Informed by ABC News that She Owns Mutual Fund With Sudan Holdings, Palin Says She Will Divest

“A further investigation by ABC News, however, indicated that while Palin later came to support the bill, her administration initially opposed the bill, and stated its opposition in a public hearing on the measure.”
Who is the REAL Sarah Palin?

The Republicans always display their hypocrisy, they will say and do anything to win…the politics of anything goes, well my 401k really sucks right now

Don’t blame Palin. She was too busy being mavericky to be trifled with incidental stuff like countries committing genocide. Besides, she doesn’t even know where the Sudan is.

Anyone who has a 401k knows that this is a non-issue, Jake.
They know that their mutual fund investor controls the allocation of their investment.
Why do you publish such trivia?

ake,
Are you going to talk about Rezko and the investiation..apparetnly he is talking and telling everything to prosecution and Obama may be in danger…is this true?
Have you read Sneed’s article on Chicago SunTimes??

Palin is all lies… she is as corrupt as McCain/Bush/Cheney
Who is the real Sarah Palin?
Unless the media outlet does their job, we wont find out… but there are other news sources who are finding out and its not pretty. And they are the ones getting this information out to us, the public.
Palin does not deserve to be VP or a 72 yr old heartbeat away from the presidency.
She invokes hate and division. She is a pathological liar and a cheat.
No way will I vote for the Unstable/Unable.
If that is all the republicans can do is cause fear, loathing and hate, then I want nothing to do with them.

Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don’t pay income taxes!
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Yah, and that includes 5 of the top 10 largest companies in America.
Make MILLIONS, pay $0 in taxes.
THAT makes sense doesn’t it?

“Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don’t pay income taxes!
It’s called a “refundable tax credit.” It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing checks to those who don’t. Yes, yes, in the real world this is known as “welfare”"
The refundable tax credit only goes to those who file and pay taxes. Right wingers are trying to be literal when Obama says 95% of Americans getting a tax cut he is talking about tax paying Americans. This is clear in his tax plan. But the right wing wants to use the word welfare so they lie.
“Obama will jumpstart the economy, and he’ll do it by raising taxes on the very businesses that are today adrift in a financial tsunami!”
Obama will not cut the corporate tax rate but he is not raising it.
Small businesses will be getting a 50% tax credit on their payment of health benefits (as opposed to McCain who wants to tax your company provided health benefits as income) and he will also eliminate capital gains on small business investment.
“Obama will, with a flick of his fingers, show them how to create more jobs with less money.”
Obama is talking abotu serious solutions.
John McCain? Well apparently he knows how to fix everything but is awaiting us putting him in office.
He knows how to fix the economy.
He know how to get America going again.
He knows how to get Bin Laden.
“Obama will now demonstrate how he gives Americans the “choice” of a “voluntary” government health plan, designed in such a way as to crowd out the private market and eliminate all other choice!”
Oh no! Allowing public health plans to compete on the market with private insurance is unfair because public plans overhead costs (based on Medicare) are 2 to 3% while private insurance is spending 15 to 25% on overhead. Advertising and executive bonus & golden parachutes don’t come cheap.
Who will cry for the poor Insurance companies? (Apparently Republicans)
“Can Obama demonstrate how his plan will differ from our failing Medicare program”
How is Medicare failing?
And why does John mcCain want to cut a TRILLION dollars from this program?

WOW Who is the REAL SARA PALIN?
TIES TO ANTI-AMERICAN INDEPENDENT GROUP IN ALASKA
SHE PROMOTES GENOCIDE!
John Mccain “When you lie about me it forces the truth to come out on you!

That particular fund is offered as a selection in many many 401K programs and some of the finest teacher, union and state retirement programs. The prospectus does not indicate anything relating to the issue of Sudan.
What is surprising is that Sen. Obama DIRECTLY owned shares in an oil services country that obviously exploited a third world country’s resources and people. Buying shares in that company was a conscious choice for Obama.

you really can’t blame a moron.
you can blame her inciting domestic terrorism at her rallies…
which is exactly what she was doing…whether she is smart enough to recognize the multitude of next generation “Timothy McVeighs” or not.

A Republican legislator recently heralded Palin as a supporter of the legislation, despite that earlier opposition
******************************************* Boy they never seem to have a problem lying, even with these things that are so simple to verify.
Amazing, that they either believe Americans are totally ignorant or they just don’t care because they know their supporters will lie right along with them.

It is pretty racist to assume that there are no black republicans in Wisconsin, but that may just reflect on irrationality of the assumer.
Black republican talk show hosts have just as much right to participate in the process as any other American.

