Sarah Palin becomes just another politician

Karl Rove said it so well...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

S. in Mission

Karl Rove said it so well...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

S. in Mission

Karl Rove said it so well...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

S. in Mission

Karl Rove said it so well...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

S. in Mission

Karl Rove said it so well...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

S. in Mission

How about we stop calling people names and let the process play out? As I understand it, the legislature of Alaska, in a bi-partisan measure, authorized an investigation into the firing of the head of the Alaska Public Service Commission. If the case has no merit, the investigation won't find anything. If the case has some merit, certain facts will come to light, and then the legislature, which represents the people of Alaska, will decide what those facts amount to. My guess is, probably nothing, other than Sarah Palin was exercising her gubernatorial right to fire anybody she wants for any reason she wants. Was she using personal and family reasons to fire the guy? Probably. Is that illegal? Probably not. Will it matter to voters? Let's find out.

In case you didn't know who Carly Fiorina is, she was a former CEO of one of the most respected US companies Hewlett Packard. She was kicked out as CEO for unethical behavior but McCain hired her as a staff member for his campaign. Go figure....

Anyway Fiorina have said that Palin could not run a major corporation like HP.

Well, she stated the obvious considering that Palin's fix for the economy is a Breakfast Prayer.

"The Legislative Council, made up of four Democrats and eight Republican, voted unanimously to investigate the circumstances of Monegan's dismissal."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate

Doesn't sound like the Democrats are the sole drivers to me.

chazzykc is the next to exhort, "Wake up, America!" Interesting. That's two this morning.

In any case, I'd like to point out that whereas Obama promised "Change," McCain and Palin go further, self-defining as The Original Mavericks, boasting that they even stand up to Republicans.

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Mr. French, who is tampering with the so-called Palin investigation, has denied being an Obama supporter yet he is pictured on Obama's official website as a supporter. I imagine Mr. Abouhalkah also know this.

I have never commented on Mr. Abouhalkah before now because I posit that most readers realize that he is a partisan columnist. Being a partisan columnist, however, does not excuse him from the requirement to be honest and that his position be valid and not based upon limiting information that would weaken his journalistic position.

Get real. Get your head out of the sand.
Republicans have run up the biggest government deficit in the history of the universe. Congressional estimate puts war spending at 2 billion a week and 25,000 combined Iraqi and Americian lives lost. Our civil liberties have been straight-jacketed, the real estate/financial institution meltdown has put trillions of personal savings and investments in jeopardy, and hundreds of thousands out of work.
And because the little old POW guy picks a neo-con working mother with less academic credential than I have for his vice president all is forgiven and the Republicans who caused all this (remember the Clinton budget surplus?) are given another pass to finish messing up the world, in the name of their God (the only God!), completely and utterly? You, the under-educated fear based racially biased population, duped again and blind to what's going on around them, appear to want to vilify your enemies instead of taking responsibility for your own parties dismal failures. Remove the mote (8 years of failure) from your own eyes before casting judgements on others...oh.. or ignore that admonition by Jesus if it doesn't work for you politically.

Your article is missing two points:

1) That the investigation is 'tainted' because Democratic state legislator said this will be 'October surprise' for McCain (and not just might produce criminal charges) for Palin.

2) The fact that Walt Monegan has tried to get financing from Washington behind governor's back.

But other than that it was a good piece of anti-Palin propaganda.

In an effort to explore Kansas City Star editorial and publishing “objectivity”, I have been counting the posts and articles in the KC Star regarding the GOP and the Dems since the day of Obama’s speech in Denver. The results of my count are not surprising in any way other than magnitude: 37 negative of GOP, 4 favorable. There were 28 favorable of the democrats and 2 negative. I excluded over 20 pieces that were truly neutral….straight news.

Gee, what a surprise. That’s the kind of balance that has the liberal posters on the stars blogs complaining of media bias in favor of McCain/Palin!!....How completely absurd is that?

