What do we know about Sarah Palin?
She's a popular governor with some mixed history of standing up to Alaskan Republicans and big oil. In the next few days we will hear a lot about her "soccer mom" lifestyle and "Miss Congeniality" awards. We'll hear about her DRILL DRILL DRILL mentality to solving gas prices and her staunch anti-choice beliefs.
We all know that she is under investigation for abuse of power and there are audio recordings to back it up. What you won't hear on the news is this list of other things you didn't know about the woman they call "Miss Baracuda."
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A powerful, unbelievable list of things that are truly worrisome about Sarah Palin.
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helps democrats become more powerful and unified
hurts republicans as they become more dis unified and confused
the next 2 months will reveal the rest
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There is now enough "evidence" (pictures and articles) to need clarification about whether Sarah is the mother or grandmother of Trig.
We need to know the truth - one way or another - and it's not good news - one way or the other.
Is there anyway I can just block completely any seeds from The Daily Kos? I seriously don't even want to see the links anymore.
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The vicious personal attack side of the Palin dispute needs dropping - whichever side of the dispute started or is promoting it, for whatever contrived reason. This has nothing to do with the campaign, and is just dirt digging. It would be real nice to see the rest of the campaign go "clean". That would be a much better aim for people to strive for than digging negative dirt.
The latter demeans the whole electoral process of the most Democratic Country on the Planet. It should be made socially unacceptable to participate in this kind of drivel, let alone the clear moral stupidity of it.
This kind of disease is affecting many countries in politics, and if this campaign resulted in an example being set by the US electorate in stopping campaign filth, a very large number of people outside the US would give a major tick in the box for US moral standards. Isn't that also worth fighting for as well as the aims of whatever Party individuals support ?
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Do you say the same thing about the 'dirty' attacks on Obama or his wife? Or Joe Biden?
Just asking, it seems to me that the Reps and others have had no problems with doing the mud slinging in the past. I am sure they are still at it. Just more subtle.
I agree, would be nice if the process were clean, unfortunately it is not.
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Do you say the same thing about the 'dirty' attacks on Obama or his wife? Or Joe Biden?
Most certainly - I am an Obama supporter. There is an infamous phrase - two wrongs dont make a right. Many times its only by setting an example first is the other side of such disputes shamed into leaving it alone. Even if the latter does not happen they are isolated and shown up for what they are. The general public is well capable of working out who is digging the dirt without telling them, and the overwhelming majority will form a view from that....
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The vicious personal attack side of the Palin dispute needs dropping - whichever side of the dispute started or is promoting it, for whatever contrive
Some of the reasons in the link ARE laughable (the wandering eye one in particular I found odd) but the link itself was not so much a personal attack, it was just reasons why people should be worried about her experience. An attack of one's voting record is valid, would you not agree? So wouldn't you think bringing up her stance on birth control is important or the fact that she doesn't "think too much about the war in Iraq"?
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AT, oh yeah, of course, the voting record and her personal opinion on issues are important to bring up. How else does one decide for or against a person.
As it is with anyone who should think before voting.
But the 'attacks' is what is what is wrong.
Thats why I have appreciated the high road concept that O had taken for so long.
All out assault. Much made up tripe. {sniff}, yea that's fear you smell. Nutty nutty bunch...
I was dubious that she was the right pick, but the tolerant liberals are about to change my mind. Just another right wing candidate to focus their hate on.
Bad Karma - How can a list fully covered with a source FOR EVERY SINGLE ISSUE be made up tripe?
Nobody is scared of Sarah Palin. I think she's laughably unqualified, hurts with women voters and hurts even worse with undecideds. She's TOO conservative and I simply do not like her. She hates the environment. She's further right than anyone could have dreamed of the pick being.
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I think she's great. lol She has just landed McCain as the worst ever presidential candidate in history. Of any nation. Even Dan Quayle is better than her.
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Pallin simply isn't a trutworthy person. I'm hearing some nasty things, I won't even bother to mention since none of it has been proven to be true, but if theres any truth about alot more serious rumors than this, its pretty sad the highest office, one which George Washington and Abe Lincoln held, is becomming somehting held in such low regard.