I smell another:
“I was for it before I was against it!”
I truly believe the candidacy of Palin will be more the unraveling of McCain’s campaign than the economy.
It was such (una)”bridged” arrogance for McCain to think he could put in the amateur when the game called for a highly skilled professional.
What competent candidate doesn’t talk to mainstream media? Only a small percentage of the electorate watches Fox. How does that get them votes? She is not being perceived as competent, even by some in her own party. And the last interview she participated in was just plain weird.
(And I’m not talking Katie Couric) It was with a conservative.
I try not to cast dispersions, but either McCain, didn’t care, didn’t know, or he’s a couple of brewskies short of a keg.
Palin was not, and has not been properly vetted, and it shows.

Does this make palin a Sudan sympothizer
by association?

Well…when you open Pandora’s Box, sometimes surprises fall out….

Todd Palin was a card-carrying member of the Alaska Independence Party until 2002.
During the 1970s, Mr. Joe Vogler founded Alaskans for Independence to actively pursue secession for Alaska from the United States. The Alaskan Independence Party quotes Vogler as stating “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions”.
In 2008, as governor, Palin submitted a welcoming video to the AIP convention in Fairbanks saying, “Good luck on a successful and inspiring convention. Keep up the good work, and God bless you.”
Just who is the REAL Sarah Palin?
Wants to make abortion illegal
Charges rape victims for their exam/evidence kits
Condones and practices killing wolves from planes, then rewards the torture by offering a $150 bounty for their severed legs
Just got a passport LAST YEAR
Is under investigation for abuse of power – for which subpoenas were issued and ignored by those close to her, sound familiar…Cheney?
Who is Sarah Palin? – a disgrace as a potential VP, and an insult to women and anybody else with half a brain.
Funny how McShame/Palin bring out the worst in us, and Obama/Biden bring out the best.

Ryan C,
I saw James Harris on that clip of the WI rally, too. You know they always look for Blacks in the republican audiences anyway. The way McCain came over to hug him you’d have thought he was Rush! Might as well be, I guess. Good thing he didn’t get lynched before he spoke up.

But soon, Palin and Chryson discovered they could be useful to each other. Palin would be running for mayor, while Chryson was about to take over the chairmanship of the Alaska Independence Party, which at its peak in 1990 had managed to elect a governor.
The AIP was born of the vision of “Old Joe” Vogler, a hard-bitten former gold miner who hated the government of the United States almost as much as he hated wolves and environmentalists. His resentment peaked during the early 1970s when the federal government began installing Alaska’s oil and gas pipeline. Fueled by raw rage — “The United States has made a colony of Alaska,” he told author John McPhee in 1977 — Vogler declared a maverick candidacy for the governorship in 1982. Though he lost, Old Joe became a force to be reckoned with, as well as a constant source of amusement for Alaska’s political class. During a gubernatorial debate in 1982, Vogler proposed using nuclear weapons to obliterate the glaciers blocking roadways to Juneau. “There’s gold under there!” he exclaimed.
Vogler made another failed run for the governor’s mansion in 1986. But the AIP’s fortunes shifted suddenly four years later when Vogler convinced Richard Nixon’s former interior secretary, Wally Hickel, to run for governor under his party’s banner. Hickel coasted to victory, outflanking a moderate Republican and a centrist Democrat. An archconservative Republican running under the AIP candidate, Jack Coghill, was elected lieutenant governor.
Hickel’s subsequent failure as governor to press for a vote on Alaskan independence rankled Old Joe. With sponsorship from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Vogler was scheduled to present his case for Alaskan secession before the United Nations General Assembly in the late spring of 1993. But before he could, Old Joe’s long, strange political career ended tragically that May when he was murdered by a fellow secessionist.
Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals

McCain didn’t talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn’t put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about Acorn!) this afternoon.
“There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,” Davis said, adding that McCain’s mortgage plan could be an “elixir” for the financial crisis.
“I can’t imagine a situation where on a daily basis the campaign would put out a statement about what the market was doing,” he said. “It doesn’t meant that we don’t care and aren’t trying to do something about it.”

“Finnish company Wartsila Oyj, .. ABB, a Swiss company”
“She Owns Mutual Fund with Sudan Holdings”
Jake, I take issue with the title of your article. Please consider a more clear title? I believe the “holdings” are Swedish and Finnish.

Who cares…..the Obama’s divested theirs last year, Cindy did too…now Gov. Palin will. Who cares? Move on.

