- Whats the big deal about how our Governor names her children? Sarah and Todd obviously name the kid's after things in their lives that have left an endearing and lasting memory. Piper, as in Piper Cub, is clearly a reference to a make of plane and Todd's love of flying. The name Track, one would assume, is a reference to the barracuda's excellence in athletics. Bristol is more than likely a reference to Bristol Bay, one of the states most productive commercial fishing grounds. These are names that all Alaskans can easily identify with. And the new baby's original name of "two moose fucking" was universally looked at as the cutest name ever, by the people of Alaska. But I gotta tell you, the rumor that McCain's high power political machine made Sarah change the baby's name right after she was givin the VP nod, leaves us Alaskans furious that some high power attorney thinks he can come into state and start pushing us around!
- Whats the big deal that she tried to fire Wasilla's librarian immediately after Sarah was elected to mayor. That woman refused to remove some books from the library that the mayor didn't like. Are you going to tell me that you lower 48ers never read a book you didn't like? Is the insinuation that Sarah Palin is the only one to have problems with Librarians? If I remember correctly, just a few short months ago there was a 68 year old librarian that was escorted out of a McCain town hall meeting and almost arrested. Her ultra inflammatory sign "McCain=Bush" was clearly intended to incite violence. Pull your head out people...they are not always the quiet, thoughtful people they want us to believe they are.
- And by the way...Whats the big deal, that after they stepped in and refused to allow Sarah to fire the librarian, the Wasilla assembly was forced to create the new, paid position, of City Manager in an effort to keep Sarah from doing anymore harm. She still had more responsibility's than a community organizer. Even though she wasn't allowed to fire people she didn't like anymore.
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- Whats the big deal about our Governor supporting the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska? As she has stated, this is a very complicated issue. Much to complicated to try and explain to someone from the lower 48. But I will try. The problem is that there are packs of godless, snarling wolves going all little red ridding hood on us up here. The fact that the packs tend to be hundreds if not thousands of miles from any human population, makes it very difficult to hunt these these evil creatures on foot. The use of helicopters not only gives us the ability to cover huge distances, but also supports our troops. 98% of all helicopter pilots in Alaska are military trained
- Whats the big deal that McCain sent a plane load of high powered attorneys to help gently guide and support our legislature as they investigated abuse of power accusations against out Governor. We needed their help, and thank god McCain sent them. We considered them almost like a pod of big brothers. We never looked at them as outsiders trying to manipulate our elected officials. We never though that they should get the fuck out of here and let us take care of our own business. Not once did we feel our Governor should have stepped in and demanded that Alaska be allowed to carry on its investigation as Alaska saw fit, without the influence of Republican hired guns. On the contrary, most of us could see the writing on the wall as far back as when Sarah was still wondering out loud what it was exactly a Vice President does. When we saw there were four democrat's seated on the investigating panel, we knew the eight Republicans on the panel would never be able to keep the investigation from slipping into a swamp of partisan attacks on our Governor. We collectively understood that when Sarah was called to duty on a national level, her promise to cooperate with the investigation, indeed her responsibility to the people of Alaska, was easily trumped by the need to control the information and massage the facts in an effort to keep us safe and free. The very fact that she moved so easily into the politics of secrecy and seclusion only proved to us how ready and qualified she is to move up the ladder, and into national politics at the highest level.
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- Whats the big deal about the silly little abuse of power that Sarah was found guilty of last Friday. Considering she is still cooperating with her hand picked personnel board, I think the protests that sprung up in all corners of the state this weekend are premature and clearly partisan. Let's use the protest that took place on the capital step's here in Juneau this weekend as an example. The same three hundred or so aged hippies walking aimlessly in a circle, with the empty, hollow eyes of someone experiencing some kind of hellish flash back. Always looking for any excuse to break out the old signs. To an outsider it may appear as if the people of the state are very angry with the lying and the secrecy that surrounded the "trooper gate" investigation. I have to get serious here for a bit. The people in Alaska are furious about the way this went down. When the whole trooper gate thing first surfaced, it didn't seem like that big of a deal. We all knew she was guilty as sin. Guilty of using the power of her office in a personal and vindictive manner. No one was happy about that. But if at any time during the investigation she had stood up and said something to the affect of "Trooper Wooten was a bum that tasered his 11 year old son as a joke, reportedly was drunk on duty, and I wanted him gone. And when the head of law enforcement, who serves at the pleasure of the governor, refused to fire him as I asked, I fired his ass", Alaskans would have swallowed hard, and forgotten about the whole thing by the next morning. When the legislature announced the intent to investigate the possible abuse of power charge, Sarah agreed to cooperate fully with the investigation. After she received the VP nod, and the McCain campaign decided that Sarah was not about to cooperate, the whole thing started to go south. In addition to Sarah, other parties started refusing to testify. The legislature issued subpoenas that were wholly ignored. Todd claimed some Cheney-esk executive privilege. It turned into a classic case of the cover up becoming worse than the original crime. But for us in Alaska it was much worse than that alone. With a full understanding about Alaskans distrust of any Federal involvement in Alaska's decisions (subsistence hunting, control of fisheries, control of our natural resources)Governor Palin allowed McCain's republican machine to march in and play belt way hardball politics with our legislature. We had republican legislatures that were informed to do as they were told or forget any future in the party. The democratic minority members were strong armed and threatened with the full power of the RNC on the next election. She said and did nothing about it. With the vice presidency her new reality, the full view of her backside was all that was left for Alaska. It's an image we will not soon forget. The protests this weekend saw no division along party lines. By and large her reception on returning to Alaska after the national elections will be far from a welcome home. She had better hope that the RNC is stupid enough to have big plans for her on the national scene, because as it stands at this point, she has absolutely no political future in Alaska anymore.
