Posted on September 21, 2008 by smartcrow
Alaskan trying to contact Governor Palin or seek information from the Governor’s office are being referred to the McCain campaign national office in Virginia and they are not happy as reported by the LA Times in Alaskans angered that Palin is off-limits:
In stubbornly independent Alaska, the sudden intrusion of a political campaign into so many [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by smartcrow
Think Progress has a good report on Sarah Palin’s continued lying about the Bridge to Nowhere. Palin dropped the lie in 2 speeches back home in Alaska but trucked it out again back on the trail in Nevada. By Think Progress count that is at least nine times Palin has told the Bridge to Nowhere, [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2008 by smartcrow
Sarah Palin has excited some fomer Hillary supportes despite her opposition to abortions even in cases of rape or incest. AND while Mayor of Wasilla she required that rape victims be charged for medical exams a practice so disgusting that the Alaska Legislature passed a law prohibiting such charges. As reported on McLatchy:
Knowles broke new [...]
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Posted on September 8, 2008 by smartcrow
The Bush-McCain team is selling a Palin as reformer fantasy to the public, a fantasy totally at odds with reality. Apart from actively supporting the Bridge to Nowhere to which Palin now claims she said No Thanks, and actively lobbying for earmarks, As reported in the Anchorage Daily News Palin also used Alaska state money [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by smartcrow
CNN is reporting that Sarah Palin bounced around 4 colleges in 6 years including one in Hawaii, two in Idaho and one in Alaska.
Geez, I wonder if it would be sexist to ask what her grades were like? LOL.
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Posted on September 3, 2008 by smartcrow
Mike Doogan, a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, questions, very politely, Palin’s competency as Governor and potential Commander in Chief in the Washington Post pointing out that:
She deserves high marks for moving the possibility of a gas pipeline forward. But most of the work on oil taxes was done by the legislature. [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008 by smartcrow
Washington Independent has posted a must read portrait of the REAL Sarah Palin, an email comment from someone who has known her most of her life, if not as well as John McCain. Her first name is Anne and I am betting that John McReckless wishes his vetters had spoken with her before he put [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008 by smartcrow
Wow, the McCain-Bush-Rove team goes ballistic when someone doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin. Jake Tapper at ABC reports that Sarah Palin was a member of an Alaska secessionist party in the 90’s. Karl Rove could lose a lot of weight leading the GOP tap dancing on this one.
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Posted on September 1, 2008 by smartcrow
John McCain’s alleged reformer VP pick, Sarah Palin, is closely tied to indicted Alaska Senator Ted Steven’s who boosted her 2006 gubernatorial campaign with a last minute endorsement. Palin was a director of Steven’s 527 group which has been questioned on ethical grounds, as reported on the Washington Post :
At the [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2008 by smartcrow
Sarah Paln, during her first 24 hours as VP nominee, and in the presence of John McCain, lied about the Bridge to Nowhere Project which she supported as a gubernatorial candidate and only abandoned because the monies were insufficient to get the bridge built. Instead of saying thanks but no thanks the congressional funds were [...]
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