Alaska Panel Finds Sarah Palin Guilty of Douchiness
So, remember that Troopergate business that was kind of haunting Governor Palin's first few weeks of VP-nominationhood but was ultimately mostly overtaken by her obvious ineptitude?
It's back, and this time it's looking more potent…
A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.
The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.
This might sound bad like a bad thing for a U.S. governor/vice-presidential nominee, and it probably would be for any other.
But for Sarah Palin, it really just reinforces her reputation as a maverick. Assuming what she's mavericking from is the law.
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Bill Clinton, warts and all, was and is a learned man. When he left office, we had a budget surplus, we were not at war and aside from Kenneth Star, Monica Lewinsky and cigars, there was very little that frightened me. He smoked marijuana but never inhaled, I believe, is the line that was floated, but his proclivities lay more in women, than wine or song.
Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree in 1968. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi's National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc.
George W. Bush, our current President, followed a different path. Our country is now in a state of uncertainty and despair. We have war raging on two fronts, a budget deficit that is mindboggling and few friends in the world community.
Bush was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard in May of 1968, after scoring the lowest acceptable passing grade on the pilot's written aptitude test. Critics allege Bush was favorably treated because of his father's political standing, citing his lack of combat service and his irregular attendance. The United States Department of Defense released all the records of Bush's Texas Air National Guard service, which remain in its official archives. Although not accepted to the University of Texas School of Law in 1970, he accepted a transfer to the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972 to work on a Republican senate campaign, and in October 1973 he was discharged from the Texas Air National Guard. Bush then attended Harvard University, where he earned his MBA.
Bush has had multiple issues involving alcohol abuse. In one instance, Bush was arrested near his family's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine for driving under the influence of alcohol at the age of thirty on September 4, 1976. He pleaded guilty, was fined US$150, and had his Maine driver's license suspended until 1978. Soon after, Bush entered the oil industry in Texas.
John McCain: Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. There, he was a friend and informal leader for many of his classmates, and sometimes stood up for targets of bullying. He also became a lightweight boxer. McCain came into conflict with higher-ranking personnel, he did not always obey the rules, and that contributed to a low class rank (894 of 899), despite a high IQ. He did well in academic subjects that interested him, such as literature and history, but studied only enough to pass subjects he struggled with, such as mathematics. McCain graduated in 1958.
McCain began as a sub-par flier who was at times careless and reckless; during the early-to-mid 1960s, the planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries. His aviation skills improved over time, and he was seen as a good pilot, albeit one who tended to "push the envelope" in his flying.
Barack Hussein Obama II, yes his middle name really is Hussein. Barack (who sometimes is criticized for in his youth, going by the name Barry; wouldn’t you?) was named after is father Barack Obama, Sr., a black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, which aside from the amount of melanin he inherited from his father, seems to be the issue that causes the most consternation amongst many Americans. His mother, Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas met Barack Sr. while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. They separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro's home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. Barack II then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972 for several years and then back to Indonesia for her fieldwork. She died of ovarian cancer in 1995. As an adult Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol, (I personally think this speaks more to the triumph of the human spirit and will, after taking in a child who is still in the process of recovering from an unsettled life that was less eventful) which he described at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure.
Obama studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983 A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Our country is entitled again to an intelligent leader who is not reckless. We are entitled to leadership by someone who recognizes that we, as a global community, have something to say and are willing to sit down and talk with everyone, even if he seems too professorial (détente, what a concept). I am grateful to wikipedia.org for assisting me with much of the content related and in clarifying why I am going to cast my vote in the way that I am.
if sarah was a baby killing,socialist- liberal you folks would be worshiping the ground she walks on. From a gun toting-Alaskan hunter/fisherman…. GO SARAH.
Ok, so lets say Alaska is the Nascar memorabilia store in your average mall. The other stores are decent and have a lot to offer, all in all, making up a pretty decent nation, err, mall…And it doesn't bother me all that much to pass the wretched hell hole on my way to FYE, but if the Nascar store got greedy and decided to take over the whole place, well, we'd be surrounded by drunken, pro-life, bible beating, gas guzzling hypocrites and I might just drive a fork through my retina rather than going out to shop. Long story short, stay in Alaska, Sarah. I don't care whats happening in the metaphorical redneck store several thousand miles away.
