McCain camp tries to quash 'Troopergate'
Several Alaska legislators and residents sued today to halt an investigation of Governor Sarah Palin, alleging that the probe of her firing of the state's public safety chief is a partisan political move.
The lawsuit says that state Senators Hollis French and Kim Elton and Stephen E. Branchflower of the Alaska Legislative Council, who are leading the investigation, have made prejudicial statements in an attempt to smear Palin.
“The partisan actions of Sen. French, Sen. Elton and Branchflower have tainted the investigation beyond the appearance of impartiality required under the Alaska Constitution,” Kevin Clarkson, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers, said in a statement. The conservative-leaning Liberty Legal Institute is also involved in the suit.
The investigation, sanctioned by Alaska's legislature, is looking into whether Palin abused the office of governor by pressuring the state's public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce with her sister before she became governor.
Late Monday, John McCain's campaign took steps to divorce his running mate from the controversy, which could come to a head when the investigative report is released in mid-October, just weeks from Election Day.
It released e-mails supporting her contention that she dismissed Walt Monegan over budget disagreements, not the family matter. The McCain campaign also declared that Palin is unlikely to speak with an investigator hired by the state legislature as long as the probe is "tainted" by politics, the Associated Press reported.
The state Senate Judiciary Committee voted Friday to issue subpoenas to 13 people -- including Palin's husband Todd but not Palin herself -- to compel cooperation with the investigation.
Among the e-mails was a farewell by Monegan, when he was fired in July, that suggested that Palin had reason to believe she had lost his support, and that urged his former colleagues to communicate better with her. "For anyone to lead effectively they must have the support of their team, and I had waited too long outside her door for her to believe that I supported her," he wrote. "Please, choose a different path."
But Monegan, himself, disputed Monday night that he was fired over budget issues.
"I truly did not know why I was terminated," he said on MSNBC. "I mean, the very first night it happened, I walked away scratching my head."
Monegan also said that he did feel pressured to dismiss the trooper, Mike Wooten.
"No one ever said 'fire him,' " he said. "They said things like-this man should not be a trooper. This man shouldn't represent the troopers. Those kinds of things, which are inferring that, to fire him.
Monegan said "the very first time I even heard trooper Wooten's name was through her husband Todd, who wanted to tell me what kind of character that was working for me, and how he had filed a complaint and had documents and pictures. And primarily, he wanted to describe the character of trooper Wooten. And that was in January of '07. It continued, right up until the last.... So, it was continual. It was a kind of a reoccurring theme. If it wasn't-initially, it was the governor and her husband, but then it became other commissioners and not only did they call me, but they called other members of my staff. "
Monegan told ABC News.com he was summoned to a December 2006 meeting with Todd Palin, who became "upset" when Monegan told him the allegations against Wooten had already been investigated and the case would not be
re-opened. "When Sarah later called to tell me the same thing, I thought to myself, 'I may not be long for this job.' "
But, Monegan said, he stood by his position. "I held the public trust. As chief, I was responsible."
Did you and everyone else forget about the S & L crisis and the Keating 5? McCain was part of that gang.....and now he and Palin are supposedly going to clean up Wall Street.
McCain should have gone to jail for the Keating and S & L crisis........
Does Sarah Palin even know how to spell Glass Steagall? - let alone the deregulatory history from 1999 to the present.
Has Sarah Palin ever purchased or sold a common stock or an option on a stock?
Does Sarah Palin know what a hedge fund is Vs a mutual fund? Does she know what the difference is on a publicly held company Vs a private firm?
America - wake up.
Figure they'd try a cover-up. How many is that in the last eight years?
Pedophiles, drugies, closet homos. On the surface they say "Off to church we go" In private they're a bunch of lying perverts. At least Palin does it out in the open. Well, she and her daughter.