D’oh!
Len catches me in a typo.
That should have read “same sex couples will now be given the same legal rights as opposite sex couples”

It is pretty racist to assume that there are no black republicans in Wisconsin, but that may just reflect on irrationality of the assumer.
Black republican talk show hosts have just as much right to participate in the process as any other American.
Posted by: smith | Oct 10, 2008 1:27:56 PM
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Smith: You are right, but the only one that apparently disagrees with you is Ryan. So what if he was a black professional from Wisconsin, who cares, he had a right to ask a legitimate question. Ryan being a democrap he wouldn’t know the difference if it is legitimate or a lie.

dl sez: “you really can’t blame a moron.”
We can but you’d never know it.

Palin is the DEVIL!!. McCain is a total IDIOT…

NO DISCUSSION ON ECONOMIC ISSUES..McCAIN
Not mentioning the market
McCain didn’t talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn’t put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about Acorn!) this afternoon.
“There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,” Davis said, adding that McCain’s mortgage plan could be an “elixir” for the financial crisis.
“I can’t imagine a situation where on a daily basis the campaign would put out a statement about what the market was doing,” he said. “It doesn’t meant that we don’t care and aren’t trying to do something about it.”
The campaign, he said, shouldn’t become a “CNBC news show on the stock market.”

“Len catches me in a typo.”
No, I’m sure it was a type a.
“That should have read “same sex couples will now be given the same legal rights as opposite sex couples”
Isn’t that the problem with couples? It’s always the same sex. However, I agree with the idea of homosexual marriage. They should be miserable too.

Neither of these guys have the answer to this financial crisis….NEITHER OF THEM. All Obama has to do is sit back and let the people blame the last 8 years on McCain…but not me. I am voting on emotion (like 50%) of Americans, and that means character and judgement come into play, and record and service to EARN THE KEYS TO THE WH. Barack Hussein Obama does not qualify, John Sidney McCain does.
Posted by: Hope, Change, Hate, Nobama ’08 | Oct 10, 2008 2:02:19 PM
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You are so right. If obama is elected his government will finish the job, we will then be totally a socialist country. All he has is a ‘big mouth’ and he knows just what to say. How the people of this country could be so stupid is a mystery. So many good men and boys fought for our country and some died; how we can put it in the hands of someone so unqualified and unknown. Had rather know what I will be facing than face the unknown.

Sounds similar to Obama’s ignorance of not knowing Ayers was a terrorist but showing up for a fundraiser at his house. remarkable. But lets ignore Obama’s ties to radicals. In a few years another dem will be running for president that was best friends with Timothy McVeigh. But the same idiots that don’t care about Obama’s associations would sweep that under the rug too.

Polly:
re: If obama is elected his government will finish the job, we will then be totally a socialist country.
how’s that good ol’ American capitalism looking right now… yeah.. lets bankrupt 95% of the country so Reps can win……
.. maybe some form of socialism is what we finally need..
lets take away Cindy McCain’s and W’s family fortune and health care and see how they feel…
John Sidney McCain has been partaking in socialist heath care all his life.

Hey ABC, how about some blogs on Obama and his 800K connection to ACORN. Surely, you guys have a lackey who can google this and get us a blog on it…. that is, if you care to look into the truth about Obamamessiah.

Excuse me but it’s the Republican President that just signed into law the $700 billion bailout.
Bush SOCIALIZED the DEBT.
Privitize the profits/wealth, socialize the debt. That’s called Fascism, my friends.
If we hadn’t been in the WRONG, IMMORAL war spending 10 billion a month for the last many years maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation.
I’ll take an intelligent Obama over the moron in the White House any day, how could we possibly do any worse?
Oh…ya, McShame/and extremist Palin

Wow, You run for office and you get to find out if you are related to any royalty and/or if any of your previously boring investments have a sinister side.

Lies, The Dead voting , Pandering. Hmm. What Party does that sound like?
You forgot gross hypocricy, hacked voting machines, stolen elections, and you’ve got the Republicans!

If Gov. Sarah Palin, by John McCain’s estimation, “knows more about energy than probably anyone in the United States of America,” then why is she getting such basic facts about our nation’s energy production wrong?
At a townhall event in Wisconsin on Thursday, Palin was asked by a concerned questioner whether it was true that the United States was shipping 75 percent of its Alaskan oil overseas. She responded by proclaiming it impossible, since Congress had put strict bans on the amount of oil and gas that America could export.
Not so. As the Associated Press reported:
No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service.
And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.
The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.
Unfortunately, for Palin, this was not merely an inconsequential misstatement but rather another in a series of errors when it comes to discussing what is supposed to be her policy strength. For a while on the trail, the Alaska Governor was fond of declaring that her job – as head of state – “has been to oversee nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas.”
That too was incorrect. As the Washington Post’s Fact Checker noted:
Alaska is the ninth largest energy supplier in the United States, accounting for a modest 3.5 percent share of the nation’s total energy production…
Data compiled by the Energy Information Administration contradict her claim that she oversees “nearly 20 percent” of oil and gas production in the country. EIA data, Alaska accounted for just 7.4 percent of total U.S. oil and gas production in 2005…

Of course poor Sarah knew nothing about this Sudan stuff. I’m sure her husband kept her in the dark about it. ;o)

Well, there ya go! The woman is supporting genocide and funding terrorists. I knew it; I could tell by the way she was maverickin’.