Until we, as a people, can find a way to FORCE our political representatives in Washington into a single term we shall forever endure the economic disasters, moronic candidates, idiotic legislation and pocket lining nitwits that we send back to Washington. After all, THEY have great health insurance for their families, a fine retirement plan after only serving a few years, power, prestige, "connections" and salaries while WE pay all of THEIR bills. We, on the other hand, can just tough it out if we get laid off and have no insurance, have a home mortgage that we can't pay for because some "bailed out" mortgage company told us that it was a good deal, have to put off taking our kids to the emergency room for treatment because we have no insurance and are told that someone is going to give us a $5000 tax credit so we can buy health insurance. What tax credit if you have no (or very little) income? $5000 to buy health insurance on the open market…how stupid….maybe for $5000 every three months.
We have got to get these guys back to Washington for a single term with minimal benefits so it will once again be an honor to represent your district and not just a fabulous job that you can work into YEARS of graft. Isn't that what the founders of this country did?
@danger_d
First of all, if either party subscribed to "baby killing" (as you so inelegantly and inaccurately term it), it is more apt to be Republicans/conservatives. Abortion rates actually go down during Democratic administrations. Republicans seem to lose all interest in caring for children once they've been born. We might as well call them the "pro-fetus" party.
And even if everything else you say were true, Palin would not get liberals' votes simply because she is the most intellectually incurious presidential candidate to appear on the national scene since George W. Bush, and he has been an abysmal failure in office. We liberals prefer our leaders to be intelligent and educated. She may have a baccalaureate degree, but she scarcely seems educated, nor does she seem to possess the necessary motivation to inform herself — in any depth — on any significant issue. She has already been promoted to her level of incompetence. You Alaskans are welcome to have her back….WHOA, SARAH.
hey hey hey .. answer me this answer me this:
If conservatives are pro-life, how come it is a-ok to go half way around the world and kill hundreds of thousands of brown people? Ok,wait, don't answer that. Let me modify it. If conservatives are pro-life, then how come it is a-ok to go half way around the world and kill thousands of brown people who aren't terrorists in our hot pursuit of the terrorists? No, wait, don't answer just yet. If conservatives are so het up about being pro life, then how come we have the death penalty here in the US? Hold it, hold it. Just one more: if being pro life is so important and God's work and all that, then how come the same people are so willing to let poor people starve in their own states? Ok, ok, I said only one more but I'm a liar. Finally, if you are so concerned about another woman's body that you would have the government intervene to stop an abortion, then how do you justify your stance on the importance of getting government out of our lives?
I mean, I just need to know these things 'cause I'm a curious kind of guy.
To: Likes Smart People….
THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT
(I like smart people too)
I figure that our country has been damaged by the "stupid" vote.
The "stupid" vote for the likes of Mcdrsrangelove and the ex-Gov. Avon Lady. The Avon Lady has used her office for personal gain. She has cheated on her expense reports, allowed her useless, secessionist, looser husband access to her office for personal gain,
and yelled "fire" in a crowd. She has NO commercial attributes, has never functioned as any type of executive and is the poster bitch for everything wrong with the Unite States. Lets start a list of those in history past that would have joined the republiCON party.
1.Adolf Hitler
2. Himmler
3.Goering
4.Nixon
5. Charles Keating
6.Billy Graham
7.Gengis Khan
8.Spiro Agnew
9.George Bush Sr.(CIA
10George Bush ( the idiot
11.Admiral Yamamoto
12.Osama Bin Laden
13. Saddam Hussien
14.Trent Lott
15.John Engler (lard ass
16.Hoover
Please feel free to add to the list.
Speaking of smart people: Great news!
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel/?hp
Here is the chance for Democrats to nail down the larger issue that the GOPers have been getting away with for the past eight years!
We need not point out the obvious point that the board has found her liable of abuse of power but rather the question should be; is the Republican party going to ignore the findings of this pi partisan panel and usurp State law (Clinton debacle) ignorance of the law is not a very solid argument for those who claim to have the righteous stance on spirit of the law……………………… Sarah Palin's candidacy is nothing short of a massive insult to every capable , competent professional in the entire country and this should at least give John McCain an opportunity to select someone of depth and determination! There is also the fact that her husband Todd is somewhat of a maverick in that he is a sucessionist at heart. So please press on with this most critical point that needs to slammed to the foreground.