Among the not covered stories ….appeared nowhere …..are the following stories that, if published and/or explored, might harm the Obama/Biden campaign:
1)The Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers that expose Obama’s Ayers relationship.
2)The fascist muscling by the Obamatons of WGN radio in Chicago on 2 Separate occasions for having the audacity to practice free speech in the form of interviews of Obama critics.
3)Obama’s efforts to stop any drawdown of American troops in Iraq until after he takes office, an obviously political desire, per the Iraqi foreign minister and US Military leaders.
4)The staggering amounts of contributions to Dodd, Obama, Clinton, Biden and many other dem politicos by the recently bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie mac…..supposedly non political organizations.

There are 3 or 4 others that I could cite here that have gone unreported, but the Star would rather worry about the efforts of Ms. Palin to have a clearly dangerous state trooper fired.

See, its politics as usual by the manipulative, nasty republicans while the Star practices the politics of omission.

Which is more dangerous to our country? Wake up America……..the press is doing everything they can to assure that America gets this “candidate for hope and change” as the next president and the KC Star is in the forefront of that campaign….regardless of what Obama does or the tactics that he resorts to…….they will not cover anything that might be construed as negative to the Obama campaign.

I do not care for McCain, but compared to Obama it’s a no brainer.

The candidate that promised to run a campaign that was different, above the fray of typical American politics has, instead, run a campaign that makes the continuously excoriated Rove campaign for Bush look like a kindergarten cabal. It sickens me ….as it should any clear thinker.

Independent Investigator Branchflower has already admitted that Alaska Democrat Hollis French (a staunch Palin opponent and a top Obama supporter) has been involved in preparing the subpoena list. This is highly irregular and the definition of "conflict of interest" and "tampering" with an investigation.

Mr. Abouhalkah, also a staunch Obama supporter, knows that this is not a "bi-partisan" investigation and knows what I have written above is true.

Mr. Abouhalkah never lets the truth and objectivity get in the way of his writings.

Good points, and I'd add one: if Mr McCain is so damned patriotic, why hasn't he made paying taxes - especially among those earning over $250K/yr - an act of patriotism?

If you look back in history, that was exactly the position held by FDR - he told the rich that it was their patirotic duty to pay their fair share, and by gosh, they did it.

I'm sick of seeing "Support the Troops" magnets on Escalades and Hummers - why don't those yokel$ just pay a bit more to really support the troops (and the rest of us, while they're at it)?

Congrats for getting the message that John McCain's running mate is nothing more than just another Republican politician who's dead set on running the Good Old USA into the ground - then stomping on its remains.

If Ms Palin acts as if she's just another secretive, revenge-filled member of the GOP who thinks with her gut instead of her grey matter, it's no illusion - she's all that and less.

I'd like to believe Palin has had her 15 minutes of "fame" and is ready to slither back to Cold Country where she belongs. Sen Obama is right when he refuses to make this most important campaign anything about her and much, much, more about Sen McCain.

Remember, if one wants to measure ability and judgment one need only look at whom each man selected to run with them. Sarah Palin is no Joe Biden - never has been and never will be.

And I'm sure Joe Lieberman feels the same way ...

I hope these two actually get elected so we can see how the cooperate elite will run off with over 90% of the wealth leaving the rest of the working class (everyone responding to this article), in economic disrepair. What we need in this country is a reality check. Yesterday our economy was damaged hard, yet our bosses still send production and capital overseas while the class gap widens. McCain isn't going to fix it, he wants to keep the big tax cuts and incentives for overseas ventures?... Really? Obama probably Won't fix it either. But it's probably a better start. So sorry for those making over $250,000 a year, your taxes will go up... ahh what a shame, all the while I have to go to the local library and spend hours on end trying to find a job online. Can't afford to move, college education, and Army vet, regular American trying to make it and trying to understand the personal motives of the people who want to represent us.