MCAIN IS OLD, HAS BAD SKIN, HE STARTED THE IRAQ WAR, HE TORTURES PUPPIES, AND PRAYS TO THE DEVIL.........BUT OBAMA IS HOPE, HE LOVES PUPPIES, RAINY DAYS, BUTTERFLIES, PRAYS FOR WORLD PEACE EVERYNIGHT AND WELL ISN'T HE JUST LIKE JKF AND MLK !!
Why all those sexist questions about what, if anything, Sarah Palin knows about finance? Isn't it enough that she believes in creationism, Santa Claus, and the tooth fairy?
Sarah Palin believes dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago.
Arthur: is that a surprise? She was chosen as VP candidate by a dinosaur.
FFED: stop shouting, it's impolite. But I think you summed things up pretty well.
So do a WHOLE LOT of Christians in this country. Call it stupid if you like, but it's not quite the nutty position you would like to believe that it is.
Who would you like to have as a trusting friend? Obama or McCain? Obama! McCain has bad temper and can't be trusted!
Dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago... in spirit... don't you know all dinosaurs go to heaven.
Note to all media personal in the United States!!!! Please...stop using the suffix "gate" for every little scandal. You really show your age! The "Me-First", Anti-establishment baby booming generation thinks the world began in 1950. And can only remember back to Watergate. It's pathetic, uninspired and unoriginal journalism!!!
I wasn't alive, (Thank God), for Watergate! Was Watergate so terrible, so scandalous, so horrific that we must refer to everything from now till the end of mankind as "GATE"?! I took a poll and most of the people my age (mid 20s) and younger have no idea what you are talking about when you, the media, brand the latest scandal with the suffix "gate". Seriously, SpyGATE, MonicaGATE, NippleGATE, WhitewaterGATE, etc....
How about give me a freakin' breakGATE!
The questions about finance are not sexist, they are legitimate questions for someone who claims they are going to clean up Wall Street.
From a great email floating around my family this morning:
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,
Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather woman, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive a heartbeat away from leading the free world.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now?
I'm not a theologian, but as I recall Jesus of Nazareth is called by many "The Prince of Peace". Mars is the god of war. The Christian God is not reputed to send soldiers off to pre-emptive wars. Of course national defense is the right of any people but let's not make this a crusade, ok? Think -- Troopergate(!), Petrogate(!!), Sarah waving a cop-killer gun at an NRA rally, the $22 million dollar deficit she left as mayor of a previously solvent, tiny suburban town, the Alaskan Independance Party making a mockery of the Pledge of Allegiance, Sen. McCain calling for a permanent occupation of Iraq, then flip-flopping and calling for a timetabled withdrawal, no health care reform, no mortgage reform, no plan for a Wall St. rescue (the great majority of American economists are Democrats for a reason), denying the Bridge-to-Nowhere earmark conspiracy, the federalisation of contraception, Sarah unaware of what the "Bush Doctrine" even is, nevermind its effect on the very principle of "continuity of policy", your tax money used to teach someone else's religion in public schools, while denying the private sector the right to internationally competitive science education. This is America's future? We already have idots running the executive branch. Why spend all this money just to replace them with the bench squad of the same second-class team? Can we do better? Why, yes. Yes we can.
Of course Sen. McCain is trying to quash this issue. What else would one expect.
What really amazes is the Ms. Palin could engender any excitment at all. She simply is not competent to serve as VP.
I'm not a theologian, but as I recall Jesus of Nazareth is called by many "The Prince of Peace" - Mars was the god of war. The Christian God is not reputed to send soldiers off to pre-emptive wars. Of course national defense is the right of any people but let's not make this a crusade, ok? Think -- Troopergate(!), Petrogate(!!), Sarah waving a cop-killer gun (!!!) at an NRA rally, the $22 million dollar deficit she left as mayor of a previously solvent, tiny suburban town, the Alaskan Independance Party making a mockery of the Pledge of Allegiance, Sen. McCain calling for a permanent occupation of Iraq, then flip-flopping and calling for a timetabled withdrawal, no health care reform, no mortgage reform, no plan for a Wall St. rescue (the great majority of American economists are Democrats for a reason), denying the Bridge-to-Nowhere earmark conspiracy, the federalisation of contraception, Sarah unaware of what the "Bush Doctrine" even is, nevermind its effect on the very principle of "continuity of policy", your tax money used to teach someone else's religion in public schools, while denying the private sector the right to internationally competitive science education. This is America's future? We already have idots running the executive branch. Why spend all this money just to replace them with the bench squad of the same second-class team? Can we do better? Why, yes. Yes we can.