Atleast Obama graduated top of his class from Harvard Law, this chick has a journalism degree from a no name community college.
I hear rumors that there was incest with the 16yo daughter, and ws forced to keep the baby due to her mother's political views.(no proof, just rumors around the internet)
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Stooping to personal attacks about a baby is counterproductive.
However, it IS true that a few weeks prior to Palin's selection she gave an interview to the New Yorker, AFTER she thought her name had been dropped from VP consideration.
Turns out she's a closet Obama fan. Don't take my word for it.
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You are right. She's pregnant. But like Obama, I'm not going near that one.
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I just saw an article.......
Palin flipped on Alaska's 'Bridge to Nowhere'
She's touted her opposition to pork projects, but initially welcomed funds
updated 4:11 p.m. CT, Sun., Aug. 31, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin was for the so-called infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it, a change of position the GOP vice presidential running mate conveniently ignored Saturday when she bragged about telling Congress "thanks but no thanks" to the pork barrel project.
does anyone know more about this?
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doh... sometimes by fat fingers get in the way of my even fatter mouth... you asking for more info.... bad me! bad!
there was real good interview published in the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006
question :Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?
answer : Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.
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this is from Alaska's dot web site.... ya got love those archives....
Gravina Access Project Redirected
September 21, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today directed the Department of Transportation and Public
Facilities to look for the most fiscally responsible alternative for access to the Ketchikan airport and Gravina Island instead of proceeding any further with the proposed $398 million bridge.
"Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer," said Governor Palin.
"Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project,
and it's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina
Island," Governor Palin added. "Much of the public's attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of
the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened." The Department of
Transportation has approximately $36 million in federal funds that will become available for other projects with the
shutdown of the Gravina Island bridge project.
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Forget about the bridge... the way she handled buying land for the Wasilla Sports Complex says everything we need to know...
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Forget about the bridge... the way she handled buying land for the Wasilla Sports Complex says everything we need to know...
Heckuva job, Sarah...it's Bushism all over again. God gives you a vision for a sports complex and you set up your citizens for financial ruin after you flout the law to get what you want/
Wow! This has to be the worst choice since Dan Q. and I agree with all fifty reasons why she demonstrates John McCain's bad judgement.
It's this kinda judgement that will land us in a War with Iran and staying the course in Iraq spreading our military thin. This will lead to him initiating the draft while at the same time keeping intact the oil companies in the middle east and making them zillionaires.
No more bad judgement this time..
Palin - outside Washington
Biden - inside Washington for 40 yrs
Who is for CHANGE?
Who made a bad choice?
Besides, Biden is a draft-dodger. His asthma excluded him from going to Vietnam. Something that bothered him just when he is about to be drafted. COWARD!!!
Why can't the McCain campaign comment on the rumours about Palin's pregnancy? It is just a yes or a no. Very straightforward! (Unless they are confused too!).
If Palin however forged an official document and manufactured such an elaborate false story then not only should she be removed from the ticket but she should resign as governor of Alaska. Her election was based on an anti-corruption agenda not on lies and deceit for the citizens of Alaska.
I am lost, I do not like Obama he is relatively young,has no experience. I like Biden, has experience but He is VP candidate and too old,
I do not like Mc'Cain He has experience but too old, I do not like Palin, has no experience and young like Obama. let's resume... If Mc'Cain dies guess who the next president will be.. A woman with no experience.. and to top it all they are all liars.
Oh Lord have mercy.
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i do see your dilemma...and if it's any comfort, look at it this way
pay back for the bush \ cheney years.
then maybe next time....
I believe this to be true
Democrats and the left generally can no more accept a Sarah Palin vice presidency than they could Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice. They can no more accept a conservative woman a heartbeat away from the presidency than they can a conservative African-American interpreting the nation's laws. Expect the long knives to be out, and stay out.Moreover, Palin represents a threat to the left's narrative that, due primarily to the wearing out of conservatism and generational change, voters are moving inexorably their way. Conservatives have argued for awhile that they have no shortage of ideas, but a shortage of candidates and politicians who possess the desire and will to articulate and advance those ideas.