The Republican Party chose to nominate a candidate for Vice President with no nationally-known track record. The voting public has a matter of weeks to find out enough about this candidate to make informed decisions on Election Day. The Republican Party has declared investigation into her political life to be smears and into her private life to be unconscionable. We are left with either accepting the contents of their press releases or choosing on the basis of whether we like her glasses.

Ridiculous.

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@edweirdness, I hate to say it, but such tactics have become epidemic in this country, especially on the internet where anyone can do and say whatever they want with near absolute impunity. Things done, written, and said in the electronic world often carry little consequence and are even applauded whereas if the same things were done in real life, they would in a lot of cases be considered criminal.

I read once of a journalist absolutely taking the governor of either Tennessee or Kentucky to task because he got in a car on one side of the street, drove to the other side of the street and got out. There was all this buzz about the "taxpayer's wasted money" and this and that and the other. The journalist from a thousand miles away was "all knowing" when who in the world knows what that governor may have to go through from the standpoint of security or who knows whatever else.

That's just one example of millions which demonstrate that an internet connection and a browser delude people into thinking they are suddenly someone to which every else needs to answer. If there is true corruption or true justice or true investigation that needs to take place, fine. Justice needs to be served and waste addressed in some way. But most of the time, the people with the loudest horn are the farthest removed and least able to serve to those ends. It's false, misleading and manipulative to say that because someone doesn't want to talk about something, they have something to hide, when in fact, the perceived hidden agenda is the thing being guarded against.

It's a false assumption for anyone to think that a blog or any casually submitted prose is going to right the world's wrongs. Often the most used window into these things, such as the internet, can be the most unreliable both in the hearing and in the so called "fixing."

Anyway... I need to heed my own advice, unplug and get back to the real world. If we would all unplug for a while and do something hands-on in our immediate spheres with sincere motive, simply for the sake of true Good (without needing to be seen or heard or recognized) it would eventually have the necessary effects even thousands of miles away. The internet, for the most part, is an illusion. It can be and is often rigged to say, postulate and promote anything because it's a cheap and easy platform for all kinds of agendas many of which are far from magnanimous.

eriks

Get real. Get your head out of the sand.
Republicans have run up the biggest government deficit in the history of the universe. Congressional estimate puts war spending at 2 billion a week and 25,000 combined Iraqi and Americian lives lost. Our civil liberties have been straight-jacketed, the real estate/financial institution meltdown has put trillions of personal savings and investments in jeopardy, and hundreds of thousands out of work.
And because the little old POW guy picks a neo-con working mother with less academic credential than I have for his vice president all is forgiven and the Republicans who caused all this (remember the Clinton budget surplus?) are given another pass to finish messing up the world, in the name of their God (the only God!), completely and utterly? You, the under-educated fear based racial biased population, duped again and blind to what's going on around them, appear to want to vilify your enemies instead of taking responsibility for your own parties dismal failures. Remove the mote form your own eye before casting judgements on others...oh or ignore that admonition by Jesus if it doesnt owrk for you politically.

Any Republican saying they are a victims to Democratic behavior is a joke.

We`ve suffered under almost eight years of a rebulican president and an evasive vice president that believes he is not part of the executive branch. The economy, the constitution, and truth are some of the real victims.

Six of the past eight years we`ve had a republican congress, senate and a judiciary branch that fired judges because they were not republicans. Even Pakistan impeached their president for purging judges. And what have we gained from this republican rule? record debt, huge job losses, deregulation of the banking industry. Should we count tax breaks as a positive? Not when inflation is so high. And remember inflation numbers DO NOT include food or fuel prices.