Jessica, I was being ironic. The worst sexism in the campaign is the insistence by the Republicans that any tough questioning of a woman candidate is sexist. Or, to mangle a metaphor: if you want to run with the big moose you have to learn to take it.
We've already seen Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez & Mukasey block, cover up or just refuse to cooperate with lawful investigations into either criminal or constitutional issues. Now we are seeing McCain & Palin proceed to do the same thing. Is this what this country needs more of? Apparently the Hockey Moms & Dads think so, according to the polls since the Republican National Convention. The people in this country really are as stupid as the media implies. I sure hope the Democratic party & especially Obama can get their act together & right this Titanic before it's too late. More importantly, when will White People Wake Up? Do you really want to continue the policies of the past 7+ years?
With all due respect this Trooper Wooten character had PLENTY of reason for dismissal from the Police Force. Read his file, it is far from pretty. He should have been releaved or at least disciplined which he wasn´t by those in command over him from what I understand.
I conclude this is all political. People want to sling dirt at fine American who has a clean and honest reputation. I can not believe people do not see this for what it is. If Sarah Palin were not on the ticket would you people be judging her the same? Answer: Of course not! Palin is not the guilty party here, Wooten is, it is amazing he still has a job.
Marcus you ought to be ashamed of yourself Sir. Lumping Christians and Republicans into a general category of shame is both untrue and over the top!
Politics is about people having freedom to make choices..or it should be. Sad how people feel the need to attack someone because you do not agree with their point of view. Try living in another country without rights. I say this with respect and unbias.
Meanwhile, people like LBJ covered up JFK's death, and Teddy Kennedy cobered up the Chappaquiddick mess / death, so now youre up in arms over a bad employee being fired??
SOCIALISTS !! It wont work.
Mark my words-- they will riot in the cities when Obama loses in NOvember
As a Libertarian, I am not that overly excited about seeing the Republicans get in. But I must admit, watching the left wing liberals b and moan about it all is priceless. It's a blast watching the democrats implode. GWB may be the worst ever, and they cannot beat his buddy, McCain.
How bad is that?
I am so amused.
my new computer: $599
my monthly internet access: $19
watching liberals get all worked up over Obama's campaign going over the cliff: PRICELESS
Correction: Dinosaurs do NOT go to heaven because they never accepted Jesus as their personal savior.
As an aside, I'm debating whether to open a doggie baptism salon if Palin becomes VP.
Oh, gotta love the GOP hypocrisy. Palin was just on national TV saying she welcomed the investigation because she has nothing to hide. Now this lawsuit and a press release that she will not cooperate?
If you're innocent, go testify. If you're guilty.....oh wait, she's already doing what one would do if guilty.
Because it was ongoing before she was even named as the running mate, I think it's worth still investigating. It doesn't matter to me if it's partisan now or whatever - there was enough information to begin an investigation - there's enough to finish one.
ZerObama is right....the same liberal sheep who are attacking Sarah Palin for supposed "skeletons" in her closet line up every 6 years to blindly pull the lever for Teddy Kennedy, who has entire cemeteries in his. And, continue to quote the laughable "achievements" of the most liberal senator in the Senate who, by the way, voted "present" over 160 times while in the Illinois legislature. But I understand your fear....in a difficult economy, during an unpopular war, and with every single MSM venue (MSNBC, Charlie Gibson, the Globe, the Times, etc) totally in the tank for your candidate, you're STILL trailing in the polls.