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- I have noticed that every once and a while I have a moment of clarity that allows me to see just how broken our politics have become. For example, I recently had a chance to watch about a ten minute re-run of the classic 1960 television debate between Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon. I was stunned to see the level of discourse between these two well spoken and intelligent men. Their difference of opinion on the issues were clearly stated and well thought out. Not a single talking point. No rehearsed lines. A real debate. By comparison, what do we have today? There's no honest exchange of ideas in today's politics.. Party driven talking points have taken the place of thoughtful views on the issues. No opinions are allowed in today's politics until the polls show its an approved opinion, and it wont cost any votes to express. We are in the age of the non answer. It seems every past campaign's floor, is the next campaign's ceiling. Just take a glance back and see what we have become accustomed to in the last eight years, and its no wonder that when a politician is able to put an intelligent thought into words, that the politician is labeled as an elitist incapable of relating to the American people. The frightening thing is that it just may be an accurate appraisal of the voting public. We seemed to have had no problem believing that "W" was walking around with a black eye because he choked on a pretzel, passed out and hit his head on the coffee table, while trying to pet the dog!(you ever wonder what happened that could possibly have made that explanation less embarrassing than explaining what really happened?) Yet if an answer to a complicated question requires more that a noun, a verb, and 9-11 in the sentence, than its too lofty and full of nuance? Well...The addition of Sarah Palin to the McCain ticket has given me one of those moments of clarity...I think it's given the entire state a view of a political realty that might be more than we wanted. I'll begin to explain that in my next rant!
More to Come
October 20,2008
Much has happened since the last entry. The last debate, Sarah Palin announcing to the nation that she is thankful she was vindicated from all legal and ethic's charges from the troopergate investigation Obama is now a socialist on top of being a Muslim terrorist and some plumber named Joe (how classic is that!) is now the republican hero. I wonder if people really take all these tax cuts seriously on either side? We are trillions of dollars in debt....we just injected 700 billion dollars into the very heart of un-regulated free markets, still funneling what the government assesses at 10 billion dollars a month into Iraq, which means it is at least double that. And yet we argue about who's tax cuts are better!!! And who's more of a socialist!!! God help us all.
Anyway...back to an Alaskan view of our now infamous beauty queen.
- Somebody will be writing a book or two on Sarah. One would assume there are several in print already. I've come up with a couple of titles I think might be appropriate, and coupled with a cover with half naked people posed in erotically romantic embraces, would be sure to be the catch that a book about Sarah would need to sell. I don't think it would be over the top if the female in the embrace was Sarah herself. God knows the fantasy of that is responsible for at least half the male votes for Governor in Alaska. I am curious if the males in the lower 48 have similar depth. Actually...I know the answerer to that.
- The making of a VP in 6 days...A creationist's view of 21st century politics
- Constructing Sarah Palin....a look at her creation by fairly intelligent design
- Dances with Dinosaur's
- Alaskan Beauty Queen...The benefit of having all your teeth
- Runway to the Belt way...Republican view of the American voters intelligence
I just want to add how popular her self acquittal of any wrong doing in "troopergate" is here in her State. To paraphrase the Anchorage Times and the Juneau Empire...both ultra conservative rags. We are embarrassed as hell, and would have preferred she just kept her mouth shut. To say to a national audience that she was cleared of any ethic charges when she was so clearly found guilty of them, is like salt in an open wound. Of the many things she feels free to say to the lower 48, while apparently forgetting that people in her state can hear it as well., this one takes the cake. Fool us once..shame on her...fool us twice...shame on ......we won't be fooled again!! She will have a great deal to answer to when she gets home. She apparently has no idea yet, or she would be dropping the mention of "Alaska" from her stump vocabulary. Moose stew my ass....who would rank any kind of stew as their favorite meal of all time. She should visit the capital of her state once in a while. We would be glad to turn her on to Alaskan salmon or King crab!
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1 comment:
Ahhhh- Left in Alaska is like a breath of that good fresh Alaskan air- Although I have to say- Making fun of the pageant-proven governor is almost too easy- Like shooting wolves from a chopper! Keep up the good work!
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