Has Gov. Palin been asked to speak with the group doing this investigation, or have they simple said they would like to talk to her? What is funny is how her 80% approval rate in Alaska is being ignored while all the time is being spent on trying to find something anything that she can be accused of. It is clear she went against the status quo in Alaska, that upsets those that lost the gravy train. They will do all they can to regain their privious status. It has always been easier to take the publics money than to go earn it. But I will say this if someone said they were going to kill my Mother and Father and I could get them fired, I would.
She has not said she is different, she has said her approach is different. She attacts anyone who disagrees with her? Are you kidding that is Obama. Get your facts stright if you are going to write your opinion a newspaper.

"I'm certain she's a bad person..."

The point is, conservatives think liberals are wrong; liberals think conservatives are evil. This makes it very easy to paint a conservative as "a bad person". If you simply report 1/2 of the truth about a 'bad person', a biased listener is happy to provide the push needed. Liberals should not be surprised when conservatives don't swallow the swill, look at the good and bad in both candidates, and choose to support McCain/Palin.

Here is the complete transcript of the Gibson interview, along with explanations of just how underhanded ABC editing was:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/09/13/abc-news-edited-out-key-parts-sarah-palin-interview

Notice that anything that balanced the predisposed, judgmental essay already written by the media was edited out.

ABOUHALKAH was not doing a hard news piece as ABC supposedly was, so he can be comfortable abandoning objectivity. The 'bipartisan commission' he speaks of has, indeed, been hijacked for the Obama campaign. An active Obama supporter and state operative leads it, and has promised criminal indictments of the Palins as an "October Surprise". Palin would be a fool to play along with the attack.

The fact is, there are emails showing just how insubordinate the man she fired was. He went around her directly to the congress to ask for funding for his pet projects, not once but twice, and refused to take policy direction from Palin, who was interested in reforming Alaskan corruption in both parties. He continued to play 'business as usual' despite this. Her actions resulted in indictments of key Republicans; of course this Alaskan 'old guard' was fired. It may well be that she was incensed by the mere 5 day suspension of a trooper who had made death threats against the first family, beaten her sister, tased her 10 year-old nephew, mishandled evidence, and abused drugs and alcohol, and generally proved unfit for the uniform, but she did not need this as a reason to fire an anti-reform political appointee. It wasn't as if she fired all of the US attorneys and the White House travel office staff to make room for her own appointees. Amazing how, when we are talking about a conservative, political appointee jobs are somehow sacrosanct, but liberals are EXPECTED to clean house.

If you only talk to the 14% in Alaska who are Palin's enemies, and write all your stories from their perspective, while avoiding the 86% who support her, the highest of any governor in the US, you can get some pretty bizarre distortions.

Good analysis Eriks. Personally, I was involved in a court case where the opposition felt that by keeping me tied up in court, ergo damaging by business and reputation, would get me to "come clean" on a subject I knew absoloutly nothing about. Tired of being invited to a dance (subpoenaed) that I didn't want to attend, I used the novel approach of just saying "no" when asked if I "swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". The prosecuting side almost had a stroke, but the Judge, in infinite wisdom, realized that I had "found the weak underbelly" that allowed the prosecuting side to punish me as a witness. I was cheerfully dismissed, and got back to my real life!

Were you truly independent you might find yourself bothered by the reappearance of the Bush administration's bunker mentality before Governor Palin is even in office.

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Yael,
First of all, I consider myself an independent and I do not support the Republicans or Sara Palin. I am actually wondering how the Republicans managed to get next to nothing accomplished when they controlled both the white house and congress. At this point I am undecided and trying to gain insight in order to make a good choice for President/VP in 2008.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do with this article. It seems very contrived and more in line with trying to keep pulling everyone back into the muck instead of supporting change. It seems a very simple article and very obvious that you are trying to find a way (very transparently by the way) of keeping the old politcal battles status quo. Let's all see if we can continue to try to find ways to attack Palin. It's a media contest, isn't it? That's not what we need. We need to let change in and make things better. Yes she has some issues. Any politican trying to invigorate change will encounter enemies and issues. Are you simply trying to make headlines?

Perhaps this is why you are stuck in KC and not working on one of the coasts? What country are you from by the way? Can you even vote in the election?