Tee hee...would love to see your faces whne Mccain wins! Nice ad hominem arguments (look it up, losers)
You couldn't get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after 143
days of experience.
You couldn't become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience of being a
surgeon.
You couldn't get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days
of experience.
You couldn't join the military and become a colonel
after 143 days of experience.
You couldn't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor
after 143 days of experience.
BUT, from the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator, to
the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee,
he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how man days the
Senate was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work
experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of
the Free World .... 143 days.
We all have to start somewhere. The senate is a good start, but after 143
days, that's all it is - a start. AND, strangely, a large sector of the
American public is okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn't
accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with this for the
President of the United States of America.
Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol!
I am a native New Englander now living in another part of the country. Those of you writing to bash Christians and/or Conservatives need to know that the majority of the country disagrees with you. You are writing as though being a Christian or being a Conservative is completely out of the mainstream. Please know that many of your views are to the extreme left and are not shared by large portions of the country.
Also, it amazes me that most of you, along with much of the media, are looking for any possible way to bash McCain and Palin, while Obama gets a pass on serious issues from his past. I have not heard one member of the media ask Obama to explain his long relationship with Bill Ayers who, along with the terrorist group he helped to begin, bombed NYC Police Headquarters, The U.S. Capitol, and the Pentagon. This is a guy Obama considers a friend. He was a 20 year member of a church pastored by a man who is clearly racist and advocates violence and yet Obama didn't resign until it was politically expedient to do so. While a member of the Illinois Senate and the U.S. Senate he has voted "present" (rather than yes or no) on countless occasions, showing his inability to take a stand. He's said that if his daughter made a mistake he wouldn't want her "punished with a baby". He referred to people in conservative areas as "bitter..hanging on to their religion and their guns". It is unbelievable that Obama does not have to answer for these actions. What a double standard!
DG
C'mon, fireing a reckloose cop is faaar worse than Ted murdering a woman on the Vineyard!!
As far as people who question McCain / Palin on economics, I pose a question to you: Obama is against Suply side economics. When has this worked? Carter tried it - disaster. Even JFK was for suply side economics!! Obama wants to move away from it - that is fundementaly flawed thinking kids, sorry.
I thought the name of this site was "Political Intelligence." One wouldn't know it from the posts I've read.
Ah yes, the people are stupid, it's not the Media being biased. I watched the Daily show last night, and Stewart was repeating the same crap from before he went on vacation. But he's not biased... Why doesn't he question Obamas's qualifications? That's certainly debatable. But he keeps going back to she flip-flopped - get over it - everyone does it - it's called changing your mind. You all stood behind Kerry when he flip-flopped.
I continue to be amazed at how truly biased the media is...
You cannot criticize Obama a lot because he hasn't done a lot. I used to be his supporter but am deeply disappointed with way he run his campaign now. Look at all the negative ads he has for Palin who is even not running for president.
I find it interesting that the writer of this article chose not to summerize the reasons behind the troopers problems that led to the Palin's demand for his firing while making sure Monegan's postion is well quoted. Why can't the Globe atleats attempt to write balanced stories when it comes to Palin? All anyone needs to do is to review todays Boston.com and Boton Globes columnists to see that a tidlewave of anti Palin retoric is now common here.
That's a nice cure quip from #27, but John McCain couldn't even be bothered to show up for work for over six months straight. Is THAT the kind of work ethic you want? Oh yah, you probably do since that's what you voted for in Bush. A lazy incompetent boob.
"So do a WHOLE LOT of Christians in this country. Call it stupid if you like, but it's not quite the nutty position you would like to believe that it is."
Of course it's a nutty position. Just because a lot of people believe a wacky idea- doesn't change the fact that it's a wacky idea in the first place.
Hitler was elected. Were all those people right? Of course not- there were just a lot of people who fell for the same nutty position.
Nice try Steveo but you are just plain wrong about the economy
"The extreme promises of supply-side economics did not materialize. President Reagan argued that because of the effect depicted in the Laffer curve, the government could maintain expenditures, cut tax rates, and balance the budget. This was not the case. Government revenues fell sharply from levels that would have been realized without the tax cuts."