They'll argue that Palin's demanding political career undermines her strong pro-family stances. It's tough enough to be governor and a mother, they'll say, much less vice president and a mother. Certainly, Palin will need to construct a powerful counter to that argument; no doubt, she already has.
Of course, the question is never asked of a man. Case in point, Barack Obama, who has two young daughters of his own. Don't young daughters need a father as much as they need their mother? If the demands of the vice presidency are great, aren't the presidency's demands greater?
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By the left's definition, a pro-life woman cannot be a woman. A woman who seeks a family-centered society, not a government-centered society, cannot be a woman. A woman who celebrates traditional American values, and not the secular values of Europeanized liberalism, cannot be a woman.
Sarah Palin is a threat to the left's feminist agenda.
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By the left's definition, a pro-life woman cannot be a woman.
No, what most Americans would say is that it's one thing to be pro-life and another thing to say that a woman doesn't have a right to control her ability to get pregnant. Palin does not condone birth control pills or condoms in addition to being against abortion. That may align with a lot of very conservative voters' thinking, but it's hardly pro-woman.
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By the left's definition, a pro-life woman cannot be a woman
Statement should read "By the left's definition, a pro-life woman cannot be a feminist" or something of the sort, otherwise it's just plain @!$%# and perhaps shows Mr. Independent has already made up his mind to an extent.
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A woman who accepts to be photographed next to a dead moose that she just shot, accompanied by her youngest daughter is not a threat to the left. She is a threat to humanity.
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That's bull@!$%# too. I know women who hunt. I personally don't condone hunting, but someone taking their family hunting is a threat to moose, not to humanity. I know women who hunt, are they suddenly threats to humanity?
Oh please, no wonder more people who disagree with some of this pap don't even bother to read, much less comment.
Could one of you republican's explain to me what you mean by, "Traditional American Values?"
I'm guessing here, do mean;
You go to church every Sunday
Have dinner on the table by 5pm every night
Sit around afterwards and watch Brady Bunch reruns
Go visit Grandma on Thanksgiving
Take your son to soccer and your daughter to ballet class
You seem to use this phrase as some sort of posession, some 'thing' that only the right has control over.
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It's funny, actually, how the left has allowed the right to take all these comforting ideas and phrases and not done enough to try to combat that. In my opinion the left is a host of better values because they are probably less likely to send your kids to be killed in foreign countries and practice that acceptance stuff Jesus talked about in the bible. They've allowed the right to claim family and religion as their own and it does hurt.
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I have a Hunter's safety card, I have gone hunting (but never shot anything). That's not a big deal. I was in Colorado, she was in Alaska. No problem.
Her husband works for BP oil, that will be a conflict of interest. He is listed on the email list for her official Government emails, that's supposed to be for government employees only, That's abuse of office.
She is a radical fundamentalist Christian. We've been scared of radical fundamentalist Muslims for quite some time now. She scares me as much as Bin Laden does. These people do weird things all in the name of their religion. She advocates getting rid of birth control even for married couples. abstinance is the only other choice. She looks like a nice person, she doesn't look like a nut. But she is.
- 2 votes
This tug o' war gets more mundane everyday.
We know what each side represents.
Citizens vote their gut and conscience
It should be a close race.
Palin is not a nut, she lives her beliefs, just like I live my liberal beliefs. Individual freedom is not crazy it is a highly valued American right.
Her youth, conservative bent, and novelty will appeal to about half.
The other half will vote for Obama and Biden.
Hopefully, some intellectually sound debate emerges from this stew.
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The camp that can tell the truth about themselves, and not tear down others in order to win, will be the real winner. The camp that can win the minds, hearts, and the healthy (general not religious) ethics contest will need to consistently and continuously provide valid arguments, effective words, and reliable advertisements. Which candidates bring effective leadership principles to Washington?
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