Try that very thing and report back to us what results you observe.

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and ask for Obama, count on it!

If I understand the scenario, Governor Palin is alleged to have fired her former brother-in-law as the result of divorce proceedings involving her sister. Hello, anybody out there even been in divorce court?

Most likely, Palin opponents would be investigating how Governor Palins Brother-in-law got promoted to the position, if he and the Governor's sister hadn't filed for divorce. Worse, if the man in question was effective and competent in his job, he might have been promoted even further, or chosen to run for office himself. The Governors opponents would have gone nuts either way. I hope the people of Alaska are paying attention, and I trust they will take proper steps to remove any partisan interests who insist on putting party interests before the interests of the people of Alaska.

Yael, you remind me of so many others in our country who hide behind a facade of a "if you have nothing to hide, then why do you remain silent" goading, prodding and manipulation. It's simply not true that if someone doesn't want to talk about something that they "have something to hide." In fact, to insist upon it demonstrates a certain narrow-mindedness at the least.

Everyone in this country has a right to "plead the 5th" and in situations which do present themselves as leading to a predetermined end, I wouldn't blame anyone for electing such a recourse. The internet, especially the liberal "blogosphere," which in a lot of cases hardly more than a self-appointed pack of wild wolves who believe anything is "fair game," is littered with so-called "heros" and manipulative "whistleblowers." And for the most part it's sickening how the majority feel that a cable connection and web browser give them the right to know and demand something and smear other people's reputations often from thousands of miles away, usually based nothing more on electronic hearsay and prolific urban legend.

I am neither for nor against "Sarah Palin." I have no idea if she's trying to hide something or not. Perhaps she is? But her refusal to cooperate with self-appointed smear artists who aren't really interested in true justice but in merely postulating themselves publicly as "heros," sparing no expense of anyone's reputation is probably a wise choice if that is in fact the case. And given the state of the Internet lately, I'd say the chances are extremely high that that is the case.

I wouldn't let anyone manipulate me with rants and screams and manipulations of this sort.

eriks

Over the years I've learned that the surest sign in a discussion that you're dealing with a learned, articulate participant is the use of the exhortation, "Wake up America!" What I miss is the use of lots and lots of exclamation points that, in better times, used to inevitably accompany the phrase. I'm afraid it's been replaced by cut-and-paste from whackjob websites, and I think we're all diminished by this ugly modern trend.

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This sure sounds a lot like the rest of the current Republican administration, just sorta deciding not to cooperate with the law.

It's just like when Harriet Miers and Dick Cheney refused to show up when Congress subpoenaed them.

So there's no change there..

Some maverick. If she can just decide one day not to obey the law, and she can't even keep her own daughter clean in God's eyes -- how can she possibly tell US what we should do??

Such bitterness, Wow! The investigation into anything that Gov. Palin did in Alaska and her religous beliefs are nothing compared to the investigation that should be done on the connection of Sen. Obama who is the 2nd largest recipient of "donations" from Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. Guess who is third, Sen. Clinton. Oh yes, and another Democrat is at the top of the chart.
Get real, anything that Gov. Palin did in firing a protective apointee is miniscule to what has happened with our banking and stock market industies.
The investigation into Gov. Palin is a diversion used by the media to take the heat off of their darlings who are the recipients of their blind propaganda.
Wake up America! Demand a congressional investigation into the real problems that our country is facing, not just the problems of a bitter Democrat in Alaska.

I see no difference with how political candidates from the right are handled and how democrats have been libeled over the past quarter century. You "red" necks amaze me.