- Karl Case & Ray Fair, Principles of Economics (2007), p. 695.[11]
Mainstream Keynesian macroeconomics, by contrast, contends that tax cuts should be used to increase demand, not supply, and thus should be targeted at cash-strapped, lower-income households, who are more likely to spend additional income.
Anyone read today the report on how Al Quaida is imploding?
Must kill you Liberals that the war on terror and Iraq is paying off.
The Republicans must be covering up something since their Republicans right? The hypocracy is laughable. Of course you have to smear Palin because honestly you have got nothing else and you are starting to have that insecure feeling of knowing that this race is slipping away.
Huh. This is obviously a fiction created by libtard socialists. I mean, the Governor has the authority to fire whomever they want. They don't have to answer to anyone. What do you think they are, some kind of public *servant*?
Retards.
I completely agree John, this is Political Intelligence?
A woman running for the second highest office in our nation is skirting an investigation that began BEFORE she even entered the campaign...yet its being corrupted by her foes?
And this is ok? To completely subvert our system of Justice in this country?
Anyone asking who agreed to the investigation back in JULY? Why not?
The Legislature Counsil is doing the investigation, based on a UNANIMOUS vote...oh yeah, its also a GOP dominated council... thats why.
And what in the world does this have to do with Ted Kennedy? talk about being stuck in the past....WOW!
Oh and Steveo-Trickle Down Economics is really bringing this country together eh? THIS IS FAILURE of your precious, albeit severely flawed, economic theory you're seeing right now. Congrats.
In 1975, O'Connor v. Donaldson, The ACLU challenged the Court's first ruling on the rights of mental patients supported a non-violent man who had been confined
against his will in a state hospital for 15 years. Mental illness alone,
said the Court, could not justify "simple custodial confinement" on an
indefinite basis. Approximately 30 years later Blogging is invented to give those same individuals something to do with their time.
Remember to take you medication daily and do not stair in to the bright shining disk in the sky.
Are you serious? Bringing up Ted Kennedy? How desperate are you people?
As far as the investigation: it was green lighted by THREE REPUBLICAN legislators who approved the investigation AND the folks sitting on the committee. Tell me again how this is partisan? OH .. because McWomb and McSame said so?
I guess you're also the freakin' psycho's who believe in talking snakes, a magical guy in the sky, and women being created from some guy's bone. Just because a lot of people believe it doesn't mean it happened. A few hundred years ago a lot of people believed the world was flat too. Same thing. You can call it a fairy tale, a fable, or religion. It's when you try to make these fantasies into law that rubs a lot of us "elitists" crazy.
Hey Edogg, apparently it is OK to say that Obama is inexperienced but you're cool with Palin running things once McCain kicks it, correct? No problem with her inexperience, right? Just want to make sure because I know how much outrage there was from the right when Hillary was having her laugh and her cleavage dissected on the nightly news. I know that the cries of sexism over Obama using the lipstick on a pig comment prbably outraged you just as much as when McCain described Hillary the same way. I just want to make you sure you are
All I know is four more years of a Bush-esque administration can't be good. I can't believe the stuff I'm reading on these blogs. How small minded people are. Is this really America?!! Like Sarah Palin is the second coming? Action figures? Dressed as a young Britney no less? Give me a break! All I know is watching McCain he looks like this grizzled old battleaxe, reminds me of that creepy old dude from Poltergeist; the one behind the mirror. Not all that crazy about OBama either with his potential alleged Muslin-esque ties. All I know is we probably stand a better chance with OBama then another 4 years of Bush-clone. Like a prior poster wrote in, are you better off now then you were eight years ago!? Absolutely NOT. Will it get fixed if OBama gets in? Who knows? Will it stay the same if McSame and McPalin get in? Most likely. I was routing for Hilary; so much for that idea. If America votes in Mc-dead-brain and Ms. moose-killer we are really really f-----d. God bless us all.
