...The Anchorage Daily News' angry editorial today was topped with the headline: "Palin vindicated? Governor offers Orwellian spin." It opens: "Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation....
Sarah can't handle herself. She 'leans' on people out of the authority she was granted as Governor. She did it for personal vendettas. Where have we seen this before?
How about Saddam and the chronic statement, "...he tried to kill my Dad."
Republicans practice 'power' NOT goverance. They aren't reasonable people. No one put the power of the USA military in the hands of Bush to avenge a verbal threat by a Iraqi dictator that never manifested into a real threat.
If the USA handed over military authority to the whims of retaliating against 'verbal threats' we would be conducting chronic wars out of hubris while leaving the security of the nation to chance. Bush's practice in the Executive Branch is clear demonstration of Republican 'entitlement' at the expense of the American people, both, fiscal and the actual lives of its soldiers and the pain of their families.
I can see it now. Palin, as Vice President, has called a new Energy Committee, including the National Rifle Association whom are to come up with methodologies to remove the need for 'Threatened' status of Polar Bears, while the committee is seeking clearer territorial boundaries in the Arctic Ocean between the USA, Canada and Russia through daily military patrols.
While these efforts are supposed to be non-confrontational on all aspects of securing our borders, both from Canadian Polar Bears and foreign entities, it should be noted "All Options are on the Table." Now, about that gas pipeline FROM Nowhere to the lower forty-eight....
Palin vindicated? (click here)
Governor offers Orwellian spin
Published: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PMLast Modified: October 13th, 2008 10:17 PM
Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.
She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."
Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.
Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."
In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.
Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters....
Obama Wins Scholastic News Election Poll (click here)
Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online
By Jack Greenberg
October 14 , 2008
It's official. At least for the kids! The Scholastic Presidential Election Poll results are in: Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama won with 57 percent of the vote, to 39 percent for Republican nominee Senator John McCain.The poll was open to kids from grades 1 to 12 in Scholastic News and Junior Scholastic magazines. Almost 250,000 (a quarter of a million) kids voted by paper ballot or online at www.scholastic.com/news. The poll closed on October 10....
Good video
US election: Hope for Barack Obama in the south as Republican campaign turns nasty (click here)
Down at the municipal offices in Decatur, Georgia, opposite the county jail, more than 200 mainly black voters were lining up patiently to cast their ballots for President of the United States.
There were elderly black men, their backs bent but their pride evident, their wives holding their arms. Youths sporting dreadlocks or afros and wearing low-slung jeans. Frazzled young women clutching children and wearing Barack Obama t-shirts. Middle-aged mechanics and builders on their lunch break.
For 40 days before "election day" - a misnomer in Georgia because a quarter of the ballots might be cast by then - residents of Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta, have been voting at a stunning rate of some 2,500 per day.
Less than 10 miles away is Auburn Avenue, site of the civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King's birth in 1929 and where he was laid to rest after his assassination in 1968.
Among the early voters, mixed with the hope that Mr Obama, the Democratic nominee, will be elected as America's first black president is a gnawing fear that victory will somehow be snatched away. Despite his widening national poll lead and his clear edge in battleground states, few are taking anything for granted in the final 25 days.
"Most people have a sneaking feeling that something will happen to stop Obama," said Nadine Clarkson, 68. "We know what happened in Ohio last time and Florida the time before that. People who want to find a way are very ingenious."...