I left the Christian Church some years ago. Hypocrisy and a flawed "salvation clause" were the clinchers. Saying they believe in the word of God for example while sending bombs and missles at innocent Iraqis (15,000 or more deaths) was too hypocritcal for me and the "all you have to do is ask for forgiveness" clause and all transgressions are swept under the carpet seemed like a blank check for evil - which unprovoked war, "holy" pedophiles, bigotted pastors, and the vile mud slinging politicians of the right bear out - all forgiven! Sarah Palin is the quintessential Right wing Christian
politician - Says she's for transparency in government and tries a cover-up before she's even in office. She lauds family values and turns the child rearing over to nanny's and husband to pursue power. Lies about a bridge to nowhere - what else will she lie about? Don't worry, she's just another perfectly hypocritical Christian - she'll be forgiven. Already is apparently by her minions of like minded red necks ready to go to war with Russia. Geeez.. Wake up goons!

This story just verifies what I've been saying all along.
http://www.slander08.com

Yael T. Abouhalkah- paper thin liberal douchebag.

You are certain she's a bad person? You need to hit the streets and find out for yourself what a real bad person is.

Mainstream Coalition???...You don't sound so bipartisan as the web page suggests.

Since the Republican Party chose to nominate someone without a national presence, it remains to be seen whether Governor Palin is, in fact, an honest, decent person. Unless, of course, you're suggesting that we should just Trust Them on this.

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This is easy to figure out. These next few words should say it all about this article:

Yael T. Abouhalkah.

What else would you expect?

Oh and yeah, she's no John Edwards.

when you libs try to lynch every honest, decent person who runs for office.

You've attacked this woman and her children with every imaginable lie. I just hope that she's as petty and vindictive as you claim she is and that she exacts her revenge in full measure.

It's about time the hype has cooled down and the honest hard working journalists are exposing this woman for what she is. I'm certain she is a bad person and I'm TERRIFIED of the possibility that she could be in the number two position of our country.

Quoting the Church Lady, "How Conveeeenient".

Get a grip alphabet, if it walks like a democrat, pees and moans like a democrat, it probably is a Dumbocrat.....

"He was referring to a Democratic state legislator involved in the probe who had said the case might produce criminal charges."

You conveniently neglected to mention that the same person also said he was anticipating an "October surprise" for the GOP. Please get over yourself and tell us the WHOLE story. You dream at night that the Republican party will lose this election and your posts drip with predisposed bias.

Is it just me or does Gov. Sarah Palin have a lot of baggage? She doesn't seem like the same person who was introduced to us before the Convention.

It also seems odd to me that current members of the Bush administration aren't giving her a ringing endorsement, like Sec. of State Rice, who went out of her way not to give Gov. Palin her full support. That makes me wonder...

is that Yael is trying to fit Sarah into the category of bimbos the Star has promoted. Petty, corrupt, vindictive hosebags like Carol Marinovich and Kathleen Sebelius.

Yael, why don't you do a little research and ask some of your Democrat pals why they're referring to what's going on in their party in Kansas as the ASS, the All Sebelius Show?

It is a very sad state of affairs when our political dialog has to contain words like "puke". Are we still in middle school?

Sarah Palin has been sprung on the voters with not prior information. I think it is up to us to find out as much about her as possible. This includes the negative information as well as the hype that has been put out by the McCain campaign.

Let's all grow up. There is too much at stake this election to decide it without all the facts.

I was once excited about the H. Ross Perot candidacy and volunteered to work in his campaign. Just like the proverbial three monkeys I heard no evil and saw no evil. Libertarians rarely have anybody to support and I thought Mr Perot was that man. One morning on the way to campaign headquarters. I heard a radio announcement that he had dropped out of the race. The polls showed him leading both Clinton and Bush at that time. He would later claim that GOP operatives had threatened to disrupt his daughter's wedding. I suddenly realized that Perot was just an eccentric millionaire with a gimmicky soundbite about getting under the hood and fixing the government. How easily so many of us were mislead, because we refused to look under the hood.

Come, brother, let us stand together as we try to find other conservatives who enjoy calling our enemies "pukes."

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of the libs trying to destroy a political opponent. Conservatives need to fight back and treat these pukes just like they've treated us.