The Libs are really getting ridiculous now. Panic has set in. I'm loving it and it is indeed PRICELESS
I took a poll and most of the people my age (mid 20s) and younger have no idea what you are talking about when you, the media, brand the latest scandal with the suffix "gate". Seriously, SpyGATE, MonicaGATE, NippleGATE, WhitewaterGATE, etc....
I don't need a poll to tell me you have no clue about your own country. I didn't live through WWII but I know damn well what the phrase "Peace For Our Time" means.
Since we are talking about the economy, let's discuss the democratic VP candidate, Senator Biden. He is a Senator from the wonderful state of Delaware. If you know ANYTHING about business, over 50% of US publicly-traded corporations and 60% of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware; the state's attractiveness as a CORPORATE HAVEN (a jurisdiction with laws friendly to corporations thereby encouraging them to choose that jurisdiction as a legal domicile) is largely due to its business-friendly corporation law.
This means those wonderful financial institutions such as Lehman, ML, etc chose to incorporate themselves in Delaware to protect themselves from regulators, the same government regulators who according the Obama should have stopped this economic implosion.
If I was a CEO on wall street....I would be excited for Obama/Biden as they will convert the US to a giant Delaware!!
If the charges are indeed baseless, then why stop the investigation and leave them hanging? McCain's camp would be smarter to help move it along to a satisfactory conclusion.
What am I thinking......they're worried that there IS something amiss, especially because Palin didn't recuse herself from the problem in the first place. For someone who is obviously smart and politically astute, that seems like a big mistake on her part.
A cover-up ... ALREADY?
I think the democrats are fighting back this time. Probably they will win.
It is gong to be a very dirty campaign, like all the other campaigns we have had since Eisehower.
Anyone remember Checkers?
Can't blame the baby boomers for Eisenhower, they were too young to vote.
Didn't they start this investigation long before Palin was added to the ticket? How can this be politically motivated, at least as far as the Presidential race? More to hide under the rug. It is very likely she used her power however she could in order to get back at her sister's ex. That's what people do, although most bitter people do not have that power to abuse.
It would appear that somewhere around 2:30 someone opened the door and let all the inmates out of the loony bin. What until then had been a rational discussion of the issues turned into a rant fest. And not only did the level of discourse plunge to a locker room level but the grammar and spelling in the posts declined to a state resembling an eight grade remedial English class. If you can't carry on a civil conversation just shut up!
Kinda makes one wonder: if Sarah Palin were clean, answering some questions would be no big deal. Now it just screams of a cover up, which to me is worse.
Steveo, your use of the term recluse is not only a malaprop, but you misspelled it. I think that sums up the intellect of anyone who thinks the McCain/Palin ticket is a safe, viable consideration for the clean-up this country so desperately needs. And seriously, anyone who thinks that Palin would be a suitable president in the eventual death of a three time cancer survivor and a prime candidate for a quad bipass is completely insane.
You will love to see the look on "our" faces when McCain wins, but do you really think that that the resulting office will offer anything different than what George Bush has done to this country. Well, maybe you do, and that is a problem that is entirely too sad to discuss.
If I really thought God could help, I would pray for some sense to be given to anone who thinks that McCain/Palin is the lesser evil.
Why not just find out the truth? It's not partisan. It's just common sense.
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Thanks, but no thanks, to that gal from nowhere.
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As Obama said, the Pubs must think we're all stupid. Here they go with their partisan claims of the Democrats against Palin. What is Palin doing in Alaska? It looks to me that she was so partisan and flip flopping like a dolphin. No a dolphin is too smart how about flounder instead... The woman used her elected office to fire her former brother in law. And when that didn't happen she fired the guy who wouldn't fire him. There are unions and other things such as police work to keep good cops on the force. If that's the case then Palin will do exactly what Cheney has done and get rid of any Democrat who doesn't do as they wish whether legal or not. Didn't we just go through all that with the Justice Department.
