonda McBride, who is not an Alaska Native, made the announcement in an e-mail to several Native leaders, saying there need to be more Native voices in Palin's administration.

"I definitely think it would help to have an Alaska Native in this position," McBride told The Associated Press.

Many Alaska Natives have said they felt neglected when Palin, now the Republican vice presidential nominee, made appointments to her administration, including the rural adviser post.

State Sen. Al Kookesh, a Democrat, said Palin left the position unfilled her first year in office and ignored Native leaders' suggestions on the selection process.

"We were really disappointed when an Alaska Native wasn't appointed," said Kookesh, a Tlingit Indian who held the job in a previous administration.

Natives bristled early in Palin's administration when she named a white woman to a game board seat held by a Native for more than 25 years. An Athabascan Indian eventually was named to the post after protests.

Relations worsened after Palin didn't remove a game board chairman who once suggested that Alaska Natives missed a meeting because they were drinking beer, seen as insensitive since the Alaska Native community has high rates of alcohol abuse.

Alaska Natives make up about 20 percent of the population.

...Palin's husband, Todd, is part Yup'ik Eskimo, and her 13-member cabinet includes two Alaska Natives.

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Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to live" with that fact for the rest of his career.

"They didn't let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP," Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. "When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race... as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible."

Saying that Palin was a "net negative" on the ticket, he went on: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

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Diagramming a Palin Sentence.

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Excerpt:

English teachers believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator.
The more the diagram is forced to wander around the page, loop back on itself, and generally stretch
its capabilities, the more it reveals that the mind that created the sentence is either a richly educated one
—with a Proustian grasp of language that pushes the limits of expression—or such an impoverished one
that it can produce only hot air, baloney, and twaddle.

Take this Palin-produced abortion of the English language, from the Charlie Gibson interview:

I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed
with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on
January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.

I checked that PBS poll again today (regarding whether Palin is qualified to be VP) and it is STILL at 49/49. I think it's fake.

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I checked that PBS poll again today (regarding whether Palin is qualified to be VP) and it is STILL at 49/49. I think it's fake.

Call me old and cynical. But as an old economics proff once told me, "cynics are often right."

Keep in mind that 67% of Americans cannot figure a 15% tip on a restaurant tab, 88% per cent cannot figure the interest on a mortgage loan.

The VP's job is likely the most simple job designated in the Constitution. Why? Because it never gets complicated until the president exits the
office while in term. The VP presides over the Senate and casts tie-breaking votes. Until Cheney, and his puppet president, VP's were not
policy makers nor "deciders."

A majority of Americans believe in the biblical creation story, poof! and it was all done. Sarah believes in the creation story. Therefore, she's
qualified to be VP and represent them in that manner which some and their families and while considering that they also see that she can do
things that improve families which is too important for the Office and help oversee Russian fly-overs.

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..........FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR EMAIL FROM GOV PALIN'S OFFICE, Per Employee

You read that correctly Hog Fans. Here's the Rove-controlled scoop:

"Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.

The office of the Republican vice-presidential nominee has quoted prices as high as $15 million for copies of state e-mails requested by news organizations and citizens. No matter what the price, most of the e-mails of Palin, her senior staff and other state employees won't be made public until at least several weeks after the Nov. 4 presidential election, her office told msnbc.com on Thursday.

How did the cost reach $15 million? Let's look at a typical request. When the Associated Press asked for all state e-mails sent to the governor's husband, Todd Palin, her office said it would take up to six hours of a programmer's time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for "security" checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that's $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960.

There's more.....

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McCain, lying on Fox:

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WALLACE: ...(H)asn't Governor Palin become a drag on your ticket?

MCCAIN: As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased. She has excited and energized our base. She is a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America. She has a wonderful family. She's a reformer. She's a conservative. She's the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America."

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Darrel wrote:McCain, lying on Fox:

It's not technically lying if your delusion/insanity leads you to believe that it's true.

Savonarola wrote:

Darrel wrote:McCain, lying on Fox:

It's not technically lying if your delusion/insanity leads you to believe that it's true.

DAR
It's often a subjective interpretation to figure out if a person is deluded or lying. The evidence that Palin has very high unfavorable ratings, demolished McCain's "experience" argument, has hurt him with the all important independents and several leading conservatives (George Will, David Brooks, Colin Powell, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker etc.) is so overwhelming I think to deny this and say "she's the best thing that's happened" to his campaign is probably just a lie. But he might be voluntarily deluded. If so, there is no excuse for such ignorance.

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