Palin's tenure as Mayor/Governor

[Red Dawn]

News Analysis: Palin's tenure as Mayor/Governor: Personal vendettas, censorship, croynism, secrecy, and lying.

i.e., your typical Republican politician.





Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN AND MICHAEL POWELL
Published: September 13, 2008

WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.


When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”.....

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/u...1343324-tGxa66AkDRYq1tsNYpjoIw&pagewanted=all

 

[Ninja]

Yawn.

New York Times Circulation Plummets

 

[jillian]

Have you ever tried reading the NY Times on a subway???

from your link:

Circulation fell sharply at most top U.S. newspapers in the latest reporting period, an industry group said Monday, with the exception of the two largest national dailies, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

New York Times Circulation Plummets

 

[HoleInTheVoid]

You mean politicians don't appoint rivals and enemies?

srsly

 

[jreeves]

Yawn.

New York Times Circulation Plummets

Exactly it comes from the same newspaper, who ran a story on Mccain, which was only substantiated by unnamed sources.....

 

[Silence]

if even half of that is true then WOW... that's pretty scary stuff....

 

[jreeves]

if even half of that is true then WOW... that's pretty scary stuff....

Don't worry its not....just another example of the media trying to elect Obama.

CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton received. And, therefore, a lot of the media may now be treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves. Do you agree with that?

Mark Penn: Well, no, I think the people themselves saw unfair media coverage of Senator Clinton. I think if you go back, the polls reflected very clearly what "Saturday Night Live" crystallized in one of their mock debates about what was happening with the press.

I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems. And I think that that's a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

CBSNews.com: So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now?

Mark Penn: Well, I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates. And that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time. Now, the media defense would be, "Yeah, we looked at these other candidates who have been in public life at an earlier time."

What happened here very clearly is that the controversy over Palin led to 37 million Americans tuning into a vice-presidential speech, something that is unprecedented, because they wanted to see for themselves. This is an election in which the voters are going to decide for themselves. The media has lost credibility with them.
Ex-Clinton Aide: Media Tougher On Palin, Political Players: Former Clinton Chief Strategist Mark Penn Argues The Press Has Lost Its Credibility - CBS News

 

[chapstic]

if even half of that is true then WOW... that's pretty scary stuff....

speaking of scary. lets talk about yo-bama's friends. nevermind....

 

[Ninja]

if even half of that is true then WOW... that's pretty scary stuff....

LOL. The article had absolutely nothing. Typical drivel from the Leftoid pod people.

The lack of substance in any of the smears you and your buddies have tried to hurl at her tell me that (1) she's squeaky clean and (2) you guys are SCARED

Meanwhile, the Palin Revolution continues:

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Enjoy, Silence

 

[Modbert]

speaking of scary. lets talk about yo-bama's friends. nevermind....

In the book of GOP Tactics:

Rule #3: When you have nothing to respond to OP, drag Barack Obama into it somehow.

 

[jreeves]

In the book of GOP Tactics:

Rule #3: When you have nothing to respond to OP, drag Barack Obama into it somehow.

Donkey crap rule...

Rule #1-
If a conservative woman candidate has nothing to attack feed the liberal media lies?

 

[chapstic]

In the book of GOP Tactics:

Rule #3: When you have nothing to respond to OP, drag Barack Obama into it somehow.

that's fine, the brainwashing has been done. you vote for yo-bama. i'll vote for nobody. and we all live "happily" ever after.

 

[jreeves]

that's fine, the brainwashing has been done. you vote for yo-bama. i'll vote for nobody. and we all live "happily" ever after.

Actually you will vote for nobody and neither will he, since he is only 17.

 

[Modbert]

Actually you will vote for nobody and neither will he, since he is only 17.

That be correct. Though age has nothing to do with Politics really.

Donkey crap rule...

Rule #1-
If a conservative woman candidate has nothing to attack feed the liberal media lies?

By the way, I could focus on all the crazy theories about Sarah Palin. I just rather focus on her crazy views on issues.

 

[jreeves]

That be correct. Though age has nothing to do with Politics really.



By the way, I could focus on all the crazy theories about Sarah Palin. I just rather focus on her crazy views on issues.

Come back to me and discuss adult issues when your view of adult issues isn't based on how your HS gym teacher treated you in PE on Friday.

 

[Modbert]

Come back to me and discuss adult issues when your view of adult issues isn't based on how your HS gym teacher treated you in PE on Friday.

Now your trying to talk down to me because I'm 17?

And Republicans wonder why teenagers vote Democrat.

Though if your refering to that other thread earlier, you are completely off base. That was more talking about the failure of "No Child Left Behind" that was created by Dubya.

Nice try though, we have some lovely parting gifts for you.

 

[Ninja]

he is only 17.

This explains a lot.

 

[Ninja]

And Republicans wonder why teenagers vote Democrat.

We know why. It's because everything you have was earned by the hard work of others.

Interestingly, teenagers who end up on welfare as adults continue to vote Democrat.

 

[Modbert]

This explains a lot.

Like what?

It's funny to see certain GOP members of this board jump all over people who make comments about McCain's age. But then these same people judge others who may not be as old as they are.

 

[Modbert]

We know why. It's because everything you have was earned by the hard work of others.

Interestingly, teenagers who end up on welfare as adults continue to vote Democrat.

Jeez I didn't know poverty all of a sudden had a Liberal bias in this country. Could of swore it was an american issue.

Because you know:

A total of 754,000 are homeless. About 338,000 homeless people are not in shelters (live on the streets, in cars or in abandoned buildings) and 415,000 are in shelters on any given night. The 2007 US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Homeless Report to Congress, page iii and 23. The population of San Francisco is about 739,000.

Over 100,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. About 18 percent of the adult homeless population are veterans. Page 32, the 2007 HUD Homeless Report. This is about the same population as Green Bay, Wisconsin.

And as I stated before, it's not like our Government doesn't treat our veterans well or anything.