Joe V you are so incorrect...The women of Alaska 1500 or 1486 strong marched against Palin this Saturday and it was considered to be the largest rally in Alaskan history. It is amazing how the papers have placed this event on the back pages. This rally was huge and consisted of people who have not just read what we have but actually lived in Alaska for an average of 20 years and also lived in PAIN under PALIN....Her giving out money to silence the herd is another old Republican ploy..........go to You Tube all you wise and fair minded American's( of which I am one) and type in Palin Anti Rally in Alaska and see what the people who live there have to say. They know...............Better that you or I
LEO.........................I WAS JOKING, I DON'T LIKE OBAMA BINBIDEN, I USE CAPS SO YOU CAN HEAR ME....................
Note to Del ---- Re: Mediagate. Why are you so proud that most of your friends have never heard of Watergate? Guess what? It was kind of important to our republic.
Ladies and Gentlemen please be civil. The bashing has got to stop. People on this blog are mocking those of us who believe in God. Most of the world believes in God as a matter of fact except for some REALLY SMART AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. Just because you do not see things from your particular slant does not mean you should attack people´s beliefs or character. Look at the facts for a moment and see the politicians as people. I prefer McCain and Palin but also believe Obama and Biden are great americans too. These are people we are talking about after all. I am sure Senator Obama is a great person and I would be honored to meet him. We should see the good in people. Joe Biden is also a great person I am sure. However, I think McCain and Palin are better suited for the job at hand. As a former SSG with combat experience in Iraq I can say in certainty that I would follow John McCain into battle. He has a world of experience not just 140 something days in the Senate. I think McCain is a better leader under pressure, hey he has proven it in the face of death hasn´t he? It is a scientific fact that babies are human at conception look it up...that should not be above Sen. Obama´s pay grade to decide. When you lead troops you need to act accordingly now not pass things off to others. Oh and by the way, just so you civilians should know, when you deal with Military Intel the general public is on a need to know basis. We are winning this war and we continue to be safe on american soil. Amazing how everyone passes the buck to President Bush for the responsibility of 9-11 and THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR (i.e. Iraq and all the Stan Nations of Asia)...Al Queda grew under President Clinton´s watch and we could have had him on many occasions. But let´s not demonize President Clinton either. Radical Islam is our enemy not our Political Parties. We need both Republicans and Democrats to balance ourselves and unite as a nation. Whoever wins in November as Americans we need to stand behind our new President while giving them our best effort in service. Kudos to Pastor Rick Warren and his Church for hosting a very interesting townhall type meeting with good questions. I thought both men were great for the most part.
I see no evidence of "quashing". Clearly, a misleading, distorting headline.
Before she was announced as VP, she was cooperating. Now she's playing the victim. A REAL LEADER would deal with the situation rather than run and hide from it. It seems Todd and Sarah did put pressure on Monegan to fire the trooper. Furthermore, the firing of Monegan still hasn't been explained.
Answer the questions. Stop crying. Own up to it and move on.
Palin's "playing the victim" because it is frighteningly transparent that Hollis French has compromised the independent investigator's autonomy.
It is now a matter of public record that French has dictated who should be subpoened and who should not. Mike Tibbles, Palin's former Chief of Staff who has been described ad nauseum as being at "the center of the Troopergate scandal" was astonishingly deleted from the investigator's list of staffers to be
subpoened.
ANY attorney would arrive at the same conclusion: what is FRENCH afraid of.
This is an act of Civil disobedience I would passionately counsel anyone to take.
No one is under any civic obligation to cooperate in an investigation that quite likely is without probable cause.
The most frightening aspect of this case is the legal illiteracy and ignorance
of due process displayed by the media and many citizens who do not have
a clue about the implications of French's tampering.
I'd like to know: how many outraged people who commented on this issue took the time to read Palin's motion to dismiss for determination of probable cause and the
attached affidavits. if Foon Rhee did and just one of the people responding to this
did, I will be stunned.
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