Palin said:
The McCain-Palin campaign said that Palin did not know of the holdings.
I guess she knew as much as Obama knew about the bombings when he was 8 years old.

Sarah Palin husband made the investments on her behalf and kept it in the dark. She is playing the innocent game, we are not that stupid McCain/Palin.

Palin supports terrorists!
Palin supports terrorists!
Palin supports terrorists!
Palin supports terrorists!

Allison, stop your ignorance is showing,
I find it interesting how republicans thugs can cry voter fraud, when they have been engaging in voter caging and voter suppression throughout the coutry, targeting blacks and college students. IT is the last act of a desperate party. Remember, Bush stole the election from Gore, remember Flordia. How soon we forget.
If you would like to know the gist on Acorn, go to talkingpointsmemo and huffingtonpost. Stop taking lessons from the Rush Limb school of idiot and and watching Fox News, try thinking for yourself for a chage.

NON-STORY….. I would bet 90% of the idiots on this site who have retirement plans have NO idea how these plans work or what specific companies are in the mutual funds investments………most people have NO idea how their money is invested by their retirement plans …Palin retirement plan has MAYBE $15,000 dollars compared to the $180,000 BO’s plan had invested… what is the issue……just more mud slinging by the media…….. bet her farts stink just like BO’s to….

McCain and Palin!! I’m sure other people are invested in this and do not realize it. Get off her case and report on something else which holds value to the American people. ABC is trying to hard to find everything wrong with McCain and Palin. The focus needs to be on Obama and his inexperience and a horrible leader he will be. Oh, and association with terriost.

Well, regardless of how you feel about her, I applaud the fact that she divested as soon as she found out. I may not want her as my VP, but that doesn’t mean she did anything wrong here, or that she did the wrong thing when she found out. Way to go Palin.

This country is full of idiots. If Obama wins we will be wishing that we had George Bush back… Thats how bad I think it will be. Both canidates suck but at least I know who the h*ll McCain is.

I knew shw was guilty by association, What a freakin terrorist supporter she is.

Sarah Palin is spewing hateful comments, BUT her speeches are written by McCain’s writers. She is a good speaker. This is what makes is so scary.
I’m a lifelong Republican who just can’t vote that way this year. It’s the only way I have to show my dislike of what’s happened in the last 8 years.
I think O’Bama’s ties to dishonorable people has been greatly over-exaggerated, especially now that the tide is turning away from McCain. They are desperate to avoid talking about the economy.
Americans are smarter than that.

Proud liberal, here, and I’m going to shock the heck out of wing-nuts. Palin has done the right thing by agreeing to sell her shares of this Mutual Fund. She should not be judged negatively for having held that fund to begin with. It’s been correctly noted that many of us may, indeed, be invested the Sudan without even knowing it. Now that we’re all taking a bath in the stock market with our 401(k)’s and paying more attention, this is probably a good time for all of us who do not support genocide to take a closer look at our investments and make sure the funds we hold aren’t doing business with the bad guys.
I don’t support Palin as a VP or president, but I’m not one to cry foul when there isn’t one. In this case, and this case only, her hands are mostly clean.

How many of you are really informed of your investments? Good grief….I’m not an expert in that area…so I pay someone to do it for me. I couldn’t tell you where my money is. I trust my advisor and he has always done very well for me. This isn’t an issue….just more of the typical one sided media doing anything they can to get him in office. We are screwed with either of these candidates that are running…….and unfortunately McCain is the lesser of two evils.

game recognize game! yep yep. I see through mccain/palin. yall should too. they tryna play the people of America.

Giver her a break—she didnt even know what the heck a “Sudan” was until last week…

The economy is in a horrible state. To continue with the policies which precipitated in this horrible situation is beyond comprehension. If America pursues the path it is on, history will record it as one of the most disastrous mistakes in the history of the country, if not the world. Americans must put aside petty distractions and make decisions that they know will help pull the country out this financial abyss. It is surreal that so many Americans are devoting their time to petty matters that will have no significance after the election is over. The economy will persist to be a problem for a long time to come.
Those who seek to spread divisive propaganda at a time when the nation is suffering as it is now are not serving their country, nor do I think in the long run they are serving their own narrow interests. It is in no way an example of the idea expressed by the motto: “Country First.”

I think that is right, give her a break. She really does not know anything beyond what she can see from her house.

Ivy: “Give her a break—she didnt even know what the heck a ‘Sudan’ was until last week…” OMG!! LMAO!!

Give her a break. I’m definitely not much of a Sarah Palin fan but I doubt she even knew what those companies did. And she’s making it right so move on.

jake tapper/ abc news where is your investigation story on Obama and his ties to terrorists? Obama ties to ACORN? Obama ties to the people who got us in this economic mess? journalism is DEAD here and MSNBC the Obama stations!

Well in thinking about this ACORN stuff I have come to the Conclusion that since the Republican ticket McCain/Palin took a 180 degree turn from the McCain in 2004 you know the upstanding Respected man and war HERO to the Republican Mouth Piece he is today in 2008. This dirty underhanded smear, to the non-straight talker Republican machine I would not be surprised that the Voter Fraud accros the country was caused by Republicans filling in Applications as Democrats in order to cause doubt and throw out legit apps and try to link Obama. I mean come on people look what happened in 2000 and how the Republican machine in Florida aka Kathrine Harris stole the election. Wonder where we would have been today if our courts worked for the people and not for the Republican machine

I am hardly a fan of this imbecile, but I do agree with some in saying this is a non-issue-the kind of stuff we would expect from her campaign (and what’s his name). As temting as it is, I cannot fault someone for not knowing where all of their mutual funds are directed. I just don’t think it is fair or relevant for either side. At this point, it is like kicking a puppy. We should concentrate on getting her on the big stuff she has messed up-you know, like maybe naming one supreme court decision or not answering any questions without her debate team cue cards.

I’m now totally convinced that the media and in particular ABC is biased against Palin. I own so many mutual funds that I’m sure there’s something that’s politically incorrect somewhere.

Val 5:25 PM; Now that’s funny! Good one!

ABC’s next headline:” PALIN’S CHILD BUYS BUBBLES MADE WITH SLAVE LABOR!!”

I wonder why McCain would think it was such a great idea to ask Palin to be his VP when she had an ethics probe being conducted against her, she is not as qualified as any of the other people he could have asked such as Romney (who could be a great use with todays economic troubles). Was it to borrow Palins own words about Obama “Blind Ambition” that caused McCain to pick her?

I’m more concerned about her abuse of power and her narrow world view – she needs to be sent back to Alaska to get some more OJT to fully develop her Tom Delay style persona.

What a worthless article. Most people who buy mutual funds do so with a financial advisor’s advice, and on the basis of the fund’s style (large-cap vs. small-cap, domestic vs. international vs. emerging markets, value vs. growth, etc.) and performance. Occasionally, if the fund holds recognizable companies, the advisor will make a mention of them as an example. But most people don’t know what companies are held by the fund, as they can be quite numerous. But even if they knew the names, they’d have to invest tons of time to find out what those companies do. That doesn’t even take into consideration the fact that the companies held by a mutual fund change over time.
So yeah, this is absolutely pointless.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, deployed troops are putting their money where their mouth is: they’ve given four times as much money to Obama as McCain.
“Everyone I talk to wants change but on base you can’t say certain things. At a bar or a party, everyone tells me they’re voting for Obama,” said Thomas Singleton, 27, a former military telecommunications specialist who was speaking to OffTheBus outside the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Perched on a hill in Quantico, the museum’s stunning roof line can be seen for miles. Its design — a 200-foot tilted mast atop a huge glass atrium — was inspired by the famous Iwo Jima flag raising of World War II.
“My military friends are tired of being lied to,” said Singleton. “They’re told to deploy for six months, but it ends up being a year. And when they come home, they can’t find a job. One of my friends is staying in the Army only because he can’t find a civilian job.”

Oh My! Legg Mason and all of its investors support genocide! Oh My, what a news! The whole world is collapsing under our very eyes!

Palin is a criminal.
Palin Guilty of ethics violations.
Now, we find out she has stock in a company that supports genocide????
We need to not elect her and Alaska needs to impeach her!!!
And SHE was telling me to worry about Obama????

I have become a staunch supporter of Obama/Biden in light of the current Republican rally insanity & pick of VP Palin, because those folks truly scare me.
But, Palin divested the mutual fund, end of story. I don’t agree with her hatemongering politics, but she divested. Good for her.